63 billion dollars delivered in pallets of cash. Zero oversight as to where the money ends up. Money sent to a government more corrupt than what we left in Afghanistan backed by an army even more cowardly than the ANA. Yay!

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
That being said, who that could actually get the vote for the role would be more effectual, and do we really want the clown show that would result in vacating the position again?

I understand disagreeing on policy or results, but I'd prefer not to cut the hose off in spite of the face.

No we don't. Not now at least. Certainly not before the November election.

I am voting for the send money to neither option, so it is pretty much a certainty that both Israel and Ukraine are getting a taxpayer funded payday, cuz that is how that shit rolls.

Congress needs to get serious about reducing spending. Mike Johnson isn't doing so.

Congressional Spending Goes Full Weimar
By Jeff Lukens

It has become a speculative game in the blogosphere to predict what black swan calamities could lead to a breakdown in civil order and the imposition of some form of martial law. Wars and rumors of war abound. We have already seen a container ship mysteriously knocking down a bridge and closing a key port. Other such scenarios include massive cyber-attacks that shut down the grid and block communication and transportation networks nationwide. The speculation on the variations of such events is virtually endless.

However, one crisis is no black swan and is entirely expected, already happening, and growing in scale by the day. That would be the ballooning debt crisis. If Washington does not change its free-spending ways, the debt will become a catastrophe of devastating proportions that will tear the nation apart. So long as Congress continues its multi-trillion-dollar deficit spending, we will have a financial death spiral, similar to events a century ago in the Weimar Republic of Germany.

The total discretionary spending for the U.S. government in Fiscal Year 2024 is approximately $1.70 trillion. This amount is split between $886 billion for defense and $688 billion for non-defense programs. In the fiscal year, the U.S. government is also projected to spend approximately $4.19 trillion on mandatory programs. These programs include interest on the debt, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and other programs. We have an annual structural deficit in excess of $2 trillion that will soon grow exponentially.

Congress needs to get serious about reducing spending. For starters, they should outright eliminate the Departments of Commerce, Education, and Energy. All other departments will need cuts as well. But that is not happening, and instead, they waste money on frivolous services benefiting illegal immigrants and abortion facilities. Notable allocations include funds for an LGBTQ+ community facility, scholarships for Egyptian students, educational programs for elementary school children by an LGBTQ+ activist group, diversity initiatives at a zoo, and an organization providing clothing and counseling services to teenagers without parental consent. Not surprisingly, they do not allocate funds to the truly essential need of building a southern border wall.

As a result of their incompetence, the debt is now growing at an accelerating rate. The $1 trillion move from $31 to $32 trillion took about eight months, and the increase from $33 trillion to $34 trillion took about 100 days. While these numbers are bad enough, it becomes alarming knowing that another trillion dollars of debt will be added every 90 days, then 80, then 70, and in ever smaller time frames into the future.

Currently, gross interest on the debt is roughly $1 trillion annually. But in three years, annual interest could surpass $2 trillion. In 10 years, interest on the debt could reach $5 trillion yearly.

Ten years ago, the U.S. government issued $264 billion in 10-year Treasury notes, which means that $264 billion worth of 10-year notes are due and payable this year. Altogether, the Treasury will have to settle $6 trillion of existing debt this year, which includes financing new debt for this year and the rollover of old debt from prior years. The Treasury financing debt this way is similar to using one credit card to pay off another.

The problem with rolling over old debt is compounded by borrowing at vastly higher interest rates than when those Treasuries were first issued. So, the old debt will be rolled over this year at about 4.2% to 5.5%, depending on the term. That’s troubling when most of the debt being rolled over was issued around 2%. They are doubling the cost to service that debt. As more of this old, cheap debt comes due and is reissued at higher rates, the cost of servicing the debt will grow exponentially. That additional expense adds to the deficit, and the vicious cycle feeds on itself.

We are already at historic debt levels while spending frivolously and shoveling money overseas. The business cycle has not been repealed, and a recession is coming, probably sooner than later. And when it happens, unemployment expenses will rise, increasing debt while revenues decline. There is no good way out of this mess, and no one in Washington wants to give it any serious attention.

What follows is an ugly pattern of the debt crises fueling accelerating inflation. As jobs dry up, the goods on store shelves skyrocket, followed by social unrest and increased centralization from the extreme left or right. This pattern is as old as history itself.

