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Here we go again (insert eye roll emoji)…
KAMPALA, Uganda—A fast-spreading mystery illness linked to bats has killed scores of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with nearly half dying within 48 hours of showing symptoms, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Mystery Disease Linked to Bats Kills Scores in Congo – WSJ
When I was a little kid my parents always told me to stay away from bats, dont touch them live or dead, and don’t go into places where they live and sleep.
Because “they are dirty animals, full of diseases and they will make you sick”
Seems people have forgotten things that were once common knowledge.
This is true about the bats.
I had a very old house with a walk up attic that was filled with bats and I never went up there for the same reason- we were taught the same thing.
I recall thinking that the space was probably filled with who knows what in the air.
I was frustrated because back at that time, we were going through this spell where it had been discovered that some particular species of bat was dying in great numbers because of some sort of disease or virus?
SO living up here in the land of a lot of do-gooders, out comes this big surge of bat protectors and the threat of going to jail for life if you kill a bat.
I would think “Ok you people, how about living with an attic full of them and see what you think..”
Rolling my eyes.. I had forgotten all about this and it was a big issue back at the time.
YES we’ve forgotten what was common knowledge.
There was a bat that was nestled up in the corner of the front entrance to my Grandmother’s apartment (in Rancho Mirage, California). I was quite agitated, worried that when it “woke up” and if the door was opened for even a brief moment, he would fly into her place. This was in 1995. In my mind, bats were for distant, unreachable caves! You could catch all kinds of diseases just being in proximity to them and then, what if they bit you? Rabies!
I called the manager right away and he arrived soon after, with his ten-year old grandson and a ladder . . . oh, Susie, don’t worry about a little bat . . . it’s a fruit bat! They are good! They eat the insects. The boy said that there were lots of them every night by the various pools in the complex, they fly down to get the bugs. So they told me not to worry, they would take care of it, it was a cute little bat.
Now that I think of it, they probably just released it back out over by their place to join his pals in the nightly raids!
Some memories from a Canal Zone Brat….our ponies, unless in a screened in stall, would often have those flying fruit bat critters roost in their manes…and the ponies would get bat bites…
At the far end of the old Gamboa stables…down a gravel road, past the dock we used to jump into the Chagres River–communing with crocs… was a huge, and I mean huge Quonset hut type tunnel built into a big hill….where thousands of those things lived. And the younger kids/boys would run into it…during the day time, and disturb the sleeping masses of nocturnal fly by nites…
Cute little bat? Nope…they have teeth!
Their guano, once sterilized, is fantastic for gardening.
LOL. Reminds me of a house I owned years ago. Could not explain why a particular Rhododendron bush was 2X the size of others around the house. About a year later, was doing some work on the upstairs windows and found that some bats had taken up residence behind a large shutter, guano falling to said bush below…
Bats are essential for reforestation after a fire.
They are a sort of ‘first responder’.
Bats are fine in the wild where they don’t have to interact with humans. But humans also need to respect bat spaces.
I’m unfazed. Trump can always close the borders and people can REEE that he’s racist all over again but he doesn’t care, thankfully.
A fast moving illness, like ebola? Lock down the exposed and it will likely burn itself out.
Or, let them jump on airplanes for international travel like the CCP did in Wuhan.
Sounds like Dr. Fauci at work in Congo.
God rest their souls.
The thing folks forget about the nature of Pen and Cellphone Executive Orders … yes they have the force of law but … the President can amend them as needed to adjust the outcome … without wrangling with congress. President Trump can make “optimal solution” related adjustments as needed and warranted.
The actual shelf life of an Executive Order = A Negative Federal Court ruling or Related Congressional Legislation or Action taken by the President of the US to Amend the Order.
Fore reasons of cowardliness and being owned … the Republican controlled Congress has elected to be neutral at this point on the EO’s and act only on legislation whereby “they make money” (as Sundance often states: Republicans seek power to make money).
The only enemy, at this point, are the lawfare judges and on that front Justice Roberts seems to be getting nervous about letting the Federal Courts HE and his 8-associates are supposed to be supervising and overseeing run open loop … with his decision last night to “suspend” the 1st District Judges spending TRO … of note … The 1st District is supervised by Supreme Court Justice K Brown and her name appears no where in the order by Justice Roberts. Contrast that with the effort by Justice Clarence Thomas’ efforts to support Judge Aileen Cannon in the 11th District dealing with Jack Smith and DoJ… and there was NO Justice Roberts mentioned in that support.
Chief Justice Roberts has to put up a good front until its his turn to spin the Roulette Wheel of Federal Justice, when the cases finally reach the Supreme Court.
There were lots of rumors about Chief Justice Roberts adopting his children illegally. Wonder if there’s any truth to them? If so let’s get rid of him and get a real Chief Justice dedicated to the Constitution not just the public’s opinion of the Supreme Corrupt Court!! JMO
chief justice thomas sounds real good tme
The thing folks don’t seem to understand about executive orders is that they only apply to the employees and dependents of the the government corporation itself – not to the general public. Of course, on paper, practically everyone in the country fits the the description of a dependent of the government by way of unlawful conversion of their birthright political status, and to get out from under their thumb people have to reclaim the rights and privileges as Americans that they were born with, but that’s a different topic and I digress.
As to the “enemy”, the Administrative Law Judges, things are about to change. Read this article about a letter from the Office of the Solicitor General, the only member of the federal judicial system who is actually required to know the Law. (This should make you very happy – it gives President Trump all the ammo he needs to bring them down.)
fromsolicitorgeneral.pdf
The following is a pretty good summary description of the Office of the Solicitor General of the US
Solicitor General of the United States – Wikipedia
No where in this description nor the US Constitution (especially Article III) are the words AUTHORITY used nor is the office even described, let alone as having been granted any overriding Authority. There are words to the effect describing representation and opinions … but judgements of the Solicitor General carry zero weight … they are just “legal opinions”.
Per Section 1 Article III of the Constitution, the authority vested in the Judicial Branch is in the hands of the Judges of the Supreme Court.
In the letter you provided, the Solicitor General gave an opinion regarding legalities of courts supporting lawfare but those opinions have to be supported by a proper hearing (and judgement) before the Supreme Court before any action of the taken to dissolve “administrative courts” by the President can be executed. … or … the Congress can use this letter as the basis to conduct the Legislative Action of Impeachment as prescribed in the Constitution.
The ball is in the court of the President to try his luck at the Roberts’ Roulette Wheel, represented by the Solicitor General or in the Court of the Congress to impeach. Let’s see what happens. otherwise … lawfare continues.
There is nothing in the letter, you provided, to be very “happy” about, other than there is a very rough path to a remedy that can be taken if the President or Congress chose to do so.
The “courts” that people must deal with on a daily basis are not what they believe them to be: they are military/corporate tribunals, not Common Law Article III courts. The ersatz”courts” argue statutes, codes, and rules, not Law. Because Americans have been unlawfully converted on paper from living beings (lawful people) into U.S. Citizens and citizens of the United States (legal persons as if they had been born in Puerto Rico), they have lost access to their rights and privileges that all three Constitutions require these governmental miscreants to uphold. They are being treated both illegally and unlawfully as employees or dependents of these incorporated entities when they are not.
The Solicitor General is for all intents and purposes the legal expert for the foreign corporate entity (the British Territorial United States of America, LLC) providing governmental services under contract – The Constitution of the United States of America – and is the person who would argue the Law for this corporation at the Supreme Court or at a higher level, e.g., the Vatican Chancery Court. This letter is notice to the underlings that the owners found out so the jig is up and we don’t have a leg to stand on; better make amends.
