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Local news in GA in full now in full propaganda swing regarding illegals. ICE is picking up illegals with ankle monitors, claiming that they have ankle monitors ONLY because authorities want to know where they are and for no other reason. They are also claiming that “Latine (wth is that?)” people are fearful and are not showing up to work and their kids are not going to school.
You are either illegal, or you are not. Its that simple.
https://www.wkyt.com/2025/01/28/tuberculosis-outbreak-midwest-is-largest-us-history/
Meanwhile, in Kansas..
Import the third world, get third world problems
Wow KDHE are really gaslighting about how communicable TB is –saying it can’t be spread through kissing? WTF?
Tuberculosis (TB) is spread through the air when someone with active TB coughs, sneezes, speaks, sings, or laughs. The bacteria from TB can settle in the lungs and spread to other parts of the body.
How it’s spread
The tuberculosis many illegals pass on is hard to cure, it is often resistant to many meds.
What happens is the illegal is sick, very sick so he or she goes to an ER for treatment.
They recieve antibiotics which they take until they feel better but do not finish the treatment.
Over time the TB becomes hard to treat being resistant to most of our meds.
This was a huge problem in many border states for decades, the media never said a word about this.
Then they insist that milk must be pasteurized because you can get bovine TB.
TB is a concern or it isn’t.
It is…just ask any warden of a prison.
Living in fear is should be part and parcel to openly and blatantly disregarding our laws. I hope they are all afraid.
But let’s be blunt: this is also “human trafficking.” This isn’t “ immigration.” This is very close to slavery, and it can be indentured servitude.
Fortunately for the entities paying slave wages so they can make obscene profit the US taxpayer is funding all the living expenses the slaves need to live comfortably here.
They even named wht they’re doing.
Socialized cost; Privatized Profit.
Those doing the trafficking should be starting to feel a little eye twitch too.
My dream is that IL Gov. Pritzker gets taken to the hoosegow in cuffs.
I live in IL…so look at it this way…Illinois governors have a propensity for getting “locked up”…
All I can say is…be patient, his time might be closer than one would think.
Selena Gomez puts out BRAVE new video explaining why she was so upset
I love it -what a silly woman. GETTEMOUTTAHERE
And the debt slavery imposed on US citizen tax payers to finance the maintenance of aliens is slavery.
Schools, medicine, Food Stamps, crime, etc…..
And you notice who the homeless people are? They’re the low-income Americans shut out of affordable housing by Biden’s massive subsidy of illegal aliens who enjoy heated housing and free food while Americans freeze outside.
Or in Cali they live 3 families to an apartment.
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Exactly
Exactly.
Chi Town Crispy Cream needs his own cell.
He is a property tax cheat…remember “Toiletgate”?
No—he should experience the full aroma & vibe of his new accommodations—new friends, new showers, new playground, new dining hall, etc. He should be in the front row, soak it all in. On national tv. With sound. No assistants.
Someone needs to remind Bannon of the number of IL governor’s who end up in prison.
May I suggest:
“Someone needs to remind Pritzker of the number of IL governors who end up in prison.”
Simple fix for these people: Pack up and return to your country of origin. These are the consequences of illegal entry into a sovereign country.
I agree that a percentage fell for the lies, enticements and misrepresentation told to them by the NGOs and charities and envisioned improved status for themselves and their children – but they had to know they were always living on the periphery and therefore insecure, fearful that a day such as today would arrive. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some of these people found themselves being preyed on by vicious predators.
What’s been really interesting to learn is that only a mere 1% work in ag, with the rest infiltrating large cities. What legitimate work could this category possibly find? None.
They are chattel slaves who live in fear, and who do anything(!) they are told.
Since when did “the 13th Amendment” actually mean anything? …
The 13th Amendment is kinda strange,
including the missing 13th one in regards
to titles of nobility.
Eyes Right…
“What legitimate work could this category possibly find?”
It’s all slave labor and indentured servitude… H1-B’s packed six or eight deep in crappy apartments in low-rent districts… Chinese factory workers doing twelve hour days… “asylum seekers” and otherwise “legitimate economic migrants” doing “jobs that Americans won’t do” for pennies on the dollar and no benefits… Congolese Cobalt Pit Children doing Congolese Cobalt Pit stuff… etc. etc. etc.
Every single illegal knows they are illegal and also know the info that helped them get in and stay were illegal work arounds, directions on how to play the system but……..still illegal. Still a criminal.
You are so right Digestive B, they all know.
Stand by, the NGOs and “Community Organizers” are planning and organizing a summer of love. Joined in solidarity with the usual suspects, BLM, Trans, PLO/Hamas, Antifa and a future unnamed draft pick. Its the only hand they have left to play.
yrah, well “good luck wuth that!”
I don’t think they are going to find masses of participants, easily triggered.
You want to get a crowd all stirred up “in the ghetto”, you don’t talk about white police killing blacks, they ain’t falling for that.
You talk about illegals getting put at the headvof the line, for gummint assistance.
And, I don’t think the American people are going to put up with that crsp, not again.
I hope the American people won’t put up with it. The wife thinks the Marxists are very quiet, with plans up their sleeve.
More importantly, Trump is not going to put up with it. They try something, he will send out the Marines. End of story.
I had an old special forces type tell me once, he could shut down Los Angeles with 100K and one other beret. I was young and this confused me, so I asked how?
Easy, hire people. Confused again I asked who? Easy, criminals, gangs, disaffected politicos. Sacks of cash, you can get a lot done. We will see, hope I am wrong.
Hell, I could shut down any major city by myself, and for $10,000.
You just have to know the ksy vulnerabilitirs,and how to exploit them.
Fortunately, I have no interest or intentions, and those that do don’t know how…
Which is why Trump is trying to cut off the money flow to the NGOs. Protesting is a paying gig in the USA happily funded by good ole Uncle Sam and directed by the Uniparty. Same for the lawfare cadre. We the long suffering taxpayer is paying for chaos, not peace. That is the dot map that needs to be presented everyday from the white house press secretary. Bright, intense, continuous, and disinfecting sunlight.
I don’t know how they will get BLM on board. For the most part black folks understand the Replacement Theory and are not happy about it.
I don’t know that they need BLM for shock troops. All BLM needs to do is issue a solidarity statement, hold a press conference and raise money for the cause.
As deportations ramp up there are 30 million illegal aliens to activate and their sympathizers. Entire industries are addicted to this labor pool. Entire school districts depend on funding based on illegal alien population. Congressional districts exist based on illegal alien populations. There is a lot of money on the table.
We will see, hope I am wrong.
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I suspect that Trump is not going to put up with a repeat of the summer of “peaceful protests” but will declare insurrection and send in troops. His EO declaring the border emergency said as much.
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And I don’t think he’s going to wait until summer. Swift judgment.
Defund the NGOs now!
I also found that fascinating!! I wonder if that is because much is done by automation.
The folks that fed them the lies, enticements and misrepresentation need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Catholic Charities earned $100 Million and used them money to feloniously entice them to enter illegally.
Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) of the United States Code addresses offenses related to aiding and abetting unauthorized aliens and enticing them to illegally enter the USA. Specifically:
It is Not just Catholic Charities.
This has been going on for decades.
Sundance did in depth research about
those Charities involved in immigration
probably a decade ago.
Posted links of Government websites showing
which entities and how much they received.
What I remember most……
Just about Every religious denomination has
their hand in it, and were receiving obscene
amounts of money!
It is just that Catholic Charities is in
the media. 💁♀️🤷♀️
The other religious denominations will
have their turn to be exposed.
I am thinking they are using Catholic Charities
to set the precedent. Then will go after the
others.🤷♀️💁♀️
Yes, I know it’s not just Catholic Charities. I just used them as an example. There are hundreds of NGOs participating in this human trafficking. Doctors Without Borders, the UN, Red Cross, and on and on.
Prosecute them ALL, and yes that includes the UN.
Catholic Charities receives the lions share of the funding ($2.9B in Creepy Groper Joe’s tenure) because they have the largest & the longest running human trafficking operation.
60 minutes did an exposé on their operation in the late 70s/early 80s.
And these dumb people risk their children’s lives by coming here. What kind of people do that?
They excel in taking American jobs because they will accept much lower pay than Americans. Americans have actual bills to pay and taxes to pay and can’t work for peanuts.
Respectfully, are you kidding?
They take jobs in the hotel/restaurant industry, construction, auto repair, landscaping, janitorial, healthcare, assisted living, food processing and manufacturing industries. Oh, and taxi drivers.
And drive down wages for EVDRYONE,in all industries and occupations.
Be fearful, and self deport.
All bilingual education should end along with free lunches which really aren’t free since We the People pay for them with our tax dollars.
Then they know who they are.
National faculty union urges resistance to Trump efforts: ‘vigorously and loudly oppose’
January 24, 2025
https://www.thecollegefix.com/national-faculty-union-urges-resistance-to-trump-efforts-vigorously-and-loudly-oppose/
‘The outlook for higher education is dire,’ group states
Scholars should “loudly oppose” and resist compliance with the Trump administration, the American Association of University Professors said in a new report.
Titled “Against Anticipatory Obedience,” the report, published this month, states the re-election of Donald Trump poses significant threats to higher education, including potential assaults on tenure and academic freedom.
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A fix: END student loans as they currently exist and many of these commies will no longer have jobs!
Excerpts from a post that no longer exists on his site. He only saves some of them:
THIS Is Why Federal ‘Student Loans’ MUST BE ABOLISHED in [Market-Ticker]
2021-07-10 by Karl Denninger
Decades ago, when I came of age, you could spin pizzas or flip burgers and pay for school. All there was at the time were Pell Grants and Stafford loans — beyond that, you paid with money or got scholarships. The cost was reasonable and as such going to college just to do it was a rational decision and you could work a part-time job to pay for it — including a place to live and food to eat. Yeah, you had a cinder-block dorm with two twin bunk beds and a shared shower and crapper between your room and the next one for each pair of two students, and the food in the chow hall was cafeteria-style garbage, but it worked.
