Scott Bessent: 10% of US Government Spending Is Stolen Every Single Year

I mentioned this on Friday but it's getting more notice now.

Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being squandered on waste, fraud, and abuse each year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shockingly claimed in a recent interview.
Somewhere between 5-10% of the total federal budget gets gobbled up by wrongdoers each year, Bessent said, citing data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
"If we can narrow that number, President Trump asked for a $500 billion increase in the defense budget to fortify the 10 to 20 years of neglect," Bessent told journalist Christopher Rufo in a recent interview.
"If we need to flex up our military budget, if we can get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we can finance a safer, sounder US with that, without taking on more debt. Sounds like a pretty good outcome to me."
A GAO analysis found that between $233 billion and $521 billion was lost annually due to fraud during fiscal years 2018 through 2022.
Since fiscal year 2003, improper payments -- separate from fraud -- have likely cost taxpayers about $2.8 trillion, the GAO also found.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to Minnesota -- and in another bit of insurrection, Tim Walz refused to provide security for the visiting Secretary.

Bessent says Walz knows what's coming:

When Bessent came for this roundtable discussion, Gov. Tim Walz reportedly didn't guarantee security at the state capitol, which led to Bessent delivering this haymaker:

Tim Walz is a coward. He is a coward. He would not guarantee that the Treasury Secretary would have protection in the Minnesota State Capitol. He's afraid of what is coming.
"He's not gonna be able to hide," he said. "We will get there."

I hope that means an arrest is coming, and in fact I do take him as implying that.

🔥 NEW: Sec. Scott Bessent Says Tim Walz Won’t Be Able to Hide From This Fraud Investigation

“Tim Walz is a coward … He is afraid of what is coming and he's not going to be able to hide.” pic.twitter.com/Qc4tDxJEJz
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 11, 2026

Update on Scott Adams' passing:

This is gross, @nytimes pic.twitter.com/KkC9u2NCiQ
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 13, 2026

Posted by: Ace at 01:00 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at January 13, 2026 01:02 PM (aQ25I)

2 I'm sorry. I saw the NYT headline and Scott Adam's and just skipped over the entire thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:03 PM (ix8EF)

3 First everyone is named Nick, now everyone is named Scott...

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (T+ssH)

4 NYT's... Go to hell...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (VE6XX)

5 I'm more in the 30%+ is fraud camp.

And yes the NYT is a despicable anti American democrat (communist) propaganda outlet.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (xvV+O)

6 100% of the Budget is stolen from the Citizens

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (ZcsJV)

7 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 13, 2026 01:04 PM (cYBz/)

8 10% is stolen? Get the fuck out. It's easily triple that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

9 "He's not gonna be able to hide," he said. "We will get there."

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Seems like Trump has staffed up with people whose attitudes are, "Democrats tried to literally assassinate our standard bearer. Let's fuck them up in response."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

10 Way more than 10%.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (ExV1e)

11 >>I'm more in the 30%+ is fraud camp.

I don't know that you are at risk of losing the Showcase Showdown, with that estimate.

I'd hedge my bet to 27%, just to increase my odds of getting there, though.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (ZcsJV)

12 That’s a heeluva Fraudconomy!

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (HvW4E)

13 Bessent for President in 2028!

Posted by: Gref at January 13, 2026 01:06 PM (5rh/l)

14 If you stopped the Cliff Hanger at 10%, he'd barely be in the Foothills.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:06 PM (ZcsJV)

15 11 >>I'm more in the 30%+ is fraud camp.

I don't know that you are at risk of losing the Showcase Showdown, with that estimate.

I'd hedge my bet to 27%, just to increase my odds of getting there, though.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (ZcsJV)

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I'd imagine 50-60% is fraudulent.

I mean...what oversight does Medicaid have? I know what oversight it should have. What oversight does it actually have?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

16 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (UjdFS)

17 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (NcvvS)

18 Shiite Axis of Power kinda explains itself.

In case you don't get it, it's pretty Shiite'y

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (NtVYv)

19 >> You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.

I don't think you can be that forgetful, carrying the ones?

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (ZcsJV)

20 RIP Mr. Adams. I thoroughly enjoyed the Dilbert cartoon strip for years and years. Here's hoping he and Wally are chatting by heaven's coffee urn.

Posted by: A sad day at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (TbWk/)

21 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)

22 Ten percent of the DOD budget is

90 billion dollars.

No one outside of the Government has the balls to touch it because they would slam you into a cell in a millisecond.

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (rbIOb)

23 10 percent? That's funny.

I bet more than half of every tax dollar collected in the last 50 years wound up in somebody's pocket it was never earmarked to go. I bet more than half of every tax dollar collected was abject fraud.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (TN0g+)

24 Burn it all down.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (W2Pud)

25 10% huh? Sure.

Pull the other one, ok?

(Recall earlier poster comment @ local diners closing due to lost employees. That was also tax dollars)

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (XuXeR)

26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (6xRrr)

27 Will Tim Walz do a perp walk or a perp sashay? I bet on the later.

Put him in with a Somalia Bubba in Supermax.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

28 NYT gonna NYT. WaPo has an article trying to shame Erika Kirk for being an advocate for traditional marriage but she's barely been home with her kids the last 5 months.

As everyone is asking, "and what happened 5 months ago that might have caused that?"

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

29 WHy is it always Social Security and Medicare that are running out of money and not welfare, section 8, food stamps (I won't call it S**P), medicaid, foreign aid, and all other handout to non citizens, non payers into the system?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (xvV+O)

30 Now way it's only 5-10 percent.

There is also, sort of the soft fraud, which is marginally illegal or not enforced that is HUGE

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (NtVYv)

31 Wait, so they are going to go after fraud so they can send more money to the Pentagon... the place where they cannot pass an audit?

Uh.... guys?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (mP0Kj)

32
Seems like Trump has staffed up with people whose attitudes are, "Democrats tried to literally assassinate our standard bearer. Let's fuck them up in response."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM

I voted for this

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (tljrc)

33 Willowed:

James O'Keefe has got something coming up any moment on X about Vance's Secret Service Detail.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:00 PM (golfv)
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Live link - NOW:

https://tinyurl.com/uu6b6xu9

10% of the Secret Service agents.... I hope it's ONLY 10%!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (golfv)

34 26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (6xRrr)

From your lips to God’s ears.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (0GYGE)

35 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong"

*looks at total wealth surrounding the various Capitols. Yeah, government is where it's at*

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (XuXeR)

36
Hell's coming for breakfast, Insurrection Sergeant-Major!

Lose weight now so you'll look better garbed in stripes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (xG4kz)

37 26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!

What took so long?

Posted by: The black pillers, who are never happy at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

38 Will Tim Walz do a perp walk or a perp sashay? I bet on the later.
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A hemp necktie jig under the light of a streetlamp.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:10 PM (xvV+O)

39
21 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)

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It creates an ecosystem.

You pay for dozens of levels of hundreds, if not thousands, of organizations that all have the implicit need to support the system that permits their existence, the free market not having the inefficiencies to tolerate them.

USAID was $40 billion a year. That's 5 Hollywoods. Hollywood makes $8 billion in box office sales a year. How persuasive is Hollywood to half the country? How persuasive is an ecosystem 5 times bigger also dedicated to infecting the world with propaganda about the necessity of more government spending?

What about an ecosystem 10 times greater than even that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

40 A fraud within a fraud within a fraud within.....

https://tinyurl.com/uu6b6xu9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (golfv)

41 Elon Musk revealed that Department of Treasury officers go their entire career approving every single payment that comes across their desk. They never deny, even when the payment is going to known fraud groups or known terrorist groups.

I've no idea what percent is fraud, but given that nobody is minding the store, it's got to be a lot.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (Yp6az)

42 Willowed-

Twitchy-

People Magazine Allows Woke, Mouth-Breathing She/Her to Turn Scott Adams' Obit Into HATE-FILLED Hit Piece

https://tinyurl.com/3c9khcrk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (NpAcC)

43 Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being squandered on waste, fraud, and abuse each year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shockingly claimed in a recent interview.

Triple whatever you think you know.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (pkq24)

44 25 10% huh? Sure.

