Surreal

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

What a time to be alive!

If you have missed it, I can’t even track down all the tweets, but let’s say that for the last week or so, Elon Musk has been catching USAID, skinning it, anatomizing it, and hanging its ugly, diseased entrails out for the world to see.

If you miss all of it, you can probably start here and here and poke around to see the rest. As far as I can tell, USAID whom the idiots on the left are trying to protect by saying their budget is only 0.7% of the government’s fantastical carnival of corruption and waste, has been funding all of the mainstream media, from the New York Times to Politico and everything big and small in between. (To be fair they also got money from other agencies and departments.)

And though not fully exposed yet, once we follow through the links of stalking horse NGOs, there is reason to believe the USAID — and doubtless other parts of our government — have been funding Antifa, BLM, ANSWER International, and most ratbag commie movements here and abroad.

At the same time, it appears that a game and at least one Netflix series (I know you are shocked, considering the deal they had with the Obama’s) were also funded by USAID.

And I’m going to lay a small bet that various departments and agencies have also funded most of Hollywood and the large publishing houses. (Look at what Simon and Schuster does in giving every lefty quasi celebrity millions and millions for turgid half baked books no one buys.) Mostly I base this surmise on the simple certainty that no one — NO ONE — would continue to make product no one will buy unless someone else is paying them to do it.

Yes, I’m surmising and I could be wrong, but given what we’ve found out about the press, I don’t think so! As I say, I’m making a prediction and laying a small bet.

I’m just waiting, as Elon turns his attention to the rest of our government, the parts of bigger budgets.

I am both in awe of how far they’ve got in two and a half weeks, of everything they’re exposing, and in horror and disgust at what they are actually finding.

The picture I’m getting is as though each of us, without knowing it, had been paying $500 a month for someone to beat us up, slander us, and lie to us.

If I had this plot in a novel no one would believe it.

I was about to say the situation is so surreal that I’m not even mad.

But the truth is that I’m spectacularly mad.

And the bizarre thing through all of this is that the left thinks it can cow us into silence. It runs around making up nutbaggery about how Elon’s employees working on this aren’t qualified, and how they weren’t elected to see private information (as though normal secretaries and programmers got elected.)

They also scream that it’s some illegal and unconstitutional to take away their money tap and sinecures.

BUT do you know the most surreal thing through all of this? The one thing that has me grinning like a toddler on Christmas morning and not wanting to miss a minute of it?

The right doesn’t care! They scream, they call us names, they say they’re going to do terrible things to us, and we ignore them and go on.

It’s like overnight they’ve become completely irrelevant. Buzzing flies or laughing stocks, nothing more.

If you’d told me ten years ago, we’d be here today, I’d not have believed it. It is probably the greatest miracle of all this.

What a time to be alive!

279 thoughts on “Surreal”

      1. I’m getting a World Cup/Super Bowl/Indy 500 feeling right now. It’s almost orgasmic excitement in opening up Twitter and seeing what the latest revelations are, and the freakouts they induce in the left. I need more popcorn, and nachos, and maybe some beer, and…

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        1. And if it wasn’t bad for your health, a supply of No-Doz (remember that?) sufficient to keep you awake so as not to miss a single glorious minute until the left and all their works completely implode.😁😁😁

          Schadenfreude, and the livin’ is easy…

          Lefties freakin’, and the panic is high…

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      2. Despite their government funding, not all the games are free to the public. NumberShire is $14.99 per student or $99 per class. Sokikom is $20 per student or $6,000 per site.

        Well, isn’t that nice. In addition being developed with tax money taken from the rest of us, they then turn around and take more money from the taxpayers of the district in which the programs are used.

        Or better – are paid for by federal grants that the district applies for – also taken from the rest of us.

        It’s a nice scam if you get in on the right end of it.

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      1. Dustborn. The payments from multiple governments (Norway, US, and possibly one more) was noted at the time, and IIRC I mentioned it here.

        While I haven’t watched a playthrough of the game, it appears to quite literally be a wet dream of the hard left. Abilities in the game have names like “Cancel” – as in what Cancel Culture did – and IIRC at least one ability description talks about bullying the target to the point where the target commits self-harm, or worse.

        The good news is that the game is one of many this year that turned out to be a *spectacular* disaster sales wise.

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  3. It’s like the massive avalanche that starts with a single small pebble.

    Or the little boy calling “but he has no clothes on!”

    Or a hated man, a convicted felon, a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Nazi somehow gets elected in a landslide into the Presidency. (note each of those slurs save one is a lie dumped in our heads by the MSM and the left poop flinging monkeys, and the felony conviction was a put up job obvious to the casual observer, and is sure to be overturned on appeal.)

    It’s almost as if this Overton Window has assumed a physical reality that we can watch as it rolls over our collective psyche opening us up to the reality of our lying eyes versus their carefully presented slanders and fictions.

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    1. I saw a bit saying that AG Bondi is starting an investigation into weaponized “justice”, particularly against DJT and the J6 people. The New Yawk AG and DA Bragg are included targets, along with Jack Smith. Not sure if Merrick Garland is in there–it’s been a firehose of information coming out.

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    2. I am truly amazed at how many lefties seem to know MAGA folks who now regret their Trump vote. Because he did what he said? Hard and fast?

      In other words, Trump vote regrets from people who might willingly pay ten bucks an egg if accompanied by a shotglass of liberal tears.

      Uh, no. It doesn’t work that way.

      But they have to psych themselves up to being “the Real majority” so they can Save Democracy by correcting anything deviant from their wishes.

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      1. Even back during the first Trump term. There were many who held their nose and voted for Trump in 2016, but the people saying afterwards that they regretted doing so were noticeably rare – and most of the example that cropped up were fakes.

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        1. I do however deeply regret the five Biden votes my father made back in 2020. Always struck me as odd seeing that pops passed away in 1973.

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      3. Before Election Day, they were claiming that red states were seeing many people searching to find out whether they could change their (early) vote.

        That these were Trump voters with regret is, of course, self-evident.

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  4. I doubt that the DODGE programmers are actually “seeing” personal information, as in actually looking at it. They are making scripts, writing programs to deal with the data as a whole, not opening up and actually looking at individual records unless something goes **bonk** with the processing. And even then unless it’s directly related to personal stuff won’t even be looked at then. Way to much data to crunch in a short time.

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    1. Exactly. And you can set the Analytics to identify PII from object names and field values and exclude or automatically mask it.

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      1. They seem tracking payments to organization/corporate EINs, which aren’t individuals and should be public information. Also cross reference that with the entities officers and management, which is also public information. No PII there.

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        1. Probably not. The point is that it doesn’t matter if the tech is done right. I trust Elon’s team to do it right.

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  5. Surreal and Mad reflect exactly how I feel.

