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TOP TWENTY INSANITIES UNCOVERED BY DOGE!
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2025/02/top-20-insanities-doge-has-uncovered-so.html
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Something is sketchy with regard to the dearth of details available about Crockett’s career and bio information.
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Reciepts?
A Monday Foresight:
I remain the most optimistic of PDJT and America First supporters. Even throughout the nadir of 2022 and 2023, I was here reassuring that a fast spreading Great Awakening would bring eventual victory through another Trump win. A win brought about in ten thousand towns and villages of America. A war won in our own neighborhoods, one by one. One that would eventually reach DC.
And now we stand on the very threshold of it.
The DC Capitol of Globalism is shaking and crumbling, as the tidal wave of America’s angry reckoning now sweeps over it.
We are now into month 2 of the Golden Age, the Age of Trump. The counter-revolution upon the institutions and the foundations of power so far has exceeded all expectations.
It is just beginning. The beginning of the beginning.
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And one of the great rallying cries of the victory was the Great Roundup. The sealing of the border, and the organized expulsion of at least 15 million illegal invaders. We had become the World’s flophouse for all the worst it had to reject. An illegitimate government had cannibalized vast pools of our own tax dollars to facilitate it, and America’s demise.
The border has been sealed. And now we are all sealed in, still with our 15 million invaders. The latter are laying low. But still eating, drinking, and living off the lifeblood of America.
PDJT is slowly removing their supports and IV tubes into the very veins of our Nation.
But all the talk of the Great Roundup and deportation of millions of illegal invaders has faded from the front pages, replaced by DOGE, Ukraine and other very important matters. All vital matters, no doubt. All essential to a prolonged and durable victory over Globalism, no doubt.
All these other things of course must go on, too. As much as anyone can walk and chew gum.
But now PDJT must turn all his Presidential fire and power on to the Great Roundup. A thousand here and a thousand there, and the firing of the head ICE is not enough, even this early.
They are mere drops into the bucket of what is required.
Over 230,000 illegals were passed through the infamous Roosevelt Hotel in NYC alone. Just one city hotel.
There are over 15 million illegal alien invaders in this country that need to go. It remains the ticking demographic, economic, and political time bomb that will destroy all that PDJT is doing, and America itself, if it is not defused. Now.
Look at Germany, France and the UK if you want to see what will happen here if this invasion is not undone in its entirety.
That means over 10,000 per day need to be repatriated from here on out. And it has simply not been happening.
By all indications, it has completely stalled, through leaks, resistance and sheer lack of resources.
It is not enough to have Tom Homan talking tough on TV and promising results. There needs to be increased action. There needs to be actual results.
And it needs to be jump started soon. Very soon.
Unpleasant, dirty, ugly work. But it must be done. It is why America elected him, thrice.
Round them up, Mr. President. Start rounding them up.
Full agreement here. They need to start putting those who are aiding and abetting the crime of illegals being here and they need to put more resources to the action of deportation. People like AOC need to be arrested along with mayors, etc., in sanctuary cities and elsewhere. Illegal immigration is a crime and when you aid it, you are violating the law. Outside congress, representatives are citizens and should be treated as such.
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Immigration fraudster. Needs to be prosecuted.
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This entire situation is also highlighting the failure that not making these immigrants assimilate has been.
The name of the game is to come here and become Americans..
It’s not to come here, fly your flag and re-create the same hell hole you left here on American soil- which then includes electing people like Omar, that have made it clear that she represents Somalia and Somalians not AMERICANS.
We are enabling these people to not assimilate, this needs to end and for many reasons.. the cost of allowing 350 languages to be spoken here for one thing.
This entire topic of assimilation needs to get onto Trump and Elon’s radar.. because aside of the fact that it’s wrong, it’s incredibly divisive, it’s also costing us too much money.
I like your post. The one disagreement I have is the number of Illegal Imports far surpasses 15 Million.
I firmly believe we need an Emergency Census, run by competent honest people who are unafraid to ascertain a persons immigration status.
We have absolutely no idea how many people are here. It’d be nice to stop pretending we did.
As per President Trump’s executive order,
We are currently under a “state of emergency”.
Knowing full well that Justice delayed is Justice denied,
President Trump and DOGE have not only stopped the forward momentum of the administrative state,
They’ve thrown it into full reverse and are “pouring the coal” to it towards the goal of purely Constitutional governance.
As far as the “speed” of restoration is concerned…
One must realize that the only enemy left to defeat is “fear itself”.
Jesus already defeated sin and death, with the finished work of the Cross.
The psychological operations have been hard at work “managing perceptions” for well over a hundred years here…
Trust your hearts and mind to God.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
“State of Emergency” gives the President, actually the Commander in Chief, special powers. I don’t know the exact details but I believe it is related to the War Powers Act.
Derek Johnson has been citing the details all along at Rattletrap1776.
While I can’t rattle off all the details and documents like him, I can see that it’s the only thing that makes sense.
Big picture, President Trump didn’t just fall off the turnip truck and start shooting from the hip. He’s part of a massive, massive plan.
We are in “Special” times, as in “Special Operations” times.
As you say, Trust God, Fear not.
60 + millions of illegals would be a far more accurate estimate…
20 years ago when I graduated high school, I clearly remember them talking of 40 million illegals and “dreamers”. 60-80 million is probably pretty close
50 million +
EXCELLENT IDEA!
They have started. They have lots of hurdles to overcome. They are ramping up from all accounts. It sounds so very easy on paper. Just get out there and do it.
Go to your nearest city or town even. Take a look around and see how easy it’s going to be to do what you’re saying. Millions of people everywhere daily going about their routines, numerous buildings, empty lots etc to go through and many cities are resisting like crazy and probably hiding many of the illegals. Churches resisting and maybe moving them around too. Now think about how many cities and towns and rural areas need to be searched and illegals found. Hundreds or thousands of cities, big cities, and other places to go through all while the illegals are not going to just sit there and wait to be found. They will be on the run in a lot of cases.
. You and I might want it done yesterday and don’t want excuses, but we aren’t out there playing with the logistics of it all. It is going to take quite a bit of time, manpower and money to get this even half accomplished and we all knew it in reality when the idea was first brought up. We just don’t want to admit it.
We have the manpower.
We have the funds. Over $200 Billion in unspent Green New Scam dollars can be readily impounded by the Executive.
What we have the least of is time. We do not have four years. Substantial progress must be made in less than half that time. The laws of political physics will begin to intrude thereafter.
Every day of inaction now will demand an extraordinary day later.
Perhaps not 10,000 today. But far more than 1,000 during the first ten days. And far, far more than what we have been seeing since. The low hanging fruit is more than 1,000 per day.
Punishing those who facilitate their invasion and employment here as slaves would also be a welcome national tonic and flush things out into the open. A few NGO and food processing CEOs under indictment would be a welcome signal. Again, easy to reach, low hanging fruit.
All we have seen so far are a couple show suits against sanctuary jurisdictions. And a lot of CNN appearances threatening leakers. And a few flights out of the very worst in shackles.
And the head of ICE fired by an increasingly impatient President. And rightly so.
This demands a near military level operation in scope, organization and execution. A vast task force should have at least be assembled by now.
Again, the funds and the willing manpower are there. And it needs to start, now.
I was being conservative and agree more with Jinxy; the number of invaders is likely well north of twenty million.
Everyone that has been involved in any way, large or small, with bringing in and harboring illegals MUST be prosecuted according to USC 8.
Yes indeed, 8 USC 1324. There are some serious penalties in that law.
I like your avatar
According to the Immigration Reform and Control Act, this law prohibits employers to knowingly hire, recruit or refer illegal immigrants. If they do, they could face multiple consequences, including fines and even up to six months in jail.
President Trump needs to go after D R Horton (Horror) and all city employees that have looked the other way and stole jobs from Americans.
The democrat communists will be playing hard defense as their lives really do depend on covering up their corruption.
15 million is most likely about only 10% of the real number of illegals in the USA. This started in 1965.
I think many discount, for various reasons those who are self-deporting.
They are like the mirror image opposites of the “got-aways” as there is absolutely no way to know how many there are, no way to COUNT them.