It worked well enough in the decades before, by the way, to put men on the moon. If we can manage that with what the college system was capable of it was plenty good enough and produced a thriving middle class.
[snip]
Obama did even worse — he took the entire shooting match and federalized it, removing all discipline in that regard. Of course, being where Obama got his “degrees” from is this a surprise?
What’s the answer? Simple — force the colleges to cut that crap out by removing the money.
– No more federal student loan backing of any sort. Pell Grants and perhaps Stafford for undergrad, OK. Beyond that? Nothing. Period.
– No more bankruptcy exemption. Force lenders to underwrite both students and programs or run the risk of a bankruptcy filing after graduation that causes the lender to eat the balance.
– Ban co-signers on such loans as void due to public policy. No, Mom and/or Dad do not get stuck if you can’t pay post-graduation.
The amount charged for a perceived as needed “product” or “service,” in this case a so-called “education,” will rise to the cost the customers can bear. Imagine that, otherwise known as “basic economics.”
Trust the science!
Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition
Grey Gordon, Aaron Hedlund
September 28, 2015
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.pdf
Excerpt:
“These results accord strongly with the Bennett hypothesis, which asserts that colleges respond to expansions of financial aid by increasing tuition. Existing theories can fully explain the increase in net tuition between 1987 and 2010. Our model suggests demand-side theories have the most predictive power. In fact, our results show the Bennett hypothesis can fully account for the tuition increase on its own.”
The Bennett Hypothesis: “Increases in financial aid in recent years has enabled colleges and universities blithely to raise their tuition, confident that Federal Loan subsidies would help cushion the increase.”
“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.” – Harry Browne
Ignoring professors and pronouncements from universities is a good place to start in creating new, US benefitting policies. Those idiots nearly drove us off a cliff.
Exactly. University Professors, as a group are the very antithesis of MAGA, and as responsible as any single group, for the horrific slide down and to the left, America has experienced for the last 60-150 years.
We are beyond the hypothesis stage: it is now a simple and established FACT!
Well before the late 1980’s, I saw first-hand in the 1970’s that colleges/universities raised their fees/tuition exponentially, the more government offered generous loans to students.
It was NOT a coincidence 50 years ago and is NOT a coincidence today!
The worst thing about all the extra money flowing into these institutions is that it supports Communists propagandizing an anti-American agenda throughout the curriculum.
If you think Mathematics courses could not contain anti-American, Leftist/Communist agenda items, think again!
e.g. “…(Mathematics) questions like the following, found in an Irish school textbook in 2018, have:
Craig buys his boyfriend a birthday present that costs €215.65 including VAT [Value Added Tax] @ 13.5%. What was the original bill before VAT was added?”
See:
https://www.mercatornet.com/recent_left_wing_attempts_to_subvert_maths_curricula_hold_some_awkward_historical_parallels
I attended a college in SoCal 1977 to 1981. Tuition, room, and board was $7,000 a year. Now it costs $85,000 a year to go to the same college.
Arizona State for 5 years was around $60,000. It took me five years to graduate because I worked full time. I wound up with $9,000 in debt upon graduation which I paid back in two years. I chose to live off campus.
That total today would be $161,000.
03-08 at Kansas State University cost me about $30k. I also worked full time. However, I ended with about 20k in loans because room, board, school, books, internet, etc obviously cost more then the approximately 10k a year I made. Started at $5.15/hr in 2003. A 40 hour work week netted me about $170 after taxes per week. When I graduated I was making g $10/hr doing back breaking construction (concrete, framing, roofing, drywall, painting, etc)
I forgot to put dates on mine 87-91. I was making around $5.25 because I was in a supervisory role in the hotel industry.
Rutgers tuition in mid ’90s was only 1500/3200 (in/out of state), not including room & board. Had a scholarship fortunately.
Good Holy Grief T Turtle when my brother went to Arizona State in the mid 1970 tuition was $400 as semester and he had a meltdown if the cost of a semesters books was over $100.
I went to a state university in Missouri from `1973-78 and got my degree in Geology. I had my own apartment. My tuition, books and fees was $1200 for the entire 5 years.
Remember Colin Powell joking about how Hillary “hoovered up” all the money for Speaker fees, so there wasn’t as much left for the others?
This is a kickback.
Hilary also managed to “lose” $8 Billion while she was SoS.
The fundamental “physical plant” of a college is the same as that of any public high school: classrooms, vending machines, bathrooms, parking lots. There is no cost reason why a four-year degree (at a public university!) would should cost a quarter million dollars. Professors aren’t driving Lamborghinis. So, where is “all that money” actually going? You should be charged for the cost of providing the service. It could easily be “free.”
My guess is that the money goes back to the politicians.
Look how many universities hire ex-government types at high salaries.
Why was Janet Napolitano president of the university of California?
Envision a college board approving contracts (for their relatives, without bid, and for services that are never performed).
One way or another politicans get their cut.
“This fall, former United States Sen. Jeff Flake joined Arizona State University as a distinguished dean fellow with The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences…”
https://news.asu.edu/20201202-former-us-sen-jeff-flake-appointed-distinguished-dean-fellow-college
Disgusting. That school has almost made me embarrassed to be an Alum.
Universities have become high end “resorts”, with state of the art workout areas, swimming pools, and mall-style food courts. All completely unnecessary to an education.
High end indoctrination /brainwashing centers.
My state university had all of those things way back in 87-91.
What is the average time spent obtaining a 4 year degree nowadays? Is it 5 or, probably, 6 years?
You have DEI in every department and hiring practices.
If you can’t prove you have proactively advanced POC at the University of California, you can’t even interview! Einstein couldn’t get hired today!
Safe spaces. POC spaces.
I have wondered where the students get the time to enjoy this university country club atmosphere.
I was either in class, studying for class or working at my 2 part time jobs.
Debt is the currency of slaves. Government student loans enslave the borrower, democrats love having slaves, it’s in their DNA.
The real truth is Wall Street. When they could no longer securitize “subprime” (worthless …) loans, they invented: “SLABS = Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities.” And peddled trillions(!) of dollars’ worth of them.
Of course, there is no correlation between the securities and the loans that supposedly “back” them. “Greed is Good.”
Start taxing their trust funds.
Taxing endowments is on the table.
I think they should have to use those endowments to fund the loans given to students. Let each university manage their own student loan departments with zero percent interest. I guarantee costs would go down.
American students have been ripped off by Higher Ed, and the only “solution” proposed is don’t go to college, which would make it easier for the tech titans, because they wouldn’t have to lie when they say Americans don’t have the skills.
Neither of my granddaughters who will graduate this summer plan to go to college.
One is going to work on her father’s family farm, the other has a job she likes, at a grocery store and has plenty of options for moving through the ranks there.
The kids today know.. precisely why Barron Trump’s advice to his father’s campaign was so valuable.
Good idea Clarion.
Also severly limit the number of foreign students.
If education is your true goal, this would be so easy to fix. Find The very best teachers available and create online lectures series that they sell with royalties and can be used over and over.
Hire tutors, monitors, or use test centers to tutor and test. These can be teachers or people who know and understand the material.
You rent entire apartment buildings as a sort of co-op dorm where they have shared spaces to study their professions online for a fraction of the cost. Paid resident advisors could oversee the kids, plan events, have shared meal costs and whatever else floats your boat.
20 years ago, I thought this would already be in practice, but too many rice bowls smashed by this.
Make the teaching of Marxism treason and the problem solves itself.
Remove accreditation and non-taxable status to every institution providing programs and hiring professors that support and promote anti-American principles. Also ban any student visas for persons desiring to attend those institutions and to anyone on visa that does attend one.
Note that the terms “support and promote” must be defined so as to differentiate between teaching historical and sociological concepts and philosophies.
I disagree. Teach Marxism as part of a comparative government course so that students can see and understand why our Constitutional Republic is different and better than all forms of marxism.
NBC Today Show pushing Hollywood Communists weeping about all the destruction of the wildfires and blah-blah-blah.
My first thought: Where were your tears for the people in Appalachia in the autumn? Where was Hollywood after the destruction there?
Country music stars did fund-raisers, but I do not believe e.g. Sean Penn or George Clooney did any shows to raise funds for the people in North Carolina.
Beyond disgusting!
Because it’s been fashionable for years to look down on and ridicule poor and lower middle class white people from middle Appalachia. I know because I proudly am one
Viewed as uneducated, backward unwashed hill jacks. Irredeemable. Their lands exploited for timber and coal for generations.
The Federal response to Western NC , East Tennessee, Western VA was the physical embodiment of this disdain. They left people to die and give zero Fs about it.
It is fashionable to ridicule the South as well. Did you hear Margaret Brennan to JD Vance? https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/01/28/margaret-brennan-echoes-the-elites-enduring-prejudice-against-the-south-n4936434
It’s trendy to ridicule Margaret.
Brennan makes faces for a living. That’s why she’s doing this and not someone else.
Bonchie on X:
“Look at the elitist disgust on Brennan’s face as she asserts “low-income” states simply aren’t smart enough to handle disaster recovery without overpaid, useless federal bureaucrats dictating everything.”
And yet we saw the Appalachian people immediately build roads and bridges with whatever resources they had. Heck they even built a bridge using tractor trailers. In CA, with a enormous GDP, they have a $Multi Billion deficit in their state budget, they didn’t have water, they did NOT manage their forests, they had 100 fire trucks out of commission, and residents were told they couldn’t access property for 18 months.
Who is smarter?
She’s not entirely wrong.
The Appalachian people did the hard work on rescue & recovery. State gubmints, whom would actually receive funds & run disaster recovery… did virtually nothing.
That attitude is completely engrained in New England.
It took business travel over time to cure me.
My birth place was right in region. Abingdon 10 miles west of Bristol. TN. The area mountain folk have long family ties to our American History. We are not all related to the gifted banjo player in the movie Deliverance.