    After tilting against the windmills of election corruption for over 5 years, I was at a point of dispair, only to have the cavalry and the teams of professional autists show up. Truly a blessing from God to have so much talent for good on our side.

    We’ve known that this corruption has existed for decades, but only got glimpses of the tip of the iceberg or the elephants tail. The scale is amazing stunning. No Mafia boss ever achieved this much. The curtain has fallen and the roaches are scrurrying.

    I’m not sorry that hundreds of thousands of people have been employed by these schemes will lose “their” pay checks, but the pragmatic side of me says maybe they can find real work in the fields or factories. The dark judge inside of me says they may need some extreme Canadian Health Care if they can’t cope without stolen handouts.

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    1. “Learn to code!”

      Of course, they’ll be competing with $3/hr Bangladeshi remote workers and cheap H1B Ph.Ds.

      Then they’ll find that programmers are like toilet paper in the IT industry, and they’ll spend most of their time networking for their next job or hustling side gigs to pay the bills.

      I’m sure it will be a culture shock to the “I’m a Federal employee for life, and I have a union!” types.

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      2. Now have a clue on why I won my last job over another candidate that, I was told, had a PhD. My silent response at the time was “Huh? 🤷Whatever!”

        Unlike in ’90 when I beat out other such candidates, where part of the reason was I wasn’t asking for the “moon” salary wise, and had the wanted degrees and experience, not a PhD in only the relevant job one, I actually knew where the job was posted to (middle of Oregon coast, don’t blink driving through, you’ll miss it). Not that I was willing to take the job if meant moving there, but that is different. At least I was upfront at the initial interview and why, I did know where the job was located.

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        1. My first job was a postdoc at a DOE technology center doing coal research. I knew the question would arise what my research had to do with coal research. I pondered long and hard for days, coming up with no satisfactory BS answer. A good thing. The Director (picture a civilian version of Adm Rickover who did not tolerate fools gladly) asked it. I honestly replied, “None whatsoever.” He stiffened and glowered. “BUT” and I listed a litany of analytical, analysis, and computational skills I had learned in the process. Got the job. Worked there (First Federal and then State) for 36 years.

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      3. Instead of echoing “Learn to code!” back at them, it would be more appropriate (IMHO) to tell them “Learn to mine coal!”

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    2. The government gets its money from the productive, all government jobs are in some way tapping into that. It’s completely unsustainable to have the number of government employees the Democrats want. I have known many government employees that understood this a presumably voted to shrink government, but I also had a young millennial tell me that he couldn’t entertain libertarian ideas because his job was with the government and it would be against his interest. A good percentage of government employees will continue to increase government until the entire country financially collapses.

      Hopefully the well meaning government employees that lose their jobs will find something productive to do to actually grow the economy. And as the economy grows, all the ships will rise.

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      1. this fed employee is happily taking the deferred resignation offer, and I’m gonna go become a stenographer 😁 (if I ever get out of the hospital…damn calcium won’t stay up)

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          1. Heh, I probably should have said (but hey, I’ve been on drugs and/or recovering and also dealing with the “Crap I do still have to go back to the office, at least for a few more weeks” malaise): I was in the hospital for surgery to have my thyroid removed altogether. Functions were (allegedly) fine, but I had two tumors that after several biopsies and ultrasounds they still couldn’t say for sure whether they were cancer or not. But it was a 75% chance of it being cancer. And it went from “take just the half with the bigger tumor” to “nope, take the whole damn thing because the other tumor just got bigger and if it IS cancer we’ll just have to do this all over again”….and then my parathyroid glands got super pissed in the wake of the surgery. So my week intended to recover…most of it was spent in the hospital itself, and let’s face it NO ONE gets rest when they’re in the hospital. I’m only just now starting to come out of the funk of exhaustion that comes from only dozing for three days with a night of poor sleep at the hotel prior to that.

            Now…I’m actually feeling a lot better. Like, a LOT. The other night, trying to fall asleep (because the kittens had decided my bedroom was the designated zoomies location for that night…and they are BIG kittens), I realized I didn’t ache from head to toe for the first time in…probably almost fifteen years, to be honest.

            But I’m not sure if it’s because despite their assertions, my thyroid really WAS malfunctioning (thyroids crapping out is endemic, it seems, among women born or who have lived in certain parts of Wyoming for a significant amount of time, and no one knows why), and the new medication is putting levels at what they should have been, or if my calcium was somehow already low and I didn’t know it and now it’s finally where it ought to be, or if I’m so delirious with joy and excitement (and not a little fear) at the prospect of leaving my job to do something I want to do and think I’ll be really good at, without the stress of either trying to do so while still working (which I’ve already found to be impossible, with a two hour commute each day) OR worrying about paying my bills. I think I’ll have to wait a bit longer to see how it shakes out. Might be a combination of all of the above. (Also, I’m still waiting to hear whether or not it actually was cancer. If it was…well, I’ll be spending a couple of weeks locked in my room being mildly radioactive and not allowed to eat anything that tastes good, because no salt. But I don’t have to even stress about that now, because I don’t have to worry about how to manage work and leave stuff, given the surgery wiped out my leave. But hey, if you’re gonna get cancer, apparently thyroid is the way to go: it’s very rarely one that kills you nowadays, and while you have to get checked on the regular, it doesn’t often come back, or only comes back mildly.)

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            1. I can’t say as I’m surprised that artificial is working better for you, if only for the reason that their definition of “working” is broad enough to contain a wide range of ethnicities (thyroid apparently being one place where race really does matter), so while it was within the broad tolerances, it probably wasn’t calibrated to what you actually needed.

              Heal well, and I’m glad they caught things!

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          1. yeah, it was definitely to do with the parathyroid stuff–they did NOT have to remove the glands with the thyroid, but they were pissed off, apparently. What I don’t know is if they’re going to stay pissed off permanently or not, lol. In the meantime, I am coming up with ways to swallow calcium pills that would choke a horse… (Blender + orange juice is the best solution thus far…)

            I am home from hospital, though. Got out Friday. And then found out that I still have to come back to work at least until the end of the month, grrrr. Still haven’t had anything from OPM other than “we received your resignation, we will contact you shortly”–and that was on Jan 31, lol. But since the court ruling slapping down the unions only happened earlier this week, I expect things will start moving now.

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            1. “coming up with ways to swallow calcium pills that would choke a horse“

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              That’s my line. Prescribed but not prescription, 1200 mg of calcium / day after had my 65+ bone density scan. Do not know if it helps with the arthritis or not. Tried chewable calcium. Problem with chewable is they shot my BS sky high. Probably test pre T2 diabetic just because of them. Have found a coated single tab 1200 mg calcium that I can swallow without cutting it into 1/3s or blending it with something. Mom uses a powder calcium she puts in her morning coffee or orange juice.

