After a Six Week Review, SecState Marco Rubio Cancels 83% of USAID Grifter Spending

Do better, Marco. #DoBetter.

Sec. of State Marco Rubio announces major overhaul at USAID, cancels 83% of programs
After a six-week review, Sen. Marco Rubio announced the cancellation of 83% of USAID programs, citing wasteful spending and harm to U.S. national interests. The move eliminates 5,200 contracts worth tens of billions of dollars, with remaining programs shifting under the State Department for better oversight. Rubio thanked staff for their efforts in implementing what he called a "historic reform."
Key Details:
Sen. Marco Rubio revealed that 5,200 USAID contracts have been canceled after a six-week review.
The cuts affect tens of billions in foreign aid, which Rubio argued was not serving U.S. national interests.
The remaining 1,000 programs will be administered under the State Department with improved oversight.
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"The 5,200 contracts that are now canceled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, and in some cases even harmed, the core national interests of the United States," Rubio stated. His move reflects growing scrutiny among conservatives regarding how taxpayer money is used in foreign aid, particularly under USAID, which has long been criticized for funding controversial projects abroad.

The rest of the programs are being taken away from USAID and will be administered by the State Department.

This leaves USAID in control of nothing, and presumably, it will be shut down.

Rubio thanked the Department of Global Engagement (DOGE) and USAID staff who worked tirelessly to carry out what he described as a long-overdue reform. The announcement is likely to spark debate in Washington, as Democrats and globalist policymakers have traditionally defended USAID's expansive role in international development.

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1 First

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:42 PM (2Km7O)

2 St

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 10, 2025 03:42 PM (MGB5H)

3 Gah

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 10, 2025 03:42 PM (MGB5H)

4 Holy cow , I was first

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:43 PM (2Km7O)

5 Dark Dondi

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2025 03:43 PM (oa1NA)

6 I guess that means I won't be getting a new fridge. 😕

Posted by: Just Lily at March 10, 2025 03:43 PM (053hg)

7 Excuse me. Holy Stacey Abrams, I was first

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:43 PM (2Km7O)

8 Department of Global Engagement (DOGE)

... do they just change the words behind the acronym every couple weeks to confuse our enemies?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 03:43 PM (hB7mE)

9 Rubio thanked the Department of Global Engagement (DOGE)

I thought it was Dept. of Govt. Efficiency?

Posted by: kallisto at March 10, 2025 03:43 PM (dCxaZ)

10 83% is a good start. Now cancel 83% of everything else in the federal government and we will start making some serious progress.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2025 03:44 PM (e5NfL)

11 the problem is the remaining 17% will metastasize

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 10, 2025 03:44 PM (V6W16)

12 The Department of Global Engagement?

Whoever re-titled DOGE has a real knack for irony.

Posted by: spongeworthy at March 10, 2025 03:44 PM (CDWlY)

13 DOGE is also cryptocurrency

Posted by: kallisto at March 10, 2025 03:44 PM (dCxaZ)

14 Cancel 83% from every department and can 83% of workers... that would be a good start

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 10, 2025 03:45 PM (/6GbT)

15 Well, at least the State Department doesn't have decades of examples of mismanaging funds and interfering in foreign governments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

16 Why is Rubio's trashcan knocked over and rummaged through??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 03:45 PM (/tzYP)

17 83% is a good start.

I like Donald Trump. Convince me I'm wrong.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM (0HaGk)

18 Doctor : I got great news, we got 87% of your cancer!

Patient : Great....wait, what?

Posted by: The Democrats at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM (4e+hS)

19 Rubio thanked the Department of Global Engagement (DOGE)

I thought it was Dept. of Govt. Efficiency?
Posted by: kallisto

Yeah, I did, too.

Posted by: Bulg at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

20 83% of the programs. What percentage of the USAID budget did those programs launder? 83% or 98%?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM (ZTT+3)

21 Why do we need "international development?" If people want a decent economy, they should create one.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM (K2hug)

22 as Democrats and globalist policymakers have traditionally ...stolen this money

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

23 16 Why is Rubio's trashcan knocked over and rummaged through??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 03:45 PM (/tzYP)

Wicket!! Get back behind that keyboard. But first, take a bath.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 03:47 PM (K2hug)

24 21 Why do we need "international development?" If people want a decent economy, they should create one.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM (K2hug)

Because the terrorists really just want economic opportunities.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 10, 2025 03:47 PM (fwyhL)

25 I'd like to see people that were administering this theft in prison.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 10, 2025 03:47 PM (CNncw)

26 I thought it was Dept. of Govt. Efficiency?

Posted by: kallisto at March 10, 2025 03:43 PM (dCxaZ)
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A.k.a., the Dept. Of Gut Everything.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 10, 2025 03:47 PM (ZTT+3)

27 Nice DOGE, good DOGE. Go bite Dems DOGE

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (2Km7O)

28 If you believe that USAID money went where the grants said it did, you are dumber than a Biden.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (K2hug)

29 I read the part where Rubio is the Admin of the remnants… anyone else??

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

30 The announcement is likely to spark debate in Washington, as Democrats and globalist policymakers have traditionally defended USAID's expansive role in international development.

'Expansive' for their off-shore personal bank accounts.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (rj6Yv)

31 27 Nice DOGE, good DOGE. Go bite Dems DOGE
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (2Km7O)

If some (many) GOP’s got nailed by the DOGE, I might shed a tear of happiness.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (fwyhL)

32 That feeling when ace is taking a second look at Marco Rubio's garbage.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:49 PM (0HaGk)

33 Rookie numbers

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 10, 2025 03:49 PM (DU8Dk)

34 27 Nice DOGE, good DOGE. Go bite Dems DOGE
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (2Km7O)

According to the AoSHQ Style Guide, the term is "sic balls, DOGE."

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 03:49 PM (K2hug)

35 It is just a small cut, too small to matter or make a difference, but now the tears will flow like the Nile in flood season.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at March 10, 2025 03:49 PM (qHgX8)

36 Department Of Go Elon

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2025 03:49 PM (p/20V)

37 Anyone wondering why globohomo came out of nowhere to being the primary religion of the left now knows why. They were paid to "believe"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

38 I suppose that's a start, but those are rookie numbers. They gotta bump that up.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 10, 2025 03:50 PM (N1tpc)

39 Wicket!! Get back behind that keyboard. But first, take a bath.
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Just like it's back in 2016 and we were young once.
😪

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 03:50 PM (/tzYP)

40 Stealing is the only thing Democrats seem to be able to do, whether it's elections or the taxpayers money.

Pitchforks and torches for the lot of them.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 10, 2025 03:50 PM (CNncw)

41 83% is a solid B…

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 03:50 PM (PCK5/)

42 The GOPe/Dems:

A) The cut is too small to make a difference so you won't be allowed to get rid of that spending

B) The cut is too big and would cause instability so you won't be allowed to get rid of that spending

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 03:50 PM (t0Rmr)

43 37 Anyone wondering why globohomo came out of nowhere to being the primary religion of the left now knows why. They were paid to "believe"
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

It is rather as I thought, considering that I have yet to meet any 10 year old boy that thinks taking it up the ass is on his bucket list. Homosexuality is made up, pretend, and evil all at the same time.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 03:51 PM (K2hug)

44 Now go after and cut PBS and NPR.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 10, 2025 03:51 PM (CNncw)

45 The primary point of the US government is to steal from the taxpayers, so Rubio makes a good start but there is another $4-5T that needs to be cut

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

46 Nice DOGE, good DOGE. Go bite Dems DOGE
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:48 PM (2Km7O)

According to the AoSHQ Style Guide, the term is "sic balls, DOGE."
Posted by: tcn in AK

Should have trained DOGE to retrieve balls.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2025 03:51 PM (sZswu)

47 The remaining 1,000 programs will be administered under the State Department with improved oversight.
.......

Yeah, that "oversight" has always worked before.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

48 Nice DOGE, good DOGE. Go bite Dems DOGE
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Action.
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Cut.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (/tzYP)

49 Not to nit pick, but is that 83% of the programs or 83% of the total dollars spent.

Posted by: WisRich at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (G0vdT)

50 It is just a small cut, too small to matter or make a difference, but now the tears will flow like the Nile in flood season.

The climate hysterics are fond of talking about "forcing", which means something that causes more of an effect than one would have thought based on its concentration. It's all BS, of course, at least as far as it applies to climate.

However, cancelling USAID will have a bigger impact than just the number of dollars in their budget. Much of it went to support Dem politicians and lefty causes, so it had an outsize impact on the nation. Conversely, now that the money is gone, it will also have an outsize negative impact on the Dems going forward. It's all just so sad.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

51 But the CR will level fund USAID, correct?

What will happen to that money?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (paSBy)

52 It seems like a necessity if a country wants to influence other countries to send them money. Oh, hey, can you sign the bill allowing the U.S. Navy to use your port? Oh sure we will pay to resurface all the pickleball courts in your country. Thanks.

But the Left discovered it could just be a huge slush fund to do whatever they want. Hey, you don't think we should fund drag queen shows in Elbonia? Why do you hate freedom?!?!

Posted by: President Trump at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (QfvaV)

53 Recall the basis of the judge-king's order that Trump release the funding was that Trump violated the High Holy Commandment of Bureaucracy:
Thou Must Follow Procedure.

The punk bitch was whining, "you didn't review each and every grant! You must make an individual assessment!"

And Trump was like, "no problemo, bro--yuppers, still nixed."

And the girly man cried and said, "no way, too fast--give them the money until you pinkie swear you did."