I have original letters from ancestors who fought for our God Given Rights.
Many from Scotland. Many beautiful trout stream wiped clean. 😔
As a Scots born and raised I have always been interested in the immense impact Scots and Irish immigrants had on the U.S.A.
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Don’t forget the less mentioned Celts, the Welsh.
The sense of independence and resistance to control by Celtic people is taken in with mother’s milk.
In my little area if you tell some of the people that they cannot do something the result is they will break their own neck trying to anyway.
Cannot comprehend what’s happened to the people in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Father’s family was Welsh, Mother’s Scottish. I grew up knowing the value of hard work & a well earned dollar. Dad was the county hospital’s accountant. Farmed dry land, owned a variety store. Mother ran the store. I remember candy was a nickel, coke machine a dime, & the movie was $.20. This was the 50s. Eliminating Article 1 section 10 opened the door to the deficit and run away inflation. It’s intriguing to imagine where a God gearing & fiscally sound country we could have been without wasteful government spending, a balanced budget, basic fiscal sanity. I can only dream.
You should visit the Appalachians on one of your US vacations.
The views are stunning, the people are amazing. It is truly God’s country. ❤️
My Irish Nobility ancestor arrived here in 1609. He gave up his life of luxury to help start a new nation. I’m very proud of my ancestoral roots.
My ancestors originated in Ireland and came to the UK during the Norman invasion. The first records we could find is our family in Dumfries Scotland in 1425. They landed in Virginia in 1652
“How the Scots Invented the Modern World,” Arthur Herman, 2002.
Great book!
As a third generation Cali native, I moved to Mississippi about 3 years ago – I’d had it with living in borderline third world conditions. Even pocket enclaves like Newport and CdM can’t fully escape it given the occasional need to go to LAX, Santa Ana, LA and other shithole areas.
I’ve found everyone here to be kind – blacks and whites, without exception. We greet strangers and say hello as we go into the stores and restaurants. We smile at people. Standing in line at the grocery store, the random joke or comment about the weather is heard. As we drive down the lanes of our subdivisions, we tend to wave at people walking their dogs and that kind of thing. Its all such a 180 degree contrast with the last 3 to 4 decades of living in So Cal. And then there’s quality of life, with the quaint country roads, acres and acres of verdant open spaces, and plenty of history with which to capture the mind.
I stopped in Orange County 25 years ago to ask which direction Katella Blvd was – a major Blvd- didn’t know if it was left or right.
Six, seven, eight people didn’t know, or didn’t know English.
Then a white guy pulls up and points me the right direction.
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1884289244157599868
President signs EO directing fast tracking repair of all bridges and roads in Western NC.
Now this is leadership
During his meeting in WNC he also said he would bring in the Army Corp of Engineers. To my knowledge they still hadn’t been there in almost 4 months. Disgusting.
Roseann Barr is doing this:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/roseanne-barr-plots-long-awaited-tv-comeback-working/
“Barr explained that the show will center on an Alabama farming family who are “saving the United States from drug gangs and China.”
It’s silly and out there. [It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing.
They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism.
Does anybody in [Hollywood] like America or the people who watch TV? Because the people who watch TV would really like to see a show where working-class people win against the enemies of America”
I believe simple compassion for ones fellow man is gone. If it doesn’t affect me, I don’t care, unless it increases my ESG or Identity Politics score.
I have no compassion for anyone trying to control me, spy on me or otherwise hassle me. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
I think I was the first one here to promote RFK, Jr. It was because I read his book, and used him as a foil against the Evil Fauci at the time. I wanted him on President Trump’s team, especially after he ran for president and got sandbagged by the Dems.
Now RFK, Jr. is going before the Senate for confirmation as HHS Secretary. He has been keeping quiet lately, but I expect him to deliver big, perhaps uncomfortable truths to the Senators. Big Pharma-Centered Care has been making us sick. Let him be confirmed, to bring needed reforms to HHS.
Let’s just keep his role limited. His gun control and climate stands are pure leftist nuttiness.
Tw things.#1 Our President Trump has stated, clearly and repeatedly that Jr. restrict himself to the area of health.
#2, his true PASSION is childrens health, and health more broadly.
Sure, he COULD try to make the argument that gun deaths is an aspect of public health, and he COULD try to make the argumemt that the effects of “Climate change” adversely effect peoples health.
However, I think he does not want to risk losing his one, last chance to do something major, to address health, by straying off the reservation.
Yes. Like RFK Jr said at the RNC (paraphrasing): I prayed for 19 years to God to provide me a way to bring change to the US health/medical system. God gave me PDJT.
That does not sound like someone who is going to risk getting tossed off of his Once in a Lifetime Chance.
Bobby has had some of the same treatment as PDJT by the media since he decided to oppose Biden–this video gives a glimpse into his life if anyone is interested.
Is shooting at storms a bad thing or a good thing? You must use a firearm, BUT, then again, you are trying to stop climate change?
Maybe climate change will respect a .44 Magnum?
I assume this was just a failed attempt at humor, so will just move on.
It was humorous to us logical folks when Pelosi said, “if we only had more money for Climate Change, we could stop hurricanes.”
Now that was funny.
No … it’s funny on more than one level. The newscaster taking it seriously is funny all by itself.
There has been instances where mayors have asked citizens to all wash their cars on the same day so as to bring on rain in times of drought.
RFK Jr: “Donald Trump wants me to do 3 things:
1. Clean up the corruption of the agencies, particularly the conflicts of interests that have turned those agencies into captive agencies for the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry.
2. Return those agencies to the gold standard science, empirically based, evidence based medicine that they were famous for when I was a kid.
3. To Make America Healthy Again and to end the chronic disease epidemic.”
“President Trump has told me that he wants to see measurable concrete results within 2 years, in terms of a measurable diminishment in chronic disease among America’s kids.”
https://x.com/EndTribalism/status/1854226091470098806
Unfortunately, we will never see him admit that “Climate Change” has nothing to do with the health of citizens.
I hope he gives them a lesson on what health really is and it’s not pharma loading everyone up with a drug of the minute. I hope he clues them in on how our food is garbage for the most part and that we allow chemicals in the food that the rest of the world bans. I hope he lets them have it on our healthcare and how broken the health insurance business is.
I hope mostly, that he gets confirmed. Cautious or not on his politics, we need someone straight up not in pharma or AG’s pockets to look at our healthcare seriously in this country and how it has been harming Americans not helping them, especially the children. His mission in his life is to be able to do that before he gets too old according to his numerous statements on it.
if it isn’t him confirmed, I hope PTrump has someone ready to go who thinks like RFKjr does and acts for our healthcare like Hegseth has been acting over at defense. We need to get encouragement from the federal govt. to get moving on our over all health. We need reforms in bettering our food and healthcare.
You’re absolutely right. And now there is emerging a problem getting care, because doctors are quitting, and hospitals are going broke.
Now hospitals are using the H1b program to import folks to work cheap.
I’m sick of hearing that the obesity epidemic is just people eating too much.
We had random fat kids around when I was growing up, but we didn’t have young children with type II diabetes and fatty liver disease.
It’s been obvious there is something wrong with the food, that goes beyond junk food.
Now we are going to find out.
All Processed food is poison. Look at the labels. Its all chemicals and seed oils. GMO, pesticide soaked, full of antibiotics and strange hormones. Very nasty stuff.
Years ago when you were young people did not eat a steady diet of processed foods like they do now.
Most ate whole foods that were more naturally grown. Much of the food came from local farms.
People cooked with Lard or Crisco. Drank fresh water with no added fluoride. Kids were only vaccinated for a few deadly diseases. People on a whole were much healthier and happier years ago.
But now Big AG Grows food that makes you sick. Processors add their chemicals. So big Pharm can pop up and say” We have a pill for that” All three are joined at the hip.
Its a slow death designed to extract as much wealth as possible out of you.
Trump and RFK must end this madness.
But until they do. Eat only organic foods!
A lot of food has addictive ingredients that cause people to continue eating for the taste long after their hunger is satiated. After doing this long enough the ability to recognize and regulate actual hunger is lost.
Yes, the whole reason the total red dye ban doesn’t go into effect until 2027 is so companies can empty their warehouses of their products. I would say that if that food is shelf stable for two more years it is filled with unnatural preservatives and chemicals.
It’s a lot of different reasons.
As a for instance, here’s one: The Government told parents back in the 80s that their kids weren’t safe outside (remember “Stranger-Danger?).
Which led to parents keeping their kids inside all day. Watching TV screens.
Then, the screens got smaller and more transportable.
Today, we have toddlers who can barely walk, staring at screens.
Is it any wonder people got fat?
Most of the blame belongs on parents who abrogated their childrearing responsibilities to Android/IoS tablets/phones.
They had to stay indoors. People began snatching children off the street.
30 years ago mothers were feeding their babies glazed doughnuts. It’s the food and ignorance.
This is what corruption at the state level looks like…fight on Attorney Cox! God Speed!
https://open.substack.com/pub/attorneycox/p/breaking-news-high-court-paves-the?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
“the governor of New York and her Department of Health have promulgated a dystopian regulation that does all of that and more”
The Supreme Court recently ended Chevron Deference so I don’t understand how this “regulation” could stand up in court, then again we are talking New York.
-Couldn’t resist, T. Turtle😎
That’s Mitch McConnell … fifty years ago, as a fresh-faced youth.
Fresh faced “honest” youth.
Awww…
now I will picture this when I see T.Turtle posts ….
so dang cute!
Awww thanks❣️ He’s a cute little fellow. His head out of his shell paying attention to what is going on. I relate to the turtle. Some days I want to just stick my head back in my shell (my bed) watching old movies.
Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley’s security detail and clearance ‘immediately,’ may face demotion in retirement
Milley has had a security detail since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani
January 28, 2025
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-pulling-gen-milleys-security-detail-clearance-panel-may-face-demotion-retirement
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley’s personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to “undermine the chain of command” during President Donald Trump’s first term, officials say.
The Pentagon will also be removing a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon. This one is from the Army’s Marshall Corridor on the third floor honoring his service as chief-of-staff of the Army. Fox is told the removal of this second portrait will take place as soon as tonight. This means there will be no more portraits of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon.
He belongs in prison, at least.
Or a firing squad at most…
Don’t waste good cartridges.
The usual penalty for treason is hanging.
Rope is reusable. There may be others needing it.
We have over 400(!) “four-stars,” most of whom have never commanded troops in battle. Or even seen(!!) “battle.”
We could put 2 full companies of nothing but 4 star generals into action! That would strike fear into any enemy’s heart! After bombing Pearl Harbor, the Germans would have surrendered on the spot if they knew we had such a thing!
Now, now – we seen what you did there!
To the rest of the folks – don’t interrupt him – he’s on a roll!
David Hackworth was on this decades ago. He was right then and the problem has worsened.
It was David Hackworth who referred to those political generals as “perfumed princes”. He didn’t even try to hide his disdain. heh
I wonder how many of those “four star” generals received those stars simply because of DEI policies?
O.k., what about courts martial, for his role in the disasterous afganistan withdrawal?
Or, since the military leadership is subservient to civilian leadership, can every officer involved be exempt from responsibility, if they can lay all the blame on Biden &Co.? “I vas juist vollwink orders”…really?
Didn’t General Milleytoast contact someone from the PRC advising them that he would give them inside information?
Yes. It one of the reasons he should be tried as a traitor.
If he has not resigned his commission, he can be recalled to active duty and prosecuted under the UCMJ.
Put him on a deportation plane to Iran!
“determine if enough evidence exists”
He stupidly admitted in his book that he committed sedition when he called his Chinese counterpart saying, “he would warn him if President Trump was going to take action against China.”
I believe he was also part of the National Guard three hour delay on Jsix. I feel confident Pete will find sufficient evidence against Milley to take away a ⭐️ or two.
All true, along with conspiring with Pelosi to undermine the President’s national command authority.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/house-speaker-joint-chiefs-milley/index.html
There’s plenty examples of his treachery.
No surprise, it’s a major CIA front group.
Would love to see Matt sitting in one of those two front row seats at a WH presser, asking questions.
Yes, they planned the perfect hit. Everything went according to plan until it didn’t. God had other plans. Otherwise, it was a perfect plan.
That dastardly truth eventually gets out there.
Yeah. First and last time BBC News attended a DJT rally was in Butler, PA.
Thanks for posting this video clip, Winston 🙂 It brought to mind the Ukrainians present at the Capitol on J6. If memory serves they were/are Azov Nazis.
If you see/find those pics will you please post them?
Too bad they have to be on paid admin leave.
It’s a process, with this being the first step. However, it is hard to fire government employees and we’re going to have to deal with that.
President Trump is also trying buyouts to get rid of them. Perhaps we can get rid of even more in the future with transfers and relocations of offices.
I don’t know what the rules are when a group/department is, as the left says, cancelled. Probably varies by type of job.
The same goals drive the allowance of illegal immigration.
Aesthetica
@Anc_Aesthetics
Say what you want about Eric Weinstein (there’s a lot to say) but while everyone else was asleep at the wheel he was one of the only people who tried to stop America from killing itself with the H-1B program and mass immigration. Credit where credit is due.
The most important point of this clip is exposing the lie of the high-skill labor shortage. It’s one of the most insidious and evil lies ever told. There’s no such thing as a labor shortage in a market economy. They created a fake study to justify the 1990 immigration bill that gave us the H-1B.
The H-1B program and similar immigration programs are a wage subsidy for employers. Instead of letting the market work as intended where they would have to increase wages to fill their talent needs, they ask the government for an unlimited supply of foreign workers to drive down wages for the economic benefit of the corporation. That is the design of the H-1B program.
It is also unconstitutional “indenture,” masquerading as “sponsorship.” They cannot leave.
“13th Amendment?” What’s that? 🤷♂️
Democrats haven’t been this pissed off since the last time Republicans tried to free the Democrat’s slaves!
The IT and trucking industries can unite on this topic, since both industries have been decimated.
So has Medicine–H1B doctors with inferior medical degrees from MBBS programs in India, Pakistan, etc. take up spots that should go to US doctors in residency programs, and they become more than willing to carry out any treatment they are told .. Think Remdesivir , Vaccines etc. If they don’t they risk having to leave the US.
And for the patients, who are regularly treated with disdain and can’t understand a word being said? Total disrespect.
.
As I told my husband’s former doctor: “You’re enslaved”.
I half expect to see H-1B people fill the jobs of those who resign by February 6 from the federal workforce, because really, who needs an advanced law degree to argue cases before the U.S. Tax Court or the Supreme Court, for that matter?
So many lawsuits are being lodged against President Trump’s constitutional power.
IMO: The lawfare folks are having a grand time forcing the Whitehouse to defend against lawsuits designed to impede the lawful governance of this country. They should be forced to FULLY reimburse taxpayer funds used by the government to defend executive power given to it by the Constitution . That includes individuals and groups.
Some action somewhere should put a stop to this lawfare madness once and for all.
Many of the lawyers are paid with public money, too …
Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
When NGOs can sue the government to force it to pay them taxpayer money, you have no government.
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1884400929450975445
Why doesn’t standing appear to play a part in these suits?
Trump offers buyouts to nearly all federal workers
29 Jan 2025
This is not a new concept for the Federal Government.
During my time in the US Army there were at least3 buy-outs used to reduce the numbers of Officers (specifically O-3 to O-6), Senior Enlisted (mainly E7 to E-9) and Civilians within the Ranks of the Armed Services. [Notice how generals always seemed to not be on the list.]
It is a shame that previous Presidents who claimed they wanted to “shrink government” did not follow through and use this method.
Those buy-outs even preceded an announced forthcoming RIF (Reduction in Force).
I remember.
I was offered a buyout in 1993 as senior enlisted.
I told them “No thanks” as I only had about four years to go to retirement.
Right after I retired, there was a huge RiF of DoD employees. Ostensibly due to fraud and graft, but more likely used to install favored contractors in the former DAC slots. (DAC=Department of the Army Civilian.)
So, they traded one type of graft for another. It sort of went from local to nationwide, so to speak.
If there’s a RIF I expect the most recent hires will be among the first to go.
For the gov’t October 1St is the start of fiscal year 2026
“The dog that didn’t bark” S. Holmes/ Sir Conan Doyle
“The guilty dog barks first” I believe Is a derivative of that famous saying and man are the dogs barking.
Watching these swamp rats taking to the airwaves clutching pearls about our Great American President Donald J Trump cutting off the money, freezing federal grants…right on.
Oh, my goodness it’s wonderful seeing the swamp rats link up squawking like stuck pigs when you mess with the goody bag. President Trump hit the bullseye.
Why the gnashing of teeth? This is a big part of their money laundering machine to alter the USA with evil intent. This is where they fund CRT, DEI, money to the 3rd world invaders, on and on…all manner of mischief.
This is what you get by funding the government with omni-bus CR’s (Continuing Resolutions) where they get whatever harebrained thing that comes into their addled swamp rat brain.
They all hit the same talking points, “We don’t have kings…Hitler etc. And one of the funniest to me, they bring up The Constitution. The uniparty swine set aside our Constitution with W’s Patriot Act and with most things daily attempt to destroy this sacred document for their leftist color revolution, in America.
For me when Schumer, Warren, Graham, Tillis etc. complain about something you know for certain President Trump is over the target.
Follow the money, and as the wise man said; “The love of money is the root of all evil” 1 Timothy 6:10
These are evil beings and now President Trump is messing with their entitlement, oh my.
Right on President Trump, these demons must have their wings clipped to MAGA!
Ultra-MAGA!
If by law CONgress must pass a budget and they haven’t, President Trump should be able to stop any spending in any CR, right? Why, why not?
He most certainly can DIRECTLY stop spending (LEGALLY) of CR Authorized Funds if it exceeds spending in the Budget Authorization Bill(s) being extended and if its a congressionally created NEW BUDGET Line line attached to the CR, which did not exist in the extended Budget Authorization Bill(s).
A CR is “supposed” to only extend a BILL that exists.
Yet, I digress to my previous posts discussing “REPROGRAMMING RULES and INSTRUCTIONS”. This is how Congress and Previous executives have rolled. Write loose rules and instructions, which ALLOW the Reprogramming (Diversion) of funds by the agency receiving the Budget …. then that same agency that Reprogrammed (Diverted) the Funds comes back for MORE MONEY to complete the work originally budgeted. …rinse and repeat often…to include creating NEW budget lines in future actual spending Bills. The CR actually extends an existing Budget Bill, so if the wide open reprogramming rules are in the extended BILL … the user of the funds can spend as they desire.
That way the CR actually LOOKS Legal on the surface, as it is asking for authorization of spending for “existing” spending lines of an existing BILL. Yet once the new authorized funds arrive … poof they are reprogrammed over and over thanks to the Wide Open rules in the original BILL.
The democrat AG’s will fall back on the wording of the Budget Bills.
The only way to STOP the drain is to STOP Congress from from authorizing the reprogramming in the original Budget BILLS.
That means following two lines of attack:
First: during the legislative process … STOP the the addition of the wide open Reprogramming Instructions from beeing added to Spending BILLS and remove those that already exist.
Second: The Lawyers supporting President Trump need to argue from the same positions of “financial harm” as the democrat AG’s as well as argue the “financial harm” is due to abuse of Fiscal Authority by Congress as well as those REPROGRAMMING the money, in a demonstrable pattern of abuse of authority. The cases vs President Trump boil down to arguing authority v/v separation of powers regarding Constitutional Fiscal Authority.