Pull the other one, ok?

(Recall earlier poster comment @ local diners closing due to lost employees. That was also tax dollars)
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (XuXeR)

Yeah, this is like the Government number where we had 11 million illegals living in this country... for like 20 years... even though more illegals came in every year, that number never seemed to go up.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (mP0Kj)

45 >>*looks at total wealth surrounding the various Capitols.

2.5 Billion to do some Renovation Work?

That sounds about right.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (ZcsJV)

46 ‘ Scott Bessent: 10% of US Government Spending Is Stolen Every Single Year’

I have no idea how close to right he is about that. But the public will be very willing to believe it .

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (jbnUc)

47 I think 80% of the Federal Budget is misspent, but only 40% of that is outright fraud. The rest does nothing to help America, only the Inside Party.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (u82oZ)

48

"10%" is like "two weeks"

Posted by: pawn at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (rbIOb)

49 The Left looks at fraud like we do a tax cut. They just view it as a form of stimulus that "their tribe" gets as tribute. And that it employs people, circulates in electioneering, etc.

They don't care about the connection to an act of fraud, lying, cheating, etc .They think all capitalism is basically built on the same thing.

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (eIzlH)

50 This is gross, @nytimes

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New York Slimes

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (7nfvi)

51 Bessent isn't a bullshitter or Trumpian troller. If he's making public statements about Walz like this, then I suspect something big is coming. Or at least I hope so. There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

52 James O'Keefe has got something coming up any moment on X about Vance's Secret Service Detail.

I didn't understand O'Keefe's success until I saw a story the other day: in addition to the pizza tracker that determines when something is up at the Pentagon, there's also a gay bar tracker. If the gay bars nearest the Pentagon are dead, something's happening.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (2ocoG)

53 So the "10% for the big guy" comment when Biden was in was a kind of foreshadowing?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (O7YUW)

54 16 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (UjdFS)

If you include all waste, fraud and abuse, I bet the percentage is much higher. Finding out how much money was routed to subversive groups through USAID was just the tip of the iceberg. I suspect a solid plurality of fed money is spent in this fashion.

Posted by: FedGov does not serve the people of the US of A at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (TbWk/)

55 52 Bessent isn't a bullshitter or Trumpian troller. If he's making public statements about Walz like this, then I suspect something big is coming. Or at least I hope so. There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

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I'm tellin' ya's.

Targeting letter from the FBI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

56 Where my SNAP at? I need me some food. I need Ranch Doritos. I need some HoHos. I need me some grape Nehi!

Posted by: LaQuisha at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (iu4b5)

57 41 A fraud within a fraud within a fraud within.....

Men will do just about anything for access to...women.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (Riz8t)

58 16 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.
Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:07 PM (UjdFS)

Too many people, especially conservatives, have the attitude of “I voted for the right people. I’m going home now.” Expecting everything to run on autopilot.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (0GYGE)

59 When I worked at McClellan AFB one of the dinosaurs was destroying untested generator exciters by striking them with a hammer and then quickly testing them as bad so he could fill out a red tag asserting them as unrepairable scrap. He would do just enough that he got credit for his 'work' to earn a 10% bonus on his yearly salary.

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (anQFD)

60 > Scott Bessent: 10% of US Government Spending Is Stolen Every Single Year
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I'm betting it's actually way, way north of 10%

And 100% of my goddamn taxes paid every year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (NwnyJ)

61 I mean...what oversight does Medicaid have? I know what oversight it should have. What oversight does it actually have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Every state has a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, usually within the AGs office. But they recover less than a billion a year for all units combined.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XvL8K)

62 USAID was $40 billion a year. That's 5 Hollywoods. "

Also explains the entire EV idiocy. The Feds could throw so much cash that they literally swamped the auto industry.

Your tax dollars...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XuXeR)

63 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (iu4b5)

64 What are the odds of graft and corruption in the US Postal Service?

Posted by: mrp at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)

65 Scott Adams was cancelled by newspapers. Seem like a badge of honor to me.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (rJ48h)

66 You don't get $38 trillion debt without something being horribly wrong.
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Well, we built an economy on debt expansion, and at some point you run out of fools to borrow more money, so the government has to do it.

Posted by: Methos at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (vSvIl)

67 You talk to anybody that works in government and is willing to be candid, the amount of fraud is way more than 10%. I legit think it's closer to 40%.

And that trickles to everything, including elections. If million of people can defraud the government of trillions of dollars, you really don't think millions of bullshit names aren't on our voter rolls?

Posted by: Leupold at January 13, 2026 01:15 PM (eIzlH)

68 What are the odds of graft and corruption in the US Postal Service?

Yes.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

69
Just leaked that Steve Witkoff had a long meeting with Shah, Jr over the weekend.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (w6EFb)

70 One hopes and prays Tampon Timmy’s scalp is just the start of a long and large collection of profoundly deserving scoundrels, thieves, and scrofulous types.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (gToVg)

71 When I worked at McClellan AFB one of the dinosaurs was destroying untested generator exciters by striking them with a hammer and then quickly testing them as bad so he could fill out a red tag asserting them as unrepairable scrap. He would do just enough that he got credit for his 'work' to earn a 10% bonus on his yearly salary.
Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:13 PM (anQFD)

Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (NtVYv)

72 Well, we built an economy on debt expansion, and at some point you run out of fools to borrow more money, so the government has to do it.

Margaret Thatcher out front told 'em, but they weren't listening.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (2ocoG)

73 People’s headline described Scott Adams as “disgraced”…. They’re the disgrace.

I somehow missed the kerfuffle when it happened but as I go back and read what he said in context of reading some poll results… his comments were decidedly not racist. The media lies… another day ending in y

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (ZtAny)

74 People Magazine Allows Woke, Mouth-Breathing She/Her to Turn Scott Adams' Obit Into HATE-FILLED Hit Piece

https://tinyurl.com/3c9khcrk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (NpAcC)
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Birds of a feather:

https://tinyurl.com/bh5nyun9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (golfv)

75 DOGE was never allowed to get near Department of War or CIA or NSA.

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (anQFD)

76 90% of federal spending is waste, fraud and abuse.

The other 10% is stolen.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (T+ssH)

77 Every state has a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, usually within the AGs office. But they recover less than a billion a year for all units combined.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XvL8K)

That's how clean Medicaid is. Barely a smidgen of corruption. No kickbacks and bribes here. No sirree.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

78 Well, we built an economy on debt expansion"

This. Cannot be overstated. Also, the possibility of decreasing population scares the living hell out of our "experts"...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)

79 Note that is fraud, what about the "waste" and "abuse"?

So by the government's own admission, somewhere between 20% and 30% is just taken never to be seen again.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (Vh9CX)

80 Hehehe...all these Billions floating around, and Biden can't raise enough to construct his "Pop-up Bookmobile."

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (dIske)

81 What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up the holocaust? What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up Stalinn extermination of Ukrainians? What do you expect from the newspaper that covered up Castro‘s Bolshevism?

Posted by: Avi at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (ieodf)

82
I saw the NYT headline and Scott Adam's and just skipped over the entire thing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I was hoping to not see any of those filthy obits. Not one, not even a headline or a snippet. I'm sure the WaPo, which canceled him, will be similarly "balanced."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Jxa0O)

83 Scott Bessent is LYING! There's no way it's only 10%.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Dv3i1)

84 When I worked at McClellan AFB one of the dinosaurs was destroying untested generator exciters by striking them with a hammer and then quickly testing them as bad so he could fill out a red tag asserting them as unrepairable scrap. He would do just enough that he got credit for his 'work' to earn a 10% bonus on his yearly salary.

You'll find these low effort workers gaming KPIs in civilian life too, but it's much easier to deal with them.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Yp6az)

85 Scott Adams' comic strip Dilbert was widely cancelled by newspapers and dropped by its distributor in February 2023 after he referred to Black people as a "hate group" and advised white people to "get the hell away from Black people" during a YouTube livestream."

Well, ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (NtVYv)

86 10%? It's not nearly as bad as I thouhht.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (9cHSL)

87 did you see the People magazine article/headline on Mr Adams?!?!