And Rubio is now like, "yo, pinkie swearsis and all, my man, no more cash for them to stash. Peace OUT!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 10, 2025 03:53 PM (8xFyS)

54 17% was legit? I am doubtful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 03:53 PM (bss/y)

55 It would be nice if I trusted Rubio.
As it is, I trust that some positive things will happen, at least for a while, which is a nice change.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2025 03:53 PM (D7oie)

56 50

However, cancelling USAID will have a bigger impact than just the number of dollars in their budget. Much of it went to support Dem politicians and lefty causes, so it had an outsize impact on the nation. Conversely, now that the money is gone, it will also have an outsize negative impact on the Dems going forward. It's all just so sad.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

Yep. Shutting down their money laundering Op, along with the graft and kickbacks is what is important…

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 03:53 PM (PCK5/)

57 Ukraine doesn’t actually have any commercial deposits of the rare earths that both Washington and Kyiv have hyped up. The country does not currently produce rare earths, which are a type of critical mineral, nor has it produced rare earths in recent decades. Kyiv only has Soviet-era rare-earth geological mapping, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is certain to complicate any mining or processing efforts—all of which require years of hefty investments, even in countries that are not in war. “Mining is a long-term effort—so the United States may not yield benefits for another 20 years,”

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 03:54 PM (RHGPo)

58 I just read that the PRC sent a naval task force to circumnavigate Australia. I think Congressional spending should be focused on effective defense spending.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (rj6Yv)

59 Anyone wondering why globohomo came out of nowhere to being the primary religion of the left now knows why. They were paid to "believe"

Posted by: 18-1

I find that hard to believe

Posted by: Billy "Trans" Kristol at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (lTGtQ)

60 Mining is a long-term effort—so the United States may not yield benefits for another 20 years,”
Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 03:54 PM (RHGPo)

Oh, fuck. Not that old chestnut again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (bss/y)

61 50

However, cancelling USAID will have a bigger impact than just the number of dollars in their budget. Much of it went to support Dem politicians and lefty causes, so it had an outsize impact on the nation. Conversely, now that the money is gone, it will also have an outsize negative impact on the Dems going forward. It's all just so sad.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

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Government grants created the ecosystem where LIVs were default Democrats because it's just what one did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

62 Michael McFaul @McFaul 7h
Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement. China is not ending is foreign assistance programs. In an age of great power competition, the Trump administration is unilaterally destroying one of our best instruments of soft power influence.

Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando 6h
Cheer up, Mike, you guys still have the US International Development Finance Corporation and the Millennium Challenge Corporation to launder our money to your friends and foreigners who hate us.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (/tzYP)

63 55 It would be nice if I trusted Rubio.
As it is, I trust that some positive things will happen, at least for a while, which is a nice change.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2025 03:53 PM (D7oie)

I have a serious question.. why do you not trust him, specifically?? I am neutral on the guy right now, never having paid much attention to him until recently..

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (PCK5/)

64 Oh..I wanted to paste this here

Pop Culture Crisis is a youtube channel I recommend.

I'll stop now.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:56 PM (0HaGk)

65 It will get bad again because the whole concept of "soft power" or foreign development is immoral. We're paying foreigners for influence through these funds. There's another word for that - bribery.

I'm engineer working for a government contractor and I have to take anti-corruption and bribery "training" every year where I learn about how I can't accept or give gifts of more than $50 by law, but these fuckers can ship a billion over to who knows where for who knows what.

And that's without mentioning the evils of the spy agencies using this money to perform actions in our name which none of us ever agreed to.

Posted by: wat at March 10, 2025 03:56 PM (Dk542)

66 I just read that the PRC sent a naval task force to circumnavigate Australia. I think Congressional spending should be focused on effective defense spending.
Posted by: mrp

The Aussie gotta replenish their Strategic Dropbear Reserve.

Posted by: Bulg at March 10, 2025 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

67 Michael McFaul @McFaul 7h
Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement. China is not ending is foreign assistance programs. In an age of great power competition, the Trump administration is unilaterally destroying one of our best instruments of soft power influence.

'We cannot allow there to be a Graft Gap!!!!!!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 03:56 PM (bss/y)

68 It is still Dept. of Govt Efficiency per the website.

Posted by: DJ at March 10, 2025 03:56 PM (uosPt)

69 Rubio's been channeling some annoyed dad energy lately; I like it.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 10, 2025 03:57 PM (/ncst)

70 57 Ukraine doesn’t actually have any commercial deposits of the rare earths that both Washington and Kyiv have hyped up.
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Yeah, I'm still of the opinion that these vast stores of minerals simply do not exist.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2025 03:57 PM (paSBy)

71 Trump repurposes CBP One at to help illegals self deport.
One man from Clubbia asked "How does it work"?
Trump spoke demonstrated.
#1 Plant feet firmly 24 inches apart
#2 Bend over after far as possible .
#3 Kiss your ass goodbye.

Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 10, 2025 03:57 PM (x5Jut)

72 "Rubio's been channeling some annoyed dad energy lately; I like it.
Posted by: vmom"

hah

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:57 PM (0HaGk)

73 Cutting USAID will put a damper on some Dems graft and corruption, but dig into Housing and Urban Development or HHS via Medicare and Medicaid to find monster fraud and Dem large city corruption

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (2Km7O)

74 Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement. China is not ending is foreign assistance programs. In an age of great power competition, the Trump administration is unilaterally destroying one of our best instruments of soft power influence.

Remember, paying foreigners to write gay comic books and before tranny operas will get us oil and minerals.

However gathering oil and minerals from our own lands will make baby Gaia angry and summon sharknados to kill us all

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (t0Rmr)

75 54 17% was legit? I am doubtful.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 03:53 PM (bss/y)

I am sure some of it is. And the rest of it is probably legit, but will require adjustments...whatever they may be.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (W/lyH)

76 The Dow is down 830 points today, and more than 7% since the beginning of February. It's getting close to time to think about buying.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (xCA6C)

77 I just read that the PRC sent a naval task force to circumnavigate Australia. I think Congressional spending should be focused on effective defense spending.
Posted by: mrp

We circumnavigated the planet in 1908 with the Great White Fleet.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (lTGtQ)

78 This seems inconsistent with the Spirit of Aloha.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (ESO0m)

79 Time for the DOJ to intervene.

The State of Washington is a sanctuary state, of course, but Adams County, Washington, with all of 20,000 people, has continued to provide information to Federal immigration authorities.

The new Washington attorney general is now suing Adams County.

The AG's press release has the Orwellian headline:

Washington state sues Adams County to stop illegal federal immigration enforcement

It goes on:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Mar 10 2025
SPOKANE — Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said in a lawsuit filed today that the Adams County Sheriff’s Office is illegally collaborating with federal immigration officials and aiding the Trump administration’s efforts to enlist local officials for federal civil immigration work.

The lawsuit filed in Spokane County Superior Court says the Adams County Sheriff’s Office has illegally held people in custody based only on their immigration status, helped federal agents question people in custody, and routinely given immigration officials confidential personal information of hundreds of Washingtonians. “All of this conduct expressly violates state law,” the lawsuit says.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (xTIDn)

80 If I read the reporting correctly, and the reporting is remotely correct, Rubio didn't specify a dollar amount and didn't specify which contracts (~5200) were canceled.

But did say it was "billions of dollars."

Hedging... because there are probably some contracts still on the books that Rubio would rather stay. Or his enablers would rather stay.

Based on Rubio being... Rubio.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (Q4IgG)

81 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?
That Musk should be deported!

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

82 I have a serious question.. why do you not trust him, specifically?? I am neutral on the guy right now, never having paid much attention to him until recently..
Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (PCK5/)

Hmmm. Good question and one I struggle with. He gives me an off gut vibe.

Also, as an operating rule, I do not trust any of these fuckers except:

Trump
Vance (provisionally)
Thomas
Alito
Barry Goldwater

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 03:59 PM (bss/y)

83 Department Of Grifting Elimination

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 10, 2025 03:59 PM (O7YUW)

84 Oh yeah...HUD will be pant shitting fraud.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:59 PM (0HaGk)

85 Now go over to GSA, DOGE, & get the top ten, fifteen, twenty corporations who were the tops involved with USAID & shutdown the contracts floating around through Federal agencies and also their public programs if there's any reach to USAID.

(They're like octopi - multiple armed.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 10, 2025 03:59 PM (NFX2v)

86 Do better, Marco

Give him time. He'll get around to the rest.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 10, 2025 03:59 PM (lXCUP)

87 70 57 Ukraine doesn’t actually have any commercial deposits of the rare earths that both Washington and Kyiv have hyped up.
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Yeah, I'm still of the opinion that these vast stores of minerals simply do not exist.
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What about Afghanistan?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 03:59 PM (pLaQB)

88 And that's without mentioning the evils of the spy agencies using this money to perform actions in our name which none of us ever agreed to.
Posted by: wat at March 10, 2025 03:56 PM

Don't worry your pretty little head. We know what's best for you. That's why we're Top. Men.

Posted by: Top. Men. at March 10, 2025 04:00 PM (a3Q+t)

89 It's all Trump's fault, of course:

Late last year Adams County was engaged in good faith settlement negotiations with our office,” Brown said. “But after the inauguration of Donald Trump, the county and its Sheriff’s Office suddenly hardened their stance, broke off settlement talks, and aligned themselves with an organization founded by a top Trump aide who is among the most virulent anti-immigrant voices in the administration.”

Until this change in position, Adams County told the Attorney General’s Office that it was working to follow state law — just like the hundreds of Washington sheriffs’ offices, police departments, jails, and state agencies that have all successfully done since Keep Washington Working was enacted in 2019.

In February 2025, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office retained attorneys from America First Legal, an organization founded by Stephen Miller. Miller is an aide and homeland security advisor to President Trump, who has repeatedly denigrated immigrant families and dismissed the essential role immigrants play supporting our communities and local economy. He has repeated white nationalist talking points...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2025 04:00 PM (xTIDn)

90 6
I guess that means I won't be getting a new fridge. 😕
Posted by: Just Lily
......

Just be thankful for that. Your old one probably keeps your food cold.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

91 I like Donald Trump. Convince me I'm wrong.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM

https://www.democraticunderground.com

Posted by: Democratic Underground commenters at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (a3Q+t)

92 And so 17% is still being spent on what? Why? What's so great in impact we are borrowing money for just to give it away?

Posted by: Amiga Jealousy at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (vvX0g)

93 Don't worry your pretty little head. We know what's best for you. That's why we're Top. Men.
Posted by: Top. Men. at March 10, 2025 04:00 PM (a3Q+t)

"On my shoulders I support the sky.
Trust me to know and to do what is best,
And I will take care of the rest.
But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.
Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing.
Trust is the color of a soul's last breath.
Trust is the color of death."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (bss/y)

94 The lawsuit filed in Spokane County Superior Court says the Adams County Sheriff’s Office has illegally held people in custody based only on their immigration status, helped federal agents question people in custody, and routinely given immigration officials confidential personal information of hundreds of Washingtonians.

"All of this conduct expressly violates state law,” the lawsuit says."
Posted by: The ARC of History!

And not doing it violates FEDERAL LAW.
Oaths matter.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (sZswu)

95 I have a serious question.. why do you not trust him, specifically?? I am neutral on the guy right now, never having paid much attention to him until recently..
Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (PCK5/)

If you're talking about little Marco, it's because he tried to sell the country down the river on amnesty. Some things can be overlooked, some can't.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (xCA6C)

96 Google Erases Mentions of DEI from AI Team Webpage

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (RHGPo)

97 @81/wth: "When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

That Musk should be deported!"