The Path is not as rough as you might think because this congress is not the answer, just part of the problem. The United States of America (unincorporated) was founded by the Declaration of Independence, not any of the constitutions. It is the GRANTOR of all three constitutions (contracts) to provide government services to the Union States. The British Territorial United States of America, LLC, assumed succesion to the contract granted in 1789 and are administering the bankruptcy liquidation of the remaining subcontractor, formally known since 1790 as The United States, that provided municipal services. This is the largely undisclosed reason behind the brouhaha among Trump, DOGE, the congressional clown show (corporate board of directors) and the municipal staff being drastically reduced. Full audits must be conducted; the applecart has been overturned.
Trump, as a dual British Territorial United States Citizen and citizen of the United States, cannot restore the
American Republic that has been dormant since 1861 and was the original holder of the first contract, The Constitution for the united States of America. Anything he comes up with would still be foreign and not American. Literally, only “We the People of the United States”, Americans who have reclaimed their lawful political status, can do it. We’ve come a long way back on the right road. All 50 states are in session; what we need is more people in each state to reclaim their lawful birthright and thus repopulate and set up their soil (highest and most politically powerful) jurisdiction counties. From there, the counties delegate limited authority to the land jurisdiction States, and from there will come the fiduciary deputies (The United States in Congress Assembled) that can restore the American Republic.
That’s how it’s done. Maxim of Law: “As a thing is bound, so it is unbound”. Your true national government awaits your participation.
The American States Assemblies land and soil jurisdiction
🚨 NEW: Scott Jennings is now “PRIVATELY” being urged to run for Mitch McConnell’s open Kentucky U.S. Senate seat, GOP operative familiar with the race says – FOX
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🚨 THIS IS COMEDIC GOLD. CNN, never let Scott Jennings go, PLEASE!!
PANELIST: DOGE is not about “cutting spending.” It’s about making government too small to stop Trump.
JENNINGS: Why would the government stop Trump? Isn’t he the head of the government? Why would they try to stop him?
PANELIST: Because he’s creating a dictatorship.
JENNINGS: Your view is that Trump is shredding the constitution… it seems you guys believe the unelected bureaucracy has a responsibility to resist political leadership.
PANELISTS: My God, seriously? Do we need to give you a civics lesson? The legislative branch, the FBI, you control the military – this is what you do in a dictatorship…
JENNINGS: Are you suggesting the president is not the commander-in-chief of the military?
PANELIST: The president will put in charge someone who will contravene the constitution. Soon, this conversation will look very silly to you. Right now, you’re gaslighting.
JENNINGS: Who? The president is in charge of the military, is he not?
CNN HOST: Yes, the president is in charge of the military, that is how it works.
Scott Jennings works for CNN, Gannett and LATimes. He was with the Bush administration, Karl rove and Mitch McConnell . He is affiliated with Harvard. Not sure he is the best choice. Not to mention he is keeping CNN afloat by being the Republican voice of sanity and getting lots of press for it.
Now it makes sense…put a RINO on CNN…give him a free hand on air to gain MAGA conservative credentials…then let him run as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
He isn’t a genuine MAGA conservative with that background!!!
This info page sure looks like a campaign site–https://www.scottjenningsky.com/about
I think you’re “thinking” way to hard!
Yes and not to be trusted. Would like to see him stay on CNN and continue to point out the hypocrisy
It’s been done to death.
Wow, sounds like another Mitch McConnell in the making.
We’ll never drain the swamp if we keep filling it with swamp creatures.
he is there to be a check against Massie running.
Scott Jennings and a bunch of idiots. Wow.
The idiot says something. Scott clarifies back to him immediately what he just said. The idiot says that I “literally didn’t say that.” WTF.
They had no clue what they were talking about. As soon as he faced them with the facts, they went into babble, scramble mode because they have no idea what constitutionality and civics is all about. It truly is ‘comedic gold’, lol. CNN needs him desperately since he’s the only one with an intelligent brain and his delivery is calm and factual. Kudos to Jennings and CNN had better pay him more than anyone they still have on staff to keep him otherwise they will only have the lamebrains left squalling their nonsense.
Musks description of TDS, was the best I have heard,…
Something like “mention Trump, and its like they got hit in the neck with a dart, containing rabies and methamphetamine.”
Pretty much nails it…
That is really funny. Oh my!
Elon Musk does have a way with comparisons that leave vivid impressions with listeners/readers.
Thank you for this excellent post!
He’s a great debator/defender and messenger. We are lucky to have him in that role.
I don’t know if he goes far enough to be considered a RINO, but i don’t believe he is MAGA from what i have read.
i actually know nothing about him, other than that Massie has entertained running for the same seat – and AIPAC has committed to devote unlimited resources to defeat.
which tells me what i need to know about both him and Massie.
How do we know whether his “viral” appearances on CNN aren’t just an elaborate campaign opp to set voters up?
I never believe in random coincidences.
When the Dems tried to use RFK Jr as the “splitter” strategy against Trump, his emergence in GOP politics was also preceded by months of vaccine/censorship politics designed to soften up the base.
It didn’t work because people still voted for Trump. But it was obvious early on that the goal was to peel off antivax Trump voters.
Jennings on CNN reminds me of this.
It is interesting listening to the news media reports aimed at the 40% living in la la land, who voted for president Trump as well as talking to la la landers. There is a common theme of disappointment that the instant “my pocket book” gratification days of 2017-18 are not occurring.
Unlike 2017, the “wall street economy” which owns and controls the sources as well as outlets for the “mainstream economy” are not yet currently even 50% behind the President this time around. There is NO unknown factor this time and the financial puppet masters have had 5+ years to prepare for the election of President Trump…as has the lawfare bunch.
The miracle “instant gratification” of 2017 is NOT going to happen. The enemy knows what is coming and the battle this time is broader in scope and resistance.
Sorry for their disappointment but the instant gratification days of 2017-2018 were a pleasant surprise aberration due to the unknown abilities of President Trump, “wallstreet” hedged their bets to ride along and still make allot of money.
Even in heady days of 2017-2018, it took a complete 6-9 month economic sector cycle before anything long term substantive was actually seen by consumers at the point of sale.
You can be disappointed or disillusioned along with the 40% la la land dwellers listening to the MSM or understand this is not 2017-2018 … and … understand this is beyond making money and is a real struggle for control.
so what took 6 months in 2017 largely because of a tremendous reduction in fuel cost will not happen because wall street expects it to happen??
Funny I did notice the the smart money expectation of a trump win as Gas prices started rolling back about 6 months before the election so your right Wall street prepared which means we should not have to wait much longer before we see the trickle down effect of pricing of commodities and another 6 months before we see it in manufactured goods
gas May 1ST 279 Sept 1st 195
Sorry you ignored the advance predictive timeline of anticipation of the Trump effect while you were explaining it
Wall Street and Bankers were NEVER behind Trump He was and is Mainstreet. Globalist Wall streeters HATE him
China’s message to Australia and NZ: we can cut off your air and sea links in the Tasman without warning.
China thanks Australia and New Zealand for taking citizens guns away. It will make our victory so much easier>
A Shot Across the Bow: China Signals New Era of Sea Power in the Southwest PacificThe live-fire exercises were a demonstration of China’s growing sea power in Australia and New Zealand’s immediate periphery – and meant to normalize the PLA presence there.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/a-shot-across-the-bow-china-signals-new-era-of-sea-power-in-the-southwest-pacific/
One always has to balance these types of reports with the actual “OPERATIONAL STRATEGY” China Inc. is pursuing to achieve a dominant position (or one a few dominant positions) in the Global Corporation.