DISGUSTING

"Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68"

and the Miss Piggy who wrote that drivel

she looks exactly as you would expect!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (emBoF)

88
Wait, so they are going to go after fraud so they can send more money to the Pentagon... the place where they cannot pass an audit?

Uh.... guys?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 13, 2026 01:09 PM (mP0Kj)

Galactic Overlord-level spec ops forces that mow down foreign miscreants like Maduro's Cuban mercenary guards, wiping out the Wagner Group thugs in Syria, flying through the best radars that Russia and China can build without breaking a sweat...

THAT'S how you waste taxpayer money.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (y9nCu)

89 There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

Guarding?

Posted by: Pete B at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (T+ssH)

90 62 I mean...what oversight does Medicaid have? I know what oversight it should have. What oversight does it actually have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Every state has a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, usually within the AGs office. But they recover less than a billion a year for all units combined.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:14 PM (XvL8K)

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And MN has provided a shining beacon of an example about corruption at the state level. Because voters don't care about state-level corruption when there are squirrels to scream about in DC.

Seriously.

More people are angry at theater votes with no chance of actual passage into law from DC right now than they are even aware of any corruption in their state capitals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

91 I propose the "Claw Back Law"

no statute of limitations on discovered theft of government property...and make it generational

Mitch McConnel will die as a deep multi millionaire, so will Nancy P. All of them need to be doged because most of the piracy is internal.

Posted by: DanMan at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (8uzBS)

92 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (Jxa0O)

Yep; I'm just avoiding all of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (ix8EF)

93 Can you guess what air force base housing maintenance did when all the work was done and the building cleaned trucks washed etc and it was a nice day?
Yep we would shoot the shit and drink beer.

Posted by: torabora at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (anQFD)

94 That's how clean Medicaid is. Barely a smidgen of corruption. No kickbacks and bribes here. No sirree.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Wasn't implying that at all. In fact, their combined budgets probably exceed the amount they recover.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (XvL8K)

95 Hehehe...all these Billions floating around, and Biden can't raise enough to construct his "Pop-up Bookmobile."

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (dIske)

hehe, hehe, Beavis, he said Pop-up

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (NtVYv)

96 Walz is a fucking dirtyass simppig

soypig

cuckedpig

Whichever is the greatest insult

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (REq0p)

97 hey how come Bill Clinton doesn't have to respond to subpoenas?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (emBoF)

98 10% is stolen? Get the fuck out. It's easily triple that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

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That is my estimate as well and not to be confused with spending on stupid things we could definitely do without.

Posted by: Decaf at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (Z8jzG)

99 Trump at 2.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (9cHSL)

100 What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up the holocaust? What do you expect from a newspaper that covered up Stalinn extermination of Ukrainians? What do you expect from the newspaper that covered up Castro‘s Bolshevism?
——-

Chiang in Formosa. Yugoslavia. Hungary. Yeah, it’s really strange how they “miss” so many huge stories, ain’t it?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (gToVg)

101 >> how come Bill Clinton doesn't have to respond to subpoenas?

You can't subpoena the First Black President!

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:21 PM (ZcsJV)

102 You will not find any fraud if you do not look for the fraud.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (xvV+O)

103
Bessent isn't a bullshitter or Trumpian troller. If he's making public statements about Walz like this, then I suspect something big is coming. Or at least I hope so. There are few people I would like to see guarding their assholes in the prison shower than this slimy cestoda.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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WHEN? When, dad, when when when when?????

Really, I prefer these announcements like 24 hours in advance, not "Oh, he's got it comin' for sure," or better still BREAKING, Walz is arrested.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (Jxa0O)

104 get the hell away from Black people

*************

I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (REq0p)

105 Define stolen. Outright larceny? Which category do you put all of the vote buying $'s?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (vzcgi)

106 and the Miss Piggy who wrote that drivel

she looks exactly as you would expect!

They always do. The great Mr. Limbaugh's statement that "feminism was invented to give ugly women access to the mainstream of society" just keeps getting proven.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (2ocoG)

107 Birds of a feather:

https://tinyurl.com/bh5nyun9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:17 PM (golfv)
*******
Not even fit for the lining of a birdcage.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (NpAcC)

108 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (emBoF)

109 Folks, check your chump change:

https://tinyurl.com/35wx4kjn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (golfv)

110 This. Cannot be overstated. Also, the possibility of decreasing population scares the living hell out of our "experts"...
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)

We spend trillions on fraud, import tens of millions of foreigners who won't assimilate, tolerate untold amounts of crime, all because they don't want to spend a few hundred billion honoring the dumbass promises they made with their old age social programs while unwinding them to get rid of the danger to the government.

If we did that then a slowly declining population wouldn't matter and would eventually stabilize.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

111 26 Huh. From a laughing stock of a VP candidate to a convict in @18 months. I definitely voted for this!
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Will we need to put Walz's picture on cartons of milk to find him?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (pLaQB)

112 103 You will not find any fraud if you do not look for the fraud.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (xvV+O)

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"You can't prove that there's election fraud!"

"If I elect someone to the executive branch who's interested in investigating election fraud I can."

-such a candidate wins election-

"You can't investigate election fraud! There isn't any! You'll just discourage people from voting!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

113 Clinton is married to Hillary. Hasn't he suffered enough?

Posted by: Weasel at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (DJPFk)

114 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Was it Sharpton or Jackson that said they even do that?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

115 Really, I prefer these announcements like 24 hours in advance, not "Oh, he's got it comin' for sure," or better still BREAKING, Walz is arrested.
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Two weeks.

Posted by: Golden Oldie at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (Dv3i1)

116 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (REq0p)
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But are they black-black?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (golfv)

117 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high

a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (emBoF)

118 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

Huh?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (2ocoG)

119 Eric Holder was in charge of vetting VP candidates for Kamalama. Wonder how that conversation went.

Sure, Eric, there’s some fraud, but no one will ever find out as long as we win.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (u73oe)

120 How is what Adams said about blacks any different than what Jesse Jackson said "I'm always glad it's a white guy I see walking towards me on the street at night"? Oh, right , Democratium

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (9ShUO)

121 It’s easily 30pct. Them admitting to 10pct is a start.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (6J/hD)

122 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high"

How high?

Oh, sorry. Misread that

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (XuXeR)

123 Tim Walz always looks at the current issue from the framework of how much can he steal without repercussions.

This dude is a cocky crook.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (BSdIE)

124 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)
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The theft supports thousands if not tens of thousands of lefty individuals and sources. Everyone at the trough gets a piece. It's the old mafia system: for every no-show job, for every heist, for every blackmail, the money is divided up among the family.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

125 118 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

Huh?[/o]

Busfield, the ginger dad from Thirty Something, has new pedophilia charges pending. His wife is Melissa Gilbert, and she took down all her socials, which had an odd amount of photos of random little kids.

anyway he's missing

I'm saying he either committed suicide, or somebody suicided him

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (emBoF)

126 117 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high

a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:24 PM (emBoF)

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If their hospital numbers are to believed, they're well into a population collapse with birthrates in large parts of the country well below 1.

They will be 1/4-1/3 their current population (whatever it actually is) in about 50 years.

The time for China to invade Taiwan was 30 years ago. The country's literally shrinking now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

127 Adams would have thought "disgraced" was pretty funny. I mean it's People.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (T+ssH)

128 13 Bessent for President in 2028!
Posted by: Gref

Let's wait for indictments at a mimum before getting too excited. The GOPe in Congress has surpassed the "tough talk" threshold many times before.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (JCZqz)

129 oops!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (emBoF)

130 Oh, right , Democratium

The left runs entirely on "it's (D)ifferent when we do it". That's why pointing out their hypocrisy doesn't move the needle.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (2ocoG)

131
I think a conservative estimate is now that 2000 Iranian protesters have been killed. Some wild figures put it over 10K.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (w6EFb)

132 Wasn't implying that at all. In fact, their combined budgets probably exceed the amount they recover.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (XvL8K)

I wasn't suggesting anything on your part. My comment was meant to portray skepticism that any government fraud unit is looking for fraud - other than by people not giving kickbacks to the required people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

133 124 The theft supports thousands if not tens of thousands of lefty individuals and sources. Everyone at the trough gets a piece. It's the old mafia system: for every no-show job, for every heist, for every blackmail, the money is divided up among the family.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

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One could call it an ecosystem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

134 And MN has provided a shining beacon of an example about corruption at the state level. Because voters don't care about state-level corruption when there are squirrels to scream about in DC.

