Debt Rattle February 9 2025
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February 9, 2025 at 10:45 am #181763
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterRené Magritte Personal values 1952 • Trump Reveals He’s Spoken With Putin By Phone (Miranda Devine) • DOGE To Audit Pentagon (RT) • Judge Puts
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 9 2025]February 9, 2025 at 1:19 pm #181765Celticbiker
ParticipantRecycling as metaphor. It’s 1 big Illusion we dutifully participate in. Pretending, all the while, it’s real.
February 9, 2025 at 1:39 pm #181766poppie
ParticipantThank you for the news Ilargi. Winter turns to spring and the Pentagon audit starts. It hopefully follows the USAID pattern of one thing leads to another. It probably already has traction or we wouldnt hear about it..
February 9, 2025 at 2:18 pm #181767those darned kids
ParticipantFebruary 9, 2025 at 2:31 pm #181768Noirette
ParticipantDBS posted, prev. The USAID scandal is not handled until the Zionist/AIPAC control of USAID is broken …… and that’s not even close to happening yet. Our Executive Branch is chock full of Zionists/AIPAC loyalists. (…)
They intend only to take down the other side’s use of USAID money and power, and fully intend to keep the rest of that juice for themselves. What they intend to use that juice for is the zillion dollar question that’s foremost in everyone’s minds.
Yes. The US-Isr relation is symbiotic in its money-churning, back to US pols and others. But the upper hand is held by the US, as Trump showed the world when he said Isr. would give Gaza to the US. Re. your q., well we will have to see.
Further. DBS. I suppose that it’s possible that Israel is the greatest friend that the United States ever had. (…) But I would sure love to see some tangible evidence of what they have ever done for us that earned them that much friendship. What have they given us? Hollywood? The USS Liberty? (…) If it’s a reason that we can’t actually see then I reckon that it’s a reason that we don’t yet know about. I just have to wonder what that reason is.
Kicking in some open doors, you know all this DBS, Isr. was set up by GB and then taken over by the US as a small but VITAL ‘foothold’ ‘outpost’ ‘landing station’ adjacent to the ME, to act as a disruptor, a potential threat to Arab States (plus others like Iran), an emissary if one wills, a perpetual thorn in the foot of the regional powers, creating strife, doing violent excursions (‘war’).. taking sides, preventing any agreements, keeping going the issue of the Palestinians, etc.
Isr. fulfilled its ‘mandate’ to remain viable, sweet money flowing to the PTB and its ‘citizens’ and that all continues to this day!
At some point such a system cracks and breaks down. The vassal isn’t ‘getting the job done’, isn’t performing right, etc. The ppl who live there clumsily turn against their Gvmt. and many leave. Enemies make inroads, etc.
Being a ‘friend’ of the USA is a perilous position. Isr (imho) is getting close to some ‘crisis.’
February 9, 2025 at 2:32 pm #181769zerosum
ParticipantDid you bring enough popcorn
critics of Doge
Not talking about what has been found.
Not asking for proof.
Not asking to see “follow the money”.
Accusing Doge of doing wrong/illegal/audits and reducing bureaucracies… with no proofs or authority
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Now it’s easiest dept., USAID.
Hard dept audits are coming, the Pentagon and the Department of Education, US President Donald Trump has confirmed. The newly authorized audits come in line with a broad push to slash public expenses.
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• Judge Puts Brakes On Trump’s USAID Purge (RT)
• Judge Blocks DOGE’s Access to Sensitive Treasury Records (ET)
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• USAID or SorosAid? How US Tax Dollars Fund Chaos Worldwide (Sp.)• USAID Funded Massive ‘News’ Platform, ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ (ZH)
https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/wikileaks-drops-bombshell-about-usaid
Wikileaks Drops Bombshell About USAID and “Internews Network”
As bad as revelations regarding USAID’s media manipulation have been, the latest drop from Wikileaks is the biggest yet.
JD Rucker
Feb 07, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internews
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https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1888072129327083979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1888072129327083979%7Ctwgr%5E6af78fac8b4faf52711c19fd85e8f2955b829d76%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F02%2Fdebt-rattle-february-9-2025%2F
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“..an agency gone rogue, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on inane programs, refusing to answer basic questions from congressional committees, and actively undermining the foreign policy goals of the United States.”• How USAID and Its $50 Billion Budget Became a Target for Reform (ET)
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February 9, 2025 at 2:42 pm #181770zerosum
ParticipantFor more entertainment see
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/mainstream-media-boost-independent-media-which-depend-on-us-assistance.html#more
and the commentsFebruary 08, 2025
Mainstream Media Boost ‘Independent’ Media Which Depend On U.S. Assistance
———–February 9, 2025 at 3:04 pm #181771Dr D Rich
ParticipantWhat?
~250 words
nominally 8 paragraphs
Not one mention of ‘Jews’Dbs must be gratified to have expanded her readership.
…..and you conclude “Isr.” is in danger from the United States even after the entire world just observed Bibi Netanyahu cockblocking President Butler Trump all over the White House.
February 9, 2025 at 4:01 pm #181772Michael Reid
Participant”
USAID is a Deep State Trojan Horse
”February 9, 2025 at 4:28 pm #181773D Benton Smith
ParticipantAll of that Color Revolution shit that the USA has been doing to foreign countries since George Washington was in short pants, was made legal during the Obama regime to be done to American Citizens inside the United States borders. This was under the guise of being necessary for “National Security” reasons, and thus legal to hide from the public under the 1947 National Security Act.
Now you know what a Color Revolution feels like on the receiving end.
Trump’s regime aims to cut off its adversaries access to that apparatus, but they also 1000% intend to retain access to it for themselves. That’s what all of those bright and shiney new data centers and Forensic Financial A.I. are all about.
My view is that it’s fine with me if they use one-half of the apparatus to kill off one-half of the monster that is devouring us. BUT DO NOT FORGET for even a minute that they intend to turn that apparatus against us the INSTANT that we try to restrict their access to the money and power that resides in that weapon. Kings will be Kings, ya know?
