James Varney: Biden-Harris's Climate Slush-Fund Gives Out Nearly a <i>Billions and Billions of Taxpayer Dollars</i> to a Fund Controlled By Obama's Fomer Aides and Other Democrat Cronies

James Varney: Biden-Harris's Climate Slush-Fund Gives Out Nearly a Billions and Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to a Fund Controlled By Obama's Fomer Aides and Other Democrat Cronies

When they say "Green New Deal," they're talking about bilking the taxpayers for their own Generational Wealth.

Although there isn't much public information available about the Justice Climate Fund, it appears to have been an overnight success.
After gaining nonprofit status in August 2023, the organization was awarded $940 million by the Biden administration just eight months later in connection with the White House's $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which aims to provide financial assistance to reduce carbon emissions and reduce pollution.
The Justice Climate Fund is not the only nonprofit newcomer suddenly made rich by the GGRF. Within a month of gaining nonprofit status from the IRS, Power Forward Communities, which reported 2023 revenues of $100, was awarded $2 billion.

The awards were made by the Environmental Protection Agency, which is new to the world of major grantmaking. The agency acknowledges it has never handed out such gigantic sums of money, and its inspector general told Congress last month it marked a "fantastically complex" and "unusual" setup that his small staff would be hard-pressed to follow.
Critics note that many of the awardees are run by politically connected figures. The single biggest winner in the awards, which were announced in April, was the Climate United Fund, which is slated to receive $6.97 billion. The fund's directors include prominent Democrats, such as Phil Angelides, a former California State Treasurer, and Anthony Foxx, who served as Transportation Secretary in the Obama administration.
The unprecedented nature of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created as part of 2022's Inflation Reduction Act, is raising concerns about the Biden administration's efforts to spend tens of billions of dollars in its final months, a gusher of taxpayer money that will flow into a poorly understood, untested, and difficult to audit format. The tremendous sums involved, the novelty of the program, and the EPA's lack of experience in the field, as well as the unproven track record of some of the newly hatched recipients, have drawn the attention of lawmakers and others uncertain about how the taxpayers' billions will ultimately be spent and who will keep track of it all.
"These groups are political front groups that are simply created to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to Democrat campaigns under the guise of doing something good," said Mandy Gunasekara, who served as EPA chief of staff in the Trump administration.

Daren Bakst, director of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment and a sharp critic of the Biden administration's climate change spending splurge, said, "It's worse than a slush fund -- it's a slush fund to create non-profit slush funds."
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Neither the Justice Climate Fund nor Power Forward Communities responded to questions about their plans to spend the close to $3 billion in public funds they had received.
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EPA Special Advisor Zealan Hoover pushed back at the claim that unusual secrecy surrounded the process and criticism that there are flimsy guardrails to ensure the $27 billion is well spent.
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The board of the Coalition for Green Capital, which got the second biggest NCIF award of $5 billion, includes Hugh Frater, who headed Fannie Mae at the end of the Obama administration. Another board member,Cecilia Martinez, was the top "environmental justice official" in Biden's White House before moving to the advocacy and nonprofit sector. Stephen Brown, the Coalition's chief network officer, began his Washington career in the Clinton White House, while Jessie Buendia, chief impact officer, was previously part of the California state government. Another highlighted officer with the Coalition is Daniela Nyiri, who worked on campaigns for Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens before moving to the Progressive Turnout Project.

The last NCIF installment of $2 billion was awarded to a group called Power Forward Communities, which was formed in 2023. It is led by Timothy J. Mayopoulos, who headed Obama's Fannie Mae from 2012 to 2018. One of its directors is Shaun Donovan, who served in the Obama administration for all of its eight years, including a stint as secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Read the whole thing. Now that Biden-Harris know their days are numbered and unspent funds will be cancelled by Trump, they're just firehosing the money out to their cronies.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:17 PM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2024 12:17 PM (ZANHd)

2 nd!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2024 12:17 PM (ZANHd)

3 rd!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2024 12:17 PM (ZANHd)

4 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2024 12:18 PM (ZANHd)

5 Afternoon, ace.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2024 12:18 PM (ZANHd)

6 Yet yeet yeet

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2024 12:18 PM (FVIA4)

7 Flaming skull worthy.

Posted by: creeper at October 28, 2024 12:19 PM (M6moH)

8 Mornin', nurse.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2024 12:19 PM (ZANHd)

9 New Blue Deal.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2024 12:19 PM (krQz2)

10 Public servants.

Posted by: huerfano at October 28, 2024 12:19 PM (VGOMa)

11 James Varney.

"Know what I mean, Vern?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 28, 2024 12:19 PM (v6JzV)

12 Explain it to me like I'm five.
-Michael Scott

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:20 PM (CIS44)

13 Read the whole thing. Now that Biden-Harris know their days are numbered and unspent funds will be cancelled by Trump, they're just firehosing the money out to their cronies.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:17 PM
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Because it all comes back to Dem campaigns.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2024 12:20 PM (krQz2)

14 This is what Tucker was talking about yesterday when he said they set up a system to give themselves wealth and power.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 28, 2024 12:20 PM (u73oe)

15 Well, I know what I would do with 87,000 IRS agents....

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2024 12:20 PM (IG4Id)

16 That’s Hulk inducing madness.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 28, 2024 12:20 PM (D6PGr)

17 These groups are political front groups that are simply created to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to Democrat campaigns under the guise of doing something good,"

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only nazis would want this graft to stop!

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2024 12:20 PM (V13WU)

18 Firehosing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (ufFY8)

19 During the MSG rally, Elon said he could cut $2 trillion from federal spend right now.

I know Elon is a big thinker, but in this instance, he may be thinking too small.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (KbCG3)

20 All the non DoD agencies do this.

Which is why the uniparty hates Trump.

Posted by: Jay in PA at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (i7Q7S)

21 Power Forward Communities

Is Cam Neely running this one?

Posted by: spindrift at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (OguvZ)

22 The scattering of cockroaches will be fun to watch. Squashing them when they emerge from the dark will be funner.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (bNf8H)

23 They're gonna' empty the treasury?....too late!!

Posted by: BignJames at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (Yj6Os)

24 This is what Tucker was talking about yesterday when he said they set up a system to give themselves wealth and power.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 28, 2024 12:20 PM (u73oe)
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It's funny how many people these days casually assume that Ukraine is DC money laundering.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (krQz2)

25 32 USC 10271

Also, Congress can state this is a misuse of funds and pull back monies allocated.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (XASq/)

26 The last 20 years have been the largest smash and grab robbery in history. The Left has stolen literally trillions of taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) repeats himself at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (aD39U)

27 >>a gusher of taxpayer money that will flow into a poorly understood, untested, and difficult to audit format

And the IG will testify in front of Congress that it was bad and dishonest and they know just where the money went and they referred it to the FBI and the DoJ and the bad guys are going to be prosecuted and go to prison for a long, long time, and the American people will live happily ever after. The End.

Posted by: huerfano at October 28, 2024 12:22 PM (VGOMa)

28 Seems the Loper decision can be utilized here.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:22 PM (CIS44)

29 All the non DoD agencies do this.

Which is why the uniparty hates Trump.
Posted by: Jay in PA at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (i7Q7S)

For example?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 28, 2024 12:22 PM (D6PGr)

30 >>During the MSG rally, Elon said he could cut $2 trillion from federal spend right now.

I know Elon is a big thinker, but in this instance, he may be thinking too small.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (KbCG3)
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Under-promise, over-deliver.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 28, 2024 12:22 PM (bNf8H)

31 USC 10271

Also, Congress can state this is a misuse of funds and pull back monies allocated.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM (XASq/)
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Congress is probably at the head of the grift line.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2024 12:23 PM (krQz2)

32 Keep in mind, this is why Americans can't afford bread. Printing money to give away to your cousins makes us all poor.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 28, 2024 12:24 PM (QqDsm)

33 Morning.

You know how libertarians like to run around saying taxation is theft?

It's because taxation is theft.

Posted by: Robert at October 28, 2024 12:24 PM (jUWcF)

34 I heard a funny fantasy that would be great if it materialized. Those 87,000 new IRS agents will by executive order be re-assigned as 87,000 new Border Patrol agents.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 28, 2024 12:25 PM (bNf8H)

35 Congress is probably at the head of the grift line.

Posted by: Axeman at October 28, 2024 12:23 PM (krQz2)

How many of 'em sit on the boards of these "outfits"?

Posted by: BignJames at October 28, 2024 12:25 PM (Yj6Os)

36 They're gonna' empty the treasury?....too late!!
Posted by: BignJames

Whaddaya mean we're out of money? Just print more, duh!

Posted by: Our Betters at October 28, 2024 12:25 PM (fQmeC)

37 There is so much of this $hit going on even when Trump wins he is not going to be able to fix even a small portion of it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 28, 2024 12:25 PM (QNSds)

38 Hi Ace
I am so tired of this shit. The lame duck session is going to be horrendous with all the losers trying to get everything they can before the new administration takes over.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (t/2Uw)

39 Congress can also make any agency or third party ineligible for any federal monies or assistance by writing it into the spending bill directly.

One of the first orders of business should be to make every NGO or third party participating in this or the illegal immigrant invasion ineligible for any contract, funds, direct or indirect assistance or federal monies, and furthermore not allow states to use funds in any manner to assist those organizations. Congress can write that bill, so sack up, Johnson.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (XASq/)

40 The corruption is so pervasive and in-your-face. It depresses me.

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (TxBND)

41 Remember the Green New Deal was just a "crrrazy" idea one November day from "far left lunatic" AOC.

Denounced prominently and immediately by Pelosi and other prominent Democrats as insanity.