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              1. My solution as of this morning (since the pill crusher won’t get here until Monday) was to throw the entire day’s dosage into the blender with orange juice and dump it in a thermos (since currently I still have to go to the office)

                Of course, I *also* just discovered that I gotta stir it back up, lol. I was sipping at it thinking “This isn’t bad” and then realized it was suspiciously un-chalky/gritty :D

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              2. Calcium dissolves best in highly acidic environments. I take mine first thing in the morning for just that reason. I have no reason to think it helps, but it might, to have the acid diluted by breakfast.

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      2. i was a federal employee (retired a year before covid)

        i voted my entire adult life for what we’re getting now.

        True, it would have sucked–for me–to be laid off ten years ago. Probably sucked a lot.

        But I voted for it anyway.

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          1. One reason for that is that spending for those salaries is already baked into the appropriations passed; withholding it would be another impoundment fight, and you employees would have standing to claim “harm”.

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            1. Makes sense. It’s also a clever way to get people to leave. It certainly worked on me, lol! :D (Actually, I didn’t realize how much I was starting to hate my job until I realized that I had a chance to learn something I *wanted* to do and not have to worry about still being able to pay my bills while doing it. It was…quite a revelation.)

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  6. They also scream that it’s some illegal and unconstitutional to take away their money tap and sinecures.

    Now the only question is whether courts will agree with them. And a couple already have.

    I’ve had hopes before now, and I like what I’m seeing. But it is surreal, and believing that it’s moving to real is daunting.

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    1. As was said in the aftermath of 2020 elections, “We didn’t try to use the courts to see if the election was corrupt. We knew it was. But after seeing the courts refuse to do their job, now we knew THE COURTS ARE ALSO CORRUPT.”

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      1. They mostly don’t bother to hide it, either.

        Since the Judicial Branch also declared itself to be Trump’s enemy, I’m hoping he has a plan for them too.

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      2. As I said.

        The federal government will, for now, restrict the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) access to U.S. Department of Treasury payment systems, government lawyers said in a Feb. 5 court filing.

        “The Defendants will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service,” they said in a proposed order they are asking a federal judge to enter.

        Exceptions include several special government employees, whose access would be “read-only,” the lawyers said.

        https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-government-to-restrict-doge-access-to-treasury-department-systems-filing-5805344?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy

        Now, what’s Trump’s plan to work around this? I don’t know, but it would not surprise me if he borrows another Democrat tactic and ignores it as long as he thinks he can.

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        1. If DOGE is working the way they should, they already have the anonymized data on a backup server and can continue without a blip.

          Send it to the courts on appeal and keep making all the findings as public as possible. Use public outrage to force the courts to act quickly.

          Trump has had four years to plan this, and he is really good at anticipating and circumventing the moves of his opponents.

          I actually think that DOGE was a last minute decision and he had other plans for getting the same things done.

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          1. Sec. Bessent was interviewed by TV people today (Feb 6); the DOGE people in question are 2 current Treasury employees.

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          2. Apparently the judge thought of that.

            Engelmayer, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, also said anyone prohibited from having access to the sensitive information since Jan. 20 must immediately destroy all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department systems.

            https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/02/08/obama-appointed-judge-kicks-off-legal-standoff-with-trumps-doge-activities-at-treasury-n2651897

            Not all the Left is stupid or incompetent.

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        2. How TF does this judge think this is going to stop Trump from slashing gov’t waste? The one DOGE employee who still has access feeds the data into their software. It spits out things that need trimming. Then Trump gives the order to the Treasury Dept., who still have access according to this order, to stop the payments on thus-and-such. And any employee who refuses an order from the boss gets fired for cause.

          I’m sure she’ll be back writing another order later on once she realizes this one has loopholes you can drive a Tesla through, but whatever.

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          2. That’s a job for the Department of Energy. They have the ability to quickly send very large amounts of energy to anywhere in the world.

            While dealing with WP would require a siglificant portion of this ability to be used up, I’m pretty sure they have enough to get the job done. Probably.

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          3. That’s a job for the Department of Energy. They have the ability to quickly send very large amounts of energy to anywhere in the world.

            While dealing with WP would require a siglificant portion of this ability to be used up, I’m pretty sure they have enough to get the job done. Probably.

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    2. The Reader suspects that there will be revelations of money flows to the ‘independent judiciary’ in the coming weeks and months. If the bureaucracy was subverting the press, there is no reason they wouldn’t have reached for the courts as well

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      1. DC Judge has just ordered the Federal Payment system off limits. And the Donald needs bucellarii. There’s just not enough honest people available.

        I’ll paste the text with highlights:

        DOGE: 81yo Judge Kollar-Kotelly is the same judge that sentenced 75yo pro-life protester Paula Harlow to two years in prison. Now she’s blocking Trump’s administration from making changes to the Treasury Department’s payment system. DOGE is blocked completely and Treasury officials have ‘read-only’ rights. This means that, if Trump’s team follows the rules, no one can pause, delete, or add a payment. This is no way to run a government. Also, the DOJ lawyer handling the case for the Trump administration is the same one that was involved in the case that provided a $2M settlement to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

        https://x.com/amuse/status/1887567978754961554

        Do I loathe these people? You have no idea.

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  7. I could use some help dealing with my liberal family. They only see that Trump has “thrown out the baby with the bathwater”; that Trump is going to have people in Africa dying from Ebola by pausing money from USAID. Please don’t give me deep conspiracy stuff – kill the fed, IRS, etc. That will have no impact on them. Usually I just don’t take them up on their discussions. After all, we’re going to win this regardless of what they think. But sometimes it IS HARD to just keep my mouth shut. When I do open it, I’ve pointed out that every president since Carter has tried to use the scalpel approach, but has failed, and meat cleaver is all that’s left.

    I like to send them to MSM sources they don’t usually like to challenge. Any thoughts?

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    1. No sure idea, but I recall there was at least African (forget which country) citizen who said “GOOD!” as the vast majority of the “aid” was going to the finks and precious little was actually being used to genuinely improve things.

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    2. My suggestion would be to ask them if they would donate to a charity that only sends 12 cents of every dollar to the cause the charity claims to support. Leaving aside the crazy stuff that USAID is funneling money to, even the arguably legitimate stuff they fund has that ratio, and you should be able to find that statistic somewhere in the MSM.

      If 88% of the money that’s supposed to be sent to ‘people in Africa dying from Ebola’ is going to the so-called ‘administrative functions’ of USAID, that’s a terrible waste of money. Most people I know start to complain if the charity they are supporting is only using 5% of the donations for ‘administrative’ costs.

      That might get through to the liberal minds in your family. Might not, but it’s something that I would hope any reasonable person, liberal or not, would agree is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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                  1. Heh. The Left can dox me all they want. I have a cell phone with 911, plenty of guns and ammo, and a sympathetic police chief. Considering I’ve had my property shot up already during a drive by, they get one warning while connected to 911, and any threatening moves after that means they get ventilated.

