As USAID Is Shut Down, Politico's Checks to Its Employees Are Delayed.<br>This May Not Be a Coincidence -- USAID Is Funding the Anti-Trump/Anti-Conservative Propaganda Mill Politico.

As USAID Is Shut Down, Politico's Checks to Its Employees Are Delayed.
This May Not Be a Coincidence -- USAID Is Funding the Anti-Trump/Anti-Conservative Propaganda Mill Politico.

While USAID poured money into censorship outfits with the sole goal of deplatforming conservative outlets and organizing advertising boycotts to drain us of any revenue, they were also paying taxpayer money to leftwing outlets.

I'm serious: I want a class action lawsuit against the government.

Before getting to that: USAID's website now announces to all of its "workers:" You're fired.

Well, a few will be kept around for high-priority projects, but the rest are now terminated.

On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).
For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents' school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.
Thank you for your service.

On to Politico. Apparently they charge a huge amount of money for a "Pro" subscription, and USAID was paying a ton of money to buy these very pricey super-subscriptions.

Why does someone working for USAID paying for Peruvian transgender comic books need a super-expensive subscription to Politico to follow the day-to-day micro-news about the DC bureaucracy?

Is their job wasting taxpayer money, or is their job political activism?

ZeroHedge:

According to government spending tracker website USASPENDING.gov, Politico - which laundered the Hunter Biden '51 intel officials' propaganda during the 2020 election - received up to $27 million (and by some counts $32 million) from various US agencies during the Biden years.
In one instance, roughly $500,000 was spent on 37 Politico 'pro' subscriptions.
Of note, Politico was sold to German media giant Axel Springer (which also owns Business Insider) for $1 billion in 2021, meaning US taxpayer dollars have been flowing to the German media giant to prop up their US propaganda rags.

zerohedge
@zerohedge
So 90% of "subscribers" to left-wing publications like Politico are fake and "taxpayer funded". And then using fake subs to artificially pump up revenue, Politico gets to sell itself to German propaganda giant Axel Springer for $1 billion.

🚨 This is the biggest scandal in news media history:

No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis.

Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was… pic.twitter.com/DwHqEp6gjp
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 5, 2025

Ironic that the amount of Fed funds pouring into Politico increased exponentially after they successfully laundered the Deep State CIA election rigging propaganda against Trump: pic.twitter.com/WxhDMlcvnV
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 5, 2025

It's not just USAID, either: Biden had the whole government subsidizing these grifters.

The Politico scandal is worse than you think.

It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.

It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.

Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.

Follow along below. pic.twitter.com/OxF7Zrc4GP
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2025

Who paid off Politico? A veritable laundry list of the most corrupt federal agencies. HHS. Dept of Education. Dept of Agriculture. pic.twitter.com/J9yJsUkDqv
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2025

More: The government has been subsidizing AP, too.

For years, the media demanded that the government subsidize them. Taxpayers said "No." We were so firm on the point that Democrats never even bothered trying to pass a law.

So Obama and Biden just began giving government money to the leftwing media without troubling to ask the public if they had their consent for this latest wealth-transfer scheme from Republican voters to Democrat voters.

Posted by: Ace at 12:07 PM

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1 Winning?

Winning.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 05, 2025 12:07 PM (DTX3h)

2 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:07 PM (xcxpd)

3 Starve the Beast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)

4 And burn baby, burn

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:07 PM (xcxpd)

5 Is their job wasting taxpayer money, or is their job political activism?

Yes.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:08 PM (xCA6C)

6 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

Unbelievable.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 05, 2025 12:09 PM (uxCna)

7 Next the IRS and then NASA?

Posted by: HarrysNotHere at February 05, 2025 12:09 PM (5XEDO)

8 This Isn't a Coincidence -- USAID Is Funding the Anti-Trump/Anti-Conservative Propaganda Mill Politico.

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The real scandal is that Trump delegated his executive authority without the sayso of a subsecretary in the House of Records, not that the federal government is funding propaganda against the American people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

9 I always assumed it was the CCP funding groups like Politico. Never figured is was tax payers like me.

Posted by: Brad at February 05, 2025 12:09 PM (qoB0Q)

10 On to Politico. Apparently they charge a huge amount of money for a "Pro" subscription, and USAID was paying a ton of money to buy these very pricey super-subscriptions.

Wait until you see how many other Federal agencies were also buying Politico "Pro" subscriptions.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (uxCna)

11 How much was the 'Pro' subscription?

Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (Oy/m2)

12
INCONCEIVABLE!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (tljrc)

13 A really dumb politician picked a fight and drew Musk's attention. Stay tuned:

https://tinyurl.com/yp5f6ke2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (CrtM/)

14 When Politico is destroyed, I hope they also destroy its ashes that linger on the interwebz.

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (lCppi)

15 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

One usually expels waste products. Why are we bringing them back here?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (xCA6C)

16 Will Kristol have to sell his boat now? Because that would be a crying shame.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (VWW1G)

17 By the way, does anyone truly believe Transgender Plays in Ireland was actually a thing? Or, was it just a sloppy label used to cover money funneled to some insane CIA stupidity?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (tT6L1)

18 The Politico scandal is worse than you think.

It�s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.

It�s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.

Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.

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USAID was the small start.

And USAID is huge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

19 > 11 How much was the 'Pro' subscription?
Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (Oy/m2)

$12,000/year.

No, I'm not making that up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (W5ArC)

20 "Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was being massively funded by USAID."

I'm looking forward to the Politico investigative reporters exposing this fraud!

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (6CsVH)

21 Government-paid sex workers.

Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (LHPAg)

22 It's grift all the way down.

Dear Lord, please put walls of protection around Trump, Vance, Musk and all of us. 🙏🙏🙏

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (4tmpE)

23 Willowed:
490 I'm always astonished when I see such things. I mean, how much more money do you need? The money isn't why they do it, it's the corruption. They live for it, because it's the main part of what they are.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:05 PM (xCA6C)

Money is corrosive if you are an idiot. I had a couple supervisors working for me at a site last year. The site required double time (12 hour shifts) on Sundays. Because of the hours, they were making about 6 figures. And spent like it. I kept warning them 'Our job is extremely up and down as far as income. We are brought in to do a job, help the customer fix the problem, then we go away. Do NOT get used to the high income.' They ignored me.

Then the site shut down and they both freaked the fuck out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)

24 Depriving the independent press of state money is straight up Nazism.

Impeach!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (aD39U)

25 Every crazy thing the left has been doing over the last 4 years has been paid for by the US taxpayer

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (t0Rmr)

26 Politico? Pfffffffffffttttttttttt!!!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/mr3a5cuz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (CrtM/)

27 21 Government-paid sex workers.
Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (LHPAg)

*perks up*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

28 If Politico was getting paid off, can MSM be far behind?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (tT6L1)

29 And the BBC was getting $$$$.

It's all breathtakingly overwhelming.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (4tmpE)

30 What does the Lambo-pricy "pro" Politico subscription get you that the basic one does not?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

31 hi Ace

Today Court in NJ threw out case against the Oil industry with Prejudice. This impacted a bunch of other climate change suits.
Made me realize that USAID was funding these NGOS and Eco groups who then brought suits against the government which then got settled out of court for millions of dollars which then keep them in business to continue to work against the country's best interests.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (t/2Uw)

32 Pam Blondi just got sworn in.
Trump knows how to play a room.

Still not tired of winning.

And, the press are idiots.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (ufFY8)

33 From the tiny picture, Liz Wheeler looks cute.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (bss/y)

34 For years I've scratched my head over how certain things that don't seem to make sense can continue to happen. How Politico and other left-wing websites and publications make money is one. Now it's all becoming clear.

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (lCppi)

35

I always wondered how they existed.

What's funny is that that old twat might have been funded by the taxpayer.

In fact, is it possible every stage managed, project managed propaganda run was directed by the feds.

Certainly possible.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (et1vG)

36 $12,000/year.

No, I'm not making that up.

And that's how you know the intent was to launder government money...sort of like those $50 screw drivers the DoD used to buy...but there I think the money was going to black ops

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (t0Rmr)

37 Willowed: Ace must stay hydrated.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (6CsVH)

38 The other 10% are totes legit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (KWujZ)

39 I have a feeling that the democrat party will be declaring bankruptcy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (lTGtQ)

40 26 Politico? Pfffffffffffttttttttttt!!!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/mr3a5cuz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (CrtM/)

USAID was paying AMAZON to make Rings of Power trash?
What the actual fuck???

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

41 What does the Lambo-pricy "pro" Politico subscription get you that the basic one does not?

30 minutes a week in Gov Murphy's illegal alien sex dungeon

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (t0Rmr)

42 Wow... I expected to find media payments in this mess... but missing the next payroll I did not suspect.

Posted by: Inogame at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (53oGX)

43 40 26 Politico? Pfffffffffffttttttttttt!!!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/mr3a5cuz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (CrtM/)

USAID was paying AMAZON to make Rings of Power trash?
What the actual fuck???
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

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Satire.

I was disappointed when I found out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

44
USAID was paying AMAZON to make Rings of Power trash?
What the actual fuck???

Ahem. The term is "Rangz"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (t0Rmr)

45 9 I always assumed it was the CCP funding groups like Politico. Never figured is was tax payers like me.

yeah and we didn't even get tote bags

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (Pv3Rg)

46 The hubris and entitlement displayed by these people is amazing. They just assumed apparently that they deserved massive amounts of government money to produce propaganda

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (OW907)

47 What does the Lambo-pricy "pro" Politico subscription get you that the basic one does not?

30 minutes a week in Gov Murphy's illegal alien sex dungeon
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (t0Rmr)
_________

Depends what she looks like ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (iFTx/)

48 Keep your eyes on the US Treasury's Bureau of Financial Services. It's in DOGE's crosshairs too.

What is this Bureau?

An obscure Treasury Department office that manages trillions of dollars in payments for the entire government is the latest flashpoint in President Trump and Elon Musk's war on federal spending.

Why it matters: Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, multiple outlets reported, now has access to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which is essentially a checkbook for the entire federal government.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)

49 Who can live without dank elves?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (KWujZ)

50 Remember the scene in Batman Begins? It is during the phase when Bruce Wayne is setting up being Batman. Alfred mentions all of the hoops and shell companies they are having to go through in order to make sure it is not traced back to Bruce- so as to not reveal that he is Batman.

This is that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (bss/y)

51 50 Remember the scene in Batman Begins? It is during the phase when Bruce Wayne is setting up being Batman. Alfred mentions all of the hoops and shell companies they are having to go through in order to make sure it is not traced back to Bruce- so as to not reveal that he is Batman.

This is that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (bss/y)

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Not everything is movies, bro.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

52 yeah, the assassination attempts on President Trump are starting to look like a panic reaction by the Deep State because they feared exactly what President Trump is doing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (tT6L1)

53 WE WAZ RANGZ!

Posted by: Narya, Nenya, and Vilya at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (aD39U)

54 The hubris and entitlement displayed by these people is amazing. They just assumed apparently that they deserved massive amounts of government money to produce propaganda

If you talk with a credential leftist that got zer credentials in something that doesn't pay well they will tell you endlessly that it is a crime that teachers, social workers, journalists, etc don't make more and racism, sexism, or fascism is to blame...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (t0Rmr)

55 Man. when this is all done I want to see a "crew picture" of Elon and the crew posing with their horned rim glasses and pocket protectors. And, alongside, the US Marshals with warrants.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (gm9Sb)

56 We was Rangz.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (KWujZ)

57 Satire.

I was disappointed when I found out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

LOL. It was too good to be true. 'So retarded, not even USAID would pay us to make it.'

They should use that in advertising.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

58 51 50 Remember the scene in Batman Begins? It is during the phase when Bruce Wayne is setting up being Batman. Alfred mentions all of the hoops and shell companies they are having to go through in order to make sure it is not traced back to Bruce- so as to not reveal that he is Batman.

This is that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (bss/y)

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Not everything is movies, bro.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

*points and screeches in Donald Sutherland*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

59 Politico? Pfffffffffffttttttttttt!!!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/mr3a5cuz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (CrtM/)

USAID was paying AMAZON to make Rings of Power trash?
What the actual fuck???

According to Google, this is not correct. RoP is still on for additional seasons that nobody will watch.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (xCA6C)

60 This is all so amazing, how deep this goes. Did anyone see this coming? Is this getting out there to the straights, just how thoroughly these people have been scamming everyone?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (lH8E4)

61 I always assumed it was the CCP funding groups like Politico. Never figured is was tax payers like me.

yeah and we didn't even get tote bags
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (Pv3Rg)
__________

[Perks up]

-- Sam Brinton

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

62 Remember when "Transparency" was a Positive Patriotic Value & Virtue?

Good times, good times ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (zc6wW)

63 The employees should have used Chime, or whatever the fuck it is, that gets your paycheck up to two days earlier.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (ufFY8)

64 Trump could do absolutely nothing for the next 3 years and 11 months and it would be the most successful presidency of my lifetime.

I will be very curious to see how social media sites, particularly Reddit, behave going forward. The USAID slush funds drying up might actually make those places habitable again.

Posted by: Nutsy at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (Puup4)

65 53 Spooky.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (KWujZ)

66 58 Not everything is movies, bro.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

*points and screeches in Donald Sutherland*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

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That scene was so out of place in Pride and Prejudice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

67 So, to sum up, the democrat party used stolen US taxpayer dollars to illegally defraud the 2020 election.

The election was stolen by using stolen dollars.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (lTGtQ)

68 Who can live without dank elves?

Not me!

Posted by: Slaanesh at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (t0Rmr)

69 Afternoon Ace. Trying to figure what the lefts response to this revelation will be 1) ignore it 2) yesterday's news 3) not a big deal Republicans do it too, no evidence of course 4)yell 5) violence

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (U/Wlk)

70 RSBN is playing a clip of the fiercely hetereosexual Corey Booker babbling.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (ufFY8)

71 Wait what? Politico is owned by a German media company?

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (G0vdT)

72 Not everything is movies, bro.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

Hah!

'Remember thou art mortal!'

*whispered* 'Blow it out your ass.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (bss/y)

73 What about T-shirts? Do we get any when we subscribe to this blog?

Posted by: dantesed at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (Oy/m2)

74 >> Is their job wasting taxpayer money, or is their job political activism?
Yes.
Posted by: Archimedes

ha, yes, I stepped into that one.

Posted by: ace at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (KRtlO)

75 Satire.

I was disappointed when I found out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)
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Me too.

But the state of the world is such that it's difficult to tell...

It would not surprise me in the least of some part of the $1 billion spent on that show (so far) came from a USAID shell organization.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (7fElN)

76 And now all the spittle flecked screaming by the left makes sense.

Make public hangings a thing again. 😡😡

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (4tmpE)

77 Did USAID pay for the Ray Epps problem, was he working for Samantha Powers and not Chris Wray?

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (2NXcZ)

78 Trump could do absolutely nothing for the next 3 years and 11 months and it would be the most successful presidency of my lifetime.

If he does move on to ending the IRS/income tax he will become the second greatest president in American history

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (t0Rmr)

79 64 Trump could do absolutely nothing for the next 3 years and 11 months and it would be the most successful presidency of my lifetime.

heh

true

but that's not the plan

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (Pv3Rg)

80 67 So, to sum up, the democrat party used stolen US taxpayer dollars to illegally defraud the 2020 election.

The election was stolen by using stolen dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (lTGtQ)

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Trump was in control of the executive branch when the executive branch started a giant, worldwide effort to blame him for a lab breach in Wuhan and then outright stole an election from him in plain sight.

I wonder why he didn't just step aside and let someone else take the nomination in 2024...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

81 >> We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

Why?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)

82 59 Possibly a satirical post. Scroll down on it.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (6CsVH)

83 Afternoon Ace. Trying to figure what the lefts response to this revelation will be 1) ignore it 2) yesterday's news 3) not a big deal Republicans do it too, no evidence of course 4)yell 5) violence

REEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (xCA6C)

84 Afternoon Ace. Trying to figure what the lefts response to this revelation will be 1) ignore it 2) yesterday's news 3) not a big deal Republicans do it too, no evidence of course 4)yell 5) violence
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (U/Wlk)
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Option 5. Jasmine Crockett is trying to stir up violence over this. Raskin and Schumer are too, but their rhetoric isn't quite as over the top as Jasmine's.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (tT6L1)

85 all these assholes taking our money believed they were paid (by us) because they were Doing a Public Service

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

86 81 >> We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

Why?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)

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....

....

Nukes?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

87 I have been predicting that history will look back at Democrat Party rule since 2008 as the greatest smash and grab robbery in history.

I feel grimly vindicated.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (aD39U)

88 I definitely feel like I was "serviced"

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

89 I wonder if USAID has been the one buying up all of the platinum subscriptions to the hq . . .

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (uCjyK)

90 Before getting to that: USAID's website now announces to all of its "workers:" You're fired.

That brings a tear to my eye.

Now, if you didn't already take the buyout, are you screwed? I hope so!

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (QHWjA)

91 81 Because USAID == CIA.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (6CsVH)

92 Satire.

I was disappointed when I found out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

LOL. It was too good to be true. 'So retarded, not even USAID would pay us to make it.'

They should use that in advertising.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)
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That might be satire, but I'll bet any amount of money -- any! -- that Amazon is getting tons of taxpayer money (in exchange for nothing) through various similar scams and frauds. Maybe not though USAID. But through something similar.

Anyone want this action?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

93 I'm loving it!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (a2Pv6)

94 27 21 Government-paid sex workers.
Posted by: Eromero at February 05, 2025 12:11 PM (LHPAg)

*perks up*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

They were elected by their districts fair and... well, they were duly sworn in and no backsies.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (pIfcn)

95 92 That might be satire, but I'll bet any amount of money -- any! -- that Amazon is getting tons of taxpayer money (in exchange for nothing) through various similar scams and frauds. Maybe not though USAID. But through something similar.

Anyone want this action?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

======

The feds overpaying for AWS access?

99% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

96 @67 Thomas, always better to use other people's money. The left is famous for that, see Maggie Thatcher's quote

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (U/Wlk)

97
Trump was in control of the executive branch when the executive branch started a giant, worldwide effort to blame him for a lab breach in Wuhan and then outright stole an election from him in plain sight.

