"the donkeys want this in the courts where they can jurisdiction shop and find crazy and compromised zealots to make wild rulings and slow the tempo down to months and years."
Trumps team is already ahead of this. They will pass a reconciliation package putting it squarely in the hands of Congress, thereby circumventing the lower courts and not having to wait on a SCOTUS ruling.
In this way they avoid the courts, delays and loss of momentum because reconciliation only takes 50 + 1 to pass and doesn't allow for filibusters. It side steps any thorny legal issues, they can cut off programs/expenditures/institutions without any legal problems because Congress has the power of the purse. They can also "add" what they want to fund.
DOGE is important but it's also a head fake to make the Ds reveal their strategy - a scouting mission of sorts. The data, leaks, and their timing are a set up for this strategy. The D's brought a knife to a gun fight...and they are still unaware of it
It also takes away the Lefts eventual claim that SCOTUS is illegitimate. Because make no mistake that's what all this about so they can scream retribution.....HITLER 4 more years.
This is a special kind of stupid.
And WE are on offense for the first time in 2 generations.
Ole McConnell is one that immediately comes to mind. He’s probably grandfathered into the (now exposed) graft machine as noted by his recent voting record
someone once said that these senators and congresspeople have done such illegal and traitorous things that their only hope to avoid prosecution is to die in office. they simply cannot leave and go back to "normal" life. they're hoping that once they are dead, no one will bother to uncover their crimes so they can meet their maker with their earthly reputations intact. the US congress is now the world's most exclusive and expensive hospice
Let's not be too quick to use verbs like "expired." Like all of us here, I applaud Trump 2.0's juggernaut. But let's not labor under any illusions that "our side" is immune to the very weaknesses of human nature that led to abuses in the first place. Even assume that we can roll back some of the excesses of the past, what safeguards will be put in place to minimize the chance of it happening again?
That SOB was the lone Republican "nay" on Tulsi. Why the hell doesn't he retire? Oh, wait the Governor is a Dem so would likely appoint a Dem. But would there be much difference?
I'm not caught up on today's news--it's so hard these days!!--but Bannon was saying the first draft of the budget is a joke. PLEASE come through, Congress...for once...
I do not follow Bannon, but if I understand what I am hearing correctly, he is vehemently anti Elon and DOGE. He doesn't trust Elon; I don't trust Bannon.
The budget is likely not going to satisfy the deficit hawks (nor me) but I'm willing to settle now to get the votes for the tax cut and border security. We need to grow the economy and find the waste, fraud, and corruption. Three weeks is not enough time. And we are stymied by the latest lawfare.
The truly amazing thing is that everyone kept their mouths shut during that year of planning. Just think how unimaginable that is: Washington without leaks! That's what it took to have all these rapid-fire victories now.
That’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time. Hochul is the one who plans to lock people up in quarantine camps because they might have been exposed to an unspecified communicable disease. Police are empowered to drag you away and hold you for an unspecified period. You will have no recourse. This was too much even for our far left legislature, which refused to make it a law, so Hochul did an end run and made it a health regulation. An intrepid attorney gave up her law practice to fight it and won in the lower court with an elected judge, but Hochul appealed, and appointed judges found in her favor. The regulation is unconstitutional at both federal and state levels, but I guess Hochul is eager to throw her enemies into camps where they can’t get out and have no rights. She’s on record saying that people like me don’t belong in New York State.
the map is not the territory. they have the wrong map for the territory....because they haven't taken a 30k view of the territory. they can only see what's directly in front of them.
budget reconciliation makes it virtually impossible for the courts to intercede. the left thinks they have him in a box canyon surrounded by multiple legal cases....instead they've boxed themselves into having to defend spouting about a "constitutional crisis" (which will be completely refuted by the process and rendered mute). their whole argument was that he was going around congress, that's been taken away, and now they are left between a rock and a hard stone; on one hand they'll have to defend democracy by saying the administrative state has authority over the Executive and Congressional branches AND that attacking transparency/accountability is somehow democracy - thereby leaving them with only one option:
defend corruption, waste and grift
good luck dumbasses......
they're making it more difficult for themselves every day. they're cooked.
all i know is Trump, Elon and Vance should never be in the same room together.
i'm serious. the left and the media is stirring up their loons with hate so bad....it's inevitable that we'll see an attempt on one....or all of their lives.
