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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Is Clawing Back $20 Billion in "Gold Bars" "Pushed Off the Titanic" in the Last Days of the Biden Usurpation
You may remember that James O'Keefe caught a Deep State Operative openly bragging that he and his palz were just throwing taxpayer money to Biden's cronies as the Usurpation came to a close. He was frank in admitting that they weren't checking to see if these were meritorious transfers -- they just wanted to give away taxpayer money to whoever so that Trump could not exercise any judgment about it.
He called it an "insurance policy" against Trump winning. Hmmm, where have I heard that exact language before?
BREAKING: @EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic”
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) December 3, 2024
“It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.”
“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump… pic.twitter.com/eaAihuNvAh
The EPA chief Lee Zeldin is now clawing that $20 billion in embezzled taxpayer monies back.
🚨The Biden EPA tossed $20 billion of “gold bars off the Titanic”.
— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) February 13, 2025
BIG UPDATE! We found the gold bars and they are now being recovered for you, the hardworking American taxpayer.
Here are more of the details: pic.twitter.com/DM4C0TQcpj
Democrats are fighting this because this turns out to be the secret of how they all get rich on $140,000 per year salaries. They are giving away taxpayer monies to their well-heeled tax parasite friends, who then kickback massive sums to them. This is an existential crisis for them. They will be exposed and they will be prosecuted. That's why they're shrieking to shut down the investigations and audits. Prison lies at the end of this.
The massive scale of this scam--which as with so many things is SOP at government agencies--blows your mind. Pushing $20 billion out the door to friends of the administration with little to no financial controls, zero accountability, and lots of malice aforethought is only different in scale and not in kind. What IS different is that somebody is doing something about it. $20 billion is such a large amount of money that it was traceable, and Zeldin actually bothered to trace it and claw it back. No doubt there will be lawsuits and a tug of war between the feds and the NGOs, but those lawsuits will be quite instructive. There will be discovery that will open up the books of the NGOs, showing the American people how the sausage is made and that the meat inside is rotten. The scams, the revolving door, the massive skimming. The "green banks" funding projects that never get off the ground cost enormous amounts of money without achieving any discernible goal, and the massive salaries for managers of these projects. You will find out that politically connected people all have ties in some form or fashion to the dollars going out the door. ... This is why Trump has been the object of so much slander and hate. He is defunding the ruling class, cutting the transnational elite off of its funding stream, and set to cripple a class of people who have assumed they have the right to rule and get rich off of us. $20 billion. At one agency. Spent in weeks. With no accountability and no stated goals beyond vague promises of doing good.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grayman27 at February 13, 2025 02:27 PM (pgwxJ)
Posted by: Grayman27 at February 13, 2025 02:27 PM (pgwxJ)
Posted by: Grayman27 at February 13, 2025 02:28 PM (pgwxJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:28 PM (bss/y)
The point of the federal government is to take as much money from the taxpayers as possible
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 02:28 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 02:28 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 13, 2025 02:28 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:29 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 13, 2025 02:29 PM (8gogI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 02:29 PM (/U5Yz)
I think we are just about to see a bunch of leftwingers going public with their complaint that you just can't live off of $140k/year with these prices anymore and therefore they need their grift.
And each leftist that wants to go public with this insight should be given the biggest microphone Trump can find
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 02:29 PM (t0Rmr)
Indeed.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:29 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Ace at 02:26 PM
Line forms on the left.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (4XwPj)
Could Trump's Avengers really do it and close the deficit?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (kuTyJ)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (8gogI)
Posted by: Grayman27 at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (pgwxJ)
-- Some day on DU, probably
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (D7oie)
Does the FBI have the legal authority to seize offshore accounts? Because that's where these Shits hide all their dough-ray-mee.
Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (fUF5B)
Is anyone talking about the effect of suddenly removing the fraud and waste from govt spending? There is a whole fraud economy that has been running in the shadows. By cutting this off there are probably many unforeseen consequences. How will this manifest? DC housing crash? There are going to be a whole lot of empty rice bowls.
Posted by: CrunchyToad at February 13, 2025 02:10 PM (D3RBa)
The leeches have been sucking on the government teet for far too long.
That is not just money that they are stealing. That is taxpayers' lives and time that they have taken away from their families to fund their worthless existence. That is people's blood, sweat, and tears. Missed baseball games. Missed recitals.
Fuck them.
No punishment is too harsh.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 02:13 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (i24o9)
Could Trump's Avengers really do it and close the deficit?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (HYKHz)
I thought we were over a Trill*?
*useless shortening of words for $500, Alex.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (bss/y)
Oftentimes, they work together to steal the money! Bipartisan uniparty pilfering!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
My shapely legs will get us through this.
Posted by: Pam Bondi at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (/U5Yz)
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Omg can you imagine.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (CWTWj)
We need to start asking "What kind of evidence would you accept?" Then find it.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: Bob Menendez at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (Aqu9a)
The point of the federal government is to take as much money from the taxpayers as possible
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 02:28 PM
So it seems that this is where Elon's observation that checks were distributed by the Treasury with no annotations as to the origin and purpose of the payments gain relevance.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (wrXPz)
LOL.
Musk yoinked $80 million from a NYC account that was earmarked for illegals. The NYC Comptroller Lander ran to the media to cry about it.
http://tiny.cc/egv9001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (Odg76)
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The moment Musk said golly gee we should really find out how people making 150K a year become millionaires after only a few years of working for the government, we knew shit was gonna FLY
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (VE6XX)
(may need someone who can actually do math check my numbers)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (wrXPz)
It was four years of this. This is just the kissing afterwards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 02:29 PM (/U5Yz)
EPA was created by Nixon Executive Order in 1970. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: ACU guy at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (66ReQ)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (1bNHn)
You sweet summer child.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (bQ/08)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (PZreb)
Posted by: Bulg at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (kuTyJ)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (8gogI)
LOL.
Musk yoinked $80 million from a NYC account that was earmarked for illegals. The NYC Comptroller Lander ran to the media to cry about it.
http://tiny.cc/egv9001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 02:32 PM (Odg76)
SHE NEEDED NEW SHOES!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
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Elon is obviously Iron Man
Trump is Captain America, except that he's slept with beautiful women
Tulsi would be Rogue, but she's in the X-Men...
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (lO6Ut)
Oftentimes, they work together to steal the money! Bipartisan uniparty pilfering!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (uCjyK)
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Which would explain the Rs falling into line on nominees.
They are hoping the alligator eats them last.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (y3de1)
Posted by: Definitely Elric The Blade at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)
Grats.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (oa1NA)
Fuck them.
No punishment is too harsh.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 02:31 PM (i24o9)
Agreed, and I think it bears repeating.
Every single tax payer in the US not connected to the Deep State has been fucked over by the actions of the Deep State. Manufacturing outsourced, mass immigration to replace both blue and white collar jobs, unfair trade practices, oh and the direct pilfering of the treasury to enrich themselves, their cronies, and their deep state masters.
People's entire lives have been ruined because of this. People have died deaths of despair because of this -- suicide, addiction, etc.
Meanwhile, these cretins have been laughing behind our backs while they rob us blind and live the high life.
I don't know what the appropriate punishment for this is, or if anyone will ever be punished, but it's hard to look at this as anything other than evil.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (uCjyK)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
UNIPARTY: Dick “Stolen Valor” Blumenthal lavishes praise on Mitch McConnell for voting against Trump cabinet picks — “Telling truth to power.”
“Indicates that maybe the Trump cult can be broken."
This is your legacy, Mitch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (L/fGl)
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Actually it's not even 750 billion, its only 711 billion
for one quarter (October to December 2024)
we fucked, yo
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (D7oie)
TBD
President Trump Welcomes Indian Prime Minister to White House
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Congress at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (w4nzS)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (PZreb)
“Indicates that maybe the Trump cult can be broken."
This is your legacy, Mitch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at
LOL... Turtle ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Ace
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That's the kind of dirty talk I like to hear.
Posted by: scampydog at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (2bFN5)
Does he spike their drinks with truth serum... offer them sex?
Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (bQ/0
Remember how we all laughed about being gay being a security risk? Presumably because of blackmail if the truth were to get out?
Turns out it is because they will tell you anything you want to know on the chance of getting laid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (Tqr2v)
👀😃🥳🎉
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (4tmpE)
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I'm still thinking that there's going to be a ring of middle to upper management that have gotten themselves rich off of just straight up stealing money from lower income taxpayers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Strzok and Page, the FBI lovebirds.
By now, I think Strzok had given her so many "Strzoks" that he needs to turn over a new Page.
Posted by: muldoon at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (KXtU1)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (fwDg9)
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I think that when and if the true amount of taxpayer money stolen and ending up in members of congress hands, it will be astounding. I imagine that their already high salaries are less than one percent of their total take. And, add in all of their co-conspirators in 501c and other orgs.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (CWTWj)
They are hoping the alligator eats them last.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (y3de1)
Oh yeah. They usually vote how the deep state tells them to vote.
I imagine that lever of power is less powerful right now than Trump saying "hey, so, nice yacht your sister in law bought but you use on weekends. Should we talk about that, or are you voting yes for RFK?"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (uCjyK)
I don't know about the prosecution bit, Ace, but I appreciate your optimism.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (42Vb+)
Good thing it's only Democrats who do this.
Posted by: Eyepatch McCain at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (a3Q+t)
Is anyone talking about the effect of suddenly removing the fraud and waste from govt spending? There is a whole fraud economy that has been running in the shadows. By cutting this off there are probably many unforeseen consequences. How will this manifest? DC housing crash? There are going to be a whole lot of empty rice bowls.
Posted by: CrunchyToad at February 13, 2025 02:10 PM (D3RBa)
Well, I've mentioned one effect - VA will be blue this year. Even Presler probably couldn't save it (which is why he's working so hard in the other major 2025 election - New Jersey)...just too many folks are gonna be too committed to making it so.
Housing market will also fall in NoVa, which will make me happy b/c you pay taxes on actual market value here, so it will force the schools to get rid of their DEI and boondoggles b/c the County just won't be able to raise the rate enough to pay for it...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (exHjb)
THIS. This is what the left has been doing for years. The Gov't can't legally snoop in on all of us, so they use other entities to do the work for them. It's how they funded their mis-dis-mal-information campaigns. They use foreign entities to snoop on us domestically, and use domestic companies to snoop on us domestically.
I'm glad this is finally seeing the light of day. May those involved hang off tall gibbets around the country for their treason.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (ynpvh)
This is third world banana republic stuff.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (Hkcdp)
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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (NFX2v)
👀😃🥳🎉
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (4tmpE)
1) Musk: Just the tip.
or
2) Musk: We promise not to do that thing in your mouth?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (bss/y)
The scale of this theft and fraud is incredible. How many of us have grown up watching heist movies where incredibly skillful thieves all work together in concert and make it out barely with a million dollar prize? Or a twenty million dollar prize?
These people have been stealing trillions of dollars from the US taxpayer for literally decades and nobody was even looking for them. The most powerful people in the US on both sides were PROTECTING them.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (bQ/0
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I hope the PV guy didn't have to, you know, "maintain his cover" afterwards.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (PZreb)
I think for a number of high profile cases, a closed study door, a partially consumed whiskey bottle, and a gun cleaning accident lies at the end of this. The time-honored exit stage left.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (lTGtQ)
Truly the largest conspiracy in the history of the US. Laid bare for all to see, if they wish to see it.
And this should be the end of the "conspiracy theories aren't real! Someone would talk!" arguments.
This has been going on for at least 100 years.
No one talked. Weird.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (uCjyK)
and like 80'000 IRS agents....
Seems like assigning them to investigate all the fraud of these NGOs would be a good use of their time.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (kuTyJ)
The funny thing is, that thanks to social media, the revolution really is being televised and the people who used to say that are shocked to learn that they're the despots being overthrown.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: MAGA at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (qoB0Q)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (Tqr2v)
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My guess is in port. A parking accident.