Nation-States have two options as to the basis of their Strategy:
A Strategy based on MILITARY MIGHT and ACTIONS, with economic battles considered a secondary operational front subordinate to MILITARY ACTIONS as was the case of the USSR until it fell due to a collapsing economy … and … was the case for the US, Pre-President Trump 2024 and 2017…and is still the case for the EU/NATO/G7, who have collapsing economies.
… or … an Economic Warfare based Strategy … as China Inc. and BRICS are following, with MILITARY ACTIONS being conducted to support that Strategy. In the report you cite, the China Inc. Navy (or PLN) is positioning itself to dominate TRADE Routes and Mineral Locations near China as well as across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, supported by it’s BRICS partners. That requires a tailored Blue water force to accomplish … supported by major land based assets.
The US and “friendly allies” have to adjust their national Strategy and Operational Strategy (including Military Force Operational Structure and Modes) to support a Strategy based on economic Policy. this is a 180 degree change in US strategic thinking.
This change in strategy is also another major reason a massive house cleaning at DoD is and IC is needed .. to adjust to the new competitive paradigm emerging among major nation-states.
Unfortunately for US. China is using both Strategies. Military and economic. Instead of 180 degree. We are spinning in 360s. We are going into this with both a weak Navy and Economy.
Our ships at sea are 40 year old rustbuckets. Our new ships are cracking in two and not battle worthy.
I wont even talk about our Carriers running into ships in their haste to leave Yemen’s waters
https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2022/05/10/the-littoral-combat-ships-latest-problem-class-wide-structural-defects-leading-to-hull-cracks/
NO China is NOT using “both strategies”.
China is pursuing Economic warfare supported by a limited and focused build ups of Force as needed to threaten and damage Economic Choke Points and “defend” nowhere is China seeking to Militarily dominate the larger and loner trade roots. what Military China is building is focused on supporting its drive for economic dominance.
In this scenario, China Inc. does not need many “capital” ships … while the US is dedicated to dominating everywhere via Military Force. A huge difference.
As is typical of democrat and neo-con run strategies .. the price to be paid has been ignored, while what budget that was authorized to maintain the US Force needed was reallocated to everything but sustaining the US Military.
The US Military based Strategy is predicated on actually dominating, fighting and winning in 2 x MAJOR WAR ZONES across the globe and not supporting a strategic national economic policy.
The size and structure of force needed for the US strategy is huge v/v one focused on economic policy and not being the world’s cop on the beat.
China is not your enemy. They are a success story.
Just ask the nutty professor.
China hasn’t invaded another country in 60 years. How many countries have we invaded in the past 60 years?
Are you kidding? Just because they have not sent an army with military weapons does not mean that they have not invaded other countries.
They just do it stealthily, silently, and smartly. They practically own all of Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, MX, and parts of the USA.
Buying isn’t invading.
Does Tibet mean anything to you?
China took over Tibet in 1950 because they considered Tibet to be part of China. That was 75 years ago and way past 60 years I mentioned.
have been there and talk to them(tibetians )….?????
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Seems like a good indication though!
I addressed your invasion bs the last time you came at me with your China, the land of peace crap.
Go read it.
China was militarily attacking India over their border as late as last year.
China and Russia have had military border conflicts on several occasions in the last 60 years.
Pam Bondi says Epstein information will be coming out today: “a lot of names, pretty sick”. Here we go…
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Trust
SessionsBondi.Trust Trump. Everyone else, its cash and carry.
lol “tick tock”
I’m happy to be proven wrong. Trump is in a mission. So maybe it’ll get released fully. But the safe bet is a cynical bet.
When she talks about “what he did” to the victims, it sounds to me like she is going to make it all about the trafficking and sex abuse, when what I want to know about more is why the federal government stepped in, in Florida, and made sure Epstein got off easy.
The FBI has to have had records on that.
They killed Epstein and disappeared the contents of his safe in NY.
The story is why the government covered for this man, and what he was doing for a living.
You don’t get wealthy paying to hire girls for your guests.
I submitted this statement in duckduckgo:
The search warrant affidavit for Epstein’s townhouse remains under seal at the request of the DOJ
Response from duckduckgo: 🙂
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+search+warrant+affidavit+for+Epstein%27s+townhouse+remains+under+seal+at+the+request+of+the+DOJ&t=brave&ia=web
AI: The search warrant affidavit for Jeffrey Epstein’s townhouse is currently sealed as requested by the Department of Justice, which is maintaining secrecy to protect ongoing investigations and sensitive information. The timeline for any potential release of this affidavit is not known.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/whdh.com.ico whdh.com
The Palm Beach County District Attorney where the original charges were filed was a Democrat and fellow traveller of Epstein!
It’s all political blackmail. And if/when the list and logs are released, don’t be surprised at all the blacked out names.
I am highly doubtful we will ever know the names of all those who were filmed by Epstein.
PT said short while ago….Names on logs means nothing.
Especially when there are terabytes of data including audio and visual from multiple Epstein properties.
All conveniently sequestered by the IC.
Too bad Ghislaine didn’t have any bargaining chips.
did not have any chips? she is still alive
Gonna be wondering a long time. No way in Hell are records gonna actually be available. They have been in the hands of the perps too long to NOT be adulterated, destroyed, and re-created to make the innocent guilty and guilty innocent. Only names or docs gonna be close to legit will be those in them thar files that are deceased or living innocents who “need” to be taken down. AI, along with photo/video manipulation, and document re-configuration is not new and been applied to mess with our pretty little heads for a long time.
Wouldn’t his compromise investigations and possible indictments? Not a lawyer so just asking for my own knowledge
Really people!!! Your biggest concern is a list of pedos, and who shot somebody over sixty years ago. If you have been around as long as I have you should have a good idea of who is on the list and who was involved in the shooting. If you have been hanging out in the Tree House, Sundance has given us a lot of what is good information. My biggest concern is the nincompoops in our government that can’t get a budget together, can’t support a President that is giving it his all to keep us from going down the drain and what they are doing to our country. Common sense needs to be front and center, not lists nor old stories.
You did hear her hint at redactions? She mentioned flight logs with names , lots of names. Which means nothing. To me her mannerisms pointed to her lying , withholding the truth.
I would imagine the order of events is to prove in court by getting guilty verdicts that a number of under age girl were assaulted by an Epstein clients. Then investigate who protected these criminals and why. I think it is harder to investigate cover up before you establish the criminality that was covered up.
Every conservative in America should be talking about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1st.
George Soros is trying to buy the Court, so liberals can gerrymander Wisconsin congressional maps & take the House in 2026.
I’m shocked at how many people don’t care.
https://x.com/ScottPresler/status/1894798569191735465
Scott Presler working tirelessly to prevent democrat fraud from stealing more elections. Just like he did in 2024. It was him not Lara Trump nor the RNC that won PA.
Disheartening isn’t it.
Maybe they seem to not care because not many people hear about what amounts to local and state matters occurring in WI. Shouldn’t the RNC be blasting this race everywhere and revealing its importance? Shouldn’t they be running campaigns and finding money for this?
Correct. GOP/RNC cannot focus on what’s really important.
“,..cannot” or chooses not to?
WHO, exactly is the “GOP/RNC”?
Heres a hint,…recall when Mike Lyndell, Harmeet Dillion ran for RNC Chair?
All 50 State Republican Parties sent 3 delegates each, to vote (kind of like electors) for the Chair.
I think territories may also have been represented. In any case, Mike got very few votes, dillion no better, the vast majority of votes went to the 4 time loser…
Passivity is a habit, that favored the entrenched special interests and politicians.
