In the annals of Freudian graphic design, this apropos logo is one for the history books.
As one of the qualified Diversity Equity and Inclusion spokepeople for Mitch McConnell’s DeceptiCon group, Joni Ernst has always had a very specific role to play. Today she announces Ron DeSantis is joining the porkulous parade, an apropos name for a pork-filled United States budgetary process that has replaced regular order since fiscal year 2008.
That is correct folks. All of these debt ceiling arguments, continuing resolutions, stop-gap spending bills, and generally corrupt UniParty spending outcomes, are the result of congress dropping the budget process after fiscal year 2008. For the past fifteen years in a row, specifically as part of the Obama ‘fundamental change’ process, the budgetary order in the U.S. government has been eliminated.
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Everything associated with federal spending is a corrupt and arguably unconstitutional system of base-line budget growth, continuing resolutions, no budget constraints and debt ceiling increases. The media like to play the budget narrative game without ever mentioning the source of the issue.
Can you think of a more apropos logo to represent the interests of Washington DC and the right-wing of the UniParty agenda?
Quite a remarkable and Freudian optic.
We are in an abusive relationship with our government.
I digress…
Congress hasn’t passed an operating budget properly since the 90’s. It’s convenient to connect with the Obama regime’s era but this asshattery was going on before 2008.
Two things.
The 2009 “budget” would have been set in the fourth quarter 2008. “Fiscal Years” run from Sept to Sept not January to January.As I understand it, 2008 was when budgets were no longer passed under regular order and base line budgeting was set up.
And I think it was at that point that we no longer saw news articles about things that were passed out of the appropriations committee….as the budget was being constructed.
Reading the news about appropriation was the usual and easiest way to comprehend each budget’s design and contruction…a process that was easy to watch every year.
Baseline budgeting has been around since 1974, iirc. It’s gone through some changes in the 80’s and 90’s, but as a concept, it’s been around for decades. 2008 was a watershed year because now they use the concept without a budget, which is part of the reason the debt has ballooned so much. To oversimplify it, CR’s usually only focus on one or two areas of government. Meanwhile, in the background, ALL other spending is going up as well. The CR may increase spending in the targeted areas by much more and that gets the press. The following year, what they raised publicly goes to the background and they focus on the NEXT areas. Meanwhile, that big increase in last year’s CR? Those things ALSO continue to go up.
Ok, you’re going back to the Clinton regime, eh?
90’s, certainly. Nothing was being prepared in Congress to execute with the same budgetary information they had in plenty of time from the various cabinet agencies. They sat on it and simply failed to perform a core function. Well before ‘W’ it was Fugly.
This is true.
Federal bankruptacy may be a better option than allowing this unConstitutional budgetary mess continue.
I would rather go down the drain than to come up it.
Think about this. The 2023 annual budget for the US federal bureaucracy was fully exhausted by Memorial Day 2023.
Just ponder that another moment.
We could recoup hundreds of billions of our tax dollars by deporting the double digit illegal aliens roaming our country with impunity and appropriating monies proposed for hiring 87,000 IRS armed agents to completing the border wall.
do you guys ever think deep into the current environment we are living in and the connection to what happened in 2020 and has been an extension of that ever since?
“the new normal”
Trump/MAGA was on the verge of ending the Uniparty club cabal. Everything they threw at us including their 4th branch failed at every attempt to stop us. They had no choice but to literally and physically remove our ability to vote them out.
Its pretty damn scary if you go deep and get a clear picture of this in your head.
We carry on in this imaginary system that they tweak as needed when the electorate becomes a threat to their private corporate enterprise but I dont believe the Club ever had to completely remove our ability to vote because they were successful in manipulating those outcomes using other methods such as the media. Trump/MAGA, a result of the Clubs usual methods failing to manipulate us, pushed the Club to extremes when confronted with their inevitable and fast approaching demise. If it werent for Obama laying most of the ground work of corrupting/weaponizing every corner of the federal government prior to President Trump, we may have ended their party indefinitely.
Which leaves us wondering how does voting get rid of those in office by voter fraud.
Ask yourself how I can expose the frauds who are stealing it. One way is to get more people to vote. Not voting is not only a defeatist attitude but it actually is playing right into the hands of the criminals. They wont even have to make fools of themselves anymore trying to cover up the fraud (DeSantis) if we stop voting.