Posted by: I'm not captain stubbing at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (66ReQ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: CrunchyToad
Do you remember how doctors used to bleed patients to make them better? That is the cure the deep state has been administering to the economy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (PZreb)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (Hkcdp)
The scale of this theft and fraud is incredible. How many of us have grown up watching heist movies where incredibly skillful thieves all work together in concert and make it out barely with a million dollar prize? Or a twenty million dollar prize?
These people have been stealing trillions of dollars from the US taxpayer for literally decades and nobody was even looking for them. The most powerful people in the US on both sides were PROTECTING them.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (Odg76)
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$20 billion is equal to the total, lifetime tax contributions from 36,000 Americans.
These people are stealing the lifetime tax contributions from 36,000 people and acting like they're completely justified in doing so because they don't agree with an election result.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (Hkcdp)
I think we're gonna need higher numbers and different fruit.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (Tqr2v)
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They always opened for him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (bss/y)
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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (bQ/0
Remember how we all laughed about being gay being a security risk? Presumably because of blackmail if the truth were to get out?
Turns out it is because they will tell you anything you want to know on the chance of getting laid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (bss/y)
Yup, it's unfortunate to admit, but gay men are the biggest security risk...with single or unhappily married straight men second.
Women keep their mouths shut until they know they can 100% trust you...but men don't b/c they want sex more than trust.
This is why the only spy not known in the Culper Ring was the one woman...and O'Keefe only has 1 women outed in his stable of embarrassed feds...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (exHjb)
So, you ask yourself, what is a Fund going to do with $7Billion. Well, they are the lynchpin that takes public moneys and turns it into private funds. Because they are:
"Climate United is a national coalition of non-profits investing in solutions that tackle America's toughest economic and environmental problems."
So, by taking this money and spreading it out in Non-profits, it now becomes private money. You can bet the head of each of these non-profits gets a nice slice of it as their salary, as do other representatives of each non-profit. Then, they are free to pass on undisclosed amounts as campaign contributions, or outright under the table payments,....or one of Biden's favorites....Loans (which never get paid back btw).
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: brindle at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (bO0Dz)
And as an Agent of Chaos might opine, Trump has changed things, we're never going back.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (Tqr2v)
George Michael's fudge pot? Mmmmm.
Posted by: Petey Bootyjuice at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (ynpvh)
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And why would they do that???
Posted by: Occam needs a shave at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (66ReQ)
Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (QSrLX)
Seriously. Wow.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)
I reminded him that they have no choice. They live on it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bogs Diamond at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (y7KuV)
Euros have a cromulent word for this: the Quango. The Quasi Non Governmental
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (gKWVE)
Seriously. Wow.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)
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He probably needs no worse than an office 7.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
--,Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (a3Q+t)
1. Democrats will not have campaign money
2. Socialists the world over have lost most of their funding
3. Antifa and BLM have lost most of their funding.
4. Terrorist groups have lost their funding.
5. Lawsuits to stop Trump have lost their funding.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (lTGtQ)
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My guess is in port. A parking accident.
Posted by: I'm not captain stubbing at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (66ReQ)
Who was driving?
https://youtu.be/D75O5wLJjyM
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (fwDg9)
If it weren't for 2020 and the abomination of Biden, would we have Trump 2.0 and DOGE?
I don't think so. Amazing how this worked out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (w6EFb)
1. Democrats will not have campaign money
2. Socialists the world over have lost most of their funding
3. Antifa and BLM have lost most of their funding.
4. Terrorist groups have lost their funding.
5. Lawsuits to stop Trump have lost their funding.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (lTGtQ)
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But 2026 will just follow normal midterm patterns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
DOGE report
He only named amounts and agencies. He did not name individuals so far like I am hoping.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (w4nzS)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (w4nzS)
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Money laundering.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (Tqr2v)
They should open for Butthole Surfers.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (i24o9)
These people are stealing the lifetime tax contributions from 36,000 people and acting like they're completely justified in doing so because they don't agree with an election result.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (GBKbO)
Right. Meanwhile, the infrastructure is crumbling, the schools are getting shittier, people are living on the streets in the US, and the middle class is shrinking.
$20 billion could have fixed a lot of fucking pot holes or built a lot of insane asylums for the schizo's sleeping on the subway grates.
And this is just a tiny rounding error. Just the "this is left over we need to spend it before Trump gets here" money.
A pittance.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (uCjyK)
I imagine that lever of power is less powerful right now than Trump saying "hey, so, nice yacht your sister in law bought but you use on weekends. Should we talk about that, or are you voting yes for RFK?"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (uCjyK)
They better hope Trump doesn't run out of reasons to twist their arms.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (y3de1)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (Tqr2v)
👀😃🥳🎉
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:34 PM (4tmpE)
I sincerely hope the DOGE buckaroos are all carrying 2 X 4's (ht "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan) and are all out of bubblegum (ht "Rowdy" Roddy Piper).
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (oa1NA)
Posted by: pawn at February 13, 2025 02:33 PM (bQ/0
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I hope the PV guy didn't have to, you know, "maintain his cover" afterwards.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (wzAuc)
Looking over a Project Veritas job description: "Competitive wages, 401k, must be willing to travel and do butt stuff..."
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (y9ksN)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (pMi6S)
The scale of this theft and fraud is incredible. How many of us have grown up watching heist movies where incredibly skillful thieves all work together in concert and make it out barely with a million dollar prize? Or a twenty million dollar prize?
These people have been stealing trillions of dollars from the US taxpayer for literally decades and nobody was even looking for them. The most powerful people in the US on both sides were PROTECTING them.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 02:37 PM (Odg76)
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$20 billion is equal to the total, lifetime tax contributions from 36,000 Americans.
These people are stealing the lifetime tax contributions from 36,000 people and acting like they're completely justified in doing so because they don't agree with an election result.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (GBKbO)
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Now we know why they tried to kill Trump. I always knew there was rampant theft and corruption and slimy villains in government. But even I'm shocked at the scale and scope of the problem, and how deep it goes.
Posted by: Definitely Elric The Blade at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Pam Bondi at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (/U5Yz)
This is who employs the Harvard sociology majors.
I saw a claim that 90% of USAID spending stayed right in the Washington DC metro area. Spending $200,000 on a transgender play in Bolivia involved paying $20,000 to the Bolivians to do it, and pocketing the other $180,000.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (uxCna)
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (4tmpE)
Mounted on DEVO hats.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (wtvvX)
2. Socialists the world over have lost most of their funding
3. Antifa and BLM have lost most of their funding.
4. Terrorist groups have lost their funding.
5. Lawsuits to stop Trump have lost their funding.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (lTGtQ)
How's the media doing though
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (Tqr2v)
Hologram-printed eyes that follow you around the room are optional. But preferred.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (0l8OY)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (fwyhL)
And for the younger folks... the ones who complain that they can't even get started... between this and getting rid of a bunch of illegals, their lives are about to look up.
Imagine leftists 60 years from now complaining that everyone in their family votes Republican because Trump saved Grandpa when all hope was lost. Except Trump will actually deserve credit, unlike old 4-peat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (ExV1e)
$20 billion could have fixed a lot of fucking pot holes or built a lot of insane asylums for the schizo's sleeping on the subway grates.
And this is just a tiny rounding error. Just the "this is left over we need to spend it before Trump gets here" money.
A pittance.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (uCjyK)
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When Musk bought Twitter, the narrative was that his $40 billion could have saved world hunger.
First, USAID's yearly budget is more than $40 billion and world hunger apparently still exists.
Secondly, "$20 billion is just a small part of the federal budget, and we should probably not do anything about it until the Department of Defense has been destroyed."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)
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if only
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (tT6L1)
It's a lot easier to investigate people when you don't warn them you are investigating them.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (LkLld)
This is the stupidest thing, but it's the only thing the Dems can try to scare people with. Nobody is in favor of "waste, fraud, and abuse". Nobody.
Elon will likely be the world's first trillionaire, if things keep up. He doesn't need grandma's SS check. And he's not going to run some identify theft scam like some of the idiots are alleging.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: brindle
They also put their friends from other NGOs on their boards. Some of these folks are on 7-8 other boards, each one paying a hundred grand additional. There is a reason so many multimillionaires are in DC.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (lTGtQ)
Ah, the People's Business!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (xG4kz)
I bet a ton of these Tranny Memo Programs are just cover for Black Ops / Wetwork.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (oa1NA)
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (Oz8Yz)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 13, 2025 02:35 PM (w4nzS)
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Money laundering.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 02:41 PM (wzAuc)
Cartels have nothing on the laundry business like Gov'ts do...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (KXtU1)
NGO isn't a government agency in the way the non-consensual sex isn't rape--word games to hide someone is getting violently fucked.
NGO's are violently fucking the American taxpayer and Democrats are helping hold us down.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (uyRWq)
Posted by: Definitely Elric The Blade at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
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Trump would not be doing this if they had stopped calling him a Russian stooge and let him build the border wall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (Hkcdp)
Marketing Chinese-slave-labor shoes and bling, and selling it at a 5000% markup. Target market: people who like shiny things.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (PZreb)
This is who employs the Harvard sociology majors.
I saw a claim that 90% of USAID spending stayed right in the Washington DC metro area. Spending $200,000 on a transgender play in Bolivia involved paying $20,000 to the Bolivians to do it, and pocketing the other $180,000.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (uxCna)
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Oh, no.
Baltimore...what's going to happen to Baltimore...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
I'd like to believe that they'll be sent word. Retire. Go away and stay away. If you run again we release your info.
But, then again, I used to believe that the stripper really liked me.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: brindle at February 13, 2025 02:39 PM (bO0Dz)
Of course. That's how they keep the political operatives, ne'er do well relatives, etc. etc. employed. These are all no-show / no-work jobs.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2025 02:40
Quangos sounds like some adorable Australian critters
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (y9ksN)
Hologram-printed eyes that follow you around the room are optional. But preferred.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (0l8OY)
Large-screen monitors replaying him getting up after being shot, pumping his fist in the air and screaming "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
That would be a nice start.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (/3Wsk)
Seriously. Wow.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)
Simping is a major weakness that's been exploited since time immemorial. Good on O'Keefe.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (9Ovst)
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verrrry interesting point
let's see who has trouble raising campaign money in '26
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (fwDg9)
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No it's cover for a new pool, a beachfront vacation home, and some bullion in a Swiss bank.
Posted by: What's more likely at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (66ReQ)
Seriously. Wow.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)
Simping is a major weakness that's been exploited since time immemorial. Good on O'Keefe.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (9Ovst)
Never underestimate the power of just taking an interest in somebody.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (fwyhL)
Posted by: brindle
They also put their friends from other NGOs on their boards. Some of these folks are on 7-8 other boards, each one paying a hundred grand additional. There is a reason so many multimillionaires are in DC.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:43 PM (lTGtQ)
And they are either married, or family, with others.... DC has entered a Mandarin phase... where its all certain families going to certain schools, who run things.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (QAkQ3)
Current AI is changing that. Musk and DOGE and other investigators are using AI to comb through millions of documents and find all those threads that used to take dozens of talented people years to uncover.
They did the same thing with the massive budget bill and I don't think DC has still fully come to terms with what happened. People were posting all kinds of BS from the bill that previously only a few think-tanks would have found in the past, well after the bill had passed.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (Odg76)
Baltimore...what's going to happen to Baltimore...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Could it possibly get any worse???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (wtvvX)
Which means they are, in fact, trying to kill you.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (4Nep/)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: The Five Families at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (+DfSG)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (LVS93)
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (Tqr2v)
I loved George Michael and that other handsome fellow in "Wham". All my bo..err...girlfriends did too!
Wake me up before you go-go
Cause I'm not planning on going solo!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (y7KuV)
There was a report of an anti-Trump protest at the Oregon state capitol.