So the passivity was nurtured and cultivated
At least everyone can do this^^^^^^^^^^^
I live in WI and yes many know about it in my small enclave.
Arrest the Soros Klan yesterday for Un American Activities! WTFig is going on here? “Who’s on first?”
Susan Crawford needs to lose, otherwise my state loses and Soros wins.
She wants to ruin Wisconsin schools, disarm the population, push her trans fantasy. Same as the governor.
Saw this posted on X. I did not think about this.
“It’s not enough to audit JUST Fort Knox. The US also has gold reserves in Denver, West Point, and the Federal Reserve. The Trump administration must check all four AT THE SAME TIME to leave no room for deception.”
Not really a Glenn Beck fan since the ‘Orange Man’ debacle .
Due to the meltdown and resulting Cheeto incident….trust but verify requires:
Where Is the U.S. Gold Stored?
https://goldandsilvercentral.com/where-is-us-gold-stored/
and:
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/status-report-government-gold-reserve/u-s-treasury-owned-gold
Not just Gold. The entire FED needs an Audit!
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/the-federal-reserve-killed-the-penny-is-maga-next/
Time to figuratively castrate them by withholding fed funds to their states and arresting them where appropriate.
23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting Trump
February 27, 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-taking-trump-musk-winning-105600970.html
The resistance meets daily on Microsoft Teams.
The country’s 23 Democratic state attorneys general log on at 4pm ET for a thirty-minute confidential video chat to coordinate their plans for pushing back against the Trump administration. They share updates on the seven cases they have moving through federal courts and argue about whether to treat Elon Musk as a lawful arm of the government or an uncredentialed interloper to it. They plot where to respond next, leveraging timezone differences to expand the workday.
The American left has floundered during Trump 2.0. The mass protests of 2017 have not emerged [because USAID via “NGOs” isn’t inciting and funding it – W], and donors to progressive causes are not giving the way they did then, either. [because USAID via “NGOs” isn’t supplying it – W]
One of Elon’s techies should tap into that daily meeting on MS Teams and broadcast it live in Times Square and all the broadcast news outlets. Sunlight!
Its not JUST that USAID/NGO $ has dried up…many Dem donors ARE really pissed at the party, and who can blame them?
A young woman-child came to my door yesterday (in AZ/usurped officialdom) asking me – begging me – to “help fight Trump’s attacks”.
It was a surprise to have a Bona Fide leftie up in my face all of a sudden & bold like that, so I didn’t think before I spoke; asked her to repeat her question/statement, which she did
(put a cattle prod into my nervous system & I speak frankly)… she ran away couldn’t get off the property fast enough.
I said “Trump is the best president this country’s ever had” ; that’s all- which apparently is Sunlight to a vampire.
I’ve since thought of a lot of things I might have said, if I were the type of kitty to play with a mouse before devouring it.
I’m not…
but a conversation about the Wisdom of the gov’t. audit taking place might’ve been useful.
They are making a door-to-door effort; here in the Cartel Katy/Minion Mayes region anyway.
I think your very brief reply was the right approach
The NSA should have record of these chatrooms..
I have a suggestion for President Trump and the Sovereign Wealth fund…. all royalties that are currently paid to GOVERNMENT personnel (such as Fauci & Co) should, henceforth, go into the wealth fund. The patents were generated by taxpayer dollars therefore the proceeds of same should go to the benefit of the taxpayers.
That should be explored.
Should have been that way, all along.
What in the hell is Fauxi doing, as a Government employee, personally profiting off the tax $ he grants to researchers?
Its a blatantly obvious conflict of interest.
Can those be used to pay down the debt?
I guess so…
Any company I have worked for has a clause stating that any idea I come up with and then turn into a viable, saleable product on their time using their resources and in their premises is theirs.
Why should it be any different for government employees?
Same here. I never understood why government people were keeping the royalties.
Revolving door. These people were on patents from their civilian employment before they quit and became Federal employees. Frankly, I’d like to see anyone named on a patent be blocked from Government employment just because of the potential massive conflict of interest…like those three CDC employees who were named on the Moderna patent and were involved in approving that clot shot for general usage.
Wealth fund? No. Directly into the Treasury to pay down the debt. Also any royalties from patents owned (at least in part) by the Government, penalties levied, fines levied, monetary court judgements and any proceeds from civil forfeiture. As it stand now, agencies have ‘slush’ funds for these sources that are out of Congressional control and can be spent in any way that the head of that agency wants to spend them. Horrible combination uncontrolled spending from an outfit with the full majesty of the Federal Government behind them.
Speaking of slush funds… congressional control of secret money – for funding their sexual-assault-defense cases – *MUST BE* eliminated and yes… re-routed to pay down the debt.
Let the ‘elite’ deviants & perverts pay for their own abhorrent behavior; ‘keep it in your pants or pay for your transgressions yourself out of your own pocket’.
Just sayin’.
Yes, if work for private company, one’s name goes on patent but patent belongs to company as created on their dime and with their resources. Same SHOULD BE WITH ANY PATENT that is developed with grant monies. Patents created at universities should not be property of Uni but of the gov if grants, even one penny, came from USA.
IT SEEMS EUROPE NEVER LEARNED THE LESSONS OF HISTORY.
This was a good article about all this..
What she’s doing, is not being missed at all by Lavrov, in fact he’s having none of it.
In reading this, I was struck by the ‘elder Statesmanship’ that Lavrov brings to the discussion.
He’s truly becoming a thing of the past, this level of intelligence, professionalism.. sadly, and wrongly, we don’t see this all the time like once did.
Write if off to the dumbing down of America.
Anyway, a good read, this woman’s days are numbered because what she’s up to is being laid bare for all the world to see now.
Russia & US Holding Next Talks In Turkey, Without Europe: Lavrov
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-us-hold-new-talks-turkey-lavrov-says
Both Lavrov and Medvedev both speak for Putin. While Putin plays the likeable Bear.
The other two are his Stern Diplomat, and vicious Attack Dog, sides.. All three are the same smart, cunning, man, and all deadly.
Even tho Putin has been dangling Carrots for Trump about metals, cooperation, and such.
His latest statement through Lavrov. ” Peacekeepers in Ukraine is not an option” Is very clear.
I don’t think President Trump disagrees with that position – remember it is the EU/Ukraine that wants ‘peace keepers’. With NATO troops on the ground any false flag operation could lead to WWIII and draw us in as well because of NATO commitments. No, I don’t think President Trump is all that happy with the peace keeper idea either.
is no no no..for Russia to end up as north & south korea with DMZ … VSGPDJT know it….
Russians will NEVER forget the siege of Leningrad.
That should trigger the US’s retreat from NATO. Europe is trying to pull the US into a war.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5166003-tech-billionaire-elon-musk-government-jobs/
GOP complains to Susie Wiles about Elon’s job cuts. I find it strange that they would ask Susie to do something about this. Even stranger that they obviously confuse the Constitutional Roles of the Chief of Staff, employee of and the President of the United States, and the actual President.
Who knew🤔
So, I always thought the outside government jobs that would be downsized due to government lay offs would be things like restaurant personnel, maybe some yard work folks, etc. It never occurred to me the layoffs would be from strip clubs, sex change “doctors”, ski and beach resorts, etc.
Gut It Like A Fish
Karl Denninger
I’m speaking of the medical monster generally.
The infighting in Congress is not going to go away. Neither House or Senate has any intention of returning spending to pre-Covid levels. But even that’s not enough because we were on a runaway train before then, and yet rather than deal with it we slammed the throttle wide open.
Trump’s “budget bill” will do nothing to prevent the detonation.