February 9, 2025 at 4:29 pm #181774Dr. D
ParticipantI can’t tell and also don’t care, but apparently they’re floating that Trump was killed in that Blackhawk and has been replaced by a Derp State body double. Darn body doubles!!! That’s the third one this week! No I’m not kidding: on that side of the internet, this is DJT3.0, as he was ALSO killed in the 80s. And we’re on Putin 11, Bill Gates 5.0, etc.
I’m like, sure, why not? Biden is the wrong height this week. But you have to show me something, anything! Extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence. Like the underground kids, organs, all that, sure! That’s not beyond my imagination. But you can’t show ANYTHING. 10, 20 years, still not ONE accident? No one ANYWHERE stumbles into one? Just accused every day and although we can see the levels they throw at, no one ever uses this evidence – that everyone at the top apparently knows – to, I dunno, impeach?
That goes for Cheeto and his own supposed Epstein tape. Because they have him dead to rights on camera, they then do NOT ever find this tape and use it to stop him? Riiiiiiiight. Because as we’ve seen, we’re not at that level yet. Not up to making things up in court, assassinations or nothin’.
Okay, put a pin in all that as – I believe it LESS than ever as each day LESS evidence floats up over time – and focus on why “We Make S—t Up!” WHYYY, would you “Make S—t Up” about Trump 3.0, or 5.0, or whatever Skrull/clone wars we’re on now?
Clearly they’re losing, they need pressure off the reveal. Like cockroaches they can only live in the dark, hiding from us monkeys, and they HATE it. They want to be OPEN, and FREE with their trans/pedo blood drinking murder parties. It’s all good! You can’t judge! But they can’t have this come out because the second everyone knows how the magic trick is done, we stop it. Like said here: courts turn around and say “No you can’t reveal DOGE”. Oooops! Everyone already knows, you want to vote for that Senator? Trust Politico, BBC? They need to hit back.
But with what? Cheeto has punkd them into taking a swing 10,000 times until they are out of 777 shells for 15 years. Supposedly that plane had the latest Coof 2.0 or Marlberg precursor on it. But since they’ve wrested intel agencies from the Black Hats (or set up beachheads) and there’s worldwide surveillance, they can’t move anymore without being caught. So what CAN they still do?
Lie. Well, you can always lie. If you can breathe, you can lie! Lie often, lie always! Sow dissent and doubt. Now Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy do the monkeys ALWAYS always believe them? Jesus I don’t know. When you come back please tell us. But they do. So PART of the “Elon is actually running the country, who is AFRICAN (Oooooooh!) and an IMMIGRANT (Oh noes!!!)” is that Trump is now compromised. He’s Derp State stooge: can’t support him now! Just look at his Gaza Plan! Clearly they’ve a-got ‘im. So WHILE they are putting their idiot minions into a lather the likes of which I’ve never seen, apparently to point them at “Random murder spread widely” but like, 22-year old 110lb white chicks with purple hair (how DARE you shoot me!) they ALSO need all support for Trump/Elon to drop.
That’s what they got, and it’s not a CORE plan, for the masses, it’s the FRINGE plan, for the deranged ultra-far, sooper secret MAGA. But cutting all support from the rabid Right is key to keeping them on the benches if something happens.
Booooor-inggggggg. So sick of this s—t. Like, I have a Dream. My dream is that someday, someone, somewhere, Left or Right, Man or Woman, Animal or Mineral, will ask for EVIDENCE, of anything. And until then won’t act on anything and calm the f—k down. ‘Cause Monday, I guess. By Thursday the story will be on Trump 9.0 as 5 body doubles were on the same powerboat which was sunk by a UFO drone from McMurdo. Again.
Anyway, things we can see: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-blitzkrieg-through-the-institutions
“In a matter of weeks the left’s entire world has cracked apart at its foundations. They did not just lose an election – they lost everything. Comfortable life-long sinecures, the gushing river of fedbux feeding their subversive projects at home and abroad, the sheltering concealment provided by bureaucratic obscurity … all of it, abruptly, seemingly without warning, has evaporated. The pace of events has frozen them in shock,”
“A federal judge has temporarily barred the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington’s primary vehicle for funding political projects abroad, from putting thousands of employees on paid leave.”
Huh whut? The Judge says THEY GET PAID EITHER WAY, but they have to show up to work? But we already KNOW they don’t have to show up to work: 25% of DoE didn’t log in remotely and no one cares. So the Judge is saying NOT ONLY are they getting paid either way, but the President can’t … tell them anything, I guess. You see: the Employees tell the PRESIDENT when they feel like working and when they won’t, what they feel like doing when they arrive and get paid either way.
“the second one says DOGE can’t access “personal financial data of millions of Americans”. Both cases run until Feb 14. “
Again, this one says, “The government can’t have the government’s data.” Huh??
“(4,291 media outlets …more than 95% of IN’s budget has been supplied by the US government. “
You can see why he couldn’t break through the media last time.
“The outrage is ironic, considering the same voices now wailing about Musk’s alleged control were silent while Joe Biden spent four years clearly not running the White House.”
On social media, if you mention this, it’s as if it’s never said, doesn’t register in the slightest. They have no idea what you’re talking about any more than if it was Swahili. You could probably jump up and down, say it over and over again, get an air horn and confetti balloons and still have no reaction. P.S. “DOGE” and Elon, work for the President. It was known. He AUTHORIZES his power, which is what Executives do, they DELEGATE. Again, all of this works because their Meta-foundation is that the GOVERNMENT runs things, and is not made of people. The GOVERNMENT is Daddy, and Trump is just some guy seated nearby.
“Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and their friends appear to be the top money laundering recipients”
Speaking of, this is where they blew a hole in the Clinton Foundation scandal, day after day, books, box trucks of paper evidence…nothing. I dunno, 2, 4, 10 years? As if it never happened. Still, even now. Meh, whatevah.
