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Wednesday Morning Rant
Donald Trump has, in an historic first, designated an entire department committed to "whistle-blowing." It's called DOGE and its mission is ostensibly saving taxpayers money and whipping the government into something approaching fiscal sanity. That may be its mission - and it may even work - but that will not be its real value or its real effect. In essence, DOGE is not a fiscal department but an ethics department. The money DOGE saves is a bonus, a cherry on top. Its true value is in exposure. It has become clear in astoundingly short order that so far, every penny it has saved has been not a penny wasted, but a penny stolen.
Musk and his skunkworks aren't rooting out waste, but rooting out corruption. What they are exposing is unthinkable to many, and unspeakable (at least, not in public) for those doing what DOGE is now exposing. DOGE aren't fiscal disciplinarians, they're whistle-blowers. They're whistle-blowers, and therefore the demonic enemy of the political establishment and its symbiotic partners in the press. If someone walks up to you and says, "hey, just so you know, Mr. Jones is stealing from you and you might want to do something about that," you don't get angry at the person who told you, you get angry at Mr. Jones. Yet the rage is all directed at Musk and DOGE. Not at the wrongdoers, but at the men exposing the wrongdoers - and their wrongdoing - to the pubic. If you become enraged at the messenger telling you that you're being robbed, it can mean only one of two things: you are either irrational and probably stupid, or you know about it already and are profiting from it. The former is possible. The latter is far more likely. These people aren't astonished to learn about Mr. Jones' theft, they're enraged that they won't get their cut. Their ricebowls - ricebowls made of looted taxpayer money - are at risk of being rightly and righteously shattered. So the days of the heroic whistle-blower are at an end. Whistle-blowers are now evil. The playthings of a wicked billionaire disrupting their highly profitable games of theft and sundry other corruption. When the whistle-blowers at DOGE demand and receive sweeping access to government systems, it is decried. Those who once shrieked about how nothing can be considered beyond the pale in the pursuit of truth now shriek that it is absurdly unfair for there to be even a notion of government accountability. When agency officials - like the recent one at SSA - resign rather than face scrutiny, it is evidence of Trump and Musk being monsters, not agency officials who are either corrupt or willfully incompetent and who would rather run than face scrutiny. DOGE notwithstanding, this aversion to sunlight is now on full display. As Senator King (I-ME) put it when discussing RFK Jr's confirmation : "If this were a secret ballot, this man wouldn't get 20 votes." "If only we weren't subject to scrutiny and the will of the people, we'd behave differently" is not the strong message that Senator King and the department heads fleeing DOGE's searchlight seem to think it is. America's enemies within have only ever had once principle, which is the will to power. When celebrating "whistle-blowers' who lied and made up their allegations helped that ambition, whistle-blowers were celebrated. When demanding that their internal enemies be subjected to the corrupt gaze of a Press complex that spread lies about them, scrutiny - "speaking truth to power," they call it - was a near-holy virtue. When the hated enemy had so much as a single secret real or imagined (usually imagined - Trump has always been big on transparency), secrets were the death signal of the nation. Now that the Washington is in the initial, early, fledgling steps of possible reversal, all of those great "principles" espoused by the ruling class for years are similarly reversing. All that was once virtuous is now evil. All that was once celebrated is decried. The reversal in the press and among those who are the public - and even some of the private - face of government is nearly total, and we have DOGE to thank for it. Don't get too caught up in the dollars and cents. DOGE's fiscal mission is tremendously important but its effect on the balance sheet is, in my opinion, secondary. DOGE's true value is not its end, but the means to its end: exposure. DOGE's true value is the imposition of transparency. When sunlight floods in, the cockroaches scramble back toward the shadows. So keep shining lights, DOGE, and keep laughing while doing it.Comments
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OK
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:00 AM (Cki93)
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All nkkm
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 19, 2025 11:01 AM (rc9ya)
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Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
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Whistleblowing is noble when it's done by their guys.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)
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>>DOGE's true value is not its end, but the means to its end: exposure. DOGE's true value is the imposition of transparency. When sunlight floods in, the cockroaches scramble back toward the shadows.
YES!
I am loving how the whole cancel/doxx paradigm has shifted, so that every time some DC blowhard complains about DOGE, a bunch of people on X do a dive into that person's connections to NGOs and whatnot to suss out his/her true motivation.
About dang time these people face scrutiny from the "little people" they so clearly disdain.
YES!
I am loving how the whole cancel/doxx paradigm has shifted, so that every time some DC blowhard complains about DOGE, a bunch of people on X do a dive into that person's connections to NGOs and whatnot to suss out his/her true motivation.
About dang time these people face scrutiny from the "little people" they so clearly disdain.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:03 AM (Cki93)
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>>>Don't get too caught up in the dollars and cents. DOGE's fiscal mission is tremendously important but its effect on the balance sheet is, in my opinion, secondary.
That said, $55 billion ain't nothing.
That said, $55 billion ain't nothing.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:04 AM (lHPJf)
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I've noticed the left is trying new tactics since they can't stop him.
So they've moved on to the "IT'S ALL TOO FAST" and "CUTTING TOO MUCH!!!"
It's a trap. Get an axe.
So they've moved on to the "IT'S ALL TOO FAST" and "CUTTING TOO MUCH!!!"
It's a trap. Get an axe.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 19, 2025 11:04 AM (kAFFE)
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>>> 4 Whistleblowing is noble when it's done by their guys.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)
When it's done by the Vindmans, or Hoggboy, or whoever of their guys, it's probably not a whistle.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)
When it's done by the Vindmans, or Hoggboy, or whoever of their guys, it's probably not a whistle.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:04 AM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Auspex at February 19, 2025 11:04 AM (j4U/Z)
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Whistleblowing is noble when it's done by their guys.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)
Everyone else is a Rat Fink.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)
Everyone else is a Rat Fink.
Posted by: BignJames at February 19, 2025 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)
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The "news media" hates DOGE because it has been doing the work they were supposed to do, but didn't. Nobody likes being made to look corrupt and lazy.
Tough.
Tough.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)
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"If only we weren't subject to scrutiny and the will of the people, we'd behave differently" is not the strong message that Senator King and the department heads fleeing DOGE's searchlight seem to think it is.
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I see this as:
Republicans are willing to respond to the will of the people in public. Democrats do whatever the fuck they want.
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I see this as:
Republicans are willing to respond to the will of the people in public. Democrats do whatever the fuck they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
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Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Not surprised at the depth and breadth as much as the visceral reaction by the establishment to it being exposed.
Not surprised at the depth and breadth as much as the visceral reaction by the establishment to it being exposed.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2025 11:06 AM (3Ope8)
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12 The "news media" hates DOGE because it has been doing the work they were supposed to do, but didn't. Nobody likes being made to look corrupt and lazy.
Tough.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)
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Politico has lost more than $30 million annually since DOGE figured out the Pro subscriptions.
The press is fighting for its revenue stream. They don't care about how it makes them look.
Tough.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)
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Politico has lost more than $30 million annually since DOGE figured out the Pro subscriptions.
The press is fighting for its revenue stream. They don't care about how it makes them look.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
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>>> 3 Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
I'm a little surprised at the apparent percentage... instead of skimming "10% for the big guy" it's starting to look more like "90% or more for whoever we can throw it at in the dee cee region, or the larger club".
....and again, we're *only* (!!) talking about money right now, not other crimes.
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
I'm a little surprised at the apparent percentage... instead of skimming "10% for the big guy" it's starting to look more like "90% or more for whoever we can throw it at in the dee cee region, or the larger club".
....and again, we're *only* (!!) talking about money right now, not other crimes.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:07 AM (Vqx30)
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>>Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
I have to admit: yes, yes I am.
I suspected it was bad, I did not think that most (all?) of our debt, almost all of government expenses, were graft and fraud.
What has hit harder is the revelation that the US has been the bad guys. Consistently, for decades. I knew there were some sketchy LGBTwhatever programs overseas, but not the depth and breadth of what was exposed with USAID. Can't think of any actual good we did with that program -- $40 billion a year of pumping out the most corrupt, culturally corrosive stuff while toppling other countries' governments for rejecting it.
I have to admit: yes, yes I am.
I suspected it was bad, I did not think that most (all?) of our debt, almost all of government expenses, were graft and fraud.
What has hit harder is the revelation that the US has been the bad guys. Consistently, for decades. I knew there were some sketchy LGBTwhatever programs overseas, but not the depth and breadth of what was exposed with USAID. Can't think of any actual good we did with that program -- $40 billion a year of pumping out the most corrupt, culturally corrosive stuff while toppling other countries' governments for rejecting it.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:07 AM (Cki93)
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Whistleblowing is noble when it's done by their guys.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)
Whistleblowing is the polar opposite of dissent. Exactly one must be considered noble and good at all times and which is chosen depends entirely on the party in the WH.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (99eI0)
Whistleblowing is the polar opposite of dissent. Exactly one must be considered noble and good at all times and which is chosen depends entirely on the party in the WH.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 19, 2025 11:07 AM (ExV1e)
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I want public trials.
None of this was a simple "oops!"
None of this was a simple "oops!"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:08 AM (pSGcE)
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Blow my whistle!
Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 19, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
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It has become clear in astoundingly short order that so far, every penny it has saved has been not a penny wasted, but a penny stolen.
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WFATT (Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Thievery, & Treason)!
Can likely throw-in Murder, too ...
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WFATT (Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Thievery, & Treason)!
Can likely throw-in Murder, too ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:08 AM (V5iXz)
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There’s one hopeful thing happening with respect to all these lies - while the dedicated members of the Deep State shriek louder and louder, the *numbers* of followers they have becomes less and less. These people who are dropping away don’t make a big noise; they just disengage and get real quiet. It shows up when polls show Dems have only got 31% support right now.
Of course there were 2 million fed employee, plus or minus, and 2 million people can make a lot of noise. But there’s 200 million who are very pleased with the way things are going.
Of course there were 2 million fed employee, plus or minus, and 2 million people can make a lot of noise. But there’s 200 million who are very pleased with the way things are going.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (73vBl)
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>>> 19 I want public trials.
None of this was a simple "oops!"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:08 AM (pSGcE)
To be followed by public hangings?
None of this was a simple "oops!"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:08 AM (pSGcE)
To be followed by public hangings?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (Vqx30)
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Thx Joe
The more DOGE uncovers the worse it gets for the uniparty/deep state. People who didn't like Trump are coming around to what he and Musk are doing as more ridiculous spending us revealed
The usual people are yelling on Facebook but other people who were not inclined to conservative thought are pissed at the corruption
The more DOGE uncovers the worse it gets for the uniparty/deep state. People who didn't like Trump are coming around to what he and Musk are doing as more ridiculous spending us revealed
The usual people are yelling on Facebook but other people who were not inclined to conservative thought are pissed at the corruption
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (KXtU1)
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3 Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
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I'm now questioning my assumptions about how to manage the debt.
How do we know that we can't balance the budget simply by rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse not only in discretionary spending but also in the major drivers of our debt: Medicare and Medicaid?
Since those two programs have been declared non-discretionary and automatic, why should I assume it's anywhere close to honestly managed? They've effectively been wholly independent of any oversight for decades, and I'm supposed to just believe that a majority of their $1 trillion a year budgets are honest?
Why should I believe that?
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
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I'm now questioning my assumptions about how to manage the debt.
How do we know that we can't balance the budget simply by rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse not only in discretionary spending but also in the major drivers of our debt: Medicare and Medicaid?
Since those two programs have been declared non-discretionary and automatic, why should I assume it's anywhere close to honestly managed? They've effectively been wholly independent of any oversight for decades, and I'm supposed to just believe that a majority of their $1 trillion a year budgets are honest?
Why should I believe that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)
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Interesting essay and true. If they were only finding waste, like two or three agencies exist that do the same thing (and there is some of that) they could eliminate the waste but it would quickly seep back in.
By exposing that we don't just have waste and a bit of congress having their snouts in the trough but rather huge amounts of pure corruption DOGE may shake loose some long time incumbents and it should take more time and effort for the looters to replace their graft systems.
By exposing that we don't just have waste and a bit of congress having their snouts in the trough but rather huge amounts of pure corruption DOGE may shake loose some long time incumbents and it should take more time and effort for the looters to replace their graft systems.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (CKOCg)
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Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Not surprised at the depth and breadth as much as the visceral reaction by the establishment to it being exposed.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
The visceral reaction is simply because of the depth and breadth of the corruption. Everyone in DC will be touched by it.
Not surprised at the depth and breadth as much as the visceral reaction by the establishment to it being exposed.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
The visceral reaction is simply because of the depth and breadth of the corruption. Everyone in DC will be touched by it.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (pSGcE)
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Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
I am not.
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
I am not.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (l3YAf)
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When the rest of the world comes to the realization that the US and China unleashed COVID, there's gonna be hell to pay. I hope Fauci and Birx can be charged and tried for crimes against humanity.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (3Ope8)
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>>> 22 There’s one hopeful thing happening with respect to all these lies - while the dedicated members of the Deep State shriek louder and louder, the *numbers* of followers they have becomes less and less. These people who are dropping away don’t make a big noise; they just disengage and get real quiet. It shows up when polls show Dems have only got 31% support right now.
Of course there were 2 million fed employee, plus or minus, and 2 million people can make a lot of noise. But there’s 200 million who are very pleased with the way things are going.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (73vBl)
Turns out pallets of brick and such like are really expensive if you have to pay for them with your *own* money.
Of course there were 2 million fed employee, plus or minus, and 2 million people can make a lot of noise. But there’s 200 million who are very pleased with the way things are going.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (73vBl)
Turns out pallets of brick and such like are really expensive if you have to pay for them with your *own* money.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (Vqx30)
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DOGE's true value is the imposition of transparency. When sunlight floods in, the cockroaches scramble back toward the shadows.
I think that a great many of us had a vague idea of the extent of waste, corruption and graft and are happy to finally see it shoved in the faces of the left.
The question is, will this exposure filter through to the normies? And by 'normies,' I mean the wishy-washy "I don't pay attention to politics" or the "I vote the man, not the party" types. If all that DOGE exposes lands with them, then I'm cautiously optimistic.
Otherwise, my fear is that, after 4 years of Teh Donald, the normies will say, "Well, that's that. The corruption has been cleaned up. Let's give them Dems another chance."
I think that a great many of us had a vague idea of the extent of waste, corruption and graft and are happy to finally see it shoved in the faces of the left.
The question is, will this exposure filter through to the normies? And by 'normies,' I mean the wishy-washy "I don't pay attention to politics" or the "I vote the man, not the party" types. If all that DOGE exposes lands with them, then I'm cautiously optimistic.
Otherwise, my fear is that, after 4 years of Teh Donald, the normies will say, "Well, that's that. The corruption has been cleaned up. Let's give them Dems another chance."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (Q0kLU)
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26 By exposing that we don't just have waste and a bit of congress having their snouts in the trough but rather huge amounts of pure corruption DOGE may shake loose some long time incumbents and it should take more time and effort for the looters to replace their graft systems.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (CKOCg)
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But processes were followed. It's all good and necessary because processes were followed.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (CKOCg)
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But processes were followed. It's all good and necessary because processes were followed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)
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Come April 15, I’m going to have to think long and hard about feeding the beast.
Posted by: RI Red at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (CIfPI)
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Surprised at the number of people over 150!
So when they asked for more money for this budget or that it really was going into insert
Corrupt dc rat and they needed a new house, yacht, more drugs or whatever they needed.
Love the idea of a DOGE dividend. Give back what was stole.
So when they asked for more money for this budget or that it really was going into insert
Corrupt dc rat and they needed a new house, yacht, more drugs or whatever they needed.
Love the idea of a DOGE dividend. Give back what was stole.
Posted by: Paisley at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (ny1NG)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
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I've noticed the left is trying new tactics since they can't stop him.
So they've moved on to the "IT'S ALL TOO FAST" and "CUTTING TOO MUCH!!!"
It's a trap. Get an axe.
We need to prepare for the inevitable mistakes, though. We can't fall for the trap of trying to defend every move Trump makes. Let the Dems do that. They will certainly try to exploit every misstep by Trump.
We already have the specific example of the workers who were fired at Pantex.
Trump admin scrambles to rehire hundreds of nuclear weapons workers
Some of the fired NNSA employees worked on areas that aren't priorities to the Trump administration such as energy efficiency and climate change, according to the AP, but others dealt with nuclear issues, though not directly with the agency's weapons programs.
https://is.gd/NaBfZ8
I'm not saying Trump should slow down, but we have to be ready to acknowledge mistakes when they happen. The correct response is "yes, in any endeavor of this size, mistakes will be made, but will then be corrected just as quickly".
So they've moved on to the "IT'S ALL TOO FAST" and "CUTTING TOO MUCH!!!"
It's a trap. Get an axe.
We need to prepare for the inevitable mistakes, though. We can't fall for the trap of trying to defend every move Trump makes. Let the Dems do that. They will certainly try to exploit every misstep by Trump.
We already have the specific example of the workers who were fired at Pantex.
Trump admin scrambles to rehire hundreds of nuclear weapons workers
Some of the fired NNSA employees worked on areas that aren't priorities to the Trump administration such as energy efficiency and climate change, according to the AP, but others dealt with nuclear issues, though not directly with the agency's weapons programs.
https://is.gd/NaBfZ8
I'm not saying Trump should slow down, but we have to be ready to acknowledge mistakes when they happen. The correct response is "yes, in any endeavor of this size, mistakes will be made, but will then be corrected just as quickly".
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (xCA6C)
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When my palm gets greased, I pack a wheel bearing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (8zz6B)
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22 There’s one hopeful thing happening with respect to all these lies - while the dedicated members of the Deep State shriek louder and louder, the *numbers* of followers they have becomes less and less. These people who are dropping away don’t make a big noise; they just disengage and get real quiet. It shows up when polls show Dems have only got 31% support right now.
Of course there were 2 million fed employee, plus or minus, and 2 million people can make a lot of noise. But there’s 200 million who are very pleased with the way things are going.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (73vBl)
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A noisy minority can make a difference when they have an outsized voice in the public sphere.
The demise of the main stream media's influence, steady but with specific points of acceleration over the past 40 years or so, is going to make it harder for them to make people care.
Of course there were 2 million fed employee, plus or minus, and 2 million people can make a lot of noise. But there’s 200 million who are very pleased with the way things are going.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:09 AM (73vBl)
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A noisy minority can make a difference when they have an outsized voice in the public sphere.
The demise of the main stream media's influence, steady but with specific points of acceleration over the past 40 years or so, is going to make it harder for them to make people care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
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3 Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
I was sure that they were routinely stealing millions. It didn’t occur to me that they were routinely stealing billions, and no one said a thing about it. Trillions, even.
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
I was sure that they were routinely stealing millions. It didn’t occur to me that they were routinely stealing billions, and no one said a thing about it. Trillions, even.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:12 AM (73vBl)
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>>> 34 Surprised at the number of people over 150!
So when they asked for more money for this budget or that it really was going into insert
Corrupt dc rat and they needed a new house, yacht, more drugs or whatever they needed.