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          2. The Reader assures you that that will never happen. The Clinton Foundation is built upon a legal structure much more formidable than the Federal government. The Reader’s son (who is a lawyer) has said he always wanted to meet the lawyers that created it.

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        2. Absolutely!

          @DataRepublican and the other autists have been tracking the money flow now the curtain in the temple has been torn.

          And there’s also earlier work from others that have been tracking the incestous relationships between NGOs, the media, members of the Biden adminstration, corporations, foreign entities, etc…

          It’s all one big shadow government/elite, we are now getting a peek into the umbra.

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          1. Much like the irony in GOGE being grafted onto Obama’s USDS, one of the critical databases datarepublican is using was created by and for ProPublica. Can’t get much swampier than they.

            Hmm…. Off to check their funding,

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    4. There are no magic words or special articles that will fix the disfunctional, non-thinking broken parts of your family. Spend your time instead on positive things that help you or those you wish to benefit.

      You seem to be under the impression it is up to you to explain away thier illogical or unreasoned beleifs. That is an error, on your part. Dont play that game. It is a core oppressive of the Left. The purpose is to fatigue you into accepting the groupthink. They could easily refute themselves by consulting non-left news sources. They do not. Beause they do not want anything changing their minds. Instead they want you to get tired of it and go along. “Dont you get tied of always beign wrong?” “Why wont you join with us cool people?” “Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a”. “Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a.”

      Go be free. The rational owe the willingly irrational nothing.

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        1. You can’t play chess on the board of facts with pigeons that poop, scatter the pieces, wave foreign flags, and scream “Punch the Nazis!”

          Either they will get red-pilled and walk away from the plantation or they won’t.

          Just live your best life while walking the narrow path. And don’t forget to conceal carry.

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      2. More like the scene in Blake’s 7 where Avon cautioned Dayna about rushing off to save Cally.

        “Won’t do her much good if you run into something hungry along the way.”

        She ignored the warning and got attacked by a giant worm monster. Avon shot it in the nick of time.

        Dayna: “Don’t you get tired of being right all the time?”

        Avon: “No, I get tired of other people being wrong.”

        As we have all gotten tired of the Leftroids being delusional idiots.

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        1. Rearden, on his way out the door, delivered one of the best two-sentence lines in the entire novel:

          “No, Mother, he answered, “I’m not. I would have forgiven the past – if, today, you had urged me to quit and disappear.”

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    5. You know Luke 12:53, “They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” Actually, all of Luke 12 seems to apply to our current situation.

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      1. That’s because human nature changes so slowly. This has all happened before, and will all happen again. It’s just the minutiae/specifics that change.

        Psalm 57 and (especially for me) Psalm 59 seemed incredibly relevant to the campaign trail last year.

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    6. Former President of Kenya came out swinging, saying no aid recipient was entitled to US aid. Should be fairly easy to find the quote.

      RedState has been running articles breaking down some of the really awful examples. You could start with them and use them to find some sources your family might listen to.

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    9. Read them some of the stuff we were ACTUALLY financing in Africa. It had NOTHING to do with ebola. Or point out that Bill Gates has taken all sorts of accolades for doing good in Africa, but he was taking money from USAID — from us — to do so. Why can’t he use his own money. He’s a billionaire.

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    10. Maybe this will work, and maybe it won’t. But my comparison right now is The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. The tares – corruption – have been allowed to grow, and have now become too closely intertwined with the wheat. So the only solution is to burn the entire field and start over.

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      1. The full parable has a different solution, but it’s still bad for the tares.

        Since the farmer is at the point of harvesting the wheat anyway, it doesn’t matter if it gets pulled up along with the tares. But they don’t end up in the same place.

        Matthew 13:

        The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

        24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

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  8. Here I’ve been trying to think around the whole liberty thing. We can’t outright outlaw the Democrat party because they have the right to the freedom of speech to espouse their dastardly “ideals.” This experience of watching DOGE operate is beginning to persuade me otherwise. RICO prosecutions would seem to be in order. And thereby it follows that the DNC is the Racketeer in that formulation.

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    1. The ones willing to work can pick the tomatoes, or at least the litter. :D

      Maybe we can have them clean up the cities they have destroyed like FDR’s CCC? :P

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      2. Wait until they hit EPA. And I saw a headline this am that Trump is going to evaluate Newscum’s high-speed rail project. Personally.

        🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

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        1. Maybe Elon can track down the missing $24 billion. Nobody in Kalifornia seems to be able to do so.

          Kalifornia just appropriated $50 million to ‘Trump-proof’ the state. Now Gruesom is in D.C. begging ‘aid for the wildfire victims’.

          WHY DIDN’T YOU USE THE $50 MILLION FOR THAT INSTEAD, ASSHOLE?

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          1. Thing there is that Donald Trump is a SME on managing large construction projects. He KNOWS what he’s looking at.

            Not enough popcorn emojis. And my schadenboner is growing like Jack’s beanstalk.

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    3. Why would you ban them?

      Expose the massive corruption, and the financing of things like pro-trans media and events, and disgust will rapidly build among the majority of democratic voters. People like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard will form a replacement opposition party, and the current Democratic party will fade away.

      I’m already seeing videos on X of people announcing that they’re done with the Dems. That doesn’t mean that they’ll automatically turn conservative, though, and a new party will likely emerge after a while to cater to these people. And if that happens, the old Democratic Party withers away.

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        1. The Democrats supported wrong, to the extent of breaking off part of the country where they could practice it, they lost the ensuing war, and they’re still with us.

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          1. Because they were supporting a form of wrong that was wildly popular in a good-sized chunk of the country. And it remained so right up until around the same time that the Democrats modified that position.

            That’s not the case with things like transsexuals.

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  11. Surreal….

    I have been running flu-fever for a week. Part of me is wary that this has all been a fever dream and I wake up back in the beforetimes, instead of MAGAland.

    But so far, not. Yay.

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  12. My favorite news story this morning was that an “Anti-DOGE” protest in D.C. was cancelled because it was too cold outside. Riiiiiight. The protestors that show up at these events with their pre-printed signs and their matched chants are paid by USAID funds, and those funds are now gone.

    I read a few years ago about how the Antifa people were staying in hotels in the cities where they were rioting, and someone reasonably asked how they could afford the lodging and meals and transportation. The question was never answered then. I think it’s been answered now.

    My only contribution to this movement (besides my vote) are my prayers, and I’m praying them fervently. Keep it up, brave ones. Fight, fight, fight!

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    1. There were also comments about the type of protesters: well-dressed, 30ish or older, well-groomed….in short, worried administrators and clerks.

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      1. They didn’t happen to be in nice shirts and Khakis did they? Other work in protest marches must be getting lean…

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        1. Tailored coats, scarves, nice hairdos…

          no, these were employees and sympathizers of the comfortably middle-aged variety.