Sylecia Johnston was among more than 500 people who took part in the 50501 movement–50 states, 50 protests, one day–on February 5 at the Capitol in Salem.
“I lost my job when the Trump administration shut down USAID,” Johnston, a protester from Portland said.
...
Johnston, who works for a small private firm that relies on USAID, suggested cutting staff or resources at USAID or any other federal agencies would have adverse effects.
“They’re saying they’re doing this to make America safer, but I can guarantee you the shutdown of USAID is making China and Russia stronger, and America weaker. I saw it firsthand in developing nations. This is just kinda the line for me. I’m also a Jewish American and was raised to be anti-fascist and to call out Nazis whenever I see them.”
I looked her up - she works for a NGO that encourages "sustainable tourism" in Third World counties.
How she does this from Portland, Oregon is unexplained, but I'm sure she was getting a nice paycheck.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (Wg6v7)
Listening to that thing talk was like a dentist drill.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (e4zRf)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (AOsQT)
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect we'd be getting stolen funds returned!
Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)
Simping is a major weakness that's been exploited since time immemorial. Good on O'Keefe.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (9Ovst)
Never underestimate the power of just taking an interest in somebody.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (fwyhL)
And sending truly Gorgeous women to get info? Bad idea... true incels and nerds will clam up and never approach... you need the girl next door 7 or 8... an attainable goal.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (QAkQ3)
yep
it's a ton of people around me, a bunch in Delaware too. they work for green-energy funding and related startups
they're very angry about the orange man on social media - no surprise
a lot of second homes on the beach here are in jeopardy
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (Pv3Rg)
Learn to code, motherfookers, learn to code!
Learn to code, motherfookers, learn to code!
Learn to code, motherfookers,
you'll not make it as truckers.
Learn to code, motherfookers, learn to code!
Tune: "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (xG4kz)
NGO isn't a government agency in the way the non-consensual sex isn't rape--word games to hide someone is getting violently fucked.
NGO's are violently fucking the American taxpayer and Democrats are helping hold us down.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 02:44 PM (uyRWq)
UGO--Unidentified Governmental Organization
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (ynpvh)
He says the "gold bars" are going to "nonprofits, states, tribes." Tribes? I assume he means Indian tribes. What's their connection in all this?
Oh and Efron is a very stupid person. The stinger was asking very leading questions that should have raised red flags to even the dumbest, thirstiest homo that something was amiss. But not Efron!
Posted by: Definitely Elric The Blade at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (iFTx/)
I know he may be toying with abolishing the personal income tax, but I think he should just draw up an EO for this year and let it ride.
Worry about the rest later...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Stateless...39% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (yF8T2)
And THAT is why they are screaming.
They just told NGOs that they could only spend 15% of what they are given on admin costs. They were spending 30-65%.
My company our overhead costs are 8%.
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (nLFEI)
These are the elites, being identified by Doge. Common criminals.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (lTGtQ)
She gets paid to go on Vacations.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (oa1NA)
Seeing as how the word, "budget," has not been mentioned since GWB, I'd say he will be close to balancing this ship in years to come.
Happening so fast I cannot keep up much less write a spreadsheet.
Thanking God daily for President Trump and VP Vance, and praying they are kept safe and healthy. We are back! The Dims are almost breathless in fear from the shock and awe.
I never dreamed it would be so glorious!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (ScdUI)
Posted by: Oddbob NRA Life Member at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (NHoLP)
let's see who has trouble raising campaign money in '26
The government was also sending tens of millions to the media to promote the establishment preferred candidates and hammer people like Trump.
They are also losing their echo chamber.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (fwDg9)
Learn to code, motherfookers, learn to code!
Learn to code, motherfookers,
you'll not make it as truckers.
pick the lettuce
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (VE6XX)
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verrrry interesting point
let's see who has trouble raising campaign money in '26
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (AOsQT)
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It's an easy connection to make from the grant to the NGO to the officer of the NGO to Democrat politician's campaign fund.
The National Endowment for Democracy is apparently suddenly unable to meet payroll. It received at least $1 billion from 2020 to 2023.
It has the expressed purpose of inciting regime change around the world.
Think it helped fund shit in America?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Talk slower honey, a man only has so much spooge per day.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (Tqr2v)
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (4tmpE)
Mounted on DEVO hats.
Posted by: Tex Lovera
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With 'Whip It' being played over loudspeakers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (XeU6L)
How she does this from Portland, Oregon is unexplained, but I'm sure she was getting a nice paycheck.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (uxCna)
So, Government funded Travel Agent.... OK then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (NHoLP)
So many times I thought about how a certain program could benefit from just another 50k dollars or so.
Zeldin is returning 20 Billion dollars to the people. Imagine the good that can be done with that money
Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: kallisto
Well, they've been returned to the thieves who stole them the first time, but it's a start.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (4Nep/)
Could Trump's Avengers really do it and close the deficit?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 13, 2025 02:30 PM (HYKHz)
aren't we over a 1/4 of the way there in the first MONTH of the reign of PDJT?
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (nXhwP)
How she does this from Portland, Oregon is unexplained, but I'm sure she was getting a nice paycheck.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (uxCna)
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I bet she voted for Trump in 2024 and just had no idea what was going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (KXtU1)
Why do I always read that as "Led Zeppelin"?
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (pMi6S)
I now hear the opening scream from the Immigrant Song.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (Aqu9a)
Baltimore...what's going to happen to Baltimore...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Could it possibly get any worse???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:46 PM (wtvvX)
Yes!
Posted by: Detroit at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (y7KuV)
I have been saying this for a while. Spending is completely untethered from Revenue.
First 1 mil. No Income Tax taken.
That's how you help Americans.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (oa1NA)
The Golden Scalp Weasel should seriously consider an EO banning all payouts to NGOs. Period.
And consider another to repeal tax-exempt status for religious organizations. True, it'll hurt our orgs as well, but the First Amendment shouldn't be considered as contingent on tax breaks. Say what you want, protest what you want, worship how you want, but that's not an excuse to evade taxation. Those taxes should be nuked for EVERYONE, not just "nonprofits".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (y9nCu)
> This is the stupidest thing, but it's the only thing the Dems can try to scare people with. Nobody is in favor of "waste, fraud, and abuse". Nobody.
I personally hope Musk does steal people's refunds. Hear me out. I don't mean the people who actually pay taxes who have tax money withheld from their paychecks. I mean all the millions people who pay zero federal income taxes who get a "refund" every year. I hope that stops.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
Only one Judge can apply the proper penalty, and He will at the hour He has chosen. Doesn't mean we don't clean house as needed until then.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (QAkQ3)
A 6 if she can carry the conversation.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (fwyhL)
I imagine that lever of power is less powerful right now than Trump saying "hey, so, nice yacht your sister in law bought but you use on weekends. Should we talk about that, or are you voting yes for RFK?"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (uCjyK)
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Time honored investigative trick. Put some information about the crime out to the public and see who makes a run for it.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (y3de1)
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Believe me, this IS wet work. Sigh.
Posted by: Nonbinary getting ready to peg her tranny "girlfriend" at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (qUkBO)
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All of them getting themselves appointed to a multitude of boards and committees etc. on non-profits, that pay tens of thousands for "board meetings" once a month or less.
Note how none of them found anything unusual about Hunter getting $86k a month.
I wonder if that is also what Trump really meant by "going after" and firing those government employees found to have more than one job?
Basically, counting a paid "charity" position as a second job?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 02:50 PM (uyRWq)
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (oa1NA)
To be fair, the resorts and bars get paid. So it's all on the up and up.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (fUF5B)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (xG4kz)
Learn to code, motherfookers, learn to code!
Learn to code, motherfookers,
you'll not make it as truckers.
pick the lettuce
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:48 PM (VE6XX)
Lettuce pick up veggies to earn cabbage.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (ynpvh)
$hit's getting YOINKED, yo!
Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (fUF5B)
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 13, 2025 02:38 PM (4tmpE)
Mounted on DEVO hats.
Posted by: Tex Lovera
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With 'Whip It' being played over loudspeakers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2025 02:49 PM (XeU6L)
They should have one guy who's sole job is to carry the boom box
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (lO6Ut)
Perhaps we should use the "hand cut off" for stealing that some countries use.
Cut them off on live television.
Posted by: four seasons at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (fUF5B)
Posted by: Eyepatch McCain at February 13, 2025 02:36 PM (a3Q+t)
He married an heiress.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (ExV1e)
Trump is pouring a fuck ton of salt on the DC leeches.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)
learn to pick produce fuckheads
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (wBaIH)
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Thus the lawful-centric fascism.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (krQz2)
I know he may be toying with abolishing the personal income tax, but I think he should just draw up an EO for this year and let it ride.
Worry about the rest later...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2025 02:47 PM (Q4IgG)
___________
I'LL ALLOW IT
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (iFTx/)
Didn't even get Beyonce... pikers
Posted by: Kamala at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2025 02:40
Quangos sounds like some adorable Australian critters
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2025 02:45 PM (y9ksN)
A quango once bit my sister.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Waylon Jennings at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (fUF5B)
learn to pick produce fuckheads
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (HYKHz)
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When, just to put food on the table, they have to move to Missouri to get a middle management job at a small corporation that sells a product, it's going to be quite the culture shock.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (yF8T2)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (uyRWq)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (xQe2X)
Posted by: Stateless...39% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)
>>Learn to code, motherfookers, learn to code!
And we'll force them to use Vim.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)
Hey now! VIM was pretty damned powerful with its macro features...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (ynpvh)
I've been told many times no one is ABOVE THE LAW.
So, how can states harbor illegals?
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (krQz2)
They actually referred to them as a "vaunted network".
The unfathomable, desperate grifting of the media is quite a sight to behold, even after over 40 years of seeing it.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (wtvvX)
"EPA Chief Lee Zeldin"
Why do I always read that as "Led Zeppelin"?
Posted by: zombie
You have a communication breakdown.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)
He is going to keep that up until Trudeau actually leaves and they hold an election.
It's hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (oa1NA)
--PDT
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (v0TzN)
Hah!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (ynpvh)
Government should be run by hard bitten cynics, not by people who won a participation trophy for their collection of participation trophies.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (tT6L1)
"EPA Chief Lee Zeldin"
Why do I always read that as "Led Zeppelin"?
Posted by: zombie
You have a communication breakdown.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)
He's just dazed and confused.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (wtvvX)
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2025 is a jubilee year, so this tracks
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (lO6Ut)
$20 billion to the people spending the winter in tents in NC?
No, fuck them, they can freeze.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (uyRWq)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (4XwPj)
The Left: "Maybe we shouldn't have had the FBI rifle Melania's underwear drawer."
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (Tqr2v)
He is going to keep that up until Trudeau actually leaves and they hold an election.
It's hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (oa1NA)
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"Except for Montreal. France can have them."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)
No.. I don't want 2 new Dem Senators
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)
"EPA Chief Lee Zeldin"
Why do I always read that as "Led Zeppelin"?
Posted by: zombie
You have a communication breakdown.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)
Or falling down that stairway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (v0TzN)
I appreciate your stories and the way you tie them into politics. If you aren't already doing so, you should consider writing stories for a larger audience.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Stateless...39% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (jvJvP)
>>Hey now! VIM was pretty damned powerful with its macro features...
Just vanilla Vim, circa 1990, not NeoVim.
They're too good for NeoVim.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)
"EPA Chief Lee Zeldin"
Why do I always read that as "Led Zeppelin"?
Posted by: zombie
You have a communication breakdown.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)
Or falling down that stairway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (ynpvh)
He's just a Fool in the Rain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 02:53 PM (xQe2X)
doge
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (oa1NA)
No.. I don't want 2 new Dem Senators
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)
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50 more states.
One is Vancouver. One is Toronto. One is Montreal.