Love the idea of a DOGE dividend. Give back what was stole.
Posted by: Paisley at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (ny1NG)
There are already memes popping up: "I want my fcking money back."
Some of these retards *really* ought to be planning their move to a non-extradition country.
So when they asked for more money for this budget or that it really was going into insert
Corrupt dc rat and they needed a new house, yacht, more drugs or whatever they needed.
Love the idea of a DOGE dividend. Give back what was stole.
Posted by: Paisley at February 19, 2025 11:10 AM (ny1NG)
There are already memes popping up: "I want my fcking money back."
Some of these retards *really* ought to be planning their move to a non-extradition country.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (Q0kLU)
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@3
>>Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
No, the problem is that congress keeps funding it at greater and greater levels, every year.
What Trump and Musk are doing is fantastic, but unless the money and savings they are finding don't get put into a recision request that gets sent back to congress, congress is simply going to appropriate it again.
Our spending has largely been on auto-pilot, f**king TARP money and budgeting has never gone away, it's simply been carried forward in every succeeding CR since that stupid program was foisted on us.
So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
>>Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
No, the problem is that congress keeps funding it at greater and greater levels, every year.
What Trump and Musk are doing is fantastic, but unless the money and savings they are finding don't get put into a recision request that gets sent back to congress, congress is simply going to appropriate it again.
Our spending has largely been on auto-pilot, f**king TARP money and budgeting has never gone away, it's simply been carried forward in every succeeding CR since that stupid program was foisted on us.
So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (XV/Pl)
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DOGE notwithstanding, this aversion to sunlight is now on full display.
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The Deep State Dies in Daylight.
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The Deep State Dies in Daylight.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (V5iXz)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 19, 2025 11:14 AM (O1oUp)
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Yet the rage is all directed at Musk and DOGE. Not at the wrongdoers, but at the men exposing the wrongdoers - and their wrongdoing - to the pubic.
To be fair, no one in government should be exposing anything pubic. I thought we learned that in the Clinton years.
To be fair, no one in government should be exposing anything pubic. I thought we learned that in the Clinton years.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:14 AM (+QlJh)
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I'm now questioning my assumptions about how to manage the debt.
Line item veto and single issue bills.
No bill to be longer than two pages.
If you can't explain how the money will be spent to a sixth grader in that amount of time, tough shit.
No bill for you.
Line item veto and single issue bills.
No bill to be longer than two pages.
If you can't explain how the money will be spent to a sixth grader in that amount of time, tough shit.
No bill for you.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:14 AM (pSGcE)
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"Our democracy" dies in sunlight.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2025 11:14 AM (1bNHn)
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So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
Is that wrong? Should I not have done that?
So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
Is that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at February 19, 2025 11:14 AM (xCA6C)
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Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
DJT should send Zelenskyy a piano, with tiny, narrow keys.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
DJT should send Zelenskyy a piano, with tiny, narrow keys.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:14 AM (8zz6B)
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I only go to Facebook anymore to see what new sob story from a fired federal employee is making the rounds. Forestry Service seems to be the focus at least for now. Comments are flooded with sympathy and outrage. The occasional encouragement that the poster will land on her/his feet typically gets scolded for its heartlessness. Maudlin is too soft a word.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (t5WqR)
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Is there nothing those bastards won't do?
CNN: Conservatives Ruined Life of Black Trans Woman Who Helped Free the Slaves
https://is.gd/ZU7aNF
CNN: Conservatives Ruined Life of Black Trans Woman Who Helped Free the Slaves
https://is.gd/ZU7aNF
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
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When the rest of the world comes to the realization that the US and China unleashed COVID, there's gonna be hell to pay. I hope Fauci and Birx can be charged and tried for crimes against humanity.
I will forgive Trump any misstep if he actually puts Fauci and Birx in PMITA prison for the rest of their lives.
I will forgive Trump any misstep if he actually puts Fauci and Birx in PMITA prison for the rest of their lives.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (Q0kLU)
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Wow, Trump just blasted Zelenski on truth social. I mean just brutal.
Posted by: WisRich at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (Qgr0I)
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49 Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
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I need to hear from DU to understand how to feel about this properly.
Will this declaration lose Republicans every House seat in Florida now?
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
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I need to hear from DU to understand how to feel about this properly.
Will this declaration lose Republicans every House seat in Florida now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
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DOGE notwithstanding, this aversion to sunlight is now on full display.
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The Deep State Dies in Daylight.
Posted by: ShainS
I'd rather see them dying in Leavenworth.
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The Deep State Dies in Daylight.
Posted by: ShainS
I'd rather see them dying in Leavenworth.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (pSGcE)
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35 Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
Oh snap!
Well that just lays it all out.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
Oh snap!
Well that just lays it all out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (73vBl)
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Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:14 AM (8zz6B)
It's too early in this thread, but at some point, I'd appreciate your opinion of the article I posted yesterday.
It's too early in this thread, but at some point, I'd appreciate your opinion of the article I posted yesterday.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)
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>>The "news media" hates DOGE because it has been doing the work they were supposed to do, but didn't. Nobody likes being made to look corrupt and lazy.
Because they've been in on it.
I recall a DC journo explaining why he was not going to criticize Hillary (back in 2016) as a sort of "hey, I have a conflict of interest.". He explained that the Clinton foundation helped him with his sick kid, and he is occasionally asked to host foundation roundtable discussions with world leaders, CEOs, etc.. Think of how many media careers the Clinton foundation boosted by doing things like this? Hey, we'd love to boost your career by putting you at an event with all sorts of VIPs! Now, you don't really want to stab us in the back after this by printing a mean story, do you?
DC is a small town, and as was shown with the Obama administration (remember all the graphics floating around?): most of the media people are related to the DC blob. Susan Rice's husband is/was an exec at CBS, Chuck Todd's wife is a Democrat PR consultant, and on and on. Media people have close friends, spouses, siblings, neighbors who work in the government or related industries. They come first.
Because they've been in on it.
I recall a DC journo explaining why he was not going to criticize Hillary (back in 2016) as a sort of "hey, I have a conflict of interest.". He explained that the Clinton foundation helped him with his sick kid, and he is occasionally asked to host foundation roundtable discussions with world leaders, CEOs, etc.. Think of how many media careers the Clinton foundation boosted by doing things like this? Hey, we'd love to boost your career by putting you at an event with all sorts of VIPs! Now, you don't really want to stab us in the back after this by printing a mean story, do you?
DC is a small town, and as was shown with the Obama administration (remember all the graphics floating around?): most of the media people are related to the DC blob. Susan Rice's husband is/was an exec at CBS, Chuck Todd's wife is a Democrat PR consultant, and on and on. Media people have close friends, spouses, siblings, neighbors who work in the government or related industries. They come first.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (Cki93)
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>>> 42
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What Trump and Musk are doing is fantastic, but unless the money and savings they are finding don't get put into a recision request that gets sent back to congress, congress is simply going to appropriate it again.
Our spending has largely been on auto-pilot, f**king TARP money and budgeting has never gone away, it's simply been carried forward in every succeeding CR since that stupid program was foisted on us.
So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (XV/Pl)
I will believe it if we see it, but there have been some hints that this might actually happen.
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What Trump and Musk are doing is fantastic, but unless the money and savings they are finding don't get put into a recision request that gets sent back to congress, congress is simply going to appropriate it again.
Our spending has largely been on auto-pilot, f**king TARP money and budgeting has never gone away, it's simply been carried forward in every succeeding CR since that stupid program was foisted on us.
So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (XV/Pl)
I will believe it if we see it, but there have been some hints that this might actually happen.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (Vqx30)
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42
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What Trump and Musk are doing is fantastic, but unless the money and savings they are finding don't get put into a recision request that gets sent back to congress, congress is simply going to appropriate it again.
Our spending has largely been on auto-pilot, f**king TARP money and budgeting has never gone away, it's simply been carried forward in every succeeding CR since that stupid program was foisted on us.
So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (XV/Pl)
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The first step is the House's omnibus budget bill that Trump endorsed earlier today, I guess.
No idea what's in it.
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What Trump and Musk are doing is fantastic, but unless the money and savings they are finding don't get put into a recision request that gets sent back to congress, congress is simply going to appropriate it again.
Our spending has largely been on auto-pilot, f**king TARP money and budgeting has never gone away, it's simply been carried forward in every succeeding CR since that stupid program was foisted on us.
So unless congress actually cuts this sh*t, all that's happening is public masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:13 AM (XV/Pl)
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The first step is the House's omnibus budget bill that Trump endorsed earlier today, I guess.
No idea what's in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)
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Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
Beautiful!
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
Beautiful!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 11:17 AM (l3YAf)
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My head is still spinning at only one disclosure: $4.7 trillion (with a T!!) of treasury disbursements basically untraceable because they didn’t add a “TAS token” indicating the budget line item associated with the expenditure….. a trillion dollars is hard to imagine; absolutely life changing amount of money an individual could never spend. And the government hands it out in untraceable chunks…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 19, 2025 11:17 AM (O1oUp)
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All that was once virtuous is now evil. All that was once celebrated is decried.
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"Dissent is once again Patriotic, H8R!"
-- Shit Killary Said, Vol. XIX
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"Dissent is once again Patriotic, H8R!"
-- Shit Killary Said, Vol. XIX
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:17 AM (V5iXz)
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F'n DOGE. There's millions of 150 yr old women who have had their Social Security checks stopped by Musk & DOGE!
Simply heartless.
Simply heartless.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:17 AM (pSGcE)
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>>>Musk and his skunkworks aren't rooting out waste, but rooting out corruption. What they are exposing is unthinkable to many, and unspeakable (at least, not in public) for those doing what DOGE is now exposing.
And the judges and their families are in on it, too. I wonder how much of Trump's USAID/DOGE focus came from the judicial abuse of him by the corrupt judge Merchan and the lawfare profiteering of his commie scrunt daughter.
And the judges and their families are in on it, too. I wonder how much of Trump's USAID/DOGE focus came from the judicial abuse of him by the corrupt judge Merchan and the lawfare profiteering of his commie scrunt daughter.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 11:18 AM (i24o9)
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This is the Great Sorting for politicians. Either get on board the DOGE train or you can never again run for reelection on being against waste, fraud and abuse.
Posted by: GeoNC at February 19, 2025 11:18 AM (wOaji)
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F'n DOGE. There's millions of 150 yr old women who have had their Social Security checks stopped by Musk & DOGE!
Simply heartless.
Oh, boohoo.
Simply heartless.
Oh, boohoo.
Posted by: 360 year old person at February 19, 2025 11:18 AM (xCA6C)
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Huge lib/Dem panic here in Atlanta about CDC staff being laid off because who will keep us safe?
True. Who will we have to keep us locked down for two years for a not very dangerous virus, make us wear useless, filthy masks and force us to take a mostly worthless and possibly dangerous "vaccine" for said virus?
I can't imagine how we will survive without these wise, dedicated pubic servants during the next fake pandemic.
True. Who will we have to keep us locked down for two years for a not very dangerous virus, make us wear useless, filthy masks and force us to take a mostly worthless and possibly dangerous "vaccine" for said virus?
I can't imagine how we will survive without these wise, dedicated pubic servants during the next fake pandemic.
Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2025 11:18 AM (GUOwU)
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>>Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.
About d@mn time.
Wasn't it just a few months ago Zelensky was demanding that the US send soldiers to fight and die for Ukraine?
The arrogance of this idiot!
Payback is a glorious thing.
About d@mn time.
Wasn't it just a few months ago Zelensky was demanding that the US send soldiers to fight and die for Ukraine?
The arrogance of this idiot!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:19 AM (Cki93)
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Seconded. I want my f*cking money back.
Posted by: RI Red at February 19, 2025 11:19 AM (CIfPI)
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>>> 52 When the rest of the world comes to the realization that the US and China unleashed COVID, there's gonna be hell to pay. I hope Fauci and Birx can be charged and tried for crimes against humanity.
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I will forgive Trump any misstep if he actually puts Fauci and Birx in PMITA prison for the rest of their lives.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (Q0kLU)
By "the rest of their lives" you mean a few weeks until they are executed, right? Although I thought Birx' role was mostly the lockdown fraud, and Peter Daszak (sp?) was Fauci's gain-of-function buddy.
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I will forgive Trump any misstep if he actually puts Fauci and Birx in PMITA prison for the rest of their lives.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (Q0kLU)
By "the rest of their lives" you mean a few weeks until they are executed, right? Although I thought Birx' role was mostly the lockdown fraud, and Peter Daszak (sp?) was Fauci's gain-of-function buddy.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (Vqx30)
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So keep shining lights, DOGE, and keep laughing while doing it.
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This is about Big Ballzzzz, isn't it?
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This is about Big Ballzzzz, isn't it?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (UG1oV)
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3 months ago.
Trump can't win. The elections are completely rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Today.
Trump can't fix the corruption he and Musk have exposed to the entire world. The entire world is too rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Trump can't win. The elections are completely rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Today.
Trump can't fix the corruption he and Musk have exposed to the entire world. The entire world is too rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (LkLld)
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This is the Great Sorting for politicians. Either get on board the DOGE train or you can never again run for reelection on being against waste, fraud and abuse.
J.K. Rowling is saying something similar to British pols, but about men in women's locker rooms. It's time to pick a side. No more trying to have it both ways.
https://is.gd/usmiN6
J.K. Rowling is saying something similar to British pols, but about men in women's locker rooms. It's time to pick a side. No more trying to have it both ways.
https://is.gd/usmiN6
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (xCA6C)
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As I said yesterday, it's amusing to watch the Democrats playing the one-up game against each other of "Our Supporters are So Stupid. How Stupid are They?!" as they compete to see who can come up with the most offensive and tone-deaf responses to be cheered by their base
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (on5o5)
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My head is still spinning at only one disclosure: $4.7 trillion (with a T!!) of treasury disbursements basically untraceable because they didn’t add a “TAS token” indicating the budget line item associated with the expenditure….. a trillion dollars is hard to imagine; absolutely life changing amount of money an individual could never spend. And the government hands it out in untraceable chunks…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Not so concerned that there was no TAS number to tie it to an expenditure. Who did they hand it to?
Joe Blow?
Uh, Mr. Blow, meet the IRS auditor with unlimited rubber gloves to find that money. Now, bend over.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Not so concerned that there was no TAS number to tie it to an expenditure. Who did they hand it to?
Joe Blow?
Uh, Mr. Blow, meet the IRS auditor with unlimited rubber gloves to find that money. Now, bend over.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (pSGcE)
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Has anyone seen yesterday's EO? It basically says "in this administration we follow Loper Bright so you better pass those wild ideas past us first"
https://tinyurl.com/ytpy8n4u
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This is spinning up the 16 inch guns on the USS Trump.
It's amusing watching these federal judges blithely march the entire bureaucratic left to oblivion.
I mean, look at the key underpinning of the immunity decision:
The only Law the President has to follow was the one drafted in the summer of 1787 and any Amendments thereto.
All other law passed by Congress restricting or directing the President how to act mean fuck-all.
All this "illegally fired" and "illegally delegated" and "illegally froze funding" are all under "da fuck you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
https://tinyurl.com/ytpy8n4u
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This is spinning up the 16 inch guns on the USS Trump.
It's amusing watching these federal judges blithely march the entire bureaucratic left to oblivion.
I mean, look at the key underpinning of the immunity decision:
The only Law the President has to follow was the one drafted in the summer of 1787 and any Amendments thereto.
All other law passed by Congress restricting or directing the President how to act mean fuck-all.
All this "illegally fired" and "illegally delegated" and "illegally froze funding" are all under "da fuck you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (on5o5)
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23 To be followed by public hangings?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
PPV to help balance the budget even more. Just use someone other than Netflix to broadcast it.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
PPV to help balance the budget even more. Just use someone other than Netflix to broadcast it.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (99eI0)
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37 When my palm gets greased, I pack a wheel bearing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Would you like your palm red?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Would you like your palm red?
Posted by: The Seer at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (G5+As)
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Media silence on this is the dog that didn't bark. They're silent because they're implicated. And they're about to lose much of their revenue base.
Are you not entertained!
Are you not entertained!
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 19, 2025 11:22 AM (Gqoy+)
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@60
>>No idea what's in it.
It better be a good, sober and realistic budget, with both current and projected DOGE recisions, because Trump might only get one crack at a genuine budget before The Mid-Terms.
And then after the Mid-Terms, The Donks might be in control of the joint and then all bets are off on getting anything productive done.
>>No idea what's in it.
It better be a good, sober and realistic budget, with both current and projected DOGE recisions, because Trump might only get one crack at a genuine budget before The Mid-Terms.
And then after the Mid-Terms, The Donks might be in control of the joint and then all bets are off on getting anything productive done.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:22 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:23 AM (pSGcE)
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>>> 77
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This is spinning up the 16 inch guns on the USS Trump.
It's amusing watching these federal judges blithely march the entire bureaucratic left to oblivion.
I mean, look at the key underpinning of the immunity decision:
The only Law the President has to follow was the one drafted in the summer of 1787 and any Amendments thereto.
All other law passed by Congress restricting or directing the President how to act mean fuck-all.
All this "illegally fired" and "illegally delegated" and "illegally froze funding" are all under "da fuck you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (on5o5)
The Constitution is unConstitutional!
REEEEEEE!!!!!
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This is spinning up the 16 inch guns on the USS Trump.
It's amusing watching these federal judges blithely march the entire bureaucratic left to oblivion.
I mean, look at the key underpinning of the immunity decision:
The only Law the President has to follow was the one drafted in the summer of 1787 and any Amendments thereto.
All other law passed by Congress restricting or directing the President how to act mean fuck-all.
All this "illegally fired" and "illegally delegated" and "illegally froze funding" are all under "da fuck you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (on5o5)
The Constitution is unConstitutional!
REEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: leftists at February 19, 2025 11:24 AM (Vqx30)
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By "the rest of their lives" you mean a few weeks until they are executed, right? Although I thought Birx' role was mostly the lockdown fraud, and Peter Daszak (sp?) was Fauci's gain-of-function buddy.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (Vqx30)
I do want them both executed, but we know that's not remotely on the table. Trump would never go along with it.
Fauci's guilt is self-evident. Birx has publicly admitted she lied directly to the face of POTUS and then to the American people. The Plotzensee Prison treatment would be too merciful for that bitch.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (Vqx30)
I do want them both executed, but we know that's not remotely on the table. Trump would never go along with it.
Fauci's guilt is self-evident. Birx has publicly admitted she lied directly to the face of POTUS and then to the American people. The Plotzensee Prison treatment would be too merciful for that bitch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:24 AM (Q0kLU)
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Coming soon to a department near you: The Night of the Broken Ricebowls
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:24 AM (hY4dx)
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I don’t see how Trump’s comment on Zelensky was brutal
He called him a modestly successful comedian
He called him a modestly successful comedian
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 19, 2025 11:25 AM (HYKHz)
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Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
Brian Kilmeade hardest hit.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
Brian Kilmeade hardest hit.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:25 AM (lHPJf)
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Not so concerned that there was no TAS number to tie it to an expenditure. Who did they hand it to?
