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

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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has withdrawn.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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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# – # – # – # – #

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 

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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!>

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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). 

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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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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Springfield, Ohio is home to a Human Trafficking empire

Monday, October 7, 2024

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/375011/feds-and-state-ag-investigate-an-alleged-human-trafficking-empire-run-in-springfield-ohio/?mc_cid=a27546f42d&mc_eid=0da2484634

Exclusive: Feds and State AG Investigate an Alleged Human Trafficking Empire Run in Springfield, Ohio, for Years by ‘King George’

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Dispatches from Springfield, Ohio – The story in this town is not about cats or dogs. It’s about mules. It’s a twin tragedy of migrant workers from Haiti exploited and locals from Springfield marginalized. Just about every week since 2019, First Diversity Staffing Group Inc. has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to Ohio, where they are allegedly exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc. It is a secretive and sinister operation that has gone unchecked for more than five years. The mastermind behind this scheme lives in a $1.35 million mansion on Pawleys Plantation Court. His name is George Ten, but in that underworld, his nickname is “King George,” because of his opulent lifestyle of luxury cars, cash handouts and fast-talk. For years, he has operated his reign of alleged exploitation openly and freely out of a former mansion on E. High Street.

Asra Q. Nomani

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What began as my efforts to track down a rumor about animal cruelty has turned into an investigation that reveals a malignant system of labor exploitation involving a local businessman, George Ten, whom Haitians and local residents call “King George,” the chief executive at First Diversity Staffing Group Inc., a Springfield company that has been the tip of the spear in the alleged trafficking operation of Haitians to the town. 

While Haitians have lived in homes condemned now with an “X” on the front door, he lives in a $1.35 million mansion on Pawleys Plantation Court in a ritzy neighborhood called “Estates at Country Club of the North.”

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This is a story of unchecked greed and cruelty, committed not by the immigrants, but to the immigrants, with local residents of Springfield also a casualty.

As most journalists learn through experience, things are rarely as they seem. When the allegation of migrants eating cats and dogs exploded across the media, I knew there was more beneath the surface. What began as an investigation into animal cruelty quickly revealed a much darker reality—a large-scale human trafficking operation. 

I arrived in Springfield from my home in Morgantown, W.V., a town much like Springfield in size and scale. I wanted to get to the bottom of this story. I came to Springfield because I felt a connection to the immigrants and the locals here, both their stories echoing my own experience growing up uniting two worlds. I moved to the U.S. with my brother when I was four years old, joining our parents as they made the difficult move in search of a better life, and when I was 10, we settled in West Virginia. 

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Maybe DJT45 may have gotten the story wrong about animal cruelty, there is an underlying story that’s a lot worse.

He should make this a campaign issue about Human Trafficking and Election Interference.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Need an “illegal alien” plan!

Sunday, September 29, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/10_million_illegal_aliens_what_is_to_be_done.html

americanthinker.com
10 Million Illegal Aliens: What Is to Be Done?
By Randall Childs
<<  2024-09Sep-25 Wed >>

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After the economy, illegal immigration ranks highest among voters’ concerns. President Trump has spoken of “mass deportations” of the more than ten million illegal aliens who have flooded our country under Biden-Harris. That’s appealing political rhetoric to the base, but he needs to build policy muscle upon the rhetorical bones.

First, the optics. We’re talking ten million people, and then some. Men, women, children, oldsters, families. Some are the “hardworking people seeking a better life,” as they claim; others are gangsters and terrorists, plus lots in between. Rounding them up and arranging transport of a population equal to Michigan will be no small feat. Prepare for nightmarish images of armed agents descending upon “immigrant” motels and shelters; rounding up families and frog-walking them onto buses, trucks, trains, and planes; and shipping them out. We can expect horrific portrayals of “children in cages” revisited, oldsters with ailments, detention centers portrayed as internment camps, all that. Wouldn’t the anti-Trump media have a field day? Families torn apart! Lives disrupted! Local economies hit hard. And what if their nations of origin refused their re-entry? More ugly media attention.