You have to gut the medical monster like a fish. $500 to **** in a box and then, on a high percentage of the so-called “positives”, you are then lined for a several thousanddollar procedure that, after scaring you to death, finds nothing?
This **** has to stop. All of it. Right ****ing now.
Its a ******n racket and it needs to stop.
ALL OF IT.
It is what is driving basically all, numerically, of the budget problem, all of inflation and if it isn’t stopped there will be an asset collapse and a societal one because the government will collapse.
Trump has the tools just as have all the other Presidents. When it comes to illegals he’s had them too, as did Brandon, as did Trump the first time, Obama and before. 8 USC 1324 has been on the books since the 1950s.
And 15 USC Chapter 1 has been on the books for over a hundred years and even better twice was challenged when it came to the medical and health insurance schemes all the way to the Supreme Court and found valid; the medical and insurers lost both cases.
15 USC Chapter 1 carries criminal penalties, not just fines. Long ones; 10 years in the slammer to be specific.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252883
Denninger has been pounding these subjects for years. If he’s so right about it all, why hasn’t someone picked this thread up and pulled it hard exposing it all. He’s been predicting disaster for at least a decade. Nothing happened.
So many people disagree with his analysis and dire warnings and do not subscribe to his conclusions nor his way of fixing things. If anyone would listen to him, think he was correct, it would be Pres. Trump and his team. So far, nada, nothing, zilch. Not first term nor any indication of them paying this any mind now. Guess we will see soon enough if Karl is right.
If anyone would listen to him, think he was correct, it would be Pres. Trump and his team.
Oh, ye of FAR too much faith. The Trump team, despite doing marvelous things in short order are a drop in the bucket against the MASSIVELY corrupted and GIGANTIC forces against them.
Denninger has explained why no one will do this, not even Trump who, BTW, wants even more of the artificially low interest rates which have fueled the Everything Bubble that, like all bubbles, will eventually burst with FAR more of a negative impact that any previous bubble that burst – it would cause a HUGE economic crisis as HUGE numbers of pencil pushers and other dead weight in the medical industry complex would lose their jobs, FAR beyond what DOGE has caused by now, but it would save us incredible sums and the crisis would pass. However, pols don’t like economic crises and their lobbyist owners wouldn’t let them cause one anyway.
The Bill To Permanently Fix Health Care For All *
Karl Denniger
30 Mar 2017
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231949&ord=3419189
And THAT is why I’ve said THIS:
Here’s why I say “our” government is hopelessly and irreparably corrupt and Trump and Co are just a speed bump – it’s a Gordian Knot where there are trillions at stake dependent upon that knot NOT being unraveled.
Trump and Co may be just a speed bump, but that’s far better than no speed bump or a well documented as Marxist/Maoist pair of idiots in the White House as nearly happened in our easily propagandized, attention deficit political idiocracy where they lost by less than 2% of the popular vote.
How to Cut Through the New Gordian Knots
March 12, 2023
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-to-cut-through-the-new-gordian-knots/
Western elites entrenched in both international and national bureaucracies have been accorded the power to… deprive populations of their liberty and impose massive financial costs on them to boot. These ‘deep state’ bureaucracies have intertwined themselves simultaneously with each other and with big business, producing a complicated, organic patchwork of links seemingly impossible to untangle, akin to the storied Gordian Knot.
Consider for example the supply of uniforms to the US Department of Homeland Security, or the supply of flatware and dinnerware to the US Department of Defense which purchases, among other weapons of war, 500,000 pieces of cutlery annually. These are governed by the Kissell Amendment of 2009, the Berry Amendment of 1941, the Buy American Act of 1933, various WTO free trade treaties that the US has signed onto over the years, and the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) of 2020. They have collectively resulted in full or near monopolies to domestic producers for some products, such as VF Imagewear for uniforms and Sherrill Manufacturing for flatware. Politicians are spoon-fed, but only with the most torturously vetted spoons.
The deep problem is that the sheer size and complexity of vast systems such as education, health, and defence make it impossible for any single person or work team to understand them in their totality. That insight is now known as the problem of embodied knowledge: just as a body can provide its own immune defence services without the mind knowing how it’s done, bureaucracies can produce valuable services (e.g., in education, defence, and public health) without any one person or team knowing how it’s done.
Rather, each of hundreds of specialists understands a tiny part of the full picture, with the details of that picture changing constantly with the incomings and outgoings of personnel and technology.
Because no one understands these systems, insiders are able to concoct emergencies and other excuses to expand them until populations are fed up with them, an insight emphasised by William Niskanen. We are now at the point that Niskanen, writing in the 1970s, predicted would arrive: bureaucracies have become so bloated that they are no longer a net benefit to their society.
Also, when no one truly understands a system in its totality, it is hard to know where the biggest problems are. How to deduce which bits are rotten and who is corrupt, when everything is so entangled? So many strings are being pulled that identifying the puppet masters, or whether they exist at all, is virtually impossible.
Corruption in a very complex system arises in a way known to economists as ‘market discovery:’ over time, those who stand to benefit most from the corruption of particular parts of these mammoth systems are those who have found ways to corrupt them. By trial and error, top civil servants and cashed-up outsiders have identified the buttons that need to be pressed to get mutually beneficial results, and have organised themselves to control those buttons and obscure them from others. Many corruption buttons will not be widely known to exist. After all, the better hidden the corruption, the longer the relevant players can hope to enjoy the benefits of that corruption.
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I asked AI, “What is the number of federal and state government agencies?”
“There are over 400 federal agencies in the United States, while each state has its own government structure with numerous agencies, typically numbering in the hundreds as well.”
Now intertwine that convoluted complexity with international government, corporate, and intel (like Five Eyes) links.
That’s the Gordian Knot.
President Trump still thinks that the vaxx is a good thing.
So much for the people around him.
Musk has sold him on the idea that H1B is necessary to bring in the best and the brightest.
2-3 months is about the time it takes a hens to get to egg laying age.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/trumps-bold-plan-mega-egg-import-reverse-bidens-bird-flu-blunder-tanked-nations-hen
Twas no blunder!
It was intentional!
Lying about it just provides cover to the left.
2-3 months to egg laying age
Where can this dumb farmer get some of those chickens that start laying in half the time it takes for mine to lay?
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‘Those’ chickens are probably laden with injected hormones . . .
The new chickens are functioning at Trump speed. Not only will the eggs be laid ahead of schedule, they will be under budget, huge and taste better than any eggs ever laid.
I’m particularly impressed with the hens that lay poached eggs and fried eggs…amazing!
HA! The most beautiful eggs ever. I assure you.
H1-B visa hens?
This homesteader wants to know too!!
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
HASSETT: “What we talked about in 2017 when we first introduced these tax cuts is that it was going to increase the typical family’s income by $4,000…. The actual response to these pro-growth policies is wages went up by $6,000… People who are out there saying this will hurt working class families are in partisan denial.”
Video linked…
RLA Interview w/Dennis – DOGE
Come and get it!
We deal with the rather-significant matter of Social Security fraud (e.g. “stolen” numbers), the obviously-intentional refusal by Treasury over decades to implement referential integrity in their payment systems thus allowing out-of-balance G/L situations to exist (by simply ignoring the fact that the offsetting account, specifically the appropriation line item in the budget, is missing in many payments!) and more.
I see no way around a serious recession — and asset price collapse concurrent with demand destruction — that can fix this. The alternative is societal collapse, which is of course much worse.
We’ve played “kick the can” for decades, and each time added more cement. Now its a solid block of cement and we either deal with it “or else.”
Enjoy!
https://retirementlifestyleadvocates.com/podcast/episode/1/2025-02-23-retirement-lifestyle-advocates-radio-w-karl-denninger
U.S. Commerce Secretary Harold Lutnick
So?