Joe Blow?
Uh, Mr. Blow, meet the IRS auditor with unlimited rubber gloves to find that money. Now, bend over.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (pSGcE)
Yes! That’s what blew me away… if I understood it meant they couldn’t determine who got the money. It’s outrageous
Joe Blow?
Uh, Mr. Blow, meet the IRS auditor with unlimited rubber gloves to find that money. Now, bend over.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM (pSGcE)
Yes! That’s what blew me away… if I understood it meant they couldn’t determine who got the money. It’s outrageous
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 19, 2025 11:25 AM (6RwsA)
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Coming soon to a department near you: The Night of the Broken Ricebowls
The Night of the Long Whines
The Night of the Long Whines
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:25 AM (xCA6C)
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To be followed by public hangings?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
PPV to help balance the budget even more. Just use someone other than Netflix to broadcast it.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM
Lifetime?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
PPV to help balance the budget even more. Just use someone other than Netflix to broadcast it.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 19, 2025 11:21 AM
Lifetime?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:25 AM (+QlJh)
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It's too early in this thread, but at some point, I'd appreciate your opinion of the article I posted yesterday.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)
I did read it. Mostly agree, but I think the writer is too hard on Pierre Poilievre. He is by far the best conservative leader since Harper. He has to get himself elected in the reality of Canada, so he has to play to the audience.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)
I did read it. Mostly agree, but I think the writer is too hard on Pierre Poilievre. He is by far the best conservative leader since Harper. He has to get himself elected in the reality of Canada, so he has to play to the audience.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:26 AM (8zz6B)
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Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
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Next you'll be telling me that the Z-Man literally came to Pennsylvania in September to campaign against Trump and for Kommie-la -- a violation of federal laws.
Wait, wut?
Payback is a glorious thing.
https://tinyurl.com/mr5zuu2r
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
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Next you'll be telling me that the Z-Man literally came to Pennsylvania in September to campaign against Trump and for Kommie-la -- a violation of federal laws.
Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:26 AM (UG1oV)
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I did read it. Mostly agree, but I think the writer is too hard on Pierre Poilievre. He is by far the best conservative leader since Harper. He has to get himself elected in the reality of Canada, so he has to play to the audience.
Excellent. I had the same reservation.
Excellent. I had the same reservation.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:26 AM (xCA6C)
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3 months ago.
Trump can't win. The elections are completely rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Today.
Trump can't fix the corruption he and Musk have exposed to the entire world. The entire world is too rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (LkLld)
I admit to being wrong on Number One. As far as Number Two is concerned, I don't know if this is going to really hit home with the 'normie' voting public, as I said above.
Trump can't win. The elections are completely rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Today.
Trump can't fix the corruption he and Musk have exposed to the entire world. The entire world is too rigged. We're all going to die in fire.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (LkLld)
I admit to being wrong on Number One. As far as Number Two is concerned, I don't know if this is going to really hit home with the 'normie' voting public, as I said above.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:26 AM (Q0kLU)
95
I mean, look at the key underpinning of the immunity decision:
The only Law the President has to follow was the one drafted in the summer of 1787 and any Amendments thereto.
All other law passed by Congress restricting or directing the President how to act mean fuck-all.
All this "illegally fired" and "illegally delegated" and "illegally froze funding" are all under "da fuck you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
As I said yesterday, I fully expect the SCOTUS to clerks to be phoning their District clerk counterparts and are telling them to tell their bosses to shut up with the TRO's before SCOTUS publicly humiliates them.
The only Law the President has to follow was the one drafted in the summer of 1787 and any Amendments thereto.
All other law passed by Congress restricting or directing the President how to act mean fuck-all.
All this "illegally fired" and "illegally delegated" and "illegally froze funding" are all under "da fuck you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
As I said yesterday, I fully expect the SCOTUS to clerks to be phoning their District clerk counterparts and are telling them to tell their bosses to shut up with the TRO's before SCOTUS publicly humiliates them.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:26 AM (pSGcE)
96
Fauci's guilt is self-evident. Birx has publicly admitted she lied directly to the face of POTUS and then to the American people. The Plotzensee Prison treatment would be too merciful for that bitch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Fauci's crimes go all the way back to the AIDS scare of the 80s, too. Don't know if Birx was involved in that as well.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Fauci's crimes go all the way back to the AIDS scare of the 80s, too. Don't know if Birx was involved in that as well.
Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
97
Get Patel in at FBI and have him dump everything that is known about the uniparty involvement in Ukraine 2000>. Mitt's family , Nancy's family , McCain, Miss Lindsey etc. Could shut up a lot of those pro war folk
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2025 11:27 AM (KXtU1)
98
@73
>>We're all going to die in fire.
1. Everything ends in fire and catastrophe.
2. But for a 10 degree head tilt, we are not here ->.
3. The Deep State is never stopping and Trump doesn't have much time to implement his plan.
Basically, this budget that Johnson is cobbling together is going to tell the story of if what we are seeing is real or if it's the same old song and dance out of congress.
>>We're all going to die in fire.
1. Everything ends in fire and catastrophe.
2. But for a 10 degree head tilt, we are not here ->.
3. The Deep State is never stopping and Trump doesn't have much time to implement his plan.
Basically, this budget that Johnson is cobbling together is going to tell the story of if what we are seeing is real or if it's the same old song and dance out of congress.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:27 AM (XV/Pl)
99
What would be interesting is to take one ridiculous appropriation- say, $42 million for bee colonies in Mozambique- and trace the actual flow of dollars from the Treasury all the way to... wherever the money trail goes. What country, whose pockets.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (AOsQT)
100
WTF Happened In 1971?
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Other than my being in my soph year at Beloit?
Hoping some of the big analytical brains at AoS can decipher and discuss the massive number of charts on this page. My brain boggled.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Other than my being in my soph year at Beloit?
Hoping some of the big analytical brains at AoS can decipher and discuss the massive number of charts on this page. My brain boggled.
Posted by: mindful webworker - boggledy noggin at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (yfRSa)
101
35
‘ Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.’
I know Zelenskyy Hoovered up a lot of our money thanks to the Uniparty but what in particular are you meaning?
‘ Trump's had enough of Zelensky.
Payback is a glorious thing.’
I know Zelenskyy Hoovered up a lot of our money thanks to the Uniparty but what in particular are you meaning?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (jbnUc)
102
>>>Has anyone seen yesterday's EO? It basically says "in this administration we follow Loper Bright so you better pass those wild ideas past us first"
>>>https://tinyurl.com/ytpy8n4u
That might be my favorite one yet.
>>>https://tinyurl.com/ytpy8n4u
That might be my favorite one yet.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (i24o9)
103
By "the rest of their lives" you mean a few weeks until they are executed, right? Although I thought Birx' role was mostly the lockdown fraud, and Peter Daszak (sp?) was Fauci's gain-of-function buddy.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (Vqx30)
They are all guilty of crimes against humanity. Hang them all.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (Vqx30)
They are all guilty of crimes against humanity. Hang them all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (8zz6B)
104
95 As I said yesterday, I fully expect the SCOTUS to clerks to be phoning their District clerk counterparts and are telling them to tell their bosses to shut up with the TRO's before SCOTUS publicly humiliates them.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:26 AM (pSGcE)
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One case has already been appealed directly to SCOTUS. The TRO about the firing of the IG, I think.
SCOTUS is going to directly affirm the unitary executive and pull up a lot of caselaw, and it's not going to be a terribly close vote.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:26 AM (pSGcE)
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One case has already been appealed directly to SCOTUS. The TRO about the firing of the IG, I think.
SCOTUS is going to directly affirm the unitary executive and pull up a lot of caselaw, and it's not going to be a terribly close vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)
105
Oh no! Whatever shall we do?
TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)
106
I was on the phone with a fellow historian friend of mine last night, and we speculated on how the Cold War is going to be remembered in a decade or two: especially on the Right.
With USAID and all these other sneak tactics going back to its early days, not to mention the CIA and its work, we may soon regard it not as a battle against Communism, but the point at which America lost its way and became an oppressive empire.
Hell, the next generation of conservatives may look at Reagan and Nixon as suckers.
With USAID and all these other sneak tactics going back to its early days, not to mention the CIA and its work, we may soon regard it not as a battle against Communism, but the point at which America lost its way and became an oppressive empire.
Hell, the next generation of conservatives may look at Reagan and Nixon as suckers.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)
107
I see leftists on Farcebook claiming now not that Trump will steal their SS but that he has.
Did the Federal holiday mean checks went out a day late or something?
Did the Federal holiday mean checks went out a day late or something?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (t0Rmr)
108
I want public trials.
None of this was a simple "oops!"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025
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To be followed by public hangings?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025
***
Public drawing and quartering sounds about right.
None of this was a simple "oops!"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025
*
To be followed by public hangings?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025
***
Public drawing and quartering sounds about right.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (J2vNu)
109
Also I read that Senator Miss Lindsey wants to send $48 billion more to Ukraine
we gotta get rid of this swish
we gotta get rid of this swish
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (AOsQT)
110
105 Oh no! Whatever shall we do?
TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)
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I can't wait until Democrat campaigns run entirely by people addicted to BlueSky start rolling out, man.
TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)
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I can't wait until Democrat campaigns run entirely by people addicted to BlueSky start rolling out, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
111
Although I thought Birx' role was mostly the lockdown fraud, and Peter Daszak (sp?) was Fauci's gain-of-function buddy.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (Vqx30)
Were justice to actually be done, we'd need a lot of rope.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:20 AM (Vqx30)
Were justice to actually be done, we'd need a lot of rope.
Posted by: PGA, LIV, Golf Network, ESPN, your local network every Sunday at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (FCbAQ)
112
>>> 100 WTF Happened In 1971?
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Other than my being in my soph year at Beloit?
Hoping some of the big analytical brains at AoS can decipher and discuss the massive number of charts on this page. My brain boggled.
Posted by: mindful webworker - boggledy noggin at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (yfRSa)
*tee hee*
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Other than my being in my soph year at Beloit?
Hoping some of the big analytical brains at AoS can decipher and discuss the massive number of charts on this page. My brain boggled.
Posted by: mindful webworker - boggledy noggin at February 19, 2025 11:28 AM (yfRSa)
*tee hee*
Posted by: Klaus Schwab et al at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (Vqx30)
113
As far as Number Two is concerned, I don't know if this is going to really hit home with the 'normie' voting public, as I said above.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Didn't someone mention something about DOGE cutting everyone a $5k check because of clawed back money? That'll wake the normies up.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Didn't someone mention something about DOGE cutting everyone a $5k check because of clawed back money? That'll wake the normies up.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (pSGcE)
114
Midterms worry? What is a dem candidate going to run on? A return to bloated, corrupt government spending?
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (mB6WH)
115
Yes, DOGE and Trump have to move fast, not only so the DC people have time to cover their tracks, but so they can dismantle and END the various programs, departments, agencies for good. For example, by cutting off all the USAID funding the NGOs were immediately in the ropes, scrambling for money -- all of them at once.
Nothing can remain that can be re-opened, re-staffed by the next Democrat president. Fire the staff, close the building, then sell it or fill it with something else. Make it so gone they'd have to start from scratch to get it back.
Nothing can remain that can be re-opened, re-staffed by the next Democrat president. Fire the staff, close the building, then sell it or fill it with something else. Make it so gone they'd have to start from scratch to get it back.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (Cki93)
116
Coming soon to a department near you: The Night of the Broken Ricebowls
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:24 AM (hY4dx)
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Trump's Kristallcrock.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:24 AM (hY4dx)
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Trump's Kristallcrock.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (1lGBD)
117
While saving cash may not be its telos, it could prove to be as important as the corruption exposure.
The coming debt cliff is both real and spectacular. Not having to finance (that is, borrow money) the federal behemoth at even the current funding levels will stave off insolvency. Hopefully long enough that we’re not handing my kids (and their future children) nothing but austerity and bread lines.
The coming debt cliff is both real and spectacular. Not having to finance (that is, borrow money) the federal behemoth at even the current funding levels will stave off insolvency. Hopefully long enough that we’re not handing my kids (and their future children) nothing but austerity and bread lines.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (Mxf84)
118
Oh no! Whatever shall we do?
TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM
*looks about for the fainting couch*
TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM
*looks about for the fainting couch*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (+QlJh)
119
Archimedes, do you still have the link to that Canada article?
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (lHPJf)
120
The big bloated tick is being popped.
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (i0F8b)
121
Been saying it for a while: All DOGE is doing is unlocking doors, entering, locating the light switch and turning it on.
Posted by: cthoms at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (GMJaz)
122
Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
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Honestly, yes. I expected more waste via sloppy practices and featherbedding, but all this seems surprisingly actively directed. Heads, big heads, should roll.
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Honestly, yes. I expected more waste via sloppy practices and featherbedding, but all this seems surprisingly actively directed. Heads, big heads, should roll.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (n4GiU)
123
Hey. Happy birthday.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:23 AM (pSGcE)
Hey! You're right, it is my birthday. 29 at last!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:23 AM (pSGcE)
Hey! You're right, it is my birthday. 29 at last!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:31 AM (8zz6B)
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WTF Happened In 1971?
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
*
Other than my being in my soph year at Beloit?
Hoping some of the big analytical brains at AoS can decipher and discuss the massive number of charts on this page. My brain boggled.
Posted by: mindful webworker - boggledy noggin at February 19, 2025
***
Those are fairly easy to understand.
Since 1971, we been fooked.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
*
Other than my being in my soph year at Beloit?
Hoping some of the big analytical brains at AoS can decipher and discuss the massive number of charts on this page. My brain boggled.
Posted by: mindful webworker - boggledy noggin at February 19, 2025
***
Those are fairly easy to understand.
Since 1971, we been fooked.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:32 AM (J2vNu)
125
114 Midterms worry? What is a dem candidate going to run on? A return to bloated, corrupt government spending?
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (mB6WH)
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Well, if we assume normal midterm patterns, Democrats have a solid chance of taking the House.
However, with the direct attacks on the Democrats' fundraising apparatus through the limiting of funds to NGOs...all while Trump's approval ratings fail to fall even though the media has gone full shreeking mode about the end of the world with USAID gone which will affect the real life donors who aren't funded by NGOs...and I fail to see why we should assume normal historical patterns for the midterms.
I think 2002 may actually end up being a better comparison.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (mB6WH)
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Well, if we assume normal midterm patterns, Democrats have a solid chance of taking the House.
However, with the direct attacks on the Democrats' fundraising apparatus through the limiting of funds to NGOs...all while Trump's approval ratings fail to fall even though the media has gone full shreeking mode about the end of the world with USAID gone which will affect the real life donors who aren't funded by NGOs...and I fail to see why we should assume normal historical patterns for the midterms.
I think 2002 may actually end up being a better comparison.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
126
AOP, Happy Birthday!!
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (mB6WH)
127
Mama is the eternal pessimist
She first thought they would successfully kill Truml after failing twice
Then thought he would lose anyway
Then thought the deep state would drone strike him at the inauguration
Then thought none of his nominees would be confirmed
She’s now in thinking we’ll never enjoy the Trump presidency because the chemtrails in the air will kill us and if not that the vaxing of the chickens will
She first thought they would successfully kill Truml after failing twice
Then thought he would lose anyway
Then thought the deep state would drone strike him at the inauguration
Then thought none of his nominees would be confirmed
She’s now in thinking we’ll never enjoy the Trump presidency because the chemtrails in the air will kill us and if not that the vaxing of the chickens will
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (HYKHz)
128
>>> 106 I was on the phone with a fellow historian friend of mine last night, and we speculated on how the Cold War is going to be remembered in a decade or two: especially on the Right.
With USAID and all these other sneak tactics going back to its early days, not to mention the CIA and its work, we may soon regard it not as a battle against Communism, but the point at which America lost its way and became an oppressive empire.
Hell, the next generation of conservatives may look at Reagan and Nixon as suckers.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)
Nixon probably, Reagan I would be surprised.
With USAID and all these other sneak tactics going back to its early days, not to mention the CIA and its work, we may soon regard it not as a battle against Communism, but the point at which America lost its way and became an oppressive empire.
Hell, the next generation of conservatives may look at Reagan and Nixon as suckers.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)
Nixon probably, Reagan I would be surprised.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (Vqx30)
129
Hey! You're right, it is my birthday. 29 at last!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
So the drinks are on you, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
So the drinks are on you, right?
Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
130
I can't wait until Democrat campaigns run entirely by people addicted to BlueSky start rolling out, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
I occasionally read the blog of a left-wing historian who's largely abandoned Twitter for Bluesky, and he was claiming that Harris suffered only a very narrow loss to Trump, so there was nothing wrong with her campaign or Democratic messaging.
Yes, it will be interesting to watch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
I occasionally read the blog of a left-wing historian who's largely abandoned Twitter for Bluesky, and he was claiming that Harris suffered only a very narrow loss to Trump, so there was nothing wrong with her campaign or Democratic messaging.
Yes, it will be interesting to watch.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (lHPJf)
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Also I read that Senator Miss Lindsey wants to send $48 billion more to Ukraine
Dude, really? Read the room. That shit is over.
Dude, really? Read the room. That shit is over.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (pSGcE)
132
>>I admit to being wrong on Number One. As far as Number Two is concerned, I don't know if this is going to really hit home with the 'normie' voting public, as I said above.
All you have to do is look at Trump's approval ratings despite the 99.9% negative media he gets.
This is not 2016. We are not the only ones getting boned at the grocery store and gas pump. And the left no longer owns social media. And there lawfare is failing this time.
Trump hasn't even been in office for a month, doesn't even have his whole team in office yet, and everything is changing. Nobody ever wins by expecting to lose.
All you have to do is look at Trump's approval ratings despite the 99.9% negative media he gets.
This is not 2016. We are not the only ones getting boned at the grocery store and gas pump. And the left no longer owns social media. And there lawfare is failing this time.
Trump hasn't even been in office for a month, doesn't even have his whole team in office yet, and everything is changing. Nobody ever wins by expecting to lose.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (LkLld)
133
With USAID and all these other sneak tactics going back to its early days, not to mention the CIA and its work, we may soon regard it not as a battle against Communism, but the point at which America lost its way and became an oppressive empire.
Three key moments where we lost our way:
1991: The Soviet Union falls and literally nothing happens - all the Nat Sec/DoD budgets and activities say the same even with no actual enemy to run black ops on anymore
1992: Bill Clinton wins the presidency and starts turning using Nat Sec people - remember the FBI file scandal?
1999: The FNM, using FBI files from Bill Clinton, torpedo Newt G and Bob Livingstone for having affairs. This leaves Denis Hastert, who they know is a pedophile, to become the top Republican. They use him to turn the GOP into controlled opposition.
Three key moments where we lost our way:
1991: The Soviet Union falls and literally nothing happens - all the Nat Sec/DoD budgets and activities say the same even with no actual enemy to run black ops on anymore
1992: Bill Clinton wins the presidency and starts turning using Nat Sec people - remember the FBI file scandal?