“• The Rise and Rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (ET)
Apparently they’re taking quite a whacking about RFK because he’s what earthy-crunchy remaining Democrats, and even certain Liberal normies are like, “Why would I not want health and to look at records?” But the DNC is violently siding with billionaire pharma and it costs. Why? Just for donations? Yes, but no. Because if they find out what ALREADY happened, not the Future of happened. Covering PAST crimes, not future donations.
Let’s take one: they (Warren) says if RFK gets in, every company will be shut and there’ll be no vaccines worldwide. Huh. That’s odd, Liz. So what you’re saying is, you DEFINITELY KNOW they committed crimes, and when they open the books or lift the (illegal) exemption, that they’ll lose so many Class Action suits they’ll be out of business. That’s odd.
…Because the only other way that reads is that they’ll open the books, find out Pfizer is a wonderful, clean, safe, healthy company, and nothing will happen to them.
As you can tell, this is now so ingrained, the DoubleThink, it’s getting hard to even pick up. Or pick up as fast as it’s water-cannoned at us.
“• Trudeau Warns Trump’s Threat To Annex Canada Is ‘Real Thing’ (RT)
Confused. No it’s not. Why would he say that? Like, whether it is or isn’t Whoever does Justin’s thinking for him is going to pick a lie to tell. And they picked that it’s real? When it’s real it’s A) Trump therefore isn’t crazy B) It’s legally or practically possible so we should consider it. Huh?
For example, if you were France, you’d say “F— no Germany can’t annex us! That’s never going to happen in 1,000 years.”
“But the law does not permit Apple to delay complying during an appeal.”
Uhhhh…then what’s the point? That’s like not delaying an execution, but still allowing the appeal. Whoops, you won! Sorry about your death.
“The Prime Minister of Japan gave President Trump a super special gift called the “Eternal Helmet,”
It will go well with his God King Emperor suit.
From Time Mag yesterday: Owned by “Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025, Says Marc Benioff. (AI) …is the chief executive of cloud-based software company Salesforce.; Benioff worked at Oracle (Larry) for 13 years. So same 10 people, over and over.
““When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”” Frank Herbert.
February 9, 2025 at 4:45 pm #181775D Benton Smith
Participant@DrDRich
You and @Noirette are not actually that far from agreeing with each other, it’s just that Noirette has grasped the wider (and more discerning) view. It is not necessary (in fact it is more than a little bit distracting) to call out the “Jews” by name, because a bad guy does not have to be Jewish to play a dominating (or even “high up”) role in the “Blob”, Cabal, Zionist, Globalist, Satanist (etc, etc etc).
I am also well aware that there are many people on this forum who sincerely believe that the top of the Blob is Jewish. I am well aware of the trove of sound evidence that they believe “proves” their point.
Let me misquote an old Yiddish joke, in a darkest of humor way, to make a valid point: “You don’t have to be Jewish to be evil, but it helps.”
Long story short. The top of the blob isn’t Jewish, but many of them (Khazars all) claim the name Jew as a means of hiding who they REALLY are, and so that real Jews will suffer the consequences when the jig is up.
February 9, 2025 at 5:05 pm #181776my parents said know
ParticipantI’m guessing that Chemonics pretended to be shipping drugs (NO! You can’t open that container or you’ll ruin the drugs!) when in fact it was shipping those palettes of cash we heard about.
February 9, 2025 at 5:15 pm #181777D Benton Smith
ParticipantSomething seems to have restimulated the darker hemisphere of my humor. Trump’s offer to “own” Palestine reminds me of an old Irish Joke.
It seems an Irishman comes to Confessional and reveals that it was himself who stole O’Leary’s hay stack the night before. The priest interrupts him at that point and says, “Hold on a moment. Everyone in the Parish knows that .only half of O’Leary’s haystack was taken.” To which the Irishman replies, “That’s true enough, Father, but I’m going back tonight for the other half.”
The US/UK/Zionist Blob stole the first half of Palestine in 1948. Now they’re going back for the rest of it.
February 9, 2025 at 5:56 pm #181778jb-hb
ParticipantI absolutely LOVE the judge saying: “No! Treasury does not run Treasury! Your title is purely ceremonial. Go back to cutting ribbons with giant scissors or checking woodchucks for weather forecasts while wearing a tophat!”
Oh, so WHO DOES run Treasury? WHO DOES run USAID then? The various health acronyms? If the President doesn’t run them – WHO DOES? (we already KNEW the President does not run the Executive branch – Look at Biden and Kamela)
Great! It’s a “coup” for the elected President to even do his job. Good to know. Who’s our boss then? What’s the form of government? What’s its constitution or process documents or whatever? Explain what rule is being broken and show it to me, where it is written – just want to learn here. Be in compliance, honest. We value your feedback.
It’s already centralized. 2020 proved this. In fact, not just centralized within the Executive branch, but across entities concerning widely different subject matters and of different types – govt, ngo, corp, private citizen.
Only question now is will the Executive branch be centralized under the President or centralized, together with EVERYTHING ELSE, under… well, we refuse to tell you.
February 9, 2025 at 6:01 pm #181779those darned kids
Participantwe’ll know if it’s a trump body double if he stops speaking english as a secondary language.
February 9, 2025 at 6:05 pm #181780kultsommer
Participant“Welcome to the Executive Presidency”.
Lucky is the country ruled by the “Good King” and we all have our own opinion who that was or is on the World scale.
As for the USA, in my HO, that would have been RFK if allowed to rule outside of prescribed protocol.Trump, just assisted Bibi with the chair. At the small screen I was not sure what I am looking at but hoped that “assisted gentleman” was a, maybe, an army veteran in visit with the special request.
Any other leader he would do that for?
But… an act is “so outrageous” that leaves a space for the “5D-chess-hope”.February 9, 2025 at 6:05 pm #181781D Benton Smith
ParticipantUSAID runs the government, and who runs USAID is now the question on the table. CIA? Certainly so, but it’s COMPLICATED.
