GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Create a “Devil’s Advocate” to speak against pardoning people

Thursday, November 13, 2025

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/trump-on-why-he-pardoned-binance-ceo-are-you-ready-i-dont-know-who-he-is/

Trump on why he pardoned Binance CEO: “Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”
Trump family business could benefit from pardon of crypto ex-con Changpeng Zhao.
Jon Brodkin – Nov 3, 2025 2:15 PM

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President Trump says he still doesn’t know who Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao is, despite having pardoned Zhao last month.

CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell asked Trump about the pardon in a 60 Minutes interview that aired yesterday, noting that Zhao pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws. “The government at the time said that C.Z. had caused ‘significant harm to US national security,’ essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around. Why did you pardon him?” O’Donnell asked.

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After the Biden fiasco of autopen pardons, @realDonaldTrump should create a “Devil’s Advocate” to speak against pardoning people.  Maybe we could get Judge Judy to chair a TV trial with a retired judge to act as the Devil’s Advocate versus the lawyer who thinks his client deserves one.  

Put it on Pay Per View for a few buck to defer the expense.  It’d make Survivor or the Bachelor look tame by comparison.  Judge “Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining” Judy Sheindlin could hear both sides and then issue a recommendation to the President.  Of course, that recommendation meeting could be on PPV too where the President could sign it for all to see.  

I love this idea.  (Who doesn’t love their own “baby”?  No matter how ugly.). Your comments welcome.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: end the IRS and the FCC

Monday, October 27, 2025

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/ron-paul/it-didnt-start-with-trump/

It Didn’t Start With Trump

By Ron Paul, MD

The Ron Paul Institute

October 21, 2025

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The administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used tax investigations against political opponents.

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President John F. Kennedy used the IRS and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to drive his conservative critics off the radio.

President Lyndon Johnson also used the IRS and the FCC to silence conservative critics.

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President Richard Nixon used the IRS to target political enemies. The Nixon administration also threatened television and radio companies with revocation of their broadcast licenses unless they provided favorable coverage of the administration.

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During the Clinton administration, the IRS not only targeted conservative and libertarian organizations it audited Paula Jones after she sued President Clinton for sexual harassment.

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During the George W. Bush years, the IRS targeted organizations critical of the Iraq War.

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When Barack Obama assumed the presidency, the tax agency turned its attention back to conservative and libertarian groups, with a focus on organizations associated with the Tea Party.

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So, let’s “nuke” the IRS and the FCC.

Seems like a good start.

Many if the abuses of power all originate from the Federal Gooferment “regulating” “We, The Sheeple”.  Since we are supposed to be a Federal Republic, the Federal Gooferment should only interact with the various State Gooferments that created it.  Leave “We, The People” alone.

Argh!

Let’s start Limited Government!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment diktats and “inspections” don’t keep us safe

Monday, September 22, 2025

https://www.malone.news/p/homesteading-the-food-emancipation?publication_id=583200&post_id=173665120&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Homesteading: The Food Emancipation Proclamation
By Joel Salatin
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Sep 15, 2025

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If you said, I want to buy a can of your homemade canned tomato soup, I can’t sell it to you. The current system only allows availability in the marketplace from the industrial choice. If you ever notice a food recall, they’ll put down the brands that are being recalled. There’s 25 brands, they’re all coming from the same tube. People walk into Walmart and they say, well, what do you mean we don’t have food choice? Look at all the brands, all the colored labels. Well, they’re all industrial. So what we want, what the society, the culture is yearning for right now. Buyers want affordable unadulterated food. You can’t get that at the supermarket. Old farmers need a way to get out. We talked about that on the tour. Young farmers need a way to get in and inner city food deserts need a solution besides the food bank.

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In order for me to offer you a chicken pot pie, did you like that chicken yesterday? Yeah. Yeah. In order for me to offer you a chicken pot pie, I have to have an inspected kitchen, a hasp plan, hazardous analysis, critical control point plan, and there’s no template for making these. And if you take the template off the inspection service website, they will automatically cast it out.

I have to have a licensed bathroom, not a composting toilet, and it doesn’t matter that our kitchen is a hundred yards from two in our house, two in mom’s house. It has to be on site, a licensed leach field for that bathroom and a certified cold chain with 24 7 thermometer, computer microchip reading. That’s just to get you a chicken pot pie.

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Ultimately, these food safety laws have nothing to do with food safety. All other hazardous substances, prescription drugs, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, name your thing, you can’t buy them. You can’t give them away. You can’t possess them, and you certainly can’t feed ’em to your kids. But food, the prohibition is only on the seller. You can buy it, you can use it, you can feed it to your kids, you can feed it to your neighbors, you can give it away. You just can’t sell it. So who’s kidding? Who here is this really food safety? If it was really dangerous for me to butcher a beef in the field and take out a T-bone steak and sell it to you, if it was really dangerous, it ought to be I can’t give it away. You can’t buy it and you certainly can’t feed it to your kids. So the hypocrisy of this is so glaring that it defies imagination.

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Argh!

What more can I say?

Sorry but the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats have a slew of regulations that don’t make sense.

Let the “free market” decide what we can and can’t put in out bodies.

We are NOT the Gooferment’s “livestock” to be “managed” at their whim.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: DJT47 should find out if the Gooferment was involved in this suspension.