Remember WuFlu was Trump's fault because he didn't mandate the clot shots

Of course in 2025 anyone that claims the government said the clot shot stops the spread of COVID is a lying racist NAZI according to the same people

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (t0Rmr)

98 Now, Musk says DOGE is looking into Medicare.

That's were the real money is.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (G0vdT)

99 Now do National Review.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (/vs/b)

100 Remember the scene in Batman Begins? It is during the phase when Bruce Wayne is setting up being Batman. Alfred mentions all of the hoops and shell companies they are having to go through in order to make sure it is not traced back to Bruce- so as to not reveal that he is Batman.

This is that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM (bss/y)
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So...at the end of all this we'll find a caped crusader fighting crime in D.C.? Color me skeptical...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (7fElN)

101 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

Why?

Landing? Who said anything about landing?

Posted by: Pinochet Airways at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (HeV6l)

102 Satire.

I was disappointed when I found out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

LOL. It was too good to be true. 'So retarded, not even USAID would pay us to make it.'

They should use that in advertising.

It's telling that it was so plausible in light of recent events.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (xCA6C)

103 I watched half of the first episode of Rings of Power.

The only thing that would get me to watch again would be someone telling me that GrrrrrrlPower Galadriel got fragged by her own troops.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (W5ArC)

104 68 Who can live without dank elves?

Not me!
Posted by: Slaanesh at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (t0Rmr)

https://tinyurl.com/5b8urj4f

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)

105 102 It's telling that it was so plausible in light of recent events.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (xCA6C)

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Fake but accurate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

106 So...at the end of all this we'll find a caped crusader fighting crime in D.C.? Color me skeptical...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (7fElN)
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No cape, just orange with a scalp weasel as a side kick.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (tT6L1)

107 The irony is without the Butler shooting I’m not sure that Musk gets on board so enthusiastically… and without the technical know how he brings even with Trump’s vision a lot of this stuff doesn’t come out. The deep state in addition to being evil is stupid… Butler turned out to be a self own

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (OW907)

108 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee

Hopefully they get some propofol during the procedure.

Posted by: Gastroenterologists at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (w9Wax)

109 Before getting to that: USAID's website now announces to all of its "workers:" You're fired.
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I think Trump is gearing up for something similar for the Dept of Education.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (G0vdT)

110 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee

Yes, yes, of course. For their colonoscopies.

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (0ljUU)

111 I always assumed it was the CCP funding groups like Politico. Never figured is was tax payers like me.
Posted by: Brad at February 05, 2025 12:09 PM (qoB0Q)

I have come to the conclusion that both sides are funding them, both looking for leverage.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (D7oie)

112 I was angry, then enraged, what comes after that?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (PMtkd)

113 109 I think Trump is gearing up for something similar for the Dept of Education.
Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (G0vdT)

=====

Apparently, he'll sign an EO rescinded all regulation not explicitly in statute and then work with Congress to get legislation passed to end it completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

114 104 68 Who can live without dank elves?

Not me!
Posted by: Slaanesh at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (t0Rmr)

https://tinyurl.com/5b8urj4f
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)

Would

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (xcxpd)

115 I want to have Trump’s baby.

I mean, 1) no homo!, and 2) it is physically unpossible.

But still, it’s the principle.

I mean with all the Trumpagra and Trumpalis going on, most ‘Rons could probably impregnate themselves.

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (AhTPA)

116 As mentioned in the previous thread, there are apparently over six million Americans over the age of 112 in the US, despite the fact that that is impossible. If they are getting social security checks, that would amount to around $8 billion dollars a month in fraud.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (lTGtQ)

117 Now, Musk says DOGE is looking into Medicare

To what agency will Inquisitor Musk turn his baleful eye to next?

Posted by: Halfhand at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (VWW1G)

118 108 Nah, do it without anesthetic.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (6CsVH)

119 112 I was angry, then enraged, what comes after that?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (PMtkd)

Murderous or amused, depending how you're wired

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (xcxpd)

120 Now, Musk says DOGE is looking into Medicare.

That's were the real money is.
Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (G0vdT)

Standby. That will be YUGE!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (wrXPz)

121 That might be satire, but I'll bet any amount of money -- any! -- that Amazon is getting tons of taxpayer money (in exchange for nothing) through various similar scams and frauds. Maybe not though USAID. But through something similar.

Anyone want this action?
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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And Blue Origin, and WaPo, among other Bezos properties.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (ctrM5)

122 116 As mentioned in the previous thread, there are apparently over six million Americans over the age of 112 in the US, despite the fact that that is impossible. If they are getting social security checks, that would amount to around $8 billion dollars a month in fraud.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (lTGtQ)

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8/9 of Hollywood's entire box office two years ago.

Every year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

123 Ironic that the amount of Fed funds pouring into Politico increased exponentially after they successfully laundered the Deep State CIA election rigging propaganda against Trump:

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One person's Irony is another person's Quid Pro Quo, Clarice ...

Quid Pro Quo? IMPEACH F. JOE MUGABE!

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (zc6wW)

124 Bureaucratic: What do we get for buying "Pro" version?

Politico: You get to fund us to manipulate public opinion to further the interests of your Profession.

Bureaucratic: If I still had a penis, it would be erect. I'll take 37 of them!

Posted by: Crabgrass Farmer at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (CTUih)

125 In all seriousness, if we were to shut down this nonsense to the tune of about a trillion dollars, we wouldn't need to pay income tax.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (PMtkd)

126 I'm still amazed that the Biden administration/DeepState/Uniparty/ fed bureaucracy did nothing after the election to try to cover things up.
They arrogantly thought he wasn't serious and just sat there. Shows how stupid our government really is.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (U/Wlk)

127 Also my latest conspiracy theory is that the Deep Stater in charge, at the very center of this web of corruption and anti-American activism, is Screwtape.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (a2Pv6)

128 In case anyone missed it here are some famous USAID alums that were recently identified:

Ann Dunham
Edward Lee Howard

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (t0Rmr)

129 Notice how quickly deportations and pro palestinian protesters have been forgotten in wake of white lap top professionals losing their jobs.
All the usual suspects can't keep up.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (t/2Uw)

130 I'm betting USAID paid for the fake white supremacist group that popped up in a bunch of cities a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Jolo at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (QZdNa)

131 Next thing they will find out is Politico had a lot of pizza parties at Comet Pizza for their employees and subscribers.

Posted by: DeBunked De Bunk A Dunk at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (y7KuV)

132 107 The irony is without the Butler shooting I’m not sure that Musk gets on board so enthusiastically… and without the technical know how he brings even with Trump’s vision a lot of this stuff doesn’t come out. The deep state in addition to being evil is stupid… Butler turned out to be a self own
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (OW907)

Nah, the minute the feds went after Musk and made him enemy #2, they failed to realize Musk is not one to roll over like Zuckerberg and say "I yield"...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (exHjb)

133 Joe Scarborough and Jen Psaki are having breakdowns.

Also, I want the Hellbeast charged with murder for Benghazi, and Bearclaw Vindman charged with treason.

I'll happily watch their public executions.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (4tmpE)

134 9 I always assumed it was the CCP funding groups like Politico. Never figured is was tax payers like me.
Posted by: Brad at February 05, 2025 12:09 PM (qoB0Q)

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Oh, I'm sure there's a bunch of our taxpayer money getting laundered through the CCP to fund them too.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (62tN4)

135 Infowars claims DOGE has been at the Ef B I for two days.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (KWujZ)

136 I was angry, then enraged, what comes after that?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM

A steely determination to be unmoved by pity or remorse.

Or maybe amusement.

Either or.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (aD39U)

137
Where are NPR and PBS in this miasma of corruption?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (xG4kz)

138 Just as an amusing observation, no one here is surprised, at all, Politico has been the recipient of US FedGov dollars.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (tT6L1)

139 I can't believe it, I want to double over laughing my ass off, but I can't due to being in public

Posted by: kallisto at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (dCxaZ)

140 103 I watched half of the first episode of Rings of Power.

The only thing that would get me to watch again would be someone telling me that GrrrrrrlPower Galadriel got fragged by her own troops.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (W5ArC)

I have completely stayed away from that and Wheel of Time. No wish to change my fond memories of the properties.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (bss/y)

141 What does the Lambo-pricy "pro" Politico subscription get you that the basic one does not?

30 minutes a week in Gov Murphy's illegal alien sex dungeon
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (t0Rmr)
_________

Depends what she looks like ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:15 PM

No, no...

Posted by: Consuela at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (+QlJh)

142 I'm still amazed that the Biden administration/DeepState/Uniparty/ fed bureaucracy did nothing after the election to try to cover things up.
They arrogantly thought he wasn't serious and just sat there. Shows how stupid our government really is.

They'd just gotten away with the COVID operation and stolen the 2020 election. Just like in 2016 they didn't believe Trump winning was possible

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (t0Rmr)

143 Dang...this free press thing is kinda pricy.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (W/lyH)

144 Listen closely — that’s the lamentations of their women!

…and those who identify as women.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (Hkcdp)

145 And this is just the tip of the iceberg; every agency was in on this scam.

Our leftist have been funding themselves and leftists all over the world with our money.

So, all these years we've been confused at why the rest of the world is so much to the left of the US?

Well, those few millions our leftists are sending there is like several billion spent here.

It's not going to be just the collapse of Democrats in America as they suddenly lose their massive source of easy money, it's also going to be a Victoria Falls cascade of collapsing left-wing government all over the world.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (G7Fd7)

146 We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Personally, I hope they choose the hard way, because that ends with the iron bar hotel and firing squads, or failing that, ropes and lampposts.

Posted by: Rex Reeder's Ghost at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (MZ+PY)

147 Calling unbiased news orgs democrat propagandist orgs, another kooky conservative conspiracy theory that was right all along.

Currently 1467 to 0 conspiracy theorists.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (17s+e)

148 The Boogaloo Boyz?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (KWujZ)

149 Apparently, he'll sign an EO rescinded all regulation not explicitly in statute and then work with Congress to get legislation passed to end it completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I read something similar. Congress is required for eliminate or shift certain statutory authorities for some components of the DoE. Some of that authority dates back to the old Federal Office of Education housed in the old Health, Education, and Welfare aka HEW department.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (ctrM5)

150 By the way, does anyone truly believe Transgender Plays in Ireland was actually a thing? Or, was it just a sloppy label used to cover money funneled to some insane CIA stupidity?

It means some connected NGO in DC got the money, pocketed most of it, and hired some Irish theater company to put on the transgender play.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (uxCna)

151 130 I'm betting USAID paid for the fake white supremacist group that popped up in a bunch of cities a couple of years ago.
Posted by: Jolo at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (QZdNa)

They may be Patriot Front, and not the FBI/CIA...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (exHjb)

152 where's the guy who says it's all an op?

Posted by: kallisto at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (dCxaZ)

153 Fee press in America?

I wouldn’t call it free - those Pro subscriptions won’t pay for themselves!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (Hkcdp)

154 USAID was the small start.

And USAID is huge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

Once upon a time there was an investigation of a small car wash company in Brazil that was thought to be laundering cash, and it wound up being one of the largest political corruption investigation in Brazilian history.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (D7oie)

155 The only thing that would get me to watch again would be someone telling me that GrrrrrrlPower Galadriel got fragged by her own troops.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (W5ArC)
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If it makes you feel better, she does get hit in the face with a pyroclastic flow at the end of the season.

Unfortunately, she survives with nary a scratch on her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (7fElN)

156 Next thing they will find out is Politico had a lot of pizza parties at Comet Pizza for their employees and subscribers.
Posted by: DeBunked De Bunk A Dunk at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (y7KuV)

Magic 8-Ball says: YES

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (wrXPz)

157 > Apparently, he'll sign an EO rescinded all regulation not explicitly in statute
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Isn't that consistent with the recent Supreme Court decision?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (W5ArC)

158 Trying to figure what the lefts response to this revelation will be 1) ignore it 2) yesterday's news 3) not a big deal Republicans do it too, no evidence of course 4)yell 5) violence
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I'm hoping for stunned silence and slinking away to hide under the chairs personally.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (hB7mE)

159 There’s an even deeper problem. For any media company who is public, they should have reported this on their 10K’s and other public filings. What they tried to partially do is launder their source of funding through “subscribers”, and therein also knowingly and fraudulently inflated their number. When you dig down on the financials for some of these companies receiving “taxpayer” money it reads like a mafia operation.

SEC, you hearing this?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (Iusta)

160 Yeah, it was fun while it lasted, but Texas US rep Al Green just introduced impeachment proceedings in the US house o' reps for, and I quote, 'dastardly deeds!'

Walls closing in!

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (Ft5W9)

161 Also my latest conspiracy theory is that the Deep Stater in charge, at the very center of this web of corruption and anti-American activism, is Screwtape.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM

The Church Lady wasn't wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (+QlJh)

162 It's Grifting All The Way Down.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (zc6wW)

163 Dear USAID,

The trick in running a scam is to avoid drawing attention to yourself.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (BpO1e)

164 I won’t be happy until PBS News Hour and Firing Line with Margaret Hoover are both off the air or at least no even one penny of taxpayer funds

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (OW907)

165 133 Joe Scarborough and Jen Psaki are having breakdowns.

Also, I want the Hellbeast charged with murder for Benghazi, and Bearclaw Vindman charged with treason.

I'll happily watch their public executions.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (4tmpE)
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Heck, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel haven't even gotten started yet. Things are going to get a lot more interesting.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (G0vdT)

166 Maybe the whole bureaucracy announcing they were "The Resistance" to constitutionally elected President last time wasn't a good idea

Posted by: Crabgrass Farmer at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (CTUih)

167 Biden '28!!

Posted by: The Democrat Response at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (pIfcn)

168 It's not going to be just the collapse of Democrats in America as they suddenly lose their massive source of easy money, it's also going to be a Victoria Falls cascade of collapsing left-wing government all over the world.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Not to mention killing pervert funding across the globe and most probably human and sex trafficking networks. We already know that Treasury was also cutting checks for terrorists so add in death networks.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (ctrM5)

169 I guess we will find out of we have any semblance of a real FEC or the pipe hittin nigggas from DOGE will be doing some midevil pipe hittin at the FEC.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (17s+e)

170 142 I'm still amazed that the Biden administration/DeepState/Uniparty/ fed bureaucracy did nothing after the election to try to cover things up.
They arrogantly thought he wasn't serious and just sat there. Shows how stupid our government really is.

They'd just gotten away with the COVID operation and stolen the 2020 election. Just like in 2016 they didn't believe Trump winning was possible
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (t0Rmr)

They probably also didn't think he knew...or even if he did, he'd be able to do anything about it fast enough...

Remember, folks hid a ton from Trump from 2017-2021.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (exHjb)

171 Yeah, it was fun while it lasted, but Texas US rep Al Green just introduced impeachment proceedings in the US house o' reps for, and I quote, 'dastardly deeds!'

It needs more cowbell.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (aD39U)

172 Wait until people see how much money USAID gave to Soros prosecutors, some of whom were prosecuting Trump.

Hint, it's way more than Soros himself gave them.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:27 PM (LkLld)

173 I was watching the Cope file video linked in the sidebar and two things stand out:

1) Leftists have no idea what conservatives want
2) The copers ranted and ranted about how terrible Trump and what he is doing are but they actually couldn't name anything in specifics.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (t0Rmr)

174 They'd just gotten away with the COVID operation and stolen the 2020 election. Just like in 2016 they didn't believe Trump winning was possible

They thought that they were dealing with 2016 Trump. not 2024 Trump.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (uxCna)

175 Has Chuckles Schumer's head exploded yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (RZtxA)

176 Would
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (xcxpd)

Just a random bonus because I liked her smile.

https://tinyurl.com/mrw6p4m5

I also want to lodge a complaint. I am sick and tired of all the AI pics in web searches these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (bss/y)

177 I have completely stayed away from that and Wheel of Time. No wish to change my fond memories of the properties.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (bss/y)
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Having watched Season 1 of both, out of morbid curiosity, I can confirm you are definitely better off.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (7fElN)

178

I had a story this morning than none other than Bill Kristol of the National Man Boy Lincoln Project got money from USAID.

I can see you are all shocked, nein?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (x0n13)

179 I have just been informed that our Politico system is under attack by Trump and his garbage people.

I warned everyone for years that Trump is a threat to our Politico system. Some of us saw it on January 6. Now everyone sees that I was right.

Therefore today I signed pardons for all politicos throughout the United States.

I will never allow our Politico system to be destroyed by the likes of Trump, Fat!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (NNTK/)

180 Before getting to that: USAID's website now announces to all of its "workers:" You're fired.

I got fired by email once.
It came right after getting the company onto three teams, all would eventually win multi-million dollar contracts.
I really didn't mind. The commute sucked.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (W/lyH)

181 140 103 I watched half of the first episode of Rings of Power.

The only thing that would get me to watch again would be someone telling me that GrrrrrrlPower Galadriel got fragged by her own troops.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:21 PM (W5ArC)

I have completely stayed away from that and Wheel of Time. No wish to change my fond memories of the properties.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (bss/y)

#Wisdom

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (xcxpd)

182 I believed that The Left wanted Biden to run against Trump because he beat him once, he would beat him again.
I believe that was true until the show trials and The Debate failed to stop Trump.
They panicked and Trump turned his head.
They know what's coming.

Posted by: Accomack at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (cFGR/)

183 157 > Apparently, he'll sign an EO rescinded all regulation not explicitly in statute
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Isn't that consistent with the recent Supreme Court decision?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (W5ArC)

======

The most direct effect of Loper was to make the judiciary, not the executive, the final say for what counts as good regulation in the face of statute. It set up a process where outside groups could sue.

The secondary effect is that it makes it a whole lot easier to get rid of regulation and keep it gone. Rescind a ream of regulation? Stroke of a pen.

Get it back?

Lawsuits await.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

184 Deranged Sen Chris Murphy smears @elonmusk's DOGE tech team rooting out fraud and abuse as “creepy 22 year-old henchmen” —
says Elon might "stop tax refunds" or “delay your mom’s social security benefit."

