The dems scream about Musk not being elected...ha...I am waiting for someone on our side to address the elephant in the room. For the last four years un-elected bureaucrats were running this country while Brandon was MIA.
I think he was on the ballot here in Utah too, but he was urging his followers not to vote for him in those states that were unable or unwilling to remove him from the ballot as a presidential candidate. I was more interested in him having some part in government rather than being President specifically.
It is incredible that a washed-up gangster that couldn't organize a pair of living room chairs supposedly got 81 MILLION votes. And he didn't even campaign. All he had going for him were the vote counters.
Yes indeed, good point. It is also true that Trump made it clear that Elon would be a major player during his term. So if the voter didn’t like that, he could vote for someone else.
Yes, but the silly old man is not playing a pipe organ, he's flushing gobs upon gobs upon gobs and more gobs of your money down all the various holes of what looks like a Roman military latrine.
An ordinary person, A.O.C. for example, goes from being a bartender to being a member of committees dealing with billions of dollars. In short, the billions are not real, they are just numbers on paper. She cannot even start to grasp what spending millions, billions or trillions is all about, just numbers.
They don't see or don't care that you and I will soon do our taxes only to find out we have to send the IRS just a little more.
They don't see any of this as problems. Why would they? They get incentived to create problems.
Debating if the committee is to have coffee or tea is put out as a questionnaire for the entire staff to answer before the next meeting.
Debating whether to allocate 15bn for a new nuclear reactor takes all of 15 minutes, since no-one on the committee has the technical, logistical or financial know-how to make an informed decision.
Debating what type of bike-shed is to be built on the grounds takes the entire afternoon, since everyone can understand the issue and input something, no matter how trivial.
Parkinson based his laws on empirical experience. That is something that can straighten my chest-hair, from sheer horror at the realisation that he was right.
The real problem is people who can't make wealth, and therefore don't understand it, getting access to unfathomable funds. It's like porch-haunters winning the lottery. They are destined to be poor because they have a poor mindset and don't understand the value of money. To be quote honest, I wouldn't put me in charge of the budget, either. That's why my husband takes care of it.
Whew read the link. Had to skim all the genealogy. If his point is that she's a product of evil rich and powerful inbreds and the Peter principle even applies to them...I'm on board lol. If his point is you need to know the names of all the evil doers, I personally believe the Bible is the authority on how this all ends and fortunately I only have to remember one name! 😜
I think it’s a lot more like Idiocracy, where this Greg douche is yelling at us not to water the crops with the stuff coming from the toilets, but instead use what plants crave - electrolytes.
Words don’t have to make sense, they just have to be spoken forcefully and with conviction/emotion. And like pigs to a trough, thoughtless young retards, who’ve had their brains damaged by expensive liberal arts colleges, bark along like seals “yeah!! Electrolytes are what plants crave!!”
I have the misfortune of living within Austin city limits. This fool, Greg Casar, was the City Council version of what he currently is. We breed and import the unthinking leftists here. His ilk has multiplied and now occupy City Council and, of course, the Soros supported DA. He was always an imbecile and still is, he just has a larger pulpit. It’s embarrassing.
It’s not nearly as benign as the Wizard of Oz. Funding opposition media with tax dollars, the whole globohomo/trans agenda, etc. I would feel marginally better if they had just taken all that money, put it in a huge pile, and set fire to it.
I hate saying i told ya so...but I've been saying from day one that maybe every day of our lives has been April Fools Day...but we just didn't know it until covid.
The Ds and the media are calling transparency a coup. NO, sorry....what we're uncovering is a 40 year slow-roll coup. THEY are the coup!
It appears Democrats, Never Trumpers and the Deep State are more concerned about Elon exposing their Corruption than the Corruption itself. This is simply the biggest money laundering scheme in the history of mankind. Apparently saving taxpayer money is an assault on democracy
Bet they wish they could go back and stop themselves from stealing the 2020 election right now. Im thinking we may need to have many special elections to replace all the Congressmen going to jail...or hell.
They have no idea what's hit them. Trump has basically ordered the Deep State to fight itself. What you're seeing is sheer terror of the unknown....they knowingly created, unknowingly.