So, if “the agency” is allowed to move the money somewhere else, and the President has plenary power within the Executive Branch why can’t he act on “the agency’s” behalf and move all of that money somewhere else entirely? Maybe divert it all to the wall?
That is a possibility … it all depends on how the rules and instructions within the Budget BILLS passed by Congress. Some of what you suggest did occur as that is how Sock Puppet JoeBama’s pen and cell phone were used to send money to the Ukraine.
The lion share of the reprogramming occurs with the Federal Money money sent to the States as Grants for various projects the State Governments and Local Municipalities claimed they required (The REAL Pork Projects). Congress creates a Budget Line, Authorizes spending, adds reprogramming language and then the Funds are bundled into a Grant…This is how COVID Funds, CA Rail and water Funds, Medicaid Funds et al are DIVERTED by State and Municipal Governments. The President cannot touch these funds, as he may funds allocated to an Executive Branch Agency.
The President’s EO hit States right in the cajones .. as it halted the flow into the Federal Grant Spending accounts, which they were doling out as they pleased. It is the State Grants which are the basis of the NY AG’s suit….the discovery for the NY suit could be interesting if The Office of the President asks for an accounting of funds used vs an authorized budget line vs money diverted.
The perversions, deviancy and corruption of these $MultiMillion is not shocking to US. This all needs to be shut down. This article is behind a paywall.
“It Wasn’t Just Condoms for Afghanistan—Trump to Kill Other Loony Spending Like Trans Comic Books for Peru”
Excerpts:
Mast said closed-door interviews with mid-level grant writers have shown him there exists a glut of questionable expenditures funding cultural and educational programs in foreign countries that are unwanted by the recipient nations and fail to further any meaningful U.S. interests.
“We see these grants come through — provocative ones like drag shows in Ecuador, atheism in Nepal, condoms for the Taliban. These are real things,” Mast said. “And it makes you wonder ‘Okay, who signs off on that? Where in the process do you actually tie that to a broader U.S. objective that we need to be paying for contraception for the Taliban? Where do you tie that to national security interests?’ It’s informative for them to talk about that, but also good for them to realize there will be a change coming.”
So, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. That was a real one,’ he revealed.
‘Let’s see, there was a transgender comic book, we’re trying to get our hands on the actual comic book, in Peru,’ he continued. ‘And I heard it’s reasonably risqué.’
I cannot, in good faith, allow you to spend millions of dollars to combat climate change in the war-torn Middle East or fund LGBTQI awareness in Zimbabwe — both of which are among your recent proposals,” he told the officials in his letter.
He informed Blinken and Power in the document that the Foreign Affairs Committee would freeze the funding for these last-minute initiatives.
Mast wrote, “The rush to fund these and other controversial programs on the eve of a new administration contradicts President Biden’s pledge to conduct a smooth transition and undermines critical Congressional oversight of taxpayer dollars spent abroad. As such, I am invoking the long-standing precedent granted to authorizing and appropriating committees to place a hold on these funds before they are obligated.”
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/01/29/it-wasnt-just-condoms-for-afghanistantrump-to-kill-other-loony-spending-like-trans-comic-books-for-peru-n2184933
They fund CIA.
Brian Mast? Rep from Florida? Didn’t he publish a report on all the State Dept wack job spending?
The condoms were perhaps going to be inflated with helium to float weaponry .
I cannot imagine why anyone thought these men would use condoms for their original intent. It’s laughable.
Spreading those…Democrat version….
Democracy -Western Values 🤢 🤢
Finally! Stop all the craziness!
👏 👏 👍
Stop all Foreign Aid
Stop all Military Aid
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 America First🇺🇸🇺🇸
PANIC IN BRUSSELS: Trump and Secretary Rubio Reportedly Ignoring the European Union, Focusing on Bilateral Relations with the Countries
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/panic-brussels-trump-secretary-rubio-reportedly-ignoring-european
The EU is already dead, somebody just forgot to tell them.
Its o.k. they wouldn’t hear it, anyway.
An un-elected bureaucrat is deaf and answerable to no one but prone to corruptive influences.
If I read the EU Charter correctly … participation in the EU, like it’s predecessor the EEC (European Economic Community), is voluntary and the “delegates” and “officers” of the EU are not elected but appointed by the Governments of the member nations.
Bottom line … the EU is NOT a Government or a Sovereignty.
There is no “EU Government” to conduct any negotiation and technically, an agreement with the EU does not necessarily ensnare it’s member states.
So, negotiating with each member state is the right approach.
Also, being appointed means the EU Representatives reflect the political beliefs of the National Government Appointing them.
Much talk about that on geopolitical
platforms last week.
The elites in EU are ….clutching their pearls.
If I remember correctly, one podcaster was
saying only Orban and Meloni attended
inauguaration…and Meloni was probably
invited by Musk🤣
They are having meltdowns 🫠. Good
President Trump appears to be making
his priorities clear….and EU isn’t priority.
Good.👏👏
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 America First 🇺🇸🇺🇸
A momentary thought on retired General Milley:
I note the Army changed it’s uniforms in that the color used reverts to wars past…like WWII. Why? “I like Ike!” comes to mind as a primary reason, along with “victory” in attitude and achievement. Now take a close look at Milley’s picture most often seen with all his awards and medals.
Comes across as a “real warrior, a proud warrior, and a determined warrior” who has proved his worth to his country, right? Note his face and the energies it expresses, even with the eye bags (age or stress?).
Think back to former presidents: Were they more interested in “projecting symbolism over substance” with those they hired to carry out their orders? Character be damned, I want looks!
So Milley et al. dress with a World War II look. Take a look at how President Eisenhower dressed in his military uniform via a search engine. Compare the two images…then ask who is the real warrior?
Milley, the big time Princeton grad, loaded with his medals, wearing his scowl proudly, seeks to “project” what kind of image as word leaks out he truly believes President Trump is a “fascist in and out” for all to see–if only they would open their eyes (like he did!).
Milley has what it takes to be the best “Beta MALE” for my money and nothing more: Drop down and give me fifty!
Good observation about the WW2 look. Milley’s Barracks Cover -as we called it in the USMC – or hat, features the ’50 mission crusher’ look. Is that consistent with U.S. Army uniform regs ?
I do like the crusher better than the crap we wore.
Change to Dept of War.
Ole wouldn’t have been caught dead needing a size 52 short jacket. Milley’s pudgy look just doesn’t work.
I like the new/old pinks and greens. Whenever I see a soldier here wearing his/her Class As, I think about my Dad, whose WWII photo graces my wall at work.
Same uniform.
As for Milley- He looks like ten pounds of crap stuffed into a five-pound bag in ANY uniform.
And, we all know he is a traitor to his oath.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my studies of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” – Anthony Malcolm Daniels, MD also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple
The Consequences of Living in a Perpetual Lie | Dr. Simone Gold (America’s Frontline Doctors) (18:04)
Jordan B Peterson
28 Jan 2025
This is a clip from our recent podcast release with Dr. Simone Gold. In it, she and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson discuss the oppression created and suffered from participating in a lie, how the outcomes scale on the societal level, and the remarkable (and disparate) courage it takes to stand for the truth.
Interesting take on “Liberals have to pretend not to know things.”
A Mile Long Line of ICE and CBP Trucks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14335907/ice-san-diego-border-crossing-illegal-immigrant-deportation.html
Ablechild is a great organization that fights for real mental healthcare and against Big Pharma. They say a pause in $Spending is a good thing. They have also fought consistently to find out the toxicology of mass shooters and dangerous criminals. They were extremely disturbed that Crooks’, the would be assassin, toxicity levels were not released.
“ABLECHILD: Freeze on $8 Billion Mental Health Budget, Time to Reassess Effectiveness”
Excerpts:
On the bright side, this break in funding could lead to better ways of helping people with mental health issues, without relying so heavily on psychiatric drugs that don’t treat any known abnormality. Yes. The drugs will change behavior, but horrific side effects come with each of the known drug “treatments” but none of the drugs correct any known abnormality.
The U.S. government is spending hundreds of billions on mental health care and intervention, but no one is getting better. In 2025, the federal government plans to spend a whopping $8.1 billion on mental health and substance abuse programs. That’s $612 million more than in 2023. Despite throwing more and more money at the problem, mental health diagnosing and drug treatment continues to increase.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/ablechild-freeze-8-billion-mental-health-budget-time/
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2025/01/28/who-was-responsible-for-using-an-inapplicable-felony-charge-against-j6-defendants-n2184921
FTA “On Monday, the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, announced that his office would undertake a review of the decision-making that led to the charging of hundreds of January 6 protesters with “obstructing Congress” in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1512(c). That was a statute passed by Congress in 2005 to address an alleged hole revealed in an obstruction of justice statute criminalizing the destruction of records, documents, materials, etc., to obstruct an investigation. The “hole” was the fact that the language of the existing statute made it a crime to direct third parties to undertake such obstructive acts, but it did not – by its plain language – make it a criminal act to take such action yourself. This was the finding of the Supreme Court in Arthur Andersen v. United States, an infamous case related to the Enron scandal where then-U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann put one of the “Big 5” accounting firms out of business – costing maybe 80,000 Arthur Andersen employees their jobs – only to eventually be reversed by the Supreme Court in a 9-0 decision.
The Biden DOJ decided to use this new statute against hundreds of non-violent January 6 defendants when there was no evidence of another felony it could charge and was often used in the absence of any illegal activity other than simply going inside the Capitol. So, shredding all the documents of an international corporation under grand jury investigation = possible 20-year prison sentence. Walking through the Capitol building participating in chants/cheers such as “Whose House, Our House” after Congress had adjourned, but by doing so preventing Congress from reconvening = possible 20-year prison sentence. There is a second problem involved that goes beyond the question of, “How did this statute come to be the “go-to” felony for otherwise non-violent protesters?” That bigger question is, “Who came up with the solution to, ‘How do we get around the problem that the new statute targets evidence destruction and not simply disruptive conduct such as happened January 6?'”