I read the Jeff Childers' article, and he expands on this idea. Reminds me of the battle of France in 1940. However, there is one weakness and one unknown. The weakness is Congress. Trump can't do an end run around the courts unless he has close to 100% support from the Republicans. The obvious Deep State strategy is to find the weak Republicans in the House and Senate and turn them, either with the carrot or the stick. Right now, we don't know how Trump is keeping them in line, but DOGE and Pam Bondi have hinted at it - prosecution of lawmakers. This makes sense since the lawmakers fighting for the Deep State are probably the ones benefiting most directly from the corruption. Let's see if Trump can keep Congress on board. The unknown is bio-warfare. They might try to crank up the Bird Flu pandemic and see what happens. Maybe in the chaos the Deep State can save a portion of their power. Then again, if it doesn't go well, it could mean a bloody end for them, as I don' see Americans putting up with any more lethal pandemic nonsense.
And look at old warmonger Lindsey Graham agreeing with DOGE… how much you want to bet the DOGE has something on him… It will be interesting to see which Republicans fall in line. 🤔
Are you suggesting this will be a separate bill, or a "must pass" omnibus? I don't trust either the House or Senate to not add poison pills into the bill.
Separate. I think they've had 6 reconciliation packages in 8 years. So it's not something that doesn't have precedent.
The reason for reconciliation is that an omnibus requires 60 votes in the senate and has provisions for filibusters. Reconciliation only requires a simple majority and doesn't allow filibusters.
Yes. But I didn't catch it yesterday because I had meetings all day.
He does a much better job explaining than me. I also have to give credit to a buddy that's an attorney for walking me through this after I asked him if a reconciliation package was feasible.
You should've seen the look on his eyes. He took over from there.
My remark to you, Ryan, was that you picked up on the nuances of what's happening in DC just like C & C did. You two think of angles I would have never conceived of. And he writes so that even someone like me can understand it.
You can click on the link above, Ryan, & that will jump you to yesterday's post.
"did you know that since 1946 no president nor any of his appointed staff of secretaries up to and including the treasury secretary has had access to the US government’s payment system?"
Yes, and this is exactly the way khazarian mafia owned central banksters set it up that way so chief executive has no visibility but SecTreas Bessent should have this authority, otherwise he is just figurehead.
“They” always got to determine who has a “need to know” in the interest of National Security….. and their new beach house for the wife and mountain cabin for the mistress. May have mixed those up a bit.
Why was this seperation of the secretary from payments implemented? I have served as a CFO. Without access to outflows, managing the finances of the company would have been impossible.
Exactly. The US treas payables department, is apparently not under the same constraints of the Sarbanes-Oxley law that governs how public companies establish and keep in place - accounting / financial controls designed to prevent fraud, embezzlement, etc., in the numbers side of a business. In many businesses the CFO and even CEO or general manager may have input on when and whether suppliers/vendors get paid. If you have
ever dealt with the US gov as a supplier, you know they tend to pay quite slow.
I forget the (small) company's name, but it was a top-quality producer of (IIRC) specialized technical gear. They absolutely, positively, refused to accept Federal contracts. The loss of the potential market was simply not worth the paperwork and other compliance hassles the firm would have been subjected to. And that news item was decades ago. Makes you wonder how the pilot/battlefield soldier/critical technician feels, knowing that a vital piece of hardware or software came from a second-rate supplier, but at least one that had complied with DEI and other lunatic directives. I haven’t worked in or around FedGov in well over 20 years, but I doubt it’s gotten any better since. May it be true that now the tide is turning and there will be some return to sanity!
It is now our job to track down every lie and sob story being and that will be told about USAID and make sure every town meeting, every discussion forum, every town hall in every jurisdiction everywhere is a place where no falsity, no matter how small, is allowed to seed itself.
Earlier today on FOX the absolutely wretched Jessica Tarlov, shrew incarnate, said that a "71 year-old woman in Thailand dependent on getting her oxygen at a USAID-funded hospital died because the funds were cut off."
Of course my very first thought was that Thailand is not Sudan and why are the health needs of the Thai people dependent on us? The king of Thailand has enough gold in his personal stash to buy portable oxygen for every one of his people who might need it.
