DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20250204 ❀ Tuesday Placeholder ❀ Thank You, American Air Travel

We continue to mourn the untimely passing of our beloved compatriot DePat, known in real life as Susie Sampson, and also as author Patricia Holden.

Until we have a dedicated author for the Tuesday daily open thread, I will be posting “placeholders” like this one, which may or may not be spiced up with additional content.

Gudthots will take DePat’s old Thursday daily open thread.

Please notify me in advance if you would like to post anything in lieu of the Tuesday placeholder. We welcome all content – the topic doesn’t matter.

W


Addendum: Some Details

First of all, the boilerplate.

By reference, I call to incorporate the rules spoken of in any of Deplorable Patriot’s recent posts, such as her final one.


With that settled, I reiterate……

A call for weekly open-thread authors on Tuesday.

Your submissions only need to be scheduled at 12:01 AM on Tuesday.

The titles need to include the following:

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread YYYYMMDD ❀ [whatever you want after that]

There is no commitment to do this every week. But if you want to do a Tuesday post, just let me know in advance.

We do have a very thin guideline post of basics in the sidebar, shown here:

Looking forward to somebody picking up DePat’s Tuesday sword.

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Addendum: An Open Letter In Praise of the American Air Travel Industry

This is just a quick message of THANKS to some people who are sadly undergoing a lot of scrutiny and criticism right now, and who surely could use an “attaboy” and some “kudos”.

You see, sometimes – including recently – I have had to deal with “foreign” airlines of various kinds.

Foreign airlines can actually be quite excellent. Some of them are charming. Some of them are extremely enjoyable to fly on. Some of them are very attentive, and can really help make a trip overseas quite memorable. There are several foreign airlines that I love for different reasons.

HOWEVER.

If you deal with foreign airlines long enough, you are bound to run into their dark and highly inefficient sides. They will sometimes do stuff that just boggles the mind.

In particular, their technology is usually just problematic. Or to be fully honest, it sucks. Big-time sucks.

  • websites will crash
  • websites will drop your session and forget you were ever there
  • representatives will put you on hold and lose your call
  • the company will forget to bill you
  • flights will simply disappear from itineraries
  • picking seats will cause itineraries to malfunction
  • calls to customer service will cause itineraries to vanish
  • confirmation numbers will vanish
  • the same data will have to be “saved” over and over again – and then gets lost anyway

I recently had to deal with an airline that was absolutely no problem the last two times, during the last several years – but THIS TIME – OMG – what an absolute disaster. Dozens of hours arranging things – lost. KAPOOF! Gone. Vanished. So call customer service. Get it all fixed. Everything done. Waiting for the bill. No bill.

And then it all just disappears again.

Just an absolute waste of my time.

SO – because I was short on time – I decided to try something different. I attempted to re-book the trip using an American airline company.

The experience was just overwhelmingly positive. I managed to get almost the entire itinerary of foreign flights that we had before – but this time, everything went perfectly, and we were done in minutes, not hours. No tech errors AT ALL. Billed immediately. All the minor things we needed – DONE.

The websites functioned perfectly. All the international bullshit – DONE.

After all the CRAP we had put up with, it was a PLEASURE dealing with American airline tech – which could sell us foreign flights better than the foreigners could sell them to us.

So I just want to say THANK YOU to the American air travel industry for restoring my faith in air travel. Y’all done good!

W


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TheseTruths

Why we need to dismantle the Department of Education:

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

The reproductive organ of the State (Marshall Fritz).

Aubergine

This article, written by a substitute teacher, is harrowing. Read it this morning:

“It comes as no shock to most people reading this that the state of education in this country is more dismal than ever before. As just one example, according to The Nation’s Report Card website, just 30% of American public-school 4th graders are proficient in reading according to government standards as of 2024, which is two points lower than 2022.

As a rookie in the field of education, I have recently experienced these failures first hand. I had begun to substitute teach. Most positions have been aide positions, which have allowed me to observe the modern American classroom up close and personal, and I am sorry to report that the findings are disturbing.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/the_kids_are_not_alright.html

para59r

More on that. Shocking even when you know it already.

https://twitter.com/DrEtiquette/status/1886562829555343563

Out of 53 public schools in Illinois, not one student is proficient in math at grade level. The Department of Education has failed our children and must be abolished.

Aubergine

Stunning, isn’t it?

Aubergine

Of course it does! Asshats.

GA/FL

Department of Education+Teacher’s Unions+Affirmative Action+DEA+ uncaring, ignorant, immoral, ungodly parents = poorly educated children.

gil00

I checked the middle schools in my district. 53% proficiency in grade level math. Less than that at grade level for reading. Higher than that for one telling detail….about 60% on government assistance.
We live in a recently former magnet district that was mostly white(slim margin). Not a chance in hell my kid can go to public school.

Aubergine

That is atrocious!

gil00

Yes it is. We moved here 11 yrs ago for the district and the area. Lots of apts built since then. Lots. Guess what happened…

TheseTruths

not one student is proficient in math at grade level.

I don’t know what the problem is. Do the students have low intelligence levels? Are the teachers not presenting material at their grade level? Do the teachers themselves have low intelligence? I’m not up to speed on how things are being taught, but when I was in school, the material was presented through a textbook, handouts, and the teachers’ explanations. The students did the work, learned, and moved on.

If time is being taken away from school work to focus on social issues, that would be inappropriate and problematic, but parents should have been up in arms about that years ago. If student misbehavior is interfering with the learning environment, that also should have been brought to the fore. I just don’t know how it could be so bad.

TheseTruths

I just read the American Thinker article. Teachers appear to be the problem, at least in that person’s experience. So yes, the DOEducation is failing miserably.

Gudthots

I have a friend that’s a junior high math teacher. During Covid he had to do all of it over video. Mostly, only 3 out of the entire class showed up (on video!) or did the work.

gil00

I made kiddo read it. Tired of the whining for what he does, at grade level and above. Its still easy but hes being lazy about writing well. His dad wants him out of homeschool for “social reasons.” I can only smack my head on the wall so much.
Told kiddo stop complaining or these will be his cohorts.

Aubergine

Yikes! Good for you! I’m glad I found it, if for this purpose only.

gil00

Ive been telling him about the stories in the news. Hes seen things. Understands the rainbow dilemma, to a point. Am i the perfect teacher? No. Could i make him do more? Yes. Im not trying to burn him out either. He enjoys sneak binge reading books and legos still. And cartoons.
Hes in taekwondo and starts tennis this week. Theres a lego store he can go to events at.
He absolutely doesnt need public school influence.

TheseTruths

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

DOE is just as unconstitutional as DOPE.

Other than the bit that manages our nuclear arsenal.

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Gudthots

Which seems to belong to national defense anyway.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Yes, it does.

But I suspect they wanted to make sure the military didn’t have ALL power over nuclear weapons. So they put that function somewhere else.

In the distant past (as in the first few decades of the Constitution) the State Department was the grab bag for everything that didn’t obviously belong under another department; now of course there are so many other departments that all the miscellaneous functions have found another home. State seems to do diplomacy, passports, and protocol, all basically “Foreign Affairs” type things and in fact it could even be renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs for all of me (but there might be things I don’t know or realize so I can certainly be persuaded otherwise).

Under Washington, in fact even the MINT was under the State Department, but that was primarily because Jefferson had had a big hand in designing the monetary system, and Jefferson was Secretary of State. Or maybe, it was deliberate separation to keep Hamilton from getting ALL power over finances.

TheseTruths

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4GodandCountry

I hear Trump’s new SS nickname is “FAFO”.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

LOL.

The custom in the past has been to give everyone in the First Family names starting with the same letter, so Melania’s would start with F also.

I guess FAFO could apply to her too, but they can’t use it if they’re using it on PDJT.

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4GodandCountry

In 1st term, Melania’s informal SS nickname was “Rapunzel”, reportedly given to her because she rarely left the White House, which was referred to as her “tower” by those protecting her. This info comes from Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary, who detailed this in her book, I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House. Her formal nickname was “Muse”.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Ah…OK we have formal and informal.

Perhaps they simply stuck with the M names formally; and FAFO is informal.

Wikipedia actually has a page for this, which has no separate listing for Trump 47, but has the info for Trump (45). I think it might be the same.

4GodandCountry

(beep) “FAFO is moving” (beep)

(beep) “FAFO is entering the building” (beep)

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

*beep* FAFO is about to make sure someone Finds Out *beep*

4GodandCountry

*beep* “FAFO is leaving” *beep*

*beep* “WTF?! We just got here!” *beep*

*beep* “Uh huh. They F’dAFO.” *beep*

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Alison

used to be ” he broke them”

now it’s “he fafoed then”

#Covfefe

gil00

LOL. Snort….

kalbokalbs

That funny.   :wpds_lol: 

scott467

Wait… I thought yesterday Canadia claimed there was no fentanyl going from Canadia into America, and today it’s so bad they’re appointing a fentanyl czar?

Those drug cartels must have moved into Canadia overnight!

scott467

“launch a Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering.”

_____________

Why “joint”?

So they actually have to do something, they’ll have to with Americans on the team, instead of just flapping Chrystia Freeland’s gums about it while doing nothing 😁

TheseTruths

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Happy go lucky

I didn’t vote for Fauci

kalbokalbs

Perhaps the first honest case. Fauci, Won’t Be Able To Walk The Street.

Without federal limousine service AND federal security, that little asshole Fauci, won’t be seen much.

pgroup2

Next step – yank his pension. Maybe clawback his salary.

Why?

Because he wasn’t working for the USA. He was working for the benefit of private enterprises, including himself. There is no authority in the constitution for the Treasury to disburse funds under those conditions. Therefore, those funds he received were obtained under the false pretense that he was performing a service for the benefit of the United States.

Those funds still belong to the U.S. Treasury.

Gail Combs

AND do not forget all the FINES that go with that.

scott467

Exactly. Shove it up every hole they have.

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TradeBait2

All the best to Darren and the team at Revolver. Thank you for your service to America.

4GodandCountry

Godspeed, patriot. And sincere thanks for many jobs extremely well done.

cthulhu

On the subject of our dear De Pat.

The Memorial Mass is still scheduled for this coming Saturday, according to Lupton —

https://www.luptonchapel.com/obituary/susan-sampson

While streaming may happen, I have no details.

You may also request (there is likely some donation involved) that a mass mention her name pretty much anywhere in the world — it’d be nice if it had some personal connection (like you, personally, could attend it — or if it is at a church where her family could attend). It wouldn’t have the eulogies or the congregation of her “official” Memorial Mass, and must be done a respectable time afterward, but it is something. Traditionally, a card is printed with the details by the church and forwarded to the decedent’s family by the sponsor.

4GodandCountry

I heard from the family last night.

Sadly, after investigating the possibility, it was learned there is no capacity for streaming a service at St. Roch.

What I can share is this…

Susie and I spoke at great length of a great many spiritual issues and matters. Among these, we agreed that it was almost a certainty that memorials were for the living, not those who have passed beyond the physical reality we are currently stuck in. Susie would say she has passed beyond such things, and seeing and/or attending a memorial for her would be for the benefit of that person, not her, as such a thing now lies BEHIND her cares and concerns.

For her, carrying a love for and memories of her in one’s heart is more than enough…and a memorial service pales by comparison.

So….for those concerned….be at peace. Susie is.

And this is more than enough for the highest of praise and gratitude to the Most High, who holds the power of life and death in his righteous hand.

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Alison

Thank you FG&C. I appreciate how active you have become here once again.

DPat is a good echo in my head whenever I’m here at the tree. Thought earlier today how nice it must be for her to have a wide lens on all MAGAland right now. Her view/vision surpasses even Elon and his techies 👍✝️

Valerie Curren

Amen!

gil00

My next door neighbor died 2 days before turkey day from cancer. 60 yrs old. He told his family to have a party a couple months after he died. A real nice one. Thats their plan.

