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Originally posted by Rawny:

This fundraiser chick is seriously over-exposed. It seems she being interviewed on TV every week. She was on Fox last week because she also witnessed the plane crash in Philly.

After seeing her first interview, the fact that she was a "major fund raiser" for the Democrat party who was so quick to throw them under the bus and then unabashedly make overtures to the party of Trump, makes me very skeptical of her and her motives.

Is she just an amazingly wonderful, dedicated person who was blind to what the Left really is, or is she an opportunist working hard to get herself positioned inside the seat of power in the USA?

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As if bottom of the barrel ratings aren't bad enough, CNN pulled a great one...LMAO.

https://x.com/Onemoremovie69/s...e-obama-bin-laden%2F

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:
What I really liked about bringing BB back was Trumps backing of his VP Vance.
I watched it earlier today on Fox when Doocy asked Trump about it during one of his 3 or 4 Q&A sessions today with the media.
Trump didn’t bat an eye when informed about VP Vances wishes.
Vance being involved the next four years without conflict with Trump will show Vances potential to run and be elected in 2028.
I seem to remember Pence turning into a POS early on during Trump 1.0.

He was actually instrumental in getting Michael Flynn booted as National Security Advisor.

JD Vance continues to shine and shows that Trump made the perfect VP pick.

JD Vance Delivers an Epic Smackdown to Far-Left Democrat Congressman After Lib Makes Nasty Remark Over Vance Defending DOGE Employee Forced Out Over Provocative Social Media Posts

By Cullen Linebarger | Feb. 8, 2025 7:45 am

Vice-President JD Vance showed once again Friday why he was not only the best possible sidekick to President Trump but also why he is likely the future of the Republican Party.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, 25-year-old DOGE worker Marko Elez was forced out after The Wall Street Journal used sneaky cancel culture tactics to target him.

The paper dug up some of Elez’s controversial social media posts and pressured the young man to resign.

Here are the statements in question:

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez said in a July post on X.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” Elez said in another.

Trump and Musk both agreed that Elez should be brought back despite his writings. Vance also explained on X why he believed Elex deserved a shot at redemption.

“I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,” Vance wrote. “We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.”

“So I say bring him back,” Vance added. “If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”

But far-left Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), who is of Indian-American descent, erupted in anger over Vance’s post. He demanded to know whether Musk would tell Elez to apologize before rehiring him for “the sake of both our kids.”

As TGP readers know, Vance is married to and shares three children with Second Lady Usha Vance, who is also Indian-American.

Vance, though, delivered an epic smackdown instead, completely destroying Khanna in the process.

“For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up. Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don’t threaten my kids,” he wrote. “You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.”

Vance continued his tour de force by emphasizing how much he hated the “emotional blackmail” Khanna was trying to pull. He also pointed out that young people will make mistakes and hopes his kids will not be cowed in fear by a politically correct society.

“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern,” he continued. “My kids, god willing, will be risk-takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives.”

“They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did.”

Vance closed by delivering one last burn toward Khanna.

“I don’t worry about my kids making mistakes, or developing views they later regret, he stated. “I don’t even worry that much about trolls on the internet. You know what I do worry about, Ro?”

“That they’ll grow up to be a US Congressmen who engages in emotional blackmail over a kid’s social media posts. You disgust me.”

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Originally posted by 12131:
As if bottom of the barrel ratings aren't bad enough, CNN pulled a great one...LMAO.

I guess I missed it. Besides the guy doing a lousy job reading the teleprompter, they didn’t answer the first questions that come to mind, to wit: 1) Did they get anything useful out of him? and 2) Did they take out the trash when they were done with him?

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Originally posted by Jester814:
Were the racist things he supposedly said proven to be false?

What things? Be specific, please.

Trump goes for the jugular with NGO funding review, imperiling Dem-Journo-Activist cabal

In what critics have described as “money laundering” of taxpayer dollars to left-wing advocates, USAID often distributes taxpayer money to NGOs that support liberal causes, some of which the government would not be able to advance directly.

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

After decades of failure in its efforts to conserve American culture and rein in the federal bureaucracy, the GOP under President Donald Trump has finally struck at the heart of the progressive advocacy cabal by reviewing government funding of non-government organizations (NGOs) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) oversight into the latter this week revealed deep financial links between the federal government and left-wing journalism outlets that repeatedly push narratives supporting Democrats and progressive causes while demonizing Republicans and their objectives.

It further found hundreds of millions of dollars going to seemingly ridiculous projects such as an Iraqi version of Sesame Street and a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-themed musical in Ireland. While such projects may seem absurd, they play a critical role in shaping social narratives globally and manufacturing support for progressive reforms.

