This is madness. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sends a twitter message as if he’s ordering coffee from the guy down the street, telling NATO members not to forget to send him his $40 billion in “budgetary support.”
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Budgetary support means we pay for the operational cost of Ukraine government, including govt payrolls, pensions, healthcare services, welfare and social services for the people in Ukraine.
The crazy thing is, unless Trump stops it, our congress will give it to him. And even if Trump tries to stop it, congress will demand the payment as part of their appropriations process.
Maybe it’s just me, but the in-your-face hubris of it is, well, just off-the-charts. As if we don’t have important priorities here at home that could better use these taxpayer funds.
Suspicious Cat, has, well, frustrate!
I wonder if the Ukraine front was opened using Neo-Nazis, to pull Orthodox Christian Russia out from helping secular Syria in its fight against the fake terrorists from ISIS & Al-Qaeda who they told us did 9/11?
A Gay actor for the Ukraine money laundering Psyop?
I’ll take normalized relations with Russia over any support for gay actor led Ukraine.
Maybe part of the reason, besides the cash kickbacks, to gift taxpayer money to the cokehead gay actor, is because his bestie, Ms Linda Graham is more then just friends with the globalist puppet. Ms Linda needs a knot jerked in his tail in the worst way.
Miss Sissy Lindsey needs to start wearing bullet proof maxi pads to cover his rear end from anything other than the fist filled wads of cash he receives from the Military Industrial Complex and the 10% grift from all spending appropriations she introduces, approves, and signs off to for foreign expenditures, those offshore retirement accounts don’t fund themselves.
How much of that $40 billion will find its way back into the pockets of repugnant, corrupt, immoral Congressional grifters, warmongers, and saboteurs?
If past is prologue, their stream of revenue, despite the axing of USAID will remain free flowing.
$40 Billion…? That’s all….? Let me write you a check, but don’t kash it before Christmas
The rest will find its way into the pockets of repugnant corrupt immoral Ukranie Generals, Bureaucrats, and Z himself.
And then up Z’s nose…
Their usual 10% grift of all spending bills they introduce and have signed into foreign appropriations, their retirement acct accumulations do not end until they have dirt covering the back of their heads down, while saying hello to Satan and John “frikken” McCann holding hands.
“If past is prologue, their stream of revenue,
despitebecause of the axing of USAID will remain their new source of free flowing revenue.”If the USAID money tree had continued to yield fruit there would be no need to create an alternate source.
*edited for clarity
Senator McConnell said a significant portion of it comes back to the US!!! He didn’t say how much of it went to grift fo Senators, their families or friends of course!!!
Just when I believe I can’t despise them any more than I already do.
(*Spit* but in a totally Southern ladylike way)
Funny Betsy, my first impulse is a backhand across his smuf face
That should have been mine, sir.
First things first 😎👍🏻
I’m right there with you, but I’m going for pissed Appalachian hillbilly type spitting!! 😂
I need a vacation.
So do I.
Ukraine might could use a “regime change” seeing as how their elections were cancelled, etc., etc., etc.
Oh dear, almost a threat. Z has been a dead man walking for a very long time.
Too long.
Why is he still alive?
Get it from Vladimir.
Closer to home……
Haiti faces growing threat of famine
https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/haiti-faces-growing-threat-of-famine/1785720
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There needs to be an entire new budget section for Congress to consider: all the nations who would like to have 40 billion from the US, every year, can turn in their names and banking info so it can be wired directly into appropriate accounts. Haiti can get on that list.
Like every other item of current spending (it shouldn’t be called a budget, because that is not what’s going on)…it will have an automatic built-in increase every year as well. I think that has been 4%, but perhaps it can be increased to 10-12%. (We don’t Ukraine being unhappy with us. Who knows what they would do.)
Suspicious cat is going to need the strongest kind of headache meds available to felines.
How exactly is sending all this foreign aid helping America? It isn’t. These countries need to stand on their own win or lose fail or succeed needs to up to the people in these countries because foreign aid goes right into the pockets of the cronies and the people see nothing in the way of aid. Get a job, or better yet invent something (see a need fill a need) and make money. We should stop sending anything to anyone and maybe the governments of those sucking countries will finally do something beneficial for their people or the people should throw them to the curb and get new leaders. Cut the apron strings now and these countries may finally grow up.
Zoe asked, “How exactly is sending all this foreign aid helping America?”
Nowhere did I say it was helping America. Nowhere did I call it foreign aid.
And I didn’t think the SARC tag was needed. Rio Linda.