But anyway. This is the sort of propaganda that's gonna flood the zone too. USAID must be one of the biggest money-laundering operations in the history of the world and if we want Elon and Trump to succeed in this brief window of time before the Democrats attempt to roar back in 2027, we better fight fire with neutron bombs.
What we need is more people to stand up and say, "It's not the job of the U.S. taxpayer to supply oxygen to a woman in Thailand, or to feed starving children in Africa" etc. Not for the least reasons is that little of the claimed funding DOESN'T disappear into overhead -- salaries and such, never mind outright fraud. If you want to help the downtrodden that's a noble goal but do it with private donations, not government money.
Hey Jessica- how many have been slaughtered by the Ukrainian money printing operation??? Any thoughts on the hundreds of thousands of “misplaced” children that came over the border lately? What an imbecile.
She is a remarkably loathsome woman. It surprises me every time she's on (a regular in rotation on The Five) at the degree of dishonesty and true spiteful nastiness she displays.
I would not be so harsh; she is paid very well by FOX to be the leftist punching bag on the Five. Specifically to generate the angry reaction you have to her statements. Resist this manipulation by the media, even Fox is in the entertainment business rather than real news.
Tarlov was hired to present the Democrat view, which she never deviates from. Mostly she comes across as such a party hack and seems to defend every Democrat stupidity, it seems. I wish someone would help her adjust her crone-like voice to sound better, she's hard to listen to.
Exactly. Ford can have the same viewpoint and people don't get nearly as upset. It's FOXNews playing their game to keep people on the right riled.
I wish they'd put as much effort into educating people about the issues, informing them about the details, and teaching them how to discuss issues with people who don't agree with them to change their minds as they do constantly repeating the same propaganda all day every day. They are missing such great opportunities to teach people about how our Constitution, Declaration, Branches of Government, SCOTUS, Electoral College, etc work. But they don't because they're more interested in "entertainment" and their Biden Derangement Syndrome. It's tiring and will eventually cause them to lose this country to the liberal socialists.
You're right. Ford is more moderate than Tarlov. But I like having other views on FOX; otherwise, they can't claim to be "Fair and balanced." Opposing ideas are needed to let viewers know what the other side thinks, allowing them to be prepared to discuss subjects logically with people. I think this gives FOX credibility. I wish the people there would show more kindness in debating those with whom they disagree so viewers could see that people can be friends and not have the same political views. It's not easy to be passionate about political ideas and discuss them, but it's possible.
Maybe you would like this article of Jeff Childers: 'The Swamp thought DOGE was the main battle group, but it was only a reconnaissance force. Surprise! They wasted weeks trying to block, discredit, and contain DOGE, believing it was the real fight—but they were wrong. DOGE was never the main attack. DOGE was just scouting the battlefield, mapping the enemy’s weaknesses, and exposing vulnerabilities.' https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/swamp-apocalypse-wednesday-february
P.S. Saw Tom Luongo mentioning (with official letter of Vought in the thread) that the CFPB (a shadow government blackmail organization and rogue secret data empire) got in a way gutted too.. They have had their funding suspended and may have their existing balances clawed back. So......that happened also :) https://x.com/TFL1728/status/1889069205657358691
In addition, i think Noem already clawed back that $59 mil for luxury hotels for illegals that gato was talking about yesterday in his "demoralization" essay.
Hopefully Judge Bates is crapping a litterbox full. Fancy being so stupid and arrogant that he steps into the middle of all this while his wife is taking taxpayer dollars for questionable charity... let her produce the receipts.
The IRS, at the drop of a hat, unapologetically audits an average American in the lowest income tax bracket. But auditing the treasury? That's beyond the pale!
..."did you know that since 1946 no president nor any of his appointed staff of secretaries up to and including the treasury secretary has had access to the US government’s payment system?"...that's 80 years, a lifetime for treachery and debasing of the taxpayer dollar. Trillions of them, no doubt.
Congress sure knows how to protect its unbridled corruption. I imagine this is where most of the bodies are buried and here we will discover the wretched government's most diabolical and unholy payoffs to the devil himself.
Is this the government we the people want to see stay in power? Thieves, tyrants and murderers of every stripe and tail.
Sadly, a lot of this information was publicly available for years if not decades. At best, it might make a filler story in a local or regional paper. The overall problem is that there is probably no system of government that could exist where those in power didn't seek to feather their own nests, and that includes favors to family and cronies. And as a wise man once lamented, the real crime is not what's illegal, but what's legal. "Unethical" doesn't necesarily mean "illegal".