All these convictions were upheld by the DC District Appears Court before being overturned by the Supreme Corrupt Court! Just another valid reason to get rid of the corrupt to the core DC District Court and all of its corrupt Judges!!! JMO
>>Two federal workers filed a lawsuit to stop the federal government’s HR office from emailing all civilian federal staff at once, saying it violates privacy rules.
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This is INSANE.
They are saying the CEO can’t directly communicate with his staff.
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Clearly, this is an effort to maintain ignorance of executive branch actions.
They want to be able to claim ignorance if they do something that has been declared improper.
As long as the buy-out message is not addressed and directed to a specific staff member but ALL members as an announcement. This will not get far …. but keep in mind … the purpose of these suits is not to win but chew up time to address them and create MSM Sound Bites… as well as throw as much crap as possible against the wall until one stick to chew up ALLOT OF TIME or MORE.
Wait until they get a job in the private sector…. LOL!
IF You ARE Getting a GOVT Email on a GOVT Computer – IT’s THE GOVT’s PREROGATIVE WHAT OCCURS.
IF YOU Have YOUR CIVILIAN PHONE RECEIVING GOVT EMAILS For WORK – YOU’VE CONNECTED Your Private Phone to A GOVT COMPUTER SYSTEM And THE Guidelines For THAT Website / Server APPLY
USE 2 Different Phones / Computers – 1 For WORK; the Other For Personal
She’s referring to the smugness of the pseudo-intellectuals from the MSM in the press room.
Natalie Winters On The WH Press Room: “One Of The Most Gaslighting Feelings I’ve Ever Experienced” (14:25)
Bannon’s War Room
28 Jan 2028
https://rumble.com/v6eh1xa-natalie-winters-on-the-wh-press-room-one-of-the-most-gaslighting-feelings-i.html
And she should know — she grew up in Santa Monica and when to university in Chicago.
So they took down a portrait…
Arizona election fraud
https://www.facebook.com/515906851/videos/1940140036474352/
Just throwing this out there. I’m pretty convinced Trump actually hates Hanity and just goes on his show to reach out to boomers and manhandle him
Why do you think Trump hates Hannity?
Why do you think there is anyone that doesn’t?
And I was right…. DeepSeek stole OpenAI tech (it was pretty obvious so I don’t understand why the media didn’t put it together immediately… instead they created a stupid panic and a rout in tech stocks!).
https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/business/openai-says-it-has-proof-deepseek-used-its-technology-to-develop-ai-model/
FTA: “OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, says it has proof that the Chinese start-up DeepSeek used its technology to create a competing artificial intelligence model — fueling concerns about intellectual property theft in the fast-growing industry.
OpenAI believes DeepSeek, which was founded by math whiz Liang Wenfeng, used a process called “distillation,” which helps make smaller AI models perform better by learning from larger ones.
While this is common in AI development, OpenAI says DeepSeek may have broken its rules by using the technique to create its own AI system.”
“may have broken its rules”
made me chuckle.
Whose rules? Don’t believe China follows rules.
They did far more than just break the rules, they were actively hacking OpenAI internals like their messages between each other to learn secret intel, they were social engineering to gain access to all kinds of stuff…
Not to mention the company is owned by a Hedge Fund mgr… I’d love to know what stocks he had shorted before the release of DeepSeek.
Deep Seek seems to be causing
a lot of meltdowns.
Deep Seek busted the barriers. Huawei
now becoming big player in AI.
Clip at beginning of video.
Altman now ….🫠🫠🫠
DeepSeek PANIC. PUTIN, Siege of Leningrad. DUDA, Germany must not recover. Ukraine brigade COLLAPSE 👆 👆 👆 👆 Alex Christoforu…Rumble
Sorry, did you miss the part where it was stolen? Therefore, they are not becoming the “big player”… they are thieves.
Sigh….
Comment was regarding link to video link I posted.
It’s another lame Chinese rip off. It will work as expected.
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.
Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.
Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.” …….
Isaiah 49:24-26
Can plunder be retrieved from a giant, prisoners of war gotten back from a tyrant? But God says, “Even if a giant grips the plunder and a tyrant holds my people prisoner, I’m the one who’s on your side, defending your cause, rescuing your children. And your enemies, crazed and desperate, will turn on themselves, killing each other in a frenzy of self-destruction. Then everyone will know that I, God, have saved you—I, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Your very Name means Save, Lord Jesus!
Rest in the Vine: “PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHEMICAL AND SURGICAL MUTILATION”:
EXECUTIVE ORDER by President Donald J. Trump
Chemical and surgical mutilation of children is one of the very worst forms of child abuse and should be recognized as such since child abuse is already illegal. It is the polar opposite of what real gender affirming care should look like.
This is arguably the single most important aspect of Trump’s funding freeze.
The immigration crisis isn’t an accident. It’s a well-oiled system, facilitated by powerful NGOs—and funded by your tax dollars.
By defunding the NGOs, Trump is crippling the entire system.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884339632210600161.html
“refugee”. Yeah, right. They are illegal aliens and they come here to get onto government assistance, birth anchor babies, and traffic in crime/drugs/humans.
One of the worst aspects is that they travel back and forth between the US and the place they needed refuge from.
Interesting… For years, we have watched the left use the Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm the system (e.g., the surge of illegals swarming across the border, or BLM/Antifa riots, looting, and fires in major cities across America) in order to slide their agenda through. (As Rahm Immanuel said, Never let a crisis go to waste…)
I started wondering, why can’t our side do that? We tend to do one big thing at time, and then pause for a flurry of incoming media attacks, and then have to play defense. Well, I have been happy to see that President Trump and MAGA are doing exactly that with a flood of EOs and actions! Doing so many things to right the ship that the media and the Dems can’t keep up, and so they aren’t even reporting on half of it, which is fine by me.
So it was interesting to read this same strategy pointed out today in a Breitbart post, and that it was Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller who had both advocated doing it. Yay Team MAGA!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/29/nyt-trump-frustrates-democrats-with-flood-the-zone-strategy/
Is this true???? 🤔
At Donald J Trump
Truth Social
There is a picture of Schiff with:
2ND
1ST
printed in it.
🤔
Maybe President Trump actually has made an offer to Thune, he could not refuse. We will know for certain after the approval votes this week.
Thune up for re-election in 2028
Barasso (Senate Whip) good until 2030
Shanghai Mitch is up in 2026 … to do not be surprised if pulls a Pelosi
Thune has indicated that he will retire at the end of his term. Prompted by his wife.
Apparently, this is not true…
But it should be!
I absolutely agree!
War for the West
@War4theWest
The lack of the Buy and Hire American EO this time around tells us about the shift in Trump policy on American workers.
I am seeing it in his context a bit more. He’s told by all he listens to in the tech world that they need the talent (not true), and believes them about H-1B. He also knows how it and the other guest worker programs worked well for his businesses.
Given he wants to dramatically grow the American economy, I believe he sees labor as a limit. I want to try and understand instead of castigating him for the 1000th time.
He needs to understand that we produce awesome tech talent and never minded super high end engineers from anywhere in the world being here. That was always the way in tech and research universities etc.
But it was never like this – majority foreign from school on out. I don’t think he understands how many Americans have just been wiped out by this.
https://x.com/War4theWest/status/1883647255116226910
If they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the oil industry caused these fires then this legislation should be dead in the water. There is proof that several of those fires were started by arsonists. Those Santa Ana winds have been around for thousands of years. There is absolutely no way they could ever prove that gas guzzling cars caused wildfires. Why don’t they try working on legislation that would actually benefit the people, like water retention infrastructure and common sense forest management. These Climate Scolds are an embarrassment.
Let’s also remember it was petroleum based products that put out those fires. And, those fire trucks were not electric!
“It’s No Surprise Who CA Dems Want to Be Liable for ‘Major Climate Disasters’”
Excerpts:
A bill has been introduced in the California Legislature that would make fossil fuel companies liable for “major climate disasters.”
Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, who co-introduced the Affordable Insurance and Climate Recovery Act, said SB 222 would shift the financial burden of disasters from homeowners to fossil fuel companies, thereby making victims “whole.”
The Legislation introduced:
Major fossil fuel companies intentionally misled the public for decades about the impacts of their products, and now Californians are paying the price with devastating wildfires, mud slides, sea level rise, and skyrocketing insurance costs. When climate disasters strike, SB 222 allows homeowners and businesses to recover damages from the fossil fuel companies responsible for the disasters.
The increasing frequency and severity of climate disasters has sent insurance prices skyrocketing across California and has pushed many families into the state’s insurer of last resort, the FAIR Plan. When the costs of climate disasters grow too high, both private insurers and the FAIR Plan recover losses by charging higher prices on California policyholders. By allowing insurance companies and the FAIR Plan to recoup losses for major climate disasters from the fossil fuel companies responsible for the damage, SB 222 provides a major infusion of financial support to stabilize the insurance market and contain the high cost of insurance for Californians.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/01/29/ca-bill-n2651319
Well…if the arsonists used Molotov cocktails…they contain gasoline. /s
“Fossil fuel companies” could simply move out of the State and stop selling fuel there . . . 🤷♂️
You know, I think this is actually an excellent idea! If California thinks that the fuel industry is so bad then let them live without any product of the “fossil fuel” companies!
I LIKE IT!!!!
And anything built out of plastic (which is made from oil) . . .
Fossil fuels are not the cause!!!
Fires in California are a part of the ecosystem. HAs been for millennia. Look at redwood trees. They evolved in fire environments. They get their water from fog not rain.
Environmental wackos are full of sh*t!!!!!! California is run by idiots.
There’s as much real science behind the claims that the gas industry caused the wildfires as there is behind all the rest of the leftist politicized junk science theories- climate change, changing ‘genders’ etc.
https://revolver.news/2025/01/massive-army-of-trucks-finally-rolls-into-north-carolina-the-cavalry-has-arrived/
Excellent. Cued to that part.