1999: The FNM, using FBI files from Bill Clinton, torpedo Newt G and Bob Livingstone for having affairs. This leaves Denis Hastert, who they know is a pedophile, to become the top Republican. They use him to turn the GOP into controlled opposition.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)
134
Hell, the next generation of conservatives may look at Reagan and Nixon as suckers.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM
I already think Nixon is a sucker.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM
I already think Nixon is a sucker.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (MGB5H)
135
Nothing can remain that can be re-opened, re-staffed by the next Democrat president. Fire the staff, close the building, then sell it or fill it with something else. Make it so gone they'd have to start from scratch to get it back.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (Cki93)
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Salt, and blue shithole excrement ... but mostly blue shithole excrement.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM (Cki93)
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Salt, and blue shithole excrement ... but mostly blue shithole excrement.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (1lGBD)
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134 Hell, the next generation of conservatives may look at Reagan and Nixon as suckers.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM
I already think Nixon is a sucker.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (MGB5H)
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The dude who ended the gold standard and started the EPA?
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM
I already think Nixon is a sucker.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (MGB5H)
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The dude who ended the gold standard and started the EPA?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
137
>Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
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to hear that whole TRILLIONS of dollars have seemingly disappeared is a gut punch, IMO
what if Elon's team gets inside Ft Knox and finds empty shelves?
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to hear that whole TRILLIONS of dollars have seemingly disappeared is a gut punch, IMO
what if Elon's team gets inside Ft Knox and finds empty shelves?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (AOsQT)
138
I occasionally read the blog of a left-wing historian who's largely abandoned Twitter for Bluesky, and he was claiming that Harris suffered only a very narrow loss to Trump, so there was nothing wrong with her campaign or Democratic messaging.
Yes, it will be interesting to watch.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (lHPJf)
New “ruthlessly efficient” Trump could end up doing to many purple areas what Desantis did in FL.
Please, Lord, make it so.
Yes, it will be interesting to watch.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (lHPJf)
New “ruthlessly efficient” Trump could end up doing to many purple areas what Desantis did in FL.
Please, Lord, make it so.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (Mxf84)
139
Midterms worry? What is a dem candidate going to run on? A return to bloated, corrupt government spending?
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM
They're starving Grandma, closing puppies, and killing schools! ill no one think of the Delta Smelt?!!!!!!!!
- Dem campaign ads, probably
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:30 AM
They're starving Grandma, closing puppies, and killing schools! ill no one think of the Delta Smelt?!!!!!!!!
- Dem campaign ads, probably
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (+QlJh)
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Wasn't it just a few months ago Zelensky was demanding that the US send soldiers to fight and die for Ukraine?
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Zelenskyy had 2 strikes - and now he is out. He was out before, but Trump was willing to do it gently. And now he going to be out of there sooner rather than later.
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Zelenskyy had 2 strikes - and now he is out. He was out before, but Trump was willing to do it gently. And now he going to be out of there sooner rather than later.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)
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>>Fauci's crimes go all the way back to the AIDS scare of the 80s, too. Don't know if Birx was involved in that as well.
After what she recently admitted about the vaccine, that she could have stopped this being forced on kids in order to get back to school, on people in order to keep their jobs. . .? This makes her responsible for all the death this caused.
Embrace the power of 'and' - we can prosecute Fauci and Birx and Dasak and Pfiser execs.
After what she recently admitted about the vaccine, that she could have stopped this being forced on kids in order to get back to school, on people in order to keep their jobs. . .? This makes her responsible for all the death this caused.
Embrace the power of 'and' - we can prosecute Fauci and Birx and Dasak and Pfiser execs.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (Cki93)
142
@114
>>A return to bloated, corrupt government spending?
They don't have to run on anything the Cali Machine has been whittling down the GOP congressmen with great precision, they've gone from 19 in 2010 to 9 this congress, they keep whacking away a couple every congressional election year, same with NY and Illinois.
And this is with the national Democrats and California Democrat clown show.
So they don't need to do anything to take back the house except let the processes they've put in place work their magic.
>>A return to bloated, corrupt government spending?
They don't have to run on anything the Cali Machine has been whittling down the GOP congressmen with great precision, they've gone from 19 in 2010 to 9 this congress, they keep whacking away a couple every congressional election year, same with NY and Illinois.
And this is with the national Democrats and California Democrat clown show.
So they don't need to do anything to take back the house except let the processes they've put in place work their magic.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (XV/Pl)
143
>>> 127
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She’s now in thinking we’ll never enjoy the Trump presidency because the chemtrails in the air will kill us and if not that the vaxing of the chickens will
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (HYKHz)
I keep telling You People to get some fcking chickens in your backyards. Bluebell the hen will peck a bitch who tries to give her any drugs.
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She’s now in thinking we’ll never enjoy the Trump presidency because the chemtrails in the air will kill us and if not that the vaxing of the chickens will
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (HYKHz)
I keep telling You People to get some fcking chickens in your backyards. Bluebell the hen will peck a bitch who tries to give her any drugs.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (Vqx30)
144
I already think Nixon is a sucker.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (MGB5H)
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The dude who ended the gold standard and started the EPA?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
Don't forget about me!
-OSHA
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (MGB5H)
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The dude who ended the gold standard and started the EPA?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
Don't forget about me!
-OSHA
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (L/fGl)
146
138 New “ruthlessly efficient” Trump could end up doing to many purple areas what Desantis did in FL.
Please, Lord, make it so.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (Mxf84)
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The RNC is going to build on its wins in 2024 in 2026. It'll have 2025 to practice in NJ and VA as well.
Please, Lord, make it so.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (Mxf84)
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The RNC is going to build on its wins in 2024 in 2026. It'll have 2025 to practice in NJ and VA as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
147
Whistleblowing is noble when it's done by their guys.
Posted by: NR Pax
Especially when it is done fraudulently by a CIA agent (Eric Ciamarella). This crook pretended to be a witness and put forth a story created out of whole cloth, and cost us millions of dollars in a fake investigation.
Posted by: NR Pax
Especially when it is done fraudulently by a CIA agent (Eric Ciamarella). This crook pretended to be a witness and put forth a story created out of whole cloth, and cost us millions of dollars in a fake investigation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (lTGtQ)
148
Fauci's guilt is self-evident. Birx has publicly admitted she lied directly to the face of POTUS and then to the American people. The Plotzensee Prison treatment would be too merciful for that bitch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:24 AM (Q0kLU)
Birx’s guilt is massive and indisputable. She was the queen of lockdowns.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:24 AM (Q0kLU)
Birx’s guilt is massive and indisputable. She was the queen of lockdowns.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (l3YAf)
149
> Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
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My only surprise is the complicated and convoluted money laundering. It's like the money goes through a half dozen cutouts before it lands in someone's pockets. I'm sure that's by design, but it seems inefficient.
The amount of money involved is staggering, but with a deficit of 36 trillion dollars it's apparent there was a lot of money being... uh... reallocated. And it sort of explains why there was no interest in actually putting together a budget all these years.
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My only surprise is the complicated and convoluted money laundering. It's like the money goes through a half dozen cutouts before it lands in someone's pockets. I'm sure that's by design, but it seems inefficient.
The amount of money involved is staggering, but with a deficit of 36 trillion dollars it's apparent there was a lot of money being... uh... reallocated. And it sort of explains why there was no interest in actually putting together a budget all these years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)
150
TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
Promises, promises.
Promises, promises.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:37 AM (xCA6C)
151
The dastardly bishops are suing for their funding for illegals. Time to take the tax exempt status.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 11:37 AM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: Ciampino - they didn't stop doing it at February 19, 2025 11:37 AM (KjLnc)
153
Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Not really. I see over the last 20 years the budget quadrupled and the actual services Fed Gov provides have declined across the board. The obvious answer to that was fraud and corruption
Not really. I see over the last 20 years the budget quadrupled and the actual services Fed Gov provides have declined across the board. The obvious answer to that was fraud and corruption
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (t0Rmr)
154
The James Madison, I believe that the status quo has had both it's knee caps broken and a new normal is taking shape.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (mB6WH)
155
Three key moments where we lost our way:
1991: The Soviet Union falls and literally nothing happens - all the Nat Sec/DoD budgets and activities say the same even with no actual enemy to run black ops on anymore
1992: Bill Clinton wins the presidency and starts turning using Nat Sec people - remember the FBI file scandal?
1999: The FNM, using FBI files from Bill Clinton, torpedo Newt G and Bob Livingstone for having affairs. This leaves Denis Hastert, who they know is a pedophile, to become the top Republican. They use him to turn the GOP into controlled opposition.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)
Then the plan ran into Florida 2000, and the shrieking ever since.
1991: The Soviet Union falls and literally nothing happens - all the Nat Sec/DoD budgets and activities say the same even with no actual enemy to run black ops on anymore
1992: Bill Clinton wins the presidency and starts turning using Nat Sec people - remember the FBI file scandal?
1999: The FNM, using FBI files from Bill Clinton, torpedo Newt G and Bob Livingstone for having affairs. This leaves Denis Hastert, who they know is a pedophile, to become the top Republican. They use him to turn the GOP into controlled opposition.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:34 AM (t0Rmr)
Then the plan ran into Florida 2000, and the shrieking ever since.
Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (i0F8b)
156
119 Archimedes, do you still have the link to that Canada article?
Here you go:
https://is.gd/cZPTS0
Here you go:
https://is.gd/cZPTS0
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (xCA6C)
157
Dude, really? Read the room. That shit is over.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM
Kinda hard to read the room when you're so deep in the closet you're stepping on Mr. Tumnus's hooves.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM
Kinda hard to read the room when you're so deep in the closet you're stepping on Mr. Tumnus's hooves.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (+QlJh)
158
occasionally read the blog of a left-wing historian who's largely abandoned Twitter for Bluesky, and he was claiming that Harris suffered only a very narrow loss to Trump
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Hitler came in second in WWII.
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Hitler came in second in WWII.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
159
Lisa Murkowski on DOGE Spending Cuts 🚨
https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/
1892244249954894003
Posted by: Ciampino - they didn't stop doing it at February 19, 2025 11:37 AM (KjLnc)
Go have another drink
https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/
1892244249954894003
Posted by: Ciampino - they didn't stop doing it at February 19, 2025 11:37 AM (KjLnc)
Go have another drink
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)
160
The CIA was dosing practically everyone with LSD in 1952, it was an occupational hazard if you were a spook. Military, universities, prisons. I’d say they lost their way long before 1991.
Within ten years or so, California was ground zero for the “Hippie Revolution”. I’m sure that was just a coincidence, a complete organic and “grass roots” phenomenon.
Within ten years or so, California was ground zero for the “Hippie Revolution”. I’m sure that was just a coincidence, a complete organic and “grass roots” phenomenon.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:39 AM (eOudo)
161
Those chemtrails are ours now!
Posted by: Ron Silver 2009 at February 19, 2025 11:39 AM (G5+As)
162
AOP, Happy Birthday!!
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (mB6WH)
Thank you very much! Hugs to you.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:33 AM (mB6WH)
Thank you very much! Hugs to you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:39 AM (8zz6B)
163
but at the men exposing the wrongdoers - and their wrongdoing - to the pubic.
Yark, yark, yark. Heh.
Yark, yark, yark. Heh.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 19, 2025 11:39 AM (/HDaX)
164
"I occasionally read the blog of a left-wing historian who's largely abandoned Twitter for Bluesky, and he was claiming that Harris suffered only a very narrow loss to Trump, so there was nothing wrong with her campaign or Democratic messaging."
There was no campaign except trying to make Kamal appear coherent and no messaging beyond abortion hysteria, Trump is Hitler and the economy is great you idiots.
Yes, do that again.
There was no campaign except trying to make Kamal appear coherent and no messaging beyond abortion hysteria, Trump is Hitler and the economy is great you idiots.
Yes, do that again.
Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (GUOwU)
165
Zelenskyy had 2 strikes - and now he is out. He was out before, but Trump was willing to do it gently. And now he going to be out of there sooner rather than later.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)
I will be angry if he goes gently off to a mansion somewhere. Let the families of the dead conscripts deal with this evil man. And be sure there's pay for view.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)
I will be angry if he goes gently off to a mansion somewhere. Let the families of the dead conscripts deal with this evil man. And be sure there's pay for view.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (2NXcZ)
166
Zelenskyy refused to sign the doc(s) given to him by the sec of Treasury, he refused to be involved in negotiations on reasonable terms (thinking that the Europeans who ALSO live off of US largess, and have been for 40 or more ears are the real heroes) and kept pushing insanity, and finally started to criticize Trump and his peace negotiations. Zelenskyy is unraveling in real time.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (g47mK)
167
I need $5000 less than my kids and grandkids need $1,000,000 debt each.
Posted by: MkY at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (cPGH3)
168
@152
>> Lisa Murkowski on DOGE Spending Cuts
And there it is, The Senate ain't going to allow anything to be cut.
Great going going Alaska you could of had Chewbacca, but nooooo... you just had to rig the system for Frank Murkowski's daughter.
>> Lisa Murkowski on DOGE Spending Cuts
And there it is, The Senate ain't going to allow anything to be cut.
Great going going Alaska you could of had Chewbacca, but nooooo... you just had to rig the system for Frank Murkowski's daughter.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (XV/Pl)
169
I will be angry if he goes gently off to a mansion somewhere. Let the families of the dead conscripts deal with this evil man. And be sure there's pay for view.
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Was not entirely his idea - US A ID and similar drove the war.
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Was not entirely his idea - US A ID and similar drove the war.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (g47mK)
170
They're starving Grandma, closing puppies, and killing schools! ill no one think of the Delta Smelt?!!!!!!!!
- Dem campaign ads, probably
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025
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"Closing puppies" . . .?
- Dem campaign ads, probably
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025
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"Closing puppies" . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (J2vNu)
171
DC is a small town, and as was shown with the Obama administration (remember all the graphics floating around?): most of the media people are related to the DC blob. Susan Rice's husband is/was an exec at CBS, Chuck Todd's wife is a Democrat PR consultant, and on and on. Media people have close friends, spouses, siblings, neighbors who work in the government or related industries. They come first.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (Cki93)
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I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (Cki93)
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I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (JoAEF)
172
Lisa Murkowski on DOGE Spending Cuts 🚨
https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/
1892244249954894003
I've been expecting her to switch parties, but then it occurred to me that she can't, because she'd have to run as a Dem, and RCV wouldn't save her. It's time: strip her of all her committee assignments. MAKE her change party, and be done with her at her next election.
https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/
1892244249954894003
I've been expecting her to switch parties, but then it occurred to me that she can't, because she'd have to run as a Dem, and RCV wouldn't save her. It's time: strip her of all her committee assignments. MAKE her change party, and be done with her at her next election.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (xCA6C)
173
Years not ears !
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (g47mK)
174
168 And there it is, The Senate ain't going to allow anything to be cut.
Great going going Alaska you could of had Chewbacca, but nooooo... you just had to rig the system for Frank Murkowski's daughter.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (XV/Pl)
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Reconciliation will allow her to stand strong against this impotently without stopping it.
Great going going Alaska you could of had Chewbacca, but nooooo... you just had to rig the system for Frank Murkowski's daughter.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (XV/Pl)
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Reconciliation will allow her to stand strong against this impotently without stopping it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
175
"Closing puppies" . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM
It was originally killing puppies and closing schools, but I wanted a more incoherent vibe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM
It was originally killing puppies and closing schools, but I wanted a more incoherent vibe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (+QlJh)
176
Wow!
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
8m
Trump has said Boeing, $BA, is almost a lost cause, per NYT.
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
8m
Trump has said Boeing, $BA, is almost a lost cause, per NYT.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (xF8Ny)
177
Zelenskyy had 2 strikes - and now he is out. He was out before, but Trump was willing to do it gently. And now he going to be out of there sooner rather than later.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM
I think everyone needs to remember that zelensky was a comedian that was made famous by pounding his dick on a piano keyboard before the cia installed him as president.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM
I think everyone needs to remember that zelensky was a comedian that was made famous by pounding his dick on a piano keyboard before the cia installed him as president.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (e5NfL)
178
My only surprise is the complicated and convoluted money laundering. It's like the money goes through a half dozen cutouts before it lands in someone's pockets. I'm sure that's by design, but it seems inefficient.
The amount of money involved is staggering, but with a deficit of 36 trillion dollars it's apparent there was a lot of money being... uh... reallocated. And it sort of explains why there was no interest in actually putting together a budget all these years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)
It's like multi-level marketing in reverse. Every link in the chain gets a lick on the ice cream cone.
The amount of money involved is staggering, but with a deficit of 36 trillion dollars it's apparent there was a lot of money being... uh... reallocated. And it sort of explains why there was no interest in actually putting together a budget all these years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)
It's like multi-level marketing in reverse. Every link in the chain gets a lick on the ice cream cone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (8zz6B)
179
Especially when it is done fraudulently by a CIA agent (Eric Ciamarella). This crook pretended to be a witness and put forth a story created out of whole cloth, and cost us millions of dollars in a fake investigation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (lTGtQ)
He cost us trillions. The first impeachment hoax was meant to secure the Ukraine grift and keep Trump from stopping the deep state gearing up for war with Russia.
Further, stopping the President from a legitimate and legal investigation of the Biden crime family allowed the DNC to prop up Corpsey and use him as puppet president for four years.
Without Eric Ciamarella, the Biden corruption in Ukraine would have been revealed, the DNC wouldn’t have been able to steal the 2020 election, and we wouldn’t have had a war with Russia. All roads lead back to Ukraine and the first impeachment sham.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (lTGtQ)
He cost us trillions. The first impeachment hoax was meant to secure the Ukraine grift and keep Trump from stopping the deep state gearing up for war with Russia.
Further, stopping the President from a legitimate and legal investigation of the Biden crime family allowed the DNC to prop up Corpsey and use him as puppet president for four years.
Without Eric Ciamarella, the Biden corruption in Ukraine would have been revealed, the DNC wouldn’t have been able to steal the 2020 election, and we wouldn’t have had a war with Russia. All roads lead back to Ukraine and the first impeachment sham.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (l3YAf)
180
176 Wow!
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
8m
Trump has said Boeing, $BA, is almost a lost cause, per NYT.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (xF8Ny)
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Damn...
I should have shorted Boeing yesterday...
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
8m
Trump has said Boeing, $BA, is almost a lost cause, per NYT.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (xF8Ny)
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Damn...
I should have shorted Boeing yesterday...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
181
Breaking "the way DC works" will do both for a while.
Posted by: DaveA at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (FhXTo)
182
Nixon was removed by the “deep state” within two years of the largest electoral landslide victory ever. I’d say they have been putting their thumb on the scale with election interference long before 1991
Biden was elected in that wave of anti-republican sentiment, by the way.
Biden was elected in that wave of anti-republican sentiment, by the way.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (eOudo)
183
"I occasionally read the blog of a left-wing historian who's largely abandoned Twitter for Bluesky, and he was claiming that Harris suffered only a very narrow loss to Trump, so there was nothing wrong with her campaign or Democratic messaging."