I believe the PR Campaign PDJT and Homan have been doing, and will continue doing is effective, and is motivating a great many of the “legal illegals” (that is the ones who are NOT the career criminal types Homan and ICE are intitially focusing on) to self-deport,…
Think of it as a critically injured trauma patient; step one is STOP the bleeding, step 2 is infuse blood to replace the losses, …only in reverse.
Step one is seal the border, and we have DONE that, which is vital, otherwise deporting one, only to have 3 coming in, or 10 or 50 is obviously not satisfactory.
I also think PDJT’s P.R. Campaign, call it the “Angel Moms campaign” has been quite effective at countering the whole “the migrants are just doing jobs Americans don’t want” with “No, some of these ILLEGAL ALIENS may be fine people, but many are murderers, rapists, child molesters, etc.”
Remember the uproar and outrage when he first said that, in his escalator speech in 2015?
How far we have come, since then as he has single handedly altered perceptions, which is vital.
All countries are now taking back the deportees, even sending their own planes to transport them…
So long as we stop the inflo, and both by deportation and self-remigration have an outflo,…obviously things are going in the right direction…
And, based on every nominee being confirmed so far (Gaetz doesn’t count) it appears PDJT has Congress tamed,..lets see what kind of budget they come up with, and how much is budgeted for these remigration efforts.
Personally, given the resistance I think PDJT and Homan are doing fantastic…and it will only get better.
Actually, if its off the front pages, I am fine with that.
Let the resistance focus on DOGE, and Homan and now Kash and Pam investigate public officials for aiding and abetting…
Agree! President Trump’s EO canceled an extension of deportation protections for migrants from Haiti implemented by the Biden administration, opening the door for them to be removed from the country sooner. What Tom Homan should do is take ICE to Springfield, Ohio and remove all at one time the 20,000 Haitians Joe Biden dumped on that small town!!! That would send a signal and perhaps kick start more illegal aliens into self deporting??? JMO
If those Haitians are such great workers, they are needed in Haiti, because we left that place worse than we found it.
Let some real charities go help.
Americans were encouraged to donate what little they could, by presidents, after a major earthquake, and we did so, in droves, and our money was stolen.
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15-years ago.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/presidents-obama-bush-clinton-help-haiti
Then go to mininoplace and get the Somalians.
and don’t forget the somalian ring leader in congress.
The cure for immigration is to abolish Social Security, MEDICAID, and food benefits /SNAP/EBT etc
If every single American were ALLOWED to save for themselves, and their future, the system would not need mass immigration to prop it up, and pay for the people who came before them. Europe has the same problem. The host populations end up being taxed to death, and bred out of existence in the name of saving a system people have become dependent upon.
We need our own high interest accounts from the day we start work, to the day we retire, and those accounts should not be touched by anyone in government.
Or make e-verify mandatory
i don’t know the exact mechanism (everify or whatever), but it is surely not lost on the admin that no matter how much you ramp up deportation raids, it will never be nearly enough as if you simply shut off the spigot at its source (the $$), and the vast majority will walk away themselves.
President Trump has already issued an executive order to cut off aid to illegals.
saw that – an important step – but it is not nearly as important as shutting off their ability to EARN money.
The two steps to make illegals of all kinds walk away and self-deport:
1) Shut off the benefits. Require all people to demonstrate proof of citizenship/legal residence as eligibility for public assistance of any kind;
2) Enforce the laws already on the books about employing illegals. Tell the cry-baby employers at all levels they can no longer exploit foreign peoples/cultures and their home socioeconomic conditions with under-the-table wages, just to gain more profits.
Take away these magnets, and the illegals will self-deport.
I really like your post. One thing which is not addressed here is what do we do if LEO has an illegal alien and the illegal alien protests.
I lean toward tossing the alien immediately unless ????
Trying to process the alien in courts would result in a giant sewer blockage.
That’s a problem; the left has turned it into a big problem. I think President Trump has gone around the problem by declaring a National Emergency, which should allow immediate deportation.
Self deportation is the most cost effective option. Squeeze employers, public assistance, sanctuary cities and things begin to move in the right direction. I believe this is the strategy being employed in conjunction with forced removal efforts. Moving 15 million people around the globe is a huge expense and logistical challenge.
It took our leaders 50 years to create this mess, it doesn’t clean up overnight.
Correct. Individual people respond to the conditions in the world.
Free stuff, no consequences, ready jobs attract invaders.
No benefits, no jobs, all risk = people going home. Better if we leverage geopolitics to have foreign leaders make “home” attractive
Also have the peoples of “home” leverage their governments to make “home” much more attractive to stay…much like, say, El Salvador….
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I suspect that a lot of them won’t go “home”. They will be heading to Canada and some other countries.
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So…you have resource/cost data for all of this?
There’s a difference between your demands and what can be done from a resource/cost point-of-view. What’s your resource/cost analysis?
What’s yours?
There’s a cost to Americans that is impossible to estimate.
Can be it done without Martial law???…I very much doubt.. cut off federal help will not remove 15 millions illegal invaders…they got too many relatives/churches to support etc..
15 million invaders?
Try 40 million
It sounded to me like Kristi Noem was telling illegals if they left now they could come back later, in that ridiculous commercial she did.
I’ve always thought that Homeland Security was like the Education Department, only more so, in that it did not make anything better, in fact things got markedly worse.
I had hoped we were going to get rid of it and do something better.
No disrespect to Mr. Homan, he has to use the position to accomplish his mission, but we should have had an eye toward phasing it out, as we are doing with Education, because Homeland Security has been actively destructive to our nation.
Now we see Condoleeza Rice showing up to “help”.
Uh oh.
President Trump needs to go for the jugular.
That is to make it mandatory jail or prison for anyone that hires an illegal.
That is the only way to get rid of all of them.
They keep avoiding any talk of that which tells me they’re not half as serious as they pretend to be.
“They keep avoiding any talk of that which tells me they’re not half as serious as they pretend to be.”
Yes – they can’t do without their landscaping laborers and cleaning help. They might have to watch their own children instead of farming them out to nannies. I foresee deportation efforts moving at a snails pace – hope I am wrong!
Oldersoul, this has been my number one issue for at least 40 years, sealing the border, correcting the Anchor Baby misconstruction of the XIVth, intentionally, and justice for all those invading our sovereign nation and those aiding in the effort.
Whether their purpose was the Great Replacement via La Raza or the worldwide Caliphate desired by Obama’s friends ruining the twin cities and other once great venues.
I completely agree your points and the following comments.
I believe we need to go further than just illegal entries and overstays. All the pseudo legal categories devised by Obama and Biden to offer non-Americans the opportunity to stay under some fabricated label need also to be addressed and reversed. “Refugee” doesn’t just mean anyone they can get within our borders in any way for any reason; it once had a well known definition. It’s been badly abused.
Well said.
If the number of illegal imports (paid for by USAID) is closer to 40 million, we need to move over 800k per month to have the employment and housing markets focus on Americans First.
Yup. Tell It Like It Ain’t.
Anybody know if Rob Reiner emerged from his safe space yet ?
No. His head is still firmly stuck in a place where a team of proctologists has determined that it cannot be removed.
They are considered a radical surgery, to install a plexiglass window in his belly, so at least he can see where he is walking…
Looks like he’s still in his safe space.
Meathead!
I wonder if Caroll O’Connor (Brilliant man) had anything to do with the hiring of that actor to play that part & give it the nickname ‘Meathead’.
Either way, it was a wink from God.
What ever happened with Taylor Swift?
In all my years, last week was one of the first weeks that I got a call from the pollsters. I wasted their time a bit and held back on some personal details, but the questions they ask are particularly biased. There were mainly questions about Elon, Trump, and how we feel about tariffs. These lefties know what they are doing. They will put out these sensational headlines to give the appearance of chaos (just like idiotic belief that Trump had anything to do with a Canadian plane crash) —and then rush to the phones to do polls with very heavily slanted questions.
This is why you see the human alien, Jim Carville going on about Trump’s numbers going down. Don’t buy the hype. You wanna really gauge the temperature? Talk to people in different environments.
The new game in town is to post videos (completely fake) with people saying that they “regret their vote” for Trump. Gimmie a break.