As soon as the Department of Agriculture is culled by 83%.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (O7YUW)

98 Do better, Marco

Give him time. He'll get around to the rest.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 10, 2025 03:59 PM (lXCUP)

I think he's still on the waiting list for one of Musk's Boring Company Flamethrowers.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (VNX3d)

99 I am white, and a nationalist… does that mean I am a White Nationalist ?… help me out here, Horde..

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (PCK5/)

100 Is nice.
Moar!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (xcxpd)

101 91 I like Donald Trump. Convince me I'm wrong.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM

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No. You dislike Donald Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

102 61 50

However, cancelling USAID will have a bigger impact than just the number of dollars in their budget. Much of it went to support Dem politicians and lefty causes, so it had an outsize impact on the nation. Conversely, now that the money is gone, it will also have an outsize negative impact on the Dems going forward. It's all just so sad.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

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Government grants created the ecosystem where LIVs were default Democrats because it's just what one did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariatpresident's?

Gov funding created the leftist organizations that lobbied leftist government officials, and created leftist pressure groups to create leftist protests for the benefit of the leftist media to push leftist propaganda.

I wonder how many right of center groups received gov funding. I'd be OK if they down graded lefty funding to match righty funding, cause you know it's zero.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (OA79/)

103 Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 9 Sep 2024
I refuse to be a thespian in the Speaker’s failure theater.

The 6 month continuing resolution with the SAVE Act attached is an insult to Americans’ intelligence.

The CR doesn’t cut spending, and the shiny object attached to it will be dropped like a hot potato before passage.

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 16h
Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week.

It amazes me that my colleagues and many of the public fall for the lie that we will fight another day.

Check out my prediction 6 months ago: [the above tweet]
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More anti-thespian hate; and I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (/tzYP)

104 The lawsuit filed in Spokane County Superior Court says the Adams County Sheriff’s Office has illegally held people in custody based only on their immigration status, helped federal agents question people in custody, and routinely given immigration officials confidential personal information of hundreds of Washingtonians.
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So much bullshit, where should we start? Oh, I know! How about here! How can this have impacted "hundreds of Washingtonians"....when the precursor identifies that the people in question are "in custody...on their immigration status"....which means they CAN'T be "Washingtonians" to begin with???

Liberal politicians, baseball bats, some assembly required.

Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (azSra)

105 I don't like that 17% will still remaining. Even if any payments are checks paid out to foreign governments' central banks in exchange for services rendered per signed contract/treaty (terms made public), subject to forensic audits which results are publically available, and with severe penalties for failure to deliver. Because even these common sense controls will be abused or abandoned.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (Dv3i1)

106 We circumnavigated the planet in 1908 with the Great White Fleet.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (lTGtQ)

The "Big Stick", I think Teddy R. called it.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (rj6Yv)

107 This seems inconsistent with the Spirit of Aloha.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Yeah, that Elon is a Fuckin' Haole.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

108 Elon Musk will be on Larry Kudlow's show on Fox Business 4:00 ET.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2025 04:03 PM (NpAcC)

109 Cheer up, Mike, you guys still have the US International Development Finance Corporation and the Millennium Challenge Corporation to launder our money to your friends and foreigners who hate us.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (/tzYP)

Hell, I'm getting greedy. By June I want to see both MCC and Export/Import Bank gutted by at least the same amount. For that matter, when does Ex/Im's authorization end? I want Trump to pledge to wind down its operations and shutter it, refusing to sign a reauthorization.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 10, 2025 04:03 PM (a/dOO)

110 95 If you're talking about little Marco, it's because he tried to sell the country down the river on amnesty. Some things can be overlooked, some can't.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 10, 2025 04:01 PM (xCA6C)

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He either thought he could trust Chuck Schumer, or he knew exactly what he was doing trusting Chuck Schumer.

Neither speak well for him.

And now? He's following orders from someone else and saying pretty things every once in a while. It's going to take more than doing what his boss says with some nice rhetoric from time to time to get me to feel like he's any kind of leader a political party needs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

111 >>>
The Aussie gotta replenish their Strategic Dropbear Reserve.
Posted by: Bulg
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CCP owns Australia, their politicians do what they are told.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 10, 2025 04:03 PM (AJDwy)

112 60 Mining is a long-term effort—so the United States may not yield benefits for another 20 years,”
Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 03:54 PM (RHGPo)

Oh, fuck. Not that old chestnut again.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Not really true SMOD. If the deposits are there, mining can be spun up pretty quickly in a place like Ukraine (or Russia as Putin has offered a deal on them). In the US, yes, as a major problem has been the EPA and NEPA policy from it that required onerous environmental reviews by government departments.

'Rare' earth minerals are actually not that rare but economically and environmentally safe ways of mining them makes the task more difficult when compared with China dumping them on the market and now in a position of strength is selectively denying and raising prices on them.

US even has a rare earth mineral mine that was shut down because during the China dumping spree, it was not worth operating. Ditto that some processes use mine tailings from prior mining and extraction of these.

Posted by: whig at March 10, 2025 04:03 PM (ctrM5)

113 What about Afghanistan?
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Same situation, in my opinion. If the trillions and trillions of dollars in mineral wealth were there, as the CIA tried to convince us, then someone would be mining it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2025 04:03 PM (paSBy)

114 >>> His move reflects growing scrutiny among conservatives regarding how taxpayer money is used in foreign aid, particularly under USAID, which has long been criticized for funding controversial projects abroad.

That's one way of putting it.

Also, why are we moving any of this shit to the STATE DEPARTMENT of all places? They have their own corrupt slush funds, why are we giving them more power.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (uCjyK)

115 Miller is an aide and homeland security advisor to President Trump, who has repeatedly denigrated immigrant families and dismissed the essential role immigrants play supporting our communities and local economy. He has repeated white nationalist talking points...
Posted by: The ARC of History!

You gotta love the way Dems use terms interchangeably.

Illegal somehow now equals immigrant.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (sZswu)

116 101 91 I like Donald Trump. Convince me I'm wrong.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM

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No. You dislike Donald Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

Propaganda!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (xcxpd)

117 Don't worry your pretty little head. We know what's best for you. That's why we're Top. Men.
Posted by: Top. Men. at March 10, 2025 04:00 PM (a3Q+t)

It would be appropriate to include the Top. Wimmenz., too.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (rj6Yv)

118 I have a serious question.. why do you not trust him, specifically?? I am neutral on the guy right now, never having paid much attention to him until recently..
Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (PCK5/)

I have never seen anything that I mistrust, I have seen no actions that I think are odd, it is just gut level.

Rubio is stamped from the mold of "the child of a successful family from a South American capital city" in his looks and how he manages himself. I have met a number like that, and I found them to be engaging, charming, urbane, and in the end they all seem to be fully self serving.
As long as your interests run together you can't ask for a better companion, but keep an eye on the satchel of cash because he may wind up taking it back to his family, who are more important to him.
I like him, I think he will do great things, and his presentations in South America were fun to watch, and I hope I am wrong about the last part.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (D7oie)

119 116 No. You dislike Donald Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

Propaganda!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (xcxpd)

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I'm allowed to like it if I want!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

120 Michael McFaul @McFaul 7h
Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement. China is not ending is foreign assistance programs. In an age of great power competition, the Trump administration is unilaterally destroying one of our best instruments of soft power influence.
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Prove it.
The burden is on you to "earn" our money.
Prove it.
Show me one time where they were like, "we got offers from some great countries. And it was between the racist Chinaman racist American."
And then they reach down, like some top-ranked college recruit, and they pull a MAGA hat from under the table and put it on.

Such retarded bullshit.

"Soft power" like how they have sex, just kinda grinding and moaning until everyone gets board and falls asleep.
But the taxpayer still gets fucked.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 10, 2025 04:05 PM (8xFyS)

121 114 >>> His move reflects growing scrutiny among conservatives regarding how taxpayer money is used in foreign aid, particularly under USAID, which has long been criticized for funding controversial projects abroad.

That's one way of putting it.

Also, why are we moving any of this shit to the STATE DEPARTMENT of all places? They have their own corrupt slush funds, why are we giving them more power.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (uCjyK)

Because money is a weapon and the State Department is the relevant org to wield it to influence nations.

Though I'd like to have seen deeper cuts than a mere 83%

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:05 PM (xcxpd)

122 'We cannot allow there to be a Graft Gap!!!!!!'
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Actually, I agree with that Cold War program but clearly none of this is about e.g. building a coal-fire power plant for a nonaligned country to beat the Chinese Belt & Road from building one instead but graft etc.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 04:05 PM (/tzYP)

123 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
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Just what we need - more shell companies!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (ZTT+3)

124 I wonder how many right of center groups received gov funding. I'd be OK if they down graded lefty funding to match righty funding, cause you know it's zero.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (OA79/)

Ahoy, Matey!

- Bill Kristol and the rest of the National Review crew and probably hundreds of other "right of center" talking heads

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (uCjyK)

125 119 116 No. You dislike Donald Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

Propaganda!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (xcxpd)

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I'm allowed to like it if I want!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

#RussiaGate2

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (xcxpd)

126 Illegal somehow now equals immigrant.

They've been doing that for years - for example, saying that "immigrants" have lower crime rates than people born in the United States, thereby conflating my law-abiding Vietnamese neighbors with the MS-13 illegals.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (xTIDn)

127 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
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Just what we need - more shell companies!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM

The yolks on them, ha ha.

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (Lc1zf)

128 Is 83% still a 'B'?

I bet I could trim a bit more fat. Put in a solid 'A' performance. I wonder if they had pics of starving kids posted around the offices.

Posted by: Francis at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (bbuBP)

129 107 This seems inconsistent with the Spirit of Aloha.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Yeah, that Elon is a Fuckin' Haole.
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This is the Spirit of Aloha on Oahu. The other islands are different.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (pLaQB)

130 You gotta love the way Dems use terms interchangeably.

Illegal somehow now equals immigrant.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (sZswu

Well jasmine crockett did go on CNN and said "entering the country illegally is not a crime."

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (MGB5H)

131 125 I'm allowed to like it if I want!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

#RussiaGate2
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (xcxpd)

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Listen, just because I want to murder the Tsar now doesn't mean it had any effect on me whatsoever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

132 105 I don't like that 17% will still remaining. Even if any payments are checks paid out to foreign governments' central banks in exchange for services rendered per signed contract/treaty (terms made public), subject to forensic audits which results are publically available, and with severe penalties for failure to deliver. Because even these common sense controls will be abused or abandoned.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Depends on whether there are statutory and security reasons for some of the remaining funding which we will not necessarily know. Seeking absolute perfection is the enemy of the good.