Seriously.

More people are angry at theater votes with no chance of actual passage into law from DC right now than they are even aware of any corruption in their state capitals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

“The United States has a unitary government, dont’cha know. What is this “state government” you speak of?”

- the attitudes of many

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (0GYGE)

135 114 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Was it Sharpton or Jackson that said they even do that?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

I think it was Jackson who said something to the effect of is he hears footsteps behind him he feels relief if he looks and sees white people.

Posted by: Pattern recognition isn't racism or bigotry at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/)

136 People’s headline described Scott Adams as “disgraced”…. They’re the disgrace.
——-

He only publicly stated what everybody knows, but go to extreme lengths to dance around. That’s what makes “liberals” so comical. Leftists saw this 40 years ago and lamented that people just move away from the dysfunction.

Hell, black people don’t want to be around black people, if that makes sense. Leftists conflate race or ethnicity with culture and vice versa, depending on what fairy tale they are trying to push. You’ll get whiplash trying to follow along with their back and forth “logic” and delusions.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (gToVg)

137 Tee hee. I'm not in jail.

Posted by: Tony Fauci at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (iu4b5)

138 I'm betting "suicide"

Huh?

Timothy Busfield (sp?)

Accused of diddling kids on/off set, or something.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (XuXeR)

139 btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM (emBoF)

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Melissa Gilbert) husband… the great irony is she recently railed on social media against pedos…. I think I feel sorry for her; she probably didn’t know what her husband was doing…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (WnEm5)

140 Busfield, the ginger dad from Thirty Something, has new pedophilia charges pending. His wife is Melissa Gilbert, and she took down all her socials, which had an odd amount of photos of random little kids.

anyway he's missing

I'm saying he either committed suicide, or somebody suicided him

Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

141 One could call it an ecosystem.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

Ecosystem
Ecosystem
Ecosystem

Posted by: Wait that's an echosystem. Never mind at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (TbWk/)

142 a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

Yeah, we are expected to believe that wiping out an entire generation of people with a one child policy (that is one child max, not every couple has even one), when replacement is 2.1 per couple that somehow China added hundreds of millions to their population.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (kHd4y)

143 Also, the possibility of decreasing population scares the living hell out of our "experts"...
Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)
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Are these the same "experts" that point to the WEF as their model for success?

The same WEF that wants to reduce the world population by *90%*?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (ESVrU)

144 Isn't that what Doge was supposed to do.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (BCuCF)

145 I can hear Bubba "I can't obey the subpoena, the crazy bitch will Arkanicide me"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (9ShUO)

146 To be fair to tim waltz. He couldnt spare any security. He needs it all for himself. He will be lucky to live through this...

Posted by: And he knows it at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (21xzK)

147 Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
with a gay husband / beard, its always a danger

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (emBoF)

148 People Magazine Allows Woke, Mouth-Breathing She/Her to Turn Scott Adams' Obit Into HATE-FILLED Hit Piece

https://tinyurl.com/3c9khcrk
Posted by: redridinghood at January 13, 2026 01:11 PM (NpAcC)

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I expected nothing better from those nonentities.

Posted by: Decaf at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (Z8jzG)

149 If their hospital numbers are to believed, they're well into a population collapse with birthrates in large parts of the country well below 1.

They will be 1/4-1/3 their current population (whatever it actually is) in about 50 years.

The time for China to invade Taiwan was 30 years ago. The country's literally shrinking now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

Why should the PRC invade the ROC when they can simply delegitimize the ROC by cutting the number of countries that have diplomatic relations with it to zero?

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (0GYGE)

150 there are some interesting discussions on X about world population estimates all being really high

a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

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I've seen this, and I find it intriguing. I've never really thought they were high, though I did wonder how they arrived at their numbers. Knowing what we know now, it makes perfect sense that it probably is way overestimated. The managerial class wants it to be as high a number for everything the managerial class wants.

More pop -> more bureaucracy.
More pop -> scarier our adversaries -> more bureaucracy.
More pop -> more we need to reduce - > more bureaucracy.

So on and so forth.

I don't know if they are way off, but I suspect the world's population is much less than we are being told.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (sX1BW)

151 What does every non-working, entitlement-building, fantastically expensive, subject-to-fraud, gubbermint progrim need?

More money.

-Every Liberal Who Ever Existed

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (DgMqy)

152 hey how come Bill Clinton doesn't have to respond to subpoenas?
Posted by: BlackOrchid
......

he only responds to subpussies.

Posted by: wth at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (UjdFS)

153 NYT libs can't even be nice in an obituary to someone who was basically a comic strip writer. Because he said a few conservative things. But that's one of the hallmarks of communism I guess.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (n5tGW)

154 “I hope that means an arrest is coming, and in fact I do take him as implying that.”

I hope that by the time we get to Walz he’ll be so far down the list that we’ll barely notice.

Posted by: Clay at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (KhfuK)

155 But are they black-black?

***************

Well since they MAGA as Pedo Joe would say then they aint at all black

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (REq0p)

156 21 I have to wonder where all the outflowing stolen money is going, as I just don't see that many Ferraris with leopard skin upholstery and chrome side pipes on the street.

Overseas to finance private militias? Sucked into banks to support the monetary fraud that has been papered over since the 2008 Crash?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (0vB2I)
__________________________

The Mafioso might not be big in the US anymore, but the void was filled. Indian, Russian, Chinese organized crime is through the roof. Immigrants to the US do so, a lot of the time, with the express purpose of gaming the "freebies." That's their sole purpose for being here. Then, there are the NGO's and I include the Catholic Church in that category. When USAID was plugged, the Catholic church had to terminate over 75% of their "programs".

Most of the money, I'm sure, is sitting in shell companies outside of the US for various purposes, including developing larger and more lucrative scams. The richest guy in Somalia got so by setting up a Money Transfer service (based in a country that has minimal money to transfer)...does that make sense?

Posted by: Orson at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (dIske)

157 The Deep State will come up with a smaller, more exact two significant digit number, say 6.2%, and it will stay there, forever.

Posted by: Ripley at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (GUOwU)

158 The time for China to invade Taiwan was 30 years ago."

Successfully, yes. I might be convinced that they'll try something monumentally stupid as they gave decline ..

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (XuXeR)

159 I don't know what metric Bessent is using for defining waste, fraud, and abuse, but this is no less ridiculous than the phony Treasury and BLS stats we always get.

I'd wager that at least one in two taxpayer dollars is stolen, and much of the rest is squandered on useless eaters and rent-seeking bureaucrat scum.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (BI5O2)

160
btw that pedo from 30 Something is missing

I'm betting "suicide"

That, or "exiled in a non-extradition country"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 01:30 PM (y9nCu)

161 a Chinese expat is saying this, that China lies like a rug about their actual population

**********************

There's some evidence their one person household population is so insanely huge they have an actual app for singles where you have to press a button every two days to confirm you're still alive

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:30 PM (REq0p)

162 Are these the same "experts" that point to the WEF as their model for success?

The same WEF that wants to reduce the world population by *90%*?"

Yeah. Smart, they ain't.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:31 PM (XuXeR)

163 There are no checks and balances when it comes to Dems. Anything and everything is up for grabs, and every institution is run like a bust-out operation.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 13, 2026 01:31 PM (wBaIH)

164 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Blacks on college campuses agitate for black-only housing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

165 The Left used to claim they had the senses of humor and that Republicans were uptight and forever offended.

I guess the parties "switched".

Hence Adams, a cartoonist, is a "disgrace".

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:32 PM (T+ssH)

166 Ilhan Omar sure knows where a lot of that fraud money is going. Into her bank account.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 13, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

167 It is worth listening to Scott Adams's account of meeting President Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/ym6cesyh

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (t+TFX)

168 How can 10 % maintain interest payments on all the fake debt?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (9cHSL)

169 There is nothing to cut in the US's $30 gazillion budget. Everything is mandatory entitlement spending, except foreign aid which is 0.01% of all spending. You guys really don't know what you are talking about.