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Valerie Curren

That’s kind of young, was he a shot casualty do you think?

cthulhu

It would have been nice to hear eulogies from those who knew another side of her, but we’ve been doing our own eulogies here in cyberspace.

Gudthots

I could not be happier.
@BehizyTweets

BREAKING: El Salvador and the United States have agreed on a plan to hold some of America’s worst criminals in El Salvador’s CECOT, considered the least “FUN” prison in the world. Let’s see how the thugs of Chicago, Atlanta, New York, LA, etc, enjoy the vacation there.

Behizy-US-prisoners-to-elSalvador
cthulhu

This benefits the prisoners because they will be able to hear “hands against the wall, spread your legs, no talking” in Spanish during cell searches.

Cuppa Covfefe

Wonder if they’d take Faust-Xi and Satan Sauros (and clan)…

4GodandCountry

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TheseTruths

Publius:

The Clinton Foundation raked in Millions from USAID.

In 2010, USAID managed $4.4 billion for Haiti under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Clinton Foundation was a significant player in those Haiti “efforts”.

Where did the money go?

GA/FL

To the Clinton Family?

patfrederick

awww…you stole my answer…LOL

patfrederick

oh…I know…pick me…
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TheseTruths

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scott467

Organized crime… in the name of the Lord?

Hard to figure how that’s going to go over well at the Judgment.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Historically speaking how much of all religion is grift?

No one should expect expect that someone won’t make Christian-sounding noises for the same purpose.

TheseTruths

Since religious organizations are run by people, who can be tempted to sin and disobey the law, then sadly the possibility that they will turn to grift always exists.

No one should expect that someone won’t make Christian-sounding noises for the same purpose.

It parallels with other organizations and proposed laws. Slap a name on it that sounds righteous when, often, it is doing the opposite of what the name conveys.

Get the right people in government (PDJT and crew) and things will get cleaned up as much as possible. Get devout people to run Christian organizations, like (now-excommunicated!) Archbishop Vigano and others, and they will adhere to their stated purpose. Sadly, those people are few and far between.

4GodandCountry

God has amply warned all, and at length, of his thoughts on this topic, and the position he will take on the matter in the time to come.

No one will be able to credibly say “I did not know.”

Why?

Res ipsa loquitur

Cuppa Covfefe

Not forgetting the GangGreens and the GAIANs…

TheseTruths

The migration grifters are well-represented across all major faiths!

Yes. It is a mankind-wide problem.

scott467

“Since religious organizations are run by people,”

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Then let’s start there.

Is the ‘religious organization’ in question found anywhere in God’s Word?

If it’s not, then by what Authority does it exist or do even one single thing in the name of the Lord?

Any court in America could decide this easily and put an end to all the bogus religious nonsense (as far as organizations that self identify as ‘Christian’ are concerned) in our country.

The judge could simply say to any self-identified ‘Christian’ organization applying for any kind of government subsidy or grift handout: “Show me where your church is found in Scripture, and if it isn’t, then show me the deed of transfer document where the church you are now a member of was authorized to change from how it was called in Scripture.”

That will end the case right there, because any church that is following God’s Word won’t be applying for government subsidy in the first place, and any false church that is applying for government subsidy won’t be able to pass the most basic logic tests or hurdles. There is no ‘transfer document’ authorizing anyone to change how the Lord’s church is called, and if the organization (or its ‘sponsoring church’) are not referred to in the same way as found in Scripture, then who are they, and by what claim do they identify as ‘Christian’?

If anyone thinks the Left is going nuts, having all their government grift exposed by DOGE, we haven’t seen anything compared to how all the false churches would react if they were exposed and held accountable to their own highest Authority, the Word of God.

Because the Lord’s church is very specifically referred to repeatedly in Scripture, called the church of God (most often), the church of the Firstborn, and the church of Christ, also sometimes referred to by geographical location (“the church which is at Cenchrea”, see Romans 16:1), or by geographical location and ‘church of God’, e.g. “the church of God which is at Corinth”. (cf. 1 Corinthians 1:2, KJV).

The Lord’s church was established in the 1st century (Acts chapter 2), it is referred to from Acts chapter 2 onward throughout the New Testament, and it is called in such a way that it glorifies the Father or the Son.

Church of God (Acts 20:28, 1 Corinthians 10:32, Galatians 1:13, 1 Timothy 3:5, etc.)

Church of the Firstborn (Hebrews 12:23)

Church of Christ (Romans 16:16).

The ‘of’ denotes ownership, i.e., church of Whom? Of God.

And no organization called by some other way has any deed of transfer or other document Authorized by God to change how His church is to be called, in order to glorify some one or some thing other than God or His Son.

But suppose the church in question meets that first hurdle, it is called after the same manner given in Scripture.

The next thing the Judge should say is “There can be no higher Authority in your religion than God, so the next item to be established is this: where is the Authority in God’s Word to receive this subsidy or these funds from any government or other source outside of your own church?”

That’s the end of the line, because there isn’t any such Authority, it ain’t in there.

If they claim to be a Christian organization, all any judge has to do is hold them to the plain text of the highest Authority of their own professed belief system.

It could not be more simple.

It would take less than 3 minutes from the time they entered the courtroom to the time the case was dismissed.

You’re done, get out.

Move on to the next case on the docket.

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scott467

“No one should expect expect that someone won’t make Christian-sounding noises for the same purpose.”

___________

Very much true.

Which is why it is not just important, or just a good idea, it’s critical that the congregations of the Lord’s church know and are familiar with the Scriptures, to be able to compare what the men who lead them say and do, to what God’s Word actually says.

The Bereans didn’t even take Paul only on his word, they checked the Scriptures daily, to verify the things Paul said were so. And they were praised for doing so, and that praise was recorded in God’s Word for all time, for an example to all who followed.

………………
“And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. [11] These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:10-11, KJV, boldface mine)
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If Christians actually do that — as they ought to be instructed and taught to do by the leadership of the congregation — then how can they fall prey to a false teacher?

How can they fall into apostasy?

How can they do anything contrary to God’s Word, which the worldly churches all around them do?

The leadership ought to more concerned about doing wrong than anyone, because it is their responsibility to shepherd the flock, and not lead them into a ditch.

And knowing they themselves are susceptible to temptation, they rely on the congregation being knowledgeable in the Scriptures, to bring any errant doctrine or questionable teaching to the leadership’s attention.

And you can be sure they do exactly that, at least in congregations that hold God’s Word as their highest authority.

Where is the Authority in God’s Word to take in funds from any source besides the membership of the congregation or from another congregation, if the recipient congregation is in need? (e.g., Paul taking up a collection from the saints at Macedonia and Achaia to deliver to the saints at Jerusalem):

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“But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. [26] For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.” (Romans 15:25-26, KJV)
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None of the churches of Christ in the 1st century were being subsidized by the Roman government, or engaging in social engineering nonsense, or spending even one talent or shekel of church funds on anyone who was not a member of the Lord’s church.

Charity toward those outside the church was a personal act of giving by church members to the poor and needy. Church funds were always used to edify the church members, for teaching and spreading the gospel (and supporting preachers), for relieving needy saints and widows.

Everything is in God’s Word, by command, example or necessary inference.

So long as we have book, chapter and verse for whatever is done in the name of the Lord, we cannot go wrong.

It is not complicated, or even very difficult, it’s really fairly simple, far more simple than the ever changing and ever increasing doctrines, commandments and traditions of men.

……………
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” (1 John 5:3, KJV)
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But it does require commitment until it becomes routine and habit, which in turn comes from understanding how important it is — because it is so easy, as we observe so often in the churches around this world, to be led astray.

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patfrederick

ok…i’m not savvy with all the abbreviations. what’s a UEI? (and if you’re knowledgeable enough to respond, please “see spot run” it for me)

barkerjim

In April 2022, the federal government transitioned from the use of the DUNS Number to a new SAM.gov Unique Entity ID (UEI,). There is NO charge to obtain a UEI.

An organization must have an UEI to receive grant funds. An individual does not need to obtain an UEI.

patfrederick

thanks!
that was easy to understand as well! double thanks!

TradeBait2

The slave traders are still in business.

mollypitcher5

Yes… smuggling aliens in was always exclusively by cartels and other connected nogoodniks. Now it’s church groups

WSB

And USG.

mollypitcher5

Which comes first…the charity or the invitation to Kenyan “refugees” ?

WSB

Where else is the State Department doing this? And if so…this is all fraud, and the refugees all go home.

TheseTruths

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I wondered how USAID got into the spotlight.

slowcreekno

Makes sense when it is explained. And this also seems to imply that once the process of dismantling and deleting USAID is nearly finished, another similar process targeting the next entity on the list will begin. Whichever that one is. Then repeat continuing down the list, though eventually some kind of re-structuring instead of removal will happen.

PANIC IN [DC], indeed.

cthulhu

Then, again, nobody runs single-core processors any more….there can be three cores stripping USAID while another core starts burrowing into DeptEd.

slowcreekno

True, though the processes and execution here is not quite the same as the computer ones. I’d expect that right now, all effort is being used on USAID, and once that is sufficiently wound down, efforts will begin to be used on the next in line, even as the finishing mop-up of USAID will continue. There is another rule that comes to mind, the 80%-20% one, of that 80% of the job takes 20% of the effort or time. So the quick pace now at the start of dismantling USAID will soon slow down, and then the next one in line gets the attention, to keep up momentum.

Cuppa Covfefe

Calling for a Threadripper… that would be EPYC… as it were 🙂

192 cores/384 threads of DOGE goodness…

Brave and Free

I want to see DOGE go after the slush fund that pays off all the sexualy harassment cases in Congress.
Give us the information on how much was paid out and who was accused, and where does the $$ come from that funding it.

patfrederick

it’s probably well hidden in let’s say the Governmental Buildings Fund…under CLEANING EXPENSES where no one would think to look.

Cuppa Covfefe

Next to Draino and Toilet Cleaner…

kalbokalbs

Agree.

Likely we need a stronger Majority Leader AND Speaker AND retain Majority in both the Senate and House.

Perhaps after 2026 mid-terms.

MTG or Mace as Speaker. Senate, Dunno who.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

That might not be so easy.

USAID was under the (atrophied until now) authority of the Executive Branch.

Congress runs the slush fund. Separation of powers; Congress gets to have its own police force, etc. otherwise the executive could just arrest them, willy nilly.

Alison

Congress runs the slush, but wouldn’t the funds have come somehow via Exec branch? Surely all congressional admin is paid by taxpayers and is part of budget.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

There’s a line item, somewhere, for running congress. Everything from salaries, to staff, to the janitors in the capitol and the office buildings.

I suspect that money goes directly to Congress not to the Executive branch; again separation of powers.

The sole executive involvement would be the President signing the budget bill.

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Alison

Ah. Makes sense. Thanks 👍

Valerie Curren

1,000,000%

eilert

1.7 trillion dollars can be saved by just eliminating fraud and waste!!!!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1886646042139017378

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Fraud in the federal government is closer to 10% of disbursements, so more like ~$700 billion per year.

Outright waste is at least 15%, so another trillion+ dollars. 

Anyone who works in government knows this.

Responding to this pointing out that the MSM (Fraud Stream Media) is actually trying to hide the fraud:
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1886597309577728478

Michael Shellenberger

Forty-three paragraphs into the NYT’s latest hit piece on @elonmusk

, the six (!) by-lined reporters reveal that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud (“improper payments”) in 2023 alone. Maybe this isn’t the dunk you guys thought it was?

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scott467

Claw it all back, or go to prison.

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

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4GodandCountry

Claw it all back, and go to prison.

Fixed.

TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

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slowcreekno

Makes sense in view of 8 USC 1324 — no need for new laws, only for using the ones that already exist.

patfrederick

sad that we need to cheer people simply doing their jobs, but yet here we are…and ecstatic that they are doing them.

kalbokalbs

Looking forward to some loud mouth, attention whore dumrat politician being arrested, live. Live on OAN, 6AM.

  • Soon after Bondi is confirmed, tomorrow.

No doubt in my mind this will happen. If nothing else, payback for all the harassment Trump supporters, J6ers, right to life types have endured, under Maggot’s regime.

pgroup2

Looking forward to some loud mouth, attention whore dumrat politician being arrested, …

I nominate the governor of New Jersey, who publicly bragged that his housekeeper is an illegal alien.

para59r

Democrat Governor Phil Murphy Backpedals Hard After Bragging About Harboring an Illegal Alien at His Home 😮

…New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s office furiously tried to back-peddle Monday after he boasted that he had opened his home to a migrant and taunted the Trump administration “to try to get her.’’

A rep told The Post that the loose-lipped Jersey leader had been “misinterpreted” and that no such situation had occurred — even though Murphy had dared the feds to come after the migrant.

Murphy had boasted during a weekend interview with a liberal organization that he and wife Tammy had opened their home to a female migrant and challenged the feds to do anything about it — as ICE agents continue to carry out sweeping deportation raids across the country.

[…] “No one’s ever lived in the home” under those circumstances that the governor described, the representative insisted. — NewJersey

The question Tom Homan will have to untangle is simple: are we dealing with a blowhard that lies for political clout, or an unprincipled coward that tries to lie his way out of trouble.

After the heavy hand this guy used during COVID, especially against the gym owners, we hope he gets the same impartial and magnanimous treatment by law enforcement that he so generously granted those under his leadership:

Personally think Holman might be obligated to look into this female that lives in his garage. Sounds strange. Is he boasting about a consensual or nonconsensual thing?

kalbokalbs

Follow the money… Well, illegals also. In this case, TwoFer.

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WSB

Is this a knowingly false accusation?

kalbokalbs

…housekeeper is an illegal alien.

>>> Follow the money. Taxes being paid. SS funds…

charlie

Please, Please, PLEASE come to Colorado!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WSB

Omar.

TheseTruths
scott467

And if he’s not, if he’s just a virtue-signalling hypocrite trying to score brownie points with America-hating constituents, make that known too.

This should be a win-win.

Barb Meier

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/287

18 U.S. Code § 287 – False, fictitious or fraudulent claims 

U.S. Code 

Notes 

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Whoever makes or presents to any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, or to any department or agency thereof, any claim upon or against the United States, or any department or agency thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, shall be imprisoned not more than five years and shall be subject to a fine in the amount provided in this title.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 698Pub. L. 99–562, § 7, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3169.)

TradeBait2

These people are stupid…

They think they can overwhelm the system. Tent cities in the southwestern desert this summer ought to be able to handle any prison overrun.

para59r

Needs to be a full investigation. Sounds like there is a strong possibility that he has procured himself a free servant.

cthulhu

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TheseTruths

Reminds me of biting the heads off of candy Easter rabbits. 😅

Cuppa Covfefe

And those marshmallow Peeps… 🙂

Notasmidgeon

Peeps……I thought that was the normal was to eat them!

kalbokalbs

Nor attaching limbs after being drawn and quartered. 😂😅 ht Gail.

WSB

Not even mentioning GI Joe!!!

TheseTruths

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And so–?
I guess we need a post office of some kind. I think it’s odd that Schumer threw that in there.

Gudthots

I don’t think that’s a real quote.
Is that a real quote?

TheseTruths
Gudthots

I guess I find it hard to understand… that he is so out of touch… to beclown himself like this.

TheseTruths

Right⁉️ It smacks of desperation.

kalbokalbs

A beautiful thing, as I watch and laugh at them.

kalbokalbs

Daily, Schmuck blathers, showing how out of touch he AND dumrats are.

Robert Baker

Remember, he doesn’t know how to grill a cheeseburger. His judgment may not be as crisp as you might suppose.

pgroup2

That was a “Chuck” burger. His backyard specialty.

Cuppa Covfefe

Keep the cheese; chuck the burger 🙂

(OK, not as picturesque as Cannoli, but….)….

RAC

He should beware lest Musk interprets his warning as a suggestion.

Brave and Free

Musk’s reply soon enough may just be that. I’m thinking Smucky believes he can rally the usps troops into his corner.

scott467

Okey-doke then, Schmucky.

Get ‘r dun 👍

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kalbokalbs

As America cheers, IRS being shredded. Along with Postal Service.

These days, very little is delivered by postal that really matters in life.

Looking forward to both being dissolved.

hussein never imagined, Fundamentally Change America, as Trump idoes.

USAID, DOPE (thanks Steve), IRS, USPS…

Great time to be alive!

patfrederick

I disagree. I send cards and handwritten letters frequently and i never pay a bill on line. it’s always with a check in the mail. I am stubborn and old fashioned i admit, but I have relatives who are hard of hearing and are not on line. the letters we share back and forth are memories and treasures.
that’s not to say the system does not to be overhauled–it truly does–but I don’t want it dissolved.

kalbokalbs

Not to worry AND agree. USPS as we know it, needs to Go TFA.

USPS will be reincarnated to accommodate, what USPS once was.

  • First class mail. Pays the freight..
  • No junk mail. Pure Bloat.

Or it’ll be absorbed into FedEx, UPS or the like.

NO subsidies. Period. Users pay the freight.

patfrederick

the problem with absorbing it into bigger companies is that those bigger companies do not maintain offices in every little town. our little town has a little over a thousand people and the postmaster only works half days, but it’s accessible to the town. the larger companies will move all offices to larger locations making mailing a letter vastly more expensive because of the driving distance involved. and my mom? she doesn’t drive and never has. (Dad tried to teach her once: instead of reverse, she put it in drive and drove right into her flowerbeds. we kids cracked up–Mom blew up–and never wanted to learn again.)

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I’m not sure I’d trust FedEx, DHL and UPS with the sorts of things sent registered/certified/insured either.

kalbokalbs

Well, I trust FedEx and UPS as much or more than USPS. FedEx more than the latter two.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I’ve personally had difficulties with FedEx claiming they tried to deliver, and marking me as not present. For many days in a row.

I know someone else who had a valuable package (a coin) simply thrown on the wrong porch (no signature collected, as required) and the wrong addressee never admitted to receiving the package (decided to keep the item for themselves). Fortunately there was insurance (and not through Fed Ex, which would do nothing).

Fed Ex is absolute shit.

Gudthots

I’ve had USPS claim the store where piece of mail was supposedly delivered was found to be closed (during working hours). But it wasn’t and they had the security camera video to prove no one delivered anything at time claimed. Store was kind enough to send info to local postal authorities.

kalbokalbs

USPS routinely marks by packages delivered, then they show up in a day or two.

USPS protecting its metrics.

para59r

Has happened with me.

Valerie Curren

I think the post office, or at least the post roads, are actually in the constitution

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Both.

I don’t mind the government running a post office.

I DO think the statues forbidding anyone else from carrying first class mail should be repealed.

I want the bulk (junk mail) rate eliminated. It should be first class.

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Valerie Curren

The last one, if it reduces junk mail coming to our homes would be a huge help!

Cuppa Covfefe

Chucky Sleaze is worried that the SatanoDEMONRATS will no longer have a convenient way to generate fake-fully-filled-out fraudulent ballots and deliver them to wherever they’re needed, in spite of rain, or snow, or dark of night….

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TradeBait2

Folks many remember my supplement purchase USPS tracking from this past weekend. It MAY finally be delivered today. 8 days from a warehouse in our same state. It came toward us in East TN and then was sent the opposite direction to Memphis from where it was sent to two different places in GA before being sent back to where it was first sent to and has now been 3 days for a 30 minute drive from that distribution center.

Normal occurrence.

Burn it down. it is a make work for leftists POS operation that has been active in election cheating for decades.

kalbokalbs

USPS = Jobs program for dummies.

Slow Guy worked USPS 73-75, slightly south of Cooth. 90530 Los Gatos.

Raking leaves when 10-12 yo for quarters, was more invigorating.

Had no clue, I should have saved all of those silver quarters. 🙃

barkerjim

I have USPS deliveries occasionally that bounce all over the country. They get close, then take a road trip, sometimes getting close several times, then when actually making it to the local distribution, sit there for a while. I used to get mail delivered every day even if it was junk, now it seems only twice a week.

Gudthots

This is more common than I realized. Letter carrier walks by everyday but only delivers every other day. Friend in an apt complex gets box shoved full of incoming mail once a week.

TradeBait2

Yup – that’s the norm anymore. We get days skipped frequently. There will be flags up on several boxes all around us and none of the mail picked up. Frustrating.

Gudthots

Too busy at their “other jobs” … the kinds of jobs Union people do for their partisan overlords.

WSB

We now have our mail delivered between 7 to 8 PM.

WSB

USPS is for ballot moving.

TheseTruths

Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says it’s Time to Shut Down the Taxpayer Funded ‘Gravy Train’ for NPR
Turley writes at FOX News:

End NPR’s taxpayer-funded gravy train

“This is NPR.” That tagline has long been used for National Public Radio, but what it is remains remarkably in doubt. NPR remains something of a curiosity. It is a state-subsidized media outlet in a country that rejects state media. It is a site that routinely pitches for its sponsors while insisting that it does not have commercials. That confusion may be on the way to a final resolution following the election. NPR is about to have a reckoning with precisely what it is and what it represents.

While I once appeared regularly on NPR, I grew more critical of the outlet as it became overtly political in its coverage and intolerant of opposing views.

Even after a respected editor, Uri Berliner, wrote a scathing account of the political bias at NPR, the outlet has doubled down on its one-sided coverage and commentary. Indeed, while tacking aggressively to the left and openly supporting narratives (including some false stories) from Democratic sources, NPR has dismissed the criticism. When many of us called on NPR to pick a more politically neutral CEO, it instead chose Katherine Maher, who was previously criticized for her strident political views.

Some have long questioned the federal government’s subsidization of a media organization. NPR itself continues to maintain that “federal funding is essential” to its work. However, this country has long rejected state media models as undermining democratic values.

Gateway Pundit:

If liberals want to keep NPR going, let them do it with their own charitable donations. The outlet does not deserve funding from taxpayers.

MarieUrsula

I think that NPR appeals to people of various walks of life who like its highbrow flavor. If NPR eloquently says that something is so, it must be so. That appeal to ego makes its propaganda quite effective.

kalbokalbs

Yes. Dumrat egos.

NPR, is wholly unlistenable, for Slow Guy.

TradeBait2

That’s because you prefer honesty and truth instead of disingenuous high brow bullshiz.

😆

Valerie Curren

Ditto!

pgroup2

That last sentence is the main reason it should not be funded with tax dollars.

RAC

A very quick read through Wiki…

“Several NPR stations also carry programs from British public broadcaster BBC World Service. ”
“In October 2010, NPR accepted a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Institute.”

TheseTruths

“In October 2010, NPR accepted a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Institute.”

So if the government stops funding NPR, it can get its donations from organizations whose ideology it caters to, hopefully draining their coffers a little.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

You mean the NGOs that won’t be getting money from USAID any more?

🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

Anything with “Open Society” is a ba$tard child of Satan Sauros…

Barb Meier

Open Society Institute founded by George Soros.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Open_Society_Institute

kalbokalbs

NPR would be another excellent scalp!

cthulhu

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Note that this, while possibly a Photoshop, is the county with Charlotte. Fredrick Smith is really the guy.

https://meckrodhd.permitium.com/rod

TheseTruths

  :wpds_silly: 

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Myself is desensitized. So there’s that at least.

kalbokalbs

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cthulhu

You never know when you might need a copy of your own death certificate.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Again I am reminded of Hotblack Desiato spending a year dead for tax reasons.