The real fun will start when we find out who is on the payroll of these NGO's/"non-profits," since the "administrative" costs appear to be greater than the amounts reaching the "end -users." (Hint, and Surprise: they are largely aligned with/connected to those on the left side of the political spectrum.) In case you wondered what the kids, friends, and other relatives of Democrat politicians do for a living, brace for a real eye-opening!
ok, so is trump playing 5d chess, pitting globalist muskrat and the private cbdc bros against old entrenched deep state? like roosevelt trying to let stalin and hitler duke it out?
Exposing the Double Government is a big deal, it's how they've gotten away with making it possible to avoid changing policy regardless of elections - most people don't realize we have a huge unelected government - which makes far more laws (the Code of Federal Regulations) than the Congress (the United States Code). Go to a law school library and compare the size of both - the US Code fits in a single bookshelf, the CFR takes up multiple shelves in the stacks. And "National Security" is the tip of the iceberg: https://sites.tufts.edu/fletcheradmissions/files/2014/01/National-Security-and-Double-Government-by-Glennon.pdf and on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKsItbj49K0. It's how the Democrats control the government whether they win elections or not.
i'm sloooooooowly coming around on Elon. Let's see what takes shape over the next couple of months.
if he's corrupt to the core....well, then he's found the keys to the kingdom. if he doesn't succumb to the temptation then just maybe he's a net force for good.
Me too! But since Elon bought Twitter and exposed all the government misbehavior, it got my attention.
Consider:
1) Before buying Twitter/X he was a darling of the left because Tesla fit the left’s agenda. I had family members singing his praises like he was Christ’s second coming. Since buying Twitter he’s the biggest dumbass on the planet.
2). The gubmint’s support of Tesla and SpaceX made me instantly suspicious of him, although all the auto manufacturers took government subsidies for electric cars too. When Musk flipped the tables on the gubmint for interfering with freedom of speech, he perked my ears. He clearly put his relationship with the gubmint in jeopardy
3). By his efforts with DOGE and exposing the bad actors in the gubmint, I’m on board with him. The popcorn’s cooking and I’m waiting for his next move.
if brandon brought zuck in and gave him the keys to treasury, everyone would be howling with righteous rage. but when it's muskrat it's all kosher i guess
No mostly my ‘friends’ on FB never comment or ‘like’ the controversial posts…but any pics of my four year old grand nieces, my cat, me and my Aunt at her recent 94th birthday party, or the flowers in my garden, they love and like.
I feel I’m shadow banned a lot and they don’t even see this stuff on their feed. And if they did they won’t ‘like’ it.
I planned to go on 90 day 'media water fast' after the new year, but the LA Fires were too insane, then the inauguration...and these last 2 2/3 weeks have simply been too delightful to miss!
The schadenfreude I feel is so strong, but it must be from decades of having my face shoved in my own feces for wrong-think, wrong-act, wrong-man XY behavior.
They deserve ALL of what is coming. They behaved soooo poorly, so criminally, so arrogantly for so long, like there was never going to be any consequence for their actions.
The freakout is them realizing that reality is coming for them, and they have no where to hide.
How dare the American people finally be informed about where their tax money is going. That's fascism, I tell ya! Fascism! You know who did that? Hitler did that. And we all know how that turned out.
All of this transparency must stop or we'll lose our democracy. It's a slippery slope. Expose the funding of drag queen infiltration of the school system and the next thing you know we'll be counting the amount of USAID funding sent to major news outlets to advance the Russia hoax. Exposing a domestic coup by the CIA of a sitting US President is something the American people don't want to know. Trust me. This is Hitlerian stuff. Enough!!!
They don’t seem to understand that “they” have been busted and we have every right to be super pissed off. Their show of moral indignation almost borders on mental illness.
Mrs McF, their moral indignation ALMOST borders on mental illness? You’re so kind not to call out the fact that their mental illness is deeply entrenched and irreversible.
it's all they have left to fall back on. If folks read the chart Chris posted closely, following taxpayers' money being funneled through lord knows how many troughs, they--the Morally Indignant--would have to stop a minute and think. It may, in fact, come to that. Keep the. pressure on.