Trump’s Funding Freeze: Fact-Checking the Mainstream Media Lies
29 Jan 2025
https://www.youtube.com/live/KCI4r_gLQi4?t=2243s
I hope that the sane administration has a plan to address the corruption manifest in child labor laws. Laws that allow a 16 year old, (14, 15 depending on farm permit, etc.) to drive an 80,000 pound RV but prevents them from a job that includes a sharp tool or a hot surface are manifestly corrupt. A person who has been allowed to opt for permanent self-mutilation is not allowed to work a job that involves stepping up one step on a stool to reach a shelf, because “they could get hurt”.
Child labor laws, in the obscene distortions they’ve grown to, are a core reason why so many people in the US do not work meaningfully. It’s no surprise that a kid who has been told by society at large to NOT work for the first 20 years or more of their life is not interested in working when they reach age 21, or 31, or 41.
That’s a step President Trump could take. EO 9,013: Henceforth no school receiving a penny in federal funding shall have any organized sports program whatever unless that school has a work program at least 20% larger in scope and funding. Students will be taught to find jobs. Companion EO 9,014 abolishes all child labor laws until such time as sensible ones are proposed that allow for common sense jobs for all ages.
Reasoning: even 3 year old kids are capable of useful work and are eager to contribute. Anyone who has been an actual parent, (as opposed to genetic donor) knows that every kid wants to help. Every kid will try to carry the largest box, will want to cook the food, chop the wood, and do anything that the adults are doing. It’s the job of parents AND SOCIETY to teach them responsibly and allow them to engage in useful contribution to society in ways and levels commensurate with their safety and experience. The skills they learn at 3 years old make them able to handle greater family responsibility at age 6 which makes them responsible young folks at age 13 able to baby sit, mow lawns, run tractors….
I remember my dad having all 5 of us spend the weekend in the backyard with a regular eating utensil knife digging up dandelions in our huge grass lawn.
I used to triple dog dare a 3 year old that I could clean up her toys faster than she could. You should have seen her hustle. She was so proud of herself when she defeated me. She loved that game.
Yep … we had the same experience while growing up.
Every summer my dad would assign us a major projects to compete by the end of a fixed time period aside from mowing and cleaning. I remember, when my brother and I were in 6th and 8th Grade, one was to cut down and remove 5 large trees in the back yard … including the roots..and hauling off the wood. The ancient dead Elm Tree was murder. The only help we got was my dad driving the truck to haul the wood we had to load.
Another was to rebuild a flag stone retaining wall holding our drive way from sliding away…only help there was dad dropping off new stones to replace those that were broken.
Yes. Children used to have to do chores, even big chores. It builds character and counteracts laziness. Now, many children sit and stare at their device until they are called for dinner.
The best parents are those cruel ones who actually make you do things.
I know a 9-yr-old who can load a car onto a tilt-bed tow truck. Grandpa drove the car onto the tilt bed and checked the kid’s work when he was done (and cranked down on the come-alongs).
Great to see Steven enter the fray. One thing though, the H-1B visa is not being abused. It is working exactly as it was intended to, and that is to displace Americans. It must be abolished.
People send me this stuff.
Trump just rolled out some wild new Executive Orders
This is a horrible story of DC trampling the ranchers and an entire State and President Trump saved the day:
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/back-on-the-right-track-in-this-country-small-idaho-town-feels-immediate-impact-from-trumps-energy-order/
FTA: “When President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting wind energy development on his first day in office, it appeared to solely target offshore wind farms. But buried deep in the order, Trump also halted a single onshore wind development, the Lava Ridge Wind project in southern Idaho, handing an unlikely victory to local residents and a crushing blow to the green energy movement.
Trump’s order marked the culmination of a years-long grassroots opposition effort that turned into a David and Goliath contest, pitting farmers, ranchers, and landowners from tiny Lincoln County, Idaho, against federal bureaucrats and LS Power, the billion-dollar New York-based green energy developer behind Lava Ridge.
The behemoth project—spanning 38,535 acres and including 241 wind turbines—was poised to have detrimental impacts on grazing, farming, and local wildlife, sparking fierce opposition from locals.”
SNIP
“While state officials opposed Lava Ridge, local concerns fell on deaf ears in the federal government—Biden administration officials sided with LS Power and accelerated permits for the project. In their December record of decision, federal regulators acknowledged the project would trample thousands of acres of land, kill scores of protected species, and interfere with the Minidoka National Historic Site’s viewshed but approved it anyway, saying it would help fight global warming.
“We realized pretty quick that they were just going to ramrod this down our necks,” Dean Dimond, who runs a small farm situated along the border of the Minidoka National Historic Site and within a few hundred feet from Lava Ridge’s proposed site, told the Free Beacon in an interview. “I would venture to say that anybody that was in favor of it are back in Washington, D.C., and it was all about the money. It wasn’t about those of us out here that were going to have to live with it and work with it every day.””
SNIP
“A White House official told the Free Beacon that Trump prioritized blocking Lava Ridge for many of the same reasons why Arkoosh, Dimond, and other locals banded together in opposition to it.
The official said the project would be a “misuse of public lands” and noted the widespread disapproval of it among nearly all stakeholders, including Idaho residents, farmers, ranchers, environmentalists, hunters, water users, tribal nations, aviators, historians, and archaeology groups.”
The worst part of this story is that none of the power generated by those horrid wind turbines was for Idaho… it was for California!!!!
They like to make believe that wind turbines don’t make noise.
I hate wind turbines. You don’t see them by rich folk’s property and they kill ridiculous amounts of birds and bats each year.
The EU and their globalist communist ideology has become more DANGEROUS than Russia. If 540 million people can’t resist 150 million Russians, we have a problem
The 150 million Russians are heavily armed with the worlds most modern and best weapons.
All the EU has for defense is Flatulence.
No, they have a problem.
JMO.
(The federal government should recommend:) “Declaring the national democrat party a national security threat as a result of their executing two coups d’état against our Constitutional Republic and, for 4 years, protecting the unconstitutional actions of the illegally certified, communist biden administration that almost brought down our country.”
When it was first recommended months ago, that statement, though thought to have some merit, was discounted because some thought it would be impossible to accomplish.
There wasn’t much argument with the facts of the statement, just on the practicality of bringing it to fruition.
The national democrat party, over the past few decades, have been strongly protected by the globalist, anti-American sentiment of the fake national media to such an extreme that the media was referred to as “an arm of the democrats.” Some foreign elements and agents also were identified as having an un-American influence on the national democrat party.
Two things have changed as we entered 2025. President Trump’s MAGA / America First movement won the 11/5/24 election and was sworn in as the Executive Branch of the federal government. During the same time frame, the viewership (popularity, aka influence) of the fake national media has collapsed.
Those two changes may “give legs” to the idea that decertifying the national democrat party, as configured, from participating in America’s national political system, for cause …… is not only justified, but doable, to effectively remove the treasonous elements from the levers of our Constitutional Republic.
Dangerous times require serious actions. It doesn’t require throwing the baby out with the dirty water….. but accountability and structural changes are required to eliminate the national democrat party’s treasonous actions and tendencies.
MAGA isn’t just our motto, it is our duty.
It looks to me the Democrat party is self destructing on its own. I dont think the feds need to step in.
Millions of Democrats joined MAGA voters this year. These people are rethinking about their party and the direction it is going. They showing it by their votes for conservative candidates.
MAGA is a movement. Not a political party. All who believe in Freedom, the Greatness of America , the promotion of Family values, and Morality will join and leave their former party in splinters.
JMO.
Auminer,
Thanks for the comment.
” is self destructing on its own.”
“Losing members” isn’t self destructing.
They still have all the fund raising ability and other perks that comes with the official “party” identification.
They have committed federal crimes as individuals and as the party.
They have forfeited the right to be an official national party within our Constitutional Republic’s political system.
Naive , innocent democrat party members, as you said, can join another legitimate party.
The gang that runs and controls the national democrat party have crossed over the line from dirty politics to serious federal crimes which carry serious punishments.
They, at some point, will be held accountable. The sooner the better, so the 2026 elections can be held without a cloud hanging over the proceedings.
Have a great MAGA Day.
George
@BehizyTweets
NEW: The Justice Department just filed a motion to dismiss the case against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera, who were indicted alongside President Trump by deranged Jack Smith.
The lawfare is OVER!
Cont…
Fantastic news!!!
Many of the invaders were conned by NGOs and other criminals into coming here on the promise that they’ll have everything handed to them. They were told “it will be okay, it’s not a crime, you’ll be taken care of”.
That’s a legitimate issue, it’s very real. That doesn’t mean it’s up to the taxpayers to make that come true. But it’s a legitimate issue and should be addressed.
Congress should immediately pass legislation to hold the liars who made those promises liable to the victims. The NGOs AND the individuals who were telling those lies, inducing invaders to come here, should be held liable for all the harm they caused. The victims should be allowed a voice and redress. They should have a chance to sue for all their harm. Maybe even special courts set up to hear those claims since the invaders all still need to go back where they came from, so all the proceedings will be held by remote video or similar. But sure, that’s a real issue and a real solution is to hold the scammers liable.
S/L should be generous for the victims and should specifically address that it starts to run now, when the lies have been exposed.
Those and many other NGOs are taxpayer supported. They get their funding thru USAID. Allowing the NGOs to be sued is just suing ourselves.
President Trump is cleaning house in USAID. He is cutting off funds to NGOs putting them in a panic all over the world. Lawsuits be damned. The people running the NGOs should be arrested and their foul socialist, globalist, hides thrown in prison.
Is far as I am concerned. Those illegals and NGOs are on their own . They ain’t getting any of my money.
Would that be legal actions taken from the original jurisdiction (country)?
I disagree. These people knew that they were committing a crime by illegally entering this country just as I know that stealing is a crime even though I can steal up to $950 without punishment in CA.