These people have lost it:

"So it is extraordinary how much access Elon Musk and his sort of creepy 22 year old henchman have to all of our data, right? They have him. They have information that would allow them to shut down your tax refund, your Medicare payment. They know everything, potentially. They know everything about you and your family and the reality is that this could get dystopian very quickly, that if you were to start, speaking ill of Elon Musk on social media, Elon Musk might be able to stop or delay your tax refund or your mom's Social Security benefit."
More Democrat obstruction and protests on the way:
"And so we are going to use whatever leverage we have to try to raise the temperature in the Senate. I am not voting for a single nominee. I'm not expediting a single nominee until Republicans join us to stop this power grab, we will go to the courts on what's happening in the Department of Treasury. We will hold rallies
https://tinyurl.com/bdvzdemy

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

185 where's the guy who says it's all an op?
Posted by: kallisto at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM

Hydrating.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (+QlJh)

186 It's a good thing Politico doesn't employ any journalists. This would've made for an amazing story.

Someday, Hollywood will make a movie about this but the bad guy who pays off the media company will be a Trump-like figure.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (KbCG3)

187 Astroturf Media

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (azCAX)

188 164 I won’t be happy until PBS News Hour and Firing Line with Margaret Hoover are both off the air or at least no even one penny of taxpayer funds
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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FCC has opened investigations. FWIW, broadcast networks under the 60's era Red Lion precedent have to broadcast for the public interest. Licenses can be revoked if they are not doing so. Ditto for NPR.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (ctrM5)

189 I won’t be happy until PBS News Hour and Firing Line with Margaret Hoover are both off the air or at least no even one penny of taxpayer funds

I'd settle for the PBS News Hour hosted by Alex Jones and Firing Line hosted by Jordan Peterson...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (t0Rmr)

190
Yes, yes, of course. For their colonoscopies.
Posted by: t-bird

Magnesium citrate sales are through the roof!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (xG4kz)

191 1) Leftists have no idea what conservatives want
2) The copers ranted and ranted about how terrible Trump and what he is doing are but they actually couldn't name anything in specifics.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (t0Rmr)
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Of course they can't name specifics.

All the evils they imagine as a result of President Trump's policies are delusions within their own mind with no basis in reality.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (7fElN)

192 Willowed:
490 I'm always astonished when I see such things. I mean, how much more money do you need? The money isn't why they do it, it's the corruption. They live for it, because it's the main part of what they are.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:05 PM (xCA6C)

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Elite overproduction is a thing. All the children of the elite need to be taken care of in a manner that retains their eliteness.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (Vh9CX)

193 If Rangz of Power were cancelled Gary from Nerdrotic would have had an aneurism.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (KWujZ)

194 Desperate losers with no useful skills can still be very destructive. Think of all the ways a bunch of spiteful, unemployed stasi shitbags could fck things up and consider how you can CYA.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (Vqx30)

195 I used to think that I was a top shelf craven, sinful, deplorable, dishonest, and totes skeptical thinker whose fevered dreams would conjure up all sorts of chicanery and thievery that the left was guilty of.

I'm learning I was - Not. Even. Close.

Posted by: God at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (WXNFJ)

196 NY Times and BBC were also funded by taxpayer money thru USAID.

Posted by: Angel at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (oiJGz)

197 I saw Scarborough and Psaki unhinged at the Hollywood Bowl in 99

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (OW907)

198 191 1) Leftists have no idea what conservatives want
2) The copers ranted and ranted about how terrible Trump and what he is doing are but they actually couldn't name anything in specifics.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (t0Rmr)

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"They voted on egg prices and egg prices haven't dropped! They hate Trump!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

199 Um, off Big Guy sock.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (WXNFJ)

200 Having watched Season 1 of both, out of morbid curiosity, I can confirm you are definitely better off.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (7fElN)

I have been rereading WoT recently. Such a great series. A bit harmed by bloat, but still one of the greatest series ever written. It kills me that they (Jordan/Sanderson) introduced a new character in the final acts who turned out to be one of the best (Androl.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y)

201 I'm still amazed that the Biden administration/DeepState/Uniparty/ fed bureaucracy did nothing after the election to try to cover things up.

Which means that they couldn't. It was already too late, years too late.

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (QHWjA)

202 There’s an even deeper problem. For any media company who is public, they should have reported this on their 10K’s and other public filings. What they tried to partially do is launder their source of funding through “subscribers”, and therein also knowingly and fraudulently inflated their number. When you dig down on the financials for some of these companies receiving “taxpayer” money it reads like a mafia operation.

SEC, you hearing this?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (Iusta)

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Can we get multiple Class Action Lawsuits by shareholders for fiduciary responsibility fraud & failure?

BANKRUPT THEM ALL!

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (zc6wW)

203 136 I was angry, then enraged, what comes after that?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM

A steely determination to be unmoved by pity or remorse.

Or maybe amusement.

Either or.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (aD39U)

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You are correct. I don't care if everyone who worked for USAID and lost their jobs has to be a hooker (male or female) for the rest of their pathetic lives.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (PMtkd)

204 Briefly mentioned story the other day was that DOGE had gone into the SBA.

SBA "lost" hundreds of millions in Covid loans and grants. Much of it overseas.

But, those EINs that DataRepublican has?
If she cross-references them to the fraudulent SBA funds?

Gonna be a huge amount of overlap and connections ....

It was too slick how all that money was vacuumed up, with "just enough" documentation to clear before it could be stopped.
And no coincidence that the Dems raised record funds for both Biden and then Kamala ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (G7Fd7)

205 I had a story this morning than none other than Bill Kristol of the National Man Boy Lincoln Project got money from USAID.
/i]

Cabin boys aren't cheap

Posted by: Capn Bill Kristol at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (t0Rmr)

206 With the amount of irrefutable proof that the things they called us crazy for suggesting these days, I'm starting to think maybe we should take a second look at Area 51.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (B9Prs)

207 So when we were screaming for years that the country of our fathers and forefathers was suffering from a deluge, a torrent of lies, falsehoods unceasing, it was our taxpayer-funded government that was aiding, abetting, and paying for the bullshit. And colluding with foreign interests to boot.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (rj6Yv)

208 Has Chuckles Schumer's head exploded yet?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM

Not yet, but if you listen carefully, you'll hear the sound of thousands of fed employee assholes puckering.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (+QlJh)

209 Next the IRS and then NASA?
Posted by: HarrysNotHere at February 05, 2025 12:09 PM (5XEDO)

FAA. Both timely AND personal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (ExV1e)

210 Wow, $4 million from DOD to AP? Under what program? How the hell is this supposedly authorized spending from Congress.

No wonder our military is in decline.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (QAkQ3)

211 High Hewitt regularly sneered at MAGA and Tea Party types whilst simultaneouslygiving airtime to Politico reporters and pretended they were straight-shooting non-partisans.

Posted by: Kensington at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (ponas)

212 At this rate, in a month Pluto might regain its status as a planet.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (OrDr0)

213 200 I have been rereading WoT recently. Such a great series. A bit harmed by bloat, but still one of the greatest series ever written. It kills me that they (Jordan/Sanderson) introduced a new character in the final acts who turned out to be one of the best (Androl.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y)

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I have begun the end of my Dune journey.

Last night, I started Hunters of Dune, the first of two sequels to Chapterhouse that Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson wrote. After that and Sandworms, I shall never read another Dune book again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

214 There's going to be a lot of Congress critters lawyering up in order to save their ill gotten stashes. Many foreign accounts will be opened.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (g8Ew8)

215
Anyway, what does Politico do with $34.4mil? They're an online publication. They need to pay writers, editors, reporters, and a staff to keep their site running. Also the usual departments like Legal and HR. They need an office, but I'm sure the vast majority of their employees work remotely. How does that cost $34.4mil? And they sell ad space.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (8Wz+t)

216 I can see you are all shocked, nein?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 05, 2025 12:28 PM (x0n13)
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Is my shocked face that obvious?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (7fElN)

217 We are only focusing on the theft of taxpayer dollars.

Wait until Bondi starts the fraud prosecutions. Misreporting your revenue and expenses is a criminal act.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (lTGtQ)

218 186 It's a good thing Politico doesn't employ any journalists. This would've made for an amazing story.

Someday, Hollywood will make a movie about this but the bad guy who pays off the media company will be a Trump-like figure.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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German company, Axel Springer, paid 1 billion for it (whereas some of the founders of Politico moved to their newest construct Axios.). Axel Springer is one of the largest publishers in the world and part of the reason that scientific journals and textbooks cost so much to obtain or get access to. Big supporters of the WEF, globaloney, etc.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (ctrM5)

219 I'd settle for the PBS News Hour hosted by Alex Jones and Firing Line hosted by Jordan Peterson...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (t0Rmr)

We’ve come so far from the McNeil Lehrer News Hour days….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (OW907)

220 A lot of rabid Libs have fled X for their safe space on Blue Sky.

If you want to see unbridled insanity and evil, don a hazmat suit and take a peek in there. 😳😳😳

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (4tmpE)

221
SBA "lost" hundreds of millions in Covid loans and grants. Much of it overseas.

The best COVID grant story was that Hunter Biden's favorite hooker got COVID money for her "business"

And I guess in fairness to her she is on video telling Hunter he is doing way too many drugs and way too many girls.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (t0Rmr)

222 This really is one of the biggest political scandals of our lifetime.

I dont feel like people outside of political/news junkies really gets what's going on here.

Every conspiracy theory is proving to be right.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (4pwAx)

223 they had their consent for this latest wealth-transfer scheme from Republican voters to Democrat voters.

We scratch their back they publish attacks on our political enemies.

This is the Way.

Posted by: Mandolorian Obama at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (jdjf2)

224 Now do National Review.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (/vs/b)

Seriously. And the networks, the big noozpapers, the cable companies.

I think it goes everywhere. There's nowhere the corporate media has not been thoroughly in bed with the Deep State.

Then after that, academia needs to be exposed.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (lH8E4)

225 I wonder how Rachel Madcow and her 30 million salary fits in here, but I bet it does

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (lCppi)

226 NASA has never been beyond low earth orbit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (KWujZ)

227 I may never stop laughing.

I certainly am having difficulty catching my breath at the moment.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (BRvvM)

228 211
Hewitt is full-flegded member of the Swamp. Never forget that.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (OrDr0)

229 Last night, I started Hunters of Dune, the first of two sequels to Chapterhouse that Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson wrote. After that and Sandworms, I shall never read another Dune book again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

I stopped with... 6? The one where Idaho has the orgy with the Bene Gesserit group.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y)

230 211 High Hewitt regularly sneered at MAGA and Tea Party types whilst simultaneouslygiving airtime to Politico reporters and pretended they were straight-shooting non-partisans.
Posted by: Kensington
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Over/under on Hewitt getting sweet government money via ngo cutouts. We already know that Kristol did. And I suspect National Review did too.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (ctrM5)

231 225 I wonder how Rachel Madcow and her 30 million salary fits in here, but I bet it does
Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:32 PM (lCppi)

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See also Joe and Mika.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (4tmpE)

232 The left hasn't been in such a funk since the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed

Posted by: Crabgrass Farmer at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (CTUih)

233 Option 5. Jasmine Crockett is trying to stir up violence over this. Raskin and Schumer are too, but their rhetoric isn't quite as over the top as Jasmine's.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:18 PM (tT6L1)

They are going to have to start stripping members of their committee assignments, and start censure proceedings.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (D7oie)

234 Is their job wasting taxpayer money, or is their job political activism?

Um, yes?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (q2NNn)

235 All this winning is so tiring. Trump is actually nuking the deep state, and they are like a deer in the headlights. So stunned they just stand and stare open mouthed with drool running down their chins. Like ducks frozen in the ice, waiting for the shotgun blast.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (pohLc)

236 224 If the goal is to stop wasted money, sounds like the entitlements are the richest targets.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (6CsVH)

237 229 I stopped with... 6? The one where Idaho has the orgy with the Bene Gesserit group.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y)

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5, Heretics.

Duncan Idaho being a sex god as a superpower was a...weird direction for Herbert to take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

238 >>At this rate, in a month Pluto might regain its status as a planet.

My schadenboner will be approaching Pluto soon.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (LkLld)

239 You know I had high expectations for Trump 2.0…. But he’s wildly exceeding them, just a rampaging behemoth against the swamp. Incredible

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (OW907)

240 Last night, I started Hunters of Dune, the first of two sequels to Chapterhouse that Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson wrote. After that and Sandworms, I shall never read another Dune book again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
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I've been debating whether to read the last three books of Herbert's original series or not. I read your review of Heretics (I think it was that one).

I may do so out of morbid curiosity one day...but first I have to get through a bunch of other books, such as Herbert's Pandora Sequence.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (7fElN)

241 Anyone do a welfare check on David French?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (azCAX)

242 I'm still amazed that the Biden administration/DeepState/Uniparty/ fed bureaucracy did nothing after the election to try to cover things up.

Which means that they couldn't. It was already too late, years too late.
Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 12:30 PM (QHWjA)

Years and years of corrupt business as usual. They probably didn't think anything would be all that different. They got greedy, lazy and stupid.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (W/lyH)

243 228 211
Hewitt is full-flegded member of the Swamp. Never forget that.
Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (OrDr0)

He slobbered after Mitt Romney like Romney had bought him jewelry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)

244 There’s an even deeper problem. For any media company who is public, they should have reported this on their 10K’s and other public filings. What they tried to partially do is launder their source of funding through “subscribers”, and therein also knowingly and fraudulently inflated their number. When you dig down on the financials for some of these companies receiving “taxpayer” money it reads like a mafia operation.

SEC, you hearing this?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (Iusta)

Can you say... RICO? nice try... I knew you could...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (QAkQ3)

245 I don't care if everyone who worked for USAID and lost their jobs has to be a hooker (male or female) for the rest of their pathetic lives.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Should that happen, I'd lose the respect I have for hookers.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (WXNFJ)

246 I think it goes everywhere. There's nowhere the corporate media has not been thoroughly in bed with the Deep State.

Then after that, academia needs to be exposed.
Posted by: BurtTC

They used cutouts to give money to media, academics are directly bribed with govt money via primary grants. And grants wag the tail of college administrators.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (ctrM5)

247 We are only focusing on the theft of taxpayer dollars.

Wait until Bondi starts the fraud prosecutions. Misreporting your revenue and expenses is a criminal act.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

Hey, remember that time that Donald Trump was prosecuted for fraud in state court for allegedly falsely pumping up his property values for purposes of taking out a real estate loan? And that a fitting punishment was a fine of almost a billion dollars?

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (BRvvM)

248 I wonder if there are any Politico tents???

Andrew Wilkow @WilkowMajority 19h
That time ISIS produced content from a USAID tent.

https://tinyurl.com/5y2ujapn
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (5LoD7)

249 240 I've been debating whether to read the last three books of Herbert's original series or not. I read your review of Heretics (I think it was that one).

I may do so out of morbid curiosity one day...but first I have to get through a bunch of other books, such as Herbert's Pandora Sequence.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (7fElN)

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They're curious creations. Overlong and not that compelling.

It's franchise dedication that drives me and nothing else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

250 USAid paid for all those celeb trips to Ukraine, WTF

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (FCrpy)

251 241 Anyone do a welfare check on David French?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (azCAX)

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"They were getting PAID! I did this for free!"
-David French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

252 I just heard that Fetterman was the only Dem who voted to approve Bondi.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (G1Vmk)

253 Duncan Idaho was brought back from the dead afterall.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (azCAX)

254 You Da Man, Elon!

Next, please tell us taxpayers how much money DeepState has funneled to WaPo, NYT, CNN, USAToday, MSLSD...

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (aBgBM)

255 I wonder how Rachel Madcow and her 30 million salary fits in here, but I bet it does

A clever lawyer may be able to get eight months' salary for her from the gov't.

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (4Nep/)

256 This makes me very happy. I stopped reading anything Politico after 2012's selection of Obummo. Quit looking at polls of any kind. Stopped watching tv news. Basically left the planet.

I did see a clip somewhere of Dims showing up at USAID yesterday, trying to storm the gates and were stopped cold. Unsure what they thought they could do, but were stopped.

I dont know who the guy was talking, but that towel head Ilhan...I call her, Illmo, was lurking when they turned away. Their faces looked more that po'd.

Sort of staring into the abyss. Good! It is ALL good!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gi+MR)

257 >> It's not just USAID, either: Biden had the whole government subsidizing these grifters.

I notice we didn’t subsidize a single Mexican Weather Girl. At least that would have been a worthwhile taxpayer investment.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (Iusta)

258 Dastardly Deeds, done dirt cheap.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (KWujZ)

259 There's going to be a lot of Congress critters lawyering up in order to save their ill gotten stashes. Many foreign accounts will be opened.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM (g8Ew

You know, the french revolution wasn't all bad. Lots of people who get their necks bent deserved it.

I guess there's a lesson there. Be careful. Don't overdo it. But don't underdo it either.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (lH8E4)

260 OK, we got 6000 FBI Agents who are no longer doing Jan 6 stuff....

Make them an offer they can't refuse.

You have 60 days to bring me a government fraud case... or you are fired.

Oh, and all interviews must be recorded... no more of this after the fact documentation shit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (QAkQ3)

261 This is what I envisioned Trump's second term to be.

But I don't think the American public was ready for this in 2020.

Trump didn't have the team for this in 2020.

We were spared a half measure when they stole it from him in 2020.

There will be no sparing this time around. God is good.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (KbCG3)

262 All those dems left exposed without a Biden pardon.. Bwahahahhaha!

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (lCppi)

263 >>This really is one of the biggest political scandals of our lifetime.

This is the biggest scandal in US history. It's just starting to be unraveled and it's already there.

We have been living in the Matrix.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (LkLld)

264 252 I just heard that Fetterman was the only Dem who voted to approve Bondi.
Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (G1Vmk)

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"So bipartisan!"
-PA voters

"Dumb fucks. My vote didn't matter."
-Fetterman

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

265 Duncan Idaho being a sex god as a superpower was a...weird direction for Herbert to take.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

Probably because he had Alia cuck Duncan in book 3(?)

Them redheads, man. You ride the lightning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (bss/y)

266 Wow. This is crazy.

And all it took was Elon and a few coders to figure this shit out in a week. Why didn’t the GOP investigate this before? Well we all know the answer of course. Rhetorical question.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (uPqbA)

267 Does anyone else feel foolish for being duped on so large a scale? These people a just like Trump said LUNATICs

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (jQ+5q)

268 Is VandeHei's current grift operation, Axios, also on the take?

Posted by: xelon at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (+GVyA)

269 And this is just the tip of the iceberg; every agency was in on this scam.

Our leftist have been funding themselves and leftists all over the world with our money.