I just wasted an hour looking at the net worth of some random democrats in Congress. Opensecrets.com if you have an hour to kill. It might surprise that creepy clown in front of the blue screen that: Warren $8m (18th in Senate); Pelosi $115m (6th in House); Michael Bennet $15m; Blumenthal $57m (3rd). Two others for giggles: exHarris $8m; Gov Pritzker ($3.7 billion, billion with a B). So what? Um, looks like you're surrounded, buddy.
I’ve worked in Uganda for 16 years and I’ve been to probably 100 clinics, a few rural hospitals, a couple of Kampala hospitals (including one my son was in for 4 days with pneumonia). In all that time, here’s what I’ve seen of USAID: old, weathered posters on clinic walls about HIV/AIDS, malaria, and bilharzia; and plastic boxes mounted to the wall with condoms in them, courtesy of the US govt and USAID. They do have some nice snazzy white pickup trucks driving around doing nothing. Not a single health care worker much less paper pusher in site, ever.
What a revelatory three weeks it's been. Elon has turned over the rock and exposed the slippery, slimy ways that our tax dollars have been looted to promote terror, communism, and cultural decline around the world. I celebrate these real-time disclosures. But I also mourn that over decades we've allowed our government to make such fools of us.
Yeah, I highly doubt that amount of money was going to those "causes". This reaks of lining politicians pockets. Endless grift. My guess is most of our government is on the take. Lining their own pockets with taxpayers' money. But, yeah, the plebs must pay "their fair share".
USAID is tiny. Wait until they open the Defense Department books. Those gold-plated weapons that always run over budget and take much too long to develop don't work very well against a peer opponent, but some people are getting very rich selling them.
Very few federal employees have agreed to the offered buyout.
I'm looking forward to seeing how many fed workers will get pink slips after today without the 8 months' pay on the initial generous offer. I hope many, many are shown the door and that when they walk into the real world, are blinded by the light. and regain common sense and common kindness.
Every Ivy League university does the same buyout/pink slip exercise every year. And probably every other major university. And nearly every corporation.
A third of a Zoolander! You win the Internet today Chris!
I can't even imagine the brain trust Trump's had planning this for the last 4 years. I really think without the last 4 years of covid and Biden this would not be possible. God works in mysterious ways❤️🙏
The whole Gaza thing.... It's pretty apparent to the world now that none of the Muslim countries in the area want the Palestinians in their countries. Where's their sympathy now?
The pearl clutchers never learn and they take the Trump bait every time. He has a great way of pointing out absurdity and hypocrisy with a few words and some mean tweets lol. I think he should sign his tweets with " Meep Meep" the roadrunner instead of DJT 🤣🤣🤣
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
“…how much of American “foreign aid” leaks and spreads and passes through, leaving crumbs in the domestic NGOcracy and the narrative control apparatus?” We all know the answer. A lot. Where else, or how else, does it get funded without being overt? Do any of us really think “the powers that be” actually care about seed oils from female farmers in Ukraine? Or any of the other jaw dropping things USAID funds? It’s all just cover for what they really care about, making the tyrant class and their families rich and controlling “we the people.” We bear some responsibility for this… for falling asleep and failing to be vigilant of our liberty and birthright. And I’m as guilty of that as anyone. But, not any more. We have a country to save.
They say "Ignorance of the law is no excuse", but knowledge of the law is impossible. It's too big. The laws are bad enough, but the regulations are multiple times worse. Even lawyers and judges can't agree on what they mean and when they apply. The entire edifice should be burned to the ground.
And also, this clarion call of “ we didn’t vote for Elon”….hey, we didn’t vote for Fauci and yet, it’s not like he’s been harmless!!!
Exactly.
The dems scream about Musk not being elected...ha...I am waiting for someone on our side to address the elephant in the room. For the last four years un-elected bureaucrats were running this country while Brandon was MIA.
There is a small part of me that wonders if Biden’s doctors were messing with his meds…. That debate performance was beyond belief…
As one very, very experienced in "messing with his meds," I can absolutely assure you that Biden's doctors were..... and not just for the debate.
To try to help him or make him a babbling idiot? I would love someone to spill the beans on everything he was given and what all he has ….