The US HAVING to give $40 billion to ANY other country is absurd!! Here’s a idea…Why don’t they just do one lottery for the $40 billion. All the countries can fight over who gets to draw the first ticket. At least then there would be some sport about giving our tax dollars away. We all know American citizens don’t ever need any financial help and putting other countries first is certainly good for the citizens here at home.
In fact, the last I heard the baseline for every successive budget was around 8%. I could be wrong, of course. But the idea of starting every new budget from an automatic increase is an atrocity.
Better yet, Americans can declare themselves nations in need and turn in their names and bank info too…
Oh wait…
Never mind…
I like the way you think….
The Clinton’s can turn that around.
I really don’t care, Margaret.
Puke. I’d also like 40 billion to help sustain my state…
I am really DONE with supplying other countries with money when they do absolutely nothing for us but whine and complain…. They are like teenagers who spend their allowance and then want more, when you say no, they either steal it from your purse or beg from an enabling parent …. and you’re correct, congress WILL give it to them… they should have to do so out of their OWN paychecks.
Hope you mean ALL countries. No exceptions
Cocaine and hookers aren’t cheap these days.
Shopping in Paris.
And new heels.
Cut off the warmongering, CIA mouthpiece, fool, now.
Maybe he has an accidental car blowing up when those dependent on his rationing of the total grift is cut off, just saying.
Z-man sounds like a petulant 20 something who still lives with Mommy and Daddy, refuses to get a job, but demands all the newest and coolest gadgets…..because, “Well, I didn’t ask to be born!”
Can’t expect much from a “man” who plays the piano with his family jewels.
Much like a tax. Now we have federal, state and Ukraine taxes. If only we had a say. I got plenty of words ready for use and none would be pleasant.
Ok folks, if Ukraine declared themselves “New Northern Israel” would the US not fully fund this state????
Let’s not be inconsistent.
As the world only superpower, that can chew gum while/and………. fund wars around the world, fund endless military bases everywhere, absorb migrants from the globe, keep the stock market rising forever, reduce taxes at home, tariff vassal states at will, fund the MIC with endless US dollars, take over Greenland and Canada,……….
Come on everyone, if we do not continue to fund/control everything, our adversaries will think we are weak!!!!!!!
Now is not the time to be squeamish and count pennies!
Yes and twice tomorrow which is Sunday.
Yeah!!! what he said…
I don’t want us in either war but comparing Ukraine to Israel is just plain foolish.
The only thing they have in common is the war machine itching to get us in each conflict.
Israel paid for their defenses and Ukraine is the entitled twerp that gives nothing and demands everything, including that we fund their civil servants, boatloads of cash, arms to the detriment of our own military and comes back for more every time.
The war in Ukraine began roughly 26 MONTHS ago and Israel attacked Iran 8 DAYS ago.
We can have discussions about each conflict and that we don’t want to engage in either but equating Ukraine to Israel seems imprudent.
I’ll just repeat what you said ISRAEL PAID FOR their defenses and Ukraine is the entitled twerp = 100% BIG BEAUTIFUL DIFFERENCE
Sure, lest go with Israel “paid” for all its military equipment, interceptor missiles, Iron Dome, Davids Sling, Arrow3, heavey bombs, Mossad , …….. and Matzo balls too!
The USA has/does not financially support Israel. Totally. I get it. BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!
https://rumble.com/v6uydp9-us-israeli-war-on-iran-the-numbers-game-iranian-ballistic-missiles-vs-us-is.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Oh I get it. Totally different. Totally.
“First, the arrant hypocrisy demonstrated by the Western-bloc position that Iran must first negotiate and only then will hostilities be brought to an end. Wait a second, wasn’t it that in Ukraine the “appropriate” sequence of events, according to this ‘rules based odour’, is that first hostilities must immediately cease, and only then negotiations should begin?
As you can see, the West twists the chain of logic in whichever way serves its interests at the particular time. In Ukraine’s case, Ukraine is badly losing and so the West seeks to immediately save their ward by sermonizing Russia about how it’s only “right” that hostilities must end first. In Iran’s case, it’s the opposite: the West is quite keen to allow Israel its illegal and unprovoked campaign of violence against Iran.
No consistency, no principles, as always.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-166407110
BTW, do you have a link to where I can read “The Rules-Based Order” that spells out how these two situation are totally different, in the rules?
There is more than enough hypocrisy in the world. I was just pointing out that perhaps the US policy (Bush(es), Obama, Biden or Trump) is a bit, well ………hypocritical to suite every situation?
Perhaps the solution to all these requests for money from the USA is for the USA to just declare, buy a wave of the US magic wand, that money is no longer required – everything is free!