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Personally, I think Trump’s energy people should get that oil and gas refinement moving quickly because that will have a knockdown effect. I can say, I’m loving the progress on the wall. The result of Biden killing all these chickens (out of spite) was in real display yesterday for me. Eggs were the only things being rationed at the local supermarket chain.
It’s really true what Sundance says. Dimms love power, while repubs love money — in the grand scheme of things.
“These lefties know what they are doing.”
while i want to be sure we appreciate and enjoy the wins, this is an important reminder. these evil little fascists are not down or out by a long shot.
they may be back on their heels, but right now, they are plotting things we cannot possibly imagine. even worse and darker than the last round. stay frosty, because their wrath and petulance is coming.
which means we need to get deadly serious and realize this is war, not a game. They play to win while we play to placate.
Not talking about the Trump administration which is doing as well as can be expected.
I’m talking about us, the conservatives. We always play by the rules and they play dirty and don’t have any rules.
“I’m talking about us, the conservatives. We always play by the rules and they play dirty and don’t have any rules.”
No, we conservatives aren’t playing by the rules, Dixie.
We are playing by how these Fascists define for us what those rules ought to mean.
Big difference.
They define the rules of morality to mean that the moral person must necessarily be a noble doormat, unable to return the treatment dished out, else be labeled as “descending to their enemies’ level of standards” – to “become just like the enemy”. And the enemy has a field day, rejoicing they have already won!
Hence, they play dirty, knowing they have pre-defined for us what our standards are to be, which gives them the superior advantage.
As long as one allows one’s enemy to define what one’s morality and nobility is to be, one will always be in the disadvantage.
Hence, President Trump is the King of Mean Tweets. He doesn’t allow his detractors to define what is moral and just and right…as much as everyone tries to. At some point, one needs to simply disregard people defining for you, and go with what really is moral, just, and right.
We MAGA conservatives need to learn to never allow the enemy to define for us what is moral, just, and right…and we’re not even close to being there yet.
Look at all the defeatist comments that are posted even here, with significant frequency.
Agreed. Which means all these wonderful EOs we’re celebrating MUST be codified by Congress. Quickly.
Before the 2026 midterms and before another Communist administration (God help us!) undoes everything.
Gaetz taking out McCarthy was an absolute necessity…
And the method with which it was accomplished…
Not with firebombs,
as is the MO of the D/Hamas party,
but with pure sunlight,
the Truth.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
Find out who from the Biden admin is still advising (or directing) Zelensky.
Hound/prosecute these people to the maximum extent of the law.
Ratcliffe needs to remove the CIA from Ukraine
And, US Army Intelligence
It could very well be a Republican — like Lindsey Graham. All of those R senators who met with Z should be suspect!
There is SO MUCH that needs to be done, it would be overwhelming to anyone else.
I admit I wondered if it was possible Our President Trump could possible accomplish all he needed to, and promised to,…but now at one month in, such doubts have evaporated like a fart in a hurricane!
I am so impressed with him, and the team he has formed, and now believe he and they WILL “do it all”.
Yes Sir!
Yes! All the Senators who visited Ukraine within the last twelve months need to be placed under surveillance and investigated.
for possible violations of the Logan Act.
The Logan Act, which bars U.S. citizens from engaging in certain communications with foreign governments without authority of the United States, was constitutional when enacted, and unless or until repealed by Congress, remains valid and enforceable.Jan 17, 2025
That date has passed
For some reason, Graham’s cockamamie minerals for money scheme was being used in the peace negotiations.
Exactly.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse told Z,
“You’re amongst friends here.”
I wish I could find that video from like 10-days ago?
My ten bucks is on Victoria Nuland and the punk Alexander Vindman
Park their arses in the stockade!
PDJT is spot on. The Ukraine war should have terminated a long time ago.
Wouldn’t it be something to have the perps housed in glass cells so every US citizen can come by and have a confab with them and tell them what we really think about their service.
FUNNY MONEY
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/james-howard-kunstler/funny-money/
“…The key to understanding how the Democratic Party works is how it uses federal grants to redistribute taxpayer money into jobs programs for its rank-and-file. As seen in the recent USAID scandal, the action revolves around the creation of countless NGOs (non-governmental orgs). They are easily created, poorly supervised, and assembled into large networks of self-serving, inter-dependent organisms whose main mission is paying staffers — and secondarily pretending to do good works, as suggested by a given group’s name is. These staffers make up the matrix of Democratic Party activists, well-paid foot-soldiers in do-nothing jobs who can be called upon to cheer-lead for the party, organize street protests and, most critically, harvest ballots when the time comes….”
No blaming President Trump if he did retaliate on Pelosi and others. They deserve it.
Trump Moves to Sell Pelosi Federal Building in SF | Newsmax.com
I am all for the government printing “Pelosi’s Potty” on all portable toilets in an effort to merge her name with John and Crapper.
Our VFW post still has Hanoi Jane’s picture at the bottom of the urinal.
Maybe they can find room for Nancy.
Well we all can’t live off lobbyists.
Ratchet Rep. Crockett Thinks You Can’t Use a $5,000 Refund – WokeSpy
While I understand things take time, we are seeing an explosion of policy efforts that will save money, the forgotten men and women have been suffering for a long while now within the realm of kitchen table economics. Energy and food prices.
Tackling winnable ideas…men in women sports, the post office, FBI leadership, Ukraine, USaid etc…are all good…but I am hearing grumbling from the blue hoods that voted for Trump.
In my ‘hood, gas is still$3.39 a gallon, give or take (cheap versus name brand petrol depending on how close the station is, to an expressway)… within the last 2-3 weeks, food prices have jumped from 5 cents an item to as much as fifty cents an item, mostly staples. Eggs are becoming more scarce and more expensive…and that no doubt includes items that are made with eggs.
Am thinking $5k would help a lot of tax paying voters.
I don’t want 5k. It should be used to pay down the debt
then you can send it back to the government
At least no income tax will be due for the “refund.”
i’ll take my 5k and the jerks who created the debt can figure out another way to pay it down.
tired of letting them seize my money. taxation without representation remains an overthrowable offense.
Gas is $2.87 for a gallon of unleaded in northern Wisconsin.
Eggs are $2.50 for a dozen at my cousin Candy’s farm. Lol
Here in SE Wisconsin I get eggs from one of two “egg ladies” I know. It’s been $4 a dozen for a few years now. I buy from them because I know what they feed the chickens.
We buy from our local Amish ladies…good eggs!
I’m glad that we have Rep. Crockett in place, now fully trained in the ways of MSM. Mad Maxine is getting a bit long in the tooth. Any day now she will get lost under her wig and we’ll never see her again. I fully expect to see Crockett start rapping and twerking on MSNBC or something.
That five k is imaginary money from imaginary savings.
Maybe. But I can spend it at Walmart.
I wouldn’t spend any of it at Wal-China Direct/Slave Wage-Mart…
I’d spend some on the cleanest food there is from local producers…
and some here
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is not my favorite but he’s an improvement..
I’m not happy about his position on not supporting the DOGE Dividends idea.
He seems unaware that this is our money that was stolen from us by the government.
We’ve learned through Elon and USAID that a massive percentage of that national debt is created by and funding fraud, corruption, crime and I’d say Crimes Against Humanity even- it’s been used to fund to create unrest all over the planet, it’s enriched people elected to serve us.
This money should be returned to the taxpayers.. to the people it was stolen from.
It’s not there to repay a debt built by their own corruption.
The money is being stolen from us twice now– they found our wallet and they are keeping it is what the “Good Christian” Mike Johnson is saying.
I think this is both wrong and disgusting.
These people have learned nothing and I don’t think they are as scared as everyone wants to think they are- their actions say otherwise.
https://san.com/cc/speaker-johnson-wont-support-doge-stimulus-checks/
#taxationistheft
As a result of what DOGE has uncovered so far, it seems clearer than ever before that our Government doesn’t work for us, we work for the Government.
Many times we were blatantly told this by our ‘representatives’. When
Biden told the. Man who said to Joe “you work for me” and Joe replied that no he did not work for him, the governments view of the people’s role couldn’t have been made clearer There are numerous and daily examples of these officials showing that WE the people work for them and they know best how to handle our lives and money.