The other 47 states are predominantly rural.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Soothsayer learns about Kickapoo at February 13, 2025 02:51 PM (fUF5B)
BOO EFFEN YA!
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (Aqu9a)
Actually, her USAID-affiliated company may have a secondary purpose - there are a whole lot of people from the country of Georgia on the staff of the company.
We're currently trying to run a color revolution against the pro-Russian government of Georgia - it wouldn't be surprising if a lot of the "sustainable tourism" dollars were going to fund demonstrations in Tbilisi.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (uxCna)
>>Hey now! VIM was pretty damned powerful with its macro features...
Just vanilla Vim, circa 1990, not NeoVim.
They're too good for NeoVim.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)
I remember using plain old VI...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (ynpvh)
I hope he declares 2025 the first tax-free year.
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (KtPtl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (0l8OY)
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I hope some of the Cabinet lurk here. That portrait should be in the waiting areas of their offices by the weekend.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (wzAuc)
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It is often said that "discovery will be interesting." It always sounds true, but I have yet to be dazzled by any discovery derived from court proceedings.
Posted by: 496 at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (howjf)
It's them becoming afterthoughts that scares the shit out of them.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (KbCG3)
That's what I picture with all the shit they did to him in between terms - rifling his wife's things, putting him on trial - just smiling and nodding. And glaring.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: torabora at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (0Gnoc)
Just vanilla Vim, circa 1990, not NeoVim.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)
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Do you mean VI?
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: 496 at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (howjf)
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Well, discovery isn't a public process.
And the most explosive things get resolved out of court.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
Why do I always read that as "Led Zeppelin"?
Posted by: zombie
You have a communication breakdown.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)
Or falling down that stairway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (ynpvh)
>>He's just a Fool in the Rain.
If you give Lee Zeldin lemons, he doesn't make Lemonade...
He makes a Lemon Song.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (oa1NA)
Why do I always read that as "Led Zeppelin"?
Posted by: zombie
You have a communication breakdown.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (63Dwl)
And your time is gonna come.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Definitely Elric The Blade at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
I have friends that are deathly afraid that they will try again, and succeed. Many people have been murdered for less.
Posted by: javems at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (LVS93)
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Per Mike Benz: GONGOs (Government-Organized "Non-Governmental" Organizations).
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (xQe2X)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM
It is.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (rbKZ6)
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Correction - 58th
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (Tqr2v)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)
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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my program. Prepare to vi.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (6K6Eu)
Step 2) go on google and look up their headquarters.
Here is the headquarters for the Clinton Foundation:
1200 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
Go ahead, look it up.
Charity PAYS.
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (yF8T2)
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Correction - 58th
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (Tqr2v)
Or 59th, after Greenland.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (Wg6v7)
Trump is pouring a fuck ton of salt on the DC leeches.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2025 02:52 PM (4XwPj)
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DC is the river in The African Queen
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)
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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my program. Prepare to vi.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (6K6Eu)
LOL. I always pronounced it vee-eye....
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)
Fear not, he's just putting fag Trudeau in his place.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (Tqr2v)
And the most explosive things get resolved out of court.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
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Agreed. So why do so many people say "discovery should be interesting?" Interesting to whom? Us plebes never find out jack.
Posted by: 496 at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (howjf)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (LVS93)
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Trump tends to talk "past the sale".
It's part of elite negotiations.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM
It is.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (rbKZ6)
; )
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (v0TzN)
This is an existential crisis for them. They will be exposed and they will be prosecuted.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
The is the Second American Revolution.
The "liberal" leftist" "elite" Have grown like a massive tumor on the body of the American People, for so long, and gotten so enormous, that it is and has been draining the lifeblood out ofn the nation for decades. American is like a cheetah infested with so many ticks and fleas and intestinal works that all of its nutrients go to feed the parasites, but not to make its own body function and thrive. Now the cheetah drags itself around the savannah barely able to stand, and would have soon died.
But trump is de-parasiting the nation. Once all our nutrients (i.e federal revenue) once again start going to feed the actual body itself, the cheetah-America will explode into action, otrace everythingl and dominate the svahannah-globe.
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: 496 at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (howjf)
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*shrugs*
To the lawyers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bonhomme
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On federal spending bills, part of the problem is that unless you deal with the provisions in federal law in an area all day long, alterations to various subsections, etc. become impossible to do by humans in the short amount of time that these bills are submitted before passage.
An AI trained on past government expenditure and US code data can spot patterns that humans simply are not able to do in the short amount of time available.
The Continuing Resolution bureaucratese in this case has met its match with AI Transparency.
There will have to be new scams invented to circumvent that. Senate Intel committee, for example, floated closed hearings for Tulsi and even a 'secret' vote. My guess is that the Congress critters try to go black budget with a lot of items if they can get away with it.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (yF8T2)
Does that mean he ended up on the Highway to Hell?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (ynpvh)
https://apnews.com
and go to Live Updates
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (v0TzN)
https://www.twitch.tv/patriotnews4u
Usually has the right side newsworthy stuff of the day, and GEOTUS is on now.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (i24o9)
https://tinyurl.com/59z3dsd6
The grant was originally awarded in April of 2024, and announced by Kamala Harris:
https://tinyurl.com/yc2x8857
The really strange thing is these entities are 501 C-3 subsidiaries of For Profit entities largely involved in building low income housing.
What does the EPA have to do with low income housing and why give $7 Billion to, essentially, commercial enterprises?
Posted by: Alexandria Occasional Cortex at February 13, 2025 03:00 PM (Zbbgn)
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 13, 2025 03:01 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2025 03:01 PM (Zbbgn)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2025 03:01 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Definitely Elric The Blade at February 13, 2025 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
I have friends that are deathly afraid that they will try again, and succeed. Many people have been murdered for less.
Posted by: javems at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (8I4hW)
Ya don't fuck with the money.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2025 03:01 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:01 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (pMi6S)
Well??
Is the captain of the UfuckingSS Truman a dyke, or what??
WTF is going with these assholes? Ramming ships. Ditching jets.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (fUF5B)
He said he could never understand why they were so opposed. Then, he said, it dawned on him that these people didn't care one lick about Trump's policies. They were worried about losing their nest egg, and were truly worried about going to jail for corruption.
The interview was during the campaign...it might have been the lead up to his interview with Trump right after the Garbage truck stuff. I can't remember of find it anywhere.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
But please leave the bag over her head.
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (pMi6S)
Sounds like Huck may have a foot fetish...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (ynpvh)
And here I'd say...no. The government has some authority to change the names of regions - you can point to endless such changes in the US and abroad that generally don't merit much concern...until of course Trump did it.
But the pronoun stuff? The government does not have the right to change the language. So forcing people to use custom pronouns is a flat out example of government force for the intent of pushing an ideological bent - and a perverted groomer one at that
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh
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So have I.
I preferred it to emacs, which I found every hard to escape on the off chance I tried it.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (krQz2)
Though I'd be okay with, annual DOGE-style audits and strict laws restricting administrative costs to be no more than maybe 8% of what they receive with restrictions on levels of salaries.
With laws with very sharp teeth to insure compliance.
Something along those lines.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (iJfKG)
Disclaimer: The information contained in these FAQs is based on our current knowledge of the program parameters. We are continually receiving updated guidance, so all information is subject to change. Thank you for your patience as we digest, translate, and disseminate new information as it becomes available.
No, those aren't the sounds of paper shredders and metal chippers running in the background -- why do you ask?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (xG4kz)
excellent analogy zombie!
it's so amazing. I knew there was something up. nothing made any sense! dude a lot of people were making BANK based on doing very little work
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (yF8T2)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (F2T8D)
(paraphrasing)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: PaleRider
That is part of the idiotic assumptions of rank and file lefties, that we worship our corrupticans like Lady Lindsay or China Mitch just as much as they swoon over Bernie and his multiple houses and his wife running a college into the ground while making bank.
They can and do steal if they can because 'everyone' is doing it and so you support your grifters in office because they allow you gimmedats from the gubmint pile o cash.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (KXtU1)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (lXCUP)
Posted by: 496 at February 13, 2025 02:56 PM (howjf)
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Well, discovery isn't a public process.
And the most explosive things get resolved out of court.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
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Discovery is overrated. It's rare you find something truly damaging. And that's assuming -- often not a good assumption -- that the party producing the discovery isn't withholding the bad shit.
Anyone with half a brain knows not to put incriminating shit in emails or anywhere at all. Mostly, what you do find are breadcrumbs that might not seem significant on their own, but you can put together to build a good case.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (iFTx/)
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I'd say its the river in Apocalypse Now. Hint, never get out of the boat.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (Wg6v7)
Though I'd be okay with, annual DOGE-style audits and strict laws restricting administrative costs to be no more than maybe 8% of what they receive with restrictions on levels of salaries.
With laws with very sharp teeth to insure compliance.
Something along those lines.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (iJfKG)
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Government is not allowed to contract with external sources for any function.
Roads? Directly hire workers.
War? Send the actual military.
Want to destabilize a foreign government? State Department employees and military only.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:04 PM (GBKbO)
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From your formerly nicotine-stained fingers to Trump's and Bondi's ears. [Brings back images of Elon and his young son"X."]
Can we throw in some executions while we're at it, starting with Fauci, Milley, Hillary, and Mugabe? Asking for a friend ...
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 03:04 PM (Yfo3e)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:02 PM (t0Rmr)
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That's what I said.
"Quit dead-naming the gulf!"
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:04 PM (krQz2)
They can and do steal if they can because 'everyone' is doing it and so you support your grifters in office because they allow you gimmedats from the gubmint pile o cash.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)
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"You don't like Lindsey Graham?! He's probably the best Republican you have!"
"Yeah. I know you would think that."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Niccolo Machiavelli at February 13, 2025 03:05 PM (gKWVE)
$20 billion to the people spending the winter in tents in NC?
No, fuck them, they can freeze.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 02:54 PM (uyRWq)
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I like the aircraft-carrier-for-scale illustration with sums of this magnitude:
1 Ford-class carrier
1 Nimitz-class carrier
2/3 of another Nimitz-class carrier
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 03:05 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:05 PM (2VST1)
As Anna Chapman showed you can get most men to say whatever you want them to say with a little sexual interest.
In O'Keefe's case though he is targeting gay men who are way, way weaker in this regard than straight men. Hell this is why being a gay guy was traditionally reason to be denied access to sensitive data
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:05 PM (t0Rmr)
no its more like how I'm supposed to call kelly drive something else and I don't, and east river drive, and Delaware avenue too.
it's like when a city decides it's important to rename major roadways after Black politicians
if you dont like the new name just don't use it I guess, who cares.
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 13, 2025 03:05 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (v0R5T)
1 Ford-class carrier
1 Nimitz-class carrier
2/3 of another Nimitz-class carrier
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 03:05 PM (wzAuc)
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$20 billion is more than double the entire revenue from the box office that Hollywood made in 2023.
And the government is just "throwing it off the Titanic".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (42Vb+)
Green energy.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (v0R5T)
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As YD put it:
The system isn't corrupt. The corruption is the system.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (v0R5T)
Well, it's a cancer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)
__________________
What the hell is "sustainable tourism?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (YqDXo)
He's sitting in the Oval, holding court. He's in The Chair. You know, like Captain Kirk. This is a power move.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: The Truth at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (y7KuV)
well I disagree
the economy was fake; there was massive malinvestment
it might look good but it's not good
organic growth - real growth, real industry- is better
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (ERYKL)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (lXCUP)
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"But he's sooooooo dreamy!"
-- White Fags for Kommie-la
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (Yfo3e)
And here I'd say...no. The government has some authority to change the names of regions - you can point to endless such changes in the US and abroad that generally don't merit much concern...until of course Trump did it.
There was an extended campaign recently on the part of the Department of the Interior to change place names and the names of geographical features that were deemed offensive to our indigenous persons to ... something else.