Friday, September 19, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-f-king-livid-over-abc-pulling-live-report/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Jimmy Kimmel reportedly ‘f–king livid’ over ABC pulling ‘Live!’ — as Trump cheers ‘great news for America’
By Anna Young
Published Sep. 17, 2025
Updated Sep. 17, 2025, 10:27 p.m. ET

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Jimmy Kimmel is reportedly “absolutely f–king livid” over ABC’s decision to ax his late-night talk show following backlash to his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination — while President Trump cheered the move as “great news for America.” 

The comedian, 57, was left fuming over the network’s Wednesday decision to suspend him and pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely” after he unleashed a hateful tirade against the gunned-down conservative activist during Monday night’s monologue, sources and producers told the Daily Mail.

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Nexstar Media Group, the major broadcast company that serves as a primary affiliate for ABC, confirmed that it would “preempt” Kimmel’s program in the wake of his remarks.

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But after Monday’s blunder, the FCC chairman says the only reasonable step for ABC, parent company Disney, and the Emmy-nominated host is to issue a public apology — noting that the network’s “unprecedented” rejection of Kimmel by broadcasters is “an important turning point” in the media. 

“This action today by NexStar and Sinclair, frankly, it’s unprecedented,” Brendan Carr told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday. 

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Early reports indicated that Nexstar Media Group was seeking FCC approval for something.  That seems to have “disappeared”.  Was this a quid pro quo to make DJT47 happy?  If so, it’s UNACCEPTABLE.

I’m no Jimmy Kimmel fan. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), was this “suspension” rooted in politics.  Sure seems so.  When you see some of the many examples of “trash” that the broadcast networks air, this seems “mild”.   

 What would the FCC say about George Carlin now?

As much as I dislike Kimmel, this is just WRONG.  And, he should get his show back on the air.

DJT47 should IMMEDIATELY: 

  1. Find out any and all conversations between the FCC and ANY Gooferment bureaucrat with Nexstar Media Group and ANY ABC (or Disney).
  2. Fire anyone in the Gooferment who was involved in this affair.  (The Gooferment, like Caesar’s wife must be above reproach.)  Someone MIGHT have been trying to “please the boss” and gone way too far.
  3. Invite Kimmel to the White House, like he did with Bill Mahr, to have dinner and discuss this and many other topics.
  4. If Kimmel is starting a podcast or internet show like Tucker, then DJT47 should offer to be his first guest.
  5. Everyone, who purports to support the First Amendment, should let DJT47, Nexstar Media Group, ABC / Disney know that this is just wrong.  (I will!)

What would Charlie Kirk be doing?  Certainly, not trying to shut down an opinion.  Any opinion.

Argh!

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — often misattributed to Voltaire

Two memes sum it up!

Because Hate Speech Isn't A Thing - Imgflip

 

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GOVERNACIDE: Are Canada’s “assisted suicide laws nothing more than “eugenics” nothing more than murder by Gooferment

Monday, September 1, 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15031627/Canada-euthanasia-newborn-BABIES-disabled.html

Terrifying new details of Canada’s advancing assisted suicide laws… including push to euthanize newborn BABIES
By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, US CHIEF REPORTER
Published: 10:02 EDT, 25 August 2025 | Updated: 10:25 EDT, 25 August 2025

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Canada’s assisted suicide laws have continued rapidly expanding in recent years, with a group of doctors now pushing for disabled newborn babies to be euthanized.

The demand for euthanasia is so high that doctors who provide it cannot keep up, according to a new report by The Atlantic.

Assisted dying, legalized in 2016, now accounts for about one out of 20 deaths in Canada, far surpassing countries where it’s been legal for longer. 

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Canada’s road to allowing euthanasia began in 2015, when its top court declared that outlawing assisted suicide deprived people of their dignity and autonomy. It gave national leaders a year to draft legislation. 

The resulting 2016 law legalized both euthanasia and assisted suicide for people aged 18 and over, provided they met certain conditions.

They had to have a serious, advanced condition, disease, or disability that was causing suffering and their death was looming.

The law was later amended to allow people who are not terminally ill to choose death, significantly broadening the number of eligible people.

Critics say that change removed a key safeguard aimed at protecting people with potentially decades of life left.

Today, any adult with a serious illness, disease, or disability can seek help in dying.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_return_of_eugenics.html

The Return of Eugenics

By Robert Weissberg  —  August 25, 2025

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If one word is guaranteed to enrage the woke mob, it is eugenics, a term conjuring up images of Hitler, the Holocaust, white supremacy, and sterilizing the feeble-minded. Yet, despite the odium surrounding “eugenics,” it is, paradoxically, making a comeback thanks to medical advances, not the rise of right-wing ideology. Vast sums are currently being invested in firms to promote eugenics, but the term “eugenics” is never uttered.  

Recent newspaper stories recount how parents employ cutting-edge scientific advances in genetics to have the best possible children while avoiding deadly genetic defects like cystic fibrosis. A New York Post story – “Silicon Valley Parents Spend Thousands to Screen Embryos in Search of ‘Baby Geniuses’” — recounted parents spending upwards of $50,000 to screen embryos to discover one with the best genes for intelligence prior to fertilizing it, and then via In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) implanting it in the woman’s womb. The Post story mentions two intelligence screening start-ups — Nucleus Genomics and Heraslight — both funded by major Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

A particularly successful illustration of this new eugenics is Orchid Health headed by Noor Siddiqui with thousands of clients thanks to its 100 U.S. clinics, a figure that doubled from the previous year. Given the complexity of human genetics, Orchid Heath’s claims to use as few as five cells from the mother’s embryo to develop a “polygenetic risk score” to predict a child’s future chances for some 1200 single-gene disorders plus more complex polygenetic illnesses such as bipolar disorder, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. According to its mother, one of Elon Musk’s children was from an embryo screened by Orchid Heath and, at Musk’s request, the embryo was screened for intelligence (the firm does not usually screen for intelligence but will do it on request).