There needs to be a massive uprising demanding justice with proof of fraud in hand with a strategy to deal with the jackboots the fbi/media will insert to sabotage the movement.
Like Jan 6, 2021?
yeah x10 or like March 5, 1770 with our own army of agents and media standing by to document it. Let everybody see that whatever happens next is because they left us no other choice.
No right to peaceful assembly
No right to redress grievances
Weaponized federal agents terrorizing peaceful protests
etc…
a criminal cabal is ruling over us. Many werent even elected.
There is ONLY ONE WAY at this point and we all know what that is.
Down to the last box
How true is it, in a world that seeks comfort, that we are losing everything because so many people are too afraid to lose anything?
https://skeshel.substack.com/p/meeting-commander-price-may-change
Patience, Francis.
Not yet, we are still recruiting.
When moses drew the line in the sand, he gave all an opportunity to position themselves,….before coloring that line,…red.
Ernst one of the worst RINOs. She claims to be against big government and wasteful spending, but she’s all in for sending billions the crooks and fascists in Ukraine. She and every other Iowa politician is wholly owned by the ethanol industry and corn growers. Politicians pretend they care about their voters, but they dance to the tune played by the big donors. It’s all a scam and a racket. I would love to know how much these warmongers get from Lockheed, Raytheon, etc.
You described an oligarchy by ProxyWhores.
She is typical. Honest little farm girl. Sells out to Raytheon. Has her nose up McConnell’s rear end so far she can’t see, and to appease the GOPe, she has a soft spot for Ukraine, which gives her extra credit points from Raytheon. ((Biggest employer in Iowa). Rest assured, Ron will wear his blue jeans and boots, just like Jeb to her big pork roast. Embarrassed I grew up in Iowa.
I’m from Indiana, so I know your pain. The likes of Lugar, Hamilton, Quayle, and last but not least,Pence, make me ashamed of the Hoosier state.
I’m more worried about these spendthrift criminals in DC wasting our national wealth and selling that wealth to enrich themselves as they have been doing. Corruption is not the word to describe what they are doing, you go to prison for corruption. These despot criminals need to hang.
Look at the landing holdings of the government over 2.5 billion acres of land onshore and offshore, for sure over 150 trillion dollars worth and fluctuate between 150/200 trillion depending ‘fossil’ fuel price.
If these criminals think I’m going to pay off their debt, they better start building high’er’ walls around where every they’re living!
usdebtclock.org
Rep. Randy Feenstra is the RINO who replaced Steve King in Iowa. Lately he’s been parading around Iowa with RDS. Last week Ron was at the “Feenstra Family Picnic” (as was Joni), similar to Joni Ernst’s folksy cookouts and motorcycle rides. Here’s Ron and Ron’s gator boots in Iowa.
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Feenstra is from Iowa’s most republican county with a strong Dutch constituency. They are God fearing people who are more fearful of losing a dollar. Feenstra epitomizes the RINO spirit: conservative until the chips are down. Then, any decision will be rationalized based upon perceived economic impact on his core donors. He is on a leash and is the antithesis of Steve King. King was too far out for their sensibilities.
In my Area of northwest Iowa. An area of German descendants. We call people from Feenstras County “Hollanders”. The old joke is if you want to keep a Hollander from drinking your beer when fishing. You bring two along.
Two gay guys. Look at Jeb Desantis’s hands.
Hey, did you know that BOTH South Carolina’s senators are gay?
Fancy that! SC can outfit an entire gay pride parade!
Anything to confirm what you’re claiming?
I’m no DeSaster fan but that’s a bit out there for me.
SC Senators preferences is a separate topic.
Ron! and Randy! are shaking hands. That is only Ron’s! right hand clasped by Randy’s! right hand. Randy managed to only grab Meatball’s fingers.
What? Lindsay’s Gay?.
not even broken in like his baseball glove.
Feenstra looks like he’s on the spectrum.
Yeah… I have family members who just love Feenstra because he’s the “Christian Choice”. But he’s just another RINO Wolf in Christian Sheep’s Clothing. There are SO many people who get elected simply because they can talk about how “Christian” they are, and know how to put on a good show with their families… Insert Cruz, DeSantis, Feenstra and a few others. I don’t approve of people who use religion as their main talking point to get ahead, plain & simple. Take, for example, the DeSanctimonious camps ad where they imply he’s endorsed by God.