TBH it does worry me occasionally looking at the official results from that election. Trump ran about as good of a campaign as I've ever seen, Harris ran a terrible campaign and is a terrible candidate.
Yes there was a ridiculous amount of fraud, but if Trump doesn't resolve that in the next 4 years things will be harder for Vance/DeSantis/whoever running against a candidate that isn't a babbling idiot.
TBH it does worry me occasionally looking at the official results from that election. Trump ran about as good of a campaign as I've ever seen, Harris ran a terrible campaign and is a terrible candidate.
Yes there was a ridiculous amount of fraud, but if Trump doesn't resolve that in the next 4 years things will be harder for Vance/DeSantis/whoever running against a candidate that isn't a babbling idiot.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (t0Rmr)
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My only surprise is the complicated and convoluted money laundering. It's like the money goes through a half dozen cutouts before it lands in someone's pockets. I'm sure that's by design, but it seems inefficient.
The amount of money involved is staggering, but with a deficit of 36 trillion dollars it's apparent there was a lot of money being... uh... reallocated. And it sort of explains why there was no interest in actually putting together a budget all these years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)
We knew "they" were looting the Treasury. We just didn't know who or how.
I want to know it all, and I want repercussions that prevent anyone even contemplating it to shrink away from the thought in fear of what could happen to them or their loved ones.
The amount of money involved is staggering, but with a deficit of 36 trillion dollars it's apparent there was a lot of money being... uh... reallocated. And it sort of explains why there was no interest in actually putting together a budget all these years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)
We knew "they" were looting the Treasury. We just didn't know who or how.
I want to know it all, and I want repercussions that prevent anyone even contemplating it to shrink away from the thought in fear of what could happen to them or their loved ones.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (i24o9)
185
The CIA was dosing practically everyone with LSD in 1952, it was an occupational hazard if you were a spook. Military, universities, prisons. I’d say they lost their way long before 1991.
Within ten years or so, California was ground zero for the “Hippie Revolution”. I’m sure that was just a coincidence, a complete organic and “grass roots” phenomenon.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:39 AM (eOudo)
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Makes one wonder at the CIA was in partnership with the Soviet Union?
/rhetorical
Within ten years or so, California was ground zero for the “Hippie Revolution”. I’m sure that was just a coincidence, a complete organic and “grass roots” phenomenon.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:39 AM (eOudo)
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Makes one wonder at the CIA was in partnership with the Soviet Union?
/rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (yLTnz)
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what if Elon's team gets inside Ft Knox and finds empty shelves?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag
They'll be an IOU ala Catch-22 with John Voight.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag
They'll be an IOU ala Catch-22 with John Voight.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (WXNFJ)
187
182 Biden was elected in that wave of anti-republican sentiment, by the way.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (eOudo)
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And six states shutting down ballot counting in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.
Also that.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:42 AM (eOudo)
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And six states shutting down ballot counting in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.
Also that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
188
sockoff
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (FCbAQ)
189
Nobody's closing my puppies ( whippets growling in background)!
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (2NXcZ)
190
Hitler came in second in WWII.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
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Which, as we know, signifies first place loser
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
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Which, as we know, signifies first place loser
Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (1FWWQ)
191
"Closing puppies" . . .?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM
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It was originally killing puppies and closing schools, but I wanted a more incoherent vibe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025
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The incoherence was read, and appreciated!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM
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It was originally killing puppies and closing schools, but I wanted a more incoherent vibe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025
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The incoherence was read, and appreciated!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (J2vNu)
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However, with the direct attacks on the Democrats' fundraising apparatus through the limiting of funds to NGOs...all while Trump's approval ratings fail to fall even though the media has gone full shreeking mode about the end of the world with USAID gone which will affect the real life donors who aren't funded by NGOs...and I fail to see why we should assume normal historical patterns for the midterms.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the biggest indicator of the left's funding that will be available to them for 2026 is the utter lack of glossy, pre-printed "protest" signs.
And the pathetic turn-out at these current protests.
Two things they've always been able to do: 1) hire large crowd of protesters who are 2) holding a sea of the same signs.
If the left was organic, that should not have changed just because USAID funding was cut and future funding in doubt.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the biggest indicator of the left's funding that will be available to them for 2026 is the utter lack of glossy, pre-printed "protest" signs.
And the pathetic turn-out at these current protests.
Two things they've always been able to do: 1) hire large crowd of protesters who are 2) holding a sea of the same signs.
If the left was organic, that should not have changed just because USAID funding was cut and future funding in doubt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (on5o5)
Posted by: Ciampino - they didn't stop paying the media at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (KjLnc)
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And six states shutting down ballot counting in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.
Also that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
Mostly that! Nothing like that happened in my 70 years until the steal
Also that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
Mostly that! Nothing like that happened in my 70 years until the steal
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (2NXcZ)
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Another thing that prepared me for this level of fraud - with the economy cratering for the last 4 years the leftists I know that work for the government consistently tell me things are awesome and they spend like drunken sailors...meaning economically things have been very good for them...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (t0Rmr)
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I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (JoAEF)
Not just marriages. Shack-ups, siblings, fuck buddies, and frat buddies.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2025 11:41 AM (JoAEF)
Not just marriages. Shack-ups, siblings, fuck buddies, and frat buddies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (8zz6B)
197
Zelenskyy had 2 strikes - and now he is out. He was out before, but Trump was willing to do it gently. And now he going to be out of there sooner rather than later.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)
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I think Trump is getting his final revenge on Ukraine and Zelenskyy for trying to uncover Biden corruption and got impeached for it.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (g47mK)
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I think Trump is getting his final revenge on Ukraine and Zelenskyy for trying to uncover Biden corruption and got impeached for it.
Posted by: WisRich at February 19, 2025 11:45 AM (Qgr0I)
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Thanks, Arch. I'm reading it now.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:45 AM (lHPJf)
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It was originally killing puppies and closing schools, but I wanted a more incoherent vibe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025
Ah, a Kamala imitation with a soupcon of Clogginstein.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025
Ah, a Kamala imitation with a soupcon of Clogginstein.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 11:45 AM (2NXcZ)
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In fairness to Adolf, he killed more Hitlers then the US and Soviet Union combined.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:45 AM (t0Rmr)
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192 Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the biggest indicator of the left's funding that will be available to them for 2026 is the utter lack of glossy, pre-printed "protest" signs.
And the pathetic turn-out at these current protests.
Two things they've always been able to do: 1) hire large crowd of protesters who are 2) holding a sea of the same signs.
If the left was organic, that should not have changed just because USAID funding was cut and future funding in doubt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (on5o5)
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The press is already putting out cover stories about Democrat donors closing the books because of the bad loss from Kamala and lack of direction from the party.
I mean...it's partly true, I'm sure.
But why weren't we hearing these stories in December? Why are we suddenly hearing them after USAID gets shut down?
And the pathetic turn-out at these current protests.
Two things they've always been able to do: 1) hire large crowd of protesters who are 2) holding a sea of the same signs.
If the left was organic, that should not have changed just because USAID funding was cut and future funding in doubt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (on5o5)
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The press is already putting out cover stories about Democrat donors closing the books because of the bad loss from Kamala and lack of direction from the party.
I mean...it's partly true, I'm sure.
But why weren't we hearing these stories in December? Why are we suddenly hearing them after USAID gets shut down?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
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The incoherence was read, and appreciated!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM
I do my humble best.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM
I do my humble best.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:46 AM (+QlJh)
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what if Elon's team gets inside Ft Knox and finds empty shelves?
Posted by: Don Black
Public executions.
Posted by: Don Black
Public executions.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:46 AM (pSGcE)
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Not just marriages. Shack-ups, siblings, fuck buddies, . . . .
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And sometimes, they are even the opposite sex!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And sometimes, they are even the opposite sex!
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2025 11:46 AM (WXNFJ)
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Economy was cratering last 4 years ..but not for everyone. Read the lamentations of the DU denizens on previous thread , wondering where their gardeners disappeared. I can imagine where they "work".
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 11:46 AM (g47mK)
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TDS Suffering Whoopi Goldberg Says She "Can’t Speak to Trump Supporters Anymore"
She's a leftist living in a majority leftist town. Does she actually know anyTrump supporters well enough to speak to them, or does she have some magic power that she can tell just by looking at people who aren't wearing MAGA gear that they're Trump supporters? Multi millionaires bloviating
about how awful Trump supporters are is a bore.
She's a leftist living in a majority leftist town. Does she actually know anyTrump supporters well enough to speak to them, or does she have some magic power that she can tell just by looking at people who aren't wearing MAGA gear that they're Trump supporters? Multi millionaires bloviating
about how awful Trump supporters are is a bore.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 19, 2025 11:47 AM (SDJAk)
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Leftist gaslight operations always work the same.
The problem, you see, is never the problem. YOU are the problem, simply for noticing. Merely for complaining. Passive aggressive insults. Every parent taxpayer has heard this when discussing some outrage put upon their children. “You’re the first person to complain”.
The problem, you see, is never the problem. YOU are the problem, simply for noticing. Merely for complaining. Passive aggressive insults. Every parent taxpayer has heard this when discussing some outrage put upon their children. “You’re the first person to complain”.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:47 AM (eOudo)
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Has anybody in DOGE come across how Bernie Sanders bought all those vacation houses? For a career layabout, he done good.
Posted by: Questions... at February 19, 2025 11:47 AM (NAF5O)
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Hell, the next generation of conservatives may look at Reagan and Nixon as suckers.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)
Considering Nixon didn't give two shits about domestic issues because he wanted to be a 'big picture' foreign policy POTUS, I'd agree with you on ol' Tricky Dick.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)
Considering Nixon didn't give two shits about domestic issues because he wanted to be a 'big picture' foreign policy POTUS, I'd agree with you on ol' Tricky Dick.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 19, 2025 11:48 AM (Q0kLU)
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I don't get the Ft. Knox thing. We haven't been on the gold standard for upteen years. How much is supposed to be there? Where is that on the balance sheet?
Oh, yeah... there ain't no balance sheet.
Oh, yeah... there ain't no balance sheet.
Posted by: MkY at February 19, 2025 11:48 AM (cPGH3)
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Economy was cratering last 4 years ..but not for everyone. Read the lamentations of the DU denizens on previous thread , wondering where their gardeners disappeared. I can imagine where they "work".
That one cracked me up. Leftist saying his illegal gardener gave him a yard that was the envy of his neighbors...and cheap...but now the gardener is gone and he's really sad about his yard, err gardener .
That one cracked me up. Leftist saying his illegal gardener gave him a yard that was the envy of his neighbors...and cheap...but now the gardener is gone and he's really sad about his yard, err gardener .
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:48 AM (t0Rmr)
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DC is a small town, and as was shown with the Obama administration (remember all the graphics floating around?): most of the media people are related to the DC blob. Susan Rice's husband is/was an exec at CBS, Chuck Todd's wife is a Democrat PR consultant, and on and on. Media people have close friends, spouses, siblings, neighbors who work in the government or related industries. They come first.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (Cki93)
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I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
THAT'S how all the NGO money was moved around.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 19, 2025 11:16 AM (Cki93)
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I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
THAT'S how all the NGO money was moved around.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (pSGcE)
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124
‘ WTF Happened In 1971?’
The US went off the gold standard for one.
The result was the value of the dollar floated against other currencies.
This ended up being inflationary and per capita income didn’t keep pace.
‘ WTF Happened In 1971?’
The US went off the gold standard for one.
The result was the value of the dollar floated against other currencies.
This ended up being inflationary and per capita income didn’t keep pace.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
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>>> 152 Lisa Murkowski on DOGE Spending Cuts 🚨
https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/
1892244249954894003
Posted by: Ciampino - they didn't stop doing it at February 19, 2025 11:37 AM (KjLnc)
"due process" is for when you get arrested, cvnt.
https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/
1892244249954894003
Posted by: Ciampino - they didn't stop doing it at February 19, 2025 11:37 AM (KjLnc)
"due process" is for when you get arrested, cvnt.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (Vqx30)
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She's a leftist living in a majority leftist town. Does she actually know anyTrump supporters well enough to speak to them
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She’s delivering marching orders to the troops, Fen. Make sense?
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She’s delivering marching orders to the troops, Fen. Make sense?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (eOudo)
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I really like how Trump is now handling the hostile presstards. They"ll ask him a gotcha question, which he deflects with anodyne response, then deftly pivots back to his main message, which is always: "Biden fvkd this country royally for 4 years, we're here to fix it, now get out of the way and let us do our job."
In very polite, matter of fact language.
In very polite, matter of fact language.
Posted by: kallisto at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (dCxaZ)
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@207 Bernie's wife helped destroy a college for which I believe she was compensated handsomely
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (KXtU1)
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The dems will be going into the midterms under the guidance of David Hogg. That's got to be inspiring.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (mB6WH)
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I don't get the Ft. Knox thing. We haven't been on the gold standard for upteen years. How much is supposed to be there? Where is that on the balance sheet?
Oh, yeah... there ain't no balance sheet.
I suspect we'll find the gold was sold at a loss to someone connected to the uniparty and the money gained was immediately pissed away.
Oh, yeah... there ain't no balance sheet.
I suspect we'll find the gold was sold at a loss to someone connected to the uniparty and the money gained was immediately pissed away.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (t0Rmr)
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Has anybody in DOGE come across how Bernie Sanders bought all those vacation houses? For a career layabout, he done good.
Posted by: Questions... at February 19, 2025 11:47 AM
Appoint Mrs. Bernie as your director of campaign ad buys. Spend millions, she takes her commission. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: Questions... at February 19, 2025 11:47 AM
Appoint Mrs. Bernie as your director of campaign ad buys. Spend millions, she takes her commission. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:50 AM (+QlJh)
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"I occasionally read the blog of a left-wing historian who's largely abandoned Twitter for Bluesky, and he was claiming that Harris suffered only a very narrow loss to Trump, so there was nothing wrong with her campaign or Democratic messaging."
There was no campaign except trying to make Kamal appear coherent and no messaging beyond abortion hysteria, Trump is Hitler and the economy is great you idiots.
Yes, do that again.
Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (GUO
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I heartily agree with the dems who argue that nothing needs to change, they just need to message better and squelch more free speech.
I wouldn't want honest reflection of policy nor do I want a change in leadership. Gimme more fossilized leadership and insane squad rhetoric.
There was no campaign except trying to make Kamal appear coherent and no messaging beyond abortion hysteria, Trump is Hitler and the economy is great you idiots.
Yes, do that again.
Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2025 11:40 AM (GUO
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I heartily agree with the dems who argue that nothing needs to change, they just need to message better and squelch more free speech.
I wouldn't want honest reflection of policy nor do I want a change in leadership. Gimme more fossilized leadership and insane squad rhetoric.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 19, 2025 11:50 AM (FCbAQ)
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My only surprise is the complicated and convoluted money laundering. It's like the money goes through a half dozen cutouts before it lands in someone's pockets. I'm sure that's by design, but it seems inefficient.
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All that money movement has to be organized somehow and I suspect there is a entire private email/communication system set up so that money can be directed from NGO to NGO.
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All that money movement has to be organized somehow and I suspect there is a entire private email/communication system set up so that money can be directed from NGO to NGO.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2025 11:50 AM (JoAEF)
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Louis DeJoy is stepping down as Postmaster General.
Louis DeJoy is an American businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. Appointed in 2020.
Louis DeJoy is an American businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. Appointed in 2020.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (pSGcE)
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Appoint Mrs. Bernie as your director of campaign ad buys. Spend millions, she takes her commission. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:50 AM (+QlJh)
Don't forget the "drop out of the race and the DNC will just buy you a house"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:50 AM (+QlJh)
Don't forget the "drop out of the race and the DNC will just buy you a house"
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (MGB5H)
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I suspect we'll find the gold was sold at a loss to someone connected to the uniparty and the money gained was immediately pissed away.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (t0Rmr)
The UK is going through this now. Our criminal elites have much to be punished for.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (t0Rmr)
The UK is going through this now. Our criminal elites have much to be punished for.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (2NXcZ)
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I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Looking at Biden we see he used family to take bribes. He's not an innovator so I assume that's just normal in leftist circles.
I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Looking at Biden we see he used family to take bribes. He's not an innovator so I assume that's just normal in leftist circles.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (t0Rmr)
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We unaminously vote to close all puppies!
Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (G5+As)
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I'm beyond tired of that munchkin Ukraine Zelensky making demands. I'm glad Trump is putting him at the kids table where he belongs.
I'm beyond tired of that munchkin Ukraine Zelensky making demands. I'm glad Trump is putting him at the kids table where he belongs.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (+oR7L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
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The dems will be going into the midterms under the guidance of David Hogg. That's got to be inspiring.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM
My liver isn't going to survive the next four years, is it?
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM
My liver isn't going to survive the next four years, is it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (+QlJh)
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I think marriage connections are a key facet of the deep state that needs to be analyzed via Musk's Grok AI.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
In many non-governmental financial industries, there are very tight rules regarding relatives being employed by the same outfit. Rules vary but they are there for many.
I'm okay with that being applied to our governments.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
In many non-governmental financial industries, there are very tight rules regarding relatives being employed by the same outfit. Rules vary but they are there for many.
I'm okay with that being applied to our governments.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (WXNFJ)
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I suspect we'll find the gold was sold at a loss to someone connected to the uniparty and the money gained was immediately pissed away.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (t0Rmr)
Could be turned into a lovely prison...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:49 AM (t0Rmr)
Could be turned into a lovely prison...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (8zz6B)
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At yesterday's EO signing, Trump went down the list of centenarians+ that DOGE discovered on Social Security rolls.
This lasted at least a few minutes, because of course he added editorial commentary.
When it came time for the pressbots to ask questions, not one asked a follow up question or expressed any surprise or outrage at all. They all just presented an array of gotcha questions. Except for the Euro press, they were really interested in the Ukraine negotiations and asked legit questions.
This lasted at least a few minutes, because of course he added editorial commentary.
When it came time for the pressbots to ask questions, not one asked a follow up question or expressed any surprise or outrage at all. They all just presented an array of gotcha questions. Except for the Euro press, they were really interested in the Ukraine negotiations and asked legit questions.
Posted by: kallisto at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (dCxaZ)
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>>All roads lead back to Ukraine and the first impeachment sham.
All roads lead back to Ukraine and the Russia collusion hoax.
Ciamarella was working in Ukraine when Biden was supposed to be running the place after the Obama/Biden coup.
All roads lead back to Ukraine and the Russia collusion hoax.
Ciamarella was working in Ukraine when Biden was supposed to be running the place after the Obama/Biden coup.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (LkLld)
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Negative balance of trade - early 1970s
Wages stagnant - since early 1970s
Americans have been so thoroughly robbed they cannot even begin to comprehend what has been stolen from them. They are trying to rally the dispossessed to have a “revolution” to maintain the status quo so that the grift may continue unabated.
Ya gotta have at least a grudging admiration for that, I don’t care who ya are.
Wages stagnant - since early 1970s
Americans have been so thoroughly robbed they cannot even begin to comprehend what has been stolen from them. They are trying to rally the dispossessed to have a “revolution” to maintain the status quo so that the grift may continue unabated.