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As gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I find this deplorable.  And, interesting that two stories come to light on the issue from different authors and perspectives.

Are we so full of hubris that we can be like the ancient Aztecs, who sacrificed children to appease their “gods”.  What “god” are we appeasing?

Often I see uplifting stories about “disabled children” who grow up and have “good” lives.

And, how do these babies give their “informed consent”?  Or those with confirmed “mental illnesses”? 

Sorry but this is murder or maybe even genocide when you take into account abortions!

My favorite analogy or metaphor is what if we are killing the “golden child”?

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2010/02/26/political-right-to-life/

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My greatest fear is that we will kill “the Golden Child”. In Will Crowther’s Colossal Cave Adventure game, if you killed the bird in Cave #7, you never could proceed past the snake in Cave #11. (Although it was funny to see smart engineers trying “stuff” when it was impossible to proceed.) What if the potential person that’s killed is the next Salk who will cure cancer, the next Hawkings who will explain the Universe, or the next Mother Teresa who will comfort untold number of sufferers?

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If we “believe” that all humans have “rights”, and we can argue about when those rights INURE to any person (i.e., conception; birth; when they can assert them; when they can fight for them), when does our civil society recognize those rights?

Sigh!

Otherwise we are nothing more than talented savages existing in a “might makes right” world.

The Nuremberg Code is a set of ethical principles for human experimentation established after World War II, emphasizing the necessity of voluntary consent and the moral obligation to protect human subjects in research.

And today’s medical professionals are transgressors and should be hung too.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address

Thursday, August 28, 2025

https://www.wired.com/story/fema-now-requires-disaster-victims-to-have-an-email-address/quires-disaster-victims-to-have-an-email-address/

FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
Molly Taft  —  Aug 20, 2025 7:00 AM

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Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.

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Argh! 

Of all the ivory tower elitest ideas, this one takes the bobbly prize!

Guess that rules out the Amish.  Oh yeah, they are the ones that come and provide aid quickly and don’t require an email id.

DJT4747 should hear this bone headed idea!

Guess next they should have the latest iPhone too. Argh!

I guess in lieu of an email they could use Citizen#<insert ssn>@usa.gov?????

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: When the Gooferment dosn’t stand up for property rights …

Saturday, August 16, 2025

https://voxday.net/2025/08/06/a-conquered-people/

A Conquered People

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The British people still haven’t figured out yet that neither their police nor their government represent them or are on their side. And they’re still too “law-abiding” and respectful of “authority” to take matters into their own hands, even when their homes are literally being occupied by foreigners. From 4chan:

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My husband wants to break in and throw them out with his brothers. I’ve told him not to do this.

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If you won’t even defend your homes, your wives, or your daughters, you are a conquered people. You WILL be dispossessed and no one will shed any tears for you. Notice that the wife has actively dissuaded her husband from doing the only thing that will recover their home in a reasonable amount of time.

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How many times in the past few years have we read about “squatters” (usually illegal immigrants) taking over someone’s property?  And, all attempts to get them out have failed.  “Squatters” magically become “tenants” with “rights” and “due process”.  And, if and when they are tossed out, the places is in ruins.  That’s just not right.

  • Why if they present a “false document” are they not immediately arrested for fraud? (Maybe leases have to be filed with the courts like deeds for a small recording fee?  On a blockchain to be easily seen by authorities?)
  • Why when they do get tossed are they not held liable for damages?
  • And, if they are illegals, why are they not IMMEDIATELY deported?
  • Why is such behavior tolerated by civil society?

In short, the Gooferment is lax in their protections of property.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Will CA fire-ravaged Palisades land become taxpayer-funded low-income housing?

Thursday, July 24, 2025

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/conspiracy-theory-comes-true-after?publication_id=975571&post_id=168508110&isFreemail=true&r=60qmwq&triedRedirect=true

Conspiracy Theory Comes True After California Wildfires | Daily Pulse
The news you weren’t supposed to see.
The Vigilant Fox
Jul 16, 2025

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STORY #2 – California just proved the “conspiracy theorists” right. Lawmakers passed a bill to cease fire-ravaged Palisades land and turn it into taxpayer-funded low-income housing.

This isn’t theory anymore—it’s reality, and it follows a disturbing national trend. For years, people claimed that disasters like the Maui fires were being used to clear land for Smart Cities. Now it’s happening in plain sight.

Across America, neighborhoods destroyed by fires and floods are being “reimagined” as dense, government-controlled housing zones. California’s SB 549 lets cities buy burned lots for mere pennies, rebuild using your tax dollars, and cram in numerous low-income units. Officials call it “resilient,” but it’s really about controlling where and how you live.

And it’s not just Democrats. The Global Covenant of Mayors unites cities from both parties under a Smart City agenda built on surveillance, permanent renting, and the end of single-family homes.

Is this really about safety and sustainability—or is it about control? Watch Maria Zeee’s shocking report to see just how deep this agenda goes.

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Probably AI written.  Note the use of “cease” in place of “seize”.