There are a LOT of other government departments yet to cut that may yield more bangs per buck than trying to zero out all of AID. Trump has a narrow base in the House and Senate and limited window of time to act in DC because of legislative deadlines for things like extending the tax cuts, etc.

Posted by: whig at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (ctrM5)

133 Because money is a weapon and the State Department is the relevant org to wield it to influence nations.

Though I'd like to have seen deeper cuts than a mere 83%
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 10, 2025 04:05 PM (xcxpd)

The State Department is just as bad, if not worse, than the CIA.

We haven't even begun to crack the books at what they were funding.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (uCjyK)

134 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
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Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.

Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (azSra)

135 Rubio will win the steak knives.

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (Lc1zf)

136 I am white, and a nationalist… does that mean I am a White Nationalist ?… help me out here, Horde..
Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM

10 Print "Did you vote for Trump? (Y/N)"
20 Input Ans
30 If Ans == "Y" Then Print "Yes."
40 If Ans == "N" Then Print "Maybe not."
50 End

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (a3Q+t)

137 Michael McFaul

McFaul once boasted that he made nearly a million bucks a year.

I bet more than half of that comes from USAID money laundered through front organizations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2025 04:08 PM (xTIDn)

138 91 I like Donald Trump. Convince me I'm wrong.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM

It's indifference you feel.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 10, 2025 04:08 PM (053hg)

139 Well jasmine crockett did go on CNN and said "entering the country illegally is not a crime."
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (MGB5H)

You know, not too long ago, nobody in the world knew who Jasmine Crockett was. Nobody knew who Angel Reese was.

Now both of them are thrust into the pubic eye constantly.

These things don't happen by accident. Everything's an op.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (dGCAG)

140 I am rather surprised that they had even 17% of the USAID budget funding useful things to provide cover for the 83% that was CIA and DNC slush fund.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (34pOu)

141 I'm surprisingly pleased over Marco.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (NFX2v)

142 134 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
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Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.
Posted by: Crusader at March

This is serious. Stop yolking.

Posted by: Piper at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (Dd38x)

143 138 91 I like Donald Trump. Convince me I'm wrong.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM

It's indifference you feel.
Posted by: Just Lily at March 10, 2025 04:08 PM (053hg)

You just want to 'date' him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (bss/y)

144 McFaul is dug into the Deep State and foreign policy experts like an Alabama tick. If he says we need USAID , nuke it from orbit. Read The Best and the Brightest, or A Bright Shining Lie each by leftist NYT reporters. Both books talked about vUSAID being a CIA front and it's only morphed into something much worse since

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 04:10 PM (2Km7O)

145 C'mon Department of Education!! Show those folks at State how real MagaMen cut costs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 10, 2025 04:10 PM (6YQhy)

146 "No. You dislike Donald Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"

This guy. I have to say.

Makes a pretty compelling argument.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:11 PM (0HaGk)

147 Fan-fuckin-tastic, SoS Rubio. Thank you to everyone involved!

Posted by: Joe at March 10, 2025 04:11 PM (Uy/WF)

148 Mark Rubio as Tony Montana.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:11 PM (pLaQB)

149 Leftists and Deep Staters are currently hitting the gin and fainting couch because they just saw a Government program get cut down to virtually nothing.

Cope harder, jackasses.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:11 PM (tT6L1)

150 So..... Marco, excuse me, Secretary of State Marco, found that 17% of the programs were worth keeping, 83% were scams, grifting, and fraud.

That seems about right, based on how loud the Democrats and their press rats are screaming about their government slush fund away by President Trump, Elon, and DOGE.

Think of that: 83% is Democrats grifting tax dollars.

If this was the old west, they would be hanged.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 10, 2025 04:11 PM (y5Bkh)

151 I want to date a lot of Trumps.

Just not Donny.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:12 PM (0HaGk)

152 Mark Rubio as Tony Montana.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:11 PM (pLaQB)
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Yeah, didn't have that one on my Bingo card.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:12 PM (tT6L1)

153
Yeah, that Elon is a Fuckin' Haole.
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This is the Spirit of Aloha on Oahu. The other islands are different.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:06 PM (pLaQB)

The other islands are just as racist, they're just more low key in their approach.

The one thing all the islands have in common is that they're all lazy as fuck.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (y9nCu)

154 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?
Posted by: wth

Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.
Posted by: Crusader
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The Gateway Pundit @gatewaypundit 8h
Trump’s DOJ Launches Investigation Into Soaring Egg Prices
READ: thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03…

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
It was a mistake to let the chickens work from home.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (/tzYP)

155 Government grants created the ecosystem where LIVs were default Democrats because it's just what one did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

Right, I feel like I'm smashing my head against a wall here.

USAID is not about foreign aid. It has very little, if anything at all, to do with foreign aid. From the beginning, it has been a way for the CIA to project "soft power" around the world by funding and fomenting revolutions against "the bad guys," however the CIA chose to define that.

And now we have incontrovertible truth that at least SOME of that money was being used to foment political instability in the US. And it has likely been going on for a long time, and it follows the same fucking playbook they use overseas. Including bribing politicians, controlling mass media, censoring political opponents, lawfare, etc. etc.

This is a MUCH bigger story than "durrr, government wasted money on trans mice! They're so stupid!"

The CIA and Deep State have been running a likely multi-decade long psy op against the US public, including massive shaping public opinion.

This is, to paraphrase Biden, a big Fucking Deal.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (uCjyK)

156 Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 16h
Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this week.

It amazes me that my colleagues and many of the public fall for the lie that we will fight another day.

Check out my prediction 6 months ago: [the above tweet]
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More anti-thespian hate; and I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 04:02 PM (/tzYP)

Damn. Massie must have had a lightning-strike epiphany in the last year or so. Wasn't he hardcore RINO at one point? Or was that a different Massie?

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (g8Ew8)

157 I like Donald Trump. Convince me I'm wrong.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 03:46 PM

It's indifference you feel.
Posted by: Just Lily at March 10, 2025 04:08 PM (053hg)

Doesn't one usually say "convince me I'm wrong" when the behavior is something they feel some shame for?

As in, I like when fat women sit on me, and make plunger sounds with their vaginas. Convince me I'm wrong!

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (dGCAG)

158 Children are starving cancer is thriving. You happy Marco!? All to save the billionaires money.

A lotta people all over the world were hurt by this illegal action. Yes, illegally executed, because only Congress can legally change funding.

Is he proud of this? I keep trying to imagine who these people really are. They seem to have no empathy nor integrity. I guess it takes a lot of effort to make new terrorists around the world.

Musk said the greatest weakness of Western civilization is....wait for it...EMPATHY. You know, like shown by Apartheid Sourh Africa, or the Europeans toward Africans or Native Americans.

Turns out if white Europeans aka Western civilization didn't have so much EMPATHY none of these bad things would have happened, apparently.

Karma will be king...I wouldn't want to be him or the rest of them. They won't be sparred, you can count on it. Evil people have been *given* control of our government by a slim majority of American voters.

The stain of shame will be indelible for generations.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 10, 2025 04:14 PM (JCZqz)

159
Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement

Oh, horseshit. USAID has been around for 60 plus years and there is no readily identifiable coterie of countries singing loud hosannas to the U. S. after all that time.

To posit that there would be, that "soft power" won us hearts and minds is unsupported academic dream weaving.

Your days of sending extravagant and unaccounted for honeypots overseas for your own benefit are over, pal.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 10, 2025 04:14 PM (xG4kz)

160 What about the children.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2025 04:14 PM (vFG9F)

161 142 134 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
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Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.
Posted by: Crusader at March

This is serious. Stop yolking.

Posted by: Piper at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (Dd38x)

They need to get cracking on this problem STAT!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (wtvvX)

162 Well jasmine crockett did go on CNN and said "entering the country illegally is not a crime."
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Hmm. Well, at least she can dance.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

163 Great ,got a weather warning. Going to have 25-35 mph winds tomorrow. Big chance of wildfires in the hills. yay

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (2Km7O)

164 Lil' Marco may be a stooge, but he's our stooge for the time being.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (wBaIH)

165 USAID has been around for 60 plus years and there is no readily identifiable coterie of countries singing loud hosannas to the U. S. after all that time.

Seriously. If anything, they hate us more than they did before we started giving them money.

They're going to hate us regardless, so let them hate us for free.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (hB7mE)

166 Well jasmine crockett did go on CNN and said "entering the country illegally is not a crime."
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 10, 2025 04:07 PM (MGB5H)

You know, not too long ago, nobody in the world knew who Jasmine Crockett was. Nobody knew who Angel Reese was.

Now both of them are thrust into the pubic eye constantly.

These things don't happen by accident. Everything's an op.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (dGCAG)

Maybe. Though I think it's more willingness to "make news" by saying something controversial/stupid/obnoxious in front of the camera, then the newsfolken can go around asking questions about the stupidity.

Although...

About the only thing the Dems have working for them right now is Sassy Black Women Power! No one dares oppose them directly or they get a double dose of being called racist and sexist.

Sassy, Old, Jerky-Skinned, Blue-Hair White Women Power is a lot of nothing these days.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (iJfKG)

167 158 Children are starving cancer is thriving. You happy Marco!? All to save the billionaires money.

A lotta people all over the world were hurt by this illegal action. Yes, illegally executed, because only Congress can legally change funding.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 10, 2025 04:14 PM (JCZqz)

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Congress: "Spend money on foreign aid. Don't care what. Just spend a lot."

Presidents for 40 years: "Okay. Let the leftists in USAID go nuts."

Trump, suddenly: "Nah. My spending priorities."

DU: "Illegal!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

168 Children are nice.

Boring but nice.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (0HaGk)

169 Wasn't he hardcore RINO at one point? Or was that a different Massie?
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He's always been a libertarian budget hawk, as far as I recall.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (paSBy)

170 Damn. Massie must have had a lightning-strike epiphany in the last year or so. Wasn't he hardcore RINO at one point? Or was that a different Massie?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (g8Ew

No, you're thinking of Raymond Massey. Who played Cary Grant's criminally insane brother, Jonathan, in Arsenic and Old Lace.

We was notoriously in favor of spending increases, and open borders.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (dGCAG)

171 83% cut in a month over $51 billion spending per year. Probably cut a lot of previous years spending carryover K's.

So we could get over 100% of THIS year's spending but still have spending.

HOW MUCH K obligation remains?

Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (0Gnoc)

172 The other islands are just as racist, they're just more low key in their approach.

The one thing all the islands have in common is that they're all lazy as fuck.
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I quite like Hilo - it reminds me of sleepy southern town. Yes, and Yes to your observation. You know there is IQ differential working there.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (pLaQB)

173 154 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?
Posted by: wth

Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.
Posted by: Crusader
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The Gateway Pundit @gatewaypundit 8h
Trump’s DOJ Launches Investigation Into Soaring Egg Prices
READ: thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03…

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 7h
It was a mistake to let the chickens work from home.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (/tzYP)

It's a good time to be a rooster. Have to breed more chickens to make up for all the ones culled.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (N39Ws)

174 Reuters, Ukraine needs $524 billion to recover, rebuild after three years of war, World Bank says
By Andrea Shalal,
February 25, 2025

In part, It showed an increase of over 7% from the last estimate of $486 billion one year ago, with housing, transport, energy, commerce and education being the most affected sectors.
The study quantifies the direct physical damage to buildings and other infrastructure, the impact on people's lives and livelihoods and the cost to "build back better," the institutions said in a joint news release.

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Greatest 'gifts' from USAID were going to Ukraine.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (NFX2v)

175 144 McFaul is dug into the Deep State and foreign policy experts like an Alabama tick. If he says we need USAID , nuke it from orbit. Read The Best and the Brightest, or A Bright Shining Lie each by leftist NYT reporters. Both books talked about vUSAID being a CIA front and it's only morphed into something much worse since
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 10, 2025 04:10 PM (2Km7O)

Or any book about the history of the CIA, the history of the Cold War, or anything about any presidents up until Carter.

USAID plays a prominent role in all of them. USAID was the cover the CIA used to get the US involved in Vietnam, for example.

I'd add the Devils Chessboard to the mix of books worth reading to get a better idea of what is going on behind the scenes.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (uCjyK)

176 Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement

Oh, horseshit. USAID has been around for 60 plus years and there is no readily identifiable coterie of countries singing loud hosannas to the U. S. after all that time.

Exactly. Not one dime. They can hate us for free.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (sZswu)

177
I was just reading some shit. Government spending counts as GDP. All this grift that is now being cut was counting toward GDP figures. There will be a drop in the GDP number due to this.

So, GDP included a small fraction of nothing but pure grift.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (w6EFb)

178 Damn. Massie must have had a lightning-strike epiphany in the last year or so. Wasn't he hardcore RINO at one point? Or was that a different Massie?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2025 04:13 PM (g8Ew

He has always been a budget hawk, but I think being incessantly attacked over refusal to back APIAC sort of redpilled him.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (D7oie)

179 83% is a good baseline. I'm willing to compromise on the rest and get us to 92%.

Posted by: t-bird at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (4Nep/)

180 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
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Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.
Posted by: Crusader at March

This is serious. Stop yolking.

Posted by: Piper at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (Dd38x)

They need to get cracking on this problem STAT!
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I'm sure they're in scramble mode.

Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (azSra)

181 Karma will be king...I wouldn't want to be him or the rest of them. They won't be sparred, you can count on it. Evil people have been *given* control of our government by a slim majority of American voters.

The stain of shame will be indelible for generations.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 10, 2025 04:14 PM (JCZqz)
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These same people also claim government employees create tax revenue for the US government.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

182 Claw back Congresscritters' family grift from NGO's.

Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (0Gnoc)

183 163 It turns out the fires in Myrtle Beach were started by some idiot housefrau burning trash in her fire pit. But Georgetown fires were arson. Hmmm.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 10, 2025 04:18 PM (wBaIH)

184 177
I was just reading some shit. Government spending counts as GDP. All this grift that is now being cut was counting toward GDP figures. There will be a drop in the GDP number due to this.

So, GDP included a small fraction of nothing but pure grift.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (w6EFb)

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Yeah, top line numbers are probably going to be bad for a little while.

But it's non-productive numbers that are actual drains on the actual economy despite being listed as positive to GDP.

We'll be much stronger for having cut government funding.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)

185 I am so comfortable with being hated.

It feels like a fleece blanket.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:18 PM (0HaGk)

186 Max
@MaxNordau
If you’re a terrorist who tricked our country into giving you a green card, Senate Democrats are on your side.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 (🦋 now on bsky)
@JudiciaryDems

Free Mahmoud Khalil.

https://tinyurl.com/35mbjh58

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2025 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

187
You gotta love the way Dems use terms interchangeably.

Illegal somehow now equals immigrant.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2025 04:04 PM (sZswu)

They also confuse 'legal' with 'illegal' quite a lot.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 10, 2025 04:19 PM (y5Bkh)

188 So, GDP included a small fraction of nothing but pure grift.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (w6EFb)
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I think the estimated number is closer to 1.5 Trillion dollars in grift and wasteful spending.

Our current fake GDP will become closer to the actual number and us regular people should have more money in our pockets.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:19 PM (tT6L1)

189 I don't really understand the epithet "white nationalist." Am I supposed to identify as another race in order to be a nationalist, or am I supposed to not be a nationalist because I'm white? Or is is wrong to think your country is the best country in the world because we are free, and the rest of the world is in thrall to oppression and censorship?

Maybe we have to start a new epithet, something like, "multicultural idiot globalist."

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 04:20 PM (K2hug)

190 I am so comfortable with being hated.

It feels like a fleece blanket.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:18 PM (0HaGk)

There are people in this world, whom I love, but who hate me.

I'm not exactly comfortable with it, but I'm also not going to spend any more time trying to convince them not to.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:20 PM (dGCAG)

191 > Children are starving cancer is thriving. You happy Marco!? All to save the billionaires money.

The only children who are starving are the unfortunate kids whose parents are too drug addicted, crazy, or criminally negligent to take care of them. Any parent who is careful and takes a bit of time to sign up for assistance programs and do some basic homemaking is feeding their kids just fine.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:20 PM (lIio7)

192 Shoppers, stock exchange is having a BlueLight special on Tesla @222 & Nvidia @ 106. Donald Trump's tarrif talk and Democrat terrorists have combined to scare the little girls at the exchange.
These are just two of the many opportunities available.
Buy American

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (AJDwy)

193 Seriously. If anything, they hate us more than they did before we started giving them money.

They're going to hate us regardless, so let them hate us for free.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:15 PM (hB7mE)

I would hate us too if I were anyone else on this planet.

Our CIA, both through other means and through USAID, has been fucking around with governments and elections and propaganda since the end of WWII.

They laugh about using suitcases of Marshall Plan money to influence Italian elections for decades to keep the Commies out.

Now, I'm no fan of communism, but if you were an Italian citizen, how would you feel knowing that the US was bribing all of your politicians and funding fake anarchist groups and all kinds of tomfoolery for at least 40 years?

Probably not great. Probably wouldn't love the US.

And this has been going on all over the world.

And it is completely unclear how doing any of this is in the US's best interests. It's clear how it's in the best interests of our "deep state" an "elites" who all get to skim massive amounts of money off the top, but that's about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (uCjyK)

194 It turns out the fires in Myrtle Beach were started by some idiot housefrau burning trash in her fire pit. But Georgetown fires were arson. Hmmm.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 10, 2025 04:18 PM (wBaIH)

Pray for a wet summer, we are going to be seeing a lot of arson fires this year. Like as not financed by ActBlue or whoever is paying people to vandalize Tesla dealerships

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (D7oie)

195 185 I am so comfortable with being hated.

It feels like a fleece blanket.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:18 PM (0HaGk)

I have a magnet in my workspace that says, "Someone called me a condescending bitch and I have never felt so understood."

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (K2hug)

196 Reuters, Ukraine needs $524 billion to recover, rebuild after three years of war, World Bank says
By Andrea Shalal,
.....

Hey Andrea, the war's not over yet.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

197 Mark Rubio as Tony Montana.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:11 PM (pLaQB)

Yeah, didn't have that one on my Bingo card.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Rubio's garbage hardest hit...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (OUMaO)

198 191 > Children are starving cancer is thriving. You happy Marco!? All to save the billionaires money.

The only children who are starving are the unfortunate kids whose parents are too drug addicted, crazy, or criminally negligent to take care of them. Any parent who is careful and takes a bit of time to sign up for assistance programs and do some basic homemaking is feeding their kids just fine.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:20 PM (lIio7)

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It's mostly amazing how cancer is thriving with a recent cut in administrative costs on government grants for research that started about 4 weeks ago.

Cancer moves fast.

Couldn't be anything else causing any possible increase in cancer. Nope, just the cut in administrative funding.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

199 Democrats think a guy in a dress is a woman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (67jte)

200 The only children who are starving are the unfortunate kids whose parents are too drug addicted, crazy, or criminally negligent to take care of them. Any parent who is careful and takes a bit of time to sign up for assistance programs and do some basic homemaking is feeding their kids just fine.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:20 PM (lIio7)

Not to mention your tax dollars going to local school districts, that will feed your children, if you don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (dGCAG)

201 Jizm Crockett owns three houses in Texas. Dallas, Austin and a beach house in Galveston.
Grew up in charmed life in Georgia I think. She has money backing her.

Posted by: DanMan at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (8uzBS)

202 67 Michael McFaul @McFaul 7h

_____________________________

Just to clarify how effective and astute this guy is, it should be noted that his discourse with Putin (and his actions while ambassador to Russia, and Russian advisor to Obama) basically set up the situation we have in Ukraine today. His rhetoric empowered Putin to think that there would be little international response to taking a piece of Ukraine. Additionally, this guy was fully behind the Iranian Nuclear Deal.

Short version. If you were wondering why the Leftists in the White House always get foreign policy wrong. It's because clowns like McFaul are advising them.

Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (dIske)

203 Children are nice.

Boring but nice.
Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (0HaGk)

Really?

Man, boring is the last word I would apply to kiddos.

Maybe if they're not your own.

Otherwise, they are fun as heck. something is always going on.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (iJfKG)

204 Ukraine needs $524 billion to rebuild? Good luck with your new satellite state, Russia!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (wBaIH)

205 Michael McFaul @McFaul 7h
Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement. China is not ending is foreign assistance programs. In an age of great power competition, the Trump administration is unilaterally destroying one of our best instruments of soft power influence.
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Anything Michael McFaul supports, I'm against.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (pAhFN)

206 The only children who are starving are the unfortunate kids whose parents are too drug addicted, crazy, or criminally negligent to take care of them. Any parent who is careful and takes a bit of time to sign up for assistance programs and do some basic homemaking is feeding their kids just fine.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:20 PM (lIio7)

This X1000. Why do we subsidize bad choices?