Great, now I have to bleach my eyes!🙄. 🤣
Yep obama is the drivers seat but he don’t eat pork.
Remember she came up through the Tea Party, what a fraud.
Once again, ernst is excited to be on the losing side of things.
So, ONCE again without even reading beyond the 2nd sentence, this is about breaking the middle class which is what odumbo said in 2008 “america needs to be brought down a notch”. No one besides him should lead a privileged life in his sick point if view, especially them white folk.
The billionaire that got rich on overpriced Patagonia outdoor wear said that Capitalism should be outlawed?
He got his so, everyone else should be screwed?
That’s not me on the motorcycle!
CHEF 👨🍳 BOY RD is eating some RNA fortified pork
I hope he has some extra helpings!
Pork meatballs!
Alex Berenson has joined the Meatball Ron team with a Trump-bashing newsletter today. As soon as I read a part of it, I unsubscribed so it might be noted on his stats when it was done. Hopefully others will do the same.
Is it my eyes or do his recent photos make him look thinner than reality?
Everyone in congress is pretty much exposed whether they’re with us or against us. Only a handful need to drop mask at this point
“I digress.”
-Sundance
No, you really didn’t.
Getting a Balanced Budget now is essential and a Balanced Budget Amendment mandatory.
Call for a Balanced Budget Amendment and get it!
Even before fiscal policy began to shift away from asking whether balancing the budget should be a primary goal, there were efforts to establish formal legal underpinnings for the principle. Perhaps the first example of this occurred in 1935 when Senator Millard Tydings introduced a measure that would have taken away some of the flexibility Treasury had accrued with respect to debt management by proposing to prohibit appropriations in excess of revenues in the absence of a new debt authorization and require that any new debt be liquidated over a 15-year period (S.J.Res. 36, 74th Congress).
The following year Representative Harold Knutson introduced the first proposed constitutional amendment that would have required a balanced budget (H.J.Res. 579, 74th Congress). That proposal would have allowed for the possibility of deficits, but would have established a per capita limitation on the federal public debt during peacetime. Since the limit suggested was lower than the outstanding debt at the time, it would have effectively mandated budgetary surpluses.
The first congressional action beyond the introduction and referral of proposals occurred in 1947. By special arrangement, the Senate Appropriations Committee had a balanced budget amendment jointly referred to itself as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Appropriations Committee reported the measure on May 5, 1947.15 However, the Judiciary Committee did not take any subsequent action, and no further formal consideration occurred.
Since the 1930s, dozens of proposals have been made to require a balanced budget, to limit the size or growth of the federal budget or of the public debt, or some combination of these ideas, including several notable recent efforts. These have come in the form both of bills and proposed constitutional amendments.
Although most of the interest in a balanced budget requirement has been focused on the idea of a constitutional amendment, there have been two almost separate debates occurring simultaneously on the subject: first, whether there should be a balanced budget requirement, and second, whether it should be a constitutional amendment. These concerns are related, but they are not identical. The pros and cons of a balanced budget requirement are often framed in economic terms, while the pros and cons of a constitutional amendment incorporate legal, procedural, and structural concerns.
BRILLIANT!! Oink! Oink! 🐷
even though I am a senior, and they would take my soc sec (they would get their money) I say let it burn
Me, too. At this point, in this mess, it is helpful to have already accepted that this life is going to end for me. Exactly how it does is out of my hands and being at peace with that is a good thing. Doesn’t mean there aren’t some tire-burnout marks here and there……it is what it is. It ain’t pretty. And it ain’t gonna get prettier in the months ahead.
His biggest accomplishment is “taking on the woke left”. Wow. It doesn’t even say “taking on the woke left successfully”. That is all Meatball has done and he only did “token” moves not REAL fighting against the left. Certainly, he has done nothing on the level of PDJT.
Let’s hope that Ron has the time of his life. While we look at the 2015 Enrst Roast and Ride in reflection.
Leftist calls in bomb threat to Joni Enrst Roast and Ride
June 6, 2015
Leftist domestic terrorists called in a bomb threat at Joni Ernst’s ‘Roast and Ride’ event in Iowa. A leftist male called and said there was five bombs in or near Big Barn Harley Davidson Dealership. Republican candidates for president were at Ernst’s Roast and Ride even at Big Barn Harley Davidson Dealership and had to be evacuated. According to Breitbart News, there was even a “security breach” in Iowa Saturday. The bomb threat thankfully turned out to be a hoax by some leftist moron sitting in his mother’s basement popping shoulder zits.