Judge McConnell of Rhode Island has a daughter that works at the Department of Education in an appointed position. She went to Harvard. Seems he is a director for Crossroads Rhode Island for which is a public housing NFP that receives money from the federal government.
Our own crop of globalist capitalist totalitatian neo-Marxist [add labels as you see fit, my joints ache] puppet-politicians are bricking it, over here.
It's the one issue all parties agree on: no public audits. Because that's something nazis do, you know.
I want to see the list of sexual harassment cases (at least the defendants) that were paid by Congress. I don't care if it's Rs or Ds... don't care WHO was involved. It NEEDS to come out and and be exposed.
Hey swamp critters it's just an audit. I've been through hundreds - internal, SEC, IRS, public accounting, federal, state - heck bank audits were a proctology examine. Never worried because while I knew deficiencies would be found (auditors gotta find something, ya know it's their reason for existence) I did my imperfect best to make sure my companies ran honest and compliant operations. When I found bad apples they were fired on the spot. Always had a list of FFAs (for further action) but never failed to get a clean audit from any auditor. Believe me this isn't rocket science - this average guy is proof. It's unbelievable the Treasury Department is not held to this absolute bare minimum standard. This is definitely the place for Americans to make a stand.
First job of Congress is to oversee spending but they were busy tracking mean tweets and given the record on spending it's clear they are unfit for both tasks.
reality is way more interesting than any fiction lately. unbelievable rather, that all this could happen and no one saw it ? Well, apart from those whose hands were filled of course, and pockets and bank accounts off shore.
Everyone knows.. my DC career went from Church/Pike Committee to Beltway Bandit and I left when Bush Sr was elected because corruption was too much to stomach then.
"the donkeys want this in the courts where they can jurisdiction shop and find crazy and compromised zealots to make wild rulings and slow the tempo down to months and years."
Trumps team is already ahead of this. They will pass a reconciliation package putting it squarely in the hands of Congress, thereby circumventing the lower courts and not having to wait on a SCOTUS ruling.
In this way they avoid the courts, delays and loss of momentum because reconciliation only takes 50 + 1 to pass and doesn't allow for filibusters. It side steps any thorny legal issues, they can cut off programs/expenditures/institutions without any legal problems because Congress has the power of the purse. They can also "add" what they want to fund.
DOGE is important but it's also a head fake to make the Ds reveal their strategy - a scouting mission of sorts. The data, leaks, and their timing are a set up for this strategy. The D's brought a knife to a gun fight...and they are still unaware of it
It also takes away the Lefts eventual claim that SCOTUS is illegitimate. Because make no mistake that's what all this about so they can scream retribution.....HITLER 4 more years.
This is a special kind of stupid.
And WE are on offense for the first time in 2 generations.
They fell for it because they can't see past red.
I surely hope there are enough Republicans who are not compromised to pass the reconciliation bill. Cut off the money. Yes, please.
That's why it's nice that Vance is the tie break.
Hahaha another change to senate rules the dems made that has bitten them multiple times.
Ole McConnell is one that immediately comes to mind. He’s probably grandfathered into the (now exposed) graft machine as noted by his recent voting record
His graft was probably diverted to his wife, so if caught, he could blame it on the Chinese.
Speaking of "grandfathered," I thought he was retiring....? Or is he just doing a multi-year, Brett Favre/George Strait-style farewell tour......?
McConnell just needs to go away and leave us all alone. Now.
someone once said that these senators and congresspeople have done such illegal and traitorous things that their only hope to avoid prosecution is to die in office. they simply cannot leave and go back to "normal" life. they're hoping that once they are dead, no one will bother to uncover their crimes so they can meet their maker with their earthly reputations intact. the US congress is now the world's most exclusive and expensive hospice
Let's not be too quick to use verbs like "expired." Like all of us here, I applaud Trump 2.0's juggernaut. But let's not labor under any illusions that "our side" is immune to the very weaknesses of human nature that led to abuses in the first place. Even assume that we can roll back some of the excesses of the past, what safeguards will be put in place to minimize the chance of it happening again?
That SOB was the lone Republican "nay" on Tulsi. Why the hell doesn't he retire? Oh, wait the Governor is a Dem so would likely appoint a Dem. But would there be much difference?