February 9, 2025 at 6:11 pm #181782those darned kids
Participantanother warp speed holocaust victim: https://www.app.com/story/news/local/western-monmouth-county/manalapan/2025/02/07/manalapan-death-rabbi-levi-wolosow-chabad/78330922007/
February 9, 2025 at 6:12 pm #181783Oroboros
ParticipantUSAID
NASCAR on the Potomac
February 9, 2025 at 6:13 pm #181784Oroboros
ParticipantFebruary 9, 2025 at 6:14 pm #181785John Day
ParticipantOmniwar In Progress https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/omniwar-in-progress
David Hughes has one of his excellent video interviews, with full transcript here, from November 25, 2024, tracing the lines of fascist oligarchy forward from the 1920s to the present, and into the future, which is already happening, but he didn’t expect Trump-2 to be much different from Trump-1, so it is kind of entertaining that way. It is hard to tell how these well laid plans for the Great-Reset will play out now.
Interview with Ken Shino, November 25, 2024 The Omniwar symposium; the relevance of the Nazi era to the present; the IT/Bio/Nano era; “Covid-19” as a military operation; George Kennan; 1968 and global consciousness; NATO; academia’s failings https://dhughes.substack.com/p/interview-with-ken-shino-novemberMeryl Nass MD, I was thinking about writing a post titled something like, “Trump is using a sledgehammer against globalism, and I don’t think globalism will survive.” But Aleksandr Dugin beat me to it. Please give Trump time. He is trying to save your children’s lives.
So, gentle readers, we are fighting for our lives and our health. Maybe it took a President whom the Deep State fought with all its might and finally attempted to assassinate when law fare did not do the job—to be willing to risk it all to change things and turn us back to a path of freedom. Maybe it was necessary to ignore some niceties. A sledgehammer is the only thing the Deep State/ Global cabal understands.
There is much we do not know. Will we get an electronic control mechanism snapped into place under the guise of managing illegal immigrants aka undocumented individuals who were invited into the US to improve the prospects for Democrats in elections. And perhaps for other reasons.
Will the ethnic cleansing of Gaza be brushed under the rug? Simply to create a new French Riviera for fun and profit? Somehow, I don’t see that. Trump had no power to affect Gaza prior to January 20. He claimed to be 100% for Israel—but immediately forced a ceasefire. He says many things he does not mean, for strategic purposes or otherwise. He demanded Netanyahu come to DC shortly after Bibi’s prostate was removed, while still in recovery, to give Bibi a message. We don’t know what that message was. Can we wait to find out, while Trump is doing the job that not even RFK would have been able to do: ending the corruption and rot at the center of the American Empire—in which no nation was safe from a US-instigated regime change.
Please give him some time. Like RFK, Trump is risking his life to reconstruct our nation and hopefully we will get something in the end that more closely resembles what our forefathers created. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/darn-i-was-thinking-about-writing 2 Decades Ago, A Senator’s Probe Of USAID Funding Led To Government Transparency Reform
Nearly 20 years ago, in October 2005, the refusal of USAID officials to admit they were funding a prostitution ring in India so angered Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) that he vowed to introduce a new law enabling every U.S. citizen with the internet to quickly and easily find out how federal officials are spending his or her tax dollars. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/2-decades-ago-senators-probe-usaid-funding-led-government-transparency-reformI’m not sure how accurate this is: CONGRESS FUNDED $516 BILLION IN **EXPIRED** PROGRAMS! https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/insane-congress-funded-516-billion-in-expired-programs
February 9, 2025 at 6:15 pm #181786Oroboros
ParticipantThe Hill
Totally owned subsidiary of USAID
February 9, 2025 at 6:15 pm #181787Oroboros
ParticipantFebruary 9, 2025 at 6:15 pm #181788John Day
ParticipantThe forensic accounting AI is just way too fast and accurate…
Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Admin Officials’ Access To ‘Sensitive’ Treasury Records, Cites “Cybersecurity Risk”
A federal judge has temporarily barred the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run by Elon Musk, from accessing the personal financial data of millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department...
..The injunction specifically prohibits President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from granting access to records containing personally identifiable or confidential financial information to political appointees, special government employees, or any other employees from outside of the department. The White House has designated Musk a special government employee.
Under the order, only those working at the Bureau of Fiscal Services and have passed background checks may access those records in order to do their job.
The judge further ordered any person among those whom he restricted to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.” A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Feb. 14...
..The decision was made after 19 state attorneys general sued the Trump and Bessent after DOGE was given access to the Treasury records…
..“Defendants’ new expanded access policy poses huge cybersecurity risks” that put “vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril and endangers the [personally identifiable information] of States’ residents whose information is stored on the payment systems.” … ..Musk responded to the controversy Saturday, saying in a post to X:
To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
– Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.
– All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!
– The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored...
..The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!
Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.
When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obama-appointed-judge-blocks-trump-admin-officials-access-sensitive-treasury-records Jim Kunstler, How It Worked… Pam Bondi is going to be a busy girl.
The DOGE has uncovered a government racketeering operation of which the USAID scandal is but one cog in a colossal engine of grift. What the public, including you readers, may not appreciate is how much planning went on over the past year to mount the DOGE effort, and how comprehensively the work of its many hundreds of computer techies (not just six whiz-kids) has laid bare the money-trails out of previously impenetrable government computers. Their algorithms have pierced the firewalls, revealing decades of fraud and deceit.