Leftist calls in bomb threat to Joni Enrst Roast and Ride
Leftist calls in bomb threat to Joni Enrst Roast and Ride
R.D. Lampe with the Boone, Iowa police department confirms exclusively to Breitbart News that a bomb threat was called in to the Iowa Roast and Ride with a voice recorder. He later added that as that event was ending, a second bomb threat was called to authorities in Polk county.
Lampe says that when bomb threats are made, it’s usually difficult to track down the caller. He says a number can be traced, but it’s usually a throw-away phone.
The potential security breach prevented candidates getting to their tents and greeting voters for a time on Saturday. At least seven GOP candidates were at the event.
Two separate campaign officials had confirmed to Breitbart News candidates were held for security reasons due to a security breach.
A third campaign confirmed to Breitbart News that it was in fact a “bomb threat.”
“They had to move principles (candidates and major speakers) to one of the side buildings,” one staffer for a third campaign told Breitbart News. One source, for example, had reported seeing former Texas Gov. Rick Perry arrive on a motorcycle, then be escorted away from the crowd to a secure area.
Shades of Mia Love. Ernst won an Oscar for her performance as a Tea Party candidate. Once she was securely set in office the mask came off and the true RINO/deep state persona was revealed. Never trusted or believed her. Today I detest her.
I’m wondering what’s going on with Trump. Since cancelling the Iowas rally he has been relatively silent.
Really? Ya think? The media is silent to give Ron! (Even Gateway backed off all things Trump for a few days now) and others entering race time to be heard. But, ahhhh, does not mean President Trump is silent.
This “President Trump being silent” concern seems to be an orchestrated talking point. Maybe not by you but definately making the rounds.
THEY LIVE
True colors, shining through ….
Can’t we impeach them all? In fact, Build a wall around D C, and let no one pass in or out. Let in the rat and mice crews to exterminate the whole place. Turn it into a museum. Move the seat of government to the geographic center of the country. Set up the politicians in trailers while the new ‘Capital’ infrastructure is built, so they can feel and see how slowly government really works. Let them feel pain in not having a ‘snug harbor’. Oh yeah, FJB !
I’d say there IS no relationship between us and the government anymore, if there ever was. We are being abused continually. Plain and simple.
Porkulus – Pork Barrel Spending –
I remember John McCain railing against Pork Barrel Spending when he was working on rehabilitating his image after the Keating Five debacle . . .
and you know what, I would say he is the Father of the greatest Pork Barrel Spending project of all time, Ukraine! He was over there repeatedly validating the crooks that were part of creating the situation we have today!
And he was only too happy to be the one carrying the dossier about Donald J. Trump in Moscow indulging in a “Golden Shower” . . . OUR beloved Germaphobe, Donald J. Trump? No way! So ludicrous!
Ernst is a total RINO fraud. She is nothing more than Romney in a wig.
She makes my skin crawl. Her job is to be a female prop whenever China Mitch mumbles something about nothing to the bought off press.
Ron looks so captured.. like he’s being held hostage and Joni, apparently hung around the podium too long with McConnell and his usual backup team. She became warped too.. oink, oink, snort, snort 🐽 it’s ALL about 💸💰💵. Piggies at the trough.
I’m about ready to just let it all fall down and pray we are prepared and can survive. I say take all their comfort money and see who they really are.
My friend investigator Kevin Sherlock in early 2020 contacted every senator and House member who signed a pro-life resolution, told their pro-life staffers he had police records showing Planned Parenthood had seen more than 200,000 girls 15 or younger in the decade 2010-2020 for VD treatment, birth control, or abortion, and the police records he obtained showed they only reported a few hundred girls as potential sex abuse victims. In other words, Sherlock wrote, Planned Parenthood was violating the hell out of mandated reporter laws nationwide because he had the records of more than 400 of their 600 facilities. Would any of these reps or senators bring the word to President Trump, Sherlock asked, so he could have federal charges looked into against Planned Parenthood?
No one responded to him.
So Sherlock looked up the reps’ and senators’ personal numbers on a database, and then started calling and leaving messages. He said Rand Paul’s son did talk to him, and was a bit of a smart aleck like his dad. No other rep or senator answered the phone calls.
But an irate female staffer for Joni Ernst id’ed herself as a lawyer and demanded to know why Sherlock called her boss.