TheseTruths

Obama Center subcontractor files $40M discrimination lawsuit against engineering firm for overruns
Race-baiting comes back to bite Obama.

A Chicago-based subcontractor is suing one of the firms involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center for $40 million, claiming racial discriminatory practices forced the firm to do extra work that left it at risk of bankruptcy, according to a lawsuit.

That’s a concrete subcontractor who is suing. The other side of the story:

The memo goes on to state that Thornton Tomasetti [a construction management firm on the project] and an architectural firm “bent over backwards to assist what everyone knows was a questionably qualified subcontractor team in areas where more qualified subcontractor would not have required it.”

Happy go lucky

That’s their defensive stance… they suggest they hired, and continued to use, an unqualified subcontractor? They should be sued.

mollypitcher5

Sounds like they were forced to hire the subcontractor?

Happy go lucky

Sounds like a hot mess for sure, and that building is going to be hideously ugly.

mollypitcher5

I haven’t kept on it but according to my brother it’s really a playground for OZero and his pals. 9 hole course, recording studio IIRC what he told me.. He doesn’t give a sh*t preserving his legacy other than his cultivating celebrity and rich friends

Valerie Curren

Inside & out!!!

WSB

City should sue. Dangerous construction.

MarieUrsula

I concur. We wouldn’t know now what we know now had 2020 not been rigged.

kalbokalbs

ONLY, because things have worked out this way.

Never, ever want to be at the precipice, like that.

Also so worth acknowledging, we are not out of the woods yet. Trump changes are gaining steam AND need to be institutionalized.

Great things have happened in ~two weeks. We’ve only scratched the surface of what is needed.

mollypitcher5

Honestly though I don’t know if he had won 2020 that he would have come in like the 2024 wrecking ball. Pence would’ve still been there, no JD

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

It was the assassination attempt or perhaps a bit earlier: the arrest.

That’s what finally made him decide “no more mister nice guy.”

mollypitcher5

That seems right. He realized that if he could dodge anymore of their assassination attempts and get into office….it was time. Restore the Republic asap.

Valerie Curren

DJT DID WIN, but that landslide victory was stolen by the deep state  😡  We can’t Ever allow them to even imply that DJT “lost” 2020…

TheseTruths

ONLY, because things have worked out this way.

Never, ever want to be at the precipice, like that.

This.

4GodandCountry

Trump would NOT have been able to do what he is now doing had he had a 2nd consecutive term in office. He did not have the political capital and support he now has, and this in great abundance.

2020 was ALLOWED to be rigged.

Q warned us that although “patriots are in control”, we had to visit the precipice.

We can all see and understand, now, why this was so.

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cthulhu

Having lived all my life in California, I contemplate this sort of thing when thinking of snow.

It might be overkill.

kalbokalbs

That’s interesting.

Gotta come back to this one.

cthulhu

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4GodandCountry

Good thing it’s relatively easy and fast to grow new chickens

K1tt7-fzn

Saw part of this skit today (in someone’s timeline) but had to search in Utub to find it. It was done a month ago actually. I’m setting it to start at 1:24

An exlclusive look at Trump and Trudeau’s Mar-a-Lago meal! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Happy go lucky

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

kalbokalbs

Absolutely hilarious.

eilert

https://twitter.com/i/status/1886555469096833258

Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger

It’s outrageous Trump shut down USAID, say leaders of the foreign policy establishment. It’s not. Voters elected him to dismantle rogue, deep state agencies like USAID, which turned the tactics of censorship, regime change, and counterinsurgency against the American people.

eilert

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1886628146662834662

Elon Musk @elonmusk

That is how the scam works

https://twitter.com/Anc_Aesthetics/status/1886592751048765667

Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics

More: “Another likely solution for Democrats which they already use to reward VIPs is to use NGOs as an intermediary to direct funds where they want them to go”

So basically USAID allocates funds for a certain initiative that looks reasonable. Democrat friendly NGO is contracted to carry out initiative. NGO #1 subcontracts “VIP” which is another NGO owned/operated by a political ally or Democrat politician. Eventually the funds reach the secret intended target and the original problem is not solved. This means they can continue to rinse and repeat this grift.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1886579120512913445.html

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scott467

Long prison sentences, all around.

pgroup2

Nope. Cinder block wall.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

AND logic.

With the additional thought that a prison sentence can SEEM long if the conditions are harsh enough.

scott467

Looks like WNBA is going to be more hilarious than ever this season, with Caitlin Clark and the ‘Exciting Whites’ vs. the Angry Black Lesbians 😂

.

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kalbokalbs

Airline code sharing benefit I had not realized. Scheduling, seats, etc. Good to know.

  • Thank you!

My flying days are pretty much gone. But, good to know as DW will snag me to travel international, with her occasionally. Sticking with my, domestic ain’t gonna happen.

patfrederick

apropos of nothing…this made me laugh this morning. clever word play

WORDMAN™
February 4, 2025 12:23 am

Reply to  Maquis
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D- CT) a/k/a DICK, lied about serving in Viet Nam.
 
And, when asked about his ‘stolen valor’, all he could say was…
‘Can’t we just let Saigons be Saigons.’ 🙂
 

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Next election his constituents should just say…”sigh. Gone!”

patfrederick

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patfrederick

California Joe
February 4, 2025 1:22 am

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
16h •
Expecting a bloodbath at FBI today and tomorrow. My guess is acting FBI director Brian Driscoll will be gone by this evening for defying a direct order seeking names of FBI employees—perhaps more than 6,000—involved in Jan 6 cases.
Hard to see how James Dennehy, who runs the NY FBI field office, keeps his job after sending defiant email to colleagues over the weekend promising to “dig in” and not step down or follow orders.
The NYT obtained the email.
Dennehy: “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy,” Dennehy wrote.
Dennehy also said the removal of top officials including at Miami and Washington field offices have caused “fear and angst within the F.B.I. ranks.”
He compared his insubordination to being a Marine “in the early 1990s, when he dug a small foxhole five feet deep and hunkered down for safety.
“It sucked,” he wrote. “But it worked.”
Don’t think this is going to end well for Mr. Dennehy.
Also it’s unclear whether every FBI employee who worked on Jan 6 “terrorism” cases will be fired. My guess is many will be asked to take their “terrorism” expertise down to the southern border or other locations where real terror threats exist.
• • •

scott467

“Hard to see how James Dennehy, who runs the NY FBI field office, keeps his job after sending defiant email to colleagues over the weekend promising to “dig in” and not step down or follow orders.”

_____________

Open insurrection.

He shouldn’t be stepping down from anywhere, he should be getting frog-marched into a detention cell to wait 4+ years for trial.

patfrederick

i would be just as happy with a 3 year wait because i want him imprisoned for a while. hopefully MAGA lives on throughout the next 4 years–and even swells its ranks– but nothing can be taken for granted and this asswipe needs to see prison time.

pgroup2

I like that idea.  😎 

TradeBait2

He knows all too well that pleading ignorance of the law is no defense. He sounds like a typical Nazi that would respond with, “We wuz only following orders.”

Perp walk those azzhats Kash, Pam and PDT.

patfrederick

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patfrederick

Last Congress, I introduced an amendment to reduce funding for USAID by 50%.

114 Republicans and every House Democrat rejected this sensible measure. Remember, @mattgaetz?

Funny how many are singing a different tune following @elonmusk‘s deep dive into their corruption.… pic.twitter.com/7r4lKiok8o

— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) February 3, 2025

pgroup2

Oh boy. We’re learning what Matt’s skeletons look like.

Did he think his red district voters made it okay for him to walk on the wild side. No, not that wild side – the deep state wild side. Wouldn’t be the first time someone covered up bad deeds by ‘allowing’ himself to be accused of untrue bad things. When the falsity is shown, the person is immunized.

  :wpds_shock:   :wpds_unamused: 

patfrederick

apparently Matt wanted it reduced to ZERO…at least this video is purported to say so…
Flashback to Rep Matt Gaetz Saying USAID Funding Should Be Zilch
https://rumble.com/v6gtd2p-flashback-to-rep-matt-gaetz-saying-usaid-funding-should-be-zilch.html

Alison

Thanks for clarification. I assumed that Matt agreed with Eli, not that Eli was calling him out. 👍

pgroup2

Then Eli should learn to be more clear in his writing, especially for us geezers who don’t have 25 yo brains that work good.

 😪 

Alison

I follow Eli so I know who he is aligned with.

Everyone’s writing is awful these days in terms of reader point of view. Too quickly written and often then reposted out of context.

Gotta snap your brain 😄

Gudthots

Obscure headlines tell me all I need to know.

They are using advertising psychology to try and hook me in. Nope. Won’t click/read from those sources.

patfrederick

h/t Rodney at Marica’s

Jamie Raskin was one of the buttload of communists on the J6 committee.

Jamie Raskin is also, “the representative in Congress of a giant USAID contractor, Global Communities, which took in $160,000,000 in 2023.”

Boohyeah @JMichaelWaller 🤘🏻 https://t.co/U1Ly1BGRNi

— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) February 4, 2025

kalbokalbs

RFK jr committee vote 10AM. One PIA R-Con up in the air. Cassidy -r-Con LA.

RFK Jr. to face key committee vote that could determine confirmation fateKennedy needs a majority of the committee’s votes to advance
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rfk-jr-face-key-committee-vote-could-determine-confirmation-fate

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Any minute now, apparently.

patfrederick

Marica
February 4, 2025 at 8:30 am
Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
·
1h
BREAKING: Committee votes on RFK at 10am, Tulsi at 2pm TODAY

kalbokalbs

Have not seen anything on Kash committee vote. Perhaps tomorrow.

patfrederick

Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
7m • 7 tweets • 3 min read •
Read on X

Hi @DOGE, I think we found another one.

Open borders NGO “Make The Road NY” has received over $16,000,000 in government grants while actively training illegal aliens how to avoid deportation and lie to ICE agents.

🧵🧵🧵
The far-left, tax-exempt NGO was filmed coaching illegal aliens on how to lie to ICE agents to avoid deportation.

The group also published a Deportation Defense Manual with a hotline to dox ongoing ICE raids.
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The group is advising illegal aliens to lie to ICE agents and “not open the door” to any law enforcement officials who show up at their homes. comment image
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Their most recent financial disclosures show $16,124,582 listed in revenue from government grants. The parent organization “Make The Road States” counts an additional $2,000,000+. comment image
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Make the Road NY has received a several grants from @DHS, @USCIS, @DOJ, and @HHSGov.

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@DOGE please ~do your thing~!
@DOGE @threadreaderapp unroll

patfrederick

Marica
February 4, 2025 at 8:50 am
Just a Cloture Vote but she’s on her way!
NewsTreason Channel 17
@NewsTreason
Pam Bondi is your new Attorney General after a 52-46 vote…
5+2+4+6 =17

para59r

Twitter test to see if squasher is at work yet. Features Julie Kelly telling us what the FIB has been so busy with that we need to worry about them staying at their jobs.

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1886768258029625473

Gudthots

What is the work of “squasher”?

Valerie Curren

I Think it Might be to see if “twitter.com” makes tweets visible in the Q-Tree. There’s no (obvious) rhyme or reason as to what shows or what doesn’t yet  🙄 

cthulhu

Twitter doesn’t run anywhere for me, but that’s because I block javascript.

Javascript is a program on a webpage that is meant to be executed on the user’s computer — not on the server. I restrict the ability of my computer to run any programs besides mine.