Look back to the Weimar Republic of Germany in the years following the First World War. Faced with budgetary deficits due to war reparations, the German government printed money wildly to meet its expenses. The result was hyperinflation. The runaway inflation caused the cost of a loaf of bread to rise from 3 Marks in 1922 to 80 billion Marks in November 1923. Prices were rising so fast that people hurried to spend their pay during lunch hour before it lost any more of its value. Foreign trade and the German ability to pay reparations became impossible, while personal savings were wiped out. Commercial dealings in Germany were replaced by barter, and food riots broke out. The drop in the value of their wages devastated the working class. This instability, coupled with the Depression a few years later, undermined the republic’s foundations, leading to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Left unchecked, this Weimar-style hyperinflation trend could happen in the United States as an accelerating debt load causes financial collapse and civil upheaval. Congress has a spending problem and must get serious about reducing it. As painful as spending cuts will be, inaction will be far more painful in the long run. Driven by spending growth, deficits will balloon even in years without a recession or a major war. If Congress fails to discipline its spending habits, rising interest costs will snowball and collapse the economy. With Washington’s culture of easy money, a new direction toward frugality will take a lot of work. However, it is indispensable for America’s long-term economic prosperity.

Every day, we are getting closer to the point of no return. We know that we’re headed in the wrong direction, and if we stay on this path, we’ll go full Weimar, carrying our cash not in wallets but in wheelbarrows.

https://www.americanthinker.co...oes_full_weimar.html

What Happened to Speaker Mike Johnson? | Sean Parnell Battleground

What changed with Speaker Johnson? SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED, something changed. It happened on February 28th, There was a meeting at the White House. At that point forward, Johnson pivoted on his positions.
What Happened on February 28?

I want to know what they know.

chellim1,
The video you posted is over an hour long. Can you give us a CliffNotes synopsis?

Starts at about minute 20.He suggests that the FBI, since Hoover, has controlled people with threats of blackmail. It appears that Johnson changed his position on border security etc. after a Feb 28th intel meeting.

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Originally posted by bald1:
chellim1,
The video you posted is over an hour long. Can you give us a CliffNotes synopsis?

Yeah... you have to fast forward or skip around on these things to find what you want. I prefer to read.

Thanks, triggertreat.
The point is, he's not the same guy he was when he was elected Speaker. His positions have all changed. To me, he looks scared.

I think the Illuminati have control over him.

The globalist's know and will fuck you if they have to. I think a lot of people are held over a barrel one way or another.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
To me, he looks scared.

Question is: Of what?

I doubt that he's got that many or that bad of skeletons in his closet. There's something else going on.

Bizarre behavior out of Johnson. They must have told him whatever they previously told the turtle. Undoubtedly the surveillance agencies really have convinced him Putin will roll into a NATO country.

Johnson did an interview on the Dan Bongino show today. Bongino held his feet to fire and asked tough questions. Johnson basically said the FISA warrants got in the way of getting to a terrorist in time. Bongino, said that he was getting bad advice, that warrants could be gotten in a few hours. When asked about Ukraine, Johnson gave the same old, lame response. Putin could show up on Polands door step and threaten all of Nato.
He's been compromised or he's extremely gullible.

Here is the article I read where in his own words Mike Johnson did the about face on the FISA warrants. I would say that this is when the FBI gave him a 'come to Jesus' moment.
https://www.wfla.com/hill-poli...-critic-to-champion/
FTA:
“When I was a member of Judiciary, I saw all of the abuses of the FBI — there were terrible abuses, over and over and over,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday evening.

“And then when I became Speaker, I went to the SCIF and got the confidential briefing from sort of the other perspective on that, to understand the necessity of Section 702 of FISA and how important it is for national security. And it gave me a different perspective,” he continued, using an abbreviation for sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).

https://rumble.com/v4q8xx2-spe...aign=TheLibertyDaily

Trying to navigate the "middle of the road" only guarantees that you will get ran over from both directions. Yeah, Johnson is becoming another UniParty stooge.

Term Limits are the only answer for this shit. Their corruption knows no limits or bounds (at least until they get caught with gold bars in coat pockets like Menendez.....and that asshole will probably get barely any, if at all, prison time).

UniParty Spotlight – More Democrats Vote for Johnson Foreign Aid Bill Than Republicans

165 Democrats voted for a foreign aid package brought to the floor by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson. The measure includes $26 billion more for Israel, $61 billion more for Ukraine and around $10 billion for Taiwan. 151 Republicans voted to support the aid bill.

There is almost $100 billion in total foreign aid and approximately $0 to secure the southern U.S. border. This is a “Republican” bill, that passed with Democrats, not Republicans. The ideological UniParty is very real in Washington DC, and this vote was entirely against the wishes of most Americans.