Then like magic - as if the whole orchestra was scripted from jump, and "crazy" AOC was just used to make the headlines - it became foundational party policy that no one is to ever stray from, and was implemented first chance they got.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (hmOfI)

42 Kamala, or Kamala PAC ad, has a black guy saying how Kamala will reduce "food and electricity" costs so that he can focus on his kid (he shows a picture if a girl in a high chair).

Lolololol.

Really?

He must be one of like, 15%?
My understanding is that illegitimacy rates among the black community are in the 80% range. Which is a core problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (ufFY8)

43 Afternoon Ace. It would be nice as a taxpayer to have our House of Representatives have a special session and pull the money back. Ha, hahahaha, I crack myself up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (aRslG)

44 GASSSSS THEM

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (kNsyQ)

45 Solyndra, put on anabolic steroids, then juiced with meth.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at October 28, 2024 12:27 PM (gxokI)

46 Morning, RMBS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2024 12:27 PM (6+jBu)

47 Kamala doesn't want to hear 'Merry Christmas'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-BonSkG274

Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:27 PM (/7KEl)

48 This won't be a one time grift. There will also be money doled out to lawyers to sue companies or government. This is designed to create a vicious cycle of robbing both corporate and the taxpayer. Mainly the taxpayer.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:27 PM (tT6L1)

49 Make sure that anyone handing out those monies is at the top of Elon’s list of government waste. Adios, assholes. Burger King is hiring.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 28, 2024 12:27 PM (XASq/)

50 GASSSSS THEM
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (kNsyQ)

What does giving them bad gas do except benefit Big Gas X?

Posted by: Robert at October 28, 2024 12:28 PM (DN9nX)

51 Creeper, how's your arm?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)

52 They are literally throwing our tax money away.

Hey, Elon:

1. Stop all welfare, housing and medical expenditures on illegals.
2. End all federal grants.

Those two items alone probably eliminate the deficit.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2024 12:28 PM (lTGtQ)

53 Cancel the gov.
Also I want reparations for the work my dad did in WW2.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 28, 2024 12:29 PM (J8LnB)

54 The lame duck session is going to be horrendous with all the losers trying to get everything they can before the new administration takes over.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (t/2Uw)

You've forgotten about the great powers of the Office of the President-Elect!

Posted by: spindrift at October 28, 2024 12:29 PM (OguvZ)

55 PDT floating the "no income tax" idea is brilliant. What better way to cut off funding for these parasitic organizations than to starve them of funds?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:29 PM (tT6L1)

56 "Justice"

More like "Just Us" (them).

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 12:29 PM (UnA8+)

57 Tucker mentioned in one of his shows that Democrat voters control 70% of America's wealth.

The only way that happens is a massive theft in the Obama/Biden years.

Bidenflation? Part of that theft. The peons watch their investment decline (who was getting more then 10% return to match inflation?) while the elites with connections control where those Bidenbux go.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 12:29 PM (oZhjI)

58 I believe Trump will win and have for a couple months, but I am in no way assuming it. I am fucking skin-crawled with what may be coming for us on Electile Dysfunction Day.

If they manage to install her it will be a vibrating bone crunching nightmare far worse than anything in the last four or 40 years.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (hmOfI)

59 I heard a funny fantasy that would be great if it materialized. Those 87,000 new IRS agents will by executive order be re-assigned as 87,000 new Border Patrol agents.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

Not that many needed if entitlements are cut off, employers are charged with labor violations, 'sanctuary' cities are discouraged, and traffickers are, let's say, stopped. We need a systems-wide audit of the US.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (IG4Id)

60 NY Post: Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wants more conservative opinion writers at paper: report

https://tinyurl.com/35sp4574

Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (DN9nX)

61 They know what's coming because they know what they did.

Posted by: t-bird at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (iDNwP)

62 I would like a constitutional amendment -- call it the anti-public-dole amendment -- forbidding the federal government from giving money to any individual person or legal entity except as salaries, payment for goods or services rendered, compensation for takings, and liability judgment as determined by a court of law. And nothing else.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (v6JzV)

63 1. Stop all welfare, housing and medical expenditures on illegals.
2. End all federal grants.

Also bring criminal AND civil charges against any bureaucrat that signed off on giving money to illegals. Put them in jail and take their houses.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (oZhjI)

64 We're in the looting the treasury phase of the decline of the empire.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (FgmQv)

65 Reason #1,987 why we need limited government. Very limited.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (wb7Od)

66 Congress should use a little discretion on what they are allocating funds to right now.

And they should threaten to take the money back, with interest and penalties if found to be a squander of taxpayer money. Open your books and show me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2024 12:31 PM (J63qs)

67 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 12:31 PM (4f8+h)

68 NY Post: Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wants more conservative opinion writers at paper: report
/i]

Look Donald can't we talk about this like gentleman?

Posted by: Jeff Bezos looking at the Emperor of Mankind standing in front of him with a chain sword at October 28, 2024 12:31 PM (oZhjI)

69 Shovel Ready Grants!

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:32 PM (o50ob)

70 There's good money in Plunderrr!!!
Aargh!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at October 28, 2024 12:32 PM (MeG8a)

71 Unspent portions of grants can be rescinded by reprogramming budget authority. The 1st thing Trump should do on this front is to order no further spending on the grant, and then reprogram the funds left. Yes, it's not a perfect solution, but clawing back every last dollar of democratic slush should be a goal. Call it the "solidifying social security" plan...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2024 12:32 PM (exHjb)

72 NY Post: Matthew Perry’s Batman-themed LA mansion quietly sells for $8.5M a year after his tragic hot tub death

https://tinyurl.com/3cxy3t4z

Perry died of embarrassment when he realized he was a huge nerd.

Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:32 PM (DN9nX)

73 Does she happen to know what Christmas is? Christmas is not a promise of an end to earthly suffering.

BTW can you feel the "joy"?

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:33 PM (hmOfI)

74 The funny angle in this bank robbery story is that Kamala gets to be the Drop Pistol. Damn, she is dumb.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2024 12:33 PM (AdHga)

75 This thievery is like that rodent named Benny dragging treasure out of the pyramid and getting trapped……to be eaten by scarab roachbugs

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2024 12:33 PM (jgmnb)

76 NY Post: JD Vance plays ‘Magic: ‘The Gathering’ — and his favorite card could reveal GOP candidate’s dark political ambitions

https://tinyurl.com/3snnz27b

JD Vance is a huge nerd.

Just like Hitler.

Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (DN9nX)

77 $5B was reprogrammed to cover the medicare limit drop from $8K to $2K for meds for 2025 only...leaving Trump on the hook for the expensive benefit with no slush fund to pay for it..

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (exHjb)

78 The *point* of the federal government is to take money from the taxpayers and enrich those in office and their lackeys in the bureaucracy. Anything else they do is incidental.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (oZhjI)

79 I just heard a news item on the radio here in Texas. Collin Allred has raised $80M for his senate run to defeat Ted Cruz… that more than Beto O’Rourke’s epic $70M haul when he ran against Cruz 6 years ago. I wonder how many of these environmental funds got laundered to Allred….

We complain a lot about Cruz here but the rabid lefties sure do hate and target him so maybe he’s close to over the target….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (WnEm5)

80 I don’t want to do away with all Federal grants . The oversight and purpose need to be better controlled. Many independent scientific breakthroughs have been accomplished with the assistance of Federal grants.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (D6PGr)

81 22 The scattering of cockroaches will be fun to watch. Squashing them when they emerge from the dark will be funner.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 28, 2024 12:21 PM

While I read your comment, my Spotify was on random play.

The current song was Nancy Sinatra - These Boots are Made for Walkin'

Even some hard-core Lefties are ready to stomp some roaches!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (HlyYF)

82 I was heartened to hear in the Rogan interview that Trump thinks his biggest mistake in 2017 was personnel. Come to find out that he set up a privately funded transition team in august to address it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (u73oe)

83 79 I just heard a news item on the radio here in Texas. Collin Allred has raised $80M for his senate run to defeat Ted Cruz… that more than Beto O’Rourke’s epic $70M haul when he ran against Cruz 6 years ago. I wonder how many of these environmental funds got laundered to Allred….

We complain a lot about Cruz here but the rabid lefties sure do hate and target him so maybe he’s close to over the target….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (WnEm5)

He's not in the Uniparty, so everyone hates him...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2024 12:35 PM (exHjb)

84 I wonder how many of these environmental funds got laundered to Allred….

Pretty much all funds spent by lefty NGOs come ultimately from the US treasury

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 12:35 PM (oZhjI)

85 government, given power, will abuse that power as fully as it can, and use the leverage to accumulate yet more power, which it will also abuse/

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2024 12:35 PM (D7oie)

86 NY Post: I have multiple, intense orgasms all day long — I can’t even work and it’s very distressing

https://tinyurl.com/ytukjxar

That poor thing.

Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:35 PM (DN9nX)

87 Brings back memories of El Rushbo explaining how Obama's DOJ would sue organizations & corporations, accumulate millions & billions in settlement fines -- and then just give them the commie causes.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 12:36 PM (WtwC1)

88 Buying loyalty only works while there is money.

Unpaid mercenaries tend to go wild.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 12:36 PM (c06Ie)

89 *give them TO commie causes ..

