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The Treasury guy shrieked in horror and resigned when they showed up at the Treasury building and asked for access to the payment system.

The Acting SSA babe resigned in a huff when they showed up at the Social Security Administration to audit the system.

USAID people rushed to court to try to get the money turned back on as well as get their jobs back.

And now the USIP folks literally barricade themselves in the building and have to be arrested and escorted out.

What is it about DOGE that these career bureaucrats find so absolutely alternately terrifying or infuriating?

REAL CITIZEN ACCOUNTABILITY.

The one thing DC has needed for decades and artfully avoided...until Trump won a 2nd term.

NOBODY in the DOGE team is a professional politician or a member of the political class. They are citizen appointees. Most come out of the business/corporate sector.

So the Swamp Denizens who spent decades deliberately constructing the federal Leviathan specifically to make it opaque and hide all the shit they've been doing with our money [while Congress and Inspector Generals PRETENDED to have oversight of all of it and saw nothing wrong at all!] do not want ORDINARY CITIZENS poking around their fraud machinery.

We've reached a point in the timeline where these federal career bureaucrats will LITERALLY barricade themselves inside a building to try to keep the citizenry from seeing what they've been up to with the public's money.

This is how you know we're winning and they're losing.
 
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the quiet part out loud. The resistance to Elon Musk’s DOGE in DC is because lobbyists want our tax money “to keep flowing into their pockets”

“I am completely aligned with what Elon's doing”

Scott Bessent says if you don’t move as quickly as Elon Musk is moving, the lobbyist will stop DOGE

“Everyone says, do you have to do it so fast? Like I said, I've only been in this business for 7 weeks. I've only been in DC for 8 weeks. The thing I can tell you is if you don't move fast, the vested interest will weigh you down — Everybody's got lobbyists, I mean think about it, within a 10 mile radius of here, 25% of the GDP of the US pulsates through here every day. And everybody wants to just skim a little.”

“I said to Elon, people are mad at you because you're moving their cheese. It's not their cheese, it's the American people's cheese. 100%. Every dollar spent goes into someone's pocket and that person's going to fight tooth and nail to get that dollar to keep flowing into their pockets”

“There is no winning in Elon's role. Every single time he takes action, there are people that are going to come after him”
 
They used to call this "pork", but it's obviously waste that become fraud with a kickback.
 
Goldhedge said:
Queer and transgender farmers?
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Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
 
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Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
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Very true. There are some shitty breeders of hops cousin out there and you will find that some females end up with balls as well. They are probably the DEI breeders.
 
Someone_else said:
Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
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I don't know about THAT. Stories abound, of dairy farmers who liked their cows, more than might be considered usual. Or keepers of horses, or sheep.

Just sayin'. Perversion doesn't stop at the city limits.
 
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I hear this; and I wish them luck. I hope they make progress.

But I read about how the Dumbo Party is agitating SS recipients; "organizing" them into protests to "keep Elon out of our Social Security payments."

It's like this. The nooze liars are completely removed from fact. They spin a fantasy Narrative; older television viewers suck it up, and then organize the riled-up oldsters into "protests." Where demagogues like Schmuck Choomer appear as heroes - probably wearing capes or some such - and "pledge to protect Social Security." And use that as some sort of force to attack Musk, DOGE, Bondi and of course Orange Man.

How can you fight this Astroturf false-reality?
 
The taxpayers in this country are getting hosed.
at least 11 million illegals allowed in or flown in and put on some sort of government assistance. Billions spent overall of taxpayer money to do this. Now billions more to send them all home and the next time the left takes charge they will just do it all over again.

On average we are sending 9400 a week home. Let's call it 10k. At that rate it will take 21 years to remove them all. Even if we ramp up the numbers and double that amount we are looking at more than 10 years. We need a cheaper and faster way.
1) Need to start fining business owners that hire illegals. Possibly even jail time. That ends one revenue stream for them.
2) Cut off all government money to states that house or give benefits to illegals. That cuts off the 2nd revenue stream they have.