Giving back the money or a portion of the money would be an action to start the process of the Government working for the people. The government shouldn’t get to decide how much of our money we get to keep.
Currently, the U.S. Goverment is borrowing $, which means in order to pay every taxpaying citisen $5,000, it has to borrow that $, and pay interest on it.
By simply STOPPING the expenditure, the $ that WOULD have gone to pay for circumcisions in mogadishu (or whatever) is NOT.
And, as Trillion$ of such rediculous pay outs are similarly STOPPED, obviously the Fed. Gov. no longer is borrowing $ and paying interest.
I really don’t care, one way or the other whether the Gov. goes into additional debt, in order to “give back” $5000, or not.
Seems to me its a simplistic notion, like thinking the $ taken out of your paycheck for SS, is “your money” and goes into an acct., with your name on it: it isn’t, and it doesn’t.
We need to get a virtuous loop going. DOGE finds savings, so government spends less. Government borrows less, because it is spending less. Interest rates fall, because government borrows less. Government spends less on interest, because interest rates fall. People save on their credit cards and mortgages, because government spends less. People invest, because people save on their credit cards and mortgages.
This would work for me Paul, I agree.
At least it’s something to give back to the people.. if this plan of yours improved our lives by reducing the cost of living for us, then I’d be okay with that in lieu of a check..
What you are saying is probably the best way to go about it.
This would be a good idea to get over to Elon..
Exactly.
I don’t even see why Mike Johnson feels he’s got this choice, that is not his money, it’s our money.
What we’re learning is that far more money was stolen from us than what is needed or that we ever voted for or agree too..
The money has been stolen and then used to fund things that work against what is probably more than half the electorate.
This is not okay..
Speaker Johnson seems to go with the person in charge at the time. He did not stand up to the democrats and went along with them. I feel certain he will do exactly what President Trump tells him to do. If he still goes along with the democrats there might be reason for an investigation.
I’m opposed to the “DOGE Dividend” idea for a simple reason: as long as we are incurring massive annual deficits, ANY AND ALL $$$ saved by reduced spending should come off that deficit…and not sent to taxpayers —- because those $$$ are NOT a return of taxes spent, but $$$ BORROWED to support all the wasteful and fraudulent spending being ended.
I like Johnson….better than any Speaker since Newt. But he’s working with a razor thin GOP majority, and that majority includes dozens of RINOs looking to sink him.
There are a couple of reasons that I believe that are being used to justify the $5,000 DOGE Dividend checks. First, it builds goodwill towards DOGE thereby allowing DOGE to do even more work. Second, it allows the administration to say that they are doing something that helps folks with the inflation problem by putting money into their pockets.
That being said, I do not support absurdities. I expect to earn everything that I get by acting virtuously. To obtain something without a virtuous act is to divide morality in two, making a moral monstrosity. The Law of Causality applies to morality as surely as God wrote the Law of Causality on the fabric of the universe. Values are obtained through virtue. To obtain value causelessly is to deprive me of my virtues.
However, there are many gaping mouths who will quickly turn on DOGE if they do not perceive some direct benefit. I understand the arguments on both sides and will live with either choice that is made by the powers that be. Any DOGE Dividend will be funny money adding to the deficit. At least the money won’t go to harpy-led NGOs.
That’s what I think the 5k is, PR for Musk.
I don’t want to have future generations still paying down debt just to make him look good.
People forget his stompy feet and threats and lies over H1B, which should have been wiped out in it’s entirety, as it only harms the American workers.
Now he’s a good guy because he plays Santa with money from imaginary savings.
I cannot fathom that Americans are learning all day long now -from DOGE- the depths and level of which our tax dollars have been stolen and then used to fund this insanity that the entire world has been suffering from for our entire adults lives now–and that we’re going to just learn this and say “okay, so that’s over- move on, no big deal”.
We’ve been robbed to fund a crime wave that is historic!
We have a national debt that it’s impossible to pay off at this point, and a great deal of that money was not only stolen but then they couldn’t steal enough to they simply printed more !!
There most likely was never even a need to print more money..
There has got to be something done about this to not only end it, but to then make things right with the American people.
Think about history, people were hung from lampposts for far less.
If we don’t see a massive level of accountability for all this, it’s all just going to happen all over again.
The way that people do not repeat bad behavior is because they’ve paid a heavy price for what they did wrong.
This needs to happen.
Most of the savings is from cutting off grants, subscriptions, and eliminating jobs. That means less money borrowed. While giving taxpayers $5000 or any amount back from these ‘savings’ just adds to our national debt, which the accumulated interest on that debt continues to put us, and our grandchildren, further in debt. Yes, a refund of any amount would sure help me, but I would rather we not add anything more to our debt.
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There is no “money that can be returned to taxpayers”.
Why is that so difficult for people to understand?
Excepf for some very recently allocated and relatively small clawbacks, for the most part, DOGE is cutting out future expenses that would have been put on the figurative U.S. credit card.
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This should not have been put out to the public until the $$$ of waste, fraud and abuse are closer to being calculated.
There is a long way to go until summer of 2026 when DOGE ends.
At that time discuss some sort of refund and let it positively affect the ’26 midterms.
I think this is probably what Speaker Johnson is thinking. Imho.
‘Lil Bush 43 gave rebates of $300-single/$600-married like twice.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bush-signs-1-3-trillion-tax-cut-bill-300-600-2913184.php
This was in essence the USG managing to identify a bank account to individual(s).
The beginning of tracing.
Sean Curran, the special agent in charge of Trump’s security detail for four years is now director of the USSS. Dan Bongino should have been appointed to that position, not as FBI deputy director. He wrote an entire book about how to reform the USSS.
Let’s see if Curran does what Bongino has outlined as necessary to do.
Dan Bongino wrote a few other books. I’d say he’s exactly where he needs to be.
To actually reform the agency, the 2-3 people just underneath the appointed head, are VITAL, as they are the ones that either WILL actually institute the changes, or will drag their feet, and passively resist.
Far too many focus on the Cabinet Secretaries, and not enough on the #2 and #3 people…
HAVE TO Get to the BRANCH CHIEFS and THEIR Sub-Ordinates !
INTO the SES types !
” The Senior Executive Service (SES) lead America’s workforce. As the keystone of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the SES was established to “…ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.” ”
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/
Curran reports to Kristi Noem now so we’ll wait and see what happens! It can only get better. But I would prefer that President Trump have his own private security over the SS, there are some really good private security firms with former Navy Seals and Special OPs Veterans with more experience than the Secret Service loaded with short, obese DEI agents!!! JMO
my DRUTHERS WOULD BE – BREAK UP ==> DHS
Back into where The Agencies Report to THEIR RESPECTIVE SPECIALTIES
HOMELAND Sounds SO EUROPEAN / COMMUNIST
Dan had stated that he wasn’t interested in heading up the secret service. I don’t know his reasons, but I think he is great for his FBI slot.
All departments which were ordered to not respond to Musk’s email need to publicly explain why that was done. Two I’m aware of are the VA and Patel’s FBI. There are multiple clever reveals that this email test would provide.
President Trump needs to get these two on the ball. Musk is here to do a job. Let him do it.
Patel is here to do a job, and he outranks an auditor.
Let the new heads of the VA and FBI PURGE their agencies of the top level deceptive bureaucrats before Musk takes the chain saw to them.
Only those departments whose employees have security clearances and are working on classified materials.
This email idea is stupid and makes me suspicious of Musk.
Why would we want a data base of information on exactly who is doing what in our Pentagon and federal Agencies.
Remember the old saying, “Loose lips sink ships?” Jeffrey Epstein’s would kill for a list like that.
He had one.
We don’t need to update it.
They can check for ghost employees by making everyone respond to a unique email question that they need to obtain the answer from their direct supervisor or have them physically pick up their paycheck.
The idea to have them say what they do is stupid on so many levels.
i think you meant was killed not would kill
Patel wasn’t given a chance to get a handle on his new organization before he had an outside party giving orders to his workforce.
Any boss worth his salt would have called a halt to that.
Musk should have cleared it with Patel first.
That e-mail sent out by Musk with a deadline of tonight at midnight was to catch those who are double-dipping. Those who are “working from home” and who are in the employ of others.