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (K2hug)

207 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (PCK5/)

208 I haven't been following all the USAID expenses but what does the organization have to do according to-according to DU-with children dying of cancer?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 10, 2025 04:23 PM (42Vb+)

209 I quite like Hilo - it reminds me of sleepy southern town. Yes, and Yes to your observation. You know there is IQ differential working there.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:16 PM (pLaQB)

I like Kihei, Maui. Kind of a laid back small town vibe. Very little to non-existent touristy areas. Great food. The opposite of what used to be Lahaina.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2025 04:23 PM (g8Ew8)

210 The distrust of Rubio (for some of us) stems from the fact he has been in a position of power to actually do something about what ails us as a country yet during his tenure we've instead continued the slide downward. Unless a congressman has been at the forefront of cleaning things up and VOCAL about it (ie, Biggs of AZ, etc) you've been useless. And then where he has acted comes across as a typical establishment insider. Hes been on the wrong side of immigration. In the past he played ord games in support of allowing illegal border crossers to stay and become "legal". That's called amnesty. Rather than admit it, time and again he used "this isn't 'blanket' amnesty..." as if that matters. It was sleazy. With all the proven patriots out there, you need Rubio, why? It smells Pence-esque.

Posted by: Gary R at March 10, 2025 04:23 PM (36OLy)

211 Anything Michael McFaul supports, I'm against.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (pAhFN)

And everything that guy just said is bullshit. -- My Cousin Vinny, so it's officially legal and all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 04:23 PM (K2hug)

212
It's mostly amazing how cancer is thriving with a recent cut in administrative costs on government grants for research that started about 4 weeks ago.

Cancer moves fast.

Couldn't be anything else causing any possible increase in cancer. Nope, just the cut in administrative funding.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:21 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey now, let's not allow objective reality to intrude on emotional hysteria used in place of rational thought!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:23 PM (tT6L1)

213 Really?

Man, boring is the last word I would apply to kiddos.

Maybe if they're not your own.

Otherwise, they are fun as heck. something is always going on.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (iJfKG)

Yeah, I don't think other people's children are boring.

Annoying as F, but not boring.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:23 PM (dGCAG)

214 Now, I'm no fan of communism, but if you were an Italian citizen, how would you feel knowing that the US was bribing all of your politicians and funding fake anarchist groups and all kinds of tomfoolery for at least 40 years?

Probably not great. Probably wouldn't love the US.

Yeah, you're not wrong.

I'm just hoping no one decides to go to war with us about it, now that we're making efforts to do the right thing and stop paying to cause chaos in other people's countries.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:24 PM (hB7mE)

215 "Huge mistake. We needed reform of USAID not dismantlement."

This comment has the same energy as the husband who has been cheating on his wife for 5 years who is shocked she wants a divorce and isn't willing to "fight for their marriage."

I may or may not have been spending too much time lately reading relationship drama posts on reddit. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. They're like soap operas or professional wrestling.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 10, 2025 04:24 PM (B9Prs)

216 The federal funding of cancer research guarantees that there will be a lot of research but no cure. I doesn't pay to find a cure, just a lot of treatment.

Tie the cure to economic success and we will see it happen so fast....

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 04:24 PM (K2hug)

217 Regarding the new Canadian PM -

I do NOT want to hear ONE DAMN THING from the Canadians, or the Brits, or the French, or the EU, or the (etc, etc) about how much more "democratic" their election systems are over there than what we have in the US.

NOT ONE.
DAMN.
THING.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at March 10, 2025 04:24 PM (MB784)

218 83%?

Guess Politico won't meet payroll again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (67jte)

219 Short version. If you were wondering why the Leftists in the White House always get foreign policy wrong. It's because clowns like McFaul are advising them.
Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (dIske)

Why do you think they're getting it wrong?

Maybe they just have different goals than you.

Maybe their primary goal is not "what is in the best interest of Joe Sixpack in flyover country?"

Maybe, instead, it's a whole bunch of people thinking "how can I accumulate more money and more power for myself and my cronies?" and it's a complete corrupt kleptocracy?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (uCjyK)

220 207 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
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Eat the Papaya. Its delicious. Eat as much as you can. Good Stuff.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (pLaQB)

221
Hey, ex-USAID-ians!

Learn to DOGE!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (xG4kz)

222 Chuck Norris turns 85 today

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (RHGPo)

223 She has money backing her.
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I have no facts to back it up, but it sure does appear Crockett's in the AOC mold.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (paSBy)

224 "This leaves USAID in control of nothing, and presumably, it will be shut down. "

Send any employees that refuse to retire/quit quietly to border to work on the wall, since they are about helping people. That would actually benefit America.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (GUOwU)

225 The coolest thing about little kids? They'll run around doing stuff which makes perfect sense to them but completely escapes the casual adult observer.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (tT6L1)

226 217 Regarding the new Canadian PM -

I do NOT want to hear ONE DAMN THING from the Canadians, or the Brits, or the French, or the EU, or the (etc, etc) about how much more "democratic" their election systems are over there than what we have in the US.

NOT ONE.
DAMN.
THING.
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at March 10, 2025 04:24 PM (MB784)

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I want Canada to be petulant and never back down from tariffs.

It's not like their economy is an export economy that relies almost exclusively on the United States to function, or anything. It's not like the US will be able to find alternate sources for tree-based products should the costs get too high.

Perhaps with peace in the Ukraine, we could get a bunch from Russia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 10, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

227 222 Chuck Norris turns 85 today
Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (RHGPo)

More like 85 turns Chuck Norris today.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 10, 2025 04:26 PM (B9Prs)

228 On this day in 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 04:26 PM (RHGPo)

229
Elon was talking about "toxic empathy". And yeah, that's toxic.

Toxic empathy is supporting the drug addict to continue his addiction and self-destruction because you feel for him.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2025 04:26 PM (w6EFb)

230 Ukraine needs $524 billion to rebuild?

No, no Ukraine is fine!
Zelenskyyyyyy himself said that the cities haven't been flattened and life is still going on as normal!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:26 PM (hB7mE)

231 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal
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Bring a swimsuit.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

232
Hey, ex-USAID-ians!

Who's up for a quick game of DOGE ball?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 10, 2025 04:27 PM (xG4kz)

233 I'm just hoping no one decides to go to war with us about it, now that we're making efforts to do the right thing and stop paying to cause chaos in other people's countries.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:24 PM (hB7mE)

Luckily, there is so much corruption endemic in world politics (in no small part due to our CIA / State Dept / USAID / etc), that I doubt anyone is truly capable of rallying a country to go to war over it.

But yeah, I'm not surprised that the citizens of those countries hate us. The leaders of those countries also hate us because we're threatening to cut off the cash spigot.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:27 PM (uCjyK)

234 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??

Guavas. Eat as many guavas as you can.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2025 04:27 PM (D7oie)

235 She has money backing her.
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I have no facts to back it up, but it sure does appear Crockett's in the AOC mold.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (paSBy)

I think she's being tried out. Not sure she's doing well, but one of the problems AOC has is that she seems to have ties to the Deep State.

Crockett may just be your average grifter black Democrat.

If so, she'd be a better vehicle than the worn out Squad chicks.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2025 04:28 PM (dGCAG)

236 I do NOT want to hear ONE DAMN THING from the Canadians, or the Brits, or the French, or the EU, or the (etc, etc) about how much more "democratic" their election systems are over there than what we have in the US.

Looking at Germany specifically, a majority of the their population just voted to severely curtail immigration and the government that led too is now exploding immigration.

I guess that's Our Sacred Democracy (TM) and not at all related to that lower case democracy thing

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

237 225 The coolest thing about little kids? They'll run around doing stuff which makes perfect sense to them but completely escapes the casual adult observer.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (tT6L1)

My dad loved kids, any kids, and would let one sit on his lap and explain everything to him in kid-speak, and just beam. His business partner's kid explained how they had a goat named Yosemite Sam and that Sam went to the vetenerarian and got casserated. Dad laughed out loud to that one.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 04:28 PM (K2hug)

238 It's like I don't know you people any more.

If you're a guy, the obvious fashion accessory is: binoculars.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:28 PM (tT6L1)

239 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal
......

Don't fly Air India.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

240 228 On this day in 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.
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Abe, its called canals.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:28 PM (pLaQB)

241 When in Hawaii, avoid tourist/commercial versions of island foods1. Instead, try local food. Some stereotypically Hawaiian foods that locals don't eat include haupia pie, spam breakfast, and chain restaurants.

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 04:28 PM (RHGPo)

242 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

Wait to purchase sunscreen until you get there. Many types have been deemed to cause damage to wildlife and the ecosystem, so they have been banned.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (W2Pud)

243 Michael Cloud announced he's voting for the CR. MC is very likely the best house rep from Texas. He replaced that Blake Farhenthold fellow from my current district and got his lines moved down the coast towards Victoria/Corpus area.

Posted by: DanMan at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (8uzBS)

244 Maybe that's why Tara is hooking up with Chris Murphy.

Her usual feeding trough is empty due to DOGE.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (67jte)

245 Most of the damage in Ukraine is in the regions that will become part of Russia.

For various reasons Vlad didn't heavily target their cities or infrastructure away from the war zone.

However with the increasing pace of Russian gains that might not be true 3 months from now.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (t0Rmr)

246

"Democrats and globalist policymakers have traditionally defended USAID's expansive role in international development."

Oh, ok.

That includes trying to trans the entire world for some reason and promoting gayness to every third world country.

Just so some unemployable psychos can have something to do.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (et1vG)

247 My current trust level of Rubio:

______|________

Based on his gang of 9 past, he will have to prove to me that he's no longer a globalist dbag.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (/U5Yz)

248 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

Budget extra money for food. Groceries are expensive there.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (hB7mE)

249 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
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Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.
Posted by: Crusader at March

This is serious. Stop yolking.

Posted by: Piper at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (Dd38x)

They need to get cracking on this problem STAT!
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I'm sure they're in scramble mode.
Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (azSra)
***

Omlettin these puns pass me by.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (W/lyH)

250 Karma will be king...I wouldn't want to be him or the rest of them. They won't be sparred, you can count on it. Evil people have been *given* control of our government by a slim majority of American voters.

The stain of shame will be indelible for generations.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 10, 2025 04:14 PM (JCZqz)
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These same people also claim government employees create tax revenue for the US government.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM

It is an undeniable fact that for every $1 in deficit spending by the federal government $10 in economic growth is generated.

Oh and you can't cry "wolf" in a crowded theater.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (e5NfL)

251 Toxic empathy is supporting the drug addict to continue his addiction and self-destruction because you feel for him.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2025 04:26 PM (w6EFb)

The Church refers to that as "confirming someone in their sins." It is a mortal sin all by itself.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (K2hug)

252 Crazy Ivan.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (e5NfL)

253 240 228 On this day in 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.
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Abe, its called canals.