Take it from one who wore the uniform Betsy, this was sorely overdue.
I was witness to all this PC and woke BS undermining camaderie and unit readiness for my entire military career.
It was disgusting what O’Biden and their handpicked lickspittle brass did to our sons and daughters serving, RF.
And worse, to the veterans, of which my son is one.
There is no forgiveness for any of it, dear sir.
No forgiveness for Murkowski or Collins who also voted for…for…this either, Mo.
We aren’t going to cap foreign students we are going to reward them with green cards so Americans are left out in our own country, because Elon Musk wants it so, and we are going to blame the Americans for it.
How does anybody not see the massive fraud here?
The cap should be zero.
At some point we need to have the conversation about capping foreign students in our institutions.
This is beyond insane.
Had a chuckle over this…
This is a crisis in medicine that no one wants to discuss. These Foreign Med grads are completely taking over the US healthcare systems.
IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn leaked Trump’s tax returns, but we’re now learning how much damage he really did
https://archive.ph/va08R
‘World’s Largest Money Laundering Scheme In History’ Has Been Unearthed By DOGE: Michael Cloud (5:18)
Forbes Breaking News
Feb 27, 2025
At yesterday’s House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) decried what has been discovered by DOGE, and questioned witnesses about USAID spending.
Trump aid freeze ‘may force Stonewall to cut up to half of staff’
Employees at the LGBTQ+ charity are left ‘shellshocked’ after being told only roles with dedicated funding are safe after the US president’s decision
23 Feb 2025
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trump-aid-freeze-stonewall-job-cuts-07fp0mjpp
Stonewall Gets Defunded (he’s glad)
Why is the government supporting an activist group? You want to be activists? Get willing donors, not captive taxpayers!
“US Govt paying to spread homosexuality in Britain.“
Young men that need good role models stumble upon charismatic “red pill” influencers who are bolstered by right wing grifters seeking bigger audiences.
I’m just shocked that the Communist Democrats are suddenly pretending to have morals…….again.
Reza Chowdhury
@RezaC1
The United States Federal Government has ordered that the State of New York terminate the unlawful congestion taxation program prior to 3/21/25.
Cont…
The law is the law…
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
Our response to total moron @MMFlint, who claims deported illegals could’ve “cured” cancer:
Cont (and video linked)…
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The White House statement in response to Michael Moore:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/illegal-immigrant-killers-rapists-arent-scholars-theyre-criminals
Why doesn’t Michael Moore rail against Planned Parenthood?
Think of all the precious unborn people – whether cancer curers, great artists, dedicated fathers and mothers themselves – why isn’t he worried about any of THEM?
There’s a National Pain Strategy?
Turns out, there’s big money in withholding pain relief.
Of course there is.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/there_s_big_money_in_withholding_pain_relief.html
My elderly, terminal mother had a bad fall, and the night after she returned from the hospital she was complaining of pain, telling me she never had such bad pain, even though she had seemed fine in the hospital.
It turned out that they gave her real pain medicine in the hospital and sent her home with just Tylenol.
Taking too much Tylenol will kill you quicker than oxycodone.
What about when the two come in the same pill?
That was Chuckie’s ‘solution’ to the problem of doctors overprescribing opioids, I have read, but I’m not sure whether it is true.
That sounds like something he would do.
Women are more susceptible to acetaminophen overdose, so the government fixed the problem of taking too many pills by making it so it will kill women.
Don’t take that stuff. My Dr’s PA said they put something in it when compounding it that makes it not work as well as taking oxycodone and Tylenol separately. (Had 3 joints replaced last year.)
I can’t anymore..
Another aspect of Interventional Pain being pushed on patients–it is the big moneymaker for the practice. Pain management is too often seen as a way to get rich quick by physicians/investors determined to make as much money as possible. Pain management docs will often convince a patient to do invasive procedures (like Spinal Cord Stimulator) before prescribing opioids. The national pain management company in my area also owns and operates Addiction Centers. How can that possibly be ethical.
It cannot be ethical.
PT …in order to further gain a handle the opium crisis “overdose” he mistakenly got the CDC further involved. We now know the data is not accurate and doesn’t involve CPP’s. It is now a nightmare of a problem.
I was going to have an answer for Mike Johnson’s stupid statement about some hypothetical 29 year old, but I found someone who said it better. I have personally seen many instances of fraud and abuse but some lazy guy sitting at home abusing Medicaid? Does Johnson have any clue what he’s talking about?
“Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO’s that administer Medicaid. A doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut. Then they donate to the GOP. And you protect the racket. You’re a lying seditious sob.”
https://x.com/chuckscheper/status/1894986076831490050
What a stupid double-talking lamebrain and political coward. The answer to whether you are going to cut the out-of-control Medicaid program is : Hell Yes!!
we knew he was a political coward when he entered the IC “sciff” and emerged with blind support of FISA and Ukraine.
at best, he is a tool for Trump to manipulate.
Has it occurred to anyone else that Kelly Ann Conway may be the person helping Gavin Newsom with his new podcast?
dames gotta make a buck, I reckon
Politico has story that Trump may have made a BAD deal on Ukrainian mineral rights.
I take that to mean that a successful mineral rights deal has been accomplished.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-bad-mineral-deal-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy/
It’s only a preliminary deal. It isn’t final until other phases kick in.
Why people pay any attention to Politico is beyond me. You know they will twist the real story.
They do, but they have pieces of the real story interspersed, and sometimes they are the only site covering a story, and also it helps to know what sort of spin they are putting out.
Does the House bill fund USAID-Politico?
Politico? Really?
I thought that USAID bought Politico.
How can a deal be made with one that has no authority to make one? Z not legit. Unless………..he gets charged with crime once deal complete. 🤣🤣
The CIA wanted the mineral rights.
Politico was getting money from USAID.
Chicken mystery…
Boneless chicken breasts are $2.99 lb
Eggs are $12.99 a dozen
Why is it that only chickens that lay eggs get the bird flu????
Because they have lived long enough.
That’s the interesting part, they’re not the only ones that get it.
All those hens that stop laying eggs end up with much the same fate as the other birds raised purely for meat. Probably destined for pot pies, stew, or other.
If there was a glut or shortage of raw chicken in the market somewhere, one would think prices of some goods would reflect that.
Are we sure that’s chicken in the package?
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Pigeon, chickon . . .
Gonna lay it out simply as someone who has raised chickens for 20 years
Broilers (lots of times leghorns but not always) usually live 2 months. The gorge themselves and fatten so quickly that their bones would literally break under the weight because they can’t keep up with the meat growth.
Egg layers (such as Rhode islands) won’t lay until 5-6 months then age out around 3-4 years.
So one group lives about 2 months and the other about 3 years. Time makes a difference. One the farmer makes his cash back in 2 months, the other in years. One requires 5-6 months of care before even returning the first dollar. The other 6-8 weeks.
I paid only $4.95 for a dozen XL eggs at Publix a couple days ago here in Middle TN.
special today in the Kroger food store -Harris County TX…$5.39-18 pcs-regular$ 6.39……
Maybe, because, the birds slaughtered for “bird flu” were…
…1) the egg laying chickens, and
…2) these egg-laying chickens were slaughtered and sent to the packing house for distribution as meat.
Cheap chicken meat prices, while the price of a dozen eggs skyrockets.
Which means I have to ask…if these chickens were slaughtered for meat, how could they have bird flu?
Diseased birds and animals are not supposed to be in the food supply…
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We won’t know about transparency until we see what’s in those binders.
Keep your shirt on…
We won’t know about transparency until we see what’s in those binders.