Sherlock said, “Why are you so uptight/”
The woman said Sherlock had contacted Joni’s private line and she was worried.
“Oh, that’s right!” Sherlock exclaimed in mock surprise. “Senator Ernst’s divorce went final so she’s officially back on the market!”
He said the aide gasped at his forwardness.
“But Joni doesn’t have to worry about me,” Sherlock said. “I’m happily married!”
“Now what I did call about was to follow up on that Planned Parenthood info I sent her. She doesn’t need to feel singled out; I’m gonna call everyone who signed that resolution.” (He did. He even called Dan Lopinski and Steve King, lame duck congressmen. Lopinski, a Dem, took the call himself and was courteous, Sherlock said. King’s staffers, though upset their man lost a primary election against a GOPer, still looked at the proposal in earnest and provided some help to Sherlock to clean it up for government consumption.)
Vicki Hartzler’s aide was similarly rude to Sherlock as Joni’s catwoman was. Sherlock told her he was a citizen and a taxpayer and had every right to call her at her husband’s business. He said, “It’s called the right to petition, sweetheart!”
Ultimately Sherlock got it to the White House and Pence staffers. Pence’s people reportedly said the idea to prosecute PP for thousands of mandated reporter violations was a bad one. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the anti Trump pro-life adviser to President Trump, and Kellyanne Conway, who presumably wore a bondage hood over her head when she submitted to her ugly fat husband to conceive their daughter, both also roadblocked Sherlock’s idea. So did counsel Pat Cippollone, he said.
Sherlock finally found email addresses for Don Jr. and Eric, and also contacted a big donor to President Trump who was prolife.
One of them got the President’s attention in late September 2000 on this, because President Trump told World Net Daily’s reporter in early October or late September that if he won re-election, he would have Planned Parenthood investigated for violating the mandated reporter laws so often, and then prosecuted if the evidence was accurate. The story ran in early October 2000.
My point?
Senator Ernst is all farm girl hat and no farm girl corn or hogs. Joni rides not a horse, but a Baloni Poni.
Neither she nor any of the other GOPers or self-styled constitutional conservatives did squat.
Donald Trump, the alleged “soft on abortion” unworthy, was willing to prosecute Planned Parenthood staffers and leaders for enabling the ongoing sexual abuse of thousands of underage girls if that’s what the evidence showed. Trump the former playboy still gives a damn about crime victims, especially vulnerable young girls. More proof? The US Marshal’s people made about triple the arrests for sex trafficking on his watch per year than they did under Bushling or Barry-O.
Donald Trump is Constantine. Not the saintliest of men, but a warlord who defends Christians. President Trump kept most of his promises, including the promise to do something to fight abortion on demand.
A hell of a lot more than the nitpicking prolife posers who talk big and deliver like Pee Wee Herman.
Like Joni and her buddy Martha McSally in Arizona. A groupie of McStain, the guy who burned more than 100 seamen to death aboard the USS Forrestal when he wet-started his jet engines to show off.
It is only natural for Phoni Joni to support Rhonda Santis.
And in the picture she’s taller than Rhonda. Or maybe she’s wearing higher heels than Rhonda is.
Today, this 30th of May is Joan of Arc’s Day on the Catholic calendar, because it was the day English vermin and French traitors burned her alive to murder her. Joan of Arc’s crimes? She loved her nation and God, she lived virtuously with no thought of personal gain, and she risked her life constantly in combat till she was captured, and the traitors in the French government refused to ransom her.
There is a reason Joni spells her name the way she does. The Church and the world know Joan. Joni is no Joan.
Pretty sure Joni rode the tea party wave to office.
“. . . when first we practice to deceive”
Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
pigs eating pork. GH
This is like a wedding of a popular couple that if you were invited you are really in the social club.
“everything associated with federal spending is corrupt”. Sad but no truer words ever spoken in the history of mankind. Except Jesus saves.
I’m from Iowa and sorry I supported her. She crossed sides and voted for Red Flag Laws, and has been steadfast in her unwavering support of the Ukraine war. She follows Mitch McConnell around like a Junior High girl. And of course, she is GOPe. Getting a true conservative Constitutionalist will be very difficult in this state to unseat her. Guess I’ll vote for the Libertarian.
Our intelligence Deep State is the biggest threat Americans face. Will Donald Trump be able to stop them? Probably not. But, he’s the only one who will even attempt to stop them.