Valerie Curren

Sounds more secure from my non-techie perch 🙂

RAC

HT simplicius…

NATO is preparing a campaign to discredit B. ZelenskyPress Bureau of the SVR of Russia, February 3
03.02.2025

The press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reports that, according to the information received by the SVR, NATO headquarters is increasingly thinking about the change of power in Ukraine. In Brussels, it is assumed that the APU very soon will not be able to restrain the growing onslaught of the Russian army. With the coming to power in the United States D. Trump is growing uncertainty about the continuation of military assistance that the West will be able to provide to Kiev.

The NATO leadership considers it necessary to preserve the remnants of Ukraine as an anti-Russian bridgehead. It is planned to “freeze” the conflict by bringing the opposing parties to the dialogue on the “start of its settlement”. At the same time, Washington and Brussels agree that the main obstacle to the implementation of such a scenario is V. Zelensky, who is called in the western sidelines as “expendited material”. NATO would like to get rid of the head of the Kiev regime, ideally as a result of pseudo-democratic elections. According to the calculations of the Alliance, they could take place in Ukraine no later than the autumn of this year.

On the eve of the election campaign at the NATO headquarters is preparing a large-scale operation to discredit Zelensky. It is planned, in particular, to publish information about the assignment of more than $ 1.5 billion by the president and members of his team only from the means intended for the purchase of ammunition. In addition, it is planned to open the scheme of withdrawal by Zelensky and his entourage abroad of the monetary allowance of 130 thousand dead Ukrainian servicemen, who continue to be alive and serving on the front line. It is also planned to publicize the facts of the involvement of the “supreme commander of Ukraine” in repeated cases of sale of large parties to the free of charge of Western IWT to various groups in Africa.

Thus, the fact that the time of “overdue” Zelensky is considered is understood even in NATO. It is a parity that this understanding was given at the cost of the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens.

Press Bureau
SVR of Russia 03.02.2025

http://www.svr.gov.ru/smi/2025/02/natovtsy-gotovyat-kampaniyu-po-diskreditatsii-v-zelenskogo.htm

RAC

p.s. any weird spellng is down to the auto translator, one was so ????? I had to put it through manually for it to make any sense/

para59r

Thanks. End product worked fine. Seems that August deadline can be drastically improved upon. 😁

RAC

Of course one has to ask how does Russia know what nato is thinking or planning, unless someone leaked it to them or they have a spy there or they’re just floating the idea to test the response.

pgroup2

I vote for spy method.  😎 

patfrederick

Winston
February 4, 2025 10:03 am

Senator John Kennedy: “To my friends who are upset, call somebody who cares. You better get used to this. It’s USAID today, it’s gonna be Department of Education tomorrow.”

🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/k43BDnQmjt

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 4, 2025

Aubergine
SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

A silver quarter!

(It’s got that very light color and is very worn. One thing in favor of the tinfoil shit we use now for change is it doesn’t wear as fast as silver did.)

TheseTruths

Ouch! 😅

Aubergine

🙂

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Looks like Kennedy made it out of committee!

MAHA!!

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Aubergine

YAY!!!!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

However I can’t find it as a headline ANYWHERE right now.

I did see Fox News do a live banner saying he was voted out of committee but it’s gone now.

Aubergine

Wow. Weird.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

The Big Ones are all this week. I’d never have considered them the Big Ones before this cycle.

Kennedy goes to the full Senate (and I expect he will succeed albeit narrowly).

Bondi, Patel, and Gabbard upcoming.

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

OKAY he’s finally on Faux New’s front page…below a big headline about the budget.

The headline reads as if there’s a rebellion because spending is being cut. It’s actually because it’s not being cut enough.

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Aubergine
SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Ah, good! Was beginning to wonder whether I’d end up with (very expensive) egg on my face.

Aubergine

Egg on your face these days is reserved for the wealthy!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I did just buy an eighteen pack.

Probably just went into my overdraft protection. I hate it when that happens.

Aubergine

Lol! It’s almost like a mortgage payment!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

It could be worse, you could need a mortgage.

Aubergine

Lol, no kidding!

para59r

Just so we are clear on this… The Boss and plans to shut down the DOE. 😁

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1886546691941150948

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

DOE could stand for Department of Energy or Department of Education (which is why I’ve been using “DOPE” for the latter).

I clicked to verify this one is about DOPE, and this is good news!

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para59r

If examining the end product it’s an apt descriptor.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

From this point forward I’m going to pretend it’s named the Department of Public Education.

para59r

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BEYOND PARODY: Scotland Considering Banning Ownership of Cats as Pets in Order to Save Birds
Mike LaChance Feb. 3, 2025 9:40 pm 915 Comments

The country of Scotland is apparently considering banning the ownership of cats as pets. The people behind this are concerned that housecats kill too many birds. Hasn’t that been going on for as long as cats have existed? It’s just one of the things that cats do, it’s in their DNA.

Would the people of Scotland actually consent to a rule like this? People who love cats tend to be really into owning cats as pets.

The UK is known for this kind of Nanny State nonsense, so the rule proposal isn’t much of a surprise. What would be shocking is if it actually passes…

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

The Tweety Bird lobby strikes!

mollypitcher5

They’re taking it slow..make it seem dumb as they work up to save the children. Then it’s trans conversions and censorship, white people need to shut up while our newcomers take over

RAC

So the Guard Cats that that protect against bird flu carriers are alright then?
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Scots NKVD Chief…
Providing the annual license fee is paid.

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GA/FL

If Scotland is short of birds, it may be wind power is to blame.

Without cats, Scotland could become overrun with rats and snakes, have to import cats again.

Reminds me of China and the one child law. Now they are very low on females.

scott467

“Would the people of Scotland actually consent to a rule like this? People who love cats tend to be really into owning cats as pets.”

______________

And the people who love cats the most are wymyn!

And wymyn are clearly still in charge in Scotland, as in all of the West besides America.

So which men in Scotland are going to stand up against all the cat ladies of Scotland?

The answer is NONE. If there were any strong men in Scotland, these kind of ridiculous measures wouldn’t come up in the first place.

So it’s a small group of crazed enviro-nutcase wymyn vs. all the Cat Ladies of Scotland.

I’m betting on the Cat Ladies 👍 😂

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Gudthots

If I lived in the country or had a farm, this is the cat I would have (don’t have any cats). They were brought over to America as working animals.

American Shorthair:
American Shorthair cats are well-suited for farm environments due to their robust build, hunting abilities, and adaptable nature. Here are some key attributes that make them ideal for farms:

  • Robust Build: American Shorthairs are medium to large in size, with a muscular and powerful body structure. This build allows them to handle the physical demands of outdoor living and hunting effectively.
  • Hunting Skills: Originally bred to control rodent populations, American Shorthairs are skilled hunters with a strong instinct for catching mice and other small pests. Their sharp claws and powerful jaws contribute to their effectiveness.
  • Adaptability: These cats are highly adaptable and can thrive in various environments, including the outdoors. They are accustomed to living in different conditions, which makes them suitable for farm life.
  • Independence: American Shorthairs are independent and can entertain themselves, which is beneficial in a busy farm setting where they may be left alone for extended periods.
  • Friendly Temperament: Despite their independence, these cats are generally friendly and can get along well with other animals and humans, making them good companions for farm families.
  • Easy Grooming: Their short, dense coat requires minimal grooming, which is convenient for farm owners who may have limited time for pet care.
  • Patience: Known for their patience, American Shorthairs can tolerate the presence of other animals and children, which is important in a multi-pet household or farm environment.
  • Low Vocalization: Unlike some other breeds, American Shorthairs do not meow frequently for attention, making them less likely to disturb the peace on a farm.
  • Versatility: They can adapt to different living conditions, from indoor living to outdoor shelters, which is useful for farms where cats may need to move between environments.
  • Health: Generally healthy, American Shorthairs have a good lifespan, which means they can be reliable farm companions for many years.
pgroup2

A lot of those characteristics are also what makes a good wife.

Valerie Curren

 😂 

Gail Combs

“…Unlike some other breeds, American Shorthairs do not meow frequently for attention…”

Well I guess my Feral Tom missed out on those genes. He is very talkative and always wants to be petted.

Gudthots

If there is any Siamese interbreeding…

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

There’s also a European Shorthair but it’s no good for going after muzz rats.

Valerie Curren

 😂 

Valerie Curren

Some cats were born under someone’s porch in our neighborhood years ago. I still the orange & white cat & the black & white cat around the block periodically. They don’t like humans to approach too closely but clearly live fine independent lives here in suburbia. There are still plenty of squirrels & birds on the block & even the occasional bunny, skunk, or chipmunk. Haven’t seen rats in a while though so hopefully they’ve been keeping such vermin down 🙂

duchess01

EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE

Verse of the Day for Tuesday, February 4, 2025

“The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?” 

Psalms 118:6 (KJV)

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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!



duchess01

WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.

I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.

Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.

With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.

Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me. 

Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.

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duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ABUSED, MISSING, AND TRAFFICKED CHILDREN

BE MY VOICE

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JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDREN

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CHILD NOT CHOICE

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duchess01

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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

Gudthots

AMEN!

duchess01

PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN

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duchess01

THE FEAR FACADE

Of what are you fearful – unsure today?
What makes you tremble – what keeps you at bay?
What bothers you – disturbs your peace at night?
What gives you pause – and puts out your light?

It might be unseen – the unknown that shakes;
The out of control – the unbalanced that quakes;
It could be the undeniable belief;
There is nowhere to go – to get some relief!

Your mind is racing – your heart beating fast;
You wonder how long fearfulness will last;
Release me – Oh, Lord – from the grasp of fear;
Come; Calm me – Oh, Lord – Come, quickly near!

What does this fear come stealthily to take?
How does it disturb – in the night keep awake?
What gives it power o’er what you partake?
Why would you give in – why would you forsake?

The hold that fear can have over its prey;
Is the unbelief that faith takes away;
The opposite of fear is truly belief;
And it is our faith that provides the relief!

What happened to Peter when his faith failed?
His footing gave way – in the water he flailed;
What happens to us when of little faith?
We fall prey to a spirit – of haunting wraith!

Fear can be daunting – paralyzing – haunting;
It can cause us to hold back – be less flaunting;
We will definitely hide all our gifts inside;
Where His Spirit is willing and wants to reside!

The love that we have to give will be thwarted;
As we draw into ourselves – love is hoarded;
From the love of God we have truly withdrawn;
From the embrace of another woebegone!

What must we do to eliminate fear?
We must repent and draw His Spirit near;
We must fast – we must pray – the fear away;
For where faith increases – fear cannot stay!

D01: 09/03/2013



para59r
duchess01

Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing 

#psalm91 #psalms #prayer

Pray Everyday

https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html

Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.

#faith #god #psalms

prayeveryday777

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barkerjim

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/trumped-tuesday-february-4-2025-c

Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! The transformation of the United States of America continued apace yesterday. Our roundup today: more USAID news as Democrats start panicking harder and rolling out the dirty tricks brigade; dems’ dirty tricks brigade targets innocent tech geniuses; why USAID is done no matter what happens next; Trump negotiates temporary tariff deals with Mexico and Canada and sets to work on refinancing America; Missouri set to obtain first award anywhere against China for its role in the pandemic; and Gates softball interview hints at very good things to come.

para59r

Yesterday near abouts to this time we determined the DOGE clock was saving 4 Billion a day as we gave it a look just before it turned to 52 billion. At this moment DOGE clock claims a bit higher than 56.5 Billion so the 4 Billion a day seems to be holding. However the widget is designed or comes to know what it knows all tolls well 😁 https://www.usdebtclock.org

wowohwow1528

Like 😜👍

patfrederick

A researcher claims to have discovered the identity of Jack the Ripper thru dna testing.
FTA
A researcher has claimed to have definitively identified Jack the Ripper through DNA evidence, sparking calls for an official inquest into the infamous murders.
Russell Edwards says he has obtained a “100 per cent DNA match” linking the killer to Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber who emigrated to London.
The breakthrough came from DNA extracted from a bloodstained shawl found on victim Catherine Eddowes’ body in 1888.
Edwards purchased the historic shawl at auction in 2007.
Working with genealogists, Edwards tracked down a living relative of Kosminski who agreed to provide DNA for comparison testing.
The analysis revealed DNA matches for both the victim and Kosminski on the shawl.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/jack-the-ripper-identity-confirmed-dna-match

TheseTruths

The article is getting ripped in the comments. No proof that the shawl was actually hers. How many people have handled the shawl through the years, etc. A write-up answering all the questions would be useful.