Ya gotta have at least a grudging admiration for that, I don’t care who ya are.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (eOudo)
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Reagan was a great Reformer, not a disrupter. The country still believed that Government was Good in the 80’s, it wasn’t ready for a disrupter.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (73vBl)
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> I think Trump is getting his final revenge on Ukraine and Zelenskyy for trying to uncover Biden corruption and got impeached for it.
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It's not helping Z-man that he's thumbing his nose at the US demands he end the war. He thinks, wants himself to have some sort of say on the conditions. That would be fine, if he had fought the war without the US funding it.
As such, he can go horsefuck. And Trump's basically said the same thing to him.
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It's not helping Z-man that he's thumbing his nose at the US demands he end the war. He thinks, wants himself to have some sort of say on the conditions. That would be fine, if he had fought the war without the US funding it.
As such, he can go horsefuck. And Trump's basically said the same thing to him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)
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Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM
Our next protest will be via interpretive dance....
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM
Our next protest will be via interpretive dance....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:53 AM (+QlJh)
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American "journalists" are a dumpster fire of NPC leftard talking points and perpsective
they all need to DIAF or at least get they minds right
they all need to DIAF or at least get they minds right
Posted by: kallisto at February 19, 2025 11:53 AM (dCxaZ)
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We unaminously vote to close all puppies!
Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at February 19, 2025
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Close them? Heave them into the river, we say!
Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at February 19, 2025
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Close them? Heave them into the river, we say!
Posted by: Stirling & Dagny, Wolfus's Cats at February 19, 2025 11:53 AM (J2vNu)
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It's not helping Z-man that he's thumbing his nose at the US demands he end the war. He thinks, wants himself to have some sort of say on the conditions. That would be fine, if he had fought the war without the US funding it.
As such, he can go horsefuck. And Trump's basically said the same thing to him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)
I think they should let him sit at the kiddie table with a dunce cap on.
As such, he can go horsefuck. And Trump's basically said the same thing to him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)
I think they should let him sit at the kiddie table with a dunce cap on.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 11:53 AM (MGB5H)
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That one cracked me up. Leftist saying his illegal gardener gave him a yard that was the envy of his neighbors...and cheap...but now the gardener is gone and he's really sad about his yard, err gardener .
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:48 AM (t0Rmr)
And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most all the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Carlos
Can't you come out, can you come out to play, Carlos
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Carlos
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:48 AM (t0Rmr)
And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most all the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Carlos
Can't you come out, can you come out to play, Carlos
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Carlos
Posted by: Elton John, Homosexual at February 19, 2025 11:54 AM (NAF5O)
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At yesterday's EO signing, Trump went down the list of centenarians+ that DOGE discovered on Social Security rolls.
This lasted at least a few minutes, because of course he added editorial commentary.
I didn't list all of them out yesterday. The list goes up to 199 years old.
SS Payments
Age. #of recipients
100 -109 4,734,000
110 - 119 3,627,000
120 - 129 3,472,000
130 - 139 3,542,000
At yesterday's EO signing, Trump went down the list of centenarians+ that DOGE discovered on Social Security rolls.
This lasted at least a few minutes, because of course he added editorial commentary.
I didn't list all of them out yesterday. The list goes up to 199 years old.
SS Payments
Age. #of recipients
100 -109 4,734,000
110 - 119 3,627,000
120 - 129 3,472,000
130 - 139 3,542,000
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 11:54 AM (pSGcE)
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>>> 211 Economy was cratering last 4 years ..but not for everyone. Read the lamentations of the DU denizens on previous thread , wondering where their gardeners disappeared. I can imagine where they "work".
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That one cracked me up. Leftist saying his illegal gardener gave him a yard that was the envy of his neighbors...and cheap...but now the gardener is gone and he's really sad about his yard, err gardener .
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:48 AM (t0Rmr)
Now I want to get a bluesky account just so I can read all the whining of the Karens about having to *gasp* mow their own lawns and clean their own houses and *wail* care for their own children.
==
That one cracked me up. Leftist saying his illegal gardener gave him a yard that was the envy of his neighbors...and cheap...but now the gardener is gone and he's really sad about his yard, err gardener .
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:48 AM (t0Rmr)
Now I want to get a bluesky account just so I can read all the whining of the Karens about having to *gasp* mow their own lawns and clean their own houses and *wail* care for their own children.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:54 AM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 19, 2025 11:55 AM (Gqoy+)
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A roads lead back the Killary tenure as Sec of State. That was the birth of the Ukraine fiasco.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 11:56 AM (mB6WH)
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17 >>Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
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I don't think we really know the depth and breath of the problem. It may be much larger than we think at this time.
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I don't think we really know the depth and breath of the problem. It may be much larger than we think at this time.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 19, 2025 11:56 AM (pLaQB)
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When they found 10K voters were 120+ years old in the 2020 WI election the FNM argument was it was a data entry error and those people weren't really 120+. I believe this is a lie, but I suppose it is possible.
But SS needs to know how old you are to figure out what benefits your are eligible for and how much. If they don't have your correct birthday/age they can't do that.
But SS needs to know how old you are to figure out what benefits your are eligible for and how much. If they don't have your correct birthday/age they can't do that.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:56 AM (t0Rmr)
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Just where will we warble onstage and sodomize each other backstage now that Trump has taken over our church, the Kennedy Center?
Posted by: Gay Men's Chorus at February 19, 2025 11:57 AM (G5+As)
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"Yet the rage is all directed at Musk and DOGE. Not at the wrongdoers, but at the men exposing the wrongdoers - and their wrongdoing - to the pubic."
You know the deal here. It's a big club and you ain't in it.
These people see themselves as better than us, and apart. Well, they're not wrong about being apart from us.
In any case they feel they're entitled to mooching off the rest of us - convinced that THEY are the ones actually adding value. Off the top of my head I can't think of a more vast, useless, entitled eater class than what we have here. Plenty of other societies with steep or rigid class hierarchies, but they generally understand most people contribute at least a bit. Our "elites" don't see the peasants as contributing at all.
You know the deal here. It's a big club and you ain't in it.
These people see themselves as better than us, and apart. Well, they're not wrong about being apart from us.
In any case they feel they're entitled to mooching off the rest of us - convinced that THEY are the ones actually adding value. Off the top of my head I can't think of a more vast, useless, entitled eater class than what we have here. Plenty of other societies with steep or rigid class hierarchies, but they generally understand most people contribute at least a bit. Our "elites" don't see the peasants as contributing at all.
Posted by: heya at February 19, 2025 11:57 AM (qfAON)
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Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM
Our next protest will be via interpretive dance....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:53 AM (+QlJh)
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Where do I fit in?
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM
Our next protest will be via interpretive dance....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 11:53 AM (+QlJh)
***
Where do I fit in?
Posted by: Cowboy Slam Poetry at February 19, 2025 11:57 AM (1FWWQ)
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Return 10% of the money DOGE finds and cancels to the American people in a quarterly check.
It would make any Polls or "reporters" opposing DOGE very unpopular.
It would make any Polls or "reporters" opposing DOGE very unpopular.
Posted by: BLACK LASSIE at February 19, 2025 11:57 AM (Tjd07)
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FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 19, 2025 11:57 AM (IXZGh)
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I want everyone involved to be bankrupt in the next 6 months. INCLUDING Soros.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 19, 2025 11:58 AM (IXZGh)
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Negative balance of trade - early 1970s
Wages stagnant - since early 1970s
Americans have been so thoroughly robbed they cannot even begin to comprehend what has been stolen from them. They are trying to rally the dispossessed to have a “revolution” to maintain the status quo so that the grift may continue unabated.
Ya gotta have at least a grudging admiration for that, I don’t care who ya are.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (eOudo)
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Irrational and Retarded Parasites Will Even Kill Their Hosts Out of Desperation, Fear, and Panic.
Wages stagnant - since early 1970s
Americans have been so thoroughly robbed they cannot even begin to comprehend what has been stolen from them. They are trying to rally the dispossessed to have a “revolution” to maintain the status quo so that the grift may continue unabated.
Ya gotta have at least a grudging admiration for that, I don’t care who ya are.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (eOudo)
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Irrational and Retarded Parasites Will Even Kill Their Hosts Out of Desperation, Fear, and Panic.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 11:58 AM (VZX1Y)
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Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Bwahahahaha!
It looked like there might have been one or two "men", with the remainder being women who were all thinking "This is so stupid, and I'm freezing my t*** off here."
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Bwahahahaha!
It looked like there might have been one or two "men", with the remainder being women who were all thinking "This is so stupid, and I'm freezing my t*** off here."
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 11:58 AM (xCA6C)
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don't get the Ft. Knox thing. We haven't been on the gold standard for upteen years. How much is supposed to be there? Where is that on the balance sheet? Oh, yeah... there ain't no balance sheet.
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Yes, there is a balance sheet, it has been held on the Treasury books since forever. Officially, gold is $42.22 an ounce.
Even marked to market, if it is still there - and not sold, pledged as collateral - it is about $500 billion, enough to run the national government for a few months.
It would be a huge scandal (although there are so many).
Hanging is too good for many of these people, but if they are still alive it would be justice.
———
Yes, there is a balance sheet, it has been held on the Treasury books since forever. Officially, gold is $42.22 an ounce.
Even marked to market, if it is still there - and not sold, pledged as collateral - it is about $500 billion, enough to run the national government for a few months.
It would be a huge scandal (although there are so many).
Hanging is too good for many of these people, but if they are still alive it would be justice.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 11:58 AM (eOudo)
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193 DOGE cuts government's pricey media subscriptions
https://mol.im/a/14413303
Posted by: Ciampino -
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People saying this could effect travel planning to dangerous foreign lands. Don't we have intelligence services for that? Pay them a lot too.
https://mol.im/a/14413303
Posted by: Ciampino -
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People saying this could effect travel planning to dangerous foreign lands. Don't we have intelligence services for that? Pay them a lot too.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 19, 2025 11:59 AM (n4GiU)
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Lisa Murkowski on DOGE Spending Cuts
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Alaska is a federal government welfare state second only to Hawaii.
I mean, sorta, but yeah, Lisa wasn't "re-elected" because of her conservative bona fides.
Have we forgotten the "bridge to nowhere?" A long, proud tradition of suckling at the Federal Teat.
There are going to be a lot of ugly budget cuts in Alaska's future.
And soon, someone is going to have a meeting with Murk, "youse all can take maybe a 10% haircut an' you take credit for softening the blow. If youse play ball. Or youse all can take a 50% cut and you get 100% of the blame. We don't care either way."
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Alaska is a federal government welfare state second only to Hawaii.
I mean, sorta, but yeah, Lisa wasn't "re-elected" because of her conservative bona fides.
Have we forgotten the "bridge to nowhere?" A long, proud tradition of suckling at the Federal Teat.
There are going to be a lot of ugly budget cuts in Alaska's future.
And soon, someone is going to have a meeting with Murk, "youse all can take maybe a 10% haircut an' you take credit for softening the blow. If youse play ball. Or youse all can take a 50% cut and you get 100% of the blame. We don't care either way."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 11:59 AM (on5o5)
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>> My only surprise is the complicated and convoluted money laundering. It's like the money goes through a half dozen cutouts before it lands in someone's pockets. I'm sure that's by design, but it seems inefficient.
It’s not inefficient, it’s how the grift works. Each org the money passes through gets a cut. At every step the money is landing in someone’s pockets.
These NGOs are non-profits run by people who take huge salaries. They have staffs of hundreds or thousands who are paid very well.
“Helping Africans with AIDS”, or whatever is a MacGuffin. It’s not the primary purpose of these organizations. Their primary reason for existence is to employ leftists and progressives with cushy jobs “helping people.”
It’s not inefficient, it’s how the grift works. Each org the money passes through gets a cut. At every step the money is landing in someone’s pockets.
These NGOs are non-profits run by people who take huge salaries. They have staffs of hundreds or thousands who are paid very well.
“Helping Africans with AIDS”, or whatever is a MacGuffin. It’s not the primary purpose of these organizations. Their primary reason for existence is to employ leftists and progressives with cushy jobs “helping people.”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 12:01 PM (l3YAf)
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Beginning at least in 2016, watched as many lawyers, physicians, political strategists, etc. suddenly moved into the region, often from the West Coast of the country but also down from New York City, and even from across the river including Haddonfield, N.J.
They usually settled into the nicest of areas - even in Philly - and immediately became politically engaged. They're active & diverse physicians & medical researchers. They're U.S. Representatives and DAs. They've been selected to sit on Boards of Foundations and big money, often political nonprofits. They're now both state and local representatives that came from the "union side." They oppose the operation of for profit hospitals and medical centers. They're on most school boards, town councils. They've also created a slew of Foundations, nonprofits and union spinoffs, and then support causes of small businesses, some rearranged into non-profits with sometimes highly questionable goals & financial accountability. And, they redistrict.
Those moves have netted them the low information voters.
It's a very long battle ahead & we can never break for their foundation is still from the the 1950's, 60's and 70's.
They usually settled into the nicest of areas - even in Philly - and immediately became politically engaged. They're active & diverse physicians & medical researchers. They're U.S. Representatives and DAs. They've been selected to sit on Boards of Foundations and big money, often political nonprofits. They're now both state and local representatives that came from the "union side." They oppose the operation of for profit hospitals and medical centers. They're on most school boards, town councils. They've also created a slew of Foundations, nonprofits and union spinoffs, and then support causes of small businesses, some rearranged into non-profits with sometimes highly questionable goals & financial accountability. And, they redistrict.
Those moves have netted them the low information voters.
It's a very long battle ahead & we can never break for their foundation is still from the the 1950's, 60's and 70's.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 19, 2025 12:01 PM (NFX2v)
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In the 90s I thought the MSM media had a liberal bias.
Starting in the mid 2000s I decided they had a straight up Democrat bias.
Now, I don’t know or care whether they are liberals or Democrats or neither.
Now I know they are con artists. Their entire function and purpose is to tell lies for money.
Starting in the mid 2000s I decided they had a straight up Democrat bias.
Now, I don’t know or care whether they are liberals or Democrats or neither.
Now I know they are con artists. Their entire function and purpose is to tell lies for money.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 19, 2025 12:01 PM (GD2xa)
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Plenty of other societies with steep or rigid class hierarchies, but they generally understand most people contribute at least a bit. Our "elites" don't see the peasants as contributing at all.
Posted by: heya at February 19, 2025 11:57 AM (qfAON)
It's probably worse. They know they are stealing from us and hold us in contempt for that damning recognition, at least subconsciously.
Posted by: heya at February 19, 2025 11:57 AM (qfAON)
It's probably worse. They know they are stealing from us and hold us in contempt for that damning recognition, at least subconsciously.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:01 PM (i24o9)
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Alaska shouldn't get anything but the basics from the feds given their oil revenue
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2025 12:02 PM (KXtU1)
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Thanks, tater. Didn't think there was much there.
Posted by: MkY at February 19, 2025 12:02 PM (cPGH3)
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Our news media sucks so bad. You might say that they are the enemy of the people. You'd be right.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:02 PM (5q/qL)
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little shit puppet dictator zelensky doesn't learn, does he?
First big mistake he made was going to PA to campaign for malaka.
Not learning from that, he then runs to the Germans to beg them to turn on President Trump.
little shit puppet dictator zelensky doesn't learn, does he?
First big mistake he made was going to PA to campaign for malaka.
Not learning from that, he then runs to the Germans to beg them to turn on President Trump.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:02 PM (7rn5C)
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"Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT"
Sad. Dem protest mobs just aren't what they used to be.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT"
Sad. Dem protest mobs just aren't what they used to be.
Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2025 12:03 PM (GUOwU)
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There are the irate grifters and then there are the mindless lemmings. Case in point; there was a rally against Trump, Musk and DOGE in Ashland, OR replete with idiots marching about with "I Love USAID" signs. None of these fools benefit at all from the grift, yet there they are reflexively defending the theft of their tax dollars because of the Bad Orange Man and his inquisitor.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 19, 2025 12:03 PM (7uxlX)
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267 Not learning from that, he then runs to the Germans to beg them to turn on President Trump.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:02 PM (7rn5C)
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I want Germany to take up border protection for Ukraine.
100%. On its own.
If Germany is going to dictate European policy, they should foot the bill.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:02 PM (7rn5C)
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I want Germany to take up border protection for Ukraine.
100%. On its own.
If Germany is going to dictate European policy, they should foot the bill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
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"It's not helping Z-man that he's thumbing his nose at the US demands he end the war. He thinks, wants himself to have some sort of say on the conditions. That would be fine, if he had fought the war without the US funding it.
As such, he can go horsefuck. And Trump's basically said the same thing to him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)"
Ukraine's problems are manyfold, here. In the long run they bet on the wrong horse in US politics when they could have spoken up 5-6 years ago, then made the mistake of trusting both the (Dem-led) Americans and Germans after the American establishment steered them right into this.
Biden's handlers never intended for them to do more than tread water. The "training" we gave their brigades a couple of years ago was absolutely abysmal, for example.
We could have ended the war in less than a year for a fraction of what we spent, either in actual terms or in phoney baloney accounting, if we wanted to. Setting aside the Dems' role in starting it in the first place.
As such, he can go horsefuck. And Trump's basically said the same thing to him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)"
Ukraine's problems are manyfold, here. In the long run they bet on the wrong horse in US politics when they could have spoken up 5-6 years ago, then made the mistake of trusting both the (Dem-led) Americans and Germans after the American establishment steered them right into this.
Biden's handlers never intended for them to do more than tread water. The "training" we gave their brigades a couple of years ago was absolutely abysmal, for example.
We could have ended the war in less than a year for a fraction of what we spent, either in actual terms or in phoney baloney accounting, if we wanted to. Setting aside the Dems' role in starting it in the first place.
Posted by: heya at February 19, 2025 12:05 PM (qfAON)
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So around 425,000 bars of gold? (400 oz).
Posted by: MkY at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (cPGH3)
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Imagine, if you will, an enormous govt agency that has conducted "great work" and "helped millions of people" "for decades" that you NEVER HEARD OF until last month.
That's why "saving" USAID is a tough sell for the Democrats & Fake News: Most People never knew this "wonderful" and "important" govt entity existed until 3 weeks ago.
Imagine, if you will, an enormous govt agency that has conducted "great work" and "helped millions of people" "for decades" that you NEVER HEARD OF until last month.
That's why "saving" USAID is a tough sell for the Democrats & Fake News: Most People never knew this "wonderful" and "important" govt entity existed until 3 weeks ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (7rn5C)
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I want Germany to take up border protection for Ukraine.
100%. On its own.
If Germany is going to dictate European policy, they should foot the bill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
Seems there was a time when Germany was very interested in European borders.
100%. On its own.
If Germany is going to dictate European policy, they should foot the bill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
Seems there was a time when Germany was very interested in European borders.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (MGB5H)
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out the most corrupt, culturally corrosive stuff while toppling other countries' governments for rejecting it.
Posted by: Lizzy
Is it such rancid crap that they'd rather cover it as Gay cowboy poetry or do they just find it amusing?