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 12:36 PM (WtwC1)

90 >>I don’t want to do away with all Federal grants . The oversight and purpose need to be better controlled. Many independent scientific breakthroughs have been accomplished with the assistance of Federal grants.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (D6PGr)
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Unfortunately, meritorious grants will suffer for the excesses of the past until we can get this mess cleaned up.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (bNf8H)

91 NY Post: Matthew Perry’s Batman-themed LA mansion quietly sells for $8.5M a year after his tragic hot tub death

https://tinyurl.com/3cxy3t4z

Perry died of embarrassment when he realized he was a huge nerd.
Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:32 PM (DN9nX)

Why was his death "a tragedy"? No innocent persons were harmed, were they?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (6WW/J)

92 Put the NG back in NGO.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (CIS44)

93 We complain a lot about Cruz here but the rabid lefties sure do hate and target him so maybe he’s close to over the target….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (WnEm5)

I think they're looking for the Narrative Win more than anything. Think of what it could "signal" about the country's "mood". Headlines and handwringing regarding the demise of the Far Right are 24k gold.

Alas, either way they never stop fighting.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (hmOfI)

94 Oh this may be some last-minute fire-hosing, ace, but it's mostly a continuation of what's been going on for years. Just bigger, more outrageous, and more pernicious.

"Obamacare" wasn't just an idiotic, unconstitutional quadrupling down on the dysfunction waste cost-shifting welfare and looting of the existing ridiculous health care financing system - it also involved shoveling $zillions to be used as more patronage/subsidies for the usual clients and allies.

And the 15+M illegals allowed/flown into the US the last 4 years are transported and then sustained with oceans of $ funneled through similar patronage/client outfits. And much of it, through existing NGOs with previously serious and positive histories (like IRC and IOM), which most institutions seem to have collapsed inside a generation.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (GcNJ2)

95 >>I don’t want to do away with all Federal grants . The oversight and purpose need to be better controlled. Many independent scientific breakthroughs have been accomplished with the assistance of Federal grants.

Prove that they would never have occurred without the Fed Dollars.

Then prove that they would have been MORE expensive and more timely than if they were privately funded.

Sorry, but I refuse to believe that Fed Dollars are ever the best method.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (o50ob)

96 All the non DoD agencies do this.

Yeah, about that. -- MIC

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (ExV1e)

97 Also, isn't it amazing that people who decry the loudest about 'dark money' are the ones who are throwing it about like candy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (c06Ie)

98 I was heartened to hear in the Rogan interview that Trump thinks his biggest mistake in 2017 was personnel. Come to find out that he set up a privately funded transition team in august to address it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (u73oe)
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Isn't PDT also not doing any security briefings with government because he doesn't want to get burned by leaks from the Junta which will then be attributed to the Trump campaign?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (tT6L1)

99 ...not privately funded.

Sorry. Making coffee to avoid those typos, now.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (o50ob)

100
Sorry, but I refuse to believe that Fed Dollars are ever the best method.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (o50ob)
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Spot on.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (tT6L1)

101 Second Term Trump: "So many prosecutions, so little time".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (nI8St)

102 He must be one of like, 15%?
My understanding is that illegitimacy rates among the black community are in the 80% range. Which is a core problem.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (ufFY

***

Did the ad say he was married to the kid’s mother? There are lots of deadbeat dads of illegitimate children who show up a couple of times a month when the EBT card refreshes.

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (FC8SQ)

103 71 Unspent portions of grants can be rescinded by reprogramming budget authority. The 1st thing Trump should do on this front is to order no further spending on the grant, and then reprogram the funds left. Yes, it's not a perfect solution, but clawing back every last dollar of democratic slush should be a goal. Call it the "solidifying social security" plan...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2024

I so hope it’s true that PDT minions read responses here bc that would be a brilliant way to frame it. Great idea.

Posted by: EveR at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (Z/h4+)

104 "Obamacare" wasn't just an idiotic, unconstitutional quadrupling down on the dysfunction waste cost-shifting welfare and looting of the existing ridiculous health care financing system - it also involved shoveling $zillions to be used as more patronage/subsidies for the usual clients and allies.

When my LIV friends complain about having to wait months to see a specialist I reminded them Obamacare solved this problem by giving the illegals free healthcare so stop being so racist.

And surprisingly this just seems to make them more upset...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (oZhjI)

105 I see the WHO Green Funds are missing $41 Billion.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (gbOdA)

106 Second Term Trump: "So many prosecutions, so little time".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (nI8St)

So many necks, so few lampposts.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) repeats himself at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (aD39U)

107 Baroque endurance test: seven hours of Scarlatti.
youtube.com/watch?v=oAjFIJ5O-N0

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (TxBND)

108 Second Term Trump: "So many prosecutions, so little time".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (nI8St)

Stack em up like traffic court, and get yourself some "hangin judges".

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:39 PM (CIS44)

109 >>Electile Dysfunction Day.

We can help with that.

Posted by: Act Blue Chew at October 28, 2024 12:40 PM (Y1sOo)

110 Also, isn't it amazing that people who decry the loudest about 'dark money' are the ones who are throwing it about like candy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (c06Ie)

I'd sure like a little bit of that dark money.

I'd use it to buy dark nerd things.

Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:40 PM (DN9nX)

111 I heard a funny fantasy that would be great if it materialized. Those 87,000 new IRS agents will by executive order be re-assigned as 87,000 new Border Patrol agents.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 28, 2024 12:25 PM (bNf8H)

I'm sure they'd all be super-effective at keeping the illegals out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 12:40 PM (ExV1e)

112 We either need to eliminate this corruption, or let me in on it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) repeats himself at October 28, 2024 12:41 PM (aD39U)

113 obama is front and center into redistribution of wealth - reparations

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2024 12:41 PM (V13WU)

114 If you found these people skims with the Trillion Green Nude Eel then that means there are BILLIONS that will never be traced and never be recovered.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 12:41 PM (gbOdA)

115 The IRS should be aimed at the Government itself.

Institute a Flat Tax and sick the IRS on DC and its spending.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:41 PM (o50ob)

116 I'm sure they'd all be super-effective at keeping the illegals out.

Tell them their shift ends once they've brought in 10 of them. Presuming they are salary that means their shift can be 24 hours or 15 minutes their choice

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 12:42 PM (oZhjI)

117 And this is why Musk can easily find the $2 Trillion to cut from the budget.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2024 12:42 PM (W/lyH)

118 Breaking — Ballot Drop Boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington

https://tinyurl.com/ymhn8acm

goes to X

Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:42 PM (/7KEl)

119 he and holder were against Shapiro, because why do they need a smart jewish mand, if they are themselves super smart, so they got themselves waltz - their idea of a perfect white man - stupid and subservient

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (V13WU)

120 I am so tired of this shit. The lame duck session is going to be horrendous with all the losers trying to get everything they can before the new administration takes over.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 12:26 PM (t/2Uw)

Which is why we need a Constitutional amendment that they aren't permitted to do anything during this time other than approve funding to deal with natural disasters or declare war AND, in the case of declaring war, if the incoming Congress repudiates that declaration, anyone who voted for it is summarily executed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (ExV1e)

121 "And this is why Musk can easily find the $2 Trillion to cut from the budget."

We'll have a budget again? That really takes me back.

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (TxBND)

122 Second Term Trump: "So many prosecutions, so little time".
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Try them in batches like the French.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (lTGtQ)

123 115 The IRS should be aimed at the Government itself.

Institute a Flat Tax and sick the IRS on DC and its spending.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:41 PM (o50ob)

There is something like 200k tax deadbeats working for the Feds.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (gbOdA)

124 Breaking — Ballot Drop Boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington

https://tinyurl.com/ymhn8acm

goes to X
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:42 PM (/7KEl)

They did it at night so there isn't anything we can do about it.
-Merrick Garland.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (CIS44)

125 And now, your daughters fuq? news story of the day.

Tragic student takes his own life after botched beard transplant in Turkey performed by estate agent posing as surgeon

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 28, 2024 12:44 PM (L/fGl)

126 64 We're in the looting the treasury phase of the decline of the empire.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (FgmQv)

Yeah. It sucks.

Posted by: qiang emperor piyu at October 28, 2024 12:44 PM (gKWVE)

127 Try them in batches like the French.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Tumbrils are very earth-friendly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 28, 2024 12:44 PM (v6JzV)

128 121 "And this is why Musk can easily find the $2 Trillion to cut from the budget."

We'll have a budget again? That really takes me back.
Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (TxBND)

Rev will be almost $5 T. The money is there is budgeted and controlled.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 12:44 PM (gbOdA)

129 speaking of Obamacare, our insurance agent informed us he's taking a $22K hit this year in income, because a bunch of Medicare plans are no longer paying commissions. Next year, he won't be dealing with Medicare Part D, I think it is. The prescription drug stuff.

Obviously, the idea is to put agents out of business so us regular folk have to work with some sort of government employee.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:44 PM (tT6L1)

130 Congress can also make any agency or third party ineligible for any federal monies or assistance by writing it into the spending bill directly.

My grandfather used to tell stories of things he called "budgets", where Congress wouldn't just say "spend more than last year". None of us believe him, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 12:44 PM (ExV1e)

131 >>There is something like 200k tax deadbeats working for the Feds.