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para59r

Not to mention it mirrors the Sweeny Todd thing which will garner it attention. Both actually.
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pgroup2

Didn’t Amber say that movie was Depp’s autobiography?

  :wpds_shock:   :wpds_lol: 

gil00

I read it and something seemed off. Too eager.

barkerjim

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1886584910967922973.html

BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Cuppa Covfefe

Hmmm. Looks like good filters to me…

barkerjim
barkerjim

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Alison

Text of a tweet found on X today 😆

“My wife asked to see the credit card statement so she can figure out why we don’t have any money and I told her very sternly that she is a danger to democracy”

duchess01

2.4.25: THEY [DS] know what is coming, NEVER been this EXPOSED, USAID cont., TRUTH is VISIBLE, PRAY!

And We Know

https://rumble.com/v6gvp44-2.4.25-they-ds-know-what-is-coming-never-been-this-exposed-usaid-cont.-trut.html

charlie

De Pat’s avatar is calming. I’m sure she was what it portrays.
Thank You!

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barkerjim

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/here-we-go-names-fbi-officials-who-worked/

The names of the FBI officials who worked on January 6 cases and Trump witch hunts have been identified.
According to NBC News, there were more than 2,400 cases in total.
The FBI officials who worked on the J6 cases and Trump investigations were identified by a case management system.

There are reportedly 5,000 employees who have been identified as subject to potential firing.

Aubergine

What this tells me is, there are 5000 FBI agents who are USELESS to America. They have spent four years working on NOTHING, so they can easily be fired and not replaced.

Five thousand useless workers is a lot of money we don’t need to spend. They can pick avocados or strawberries. Replacements for the illegals.

barkerjim

Steve Milloy @JunkScience
In case you feel sorry for any EPA employees that may be axed, don’t bother. Recall that these are same arrogant and evil creeps who killed 50,000 high-paying coal industry jobs during the Obama years. Each killed coal job supported anywhere from 4-10 other community and related-industry jobs. The loss of these jobs irreparably devastated coal communities, where there is typically little else do but mine coal or support those that do. All of this was for absolutely no reason. Just left-wing politics. I was there. I saw it. I only wish I could be at EPA to hand out the pink slips and turn the lights off. @LeeZeldin @realDonaldTrump @JDVance

TheseTruths

They can “learn to code,” or learn to coal-mine, whichever is appropriate for their situation.

Aubergine

They can pic the crops the illegals used to pick.

Gail Combs

Excellent idea.

TheseTruths

Over 20,000 Federal Workers Have Already Accepted Trump’s Buyout Offer — Still Way Below Target

Over 20,000 federal workers have accepted Donald Trump’s buyout offer, a senior administration official has confirmed.

I thought 20,000 seemed like a lot, but ⬇️

Axios reports that while the number represents one percent of the federal workforce, it is still way below the White House target of between five and 10 percent.

“We expect more to come,” the administration official explained.

“If you see what’s happening at USAID, it’s just one piece of the puzzle.”

So there are 2 million federal workers. Seems like a tad too many.

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. Something like 1,980,000 too many…

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

So basically the number that quit…is the same as the number that should be retained. (Not the same individual people, just the same count.)

kalbokalbs

Feds not working in the office have until 6 Feb, to reply RESIGN or be in the office.

More will reply resign.

The dopes that don’t show up for work, should be put on leave without pay AND process for being fired.

barkerjim
kalbokalbs

Prolly already posted…

JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Advances Through Senate Intel Committee
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/just-tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-advances-through-senate-intel/

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Good news.

patfrederick

fanbeav
February 4, 2025 2:37 pm

“DOGE isn’t in the constitution!”

Neither are the ATF or the IRS or the Fed

We can play this game all day

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 4, 2025

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

One could, unfortunately, argue about the IRS thanks to the 16th amendment.

Valerie Curren

That wasn’t properly ratified, iirc, AND is unconstitutional so invalid, imo!

cthulhu

Sadly, there are no sanity checks on Constitutional Amendments.

Valerie Curren

Nor apparently on most tyrants in government 🙁

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Once it is declared ratified, it’s part of the Constitution thus cannot (by definition) be unconstitutional.

Now, is it counter to what the Founders wanted? Absolutely. But that’s not the same thing.

Valerie Curren

Fair enough AND Frustrating! 🙁

barkerjim
TheseTruths

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scott467

Hey, Linda Yaccarino-Hitler BANNED me for HATE SPEECH for using the word ‘Tranny’ on Tweeter!

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

You should be more careful when discussing your car troubles.

scott467

Apparently so!

TheseTruths

Juanita Broaddrick:

This is one of the best press briefings in the last few days.

Stephen Miller is absolutely Brilliant!!

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1886441268349157462

Valerie Curren

That was Great!!!

TheseTruths

USAID is a funding source for the BBC.

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para59r

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Okay, had to look that one up. Seems fantastical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham 🙄😏😮alrighty then… 😆

Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham studied at the East–West Center and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, where she attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology (1967),[2] and later received Master of Arts (1974) and PhD (1992) degrees, also in anthropology.[3] She also attended the University of Washington in Seattle from 1961 to 1962. Interested in craftsmanship, weaving, and the role of women in cottage industries, Dunham’s research focused on women’s work on the island of Java and blacksmithing in Indonesia. To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she created microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. Dunham was also employed by the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and she consulted with the Asian Development Bank in Gujranwala, Pakistan. Towards the latter part of her life, she worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia, where she helped apply her research to the largest microfinance program in the world.[3

para59r

Did we do this one yet?

Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Used USAID to Oust Bolsonaro From Brazil

Giving money to WEF
https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1886680611110240499

I’m sure the list is endless so I’ll end with this little fun song thing…
https://twitter.com/hartgoat/status/1886494151400644766

Aubergine

This is ridiculous, and completely wrong. We have no business funding overseas media.

TheseTruths

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barkerjim

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252769

Is Trump Serious About Illegal Immigration?

TheseTruths

Let’s see if Trump means it or if this early-on stuff with Homan is all for show.

My first reaction is “Mr. Know-it-all has spoken.” He might have a good point about E-verify, but to state that if PDJT doesn’t do exactly what he says, it’s “all for show” is a judgment call that Denninger is not qualified to make.

Robert Baker

…but to state that if PDJT doesn’t do exactly what he says, it’s “all for show” is a judgment call that Denninger is not qualified to make.

I very occasionally read Denninger but not for some time. I have concluded some of his arguments to be filled with assumptions and appeals to authority, his, that may not be warranted. I come away from his essays thinking that there may be other relevant perspectives that may have gone unconsidered.

TheseTruths

Well said.

TradeBait2

Add in: His content value is subject to whether is on a bender or not.

pgroup2

Exactly. Just remember – he was part of the early tea party movement but it didn’t take long for Jenny Beth and the others to decide to split.

pgroup2

The old cranky drunk belches his nevertrump bona fides.

Color me uninterested.

TheseTruths
Notasmidgeon

Send her to El Salvador!

Cuppa Covfefe

Or a Shiite land (she’s a sunni Mozzie)…. that would make things a bit “warm” for her……

para59r

Flights are already departing for Gitmo, so that’s another option.

Valerie Curren

Is she an illegal herself, for she sure acts like a very entitled one!

RAC
TheseTruths

Natalie Winters:

USAID was supposed to be the hotbed of resistance against Trump 2.0.

They were going to launder money to international “democracy” NGOs and media outlet to attack President Trump.

This is why they’re melting down big time.

They were laying the groundwork to impeach PDJT, and USAID was key to the effort. Steve Bannon says MTG is proposing legislation to take down USAID.

https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1886838651801477136

4GodandCountry

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K1tt7-fzn

https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1886817290848444717#m

https://twitter.com/johnkonrad/status/1886817290848444717#m

John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad
4h
Fact: Bribery is rampant in the U.S. government and military—but it’s also legal.

To understand what’s going on at USAID you must understand how bribery works in America today.

Here’s how to legally bribe a 4-star US Army General:

American bribery operates differently than the classic cash-in-a-suitcase (or bitcoin today!) model still used in most other countries. It relies on trust, time, and reputation—making it nearly impossible to prosecute.

Example 1: Bribing a General in Africa

A corrupt general in Africa demands $2 million cash (or gold or BYT) up front. Why? Because if you don’t pay later, he has no way to enforce the deal.

Example 2: Bribing a U.S. General (Legally)

If you’re a defense contractor in the U.S., you play the long game:
1.Invite the general into a secure, private meeting.
2.Thank him for his “dedicated support” on a project “for the American people.”
3.Wink.
4.Casually mention that a board seat might open up at your company—about five years after he retires.
5.Tell him to call you in ten years to “help find good candidates.”

Fast forward five years: Boom. He lands that board seat. It pays $500,000 per year for five years. Congratulations—he just pocketed $2.5 million, plus interest.

The Board Seat Shuffle

This gets even better. Say Widgets Inc. lands a huge contract thanks to General Smith, and Cogs Inc. gets another big deal thanks to Admiral Jones.

Instead of directly paying them off, Widgets Inc. gives a cushy board seat to Admiral Jones. Cogs Inc. returns the favor by hiring General Smith.

No money exchanged while they were in uniform. No laws broken.

The Enforcement Mechanism: Reputation

But what if Cogs Inc. fails to pay Admiral Jones?

Simple: Reputation kills them.

Word spreads fast in the high-trust world of defense contracting. Generals and admirals still in uniform hear the whispers. Suddenly, Cogs Inc. starts losing contracts.

Example 3: USAID

Want to bribe a Congressman? Here’s how the game works. First, get them to steer a juicy contract your way. Take some of that money and set up a nonprofit—nothing flashy, just enough to move funds around. A few years after they’re voted out, suddenly there’s a cushy board seat waiting for them. In the meantime, have them use their connections to secure a USAID grant for the next wave of Congressmen or staffers. Rinse and repeat to expand the ponzi scheme and just like that, you’ve built a self-sustaining influence machine.

The lesson? 

The bribe is exactly the same as a cash payoff—it’s just delayed, sanitized, and hidden behind a veil of “corporate best practices.”

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how government bribery legally thrives in America.

If this goes viral I might post 2/2 an even more ingenious bribery system: How China Bribes A Foreign General

WSB

Quid Pro Quo. No?

K1tt7-fzn

https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1886794254988579090#m

https://twitter.com/johnkonrad/status/1886794254988579090#m

John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad
6h
I don’t like reporting secondhand info, so take this with a grain of salt. I repeat: take this story of rich liberal panic with a grain of salt. 

A liberal friend of mine has a very liberal friend—let’s call him Marko. Everybody loves him. He’s rich, always relaxed, has a ton of friends, never gets stressed. One of those guys who somehow never works but lives like a prince.

I described him to Grok to get his image and it’s fairly close except Marko has a touch of artistic or European flair.

To continue… we all assumed Marko was independently wealthy. Turns out… he wasn’t.

Now, Marko is in full meltdown mode. I mean terrified, panicking like his life is over. This guy—who’s always been the picture of joy—is freaking out so badly his friends are worried he’ll have a heart attack.