Posted by: Lizzy
Is it such rancid crap that they'd rather cover it as Gay cowboy poetry or do they just find it amusing?
Posted by: DaveA at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (FhXTo)
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Plenty of other societies with steep or rigid class hierarchies, but they generally understand most people contribute at least a bit. Our "elites" don't see the peasants as contributing at all.
Environmentalism has allowed our elites to believe that normal people are literally killing the earth and them by just living normal people lives.
I saw a Eric Weinstein interview where he was asked what are the superwealthy like? And his answer was they claim, constantly, to be terrified by global warming and their inability to make normal people give up fossil fuels...
Environmentalism has allowed our elites to believe that normal people are literally killing the earth and them by just living normal people lives.
I saw a Eric Weinstein interview where he was asked what are the superwealthy like? And his answer was they claim, constantly, to be terrified by global warming and their inability to make normal people give up fossil fuels...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)
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Alaska doesn’t *need* any federal revenue, the problem is it has been strangled by the usual suspects for decades.
The “environmental movement” is mostly Watermelons.
Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
All of our problems are largely self-inflicted. Excessive regulation, bureaucracy, rules, policies, and the rest of it, that prohibit resource extraction of practically any kind. No oil, no coal, no nuclear.
No logging, no mining, no hydroelectric. No chemical industries. Etc.
Noticing a pattern?
The “environmental movement” is mostly Watermelons.
Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
All of our problems are largely self-inflicted. Excessive regulation, bureaucracy, rules, policies, and the rest of it, that prohibit resource extraction of practically any kind. No oil, no coal, no nuclear.
No logging, no mining, no hydroelectric. No chemical industries. Etc.
Noticing a pattern?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (eOudo)
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"Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT"
Those guys are fagz!!!
https://is.gd/FNA4kT"
Those guys are fagz!!!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (IXZGh)
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Oh, I think they know; some always knew.
Maybe the rest of the world that sues, b*tches and moans has also received substantial "C19 funeral payments" through FEMA.
Maybe the rest of the world that sues, b*tches and moans has also received substantial "C19 funeral payments" through FEMA.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (NFX2v)
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274 Seems there was a time when Germany was very interested in European borders.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (MGB5H)
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If France wants to subsume it's own say on European policy to Germany, that's on them.
I don't care.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (MGB5H)
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If France wants to subsume it's own say on European policy to Germany, that's on them.
I don't care.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
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Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
Dude! I got the venue I wanted. I'm performing my dance quintet at the Kennedy Center. I'd love it if you came and gave me notes.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
Dude! I got the venue I wanted. I'm performing my dance quintet at the Kennedy Center. I'd love it if you came and gave me notes.
Posted by: Marty, the Dude's Landlord at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (NAF5O)
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The "I love USAID" signs are born from the idea that these funds keep the brown poor from death. Ignorant people who haven't the first clue what it does.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (2NXcZ)
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want Germany to take up border protection for Ukraine.
100%. On its own.
If Germany is going to dictate European policy, they should foot the bill.
I mean...most of the Neo-Nazis types in Ukraine would be pretty happy with that.
Of course Russia lost a lot of men stopping the Germans from doing this 80 years ago...
100%. On its own.
If Germany is going to dictate European policy, they should foot the bill.
I mean...most of the Neo-Nazis types in Ukraine would be pretty happy with that.
Of course Russia lost a lot of men stopping the Germans from doing this 80 years ago...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (t0Rmr)
284
Someone needs to doxx antifa members.
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (l7Hjh)
285
what if Elon's team gets inside Ft Knox and finds empty shelves?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (AOsQT
You mean when...
I think people will actually be shocked if there's actually anything there.
We should have Geraldo host when they go in.....
what if Elon's team gets inside Ft Knox and finds empty shelves?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 11:35 AM (AOsQT
You mean when...
I think people will actually be shocked if there's actually anything there.
We should have Geraldo host when they go in.....
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (jvJvP)
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282 The "I love USAID" signs are born from the idea that these funds keep the brown poor from death. Ignorant people who haven't the first clue what it does.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (2NXcZ)
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When Musk bought Twitter for $40 billion, people said he could cure world hunger with that money.
USAID's annual budget was $40 billion. And world hunger was not solved.
Weird.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 12:07 PM (2NXcZ)
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When Musk bought Twitter for $40 billion, people said he could cure world hunger with that money.
USAID's annual budget was $40 billion. And world hunger was not solved.
Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)
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229 Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
What is the Left's fixation with Dancing?
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
What is the Left's fixation with Dancing?
Posted by: XTC at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (7rn5C)
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Someone needs to doxx antifa members.
I want to see their command hierarchy.
Then I want to see those people treated like the Proud Boys leadership was
I want to see their command hierarchy.
Then I want to see those people treated like the Proud Boys leadership was
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)
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What is the Left's fixation with Dancing?
Posted by: XTC at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (UnA8+)
And Cowboy Poetry!
What is the Left's fixation with Dancing?
Posted by: XTC at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (UnA8+)
And Cowboy Poetry!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (IXZGh)
291
The sooner we get rid of those ungrateful Euro leaches the better. They can't even field a decent sized fighting force - collectively , they are sitting under our nuclear umbrella and having a ball with their social programs, while criticizing us, they are killing us with tariffs, and now they think they can continue with a military strategy against our interests.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (g47mK)
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I saw a Eric Weinstein interview where he was asked what are the superwealthy like? And his answer was they claim, constantly, to be terrified by global warming and their inability to make normal people give up fossil fuels...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)
The super wealthy fear the middle class and want power totally in their paws, therefore "populism" is slurred.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)
The super wealthy fear the middle class and want power totally in their paws, therefore "populism" is slurred.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (2NXcZ)
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291 The sooner we get rid of those ungrateful Euro leaches the better. They can't even field a decent sized fighting force - collectively , they are sitting under our nuclear umbrella and having a ball with their social programs, while criticizing us, they are killing us with tariffs, and now they think they can continue with a military strategy against our interests.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (g47mK)
100%
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (g47mK)
100%
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (2NXcZ)
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287 229 Dance protest over Trump taking over the Kennedy Center.
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
They're really upset because some kids play about a shark that wants to be something else and likes glitter wink, wink Trans... was cancelled
https://is.gd/FNA4kT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)
They're really upset because some kids play about a shark that wants to be something else and likes glitter wink, wink Trans... was cancelled
Posted by: It's me donna at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)
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Former USAID recipients are running to EU to get their grift spice flowing again. If we're not careful, this will just redirect $'s flowing from US funding of NATO or UN programs.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (5q/qL)
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Economy was cratering last 4 years ..but not for everyone. Read the lamentations of the DU denizens on previous thread , wondering where their gardeners disappeared. I can imagine where they "work".
Posted by: runner
I like to point out that Scott Rasmussen published his survey of elites last year, and how they don't align with most of America. These people losing their taxpayer funded cash cow are those elites.
Posted by: runner
I like to point out that Scott Rasmussen published his survey of elites last year, and how they don't align with most of America. These people losing their taxpayer funded cash cow are those elites.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (lTGtQ)
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Remember the "city-killer" asteroid that NASA said might hit Earth? It's now rated even MORE likely to hit us 😲
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We don't have to make it miss Earth entirely. If we could just, sort of, nudge it toward Mecca . . .
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We don't have to make it miss Earth entirely. If we could just, sort of, nudge it toward Mecca . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (L/fGl)
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Plenty of other societies with steep or rigid class hierarchies, but they generally understand most people contribute at least a bit. Our "elites" don't see the peasants as contributing at all.
This is why I oppose a tax code that completely shelters half the population from income taxes. They may not contribute much, but they need to contribute something, and when they do, they're entitled to a voice. As it is, they're just a prop for virtue signaling.
This is why I oppose a tax code that completely shelters half the population from income taxes. They may not contribute much, but they need to contribute something, and when they do, they're entitled to a voice. As it is, they're just a prop for virtue signaling.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (xCA6C)
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The EU has an economy something like 10X of Russia. If they want to get into a war over the borders of Ukraine they can afford to do so easily with no help from us
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (t0Rmr)
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In 1930 government spending was 15% of GDP. Complaints that we are cutting too much are scheduled for hearings after we have cut back to that.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (Somy5)
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291: The war has been over for 80 fucking years! Defend yourselves or die trying.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (2NXcZ)
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Germany didn't need to police Southern France from 1940 to 1944 because the French did the work for them for free.
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (l7Hjh)
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They're really upset because some kids play about a shark that wants to be something else and likes glitter wink, wink Trans... was cancelled
Posted by: It's me donna at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)
Trrraaaaannnnnny shark, do, do, do, doooo . . . .
Posted by: It's me donna at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)
Trrraaaaannnnnny shark, do, do, do, doooo . . . .
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (i24o9)
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>>> Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Firing of CIA Officers Involved in DEI Programs
Normal civil court - next step would be sue to collect or get a lien?
Normal civil court - next step would be sue to collect or get a lien?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (LgPJF)
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304 >>> Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Firing of CIA Officers Involved in DEI Programs
Normal civil court - next step would be sue to collect or get a lien?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (LgPJF
And Catholic Bishop's sued for their "Immigrant" care services
Normal civil court - next step would be sue to collect or get a lien?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2025 12:10 PM (LgPJF
And Catholic Bishop's sued for their "Immigrant" care services
Posted by: It's me donna at February 19, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)
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excellent essay Joe
Posted by: DanMan at February 19, 2025 12:11 PM (8uzBS)
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They will open the vault (or whatever) at Ft Knox and discover the following:
-- the epstein list
-- the real results of the 2020 election
-- the formula for the wuhan virus
-- hillary clinton's "lost" emails
-- all the blackmail evidence on members of Congress
-- the cure for cancer
They will open the vault (or whatever) at Ft Knox and discover the following:
-- the epstein list
-- the real results of the 2020 election
-- the formula for the wuhan virus
-- hillary clinton's "lost" emails
-- all the blackmail evidence on members of Congress
-- the cure for cancer
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:11 PM (7rn5C)
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NATO GDP is something like 36X Russia.
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2025 12:12 PM (l7Hjh)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2025 12:12 PM (xCA6C)
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When they found 10K voters were 120+ years old in the 2020 WI election the FNM argument was it was a data entry error and those people weren't really 120+. I believe this is a lie, but I suppose it is possible.
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They also claimed it was domestic abuse victims needing anonymity from their abusers and "REEEEE!!! You want women beaten to death!!!!"
No one explained how 1) these abusers were scouring the voter databases, 2) how concealing the DOB--but not the name--would protect their identity
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They also claimed it was domestic abuse victims needing anonymity from their abusers and "REEEEE!!! You want women beaten to death!!!!"
No one explained how 1) these abusers were scouring the voter databases, 2) how concealing the DOB--but not the name--would protect their identity
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 12:12 PM (on5o5)
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Basically, this budget that Johnson is cobbling together is going to tell the story of if what we are seeing is real or if it's the same old song and dance out of congress.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:27 AM (XV/Pl)
Data Republican has already threatened/promised to use all of her AI tools to scrutinize these spending bills for shady shit
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2025 11:27 AM (XV/Pl)
Data Republican has already threatened/promised to use all of her AI tools to scrutinize these spending bills for shady shit
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 19, 2025 12:12 PM (V6W16)
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Huh.
Interesting, creepy, well-made new trailer for the horror movie,
"Bring Her Back"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKygtA2DMY
From the same guys who made "Talk To Me".
Huh.
Interesting, creepy, well-made new trailer for the horror movie,
"Bring Her Back"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKygtA2DMY
From the same guys who made "Talk To Me".
Posted by: naturalfake at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (iJfKG)
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
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LOL
Yeah, it’s 6000 tons, supposedly. The largest pile known, at least officially. I’d say it’s a lot. The fact that it represents just a few months government spending should tell you something.
Keep in mind none of the nonsense foisted on us the last 60 years is possible unless the currency is untethered to some sort of reality, taxation, something. The currency might be fake, but the debt is real, the damage inflicted is very real. It’s always been this way, history is very clear on this.
The only thing history teaches us, is that humans don’t learn from history
Yeah, it’s 6000 tons, supposedly. The largest pile known, at least officially. I’d say it’s a lot. The fact that it represents just a few months government spending should tell you something.
Keep in mind none of the nonsense foisted on us the last 60 years is possible unless the currency is untethered to some sort of reality, taxation, something. The currency might be fake, but the debt is real, the damage inflicted is very real. It’s always been this way, history is very clear on this.
The only thing history teaches us, is that humans don’t learn from history
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eOudo)
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Speaking of waste and fraud, I want that congressional sexual assault fund disclosed yesterday.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (mB6WH)
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https://is.gd/hGt8A5
@farzyness
You wanna do something fun?
Go on the DOGE website, click on any random contract, and google the company that was hired for that contract....
https://is.gd/cPaqFK
@MJTruthUltra
🚨 Tom Homan Announces a Bold Nationwide Crusade: Deputize Every American Citizen to Hunt for Missing Kids, Starting Next Week! 🙌
• Every parent in the United States has the ability to recognize that something is not right with a child....
https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
@farzyness
You wanna do something fun?
Go on the DOGE website, click on any random contract, and google the company that was hired for that contract....
https://is.gd/cPaqFK
@MJTruthUltra
🚨 Tom Homan Announces a Bold Nationwide Crusade: Deputize Every American Citizen to Hunt for Missing Kids, Starting Next Week! 🙌
• Every parent in the United States has the ability to recognize that something is not right with a child....
https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Vqx30)
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Changing the District of Chazz Insane Trust Fund College Campus back into a governing city is gonna be hard. Maybe returning to the Redskins might be a step in the right direction?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (pLaQB)
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
So is chlorine gas.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
So is chlorine gas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (i24o9)
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[Per the wifey, who follows Trump social media:]
Trump's yanking the "independence" away from all the "independent regulatory agencies".
[Me: Excellent!]
Trump's yanking the "independence" away from all the "independent regulatory agencies".
[Me: Excellent!]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (sYVBb)
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Trump's yanking the "independence" away from all the "independent regulatory agencies".
[Me: Excellent!]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (sYVBb)
Nope
Trump's yanking the "independence" away from all the "independent regulatory agencies".
[Me: Excellent!]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (sYVBb)
Nope
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 19, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM
As is fire.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM
As is fire.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 12:15 PM (+QlJh)
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The only Law the President has to follow was the one drafted in the summer of 1787 and any Amendments thereto.
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Only true if the President is the Executive Government....
He should just point out certain judges edicts are unconstitutional and invitee their superiors to slap them down.
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Only true if the President is the Executive Government....
He should just point out certain judges edicts are unconstitutional and invitee their superiors to slap them down.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2025 12:15 PM (LgPJF)
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The only thing history teaches us, is that humans don’t learn from history
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eOudo)
Epitaph for humanity.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eOudo)
Epitaph for humanity.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:16 PM (i24o9)
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John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:16 PM (5q/qL)
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Two things before ace personally willows me:
1. Hard to believe we got an evil Pope (commie Francis) so soon after we were blessed with a saint Pope (John Paul II). We need to repent.
2. I think there is a fungus out there that turns ordinary LIVs into walking TDS zombies.
Thanks, Marx.
1. Hard to believe we got an evil Pope (commie Francis) so soon after we were blessed with a saint Pope (John Paul II). We need to repent.
2. I think there is a fungus out there that turns ordinary LIVs into walking TDS zombies.
Thanks, Marx.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 19, 2025 12:16 PM (ufFY8)
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Excellent summary, JoJo. Indeed.
Posted by: Danimal28 at February 19, 2025 12:16 PM (1E4GV)
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295 Former USAID recipients are running to EU to get their grift spice flowing again. If we're not careful, this will just redirect $'s flowing from US funding of NATO or UN programs.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (5q/qL)
Oh no!
Anyway...
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (5q/qL)
Oh no!
Anyway...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (xcxpd)
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JFK presidential library shut down due to Trump cuts. Reopens shortly after. Liberal meltdowns are on scale not seen in hours.
JFK presidential library shut down due to Trump cuts. Reopens shortly after. Liberal meltdowns are on scale not seen in hours.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (+oR7L)
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The only thing history teaches us, is that humans don’t learn from history
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM
No one ever listens to us...
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM
No one ever listens to us...
Posted by: The Gods of the Copybook Headings at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (+QlJh)
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321 Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM
As is fire.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 12:15 PM (+QlJh)
Good point.
Fire IS the cleanser
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM
As is fire.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2025 12:15 PM (+QlJh)
Good point.
Fire IS the cleanser
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (xcxpd)
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https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Just an FYI: This twitter account, like 90% of all twitter accounts, is 110% FAKE NEWS. Every single tweet from this account is 100% false left-wing wacky propaganda.
https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Just an FYI: This twitter account, like 90% of all twitter accounts, is 110% FAKE NEWS. Every single tweet from this account is 100% false left-wing wacky propaganda.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (7rn5C)
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Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Vqx30)
I'll bet that is an outlier, or a flat-out lie.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Vqx30)
I'll bet that is an outlier, or a flat-out lie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (mWSu4)
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The only thing history teaches us, is that humans don’t learn from history
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eOudo)
Go go Godzilla!
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eOudo)
Go go Godzilla!
Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at February 19, 2025 12:18 PM (ufFY8)
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>>> 289 Someone needs to doxx antifa members.
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I want to see their command hierarchy.
Then I want to see those people treated like the Proud Boys leadership was
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)
Isn't Kash going to be be voted on, so hopefully conformed, tomorrow?
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I want to see their command hierarchy.
Then I want to see those people treated like the Proud Boys leadership was
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 12:08 PM (t0Rmr)
Isn't Kash going to be be voted on, so hopefully conformed, tomorrow?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:18 PM (Vqx30)
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318 Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
So is chlorine gas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (i24o9)
Dark.
But I like where your head is at.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)
So is chlorine gas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (i24o9)
Dark.
But I like where your head is at.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 19, 2025 12:18 PM (xcxpd)
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NATO GDP is something like 36X Russia.
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2025 12:12 PM (l7Hjh)
And Russia can roll over them, if it was not for us. Especially now that Russia regrouped and modernized in the last 3 years. So Euros continue to think that they are safe in starting and continuing intramural squabbles, yell "Democracy" and we will come running. Vance told them where they now stand with the US.
Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2025 12:12 PM (l7Hjh)
And Russia can roll over them, if it was not for us. Especially now that Russia regrouped and modernized in the last 3 years. So Euros continue to think that they are safe in starting and continuing intramural squabbles, yell "Democracy" and we will come running. Vance told them where they now stand with the US.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 12:18 PM (g47mK)
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Fragomen dot com: Insights, Worldwide/Ukraine Temporary Protection Status - Country Specific Updates
February 19, 2015
"Note that EU Member States have leeway in implementing the Directive. Therefore, variations may exist among EU Member States regarding the scope of individuals eligible for protection and other conditions.
Temporary Protection. In June 2024, the European Council extended the protection regime until March 4, 2026. If the situation in Ukraine improves, EU authorities can end temporary protection, in which case the residence permits granted under this rule would become invalid. EU countries would also have to individually publish national laws in this regard."