Probably true, but the size of those binders doesn’t come close to the enormity of the crimes. There’s no way they contain all of the records on Epstein.
Bank records, phone logs, address books, flight logs, invoices, bills, any type of investigation would have generated a mountain of evidence, not a small binder.
“the size of those binders doesn’t come close to the enormity of the crimes”
whaddya mean?
“get underage chicks to ‘massage’ me and friends/clients”
“rinse … repeat …”
how much space is that gonna take up?
I no longer wonder if The Pep Rally People are able to connect the dots. I wonder if they are even aware that there is actually more than one dot.
What are they smiling about?
I don’t think The Pep Rally People in the photo understand how to make use of situational awareness. Or what it is.
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FBI – the Vault
https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein
these are the same redacted junk that was released years ago
Only way to release is to have crew working around the clock to upload LIVE to many sites at one time until all up and running. The way being done now goes the way of the J-Six vids.
Kinda with SD on the whole Epstein Files situation.
Unless it reveals that he was a decades long Confidential Human Source for the DS/Mossad, I believe it will be a “nothing burger.” Its been a great source of media drama for the FeuxNews of the world, drawing ratings and rantings. But in the end, do we really think he kept a diary or list of all his depredations? Do we think the FIB actually found any blackmail?
Just put it out there and let everyone
decide for themselves 💁♀️🤷♀️
Too much drama! 🥴😵💫🫤
And people being given binders with
the information…..oh boy!🤦♀️🤦♀️
Seems to be more like a—-Publicity Stunt!
😵💫 🤨 🥴 Reminding me of Geraldo and Al Capone
stunt…except the Al Capone safe had more credibility 🤣🤣
The build up was a farce-🤡but it did appear that at least
the safe was secure prior to the broadcast.
The binders…..😖🙃🙃 oh jeez.🤦♀️🤦♀️
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Reminds me of Willard . . .
What’s going on that we are being distracted from?
Maybe taking the focus off Elon/DOGE? Massive govt force reductions? Economic issues?
I’m with PT, but the massive changes he’s pushing to return o7r country to solvency are/will cause
emotional and economic distress short term for many.
Heritage Foundation
@Heritage
“We have been funding radical NGOs around the world that oppose capitalism, democracy, NATO, and Christianity. None of this is counter China. This is counter America.” – Former Acting USAID COO and current Heritage Senior Research Fellow Max Primorac.
Video linked…
https://x.com/Heritage/status/1894885317292781969
First, the title of this article at the WAPO is:
A fired federal worker grapples with her vote for Trump
Ryleigh Cooper and her husband had been trying to get pregnant. In the voting booth, she thought about Donald Trump’s promise to make IVF free. Three months later, she was out of a job and without a plan.
When you click on it and jump to the story the NEW headline is:
She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this
Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE.
“Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service, still covered in the blue paint she used to mark trees for local loggers. Then she got the text.
“I hate to be the bearer of bad news,” her union leader wrote…”
https://archive.ph/L7ctC
Maybe as a federal worker she is blissfully unaware that United States is $36 trillion in debt.
That number should have given her a foreboding of her possible future.
I don’t know what kind of IQ you have to have to spend nine hours putting blue paint on trees, and then lamenting the loss of your job.
FTA:
“She figured her job, with paychecks totaling about $40,000 a year, would be safe from the cost-cutting campaign…”
“Her eyes watered. She knew it wasn’t personal. Every day brought new rumors of cuts, and her performance evaluation from last fall found her “fully successful” — the highest possible score.
“She reminded herself that she had done everything right: graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, finished her first semester of work toward a master’s degree in forestry with a 4.0,
“rescued two dogs and two cats from the local shelter,
“chosen a man who held her on the shower floor when she found out she had endometriosis, a condition that can lead to infertility, and told her, “It’s okay, there is more than one way to be a parent.”
It goes on…
https://archive.ph/L7ctC#selection-705.201-705.312
It describes how poor and pathetic the town is… But it never asks the question, or reminds the audience about why Michigan is impoverished in the first place.
“After she was sexually assaulted at 16, Cooper had sworn she would never be caught unprepared. But here she was. Betrayed by her body, which would not cooperate. Betrayed by her family, who supported firing federal workers like her. And, perhaps most painfully, betrayed by herself.”
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??? What does adopting animals from the shelter or endometriosis have to do with just finding another job? Ridiculous. Start a house cleaning service or something. Or just move somewhere else.
This is ridiculous. No children, and her husband… also earns a living? (Doing what?) And she voted for Trump because he was going to reduce the costs of IVF? (Lie.)
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An appeal to emotion… no logic
Character building about to begin my dear. Pick yourself up and go forward. If Kamala was President your forest would soon be burning down.
I could care less about that WP story. They certainly didn’t have any sob stories for the 50-60K workers who lost their jobs in 2021 when Biden shut down the XL Pipeline and the border wall construction.
These people need to suck it up and move on.
No sob story when my daughter was out of work for 6 months.
Agreed. Washington Post didn’t interview me when I lost my job after my Company endure a hostile takeover from a group of investors that brought their own management team.
I sucked it up and found another job. My wife had endometriosis years ago as well. We adopted pets from the shelter too! But, alas, lefty media didn’t care about me…
Maybe I should have gotten Wapo to print a sob-story about me back when I lost my job and had a family to support. Stuff happens. Deal with it.
The question I’d have asked her is, “If you had a time travel device and got the opportunity to go back in time and redo your vote, what would you choose?
Your job or your baby? Because this article is trying to pretend just how devastated she was about not being able to bear a child, and then suddenly, her job becomes way more important than having a baby?
I totally buy it. I mean, totally.
In any event, though, why is your job more important than doing something about the 35 trillion debt and all the taxes that are killing us and about to throw all of America into bankruptcy?
Because, in the end, all that really matters to you is, well, you….
Pointed out by Karl Denninger as being on the books since the 1950s.
Obviously not enforced.
Therefore, all current talk about and methods for removing illegals are farcical half-measures.
This could easily be used against any “sanctuary city” or state to put the leaders of same in prison for 10, 15 or 20 years.
8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324
I’ve been talking about that statute for years to deaf ears.
Epstein…
The SDNY disappeared the contents of Epstein’s safe.
So they will be released late Friday when nobody is watching!
WOW
Released, via X influencers?
How about an official website, so everyone has free access.
Here’s the link, but every page I’ve looked at has HUGE redactions:
https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein
I understand the FBI Vault is older info, of little value.
Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. shares his thoughts on POTUS: “I think Trump is a great President. Actually, he’s the best President we’ve ever had.”
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Floyd Mayweather: We Didn’t Appreciate Trump In His First Term
“When we had Trump before we didn’t appreciate him. I think Trump is a great president….he’s the best president in my eyes… Trump has done an amazing job.”
https://rumble.com/v6pu4zy-floyd-mayweather-we-didnt-appreciate-trump-in-his-first-term.html?mref=ah9c7&mc=cfcoh
Scott Rasmussen
@ScottWRasmussen
BREAKING: 71% of voters support reducing growth of Medicaid spending by removing illegal immigrants and requiring able-bodied recipients to work.
88% of Republicans and 51% of Democrats back the proposal.
Cont…
I see we are going along with the lazy 29 year old on the couch defrauding Medicaid story.
The real story isn’t Jeffrey Epstein, it’s not even his client list, it’s exposing who Epstein was working and securing the blackmail for. That’s the real story.
Maybe some of the people on that list will tell who it was that was blackmailing them. Who contacted them and what favors they demanded.