Now they will be begging to go home or starve on American soil. I'm ok with free bus rides to the border. Now they will self deport. Those that are left here are probably criminals.

Farmers that need the labor to pick crops should be be allowed to fast track current illegals if they have committed no other crimes while here.
 
Someone_else said:
Any farmer will know that many (most?) crops have male and female plants. I know that I want all my hops plants to be female, and I believe that farmers of hops' "cousin" go for the female side. In our small garden, we try to ensure pollination with manual help.

Farmers who have strange ideas about sex are probably going to face a disadvantage in outcome.
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It would be weird if a sativa thought itself was an indica. I am not participating in that fantasy.
 
Every time and I mean EVERY time I read an article about waste, abuse or fraud involving taxpayer monies I think of the old Davy Crockett story "Not Yours to Give"

Many of you have probably seen it before,

For those of you that haven't, enjoy.

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Not Yours to Give - FEE

[The following story about the famed American icon Davy Crockett was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1867, as written by James J. Bethune, a pseudonym used by Edward S. Ellis. The events that are recounted here are true, including Crockett’s opposition to the bill in question, though the...
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This is mind blowing

DOGE “There is actually really only ONE BANK ACCOUNT that's used to disperse ALL monies that go out of the federal government”

“It's a big one — A couple weeks ago it had $800 billion in it, it's the treasury general account”

“We're serving 580+ agencies. And up until very recently, effectively they could say, make the payment and Treasury just sent it out as fast as possible. NO VERIFICATION”

“There's a $500 billion of fraud every year. There's hundreds of billion dollars of improper payments and we can't pass an audit. The consolidated financial report is produced by treasury and we cannot pass an audit”
 
DOGE plans to cut a trillion dollars in fraud and waste before they finish up in a couple months. The problem with that is congress just passed a continuing resolution to keep spending at last years levels so not cutting a trillion there. I think the deficit is around 1.8 trillion right now so cutting a trillion is a nice start but we need another trillion in cuts to break even and have a balanced budget.

A few congress critters have come out in support of DOGE but very few. An attempt to make the cuts permanent failed so these corrupt POS will figure out another way to funnel money back into their families and campaigns.

In the end this all makes for great headlines but so far there are 0 arrests and it feels like the politicians are just riding all of this out as they know in a couple months DOGE will be no more and back to business as usual.

100's of billions laundered or stolen and 0 arrests. If you or I stole 10k we would be behind bars for 7-10 years. So if the thieves in DC are not prosecuted this was all an exercise in futility.
 


The US Department of Defense under Operation Sentinel “paid $60 million to teach Afghan women farming. The Taliban don't even allow Afghan women to leave their homes”

“The Department of Defense is also giving the Taliban money—for women's education, but women can't go to school”

“They gave 11 million for the Taliban to register their broken arms.”

“So we don't just have a problem with USAID, we don't just have a problem with State Department. We are a problem with the money in the Department of Defense is giving the Taliban, we have a problem with money. CIA is giving to the Taliban.

We have to be honest about all these pockets of money. 'cause you can't stop 'em if you don't discuss all of 'em.”

“Some of the humanitarian dollars goes to these foreign fighters, but the counter-terrorism dollars come in as U.S cash — there's a lot of money laundering”

“We're funding these incidents that are gonna kill Americans”
 


NEW: The Karen who was seen keying a Tesla in Washington has been identified as 55-year-old millionaire Kamelia Enzler, according to the Daily Mail.

In footage obtained by @choeshow, Enzler was seen getting out of her car before slashing the Tesla.

Enzler is married to lead DocuSign engineer Jeff Enzler. The couple also owns fitness company IPEAK Fitness, according to public records.

The couple lives in a $1.5M home in Seattle.

Enzler was smacked with charges of Malicious Mischief in the Third Degree.