They weren’t victims. They were co-conspirators. Would you think that a group of men who encourage other men to rape a woman because “it’s okay and everybody is doing it” and then go ahead and rape her are VICTIMS?? Really??? Is that what passes for victimhood these days??
These people should not get one more penny out of the American people. If their countries of origin want to pass a law saying that these “victims” (yeah, right) can sue in that country then go right ahead.
Maybe PDJT and Team can find a way to allow these countries to extradite the NGO people and have them face charges where the “victims” (yuck) are.
Congress would make the law, they certainly shouldn’t expose the taxpayer to liability. The NGO and the individuals committing the fraud can foot the bills. I can think of some very large entities that are by law supposed to be separated from “state”. Yes, churches. But there are many others.
Whether they knew or should have known they were being lied to is a matter for the trier of fact, after extensive expensive discovery against the NGOs and individuals. Those that are driven out of existence are a win.
Antifa torched an ICE facility in Oregon. I’m curious as to why Trump hasn’t done anything about them yet. Is he waiting until they start rioting again?
When did that happen?
Portland police arrest 5 Antifa militants during anti-Trump rally
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-police-arrest-5-antifa-militants-during-anti-trump-rally
Thank you! (Forgot to acknowledge earlier).
I guess this is the one.
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-launches-attack-on-portland-ice-detention-center
Thanks, Wiley!
They were all arrested by State troopers. So… something was done.
A little good news.
I sure do love these guys. They put themselves on the line to do what nobody else can or will do.
Haiti is a complete hell hole.
https://thepostmillennial.com/us-military-veterans-rescue-american-family-of-christian-missionaries-trapped-in-gang-ridden-haiti
Here’s another remarkable rescue plan to be carried out by those willing to risk it all to do what others cannot or will not do.
This is one of the most shameful examples of failure in the US space program.
NASA has become a dirty joke, and Boeing should be tarred and feathered. It should be forced to give back the billions of taxpayer dollars it sucked up to fund its total joke of a space project.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-
announces-spacex-will-rescue-stranded-nasa-astronauts
Thank you, President Trump.
Thank you, Elon Musk.
Zero personally destroyed NASA with his “personnel” politics.
He sure enough did.
Subzero intelligence.
CANCEL our funding to a newspaper in Hungary which attacks their PM!!
https://x.com/amuse/status/1884642929622282690
Replaced “x” with “twitter” so I can see the tweet without clicking…
Good!
J6 Gulag has vacancies.
DHS Sec Noem revokes TPS on 600K Venezuelan migrants as reported by the AP.
WooHoo!!! Round em up, move em out!
This makes it more likely that they will get those ‘legal’ Somalians out of Springfield, and elesewhere.
Head of San Diego’s Catholic Charities, Appaswamy “Vino” Pajanor, was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. This NGO received over $41 million last year to shelter, feed, medically care for, and transport individuals committing asylum fraud and entering our country illegally. They should also be investigated for trafficking. The victim narrative is going up in flames.
https://x.com/Melissa_in_CA/status/1884102078769029239
VA Mortgage Portability Directive
I propose that The Real President direct that the VA immediately issue new guidance and policy to make VA mortgages portable. This would mean that a vet who has a mortgage can/will take the mortgage with them when they move.
Example: A vet owns a home in region A and has existing VA financing at the interest rate that they previously qualified for and obtained. For illustration say that rate is 3.5%. Some conditions will apply of course, but provided that the next house is of sufficient value and equity to meet guidelines and the vet still meets lending guidelines the vet can sell that house in region A and move to region B (or just across town) and take the 3.5% money with them.
This of course would allow a vet to take full advantage of market conditions where prices reflect higher interest rates paid by other buyers.
Reasons for this to be policy:
Vets have moved, and may still be moved, as a consequence of their military service. Even after they muster out they have spent years being moved about and may lack personal references for where they will eventually settle for the long haul. They may have interim jobs that over time will take them to new career paths. They may move closer to family or other considerations as their time out of service lengthens.
Vets will be put in a position to immediately spur activity in a stalled market. Many markets are currently stalled by the higher interest rates because buyers who currently own have to weigh the higher interest rate at the new house as against their current situation.
Vets have put themselves on the line for us and each individual in this scenario has already qualified for and obtained that loan at that rate, so other than the particular collateral what change justifies them paying more later? (I realize the same can be said for other borrowers but lets stick to what can be done here.)
The cost to the VA should be minimal and may be zero or less. If a vet can be allowed to move to a home more suitable to their present changed circumstance, taking existing financing with them, they may be better able to avoid default (which can happen with changed circumstances). The money was already lent at that rate, the calculation of return was fair at that point in time and the return should not have to be tweaked for the lender to retain the same return now. The cost of new appraisals and other closing costs may be a factor to consider, but the interest rate could and should be portable for vets.
Unfortunately, this would not work. A mortgage is secured by a Deed of Trust linked to a property (which is the collateral); when the house is sold, the mortgage has to be released as paid when the buyer’s monies are sent to the original lender. That releases the Deed of Trust.
Thus, when a new property is purchased by the seller of the VA loan insured property, a new mortgage has to be procured, a new deed of trust etc etc….
What you really are suggesting is that a Vet, who has previously qualified for a VA mortgage, that they should always get the same rate as the first given no matter the property they sell/purchase. I don’t think this would be workable… and I think it is unfair to future purchasers who didn’t get that rate.
I understand mortgages. I’m proposing that the loan follow the borrower vet. The collateral is simply replaced with new. This is very little different from what happens in a 1031 exchange. The debt position of the vet would remain stable.
Unfair to new buyers. Sure it is. But what’s fair to the vet who got transferred? I’m saying vet but they may be active duty. They may be in reserves or NG. They can be moved by command. Is it fair that they loose their equity in that house plus their interest rate? Fairness is never universal.
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Vets can get new VA loans for every new home they move to, whether or not they sell their old residence.
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Sure, up to their total limit of borrowing. But if they have an existing interest rate, under this concept they could transfer that rate to the new collateral. That’s an enormous boost to the ability to move without financial hardship.
OC, I know you can follow the multi-level repercussions of this. Consider what this does to the intransigence at the Fed over lowering rates. Consider the possibility that the same could roll out to all borrowers as a matter of law, but this could be undertaken for military as a matter of directive by the president with no delay.
Now consider other debt that may be driving consumer malaise. Consider the result on US debt service if rates are returned back down. This is a big tool in the president’s toolbox to direct the economy.
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It’s an idea, have to contemplate… Ultimately, we don’t want recalcitrance by lenders who finance these loans, or more expenses laid on the taxpayer. Also, not if the prior home has to be sold, because many active and retired military like to accumulate multiple houses that they then can rent out as they move from place to place. Good investment that also ups their borrowing limits.
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Came back late. I’ll be raising this again in coming days. I see enormous upside for the president and for the county. The VA is just the start of this. Reforming the entire lending industry is the end goal. And taking control back from the meddling Fed.
Investors have worked this way for decades. Cafeteria financing is a common term. The loan is essentially a line of credit, the collateral changes over time as to specifics but the balance of debt to equity has to be in line. Factories do this for machines and inventory. Car dealerships do it to floor plan cars, the specific vehicles change all the time.
If you consider that the lender has no change in risk exposure then what is the reason to force a person to keep re-purchasing the same money over and over? When the borrower takes a loan they are purchasing money, or the use of the money, for an agreed period of time and perhaps agreed purpose, such as buying a house. Having purchased that money, and having made the agreed installment payments on that purchase, what justification is there to take the money away just because the address of the collateral has changed? The lender in the case of the VA is not a bank, it’s the VA originating the loan but then selling it, probably in an enormous bundle, to institutional investors who do not purchase based on the collateral, they don’t know or care what house Victor Veteran owns. They have the backing of the VA that the payments will be made and any default will be paid by the VA.
The only reason to do this endless re-purchase of money is to generate fees for the loan industry/banks and to force Mike Middleclass into worse interest rates which he will then improve on later by buying the same money again, paying even more fees. Why should Mike have to repurchase the same cow just because he moved her to a different barn?
While I’d like to think this is Biden’s fault, it is far more likely that this is just another example of what “investment firms” have been getting away with, and then we hear that no one wants to shop in actual stores anymore.
My computer won’t allow me to read the linked article, but I did learn who owned the mall in question and a little bit about the company.
I think this is a tactic other mall owners are using too, because we had a mall in my area, under different ownership, pull something similar and then they tried to extort economic development money from the local government to stay open.
UPDATE: Town Center mall in Kennesaw closes because of ‘highly delinquent’ power bills
This is the company that owns the Town Center Mall:
Mall ownership group has checkered history
The news of the Marshalltown Mall losing power due to continuous nonpayment of electric bills by the owners is just the latest in a long line of controversies involving the New York-based Kohan Retail Investment Group, which operates the mall through its holding company Marshalltown Development Group LLC.
A cursory Google search reveals a long list of similar situations at malls the company, led by founder Mehran Kohansieh, who goes by the name Mike Kohan, owns across the country — in Iowa, their additional holdings include the Lindale Mall in Cedar Rapids, which was purchased for $28.5 million earlier this year, the Southern Hills Mall in Sioux City and the Westland Mall in West Burlington. The group formerly owned the Story City Outlet Mall and Southbridge Mall in Mason City.
Most of the disputes revolve around nonpayment of utility bills, property taxes and mortgage payments, and in Iowa, the Mason City Globe Gazette reported that the Cerro Gordo County Treasurer sued Kohan for owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in delinquent property taxes in 2018. That mall was eventually sold to another developer in 2022.
https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2023/11/mall-ownership-group-has-checkered-history/
just started livestreaming (11:15 a.m. west coast time) President Trump signs Laken Riley Act (he’s also speaking now about stuff that has been going on over the past few days)
By the time he’s one-third of the way down the red carpet he’s walking in time to the music. Nice.