Posted by: Budget Experts at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

170 165 The Left used to claim they had the senses of humor and that Republicans were uptight and forever offended.

I guess the parties "switched".

Hence Adams, a cartoonist, is a "disgrace".

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:32 PM (T+ssH)

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It's funny.

The right, holding the presidency and Congress, keeps acting like they're the outsiders attacking an established system while the left, having little electoral power at the moment, keeps acting like they are the power center.

Power centers don't have sense of humor. They're too concerned with preserving power to let out a laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

171 Melissa Gilbert is married to a pedo? WTF? She needs to get back to the prairie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:33 PM (pLaQB)

172 To be fair to tim waltz. He couldnt spare any security. He needs it all for himself. He will be lucky to live through this...
Posted by: And he knows it at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (21xzK)

He drives an SUV. He's terrified that ICE will shoot him for absolutely no reason. As has happened exactly never.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (ExV1e)

173 Lindsey has a primary election this June
x.com/DansForSenate/status/2011111719230189617#

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (gKWVE)

174 where you have to press a button every two days to confirm you're still alive

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at January 13, 2026 01:30 PM (REq0p)

Yeah I'm not falling for that one

Posted by: Old Chinese Guy Living Alone at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (T+ssH)

175 she looks exactly as you would expect!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 13, 2026 01:19 PM (emBoF)

Eh, it's People magazine. The official mouthpiece of Megan Twerkle and her testicle-headed loser husband.

I attribute more journalistic integrity to the National Enquirer.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (6xRrr)

176 Vids on YouTube about China shows several regions in revolt. Their economy is cratering, real estate is going broke and the buildings are put up with substandard crap. Add to that the population collapse and more flu outbreaks and that country is screwed. Their COVID vaccine was a mess also

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (9ShUO)

177 173 Lindsey has a primary election this June
x.com/DansForSenate/status/2011111719230189617#

Posted by: gKWVE at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (gKWVE)

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He will win by 50 points.

Again.

If you live in SC, vote against him.

But do not send any money to his opponent. They have no chance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

178 You know who else has a problem with cartoonists?

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:35 PM (T+ssH)

179 The entire planet is a fraud within a fraud.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 13, 2026 01:35 PM (pkeXY)

180 176 Vids on YouTube about China shows several regions in revolt. Their economy is cratering, real estate is going broke and the buildings are put up with substandard crap. Add to that the population collapse and more flu outbreaks and that country is screwed. Their COVID vaccine was a mess also

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:34 PM (9ShUO)

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I remember when the 21st century was going to be the Chinese century and we were all going to have kids and grandkids that learned Chinese as a second language instead of Spanish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

181 Vids on YouTube about China shows several regions in revolt.
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The peasants are revolting?

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (T+ssH)

182 Odds that Walz and Busfield are sharing an Airbnb: even

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (9ShUO)

183
If they're admitting 10%, that means it's closer to 30%.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (IifOV)

184 Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (6xRrr)

185 @181: you're telling me? They stink on ice

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (9ShUO)

186 184 Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (6xRrr)

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"I had to assume Trump was worse. Look at how bad my husband, one of the good guys, is!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

187 10% is not even the skim off the skim off the skim.

I'm betting 30-40% goes up the grifthole every year.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (BRTkl)

188 The 10% figure doesn't surprise me in the least. I worked briefly in state government. I assumed it was closer to 50%.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (t+TFX)

189 The money goes everywhere. To every lying, low-down dirty crook in sight, because this regime is a straight up criminal racket whose sole remaining purpose in existing is to clean the maximum amount of meat from the bones of the country they killed.

But, of course, the Party takes the biggest share and washes it for its enormous war chest and their personal petty empires. Everybody else gets a piece, but they're the Kings of Jackaltown, and they get the biggest heap of carrion.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (BI5O2)

190 She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...
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The worst thing is the hypocrisy.

Posted by: Patton Oswalt at January 13, 2026 01:38 PM (Dv3i1)

191 Arrest Walz for fraud and inciting violence and insurrection. Arrest the Clintons for comtempt.

If not, due to how the left will react...well. They are already "reacting."

Let it come to a boil as "no one is above the law."

We all feel the simmer...let it boil over and get it over with. I say this from my safe perch not in a liberal blue inner city.

We know it is true. It is inevitable and it is coming and there is no point in postponing what will be.

Do it.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 01:38 PM (WONhk)

192 The Deep State will come up with a smaller, more exact two significant digit number, say 6.2%, and it will stay there, forever.

Posted by: Ripley at January 13, 2026 01:29 PM (GUOwU)

Yes but it has to be a friendly number that sounds insignificant. Like 7.1% or 6.5%

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:38 PM (T+ssH)

193 >She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

She knows she'll be a punchline for the rest of her life.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 01:39 PM (rJ48h)

194 >>>Tee hee. I'm not in jail.

Posted by: Tony Fauci

>No, you should be encased in paper mache and presented as a centerpiece in the front parlor of the White House.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 01:39 PM (BSdIE)

195
Ilhan Omar got caught sticking a Million dollar earmark into the latest budget that went directly to the already caught scam/fraudsters in Minnesota.

The fraud is long and deep and that is just one Rep's earmark.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (IifOV)

196 Melissa Gilbert's husband is missing. No doubt suicide if the US Marshalls are after him.

I'd never heard of him and, as you can see, don't know his name. A pedo is a pedo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (WONhk)

197 Worst part since we stopped commercial whaling is the shortage of available harpoons.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (BRTkl)

198 10%? You think we're going to leave 90% on the table?

Posted by: Deep State at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (HsXHq)

199 The Mafioso might not be big in the US anymore, but the void was filled. Indian, Russian, Chinese organized crime is through the roof.

Posted by: Orson
________

Why have I never heard of a German, English or Scandi mob? Did those exist back in the day when we had a bunch of those immigrants?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)

200 >>Melissa Gilbert's husband is missing. No doubt suicide if the US Marshalls are after him.

Hopefully he rents a woodchipper and throws himself inside it.

Posted by: garrett at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (ZcsJV)

201 I remember when the 21st century was going to be the Chinese century and we were all going to have kids and grandkids that learned Chinese"

Firefly...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (XuXeR)

202 He only publicly stated what everybody knows, but go to extreme lengths to dance around.
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Don't libs call that "speaking truth to power" or nah bro

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (T+ssH)

203 If they're admitting 10%, that means it's closer to 30%.
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The original estimate for somali graft was $1B, which quickly went to $8B. So, if they say 10%, it is likely to be closer to 70-80%. YMMV.

Posted by: clarence at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (XlNvn)

204 Tee hee. I'm not in jail.

Posted by: Tony Fauci

>No, you should be encased in paper mache and presented as a centerpiece in the front parlor of the White House.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 01:39 PM (BSdIE)

He should be ground up and fed to beagle puppies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (ExV1e)

205 "If we need to flex up our military budget, if we can get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we can finance a safer, sounder US with that, without taking on more debt. Sounds like a pretty good outcome to me."

What about fraud, waste and abuse within the military? What about that?

Wasting taxpayer money was quite prevalent within my little corner of the military back in the 80s. I assumed it was military-wide.

I doubt much has changed since then.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Y1sOo)

206 Worst part since we stopped commercial whaling is the shortage of available harpoons.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (BRTkl)

Both JB Pritzker and Stacy Abrams have checked in as “relieved”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (xT8gx)

207 Gilbert and pedo hubby have a house northeast of me in the Catskills. Check the woods around the house Marshall

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (9ShUO)

208 10 percent? LOL!

I'm thinking 30 to 40 percent IRL.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (Cjt/F)

209 It costs a lot to import tribes to cement your political hegemony across multiple generations. Dems have it rough, guys.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (pLaQB)

210 But, of course, the Party takes the biggest share and washes it for its enormous war chest and their personal petty empires.

The money, and we are talking at least in the trillions is held in shell corps, NGOs, off shores, you name it. It is heavily invested in markets and dividens/profits are used in the cash flow to underwrite life styles even Robin Leach† couldn't imagine.