Mitch *did* prevent Merrick Garland's appointment to SCOTUS. I don't like him either, but let us give him that one thing.
I remind myself of that fact every time his name is mentioned. One good act in years of what I'd call betrayal.
Mitch makes Biden look sprightly!
😂
I'm not caught up on today's news--it's so hard these days!!--but Bannon was saying the first draft of the budget is a joke. PLEASE come through, Congress...for once...
I do not follow Bannon, but if I understand what I am hearing correctly, he is vehemently anti Elon and DOGE. He doesn't trust Elon; I don't trust Bannon.
The budget is likely not going to satisfy the deficit hawks (nor me) but I'm willing to settle now to get the votes for the tax cut and border security. We need to grow the economy and find the waste, fraud, and corruption. Three weeks is not enough time. And we are stymied by the latest lawfare.
Don’t count on McConnell
Jeff Childers laid this out beautifully in Coffee and Covid this morning. I see we read the same stacks!
i just read jeff. he does a helluva a lot better than i do. plus he knows all the legal stuff.
either way it's speculation, but if they dont go that direction then they're not paying attention either
But even Jeff admitted these tactics have caught him by surprise, so don't sell yourself short! The insights he has always amaze me/us.
Rather than sell oneself short it's a bit less risky to buy put options.
Ryan and Jeff! Great Americans. Constitutional thinkers from the great state of Florida!
I read C&C and ElGatoMalo as well!
i have not read Jeff today
Great minds think alike.
Yeah well. I got some of this from a buddy that's an attorney yesterday. Or at least this is where we settled after talking.
He seems to think all of it was planned a year ago.
Makes sense to me. Draw them out and leave them defenseless.
Sorta like gato was saying about turning off the spigot to get the big cockroaches to squawk.
The ones with the loudest guns are going to have the biggest "buck"....and they're not braced for it.
The truly amazing thing is that everyone kept their mouths shut during that year of planning. Just think how unimaginable that is: Washington without leaks! That's what it took to have all these rapid-fire victories now.
Exactly. I'm impressed with the scope, coordination and execution of the agenda.
It's been a smooth rollout. They were prepared.
One of the best daily reads I'm aware of. I would be a paying sub if it were $5/mo. instead of multiples of that. Well, he is an attorney...
I can not keep up! Shit just got real:
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1889802007399244249?s=19
That’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time. Hochul is the one who plans to lock people up in quarantine camps because they might have been exposed to an unspecified communicable disease. Police are empowered to drag you away and hold you for an unspecified period. You will have no recourse. This was too much even for our far left legislature, which refused to make it a law, so Hochul did an end run and made it a health regulation. An intrepid attorney gave up her law practice to fight it and won in the lower court with an elected judge, but Hochul appealed, and appointed judges found in her favor. The regulation is unconstitutional at both federal and state levels, but I guess Hochul is eager to throw her enemies into camps where they can’t get out and have no rights. She’s on record saying that people like me don’t belong in New York State.
Wow
Promises made. Promises delivered. I suspect we're going to see more of this.
Make them frog walk and leak their mug shots.
Accountability starts now.
I hope she goes after Pritzker and Brandon Johnson, I know Trump filed a lawsuit. They are making Illinois an illegal criminal magnet.
Maybe it's time to buy shares in a rope company. I can dream...
Do we have supplies for performing a "blood eagle"?
It would be a crowd pleaser
I do.
This is so great.
And it's so much fun to watch them running around like a chicken with its head cut off. 😵💫
the map is not the territory. they have the wrong map for the territory....because they haven't taken a 30k view of the territory. they can only see what's directly in front of them.
budget reconciliation makes it virtually impossible for the courts to intercede. the left thinks they have him in a box canyon surrounded by multiple legal cases....instead they've boxed themselves into having to defend spouting about a "constitutional crisis" (which will be completely refuted by the process and rendered mute). their whole argument was that he was going around congress, that's been taken away, and now they are left between a rock and a hard stone; on one hand they'll have to defend democracy by saying the administrative state has authority over the Executive and Congressional branches AND that attacking transparency/accountability is somehow democracy - thereby leaving them with only one option:
defend corruption, waste and grift
good luck dumbasses......
they're making it more difficult for themselves every day. they're cooked.