So, all these years we've been confused at why the rest of the world is so much to the left of the US?

Well, those few millions our leftists are sending there is like several billion spent here.

It's not going to be just the collapse of Democrats in America as they suddenly lose their massive source of easy money, it's also going to be a Victoria Falls cascade of collapsing left-wing government all over the world.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 12:25 PM (G7Fd7)

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I wonder how much of this feral government grift went to CNN International, perhaps the greatest anti-American and anti-Trump (BIRM) propaganda arm in existence.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (P55sr)

270 > 252 I just heard that Fetterman was the only Dem who voted to approve Bondi.
Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (G1Vmk)

He's getting a lot of rage on X right now.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (W5ArC)

271 Ya' know?
We really were buying the rope they intended to hang us with!

Posted by: MkY at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (cPGH3)

272 I think we all know why the incel who nearly killed Trump was quietly cremated and all mention of him disappeared. 🤬

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (4tmpE)

273 Wait until Bondi starts the fraud prosecutions. Misreporting your revenue and expenses is a criminal act.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

This. I highly doubt that $50 Million for Gaza was actually buying Condoms.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (QAkQ3)

274 They used cutouts to give money to media, academics are directly bribed with govt money via primary grants. And grants wag the tail of college administrators.
Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:34 PM (ctrM5)

I bet there's more to it than that.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (lH8E4)

275 258 Dastardly Deeds, done dirt cheap.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (KWujZ)

Also willowed:

https://tinyurl.com/mpzenm55

I cannot NOT hear this version any time the song is mentioned. Or even 'Dirty Deeds.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y)

276 Last night, I started Hunters of Dune, the first of two sequels to Chapterhouse that Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson wrote. After that and Sandworms, I shall never read another Dune book again.

I tried to read the sequel to Rendezvous with Rama. The early parts were a drudge, then I got to a scene where the characters had a discussion about what looked to be the major conflict in the story.

It was a page and a half DESCRIBING the discussion. No quotes. No character development. It read more like authors notes that were to be filled in with writing later.

I deleted the book from my Kindle.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (/vs/b)

277 Next, please tell us taxpayers how much money DeepState has funneled to WaPo, NYT, CNN, USAToday, MSLSD...
Posted by: Gref

I saw a tweet - several million to WaPo I think

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (a2Pv6)

278 I guess there's a lesson there. Be careful. Don't overdo it. But don't underdo it either.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:35 PM (lH8E4)

Like my husband says, " Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered." There seem to be an awful lot of hogs on the left .

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (lCppi)

279 That sound you hear is Bill Kristol’s Love Boat going down like the Titanic.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (Iusta)

280 DOGE already uncovered a huge amount of fraud and overpayments. Story the other day that Treasury employees were told to pay every invoice. Every one. If Musk's crew is able to stop just this, overpayments and illegal payments(like to hundreds of SS recipients over the age of 10

,they could probably balance the budget. No one cared enough to actually do their job.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (t/2Uw)

281 The feds overpaying for AWS access?

99% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

AWS has a specific set of datacenters called “GovCloud” for government use that costs more than their standard DCs. Ostensibly for compliance reasons.

It’s not even hidden, you can find the prices online.

AWS is a huge money sink, anyway. It’s designed to make it easy to lose track of spending. It’s been a huge pain in every private business I’ve worked in, I’m sure it’s much worse with Federal agencies.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (l3YAf)

282 Hey Politico employees, do you know that thing we just stuck in your ass? It was just a glitch.

Posted by: Roy at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (z+ik4)

283 imagine the freakout when Trump issues an executive order stopping all government payments to media organizations

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (V6W16)

284 OK, we got 6000 FBI Agents who are no longer doing Jan 6 stuff....

Well...damn.

Posted by: Bank Robbers Everywhere at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (W/lyH)

285 Bill Kristol today (maybe) yes I took government money my wife only likes high end gigolo bulls and they don't come cheap. Geez, you plebes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (U/Wlk)

286 191 All the evils they imagine as a result of President Trump's policies are delusions within their own mind with no basis in reality.

I've seen a few people bleat about Project 2025 and how this all according to some evil plan.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (BpO1e)

287 276 I tried to read the sequel to Rendezvous with Rama. The early parts were a drudge, then I got to a scene where the characters had a discussion about what looked to be the major conflict in the story.

It was a page and a half DESCRIBING the discussion. No quotes. No character development. It read more like authors notes that were to be filled in with writing later.

I deleted the book from my Kindle.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (/vs/b)

======

If I remember correctly, Clarke just outlined the book with another writer, and the other writer did all of the actual writing.

Rendezvous needed no sequel. Probably his best book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

288 This is going to be the biggest scandal in US history. I am sure that every single federal agency has been skimming money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (lTGtQ)

289 Hour much USAID money flowed into the Manhattan DAs office to prosecute Trump?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (17s+e)

290
EM' MARMALAID FOADDY-SEBUN1!11!

Posted by: Al Greens' Stupid Ass at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (EFZgU)

291 I tried to read the sequel to Rendezvous with Rama. The early parts were a drudge, then I got to a scene where the characters had a discussion about what looked to be the major conflict in the story.

It was a page and a half DESCRIBING the discussion. No quotes. No character development. It read more like authors notes that were to be filled in with writing later.

I deleted the book from my Kindle.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (/vs/b)
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Yeah, the sequels to Rendezvous with Rama are terrible. I read one of them many years ago and swore off any more.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (7fElN)

292 When your wife has as a nickname "the Knife" one tends to be very nice least she Bobbit you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (azCAX)

293 academics are directly bribed with govt money via primary grants.

We saw that with Fauci where cooperative academics were given grants and uncooperative ones were not...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (t0Rmr)

294 I deleted the book from my Kindle.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 05, 2025 12:38 PM (/vs/b)

The Rama books and a lot of 'Hard' sci-fi in general were always rough for me. It is like watching an alien try to describe human interaction and this thing we call 'Love.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (bss/y)

295 Politico payroll department, lolgf.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (KWujZ)

296 We have been living in the Matrix.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (LkLld)

It's Die Hard, and Elon Musk just tossed the body out the window, and it landed on the nation's car hood.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (lH8E4)

297 Hugh Hewitt would sell his mother for a buck.

I cannot stand that guy. I used to be a big fan.

I remember almost running off the road when he said Obama's stimulus was necessary so Grandma wouldn't lose her retirement savings.

WTAF???

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (PMtkd)

298 To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their Vindman . . . .

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

299 "And all it took was Elon and a few coders to figure this shit out in a week. Why didn’t the GOP investigate this before?"

How many tens of thousands of govt salaried auditors, and how many big-ten accounting govt contractors presided over all this shit for decades without finding any of it?

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (6CsVH)

300 All those dems left exposed without a Biden pardon.. Bwahahahhaha!
Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (lCppi)

There just wasn't enough time, people. Just wasn't enough time.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Criminal at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (y7KuV)

301 Consider that the Democrats found that the NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, etc. were not pliable and subservient enough that they had to wholly fund Politico ....

Good lord, just how much farther left can there be?

And they were absolutely using Politico as a cudgel to beat the rest of the media into compliance with their narrative.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (G7Fd7)

302 What excited me is

"The Best is Yet to Come."

What we are witnessing is more than just a Reckoning. It's a Wreckoning.

And a Rectification of Names.

I want to see a pre-Woodrow Wilson Restoration of the Republic. Maybe the tariffs and the renaming of Mt. McKinley are signals that this is Trump's vision.

Posted by: Minuteman at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (e1n4e)

303 298 To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their Vindman . . . .
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

304 Arthur C Clarke was a mediocre writer and a horrible person.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (t0Rmr)

305 >>Wait until Bondi starts the fraud prosecutions. Misreporting your revenue and expenses is a criminal act.

Wait until we move from the media to other things USAID and the rest of the swamp were funding like DEI, BLM and a huge amount to promoting and helping illegal immigration into this country.

Our tax dollars were being used to pay foreigners to invade and then supported those foreigners when they got here.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (LkLld)

306
All of this comes back to the House, the Senate, their staffs and participation in the largest looting in history.

"Our Democracy" was open fraud and theft, may Bondi bring down Hell on everybody R & D.

Menendez was a punk compared to his honorable colleagues, and 11 years a light sentence.

Posted by: Auspex at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (j4U/Z)

307 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 12:10 PM (tT6L1)

Are you doubting our word?!!. It was a brilliant piece of writing. I worked very hard on the lively yet touching scene of transgender kids sporting with leprechauns, and for the production the costume mistress did a wonderful pastiche of various shades of green with sparkly bits..

Posted by: USAID at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (MQJVv)

308 298 To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their Vindman . . . .
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

Ok, this one needs to go in the sidebar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

309 I was angry, then enraged, what comes after that?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (PMtkd)

There are times when the only appropriate response involves baseball bats and screaming.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (D7oie)

310 To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their Vindman . . . .
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

Snort!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (W/lyH)

311 308 298 To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their Vindman . . . .
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

Ok, this one needs to go in the sidebar.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

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It needs to be added to the banner of the site.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

312 burn baby, burn

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

Obligatory, from the days of my misspent yute:

https://tinyurl.com/Disco-Inferno-Trammps

Posted by: Sharkman at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (BRvvM)

313 Obama changed our government in way we could never imagine.

There really is an Obama shadow government and Republicans in Congress (that have controlled things for much of this) never thought to ask to see receipts for billions of slush money.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (4pwAx)

314 To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their Vindman . . . .
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

Ok, this one needs to go in the sidebar.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)
________

Every once and I while I get inspired. LOL.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

315 >>Hour much USAID money flowed into the Manhattan DAs office to prosecute Trump?

As much as necessary.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (LkLld)

316 Are We, The Taxpayers the source of global Deep State wealth? I know there's the 70 trillion Euro dollars out there. Do other countries run the same scam?

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Ag3aL)

317 272 I think we all know why the incel who nearly killed Trump was quietly cremated and all mention of him disappeared. 🤬
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (4tmpE)

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Yes. Paid for op.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (PMtkd)

318 Next, please tell us taxpayers how much money DeepState has funneled to WaPo, NYT, CNN, USAToday, MSLSD...

Posted by: Gref

The NYT got at least $3 million from USAID

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (lTGtQ)

319 You all will be shocked to learn none of this stuff is anywhere in the msm right now.

It’s all Trump is mean because USAID helps people in need and now all those people will die.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (uPqbA)

320 Politico is being raked over the coals on their X account. It's glorious!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (NpAcC)

321 I stopped reading Dune after God Emperor, why are you torturing yourself?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (azCAX)

322 319 You all will be shocked to learn none of this stuff is anywhere in the msm right now.

It’s all Trump is mean because USAID helps people in need and now all those people will die.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (uPqbA)

=====

The same MSM that called Trump Hitler and Kamala smart?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

323 academics are directly bribed with govt money via primary grants.

We saw that with Fauci where cooperative academics were given grants and uncooperative ones were not...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05,

Hence, the "Settled Science of Climate Change"(tm).

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (lCppi)

324 37 subscriptions to Politico over $500,000
Also AP got USAID money

https://tinyurl.com/y77wcdk3

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (t/2Uw)

325 Man, just going back to all of the talking head shows that included panels with Politico bullshit artists pushing the narrative ought to be instructive.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)

326 This is the biggest scandal in US history. It's just starting to be unraveled and it's already there.

We have been living in the Matrix.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (LkLld)

If it ever gets to the LIVs.

The CIA is very good at what they do. I think they will be able to get themselves out of this pickle unfortunately. They survived the 60s and 70s and the church committee and endless investigations in to whether they killed JFK or not.

But it is good to have confirmation of what we long suspected.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (uCjyK)

327 SEC, you hearing this?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (Iusta)

But Musk bought Twatter shares before he bought Twatter...

Posted by: SEC at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (xcIvR)

328 Does anyone else feel foolish for being duped on so large a scale? These people a just like Trump said LUNATICs

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (jQ+5q)

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

I've been saying for the past 4 years that -- despite the unimaginable depth and breadth of treason & corruption unmasked by Trump's election in 2016 ... we STILL only know and will probably ever discover a mere 1% of the tip of the iceberg.

Depressing as hell. The truth will make you free, but first it will make you miserable ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (Q/KXq)

329 321 I stopped reading Dune after God Emperor, why are you torturing yourself?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (azCAX)

======

I don't hate post-God Emperor. I actually like Heretics and Chapterhouse more than God Emperor.

But, it's mostly just curiosity at how it all ends without relegating myself to reading Wikipedia articles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

330 I see this all of this being exposed creating a huge headwind for Democrats in subsequent elections.

I just hope we dont take our eyes off election fraud. I guarantee you it happened in 2024, the margins were just such that it was overcome. But its still there and probably cost us a few senate and house seats.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (4pwAx)

331 Someday, Hollywood will make a movie about this but the bad guy who pays off the media company will be a Trump-like figure.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
========
Hollywood won't make it that far is my guess. AI and advances in CGI and computers means that storytellers will no longer have to deal with big media companies as intermediaries. Same thing as X and substack are destroying print. The creative types move first to those platforms and the rest of the herd gets proportionately less and less as time goes on.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)

332 Also willowed:

https://tinyurl.com/mpzenm55

I cannot NOT hear this version any time the song is mentioned. Or even 'Dirty Deeds.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM

How is it that I've never heard that?

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (+QlJh)

333 I think we all know why the incel who nearly killed Trump was quietly cremated and all mention of him disappeared. 🤬
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (4tmpE)

the other one (who was hiding in da bushes) is still alive....

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (g47mK)

334 > There really is an Obama shadow government and Republicans in Congress (that have controlled things for much of this) never thought to ask to see receipts for billions of slush money.
------------
Because they were getting paid too. They all are. If one or more isn't they'll certainly be able to prove it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 05, 2025 12:43 PM (Q4IgG)

335 I dimly remember a lot of talk during the Obama years from the media that they deserved a bailout akin to TARP.

That they were more essential than banks.

That kinda died down.
I assumed it was because of the 1st Amendment violations for such.

Now, we find out it was because they did get their bailout--which we were neither told about or agreed to.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (G7Fd7)

336 As we begin to add up the amount of money lost to this kind of corruption...Billions every friggin' year, I am wondering just how much lower my taxes could of been? Or...how much infrastructure could have ben replaced and improved in America?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (W/lyH)

337 That might be satire, but I'll bet any amount of money -- any! -- that Amazon is getting tons of taxpayer money (in exchange for nothing) through various similar scams and frauds. Maybe not though USAID. But through something similar.

Anyone want this action?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 05, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

How much money is the government spending on AWS? What is it using it for? Is it paying above normal market rate?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (ExV1e)

338 321 I stopped reading Dune after God Emperor, why are you torturing yourself?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (azCAX)

Eh, it was back in the 90s when I was reading anything and everything if it was passably interesting.

Mea Culpa.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)

339 same MSM that called Trump Hitler and Kamala smart?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

I see you know their work well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (uPqbA)

340 You play smash mouth politics like Trump does. Go out there, tear off their heads, and shit down their necks.

Let us pray.

Posted by: Coach Wally Riggs at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (q2NNn)

341 How many tens of thousands of govt salaried auditors, and how many big-ten accounting govt contractors presided over all this shit for decades without finding any of it?
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (6CsVH)

One of the bigger recent embezzlement cases was Rita Crundwell in Dixon, IL. She stole $30M over 6 years from the city and they didn't notice it until they had Bob from AccountTemps come in and he noticed it. Of course Biden commuted her sentence, out of professional courtesy.

Posted by: Roy at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (z+ik4)

342 We don;t need the MSM. We have X.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

343 Here we go.

@rising_serpent
·
24m
USAID funded black lives matter.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (LkLld)

344 Hour much USAID money flowed into the Manhattan DAs office to prosecute Trump?

As much as necessary.

Posted by: JackStraw

All of it, I imagine.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (lTGtQ)

345 I was angry, then enraged, what comes after that?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:22 PM (PMtkd)

Angels wanna wear your red shoes.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (lH8E4)

346 In an alternate and not-so-nice universe, Kamala Harris is drinking and giggling while her FBI goons destroy Elon Musk's headquarters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (J2vNu)

347 Something tells that Donnie Two Scoops and Space Daddy have been researching and strategizing this long before this last election.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (g8Ew8)

348 What are the issues of the day going to be in 21 months at the next election?

USAID funding?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

349 Hour much USAID money flowed into the Manhattan DAs office to prosecute Trump?

As much as necessary.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (LkLld)

Georgia too I bet

Also all those ant Trump judges with kids/spouses who work for 'funded' organizations ...

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (lCppi)

350 Can't wait to see Cuck Schumer's response to this, with his stupid glasses half way down his nose and his little fists lightly tapping the podium surface.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (pohLc)

351 37 subscriptions to Politico over $500,000
Also AP got USAID money

https://tinyurl.com/y77wcdk3
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (t/2Uw)

Reuters?

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)

352 Because they were getting paid too. They all are. If one or more isn't they'll certainly be able to prove it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
==

I keep hearing this but it's very much of a left-wing operation with a few known Republican quislings.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (4pwAx)

353 Now, Musk says DOGE is looking into Medicare.

That's were the real money is.
Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:20 PM (G0vdT)

I'd bet there's more fraud in Medicaid. Old people have expensive health issues. The question of what should be covered by the taxpayer is a question different than fraud.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (ExV1e)

354 The Fed hardest hit

@IanJaeger29 1h
BREAKING: Andrea Mitchell announces that she is leaving MSNBC.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (mlg/3)

355 Does anyone else feel foolish for being duped on so large a scale? These people a just like Trump said LUNATICs
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 05, 2025 12:36 PM (jQ+5q)

I don’t think I was duped. I’ve always known the corruption was rampant.

Maybe as a kid I trusted the government, but not in my 20-ish years as an adult.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (l3YAf)

356 The Politico communication outlining it missing payroll is masterpiece in BS. It was cause by a "technical error" and that it is "working diligently" with its "vendors and bank" to "identity the root cause."