What ever he was on most, (amphetamines I suspect) accelererated his decline.
In a small way I actually felt sorry for him being used.
However he is a scumbag criminal that deserves all of the consequences of his actions.
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Trump announced Elon and DOGE before the election. So we did in fact vote for this.
True. Same with RFK and MAHA… truth be told, I think Trump gained votes because of these two “agendas”
Speaking for myself, I actually voted for RFK, I just had to vote for Trump in order to do so.
Me too
RFK J was on the ballot in Commifornia, and I voted for him, not Trump.
I think he was on the ballot here in Utah too, but he was urging his followers not to vote for him in those states that were unable or unwilling to remove him from the ballot as a presidential candidate. I was more interested in him having some part in government rather than being President specifically.
Indeed he did.
And if you're going all-in for election fraud, we didn't vote for Brandon either.
It is incredible that a washed-up gangster that couldn't organize a pair of living room chairs supposedly got 81 MILLION votes. And he didn't even campaign. All he had going for him were the vote counters.
Still looking for the 6 million votes FJB got but Kamala didn’t….
Maybe because they didn’t let imaginary people vote this time?
"Incredible" exactly right.
All that aided in any way in the election fraud of 2020, vote counting, machine rigging,
forcing mail in olny.
Should be rooted out arrested and shot, after a fair trial.
Just as fair as Trump got.
There is nothing more damaging or deserving of the ultimate penalty. These cockroaches are as low as chimos
A whole lot of people did, because he wasn't Trump. Simple enough. The questions revolve around a handful of states, not the country as a whole.
That handful of states gave the country to Obama for his 3rd term.
We didn't vote for Biden in 2020 either lol
Yes indeed, good point. It is also true that Trump made it clear that Elon would be a major player during his term. So if the voter didn’t like that, he could vote for someone else.
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Fauci had credentials! In the land of the credentialed, that is what matters.
By violating the Hippocratic oath “ first, do no harm” cancels out his credentials.
The best example you could use!
It's a lot like that scene in the Wizard of Oz when they look behind the curtain and there's just a silly old man playing a pipe organ.
Yes, but the silly old man is not playing a pipe organ, he's flushing gobs upon gobs upon gobs and more gobs of your money down all the various holes of what looks like a Roman military latrine.
Here is the problem with government.
An ordinary person, A.O.C. for example, goes from being a bartender to being a member of committees dealing with billions of dollars. In short, the billions are not real, they are just numbers on paper. She cannot even start to grasp what spending millions, billions or trillions is all about, just numbers.
They don't see or don't care that you and I will soon do our taxes only to find out we have to send the IRS just a little more.
They don't see any of this as problems. Why would they? They get incentived to create problems.
Exactly.
It's Parkinson's Law of Triviality:
Debating if the committee is to have coffee or tea is put out as a questionnaire for the entire staff to answer before the next meeting.
Debating whether to allocate 15bn for a new nuclear reactor takes all of 15 minutes, since no-one on the committee has the technical, logistical or financial know-how to make an informed decision.
Debating what type of bike-shed is to be built on the grounds takes the entire afternoon, since everyone can understand the issue and input something, no matter how trivial.
Parkinson based his laws on empirical experience. That is something that can straighten my chest-hair, from sheer horror at the realisation that he was right.
"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy." -
Mark Twain. (Sorry for repetition, but it applies again here.)
The real problem is people who can't make wealth, and therefore don't understand it, getting access to unfathomable funds. It's like porch-haunters winning the lottery. They are destined to be poor because they have a poor mindset and don't understand the value of money. To be quote honest, I wouldn't put me in charge of the budget, either. That's why my husband takes care of it.
A.O.C. was astroturfed just like obomber was. i have issues with miles mathis but this is food for thought: https://mileswmathis.com/aoc.pdf
Whew read the link. Had to skim all the genealogy. If his point is that she's a product of evil rich and powerful inbreds and the Peter principle even applies to them...I'm on board lol. If his point is you need to know the names of all the evil doers, I personally believe the Bible is the authority on how this all ends and fortunately I only have to remember one name! 😜
That PDF reads like BS. AOC was a bartender, not a microbiologist.