Aww they make a cute running couple.
You’ll know them by who supports and bankrolls them. Ron is definitely not MAGA or conservative. He poorly attempts to play the narrative but then like some of his notable role models (aka John, Lindsey, Mitt, Paul, etc.) have done in the past will proceed to stab constitutes in the back. No mystery here as this is being foisted on well informed electorate that has learnt a lesson after being previously deceived.
Uncle Ron’s “focus” on wokeness is a way to distract via emotions that he is just one of the Swamp. I’ll vote for a ham sandwich over anyone the Dems put up for POTUS. Doesn’t mean I have to like it, though.
Take on the woke left (lol) but protect the DC swamp. He likes to pretend that he’s superman while really he’s just a larp.
I make mine, President Trump’s face here:
😏
LOL!
The ad which introduced pig castration to American politics and helped clinch the Republicans’ Senate majority was conceived by a public relations guru who grew up in a liberal bastion far from any farm.
Todd Harris, a veteran Republican strategist from California, helped to transform Joni Ernst’s campaign in Iowa by seizing on a biographical detail that captured the public’s imagination and set her on the road to Washington.
“It got people to take notice of her,” Harris said, clutching a Bud Light as Republicans whooped and celebrated around him in Des Moines on Tuesday night. “It was by no means unanimous that we should run this ad but Joni believed in it.”
The 30-second ad ‘Squeal’ featured Ernst gazing into a camera and boasting of castrating hogs on the farm where she grew up. “So when I get to Washington, I’ll know how to cut pork,” she said. It showed images of pigs, then came her punchline. “Washington is full of big spenders. Let’s make ’em squeal.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/05/behind-joni-ernst-game-changing-pig-castrating-ad
Joni needs a real pork butt for her roast. Ron fits the bill.
No thanks. I’m vegetarian and meatball makes me sick to my stomach.
Ernst is bought and paid for by the Ag-Lobby. You could probably say that about nearly every Senator, but especially coming from Iowa. If you don’t pledge your loyalties to the Ag Lobby first, you don’t even get on the primary ticket in IA.
The Ag Lobby might own more politicians than Big Tech does. They are one of a few that really do “run” Washington with their open-air graft
Felix, oh its far more oganised than that.
Lobbyists ‘donate’ unlimited amounts the the RNC and DNC, which then funnel that $ to State R and D parties, which coordinate election steal.
LOBBYISTS “donate” unlimited amounts to the D and R, House and Senate Campaign committees, that then donate (or withhold in the case of MAGA Candidates) unlimited amounts to individual campaigns.
Thrn, all House and Senate members are given their scripts and marching orders, which they follow to the letter.
Hence, when you see a Senator voting “against their party” like Collins/Mukowski, or recently Manchin/Synema it is all theater.
United States Chamber of Commerce!
Henry Kissinger….Zbigniew Brzezinski…
…and especially….billy bite my lip clinton…then Barry Barack Soetoro Holder Hussein Lynch Obama…
When I was a schoolboy China was only a threat if they could get at you with a tank…
My my how things have changed…
Washington D.C. is an existential threat to the United States of America.
Corrupt and corruptive Chicago…commie Capitol USA
This corrosive erosion of our national power and security is the legacy of Barack Hussein Obama…he…it…has indeed fundamentally changed us…for the worse…
LOL. So very accurate.
Modern day China is a creation of Washington D.C.
WWII was won by American manufacturing prowess which has largely been shipped to China…along with the wealth created by such…
Modern day China is a creation of American traitors….many many of whom were/are US Senators and Representatives.
The primary threat…the clear and present danger to the US of A…
Is Washington D.C…..
“Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within.”
–Douglas MacArthur (May, 15 1952)
“Our biggest danger is from within.”
— Donald J. Trump (April 9, 2022)
We signed our own death warrant by sending our jobs to CHY-na and for allowing them to steal our secrets. See Clinton administration for lots of that.
Sounds like the prelude to a chant for Satan.
I was surprised that Steve Bannon was praising Brzezinski, on War Room, awhile back. He did change his tune a few months later.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2013/01/10/john-brennan-the-cia-zibgnew-brezinski-columbia-university-and-obama/
End the junkets!
End the lobbyists first, then the junkets will decrease substantially.