It is becoming clear why they tried to kill him twice, probably even more times.
all i know is Trump, Elon and Vance should never be in the same room together.
i'm serious. the left and the media is stirring up their loons with hate so bad....it's inevitable that we'll see an attempt on one....or all of their lives.
I suspect the current Secret Service agents, unlike Fatass McFumble, are A-list protection ninjas. May God be with them all.
Lmao. Epic comment
If anything happens to any of them, I wouldn't want to be a democrat.
I’m just wondering when violence will seem their only alternative. They are cornered.
We must never underestimate what they might resort to.
Count on it.
well there was a couple of very suspicious assassination attempts on Trump already, so I think we're past that time
twice so far
"But nobody was ever supposed to find out!"
Jeff Childers wrote about it this morning https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/swamp-apocalypse-wednesday-february?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1k8fsn
I read the Jeff Childers' article, and he expands on this idea. Reminds me of the battle of France in 1940. However, there is one weakness and one unknown. The weakness is Congress. Trump can't do an end run around the courts unless he has close to 100% support from the Republicans. The obvious Deep State strategy is to find the weak Republicans in the House and Senate and turn them, either with the carrot or the stick. Right now, we don't know how Trump is keeping them in line, but DOGE and Pam Bondi have hinted at it - prosecution of lawmakers. This makes sense since the lawmakers fighting for the Deep State are probably the ones benefiting most directly from the corruption. Let's see if Trump can keep Congress on board. The unknown is bio-warfare. They might try to crank up the Bird Flu pandemic and see what happens. Maybe in the chaos the Deep State can save a portion of their power. Then again, if it doesn't go well, it could mean a bloody end for them, as I don' see Americans putting up with any more lethal pandemic nonsense.
Well said
It's a good time to be alive!
And look at old warmonger Lindsey Graham agreeing with DOGE… how much you want to bet the DOGE has something on him… It will be interesting to see which Republicans fall in line. 🤔
Are you suggesting this will be a separate bill, or a "must pass" omnibus? I don't trust either the House or Senate to not add poison pills into the bill.
Separate. I think they've had 6 reconciliation packages in 8 years. So it's not something that doesn't have precedent.
The reason for reconciliation is that an omnibus requires 60 votes in the senate and has provisions for filibusters. Reconciliation only requires a simple majority and doesn't allow filibusters.
Ryan, do you subscribe to 'Coffee & Covid, 2025'? He definitely agrees with you.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/swamp-apocalypse-wednesday-february?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=b7jkn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Yes. But I didn't catch it yesterday because I had meetings all day.
He does a much better job explaining than me. I also have to give credit to a buddy that's an attorney for walking me through this after I asked him if a reconciliation package was feasible.
You should've seen the look on his eyes. He took over from there.
Guy is super sharp like Jeff.
My remark to you, Ryan, was that you picked up on the nuances of what's happening in DC just like C & C did. You two think of angles I would have never conceived of. And he writes so that even someone like me can understand it.
You can click on the link above, Ryan, & that will jump you to yesterday's post.
Jeff is friggin brilliant like the rest of the authors you and me like
True dat!
I sure hope you're right.
I hope you're right. This machinations are above the paygrade of a humble moss piglet.
"did you know that since 1946 no president nor any of his appointed staff of secretaries up to and including the treasury secretary has had access to the US government’s payment system?"
Yes, and this is exactly the way khazarian mafia owned central banksters set it up that way so chief executive has no visibility but SecTreas Bessent should have this authority, otherwise he is just figurehead.
Between that and "in the interests of national security" they avoid both transparency and accountability.
So obvious.
“They” always got to determine who has a “need to know” in the interest of National Security….. and their new beach house for the wife and mountain cabin for the mistress. May have mixed those up a bit.
:)
Yes
Why was this seperation of the secretary from payments implemented? I have served as a CFO. Without access to outflows, managing the finances of the company would have been impossible.
Exactly. The US treas payables department, is apparently not under the same constraints of the Sarbanes-Oxley law that governs how public companies establish and keep in place - accounting / financial controls designed to prevent fraud, embezzlement, etc., in the numbers side of a business. In many businesses the CFO and even CEO or general manager may have input on when and whether suppliers/vendors get paid. If you have
ever dealt with the US gov as a supplier, you know they tend to pay quite slow.