She won a contest, among 10,000 contestants, put on by a democratic PAC dude. Probably some special skills involved.
I bet I can guess what "skills" they were, too.
This is an amazing piece of research!
Ryan, I’ve felt like I’m living Idiocracy since BHO became president!
Mike Judge isn’t a film writer/producer as much as he’s a prophet!!
Ryan Gardner— Exactly.
I always call AOC Alexa. It helps.
I think it’s a lot more like Idiocracy, where this Greg douche is yelling at us not to water the crops with the stuff coming from the toilets, but instead use what plants crave - electrolytes.
Words don’t have to make sense, they just have to be spoken forcefully and with conviction/emotion. And like pigs to a trough, thoughtless young retards, who’ve had their brains damaged by expensive liberal arts colleges, bark along like seals “yeah!! Electrolytes are what plants crave!!”
I have the misfortune of living within Austin city limits. This fool, Greg Casar, was the City Council version of what he currently is. We breed and import the unthinking leftists here. His ilk has multiplied and now occupy City Council and, of course, the Soros supported DA. He was always an imbecile and still is, he just has a larger pulpit. It’s embarrassing.
"spoken forcefully and with conviction/emotion"
The hallmark of AI no less.
If you don't have facts pound the table right? Lol.
This is far, far closer to the Truth for a much much larger number of people than anyone would be comfortable knowing for certain; myself included.
Are you saying plants don’t need electrolytes!!!!! How will they grow?
hahaha!
Why do I feel like our dividing wall is being dismantled. And we are the East Berliners.
And there's no need for the Stasi now we have Alexa.
Oh, its you. :)
It’s not nearly as benign as the Wizard of Oz. Funding opposition media with tax dollars, the whole globohomo/trans agenda, etc. I would feel marginally better if they had just taken all that money, put it in a huge pile, and set fire to it.
I hate saying i told ya so...but I've been saying from day one that maybe every day of our lives has been April Fools Day...but we just didn't know it until covid.
The Ds and the media are calling transparency a coup. NO, sorry....what we're uncovering is a 40 year slow-roll coup. THEY are the coup!
It appears Democrats, Never Trumpers and the Deep State are more concerned about Elon exposing their Corruption than the Corruption itself. This is simply the biggest money laundering scheme in the history of mankind. Apparently saving taxpayer money is an assault on democracy
Bet they wish they could go back and stop themselves from stealing the 2020 election right now. Im thinking we may need to have many special elections to replace all the Congressmen going to jail...or hell.
They have no idea what's hit them. Trump has basically ordered the Deep State to fight itself. What you're seeing is sheer terror of the unknown....they knowingly created, unknowingly.
The real fun will start when we find out who is on the payroll of these NGO's/"non-profits," since the "administrative" costs appear to be greater than the amounts reaching the "end -users." (Hint, and Surprise: they are largely aligned with/connected to those on the left side of the political spectrum.) In case you wondered what the kids, friends, and other relatives of Democrat politicians do for a living, brace for a real eye-opening!
ok, so is trump playing 5d chess, pitting globalist muskrat and the private cbdc bros against old entrenched deep state? like roosevelt trying to let stalin and hitler duke it out?
or just bringing a second fox into the henhouse?
Exposing the Double Government is a big deal, it's how they've gotten away with making it possible to avoid changing policy regardless of elections - most people don't realize we have a huge unelected government - which makes far more laws (the Code of Federal Regulations) than the Congress (the United States Code). Go to a law school library and compare the size of both - the US Code fits in a single bookshelf, the CFR takes up multiple shelves in the stacks. And "National Security" is the tip of the iceberg: https://sites.tufts.edu/fletcheradmissions/files/2014/01/National-Security-and-Double-Government-by-Glennon.pdf and on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKsItbj49K0. It's how the Democrats control the government whether they win elections or not.
dems are just pawns for the banksters and oligarchs. RINOs too, sadly
I had to memorize parts of the 40 CFR for my jobs. I also had to memorize parts of the IDR.
i'm sloooooooowly coming around on Elon. Let's see what takes shape over the next couple of months.
if he's corrupt to the core....well, then he's found the keys to the kingdom. if he doesn't succumb to the temptation then just maybe he's a net force for good.
we shall see......