NGOs, meanwhile, are often charity-activism hybrids that ostensibly work on projects to help the disadvantaged, but are notorious for overspending on management salaries and employee perks. In what critics have described as “money laundering” of taxpayer dollars to left-wing advocates, USAID often distributes taxpayer money to NGOs that support liberal causes, some of which the government would not be able to advance directly, either due to legal constraints or political ones. Funding for online censorship advocacy, for instance, was prevalent among the DOGE revelations about USAID.

“A non-governmental organization, an NGO, that relies on government funding is by definition, not an NGO,” wrote Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman. “Rather, it is a subterfuge for the then leadership/controlling party of the government to effect change that it desires without the disclosures and approvals required if it attempted the change directly.”

The end product is a streamlined system in which taxpayer funds enter USAID, which then distributes them to media outlets (often through expensive mass subscriptions) that shape left-wing narratives, and to NGOs that advance them on the ground.

President Trump on Friday ordered executive agencies to review all funding of NGOs in a sweeping memo, asserting that "[t]he United States Government has provided significant taxpayer dollars to Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), many of which are engaged in actions that actively undermine the security, prosperity, and safety of the American people. It is the policy of my Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest."

The initial DOGE review of USAID sparked frantic reactions from Democrats, many of whom demonstrated outside of the USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C., and vowed to challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to shutter it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has since assumed the post of acting USAID director and the organization appears poised for integration into his department.

“USAID IS DRIVING THE RADICAL LEFT CRAZY, AND THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE WAY IN WHICH THE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT, SO MUCH OF IT FRAUDULENTLY, IS TOTALLY UNEXPLAINABLE. THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE. CLOSE IT DOWN!” Trump posted on Friday.

Curiously, the international world has been relatively silent and world leaders have generally not objected to the disruption of USAID funding to their nations.

“The people inflamed at closing USAID seem to be the NGOs and private sector grantees with a vested interest in USAID operations,” posted Foundation for Freedom Online founder Mike Benz. “The people very weirdly not inflamed at closing USAID are the leaders of countries those NGOs and private sector grantees are paid supposedly to help.”

Mass media manipulation

USAID alone was a major financier of international media, much of which espoused support for left-wing causes or reportedly favorably on them. A Wikileaks breakdown of USAID funding further found that 6,200 journalists received funding, as did 707 media outlets and 279 media NGOs.

“6,000 journalists and 700 newsrooms received USAID money? It's a wonder all of them parrot the same news,” wrote former “Fox and Friends” host Clayton Morris.

Among the most high-profile of DOGE finds was millions that went to Politico, a formerly moderate news outlet that has moved demonstrably to the left in recent years. The outlet itself put out a statement highlighting that it received the funds through paid government subscriptions to Politico Pro, insisting that the transactions had been legitimate. The revelation also came amid the company missing a pay period for the first time in its history, which the company attributed to a technical error.

Many appeared skeptical of Politico’s explanation, however. Convicted fraudster-turned-forensic accountant Sam Antar, for instance, wrote in response to the issue that “[t]he basis of money laundering is to channel cash through supposedly ‘legitimate’ transactions (e.g. subscriptions).”

The subscriptions issue comes at a bad time for Politico as former editors and reporters have scrutinized the outlet for blocking negative stories about the Biden administration. The public, meanwhile, has highlighted its past reporting calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation and its leaking of the Dobbs decision that sparked protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.

Abroad, roughly nine in ten Ukrainian news outlets received USAID funding. Another pro-Ukrainian media influencing operation, NAFO, appears to have received financial support. NAFO is an online pro-Ukrainian movement of trolls that ostensibly works to counter Russian narratives and features users with profile pictures of the late meme dog Cheems. Its members refer to one another as “fellas.”

Social engineering

Outside of the Western world, many progressive social causes do not enjoy broad public support. Some of USAID’s funding has gone toward changing that as a means of providing a cultural foothold for U.S. influence, especially through LGBT-related causes. The DEI musical in Colombia presents one of the more outlandish examples, but such efforts are pervasive and spread across the ocean, as far as Serbia and the Balkans.

“So George Soros has the Open Society, foundations and organizations, and he's not only active here in the United States, but in other countries,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast. “And conservatives in these other countries are disturbed about his advocacy for left-wing values, and he's often been able to partner with the State Department, USAID, to advance these values.”

“And we've exposed how government money was sent either to [or] in partnership with Soros, operations directly, or groups he supports in countries like Macedonia, Albania,” he went on. “It doesn't take a lot of money to sway policy in a country like Albania or Macedonia. And of course, they're able to leverage the money, any of these left-wing groups. It's not just Soros, it's the whole, it's the whole transnational left.”