If true, it’s despicable.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is unscientific and killing birds for no good reason

Friday, May 16, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/canada-orders-mass-culling-of-400?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Canada Orders Mass Culling of 400 Research Ostriches Over Bird Flu, Refuses to Test Surviving Birds for Natural Immunity

  • Farmers face fines and jail time for seeking independent testing as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency fights to reinstate the culling order.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH  —  Mar 11, 2025

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ordered the culling of 400 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia, citing concerns over H5N1 bird flu. However, this decision is not based on sound science and could have serious consequences for both food security and medical research.

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Lack of Transparency and Scientific Process – Despite the importance of this research, the CFIA has refused to conduct further testing on the birds and has banned the farm from conducting its own tests, under threat of heavy fines and possible imprisonment. Why is the Canadian government refusing to study the potential antibodies ostriches have developed against H5N1 bird flu?

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One has to wonder where the Gooferment gets off on its “wild goose”  —  in this case ostrich — chases?  

I can imagine a conference room fill of bureaucrats sitting around trying to justify their paychecks.  Hard to imagine ANY value coming out of that room.  

In the mean time, the farmers on the ground are in a much better position to dictate the course of action.

Argh!

I hate politicians and bureaucrats.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Once wildlife center should always be a wildlife center

Monday, May 5, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/05/02/business/six-flags-america-shutting-down-maryland-amusement-park-in-portfolio-revamp/

Six Flags America shutting down Maryland park — home of one of the oldest roller coasters in US — in ‘portfolio’ revamp: ‘Deeply disappointing’
By Nicholas McEntyre
Published May 2, 2025, 4:26 a.m. ET

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The land was originally used as a wildlife center created by former presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1974.

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Why did the wildlife center get replaced?  And, why not put it back?

Not everything is about “development” and “tax revenue”!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Fraud is baked into voting/

Monday, April 28, 2025

Florida election lawsuit exposes loophole in federal voter registration law | Just The News

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/florida-election-lawsuit-exposes-loophole-federal-voter-registration-law

Argh. It’s like they deliberately write in loop holes?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Politics trumps justice?

Thursday, April 24, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/us-news/tim-walz-employee-who-allegedly-caused-over-20k-in-damages-to-teslas-let-off-by-woke-minnesota-da/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20250422?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts

Minnesota state employee who allegedly caused over $20K in damages to Teslas is let off by woke DA — as cops slam deal
By Patrick Reilly

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A progressive district attorney has declined to charge a Tim Walz state employee allegedly caught causing $20,000 damage by vandalizing half a dozen Teslas — a decision ripped by the “frustrated” local police chief.

The suspected vandal, 33-year-old Minnesota government employee Dylan Bryan Adams, was allegedly spotted keying the vehicles and stripping their paint off while out walking his dog around the city.

Despite what police believe to be evidence of Adams committing felonies, Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty will seek diversion rather than criminal charges.

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Sorry, but this is an example of selective justice.

Hopefully, a civil suit will find for punitive damages.

Maybe “We, The Sheeple” in Minnesota may have something to say about this travesty.

The DA should be fired and possibly disbarred for this miscarriage.  And, as a State employee, the citizens have a right to expect better conduct from their “employee”. 

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Taxpayer shouldn’t fund stadiums PERIOD

Sunday, April 20, 2025

https://sharylattkisson.com/2025/04/watch-sports-stadiums/

Sports Stadiums
By Sharyl Attkisson | April 16, 2025

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Taxpayers are funding more than half the cost ($1.26 billion) of the Tennessee Titans’ new $2.1 billion stadiumthe biggest public contribution toward a stadium in US history. It’s supposed to be finished in 2027. But not without controversy over whether public money should be paying to lure rich sports teams to town. Lisa Fletcher investigates big costs and questionable returns.

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Whatelse needs to be said?  The NFL can afford to pay for its own infrastructure.  We can’t!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Sounds like this is a BIG mistake

Monday, April 14, 2025

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/ice-immigration-agents-reported-duson-lafayette-louisiana/article_62c60d8a-2be6-5ab7-857e-d36fe24294d0.html?utm_id=120219929805840177

 ICE agents arrest 73-year-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years
  BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer Apr 3, 2025 Updated Apr 4, 2025 

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Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.

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Rodriguez arrived in the United States with just the clothes on his back, Riggs said, with no education and not speaking English. He struggled and made mistakes, paid for them, and for the next 43 years lived a good life, raising a family and working hard labor for 40-60 hours a week, paying taxes and paying into Social Security, which he never used.

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But starting with a 73-year-old grandfather who has a heart condition and who is the primary caretaker of his wife with dementia is not the solution, she said.

“It is a problem that has to be fixed with a surgeon’s blade. Not a machete.”

Riggs asked the public to contact their elected officials to ask for their help in freeing Rodriguez. And she asked for prayers.

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Who knows what he was told 45 years ago?  Maybe some Gooferment bureaucrats assured him all was Okey Dokey.

And why hasn’t he gotten his Social Security?  Seems like all the con artists are getting it.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The California Wildfires need some new incentives BEFORE rebuilding

Thursday, January 30, 2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/wildfires/california-fires-houses-are-fuel-why-firefighters-couldnt-control-rcna187977?ICID=ref_fark

California Wildfires

The homes are the fire’s fuel

  • Why firefighting was no match for a California disaster decades in the making.

Jan. 19, 2025, 7:00 AM EST

By Evan Bush and Lewis Kamb

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There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm: When a two-story house is on fire under normal circumstances, three engines and a minimum of 16 crew members are generally dispatched.