Mr. Trump’s cabinet officers have started the job of dismantling the machine by getting rid of the employees who set it up and worked for it. By Thursday, Secretary of State Rubio, fired all but 300 of the 10,000 people working for USAID. CIA Director Ratcliffe offered the agency’s entire workforce a “deferred resignation” option that will allow them to bail out and still collect their salaries until September. Look for straight-up firings to ensue. Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the acting FBI director to terminate eight senior FBI officials and asked for a review of up to 5,000 involved in J-6 investigations. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-it-worked The number of workers who have decided to accept the buyout offer from the Trump administration has risen by about 25,000, according to a White House official, with some 65,000 government employees now having signed up for the offer. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/more-government-workers-accept-trump-admin-buyout-offer-official-says
USAID Funded Massive ‘News’ Platform, Extending ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ To Billions Worldwide
WikiLeaks published the bombshell report in the overnight hours that shows the massive taxpayer-funded state propaganda network – operating as a shady NGO – called “Internews Network”:
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/usaid-funded-massive-global-state-propaganda-news-matrix-nearly-billion-people-reachA little more time should make it legal. Judge blocks Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on leave and giving them 30-day deadline
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, also agreed to block an order that would have given the thousands of overseas USAID workers the administration wanted to place on abrupt administrative leave just 30 days to move families and households back to the U.S. on government expense. Both moves would have exposed the U.S. workers and their spouses and children to unwarranted risk and expense, the judge said. https://apnews.com/article/usaid-foreign-aid-trump-rubio-48f8460804d33bdaa18d7765c4b24f9eFebruary 9, 2025 at 6:16 pm #181789jb-hb
Participant‘Red Line’: Trump’s Gaza Takeover Plan Has United The Arab World More Than Ever
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/red-line-trumps-gaza-takeover-plan-has-united-arab-world-more-everTrump’s controversial calls for the US to ‘takeover’ the Gaza Strip is for the first time in many years uniting the Arab world and its leadership more than ever.
United enough to do something about it? I mean, anyone other than Yemen?
United to stand around being embarrassed and humiliated going along with it LIKE YOU WERE ALREADY DOING?
Nothing has changed in what is is planned for Gaza because of Trump – except we’ve been provoked to imagine ethnic cleansing PLUS golf courses, shiny skyscrapers, and lots of gold trim and heavy velvet drapery.
Also got all the neighbors to screech “WE WON’T TAKE THEM” instead of skulking around evasively but still not taking them.
Epic trolling highlights several dead giveaways, all for the price of adding way too much gold trim to the plan that is current and was there all along.
Are the Dems responding to the Trumpian re-branding of Gaza in kneejerk fashion or are they curiously not doing the characteristic fighting tooth and nail? I haven’t checked NPR yet. Curiously silent on it, I am guessing, despite the easiest, softest pitch ever given them in their lives? Too busy defending $$$ for free tranny comics to sexualize grade schoolers in Brazil?
The H1B Twitter Christmas War of 2024 exposed Vivek and knocked him out of DOGE, pulled the entire issue, all its details, into the public eye, and probably changed US H1B visa policy significantly. All just by epically trolling on Twitter.
February 9, 2025 at 6:16 pm #181790John Day
ParticipantTrump Nukes All Govt-MSM Contracts After Politico Firestorm, Will Axe 97% Of USAID Staff https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-nukes-all-govt-msm-contracts-after-politico-firestorm-will-axe-97-usaid-staff
Hungary moves to expose USAID funding https://swentr.site/news/612360-hungary-orban-ngo-crackdown/
Why Trump’s assault on USAID could change US foreign policy forever
The president’s offensive against America’s ‘state within a state’ marks the end of an era. By Timofey Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Club
As the United States grapples with its internal divisions and reassesses its global role, Russia must continue to assert its interests while remaining vigilant against attempts to destabilize its neighbors. The lessons from USAID’s failures are clear: true influence comes not from manipulation but from fostering genuine partnerships. https://swentr.site/news/612319-why-trumps-assault-on-usaid/ Now We Know Who was Running the Country for Joe Biden
Speaking with podcaster Shawn Ryan, she painted a picture of dysfunction at the highest levels of government: “After the [CNN] debate, Hunter basically commandeered the White House. He sat in on all of the White House top-level meetings. We had a former cocaine addict sitting in on the most sensitive meetings of the most consequential and most important government in world history. Does that sit right with you?”
Ryan’s immediate reaction—“No”—reflected what many are surely thinking. “Without security clearance mind you,” Li added.
The idea that Hunter Biden, with no security clearance, was allegedly dictating the flow of information to his father is a much bigger deal than Elon Musk going after government waste, don’t you think? https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/08/now-we-know-who-was-running-the-country-for-joe-biden-n4936803Trump Revokes Biden’s Security Clearances, Intel Briefings Citing “Poor Memory” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youre-fired-trump-revokes-bidens-security-clearances-intel-briefings-over-poor-memory
February 9, 2025 at 6:17 pm #181791John Day
ParticipantHow much credence should be given here? Trudeau warns Trump’s threat to annex Canada is ‘real thing’ – media
The Canadian PM believes that the US president wants the country’s mineral resources, the Toronto Star has reported
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been caught on a hot mike telling businessmen that US President Donald Trump is not joking when he talks about absorbing Canada, the Toronto Star newspaper has reported. https://swentr.site/news/612379-trudeau-trump-canada-us/ Russia might agree to pay for Ukraine’s rebuild if the EU just stays out. Trump To ‘Force’ Zelensky To Agree On Ceasefire By Easter According To Alleged Leaked Peace Plan
The Trump administration is seeking to end the war within 100 days.
”The unconfirmed plans, reported by Ukrainian outlet Strana, have been doing the rounds in ‘political and diplomatic circles’ in Ukraine, and will include a ceasefire by April 20 that would freeze Russia’s steady advance, a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO, and a demand for Kyiv to accept Russian sovereignty on annexed land.”…
..On top of these alleged key aspects.. a ban on NATO admission, freezing the front lines, and agreeing to Russian sovereignty over the four annexed territories in the east… Ukrainian troops will be made to leave Russia’s Kursk region, where it launched a counteroffensive in August, while a contingent of European soldiers, which could include British troops, would be asked to police a demilitarised zone. American troops will not be involved in this contingent.
The EU will reportedly be asked to assist Ukraine in its reconstruction efforts, which may cost as much as $486billion (£392billion) over the next decade according to the German Marshall Fund thinktank.