“They leverage USA ID money to lend credibility and political power to their advocacy for the radical left in these various countries,” Fitton asserted. “So they get the rubber stamp of approval and the tacit support of the US government through USAID moneys.”

“The rabbit is out of the hat!” posted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “We had to endure for years that the ultra-progressive, self-proclaimed human rights champions of the mainstream media demonized Patriotic political forces for years. They did it because they were paid to do so by USAID and the previous, left-wing US administration.”

USAID and its funding of NGOs has long faced accusations of working to undermine foreign regimes and foster regime change through paid or manipulated opposition. In a very recent example, the Georgian government blamed demonstrations in Tbilisi on foreign-backed organizers. Though derided as Russian propaganda at the time, USAID did, in fact, fund NGOs for the Georgian elections.

“USAID spent, through political NGOs, USD 41,7 million on Georgian elections,” posted Georgian Parliament President Shalva Papuashvili. “In terms of US/Georgia population ratio, this would amount to USD 3,78 billion foreign money injected in US elections. These numbers are even more grotesque if compared with GDP ratio as well.”

The Georgian Dream party won 54% of the vote in that country’s recent elections, though now-former President Salome Zourabichvili, a French-born politician and former French ambassador to Georgia, refused to accept the results and called for protests, which speedily materialized.

Prior to the elections, the Georgian Dream government pushed through a foreign agents law comparable to the U.S.’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), alleging that foreign-funded NGOs were working to undermine Georgian society. It further passed a bill restricting advocacy for LGBT causes that led to similar protests. After the election, demonstrators rocked the streets of the capital, with footage of rioters igniting firecrackers and hurling them toward the parliament building going viral.

Amid the protests, Georgian authorities raided the offices of several NGOs and found stockpiles of firecrackers and incendiary devices. Following the raids, the protests became demonstrably more subdued. The government further declared that roughly 30% of those arrested were foreign-born.

Russian President Vladimir Putin previously blamed the 2014 Maidan revolution in Ukraine on Western-backed NGOs, alleging a similar operation to the failed Georgian protests. While details of that accusation remain unclear, DOGE did find that roughly nine in ten Ukrainian news outlets received some measure of USAID funding.

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Is she just an amazingly wonderful, dedicated person who was blind to what the Left really is, or is she an opportunist working hard to get herself positioned inside the seat of power in the USA?

I watched her interview on Shawn Ryan’s show and she came across a bit insincere. Both her body language and her personality. I would label here an absolute power hungry opportunist and lacking any semblance of trustworthiness.

^^^ Can't exactly put a finger on it, but my spidey sense agrees with y'all.

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Originally posted by 12131:
^^^ Can't exactly put a finger on it, but my spidey sense agrees with y'all.

When she first came out to “expose” the dems/harris circus I read about her background and history/rise to her position. Struck me odd someone groomed to be a big D bundler, fundraiser, up and coming darling would so quickly toss it all and question the “machine”.

Given her family history, I suspect she is a Chinese plant or agent. They definitely have a track record with “fang fang” sucking “info” from swalwell and feinstein’s driver.

The term “Hiding in plain sight” comes to mind…

Chellim, that’s a shame about FNMOC. I use that, and the data bouy reports, when I am going to be crossing the Gulf or heading out to the Bahamas. Always pretty darn accurate.

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Given her family history, I suspect she is a Chinese plant or agent. They definitely have a track record with “fang fang” sucking “info” from swalwell and feinstein’s driver.

The term “Hiding in plain sight” comes to mind…

Wow, I didn’t really think about that angle, but it would make perfect sense. There was a comment in her interview where she feigned disdain for The PRC which came across as odd. To be such a young bundler with access to the Pedo’s White House is alarming. Reminds me of the Soviet’s “Americans” program which I wouldn’t put past the PRC. Makes you wonder and now I hope she fades away to obscurity.

Once a lot of the layoffs are finalized and office buildings emptied out, most should be rehabbed and converted into mental hospitals.

Cheaper than ground up construction.

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Originally posted by BOATTRASH1:
Chellim, that’s a shame about FNMOC. I use that, and the data bouy reports, when I am going to be crossing the Gulf or heading out to the Bahamas. Always pretty darn accurate.

You make those journeys by boat? Impressive to a landlubber like me. Perhaps aircraft use the FNMOC data too.

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Originally posted by BOATTRASH1:
Chellim, that’s a shame about FNMOC. I use that, and the data bouy reports, when I am going to be crossing the Gulf or heading out to the Bahamas. Always pretty darn accurate.