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Millionaire Identified as Suspect in Tesla Keying Incident in Washington

Camera captured Enzler exiting her vehicle and slashing the Tesla’s surface with a key.Seattle, WA.

A 55-year-old woman identified as Kamelia Enzler has been charged with Malicious Mischief in the Third Degree after allegedly keying a Tesla in Washington, according to a report by the Daily Mail.

Enzler, a millionaire, is married to Jeff Enzler, a lead engineer at DocuSign.

Public records indicate the couple also owns IPEAK Fitness, a fitness company.

They reside in a $1.5 million home in Seattle.

The incident, which has gained attention online, showcases Enzler’s actions that led to the third-degree malicious mischief charge, a misdemeanor in Washington state typically involving property damage under $750.

Authorities have not released further details on the motive behind the act or the identity of the Tesla owner.

As of now, neither Kamelia nor Jeff Enzler has issued a public statement regarding the incident.

The case continues to unfold as local law enforcement processes the charges.
 

Trump, DOGE, American people win BIG, activist judges take the ‘L’…​

March 29, 2025
nother major win just dropped—and this one’s a direct hit against activist judges trying to play lawmaker from the bench and a huge victory for DOGE.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stay on a lower court’s activist ruling that tried to block Elon Musk and others from exposing corruption inside USAID. So, what does this mean? Well, it was a very big “not so fast” to judicial overreach—and a solid victory for President Trump’s DOGE plan and mostly the American people who deserve a country free from fraud and bloat.

We’ve been covering the left’s lawfare games for years now. Just recently, we published a piece on Judge Boasberg getting his own much-deserved smackdown after newly released intelligence completely crushed the core of his argument defending Venezuelan gangbangers.

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Trump, DOGE, American people win BIG, activist judges take the 'L'... - Revolver News

It's about damn time!
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Some of the most insane USAID spending that was recently found:

- $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes
- $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon
- $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq
- Sending Ukranians to Paris Fashion Week

- $1.5 million for DEI in Serbia
- $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland
- $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia
- $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru

- $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala
- $6 million for tourism in Egypt
- $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become climate leaders
- $15 million for 'contraceptives and condoms’ in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
- $8.1 million for Politico

USAID was using our tax dollars to send celebrities to UKRAINE to increase Zelensky's popularity around the world and, in particular, the U.S.
Angelina Jolie $20 million
Sean Pean $5 million
Jean Claude Van Dam $1.5 million
Orlando Bloom $8 million
Ben Stiller $4million
  • USAID had 700,000 subscriptions to Disney. 700,000 × $15.99 = $11,193,000 per month, or roughly $134.316 million per year.
  • The Department of Agriculture gave $361k to an antiracist LGBTQ BIPOC leftist collectivist farm training service.
  • $43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan that had no customers,
  • $1.5 million to promote LGBT Jamaicans,
  • $4 million for trans Serbians,
  • $5.5 million for gay rights in Uganda,
  • $17 million for Vietnam “inclusion,”
  • $25 million to promote “green transportation” in Georgia,
  • $1 million for Arab and Jewish photographers,
  • $8 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language,” and
  • $122 million ended up in the hands of terrorists.
 
Exactly Cigarlover.
Until those involved lose their job, lose their pension and lose their freedom, then what's the point of the exercise?
 
This one is simply food for thought.

searcher

Post in thread 'Contrarian news & views'

Came across this guy's channel by accident. He has some interesting thoughts on different things. In this vid he talks about Elon Musk, DOGE, AI, useless eaters, a guaranteed annual income, depopulation and war in a way that makes a lot of sense (in my opinion.) It's short (10 mins) and to the point. Reminds me of some of the discussions we had way back when at the old place. Presented in a sane, low-keyed way.

While I may post some more of his vids, I've provided a link to his channel for anyone interested in his content.

The DARK TRUTH Behind Elon Musk's DOGE​

Mar 22, 2025...
 
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