We are in an abusive relationship with our government. There really is no other way to look at it.

WASHINGTON DC – […] underscoring deep intraparty frustrations with Johnson’s strategy, 55 Republicans voted against advancing the package — a once unheard-of GOP rebellion that has grown more common given their single-digit margin.

Normally that would be enough to scuttle Johnson’s plan, but 165 Democrats voted to bring up the bills. It’s the first time they’ve done so during Johnson’s speakership — an alliance that is likely to fuel calls from his most vocal critics to strip him of his gavel.

The House is now slated to vote on the bills early Saturday afternoon, and Johnson will once again need substantial help from Democrats to get them over to the Senate. Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Friday that he plans to support the package, while Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) declined to state his position when asked.

“I’m pleased that we were able to come to a bipartisan agreement,” said House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.). He added: “It’s working out the way the speaker wanted it to, which is that every member is free to vote their conscience … in a way they usually aren’t.”

The House structured the package so as to ease its consideration in the Senate, requiring less time and procedural votes to pass the upper chamber. While senators are scheduled to be out of Washington next week, there’s ongoing discussion about canceling that recess to take up the House plan if it passes. (read more)

It’s really not just Mike Johnson, the root of the issue is much deeper than just corrupt and detached Republican leadership. The issue extends to every aspect of life and politics in Washington DC. Every member is participating in a process to give money to other countries, regardless of whether the American voter wants that to happen or not.

There is a complete collapse of the governmental structure of the United States as it pertains to representative government. The concept of representative government is completely gone, not even considered any longer amid the professional political class from both wings of the UniParty vulture.

I have no idea how this structural collapse can be fixed. There doesn’t seem to be any entity willing to stop the nonsense as it relates to financial systems and U.S. foreign aid.

At a certain point amid all of this madness, you just have to elevate and accept the dollar-based U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (USCBDC) is going to happen…. in large part because UniParty spending like this makes central bank digital currency a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Too few people understand how that USCBDC issue will fundamentally change the dynamic of everything…
…. e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g!

https://theconservativetreehou...blicans/#more-260207

House Passes $95 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan - But Not US Border

The House on Saturday passed a set of foreign aid bills that would send $61 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel, and $8 billion to the Indo-Pacific region.

In total, the foreign assistance package totals $95 billion - which only passed after Speaker Mike Johnson cut a deal with Democrats in order to force it through by a vote of 311 to 112.

https://twitter.com/BasedMikeL...taiwan-not-us-border



The Senate is expected to pass the package, which was negotiated in conjunction with the White House, marking a victory against conservative lawmakers who insisted on protecting the US border before sending money abroad to protect those of other countries.

“We cannot be afraid of our shadows. We must be strong. We have to do what’s right,” House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican, said.

Democrats and some Republicans waved Ukrainian flags during the vote, a rare moment of bipartisanship in a bitterly and narrowly divided House.

“Traditional House Republicans led by Speaker Mike Johnson have risen to the occasion,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said. “We have a responsibility to push back against authoritarianism.” -Bloomberg

Earlier in the day, the House passed an $8 billion aid package aimed at countering Chinese aggression towards Taiwan, as well as a bill that would force Chinese-controlled ByteDance Ltd to divest from TikTok or face a US ban. The bill also allows for the confiscation of Russian dollar assets in order to help fund more assistance to Ukraine.

Breaking down the Ukraine aid - of the $61 billion, $13 billion will replenish US stockpiles of weapons, and $14 billion will go towards US defense systems for Ukraine. $7 billion will go toward US military operations in the region. We assume the remainder will go directly to Ukrainian oligarchs.

The Israel bill, which passed by a vote of 366 to 58, includes $4 billion for missile defense.

Notably absent was so much as a dime for the US border...

"Nothing is done to secure our border or reduce our debt," said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), whose outrage was shared with Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Paul Gosar of Arizona, who say they're ready to boot Johnson from his Speakership.

"Ukraine is not even a member of NATO," Greene continued.

Who would have known!

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...taiwan-not-us-border

Ukraine should sit down this morning with their Russian counterparts and start laying out the parameters for peace. Today, while they are well funded and in a position of power. That will not be the plan. The west is fighting a proxy war and has degradation of Russian forces and regime change as an ultimate goal. It's absolutely the quagmire it was on day one. We'll be sending many more billions over the years. It was truly a bipartisan vote, so DC absolutely believes in this proxy fight and believes it advances US interests.