Me too! But since Elon bought Twitter and exposed all the government misbehavior, it got my attention.
Consider:
1) Before buying Twitter/X he was a darling of the left because Tesla fit the left’s agenda. I had family members singing his praises like he was Christ’s second coming. Since buying Twitter he’s the biggest dumbass on the planet.
2). The gubmint’s support of Tesla and SpaceX made me instantly suspicious of him, although all the auto manufacturers took government subsidies for electric cars too. When Musk flipped the tables on the gubmint for interfering with freedom of speech, he perked my ears. He clearly put his relationship with the gubmint in jeopardy
3). By his efforts with DOGE and exposing the bad actors in the gubmint, I’m on board with him. The popcorn’s cooking and I’m waiting for his next move.
if brandon brought zuck in and gave him the keys to treasury, everyone would be howling with righteous rage. but when it's muskrat it's all kosher i guess
Its not 5D chess. Maybe 3D checkers or just Connect Four.
Historically political corruption is the norm, political transparency is the anomaly.
so muskrat is gonna give us transparency? just like he did with censorship at twitter, ok sure
That was under Dorsey, then Elon bought it, and then let Taibbi et al expose the Twitter Files. WTF r u talking about, bot?
Musk has acted in the interests of his investment there as much as in the interests of transparency. The Twitter Files are now past tense.
biggest so far...
I copied your comment and put it on my Facebook page.
i hope you don't get attacked by some rabid TDS'ers....:)
No mostly my ‘friends’ on FB never comment or ‘like’ the controversial posts…but any pics of my four year old grand nieces, my cat, me and my Aunt at her recent 94th birthday party, or the flowers in my garden, they love and like.
I feel I’m shadow banned a lot and they don’t even see this stuff on their feed. And if they did they won’t ‘like’ it.
Again, Bray at his finest.
I planned to go on 90 day 'media water fast' after the new year, but the LA Fires were too insane, then the inauguration...and these last 2 2/3 weeks have simply been too delightful to miss!
The schadenfreude I feel is so strong, but it must be from decades of having my face shoved in my own feces for wrong-think, wrong-act, wrong-man XY behavior.
They deserve ALL of what is coming. They behaved soooo poorly, so criminally, so arrogantly for so long, like there was never going to be any consequence for their actions.
The freakout is them realizing that reality is coming for them, and they have no where to hide.
bsn
The tsunami is here and these folks never even learned to swim. Maybe that Ivy League liberal arts education wasn’t such a good idea after all?
oh noesies...we're being treated like everyone else....oPpReSsIoN!
That comment is EXTREMELY correct!
Amen to that on the Ivy League Education!
How dare the American people finally be informed about where their tax money is going. That's fascism, I tell ya! Fascism! You know who did that? Hitler did that. And we all know how that turned out.
All of this transparency must stop or we'll lose our democracy. It's a slippery slope. Expose the funding of drag queen infiltration of the school system and the next thing you know we'll be counting the amount of USAID funding sent to major news outlets to advance the Russia hoax. Exposing a domestic coup by the CIA of a sitting US President is something the American people don't want to know. Trust me. This is Hitlerian stuff. Enough!!!
Whenever you see "our democracy" mentally replace it with "our grift".
The Dems have trademarked their Democracy™️
oh oh.
They don’t seem to understand that “they” have been busted and we have every right to be super pissed off. Their show of moral indignation almost borders on mental illness.
The Democrats actually found something they value more than abortion! Whodathunk!
Mrs McF, their moral indignation ALMOST borders on mental illness? You’re so kind not to call out the fact that their mental illness is deeply entrenched and irreversible.
LOL! I try to temper my words……
Moral narcissists will do moral indignation, over and over and over.
it's all they have left to fall back on. If folks read the chart Chris posted closely, following taxpayers' money being funneled through lord knows how many troughs, they--the Morally Indignant--would have to stop a minute and think. It may, in fact, come to that. Keep the. pressure on.
I got to watch little Greg when he was on the Austin city council. Calling him a paste eater is an insult to Ralph Wiggins.
