Trump Brings the Hammer

[Acolyte]

Quote from: TradGranny on January 25, 2025, 07:32:10 PM
    Back when it happened I felt there are some things one just doesn't do. Storming the US Capitol is one of them.

I never said this.

That would be me that posted that.

[james03]

If they show real results with savings of $1 Trillion per year, expect long term interest rates to drop some.

We really need to cut $2 Trillion per year and run a small surplus.

[KreKre]

Very big news:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/

Yeah, I like this new Trump presidency. It's going much better than I expected.

[Melkor]

He's backing up his campaign promises like no other president elect has. This is amazing. I'm considering moving to America, but hoping Canada gets her sh*t together.

[Mr. Mysterious]

According to the propaganda outfit known as CNN, Secretary of Defense Hegseth is revoking the security detail and security clearance for General Mark Milley because he "stood up to Trump."
 
No, as a friend of mine pointed out on Facebook he didn't "stand up to Trump", he attempted to subvert the President by communicating with a hostile foreign power (China) and trying to prevent the Chinese government communicating directly with the President, which is, in fact, treason. Trump is correct; had Biden not preemptively pardoned him for crimes not yet charged, he'd face a court-martial and potentially, a death sentence. But this narrative bending is par for the course for the lying entity that is CNN.

Anyway, now that DoD has removed his security detail, putting him in the crosshairs of anyone with a grudge which include foreign agents from Afghanistan, Milley had better stay below the windowsills when he moves about his home.

[drummerboy]

According to the propaganda outfit known as CNN, Secretary of Defense Hegseth is revoking the security detail and security clearance for General Mark Milley because he "stood up to Trump."
 
No, as a friend of mine pointed out on Facebook he didn't "stand up to Trump", he attempted to subvert the President by communicating with a hostile foreign power (China) and trying to prevent the Chinese government communicating directly with the President, which is, in fact, treason. Trump is correct; had Biden not preemptively pardoned him for crimes not yet charged, he'd face a court-martial and potentially, a death sentence. But this narrative bending is par for the course for the lying entity that is CNN.

Anyway, now that DoD has removed his security detail, putting him in the crosshairs of anyone with a grudge which include foreign agents from Afghanistan, Milley had better stay below the windowsills when he moves about his home.

Its also a question of why taxpayers should foot the bull to protect scumbag pieces of human garbage who betray their country, not so much open them up to attack.  As if these scumbags haven't grifted enough to pay for their own security anyway ( ESPECIALLY Fauci).

[james03]

The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

Not even once.

When I say Ukraine was one big looting operation, that is not hyperbole.

I also think Team Doge will easily hit their $1 TRILLION savings target for 2025.

In other news, the swamp draining continues:

CNN reported that "At least six FBI leaders" have been removed or told to resign by Monday.

President Trump fired the head of the FBI Washington Field Office, David Sundberg, canned 20 other heads of offices. As many as 88 FBI officials were marched out of their offices on Friday.

David Sundberg, interesting name.

And think, we were actually debating on whether to vote for Trump or not.

[james03]

However, Zelensky says, "We received just over 75 [billion dollars]."

He accounts for this in the "70-something billion-worth of" weapons.

"But when they say that Ukraine, during the war, received 200 billion to support the army, etc., this is not true. I don't know where all this money is," Zelensky said.

We HAVE to stop PUTIN!!!!

[Acolyte]

Trump wants to take over Gaza.

I don't think there will ever be lasting peace in the ME but I'd guess if Trump does this it will guarantee there won't be peace.

Is he just trolling Hamas ?

[james03]

Art of the Deal again.  If you ignored Trump's talk about invading Panama, you would have been right.  Same applies with his talk about the US taking over Gaza.

He's checkmating Netty.  Trump is talking peace.  It would look real bad if the rabid Talmudists started up the Gazacaust again during a period Trump is talking peace.  It also looks like the ceasefire in Lebanon is kind of holding after it expired.  Could be Trump's new Maronite Catholic adviser stepping in, don't know.

[drummerboy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14365069/map-spy-plane-flight-path-mexico-border.html

The hammer's next target....?

[TradGranny]

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a directive prohibiting the State Department and USAID from providing aid overseas until the relevant programs are reviewed. These departments account for the bulk of foreign aid allocated by the United States. Thus, in the 2024 fiscal year, USAID allocated $35.44 billion. One of the largest recipients of aid was Ukraine.

However, the suspension of foreign aid did not end there. According to BBC, last week, several dozen USAID employees were placed on administrative leave and lost access to their email account.

On 1 February USAID Director of Security John Voorhees and his deputy were placed on leave after they refused Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials access to the agency's secure systems. According to Reuters, they tried to block DOGE employees from entering highly secure area used for reviewing classified information.

After the security officials were threatened with criminal charges, DOGE staffers were given access to several secure areas, including the agency's security office and executive secretariat.

On 2 February Musk asked his followers on X: "Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including Covid-19, that killed millions of people?"

He also called the agency a criminal organization. "USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die," Musk stated. "USAID was a viper's nest of radical-left marxists who hate America," he added.

What's happening with USAID now?

"The fate of the US Agency for International Development appeared bleak," CNN reported.

USAID's headquarters in Washington was closed for the day with employees told in an email to remain at home. Logos and photos of its aid work have been stripped from building walls. Its website has gone dark, replaced with a reduced version of its webpage on the State Department's website. Moreover, USAID's account on the social network X stopped working.

On 3 February, Musk stated that he discussed the issue of USAID operations with the U.S. president. "I went over the USAID issue in detail with (the president), and he agreed we should shut it down," Musk said on X.

He also stressed that USAID is "beyond repair". "We are in the process of liquidating USAID," the businessman said.

"What we have here is not an apple with a worm it in. But we have actually just a ball of worms. There is no apple. You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing," Musk added.

One USAID worker told CNN that the agency workers feel like they are "walking around with a target on their back", adding that the heads of all USAID departments have been fired.

Multiple sources told CNN that about 60 senior USAID staff were put on leave last week on accusations of attempting to circumvent Trump's executive order to freeze foreign aid for 90 days.
Meanwhile, as Bloomberg notes, foreign officials, diplomats and organizations around the world are "frantically trying to figure out" what will happen to the U.S. agency that doles out over $40 billion in "aid". Bloomberg calls USAID "a cornerstone of the U.S. global influence" and Trump's decision to suspend foreign aid a halt to "one of the engines of the country's geopolitical influence."

Top global donors including the UK, France and Germany have also cut foreign aid in recent years. But none spend as much as the US, and Trump's actions will have broad geopolitical ramifications, Bloomberg concludes.

see more:
https://eng.belta.by/politics/view/a-ball-of-worms-whats-the-latest-on-usaid-165233-2025/

[james03]

USAID gives money to CEPPS (never heard of them), and in one year CEPPS's only expense was $165MM in donations.  Huge money laundering scheme for democrat politicians.  This has to be illegal.  USAID should be prosecuted under the RICO act.

[Bonaventure]

Trump 1.0 was marked by an internal split of the MAGA conservatives vs conservacucks and GOP Inc.

Trump 2.0 can be described as an inner battle between OG MAGA (Bannon, Stephen Miller, etc) and New MAGA or TechMAGA (Vivek, Elon, Tulsi, RFK).

Tech is definitely winning at this point.

[james03]

Bascially ALL the leftist bolshevik retards whether the press or staffers at NGOs were getting paid for by the taxpayer.  Next cut off the funding for all the leftards at universities.  Starve these blood sucking parasites.