I don't think the IRS finds more in the Tax Base than the Government admits to 'losing' through the Defense Department in ANY 5 year span in history.

I might be wrong. But my Spidey Sense tells me I am not.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:45 PM (o50ob)

132 We complain a lot about Cruz here but the rabid lefties sure do hate and target him so maybe he’s close to over the target….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (WnEm5)

I like Cruz, he is smart, and we need people like him. We get caught in a purity test sometimes, I am not immune to this type of thinking either. We are going to have people with different ideas and this is okay as long as they are more aligned than not.

Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2024 12:45 PM (pZEOD)

133 118 Breaking — Ballot Drop Boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington
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Must be those damned NAZIs - again!

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 28, 2024 12:45 PM (AdHga)

134 Larry Krasner, the Soros appointed DA in Philadelphia who has overseen the cities descent into criminal chaos, and who lets murderers and rapists out on bail, has filed a suit against Elon Musk and his $1 million giveaways for supporters of the First and Second Amendments.

Let that sink it .

Posted by: Vengeance at October 28, 2024 12:46 PM (BswBb)

135 122 Try them in batches like the French.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (lTGtQ)

Batter dip and Deep Fry them.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 12:46 PM (UnA8+)

136 Remember Mitch was the easy choice for the current GOP Senate caucus - most of which will remain in a few months - for years. Fixation on elected, chosen, discretionary leaders and not those choosing them is an enduring feature of politix-as-sports-and-personalities.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2024 12:46 PM (GcNJ2)

137 The heckler’s words, though largely drowned out by the church band intentionally, resonated with many who are increasingly skeptical of the Democrats’ claims to moral authority.

Harris clapped along with the audience, stating, “That’s why we fight for democracy… Every voice is important,” as law enforcement escorted the protester out of the building.

Apparently, every voice except the heckler

Posted by: SMOD at October 28, 2024 12:46 PM (RHGPo)

138 128 I think the Dems will shriek "Government Shutdown" just like the last seventy-seven times, and the R's will cave.

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:46 PM (TxBND)

139 I'd use it to buy dark nerd things.

Robert, going to buy that full size VF-25J Messiah prop?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (c06Ie)

140 the easiest/only way to stop this is to turn off the money printer

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (V6W16)

141 Breaking — Ballot Drop Boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington
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Did this happen in the deep red* areas of these god-forsaken towns?

* deep red = R voters approach almost double digit total pct. for the neighborhood

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (FgmQv)

142 Maybe indians did it. Next time, leave some gasoline and matches for the poor wretched souls.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (J8LnB)

143 What better way to cut off funding for these parasitic organizations than to starve them of funds?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:29 PM (tT6L1)

That is the funniest thing I've read this year.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (ExV1e)

144 Voted early this morning. It was painless; the small line moved very quickly, they were checking IDs carefully, and had audit (paper) tapes running on all machines. A first rate operation.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (WXNFJ)

145 RMBS for the win, place and show!! Making Mass. proud!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (Sgq8y)

146 111 I heard a funny fantasy that would be great if it materialized. Those 87,000 new IRS agents will by executive order be re-assigned as 87,000 new Border Patrol agents.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at October 28, 2024 12:25 PM (bNf8H)

I'm sure they'd all be super-effective at keeping the illegals out.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
Those 87K armed clowns would make USSS holstergirl look like Josey Wales.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (jgmnb)

147 they need to take those two trillion and set up a "government shutdown fund"

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (V13WU)

148 Police said explosive devices were placed inside the boxes early Monday morning.

Hundreds of ballots have been burned

Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (/7KEl)

149 Palestine Ohio called and asked "where do we sign up?"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (wIU2Y)

150 'sanctuary' cities are discouraged

Would this discouragement take the form of public executions for city officials?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (ExV1e)

151 So Portlandia is disenfranchising itself?

This is beyond Russian levels of self defeat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (c06Ie)

152 I think the Dems will shriek "Government Shutdown" just like the last seventy-seven times, and the R's will cave.

That has always been easy to solve - the GOPe has never wanted to solve it.

For example, suppose you want to cut 10% from HUD. Pass the budget/spending bills for the other departments and pass HUD at 90%. If the Dems stop the bill from being passed HUD gets 0 funding and everyone laughs at them.

If they don't vote for a "clean bill" for the VA or whatever then crucify them over that.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (oZhjI)

153 Woman was told she couldn't wear her Trump shirt to vote so...

https://tinyurl.com/vwpffpt8

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2024 12:49 PM (CAYVp)

154 I'll bet $100 that the grant award contracts have explicitly removed all standard language against fraud, waste or abuse by the grant recipient.

Removing not only any oversight but attempting to prevent a future administration from clawing back the funds.

Which might have worked under Chevon ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2024 12:49 PM (u2wrQ)

155 Breaking — Ballot Drop Boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington

https://tinyurl.com/ymhn8acm

goes to X
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:42 PM (/7KEl)
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A false flag from the Left? A asymmetrical warfare from the Right?

If its in Portland, I'm going with the Left.

Posted by: WisRich at October 28, 2024 12:50 PM (G0vdT)

156 100
Sorry, but I refuse to believe that Fed Dollars are ever the best method.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (o50ob)
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Spot on.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (tT6L1)

It’s very easy to look up all the breakthroughs made with the assistance of government grants . I can’t prove a negative that these breakthroughs would have eventually been made from other private funding. I don’t disagree that grants have gotten out of control but I just don’t believe it’s all or nothing.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 28, 2024 12:50 PM (D6PGr)

157 Everyone remembers Solyndra. Not everyone remembers who announced the $535 Million in taxpayer dollars to serve as a "loan" to Solyndra. That would be Joe Biden (as VP).

Posted by: Orson at October 28, 2024 12:51 PM (dIske)

158 Hundreds of ballots burned in the usual leftists hellholes? Gosh, and who was it which warned drop boxes were insecure?

Yeah, I know, Reich Wingers will be blamed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:51 PM (tT6L1)

159 >>>That has always been easy to solve - the GOPe has never wanted to solve it.
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What more can be said?

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2024 12:51 PM (CAYVp)

160 one of today's Dem fundraising texts:

we're packing up in Pennsylvania.
Trump is drowning us. We're almost out of money! Final shot: donors are 6X-Matching gifts: go.stoptrump.io/102796

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:51 PM (CIS44)

161 Woman was told she couldn't wear her Trump shirt to vote so...

https://tinyurl.com/vwpffpt8
Posted by: Braenyard

Clearly an 'Ette in thought and attitude if not in fact.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2024 12:52 PM (WXNFJ)

162 I don’t want to do away with all Federal grants . The oversight and purpose need to be better controlled. Many independent scientific breakthroughs have been accomplished with the assistance of Federal grants.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 28, 2024 12:34 PM (D6PGr)

There's a lot of money in corporate slush funds to pay for grants. If the fed insists on grants, then those grants need to be limited to...let's say......$500,000.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 28, 2024 12:52 PM (g8Ew8)

163 Woman was told she couldn't wear her Trump shirt to vote so...

https://tinyurl.com/vwpffpt8
Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2024 12:49 PM (CAYVp)

She was a first time voter. Pretty awesome.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (CIS44)

164 Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2024 12:45 PM (pZEOD)

Teddy stuck the knife in more than once, straight in our hearts. All well documented.

I WISH it was about "purity". Fuck that worthless turd.

Just like there were clues about that conservative nice guy dynamo Pence from when he was governor, Teddy has given us all the info we could ever desire about what he is.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (hmOfI)

165 Those drop boxes were burned in the district where Joe Kent is trying to win back the seat for Republicans. He is a great candidate and the seat has been red before.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

166 148 Police said explosive devices were placed inside the boxes early Monday morning.

Hundreds of ballots have been burned
Posted by: Don Black
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I have an idea, hear me out on this. How about we only cast ballots at secure voting locations on election day?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (FgmQv)

167 going to buy that full size VF-25J Messiah prop?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 12:47 PM (c06Ie)

Only if they accept Obama Bux.

Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (XI+Bx)

168 Police said explosive devices were placed inside the boxes early Monday morning.

Hundreds of ballots have been burned
Posted by: Don Black

Hm. Leftists using their usual tactics to counteract all the rumored early Republican returns? Or patriots adopting Leftists tactics to demonstrate the folly of the insecure system?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (hB7mE)

169 >>>I don’t disagree that grants have gotten out of control but I just don’t believe it’s all or nothing.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Best way to do it is clean house and start from zero.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (CAYVp)

170 I wake up and all of the Democrats are gone.
Still plenty of assholes. It's a jungle in the daytime. It's a jungle at night

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 28, 2024 12:54 PM (J8LnB)

171 >>It’s very easy to look up all the breakthroughs made with the assistance of government grants . I can’t prove a negative that these breakthroughs would have eventually been made from other private funding. I don’t disagree that grants have gotten out of control but I just don’t believe it’s all or nothing.

I don't disagree with you completely. I just don't believe there is ANY part of the Government that is reliable/trustworthy.

Therefore I prefer to err on the side of caution and remove the Grant Process from the Government.

I'd do the same with Federal Education Dollars, too.

Take it ALL away from the Government. They have proved that they can't be trusted to NOT help themselves to Graft and Theft.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:54 PM (o50ob)

172 Those drop boxes were burned in the district where Joe Kent is trying to win back the seat for Republicans. He is a great candidate and the seat has been red before.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

His wife is dead because of the insubordination of Kelly and Mattis.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:54 PM (CIS44)

173 Try them in batches like the French.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Oooh, oooh, their free counsel?