† the perfect name for a sponge who lives high off of fraud: Rob-n-Leach

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 13, 2026 01:42 PM (pawvM)

211 Oh! I know him from the DC establishment's favorite show, The West Wing. Kinda wild that Melissa Gilbert married a pedo though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

She and her husband also referred to the Trump administration as "monsters". I think her kiddy-diddling hubby is more of the monster here...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 13, 2026 01:36 PM (6xRrr)

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"I had to assume Trump was worse. Look at how bad my husband, one of the good guys, is!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
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Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes. He and his leftwing wackjob wife can jump into a woodchipper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

212 As if teams of lawyers under no oversight are going to agree to just take 10%!

Posted by: t-bird at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (jBtak)

213
Why should the PRC invade the ROC when they can simply delegitimize the ROC by cutting the number of countries that have diplomatic relations with it to zero?
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 13, 2026 01:28 PM (0GYGE)

Because the ChiCom obsession with the ROC isn't about anything rational. I'm convinced that the ChiComs are itching to wipe out the 90+ year old shame of having their asses kicked by the Kuomintang in Southern China and having to endure the hardship and humiliation of the Long March north in order to survive as a political movement.

To wipe out the shame, they have to OVERTLY defeat the Kuomintang to show the world that they are preeminent.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (y9nCu)

214 10%? You think we're going to leave 90% on the table?
Posted by: Deep State at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (HsXHq)

I know.

It's risible.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that is ludicrously low. They're stuffing everything in their enormous, engorged pockets. Bessent must think everybody is braindead to tell this tall tale with a straight face.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2)

215 This will be three Hollywood ex-husbands for little Melissa.

Posted by: Three Time Loser at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (oftw2)

216 Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes.
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Indeed.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (T+ssH)

217 199.

Turkish and Tommy made a ton of money in the unlicensed boxing game.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (BRTkl)

218 Wasting taxpayer money was quite prevalent within my little corner of the military back in the 80s. I assumed it was military-wide.

I doubt much has changed since then.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Y1sOo)

This example is peanuts but when I was a private in the US Army back in the 80s I once pulled KP and was astonished at the amount of good food (freshly cooked even) that we were ordered to chuck into the trash bins

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (xT8gx)

219 what Christy said @ 191

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (Cjt/F)

220 Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes.
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Indeed.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (T+ssH)

Oh there went that joke.

That said:

"Indeed. {cough}"

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (T+ssH)

221 211 Busfield was always a creep that gave off serious pedo vibes. He and his leftwing wackjob wife can jump into a woodchipper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

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And he's one of the good guys because he cried when Hillary lost!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

222 Wow. So they said he was the racist because a poll showed just barely more than half of blacks polled agreed with the phrase" its okay to be white". The rest were not sure or no dont agree its ok to be white. Yeah. Thats a pretty racist take for just under half of those polled. F the woke bullshit. Its all: but there are rules!!! (That only apply to you not me).

Posted by: Moronbert at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (21xzK)

223 The real number is closer to 50%, at least.

The national debt when The Emperor Shit Midas Obama took office in January 2009 was $5.8 trillion. It is now $38 trillion, just 17 years later. I'd bet my life that at least $20 trillion of that has been outright stolen through bogus NGOs owned and operated by politicians and their friends and family.

Just about everyone in our government needs to be flushed out and banished to The Outer Darkness, forever, or we will never be solvent again.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (BRvvM)

224
Melissa Gilbert's first husband was Bruce Boxleitner.
I liked him in Scarecrow & Mrs. King.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (IifOV)

225 Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (I7J98)

226 Bessent is another great choice by Trump. Es muy macho, gay or not. We may never see the quality of government chosen support for President again in our lifetimes.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

227 30% is closer. But also low. I really think 50% or more is being laundered, in some way, shape or form. It's totally unbridled larceny.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (BI5O2)

228 Busfield gives off Jeffrey Jones vibes.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (rJ48h)

229 The Obamas still on the board of Netflix to launder their money?

Bet a few billion of that deal is dirty.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (BRTkl)

230 This example is peanuts but when I was a private in the US Army back in the 80s I once pulled KP and was astonished at the amount of good food (freshly cooked even) that we were ordered to chuck into the trash bins
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It used to go to hog farms. Pork is important.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (pLaQB)

231
Melissa Gilbert's half sister from Roseanne, Sara Gilbert is a real piece of work too.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (IifOV)

232 Did those exist back in the day when we had a bunch of those immigrants?"

Yes.

No Tommy guns in 1840, tho.

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (XuXeR)

233 Yeah so I guess Darlene is a miserable lesbian now? I'll be honest I didn't know or care.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:47 PM (T+ssH)

234 The Mafioso might not be big in the US anymore, but the void was filled. Indian, Russian, Chinese organized crime is through the roof.

Posted by: Orson
________

Why have I never heard of a German, English or Scandi mob? Did those exist back in the day when we had a bunch of those immigrants?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:40 PM (XvL8K)
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To some degree, yes. But as those were some of the first settlers, there really wasn't a civil infrastructure to support organized crime. It was the later immigrants, who arrived into a much more developed and population-dense environment, that formed criminal organizations to leech off society.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

235 Wasting taxpayer money was quite prevalent within my little corner of the military back in the 80s. I assumed it was military-wide"

$38 trillion worth? Yeah

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 01:48 PM (XuXeR)

236 231
Melissa Gilbert's half sister from Roseanne, Sara Gilbert is a real piece of work too.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:46 PM (IifOV)

Yeah bad news Gilbert. On BBT she did not even have to act. Bitter, cynical little witch.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:48 PM (pDt9x)

237 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

238 Mentioning increasing the DoW budget in the same breath as talking about reducing FWA (fraud/waste/abuse) requires that it also be mentioned that the defense department is one of participants in that FWA whether through knowing bad actors or simple insufficient oversight. I know everyone always brings up the $20k hammer or the $50k toilet seat, but profiteering off the defence department is nothing new.

Any effort to root out fraud needs a robust machanism inside the military first.

Posted by: Scott1M at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (O9uxk)

239 234.
I won't make a joke about the Polish mafia. I shannot.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (8aiQt)

240
Trump was just asked how many people have been killed in Iran. He said nobody can give him an accurate number. He's heard low numbers and he's heard bigger numbers. "I think it's a lot". And then he added he thinks we'll know for sure in about 24 hours.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (w6EFb)

241 Is it really "stolen" if virtually everyone in power is winking and nodding at it?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (XCUp7)

242 237 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

Respect you guys so much I won’t even snark.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (pDt9x)

243 The Left tells lies as naturally and thoughtlessly as they breathe. Noem or Homan or Leavitt needs to list the lies the media has told about this nutcase lady who was shot and throw them back in their faces. From the moment in happened, nothing but lies.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (t+TFX)

244 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

——————-

Well, he’s gay so you’re in luck!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (u73oe)

245 240
Trump was just asked how many people have been killed in Iran. He said nobody can give him an accurate number. He's heard low numbers and he's heard bigger numbers. "I think it's a lot". And then he added he thinks we'll know for sure in about 24 hours.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (w6EFb)

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Yeah, but he hasn't nuked Mecca, so he's TACOing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

246 I literally know black people who tell everyone to get the hell away from black people

Was it Sharpton or Jackson that said they even do that?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 13, 2026 01:23 PM (2ocoG)

I think it was Jackson who said something to the effect of is he hears footsteps behind him he feels relief if he looks and sees white people.
Posted by: Pattern recognition isn't racism or bigotry at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/)
_____

"I'm relieved when it's a bear"

-- AWFuL

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

247 Sure, she's unbearable, but Melissa Gilbert was still hot well into her 50s.

Posted by: Wally at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (65cLN)

248 "Folks, check your chump change"

Biden's Dog, I know who Juliette Gordon Low was because I was a girl scout back when they went camping, learned to use a compass, learned what plants you can eat or should avoid, and so on. Before it became a social justice skin suit.