Why?

Apparently, Marko’s cushy life was funded by government grants. For what? Was he managing a USAID diversity grant to fund LGBTQ+ artists in the Congo that @DOGE just shut down? Who knows. Who cares. What I do know is that Marko does something with the government and nobody has ever seen Marko do anything that looks like work.

And here’s the kicker.

I live in a very liberal, very elite neighborhood. There are plenty of old-money trust fund types here. And yeah, they live stress-free lives, but most of them have at some point lost everything and had to claw their way back.
•Some lost fortunes in the Bernie Madoff collapse.
•Some were wiped out in 2008 and had to commute to Manhattan to claw themselves back doing something.
•Some burned through cash on failed startups before finally making it big.

That’s America—we churn through elites. Some rise, some fall, and when the old money collapses, it makes room for the new. This isn’t Europe.

So, Marko’s friends are trying to calm him down: “Don’t worry, Marko! We’ve all been there! You’ll rebuild! You’ll be okay”

But Marko isn’t listening. Because his fall isn’t gradual. It’s sudden.

See, old money collapses over time. Predictable. Manageable. But Marko? He had no skills. No confidence in his ability to earn.

Real elites plan for the fall—they stash away gold, art, Bitcoin, or something.

Marko? He was living paycheck to paycheck off the government grift. He never in a million years thought the money would stop flowing.

And maybe—I don’t know for sure—maybe his grift wasn’t legal. Maybe his benefactor in government is about to throw him under the bus for a plea deal.

I don’t know. I don’t care.

And please take this with a grain of salt. I’m drawing a lot of hypotheticals from a very short conversation that I was eager to disengage from because Marko’s troubles are not a concern of mine. And the very few times I’ve even seen Marko, I didn’t get a warm impression (maybe he sniffed out that I’m a Republican? IDK).

All I know is that Marko is in full-blown panic because for the first time in his life, he might have to get a real job and struggle to make a normal mortgage payment like the rest of us.

“Poor Marko,” they say.

My response? “I don’t care, Margaret.”

All that said… I do wonder how many other people like Marko are in full and absolute panic right now?

cthulhu

I’m ok if the answer is “all of them.” Anything less is half-measures.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

It’d be nice to know how many that is.

kalbokalbs

Happy for “Marko” and his misery. He knowingly grifted off of BS USAID funding F’m. Likely a few thousand like him. F’m all.

Then there are thousands, likely tens of thousands that will be affected by USAID funds going away. I Do NOT Care.

I’m also quite happy for IC misery index going up. Dumrat slush funds drying up. Woke, LGXYZ, tranny BS funding zeroing out. Piss on all of them. Seriously, piss on them.

mollypitcher5

I’m of the mind that the tranny explosion wasn’t organic. It was bought and paid for..now who got the money, I don’t know but I do think that carpet bombing cities across the country with demonic story time freaks and marches..etc was a pay for view event.

Aubergine

I believe you are correct.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Yeah, I agree…because it came out of nowhere.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I Do NOT Care.

I DO care.

I want it to hurt.

Aubergine

I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire. YMMV.

mollypitcher5

There may be lots of Markos. There are ( were) tons of grants available for practically any woke idea that has a virtue beacon in the title request. Notice even on Amazon …a boatload of new sellers with the fine print..woman owned, black owned small business.

Not all grants are millions of dollars, A lot are small in comparison but good money while a person is sitting at home doing nothing but taking advantage of the $ flowing to woke crap if you’re in the special groups.

duchess01

Almighty God, we give you thanks for surrounding us, as daylight fades, with the brightness of the vesper light; and we implore you of your great mercy that, as you enfold us with the radiance of this light, so you would shine into our hearts the brightness of your Holy Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Grant us, Lord, the lamp of charity which never fails, that it may burn in us and shed its light on those around us, and that by its brightness we may have a vision of that holy City, where dwells the true and never-failing Light, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Lord God Almighty, as you have taught us to call the evening, the morning, and the noonday one day; and have made the sun to know its going down: Dispel the darkness of our hearts, that by your brightness we may know you to be the true God and eternal light, living and reigning for ever and ever. Amen.

Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth: The Lord is his name. Amen.

Amos 5:8

https://www.beliefnet.com/prayers/christian/bedtime/evening-prayer.aspx



TheseTruths

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TheseTruths

🤔🤔🤔

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Aubergine

There’s SOMETHING in that building that the demonic powers-that-be are freaking desperate to get to. That I know.

Aubergine

Yes, seems likely. Vindman, of all people, would not have been caught dead trying to get in that building unless he was desperate. I mean, seriously, that was just stupid. But I think he didn’t have much choice; whatever is in there is going to bring down the whole diseased temple.

TheseTruths

Jack Poso:

If you think USAID was big just wait

Elon’s response:

Yes 😎

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1886841276403999198

‼️🍿‼️🍿‼️🍿

para59r

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slowcreekno

Saw at Anonymous Conservative, that the Department of Education and the Office of Personnel Management appear to be the next in line.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Just so long as what’s coming isn’t too big to fell.

(no, not a typo: I want to make sure it’s something we can cause to fall.)

kalbokalbs

EPA, DOPE, so many Billions out there to cancel.

Also looking forward to DoD.

wowohwow1528

Just a little bit of music …   :wpds_smile: 

Song for you, Leon Russell

There Will be days like this – Van Morrison4

The traveling Wilbur’s – the end of the line

Old Me Better
Ken’ Mo’

♦️♦️♦️😜♦️♦️♦️

Barbossa “Better believe in ghost stories miss turner you’re in one”

Tombstone-Kurt Russell
Hell’s Coming With me

Grow Old Along with Me – Mary Chaplin Carpenter

RedLegLeader68

Well, there is this, one of my favs:

wowohwow1528

Like😎👍

wowohwow1528

Really like ‼️ 🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶

RedLegLeader68

Listen closely to the words … all of our youth … at least us Boomers!!!

mollypitcher5

 ☝  I really like Marshal Tucker, saw them a few times..good times
… saw Leon Russell quite a few times, Van Morrison…wish that I’d kept all my tickets stubs. So many great concerts

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patfrederick

sunnydaze
February 4, 2025 3:44 pm

UN!!!!

BREAKING: Trump just signed an Executive Order withdrawing us from:

– UN Human Rights Council

– UNRWA

– UNESCO

It also calls for more review into the money that’s sent to the UN!

HUGE!!! pic.twitter.com/FIfXSbV9BQ

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 4, 2025

cthulhu

UNRWA needs to be designated a foreign terrorist organization and bombed whenever they meet.

TheseTruths

  :banana2:   :pepper:   :banana2:   :pepper:   :banana2: 

So many organizations and regulations that seemed untouchable (because no one dared to touch them or because they were profiting off of them) are falling. Chains are being loosed one by one, and we are being set free.

Valerie Curren

Amen–PTL!!!

patfrederick

Marica
February 4, 2025 at 3:47 pm
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump says he’s left instructions to “OBLITERATE” Iran if they ass*ssinate him
“That would be a terrible thing for them to do—not just because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end. I’ve left instructions.”
“There wouldn’t be anything left.”

RedLegLeader68

FAFO

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Hmmm. Who becomes commander in chief if they do that to Trump?

Yeah, I think those instructions just might be followed.

pgroup2

A not-so-minor detail.  😆 

Aubergine

Yeah, J.D. comes from my neck of the woods. Where they punish rapists by nailing their pecker to a stump, setting the stump on fire, and handing the rapist a knife.

Want to try him, Iran?

Valerie Curren

Yikes–that there is a serious punishment fits the crime scenario–Wow–justice!

Aubergine

Yeah.

TradeBait2

That should happen even it they try and are unsuccessful.

gil00

Agreed. And anyone who attempts to stop us….

TheseTruths

End Wokeness:

The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau, for this (J6 protesters walking in the Capitol):

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1886865234704654724

mollypitcher5

Much more than walking into the Capitol…it was the foundation of the plan to take Donald Trump out of the arena.. preferably in jail or bankrupt. Unfortunately the J6ers were collateral

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

And some of them STILL are.

mollypitcher5

 😡 

kalbokalbs

Bondi & Kash have this on their “to do” list.

Then take some scalps for not letting all J6ers out. Lots of scalps.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

The abusive guards…and their entire chain of command.

I think in one case it’s a county clink in Florida. If so and the allegations are true the sheriff needs to be hauled out in cuffs.

pgroup2

Pay-per-view.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I should hope Trump himself has something in the works.

kalbokalbs

I’m sure Trump does. My guess is Trump is waiting until he has both DOJ and FIB.

The entire J6 Coup weighs on Trump. Trump is loyal.

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

That would be an excellent reason for the delay.

pgroup2

Not just scalps.

Robes, too.

No judicial immunity for conspiracy to violate civil rights.

patfrederick

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PAVACA

IMO, past time for Federal Marshals to show up and arrest her on charges of treason against the United States.

Valerie Curren

This!

pgroup2

Shh. She’s helping ICE get them all in one place.

patfrederick

h/t Filly
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4GodandCountry

….and use as human shields

Gudthots

IC Series| USAID, NED, and OTI as The Soft Power War At Home
I keep seeing the lazy narrative that USAID was just funding Democrats—wrong. This isn’t about party politics; it’s about power. USAID, through OTI, funnels money to both sides via NDI (Democratic) and IRI (Republican) because, at the highest levels, it’s a uni party operation.

The real issue isn’t who gets the funding—it’s how the system is designed to manipulate elections, media, and opposition movements worldwide, including here at home. DOGE (@elonmusk )needs to open OTI’s books—that’s where the bodies are buried.

Consider this your introduction to NED and OTI—not that those steering the narrative would ever give you the complete picture. I’m using the latest WikiLeaks disclosures as an opportune moment to educate the public, though let’s be clear: this information isn’t new, nor is it remarkably well-hidden. It’s just inconvenient for those who benefit from the illusion of transparency.

more at: https://toresays.substack.com/p/ic-series-usaid-ned-and-oti-as-the

TheseTruths

Peeling back more layers.

USAID works closely with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI)—entities that provide a more discreet avenue for funneling money into political movements.

duchess01
duchess01

Ops Have Just Begun, Trump Attending Super Bowl? Sum Of All Fears, Panic In DC – Ep. 3563
 February 4, 2025  x22report

https://x22report.com/ops-have-just-begun-trump-attending-super-bowl-sum-of-all-fears-panic-in-dc-ep-3563/

The [WEF][CB] are continuing to push their agenda in the EU. This will fail, just like the covid passports. Trump is cleaning out the EPA, there goes the green agenda. China fights back against Trump tariffs, big fail, Trump and the US have the leverage. The calls of ending the Fed are getting louder. The [DS] is now preparing for riots, using antifa and the illegals. Stephen Miller reminds the people that the insurrection can be used. 10th military division in position. Ops have begun. It is being reported that Trump is attending the Super Bowl. Sum of All Fears. The fun begins right after the Super Bowl. Panic In DC.

Ep 3563a – First USAID, Sometimes You Need To Show The People, All Roads Lead To The Fed [CB]
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3563a-first-usaid-sometimes-you-need-to-show-the-people-all-roads-lead-to-the-fed-cb/

Ep 3563b – Ops Have Just Begun, Trump Attending Super Bowl? Sum Of All Fears, Panic In DC
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-3563b-ops-have-just-begun-trump-attending-super-bowl-sum-of-all-fears-panic-in-dc/

para59r

Pam Bondi just passed vote to be Attorney General.

para59r

BREAKING: Senate Votes 54-46 to Confirm Pam Bondi as US Attorney General

Watched the live feed at the very end. Last few were all Repubs being called and Fetterman voting Aye. Must of been a couple more.

para59r

Nope….just Fetterman and 53 Republicans.

TradeBait2

Fetterman is serving the Manchin role.