This is f'ing great stuff. Bank to Politico: "The root cause for you suddenly being broke is your old sugar daddy done got replace by a new sugar daddy who thinks you are a cheap hooker who isn't worth a used condom. We suggest you learn to coal."

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (Q8Bj8)

357 X reporting the Turtle fell again. This time it was on some stairs but appears to be okay.

The dude is not going to make it to the next election. Dem gov is going ignore the state law and appoint a Dem.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:46 PM (G0vdT)

358 There really is an Obama shadow government and Republicans in Congress (that have controlled things for much of this) never thought to ask to see receipts for billions of slush money.
Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (4pwAx)

The deep state has existed since before Obama was born and many of the early pioneers of the corruption were republicans like the rockefellers and Dulles brothers.

This goes back at least to the interwar period if not earlier.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 05, 2025 12:46 PM (uCjyK)

359 Those of us who said that the federal government was the worst enemy of the American people please collect your winnings.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 05, 2025 12:46 PM (17s+e)

360 330 I see this all of this being exposed creating a huge headwind for Democrats in subsequent elections.

I just hope we dont take our eyes off election fraud. I guarantee you it happened in 2024, the margins were just such that it was overcome. But its still there and probably cost us a few senate and house seats.
Posted by: Leupold
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Pressler is already starting in NJ. Basically, under Motor Voter, anyone (there have been rulings now to this effect) can obtain and go through voter registration lists and sue to strike those who are ineligible. Federal law and federal courts requiring states and counties to comply.

Like this funding ngos to do dirty deeds, everyone who is in the GOP and in the Dems knows about vote fraud but the nasty truth is the GOP uses it in states and counties itself especially for primaries. That means giving the Dems a pass for a margin of fraud in statewide and local races.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:46 PM (ctrM5)

361
I'm speechless.

Posted by: The guy who used to always say Nothing Will Happen at February 05, 2025 12:46 PM (DobEs)

362 I hope these revelations cause the crazies on the left to go after the old guard. Watching Schumer, Pelosi, Durbin , Whitehouse being swallowed up by hundreds of trannies , BLM, antifa and Dem Socialists would be beautiful.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (U/Wlk)

363 Schumer's comment about how the intelligence agencies could take Trump out (literally or figuratively) seems to play a part in this.

All these agencies must have known they were vulnerable, but were probably assuming they would be defended. After all, Chuckie kinda promised protection.

Somehow PDT got around that wall, and has leverage over the likes of Lindsay and Turtle.

Amazing

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (k/U8Z)

364 What are the issues of the day going to be in 21 months at the next election?

USAID funding?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

The first wave of trials ought to be wrapping up around then.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (rj6Yv)

365 Race to the new US Attorneys for plea deals. Defense lawyers full employment act.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (QSrLX)

366 Wait until the public finds out how much the federal government over-pays Microsoft for the Office Suite ....

Anyway, short MSFT--not financial advice.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (G7Fd7)

367 >How much money is the government spending on AWS?

Billions. The Pentagon and the intel community are both big users.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (LkLld)

368 "Thank you for your service. Now go get your fuckin' shine box."

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (CwhoI)

369 There really is an Obama shadow government and Republicans in Congress (that have controlled things for much of this) never thought to ask to see receipts for billions of slush money.
Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 12:41 PM (4pwAx)

I told you I was going to transform America.

This is the Way.

Posted by: Mandolorian Obama at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (jdjf2)

370 I wonder how much money we paid CNN to put their propaganda in our airports for all those years.

Posted by: Roy at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (z+ik4)

371 299 "And all it took was Elon and a few coders to figure this shit out in a week. Why didn’t the GOP investigate this before?"

How many tens of thousands of govt salaried auditors, and how many big-ten accounting govt contractors presided over all this shit for decades without finding any of it?
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (6CsVH)

No one ever wanted to look...when we had real budgets, I was a new 2LT who had 1 summer of auditing experience with PWC. I was sent to find out how Raytheon was billing the US government $5M for a shutdown defense contract. In the 1st 5 minutes, I found $1.9M never spent that they were billing us for by asking one simple question and asking for the evidence. Needless to say, the trip lasted an hour, they rescinded their request, and sent a corrected, much cheaper one (I think $1.7M total), a month later.

I was 21. 3 months of audit experience. 5 minutes into the 1st meeting.

That's government accounting done by the contractors and the government, even 2+ decades ago...needless to say, I had a good 1st year in my office b/c apparently, this was a miracle.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (exHjb)

372 I'm still amazed that the Biden administration/DeepState/Uniparty/ fed bureaucracy did nothing after the election to try to cover things up.
They arrogantly thought he wasn't serious and just sat there. Shows how stupid our government really is.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (U/Wlk)

There is a school of thought that says there is no real Deep State, and that the real problem is the massive weight of government actors and agencies referred to as "The Blob"
The Blob has no real central organization, just basic self interests and a similar self serving goals. The Blob, as all radically decentralized orgs, is very resilient, but also a bit hard to marshal since it has no more centralized command than a slime-mold. If every bit of The Blob was grafting and skimming, then there may have been little understanding of the level of theft going on. No concealment was possible, because no one knew what the extent was, and all the parts had considered themselves hidden already

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (D7oie)

373 Didn't someone who signed that letter regarding Hunter Biden's laptop recently say that they never actually "said" it was Russian disinformation?

I'm sure they spoke up quickly to correct Politico's misapprehension, right? Right??

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (OGOaV)

374 Barry and Brandon fitted for orange jumpsuit perp walks..

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (QSrLX)

375 Same as it ever was for the Dems. Campaign against Federal waste, fraud, and abuse. Do nothing. Thirty three years and counting.

https://tinyurl.com/57sck3m5

WaPo - DEMOCRATS PLAN DRIVE ON WASTE

GOVERNMENTAL EVILS TARGET OF TASK FORCE
March 18, 1991
By Maralee Schwartz

Democrats have decided it is time to show the American public that they, too, care about the evils of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.

"Republicans have put us in a position that we appear as the party that only cares about spending. We need to change that perception. We have to show that we care about making programs work," said Rep. Byron L. Dorgan (N.D.), chairman of a new Democratic task force on government waste.

And, Dorgan added, "we have to be aggressive." With the exception of investigations of the Defense Department, "where we have been swaggering cowboys on waste," Dorgan said Democrats have been "wallflowers on everything else" when it comes to rooting out waste in government.

Polling data show that the American public has little regard for the commitment of anyone in government to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. But Republicans score higher.

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (aBgBM)

376 Trump will be the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (rJ48h)

377 How many tens of thousands of govt salaried auditors, and how many big-ten accounting govt contractors presided over all this shit for decades without finding any of it?
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag

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You're close.

It looks more and more like their job was... The other direction.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (ETDHi)

378 340 You play smash mouth politics like Trump does. Go out there, tear off their heads, and shit down their necks.

Let us pray.
Posted by: Coach Wally Riggs at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (q2NNn)

Damn. Necessary Roughness ref. Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)

379 "Federal immigration officers kicked down doors, hauling away migrants in a well-known Tren de Aragua gang stronghold in Colorado in a pre-dawn raid...

Just after 6 a.m., agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on the Whispering Pines Apartments in Aurora, Colorado - one of three apartment buildings taken over by the gang.

With a warrant in hand, ICE went door-to-door, tagging doors with red tape where no one answered and using green tape where agents did make contact with someone.

Six men were handcuffed and taken away, according to on-the-ground sources. "

Those six just earned themself an all expense paid trip to El Salvador.

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (g47mK)

380 Can't wait to see Cuck Schumer's response to this, with his stupid glasses half way down his nose and his little fists lightly tapping the podium surface.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (pohLc)

Hey Chuck, when you go after Team Trump, they have six ways til Sunday to get back at you.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (lH8E4)

381 I think we all know why the incel who nearly killed Trump was quietly cremated and all mention of him disappeared. 🤬
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (4tmpE)

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Yes. Paid for op.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (PMtkd)

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Was USAID money used to try and assassinate President Trump -- in multiple Ops?

Inquiring "stakeholders" want to know ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (Q/KXq)

382 Is there a running tote board of DOGE savings?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (KWujZ)

383 I began to smell the grifter odor on Hugh Hewitt when he wrote Mormon in the White House all a big promotional for severely conservative mittens

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (i5Vkf)

384 Wow... I expected to find media payments in this mess... but missing the next payroll I did not suspect.
Posted by: Inogame at February 05, 2025 12:14 PM (53oGX)

Pretty bad management, if they don't have enough cash in the bank to make payroll. Or maybe the principals saw this coming and looted the till, and fucked off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (8zz6B)

385 'Wokest' government workers revealed... along with their staggering taxpayer-funded pay

https://mol.im/a/14363723

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una vergogna at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (KjLnc)

386 In all seriousness, if we were to shut down this nonsense to the tune of about a trillion dollars, we wouldn't need to pay income tax.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (PMtkd)

We should, however, pay down some of the enormous debt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (ExV1e)

387 Is their job wasting taxpayer money, or is their job political activism?
......

Yes.

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (v0R5T)

388 Just wow. Not the best person in the world by a long shot, but how does this sort of behavior not eat your soul?
I was going to say they're not actually killing people, but COVID...

Posted by: sal at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (f+FmA)

389 I think wow all knew the government was funding left wing organizations . We just didn't know which speck agencies were doing it , if not all to some extent.

we saw it with Acorn and Planned Parenthood. And we have been calling for stopping funding for PBS and NPR and the NEA. Those are leftist organizations funded out in the open.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (IOGah)

390 Omg. I'm having a wonderful text conversation with my two hippie girlfriends. We want the next time we get together to take a picture of us in our tie dye dresses and MAGA hats.

Perhaps with ARs slung over our shoulders.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (aYmfF)

391 Andrea Mitchell is 'leaving' MSNBC.

Probably old news here.

Posted by: jsg at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (ik+5H)

392 I was angry, then enraged, what comes after that?
Posted by: Seems Legit

I've developed a plan to get the truth out of all the Fed players:

20 ga boomstick, stuffed up the culo of (just a few) key folks at let it go bang. All in front of hundreds of their co-workers. Do this in every department.

I guesstimate it would only take three examples to get to the bottom of it all. (SWIDT?)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (WXNFJ)

393 >>> 302 What excited me is

"The Best is Yet to Come."

What we are witnessing is more than just a Reckoning. It's a Wreckoning.

And a Rectification of Names.

I want to see a pre-Woodrow Wilson Restoration of the Republic. Maybe the tariffs and the renaming of Mt. McKinley are signals that this is Trump's vision.
Posted by: Minuteman at February 05, 2025 12:40 PM (e1n4e)

From your keyboard...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (Vqx30)

394 116 As mentioned in the previous thread, there are apparently over six million Americans over the age of 112 in the US

https://tinyurl.com/3beaezx7

Posted by: extybeebeachbum at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (ZEG+1)

395 As we begin to add up the amount of money lost to this kind of corruption...Billions every friggin' year, I am wondering just how much lower my taxes could of been? Or...how much infrastructure could have ben replaced and improved in America?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 05, 2025 12:44 PM (W/lyH)

The amounts the Zombie MFM keep calling insignificant would have substantially helped north Carolinians get needed water and electricity sooner than 4 months out. But this does help explain their decision to exclude Trump supporters from rescue efforts - its not personal its busine$$.

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (lCppi)

396 I hope that when Hawaiian federal judge knocks down a Trump EO that Elon puts out on X “What’s the proper spelling of said judge’s name. Asking for my team.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (17s+e)

397 The American Pravda state run media jokes we've all made are quite literally true. The depth and breadth of this corruption is far beyond what even I realized. This is scandalous beyond words.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (qBdHI)

398 Just because.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8j242x

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (bss/y)

399 The left hasn't been in such a funk since the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed
Posted by: Crabgrass Farmer
***************
I thought back then that my kids would get to grow up in a free & prosperous world without the constant threat of war. Somehow two of them and myself ended up veterans anyway.

Posted by: Cosda at February 05, 2025 12:50 PM (dmssz)

400 Man. when this is all done I want to see a "crew picture" of Elon and the crew posing with their horned rim glasses and pocket protectors. And, alongside, the US Marshals with warrants.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 05, 2025 12:16 PM (gm9Sb)

Seated on a throne of skulls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (8zz6B)

401 Infowars claims DOGE has been at the Ef B I for two days.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (KWujZ)

How many squads does DOGE have? Just the four?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

402 Joe McCarthy was right. We also dont dig up someone for trial. So try the ones with a pulse.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (QSrLX)

403 Congressional staffer: Hey the military is here. They are building back that barrier we had for Trumps inauguration to keep us safe from the protesters.

Capital Cop: Tee Hee Thats not to keep the protesters out.
Thats to keep the congress and senate in. !!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (jQ+5q)

404 where's the guy who says it's all an op?
Posted by: kallisto at February 05, 2025 12:26 PM (dCxaZ)

Maybe . . . His paycheck didn't show up this month?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (D7oie)

405 No one ever wanted to look...when we had real budgets, I was a new 2LT who had 1 summer of auditing experience with PWC. I was sent to find out how Raytheon was billing the US government $5M for a shutdown defense contract. In the 1st 5 minutes, I found $1.9M never spent that they were billing us for by asking one simple question and asking for the evidence. Needless to say, the trip lasted an hour, they rescinded their request, and sent a corrected, much cheaper one (I think $1.7M total), a month later.

I was 21. 3 months of audit experience. 5 minutes into the 1st meeting.

That's government accounting done by the contractors and the government, even 2+ decades ago...needless to say, I had a good 1st year in my office b/c apparently, this was a miracle.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (exHjb)

Raytheon??!! That’s impossible says Lloyd Austin

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (i5Vkf)

406 REAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has reportedly fallen down the stairs AGAIN as he was leaving the Senate today.

The shell is thinning.

Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (/U5Yz)

407
Can't wait to see Cuck Schumer's response to this, with his stupid glasses half way down his nose and his little fists lightly tapping the podium surface.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

He has sixty nine ways from see you next Tuesday to get back at them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (63Dwl)

408 I have completely stayed away from that and Wheel of Time. No wish to change my fond memories of the properties.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:24 PM (bss/y)

I saw the first episode of WoT. I recommend you maintain a disrespectful distance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (ExV1e)

409 The CIA is very good at what they do. I think they will be able to get themselves out of this pickle unfortunately. They survived the 60s and 70s and the church committee and endless investigations in to whether they killed JFK or not.

But it is good to have confirmation of what we long suspected.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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For the last 16 years or so, we have departed from the script of things to be. Predictions are to be considered worthless going forward as we are in a revolutionary age. What was common wisdom becomes useless gravestones of past thinking.

We need to get into the habit of discussing what it is today than what it will be tomorrow.

Simply put, more explaining and less predicting.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (ctrM5)

410 381 I think we all know why the incel who nearly killed Trump was quietly cremated and all mention of him disappeared. 🤬
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:37 PM (4tmpE)

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Yes. Paid for op.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:42 PM (PMtkd)

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Was USAID money used to try and assassinate President Trump -- in multiple Ops?
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How brilliant of a move was it when Trump refused gov't resources during the transition. The deep state had no idea what he was planning.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (G0vdT)

411 How come there are no WOMENZ on the DOGE team?

Posted by: Out of Touch Guy with a Vagina at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (dIske)

412 The Rick Wilson is big mad at Trump:

@TheRickWilson

Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (4tmpE)

413 And the swamp runs red with blood.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (pohLc)

414 Since this story started to break, the film vignette that kept coming back to me was during the finale of the "Untouchables".

"His name wasn't in the ledger".

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (rj6Yv)

415 How many tens of thousands of govt salaried auditors, and how many big-ten accounting govt contractors presided over all this shit for decades without finding any of it?

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag

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Audit the Accountants & Auditors as well as The IRS, Elon!

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (Q/KXq)

416 They're not even trying:
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray
Can someone explain to me why the Department of Defense provided $9,147,532.00 to Reuters for "ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)"

The brown acid that is circulating around us isn't too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it's your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?

Posted by: dude, whatever at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (gKWVE)

417 Trump will be the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl.
Posted by: mr tmz at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (rJ48h)

He should be careful. Once they activate their sleeper agent, and go live with Operation Swift... she takes off one of her boots, and wham! It's over.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (lH8E4)

418 Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (4tmpE)

Means he was on the payroll

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (2NXcZ)

419 412 The Rick Wilson is big mad at Trump:

@TheRickWilson

Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (4tmpE)

Go back to your chair, Rick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)

420 412 The Rick Wilson is big mad at Trump:

@TheRickWilson

Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (4tmpE)

=====

I think they're mostly worried at their P&L statements getting very different very quickly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

421 Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:47 PM (D7oie)

The blob is the deep state. I never assumed the DS was a highly-centralized, competent operation. It’s a bunch of decentralized groups of bad actors laundering money and carrying out ops, backed by a legion of 70 IQ bureaucrat diversity hires.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (l3YAf)

422 Before getting to that: USAID's website now announces to all of its "workers:" You're fired.
......

My brother is so bummed. TRUMP IS A BUFFOON

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

423 406 REAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has reportedly fallen down the stairs AGAIN as he was leaving the Senate today.

The shell is thinning.

Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (/U5Yz)

He turtled himself AGAIN???

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (wtvvX)

424 income taxation of citizens must stop

and not be replaced by another direct tax on the citizens

because the govt cannot be trusted

they will spend 200 percent of what they take in from us, and laugh

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (Pv3Rg)

425 >> I began to smell the grifter odor on Hugh Hewitt when he wrote Mormon in the White House all a big promotional for severely conservative mittens
——-
He was all in for auto bailouts. He was all in for letting Obama appoint Daschle DoT Sec’y despite his wife being an airline lobbyist… and grassroots R opposition to Daschle forced his withdrawal 24 hours after Hewitt endorsed him on air.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (OrDr0)

426 391 Andrea Mitchell is 'leaving' MSNBC.

Probably old news here.
Posted by: jsg at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (ik+5H)
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I would think she's old news almost anywhere.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (G0vdT)

427 This is starting to look suspiciously like draining the swamp.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (KWujZ)

428 Is McConnell trying to be Feinstein 2.0, zombie in the senate? Retire already dude… have some dignity

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (i5Vkf)

429 He has sixty nine ways from see you next Tuesday to get back at them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
==========
The guy does not know even how to grill so we are supposed to think he is a genius or something. Look to his staffers for his source of 'genius'. Schumer is simply some puppet with his minders hand up his ass making his mouth move.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)

430 376 Trump will be the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (rJ48h)

Noooo! It will be the Black Sunday scenario!!!!!!