There will always be exceptions that can be worked out. Why the panic?
Sandalwood 111: Elon Musk’s request to federal employees was fully consistent with the way he and President Trump operate. Both men get people talking and force the snakes to reveal themselves.
Because he sent it out without clearance from their boss, and those that saw it were NOT the ones he is trying to catch, quite obviously, and had no idea why they should suddenly be reporting to an outside body without any input from their new boss.
The fact that they took their concerns to their new boss and he told them to hold off on replying, should tell anybody what was wrong with the way Elon handled this.
He should have run it by Kash.
Another day of clarion railing repeatedly about that email and what Elon and President Trump should have done.
Keep beating that horse.
Most of these people perform classified tasks. Revealing what they do is itself a violation of law. Elon was targeting the “ghost” employees who are on the books, but do not exist.
I think by obtaining databases from various fed agencies that Musk will be able to do EXACTLY the sort of thing done in the video below to quickly and automatically find anomalies (fraud like ghost employees, benefit recipients who shouldn’t be, etc.). It cannot be done WITHOUT those multiple databases to cross correlate. I hope that is what he has planned.
Who won in Georgia? It can’t be known. There were far more ineligible voters on the rolls than the margin of victory:
Who Won Georgia 2020? Longer Fractal Video
Omega4America
https://rumble.com/v59qdot-who-won-georgia-2020-longer-fractal-video.html
Using that kind of cross-correlation software, this was found in PA:
June 25, 2024
Election Validity Group Files Landmark Lawsuit in Pennsylvania
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/election_validity_group_files_landmark_lawsuit_in_pennsylvania.html
Audit The Vote PA, a non-partisan, non-profit organization. Although not a named petitioner, they also uncovered overwhelming evidence of registration problems in the 2020 and 2022 elections. For the 2022 election they found:
54,463 people voted in a county in which they were no longer living; and 8,177 people voted despite not actually living in Pennsylvania;
6,356 people were credited as submitting a mail-in ballot, but did not have any votes credited in Pennsylvania’s SURE system;
69,832 mail ballots were sent to an address unaffiliated with the voter’s registration;
18,589 people requested multiple ballots be sent to multiple addresses, with some people requesting additional ballots to be sent to up to four (4) separate addresses; and
5,492 registrations show as having two votes on record in two separate counties.
United Sovereign Americans peer-reviewed data teams analyzed Pennsylvania’s voter registration data from the 2022 general election and found “hundreds of thousands of voter registration apparent errors in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These apparent errors were not uniform across Pennsylvania — some counties had far more registration apparent errors than others.”
Out of 8,755,458 voter registrations, there was a total of 3,192,069 voter registration violations including:
20,097 illegal duplicates, where the same voter has multiple registrations
43,083 illegal or invalid vote history
28,256 backdated registrations
268,493 registrations where the period of active registration conflicts with the registration participation
448,335 invalid or illogical registration dates
633,508 illegal or invalid registration changes
154,913 registrants with questionable address
1,580,750 registrations with records altered after certification
They found 1,198,598 evident voting violations, and 1,089,750 unique votes impacted by apparent voting violations, including:
8,026 illegal duplicates, where the same voter has multiple registrations.
340,266 invalid or illogical registration dates
632,215 illegal or invalid registration changes
59,609 registrants with questionable addresses
138,291 registrants with altered votes after certification
This must be fixed!
morning Treepers………………………….be well
Morning bjorkdream
Beautiful. Love it.
Thank you.
Have a great day.
Good morning! Let the rays shine on thru!
Kash Patel, the new FBI director, has ordered the transfer of 1,000 agents from the Washington, D.C. headquarters to various field offices across the country to enhance local crime fighting efforts. This move is part of a broader plan to streamline operations and increase the FBI’s presence in communities.
How about you? Do you want MORE FBI in your area who come from the DC HQ culture?
GREAT book about FBI culture:
1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI – the Untold Story (2003)
1000 Years for Revenge is a groundbreaking investigative work that uncovers startling evidence of how the FBI missed dozens of opportunities to stop the attacks of September 11, dating back to 1989. Award-winning journalist Peter Lance explains how an elusive al Qaeda mastermind defeated the entire American security system in what the author calls “the greatest failure of intelligence since the Trojan Horse.” Threading the stories of FBI agent Nancy Floyd, FDNY fire marshal Ronnie Bucca, and bomb-maker Ramzi Yousef, Lance uncovers the years of behind-the-scenes intrigue that put these three strangers on a collision course. An unparalleled work of investigative reporting and masterful storytelling, 1000 Years for Revenge will change forever the way we look at the FBI and the war on terror in the twenty-first century.
The DC crew will accept re-training or be let go. Robert Mueller changed FBI policy and created the requirement that the only way to head an FBI office is to work in DC for a few years. Many had wives who had careers and kids in school and it was cruel to move them to DC where housing is much higher than most of America, so they left the FBI for the private sector.
Re-location or re-training? As an aside, I would like to see what remains of the FBI re-located to Huntsville.
I would prefer the FBI Headquarters be moved to the center of the country, like Kansas or Nebraska and away from the corrupt political influence of Washington DC!!! JMO
Yep. All they should see when they look out the office windows is corn or cattle.
Or see mid/small town America where they can see what a lot of American life is actually all about and participate in it.
I don’t want them near me, would you if you lived there?
NIMBY to the current crop of eff bee eye peeps.
We have federal buildings with FBI and other agencies in the states now.
All Kash is doing is putting workers back where the belong.
I knew an older FBI agent who was a good man and saw a lot of action. He told me it was in the Carter years that the FBI changed. They lost autonomy at the local level to open cases and everything started having to be run through DC. They would find local cases of corruption and if DC HQ said no, they couldn’t investigate.
Good to know.
i Knew an FBI Agent in His Final Years of Active Service and Then Retired; Went into Private Investigations for Lawyers and Businesses.
GOOD MAN and VERY / EXTREMELY ” Measured “…
Good info.
I think 1,000 agents would be excellent resources for Homan.
I didn’t realize that happened, thanks for posting.
So, he tells them them they have to be in DC, and then they ‘need’ a gigantic new building.
i think it unlikely that the rotten culture of FBI was not already there… but i have seen a couple other people say similar and it does resonate with me: these “agents” are like Stasi and they take pleasure in persecuting regular citizens. And frankly that is the LAST thing we want more of in our communities. so unless they have some specific mandates on what “crimes” to pursue – because Stasi are in the business of FINDING crimes otherwise – i’d much prefer they just get FIRED.
If they are in your community, they are reachable.
If they are in Washington they are protected and untouchable.
Just saying.
And in our communities, their impact is diluted.
Use your head.
Decentralization of power is really a thing…..
“The point of decentralization is to distribute power and decision-making authority away from a single central point, allowing for more local control, increased responsiveness to specific needs, and potentially greater transparency and accountability, particularly in contexts like government or business operations; essentially, it aims to spread power across a wider network rather than concentrating it in one place.
Key benefits of decentralization:
Madonna may be ticked Monday… Come on DOGE
Why did TRUMP use the word more “Aggressive” referring to Elon and Why did he not inform his secretaries that the email will be sent out?
Trump caused a lot of confusion! NOT A GOOD LOOK!!!
When Chis Christy sounds more reasonable than TRUMP we are in trouble!!
Where is a down vote button when you need one?
Or the equivalent of clearing your throat loudly, while saying “asshole”?
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Who needs a down vote button when you ratio with such expertise!
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poppycock
btw, not working
Your concern is duly noted. Would you like to speak to the manager?
Sounds like you’re already in trouble.
Send us an email stating 5 things you and Crispy Creme have accomplished in the last week…
If the Secretaries didn’t know, after it was all over the news, they should resign. Those in intel and law would probably have a reason not to tell what they have been doing but I doubt most of them have been working from home.
It’s a great message.
It’s a message to the media, it’s a message to the political class, it’s a message to world leaders, and it’s a message to DC insurgents trying to sabotage President Trump’s progress.
Oh, no, mean tweets again? What’s this world coming to now?
“When Chris Christy sounds more reasonable than TRUMP we are in trouble!”
Actually “we” are not in trouble but you might want to see one of those psychiatric doctor people if you think that is what is happening.