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    3. Huge effort went into preventing that revelation. Now you know why.

      Its worse. This is the easy-peasy stuff. When they dig a bit deeper, its going to start slamming the “no way. cant be real.” buttons.

      Meanwhile, hostile foreign powers are going to start feeding the paranoia with distorted/redirected items. I like that Trump warned Iran that any funky business gets them glassed. A simiar “stay out of this” to the other shitheads might be prudent.

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      1. Not only that but Iran now has verifiable reason to make sure President Trump stays alive. President Trump put them on notice that if he is assassinated (presumably by agents of Iran, but then any assassin will be presumed to be an agent of Iran even without a direct believable link, so comes down to “any reason” President Trump dies, even natural reasons … How I read/hear it, at any rate) that “instructions have been drafted”. Implying laying Iran down to rubble.

        Now whether TPTB in Iran are smart enough to see the same implications? IDK

        While President Trump hasn’t said the same for certain individuals within the US and former administration members and enablers, wouldn’t surprise me if he hasn’t got that covered too. I hope so.

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    4. They’re given a stipend, in cash. Sometimes that stipend is used for hotels, usually not. They make a good living.

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  13. The Globalist Marxist Left, and their American branch, are all about control. Tax enough of the people’s wealth, and they won’t have enough income to ever get ahead and compete with their “betters”. Keep raising the minimum wage so more small and medium businesses fail, and dump more people on the dole where the government can control them. Keep them working as much as possible, two or three minimum jobs to just keep from starving, and they won’t have any leisure time to study and think about how they are being kept down, or ways to get out of it.

    And calling someone a convicted felon when the entire world saw the fraudulent charges, cherry-picked jury, and utterly corrupt prosecution and judge impose it; well, of course we don’t give a crap about their decrees.

    Today’s picture would make a cool putting golf course.

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  14. The money laundering by USAID being exposed reminds me a lot of how Hollywood finance works, or higher ed finance works. It’s just a bunch of pass throughs from one department to another. That it’s being exposed to the whole world to see is glorious.

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    1. Soon they’ll have to resort to Bistro math and that’s when the most improbable things things will come out.

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  16. World-wide gaslighting program just got called. The actual propaganda seems to have stopped working, I’m going to guess sometime in the 1990s but 100% obvious no one was buying it after 2001.

    So for the last 25 years we’ve all been confused. WHO IS BUYING THIS CRAP?!!!

    We keep asking. It keeps getting worse and worse. The -obvious- skulduggery among publishers and in Hollywood keeps getting revealed, from Sad Puppies to #MeToo. Movies and books and games and magazines are crashing and burning all over the place because no one is buying them.

    They -couldn’t- be buying them, they’re terrible. Depressing. Ugly. Perverse. But there they are, still doing it. To the point where RETAIL outlets are going bust all over the Western world trying to sell this crap.

    But they’re still making it.

    And we KNEW the people in the industry couldn’t -all- be that stupid. Somebody, somewhere, should have twitched a neuron and picked up that huge, frustrated, p1ssed off audience dying for a decent bit of media to watch/read/listen to. They’d have made obscene amounts of money. Look how much money anime and manga are making in Western nations because there’s nothing else to watch/read.

    So now we know. It’s the US government doing it. 25% of Politico is US-AID funded? Yeah, that finally makes sense. There’s not enough useful idiots in the whole country to keep that thing going.

    But no, it isn’t -just- the US government doing it. It is also the Canadian government, as I’ve said here many times before. Canadian media top-to-bottom, print-to-movies, is 100% captured by government. You literally cannot publish a book without a government grant in Canada. That’s how the economics work here. Same for movies, television, newspapers, you name it.

    I can only imagine the shenanigans in Australia and England. Europe of course does this openly and brags about it, as Sarah has explained here many a time.

    Lest the usual camels and Chinese bot farmers raise a hue and cry, just this one time, a link:

    https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/02/06/wtf-3630/

    That’s a clip of some Wokester from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) explaining how delighted she is to be spreading “intersectional transformative feminism” in Lebanon. But as we know there’s not any feminism going on in Lebanon, only warfare with Israel. They’re using GAC to supply HamAss/Hezzbola with ammo from Iran. With my money.

    You know, Lebanon used to be a nice place. If I was Lebanese I’d be p1ssed. I’d be cheering #OrangeManBad as hard as I could.

    It seems that #OrangeManBad might be able to end the endless war in the Middle East just by taking all the crooked money out of it. I mean, how many people realistically volunteer for the wild-eyed fringe fruitbat Islam thing? Some, sure. But this many? No way. They’re in it for the money.

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    1. Given the “premium subscription” grift with just one agency of the U.S. government, it is worth asking how many foreign governments are also paying for similar “premium” Politico subs.

      If they accepted foreign governments money, did they register under FARA?

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          1. Annoying, yes. But on the bright side, there’s a paper trail and receipts.

            No longer are we wandering in the wilderness, knowing there’s sh1t going down but not knowing what it is.

            Now we get -names-.

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            1. Oh and by the way, Global Affairs Canada deleted their public database yesterday. Poosh, vanished off the web.

              One suspects that over a million and a half to Politico was not the only payoff lurking in there.

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    2. “You know, Lebanon used to be a nice place. If I was Lebanese I’d be p1ssed.”

      I read an article last year from someone Lebanese on that very subject. Basically, “Lebanon was a nice place before we let Hamas in.” And then they basically got cartel-ed into what is going on now.

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  17. I’m reminded of the xitter/whatever post about “Marko” who never seemed to work, never seemed worried, and had plenty of money, until USAID got shut down, and now he’s in full panic mode. Be rather entertaining to take a deep look into hi finances, no?

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    1. Do you know how many households in DC, MD and VA are wailing and nashing their teeth?

      I don’t.

      And I don’t care after COVID and vax mandates.

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      1. Elon to his head DOGE programmer ” What is best in life?”

        Programmer cocks head and responds

        “To expose your enemies, to see their funding disappear, and to hear the lamentations of their womyn and otherkin…”

        To steal from another media “This is the Way”

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        1. I am totally going to meme this…. there’s more than enough pics of Elon out there to get it done.

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      2. It’s become the “Car Counting” game we did on a trip for Grandma’s birthday (late “90s). An Ice storm hit and we started counting cars in the ditch between the WI/IL border and Green Bay. After about 100 or so, we just continued counting those upside-down. The train-wreck is getting to the point we only notice the really outstanding elements, but the overall picture is still entertaining.

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  18. One thing I’ve noticed happening on FB is a proliferation of “This is confirmed” shared pictures of stories that will tug at heartstrings because of ICE, DOGE, whatever actions. Never a link to an actual story. Rarely a location given.