I just wasted an hour looking at the net worth of some random democrats in Congress. Opensecrets.com if you have an hour to kill. It might surprise that creepy clown in front of the blue screen that: Warren $8m (18th in Senate); Pelosi $115m (6th in House); Michael Bennet $15m; Blumenthal $57m (3rd). Two others for giggles: exHarris $8m; Gov Pritzker ($3.7 billion, billion with a B). So what? Um, looks like you're surrounded, buddy.
Just lookin’ out for the poor foke !
I’ve worked in Uganda for 16 years and I’ve been to probably 100 clinics, a few rural hospitals, a couple of Kampala hospitals (including one my son was in for 4 days with pneumonia). In all that time, here’s what I’ve seen of USAID: old, weathered posters on clinic walls about HIV/AIDS, malaria, and bilharzia; and plastic boxes mounted to the wall with condoms in them, courtesy of the US govt and USAID. They do have some nice snazzy white pickup trucks driving around doing nothing. Not a single health care worker much less paper pusher in site, ever.
Thanks for sharing your firsthand observations! Where oh where dies all that money go, hmmm?
What a revelatory three weeks it's been. Elon has turned over the rock and exposed the slippery, slimy ways that our tax dollars have been looted to promote terror, communism, and cultural decline around the world. I celebrate these real-time disclosures. But I also mourn that over decades we've allowed our government to make such fools of us.
Yeah, I highly doubt that amount of money was going to those "causes". This reaks of lining politicians pockets. Endless grift. My guess is most of our government is on the take. Lining their own pockets with taxpayers' money. But, yeah, the plebs must pay "their fair share".
USAID is tiny. Wait until they open the Defense Department books. Those gold-plated weapons that always run over budget and take much too long to develop don't work very well against a peer opponent, but some people are getting very rich selling them.
I can only imagine. I sure hope they are able to continue exposing the criminal rot and corruption.
I think much of it went to undermining foreign governments.
Even the drag shows were designed to do that.
Elon found A slush fund. There are dozens more.
Dozens? My estimate was higher. 👍
Very few federal employees have agreed to the offered buyout.
I'm looking forward to seeing how many fed workers will get pink slips after today without the 8 months' pay on the initial generous offer. I hope many, many are shown the door and that when they walk into the real world, are blinded by the light. and regain common sense and common kindness.
Every Ivy League university does the same buyout/pink slip exercise every year. And probably every other major university. And nearly every corporation.
That’s because the majority of these gubmint fools know they can’t find employment anywhere else. They may be dumb but they ain’t stoopid.
some lib judge is trying to shutdown the buyout
A third of a Zoolander! You win the Internet today Chris!
I can't even imagine the brain trust Trump's had planning this for the last 4 years. I really think without the last 4 years of covid and Biden this would not be possible. God works in mysterious ways❤️🙏
The whole Gaza thing.... It's pretty apparent to the world now that none of the Muslim countries in the area want the Palestinians in their countries. Where's their sympathy now?
The pearl clutchers never learn and they take the Trump bait every time. He has a great way of pointing out absurdity and hypocrisy with a few words and some mean tweets lol. I think he should sign his tweets with " Meep Meep" the roadrunner instead of DJT 🤣🤣🤣
Casar; propaganda at it's finest.
The Five Rules of Propaganda
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
“…how much of American “foreign aid” leaks and spreads and passes through, leaving crumbs in the domestic NGOcracy and the narrative control apparatus?” We all know the answer. A lot. Where else, or how else, does it get funded without being overt? Do any of us really think “the powers that be” actually care about seed oils from female farmers in Ukraine? Or any of the other jaw dropping things USAID funds? It’s all just cover for what they really care about, making the tyrant class and their families rich and controlling “we the people.” We bear some responsibility for this… for falling asleep and failing to be vigilant of our liberty and birthright. And I’m as guilty of that as anyone. But, not any more. We have a country to save.
They say "Ignorance of the law is no excuse", but knowledge of the law is impossible. It's too big. The laws are bad enough, but the regulations are multiple times worse. Even lawyers and judges can't agree on what they mean and when they apply. The entire edifice should be burned to the ground.