The plans will reportedly begin with a phone call between Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in early February, a meeting between the two warring leaders in late February to early March and an official ceasefire declaration of a ceasefire by April 20.
A declaration on the agreed parameters for ending the war would then be released by May 9, after which Kyiv would be asked not to extend martial law or mobilize troops. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-force-zelensky-agree-ceasefire-easter-according-alleged-leaked-peace-plan Trump says he ‘will probably’ meet Zelensky next week
Addressing the press during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House on Friday, President Trump said: “I will probably be meeting with [Vladimir] Zelensky next week.” He added that talks would most likely take place on US soil, as “I’m not going there.”
“And I will probably be talking to President Putin. I’d like to see that war end,” Trump said, adding “President Putin and I have always had a good relationship.” https://swentr.site/news/612361-trump-ukraine-zelensky-talks/Trump reveals he’s spoken with Putin by phone, says Russian president ‘wants to see people stop dying’ in Ukraine war https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-and-putin-in-talks-to-end-the-russia-ukraine-war/
Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine were wins? US ‘will lose the next war very badly’ – Musk
The nation faces the risk of major defeat in future conflicts without immediate reforms to outdated weapons programs, the tech billionaire has warned
“American weapons programs need to be completely redone. The current strategy is to build a small number of weapons at a high price to fight yesterday’s war. Unless there are immediate and dramatic changes made, America will lose the next war very badly,” Musk wrote on X...
..Musk’s critique also extended to specific defense programs. He has been particularly damning of the F-35 fighter jet program, labeling it a “sh*t design” and advocating for a shift toward unmanned systems, which he believes are more effective and economical in modern combat.
Speaking at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York in February, Musk emphasized the transformative impact of drones and artificial intelligence (AI) on warfare, citing the Ukraine conflict as a prime example.
“The current war in Ukraine is very much a drone war already,” Musk noted. “If there’s a major power war, it’s very much going to be a drone war.” He called for increased investment in drone production and a significant acceleration in manufacturing, warning against the pitfalls of preparing for past conflicts instead of future ones. “Countries pretty much are geared up to fight the last war, not the next war,” Musk cautioned. https://swentr.site/news/612323-us-will-lose-next-war/February 9, 2025 at 6:17 pm #181792Oroboros
ParticipantJust the Facts Ma’am’
Just the Facts
February 9, 2025 at 6:18 pm #181793Dr D Rich
ParticipantYou turned The Gift of Discernment on top of its head, upside down, back n forth and inside out to where there’s no meaning.
Without true discernment, there’s still statistical methods to aid the blind. Those statistical methods prove time and again the association.
Association isn’t causation, you’d say. Then we have the courts AND there they are, all Khazars I suppose, to run interference like you. And you never tire of it.The Gift of Discernment is very rare.
I know only two instances of it.
Colonel Joe Fagan child psych recognized it in a 3rd year med student one hour into that student’s 1st patient interview on his 1st clinical rotation.
Captain Kevin Greason CT Surgeon The Mayo Clinic noticed it twice in the same colleague and saved a life, but the delay in trusting that colleague cost the 4yo patient the unimaginable suffering of abdominal retention sutures for several days.At least, Kevin Greason could be reasoned with, Joe Fagan not so much.
Who would want to use that gift to make money off people?
February 9, 2025 at 6:18 pm #181794John Day
ParticipantNobody else has been able to… DOGE to audit Pentagon
The US departments of defense and education are next in line for budget reviews, President Donald Trump has confirmed https://swentr.site/news/612378-doge-audit-pentagon-trump/A useful starter-war: Border Czar “Expects” Kinetic Warfare Between US Troops & Mexican Drug Cartels https://www.zerohedge.com/military/border-czar-expects-kinetic-warfare-between-us-troops-mexican-drug-cartels
Old-fashioned: Ayatollah Shuts Door On Negotiations With US After Trump Restores ‘Maximum Pressure’
“First, negotiations with the US have no effect on solving [Iran’s] problems. The reason? Experience!” Khamenei said on Friday. He explained that during the Obama presidency, “we sat down and negotiated with the US for about two years, and an agreement was formed. In this agreement, the Iranian side was very generous and gave many concessions to the other side.”
During Trump’s first term, he unilaterally pulled the US from the ‘bad’ JCPOA nuclear deal, which happened in April 2018 – after which a “maximum pressure” campaign was imposed on Tehran. Trump this week revived this pressure campaign via ramped-up sanctions.
Khamenei continued, “But the US did not carry out that agreement. The same person who is now in office tore up that agreement. We must learn from this experience.”
He then emphasized, “One must not negotiate with a government like the US government. Negotiations with it is not wise, it is not intelligent, and is not honorable.”
Many critics of Trump’s Iran policy back in 2018 warned that the Iranians would never be able to trust Washington again if a deal to end the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is dangled in front of Tehran. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ayatollah-shuts-door-negotiations-us-after-trump-restores-maximum-pressureIt’s not feasible. Trump Envoy Demands Hezbollah Be Booted From Lebanese Govt In ‘Red Line’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-envoy-demands-hezbollah-be-booted-lebanese-govt-red-line
Lebanese PM forms new government including Hezbollah allies
Despite interventionist statements from White House officials urging the exclusion of Hezbollah from the government, the Lebanese resistance secured the representation it initially sought https://thecradle.co/articles/lebanese-pm-forms-new-government-including-hezbollah-alliesFebruary 9, 2025 at 6:19 pm #181795John Day
ParticipantSyria’s New HTS Government Clashes With Hezbollah On Lebanese Border In First
For the first time since Assad’s ouster in early December, Syrian Army under the new Islamist government of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have entered areas of Hermel, Lebanon, resulting in fierce clashes with Hezbollah fighters.