For example, someplace named "Squaw Beach" was upgraded to "Elizabeth Warren Beach".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (xG4kz)
He's sitting in the Oval, holding court. He's in The Chair. You know, like Captain Kirk. This is a power move.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)
Agreed!
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (v0TzN)
As with the whole government, the point of the EPA is to take as much money from the taxpayers as possible. Whether they spend it on unicorn farts or LIH or green boondoggles literally does not matter because the point is how much they can personally go home with
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (t0Rmr)
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What the hell is "sustainable tourism?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (YqDXo)
Where you use a canoe you paddle yourself to get to Hawaii, where you work on the pineapple plantations to pay for your stay...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (ynpvh)
>>An AI trained on past government expenditure and US code data can spot patterns that humans simply are not able to do in the short amount of time available.
Yes, this is a good illustration of what an AI can do, a bill that alters and makes reference to an existing law or statute will not be immediately clear but you could use an AI to show the connections and changes, for instance you could ask the AI to list all of the items in this bill that alter already existing laws, statutes or regulations, now list the existing laws and the alterations in tabular format and put them all into a excel file or pdf.
The AI will be able to do that in minutes.
A human could never match that speed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (XV/Pl)
As Anna Chapman showed you can get most men to say whatever you want them to say with a little sexual interest.
In O'Keefe's case though he is targeting gay men who are way, way weaker in this regard than straight men. Hell this is why being a gay guy was traditionally reason to be denied access to sensitive data
Posted by: 18-1
I really wonder if O'Keefe hired actually gay operatives, or simply re-used his straight operatives who then had to PRETEND to be gay to entrap these guys.
"Yeah we gave away $50 billion to screw Trump over."
"Uh-MAZ-ing!"
I think only a truly gay operative could even pronounce "Amazng" that way.
Posted by: zombie at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (v0TzN)
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Mud huts. Then the residents will have come full circle, from mud huts back home to houses here to mud huts here.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (42Vb+)
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It may.
The thing keeping a hefty part of this economy afloat may have been corruption.
It always takes time for other economic activity to fill in.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (krQz2)
No. Custom pronouns would be more like forcing people to call the Gulf a Mountain Range.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Alexandria and the suburbs surrounding DC will crash, the rest of the country will take off.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (lTGtQ)
well I disagree
the economy was fake; there was massive malinvestment
it might look good but it's not good
organic growth - real growth, real industry- is better
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (Pv3Rg)
If inflation is a problem, the spending LESS Gov't money is the right direction.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (ynpvh)
Notice where this PDT likes taking questions, now. His office. And the Fake News Goblins are STANDING around like jackasses.
Yeah, the days of him standing there while the Fake News Goblins sit on their perches and BARK statements & accusations are Fucking OVER.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (fUF5B)
And Mexico just passed a law allowing US military to operate in Mexico...
And Panama partly caved on our Canal...
Did someone listen to the Romeo13 plan? of Annexing Mexico, Canada, and everything down to our Canal, to make a truly secure border? With Access to Russia levels of unexploited Natural Resources...
Add in Greenland? wowzers.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (KXtU1)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Unemployment Line?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (KXtU1)
He's sitting in the Oval, holding court. He's in The Chair. You know, like Captain Kirk. This is a power move.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)
Agreed!
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (v0TzN)
Melania needs to come into the Oval Office dressed as Yeoman Rand and carrying a single can of Diet Coke on a waitress tray.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (Aqu9a)
They are hoping the alligator eats them last.
Posted by: Just Lily
......
Ooh ooh take the money and run
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (v0R5T)
A human could never match that speed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (XV/Pl)
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AI should only be servants. Never supervisors.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (krQz2)
If Trump succeeds elite blue regions will see a massive reduction in how much money they have. This will crash local economies in NYC or Boston or whatever.
At the same time the reductions in spending will lower inflation and spur economic growth mostly in red areas.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (t0Rmr)
I am completely fine with experimenting to see if that happens.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Another point has to be made. Illegals were being flown into the country in the millions and handed borrowed money to spend in order to fake an economy not in recession. The recession is about to be recognized.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (lTGtQ)
He's sitting in the Oval, holding court. He's in The Chair. You know, like Captain Kirk. This is a power move.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)
Agreed!
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (v0TzN)
And we can't SEE the questioners. Which maybe decreases the grandstanding.
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (v0TzN)
The thing keeping a hefty part of this economy afloat may have been corruption.
It always takes time for other economic activity to fill in.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (krQz2)
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The economy could crash...on paper.
But we'd be removing a very large number in the GDP that doesn't actually...contribute to GDP.
It'd be the reverse of the Biden years where people would point to random numbers about how things were great but the people didn't feel it. Instead, they'd be pointing to numbers that are bad while the people feel like things are getting better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)
Surrounded, I hope, by red shirts who don't know they have been slated for the next away team.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (y3de1)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (yF8T2)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (AOsQT)
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He's always in the last place you look.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
No. Custom pronouns would be more like forcing people to call the Gulf a Mountain Range.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (Odg76)
Australian Desert.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:11 PM (ynpvh)
"Developing tourism in a sustainable way can be complex. Successful tourism growth is the result of an integrated approach that includes strategy, product development, education, collaboration, and marketing."
https://www.solimarinternational.com
Your tax dollars at work.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 03:11 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:11 PM (fUF5B)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (w6EFb)
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That's how rabbis taught in Jesus' time.
That's also how Jesus taught, to be clear.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:11 PM (krQz2)
What the hell is "sustainable tourism?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
You run the ones that expire through an industrial grade food processor to make "Nouveau Guac" or some such trendy and tasty comestible.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 13, 2025 03:11 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (yF8T2)
They're a bit short on them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (E/hiW)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (uxCna)
It'd be the reverse of the Biden years where people would point to random numbers about how things were great but the people didn't feel it. Instead, they'd be pointing to numbers that are bad while the people feel like things are getting better.
The upper class lefties I know really were all doing well under Biden. There were always new funding sources coming along for their NGOs and businesses and regular salary increases even if they were just federal drones but for everyone else yeah, the last 4 years were the worst nominal years of peace America has ever had - hyperinflation, out of control crime, a collapse of private sector employment and on and on
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
That's weird. So are my keys.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (MGB5H)
It's also an existential crisis for the US but for the opposite reason. This country will collapse because of the intentionally ludicrous spending. The Debt Bomb is real and the end of the dollar is an actual crisis. If it hits - and we're at the precipice of it actually happening - there will be severe pain for almost everyone. And those who skimmed to feather their offshore nests? They will become targets of vengeance, too, both indirect and direct.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (aXxgO)
catlin collins, of fake "news" cnn, has the ability to turn the corners of her mouth upwards, to make like she's The Joker
It's fucking weird.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (fUF5B)
What the hell is "sustainable tourism?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
You run the ones that expire through an industrial grade food processor to make "Nouveau Guac" or some such trendy and tasty comestible.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 13, 2025 03:11 PM (xG4kz)
Soylent Guac...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (ynpvh)
How does it work at your house? When you cut back spending, do you spiral in to bankruptcy?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (Vvh2V)
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I'm sure she could find profitable employment in either the fast food or housekeeping industries.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (6K6Eu)
After 30 years, In-N-Out leaves corporate office in Orange County
"In-N-Out will shutter its Orange County corporate office, where the company has kept offices since 1994, and relocate employees back to Baldwin Park, where its founders first opened a drive-through restaurant in the 1940s."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (t0Rmr)
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Now, they're not going to be able to find jobs while Joe Schmoe is getting the manufacturing job that Jose used to hold while grocery prices start to decline.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)
Once the DOGEsters are done with our current corruption, I'd love to see them do a forensic dismantling of all of the bullshit spending that has occurred in the last 20 years.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (wtvvX)
It won’t keep me up at night
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (E/hiW)
He has been ignored every time he put out a video, its got to be baffling and shocking to him that someone finally is taking what he reports seriously instead of trying to jail him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:12 PM (MGB5H)
That’s just because you’re normal and stop looking after you find them. Thus, they’re ALWAYS in the last place you look.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (fwyhL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:09 PM (ynpvh)
Inflation is caused by increasing the money supply faster than true economic growth (ie goods)...
Money is primarily created by Banks doing fractional Lending... which is why the Fed believes that raising interest rates (as it slows borrowing) slows down inflation.
Problem is that for the first time in history, combined Business and personal debt, is LESS than combined US Government debt.... and Government debt borrowing is controlled by politics, not the interest rate.
Add that both business and personal debt loads are so high that people MUST borrow... and the Fed control of interest rates no longer has really controls inflation.
We need economic growth to control inflation, which higher interest rates actually impedes.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 03:14 PM (QAkQ3)
Remember during the 1st Trump term where lefties big into tourism constantly complained about having to deal with too many American middle class people at their hot spots?
Banning them de facto is "sustainable tourism"
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:14 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Its when you pay groups to protest, like the stop oil people.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 03:14 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (42Vb+)
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It may.
The thing keeping a hefty part of this economy afloat may have been corruption.
It always takes time for other economic activity to fill in.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:08 PM (krQz2)
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Maybe, but this isn't "single leger accounting." All the money funneled to corruption that's now being exposed was taken from some other source.
The overall amount of money won't be reduced. It'll just be (hopefully) returned to where it should have been in the first place.
The exemption would be if a lot of this money was borrowed. But even then, that's just postponing the inevitable.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)
And it's taken me more than 30 years to get here.
Is that how these guys did it?
Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at February 13, 2025 03:14 PM (gsvjr)
The last couple big recessions, even the one that Biden claimed wasn't one, DC has been perfectly fine. They've been completely unharmed. So, maybe its time they feel the crunch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:14 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2025
***
"I thought the power was off in the galley?"
"I used a hand phaser and zap, black coffee!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (E/hiW)
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A lot of missed boat or pool payments.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (fwyhL)
That's not true. I usually check the freezer after I find them just to be sure.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (E/hiW)
That's like saying if the entire USA stopped buying cookies, the Economy would crash.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (fUF5B)
20 years ago $100k/year was rich.
Now, with supposedly little inflation, it is not.
Funny how that works isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (F2T8D)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 03:03 PM (KXtU1)
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Ah, so she's regressed to her natural station in life.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Its when you pay groups to protest, like the stop oil people.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 03:14 PM (lTGtQ)
It's a code word for Gov't Graft.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:16 PM (ynpvh)
"Developing tourism in a sustainable way can be complex. Successful tourism growth is the result of an integrated approach that includes strategy, product development, education, collaboration, and marketing."
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Now THERE'S some vapid platitudes for ya.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)
Oh sure, you definitely can get pretty wealthy on that kind of money. But not as swiftly as these guys do, and not as much money as they have made.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:16 PM (2VST1)
Unfortunately for her I suspect she's going to find there isn't much of a market for beejers without a ladypenis in Portland
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (fwyhL)
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I always look one more place, so they're NOT always in the last place I looked.
Principled.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (AOsQT)
I'm thinking about that Airplane! bit:
Trump is in the Captain's Chair. He's saying, I'm the Boss, the Big Cheese, the Big Kahuna.
Remember when he had Elon in there. Elon was standing, talking. The Captain was in the Chair, in command, letting his senior officer report.
He should say something like, "Very well, Mr. Musk. Make it so."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (F2T8D)
She was soooo upset the other day because she had to skip breakfast cause their was a press conference she had to go to.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (MGB5H)
Simply put. They have not been doing their jobs (quite purposefully IMO). Additionally, they allowed a system to transgress which made any form of competent oversight impossible (and discouraged). Add to that agencies who ignore requests for information, and politicians that don't follow through to secure that information.