Zelenskyy and Bibibi will be delighted!
Ah, forgive me, I should have inferred from your original post that you are incapable of rational discussion.
Carry on, rant away.
No, buddy. Better start performing in your jock strap and stillettos.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a maroon. Let’s just walk away.
Billion with a B?
He would look good suspended like an old pair of Converse in a Philly neighborhood
If Ukrainian bribes to US Senator’s are needed to pass the BBB, fine. We can clean up the corruption later.
Umm, no
He is a very dangerous manipulator of world events and a cosplay buffoon masquerading as the legitimate leader of Ukraine. How he has survived is a mystery to me.
IKR
I demand $1 Billion from all non-US NATO countries for each US citizen.
I’m ready to see arrests of any politicians who are leading Zelenskyy to believe that further requests for money would be granted.
Not one dime. Let the grifter use his own money. The laundry is done. Fold it up and put it away. Regardless of what Lindsey Graham says
Serious question.
When will the financial breaking point arrive?
Up this way ( Greater Vancouver B.C.)
Working and middle income folks are coming to the understanding that their financial situation is dire.
Earlier this week I was getting gas in Blaine Washington.
It was early, however when the the gas station attendant was asked if the town was not unusually quiet. His reply was in the affirmative and believed it was getting quieter, and not just with Canadian shoppers.
Cheers!
I firmly believe we are teetering on it now. The BRICS summit in July is ever so close and they are certainly attempting to subvert the dollar primacy.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-brics-summit-rio-ea1ad30cd114143d91840a37f96725ee
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When the high majority of people lose total confidence in all manner with their gubmints, then things start going down fast. It will start in EU first. They are in the worst shape. Fear will set in. Capital controls. institutional money will flee to USA, not that we are in the best shape, but just better shape than EU other areas because USA has never defaulted on their debt. That’s why EU needs war $$ to save their sinking ship. The unelected and elected elites know what’s happening. (Based on reading ArmstrongEconomics.com for 15+ years.) It’s far more complex. This is a very short version.
🥂 Up this way shoplifting is now rampant. Not just with junkies either.
When the “ sugar” is cut off things will get interesting.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/interview-2025-canadian-report-can-canada-survive-intact-tariffs-trump-corruption/
Here’s the Canadian Report. There are many others on the site. Sadly, there isn’t much good news for any of us, but it’s better to be informed.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/interview-2025-canadian-report-can-canada-survive-intact-tariffs-trump-corruption/?
Mike Campbell of Canada is the interview I was looking for (and stumbled on all the others I sent). Campbell and Armstrong are personal from for years. Campbell recently published a book on Armstrong and his forecast. Follow Campbell for sporadic interviews.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/martin-armstrong-and-mike-campbell-discuss-global-uncertainty/
You can thank the USA for that. It started in California, one of the reasons I left, and we exported it nationwide and some people up your way said, hey, me too!
I used to say when I was residing in California that I wouldn’t blame the Lord if he did left off a massive earthquake that sunk the state.
It’s got to be as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah in certain localities. Unfortunately, it doesn’t stay in those localities.
ArmstrongEconomics.com Socrates forecasts have never been inaccurate in 45 yrs.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/interview-2025-canadian-report-can-canada-survive-intact-tariffs-trump-corruption/
Dekester, forwarding links as you request for info was serious.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/interview-2025-canadian-report-can-canada-survive-intact-tariffs-trump-corruption/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/armstrong-interview-in-alberta-about-separation/
It’s been Survival Mode for me for so long that if Thriving Mode ever kicked back in I wouldn’t know how to behave.
💪
I have cut my life down to the bare bones. My financial advisor reminded me that with PDJT in office my investments should grow and that I could start taking money out (I’m 66 years old).
I told him that my life has been pared down to the essentials and I cannot even fathom dreaming about some splurge money being used.
I eat, sleep, pay my essential bills, and have a roof over my head. What else do I need?
When does the world pay U.S. citizens (directly, skip our federal middle men) for fighting and dying in all their wars, keeping the trade routes safe and open, and policing the world?
DAMN good question. I’m not holding my breath.
You just know Lindsey Graham will be fighting for this.
I will be telling ALL of my “reps” that lindsey graham is NOT the boss of Texans. Our money should not be going to his wars.
Not one penny until our debt is down to zero!
Message back to Zbag from Retired Hand Model:
🖕🏼
“Talk to the Hand Model”
“Budgetary support means we pay for the operational cost of Ukraine government, including govt payrolls, pensions, healthcare services, welfare and social services for the people in Ukraine.”