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (aBgBM)

431 Hi Jane! Hey, I saw a few days ago that you're back on X. What's your handle? I'll give you a follow.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (qBdHI)

432 In all seriousness, if we were to shut down this nonsense to the tune of about a trillion dollars, we wouldn't need to pay income tax.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:23 PM (PMtkd)

We should, however, pay down some of the enormous debt.

Assuming we get to the point of actually running a surplus, and that's a big if, yuge, ginormous, the next question will be "cut taxes, or pay down the debt?". I favor the latter, but I could see doing it 80/20 or something.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (xCA6C)

433 411 How come there are no WOMENZ on the DOGE team?

to keep those guys FOCUSED!

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (Pv3Rg)

434 I wonder if Trump will sit next to Travis Kelce’s girlfriend during the big game….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (i5Vkf)

435 One of my cow workers asked me if I felt bad for all the FedGov workers losing their jobs.

I said they should learn how to pick fruit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RzvAh)

436
@TheRickWilson

Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (4tmpE)
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Confirmed: Trump is on the right track.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (G0vdT)

437 394 Maybe not the eight billion a month after all:

"Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112
... But Social Security does not have death records for millions of these people
... Only 13 of the people are still getting Social Security benefits, the report said."

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (6CsVH)

438 406 REAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has reportedly fallen down the stairs AGAIN as he was leaving the Senate today.
=========

Withdrawal of power often hastens the end of such creatures. That is what they live for.

Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)

439
On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally

_________

"And I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I have notified your local draft boards and told them that you are now all eligible for military service."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (dxSpM)

440 @TheRickWilson
“Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.”

He mumbled from inside his cosplay Jedi robe.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (OrDr0)

441 423 406 REAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has reportedly fallen down the stairs AGAIN as he was leaving the Senate today.

The shell is thinning.

Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (/U5Yz)

He turtled himself AGAIN???
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Yes. I hope there is video. I may jerkoff to it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (/U5Yz)

442 Hi Jane! Hey, I saw a few days ago that you're back on X. What's your handle? I'll give you a follow.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (qBdHI)

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Based Jane Doh. Thanks!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (4tmpE)

443 Damn. Saw a picture of the DOGE boys. Damn they do look young.

Godspeed, guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (bss/y)

444 Hang em high!!

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (WRDub)

445 That might be satire, but I'll bet any amount of money -- any! -- that Amazon is getting tons of taxpayer money (in exchange for nothing) through various similar scams and frauds. Maybe not though USAID. But through something similar.
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AWS has left the chat, in a suspicious hurry

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (G7Fd7)

446 411 How come there are no WOMENZ on the DOGE team?

Feeelz.

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (aBgBM)

447 @TheRickWilson

Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.

--

Nah, Biden's gone. He's signed with a talent agency, and is off to Hollywood. Maybe Broadway will come calling!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (qBdHI)

448 Rick Wilson... is he that bald, stupid guy or the volleyball Tom Hanks was fucking?

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (v0R5T)

449 The Rick Wilson is big mad at Trump:

@TheRickWilson

Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.

-------

Cry more you little bitch.

(the inter tubes are aggravating because I really want to say the in person)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 12:56 PM (IOGah)

450 I'd settle for the PBS News Hour hosted by Alex Jones and Firing Line hosted by Jordan Peterson...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 05, 2025 12:29 PM (t0Rmr)

Please, stop. I can only take so much.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (D7oie)

451 The cure to USAIDS is a daily treatment of Trumpzenca. You can see results as soon as one week.

Side effects include: improved mood, increase in your bank account, reduction of tyrannical influence of your day-to-day life.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (cirDh)

452 This is the most momentous reformist action in my lifetime. I owe Elon Musk and Donald Trump my deepest gratitude.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (UseAb)

453 As has been said her for decades, the left is using American tax dollars to fund their party.

Posted by: sven at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (X0I7i)

454 Dear new AG Pam Bondi, please open an investigation into USAID and their connections to Politico, The Bulwark/Bill Kristol and other left-wing "news" outlets they gave taxpayer money. I'm no legal expert but it sounds like quite a few people should go to jail for fraud and possible money laundering.

Posted by: Tracy at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (mOyIJ)

455 There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles (Trump came)
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee (Trump came)
Blood in the streets, the Capitol's burning (Trump came)
Blood on the rise, it's following DOGE

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (wtvvX)

456 Now dig through and find the REST of the organizations moving money around to leftist causes and people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (2VST1)

457 If Rick Wilson didn't exist, we'd have to invent him.

I strongly suspect that Rick Wilson is actually a boiled egg that someone rolled across a barbershop floor and then stuck glasses on.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (yHn7s)

458 Oh boy is this great.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (xJL+M)

459 428 Is McConnell trying to be Feinstein 2.0, zombie in the senate? Retire already dude… have some dignity
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 05, 2025 12:54 PM (i5Vkf)
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To late, he's got to make it to the next election or their Dem Gov will appoint a Dem to the Senator.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (G0vdT)

460 Based Jane Doh. Thanks!

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I just got you to 70 follows.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (qBdHI)

461 Assertions now that American celebrities were paid millions of dollars each to go to Ukraine for PR purposes.

People like Angelina Jolie.

Could be like the Rings of Power satire. I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

462 428 Is McConnell trying to be Feinstein 2.0, zombie in the senate? Retire already dude… have some dignity

McConnell (to power): "My precious"!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (xCA6C)

463 454 Dear new AG Pam Bondi, please open an investigation into USAID and their connections to Politico, The Bulwark/Bill Kristol and other left-wing "news" outlets they gave taxpayer money. I'm no legal expert but it sounds like quite a few people should go to jail for fraud and possible money laundering.
Posted by: Tracy at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (mOyIJ)

Hey now! How am I supposed to buy a new couch for my fat ass?

Posted by: Joney Goldberg at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (wrXPz)

464 >> Side effects include: improved mood, increase in your bank account, reduction of tyrannical influence of your day-to-day life.
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If your erection lasts more than for years, consult the vice president.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (OrDr0)

465 211 High Hewitt regularly sneered at MAGA and Tea Party types whilst simultaneouslygiving airtime to Politico reporters and pretended they were straight-shooting non-partisans.
Posted by: Kensington at February 05, 2025 12:31 PM

In high school theater kids would steal Hugh Hewitt's lunch money before giving him an atomic wedgie. He's such a douche.

Posted by: Minuteman at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (flSpu)

466 Maybe this is why Politico doesn't like Trump? Maybe they don't actually think he's Hitler, or a rapist, or have problems with his moral code?

Just spitballing.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 12:59 PM (uuxpB)

467 406 REAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has reportedly fallen down the stairs AGAIN as he was leaving the Senate today.
......

Maybe Nutzi has a spare wheelchair he can borrow.

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2025 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

468 Libs of TikTok @Libsoftictok -1m

Did you know that we're funding border security for multiple foreign countries totaling millions of your tax dollars thanks to grants that Biden authorized? Some of these haven't expired yet and are still active.

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*rage headache*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:59 PM (4tmpE)

469 Rick Wilson is a very bitter, nasty, no-talent, ever-wrong, loser, with delusions of grandeur.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 12:59 PM (PMtkd)

470 Assertions now that American celebrities were paid millions of dollars each to go to Ukraine for PR purposes.

People like Angelina Jolie.

Could be like the Rings of Power satire. I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching

People like Karen Bass to Ghana?

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:59 PM (lCppi)

471 "23 Willowed:
490 I'm always astonished when I see such things. I mean, how much more money do you need? The money isn't why they do it, it's the corruption. They live for it, because it's the main part of what they are.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 12:05 PM (xCA6C)"

About a decade ago I explained to the horde this was about power, and opined that few here must have had much exposure to the super-rich. Because the primary point for most in being extremely rich is being able to flout the law and do degenerate shit, and people who want power to do degenerate shit aren't going to flinch at doing awful things to GET that power in the first place, and therefore tend to accumulate up at that level.

I got roundly mocked in the comments at the time, but I suspect most here have started to understand what is up. There is an entire upper crust that thinks they're fundamentally better than us because they have good scams going, the balls to attempt them, and the luck to get away with it.

Posted by: heya at February 05, 2025 01:00 PM (Dng1D)

472
406 REAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has reportedly fallen down the stairs AGAIN as he was leaving the Senate today.

Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 05, 2025 01:00 PM (+oR7L)

473
When shoplifting below $1,000 is legal you know what the lawmakers are taking in.

Posted by: Auspex at February 05, 2025 01:00 PM (j4U/Z)

474 Based Jane Doh. Thanks!

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I just got you to 70 follows.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (qBdHI)

Lol. Thanks! I lost a ton of followers when I was banned for no given reason. I've snuck back in under the new nic and email address.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 01:00 PM (4tmpE)

475 McConnell doesn't stair well.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (uuxpB)

476 Got an e-mail from the owner of a site I sometimes buy sewing patterns from.
It was about how we have to "wear our resistance" to what is going on. She's "deeply unsettled" by what's going on right now and discusses what she'll be doing in her community.
The bubble is strong with this one.

She could just sell her product, but no. I'm working on a reply.

Posted by: sal at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (f+FmA)

477 The Chinese are saying "Mitch you stay there till you die. Remember what happened to your sister in law"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (U/Wlk)

478 Omg. I'm having a wonderful text conversation with my two hippie girlfriends. We want the next time we get together to take a picture of us in our tie dye dresses and MAGA hats.

Perhaps with ARs slung over our shoulders.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM

You know the rule, nurse.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (+QlJh)

479 That little exchange between Trump and Obama at Carter's funeral is taking form.

"We need to talk. Not here. Somewhere private. It's important."

I'm willing to bet Trump told him exactly what he planned to do, and that if he fought it or spoke against it, Trump would go directly after Obama personally. Michelle is skedaddling the marriage to protect her assets. And, today fundraisers are pulling away from Obama citing the divorce, but in all likelihood because or how effective Trump is at exposing all of this and they don't want it attached to them. Obama (and Hillary for that matter) have been extremely complacent and quiet.

Posted by: Orson at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (dIske)

480 Treason.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (gxokI)

481 >>> 420 412 The Rick Wilson is big mad at Trump:

@TheRickWilson

Every global competitor and foe of America is laughing their ass off at the moronic, ahistoric drivel from this wet-brained chucklefuck.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 12:52 PM (4tmpE)

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I think they're mostly worried at their P&L statements getting very different very quickly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

He has NO marketable skills, and You People expect him to get a real job? like in the Private Sector? where they expect results?!?!?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (Vqx30)

482 McConnell doesn't stair well.
Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM

You're saying he lost a stairing contest?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (+QlJh)

483 So only the corrupt will vote for these mafia families.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (RflrK)

484 For years I've scratched my head over how certain things that don't seem to make sense can continue to happen. How Politico and other left-wing websites and publications make money is one. Now it's all becoming clear.

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 12:13 PM (lCppi)

People need to go to prison for this. This is money laundering plain and simple. All for the purpose of destroying the opposition - us. And using our money to do it. Prison, nothing less.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (VqCOT)

485 USAID is the Banking System for the Deep State and the CIA.

We have been funding our own misery.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (+oR7L)

486 Hugh Hewitt is a butter dog. Democrats are covered in butter. Mmm lick lick lick

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (8gc1F)

487 This is the most momentous reformist action in my lifetime. I owe Elon Musk and Donald Trump my deepest gratitude.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 05, 2025 12:57 PM (UseAb)

And no offense to anyone who was advocating for him, but none of this would have happened with a DeSantis Administration.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (lH8E4)

488 All the institutions are not what we think they are. Pure fakery.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (lUhzf)

489 406 REAKING: Senator Mitch McConnell has reportedly fallen down the stairs AGAIN as he was leaving the Senate today.

The shell is thinning.
Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 12:51 PM (/U5Yz)

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At that age, falling means death. My father passed away last year but it was the two falls that happened within a short time of each other six months before that showed he couldn't really function.

There is a good chance McConnell will be dead by the end of the year.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (Vh9CX)

490 Hugh Hewitt is the David Hogg of Chris Wallace's

Posted by: mr tmz at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (rJ48h)

491 McConnell is like Bitcoin. You never know when he's going to fall.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (uuxpB)

492 Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (8gc1F)

Lmao this is disgusting.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (lUhzf)

493 One of my cow workers asked me if I felt bad for all the FedGov workers losing their jobs.

I said they should learn how to pick fruit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RzvAh)

That's the beauty of the plan. There's no learning curve.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (xJL+M)

494 osted by: heya at February 05, 2025 01:00 PM (Dng1D)

So you think billionaires Trump and Musk are just after power?

That's why you can't paint with such a broad brush.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (IOGah)

495 I suggest illegals be called tumbleweeds. This then could be the theme music when ICE shows up. Granted Tumblin' Tumbleweeds lacks the immediate visceral impact of the Flight of the Valkyries. However this could make it even more hair raising over time as the more and more tumbleweeds are sent off to Gitmo for a tropical timeshare breakfast meeting or a more permanent residency in an El Salvador prison.

https://youtu.be/JQc5gDXQGIs

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (Q8Bj8)

496 He turtled himself AGAIN???
Posted by: Tex Lovera
.......

Hopefully he has a THIS SIDE UP sign on his back.

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

497 Saw a thing where Chelsea Clinton is the recipient of $84 million taxpayer $$$

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (GhIJO)

498 380 Can't wait to see Cuck Schumer's response to this, with his stupid glasses half way down his nose and his little fists lightly tapping the podium surface.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 05, 2025 12:45 PM (pohLc)

Hey Chuck, when you go after Team Trump, they have six ways til Sunday to get back at you.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 12:48 PM (lH8E4)

POOF!

https://tinyurl.com/mwj5n4v8

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (jQ+5q)

499 116 As mentioned in the previous thread, there are apparently over six million Americans over the age of 112 in the US

https://tinyurl.com/3beaezx7
Posted by: extybeebeachbum

==

The actual number of people over 100 is like 89,000 people.

It would be incredible easy to fix this, just get a life insurance company team and get their death records department.

Probably save the taxpayer about a trillion dollars but no one seems to care.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (4pwAx)

500 I have to wonder if one of the reasons the Left is so supportive of socialism and UBI is because they are all on gov. funded work (and non-work) and this is a rationalization. Claiming it is a *good* thing because they know it is illegal or immoral and they need to justify their crimes.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (I29p0)

501 >>> 435 One of my cow workers asked me if I felt bad for all the FedGov workers losing their jobs.

I said they should learn how to pick fruit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RzvAh)

LOL

Maybe there should be a fundraiser to buy them tools for the upcoming new "shovel-ready" jobs along the border with Mexico.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (Vqx30)

502 I wonder if USAID money was used to subsidize the UK Labour Party's 100+ "volunteers" sent to the US to assist Ms. Harris's presidential campaign.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (rj6Yv)

503 Try the salmon mousse, Mitch.

Posted by: The Grim Reaper at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (q2NNn)

504 McConnell: from fence post turtle to staircase hurdle.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (OrDr0)

505 Elon posted that the "big money fraud" is in Medicare.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (4tmpE)

506 Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (lH8E4)

Absolutely and anyone telling you otherwise probably has shit instincts.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (lUhzf)

507 Torpedo amid-ship!
All Hands, Abandon Ship!

Posted by: Capt Bill Kristol at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (D0HYP)

508 Willowed: Ace must stay hydrated.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag

Drink more water!!!

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (vcOmj)

509 Immediately following an X post on my feed concerning USAID shenanigans, a Catholic Sister I follow posted "A prayer for the deliverance of yourself or place from evil spirits".

Coincidence or not? You make the call!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (WXNFJ)

510 Some of The Bush clan and the Obamas have to figure in here somewhere, too

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (lCppi)

511 435 One of my cow workers asked me if I felt bad for all the FedGov workers losing their jobs.

I said they should learn how to pick fruit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RzvAh)

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So, to protect their feelings we must preserve the inefficiencies, fraud, and straight graft of the federal government?

Is the federal government a jobs program for people with no skills?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

512 One of my cow workers asked me if I felt bad for all the FedGov workers losing their jobs.

I said they should learn how to pick fruit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RzvAh)

That's the beauty of the plan. There's no learning curve.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......

They still wouldn't be qualified.

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

513 458 Oh boy is this great.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 05, 2025 12:58 PM (xJL+M)

Will Senator Blutarsky vote for Tulsi?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (QAkQ3)

514 This is the most momentous reformist action in my lifetime. I owe Elon Musk and Donald Trump my deepest gratitude.
Posted by: Ordinary American

==

I bought some Tesla stock as basically a thank you.

I might have to actually buy a Tesla car next, even though I dont really like them.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (4pwAx)

515 Perfect encapsulation of the Dem's attitude.

https://is.gd/V21wAm

Posted by: Archimedes at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (xCA6C)

516 Did the Clinton Foundation *spit* get any USAID money?

They had to, right? Who is more corrupt than Hillary?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (PMtkd)

517 And no offense to anyone who was advocating for him, but none of this would have happened with a DeSantis Administration.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (lH8E4)

Had there even been one.

Unless some think he would have corraled RFK out of the race in the major states, gone on podcasts to attract new voters, questioned Kamala's lies about her heritage, etc etc

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (uuxpB)

518 Hugh Hewitt is the David Hogg of Chris Wallace's
Posted by: mr tmz

I have it on good authority that Boss Hogg is known as "Bites the Pillow" when performing the stolen land ritual.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (Q8Bj8)

519 I'm willing to bet Trump told him exactly what he planned to do, and that if he fought it or spoke against it, Trump would go directly after Obama personally. Michelle is skedaddling the marriage to protect her assets. And, today fundraisers are pulling away from Obama citing the divorce, but in all likelihood because or how effective Trump is at exposing all of this and they don't want it attached to them. Obama (and Hillary for that matter) have been extremely complacent and quiet.
Posted by: Orson at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (dIske)

If so, there are lots of people who won't like it, but I think this is the play. Leave the figureheads at the top out of it, let them stay quiet, and go after everyone one level or more below.