AI.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2024 12:54 PM (IG4Id)

174 "Now that Biden-Harris know their days are numbered and unspent funds will be cancelled by Trump, they're just firehosing the money out to their cronies."

plausible.
the story of the last 4 years, on 'roids & meth ...

but I like the imp[licit "we're gonna win" in there , bigly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 28, 2024 12:54 PM (gY0JQ)

175 Larry Krasner, the Soros appointed DA in Philadelphia who has overseen the cities descent into criminal chaos, and who lets murderers and rapists out on bail, has filed a suit against Elon Musk and his $1 million giveaways for supporters of the First and Second Amendments.
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We just need better candidates.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:55 PM (hmOfI)

176 124 Breaking — Ballot Drop Boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington

https://tinyurl.com/ymhn8acm

goes to X
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:42 PM (/7KEl)

They did it at night so there isn't anything we can do about it.
-Merrick Garland.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (CIS44)
*******
They could have contained both Republican and Democrat ballots.
The Democrats are the ones that didn't want 24 surveillance.
I never use drop boxes.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 28, 2024 12:55 PM (NpAcC)

177 Try them in batches like the French.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 28, 2024 12:43 PM (lTGtQ)

Batter dip and Deep Fry them.
Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 12:46 PM (UnA8+)

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Old Busted: Freedom Fries.
New Hotness: Treason Fries.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 12:55 PM (WmFpo)

178 "It’s very easy to look up all the breakthroughs made with the assistance of government grants ."

Is it easier than typing that sentence?

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:55 PM (TxBND)

179 Ooohhh, my Macross Plus package arrived!

Problem. It's at my sister's.

In San Antonio.

*Sighs*

I will get it eventually.

Posted by: Robert at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (XI+Bx)

180 Sorry, the Fed Grant Office is closed. The taxpayer with the empty pockets out front should have told you.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (FgmQv)

181 Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:54 PM (o50ob)

Don't just take it away, make it illegal for them to ever have it back.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (hmOfI)

182 >>>NY Post: Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wants more conservative opinion writers at paper: report

CNN supposedly tried that until the inmates mutinied, supposedly. But it is interesting that Bezos, within the last 30 days, has suddenly been trying to get to the center, or what he perceives as the center.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (CwhoI)

183 Sorry, but I refuse to believe that Fed Dollars are ever the best method.
Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (o50ob)
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Spot on.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:38 PM (tT6L1)

It’s very easy to look up all the breakthroughs made with the assistance of government grants . I can’t prove a negative that these breakthroughs would have eventually been made from other private funding. I don’t disagree that grants have gotten out of control but I just don’t believe it’s all or nothing.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 28, 2024 12:50 PM (D6PGr)
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At one time, I'd have argued for government funding. However, we're at the point where 90% of funding is nothing but waste designed to promote a narrative. I believe we're at a place 10% isn't worth the other 90%.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (tT6L1)

184 FLORIDA
🟥 Trump: 55.8% (+11.6)
🟦 Harris: 44.2%

There are post on X saying K has a chance. ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (gbOdA)

185 Police said explosive devices were placed inside the boxes early Monday morning.

Hundreds of ballots have been burned
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (/7KEl)

My guess? Some patriots were watching those boxes, and observed massive multiple ballot drops by known Democrat operators. And did something about it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (6WW/J)

186 185 Oh fuck I hope not.

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:57 PM (TxBND)

187 "Best way to do it is clean house and start from zero."

wasn't "starting from zero" some sort of Bauhaus slogan?
regardless, it makes sense in this context.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 28, 2024 12:57 PM (gY0JQ)

188 The government official to NGO officer to corporate board member to college faculty member to government official pipeline is massively corrupt and should be illegal.

I am unpersuadable to the contrary and this applies to all sides of politics.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 12:58 PM (LSFy2)

189 Hi, sharon. Arm's gonna be fine. My ego, OTOH, took a severe beating.

Posted by: creeper at October 28, 2024 12:58 PM (M6moH)

190 >>Don't just take it away, make it illegal for them to ever have it back.
Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (hmOfI)

A Team America Quote will serve best here:

'I love your balls!'

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:58 PM (o50ob)

191 >>I am unpersuadable to the contrary and this applies to all sides of politics.
Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 12:58 PM (LSFy2)

Again, I paraphrase Team America:

Your Balls. I Love Them!

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 12:59 PM (o50ob)

192 Who's getting the kickbacks from this? RFK Jr exposes a really stupid feralgov (?) driven 'glowball warmening' scam (he believes GW is a Thing, but the project is BS):
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=llcvrKDJRo0

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2024 01:00 PM (FnneF)

193 My guess? Some patriots were watching those boxes, and observed massive multiple ballot drops by known Democrat operators. And did something about it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (6WW/J)

A viable possibility. Not everything is as it seems.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 28, 2024 01:00 PM (g8Ew8)

194 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
“Safety guidelines if Trump is elected”

These people are seriously deranged. This is what happens when you read too much legacy media. Serious TDS!

https://tinyurl.com/mtpz95vw

Posted by: redridinghood at October 28, 2024 01:00 PM (NpAcC)

195 >>>I'd do the same with Federal Education Dollars, too.

Take it ALL away from the Government. They have proved that they can't be trusted to NOT help themselves to Graft and Theft.
Posted by: garrett
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They take that money and go out and buy guns and bullets.
Why does the Dept of Edu need machine guns? Why do they need any gun at all?

Posted by: Braenyard at October 28, 2024 01:00 PM (CAYVp)

196 @188, AtC is spot-on

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 28, 2024 01:01 PM (gY0JQ)

197 I am still wondering if Kamala will certify the election if she loses.

Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2024 01:01 PM (pZEOD)

198 Hundreds of ballots have been burned

"We're sure they were for Kamala so we'll just go ahead and count them as that."

-- OR election officials

Posted by: Oddbob at October 28, 2024 01:01 PM (/y8xj)

199 185 Police said explosive devices were placed inside the boxes early Monday morning.

Hundreds of ballots have been burned
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:48 PM (/7KEl)

My guess? Some patriots were watching those boxes, and observed massive multiple ballot drops by known Democrat operators. And did something about it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (6WW/J)

186 185 Oh fuck I hope not.
Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 12:57 PM (TxBND)

And so it begins

Posted by: That guy how always says... at October 28, 2024 01:02 PM (uBBbP)

200 184 FLORIDA
🟥 Trump: 55.8% (+11.6)
🟦 Harris: 44.2%

There are post on X saying K has a chance. ha

***
Remember when Florida was a swing state? What changed?

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:02 PM (FC8SQ)

201 We're almost out of money! Final shot: donors are 6X-Matching gifts

1. We're almost out of money.
2. We'll throw in 6x whatever you throw in.

Do they even spend a second thinking about this shit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 01:02 PM (ExV1e)

202 AtC is correct.

As usual.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 01:02 PM (tT6L1)

203 197 I am still wondering if Kamala will certify the election if she loses.
Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2024 01:01 PM (pZEOD

Has she ever been asked. Lol I crack me up.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 28, 2024 01:03 PM (uBBbP)

204 he IRS should be aimed at the Government itself.

Institute a Flat Tax and sick the IRS on DC and its spending.

Tariffs. We should all be 'deadbeats'.

Posted by: t-bird at October 28, 2024 01:03 PM (yZv1m)

205 My guess? Some patriots were watching those boxes, and observed massive multiple ballot drops by known Democrat operators. And did something about it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 28, 2024 12:56 PM (6WW/J)

---------------

The Ballot Dropboxes in my conservative rural county in AZ now have cameras after the 2020 shit show -- helped by numerous Patriots showing up in 2022 to monitor them on their own with their own cameras.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 01:03 PM (WmFpo)

206 199 I just think that bombing ballot boxes would be a bad look for our side. YMMV.

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 01:03 PM (TxBND)

207 197 I am still wondering if Kamala will certify the election if she loses.
Posted by: Piper at October 28, 2024 01:01 PM (pZEOD)

Doubtful. She's got nothing to lose by not doing it.

And Jamie Raskin has already said the Dems will not allow it, that they will disqualify DJT under the Insurrection Act.

It doesn't matter whether they legally can. All that matters is if anyone steps up to stop them from doing it.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 01:03 PM (UnA8+)

208 FLORIDA
🟥 Trump: 55.8% (+11.6)
🟦 Harris: 44.2%

There are post on X saying K has a chance. ha
--
You know, we laugh, but they really, truly believed they would/could win FL.

They put both abortion and legalizing weed on the ballot this year. They wouldn't have if they didn't believe.

I keep saying, but most to all of the people running Kammie's campaign are true believers. As sure as the sunrise, they know for a fact that Biden got 81 million votes legally, honestly and legitimately.
No doubt in their mind.
Now add "first black woman President" multiplier on top of that?
That's why their campaign has been what it has been--they felt they had a step ladder to the basket for their slam dunk.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2024 01:03 PM (u2wrQ)

209 >>I am still wondering if Kamala will certify the election if she loses.

The Ultimate Joke is that they took that Power OUT of the hands of the VP after the 2020 Election.

So. She can't.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 01:04 PM (o50ob)

210 Fuck drop boxes. I miss the good old days in WA where you voted in person, on election day and put your ballot to be tabulated into the machine by yourself.