Have no idea who the woman in the wheelchair is, but am intrigued by the fact that she seems to be holding a lobster.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (enw9G)

249 We don't pay our congressmen (and DeepState bureaucracy) nearly enough, so they deserve an extra billion each to distribute toward their family and friends.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (vbXSk)

250
I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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He has a crush on you. But... psssst... it's not like your kind of crush.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (Jxa0O)

251 245

Yeah, but he hasn't nuked Mecca, so he's TACOing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

Nuke the Casbah
Nuke the Casbah

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (pDt9x)

252 Yeah, but he hasn't nuked Mecca, so he's TACOing.
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That should have been done on 9/11, or 9/12 if we preferred it to have its own historical day.

Posted by: Crusader at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (TN0g+)

253 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

254
Also, he was asked what did he mean by "Help is on the way". He said you're gonna find out soon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (w6EFb)

255 It's everywhere. This multibillion dollar fraud occurred in ONE program, in ONE relatively small state, and it likely only got discovered because, in this case, the Party employed people on the ground who have IQs comparable to barnyard animals.

I guarantee something similar goes on in every program, in every state. If I could wave a wand and reveal all of it, the scale of fraud would beggar belief. Theft on a world-historical scale.

Our ruling class makes Marcus Licinius Crassus look like an ascetic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (BI5O2)

256 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (w6EFb)

Is Trump making a statement about Iraq or just having a press conference about anything?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (rZCVI)

257 242.

It is hilarious that the commies still think we care so much about whether our people are gay or not.

I don't care if a guy has EVERLAST tattooed on his prostate if he stays away from kids and keeps out the invaders.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (8aiQt)

258 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/

One more and you could have a regular Mount Tushwhore. Emphasis on mount.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (T+ssH)

259 The Persians need to claim their revolution, if you will. Things will be better for them going forward.

Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (pDt9x)

260 Sorry( Meant Iran.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (rZCVI)

261 225 Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.
Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (I7J9

She/he/pronoun SHOULD be investigated before collecting $1.5 million in goFraudme as a "widow."

The day of the shooting there was a comment on the UK DM that SHE...the widow... was a "professional protester." She did take the blame for bringing her sweet "wife" to the protest.Then saying, "drive, baby, drive" right into bullets after hitting the ICE agent.

However, it got murkier in that sweet wife had "friends" at the wacko charter school where he son was sent. They all belonged to this anti-ICE movement and knew the "rulez for radicals" taught in this little school group.

What I want to know, in the spare seconds I think about it, is how long have they been together? Since husband #2 in Colorado? Is that when she went ghey? After being denied her first two kids with husband #1 due to abuse?

Then I go eat a Dove chocolate and go on with my day of not messing with ICE or anyone else (except my husband).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (WONhk)

262 Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that is ludicrously low. They're stuffing everything in their enormous, engorged pockets. Bessent must think everybody is braindead to tell this tall tale with a straight face.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:43 PM (BI5O2)
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No one would believe him if he said the true number. He has to start with a small amount that's plausible and then start escalating it as more fraud is "uncovered." (They already know the extent--they just can't sell it to the public yet.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (ESVrU)

263
There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Brandon Straka is trustworthy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)

264

The dnc is a criminal racketeering conspiracy.

The more you look at it the more it is apparent. They have it figured out.

Posted by: E Buzz at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (GPlFS)

265 255 It's everywhere. This multibillion dollar fraud occurred in ONE program, in ONE relatively small state, and it likely only got discovered because, in this case, the Party employed people on the ground who have IQs comparable to barnyard animals.

I guarantee something similar goes on in every program, in every state. If I could wave a wand and reveal all of it, the scale of fraud would beggar belief. Theft on a world-historical scale.

Our ruling class makes Marcus Licinius Crassus look like an ascetic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (BI5O2)

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Actually, the $9 billion number is a preliminary estimate from the USA in MN across 14 welfare programs, not just one.

Biden's DOJ brought a few dozen people up on charges for defrauding one of those 14 during the previous administration (Feed Our People, or whatever it's actually called).

And people have been talking about the probable size of CA's fraud as well. Plus, you know. DeWine said that fraudulent payments in OH's system was just the cost of doing business.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

266 Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)

Yes; I like him too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (rZCVI)

267
Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.
Posted by: beckster

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WHAT?!?! Thompson is the one who brought and is bringing those Somali fraudsters to justice. I hope this is fake.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (Jxa0O)

268
I wonder if Zombie McCain would approve of what is about to happen in Iran?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (IifOV)

269
omg it's real. Thompson resigned.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (Jxa0O)

270 Is Trump making a statement about Iraq or just having a press conference about anything?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 13, 2026 01:52 PM (rZCVI)

Yes.

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (T+ssH)

271 So Buttplug got fawning coverage for being a gay cabinet secretary. Bessent -- not a word. Because of course it only matters if you're a leftist and they can weaponize or propagandize it for power.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:55 PM (t+TFX)

272 It's for the chirrrun.

Posted by: Always a safe answer at January 13, 2026 01:55 PM (iu4b5)

273 >> Is Trump making a statement about Iraq or just having a press conference about anything?

It was clip of him somewhere. You know how he loves to take questions and rap. He posted earlier on Truth Social for the protesters to keep it up, take names, because help is on the way.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:55 PM (w6EFb)

274 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

============

Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)
________

Probably, but I think the jury is still out on him for me

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (iFTx/)

275 Burn it all down.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 13, 2026 01:08 PM (W2Pud)

It is first important to make sure you can get outside before lighting the match.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

276 To some degree, yes. But as those were some of the first settlers, there really wasn't a civil infrastructure to support organized crime. It was the later immigrants, who arrived into a much more developed and population-dense environment, that formed criminal organizations to leech off society.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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The krauts? I'm from Cincinnati, and there were like 20 German language newspapers there in 1900. Seems like there should have been a kraut mafia.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (XvL8K)

277 Word is that Harmeet Dillon refused to allow a DOJ investigation of Good's death, and they threw a hissy and resigned.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (w6EFb)

278 The krauts? I'm from Cincinnati, and there were like 20 German language newspapers there in 1900. Seems like there should have been a kraut mafia.
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Can Somalis read?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (pLaQB)

279 You know that word that journalists like to use when somebody is murdered? "alleged"?

Why can't the NYT at least just use that word: "allegedly racist comments".

Because that best describes the case, if you need to mention it all in the first sentence of a man's obituary.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (krQz2)

280 261 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I can't even find verification that they were officially married. And I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J98)

281 276.
The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)

282 They weren't married.

Posted by: And you know it at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (iu4b5)

283 Joe Thompson, US Attorney for MN and 2 others resigned today. The NYT is saying it's because of the DOJ wanting him to investigate the 'widow' of the woman killed by ICE. I wonder if that can possibly be true.
Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (I7J9

Fuck him, then. not willing to fight for the future of the country, you've got no value. This will, of course, set back the anti-fraud efforts in MN since the Senate will take a fucking year to approve a replacement.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (ExV1e)

284 The dnc is a criminal racketeering conspiracy.
Posted by: E Buzz at January 13, 2026 01:54 PM (GPlFS)

Yes, it's that, but that finances its dual purpose as a ideological machine for the overthrow of America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (t+TFX)

285 280 261 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I can't even find verification that they were officially married. And I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J9

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"We were just LARPing!"
-a helpful translation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

286 Bessent is another great choice by Trump. Es muy macho, gay or not. We may never see the quality of government chosen support for President again in our lifetimes.
Posted by: tubal at January 13, 2026 01:45 PM (pDt9x)

Bessent is not macho. He is, however, a very committed and talented, gold-watch legbreaker.
Which is a rare combination in this day and age.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (rbvCR)

287 I guarantee something similar goes on in every program, in every state. If I could wave a wand and reveal all of it, the scale of fraud would beggar belief. Theft on a world-historical scale.
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It's just the cost of doing business.

Posted by: Gov Mike DeWine (Weasel-OH) at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (Dv3i1)

288 Did they publish in Austrian?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (9cHSL)

289 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)
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Probably, but I think the jury is still out on him for me
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
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The long-haired Baltimore cleanup guy. I'd put him on the list.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (krQz2)

290 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

291 Seems like there should have been a kraut mafia"

Leave the gun. Take the sauerbraten...