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He compared the situation to a firestorm that barreled through the Oakland hills in Northern California in 1991. In that case, an extinguished grass fire reignited in “Diablo” wind gusts — seasonal winds similar to the Santa Anas in L.A. — and the more than 1,500 firefighters who responded struggled with hydrants that went dry and navigation on steep, narrow roads.

The blaze killed 25 people, injured 150 and destroyed more than 3,300 structures.

Miller toured the area in 2014, after it was rebuilt.

“They have bigger houses on the same lot, with the same trees, with the same brush in the same location, with cars that are bigger,” Miller said. “No fire truck could come up if a big Suburban was coming down. … We’ve built bigger, but we didn’t build better.”

The firefighters he drove around the hills with, Miller said, offered a final assessment: “It’s going to go again.”

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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown

The Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah repeatedly demonstrates its insanity.

2014, houses burn down.  Build back bigger and better, 2025 houses burn down.

Now any rational human being would look at the incentives in 2014 and figure out what disincentives should be in place to prevent a 2036 disaster.

I can think of a few right off the top of my head:

  • Insurance companies don’t have to write policies for these houses.  No penalty for them when they don’t.  They can make any policies they want for these rebuilding projects.
  • Create special fire districts with the power to tax and to prep for the extreme fire occurences.  Roads may have to be extra wide and water retention facilities as needed.
  • Forest management zones may tax and burn as needed to prevent wildfires.
  • Arsonists get longer sentences with mandatory fire fight duties.
  • Wood frame houses are not permitted in the fire zones.  Concrete doesn’t burn.  May not look like an antebellum Southern plantation home, but it won’t burn like one either.
  • Shared risk pools for all houses built in the same fire zone.  (Seems obvious)

Let’s run contests with prizes for the various engineering schools to come up with more ideas.  Kind of like the concrete boats, paper airplanes, and other assorted challenges.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: AT&T “cancels” NY State internet service

Friday, January 17, 2025

https://www.androidauthority.com/atnt-exits-new-york-home-internet-aba-3517417/

AT&T shuts down its home internet service in New York to avoid new broadband law
New York’s affordable broadband act comes into effect this week.
By Rashid Agrawal
13 hours ago << EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-01-17>>

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TL;DR

  •     AT&T has announced it will end its home internet service in New York, effective January 15.
  •     The decision comes in response to the state’s Affordable Broadband Act.
  •     The law requires internet providers to offer low-income households broadband plans priced at $15 and $20.

AT&T has announced that it will cease offering its 5G home internet service in New York State. This drastic decision, first reported by CNET, comes in direct response to the state’s landmark Affordable Broadband Act (ABA), which mandates that internet service providers offer low-income households significantly cheaper internet plans. (h/t: Ars Technica)

*** end quote ***

Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk strikes a blow for cheap internet for “the poor”.

One problem: AT&T picked up their tech and moved out.  Big middle finger to the Comunists who think their diktats have power.  Nah, nah, de nah.  

Did the politicians and bureaucrats expect this?

More and more businesses are pushing back.  I cite PornHub’s departure from certain southern States.

Finally, Ma Bell grew a set.  Where were they when Judge Green and DOJ were breaking up the finest phone system in the world?  The casualties were Bell Labs, a million employees, and untold numbers of investors who lost their collective shirts.

Argh!

Time to squeeze Gooferment back in a very very small box.

It really only has a few limited Constitution duties  —  protect against external aggression, foreign relations, and keep the States from interfering in interstate commerce.

States have more lattitude, but no guarantee that they won’t do stupid <synonym for excrement> like this.

What’s next the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk “diktat” that AT&T phones can’t handle calls in NY?

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Just how many federal and state informants or agents were in the January 6th “Insurrection”

Friday, January 10, 2025

https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/draft?publication_id=2579146&post_id=154178798&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Now that you know federal informants were in the US Capitol on Jan. 6, watch the videos

  • 4 years later, videos capture odd behavior and scenarios

Sharyl Attkisson  —   Jan 05, 2025

*** begin quote ***

Of course, we can assume we have only a slice of the whole truth, if recent history is our guide. The FBI has not been honest and forthcoming about many of its scandals and failures. To name but a few examples: FBI Director Christopher Wray has given false testimony to Congress about surveillance abuses. The FBI conspired with Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign to try to frame Donald Trump for Russia collusion. This included falsifying a document used to get a wiretap against a Trump campaign volunteer— a wiretap that gave the FBI access to Trump’s communications. The IG referred former FBI Director James Comey for criminal prosecution for his mishandling of information regarding President Trump, some of it classified, in his efforts to undermine Trump. (Unsurprisingly, the DOJ took a pass on the prosecution referral.) And the agency used armed SWAT teams to raid homes of cooperative, nonviolent January 6 suspects.

So it’s hard to take at face value anything the FBI may have admitted to in terms of numbers of agents or sources on site, and their supposed role.

*** end quote ***

I’m sure the low information “We, The Sheeple” have no idea that the “insurrection” was a Gooferment instigated false flag.

I’d hope that every agent and informant are put in front of a Grand Jury and asked some hard questions.  As always, convict the bottom of the conspiracy and they will roll on up.  The top tier should go to jail or worse.

Fines and pensions lost seems needed to go along with real jail terms.  No country club prisons for those convicted.

Argh!

Have to send a message to future politicians and bureaucrats about what happens when you betray the nation’s trust.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The USPTO grants very broad patents for ideas that are neither new nor revolutionary

Friday, December 27, 2024

https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-fights-back-we-wont-get-patent-trolled-again/

Open source fights back: ‘We won’t get patent-trolled again’

  • Businesses using open-source projects like Kubernetes are being targeted more often by patent trolls. Now the open source community is launching a counter-offensive and looking for volunteers.

Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor
Nov. 14, 2024 at 12:41 p.m. PT

*** begin quote ***

Edge Networking is a patent troll. This means it buys up patents — not to use them but to extort money from anyone who might want to use the patent. Let’s say you’ve posted a job listing for a Kubernetes engineer. An Edge bot will spot this, assume you must be using Kubernetes, and then slap you with a cease-and-desist note claiming you’re violating its Kubernetes patent and you must pay them a licensing fee. Welcome to the wild, wonderful world of 21st-century patent trolls!

*** end quote ***

So, here we have the root of the problem  — the USPTO.  And, vultures use the USPTO flaw to extract wealth from the finances of companies.

Too expensive to fight so they just fold and pay,

Seems like the Gooferment needs to rebalance the scales of justice in this case.

When the USPTO invalidates a patent, it should charge the patent holder a fee for the wasted effort.

If the patent troll has several patents invalidated, the Federal District Attorney should review the facts for an abuse of process claim.

It’s only fair.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Never forget Operation Northwoods in 1962!

Friday, December 20, 2024

https://palexander.substack.com/p/operation-northwoods-never-forget?publication_id=579356&post_id=153249104&isFreemail=false&r=onvra&triedRedirect=true

Operation Northwoods, never forget, see below for reminder of what US DoD can & will do; I believe 100% JFK’s rejection of the plan lead to his assassination; Breggin says DoD controls those drones,

  • Stack is in cue where Ginger & Peter explain it’s incentive Cloward-Piven style, e.g. a PATRIOT style act to constrain us where DoD is akin to an arm of the global predators conspired against 47

Dr. Paul Alexander

Dec 17, 2024

*** begin quote ***

let me remind you of Operation Northwoods in 1962 that JFK rejected and which in part IMO led to his assassination; in that the US government’s DoD would stage attacks on its very own US military and people, on US populations, using remote controlled planes (this is in 1962, 911 happened in 2001 yet they could remote control fly planes then, commercial planes); thank God RFK as POTUS rejected the DoD’s dangerous and insane plan yet this declassified memo and what we know today about Operation Northwoods, tells us to never believe anything the US government tells you or any government and the lengths to which a government can go and will go to achieve an objective, in this case the US’s DoD:

*** end quote ***

“to never believe anything the US government tells you”

Seems like a good rule of thumb.

They need to be shut down or reduced in size and influence as best that we can.

To start with, DJT47 needs to fire the entire SES (“Senior Executive Staff”).  Will it cause confusion, sure will.  But the replacements will be worried that they are next.  

No more career bureaucrats.  Or career politicians for that matter.

Age limits and term limits.  No pensions.  (Ordinary folks don’t have them.  Why should our “employees”?)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.” — George Carlin

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/ryan-mcmaken/hunter-bidens-pardon-is-exactly-what-we-should-expect-from-the-us-regime/

lewrockwell.com
Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is Exactly What We Should Expect from the US Regime – LewRockwell
By Ryan McMaken

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-12-12>>

*** begin quote ***

Nor should we be surprised when we are presented with yet more evidence that there are two legal systems in America: one for the regime and its friends, and another for everyone else. (By “regime,” we mean the permanent administrative government and its attendant ruling class.)

*** and ***

When Barack Obama targeted and murdered American citizens without any due process, his AG, Eric Holder, simply declared that the law allows such things, and the Bill of Rights doesn’t mean what it says.

We could contrast this sort of impunity with what happens to regular people who commit far more benign infractions of federal law. For example, at about the same time James Comey was declaring that it was perfectly fine for Hillary Clinton to mis-use dozens of classified documents, a low-level Navy sailor, Kristian Saucier, was sentenced to six months house arrest for taking a few photos on board a US submarine.

Similarly, it has become routine for federal whistleblowers to serve time in prison while those who actually commit the crimes exposed by the whistleblowers face no punishment at all. Chelsea Manning is one such case, as is John Kiriakou who exposed the CIA’s illegal torture programs. Kiriakou is the only person connected with the CIA’s criminal conspiracy who has ever faced any legal sanction.

And, of course, there are the cases of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Snowden was forced to flee to Russia to avoid prosecution for telling the truth of the regime’s widespread violations of our basic property rights. Assange, who exposed various federal lies about war crimes in Iraq, finally escaped a federal prison cell only after the American state took its pound of flesh. The American intelligence “community” conspired for years—with the help of Trump, Biden, and Obama—to rob Assange of years of freedom while he holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy or fought extradition from a British prison.

*** end quote ***

“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.” — George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0

George had it right.  And “We, The Sheeple” are too stupid or too complacent to hold the parasite class (i.e., “celebrities”, politicians and bureaucrats, other “gliterati”) to account,

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” — Thomas Sowell

How do we change the “system”?

I can only think of one way — succession.   Personally withdraw from supporting these activities. 

If enough of us join together, then who can stand against us?

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“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.” — George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0

Thomas Sowell Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved December 12, 2024, from BrainyQuote.com Web site: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/thomas_sowell_392884

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/19/kesha-rogers/four-us-citizens-killed-obama-drone-strikes-3-were/
Kesha Rogers stated on March 19, 2014 in statements on her campaign website


GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Shutdown the Drug Enforcement Administration; end the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”

Monday, December 16, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/laurence-m-vance/one-agency-that-trump-shouldnt-nominate-anyone-to-lead/

One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead
By Laurence M. Vance
December 11, 2024

*** begin quote ***

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has withdrawn. This is one agency that Trump shouldn’t nominate anyone to lead.