Posted by: Rex B at October 28, 2024 01:04 PM (Qs9lt)

211 Ah Creeper. I know exactly what you mean after I had people coming and grabbing my arm when they saw me limping around to help me get where I was going. Being 29 is not easy.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (t/2Uw)

212 Breaking — Ballot Drop Boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington

https://tinyurl.com/ymhn8acm

goes to X
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 12:42 PM (/7KEl)
***

And so it begins.

(And I'm not the guy who always says "And so it begins."

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (W/lyH)

213
https://tinyurl.com/mtpz95vw
Posted by: redridinghood at October 28, 2024 01:00 PM (NpAcC)
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It looks like a parody. That said, the left is incapable of the self-control needed to follow that advice.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (tT6L1)

214 NY Post: Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wants more conservative opinion writers at paper: report

The same Bezos that caved when the WP staff threw a fit at the hiring of white man as editor?

Posted by: Halfhand at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (fSRpP)

215 I believe that, please God, if Trump wins, then Biden will step down in like early December so Kamala can be Historic First President.

Also as someone on the twats pointed out, this will mean Trump will be 48 not 47 so there goes all that branding and merch.

It is petty enough that I believe it.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (LSFy2)

216 >>You know, we laugh, but they really, truly believed they would/could win FL.

They might not even with New Mexico. New Hampshire is now pretty much a dead heat. Rich Barris is reporting that Harris is pulling money out of North Carolina for ads in Virginia.

You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (LkLld)

217 Robert

But Sharon Apple will still know where you are.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 01:06 PM (c06Ie)

218
I wonder if Bezos sees the FAA treatment Spacex is getting and is hedging his bets for Blue Origin.

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2024 01:06 PM (j4U/Z)

219 >>>You know, we laugh, but they really, truly believed they would/could win FL.

How many times have we seen, on TV, print and in speeches, Ds lament how they are unable to understand how this election could be so close? That bubble they live in is made of cast iron.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 28, 2024 01:06 PM (CwhoI)

220 >>You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.

Was Willie Brown part of the Weather Underground?

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 01:06 PM (o50ob)

221 These people are seriously deranged. This is what happens when you read too much legacy media. Serious TDS!

https://tinyurl.com/mtpz95vw
Posted by: redridinghood at October 28, 2024 01:00 PM (NpAcC)

***

Sounds like good advice. I wish I lived in the reality this man fears.

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:07 PM (FC8SQ)

222 “Safety guidelines if Trump is elected”

NGL, he says that every leftist should shut up... I could live with that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 01:07 PM (ExV1e)

223 Your Balls. I Love Them!
Posted by: garrett
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For some reason I suspect this sentence may be used in a joke or two, garrett.

Posted by: scampydog at October 28, 2024 01:07 PM (41CYW)

224 I think the biggest news out of yesterday was RFK Jr saying:
1) Trump has already formed his transition team, months ago
2) it's entirely funded by private donors--not corporate, not fed money. Completely free of the usual parasite lobbyists. No has-been, wishy-washy, GOPe losers either.
3) all nominees will have to clear the team's evaluation first. No more "powerful senator recommends" get the job automatically now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2024 01:08 PM (u2wrQ)

225 End all government research funding.
It just become the end product and not the means.
There are millions of rules and regulation with the money.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 01:08 PM (gbOdA)

226 NGL, he says that every leftist should shut up... I could live with that.

In the corporate world it is easy to see who isn't a leftist because they are the people NOT talking about politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 28, 2024 01:08 PM (oZhjI)

227 194 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
“Safety guidelines if Trump is elected”

These people are seriously deranged. This is what happens when you read too much legacy media. Serious TDS!

https://tinyurl.com/mtpz95vw
Posted by: redridinghood at October 28, 2024 01:00 PM

--

"Keep your mouth shut" would be a nice change of pace for lefties.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 28, 2024 01:09 PM (wzAuc)

228 217 But Sharon Apple will still know where you are.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 01:06 PM (c06Ie)

This is why Bryan Cranston had to become Walter White.

So that it would be forgotten that he was Isamu.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 01:09 PM (UnA8+)

229 Well time for lunch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (c06Ie)

230 "Keep your mouth shut" would be a nice change of pace for lefties.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 28, 2024 01:09 PM (wzAuc)
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that lefty piece of sh*t screaming in a toddlers face comes to mind.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (tT6L1)

231 I believe that, please God, if Trump wins, then Biden will step down in like early December so Kamala can be Historic First President.

Also as someone on the twats pointed out, this will mean Trump will be 48 not 47 so there goes all that branding and merch.

It is petty enough that I believe it.
Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (LSFy2)

I'd be fine with that because it would get rid of the stupid "make history by electing a woman as President" mentality on the left. Harris would be just an answer to a trivia question, but I have no doubt Dr. Jill and Joe (in his rare moments of lucidity) will do nothing to help her "legacy."

Posted by: LASue at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (lCppi)

232 We are 979 voters away from flipping Centre County 🔵🔜🔴.

Centre County is home to Penn State University’s largest campus.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (gbOdA)

233 I think the biggest news out of yesterday was RFK Jr saying:
1) Trump has already formed his transition team, months ago
2) it's entirely funded by private donors--not corporate, not fed money. Completely free of the usual parasite lobbyists. No has-been, wishy-washy, GOPe losers either.
3) all nominees will have to clear the team's evaluation first. No more "powerful senator recommends" get the job automatically now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2024 01:08 PM (u2wrQ)
***

And has the added advantage of being able to select people based on merit and not of the Beltway/New England snob ilk.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (W/lyH)

234 I have heard rumors of Trumps deportation plans: Gang members, human traffickers, and cartel personnel will receive standard deportation, while others will get enhanced deportation. Standard deportation is the deportees are loaded on commercial jets, flown across the border and when they arrive at their country of origin they disembark the jets. The enhanced deportation is basically the same except the deportees get parachutes.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (Da7Vv)

235 Shit like this is how nations fall.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 28, 2024 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

236 >>I believe that, please God, if Trump wins, then Biden will step down in like early December so Kamala can be Historic First President.

>>Also as someone on the twats pointed out, this will mean Trump will be 48 not 47 so there goes all that branding and merch.

>>It is petty enough that I believe it.

He's also petty enough to not do it. And Jill is definitely petty enough to not do it. She despises Harris and I don't think there's much love lost with Joe either.

Harris was part of the coup that took Joe down. I don't see either of them being all that excited to reward her with a token presidency.

Besides, Trump would just come out with 48 swag and make more millions.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2024 01:11 PM (LkLld)

237 86 NY Post: I have multiple, intense orgasms all day long — I can’t even work and it’s very distressing

https://tinyurl.com/ytukjxar

That poor thing.

Posted by: Robert has been skimming the Post at October 28, 2024 12:35 PM (DN9nX)
----
Joke:
Remember the guy who had an orgasm everytime he sneezed. Asked if he was taking something for it he replied, "Yes, black pepper."

Posted by: Ciampino - A lot of artisanal cheese at October 28, 2024 01:11 PM (i0xsb)

238 They might not even with New Mexico. New Hampshire is now pretty much a dead heat. Rich Barris is reporting that Harris is pulling money out of North Carolina for ads in Virginia.
---
Say, isn't the NH media market just a subset of the greater NYC media market?
May be a stealth way to "campaign" in NH without actually going there?

Recall earlier this year when Harris bussed supporters from Boston to a rally in NH?
That was odd.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 28, 2024 01:12 PM (u2wrQ)

239 Hot girls are waiting for you on ---- www.Nu21.eu

Posted by: Lanna at October 28, 2024 01:12 PM (aDyIK)

240 https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/
1850903233960751434

Lil Georgies wife is putting the knives on the high counters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 28, 2024 01:12 PM (gbOdA)

241 We're entering the most dangerous phase of things.

Trump may win. Trump is openly saying he's pushing out the entrenched deep state and won't hire any of the usual suspects.

A lot of people are not happy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 28, 2024 01:12 PM (mzM2O)

242 Is it possible for Trump to claw back these criminally misused funds?

Or nope.

Cuz if so, I'd let people know now the this type of taxpayer robbery absolutely will not be tolerated and will be punished to the full extent of the law.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (eDfFs)

243 >>> 215 I believe that, please God, if Trump wins, then Biden will step down in like early December so Kamala can be Historic First President.

Also as someone on the twats pointed out, this will mean Trump will be 48 not 47 so there goes all that branding and merch.

It is petty enough that I believe it.
Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (LSFy2)

If they do that I'd buy some 47 swag just for spite.

Also because 47 is a prime number. Yes, I am a nerd.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (FnneF)

244 215 I believe that, please God, if Trump wins, then Biden will step down in like early December so Kamala can be Historic First President.

Also as someone on the twats pointed out, this will mean Trump will be 48 not 47 so there goes all that branding and merch.

It is petty enough that I believe it.
Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (LSFy2)

Yeah, I can see it. Not that it matters, just swapping puppet heads.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

245 It is petty enough that I believe it.
Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM (LSFy2)

Do they wanna lose their Historic First BS against a non-Trump Republican? They will no doubt blame Kamala for the loss so there's a great chance she won't be rewarded with the presidency.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (hmOfI)

246 Well time for lunch.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (c06Ie)

I'll have the pastrami on rye, please, thanks.

Posted by: Robert at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (gIImS)

247 Wait, what's this about hot girls?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (xcxpd)

248 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) repeats himself at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (aD39U)

249 Hot girls are waiting for you
.......

Do they have any machines for sale?