Posted by: Orson at February 13, 2025 03:17 PM (dIske)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (v0TzN)
Now THERE'S some vapid platitudes for ya.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)
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A vapitude, if you will.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (6K6Eu)
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What the hell is "sustainable tourism?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (YqDXo)
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Keeping out the peons and riff-raff, like Bob and Sue Normal and their two kids from Peonia who want to see Venice. Bob and Sue need to stay in their lane. Only rich elites get to travel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (INplz)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)
*******
As well as 53 Dem Representatives.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (NpAcC)
For the average income of the USA, it upper middle class overall and still rich in some parts. Its not very well off somewhere like Manhattan. It varies.
I could live incredibly well on that much money a year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (2VST1)
It's fucking weird.
If you gave Caitlin Collins a man's haircut, she could easily pass as a soy boy.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (/U5Yz)
(The BRICS includes 10 countries - Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates.)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (g47mK)
Now THERE'S some vapid platitudes for ya.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)
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A vapitude, if you will.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 13, 2025 03:18 PM (6K6Eu)
Heh.
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (v0TzN)
The last couple big recessions, even the one that Biden claimed wasn't one, DC has been perfectly fine. They've been completely unharmed. So, maybe its time they feel the crunch.
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Hint - DC never has recessions. It just doesn't. If there is a softening in home prices, it will be most noted in the far suburbs not the close ones.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 03:13 PM (fwyhL)
That's not true. I usually check the freezer after I find them just to be sure.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (MGB5H)
I blame Schrödinger.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Ace at 02:26 PM
None of these people are going to prison.
I will be happy to eat crow, but I am not holding my breath.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (AOsQT)
"
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Posted by: Mitch the Turtle's Answer at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (ynpvh)
If I had found out like billions had been pilfered by Republican bureaucrats instead of it going to school vouchers (or whatever cause I believe in), I’d be pretty pissed
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (E/hiW)
The person who posted the comment wasn't me, but I appreciate your point. Just trying to get feedback. I don't know if the person who posted it was genuinely concerned or a troll for the opposition.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (AOsQT)
How long until he 6ft under?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (fwyhL)
Yeah I'll be shocked if anyone even loses their pension.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
How does one fall into drug addiction, is it like a pot hole?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (AOsQT)
It always takes time for other economic activity to fill in.
Posted by: Axeman
Here's the thing...that's not the same economy the rest of us are, not entirely. Yes, there were common portions, but mostly all that wealth never had much impact on the rest of us.
So yes, that part of the economy will come crashing down to Earth, like Icarus with his wings gone...but it won't affect the rest of us much. Yeah, they'll scream doomsday numbers, but what we've been seeing day-to-day won't change much, at least not for a while.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Ace at 02:26 PM
None of these people are going to prison.
I will be happy to eat crow, but I am not holding my breath.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (P5BPp)
Hillaryesque suicides...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (ynpvh)
Now, with supposedly little inflation, it is not.
Funny how that works isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:15 PM (t0Rmr)
Yeah, I'm a millionaire... that used to mean something... now its a semi comfortable retirement in a cheap neighborhood.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (WvGHv)
--Trump
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (i24o9)
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Nah, he's just hanging out in his cat tree.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (F2T8D)
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The yacht industry is booming!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (v0TzN)
And I ain't even gay
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
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That's just what a closeted gay guy would say...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
But I cannot figure out how "throwing gold bars off the Titanic" is a metaphor for anything but a waste of effort. It's all going to the bottom.
Or a is it supposed to be a simile? Similes need likes, tho, right?
Or an allegorator?
I don't get whatever it is that they are flinging.
Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (gsvjr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
How does one fall into drug addiction, is it like a pot hole?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (lTGtQ)
ISWYDT
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (ynpvh)
If I had found out like billions had been pilfered by Republican bureaucrats instead of it going to school vouchers (or whatever cause I believe in), I’d be pretty pissed
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (E/hiW
The election and proliferation of power of donks is the cause they believe in.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
Probably another 20 years.
www.mitchisstillalive.com
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (sAmhv)
Today we settle all family business.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 03:20 PM (LkLld)
Ha! You guys.
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (v0TzN)
Ho Lee Fuk -- Trump is in Honey Badger mode
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (uyRWq)
Nobody has ever seriously gone after the interlocking DC government/consultant/NGO triangle before.
We are in uncharted waters.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (uxCna)
They are busy sticking their figures in their ears claiming DOGE has found nothing and that Elon is stealing everyone's SS check
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (t0Rmr)
Or a is it supposed to be a simile? Similes need likes, tho, right?
Or an allegorator?
I don't get whatever it is that they are flinging.
Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at February 13, 2025 03:21 PM (gsvjr)
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It's a bad analogy.
The idea would be throwing them into life boats, off of the deck of the sinking Titanic (the fed government under Trump).
But he doesn't say that. He makes it sound like he's just wasting it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (dOnec)
Glorious to watch.
Ace levels of cruelty.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (wtvvX)
Then we take his mushed-mouth face and throw him in prison for the miserable life.
Posted by: Allelbows at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (0dmP2)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (v0TzN)
If I had found out like billions had been pilfered by Republican bureaucrats instead of it going to school vouchers (or whatever cause I believe in), I’d be pretty pissed
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (E/hiW
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There are videos of people who say they're loyal Democrats (including black people) talking about how they'll never vote Democrat again because of the stuff coming out from DOGE.
However, we'll have to wait to see what kind of effect this has on a population until next year's midterm election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Again, it depends where you retire. Take Arkansas, the cheapest state in the union to live in. A million bucks goes a hell of a lot longer in a small town there than say, Los Angeles.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (2VST1)
(The BRICS includes 10 countries - Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates.)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (v0TzN)
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What's he talking about? They've got Ethiopia!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (KXtU1)
I've seen surveys/studies where they found that people didn't feel their lifestyle matched the media representation of a "millionaire" until they were worth about $7 million.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (TPKrp)
Glorious to watch.
Ace levels of cruelty.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (wtvvX)
Yes! This!
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (krQz2)
People that they approve of are doing the embezzling, and they are hoping to get a cut of the bezzle somewhere down the line.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Flavor Flav at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (4DY5T)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (TPKrp)
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"Here's a thousand page binder to review before the next board meeting regarding our financing, operations, and other matters."
"You don't expect me to read this, do you?"
"Oh, God no."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)
2-3 years, now that he's in the "falling down and hurt yourself" stage.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Holy shit. I laughed at that harder than I should have.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (lXCUP)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (wtvvX)
If Trump succeeds elite blue regions will see a massive reduction in how much money they have. This will crash local economies in NYC or Boston or whatever.
At the same time the reductions in spending will lower inflation and spur economic growth mostly in red areas.
Posted by: 18-1
Fake GDP growth through fraud simply accelerates inflation because those gubmint dollars are chasing scarce resources just like those of the poor taxpayers not in on the heist.
The closest example is the massive decrease in government spending after WWI ended, US went into a steep drop in GDP beginning in 1919 and almost instantly recovered by 1921 with the Harding Administration keeping and extending the massive government cutbacks. That led to the boom in the 20's.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)
STEINER WILL COME
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (dOnec)
We can haz preference cascade?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (v0R5T)
(The BRICS includes 10 countries - Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates.)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (v0TzN
Phew, I thought he said bricks. You'll pry my LEGO from my cold dead hands.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Stateless...39% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Case at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (xcRXq)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:22 PM (t0Rmr)
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Because he needs the money.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Maroon at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (E/hiW
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There are videos of people who say they're loyal Democrats (including black people) talking about how they'll never vote Democrat again because of the stuff coming out from DOGE.
However, we'll have to wait to see what kind of effect this has on a population until next year's midterm election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
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My prediction: Not much. What I think will have a yuge effect is that this is starving the ravenous gluttonous infernal beast that funds almost all leftwing activity. USAID alone was laundering BILLIONS back to Democraps. A big portion was being used for campaign funding, GOTV, and other election efforts.
That's all gone now. Democraps can't even afford to pay their rent-a-mobs any more. By the time Trusk is done with them, they won't be able to pay a filthy college drop-out to hand out campaign buttons down by the river.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (iFTx/)
(The BRICS includes 10 countries - Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates.)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (v0TzN
Phew, I thought he said bricks. You'll pry my LEGO from my cold dead hands.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (MGB5H)
YOu can build a Brick...House...
https://youtu.be/-5EmnQp3V48
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (ynpvh)
Again, it depends where you retire. Take Arkansas, the cheapest state in the union to live in. A million bucks goes a hell of a lot longer in a small town there than say, Los Angeles.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Yep. $5 million in California is gone by the next election, whereas in Alabama it would be a pretty nice retirement...when you're in your 50s.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (F2T8D)
Posted by: m
......
That should worry him.
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (v0R5T)
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He came from that club.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: The Truth at February 13, 2025 03:07 PM (y7KuV)
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"From each host according to their means, to each parasite according to their needs."
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (Yfo3e)
However, we'll have to wait to see what kind of effect this has on a population until next year's midterm election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Yeah, they're just upset that none of the money went into their pockets. That's all.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (INplz)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (v0TzN)
Yes, because spending money on say status goods for bureaucrats and welfare for illegals is a way less effective use of scare resources then letting some would be business owner take that money that hasn't been taxed or inflated away and using it to start providing jobs and goods that people want.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (t0Rmr)
Also, number of paid staff has about tripled in the past 4 years.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (qj83B)
Glorious to watch.
I would like to see him go full badger on that cocksucker George Bush. Just to rub it into that shit stains face. I would pay to see this.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)
And not for the usual reasons....
Posted by: Stateless...39% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (jvJvP)
I thought they enjoyed that kinda stuff...I guess not.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Holy shit. I laughed at that harder than I should have.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:25 PM (lXCUP)
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I wasn't kidding.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (YqDXo)
People that they approve of are doing the embezzling, and they are hoping to get a cut of the bezzle somewhere down the line.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
True, us on the right have considered the gimmedats to be at the low end of the SES scale but the whole Dem coalition is built on gimmedats at every level. And why in the US, at least since the 1930's, the gimmedat coalition has become the current ruling class and Dems as the natural party of MOAR government taxes, spending, and borrowing.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (krQz2)
Keep moving the goalposts, we'll keep winning.
K THX Bye
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (uyRWq)
https://x.com/dog_rates/status/
1890115395094491225
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (AOsQT)
The first Sustainable Tourism Charter was drafted in 1995.
The Cape Town Declaration in 2002 called for governments to develop guidelines for responsible tourism.
>Responsible Tourism Partnership dot org. Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism
The Cape Town Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations was organised by the Responsible Tourism Partnership and Western Cape Tourism as a side event preceding the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, and attended by 280 delegates from 20 countries. It grew out of the South African work on responsible tourism guidelines and involved delegates field-testing the South African Guidelines on sites in and around the city.
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And there's also the GSTCouncil. The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC®
is managing the GSTC Criteria, global standards for sustainable travel and tourism;
as well as providing international accreditation for sustainable tourism Certification Bodies.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:28 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (qBdHI)
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Plus he used the ol' rope-a-dope!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:29 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (t0Rmr
Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg sex torsos all around!!
Posted by: Stateless...39% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 13, 2025 03:29 PM (jvJvP)
It's a marvel to say the least.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (qBdHI)
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Very. Stable. Genius.
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 03:29 PM (Yfo3e)
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I doubt it.
Never met a lib that was all there.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:29 PM (krQz2)
That's all gone now. Democraps can't even afford to pay their rent-a-mobs any more. By the time Trusk is done with them, they won't be able to pay a filthy college drop-out to hand out campaign buttons down by the river.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (iFTx/)
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I was actually thinking about elections, not populations...even though I said populations. Read my mind, dammit.
However, the political effect on populations can only be remotely measured by elections (not polls, spit). So, if we see a combination of the last loyalists beginning to peel off naturally combined with massively decreased money spent to ballot harvest and buy votes...
Essentially, I'm thinking that the Democrat Party is suddenly the runt, regional party that Obama made it and hid through government largess to cronies in political reality instead of just real reality.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
What?
Posted by: Coki at February 13, 2025 03:30 PM (Wkrcf)
Posted by: Case at February 13, 2025 03:26 PM (xcRXq)
Almost like we're in a democracy!