*** and ***

It is not the business of the government to concern itself with the personal eating, drinking, or smoking habits of Americans; with the nature and quantity of any substance Americans inhale or otherwise take into their body; with restricting or monitoring any harmful or mood-altering substances that any American wants to consume; or with regulating the consumption, medical, or recreational habits of Americans.

Since the DEA is the main federal agency responsible for the drug war, it needs neither an administrator nor agents. The agency should be shuttered, completely and permanently.

*** end quote ***

Clearly there is no Federal authorization in the Constitution for this continued intrusion into the Rights of ordinary Americans and usurpation of individual States’ Rights.

Argh!

The “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” has been a total disaster in so many dimensions.

It’s a good thing to stop.  Period!

(And confirm the point that Libertarians have been making for a long long time.)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FEMA and Federal flood insurance is a sad joke played upon “We, The Sheeple”

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

FROM TWITTER AKA X

*** begin quote ***

Matt Van Swol
@matt_vanswol
FEMA seems to be very confused about why #WNC residents receiving the “maximum” payout are still upset.

Let me explain:

a) You’re living in your retirement home in Chimney Rock at age 68 with your wife, you both saved up forever for this home.

b) Helene comes in and carries that home down into the lake below, your whole life savings along with it.

c) You barely escape with your life and a few weeks later submit a “housing assistance” form on FEMA’s website.

d) FEMA shows up and takes a look at where your home used to be and says, “Yep, that sucks, you qualify!”

e) You feel lucky, many of your neighbors didn’t qualify so you wait on FEMA to get back to you.

f) A few days later you receive a payout into your bank account of $42,500.

g) You turn to your wife and say… wait a minute, we still have $120,000 left on our mortgage, but we don’t have a house!

h) You call FEMA and say, “Hey, I’m grateful for the $42,500, but I don’t have a home and I still owe 6 figures on the one that doesn’t exist. What do I do now?”

i) FEMA says, totally get it, we can put you up in a hotel for 31 days.

j) You say, I don’t need a hotel, I need a plan to rebuild my home and get my life back together!

k) FEMA says, “Oh right, about that… you can’t actually build on the land your house once existed on because it’s in a flood plain now.”

l) You sit there in silence. Finally you respond, “So my home is in a lake, I only have $42,500 to my name, I owe $120,000 on my mortgage, and the land I currently own, I can’t even build on?”

m) FEMA goes, “That’s correct, here’s a 31 day hotel voucher.

That’s why people are pissed.

*** end quote ***

# – # – # – # – #

Speechless!

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Big trash investment but no savings for the taxpayer

Friday, November 29, 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/harlem-nycha-vacuum-powered-trash-system/?ICID=ref_fark

Watch CBS News
Local News
NYCHA shows off new state-of-the-art vacuum-powered trash system in Harlem
newyork
By Jessi Mitchell
November 19, 2024 / 10:35 PM EST / CBS New York 

*** begin quote ***

NEW YORK — A new state-of-the-art trash system in NYCHA’s Polo Grounds Towers in Harlem promises to tackle energy, rodent and recycling issues.

It is the first public housing building in the country to use the pneumatic technology.

*** and ***

Currently, staff spend eight hours a day moving garbage between buildings by foot. Now those crews will be better used, contributing to NYCHA’s partnership with Compost Power on the property, raking and repurposing fallen leaves, grinding them up into ground cover, as residents drop off food scraps for the community garden.

*** end quote ***

Sad that there is nothing in this for the Taxpayer.  

And why is it a Federal issue?  

(Remember:  The Taxpayer funds extracted by the Federal Gooferment are decreased by handling costs for each level those fund pass thru.  Into “Federal”, there goes 50%. Into NYC, there goes 50%. Into NYCHA, there goes another 50%.  So, ½ times ½ time ½ equals a “friction effect” of losing 87.5%.  Quibble about the exact percentage but you get the point.  Pay for it as close to the service as possible!)

Also, why don’t private owners of rental properties do something similar?  Maybe it’s not cost-effective?  Or, maybe, the owners and / or renters would prefer a different amenity in stead?

Bottom line: The Taxpayers get to pay for something that most people could care less about.  Except for the Socialists with their “religion” of Leftist issues.  Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FEMA’s Real Purpose

Saturday, October 26, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/10/brandon-smith/femas-real-purpose-suppressing-americans-and-preventing-civilian-organization/

FEMA’s Real Purpose: Suppressing Americans And Preventing Civilian Organization
By Brandon Smith Alt-Market.us
October 24, 2024

*** begin quote ***

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was founded on April 1st, 1979 under the Jimmy Carter Administration during the height of a nearly decade long stagflationary crisis and the Iranian oil crisis. Under Executive Order 12127, its stated goal was to centralize all disaster related efforts under a single top-down entity. Specifically, FEMA ended the more localized Civil Defense Agency, which was focused on community based emergency response, and it federalized all disaster coordination under a single top-down system controlled by the Oval Office.

*** and ***

We just witnessed a repeat of this behavior from FEMA and the affiliated agencies within their oversight. We saw local EMS being advised to prevent civilians from helping their communities. Supplies were once agaun being blocked, people with drones were being told not to help find survivors, people with helicopters are were threatened for helping save survivors and little aid reached Helene victims for weeks. Elon Musk’s Starlink was even been prevented from providing satellite internet services to affected regions until the story went national and the Department of Transportation was forced to address the problem.