I forget the (small) company's name, but it was a top-quality producer of (IIRC) specialized technical gear. They absolutely, positively, refused to accept Federal contracts. The loss of the potential market was simply not worth the paperwork and other compliance hassles the firm would have been subjected to. And that news item was decades ago. Makes you wonder how the pilot/battlefield soldier/critical technician feels, knowing that a vital piece of hardware or software came from a second-rate supplier, but at least one that had complied with DEI and other lunatic directives. I haven’t worked in or around FedGov in well over 20 years, but I doubt it’s gotten any better since. May it be true that now the tide is turning and there will be some return to sanity!
It is now our job to track down every lie and sob story being and that will be told about USAID and make sure every town meeting, every discussion forum, every town hall in every jurisdiction everywhere is a place where no falsity, no matter how small, is allowed to seed itself.
Earlier today on FOX the absolutely wretched Jessica Tarlov, shrew incarnate, said that a "71 year-old woman in Thailand dependent on getting her oxygen at a USAID-funded hospital died because the funds were cut off."
Of course my very first thought was that Thailand is not Sudan and why are the health needs of the Thai people dependent on us? The king of Thailand has enough gold in his personal stash to buy portable oxygen for every one of his people who might need it.
But anyway. This is the sort of propaganda that's gonna flood the zone too. USAID must be one of the biggest money-laundering operations in the history of the world and if we want Elon and Trump to succeed in this brief window of time before the Democrats attempt to roar back in 2027, we better fight fire with neutron bombs.
What we need is more people to stand up and say, "It's not the job of the U.S. taxpayer to supply oxygen to a woman in Thailand, or to feed starving children in Africa" etc. Not for the least reasons is that little of the claimed funding DOESN'T disappear into overhead -- salaries and such, never mind outright fraud. If you want to help the downtrodden that's a noble goal but do it with private donations, not government money.
Hey Jessica- how many have been slaughtered by the Ukrainian money printing operation??? Any thoughts on the hundreds of thousands of “misplaced” children that came over the border lately? What an imbecile.
She is a remarkably loathsome woman. It surprises me every time she's on (a regular in rotation on The Five) at the degree of dishonesty and true spiteful nastiness she displays.
I would not be so harsh; she is paid very well by FOX to be the leftist punching bag on the Five. Specifically to generate the angry reaction you have to her statements. Resist this manipulation by the media, even Fox is in the entertainment business rather than real news.
Are you suggesting I'm deficient in critical faculties and the ability to research people's histories?
No
But we love Harold 💗
Ford is a reasonable man.
Tarlov was hired to present the Democrat view, which she never deviates from. Mostly she comes across as such a party hack and seems to defend every Democrat stupidity, it seems. I wish someone would help her adjust her crone-like voice to sound better, she's hard to listen to.
Exactly. Ford can have the same viewpoint and people don't get nearly as upset. It's FOXNews playing their game to keep people on the right riled.
I wish they'd put as much effort into educating people about the issues, informing them about the details, and teaching them how to discuss issues with people who don't agree with them to change their minds as they do constantly repeating the same propaganda all day every day. They are missing such great opportunities to teach people about how our Constitution, Declaration, Branches of Government, SCOTUS, Electoral College, etc work. But they don't because they're more interested in "entertainment" and their Biden Derangement Syndrome. It's tiring and will eventually cause them to lose this country to the liberal socialists.
In fact Ford does not have the same viewpoint and that was my own point.
You're right. Ford is more moderate than Tarlov. But I like having other views on FOX; otherwise, they can't claim to be "Fair and balanced." Opposing ideas are needed to let viewers know what the other side thinks, allowing them to be prepared to discuss subjects logically with people. I think this gives FOX credibility. I wish the people there would show more kindness in debating those with whom they disagree so viewers could see that people can be friends and not have the same political views. It's not easy to be passionate about political ideas and discuss them, but it's possible.
Perhaps I've failed to express myself clearly enough.
I am talking about one person, an actual individual, who is both vicious and untruthful when she speaks about politics.