This is so true! Blackmail appears to be the reasonable explanation for some of the unacceptable decisions made by some lawmakers and others…
Is Pam saying she has something an alert to anyone worried (about what they know she doesn’t have / won’t divulge) so they have time to come around and tell her they’ll obey the Administration’s requests on voting for/against a bill?
This AG now has me overthinking by overthoughts …
Also:
Who killed him
Who paid the killers
Who ordered it
Who knew about it
One bit at a time…
{ https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hhs-pauses-multi-million-dollar-contract-develop-new-covid-19-vaccine }
“Pam Bondi confirmed there are thousands of files still held in the SDNY and will be delivered to the DOJ by Feb. 28.”….
No, the release today, as detailed at TGP, is that a group of “alt-right” MAGA Media were invited to the WH, met with PDJT, VP Vance, Bondi and Patel, and were each given a binder clearly marked “Epstien Files, Phase 1”.
AND, it was announced there are a bunch of additional files/material, held by SDNY, that will be turned over tomorrow to DOJ.
Which, of coarse will need to be gone over first, to protect the victims, etc. before they too, are released.
Its entirely possible that this material SDNY had, was copies of the material whistleblowers are said to have been deleting, at FBI headquarters…
The buerocracy does everything in triplicate, remember.
Its actually going to be funny, if it turns out that all the while agents in the FBI were destroying evidence, others were watching/recording them doing it, knowing they had copies in NY.
In which case, the ‘worst of the worst’ at the FBI, just ‘outed’ themselves.
This story is just in its opening stages,…
Starmer Extends Invitation From King Charles For ‘Unprecedented’ Second State Visit to Britain
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/02/27/starmer-extends-invitation-from-king-charles-for-unprecedented-second-state-visit-to-britain
The “Charm Offensive” is simply smart diplomacy. Trump, himself, uses it on foreign leaders all the time. Let us see who gets the results. You know it will be Trump.
Why do they keep saying President Trump didn’t greet Macron on his visit?
Because Macron showed up twice. Once, he was attending the G7 phone call alongside President Trump and was only greeted by an assistant. The second time he arrived was the “formal” arrival and he was greeted by President Trump.
Anna Paulina Luna …Epstein…
The Pattern Beneath
USAID and the Architecture of Perception
Joshua Stylman
Feb 16, 2025
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Left vs right, vaxxed vs unvaxxed, Russia vs Ukraine, believer vs skeptic (on any topic) – these false dichotomies serve to fragment our understanding while reality itself is far more nuanced and multidimensional. Each manufactured crisis spawns not just reactions, but reactions to those reactions, creating endless layers of derivative meaning built on artificial foundations.
The real power isn’t in manufacturing individual facts, but in creating systems where false facts become self-reinforcing. When a fact-checker cites another fact-checker who cites a “trusted source” that’s funded by the same entities funding the fact-checkers, the pattern becomes clear. The truth isn’t in any individual claim – it’s in recognizing how the claims work together to create a closed system of artificial reality.
Take the mRNA vaccine debate for example: The pattern manifests before the explanation – people passionately debate efficacy without realizing the entire framework was constructed. First, they fund the research. Then they fund the media to shape the narrative. Even skeptics often fall into their trap, arguing about effectiveness rates while accepting their basic premise. The moment you debate ‘vaccine efficacy,’ you’ve already lost – you’re using their framework to discuss what is, in reality, an experimental gene therapy. By accepting their terminology, their metrics, their framing of the discussion itself, you’re playing in their constructed reality. Each layer of control is designed not just to influence opinions, but to preemptively structure how those opinions can be formed.
Like learning to spot a staged photo or hearing a false note in music, developing a reliable bullshit detector requires pattern recognition. Once you start seeing how narratives are constructed – how language is weaponized, how frameworks are built – it changes the lens with which you view the whole world. The same intelligence agencies embedding themselves in every domain that shapes our understanding aren’t just controlling information flow – they’re programming how we process that information itself.
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This layered deception is self-reinforcing – each level of manufactured reality is protected by another level of institutional authority. These institutions don’t just dictate stories; they shape the infrastructure through which narratives are disseminated. For what it’s worth, I believe most tools themselves are neutral. The same digital systems that enable mass surveillance could empower individual sovereignty. The same networks that centralize control could facilitate decentralized cooperation. The question isn’t the technology itself, but whether it’s deployed to concentrate or distribute power.
This understanding didn’t come from nowhere. Those who first sensed this artificiality were dismissed as conspiracy theorists. We noticed the coordination across outlets, the strange synchronicity of messaging, the way certain stories were amplified while others disappeared. Now we have the sales receipts showing exactly how that manipulation was funded and orchestrated.
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The challenge isn’t just seeing through any single deception – it’s understanding how these systems work together in complex, non-linear ways. When we fixate on individual threads, we miss the larger pattern. Like pulling a thread on a sweater and watching it unravel, eventually you realize there was no sweater in the first place – just an intricately woven illusion. Just as a hologram contains the whole image in each fragment, every piece of this system reflects the larger blueprint for reality construction.
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These revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. Anyone paying attention to the depth and depravity of the corruption knows that this is only the beginning. As more information emerges, the illusion of neutrality, of benevolence, of institutions acting in the public interest, will crumble. No one who truly engages with this information is walking away with renewed faith in the system. The shift is only happening in one direction – some faster than others, but none in reverse. The real question is: what happens when a critical mass reaches the point where their foundational understanding of the world collapses? When they realize that the records shaping their perception were never organic, but manufactured? Some will refuse to look, choosing comfort over confrontation. But for those willing to face it, this is not just about corruption – it’s about the very nature of the reality they thought they inhabited.
The implications are staggering not just for individual awareness, but for our very ability to function as a republic. How can citizens make informed decisions when reality itself has been splintered into competing manufactured tales? When people discover that their most deeply held beliefs were shaped, that their passionate causes were scripted, that even their cultural interests and tastes were curated, that their opposition to certain systems was anticipated and designed – what remains of authentic human experience?
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Video with transcript:
PsyWars: Fifth Generation Warfare and Sovereignty
Molding, controlling, and capturing your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs are the objectives.
ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
FEB 3, 2023
The video is from the the Pandemic Strategies Conference in Stockholm, Sweden on January 21, 2023.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/psywars-fifth-generation-warfare
“Over the last three years, Western governments, non-governmental organizations, transnational organizations, pharmaceutical industry corporations, media and financial corporations have cooperated via public-private partnerships, which I assert is a euphemism for fascism, to deploy the most massive globally harmonized, psychological, and propaganda operation in the history of the world. Over the last three years, you have been subjected to the most massive harmonized, globally coordinated propaganda campaign in the history of the Western world, full stop.
My mouth is getting dry talking about these things. I do feel a little passionate. With this campaign, the governments of many Western nation states have turned, okay, this is key, military-grade, psychological operations, strategies, tactics, technologies, and capabilities developed for modern military combat against their own citizens. These are inconvenient facts. The world that many of us believed existed no longer exists if it ever did.”
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE
4th PSYOP Group
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
NEW: Hampton Dellinger’s lawyers filed a letter at SCOTUS responding to DOJ’s letter to SCOTUS detailing how Dellinger was using executive power to reinstate fired federal employees.
Dellinger’s lawyers astonishingly blame the board who handles his complaints.
Cont reading thread…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp – Everything you learned in school about the world is intellectually incorrect.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/02/18/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-everything-you-learned-in-school-about-the-world-is-intellectually-incorrect.html
Critics Suspect a Softball Ethics Verdict Is Coming on Hunter Biden’s Law License
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/02/25/dc_bars_ethics_probe_of_hunter_biden_hits_a_snag_and_some_see_favoritism_1093701.html