*** and ***

I argue that this is all deliberate. FEMA and the federal government at large are still using Operation Garden Plot-like protocols with two goals in mind…

 

First, they are trying to acclimate the populace to the idea that civilians can’t help themselves and that they should do nothing. They do this by constantly interfering with civilian efforts and disrupting donations. If civilians are working on their own to save US communities from calamity then they might one day realize they don’t need the Federal Government for anything. The establishment NEEDS people to believe that they can’t survive without government aid and protection. Luckily, at least in the aftermath of Helene, it seems that many communities are working on their own to fix the situation.

If civilians start doing things for themselves, the establishment machine becomes obsolete.

Second, I suspect FEMA is testing the waters to see how much they can get away with. Katrina was a clear beta-test for martial law disguised as an emergency response. Katrina was Garden Plot and Rex-84 realized. They want to see what Americans will put up with. Helene is yet another opportunity for these agencies to apply overt control and see if Americans will conform or rebel.

*** end quote ***

Time to end FEMA, DHS, and bunch of other Federal Gooferment agencies.

People need to help each other and send the Federal Gooferment back to their offices.  They just actively interfere with “We, The Sheeple” doing what they have done for eons  —  survive by helping each other.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Time for patriots to “water” the Tree of Liberty — vote them all out

Monday, October 14, 2024

https://savejersey.com/2024/10/op-ed-americans-once-again-betrayed-by-their-own-uncle-sam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=op-ed-americans-once-again-betrayed-by-their-own-uncle-sam&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=op-ed-americans-once-again-betrayed-by-their-own-uncle-sam

savejersey.com
Op-Ed: Americans Once Again Betrayed by Their Own Uncle Sam 
Dale Glading
Cross-Posted from DaleGlading.com

*** begin quote ***

It may be the greatest betrayal of Americans by their own government in U.S. history, right up there with Congress raiding the Social Security “lockbox” to pay current expenses. In that latter instance, the $2.8 trillion surplus that the Social Security Administration amassed from the mid-1980s through 2020 has been invested in interest-bearing Treasury securities. In other words, by investing in T-bills, the SSA has loaned the federal government money for its general operating budget, money that will have to repaid to cover future benefits by borrowing even more money (with interest) down the road.

Got it?

As a result of that “rob Peter now to pay Paul later” mentality, Social Security is expected to deplete its trust fund by 2037, after which benefits will have to be reduced by approximately 25% for the program to remain solvent. That means that a government program that was built upon the shoulders of Baby Boomers in the workforce is projected to collapse when those same Boomers are fully retired.

Sounds like a Ponzi scheme on steroids to me.

<< EDITOR ADDED: Absolutely!>

*** and ***

Even worse, FEMA is now in no position to assist American citizens in the path of Milton because it mismanaged its $33 billion budget, only $20 billion of which is actually designated for major disaster relief. How incompetent, unconscionable, and unforgiveable is that?

By comparison, Samaritan’s Purse operates on a $1 billion annual budget and provides far more emergency relief in a far more effective manner. According to Christianity Today, “the organization’s 160,000-square-foot warehouse and offices in North Wilkesboro, NC employ 385 people who buy, repair, maintain and retrofit millions of dollars’ worth of medical equipment, generators and water filtration systems, much of them donated. The warehouse has six emergency field hospitals ready to ship, four with tents, hospital beds, anesthesiology equipment, X-ray machines, and surgical suites – all engineered to fold into a plane’s fuselage. There are also miles of plastic tarps, mountains of clothing and boxes full of small brown teddy bears with the Samaritan’s Purse logo – a cross inside a circle.”

*** and ***

And so, I suggest the following: impeach Secretary Mayorkas for a second time and turn the rest of FEMA’s annual operating budget over to Samaritan’s Purse.

*** end quote ***

Clearly, the Federal Gooferment is a complete failure in so many many dimensions.  Time to start over.  Let’s dissolve “The United States” into its component parts and let the individual States figure out the problem.  Just declare bankruptcy and let the chips fall where they may.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS:57 million $ White House finds today (without congress) for Lebanon for essential needs but can’t for Helene victims?

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

https://palexander.substack.com/p/urgent-see-this-list-of-places-that?publication_id=579356&post_id=149946265&isFreemail=false&r=onvra&triedRedirect=true

157 million $ White House finds today (without congress) for Lebanon for essential needs but can’t for Helene victims?

& congress too won’t come back, so says Speaker Mike Johnson, he will not call them back from break? so WH can give Lebanon our tax money without congress (& sell-out ‘no money for our border security’ Speaker Johnson will not call them back) but NEEDS congress for Helene $? wtf

Dr. Paul Alexander

Oct 07, 2024

*** begin quote ***

So, we could give bitches our money without congress, but WH needs congress to come back to get money for Helene for North Carolina and Speaker Johnson is playing with himself as he says congress is not coming back for one month; if Johnson needed money for Ukraine he would bring congress back for that as he prior did; so WH and speaker Johnson and congress are spooning each other as they collectively fuck the survivors of hurricane Helene…the congress, Speaker Johnson, and The White House (Harris et al.) are screwing the American people and damaging the survivors of Helene and now we have another hurricane Milton on its heels now at a category 5 rating (180 mph). 

*** end quote ***

Yeah, when it suits them, they can “find” all sorts of money for their pet projects.

Vote them all out.

Argh!

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