No, it's called dynamite.

Posted by: Oregon whale lifters at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (xCA6C)

254
However with the increasing pace of Russian gains that might not be true 3 months from now.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (t0Rmr)

Good, more money needed for rebuilding

- US Deep State, ready to unleash the no bid contracts to their sons, cousins, and brothers in law, and waiting for the 10% kickback to the various Big Guys.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (uCjyK)

255 Execution factory found in Jalisco, MX.

http://tiny.cc/xouc001

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (lIio7)

256 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal
......

Don't fly Air India.
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Yes, we learned earlier today that they poop in the aisle on Air India flights.

Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (azSra)

257 WOKE UK: Royal Air Force Facing Pilot Shortage After ‘Diversity’ Hiring Backfires

LOL. You can always throw cans of Spotted Dick and Haggis at them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (/U5Yz)

258 237 225 The coolest thing about little kids? They'll run around doing stuff which makes perfect sense to them but completely escapes the casual adult observer.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (tT6L1)

____________________________

My cat likes to shove plastic straws under the Fridge. Same principle applied by little kids. Those little ankle biters should be learning how to put I-Phones together.

Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (dIske)

259 Chuck Norris does not age, as the sun revolves around him

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger: Ready to Free Ukrainian Wagshambas From Zelensky Tyranny at March 10, 2025 04:31 PM (HYKHz)

260 "I have a magnet in my workspace that says, "Someone called me a condescending bitch and I have never felt so understood."
Posted by: tcn in AK "

I kind of love you.

Posted by: eleven at March 10, 2025 04:31 PM (0HaGk)

261 204 Ukraine needs $524 billion to rebuild? Good luck with your new satellite state, Russia!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 10, 2025 04:22 PM (wBaIH)

Germany can finally have lebensraum!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2025 04:31 PM (bss/y)

262 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

go to a local grocery store and pay for an Island Coupon (something like that). You get a 20% discount at stores and shops.

It's the same deal as going to a King Saver in Denver and getting the card that buys you ski passes at resident rates.

Posted by: DanMan at March 10, 2025 04:33 PM (8uzBS)

263 Is he proud of this? I keep trying to imagine who these people really are. They seem to have no empathy nor integrity. I guess it takes a lot of effort to make new terrorists around the world.
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Hmm.
And the empathy for the American Taxpayer, who is being forced to fund this at the barrel of a gun?

None?

That right there is the fucks I have to give.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 10, 2025 04:33 PM (8xFyS)

264 With all the cuts to USAID, it will be interesting to see how well Congress does in the stock market in the next twelve months, compared to 2024.

If they still do well, some mutual fund firm should set up two new mutual funds, one promising yields equal to or better then the 15th best Democrat investor, and the other the 15th best Republican investor. Their stock trades are tied to the best investors in Congress.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 10, 2025 04:33 PM (VNX3d)

265 That includes trying to trans the entire world for some reason and promoting gayness to every third world country.

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I wish every one of our nominees who have to answer that stupid "have you ever sexually assaulted or harrassed anyone" question from the Asian cow Hirano would use the "Stripes" answer: "No, but I'm willing to learn."

Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:33 PM (azSra)

266 Can I have a billion dollars ??

Posted by: runner at March 10, 2025 04:33 PM (g47mK)

267 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??

~~Guavas~~ poi. Eat as ~~many guavas~~ much poi as you can.
Posted by: Kindltot

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

268 > Some stereotypically Hawaiian foods that locals don't eat include haupia pie, spam breakfast, and chain restaurants.

Hawaiians don't eat spam breakfast?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (lIio7)

269 255 Execution factory found in Jalisco, MX.

http://tiny.cc/xouc001
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (lIio7)
___________________________

The Jalisco Cartel is one of the two (and a growing third) Mexican Cartels set-up in Canada at present. They've been there for just over a decade, and use the poorly policed small docks to move their products down into the US. Some of us are convinced that Canadian Law enforcement on the docks and train lines are hopelessly compromised. Canada ignores it...which is why the same operations have such an easy time stealing vehicles and shipping them overseas.

Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (dIske)

270 258 237 225 The coolest thing about little kids? They'll run around doing stuff which makes perfect sense to them but completely escapes the casual adult observer.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (tT6L1)

____________________________

My cat likes to shove plastic straws under the Fridge. Same principle applied by little kids. Those little ankle biters should be learning how to put I-Phones together.
Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (dIske)

I think Minecraft is one of the biggest computer games of all times.

Children yearn for the mines.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (053hg)

271 Michael Cloud announced he's voting for the CR. MC is very likely the best house rep from Texas. He replaced that Blake Farhenthold fellow from my current district and got his lines moved down the coast towards Victoria/Corpus area.

Posted by: DanMan at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (8uzBS)

He's my congresscritter. Fairly responsive if you contact him. He helped a friend with an IRS issue a while back.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (i/l90)

272 Elon is up. On FBN.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (NpAcC)

273 269 255 Execution factory found in Jalisco, MX.

http://tiny.cc/xouc001
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (lIio7)
___________________________

The Jalisco Cartel is one of the two (and a growing third) Mexican Cartels set-up in Canada at present. They've been there for just over a decade, and use the poorly policed small docks to move their products down into the US. Some of us are convinced that Canadian Law enforcement on the docks and train lines are hopelessly compromised. Canada ignores it...which is why the same operations have such an easy time stealing vehicles and shipping them overseas.
Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (dIske)

Linky no loadie..

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:35 PM (PCK5/)

274 232
Hey, ex-USAID-ians!

Who's up for a quick game of DOGE ball?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 10, 2025 04:27 PM (xG4kz)
***

Whatever you do, do not run track with them.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2025 04:35 PM (W/lyH)

275 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

—————

Try not to get eaten by a shark.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (u73oe)

276
Vision4theBlind
@Vision4theBlind
Occultist Marina Abramovic saying Trump is the best thing that has happened to us and referring to him as a magician of the highest order

Posted by: Mister Ghost at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (TGPs7)

277 Yes, we learned earlier today that they poop in the aisle on Air India flights.
Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (azSra)

Pikers. I shit on the food cart on a United Flight in 1995. Of course, I was drunk.

Posted by: Zombie Gerard Finneran at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (EEZHI)

278 So five out of six dollars judged to be wasted or not in our national interest. Sorry you all lost your jobs but they were not necessary in the first place. See what that resume entry will.do for you.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (pw7BA)

279 275 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

—————

Try not to get eaten by a shark.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (u73oe)

Avoid the ocean… check..

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (PCK5/)

280 Execution factory found in Jalisco, MX.

http://tiny.cc/xouc001
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (lIio7)

The Cartels killed your link.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)

281 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

Be ready to meet nothing but hardcore leftists.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (g8Ew8)

282 It's a good time to be a rooster. Have to breed more chickens to make up for all the ones culled.
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Reminds me of the story about Silent Cal (IIRC), visiting a chicken farm with his wife.
The wife, upon seeing there is one rooster asks, "is the hen happy with just one rooster?"
"Yes, she is," says the farmer..
"See," says the wife to Cal, "she is happy with just one man."
"And the roster," asks Cal, "how many hens does he get to service?"
"About a thousand," says the farmer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (8xFyS)

283 Hawaii one word spam

Posted by: Doug at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (Hy+R4)

284 On this day in 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.
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Abe, its called canals.

No, it's called dynamite.
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Canal breaching??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (/tzYP)

285 > Linky no loadie..

Huh. It works for me. Musk said X has been under a cyberattack, so maybe it was a server hiccup.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (lIio7)

286 270 258 237 225 The coolest thing about little kids? They'll run around doing stuff which makes perfect sense to them but completely escapes the casual adult observer.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 10, 2025 04:25 PM (tT6L1)

____________________________

My cat likes to shove plastic straws under the Fridge. Same principle applied by little kids. Those little ankle biters should be learning how to put I-Phones together.
Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (dIske)

I think Minecraft is one of the biggest computer games of all times.

Children yearn for the mines.
Posted by: Just Lily at March 10, 2025 04:34 PM (053hg)
***

I put the grandkids in a box all the time so they can learn mime craft.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (W/lyH)

287 Try not to get eaten by a shark.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (u73oe)

Avoid the ocean… check..
Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (PCK5/)

Better stay away from those volcanos too.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (B9Prs)

288
The Solari Report
@solari_the
Hero of the Week: March 10, 2025: Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi

From fiscal years 1998 to 2015, $21 trillion went missing from the U.S. Departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development (DOD and HUD). After Catherine and Professor Mark Skidmore published several landmark reports documenting this astounding fact, the government forestalled any further research into the missing money by promulgating, in October 2018, Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board Statement 56 (“SFFAS 56” or, as we refer to it, “FASAB 56”

. FASAB 56 is an administrative policy that essentially lets the government keep secret books in contravention of the federal financial management laws enshrined in the Constitution.

People often ask us, “Why does no one else ever talk about the missing money?” In early 2019, intrepid journalist Matt Taibbi (
@mtaibbi
) did. After the implementation of FASAB 56, Taibbi not only gained mastery over the complex topics of “classified money-moving” and failed Pentagon audits but wrote two excellent articles about these developments at Rolling Stone.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (TGPs7)

289 These same people also claim government employees create tax revenue for the US government.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

I never thought of that before but I suppose there's no reason their taxpayer-funded paychecks wouldn't also be federally taxed.

State employees still have to pay tax on their state-taxpayer funded paychecks.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (hB7mE)

290 Ukraine on the international street corner -"Brother, can you spare a billion dollars?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (67jte)

291 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

Lappert's Ice Cream is delicious. Buy souvenirs at Costco if you have a membership there.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (i/l90)

292 Posted by: Mister Ghost at March 10, 2025 04:36 PM (TGPs7)

Yuck. Go away evil bitch.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (qRfDz)

293 281 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

Be ready to meet nothing but hardcore leftists.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (g8Ew

Leave MAGA paraphenalia at home.. check

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (PCK5/)

294 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

Different pointers depending upon the particular island.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (lTGtQ)

295 Yes, we learned earlier today that they poop in the aisle on Air India flights.
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Ace should have an open thread on either Friday or Saturday where he asks us all to post things we've learned this week from the AoS site.

Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (azSra)

296 Canal breaching??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (/tzYP)

Anal bleaching.