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

250 Meh,

Just looting the nation. They always said that is what they were going to do. This is what commies do - take 100% of everything and dole it how they see fit. The fvckin stupid rubes think they'll be getting the loot.

If somebody had a plan to round these cretins up and try them for plundering the national treasure I'd be more than 'meh' about it. Nothing really being done is unlikely given 95% of DC is in at the hog trough.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (/lPRQ)

251 pardon my outburst

Posted by: G'rump928(c) repeats himself at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (aD39U)

252 I have heard rumors of Trumps deportation plans: Gang members, human traffickers, and cartel personnel will receive standard deportation, while others will get enhanced deportation. Standard deportation is the deportees are loaded on commercial jets, flown across the border and when they arrive at their country of origin they disembark the jets. The enhanced deportation is basically the same except the deportees get parachutes.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 28, 2024 01:10 PM (Da7Vv)

1. No birthright citizenship.
2. Get rid of government handouts.
3. Get rid of unquestioned freebies (school, medical).
4. Prosecute people who employ.
5. Actual hard labor for illegals who commit violent/drug crimes - and sanctuary city/state officials.

Enforce that and you don't have to do anything. They'll leave on their own.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

253 It would likely help the value of the 47 merch *and* give Trump a chance to double dip with 48. So again they probably don't want to give him that win.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (hmOfI)

254 I see pro-Trump ads from the RBG PAC.

A topsy-turvy world.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (ufFY8)

255 pardon my outburst
Posted by: G'rump928(c) repeats himself at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (aD39U)

We know where it was directed.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (CIS44)

256 We're entering the most dangerous phase of things.

Trump may win. Trump is openly saying he's pushing out the entrenched deep state and won't hire any of the usual suspects.

A lot of people are not happy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 28, 2024 01:12 PM (mzM2O)

-------------------

Trillions of dollars are at stake to GloboHomo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (DKzVk)

257 245 Do they wanna lose their Historic First BS against a non-Trump Republican? They will no doubt blame Kamala for the loss so there's a great chance she won't be rewarded with the presidency.
Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (hmOfI)

I think they'd rather spread their Historic Firsts out.

Why lose the "First Woman" AND "First Indian" card when you can stretch it out over multiple elections by playing them one at a time?

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (UnA8+)

258 "I have heard rumors of Trumps deportation plans: Gang members, human traffickers, and cartel personnel will receive standard deportation, while others will get enhanced deportation."

If we deport criminal legal aliens who will pick our lettuce and cut our grass?

Posted by: Ripley at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (GUOwU)

259 Hot girls are waiting for you
----------

They are about to be severely disappointed.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (hmOfI)

260
I believe that, please God, if Trump wins, then Biden will step down in like early December so Kamala can be Historic First President.

Also as someone on the twats pointed out, this will mean Trump will be 48 not 47 so there goes all that branding and merch.

It is petty enough that I believe it.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 28, 2024 01:05 PM

my concern is that then she'll have to nominate a VP & have them confirmed by the senate

that VP would then oversee the certification of the election and who know what sort of fuckery will ensue

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 28, 2024 01:16 PM (bEb2S)

261 Hot girls are waiting for you
.......

Do they have any machines for sale?
Posted by: wth at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (v0R5T)
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I'm in the market for a lace wig.

Posted by: Sonobi at October 28, 2024 01:16 PM (79pEw)

262 240 https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/
1850903233960751434

How do you make it line break like that so that there's no carriage return or space when I copy-n-paste it?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 28, 2024 01:16 PM (/y8xj)

263 Hot Wheels are waiting for you on ---- www.mattel21.eu

Posted by: Hanna at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (OguvZ)

264 Oh, Lana!

Posted by: Jack Tripper at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (Qs9lt)

265 @232

>>Centre County is home to Penn State University’s largest campus.

Penn State rules that county, the GOTV on that campus is off the hook, if the GOP wins Centre County that means Penns future graduates are looking at the current program and going, F**k That Sh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (XV/Pl)

266 Alas, either way they never stop fighting.
Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (hmOfI)

Neither do the Trotskyites.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (D7oie)

267 If they do that I'd buy some 47 swag just for spite.

Also because 47 is a prime number. Yes, I am a nerd.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (FnneF)
-----------------

Gosh, and you seemed like a very nice lady when I met you in TX. I had no idea......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

268 Cuz if so, I'd let people know now the this type of taxpayer robbery absolutely will not be tolerated and will be punished to the full extent of the law.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (eDfFs)

***

I still think anyone who gets student loan forgiveness should get a tax bill for 200% of the amount forgiven.

It’s an “investment”, after all, right? Investments pay returns.

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (FC8SQ)

269 >>that VP would then oversee the certification of the election and who know what sort of fuckery will ensue

Again, that was changed post 2020 / Jan 6th.

Even though they claimed that Pence did not have authority to do such, they changed the Law to preclude the opportunity.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (o50ob)

270 For some reason I suspect this sentence may be used in a joke or two, garrett.
Posted by: scampydog at October 28, 2024 01:07 PM (41CYW)

It is one of the funniest scenes in Team America.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (hmOfI)

271 Hot girls are waiting for you
.......

Do they have any machines for sale?
Posted by: wth at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (v0R5T)
***

Can they fix a stopped up toilet?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (W/lyH)

272 James Varney: Biden-Harris's Climate Slush-Fund Gives Out Nearly a Billions and Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to a Fund Controlled By Obama's Fomer Aides and Other Democrat Cronies
__________________

And now we see the point of the "climate change" hoax.

The Justice Climate Fund ~~is not the only nonprofit newcomer suddenly made rich by the GGRF~~ better hope to sweet Jesus that it never receives justice..

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

273 The only hot girl I have time for is Sonobi.

Posted by: Sonobi, where art thou? at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (laHVL)

274 It would likely help the value of the 47 merch *and* give Trump a chance to double dip with 48. So again they probably don't want to give him that win.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (hmOfI)

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"47, 48 ... Whatever it takes."

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (DKzVk)

275 Alas, either way they never stop fighting.
Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (hmOfI)

Neither do the Trotskyites.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (D7oie)

unless they have a headache.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (aD39U)

276 >>Say, isn't the NH media market just a subset of the greater NYC media market?
May be a stealth way to "campaign" in NH without actually going there?

It's more tied to the Boston media market.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (LkLld)

277 I'm a little too old for Hot Wheels, frankly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (xcxpd)

278 >>> 260
==
my concern is that then she'll have to nominate a VP & have them confirmed by the senate

that VP would then oversee the certification of the election and who know what sort of fuckery will ensue
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 28, 2024 01:16 PM (bEb2S)

...er, since Dingdong is currently the VP, how does that make things worse? aWalz won't do anything she wouldn't.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (FnneF)

279 "Hot girls are waiting for you"

I want a guarantee they do not have a penis.

Posted by: Ripley at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (GUOwU)

280 It would likely help the value of the 47 merch *and* give Trump a chance to double dip with 48. So again they probably don't want to give him that win.
Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:15 PM (hmOfI)

It's important to note that many on the left lack what could be called critical thinking skills. They'd do it and walk around high fiving themselves all day at having rekt him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

281 my concern is that then she'll have to nominate a VP & have them confirmed by the senate

that VP would then oversee the certification of the election and who know what sort of fuckery will ensue
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 28, 2024 01:16 PM (bEb2S)

I can guarantee that fuckery will ensue. This will be a historic election and transition. But I'm more worried that Trump won't survive. These people are totally unhinged.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (mzM2O)

282 >>It's more tied to the Boston media market.

RIP Boston Market : They had great Creamed Spinach.

Posted by: garrett at October 28, 2024 01:19 PM (o50ob)

283 How do you make it line break like that so that there's no carriage return or space when I copy-n-paste it?

You'll need a url-shortener for this technological marvel of a website.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 28, 2024 01:19 PM (fSRpP)

284 Enforce that and you don't have to do anything. They'll leave on their own.
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There are a lot of young men in those illegal immigration numbers. It's entirely plausible they were sent here to cause trouble and even if they lose all taxpayer funded bennies, the foreign govts or orgs that sent them will find a way to continue to fund them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2024 01:19 PM (FgmQv)

285 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 28, 2024 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

Fair!

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 01:19 PM (hmOfI)

286 268 I still think anyone who gets student loan forgiveness should get a tax bill for 200% of the amount forgiven.

It’s an “investment”, after all, right? Investments pay returns.
Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (FC8SQ)

500%, and they go into Supermax PMITA prison if they don't pay it within 12 months.

Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 01:19 PM (UnA8+)

287 It’s an “investment”, after all, right? Investments pay returns.

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:17 PM (FC8SQ)
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Let me translate from Democratese to English: "investment" means "straight-up grift with no discernible return."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:19 PM (YqDXo)

288 >>RIP Boston Market : They had great Creamed Spinach.

They did.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2024 01:20 PM (LkLld)

289 5. Actual hard labor for illegals who commit violent/drug crimes - and sanctuary city/state officials.

Enforce that and you don't have to do anything. They'll leave on their own.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Take them to africa and contract them out to shady mining companies. Extra shady. Extremely shady mining companies.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 28, 2024 01:20 PM (/lPRQ)

290 You'll need a url-shortener for this technological marvel of a website.

If you're on a PC, it's not so bad. I used to always see morons complaining about the pages not loading on their iPhones. When I got an iPad I have the same issue.