Guess who benefits from all that cheap labor flooding across the border. Having 12 year old slaves work in your egg factories and clean your floors at 2 am is the best way to maximize profits.
Joni Ernst is complicit in child slavery. She disgusts me.
She and Cory Gardner wasted no time in whoring themselves out to the Donors. Disgusting.
What happened to Trump’s Farmers to Families food boxes?
Kiev Lobby Better
DC’s Legislative Business…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/02/22/dcs-legislative-business/
Base line budget growth …
My personal story about base line budget growth came in 1977 … when I had a (college) job with The National Park Service doing design work for the newly acquired GGNRA (Golden Gate National Recreation Area). Yeah, I actually had to WORK May way thru college. I worked with a group of Landscape Architects who were on loan from the Federal Building at 350 Golden Gate Ave. down by city Hall. We were stationed at Fort Mason … converted from Military use to Park Service use. Well … the end of the fiscal year was coming and the Landscape group hadn’t SPENT all of the budget allocated to it in 1977 … so … just weeks before the end of the fiscal year, they invited me to sit in a room with them and completely MAKE UP projects and budgets to spend their 1997 funds on. Totally made up bullshit projects that didn’t need to get done and was on nobody’s priority list.
Why the frantic scramble to SPEND MONEY? Because back then … there was a danger that you wouldn’t get a budget increase for the following year … and that your budget might actually get CUT!! if you didn’t spend what was allocated to you. I guess the increased budgets are absolutely automatic now, eh? Cuts down on the bullshitty WASTE of taxpayers funds? I’ll tell you it was an eye-opening and sickening experience working that job. I saw absolutely everything I ever needed to know about government WASTE in that job. My direct boss was a GS15 Landscape Architect making a significant $6-figure income who literally came to work … took a couple calls … had lunch … and left early … every single day I was there. He was a nice guy … but he was collecting a BIG FAT government check for doing next to nothing … then ran home to do moonlighting work. Sick. Our government is bloated and sick. And remember … my experience was in 1977!!! … just imagine how bad it is now.
Meanwhile…my fire damaged mine sweeper languished away moored to the pier and finally shuffled back to Charleston SC from Perth Amboy NJ….where lo and behold received funds for repair shortly after the election of Ronald Reagan..
Funny how that works…dems/leftists destroy and waste…and steal…Repubs build it back…
But now the RINO’s are helping to steal elections.
The Left is stealing elections and the young just don’t seem to care….
They shall reap what they sow…and are too stupid to even notice…
Maybe when all of this is over, we can all meet in Highlands, NJ and do shots.
Yes exactly! In 1976, I worked for the Supply Dept at The Naval Air Station, in Jacksonville, FL. I saw the exact same thing happen towards the end of the fiscal year.
Order things, more supplies, whatever, to use up your money, or you wouldn’t get the same budget for the following year.
I was amazed!
I get it. I used to work for the guvmint too, in a position where I took an oath to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse and uphold the U.S Constitution. Never alone, I had a good few projects with many teams before I resigned under duress., I guess.
Am still in contact with many that are now or were under duress over the cv jab. Held their ground. I have yet to grasp so many things that have happened to just holding a position in the fed entails these days.
It is beyond my ken. But it seems I am bearing witness to so many agencies within the US govmint self destructing. For what purpose I do not know. A lot of these agencies serve a PURPOSE , at least I think so.
The TONE is SET FROM THE TOP. It’s just so forking weird to look and see the FED govmint going full tilt to destruct itself.
Build Back Better Jack!
Horrific! I am a designer and sworn to severe budgets and savings towards the bottom line.
Whatever happened to commodity, firmness and delight?
This happens at the local level as well. When I was hired into our local health department’s IT unit, we worked on the budget about a month or so. By the time I retired, the city had a “Budget Department” and work on the budget was a year round thing. There were at least four versions of a city budget, including a “wish list” for departments in case there was any money left over. The departments would spend like mad at the end of the fiscal year, buying stuff like crazy. I saw HP network laser printers, still in the box, never used, being sold for scrap. The city had a law that prohibited donating used equipment, so they would stack perfectly good Dell computers on pallets, wrap them with plastic, and sell them for scrap at pennies on the dollar. They would lease Dell computers to “save money” then buy the computers at the end of the lease! It was totally insane and the waste was unimaginable.
This was the rationale for leaving all the equipment in Afghanistan, not to mention more than a few lives on the way out.