Let them keep them, just like we're keeping them. Their own people will raise cain before much longer.
And Ukraine needs to force the vote for President.
February 19, 2015
"Note that EU Member States have leeway in implementing the Directive. Therefore, variations may exist among EU Member States regarding the scope of individuals eligible for protection and other conditions.
Temporary Protection. In June 2024, the European Council extended the protection regime until March 4, 2026. If the situation in Ukraine improves, EU authorities can end temporary protection, in which case the residence permits granted under this rule would become invalid. EU countries would also have to individually publish national laws in this regard."
Let them keep them, just like we're keeping them. Their own people will raise cain before much longer.
And Ukraine needs to force the vote for President.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 19, 2025 12:18 PM (NFX2v)
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3 Is anyone kind of surprised at the depth and breadth of the corruption?
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
No. Not at all.
Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 19, 2025 11:02 AM (jvJvP)
No. Not at all.
Posted by: It is unfathomable at February 19, 2025 12:19 PM (yzp7T)
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I was sure that they were routinely stealing millions. It didn’t occur to me that they were routinely stealing billions, and no one said a thing about it. Trillions, even.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The steal is composed of fraud, waste, and abuse. What DOGE has found is that fraud is probably as large as the waste and abuse amounts. That is what to me is surprising. The bureaucrats literally shit where they live.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The steal is composed of fraud, waste, and abuse. What DOGE has found is that fraud is probably as large as the waste and abuse amounts. That is what to me is surprising. The bureaucrats literally shit where they live.
Posted by: whig at February 19, 2025 12:19 PM (ctrM5)
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>The country still believed that Government was Good in the 80’s, it wasn’t ready for a disrupter.
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if not Good, at least not deliberately Evil
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if not Good, at least not deliberately Evil
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 12:19 PM (AOsQT)
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So is chlorine gas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (i24o9)
GASSSS.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (i24o9)
GASSSS.
Posted by: not the guy that always says GASSS at February 19, 2025 12:19 PM (ufFY8)
342
NATO GDP is something like 36X Russia.
Posted by: torabora
Unfortunately, their welfare system is about 70X Russia's
Posted by: torabora
Unfortunately, their welfare system is about 70X Russia's
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 19, 2025 12:19 PM (lTGtQ)
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340 if not Good, at least not deliberately Evil
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 12:19 PM (AOsQT)
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People remembered when the US government defeated Naziism and Japanese Imperial ambitions. They literally remembered it. The people who fought that were in their 60s.
It bought a whole lot of goodwill that took a long time to die away.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 12:19 PM (AOsQT)
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People remembered when the US government defeated Naziism and Japanese Imperial ambitions. They literally remembered it. The people who fought that were in their 60s.
It bought a whole lot of goodwill that took a long time to die away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
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https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Vqx30)
fake news story.
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Vqx30)
fake news story.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (wyMQY)
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Snowmageddon has commenced here in coastal NC. If I don't survive, it's been a pleasure "knowing" you fine folks.
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (G5+As)
346
Sending German troops wouldn't freak the Russians out . Nope, no history there
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (KXtU1)
347
Trump's yanking the "independence" away from all the "independent regulatory agencies".
[Me: Excellent!]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (sYVBb)
Nope
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge
You really should have worn underwear today since we are going to pants you on live tv:
Posted by: SCOTUS.
[Me: Excellent!]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (sYVBb)
Nope
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge
You really should have worn underwear today since we are going to pants you on live tv:
Posted by: SCOTUS.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (pSGcE)
348
The only thing history teaches us, is that humans don’t learn from history
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eOudo)
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One of my favorite charts (history of the World's "Reserve" Currency):
https://is.gd/phlOqP
Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eOudo)
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One of my favorite charts (history of the World's "Reserve" Currency):
https://is.gd/phlOqP
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (8SsoM)
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If we're not careful, this will just redirect $'s flowing from US funding of NATO or UN programs.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (5q/qL)
Meaning if we're not careful US taxpayers will still be funding the left, but through a different channel.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:09 PM (5q/qL)
Meaning if we're not careful US taxpayers will still be funding the left, but through a different channel.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2025 12:21 PM (5q/qL)
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BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
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I'm hearing that there is an insane level of propaganda in the Canadian media.
Like all they are talking about is how they are going to go to war--real, actual fucking war--against the US.
And are going to win!!
They have no clue that below the 49th parallel no one but no one is talking about Canada.
We don't give a shit--they're the 98lbs school loser hyping himself up in front of his bedroom mirror on how he's gonna kick the shit out of the captain of the football team.
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I'm hearing that there is an insane level of propaganda in the Canadian media.
Like all they are talking about is how they are going to go to war--real, actual fucking war--against the US.
And are going to win!!
They have no clue that below the 49th parallel no one but no one is talking about Canada.
We don't give a shit--they're the 98lbs school loser hyping himself up in front of his bedroom mirror on how he's gonna kick the shit out of the captain of the football team.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 12:21 PM (on5o5)
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If someone walks up to you and says, "hey, just so you know, Mr. Jones is stealing from you and you might want to do something about that," you don't get angry at the person who told you, you get angry at Mr. Jones.
Makes perfect logical sense. And ignores the American Gestalt. Its always been like this, my entire life.
I blame the Cold War, and the generations that marinated in it.
Makes perfect logical sense. And ignores the American Gestalt. Its always been like this, my entire life.
I blame the Cold War, and the generations that marinated in it.
Posted by: I See at February 19, 2025 12:21 PM (ZIwEC)
352
Here's a good one from that bullshit Hoax twitter account from 1/22:
BREAKING: Farmer says If Trump deports all undocumented immigrants US will run out of food within 2 days
"Within Two days, We will not have Food"
/pic of some random guy who hasn't shaved (farmer??) with a split pic of President Trump
Here's a good one from that bullshit Hoax twitter account from 1/22:
BREAKING: Farmer says If Trump deports all undocumented immigrants US will run out of food within 2 days
"Within Two days, We will not have Food"
/pic of some random guy who hasn't shaved (farmer??) with a split pic of President Trump
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:22 PM (7rn5C)
353
Has Mark Hamill bought a belt yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2025 12:22 PM (85V9g)
354
352
Here's a good one from that bullshit Hoax twitter account from 1/22:
BREAKING: Farmer says If Trump deports all undocumented immigrants US will run out of food within 2 days
"Within Two days, We will not have Food"
/pic of some random guy who hasn't shaved (farmer??) with a split pic of President Trump
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:22 PM (7rn5C)
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Grocery stores restock a whole lot faster than I thought.
Also, the giant machines farming corps use to maintain their fields will be fleeing across the border too, I guess.
Here's a good one from that bullshit Hoax twitter account from 1/22:
BREAKING: Farmer says If Trump deports all undocumented immigrants US will run out of food within 2 days
"Within Two days, We will not have Food"
/pic of some random guy who hasn't shaved (farmer??) with a split pic of President Trump
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:22 PM (7rn5C)
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Grocery stores restock a whole lot faster than I thought.
Also, the giant machines farming corps use to maintain their fields will be fleeing across the border too, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 19, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Europe is divided between the globalist Marxists and center right with similar aspirations as maga. Globalists are trying to squash conservative voices, and thought that Trump and his people won't notice, or will go along.
Posted by: runner at February 19, 2025 12:22 PM (g47mK)
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>>> 331
https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Just an FYI: This twitter account, like 90% of all twitter accounts, is 110% FAKE NEWS. Every single tweet from this account is 100% false left-wing wacky propaganda.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (7rn5C)
Thanks! I was wondering about this amazing turnaround, and of course The Horde Knows.
https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Just an FYI: This twitter account, like 90% of all twitter accounts, is 110% FAKE NEWS. Every single tweet from this account is 100% false left-wing wacky propaganda.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:17 PM (7rn5C)
Thanks! I was wondering about this amazing turnaround, and of course The Horde Knows.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (Vqx30)
357
The basketball arena here is named after a "green" company. It was announced yesterday in the middle of the season that the arena wouldn't be named that any more with no explanation and no immediate replacement. Kind of makes you wonder if the government funds just got cut off.
Posted by: The Five Families at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (UxYCt)
358
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
So is chlorine gas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
Let's not forget a M2 flamethrower.
Lysol is pretty good too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
So is chlorine gas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
Let's not forget a M2 flamethrower.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (WXNFJ)
359
If these cuts continue, where will I prowl the halls?
Posted by: Deuce Dropper at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (G5+As)
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BREAKING: Farmer says If Trump deports all undocumented immigrants US will run out of food within 2 days
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We have hundreds of thousands of prospective fruit pickers. They just need to relocate from Washington DC.
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We have hundreds of thousands of prospective fruit pickers. They just need to relocate from Washington DC.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (lTGtQ)
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https://is.gd/FsN2LE
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Vqx30)
fake news story.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (wyMQY)
Sure, Jan. (Eh?)
@politvidchannel
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau's Party Just made a remarkable turnaround in the polls and is now on Track to win the Canadian election
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Vqx30)
fake news story.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 19, 2025 12:20 PM (wyMQY)
Sure, Jan. (Eh?)
Posted by: LASue at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (lCppi)
362
A nuke is a cleansing fire.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (85V9g)
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295 Former USAID recipients are running to EU to get their grift spice flowing again. If we're not careful, this will just redirect $'s flowing from US funding of NATO or UN programs.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Trump is already cutting UN funding by withdrawing from anti US organizations such as the Human Rights Council and WHO among others.
I doubt NATO is going to fund the grifters simply because the US does mostly direct spending in that group with a minimal for overhead. Euros do the same supposedly by spending on their militaries a certain percentage of GDP (but aren't).
Basically both the UN and Euroland already have their own set of grifters that won't welcome newcomers to drink from a shrinking teat.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Trump is already cutting UN funding by withdrawing from anti US organizations such as the Human Rights Council and WHO among others.
I doubt NATO is going to fund the grifters simply because the US does mostly direct spending in that group with a minimal for overhead. Euros do the same supposedly by spending on their militaries a certain percentage of GDP (but aren't).
Basically both the UN and Euroland already have their own set of grifters that won't welcome newcomers to drink from a shrinking teat.
Posted by: whig at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (ctrM5)
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And are going to win!!
They have no clue that below the 49th parallel no one but no one is talking about Canada.
Probably talking about the hickey game tonorrow night in Boston.
They have no clue that below the 49th parallel no one but no one is talking about Canada.
Probably talking about the hickey game tonorrow night in Boston.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 19, 2025 12:24 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:24 PM (7rn5C)
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>Snowmageddon has commenced here in coastal NC. If I don't survive, it's been a pleasure "knowing" you fine folks.
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober
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can I have all your stuff?
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober
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can I have all your stuff?
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 12:24 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 19, 2025 12:24 PM (7rn5C)
368
Noodus "entertainment"-world horror
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2025 12:24 PM (J2vNu)
369
LOL
Hockey game.
Hockey game.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 19, 2025 12:24 PM (ufFY8)
370
If NATO money is used for this chicanery, cut our contribution be 95%
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (2NXcZ)
Posted by: m at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (v0TzN)
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>>> 350
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I'm hearing that there is an insane level of propaganda in the Canadian media.
Like all they are talking about is how they are going to go to war--real, actual fucking war--against the US.
And are going to win!!
They have no clue that below the 49th parallel no one but no one is talking about Canada.
We don't give a shit--they're the 98lbs school loser hyping himself up in front of his bedroom mirror on how he's gonna kick the shit out of the captain of the football team.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 12:21 PM (on5o5)
Canadia is David Hogg???
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I'm hearing that there is an insane level of propaganda in the Canadian media.
Like all they are talking about is how they are going to go to war--real, actual fucking war--against the US.
And are going to win!!
They have no clue that below the 49th parallel no one but no one is talking about Canada.
We don't give a shit--they're the 98lbs school loser hyping himself up in front of his bedroom mirror on how he's gonna kick the shit out of the captain of the football team.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2025 12:21 PM (on5o5)
Canadia is David Hogg???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (Vqx30)
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Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity schwag at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (AOsQT)
374
We can't recognize they're thieves?
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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), (H.R. 3684) is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. It was introduced in the House as the INVEST in America Act and nicknamed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. The act was initially a $547–715 billion infrastructure package that included provisions related to federal highway aid, transit, highway safety, motor carrier, research, hazardous materials and rail programs of the Department of Transportation.[1][2] After congressional negotiations, it was amended and renamed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to add funding for broadband access, clean water, etc.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (NFX2v)
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Nood
Posted by: From about That Time at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (n4GiU)
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351 If someone walks up to you and says, "hey, just so you know, Mr. Jones is stealing from you and you might want to do something about that," you don't get angry at the person who told you, you get angry at Mr. Jones.
Makes perfect logical sense. And ignores the American Gestalt. Its always been like this, my entire life.
Shooting the messenger is a long-standing tradition. See, e.g., the average workplace. The fuckups don't get reamed by management, the people identifying the fuckups do.
Makes perfect logical sense. And ignores the American Gestalt. Its always been like this, my entire life.
Shooting the messenger is a long-standing tradition. See, e.g., the average workplace. The fuckups don't get reamed by management, the people identifying the fuckups do.
Posted by: Don't bring me no bad news! at February 19, 2025 12:26 PM (yzp7T)
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If these cuts continue, where will I prowl the halls?
Posted by: Deuce Dropper at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (G5+As)
I can't be the only one that looks at my paycheck. Sure, its not a stub now, but you still see it online. You can still see your tax returns.
1/3 right off the top, goes somewhere else besides my pocket. 7% on every purchase. And a check a year for each car, my home - it goes on and on. "They" - between Federal, State, and Local - are right around 50% of what I earn.
They can't cut enough. Including the military. The police. All the sacred cows. Until I see people starving in the streets, the cuts are too little.
Posted by: Deuce Dropper at February 19, 2025 12:23 PM (G5+As)
I can't be the only one that looks at my paycheck. Sure, its not a stub now, but you still see it online. You can still see your tax returns.
1/3 right off the top, goes somewhere else besides my pocket. 7% on every purchase. And a check a year for each car, my home - it goes on and on. "They" - between Federal, State, and Local - are right around 50% of what I earn.
They can't cut enough. Including the military. The police. All the sacred cows. Until I see people starving in the streets, the cuts are too little.
Posted by: I See at February 19, 2025 12:26 PM (ZIwEC)
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345 Snowmageddon has commenced here in coastal NC. If I don't survive, it's been a pleasure "knowing" you fine folks.
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober
3/4" of the white stuff = doom.
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober
3/4" of the white stuff = doom.
Posted by: Auspex at February 19, 2025 12:27 PM (j4U/Z)
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Grocery stores restock a whole lot faster than I thought.
Also, the giant machines farming corps use to maintain their fields will be fleeing across the border too, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Agriculture of crops is one the areas that robots do a better job once trained than people except for boutique type items. Even dairy has shrank its need for humans via milking machines etc.
The biggest area that is not mechanized or robotized fully is meat packing for a variety of reasons but that too is probably coming.
Also, the giant machines farming corps use to maintain their fields will be fleeing across the border too, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Agriculture of crops is one the areas that robots do a better job once trained than people except for boutique type items. Even dairy has shrank its need for humans via milking machines etc.
The biggest area that is not mechanized or robotized fully is meat packing for a variety of reasons but that too is probably coming.
Posted by: whig at February 19, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)
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All I know is I'm getting PSA ads that say, "Canada, we've been your friend and partner for generations". Somebody's doing some PR work.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 19, 2025 12:29 PM (pIfcn)
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There are the irate grifters and then there are the mindless lemmings. Case in point; there was a rally against Trump, Musk and DOGE in Ashland, OR replete with idiots marching about with "I Love USAID" signs. None of these fools benefit at all from the grift, yet there they are reflexively defending the theft of their tax dollars because of the Bad Orange Man and his inquisitor.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 19, 2025 12:03 PM (7uxlX)
The principle employment for the highly educated is to start out in an internship for the NGOs, then with that experience move on to low to middle level administrative posts in Universities (funded by the Gov) Think tanks (USAID and other government monies washed through political parties passing on their USAID takes) NGOs (USAID) and state government, and then to work up from there to higher and higher posts that this experience pads the resumee.
so they stand to profit from the free money flowing from USAID to the favored movements and orgs. They love USAID because they expect to make a career from it.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 19, 2025 12:03 PM (7uxlX)
The principle employment for the highly educated is to start out in an internship for the NGOs, then with that experience move on to low to middle level administrative posts in Universities (funded by the Gov) Think tanks (USAID and other government monies washed through political parties passing on their USAID takes) NGOs (USAID) and state government, and then to work up from there to higher and higher posts that this experience pads the resumee.
so they stand to profit from the free money flowing from USAID to the favored movements and orgs. They love USAID because they expect to make a career from it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 12:29 PM (D7oie)
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>>> As Senator King (I-ME) put it when discussing RFK Jr's confirmation : "If this were a secret ballot, this man wouldn't get 20 votes."
I had missed that at the time. That's an appalling sentiment.
I had missed that at the time. That's an appalling sentiment.
Posted by: m at February 19, 2025 12:31 PM (v0TzN)
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375 Nood
Posted by: From about That Time at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: From about That Time at February 19, 2025 12:25 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: m at February 19, 2025 12:32 PM (v0TzN)
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>>>Now that the Washington is in the initial, early, fledgling steps of possible reversal
Missing noun? Now that the Washington ____ is ....
Missing noun? Now that the Washington ____ is ....
Posted by: m at February 19, 2025 12:35 PM (v0TzN)
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CNN: Conservatives Ruined Life of Black Trans Woman Who Helped Free the Slaves
https://is.gd/ZU7aNF
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
They didn't have tilapia va-jay-jays in the 1860s, the dude was a cross-dresser. Cross-dressing does not make you "trans".
https://is.gd/ZU7aNF
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
They didn't have tilapia va-jay-jays in the 1860s, the dude was a cross-dresser. Cross-dressing does not make you "trans".
Posted by: Ian S. at February 19, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
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1) Look up Burned Alive in Odessa
2) Look up the video of Lyndsey Graham telling azov battalion to go on the offensive against them.
2) Look up the video of Lyndsey Graham telling azov battalion to go on the offensive against them.
Posted by: ryukyu at February 19, 2025 01:10 PM (M/bod)
387
turns out one way to beat the left is to DEFUND the left ... seems like every anti-American left wing cause or group somehow got funded by taxpayers ...
Posted by: The Dark Lord at February 19, 2025 02:09 PM (DBAaD)
388
4.7 TRILLION DOLLARS missing....
DOGE post on X (formerly Twitter) reported a total of $4.7 trillion worth of payments from the Treasury Department are "almost impossible" to trace because of missing account identification codes.
Lack of Treasury Access Symbols (TAS) makes tracing payments very difficult.
DOGE post on X (formerly Twitter) reported a total of $4.7 trillion worth of payments from the Treasury Department are "almost impossible" to trace because of missing account identification codes.
Lack of Treasury Access Symbols (TAS) makes tracing payments very difficult.
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