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:30 PM (v0TzN)
I am absolutely certain that there will be many examples of Republicans abusing and wasting money, enriching themselves, etc. I am certain we'll find that certain easily-predictable names will be revealed as having been given cash from NGOs etc.
I am certain taht when we get to stuff like the DOJ and Pentagon we'll see Republicans getting gored. Both parties are corrupt. A pox on both their houses.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:30 PM (2VST1)
It's getting worse here, too. Obviously wayyy better than L.A. or NYC, but everyone coming here with their Califirnia money is pricing the locals out of affordable housing.
The wages are still low here, but we get the same inflationary prices as every where else. Those egg prices hit even harder when you're making 11 dollars an hour.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 13, 2025 03:30 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2025 03:29 PM (wtvvX)
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You keep me out of this, fat!
Posted by: Former Presilent Charlie Foxtrot at February 13, 2025 03:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:31 PM (Odg76)
It's getting worse here, too. Obviously wayyy better than L.A. or NYC, but everyone coming here with their Califirnia money is pricing the locals out of affordable housing.
This is yet another problem with giving the coastal leftist elites first access to the new inflated Bidenbux - in many cases they will immediately take those Bux and use them to price out the locales in areas they've take a cotton to.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (lXCUP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (2VST1)
http://tiny.cc/kqv9001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:31 PM (Odg76)
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I'm still waiting for the DOD.
You know...the largest single discretionary line item in the federal budget that has failed its last seven audits.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: A dude in MI at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (/6GbT)
http://tiny.cc/kqv9001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:31 PM (Odg76)
Just wait til they find out how many agents are delinquent on their taxes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (INplz)
The Cape Town Declaration in 2002 called for governments to develop guidelines for responsible tourism.
>Responsible Tourism Partnership dot org. Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism
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Does it involve prepending a new adjective in front of "tourism?"
Sustainable tourism
Responsible tourism
Really nice tourism
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (v0TzN)
He should make them pass around a dunce cap to wear while they ask a question.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:31 PM (Odg76)
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Elon is in their base--killin' their dudes!
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (krQz2)
You know...the largest single discretionary line item in the federal budget that has failed its last seven audits.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
they are waiting for Hegseth to come back from Europe maybe
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (g47mK)
What they did to Trump with the lawfare the last 4 years is exactly what USAID funds in dozens of countries: putting the people you just beat in an election in jail.
Kill the Government.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (sUv4k)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (H3o1i)
But he doesn't say that. He makes it sound like he's just wasting it.
James Madison
Just running with this way past what NGO-boy would have thought, but hucking gold bars 60 feet down into wooden-hulled life boats is going to sink a bunch of life boats.
It's yeeting, now, isn't it? Hucking is probably raciss.
Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (iZpEl)
What?
Posted by: Coki at February 13, 2025 03:30 PM (Wkrcf)
https://www.c-span.org/
President Trump Swears in RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (lXCUP)
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Or worse. We expect this kind of crap from Democrats, but from Republicans it's a stab in the back.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:34 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: 18-1
And every dollar directed away from gubmint and its policies means that we get more efficient private investment rather than malinvestment incentives.
A perfect example is the government and societal waste in promoting electric cars when the market simply was not interested in them. Government CAFE and emissions diktats along with subsidies forced idiotic malinvestment into mobile toxic waste and fire hazards and as a result, tax dollars and private investment money was wasted.
Toyota ended up the winner by plodding along with its hybrids.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:34 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (g47mK)
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He's said that he welcomes DOGE.
But DOD is probably the big fish with the most complexity.
Saving it for last.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:34 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (yF8T2)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:34 PM (v0TzN)
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It's depressing that I recognized Gorsuch by the back of his head.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (w6EFb)
It's getting worse here, too. Obviously wayyy better than L.A. or NYC, but everyone coming here with their Califirnia money is pricing the locals out of affordable housing.
The wages are still low here, but we get the same inflationary prices as every where else. Those egg prices hit even harder when you're making 11 dollars an hour.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 13, 2025 03:30 PM (Vvh2V)
Absolutely true wherein i am too, here in Kristy's former state.
Lots of outerstaters buying properties and turning them into vacation rentals. Pricing out the locals big time.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (y3de1)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:27 PM (v0TzN)
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Tell me that Trump was herding the MDM-MSM cats using a laser pointer. Lie to me if you must ...
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (Yfo3e)
What they did to Trump with the lawfare the last 4 years is exactly what USAID funds in dozens of countries: putting the people you just beat in an election in jail.
Kill the Government.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2025 03:33 PM (sUv4k)
Yeah, I'm nearly through the podcast.
Even knowing a lot of this info, having Mike Benz lay it out like that ... wowser.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (uCjyK)
http://tiny.cc/qqv9001
They included This Little Light of Mine.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:32 PM (lXCUP)
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Or worse. We expect this kind of crap from Democrats, but from Republicans it's a stab in the back.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:34 PM
This. And This.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (OUMaO)
I remember when the horde called Ron Paul a lunatic nut for saying things like "we need to audit the fed" and "we cant trust the cia"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (v0TzN)
Step 2) go on google and look up their headquarters.
Here is the headquarters for the Clinton Foundation:
1200 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201
Go ahead, look it up.
Charity PAYS.
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 13, 2025 02:58 PM (nLFEI)
That's his presidential library.
Posted by: Kamala at February 13, 2025 03:37 PM (53oGX)
They want to have a war to keep their factories
They want to have a war to keep us on our knees
They want to have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They want to have a war to stop Industrial Disease
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2025 03:37 PM (63Dwl)
http://tiny.cc/qqv9001
They included This Little Light of Mine.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM
And don't forget the classics.
Girls, Girls, Girls...
Posted by: LDS K-Tel at February 13, 2025 03:37 PM (ewjUl)
Girls, Girls, Girls...
Posted by: LDS K-Tel at February 13, 2025 03:37 PM (ewjUl)
And hot for preacher.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
Yeah. Lot of us eating crow these days. Me, I'll take mine lemon peppered, with broccoli and garlic potatoes...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (yF8T2)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (/U5Yz)
Grasping at gold on the way out? That's the Nazis from the bitchin' Finnish flick "Sisu".
Trump is Koshchei the Immortal wearing his finest Brooks Brothers suit.
"He's a mean motherfucker who you don't want to mess with"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2025 03:39 PM (y9nCu)
The fake part of the money, i.e. the deficit funded part, will disappear which is A Good Thing like stopping putting your daily living expenses on credit cards. The real money part will still go into the economy through lower taxes and interest rates. There will be some short term pain but in the long run it will be better for everyone.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 13, 2025 03:39 PM (8vzii)
Kaitlyn Collins surfer girl
Posted by: torabora at February 13, 2025 03:39 PM (0Gnoc)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 03:39 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (yF8T2)
I am pretty sure that he does not care where he rapes them.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:40 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (MGB5H)
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She probably can't but help notice the way the Dems treated her husband.
I saw some adds saying that he's the most dangerous man in America.
I'm pretty sure Trump resented losing first place, though.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:40 PM (krQz2)
https://tinyurl.com/m6um399y
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (/U5Yz)
; )
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:40 PM (v0TzN)
Hybrids make sense to me in a way that pure EV do not. Trains have been doing it for ages.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Nice try. But that's not the reason I've considered Paul a nut.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (yF8T2)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (2ocoG)
https://tinyurl.com/m6um399y
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM
Mambo # 5> Red#5
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2)
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He did say that the only reason for a border wall was to keep the population in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (MGB5H)
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No idea if she voted for Trump, but she's there to support her husband. When RFKJ first switched to supporting Trump, he did an interview with Tucker Carlson and Tucker asked him about her. RFKJ said that he talked it over with her, and wouldn't have done it if he didn't have her support. She told him to go for it.
I know nothing about her except that she's an actress but I applaud her for backing him up.
Posted by: bluebell at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (79pEw)
Every dem whining about having personal data revealed voted for this.
Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (8uzBS)
Most people see the name USAID and think it's an international aid organization like the Red Cross. In fact, it has been the funding mechanism for the CIA to run all sorts of nefarious projects around the world including regime change, color revolutions.
They've been running a color revolution against Trump and the America First movement since 2016 and USAID has been helping pay for it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM
Her sister is Sandy Duncan. Have a wheat thin.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (ewjUl)
How much does everyone love that big portrait of President Reagan in the Oval Office?
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (fUF5B)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2)
Well, I don't remember you specifically from the 2008 election, but what reason did you consider Paul a nut?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM (uCjyK)
I am loving everything about the new Golden Era, but to see VP Vance, Rubio, the new lovely Press Secretary Karoline smack 'em down with a few calm words is priceless. Every single time. Yet the Dim propaganda mouthpieces have not yet learned. Their hamster wheels spin. They go no where fast in the quicksand of We Are Back, get used to it!
The Dims honestly don't know what hit them on January 20th. Scrambling, screaming, sharting, screeching!!11!!
To see the scrawny and shaky Dim Congress Critters howl in front of the Dept of Education was entertaining. I laugh and laugh and laugh. Shaking their fists. Demanding. Then totally ignored by the security officer standing there calmly, looking docile and calm...when you know he has tasers and batons in his pockets, and could go complete ninja at any second. Ripping off Maxine's wighat and flinging her across the parking lot. Giving Warren a pow wow.
I fully expect any day now to see one of the Dim leaders have blood shoot out their ears cartoon style. I will then watch that 1000 times.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2025 03:43 PM (ScdUI)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (MGB5H)
She's an actress. She knows how to fake it.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 03:39 PM (ZmEVT)
Yeah, curb your enthusiasm.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 13, 2025 03:43 PM (i24o9)
https://tinyurl.com/m6um399y
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (/U5Yz)
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LOL
Make Buford Pusser Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 13, 2025 03:43 PM (Yfo3e)
If you're watching the RFK swear-in, the portrait behind RFJ is The Gipper.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:43 PM (fUF5B)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM (GBKbO)
Oh, right, there was that.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:43 PM (uCjyK)
What were they developing? Kickbacks to themselves.
Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2025 03:44 PM (8uzBS)
I didn't think he was a nut for wanting to audit the Fed; I thought he was a nut for thinking it could ever happen. And I'm fairly sure nobody here ever trusted the CIA.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 13, 2025 03:44 PM (8JuJJ)
http://tiny.cc/2rv9001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM
That's gonna make Steve Inman's top 10
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:44 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: DaveA at February 13, 2025 03:45 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:45 PM (v0TzN)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest he isn't the world's biggest Reagan fan
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:45 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:36 PM (MGB5H)
--
Maybe recently purple-pilled?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2025 03:45 PM (wzAuc)
http://tiny.cc/2rv9001
Posted by: bonhomme
An extras set of teeth with your chalupa mam?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:45 PM (/U5Yz)
http://tiny.cc/2rv9001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:42 PM
Don't think he'll have to tell her again.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:46 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 13, 2025 03:41 PM
Get a few drinks in the twinks and they turn into the gossip gurls.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:46 PM (ewjUl)
Luap Nor!
Posted by: Luap Dnar at February 13, 2025 03:46 PM (y7KuV)
I hope The Donald speaks of it in the next ten or so times he is in front of reporters. And asks why no one is reporting on it, including the way the gold bars got shoved off the train before the end of Biden.
Tell them there's a Pulitzer right there hanging from a branch right in front of the first one to grab it.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 13, 2025 03:46 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Bulg
Braggart. I'm burning plastic bottles and old pizza boxes in a vain attempt to keep warm.
Posted by: In A Van. Down By The River at February 13, 2025 03:46 PM (G5+As)
What were they developing? Kickbacks to themselves.
Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2025 03:44 PM (8uzBS)
Oh, they're in to all kinds of fun stuff.
It's the CIA's slush fund.
They're overthrowing governments around the world with that money.