Candidate Trump needs to present a credible plan to repatriate these people in an orderly, efficient, humane, and politically palatable way. This can be done by arranging deportations in cohorts according to immigrants’ harm and costs to our nation.

We start with the criminal elements: murderers, rapists, drunk drivers, drug-dealers, and professional shoplifters. By legal and administrative means, illegals who have been involved in criminal activity will be prioritized in “grab” lists and subject to arrest and detention. Being flight risks, they must be denied bail, then given a simple choice: be prosecuted, or be deported with the understanding that re-entry will be a mandatory five-year felony. The point is to get bad actors out of the country.

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Well, it seems like a no brainer to start with the high priority criminals.  

I’m sure that would make a huge difference in “the problem”.

I like the idea of having a plan for the “sanctuary cities and states”.  Cut off the federal funds  seem like a way to get “cooperation”.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Guillt by association hits regime opponents hard — Unproven of course

Saturday, September 14, 2024

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/tayler-hansen-banned-youtube-days-after-he-is/

Tayler Hansen Loses YouTube Account Days After He Is Mentioned in a DOJ Indictment as the Victim of an Alleged Crime
by Jim Hoft Sep. 7, 2024 7:30 am

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On Wednesday, the Biden-Harris Regime announced it was launching a “whole government action” to purge so-called ‘Russian propaganda’ and ‘disinformation’ ahead of the 2024 election.

Biden accused Russia of a sustained effort to influence the upcoming election, according to CNN and NBC News.

Then, on Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Justice announced that employees from Russia Today’s media outlet had invested in a $10 million scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging.

Crooked AG Merrick Garland announced, “The Justice Department will not tolerate attempts by an authoritarian regime to exploit our country’s free exchange of ideas in order to covertly further its own propaganda efforts, and our investigation into this matter remains ongoing.”

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According to the Biden DOJ, the RT employees set up Tenet Media, a media startup company linked to conservative heavyweights Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, and Tayler Hanson.

These leading conservative talkers quickly condemned the allegations by Joe Biden’s lawless DOJ.

But the damage was done, and the DOJ tied these prominent conservatives to their latest “Russian scandal.”

It didn’t take long before these conservatives, despite being innocent, were targeted by the social media elites.

On Friday, YouTube banned Tayler Hansen’s account. Tayler had hundreds of videos of his undercover work over the years. Now it is gone. They don’t even warn you so you can save your videos!

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Sure, and it just so happens that this is right in front of the election.  

How about holding announcements until you’ve won in court?

Just because Merrick Garland says something, it must be true.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why is this a problem that is NOT quickly permitted?

Thursday, September 12, 2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/elon-musks-starlink-to-provide-free-emergency-phone-coverage-in-wilderness-areas/

Elon Musk’s Starlink Offers Free Emergency Phone Coverage in Wilderness Areas Worldwide
By Andy Corbley – Sep 2, 2024 

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The satellite internet service Starlink is seeking approval to facilitate 911 calls from wilderness areas to help improve search and rescue efforts and reduce deaths.

Elon Musk’s satellite constellation has served a variety of publicized uses, like giving Ukrainians the ability to communicate during wartime. The most recent is a partnership between Starlink and T-Mobile seeking FCC regulatory approval for a direct-to-cellular service that would allow those deep in the mountains and forests to reach emergency services.

“SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

“This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments. Can’t have a situation where someone dies because they forgot, or were unable to pay for it.”

Direct-to-cellular functions would have a greater scope than just emergencies. Speaking about their application to the FCC, the chairwoman of the regulatory agency referred to it as the beginning of the “Single-network future” which she described as one in which the user “won’t need to think about what network, where, and what services are available; connections will just work everywhere, all the time.”

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Excuse me, but in stead of the the FCC chairwoman “speaking”, why hasn’t this been “approved” without further “Barbara streisand”?

Sorry, but I don’t understand.

Musk made an offer.  The response should be: “Go ahead with all due haste”!

Argh!

Argh!

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