The border breach came amid internecine fighting this week along the border, which Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported as involving “artillery shelling and heavy machine gun fire on the town of Jarmash on the city of Hermel’s northern border with Syria.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/syrias-new-government-clashes-hezbollah-lebanese-border-first Israeli army warns displaced Lebanese not to return to south
Army says its forces still deployed in southern Lebanon after deadline for withdrawal was extended https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-warns-displaced-lebanese-not-to-return-to-south/3474295 Israeli forces strike Lebanon’s East, South, in ceasefire violation
Israeli aircraft launched several strikes on areas in Eastern and Southern Lebanon, in continued violation of the ceasefire agreement. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-violate-ceasefire-strike-lebanon-s-east–sout Turkish Officials Say Military Bases in Syria Being Considered
Details are still emerging on what this might look like, and thousands of Turkish soldiers are already reported to be operating on Syrian soil, mostly targeting the Kurdish SDF. Turkey has recently threatened invasion if the new Islamist government of Syria doesn’t eliminate the SDF. https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/06/turkish-officials-say-military-bases-in-syria-being-considered/Limited hangout ignores IDF killing concertgoers & Jewish settlers: Gallant admits ‘Israel’ used Hannibal Directive during war on Gaza
Former Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant admitted the army used the Hannibal Directive during the war, killing several of their captives in Gaza. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gallant-admits–israel–used-hannibal-directive-during-war-oFebruary 9, 2025 at 6:21 pm #181796Oroboros
ParticipantBush League the Lesser
How could Duh’merica have put up with this Royal Douche Baguette?
February 9, 2025 at 6:22 pm #181797John Day
Participant Netanyahu suggests Palestinians can have a state in Saudi Arabia
The Israeli prime minister’s statement is the latest slap in the face of the normalisation process with Riyadh, which has just condemned a US proposal to displace Palestinians https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-suggests-palestinians-can-have-state-saudi-arabia66 Palestinian bodies retrieved from sand mounds built by Israel in Gaza https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250206-66-palestinian-bodies-retrieved-from-sand-mounds-built-by-israel-in-gaza/
US approves sale of $7.4 billion in bombs, missiles to Israel
The US said the billion-dollar weapons sales to Israel will help its ally ‘meet and deter current and future threats’ and ‘strengthen’ its defence. https://www.newarab.com/news/us-approves-sale-74-billion-bombs-missiles-israel US Coordinated With Israel on Strikes in Gaza Knowing Hundreds of Civilians Would Be Killed
The US coordinated closely with Israel on massive strikes in Gaza on residential buildings, knowing that more than 100 civilians would be killed even though Israel didn’t have precise intelligence about the location of a Hamas commander it was claiming to target, the Israeli outlet 972 Magazine reported on Thursday.
The report also detailed how Israel weaponized deadly carbon monoxide gas released by conventional bombs underground to kill Hamas commanders hiding in the tunnels, and in some cases, the gas killed Israeli hostages. https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/06/us-coordinated-with-israel-on-strikes-in-gaza-knowing-hundreds-of-civilians-would-be-killed/ Gaza authorities warn of looming crisis as rainwater, sewage floods out displaced civilians from tents
Nearly 88% of Gaza’s infrastructure destroyed by Israeli onslaught, according to local authorities https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/gaza-authorities-warn-of-looming-crisis-as-rainwater-sewage-floods-out-displaced-civilians-from-tents/3474070February 9, 2025 at 6:23 pm #181798John Day
ParticipantSevere cold, floods put Palestinians in Gaza at grave risk: UN
Relentless overnight rain, as per the agency, inundated tents and shelters across northern and southern Gaza, further worsening the humanitarian crisis for forcibly displaced Palestinians, many of whom are forced to live among the ruins of their destroyed homes…
..”This has resulted in sewage overflow in several areas that flooded streets and mixed with rainwater in collection basins,” he added.
The spokesperson also noted that the ongoing electricity and fuel shortages are intensifying the crisis, preventing municipal authorities from effectively managing the flooding.
It is worth noting that the death toll in Gaza has risen to 47,583, with 111,633 people injured since October 7, 2023, according to the latest daily statistical report. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/severe-cold–floods-put-palestinians-in-gaza-at-grave-riskNetanyahu thanks Trump for sanctions against International Criminal Court https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/netanyahu-thanks-trump-for-sanctions-against-international-criminal-court-3698177
Trump Admin Wants to Resettle Gazans in Somalia https://defconnews.com/2025/02/07/trump-admin-wants-to-resettle-gazans-in-somalia/
Meryl Nass MD has another way to cut federal spending: I am worried about the bird flu caper. Here is some ammo to fight back: a USDA spreadsheet on 1188 farms that depopulated 100 million chickens, ducks and turkeys using a variety of cruel measures
$841 million paid for the culls up to last July–with over 50% more birds culled since then https://merylnass.substack.com/p/i-am-worried-about-the-bird-flu-caper Meryl Nass MD, CDC has issued a bulletin requiring hospitals to test for bird flu (H5N1) so they can find human cases and start the vaccine rollout
Was this the idea of Gerald Parker, DVM, former Fort Detrick, One Health proponent, just appointed to head the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/cdc-has-issued-a-bulletin-requiringFebruary 9, 2025 at 6:24 pm #181799Oroboros
ParticipantEven the Average Joe is connecting the dots
February 9, 2025 at 6:24 pm #181800John Day
Participant Jessica Rose Ph.D. Reports Of Autopsies In VAERS And Associated Adverse Events Linked To Cause Of Death
A new study sheds light on cause of death with respect to COVID-19 shots
Conclusions: The large decrease in reporting rate of autopsy as a percentage of death reports, combined with the large increase in absolute counts of autopsy reports in the COVID-19 IP context indicates that there is an unexplained void in the data with regard to autopsy reports. This corresponds to known de-incentivization to perform autopsies during the COVID-19 era due to the alleged danger associated with SARS-CoV-2. A large percentage of autopsy-linked VAERS reports in the context of the COVID-19 IP are linked to myocarditis, cardiac arrest and PE, and suggests that the COVID-19 IPs are deterministic for death due to myocarditis, cardiac arrest, and PE. Confirmation of this theory can, and should have been obtained by way of autopsy. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/reports-of-autopsies-in-vaers-and-de3I hope mine is just a soda-straw worth: Microplastics Found In Brain Weighs As Much As A Plastic Spoon: Study https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/microplastic-found-brain-weighs-much-plastic-spoon-study
“Recycling” Makes Plastic Pollution Worse
Many municipal recycling programs simply encourage people to toss all their RIC-stamped plastics in the bin and let the recyclers sort it out.