Posted by: Mayor Buttplug at March 10, 2025 04:39 PM (9041i)

297 Big Stacy gone starv, It will take years though

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2025 04:39 PM (NtVYv)

298 277 Yes, we learned earlier today that they poop in the aisle on Air India flights.
Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:30 PM (azSra)
_______________________

Indians are ....intriguing. The big problem with them relative to excrement is how they think a beach is a perfectly good placed to drop a deuce. Truly, it's a growing problem in Canada.

Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:39 PM (dIske)

299 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

When Bobby Brady found the idol in the rubble
Had no idea it would cause so much trouble
When Greg tried to throw it back in the ocean
There was a rumble, an awful commotion
Don't ask me how, but the Tiki found Bobby
He thought the idol was some Hawaiian hobby
Turned out the God was mean and vicious
Didn't respond to Bobby's 3 wishes...

Posted by: The Presidents Of The United States Of America at March 10, 2025 04:39 PM (EEZHI)

300 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

—————

Try not to get eaten by a shark.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Oh yeah, that's a good one. Don't swim near the mouth of a river or at dawn and dusk.

... Or possibly don't swim near the mouth of a river at dawn or dusk.

One of the two.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:40 PM (hB7mE)

301 Going to Maui…

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:40 PM (PCK5/)

302
The "empathy" thing that has the woketards all in a lather is from when he was on Rogan last time. Here's an example:
https://tinyurl.com/2dmebxo8

They quote Elon and Rogan accurately, but note how they turn it around. Elon is a Nazi. Just read Elon and Rogan's words, and then marvel at how they turn that into Nazi genocidal thinking.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 10, 2025 04:40 PM (w6EFb)

303 Jizm Crockett is from St. Louis, Missouri, not Georgia.

Posted by: DanMan at March 10, 2025 04:40 PM (8uzBS)

304 303 Jizm Crockett is from St. Louis, Missouri, not Georgia.
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St. Louis was once a very nice city no that long ago.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (pLaQB)

305
To pep up things, I think relay races in track and field should substitute jousting lances for those puny batons.

Bangalore torpedoes would be an acceptable substitute, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (xG4kz)

306 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

When Bobby Brady found the idol in the rubble
Had no idea it would cause so much trouble
When Greg tried to throw it back in the ocean
There was a rumble, an awful commotion
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This brings up another suggestion--stay out of strange caves, and haul ass if you see Vincent Price lurking anywhere!

Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (azSra)

307 I'd like to put air tags (metaphorically) on a few hundred of those USAID dollars.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (pw7BA)

308 any pointers, anybody??

Find an excuse to not go. They hate haoles.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (QMSy2)

309 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

You can cook hamburgers on the lava in active volcanoes. Everyone does it.

You just have to be quick with the spatula.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (iJfKG)

310 I put the grandkids in a box all the time so they can learn mime craft.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2025 04:37 PM (W/lyH)

______________________

Made me laugh. Mime Craft...heh. Incidentally, my cat likes boxes too. She's of the "if I fitz, I sitz" variety.

Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (dIske)

311 303 Jizm Crockett is from St. Louis, Missouri, not Georgia.
Posted by: DanMan at March 10, 2025 04:40 PM (8uzBS)

As I have said before, St Louis is a boil on the ass of my fair state…

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (PCK5/)

312 Toxic empathy = emotional manipulation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2025 04:42 PM (67jte)

313 Anal bleaching.
Posted by: Mayor Buttplug
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Zat's zee joke.

Posted by: Rainier Wolfcastle at March 10, 2025 04:42 PM (/tzYP)

314 308 any pointers, anybody??

Find an excuse to not go. They hate haoles.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 10, 2025 04:41 PM (QMSy2)

Can’t not go…

Posted by: tubal at March 10, 2025 04:43 PM (PCK5/)

315 Randi Weingarten: People Are Really Angry, Trump Is Taking Away Opportunities From Disadvantaged Kids.

.. is Trump taking away the kids' next check from the government ?

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2025 04:43 PM (RHGPo)

316 Going to Maui…

Posted by: tubal

Hakalaka (sp) national park is nice. Not as exciting as the big island, where an eruption is going on now in their park.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2025 04:43 PM (lTGtQ)

317 Posted by: Mister Ghost at March 10, 2025 04:38 PM (TGPs7)

Let's not forget about Rumsfeld mentioning on September 10, 2001, that the Pentagon couldn't track / audit 2.3 Trillion dollars of spending.

Then, of course, events took over.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:43 PM (uCjyK)

318
Indians are ....intriguing. The big problem with them relative to excrement is how they think a beach is a perfectly good placed to drop a deuce. Truly, it's a growing problem in Canada.
Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2025 04:39 PM (dIske)

I'm going to get willowed here, I'm sure, but in an earlier thread I posted a link to this PSA put out in India to try to convince people to use toilets and stop shitting in the streets.

"Take your poo to the loo". Kind of catchy. https://tinyurl.com/ywh4nmhh

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:44 PM (uCjyK)

319 nood, of course

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 10, 2025 04:44 PM (uCjyK)

320 257 WOKE UK: Royal Air Force Facing Pilot Shortage After ‘Diversity’ Hiring Backfires

LOL. You can always throw cans of Spotted Dick and Haggis at them.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
_____

They put their spotted dicks in cans? So they are gay after all.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 10, 2025 04:44 PM (Dv3i1)

321 Randi you evil piece of flotsam

You took away their childhoods

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2025 04:44 PM (67jte)

322 Hawaii in spring has humpback whales in the area prior to their migration to Alaska. There are boats that will take you out to get close ups.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2025 04:45 PM (lTGtQ)

323 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 10, 2025 04:45 PM (9041i)

324 Going to Hawaii next month.. family thing.. sort of along for the ride… any pointers, anybody??
Posted by: tubal

Watch where others are standing and position yourself accordingly to prevent the island you are on from tipping over or submerging.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at March 10, 2025 04:45 PM (ESO0m)

325 So the Democrats are left with yelling at the sky, and making tij Tok cringe.. LOL

Go figure.. the elected representatives of the left have no idea what to do. Acting like schmucks publicly is the way I guess

Bye Dems!

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at March 10, 2025 04:46 PM (XLfSN)

326 Going to Maui…
Posted by: tuba

There's a pretty neat private botanical garden that's worth a visit, if it's still in operation.

And a tourist cave that's alright.

Driving the Road to Hana is overrated, though you can get t-shirts that said you survived it. A Chevy (?) HHR is not the vehicle to drive it in though, because the A-pillar will obscure your sight of the road in the hairpin turns.

They also have tours where they drive you up to the observatory on top of the mountain and you can bike back down. (... I might be conflating two separate events) Don't even try to move fast when you're on top of the mountain. That air is thin.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 10, 2025 04:48 PM (hB7mE)

327 249 When will the Department of Government Eggs bring the prices down?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
-

Just what we need - more shell companies!
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Eggzactly.
Posted by: Crusader at March

This is serious. Stop yolking.

Posted by: Piper at March 10, 2025 04:09 PM (Dd38x)

They need to get cracking on this problem STAT!
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I'm sure they're in scramble mode.
Posted by: Crusader at March 10, 2025 04:17 PM (azSra)
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Omlettin these puns pass me by.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2025 04:29 PM (W/lyH)
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Who did you all poach these yolks from?

Posted by: Ciampino - slept the whole day at March 10, 2025 04:49 PM (KjLnc)

328 >>>The only children who are starving are the unfortunate kids whose parents are too drug addicted, crazy, or criminally negligent to take care of them. Any parent who is careful and takes a bit of time to sign up for assistance programs and do some basic homemaking is feeding their kids just fine.
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Don't forget the child who died of oxygen starvation when his 300 lb foster mom sat on his head. Wonder if she got off on that?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 10, 2025 04:50 PM (AJDwy)

329 USAID was created to combat communism in foreign countries. In "evolved" to promoting LGBTQ agendas worldwide.

Posted by: El Mariachi at March 10, 2025 05:03 PM (nLFEI)

330 Find your most insolent, lazy, entitled twenty year old. They demand mom and dad keep funding their life well into their 20's and beyond, don't want to work, want every crazy idea in their head not only to be accepted but lauded, and you have today's Democrat. The parents just cut off their free ride and they are throwing a massive tantrum including name calling, posting inane Tik Tok videos, cursing, flashing paddles with stupid slogans, waving canes, and stomping their feet. The adults are in charge again.

Posted by: Cheri at March 10, 2025 05:13 PM (oiNtH)

331 Potash. [Just for one.]

Careful what you wish for.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 10, 2025 05:29 PM (/tzYP)

332 Some of the spending may be owed for work already done, or have valid, strategic value or humanitarian significance. Mind you I doubt a penny of it can be justified under the constitution, but if USAID is paying for, say, doctors to treat malaria in Lesotho, that's at least reasonably moral.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2025 07:08 PM (2VST1)

333 The parents just cut off their free ride and they are throwing a massive tantrum including name calling, posting inane Tik Tok videos, cursing, flashing paddles with stupid slogans, waving canes, and stomping their feet. The adults are in charge again.

Its even worse than that for the left. Their entire life blood is this government funding being shuffled around under the table. Millions for condoms to Gaza was never about birth control, it was about pipelining money allocated for that into pockets and activist organizations.

The missing Covid money, the bizarre social security numbers, the loans made to children, the tax refunds going to people more than once, all of it was ways to take your tax money and enrich people and pay for activism at every level of society and the world.

And without that, the left has no future.... 1/2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2025 07:10 PM (2VST1)

334 Remember all those people we saw in college getting Underwater Feminist Basketweaving for Trans degrees? How we said "they have no future in the real world" Well they DID have a future, as long as organizations like USAID kept funding them.

All those companies we watched go woke, lose customers and stocks, and stay open? Federal grants and funds propping them up. George Soros even he can't afford to keep all this going? He didn't HAVE to. He'd give them money, then USAID and other organizations gave it right back to him.

What happens when you cut off this flood of cash? Where do they go? How do they live? What happens to the blue-haired eternal protester being paid 40 bucks an hour to show up and break Tesla lot windows when the Act Blue money dries up?

They face that real world we warned them about, that's what. And they will literally kill to prevent that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2025 07:13 PM (2VST1)

335 Did anybody ever get to the bottom as to how much money was cut?

This "83%" that people are getting excited about in here is a meaningless number - it's 83% of the contracts. That could be 99% of the money, or it could be 1% of the money. We have no idea what we're even talking about.

That fact that we're being fed a meaningless number ought to tell us that it's misleading. Probably a LOT less than 83% of the money was cut. Maybe less than half.

Posted by: MrExcitement at March 10, 2025 07:25 PM (hOOi9)

336 I really like looking through an article that will make people think.

Also, many thanks for allowing me to comment!

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