    One of the most recent was of a “maga acquaintance” calling up a liberal in tears because he was losing his long-time federal employment and couldn’t afford to retire and was afraid he couldn’t find another job at 66. Now he was regretting his vote for Trump.

    Who would call an acquaintance only in tears about a decision? Plus a lot of other things to question about it.

    Then there is the story of a mother and baby who fled their house in the middle of the night because ICE and local police set off a flashbang in her back yard to flush people out of their houses so that they “left the house voluntarily” and could then be questioned and possibly rounded up. Supposedly in a local (to me) big city.

    The most recent stories involving ICE around here are ones discussing a “protest” where a nonprofit closed for one day in protest of the new actions, discussions about student absences being a result of fear of being picked up, and a dispute between ICE and local police about an incident that ICE reports one way and body cameras show differently. No flashbang stories.

    Trying to investigate the other stories, (again, always pictures, no links, and usually very short on details), yields similar issues with credibility.

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    3. How is that ‘flushing’ supposed to work, anyway? If I heard an explosion outside, I certainly wouldn’t go rushing out of my house! Who would?

      Does nobody bother to think about any of this left-wing propaganda?

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    4. There will be much – much more of these ops.

      They need to flog their side into a frenzy to get back to the 2020 levels of upheaval, but without the USAID money spigot, they will find it much, much harder. Just keep in mind there are lots more money spigots that DOGE hasnt yet exposed.

      Its coming. They need a panic, and then an outrage.

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      1. I think they are running skewered due to the absence of any demonstrations post-election, especially none at the inaugural. They expected something of note, and instead got three dudes in black hoodies in Portland. Now they are flogging like mad, and all they are getting is…nothing, because Portland PD finally arrested those three dudes.

        And their flogging is especially ineffectual since it’s “save these highly paid government bureaucrats from learning to code like the rest of the country’s been dealing with for 40 years!”, to which even their allies are like “yeah, nah, we’re good.”

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    5. WTAF???

      CLM said

      One of the most recent was of a “maga acquaintance” calling up a liberal in tears because he was losing his long-time federal employment and couldn’t afford to retire and was afraid he couldn’t find another job at 66. Now he was regretting his vote for Trump.

      If you are 66 and have a federal job and have held it for 20 years or more you get 1.1% of last 3 years average salary / year of service. If it is under 20 years it is 1%/ year of service. A senior federal employee (GS11) Makes 81-106K/year. Say 25 years of service at 100K avg thats 27.5K. Not spectacular, kind of hard to live on in most parts of the country (and the GS11 numbers are for MA region so thats below poverty here). You can also take Social Security (unless you started before 1983 but then you’d have 40+ years of service and a far more generous plan) that with earning near the high end of the Social Security contribution limit likely gets you another 3k/month at age 66. Total yearly 63.5K Not perfect (and likely below median for most of MA) but at least SS is COLA adjusted (although Government fudging Inflation is not helpful) and both are state tax free in MA . Unless you are an effing moron (and they did vote Trump so likely not a total moron) you have something saved up in an IRA or similar. You did start to get frugal knowing that retirement was coming No? Most commercial jobs have NO fixed income retirement any more and certainly NOT in white collar positions. Honestly I’m not feeling bad for this dude/dudette even if they exist.

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      1. MAGA long term federal…

        Lost it right there.

        Calling Liberal to cry? Not likely.

        Just…. no. are there no Liberal editors? At all?

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        1. How many MAGA supporters are gonna “cry” (actual tears, not just venting)? This sounds like all those, “My 11 year old was up crying all night because insert scary Republican said he was going to do something that doesn’t even affect us.” It’s meant to tug at the hear-strings without actually being tethered to reality in the slightest.

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        1. Well, until another judge put the kibosh on it at the request of the federal employee unions today. snerk

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          1. This could open the door to a case against unions that protect bureaucrats. If the union can dictate hiring and firing it can dictate policy. If it can dictate policy, it rules the country.

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  20. Musk and his happy little band of baby genii are so far inside the Vile Proggie’s OODA loop that I think the Vile Proggies are looking at their own asses.

    I am also enjoying watching the various roaches scurrying for cover, now that the lights are on. And I shouldn’t be surprised at all to find out that USAID (or some other government swamp slush fund) were funding mainstream publishing, and entertainment companies – not just mainstream establishment media organs.

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      1. Well, we know they were funding Politico for sure. And Canada is also funding Politico. For sure.

        Won’t be long before some enterprising young nerd searches up a link to #RandomPenguin or similar.

        Or #Amazoon, which would explain an awful lot about how their algorithm behaves…

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  22. This explains why the left and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) were always so insistent that anyone online not agreeing with them were obviously the recipients of vast sums of secret payments … because they knew that they were in fact the recipients of vast sums of secret payments, and could not imagine any other way it would work.

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    1. As usual the Left were projecting like an IMAX and we just didn’t follow. wath these SOB’s and if they accuse us of something be sure that vice is rife in their group.

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    2. I remember them accusing Sarah of being paid by the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

      Obviously, nobody would waste time maintaining and curating a blog unless someone was paying for it.

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        1. Heck, I recall another prog on Open Salon in 2009, when I was still making attempts to be visible in all kinds of venues, who was absolutely convinced that the Tea Party was wholly funded by some malign Deep Pockets Conservative Bags o’ Money Millionaire. She just could not bring herself to believe that – no, we were all local citizens with a concern for fiscal responsibility, self-supported, we passed the hat at open meetings, and various local people contributed in kind by letting us meet in their restaurant (on a Sunday afternoon) and built and hosted our website. I was on the freaking local board, as their media rep, I KNEW all of this, first hand … but nope. According to her, it was all Deep Pockets Conservative Bags o’ Money Millionaire funding us, and I was (she called me straight out) either stupid or a liar.

          Projection. Projection like an Imax.

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          1. Insert stereotypical joke about Jews and frugality here.

            Years ago we handed a beat-up stick shift pickup to our son as his 16th birthday present. His friends: “Don’t your folks have money.”

            “Yeah.”

            “Then why didn’t they give you better car?”

            “They have money because they’re cheap!”

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            1. Ah that would be like our family. As for frugality I have one of the alternate Frugal genes, I’ve got a touch of Scots :-) .

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                1. My Scots are further up the family tree, but I am a known Cheapskate so I expect the gene is a dominant :-) .

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      2. I remember them accusing Sarah of being paid by the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

        And now we know just how much of that was prog-jection.

        All of their accusations against the Right of “cultural imperialism” too.

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        1. The same folks have been busily spending our money on, “LGBTQIA+ awareness,” programs around the world.

          I wonder how much incandescent fury we’ve brought on ourselves in conservative countries targeted by those programs.

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  23. I just saw a Yoo Toob video of Senator John Kennedy and he makes an interesting point. For 8 years of 0bama, and 4 years of Biden*, there was only one message for the American people — “You have to pay more taxes!”