Which ones do recyclers actually want? The most-recycled plastic in America is stamped with a “1,” identifying the item as polyethylene terephthalate (PET). You’ll find it on beverage bottles, cooking oil containers, and many other liquid-containing bottles. A “2” tells you it’s high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Another generally recycling-suitable plastic, it’s used for milk jugs and laundry detergent jugs, and spray-cleaner bottles.
It’s all downhill from there. Chances are your bin has plenty of #5 — polypropylene (PP) — which is frequently used for single-serve coffee-maker pods; yogurt, butter, prescription pill and soft tofu containers; and the lids on paperboard raisin cartons. Unfortunately, while there’s been a modest recent uptick in recyclers’ interest, polypropylene generally isn’t being recycled in the United States...
..The public’s falsely favorable perception of plastic recycling has been deliberately cultivated. Knowing consumers are increasingly concerned about the environmental impact of their purchase decisions, plastic manufacturers and product-packagers are quick to say a package is recyclable — failing to differentiate between plastics that are technically recyclable and those that are actually being recycled in practice...
..To a great extent, America’s entire recycling regime is the creation of the companies that profit from plastics. Staring down the barrel of proposed plastic bans in the late 1980s, big oil and chemical companies created The Council for Solid Waste Solutions, which funded municipal-recycling pilot programs...
..Greenpeace bluntly declared in a 2022 report that concisely summed up plastic recycling’s empty environmental promise:
“Mechanical and chemical recycling of plastic waste has largely failed and will always fail because plastic waste is: extremely difficult to collect, virtually impossible to sort for recycling, environmentally harmful to reprocess, often made of and contaminated by toxic materials, and not economical to recycle.”…
..Despite more than a generation of effort, only 8.7% of plastic waste is being recycled in the United States, according to the EPA’s most recent data, compared to 68.2% of paper and cardboard and 50.4% of aluminum…
..In 2018, China effectively slammed the door shut on the import of plastic trash. However, other developing countries stepped up; among them, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Predictably, the same terrible practices that caused China to change course are being observed in these countries too, with processors extracting the “good stuff” from piles of unsorted plastic and putting the rest wherever they feel like it.
Just as the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, it turns out the plastic “recycling” stream may ultimately deposit your #5 yogurt tub or #1 blueberry carton into an Asian river, and then the Pacific Ocean...
..“Americans support recycling. We do too,” wrote former EPA administrator Judith Enck and Last Beach Cleanup founder Jan Dell at The Atlantic. “But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never work.” https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/recycling-makes-plastic-pollution-worse On a scale of One-to-Bitcoin: Indoor Marijuana Ops Are Consuming a Staggering Amount of Energy
Indoor marijuana growing operations in the U.S. use more energy than all outdoor agriculture combined.
The high energy consumption is due to lighting, temperature control, and the current legal framework requiring in-state production.
Despite awareness of the issue, no significant action has been taken to reduce the marijuana industry’s energy footprint. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Indoor-Marijuana-Ops-Are-Consuming-a-Staggering-Amount-of-Energy.htmlFebruary 9, 2025 at 6:37 pm #181801Oroboros
ParticipantThe Duh’merican Pedo Intel Maggots® probably have a video of the ‘judge’ stopping Trump from eviscerating USAID banging a five years old then cutting their heat out and eating it live on camera.
Trump better deal with the ‘judge’ problem.
Most Empire of Lies ‘judges’ are pervertsThey are the absolutely worst of the legal ‘profession in Duh’merica.
They fucked all the other lawyers in their turf to climb the greasy blood soaked pole to the top of their racket.
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.February 9, 2025 at 6:44 pm #181802Oroboros
ParticipantRINO Removal
I hope it’s painful
Track them down, kill their USAID funds
They will squeal like little stuck bitches
Heavy Pig Sticker Mortise ChiselHey, there’s a tool for that!
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February 9, 2025 at 6:52 pm #181803jb-hb
Participant“Welcome to the Executive Presidency”.
Lucky is the country ruled by the “Good King”
“Hitler” is a worn-out husk. Nothing to it anymore. King IS the new thing. Word has already come down.
NPR – Comparing Trump to biblical kings troubles some people of faith (oh yeah, that’s all I hear when I am out and about – and was there a danger that NPR listeners would EVER hear this comparison or be swayed by it? Uh…. or because NPR listeners don’t go to church, you can tell them ANYTHING is happening at church?)
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5247691/some-religious-leaders-liken-trump-to-biblical-figures-the-comparison-concerns-othersNYT – ‘The Return of the King’: Trump Embraces Trappings of the Throne
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-president-king.htmlVOX – Trump is already acting like a king
https://www.vox.com/on-the-right-newsletter/397120/trump-federal-spending-grant-pause-cutoff-democracy‘In the United States, there is no king’: AAUP sues Trump over attacks on DEI
https://www.highereddive.com/news/aaup-NADOHE-lawsuit-trump-dei-attacks-there-is-no-king/739242/NYT – Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out
“Mr. Trump won the election fair and square, but his position is that of president, not king or god-emperor. Every time Congress allows him to exceed his constitutional role, it encourages more anti-democratic behavior”NYT A Constitutional Crisis? We’re covering an imbalance of power in the government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/briefing/a-constitutional-crisis.html
“What went wrong: The framers wanted to avoid crowning another king. They believed that no one person could truly represent the whole country.” (another?) -
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