Otherwise you risk not being able to get the citizens on board. Remember, voters are dumb, and if they think this is just about political score settling, they won't take it as seriously as they should.

Let Obama go off into the sunset. Let the Clintons die in their own beds. But everyone else... heads on pikes.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (lH8E4)

520 499 Please note that the cited article says

"Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112
... But Social Security does not have death records for millions of these people
... Only 13 of the people are still getting Social Security benefits, the report said."

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (6CsVH)

521 >> Is the federal government a jobs program for people with no skills?
———
Money laundering is a true skill. An art.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 01:06 PM (OrDr0)

522 >>>@TheRickWilson

Fuck you. War!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 05, 2025 01:06 PM (xJL+M)

523

Elon posted that the "big money fraud" is in Medicare.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Somebody "in the know" put Elon Musk and DOGE onto USAiD to start with.

Medicare is so YUGE there has to be a lot of corruption there. And yes, Elon "will be killing Grandma!".

Count on it. Of course, all my grandparents are all long gone; parents too.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at February 05, 2025 01:06 PM (vcOmj)

524 519 Otherwise you risk not being able to get the citizens on board. Remember, voters are dumb, and if they think this is just about political score settling, they won't take it as seriously as they should.

Let Obama go off into the sunset. Let the Clintons die in their own beds. But everyone else... heads on pikes.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (lH8E4)

=======

Making martyrs of people half the country knows and likes is hard and creates blowback.

Making martyrs of faceless bureaucrats that you can pin concrete crimes to has far less risk.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

525 > "You all will be shocked to learn none of this stuff is anywhere in the MSM right now."--Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Notice how quiet the Republican leadership is too?

Posted by: Just reporting at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (gEw7t)

526 And "Budget Hawk" Paul Ryan couldn't find a single penny to cut from the budget ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (G7Fd7)

527 Is the federal government a jobs program for people with no skills?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Absolutely!

I know several unemployables where all their relatives got a sigh of relief then they got that gov. job.

(Not to diss the many good people who work for gov. but everyone knows the bottom quartile in gov. are essentially unemployable anywhere else.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (I29p0)

528 johnny maga @_johnnymaga -5m

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now outraged that people are calling Tren de Aragua gang members "dirtbags."

They're absolutely flailing.

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Love to see it!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (4tmpE)

529 At this point, I really wouldn't be surprised if we find receipts proving that USAID actually bought Bin Laden's porn collection for him.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (B9Prs)

530 Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (I29p0)

No it's mainly because socialism and UBI suck the country's wealth into the federal tit for further looting.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (uuxpB)

531 And another because I am in a good mood:

https://tinyurl.com/bdh2bvbn

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (bss/y)

532 525 Notice how quiet the Republican leadership is too?
Posted by: Just reporting at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (gEw7t)

=======

Lindsey Graham suddenly dropped all of his rhetorical opposition to Trump's cabinet picks right after it was revealed that he's receiving $1 million a year from an organization indirectly funded by USAID.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

533 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

It is gonna be difficult and dangerous riding the motorcycle home from Chattanooga with my pants unzipped and my schadenboner sticking out catching wind and road debris.

Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (zlmoV)

534 Do I feel bad that some people who deserve to be imprisoned or worse for crimes again the Republic itself are just getting told to move along instead?

The question really is, "don't YOU feel bad for cheering these traitors on all these years? Don't YOU feel bad for cheerfully playing along with the ridiculous charades that A) These outlets are actually doing journalism and B) It's just a fact of nature that running the government costs trillions of dollars a year, every dollar spent is a dollar invested in Our Future, and there's nothing anyone can do about it."

Don't YOU feel a little bit bad?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (+iIV1)

535 where's the guy who always says:
Media Delenda Est

because now it's true

Posted by: kallisto at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (dCxaZ)

536
I don't remember any blue-ribbon committee suggesting any of this stuff, do you?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (dxSpM)

537 The CIA is very good at what they do. I think they will be able to get themselves out of this pickle unfortunately. They survived the 60s and 70s and the church committee and endless investigations in to whether they killed JFK or not.
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They also had control of all the media and government back then ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (G7Fd7)

538 Is USAID funding reach arounds across the aisle?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (KWujZ)

539 Sorry the "kill grandma" argument lost all power when our government released a bioweapon that targeted the old and infirm.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (uuxpB)

540 526 And "Budget Hawk" Paul Ryan couldn't find a single penny to cut from the budget ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (G7Fd7)

Nah, he saved teh Feds BILLIONS... on Military Retirements...

Only program he ever cut... taking money out of the pockets of those who served.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (QAkQ3)

541 Not only did Mitch fall, but there is video on X of him glitching again although there is no date on the video so it could be old.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (G0vdT)

542 Dems are shitting their pants to spite the laundromat.

Love to see it.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (SVk8W)

543 Over/under on Hewitt getting sweet government money via ngo cutouts. We already know that Kristol did. And I suspect National Review did too.
Posted by: whig at February 05, 2025 12:33 PM (ctrM5)

Salem Media I bet. Actually I would bet that any "conservative media" group that got its legs after the Tea Party movement is getting money enough to operate.

at this rate, the only clean media group remaining will be Gas Digital, and we will be stuck with "Legion of Skanks, your trusted voice in news'

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (D7oie)

544 Mitch McConnell has fallen again.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (cC8xx)

545 Let Obama go off into the sunset. Let the Clintons die in their own beds. But everyone else... heads on pikes.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (lH8E4)

No. Get them all.

We’re rapidly approaching a point where what the voters think about the Obamas and Clintons foes not matter. Make them pay.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (l3YAf)

546 526 And "Budget Hawk" Paul Ryan couldn't find a single penny to cut from the budget ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (G7Fd7)

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OMG I'm back to enraged.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (PMtkd)

547 Start 3D printing electric chairs and guillotines.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (RflrK)

548 How much of the Eternal McCain Funeral Carnival was paid for by USAIDS?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (SVk8W)

549 538 Is USAID funding reach arounds across the aisle?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (KWujZ)

Why yes! It funded both Democrat Initiatives, and funded the anti Trump GOPe...

See, both sides of the aisle!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (QAkQ3)

550 They also had control of all the media and government back then ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (G7Fd7)

yeah, we're also at the beginning of a First Turning. That's when we get unburdened by what has been, for real for real.

Posted by: kallisto at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (dCxaZ)

551 I do feel bad for people losing their jobs, it sucks to be fired. But my sympathy is very limited, because they have demonstrated that they cannot do the job properly, that they are actively hostile toward the country and people they are supposed to be working for.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (2VST1)

552 I don't remember any blue-ribbon committee suggesting any of this stuff, do you?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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The media has always been really quick to say "Foreign aid is only 1% of the budget!!!!" and wanted misdirection.

I remember when Rick Perry ran for President, one of his platforms was zero foreign aid. Even Republicans were attacking him as being anti-semitic (since Israel gets a lot of foreign aid)

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (4pwAx)

553 At this point, I really wouldn't be surprised if we find receipts proving that USAID actually bought Bin Laden's porn collection for him.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (B9Prs)

At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if bin Laden was alive and living luxury on the French Riviera.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (g8Ew8)

554 Let Obama go off into the sunset. Let the Clintons die in their own beds. But everyone else... heads on pikes.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2025 01:05 PM (lH8E4)

I agree completely! Going after a big name give the left a figurehead to rally around, something they don't have no. Don't give it to them, keep the fight about a bunch of faceless bureaucrats that nobody likes or gives a damn about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (wyMQY)

555 Wonder how many overseas ballots are tied to the overseas USAID employees.

Posted by: Reforger at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (xcIvR)

556 There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles (Trump came)
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee (Trump came)

Trump ejaculates blood?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (Odg76)

557
One of my cow workers asked me if I felt bad for all the FedGov workers losing their jobs.

_________

Five years ago they were laughing their heads off while ordinary people lost their jobs, got locked down, had their businesses go bankrupt, were forbidden to be at the bedside of a loved one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (dxSpM)

558 The neocons at the Institute for the Study of War were getting tons of money from USAID, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (uxCna)

559 johnny maga @_johnnymaga -5m

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now outraged that people are calling Tren de Aragua gang members "dirtbags."

They're absolutely flailing.

Is she outraged when elected officials call citizens N@zis, Raycists, knuckle-draggers, F@scists...?

Posted by: Gref at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (aBgBM)

560 Remember the Obama administration funded Israeli PACs that were opposed to Netanyahu during their election cycle. I wonder if the money came from USAID.

And on that note another example of no self awareness of the Left because at the same time they were screaming bloody murder that some Russians bought a hundred thousand worth of ads on Social media in support of Trump.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (IOGah)

561 People need to go to prison for this. This is money laundering plain and simple. All for the purpose of destroying the opposition - us. And using our money to do it. Prison, nothing less.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (VqCOT)
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Oh look, a newly confirmed AG done just yesterday. How convenient. They should have been much more polite to her at the confirmation hearings.

Posted by: Orson at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (dIske)

562 >>> 524

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Making martyrs of people half the country knows and likes is hard and creates blowback.

Making martyrs of faceless bureaucrats that you can pin concrete crimes to has far less risk.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

Especially if those crimes only *begin* with grifting of zillions of feralgov tax revenue...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (Vqx30)

563 554 Good point.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (6CsVH)

564 554 I agree completely! Going after a big name give the left a figurehead to rally around, something they don't have no. Don't give it to them, keep the fight about a bunch of faceless bureaucrats that nobody likes or gives a damn about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (wyMQY)

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And none of these bureaucrats are going to be dirt poor with families to feed.

They're not going to be naturally sympathetic.

And there's going to be a very large pressure campaign on places like X to make the specific crimes known in detail to as many people as possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

565 Notice how quiet the Republican leadership is too?
Posted by: Just reporting

Trump seems to have nuclear level leverage over these cocksuckers Thune and Johnson right now. Use it Donald.

Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (/U5Yz)

566 I do feel bad for people losing their jobs, it sucks to be fired. But my sympathy is very limited, because they have demonstrated that they cannot do the job properly, that they are actively hostile toward the country and people they are supposed to be working for.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

==

I don't. I straight up hope it crushes these people.

These aren't just well meaning civil servants anymore, they're basically ANTIFA soldiers that were on the payroll.

Not one of them decided to be a whistleblower.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (4pwAx)

567 Posted by: kallisto at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (dCxaZ)

If you are correct then we got verrry lucky with the last fourth turn. I am not counting those chickens yet nor am I ruling it out.

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (uuxpB)

568 And "Budget Hawk" Paul Ryan couldn't find a single penny to cut from the budget ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:07 PM (G7Fd7)
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Narrator: He wasn't actually a Budget Hawk.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (6K6Eu)

569 At this rate of bombastic disclosures, my refractory period needs a refractory period.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (q2NNn)

570 It is gonna be difficult and dangerous riding the motorcycle home from Chattanooga with my pants unzipped and my schadenboner sticking out catching wind and road debris.
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP

At this rate I could use my dong as a pogostick for my morning commute.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (gKWVE)

571 How much of the Eternal McCain Funeral Carnival was paid for by USAIDS?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (SVk8W

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Interesting. Meggie Mac McCain got on the Trump Train even before her so-called BFF, Tulsi, was confirmed. Previously, she couldn't spout enough venom about the man and his family.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (4tmpE)

572 I want an audit of how AOC somehow went from broke Barista to multi millionaire ($25 million)... on a Congress critters salary.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (QAkQ3)

573 544 Mitch McConnell has fallen again.
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (cC8xx)

I'm sure he was pushed.

Posted by: Roy at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (z+ik4)

574 Five years ago they were laughing their heads off while ordinary people lost their jobs, got locked down, had their businesses go bankrupt, were forbidden to be at the bedside of a loved one.

They've also be allowed to "work from home" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) for the last five years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (uxCna)

575 553

I still haven't received the pictures of that motherfucker dead for my coffee mug that my tax dollars and American lives paid for.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (SVk8W)

576 Lindsay Graham. Don’t believe the stories that he’s only worth a few million. He’s more worth $46m.
Cars:
Ferrari 250 GTO
Shelby GT350
Land Rover Defender
Lincoln Continental
Jaguar XE
He owns an $18m 10k sqft estate in SC.

Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (OrDr0)

577
There will be republicans that will have gotten money from USAID as well. I think we might be shocked at who.

I have a feeling that the Bush/Romney/Rockfeller wing of the GOPe will have gotten a lot of funding.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (+oR7L)

578 565 Notice how quiet the Republican leadership is too?
Posted by: Just reporting

Trump seems to have nuclear level leverage over these cocksuckers Thune and Johnson right now. Use it Donald.
Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (/U5Yz)

They have always been reactive (prt of the problem aside from being grifters.) They have no idea how to react to someone showing them to be the useless simps they are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (bss/y)

579 Wonder how many overseas ballots are tied to the overseas USAID employees.
Posted by: Reforger at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (xcIvR)

I wonder how much domestic ballot harvesting and outright fraud is paid for by Federal grants to communist NGOs.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (l3YAf)

580 The neocons at the Institute for the Study of War were getting tons of money from USAID, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (uxCna)

oh yeah ? US A ID finally provided receipts ? shocker

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (g47mK)

581 The amounts the Zombie MFM keep calling insignificant would have substantially helped north Carolinians get needed water and electricity sooner than 4 months out. But this does help explain their decision to exclude Trump supporters from rescue efforts - its not personal its busine$$.
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Read this morning that FEMA is still-STILL--sending covid funds to blue cities and state.

And is scheduled to through 2026.

AYFKM!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (G7Fd7)

582 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at February 05, 2025 01:08 PM (zlmoV)
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Hopefully they will be relocated to the coldest, most barren stretch of Alaskan tundra.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (7fElN)

583 I agree completely! Going after a big name give the left a figurehead to rally around, something they don't have no. Don't give it to them, keep the fight about a bunch of faceless bureaucrats that nobody likes or gives a damn about.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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Not so sure. No one remembers anyone of the names sent off to the Guillotine other than Marie Antoinette.
The big names are something that the historians will remember.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (I29p0)

584 Narrator: He wasn't actually a Budget Hawk.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (6K6Eu)

Paul Ryan = "Budget Hawk Tua"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (+iIV1)

585 569 At this rate of bombastic disclosures, my refractory period needs a refractory period.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (q2NNn)

Go long on Zinc futures.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (bss/y)

586 Tiktok. DOGE skit that Elon reposted

x.com/elonmusk/status/
1887174051057020959

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (U81Si)

587 How amazing Musk owns X -a key factor in all of this transparency Truly amazing

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (lCppi)

588 Some of The Bush clan and the Obamas have to figure in here somewhere, too
Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 01:04 PM (lCppi)

Oh for sure. This is just one of many agencies blasting out stolen money.

HW ran the CIA. Zero chance the bushes are not up to their eyebrows in this shit.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (uCjyK)

589 that bullshit "Institute" was pushing Uke interest really hard

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (g47mK)

590 Mitch McConnell has fallen again.
Posted by: Dr Spank
......

Can he get up? No?
Anyway...

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

591 551 I do feel bad for people losing their jobs, it sucks to be fired. But my sympathy is very limited, because they have demonstrated that they cannot do the job properly, that they are actively hostile toward the country and people they are supposed to be working for.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 05, 2025 01:10 PM (2VST1)

They all acted so smug taking government cheese from the rubes in flyover country, taking dumps on them at will. Live by the grift dye by the grift.

Do not feel bad. How many K sreet consultants are going to fail payrolls in the next month.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (lZac+)

592 Interesting. Meggie Mac McCain got on the Trump Train even before her so-called BFF, Tulsi, was confirmed. Previously, she couldn't spout enough venom about the man and his family.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (4tmpE)

US Aid goes back to 1961... an audit of old programs is also in order...

Let the Reckoning, continue.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (QAkQ3)

593 Just remember the victims of Hurricane Helene and Biden's FEMA responding that they were out of money and, besides, they weren't notifying MAGA households anyway. The taxpayer money went ... elsewhere.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)

594 Mitch McConnell is no Weeble Wobble.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (XGHaQ)

595 >Lindsay Graham. Don’t believe the stories that he’s only worth a few million. He’s more worth $46m.
Cars:
Ferrari 250 GTO
Shelby GT350
Land Rover Defender
Lincoln Continental
Jaguar XE
He owns an $18m 10k sqft estate in SC.

Forensic audits for all of these grifters.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (rJ48h)

596 Wow, imagine if Pence and the GOPe had demanded some audits of those swing states with the fraudulent voter dumps and then kept hobbling Trump from the inside while the DNC found a candidate that could speak in complete sentences.

I had no idea 4 years ago that the DNC steal, abetted by the beltway GOPe would prove to be a blessing. Thank you traitors for hoisting yourselves on your own petards.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (CKOCg)

597 570 It is gonna be difficult and dangerous riding the motorcycle home from Chattanooga with my pants unzipped and my schadenboner sticking out catching wind and road debris.
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP

At this rate I could use my dong as a pogostick for my morning commute.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 05, 2025 01:13 PM (gKWVE)

Mine now qualifies with the FAA as a hazard to aerial navigation.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (wtvvX)

598 I began to smell the grifter odor on Hugh Hewitt when he wrote Mormon in the White House all a big promotional for severely conservative mittens
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He was all in for auto bailouts. He was all in for letting Obama appoint Daschle DoT Sec’y despite his wife being an airline lobbyist… and grassroots R opposition to Daschle forced his withdrawal 24 hours after Hewitt endorsed him on air.
Posted by: electronic means at February 05, 2025 12:53 PM (OrDr0)

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And he's now all-in on "Birthright Citizenship."

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 05, 2025 01:16 PM (MGRmA)

599 When Elon has a few minutes to spare, I wish he'd go after my state's (Georgia) role in stealing the 2020 election from Trump.

Particularly a certain smug weasel named Gabriel Sterling.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 01:16 PM (4tmpE)

600 It's Die Hard, and Elon Musk just tossed the body out the window, and it landed on the nation's car hood.
Posted by: BurtTC

Christmas every day!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 05, 2025 01:16 PM (w9Wax)

601 Sorry the "kill grandma" argument lost all power when our government released a bioweapon that targeted the old and infirm.
Posted by: ... at

You and I and a lot of others know that, but this is still not a widely accepted notion.
The Covid 19 virus killed people I know.