    Now the Democrats are squealing because we’re starting to find out where all that money went.

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    1. I gather in the whole 60 Minutes interview with Harris, after the official, part was over the interviewer asked how they would pay for everything and the said, “More taxes!”

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  24. It’s a beautiful feeling, seeing the people who once held power over us reduced to screaming like spoiled toddlers.

    And it’s only just begun.

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    1. Lord have Mercy! Fours -years- of this?

      Practically, two years. Trump has two years until the midterms and the GOPe see their “mandate to restore balance to the process”, thus they will make their bargain with he Left and throw in the towell for the good of the “real” Republican Party.

      Because if you think USAID is bad, what until Musk’s Merry Musketeers get to the bigger subsectors like DoD and Welfare. Half the Senate will need impeached. Awkward.

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        1. Hm. Did not know this. But makes sense. Usual suspects are saying “Why go so fast. Be deliberate! Got four years.” No, at best President Trump has two years, minus months between mid-term election day and next congress sitting, max. If the midterms go badly for the GOP guarantied nothing done will get done. Now if the midterms go good, still a GOP majority or better, means another almost two harder years. Harder because definitely lame duck President.

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  25. I’ve just seen a monumentally stupid article by a Frank Landymore at something called ‘Futurism’:

    Can we all agree that nuclear warfare is bad? Well, then we have an easy way that Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency can absolutely excel at his promise to cut trillions in government spending.

    Instead of gutting education and health agencies, the First Buddy and his DOGE lackeys could spare us all the noise and drawn-out drama by simply cutting off the US’s exorbitant, multi-trillion dollar nuclear weapons program.

    If that idiot has a brain, I can guarantee that it has never been used. Allow me to follow this ‘reasoning’ to its logical conclusion:

    Can we all agree that war is bad? Well, then we have an easy way that Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency can absolutely excel at his promise to cut trillions in government spending.

    Instead of gutting education and health agencies, the First Buddy and his DOGE lackeys could spare us all the noise and drawn-out drama by simply cutting off the US’s exorbitant, multi-trillion dollar military programs.

    As if ‘simply’ eliminating all American military forces would put an end to war.

    Frankie-boy, you dumbshit, our enemies have nuclear weapons. We have to maintain functional nuclear weapons in order to deter them from using theirs against us. You want to abolish nuclear war? Fine. Get our enemies to give up their atomic bombs. Then you can complain about ours.

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    1. On top of that just like the complaints about USAID’s 7 Billion not being much compared to the trillions of dollars of deficit the DOE’s whole budget is $51 billion. About half of that (25 billion) is devoted to Nuclear weapons development. The DOD’s entire budget is $850 Billion so not multi-trillion dollar. Columbia SSBN (replacement for 1980’s vintage Tridents) will cost 130 billion for all 12 boats (although as usual there are cost overruns). The B21 raider will run about 200 billion for the whole fleet, Sentinel LGM35 (follow on for minuteman) is ~140 Billion for the whole program. We’re at about 500 billion for EVERYTHING in all three legs of the triad over the next decade, and we have done little with it since the late 80’s nearly 40 years ago. We’ve been riding on that investment for a LONG time.

      We’ve tried to negotiate on this. The Russians (ex soviets) cheat, the Chinese aren’t part of the agreements and are if anything increasing their base. What do you call people who put down their weapons in the face of armed opposition? One of three things, Slaves, collaborationists or dead.

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      1. Plus, national defense is one of the few things the government is supposed to do. ‘Provide for the Common Defense’ is spelled out right there in the Constitution. ‘Fund Politico’ is not. Nor is ‘Give our tax money to foreign enemies’. Which at this point should include the UN and WHO.

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    2. We already got the “peace dividend” back under Billy Jeff. Then we got to send US ground troops frigging everywhere for two decades. Hmm.

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      1. “Compared to what?”

        Seriously, none of these people have read projections of how many Japanese would have died without our shutting the war down fast and hard. Or hard numbers on how many people died in completely non-nuclear firestorms in WWII bombing raids.

        People don’t read history….

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    7. “…a monumentally stupid article by a Frank Landymore…”

      That article reads like some stoner hippie from the 1960s taking a toke off a spliff the size of a baseball bat and saying “maaaaaan, so negative!” in a big cloud of skunkweed flavored smoke.

      Given what we know now about the funding channels secretly keeping the likes of #Franky there employed, we can safely assume that nobody in the world is stupid enough to really believe what was written there. They want to make you think there’s someone that stupid.

      But there isn’t.

      It’s a psyop. Make you go after the mirage, when really #Mr.Franky wrote that based on a specification from #TheBlob. “We need the Right arguing with 1960s hippies talking peace/love/dove pipe dreams.” #Franky plugs that into #ChatGPT and out comes this word salad, for which he gets a penny a word, or whatever, from #TheBlob.

      Always remember and never forget: lying liars lie.

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    8. I guess he doesn’t know how weapons are gotten rid of either. I would bet the cost of dismantling and storing the radioactive material responsibly matches the cost of maintaining. Just saying.

      True story WWI mustard gas canisters hidden in the plaster walls to pass weapon decommission inspections historically. At NASA (Redstone), the things you find out at monthly safety minutes (basically, highly Autistic people, if you find a gas canister in your plaster wall in your office, please tell someone, don’t excavate it on your own).

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  26. I am sometimes worried about Trumps and Musk’s methods, but they are only using the tools the Democrats let it of Pandora’s box.

    Consequences are happening to these evil, evil people. Which is what is needed to stop them from continuing to murder people with the assistance of the state. Even if they were not supporters they kept their head down, and went along to get along.

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    1. That’s weird an entire sentence was deleted in the middle of the paragraph stating some of their evil crimes? Sarah please tell me you edited my post to be a bit less explicit, and not my evil assigned FBI or CIA agent?

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      1. If you use edit features like undo, cut and paste in the editing frame, the results can be…other than what you expect. The frame does not always accurately reflect what gets sent to post.

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            1. Someone said even Elon’s whiz kids couldn’t fix it. I don’t know; strikes me that the landing flare of a Falcon Heavy would make an excellent start…..

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              1. Nah use a Superheavy. 33 Raptors will make sure it is fried to a crisp. Take no chances, probably a fractional C strike would be better.

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                2. Please note I did suggest a fractional C strike. I.E. a large (couple tons metric or otherwise) object moving at some large percentage of lightspeed (say .5c) . These are likely in the 100 Megaton+ range so nukes or rods from god are small potatoes.

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                    1. Perhaps use only .1C it E = m v^2 we get 427 MT? hmm Given there is a squared on the velocity I thought reducin that would give more effect perhaps reduce the mass to 200Kg which should yield 47.3 MT essentially one Tsar Bomb, Of course we have no idea how to accelerate anything to .1 C. I suppose once the Doge boys are done dissecting the Federal Government we can get them on it…

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      2. Welcome to the other side of the WordPress Delenda Est redpill rabbithole.