Do nothing for the Dems. Ever.

kalbokalbs

A great day!

para59r

Lets see if the squishier will let at least one tweet through since it’s fairly new.
https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1886940593974104367

TheseTruths

In my experience, the ones with the long stream of numbers at the end of the URL never show. I’ll keep testing it, though.

TheseTruths

🎉🥳🎊🇺🇸

4GodandCountry

Let’s all hope she is who she has promised to be, not who she has been in the past.

George Zimmerman says hi.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Yes that will be very interesting.

para59r
kalbokalbs

The Storm Continues To Intensify.   :pepper:   :banana-mario:   :banana2: 

TradeBait2

Now they are getting serious!

scott467

Just imagine how fun that would be, to walk right into the heart of enemy HQ, take over whatever computer systems you wanted, access whatever files you wanted, and be totally UNTOUCHABLE by any of the fed boi goons and rainbow girls 😂 🚀 🚀 🚀

GA/FL

RUBIO – SPEAKS ABOUT FOREIGN AID 

President Trump has given Rubio a chance to be a great statesman.

Looks like Rubio is stepping up to the challenge. 

Rubio’s Spanish fluency has already been valuable in Panama, El Salvador, and more.
His fluid lawyer speak is also an important diplomatic tool – as we see in the video above.

As Secretary of State, Rubio is turning out to be a real asset – much better, more effective and seemingly, more dedicated to President Trump’s visions and goals than his prior Secretaries of State.  

Rubio keeps reiterating President Trump’s goals – ‘acting only in The United States interest, security, prosperity.’ It is important for the American people to hear these goals repeated over and over through the media.

President Trump seems to be interested uniting the American hemisphere in a common purpose – to amass strength against China, BRICS, and the communist ideologies.

Can’t wait to watch the Trump Doctrine (better than the Monroe) bloom!

para59r

That’s the smart Rubio. Where’s the weasel Rubio? What has Trump done with him? 😆

4GodandCountry

The deep state had double-agents like Pence.

Why not Trump with Rubio?

This is a delicious thought, given the position Rubio held as a Senator.

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TheseTruths

Rubio’s Spanish fluency has already been valuable in Panama, El Salvador, and more.

I’ve had the same thought. At first I wondered why PDJT chose him. I bet this was one factor.

kalbokalbs

Trump reacts hilariously to news that Biden signed with a talent agency:

“You gotta be kidding. He signed on with a talent agency? He’s got bigger problems than that.”

https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1886884774108619116

singingsoul1

Biden’s pay out for the family.?

para59r

Zelensky demanding nukes from Piers Morgan. vid in story and tweet.

Ukrainian President Zelensky Demands the West Provide Ukraine with Nuclear Weapons (VIDEO) Jim Hoft Feb. 4, 2025 3:45 pm 849 Comments

https://twitter.com/ProdigalThe3rd/status/1886803053602361390

Prodigal

Word to the wise.

Never give nukes & advanced weaponry to a corrupt cokehead that’s lost track of +$100B in US aid/arms/support

Ukrainian President Zelenksy:

“Give us… nuclear arms.”

singingsoul1

Zelensky is dangerous. Trump needs to make a peace deal with Putin pronto before this clown gets his hands on nukes.

kalbokalbs

My guess.

Trump has people talking with Putin’s people.

Trump will only deal with Zelensky to end the war AND snag whatever goodies Ukraine has to offer. Rare earth minerals…

Zelensky will do what he is told offered. Zelensky has zero cards in his hand.

para59r

One guy says.

“Haha that bum would try to sell the nukes!!! What would he do with Nukes vs Russia??? Bomb Donsk apt complex?”

singingsoul1

You are right the guy has a customer.

gil00

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4GodandCountry

Zelensky demanding nukes

  :wpds_lol:   :insane: 

scott467

“Zelensky demanding nukes from Piers Morgan.”

_____________

Sounds like Pier Morgan needs to be investigated.

How did he get nukes?

para59r

The MAGA Strip is trending on twitter. Trump says we are going to take it over. All I can say is them guys there better freaking behave. 😐
WATCH LIVE: President Trump to Hold Press Conference With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Jordan Conradson Feb. 4, 2025 4:00 pm 475 Comments
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para59r

Apologies. Has no idea how that lunatic ended up in my post. Feel free to draw an X across his face. 😁

Aubergine

That’s alright. Ukrainians probably wonder how the lunatic ended up in their government!

para59r

Wild guess… but USAID likely had some part to play. 😉

Aubergine

Lol. Yeah.

gil00
para59r

Dummy Dem Gov needs to tell her cops to stand back if they aren’t going to fix that. We got a trick for them.

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kalbokalbs

Wow!

Storm is picking up…AND it is great!

CIA offers sweeping buyouts to entire workforce as Trump pushes to downsize government agencies: report
https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/us-news/cia-offers-sweeping-buyouts-to-entire-workforce-as-trump-pushes-to-downsize-government-agencies-report/

kalbokalbs

Laughing here.

Musk Query: Shall DOGE Audit the IRS?
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/elon-musk-irs-doge/2025/02/04/id/1197790/

TheseTruths

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Do it, please!

4GodandCountry

How did you get the gif to post, please?

Awesome.

TheseTruths

I found the gif at tenor.com. Depending on your computer, you can right-click on it or Control-click, then choose “open image in new tab.” From there, you just copy the URL and paste it here.

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kalbokalbs

Thank you.

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scott467

Musk Query: Shall DOGE Audit the IRS?

______________

Why yes… yes it shall.

Give it the full rectal exam 👍

TheseTruths

Administration officials indicated that the intelligence agency decided to offer the buyouts as part of an effort to bring the CIA more in line with President Trump’s priorities, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Left doesn’t think PDJT has a right to have agencies in line with his priorities. Oh, well.

gil00

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para59r

We’ve been hearing a lot about exposing 5000 FBI agents, this story makes it much more plain.
FBI Admits That a Massive Number of Its Agents Worked On J6 Prosecutions

5,000 Agents working J6 political prosecutions. 😠

Gail Combs

Well, I lost my fight with Word Piss again. I think my Wednesday post has already gone live.

So at least it is up and Wolfie does not have to boot it out of Jail.

kalbokalbs

Yup. it’s live. Promise not to read it until the stroke of midnight, or later.

THANKS for doing all you do. I, WE, appreciate it!

Gail Combs

You are very welcome. I just hope my multi-dimensional thinking is not too tough to follow.

My thinking really does look like that train switching yard.😎

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

You should have seen my post last Saturday before three passes with the editor.

There’s still one hugely redundant paragraph there I should have cut.

Valerie Curren

The Redundant Department of Redundancy 😉

cthulhu

Good to see you!!!!

I’m just a bit gunshy of our regulars not appearing regularly.

Gail Combs

Ran a friend to the hospital. She had 3 seizures in 2 days. Wait time 5 hours. 🙄

Also I had a reaction to the Prednisone prescribed for my breathing/inflamed lungs. It made my potassium levels drop like a rock. Calls to the health clinc (three) who prescribed it Wednesday were useless. They told me to go to emergency. 🙄 I had a check-up 2 days later on Friday so the labs were already done within the last 24 hrs. I could not get a call back from the Primary care Dr though. Since I need to get rid of the inflammation ASAP before hay fever season, I am cutting the pills and taking them more frequently so I get the same net dose every 24 hours. I tolerated 5 mg a few years ago just fine, but 40 mg in one gulp?? HECK NO!

I completed the first day and so far, as long as I take potassium I do not have the symptoms.

Potassium supplements in patients treated with corticosteroids
Abstract1. Preliminary studies are reported on 8 patients with lung disease given prednisone both with and without potassium supplements.
2. There were no abnormalities of plasma potassium but there was a relationship between the dose of prednisone and the urinary excretion of potassium whilst off supplements: higher doses were associated with increased potassium excretion.
3. Patients who had been on treatment for a short period retained more of their supplements than did those who had been on treatment for several years.
4. It is suggested that with prolonged treatment control of potassium homeostasis may be altered, and that more detailed metabolic studies should be carried out.

Gudthots

I know someone that has potassium issues. They said, never let them put you on an IV with it. Super painful.

Liquid ionic potassium might be worth a look. However, this version may have too much NaCl for you. Of course, there are lots of food sources. My preference personally would probably be coconut water (real stuff without the fillers).

https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/potassium/

Trace-ionic-K
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Valerie Curren

Hope you are feeling better ASAP!

I had to watch my Granddaughter so my daughter could take her hubby to the ER as he’s been sick on & off for 2 weeks & had spiked his 3rd 105 temp that day (I didn’t get home til 3 am yesterday). SIL was diagnosed w/ pneumonia, bronchitis, & pink eye & given 3 prescriptions. Hope he’s on the mend quickly but he’s supposed to stay home for a week as he heals up.

para59r

BREAKING REPORT: All overseas USAID employees recalled and missions ordered to SHUT DOWN by FridayFeb. 4, 2025 6:42 pm

The new director of USAID, in conjunction with the State Department, has just ordered all overseas USAID missions to shut down by Friday and for all employees to return to the US. . . .

I wonder how this effects Putin Bad & Pro Zelensky news? Will we see a void in the universe?

TheseTruths

It just keeps getting better and better. The effect of this will be telling.

para59r

Oh Noooo! The Bot Farms & the Bot Farmers! I😮I

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kalbokalbs

Bot farmers.   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:

Having too much damn fun, fifteen days and counting..  :cheers: 

Robert Baker

i seem to recall something about Macedonian content farmers causing Hillary to lose in 2016

scott467

Who hasn’t been there before?

When things go wrong, it’s always the Macedonians… 😂

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Wish I could say they bot the farm.

Robert Baker

This is too well organized to have been developed since November. This is years worth of planning. This must have been the most secret and coordinated planning since D-day. It rivals Jekyll Island preparation.

4GodandCountry

It rivals Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and Operation Desert Storm

Robert Baker

I remember watching Schwarzkopf giving briefings during the Gulf War and thinking that man is a soldier.

4GodandCountry

Me too.

I also remember the media parasites trying to get him to disclose operational details of everything that he was planning, and he would just smile and say “next question”.

Robert Baker

My specific memory of his briefings was showing a video of an American jet bombing a bridge. He prefaced the video by saying that this was the luckiest man in Iraq. The video showed a bomb exploding on the bridge maybe 50 yards behind a truck crossing the bridge. As I recall the truck did not stop.

para59r

I think the Very Stable Genius being the builder that he is, simply broke down all the various parts of government and examined their widgets and whadjets and how they interreacted with each other, having got to know some of the their pointy ends and such and then practiced reassembling the pieces in various guises with their original intent foremost in mind before adopting the ones that seemed best for the common folk. Piece of cake for Trump. 😁

scott467

It’s just so beautiful… 😂

scott467

I wonder how it affects Samantha Power, and her one-wymyn mission to overthrow every nation on earth that doesn’t bend the knee to the Creep State?

para59r

Estee examines this Musk stuff from the dem prospective.
https://twitter.com/mommyrn88/status/1886937138958160284

TheseTruths

She’s doing those crazy eyes…

wowohwow1528

She’s seriously creepy, she should stay away from cameras …. Ewwwwwwww 🫣🫢🤢😮😩

TheseTruths

She’s being creepy on purpose, mocking Dems.

wowohwow1528

Ahhhhhhhhh …. ummmm … never mind sorry 😞

TheseTruths

No problem. She’s the one who used to imitate Kamala Harris. 😊

wowohwow1528

Egads her eyes 👀 are HUGE, they looked like they were going to pop out of her head‼️
YUCK

4GodandCountry

Is she trying to channel Kama-la-la-la-ding-dong?

TheseTruths

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cthulhu
para59r

Guy can bring back the whole suit industry.

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