Wasn’t he using it with regard to the kind of things Elon was uncovering about Stacey Abrams and NGOs?
I took it to mean he wanted Elon to concentrate more on that kind of thing, and I would have to agree with that.
If you think Chris Christie is ‘reasonable” then you have a problem.
President Trump. Very disrespectful.
Germany just had an election.
A country of 50 million or so.
Paper ballots, hand counted. No mail in ballots. No machines.
Results in eight hours!
We can and must return to same day in person voting. No mail in ballots. No machines. Paper ballots. Voter ID.
And, do you trust the results,…?
What most still don’t get, is that AS they introduced the machine voting systems, every State Legislature had to totally rewrite their election laws…and lobbyists working FOR Dominion, generously provided guidance and not just suggestions, but actually proposed legislation.
This new set of election laws covered every bit of election law, far beyond just how the machine counts would be conducted, and included (for example) a changed definition of “Standing” requiring the challenger to show, at the outset if any court case, before any discovery, within 10-14 days of the election, that the errors in the counting were great enough to effect the results.
Point is, a whole bunch of election laws, in each State must be repealed, and old laws reinstated, in order to “switch” back to paper ballots, etc.
We just sort of drifted into the electronic voting, with the public believing it was somehow “required”.
We went from a publicly acceptable bottom-up tabulation procedure to top-down.
Bottom-up is where local poll stations within an hour or two of closing the polls, tally and verify, post the results on its door for the public to see and sends the results to SOS.
This was the exciting way to especially watch how your local county-wide and municipal candidates were doing. How many votes they got. Who won!
Today’s top-down is when the local polling station sends results to the state SOS . The state verifies their local election results and then sends the polling results back to place on the door. That may take hours sometimes day(s).
Idk, it may not even be posted on the polling door anymore.
18-40 year-olds don’t even realize the old way.
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What could go wrong with top-down?
Stolen election in hours instead of days. What a concept!
President Trump’s ballcap says “45-47” on it.
Has anyone stopped to think why he would display it that way?
It appears based on the many comments I see that many may never stop to think about why President Trump and his team would have him wear a ballcap that says 45-47 on it.
I believe I know why it’s displayed that way. I am comforted by it. I know there is a plan and that plan is being carried out. The plan is in alignment with his own words given in a speech 26 days prior to the 2016 election.
Here’s a portion of that speech:
Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt — now, when I say “corrupt,” I’m talking about totally corrupt — political establishment, with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
Nothing says ‘mandate’ more than two nonconsecutive terms. 😉
Here’s a great 5:48 minute video version of that speech. It captures the highpoints while at the same time visually highlighting the criminals.
The last line of the video says it all: “Trump the Establishment”. We just did that in the third straight election win. The Golden Age is upon us in more ways than we realize.
I would prefer 45-“46”-47!!! Reflecting the massively fraudulent election of 2020!
If I remember correctly, was that the Gettysburg address?
in my mind he is still 45. there was no 46th president. that was a coup and i refuse to count it for the rest of my life.
Yup.
I stand with President Trump,
Especially his stance on flag burning.
You can bet your last dollar, that the subversives/enemies domestic,
Did not pay for those flags out of their own pockets…
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
I think one of the important things overlooked by Trump on his return to the White House is the lack of media outlets to explain his policies to American voters, especially the younger generations, who get sucked in by the Dems phony ‘caring’ about the Earth, it Environment and it’s citizens. Reviewing the Dems history, all they concerned with is the power the lucre brings and the dishonest ways they misappropriate or steal it.
It’s a shame that the MSM is all slanted to the left, making it impossible for Trump to get his messaging out, this country deserves more than one media outlet than FNC (which is going to be run by Murdoch’s oldest ‘liberal’ son soon. Being that ABC, CBS and NBC all have the advantage of government airwaves, the country need 2 more republican media solutions. Someone make AT&T ‘an offer they can’t refuse’ for CNN and the FCC needs to look into the broadcast media licenses, half the country doesn’t want to watch The View.
The good guys completely “own” the media right now.
What we are witnessing in the mainstream media is a “performance of sorts” with them outing themselves.
We are witnessing a public deconstruction top to bottom of every form of media. They were a criminal enterprise. They are systematically and publicly being dismantled.
We are watching a movie right now. Just sit back and watch the show.
At last check, CNN only had a couple of hundred thousand viewers in there prime time shows. By comparison, Dan Bongino alone got much more on his podcasts.
The jig is up. Everyone knows it.
The younger generations don’t watch TV news, which is why Barron Trump urged PT to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Exactly!
Exactly.
My grown grandchildren don’t even know what the nightly news is at 5:30.
Just a general observation. Notice how most of the wives of President Trump’s cabinet, nominees and appointees have taken their husband’s last name? It’s easier to connect the two. But Democrats in DC don’t do that making it much harder to see the conflicts of interests! The media, Federal Judges, White House staff, high level Federal bureaucracy heads, Lawfare lawyers were all connected in marriage or by a significant other! Maybe because the women were mostly radical feminists married to testosteroneless Democrats they didn’t change their last name. Or it could also be a sinister need to make interconnections with conflicts of interests much more complicated to understand/recognize? JMO
I remember Rush had a list of the incestuous relationship of politicians, mainstream media personalities and lefty organizations.
The obvious conflicts were amazing.
It was the spouses different last names that kept the conflicts hidden from public scrutiny.
‘Nearly all Whitmer cabinet members received bonus pay ($145,000) in 2024, records show’
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/21/whitmer-appointees-bonuses-performance-pay-cabinet/79218517007/
Their slice of the Ukraine money!
THAT IS
a LOT OF POT HOLES !
“The video below shows what appears to be a normal day in Dahieh, with people moving about, including two motorcyclists that are shown in-frame. Then the bunker busters arrive. One is seen burrowing deep through the concrete roadway, narrowly missing one of the motorcyclists, followed by a massive subterranean explosion that ‘lifts’ the entire surrounding area. This is exactly the effect of a bunker buster like the BLU-109. The bomb’s tough casing allows it to penetrate deep underground with its delayed fuzing detonating the warhead at a predetermined depth.”
Which, in this case, was Hezbollah’s Central Command Bunker:
Also: An Israeli airstrike on a parking garage in Beirut targeted a meeting of Hezbollah commanders, resulting in the deaths of at least ten leaders, including Ibrahim Aqil. The strike was described as a quick response to an operational opportunity based on intelligence about the gathering.
Two F-15s and two F-35s:
What a shame Israel just can’t bomb the living daylights out of these people gathered in these massive numbers. It would resolve so much.
Ha. I wonder if the flames contained their remaining carbon matter. Their love for suicide bombing came back full circle.
Student Loan Borrowers Crushed by Appeals Court Ruling, Credit Scores Plunge
February 21, 2025
https://mishtalk.com/economics/student-loan-borrowers-crushed-by-appeals-court-ruling-credit-scores-plunge/
The courts are busy. This one goes against Biden. Economic repercussions are significant.
Student Loan Debt Cancellation Blocked – The New York Post reports Biden’s $475B student debt cancellation plan blocked as federal appeals court issues final decision
There is no such thing as “cancelling” this debt, it is just transferred to those who don’t owe it! Here are some useful idiots produced by our “educational” system with the help of billions from USAID (CIA) through “NGOs”:
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That’s another area where MAGA could make HUGE and highly beneficial changes – END future student loans as they currently exist!
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.
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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
I attended Texas University in the early 60’s, graduated in ’65.
At that time, the government’s student loan programs didn’t exist.
Tuition was $25.50 per semester…
Tx also: By the early 70s it was up to 100$ for a full load. I couldn’t afford it. Scratched by, no assistance either.
Those people are obviously all STEM majors.
Not
Ha! Even mentioned pink eye…worth the 7 1/2 minutes…linked from TLD:
https://rumble.com/v6oku90-dr.-eric-berg-skyrocketing-egg-prices-are-not-by-accident.html
Is there any truth to the reports of listening devices found in the Oval Office? The instant negative outcry from the media makes me think there is something to it.
In President Trump’s desk if I understand correctly. They took it and he’s using the Bush desk until it is ‘renewed’.
Do you believe that Trump would be silent about it, if true?