        Yes, WP sometimes behaves like a malevolent provoccateur. Especially on phones.

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        1. There’s a new WPDE thing on the iPad Safari web comment editing interface which is driving me nuts where entire paras get zapped with a single no-highlighting backspace. If one is not paying close attention while editing it could do just what is being described.

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          1. On MS FireFox too. Be typing along and all of a sudden everything disappears. Sometimes “undo” can fix it. Lately not even that.

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  27. WSJ has rumor that HHS is next on the job cut parade. NIH, FDA, Medicare, etc., GAO published that at least $100 Billion was improperly spent by Medicare/Medicade just last year. DOGE has been in place there for several days. Will HHS be the next USAid? All the world wonders.

    In other news, Patel at FBI vote has been postponed. First thought is they’re terrified about Epstein’s list, Second thought, they’re trying to distract Trump into going to the wall for Patel and losing momentum elsewhere. I don’t see Trump getting distracted and DOGE is working the weekend and you know the swamp ain’t working the weekend.

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    1. Pretty standard to delay the vote if they don’t have enough votes to get the desired result. Follow the money. Who suggested the delay? It will be called at the worst possible moment, when the opposition has gone home or is otherwise occupied. Like they did with Vance, waiting until he was on his way home and couldn’t affect the vote.

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      1. Per the “America’s Newspaper of Record” link at Insty, the Babylon Bee says the reason for the one week delay is the FBI isn’t quite done shredding all the incriminating documents yet…

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            1. There were 5000 FBI personnel involved in the persecution of J6, the creation of crimes against President Trump, persecution of parents, conservative Catholics, etc. ad nauseam.

              Does anyone except their reflexive defenders think that with that many crooks the rest weren’t aware?? Just how much toleration of wrongdoing is acceptable, from those who were entrusted with the police power of the state???

              “To whom much is given, much shall be required.”

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              1. As I understand that one, the new acting boss, I think from DoJ, asked FBI staff verbally in a meeting to generate a list of the decision-level people who worked on J6, and the reply was “Not Gonna”, so acting boss request 2, in writing, was for a list of every employee who had laid a finger on anything J6, and that 5k-long list, reportedly with only id numbers and no names, is the malicious compliance reply.

                All of this sure smells like “delay in hopes of a miracle.”

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                1. The saying “In a hole over your head? Quit digging!” applies here.

                  I think the agents maliciously complying are going to find themselves out of a job, with prejudice. Maybe blocked out of any law enforcement career.

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                2. seriously?

                  “HR, give me a list of all employees with their employee ID numbers”

                  this is a 5 second vlookup

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  29. As in the quote I posted yesterday, forgive the repetition but it’s nowlife:

    Kirk [Lefty-Lib-Demos] : You fool, look around you! The planet’s destroying itself!

    Kruge [Sane People] : Yes, exhilarating, isn’t it?

    I’ve planned complex projects in years gone by, so I understand the general approach they’re taking … but I’m blown away every morning when I see what they did yesterday. The depth of research and the planning of each step, apparently in a sequence that will increase the momentum going forward … we don’t even have to wait for the movie, it’s a daily domino-toppling thrill! Fling up your hands and lean into the wind, friends, this ride is just starting!

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  31. This is exactly what a clear majority of the American people voted for in November* and what the Democrats have to ‘Save Democracy!!!’ by opposing fanatically.

    * Well, OK, in September, October, November and December. Actually, I think they’re still ‘counting votes’ in some Democrat cities.

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    2. “…how much of our tax money is secretly being sent to Al-Jazeera…”

      Enough to make you scream when you see the number. I bet the CBC in Canada gets American money. We know that Politico has been getting Canadian government money. Millions.

      Do you know how much the CBC -hates- Americans? Take it from me, they hate you more than they hate Jews in Israel, which is a lot. The full-court propaganda push against Americans here right now would make your head spin. They’ve gone into overdrive, pedal to the metal, thumb on the nitrous button.

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  33. We’ve been living in a de facto fascist state for my entire lifetime, and it is only now getting fully revealed. The government, it seems, controls all the media, and most cultural institutions, while they “officially” remain in private hands.

    Several times before I have compared modern culture to living inside a film by surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel. The one I keep going back to is That Obscure Object of Desire because an undercurrent that runs through it, not even a subplot, really, that there is a revolution going on in the background, and nobody ever talks about it. At one point Fernando Rey, playing the main character, is confronted by a revolutionary who steals his car, and he just kind of shrugs and continues on his way.

    But there is a larger issue even than that we’re in a shadow fascist state: Everything, literally everything coming from mainstream “respectable” sources is a lie funded by the shadow fascists. We’ve been in the Matrix, and Trump and Elon are red-pilling the entire world.

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    2. I have friends and relatives talking about the “march to fascism” and how horrified they are by the last few weeks. I haven’t talked much about politics for decades for a reason, but even so, I keep wondering what reality they’re seeing.

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        1. When the matrix collapses they’re going to be left stunned and reeling. Some will break out at that point. The rest will spend their lives believing we cheated them out of the life they have been living.

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  34. We don’t care about the screaming because the evidence is pouring in like an avalanche, and the words of the tyrants are demonstrably false. They can’t pound on the facts, they can’t pound on the law because their legal case is rotten through, and the table they are pounding on is even more rotten.

    All they can do is try to drown us out with repeats of Happy Days Are Here Again.

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    1. Speaking of Happy Days, I rather suspect we’d see The Fonz making full public confession and restitution for something before Musk & Co. could finish draining this swamp, even without a deadline on their mandate.

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      1. And Trump stole that back at the inauguration ball. Perhaps the Democrats can use some rap piece like W A P By Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion? It is more their speed. Full title omitted as this is a family blog. There is a lovely comical comparison of that to Baby Its Cold Outside from when everyone was heading to the fainting couches over the slightly risque vintage 40’s song.

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  35. WPDE. Something about it is now causing Pale Moon to crash when I try to post a comment. (I’m using my backup browser here.)

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  38. Your thoughts on what’s up with the publishing industry make too much sense.

    ….And incandescent rage, yes. What I could do with an extra $500 a month. What I could do.

    (Stop living paycheck to paycheck and stressing myself so bad the writing is hard, for one….)

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    1. Be interesting to see where SPSFC gets its funding, and where the main characters in it are employed. I’m guessing somewhere in #TheBlob.

      Nice to see the Indy author community giving them the finger like that.

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  40. Queensryche said it all 36 years ago:

    I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth

    But now I see the payoffs everywhere I look;

    Who do you trust when everyone’s a crook?

    — ‘Revolution Calling’ from ‘Operation: MindCrime’, 1988

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