Maybe you would like this article of Jeff Childers: 'The Swamp thought DOGE was the main battle group, but it was only a reconnaissance force. Surprise! They wasted weeks trying to block, discredit, and contain DOGE, believing it was the real fight—but they were wrong. DOGE was never the main attack. DOGE was just scouting the battlefield, mapping the enemy’s weaknesses, and exposing vulnerabilities.' https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/swamp-apocalypse-wednesday-february
P.S. Saw Tom Luongo mentioning (with official letter of Vought in the thread) that the CFPB (a shadow government blackmail organization and rogue secret data empire) got in a way gutted too.. They have had their funding suspended and may have their existing balances clawed back. So......that happened also :) https://x.com/TFL1728/status/1889069205657358691
In addition, i think Noem already clawed back that $59 mil for luxury hotels for illegals that gato was talking about yesterday in his "demoralization" essay.
Hopefully Judge Bates is crapping a litterbox full. Fancy being so stupid and arrogant that he steps into the middle of all this while his wife is taking taxpayer dollars for questionable charity... let her produce the receipts.
"...Judge Bates orders President Trump to...."
WTF? Since when can a mere judge order President to do something like that? The mouse roars, but no one pays attention. Least of all the Cat.
Exactly, when EOs pertain to GOVERNMENT employees, many of whom work FOR the POTUS. You'd think a Judge would be aware of that?
The IRS, at the drop of a hat, unapologetically audits an average American in the lowest income tax bracket. But auditing the treasury? That's beyond the pale!
..."did you know that since 1946 no president nor any of his appointed staff of secretaries up to and including the treasury secretary has had access to the US government’s payment system?"...that's 80 years, a lifetime for treachery and debasing of the taxpayer dollar. Trillions of them, no doubt.
Congress sure knows how to protect its unbridled corruption. I imagine this is where most of the bodies are buried and here we will discover the wretched government's most diabolical and unholy payoffs to the devil himself.
Is this the government we the people want to see stay in power? Thieves, tyrants and murderers of every stripe and tail.
Sadly, a lot of this information was publicly available for years if not decades. At best, it might make a filler story in a local or regional paper. The overall problem is that there is probably no system of government that could exist where those in power didn't seek to feather their own nests, and that includes favors to family and cronies. And as a wise man once lamented, the real crime is not what's illegal, but what's legal. "Unethical" doesn't necesarily mean "illegal".
Judge McConnell of Rhode Island has a daughter that works at the Department of Education in an appointed position. She went to Harvard. Seems he is a director for Crossroads Rhode Island for which is a public housing NFP that receives money from the federal government.
Are you not entertained?
We certainly are.
Our own crop of globalist capitalist totalitatian neo-Marxist [add labels as you see fit, my joints ache] puppet-politicians are bricking it, over here.
It's the one issue all parties agree on: no public audits. Because that's something nazis do, you know.
Gladiator! Just perfect! exactly what's happening.
I want to see the list of sexual harassment cases (at least the defendants) that were paid by Congress. I don't care if it's Rs or Ds... don't care WHO was involved. It NEEDS to come out and and be exposed.
Hey swamp critters it's just an audit. I've been through hundreds - internal, SEC, IRS, public accounting, federal, state - heck bank audits were a proctology examine. Never worried because while I knew deficiencies would be found (auditors gotta find something, ya know it's their reason for existence) I did my imperfect best to make sure my companies ran honest and compliant operations. When I found bad apples they were fired on the spot. Always had a list of FFAs (for further action) but never failed to get a clean audit from any auditor. Believe me this isn't rocket science - this average guy is proof. It's unbelievable the Treasury Department is not held to this absolute bare minimum standard. This is definitely the place for Americans to make a stand.
The corruptocrats seem to believe that they can re-close the kimono, and we'll all forget what we've seen, back to business as usual.
They really are that stupid/ arrogant.
This is a terrible time to be on a Carnivore diet...I keep craving popcorn 🍿 😁
Same. Enjoyed the Brazilian steakhouse for Valentine's Day, but feels weird not having some sort of pink or chocolate treat!
Brazilian steakhouses rock~
Lolol
First job of Congress is to oversee spending but they were busy tracking mean tweets and given the record on spending it's clear they are unfit for both tasks.
Suggested edit: "it's clear they are unfit for both tasks", could be rephrased as, "it's clear they are unfit for these, or any other, tasks.
You're welcome.
reality is way more interesting than any fiction lately. unbelievable rather, that all this could happen and no one saw it ? Well, apart from those whose hands were filled of course, and pockets and bank accounts off shore.
Everyone knows.. my DC career went from Church/Pike Committee to Beltway Bandit and I left when Bush Sr was elected because corruption was too much to stomach then.