Thanks. It is what it is. Of course, I'm still in favor of DOGE in general. But... sometimes good people get caught up in these things. She's a smart girl and she will be fine.

https://www.metoc.navy.mil/fnmoc/fnmoc.html

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Originally posted by 911Boss:

Given her family history, I suspect she is a Chinese plant or agent.

This has been my suspicion as well.


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Musk slams 'absolutely insane' ruling barring him and DOGE from accessing Treasury payment systems

"How on Earth are we supposed to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money without looking at how money is spent? That’s literally impossible!" Musk wrote on X

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk slammed an Obama-appointed federal judge for blocking his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department payment systems for at least one week.

"This ruling is absolutely insane! How on Earth are we supposed to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money without looking at how money is spent? That’s literally impossible! Something super shady is going to protect scammers," Musk wrote Saturday on X.

According to Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer's order, access to payment records would be limited to "civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties within the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Department regulations."


Obama-appointed federal judge blocks Musk and DOGE from accessing Treasury payment system

https://justthenews.com/govern...ing-treasury-payment

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These “judges” do NOT have jurisdiction into the inner workings of of the executive branch, including government agencies that are part of. They have no legal right to limit access to agency information by anyone, especially dept. heads, whom the President of the United designates. It’s called separation of powers.

These “rulings” should simply be ignored, and it seems Trump/Musk are doing that since they are just forging ahead anyways. The POTUS has Plenary Powers in the executive branch, a fact already confirmed by SCOTUS last year.

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Obama-appointed federal judge blocks Musk and DOGE from accessing Treasury payment system

Leftist Lawfare – Manhattan Judge Issues Emergency Order Removing Secretary of Treasury, All Political Appointees and DOGE Personnel from Federal Govt., Only Bureaucrats Allowed in DC

In a stunning and sweeping emergency injunction that has even stunned the people who demanded it, a Manhattan-based District Judge has just removed Secretary of State Scott Bessent from his authority over the Treasury Department; blocked any political appointee from accessing records within the Treasury Department; blocked any “special appointee” of President Trump from records within Treasury; and demanded that all information previously extracted be destroyed.

The emergency injunction was signed by District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan, {Ruling pdf Here} determined without any input from the Trump administration and applies until Friday, February 14, 2025, when U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas will hear the full arguments of the lawsuit.

The emergency ruling comes as a result of 15 (Soros installed) attorneys general from New Jersey, New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Vermont, all filed suit in New York seeking to block Elon Musk and DOGE from access to information that would reveal how activist groups in their states have been funded by the U.S. government. [Link to Press Release Here]

WASHINGTON – […] The lawsuit said Musk and his team could disrupt federal funding for health clinics, preschools, climate initiatives, and other programs, and that Republican President Donald Trump could use the information to further his political agenda.

DOGE’s access to the system also “poses huge cybersecurity risks that put vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril,” the state attorneys general said. They sought a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE’s access.

The judge, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, said the states’ claims were “particularly strong” and warranted him acting on their request for emergency relief pending a further hearing before another judge on February 14.

“That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,” Engelmayer wrote.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat whose office is leading the case, welcomed the ruling, saying nobody was above the law and that Americans across the country had been horrified by the DOGE team’s unfettered access to their data.

“We knew the Trump administration’s choice to give this access to unauthorized individuals was illegal, and this morning, a federal court agreed,” James said in a statement.

“Now, Americans can trust that Musk – the world’s richest man – and his friends will not have free rein over their personal information while our lawsuit proceeds.”

Engelmayer’s order bars access from being granted to Treasury Department payment and data systems by political appointees, special government employees and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department.

The judge also directed that anyone prohibited under his order from accessing those systems to immediately destroy anything they copied or downloaded. (read more)

The order by the judge is transparent judicial activism; it will almost certainly be overturned and nullified by later rulings. However, it creates blocks and slows down the goal of the Dept of Government Efficiency and the objective of the Trump administration.

On what basis do states think they can sue the federal government to stop the federal government from auditing federal spending? How can a judge block the executive branch from executing the functions of the executive branch? This Lawfare activism is ridiculous.

Within the ruling:

…”restrained from granting access to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees, other than to civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties within the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Department regulations.” {source}

So, the unelected bureaucracy is in charge and not the Secretary of the Treasury?

https://theconservativetreehou...d-in-dc/#more-268995

Tucker Carlson Interviews Mike Benz About USAID, NED and CIA Revelations

Tucker Carlson sits down with Mike Benz, one of the prominent voices who was speaking out about the corruption within the USAID, NED and CIA operation.
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When it's too dirty for CIA, you send in USAID...

We built such a labyrinth of lies that you couldn't even talk about it with people...