Posted by: man at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (XuXeR)

292 253 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:51 PM (iFTx/)

Agree! Sec Bessent is one tough hombre and deserves respect.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (WONhk)

293 There are three homosexuals I trust. Bessent. Pressler. Grenell.

They are gay men. The rest are faggots.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Brandon Straka is trustworthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Jxa0O)
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Probably, but I think the jury is still out on him for me
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
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The long-haired Baltimore cleanup guy. I'd put him on the list.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (krQz2)
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Isn't that Pressler?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

294 Bessent is a precise and punctilious assassin.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (t+TFX)

295 290 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

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Does it include carrots?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

296 290.
That's what they want you to think...

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (8aiQt)

297 "I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ...."

Correct.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (DgMqy)

298 290 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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Thank God.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (pLaQB)

299 I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J9
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What a strange fucking thing to say?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (krQz2)

300 Like C19 nursing home, etc. deaths, more states & high echelon politicians are deeply involved and they'll (Governors) be confident PDT's administration will be out before they can be thoroughly investigated and punished.

Isn't that why such DOGE hatred?

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Kid #2 bought me Dilbert books years ago so I could chuckle on occasion as I dragged myself to work. I'm so glad I still have those books.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (NFX2v)

301 237 I have a man-crush on Scott Bessent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 13, 2026 01:49 PM (n9ltV)

Wish you two the best.

They say the rates for dude dude gay marriage are better than chick chick, so we're all pulling for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (zZu0s)

302 Chili wars begun, they have.

Posted by: Carrots? at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iu4b5)

303 Isn't that Pressler?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

Yup. One of the good guys. He and Kirk did more to get Trump elected than anybody.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (t+TFX)

304 109 Folks, check your chump change:

https://tinyurl.com/35wx4kjn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 13, 2026 01:22 PM
Milburn have craw on wheelchair, don't get too crose.

Posted by: Eromero at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (LHPAg)

305 299 I read another report this morning that the wife yelled at one of the ICE guys "I didn't know you used real bullets."

Posted by: beckster at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (I7J9
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What a strange fucking thing to say?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (krQz2)

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Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

306 Word is that Harmeet Dillon refused to allow a DOJ investigation of Good's death, and they threw a hissy and resigned.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 01:57 PM (w6EFb)

They tried to fly out to Minneapolis last Friday to start an investigation of the agent without authorization from Dillon. She stopped them cold. So of course they had a fit. They weren't going to conduct an investigation at all.

They were going to make the situation worse and leak to the press.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (Gq8aE)

307 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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Ooh. Thanks for reminding me. I'm driving to Ohio this Friday.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (krQz2)

308
The NYT is now putting the Iran death toll at 3K. So, assuming they're low balling it as much as possible, yeah it's probably a lot more than that for sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (w6EFb)

309
Looks like Trump is just chatting. He's lounging at the podium at the Detroit Economic Club, not glaring into the camera from behind the Resolute Desk.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (Jxa0O)

310 Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
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So... teenagers?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (krQz2)

311 Publius, I have now heard 12,000.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (0KSrI)

312 One hopes and prays Tampon Timmy’s scalp is just the start of a long and large collection of profoundly deserving scoundrels, thieves, and scrofulous types.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 13, 2026 01:16 PM (gToVg)

Just don't bet any money on it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (g8Ew8)

313 So the dead dyke's butch dyke wife didn't think ICE shot real bullets? She thought they shot ... little rubber dildos?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

314 Nood. Pirates.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (zZu0s)

315 310 Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
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So... teenagers?

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (krQz2)

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Yes, AWFLs are in a state of arrested development.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

316
nood somalis

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (tljrc)

317 Did CBS say 20,000?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (9cHSL)

318 What happened to Booty Juice? Was he dropped off at the reststop to turn tricks for funding for potholes?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (BSdIE)

319 The NYT is now putting the Iran death toll at 3K. So, assuming they're low balling it as much as possible, yeah it's probably a lot more than that for sure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (w6EFb)
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So many austere Islamic scholars just being austere.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:03 PM (krQz2)

320 This us what you work your fingers to the bone for. You work to have your money stolen and used by people like Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar can purchase offices from which to lord over you and steal more from you. You do it so that foreign swine who wallow in shit and fuck their sisters can live the life of Reilly while you worry about keeping the roof you fucking PAID FOR HONESTLY over your head.

This is the kind of corruption I'm talking about when I say the system must necessarily collapse under its weight.

The Left loves the word "unsustainable" all the time.

This is it.

No matter how robust a system may once have been, none can bear the load of this kind of criminality.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (BI5O2)

321 310 Not if you realize that these people are just out there for the thrill and don't think that anything bad can happen to them. That they're convinced that they're protected from any negative consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

They're infused with entitlement and a sense of invulnerability. It makes sense. The culture has stuffed them with both and they've never confronted accountability.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (t+TFX)

322 The krauts were responsible for Skyline chili, so they were hunted down and eliminated.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 13, 2026 01:58 PM (8aiQt)
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I'm pretty sure that style of chili is Greek ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

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Does it include carrots?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (GBKbO)
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In Skyline chili? Yes, I think it does have carrots. Or at least I remember it does.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)

323 So the dead dyke's butch dyke wife didn't think ICE shot real bullets? She thought they shot ... little rubber dildos?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)
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It kind of sounds like she thought it was some zinger or something.

However, there was a case of some ICE agents firing rubber bullets in Chicago, which of course was the worst.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:05 PM (krQz2)

324 In Skyline chili? Yes, I think it does have carrots. Or at least I remember it does.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)
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Liars!

You can get it 5 ways. One of those ways is NOT carrots.

Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (krQz2)

325 If 81% of somalis in Minnesota are on welfare, why is there so many daycares?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 13, 2026 02:07 PM (pkq24)

326 The people who think what Scott Adams said is racist, have never talked to 95% of black people, because if they did those black people would say the same thing about whites, Asians, and Hispanics. They don't want to live with those groups just as much as whites shouldn't want to live with most of them.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 13, 2026 02:08 PM (zdJm7)

327 Agree! Sec Bessent is one tough hombre and deserves respect.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 13, 2026 02:00 PM (WONhk)

Word is he's man-tough and butt-ruff.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (g8Ew8)

328 I’m starting to get this weird feeling that Walz is asshoe.

Posted by: Really?? at January 13, 2026 02:09 PM (kgFPv)

329 I can adore Bessent along with Stephen Miller, but Miller is still #1.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 13, 2026 02:14 PM (NFX2v)

330 Is ol' Blackface Kimmel controversial or disgraced or nah bro

Posted by: ... at January 13, 2026 02:17 PM (T+ssH)

331 I used to blame the deterioration of comic strip art on Cathy and Dilbert. They are fine art compared to some later-appearing comic strip scrawls.

Back in the days when I was on CompuServe via my TRS-80, I wrote the creator of the then-new comic strip if he was Scott Adams, the computer game creator. Got a letter back saying that I wasn't the first to ask, but, no, he was not. (Such was my brush with Dilberty greatness.)

Today I had to go to Wikipedia disambiguation on "Scott Adams" to even remember who the other Scott Adams was.

https://w.wiki/HSE6

Posted by: mindful webworker - catbert doesn't do funerals at January 13, 2026 02:21 PM (HJunf)

332 10%? Those are rookie numbers!

Posted by: GWB at January 13, 2026 02:51 PM (qT5l+)

333 He spelled 50% wrong.

Posted by: godhelpus at January 13, 2026 03:24 PM (Bwi2i)

334 Wasn't implying that at all. In fact, their combined budgets probably exceed the amount they recover.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 13, 2026 01:20 PM (XvL8K)

I wasn't suggesting anything on your part. My comment was meant to portray skepticism that any government fraud unit is looking for fraud - other than by people not giving kickbacks to the required people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 13, 2026 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

The only way you could possibly make these things work is to have a bounty on finding corruption.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 04:24 PM (8avO+)

335 In Skyline chili? Yes, I think it does have carrots. Or at least I remember it does.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 13, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)
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Liars!

You can get it 5 ways. One of those ways is NOT carrots.
Posted by: Axeman at January 13, 2026 02:06 PM (krQz2)

Its unclear if skyline has any veggies in it at all. Your plate may have onions, but they will be raw.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 13, 2026 04:25 PM (8avO+)

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