And don’t forget to include Florida and Swiss estates, Bentleys, Lambos, Ferarris and Porsches.
Don’t forget the multi-million dollar yachts moored in their private berths at the Zelensky owned casino in Dubai with penthouses overlooking the beautiful Gulf and Marina.
It is already baked in the Big Beautiful Bill. You can bet on that.
Or it soon will be.
Or maybe a new bill that puts the BBB on the back burner until after thee August recess.
I can not print the words I would like to say in response to Zelenskyy. I’d be kicked off of CTH.
No more to the midget money grubbing, warmonger in Ukraine. America First.
I’m pleased as punch that President Trump left Canada before he had to deal with the Ukrainian dwarf.
Damit! NO!!
This has to end!
Every RINO & Dem MUST be voted out in 2026.
Never have we approved to endless add Ukraine to the USA budget.
President Trump….impound the funds!
It isn’t just you, Sundance!
An earlier post of yours featured a meme captioned, “START ASKING THE RIGHT F*CKING QUESTIONS!”
and that applies here in spades!
WHY will Congress demand a 40 billion dollar payoff to Zelenskyy “as part of their appropriations process?”
I’ll tell you, brother: For the same reason the FBI doesn’t put ANTIFA in their crosshairs!
American institutions are SO corrupt that even Trump finds it daunting to set them right…and the mother of all corrupt institutions is the criminal cartel masquerading as the Democrat Party!
Uniparty…but otherwise right on.
I’ll concede the uniparty…but the Dem party is boss of the uniparty and the RINOs are only toadies!
Nope. The Uniparty.
How about NO F’ING WAY!
I am so sick of this little tyrant! He needs to raise the white flag and surrender to the victors of this ridiculous war.
Screw the wee little Zman.
That’s a lot of Girl Scout cookies for Ukraine to sell – better get busy pal.
Don’t give the GS any money. They support PP!!!!
We can’t send money to all of you foreign countries, we’re already spending it supporting the undesirables you sent across our border illegally.
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/157502928/photo/mannekin-pis-in-brussels-belgium.webp?s=612×612&w=gi&k=20&c=Dgj5ssIiXADfJLoOLIcyQ_fF7i7F5IP_wmr_rA1_B9Y=
Seems appropriate.
When does the line get drawn by President Trump between suffering this BS and allowing it in order to get the BBB??
It is looking more and more like … Congress WILL NEVER vote on, let alone pass, the BBB because there will always be some other cause of the day President Trump has to back … or … cough cough …. no BBB Vote.
Cue Charlie Brown approaching the football held by Lucy.
Zelenskyy knows how our pathetic, unrepresentative Congress works and knows his tweet will get action and the funds!!! Our Chicken Littles in Congress will comply to keep the Ukraine honey pot stocked and filled for dipping into!!! President Trump tell the EU to fund all of it and forget about America supplying any more of anything!!! JMO
We were just told again Social Security and Medicare will be insolvent in 8 years, and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts the feckless quislings in DC will send our tax dollars over there instead of supporting the people that paid into both those safety nets.
Both are already insolvent … when Federal Tax dollars over and above the FICA Tax collected, premium increases and consideration given to benefit payout changes are being considered are needed for these funds … by definition they are insolvent NOW.
You explain the Irony…. very succinctly.
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when that tripe is run up the flagpole, I never salute it. the SS money we pay and that our employers pay goes into the general treasury. SS payments are just another expense item.
It has been done so for decades.
No
These F*ckers better not dare continue to say Medicare and social security will be insolvent in X number of years🤬…../spit!
Why is this prick still at room temperature??
Trump should reply back that there are SEVEN countries in the G7 and we already paid our $40 billion, so it’s their turn.
And gAy LindseyGraham will ‘hand’ deliver to his pen pal
…come and take it.
BOY!
Trump’s VETO and follow-up prominent exposure (name the names) of any Republicans who DARE to vote yes to such extortion ought to put this kitty to bed.
Maybe the Congressional Larcenists can roll the Aid packages for Ukraine and Israel into one Big Beautiful Bankruptcy before Vacation?
My fellow Treepers have said it all, many times. The guy is a crook like Obiden. I hope something MAGA happens.
Maybe put the FAA in charge, they at least understand you need to put your oxygen mask on first.
How bout we just fund a free and fair election for Ukraine.
We can talk any further financing matters with the winner.
How ’bout we fund free and fair elections for the entire U.S.? THAT’s the corruption I’M concerned about!!!
Guess America’s gonna have to use the loot it took from wakanda…