I did a lot of poking around on web searches and never found a reliable report. Just a lot of copy/paste from a fringe blog post
Glad to see the leader of the Proud Boys released after being sentenced to 22 years in prison for J6.
Especially when he didn’t even enter the building.
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/watch-tempers-flare-when-pardoned-j6-prisoner-confronts-j6-committee-witnesses-cmc/
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What a time to be alive…..
Have you seen Elons new org ? FAFO ? 😂
How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe
Feb. 22, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/opinion/how-usaid-squandered-billions-in-haiti-and-around-the-globe/
Excerpt:
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Since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed as many as 300,000 people, the US government has disbursed around $4.4 billion in foreign assistance to the small island nation.
At least $1.5 billion was disbursed for immediate humanitarian aid, while another $3 billion went to recovery, reconstruction and development.
Of the at least $2.13 billion in contracts and grants for Haiti-related work, less than $50 million, or 2% went to Haitian organizations or firms. By comparison, $1.3 billion, or 56%, has gone to firms located in or near the US capitol. Little wonder USAID is so threatened by the sudden scrutiny.
[snip]
Governmental agencies such as USAID and their NGO partners and collaborators act as if they are sovereign nations — accountable to no one.
Let’s make damned sure this becomes the reality:
Hot off the press at BB:
https://www.breitbart.com/news/millionaire-vivek-ramaswamy-set-to-join-the-ohio-governors-race/
Hmmm…a disruptive competitor? But will he get a coveted Trump endorsement?
“…and instead mount a Trump-style ascent into the job directly from the business world.
The formula has worked for Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, two political newcomers who won Senate seats with the help of Trump’s endorsement in 2022 and 2024, respectively. But Ramaswamy will test it in a state government-level race for the first time in recent memory.”
This might make you mad. US SOF and the Cartels
US military has been in the drug trade for many years. Opium production boomed in Afghanistan until 2021 when the Taliban took back their country and burned the opium fields.
https://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_opium_survey_2023.pdf
Yes, it deserves repeating. Lots of good folks still catching up to the long an deep corruption.
This is an bitter red pill for lots of pretenders.
Heroin and war go hand in hand. Makes one wonder what the real reason for war is?
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/drug-dealers-used-the-military-to-smuggle-heroin/
SIMPLE FIX: Trump directs every department refusing to reply to the Musk email to do the same thing within their agency and report the results.
FBI, DoD, State Dept. Push Back On Musk’s Monday Deadline For ‘Accomplishments’ Email
Feb 23, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-did-you-do-last-week-musk-says-federal-employees-have-until-midnight-monday-explain
Excerpts:
The State Department told its employees; “The State Department will respond on behalf of the Department. No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their Department chain of command.”
While National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard told employees of agencies she oversees in the Intelligence Community (IC): “Given the inherently sensitive and classified nature of our work, I.C. employees should not respond to the OPM email,” according to The Hill.
Meanwhile, Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), wrote a letter to Musk and OPM acting director Charles Ezell, directing its 800,000 members to defy the demand.
“Federal employees report to their respective agencies through their established chains of command; they do not report to OPM,” said Kelly, adding that the demand was “irresponsible” and a “sophomoric attempt” to cause confusion and intimidate federal workers.
“I am also requesting that OPM rescind the email and apologize to all federal employees,” he said.
President trump ‘ReTruthed’ this post last night:
“ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE. REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114047677181856301
Perhaps Everett Kelley and the 800,000 members of AFGE will soon be out of a job. They should have accepted the buyout.
Musk Warns Fed Workers – Return To Office Or Be Placed On Leave
Feb 24, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/welcome-serbia-musk-warns-fed-workers-return-office-or-be-placed-leave
The Department of Government Efficiency’s Elon Musk wrote on X early Monday that starting this week, federal workers who fail to return to the office will be placed on administrative leave.
“Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning,” Musk wrote, adding, “Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave.”
Musk is referring to the “Return To In-Person Work” executive order Trump signed on day one of his second term, which states:
“Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.”
Illegal Aliens Loot US Trains In Mojave Desert For High-Value Nike Sneakers
Feb 24, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/illegal-aliens-loot-us-trains-mojave-desert-high-value-nike-sneakers
The latest figures from the Association of American Railroads show that railroad thefts surged to 65,000 in 2024, a 40% increase from the previous year, costing major railroads $100 million.
Man we came out lucky on that one.
They must have not known there were eggs on board.
Haha
Uncle Bridgette didn’t show 🤣
The clip of Laura Trump interview with Pam Bondi saying how when she entered the 7th floor pictures of Garland, Biden and one other were still hanging on the wall. She, the Attorney General, took them down asking why this had not been done. She was told maintenance doesn’t like us touching anything. Well, who is the “us” in that statement?
Gave me the impression that all we have really done so far is to replace the exoskeleton of power. Those forming that structure (Bondi, Noam, Patel, Hegseth, Rubio, Bessant, Gabbard, etc.) have some heavy lifting. Not only to demonstrate to the American people that they are up to the task, but how will they simultaneously carve into the belly of the beast now thousands strong in left ideology? Huge undertaking to return government to we the people, you and I.
Another example: Noam is DHS secretary. Director of USSS reports to Noam. The acting deputy director of DHS is an “It”; a Ms./Mr. MaryAnn Tierney. Why hasn’t IT been replaced? Where is the energetic patriot at Noam’s back, tending to efficiency? Just like maintenance on the 7th floor. I would have fired them immediately, but then what? Where is the pool of patriots to fill the immediacy of empty heads in silent hallways? Where is the buzz of energy in the inner organs of the structure absolutely needed to keep the heart beating?
Without DOGE exposing the depth of the rot we would be left with surface talk; international policy in settling wars and Homan’s march on migrant border security. We would not have our fingers on the pulse of the organism. It is a huge task to purge those hallways and stimulate them with fresh blood. To rejuvenate a nearly deceased Republic. We the People are that blood. That’s why this is a spiritual war. It is OUR focus on god all mighty; OUR will to bring forth the thunderous roar of a joyful god that is the wind at their backs, including PDJT and JD.
We are on the verge of a miracle that must be made known. The how is God’s job. DOGE is keeping us all interested, involved and inspired toward the Golden Age of Truth. Momentum and timing is everything.
The Party Is Over
By Jeffrey A Tucker
February 24, 2025
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-party-is-over/
[snip]
Something dramatic has hit Washington. It’s about more than Trump.
The party now in control of the US executive branch is a third party built out of the corpses of two existing parties. It goes by the name Republican but this is nearly a historical accident. The GOP was a vessel that was least protected against invasion and occupation. It has now been nearly taken over by outsiders who had little or no influence within the party a decade ago.
Nearly all the top people now in power – including Trump of course but also Musk, Gabbard, Kennedy, Lutnick, and so many more, to say nothing of the voters themselves – are refugees from the Democratic Party. Coalitions have dramatically changed. Voting blocs have migrated. And policy debates and priorities are nothing like they have been in any period since the end of the Great War.
The occupiers left a Democratic Party that was and is busy consuming itself with Rousseauian frenzies on issues about which most people do not care or are otherwise completely opposed. The legacy establishment of the Republican Party, however, never welcomed them in. They were hated and resisted at every step.
The Kennedy Migration
[snip]
The Musk Migration
Elon Musk is the third force within this leadership triumvirate of the new party. Before 2020, he was a politically conventional investor and entrepreneur. Mostly he associated with the default party of the elites, the Democrats. Then lockdowns came. He was the only major corporate leader in the US and probably anywhere in the industrialized world who publicly stood up in protest. He said he would sooner sleep on the floor of his factory than close it. He refused vaccine mandates in all his companies. He pulled Tesla out of California and moved it to Texas. He moved all his corporate registrations out of Delaware.
[snip]
The Gabbard Migration
[snip]
MAGA/MAHA/DOGE is not exactly the catchiest name for the new ruling party but it is far more accurate than Republican, much less Democrat. It is a new party formed out of the discredited shells of the two existing parties that lost public trust over decades of misrule culminating in an ill-fated attempt to master the exigencies of the microbial kingdom.
