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ICE raid targets 100 Tren de Aragua members in Aurora, CO
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Government Corruption
The USAID Scam Explained in 6 Short Paragraphs
[X] This USAID story is eliciting reactions that seem surprising to most people. Let me break down the real story for you. A short 🧵1/

USAID is a front for the CIA. They are an unaccountable agency, under the cover of humanitarian efforts overseas, who operate via various NGOs, to carry out domestic operations. 2/

When the dust settles we are going to find out that most of the domestic terror we have seen the last few years (think BLM and INTIFA riots) were funded by USAID. That is just the tip of the iceberg. 3/

They have been able to get away with this for so long because almost everyone in elected office in DC is either getting paid, just like the media orgs, or they are scared to raise the ire of USAID. 4/

Trump knew all of this which is why USAID was the very first government agency to get shut down. It is the conduit through which most of the deep state in DC operate. Now it is gone. 5/

The shrill responses from the uniparty eunuchs will grow louder until their own corruption is revealed. Buckle up. When all is revealed it will not only end many political careers, but there will be convictions and prison sentences. 6/
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/06/2025 09:24 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Seems accurate.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2025 11:37 Comments || Top||

#3  IIRC Trump mentioned he knew where to bodies were buried. Seems USAID as the political/financial center of gravity for a significant part of Deep State.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/06/2025 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Tell me the CIA has bought entertainers without telling me.

"Powers to appear on The Late Show to plea her story."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/06/2025 16:12 Comments || Top||

#5  She's Shanty Irish
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2025 17:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Zero fear of personal space invasion in that picture.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/06/2025 17:41 Comments || Top||

#7  #7. There's a dozen or more copycat version of USAID running amuck in other arenas. You know damn well they weren't content to just fix *one* lottery, they fixed every lottery they could touch.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/06/2025 17:55 Comments || Top||


Shocking! 'The Cartels Control Chicago
[WND] Chicago is at a breaking point — decades of corruption, mismanagement, and open-border policies have left its black communities struggling while politicians funnel resources to illegal immigrants.

More than $51 million meant for drug recovery was stolen, $1.9 billion in federal housing funds sits untouched, and crime is skyrocketing as the cartel launders money through real estate.

Meanwhile, schools are overrun, disease outbreaks are rising, and jobs meant for American workers are quietly being handed to those who crossed the border illegally.

P Rae Easley is leading the fight against this betrayal, exposing the lies of the political machine and demanding action.

Chicagoans are waking up — will you stand with them? Will you demand accountability, fight for your community, and reclaim what is rightfully yours? Now is the time to rise.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/06/2025 06:56 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Chicago government is about as corrupt as the Mexican government. Tell us something we haven't figured out yet.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/06/2025 9:02 Comments || Top||


#3  If federal funds are allocated, there ought to be an audit to make sure the intent gets accomplished. Sounds like the USAID auditors need to be either LGBT or at least curious, otherwise the audit process will be pretty onerous.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2025 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  The Chicago government is about as corrupt as the Mexican government. Tell us something we haven't figured out yet.

Most likely for the same reason: All that cartel money.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/06/2025 12:48 Comments || Top||

#5  If Second City Cop is accurate, some of those schools are not so much overrun as empty, with more staff than students.
Posted by: James || 02/06/2025 17:59 Comments || Top||

#6  some of those schools are not so much overrun as empty, with more staff than students.

"But we can't close empty schools. That would (presses F3) have a devastating effect on the neighborhood."

Perhaps, just perhaps, the public school population is down because parents with the means have either moved out of the district, or sent their kids to private/Catholic schools. Like Yogi said, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too sucky".
Posted by: SteveS || 02/06/2025 18:54 Comments || Top||


FCC releases CBS News' raw '60 Minutes' transcript from Kamala Harris interview
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not yet unburdened by that has-been.
Posted by: Warthog || 02/06/2025 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  If I saw the actual clip, it just looked like her usual self to me.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2025 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I didn't make it past the pre-recording chit chat.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/06/2025 16:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Who's Kamala Harris?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/06/2025 17:00 Comments || Top||


Elon Musk goes to war on Ilhan Omar over seminars for Somalis on how to avoid ICE
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Can you annul US citizenship of somebody who lied on their application papers?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/06/2025 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  @1
Apparently yes.

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 02/06/2025 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Time to reexamine Ilhan's!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/06/2025 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  How about G. Soros?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/06/2025 7:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Time to start revoking citizenships
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/06/2025 9:22 Comments || Top||

#6  See if she filed FARA paperwork. That seems to be popular lawfare these days.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2025 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  get her on the next plane to her whoreland
Posted by: jack salami || 02/06/2025 21:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Karoline Leavitt just wrapped up her White House press conference with another shocking list of absurdities USAID has been funding
[X]


…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. That’s where the USAID has been spending YOUR money. Democrats have been sending your tax dollars to all kinds of crazy places, like George Soros’ prosecutor fund and even worse… the media.
@politico
received $26 million dollars over the last four years from the federal government. The White House says it’s all getting DOGED.

Probably not Zionist Jewish photographers…






Courtesy of Skidmark:
Who is Samantha Power? Meet the Biden-era USAID leader facing backlash amid Musk's DOGE crackdown

Courtesy of Besoeker:
USAID Panic Mode: Bill Gates Goes On MSM, Bashes Musk's DOGE, Fear-Mongers About Next Pandemic
[ZERO] Globalist billionaire Bill Gates made the rounds on far-left corporate media outlets on Tuesday morning, criticizing Elon Musk's DOGE to fold USAID into the State Department—a move that would place Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the agency's Acting Administrator. Gates has panicked, and making the rounds on MSM shows just that because he knows that USAID's funding days for his nonprofit empire might be numbered, as Rubio will apply maximum oversight into grant distributions.

Gates appeared on NBC's Today Show, telling the host that Musk "doesn't appreciate the phenomenal work at USAID." He continued, "It's not partisan work."

However, according to a DailyWire report, 97% of the political contributions from USAID workers went to the Democratic Party. That's a good one, Bill.







Posted by: Fred || 02/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11182 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they are mad about USAID, the Education Dept shutdown ought to be like China Syndrome.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2025 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  If Gates is fear mongering about another pandemic it makes me suspicious that he is cooking one up.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/06/2025 12:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Bazaar Fronts; Payoff Fronts and Project Funding.

You say Afghan Gas Station with no business receipts, I see Big O packaging and distribution warehouse.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/06/2025 13:41 Comments || Top||

#4  As we're commenting, this is just from one agency. Can you imagine them doing this daily for the next year from Department to Department. They're not running these people in carts to the guillotine, but they're feeding the citizenry a display of what was always suspected in the looting of their hard earned income through taxes, a allegory of our the governmental aristocracy. There is absolutely no sense of shame, responsibility, or accountability by the usual suspects.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/06/2025 15:12 Comments || Top||


AG Pam Bondi just ordered the Justice Department to freeze all funding for sanctuary cities
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  We’re now doing stuff that everybody thought we should do, but seemed impossible to actually do.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2025 11:20 Comments || Top||



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