Apparently, 90% of Ukranian-language media is funded / owned by the CIA (mostly through USAID) for example.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:47 PM (uCjyK)
--,Maxine Waters (D-CA)
To be fair, she's prolly lost track of it all. But hopefully they'll jog her memory!
Suggest Trump offer a simple deal: admit publicly, resign immediately, no prosecution. Some egregious exceptions naturally.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 13, 2025 03:47 PM (shmHD)
Posted by: steevy at February 13, 2025 03:47 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Wardo at February 13, 2025 03:47 PM (CP2il)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:38 PM (yF8T2)
____________________
I thought it was the Bill Clinton Presidential School for Wayward and Stupid Girls
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:47 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:48 PM (ewjUl)
I automatically like You if you use the word "totalitarianism."
It tells me you are awake, or woke, to what's really going on.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:48 PM (fUF5B)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:48 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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I think the biggest problem for Ron Paul here back in 2008 was attacking the Iraq/WOT and his support of open borders and not government borrowing and overspending.
His batshit crazy spammers hitting here hard did not help matters so you got monikers like Luap Nor to avoid setting off their web crawler alerts.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:48 PM (ctrM5)
They're overthrowing governments around the world with that money.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:47 PM (uCjyK)
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This.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:48 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 13, 2025 03:48 PM (ElmBx)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:49 PM (yF8T2)
http://tiny.cc/qqv9001
They included This Little Light of Mine.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM
Im not a Mormon but I love hymns. The ones which I know besides "This Little light of mine" are "Softly and Tenderly, "Take My heart", "Were You There?" and one of my favorites "Standing On the Promises"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:49 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Bulg
Braggart. I'm burning plastic bottles and old pizza boxes in a vain attempt to keep warm.
Posted by: In A Van. Down By The River at February 13, 2025 03:46 PM
I read that as heart pump, which led me to wondering why you were burning plastic bottles to keep your heart pumping.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:49 PM (ewjUl)
His batshit crazy spammers hitting here hard did not help matters so you got monikers like Luap Nor to avoid setting off their web crawler alerts.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:48 PM (ctrM5)
I remember. I was also much younger back then (weren't we all?), and I remember being Ron-curious and the horde being ... the opposite.
That said, I've come to his way of thinking about the WoT / Iraq. Open borders I've gone in the complete opposite direction.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:49 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:06 PM (42Vb+)
Nah. If the economy crashes because the only thing keeping it alive was the waste, fraud and abuse, then we were going to get one anyways.
IF there are rational actions taken and IF no one panics, even a recession is going to pass in about 6 months. Argentina just did this.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (D7oie)
--,Maxine Waters (D-CA)
To be fair, she's prolly lost track of it all. But hopefully they'll jog her memory!
_______________
I think her wig has achieved sentience.
Which is more than she can say.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)
Braggart. I'm burning plastic bottles and old pizza boxes in a vain attempt to keep warm.
Posted by: In A Van. Down By The River
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Not being funny here, I'm wearing thermal underware, flannel shirt, a sweater, and even a knit cap just to stay warm at home. Heating bills....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (XeU6L)
That's a nice foray into erotica. My wife is putting on her red and black bustier and seemed stockings, and she's going to read this to me until I can't take it anymore. Everyone of these treasonous parasites needs to wearing bright orange jumpsuits and have every material possession stripped from them, and caged at GITMO w/terrorists and cartel scum. McConnel goes first, and his ChiCom whore wife.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (lPeS+)
The fake part of the money, i.e. the deficit funded part, will disappear which is A Good Thing like stopping putting your daily living expenses on credit cards. The real money part will still go into the economy through lower taxes and interest rates. There will be some short term pain but in the long run it will be better for everyone.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 13, 2025 03:39 PM (8vzii)
Technically, GDP will fall, that much is true, because of the way they calculate it.
Posted by: Kamala at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (53oGX)
No more. Trump and DOGE are listening, and now EPA is acting on an O'Keefe tip.
So happy.
Posted by: PJ at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (RRCAT)
Im not a Mormon but I love hymns. The ones which I know besides "This Little light of mine" are "Softly and Tenderly, "Take My heart", "Were You There?" and one of my favorites "Standing On the Promises"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:49 PM
How Great Thou Art for the win. It's on my funeral playlist.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Inogame at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (53oGX)
They were giving money to US media organizations as well.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 03:51 PM (LkLld)
🙏
Posted by: Ulysses S. Balls, filling out his West Point application at February 13, 2025 03:51 PM (cFzfG)
Posted by: Minnfidel
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I read the comment about sustainable tourism and mentally substituted terrorism. Something Ham Ass might say. I could also see a big UN conference defining sustainable and ethical terrorism with AID paying for the whole deal.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:51 PM (ctrM5)
IF there are rational actions taken and IF no one panics, even a recession is going to pass in about 6 months. Argentina just did this.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM (D7oie)
Oh, I suspect we will see a recession very much localized to the Delaware / Maryland / Virginia area if the spigots get turned down.
We're talking billions of dollars that will stop flowing through the DMV sluices on their way to wherever they go.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 13, 2025 03:35 PM (OUMaO)
Jeffery Tucker is claiming in the Epoch Times that no executive has been able to do a full audit of the US Treasury since 1946. No Audits.
And this is why we are where we are today.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Hey there! Stay out of my queue!
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Savile at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (G5+As)
Which is more than she can say.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2025 03:50 PM
The calls are coming FROM the wig!
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Those corrupt anal fistulas will sign anything that's placed in front of them.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (yF8T2)
And this is why we are where we are today.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (D7oie)
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Non-partisan civil servants are in control and are physically incapable of doing any wrong things at all.
Fascist racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
And RFK just might accomplish MAHA.
Lots of winning goin on!
Posted by: Voter theater. at February 13, 2025 03:53 PM (cppQi)
How Great Thou Art has been in the LDS hymnal since the 80s.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2025 03:53 PM (Odg76)
Bank Records, Voter Registration records and a WHISTLEBLOWER CONFIRMS BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT,
https://x.com/Real_RobN/status
/1890107714032062958
Posted by: Ciampino - hateful beyond words at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Wardo at February 13, 2025 03:47 PM (CP2il)
Nothing like that scheduled on C-Span.
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (v0TzN)
A human could never match that speed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Remember years ago when people were complaining about Congress holding votes on bills thousands of pages long only a couple days after the bills getting published? Remember how Congress brought in a professional speed reader to read a bill out loud and laughed mockingly at the complaints?
Fuck you. War.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (gCW78)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (lTGtQ)
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Half, or more of this grift was going overseas. If we have another Solyndra collapse or 10, whogivesafuck? Shit needs to stop.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (lPeS+)
==
"We would like to see your general ledger!"
"General who ??"
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (g47mK)
Yes, that is a very popular and nice one. Most of the people I've officiated memorial services have requested it when I've talked to them beforehand about what they'd like or their children have.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (42Vb+)
As a resident of Maryland, I'm fine with that.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (lXCUP)
Not being funny here, I'm wearing thermal underware, flannel shirt, a sweater, and even a knit cap just to stay warm at home. Heating bills....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2025 03:50 P
I just put more wood in the new woodstove. It was minus 21F this a.m. at my place. Nippy.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (cFzfG)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 03:51 PM (LkLld)
Yeah, that was the least shocking thing to me. And I think this is just the beginning of realizing that all major media is being paid for by the Deep State.
US media business models make no sense. Do they really survive on a few hundred thousand eye balls and Big Pharma commercials?
And as the CIA learned decades ago, it's much cheaper and easier to control a countries media and get the people to support whatever the CIA wants them to support than it is to invade the country or use traditional spy behavior / assassinations to change policy.
Of course they'd do it at home too. Our media are cheap sluts. For, what, a couple hundred million a year, they can control the traditional media and social media algorithms? They'd be crazy not to do it. Especially since it's not their money anyways.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (uCjyK)
I think LDS went too far with What If God Were One Of Us.
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Voter theater. at February 13, 2025 03:53 PM (cppQi)
and $$$$$$$$
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM
I always tear up singing that song.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:54 PM (uCjyK)
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They want to press a button and change the world.
Actual work is exhausting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
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O we used to dream of having old pizza boxes to burn-
would've been a palace to us
the best we could manage was some sodden newspapers we nicked off a rubbish tip
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I don't care, Rachel at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Trains do dynamic not regenerative braking.
turning wheel turns electric motor
juice goes to resistor grid on top
fan blows heat away from grid.
no battery locomotion
Posted by: DaveA at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (FhXTo)
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Me So Horny. You Somebody. Buy me a drink.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (g47mK)
The BRICS is an alternate to the SWIFT system and the Petrodollar. It is a payment system that sidesteps the US Treasury's ability to debank countries like they did to Iran and Russia.
It is deadly serious,
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I've always liked the Old Rugged Cross, He Lives, and A Mighty Fortress is our God plus a bunch of Christmas hymns.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (kg1ar)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 13, 2025 03:39 PM (ZmEVT)
***
My wife's an actress?
Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (1FWWQ)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 13, 2025 03:57 PM (Y6IkP)
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 13, 2025 03:57 PM (fUF5B)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 03:57 PM (v0TzN)
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 13, 2025 03:57 PM (MGB5H)
Controlling the media is one of the basic factors in running a color revolution.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2025 03:57 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2025 03:57 PM (ewjUl)
--DOGE
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2025 03:58 PM (2VST1)
Actual work is exhausting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
Yeah, exactly.
Plus they have that arrogance you only see in low-IQ people who have earned none of it.
Of course the world should revolve around their whims. They're smart. They're from the right families. They went to Harvard.
In many ways, they're doing the world a favor, really.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 13, 2025 03:58 PM (uCjyK)
========================
HOME PRICES CRASHING IN THE HAMPTONS AND MARTHAS VINEYARD
We will cope, just fine.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at February 13, 2025 03:58 PM (lPeS+)
Posted by: Axeman at February 13, 2025 03:55 PM (krQz2)
Bravo!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 13, 2025 03:59 PM (cFzfG)
It is deadly serious,
Posted by: Kindltot
It has a major flaw, none of the nations involved really want to take on massive counter deposits of currency from the other countries in BRICs. it has to have some means of resolving currency swap issues which is a lot more difficult than it sounds.
Would be resolved if they all coincide on a currency like the yuan or ruble but then that country would have the curse of being a reserve currency (and destroying its own economic base from it).
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2025 03:59 PM (ctrM5)
I don't know whether to rejoice as I can mock her longer being sort of alive, or be bummed out.
She always looks like her upper lip smells like a stairwell in Penn Station NYC. Or worse!
Or maybe her wighat stinks. Heaven knows what goes on under that wighat, the dance of the head lice sonata.
I was once sadly in the stairwell at Penn Station and it smelled like a port-o-potty from Port au Prince. I have never been to Haiti so I don't know, ask Hilary.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2025 04:01 PM (ScdUI)
Posted by: m at February 13, 2025 04:02 PM (v0TzN)
Kaitlyn Collins surfer girl
Posted by: torabora
......
She's a kook.
Posted by: wth at February 13, 2025 04:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: runner at February 13, 2025 03:19 PM (g47mK)
The BRICS is an alternate to the SWIFT system and the Petrodollar. It is a payment system that sidesteps the US Treasury's ability to debank countries like they did to Iran and Russia.
It is deadly serious,
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2025 03:56 PM (D7oie)
Gee, somehow when you flat out weaponize the banking system, and make it subservient to Foreign Policy, other countries might just create an alternate system!
Who Wood a thunk it!
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 13, 2025 04:07 PM (QAkQ3)
I like the idea of the chicks with hats. It made me laugh. Thanks for thinking of me. And here is some background on "How Great Thou Art" if you didn't know it.
https://tinyurl.com/2j3v6f4z
And I think George Beverly Shea really popularized that song through the Billy Graham Crusades Great voice!
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Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)