In a Kuhnian sense, the collapse of the orthodox paradigm (rule by administrative agencies informed by captured science) was complete by 2023, preparing the way for the pre-paradigmatic coalition of these fascinating characters, backed by popular movements that are mirrored in many lands, and generally sailing under the flag of populism. And here is the crucial fact: these leaders have their reach, influence, and power because the causes they represent have come of age with a population completely fed up with misrule by experts.
These are new and highly promising times, as the old undergoes a merciful dismantling and something entirely new takes its place. We find the roots of the ideology of the administrative state in the works of Woodrow Wilson, and it takes only a few minutes of reading his deluded fantasies of how science and compulsion would forge a better world to see that it was only a matter of time before the whole experiment was in tatters.
It took more than a century but that day is finally here. The paradigm has shifted. For all the messiness and frenzy – including the chaos, confusion, and betrayals – our times at least present opportunity to reassert a foundational principle of the Enlightenment; namely that the people themselves should have some fluid and influential role in shaping the workings of the regime under which they are forced to live.
Kash Gets His Wingman: Dan Bongino Named Deputy Director of FBI
Yesterday there was an extensive discussion on the Open thread about the the Catholic Church and the current situation with Bergolio.
Here is one of Archbishop Vigano’s usual enlightened statements.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/lapides-clamabunt-statement-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-situation/
As a further comment, only the current Pope can lift Vigano’s excommunication. Praying this will happen.
If the Pope passes away, I have not been able to determine what happens. I would assume the responsibility would pass to the next Pope. JMO
This political game show over the Assassination Documents has become completely ridiculous. And insulting to the American people.
Cancel your taxpayer-funded play school trips to ancient assassination locations that have been examined to death over the decades and have been completely remade since.
Disband your unnecessary, self-aggrandizing committee, and its soundbite circus tour schedule.
Stop playing the “two more weeks” game with an American public that has long had enough of it.
We have already waited six decades, and put up with enough commissions, committees and government nonsense.
I don’t really care what you and the other child Representatives, who were born after most all of the participants in these events were long dead, have to say. We’ve heard it all by now, anyway. We already know there was a conspiracy, multiple shooters, and a massive cover up. We don’t need you to show us the Zapruder film anymore. Go watch it on your own dime.
Just release all the damn remaining documents, un-redacted. Now. All of them. They have been declassified by the President.
As in right now, you childish little showgirls.
And take your committee show elsewhere.
Exactly. No more crap committees or commissions. Just declassify & release the documents…unredacted. Americans can read & determine the truth for ourselves. No more BS.
We are entitled to see the damn things.
She makes money and raises her profile with this.
Beats working, I guess.
My curiosity has peaked with the news that the Resolute Desk was removed from the Oval Office. It was reported that Elon’s son wiped his boogers on it and that is why it has to be refurbished. Really, a little boys boogers require a complete refurbishment, I doubt that. Now some are reporting that the resolute desk was bugged. This would not surprise me. It is quite interesting that Joy Reid of MSNBC reported Elon’s son told President Trump he was not president. No one heard these words spoken by Elon’s son but Joy Reid reported it and did so in a mocking manner. Now Joy Reed has suddenly been fired they say because her rating have fallen. Her ratings have been falling for months but now suddenly she has to go. Did Joy Reid get ahead of herself and unknowingly admit that she was given information that was collected through an illegal bugging? She sure seemed confident in her reporting and was giddy with delight at embarrassing President Trump.
Best theory I have read.
I love it when a simple explanation makes many pieces fit perfectly into place and it all makes perfect sense.
It also makes one wonder if the stage built for Biden was created because those around him knew of, or were responsible for, the bugging in the Oval Office.
Cant wait to find out more!
I didn’t know about the Joy Reid aspect, but I most definitely thought the desk was sent out for the very reason you’ve mentioned. Now, what about everything else in the Oval?
Someone posted a short video on this site a couple days ago showing this. I don’t remember what thread it was on. Joy Reid even made a comment about how Little X would have learned this (President Trump-not being the President) from listening to the people in his home. I remember most of the comments regarding her words were the same as mine. “I didn’t hear Elon’s son say this”.
I would be doubtful of this story because the cited WH spokesperson does not exist 😉
It was a fake story. The oval office was redone, President Trump would not leave such a historic piece of furniture in poor condition. We all know he doesn’t do shabby.
A light finish to the Resolute Desk, it will be back
Doubtful of what exactly- That the Resolute Desk for which ever reason, boogers or bugging, was not removed from the Oval Office or Joy Reid saying the things she said about what Elon Musk’s son said to the President?
President Trump said himself the desk was removed am I not supposed to believe him?
Joy Reid is well Joy Reid so yea I could see her lying about something like this to try and stir up controversy.
I watch Body Cam and a few other cop shows. I’ve not seen an episode where a female officer detained a resisting perp by herself. One gal was 5′ 2″ tall. None of her incidents videoed involved any kind of physical resistance at all other than one where the perp ran away, was caught and cuffed by a male cop and she showed up afterwards.
That’s not to say that there aren’t BIG (not “fat”) women who can handle the job, it’s just that standards shouldn’t be lowered to allow the average female in these jobs.
There shouldn’t be lowering of necessary physical standards for jobs. I quite agree on that point.
One problem I see with serious discussion of women’s role in the military is some of the people who practically foam at the mouth on the topic.
I don’t mean you, Winston.
France Shuts Down Right-Wing C8—For “Not Being Diverse Enough”
https://citizenwatchreport.com/france-shuts-down-right-wing-c8-for-not-being-diverse-enough/
Didn’t see this coming
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/dirty-nasty-birds-philadelphia-eagles-decline-invite-white/
I enjoy watching some sports, but rather play. I’ve never been a “fanatic” of any team, ever. Grew up a few hours north of LA and we’d go to Dodger games occasionally.
We enjoy going to our local AA team here in Huntsville. The organization does a lot of events outside baseball games as well. I have a few generic team logo’d shirts and hats that I wear.
With that said, I occasionally watch Entrepreneurs in Cars on YouTube. He said it best one day with this statement, which I agree with 100%:
“The most beta-male thing you can do is wear a jersey with another man’s name on it”
I completely agree and have never done that and have always found it silly (even before hearing this statement).
Why did it take five years to learn this?
[Moderna] COVID Vaccine mRNA Crosses Placenta to Unborn
by Raw Egg Nationalist
February 24th, 2025
https://www.infowars.com/posts/covid-vaccine-mrna-crosses-placenta-to-unborn
Messenger RNA molecules from the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are able to cross the placental barrier and enter the fetus during pregnancy, according to a new scientific study.
The study, which was conducted on mice, is the first to show that genetic material from an mRNA vaccine can be transferred directly to a fetus via the mother.
Accepted explanations claim protection is conferred on fetuses through the transfer of antibodies, rather than genetic material, but this new study, if correct, shows such claims to be wrong. It also underlines the fact that mRNA vaccines do not function in the same way as “traditional” vaccines.
“This study provides the first in vivo confirmation that mRNA injections cross the placenta, directly reaching the fetus,” Nicolas Hulscher, who first reported the study, notes.
“It also helps explain why these genetic injections pose such serious risks to pregnant women and their unborn children.”
The researchers behind the study administered Moderna’s Spikevax vaccine to pregnant mice.
At least one previous study had claimed that neither mRNA nor the COVID-19 spike protein could be detected in placental and cord-blood samples after vaccination of pregnant women. This was taken to suggest that the placenta served as an impassable barrier for such materials.
However, the new research on mice showed that mRNA from the vaccine passed quickly through the placenta to the fetus, within an hour of administration, and persisted in fetal tissues. mRNA was found in fetal spleen and liver tissue three weeks after the mouse pups were born.
mRNA-1273 is placenta-permeable and immunogenic in the fetus
17 Feb 2025
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2162253125000435
Abstract
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are generally recognized as safe for gestational administration. However, their transplacental pharmacokinetics remains obscure. [which totally contradicts the previous sentence – how would they know? – W] In this study, mRNA-1273 intramuscularly given to pregnant mice rapidly circulated in maternal blood and crossed the placenta within one hour to spread in fetal circulation. Although spike mRNA in fetal circulation faded away within 4-6 hours, it could accumulate in fetal tissues, mainly the liver and get translated into spike protein.