On a PC though it's smooth sailing

Posted by: kallisto at October 28, 2024 01:20 PM (dCxaZ)

291 Note that a federal court could step in regarding the drop-box vandalism/destroyed ballots in Portland. It remains more secret from the populace than the next Mossad operation, but presidential elections are supposed to be overseen by state legislatures and Congress, under that obscure document known as the constitution. Courts have only a fairly complicated and gray-area role - legislatures and Congress control electors and certification.

But federal courts step in when there are problems in congressional races all the time. Primaries and generals. Usual remedy is to re-run them - do-overs.

If the race in that district is officially within or close to the # of destroyed ballots, don't see how a court could *not* step in and require a do-over.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2024 01:20 PM (GcNJ2)

292 >Hot girls are waiting for you
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Do they have any machines for sale?
Posted by: wth at October 28, 2024 01:14 PM (v0R5T)
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I'm in the market for a lace wig.

Posted by: Sonobi
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You gotta get yaself some mawble columns!

Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 01:20 PM (/7KEl)

293 Alas, either way they never stop fighting.

Posted by: ... at October 28, 2024 12:37 PM (hmOfI)

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Satan personified.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 28, 2024 01:21 PM (DKzVk)

294 my concern is that then she'll have to nominate a VP & have them confirmed by the senate

that VP would then oversee the certification of the election and who know what sort of fuckery will ensue
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 28, 2024 01:16 PM (bEb2S)

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Replacement VPs have to confirmed by both houses of Congress. Of course, Speaker Mike Johnson would find a way to screw us over.

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:21 PM (FC8SQ)

295 Posted by: Lanna at October 28, 2024 01:12 PM (aDyIK)

That's an unfortunate hash for a would-be seductress.

Unless it's for a sapphic site, I guess.

Posted by: spindrift at October 28, 2024 01:21 PM (OguvZ)

296 I still think anyone who gets student loan forgiveness should get a tax bill
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Absolutely. IIRC there's a part of form 1040 that specifically asks about loan forgiveness, and counts it as income.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:21 PM (YqDXo)

297 243
Also because 47 is a prime number. Yes, I am a nerd.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2024 01:13 PM (FnneF)
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H8R, in Minority Math there are no prime numbers, all numbers are equal and equitable in value.

Posted by: Ciampino - No square roots. Roots are round at October 28, 2024 01:21 PM (i0xsb)

298 nood

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at October 28, 2024 01:22 PM (L8DZ3)

299 You gotta get yaself some mawble columns!

Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2024 01:20 PM (/7KEl)
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How about Obongo's styrofoam columns in Berlin? They'd be cheap to send over.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:22 PM (YqDXo)

300 Nude Panderbear

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 28, 2024 01:23 PM (aD39U)

Posted by: machines for sale at October 28, 2024 01:23 PM (hmOfI)

302 I think you all are missing the point. No one actually likes Harris. they got stuck with her. Do you think Gretchen wants Harris to be the first woman President? Do you think Biden wants to give anything to the woman who singlehandedly destroyed his "legacy"?
Trump will have botht he House and Senate so the minority will be falling all over themselves to try and hold on to committee assignments. At least I hope that will happen.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 28, 2024 01:23 PM (t/2Uw)

303 Trump may win. Trump is openly saying he's pushing out the entrenched deep state and won't hire any of the usual suspects.

A lot of people are not happy.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 28, 2024 01:12 PM (mzM2O)

Deep state is like a political machine, and in a way it is exactly like a political machine. Advancement has a lot to do with serving time, with marking boxes, and by being loyal. Competence will get you nothing, except fired for being a threat.

Imagine some cubical farm dweller suddenly having the hope of actually getting a promotion or actual ability to do his job if the party screw ups controlling the office get ousted. That well could get some extra votes.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2024 01:24 PM (D7oie)

304 H8R, in Minority Math there are no prime numbers, all numbers are equal and equitable in value.

Posted by: Ciampino - No square roots. Roots are round at October 28, 2024 01:21 PM (i0xsb)
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No irrational numbers either, H8R. There are just numbers that hear a different drummer, and want care in the community, the community being sleeping under an overpass.

pi and e rejoice!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:24 PM (YqDXo)

305 The "reform" passed in 2022 actually gives federal courts a role in presidential election disputes at the state level. Hard for me to believe it is constitutional - but with things like the Voting Rights Act and many more, such a quibble has become almost quaint I guess.

Same law makes VP role in certification robotic and symbolic. So the Pence drama of 2021 should be repeatable.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2024 01:25 PM (GcNJ2)

306 You'll need a url-shortener for this technological marvel of a website.

I either use one or insert a space to break on and add a comment like "delete space after com/" but some people post X links that break that can ^C/^V across the break.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 28, 2024 01:25 PM (/y8xj)

307 So the Pence drama of 2021 should NOT be repeatable.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2024 01:26 PM (GcNJ2)

308 Deep state is ~~like~~ a political machine

FIFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:26 PM (YqDXo)

309 Same law makes VP role in certification robotic and symbolic. So the Pence drama of 2021 should be repeatable.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2024 01:25 PM (GcNJ2)
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Ah, hell, why don't they quit farting around and just go for it: have the Maximum Supreme Leader chosen by the ~~Politburo~~ DNC.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:28 PM (YqDXo)

310 500%, and they go into Supermax PMITA prison if they don't pay it within 12 months.
Posted by: XTC at October 28, 2024 01:19 PM (UnA8+)

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I guess I’m a “compassionate conservative”, but we can come up with a compromise:

400% and if they don’t pay it back in 12 months they have to go mine cobalt in Africa until the debt is paid off. (Supermax prisons are expensive.)

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:29 PM (FC8SQ)

311 No irrational numbers either, H8R. There are just numbers that hear a different drummer, and want care in the community, the community being sleeping under an overpass.

pi and e rejoice!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 28, 2024 01:24 PM (YqDXo)

***

This joke is transcendent.

Posted by: Lurker at October 28, 2024 01:31 PM (FC8SQ)

312 The Joe Kent thing makes no sense. In that district, Clark County is the one that leans Dem (and the biggest population). The other counties lean right. Portland is going to be left leaning pretty much everywhere. False flag?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2024 01:35 PM (gfViB)

313 Math humor!

Posted by: Danger Will Robinson at October 28, 2024 01:37 PM (DobEs)

314 Vote by mail application requests closed in VA on Oct 25...now, anyone who wants to vote and hasn't yet decided to must do so in person. Anyone who did request a mail in ballot has until election day to have it postmarked (it is accepted til Nov 8 if it has the election day postmark).

Posted by: Nova Local at October 28, 2024 01:44 PM (exHjb)

315 "was the Climate United Fund, which is slated to receive $6.97 billion."

For $7 billion you could build Two Terra power nuclear power plants That would generate 3 million MWh of electricity each year.

Instead, the Climate United fund says they'll use the money to make "Green loans". 96 borrowers in 100+ countries. Yeah, basically they are sending the money overseas.

https://calvertimpact.org/impact

It's a complete fucking scam.

Posted by: El Mariachi at October 28, 2024 02:00 PM (nLFEI)

316 Wasn't this also seen with 4 square, and other green energy grift scams in Obama's term. It seems like the gvt business and elections are not about America but about the busiest and fastest grifting they can make Americans believe in the most environmentalist concerns "for our children" !

Posted by: Wag the dog at October 28, 2024 02:00 PM (mtQXG)

317 Well, if you can't "fundamentally change America" by leading them into your way of thinking, you can always activate sympathetic bureaucrats and drain generational earned wealth from citizens and give it to your favorite people.

Thanks, Obama!

Posted by: red speck at October 28, 2024 02:18 PM (0Id0S)

318 It's a criminal conspiracy and the perps should be prosecuted and the money clawed back when Trump takes office .

Posted by: Sven at October 28, 2024 02:44 PM (cKdWZ)

319 The inflation reduction act spent $891 billion in total spending – including $783 billion on energy and climate change. Terra power's nuclear power plant in Wyoming is estimated to cost $4 billion per unit. You could build, likely, 200 such plants for that kind of money. It will produce 3,000 Gwh per plant, or 600,000 Gwh in total for 200 units per year. That is equivalent to the entire electricity production of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, and Connecticut. Adding in the renewable source of power in these states, you could also handle several more states, like Washington and Oregon.

Don't ever let them tell you they are doing this for our benefit - it's a fucking lie. They piss away the money in a million tiny rivulets so we don't realize it was all wasted.

Posted by: El Mariachi at October 28, 2024 04:31 PM (nLFEI)

320 When Medicare, Social Security and EBT funds run out, you can sleep at night knowing the Climate Change warriors are fully funded.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at October 28, 2024 10:14 PM (pw1S1)

321 Thx for highlighting this scam, Ace.

It is estimated that there is 3,000 gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere(.04%). Trees consume 22 kg(48.4 lbs) of CO2 per day. Dividing the two you end up with 62,000,000,000 trees. I think there is a good chance there are more trees than that = moot point. Scam. Transfer of wealth.

Posted by: Danimal28 at October 29, 2024 10:11 AM (klw0w)

322 Is "GGRF" pronounced grift or graft?

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at October 29, 2024 12:22 PM (AwU0e)

323 64 We're in the looting the treasury phase of the decline of the empire.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 28, 2024 12:30 PM (FgmQv)

Truer words have never been spoken.

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