The vaccine has killed others that I know.

Yeah, I want revenge, and a reckoning.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at February 05, 2025 01:16 PM (vcOmj)

602 555 Wonder how many overseas ballots are tied to the overseas USAID employees.
Posted by: Reforger at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (xcIvR)

That is an interesting question. Normally (and by regulation) , the consulate is responsible for passing. out election ballots to US citizens - it was easy to verify citizenship because they had to present their US passports to enter the embassy grounds. Plus the ballots were numbered for the registered number of US citizens in a particular country. A few extra were provided but not many- maybe 20-20. This was the election year job of the American Citizen Services officer.

But since Obama, it is not out of the realm of possibility that ballots were simply shipped to USAID in the pouch for them to distribute without oversight. That is disturbing to contemplate.

Posted by: Moki at February 05, 2025 01:16 PM (wLjpr)

603 I still want to see Hillary in an orange jumpsuit, coluffed, shackled and frog marched into a courtroom.

Lock her up!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (6yQ3Y)

604 There will be republicans that will have gotten money from USAID as well. I think we might be shocked at who.

I have a feeling that the Bush/Romney/Rockfeller wing of the GOPe will have gotten a lot of funding.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (+oR7L)

If not USAID it will be somewhere else in the budget. Assuming musk goes after republicans.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (uCjyK)

605 I expect Elon knew he would become Trump's lightning rod, and accepted this role voluntarily. He is taking one for da Gipper.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (pohLc)

606 The names of the biggest fish will become the names history will remember. Names the average household has never even heard even now. Brennan. Nuland. Etc etc etc.

Let them, the ones who wanted to work their evil in the shadows, be the villains history remembers.

Let the Obamas, who wanted above all else to live in splendor and adoration, be the villains that history utterly forgets.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (+iIV1)

607 nood

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (6CsVH)

608 I am guessing USAID is just the first drip.

There is a drizzle, a pour, and then a storm to follow.

I expect several more fronts to open up before us as the weeks and months go. As a great man once said, "I don't really give a shit, Margaret, you simpering cunty facehag". Oh no wait it was "Fuck You. WAR."

Always get those two quotes confused!

Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (uuxpB)

609 578 565 Notice how quiet the Republican leadership is too?
Posted by: Just reporting

Trump seems to have nuclear level leverage over these cocksuckers Thune and Johnson right now. Use it Donald.
Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (/U5Yz)

Mmmmmmm pimp hand.

Posted by: Thunder and johnson at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (lZac+)

610 Forensic audits for all of these grifters.
Posted by: mr tmz at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (rJ48h)

The Ferrari 250 GT alone is insane. I saw where one that had been owned by some french actor went for something like $15 Million.

Mmmmm. 268hp. 2300lbs. And a gorgeous body.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (bss/y)

611 Paul Ryan = "Budget Hawk Tua"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (+iIV1)

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lol
What a loser.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (PMtkd)

612 Anybody remember the old "Sav-On Drug Store" ads?

A robotic plodding "tune," repeated over and over:

Sav-On
Drug Store
Sav-On
Drug Store

...but now, I have the same tune going through my head, except the lyrics are

Deep State
Slush Fund
Deep State
Slush Fund

Posted by: zombie at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (pMi6S)

613 Actual prosecution of the Clintons and Obamas would make them 'politically persecuted' martyrs for the enemy to rally around.

Publication of their crimes will get them convicted in the court of public opinion.

Posted by: davidt at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (i0F8b)

614 This is simply astonishing. Not just the stuff being uncovered, but the fact that it's being uncovered at all. There's enough corruption here to drag Democrats, elected and otherwise, as well as their RINO, allies before congressional committees for years.

Posted by: Paco at February 05, 2025 01:17 PM (mADJX)

615 Not so sure. No one remembers anyone of the names sent off to the Guillotine other than Marie Antoinette.
The big names are something that the historians will remember.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (I29p0)

The "names" are unimportant, they will pass from here soon enough on their own. Dismantling the System is important, the System goes on and on and on unless it is Broken, here and now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 05, 2025 01:18 PM (wyMQY)

616 Remember, what the left never understands is we expect our side to have their heads on pikes, too, if they're involved in this kind of crap.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 05, 2025 01:18 PM (tT6L1)

617
I had no idea 4 years ago that the DNC steal, abetted by the beltway GOPe would prove to be a blessing. Thank you traitors for hoisting yourselves on your own petards.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 05, 2025 01:15 PM (CKOCg)

God truly does work in mysterious ways, doesn't He?!

Posted by: Moki at February 05, 2025 01:18 PM (wLjpr)

618 556 There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles (Trump came)
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee (Trump came)

Trump ejaculates blood?
Posted by: bonhomme at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (Odg76)

Donald Trump and George Fisher are the same person?

Posted by: Mind blown at February 05, 2025 01:18 PM (URPBf)

619
For Hollywood-savvy people, the Democrats casting thug character actor Rep. Al Green as a good guy seems a stretch.

Posted by: Auspex at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (j4U/Z)

620 Just remember the victims of Hurricane Helene and Biden's FEMA responding that they were out of money and, besides, they weren't notifying MAGA households anyway. The taxpayer money went ... elsewhere.
Posted by: mrp

Yes. That huge check of $750 for a family to try and survive while navigating insurance claims/adjusters was so generous. This all just sickens me.

Posted by: Cheri at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (oiNtH)

621 I am guessing USAID is just the first drip.
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As some of us were speculating yesterday, I wouldn't be shocked at all if there were another 2, 3, or 10 versions of USAID out there, swallowing up ungodly amounts of taxpayer money and grift, grift, grifting it all to numerous anti-American and un-American grifters.

Posted by: Crusader at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (azSra)

622 Just because.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8j242x
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Ah, Tessa Fowler. Looks like she's auditioning to be an Albanian newsbabe.

Posted by: Bulg at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

623 "388 Just wow. Not the best person in the world by a long shot, but how does this sort of behavior not eat your soul?
I was going to say they're not actually killing people, but COVID...

Posted by: sal at February 05, 2025 12:49 PM (f+FmA)"

Even with the most wildly optimistic counts of COVID deaths, the shots have very clearly killed far more than the virus and are continuing to do so.

Excess deaths of those under 25 are up 70% in the US and the mechanisms are pretty well documented by this point.

Wait until they get into USAID funding "disinformation experts" and pro-vax mouthpieces.

Posted by: heya at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (Dng1D)

624
I'm hoping it will just be an ankle bracelet.

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (DobEs)

625 Hahahahahahahaha!!!

The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln

It's a coup.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (4tmpE)

626 Page me when we confirm whether or not the Semiconscious Liberation Army is controlled through the Boy Sprouts.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at February 05, 2025 01:20 PM (dXcKH)

627 Karoline Leavitt should get a taser and use during the daily press briefings.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 05, 2025 01:20 PM (Q8Bj8)

628 It is gonna be difficult and dangerous riding the motorcycle home from Chattanooga with my pants unzipped and my schadenboner sticking out catching wind and road debris.
Posted by: BifBewalski

At this rate I could use my dong as a pogostick for my morning commute.
Posted by: gKWVE

The local aeronautical chart (KBNA) has indicated mine as a hazard to navigation.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 05, 2025 01:20 PM (WXNFJ)

629 We are in the process of physically evacuating every USAID employee abroad back to the United States.

Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP

Please transport them on Boeing jets.

Posted by: Maj. Healey Joy Bringer at February 05, 2025 01:20 PM (/U5Yz)

630 have a feeling that the Bush/Romney/Rockfeller wing of the GOPe will have gotten a lot of funding.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (+oR7L)

My list: Pierre delecto, the other traitor from Utah, Jeb!, Paul Ryan, Murkowski, maybe Kevin McCarthy, Karl Rove, George Will, Bill Crystal, Miss Lindsay, The Turtle, Crispy Cream, ...

Posted by: LASue at February 05, 2025 01:21 PM (lCppi)

631 I'm thinking that Tucker Carlson has personal insight into all this. He was talking about going to parties with past friends who would all insult and chastise Trump. Tucker said his wife used to stick up for Trump, and usually silenced the room when she said something along those lines.

He said that he couldn't understand their animosity because a lot of them were registered Republicans. But, he said, then, it dawned on him. They weren't concerned about Trump's policies. They were concerned that he was an outsider, and his friends were more concerned about going to jail for misappropriation and things along those lines.

I need to find that interview. But, I think he's probably working on something along those lines right now. Keeping an eye on Tucker's next few broadcasts might be interesting.

Posted by: Orson at February 05, 2025 01:21 PM (dIske)

632 Apparently, he'll sign an EO rescinded all regulation not explicitly in statute
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Well that will make my industry (Pharma) pretty interesting. Not requiring eSignature/password authentication on our clinical databases (21 CFR part 11) is going to be ... a thing

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 05, 2025 01:21 PM (NHgUy)

633 Read this morning that FEMA is still-STILL--sending covid funds to blue cities and state.

And is scheduled to through 2026.

AYFKM!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 05, 2025 01:14 PM (G7Fd7)

Well... I am just now getting over Covid... managed to dodge it for 5 years but it finally caught up with me.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 05, 2025 01:21 PM (QAkQ3)

634 Bigger questions about Politico:

Why did it fail to cut paychecks so *QUICKLY*? If this is fully because USAID payments were frozen, the date was only about a week ago. The money might be on a monthly basis, but was Politico actually running paycheck-to-paycheck? No reserves or anything?

Also, if Political is owned by a German parent company, where are they in this? Do they just siphon the extra revenues (ignoring expenses/income), and act innocent on the checks not clearing?

Lastly, and a thought process - how many plebians in America were furloughed, laid off, or completely shuttered during the "2 Weeks, Stop Spread" years? Excluding the other horrors the governments (federal and local) inflicted on us, they broke GDP by preventing production.

The freeze is going to break a lot of companies. Though it'd be interesting to see the # of companies, versus the # of employees. And a separate chart for the quantity of employees and the # of companies they were employed at - how many were C-levels at a dozen (!!!) different companies?

Posted by: Another Anon at February 05, 2025 01:21 PM (QNMaY)

635 This all reminds me of the first apartment Mrs. Paco and I lived in after we got married. It was ancient married-student housing at the University of Miami, and low rent in every way. When I'd go into the kitchen at night and turn the light on, I'd see cockroaches scurrying off in every direction. Fortunately, we discovered boric acid. DOGE is MAGA's boric acid.

Posted by: Paco at February 05, 2025 01:21 PM (mADJX)

636 Some of The Bush clan and the Obamas have to figure in here somewhere, too

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Don't forget the Clintons! I cannot even IMAGINE how much that fake-family has *grifted* off of the taxpayers backs for the last 3 decades.

Posted by: Crusader at February 05, 2025 01:22 PM (azSra)

637 5) violence
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 05, 2025 12:17 PM (U/Wlk)

...

At some point DOGE is going to find the funding for antifa, and we will find out who actually wants to do violence on a volunteer basis.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 05, 2025 01:23 PM (z/ifB)

638 Bigger questions about Politico:

Why did it fail to cut paychecks so *QUICKLY*? If this is fully because USAID payments were frozen, the date was only about a week ago. The money might be on a monthly basis, but was Politico actually running paycheck-to-paycheck? No reserves or anything?
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My guess is that even the GRIFT was being GRIFTED. Somebody was pulling the strings internally, and they were siphoning off funds almost as soon as they were received, never dreaming that the tap would ever get turned off.

Posted by: Crusader at February 05, 2025 01:23 PM (azSra)

639 Lindsay Graham. Don’t believe the stories that he’s only worth a few million. He’s more worth $46m.
Cars:
Ferrari 250 GTO
Shelby GT350
Land Rover Defender
Lincoln Continental
Jaguar XE
He owns an $18m 10k sqft estate in SC.

Forensic audits for all of these grifters.

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All of that wealth, all generated on an average salary for his career of....what...$200,000 a year?

Yeah, that's simply not possible.

Posted by: Crusader at February 05, 2025 01:25 PM (azSra)

640 another 2, 3, or 10 versions of USAID out there, swallowing up ungodly amounts of taxpayer money and grift, grift, grifting it all to numerous anti-American and un-American grifters.
Posted by: Crusader at February 05, 2025 01:19 PM (azSra)

Shocking, shocking

Posted by: The DOD at February 05, 2025 01:27 PM (z/ifB)

641
Back before the amok time, something like Andrea Mitchell chased screaming from the hall of media power might have had it's own thread, if not flaming skull. Now just a happy footnote.

Posted by: Auspex at February 05, 2025 01:29 PM (j4U/Z)

642 I'm speechless.
Posted by: The guy who used to always say Nothing Will Happen at February 05, 2025 12:46 PM (DobEs)

don't worry about it man, there is a reason financial services commercials say, "past performance is no guarantee of future results"

who knew someone would get into a position to not only care but also act effectively?
It used to be just folk like Alex Jones who showed they cared deeply.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 01:30 PM (D7oie)

643 579 Wonder how many overseas ballots are tied to the overseas USAID employees.
Posted by: Reforger at February 05, 2025 01:11 PM (xcIvR)
______________________________

There's a reason all Hillary's bundlers in the US were Chinese. What was that guys name in California Norman Hsu. Obama, too, had one month where 98% of the $181 Million raised in one month came from donations of each under $200, and therefore not reportable to the FEC. I think all the Dem candidates have been abusing tax payer money for fundraising. Clinton took it a step further and sold influence through the Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: Orson at February 05, 2025 01:31 PM (dIske)

644 I do feel bad for people losing their jobs, it sucks to be fired. But my sympathy is very limited, because they have demonstrated that they cannot do the job properly, that they are actively hostile toward the country and people they are supposed to be working for.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

==

I don't. I straight up hope it crushes these people.

These aren't just well meaning civil servants anymore, they're basically ANTIFA soldiers that were on the payroll.

Not one of them decided to be a whistleblower.

Posted by: Leupold at February 05, 2025 01:12 PM (4pwAx)

Ed Zachary. I couldn't agree more. I want these MFer's living under bridges.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 05, 2025 01:31 PM (VqCOT)

645 She could just sell her product, but no. I'm working on a reply.
Posted by: sal at February 05, 2025 01:01 PM (f+FmA)

Demand a pattern for a MAGA dress.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 05, 2025 01:33 PM (8zz6B)

646 Liz Cheney is a USAID recipient too.

LIVs are being told Elon has their personal info,even Social Security numbers, and who knows what he will do with it? Number of folks on X saying they are fine with that. And with all the data breaches, that info is already public.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 05, 2025 01:34 PM (EV2jz)

647 "539 Sorry the "kill grandma" argument lost all power when our government released a bioweapon that targeted the old and infirm.
Posted by: ... at February 05, 2025 01:09 PM (uuxpB)"

That's not even the half of it. They ran "anti-racist" campaigns and banned local testing to help the initial spread of the virus, jammed non-senior covid patients into nursing homes, knowingly promulgated bad medical protocols (vents were downright murder), and brutally suppressed known effective treatments.

Then they foisted a shot on everyone with known cancer-causing genes COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE STATED PURPOSE OF THE SHOT wrapped in gene-therapy delivery shells that they "accidentally" never told the regulators about. The published payload of the shots is not what is actually in the shots and the cat is out of the bag.

Thousands of people need to hang.

Posted by: heya at February 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dng1D)

648 To be fair, not having a wife and kids to spend all your money can make for a fairly wealthy single guy.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 05, 2025 01:34 PM (IOGah)

649 Lindsay was already publicly identified getting money from an NGO. That's when he started supporting cabinet nominees.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 05, 2025 01:36 PM (EV2jz)

650 People need to go to prison for this. This is money laundering plain and simple. All for the purpose of destroying the opposition - us. And using our money to do it. Prison, nothing less.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 05, 2025 01:02 PM (VqCOT)

Bukele is going to charge double, I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 01:43 PM (D7oie)

651 That's the beauty of the plan. There's no learning curve.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 05, 2025 01:03 PM (xJL+M)

That is not true, I talked to a Pear grower in Hood River, and he said he didn't get H1B workers because he found it took about a season to get them up to the same speed as the migrant he could hire who followed the harvests up from California.

Fruit picking is a skill.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 01:47 PM (D7oie)

652 What rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It's Mitch, Mitch, Mitch

McCoinnel, McConnel, he's better than bad, he's good.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 01:54 PM (D7oie)

653 I do feel bad for people losing their jobs, it sucks to be fired. But my sympathy is very limited, because they have demonstrated that they cannot do the job properly, that they are actively hostile toward the country and people they are supposed to be working for.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

==

They were just following orders, mein herr.

Posted by: Angel at February 05, 2025 01:56 PM (oiJGz)

654 Per the DOJ

"The Department of Justice offers funding opportunities to support law enforcement and public safety activities in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions; to assist victims of crime; to provide training and technical assistance; to conduct research; and to implement programs that improve the criminal, civil, and juvenile justice systems."

Portland Oregon is screwed. They are losing tax base and for some reason can't find any money anywhere.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 05, 2025 02:04 PM (D7oie)

655
For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days

USAF Mobility Command has C-130 training flights with space available running around the world every day.

I'm just sayin'

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 05, 2025 02:07 PM (y9nCu)

656 So if by week 3 we were shutting down all the money laundering services, I hope by week 5 Elon's guys have a thorough list of who needs to be jailed and bled of all their resources.

Just shutting things down punishes no one, and will just allow the libs to restart this suit next time they're in power. It also does nothing to try to start and make the US taxpayer whole.

Heck with tariffs, I think if 3-4 of Elon's autist get to work on the real reaping phase, I think we shave off half of our national debt.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 05, 2025 02:10 PM (OH2J3)

657 Lindsey Graham.....never struck me as a "Car Guy", who'da guessed?

Posted by: birddog at February 05, 2025 02:54 PM (YHRhT)

658 Florida and North Carolina need the real aid after the Hurricanes not the Terrorists the Antifa/BLM

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 05, 2025 04:13 PM (wGqjj)

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As USAID Is Shut Down, Politico's Checks to Its Employees Are Delayed.
This May Not Be a Coincidence -- USAID Is Funding the Anti-Trump/Anti-Conservative Propaganda Mill Politico.