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Old Mar 31, 2025 | 12:54 PM
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So, I watched the Baier DOGE interview, and it seems that they are doing what needs to be done to help stabilize the working class's tax liability. What I don't understand is what is the dems beef with making the government more efficient?

Is it that many that receive gov funding for no reason typically vote for the left, is this waste buying votes?
Is it that the dems are profiting directly from many of these erroneous expenditures?
Does the left understand that the increasing tax's is a mainstay concern of the working-class conservative voter?
Do the dems realize if the government spending keeps increasing it will cause tax's and the pressure on the working class to keep increasing?
What do they think the result will be??
Old Mar 31, 2025 | 02:28 PM
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https://x.com/alx/status/1906526078396420132

MSM- “why social security fraud is good for democracy”
--Over 5.5 million social security numbers created for non-citizens since 2021
--Benefit programs for these people set to "max pay" by default
--1.3 million of the 5.5 million are already on Medicaid!
--some were even registered to vote, and voted!

This was temporary. If Kamala Harris had won, it would already be permanent. The U.S. would be a uniparty government, based on fraud.
Old Mar 31, 2025 | 09:25 PM
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This is an amazing summary of what's going on in France and all of Europe and how it's tied into what the globalists were trying to do to Trump:
https://open.substack.com/pub/boriqu...e-spectre-over

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embezzlement sounds like a crime and worse like a self-serving crime of moral turpitude whereby a politician stole from the people. this is why they are choosing to thus name this claim.

but let's have a look at what really happened:

le pen was "convicted" of using money allocated by the euro parliament to pay for parliamentary assistants. there is nothing improper about that. this is, in fact, what the funds were for. at issue is whether those PA's worked sufficiently on EU-related legislative work as opposed to domestic work. this issue dates from 2004-2016, over a decade old, so hardly new news. the timing itself speaks volumes.

how this is being called "embezzlement" with a straight face is beyond me. this is literally a worker classification/how did you spend you time issue. calling it "embezzlement" is ridiculous. it makes it sound like she ran off with the money. clearly, that's the point and many of the "media" stories on this are long on emotion and accusation and desperately short on context.

i imagine that is also by design.

she was convicted by the paris judicial court and sentenced to two years in actual prison (with 2 more suspended) for what amounts to a mostly made up accountancy "error" that is the common practice of everyone who gets such funds.

this is a chilling flex of "if we want you, we can have you, so stay in line."

LePen beats all other presidential candidates with ease in final poll before court ruling

"If found ineligible, Le Pen's absence from the ballot would be seismic, not only for her party but for the French electorate, who consistently place her ahead of any rival. The Ifop poll shows Le Pen capturing between 34 percent and 37 percent of first-round voting intentions, beating all likely centrist and left-wing candidates."
this is pre-emptive romania.

the EU judiciary is now invalidating elections and quite literally imprisoning opposition leaders to prevent them from standing in elections they look likely to win.

if this is not authoritarian diktat, what would be?

what would it take to convince you that the fascists are in power and ready to round up whatever dissidents they need to in order to stay there?


note that she's the only one they seem to have "investigated." care to wager than basically no french parliamentary leaders could have survived a similar audit similarly applied?

the evidence is already legion:
pierre lellouche, a lawyer and former deputy of the french national assembly, appeared on CNEWS to point out that the current prime minister, François Bayrou, faced the same charge and suffered no consequences.

"Then, last but not least, there is the case of (François) Bayrou, the current prime minister, who has been prosecuted for exactly the same thing, i.e., for abuses of party funding declared as parliamentary assistants in Europe, at the EU parliament. Bayrou emerged from this affair without being in the least concerned. In fact, the public prosecutor's office has once again referred the matter to the courts, but even so, we're dealing with a double standard here. It's a bit surprising."

is this ringing any bells? perhaps bells around the handing of emails and information or servers and documents?

this is a ridiculous and targeted piece of trumped up lawfare that has become alarmingly common in the US and EU alike. if we don't like you, we arrest you. the selectivity and uneven standards are the key feature of this system.

it's the very definition of aristocratic law and aristocratic rule. it's a privileged ruling class living up to the etymology of the word, for privilege quite literally means "private law":

one law for me, another for thee, we're the aristocracy.

in practice, trump takes a few meaningless docs home and it's "you're a felon." hil-dog has whole unaccounted servers and reams of classified docs and is not really investigated and never charged. president puddinhead is found to have committed the same offenses as trump (as has probably every sitting president ever) but was never prosecuted because he was a senile old man whose memory was too poor to stand trial. then they left him in the oval office.

why, it's almost as if there's a pattern here...

bayrou uses EU funds to fund domestic PA's and because he's a macron pal, nothing every comes if it.

this is the soros globalist playbook at work and is only getting more muscular and blatant with the joining of the soros and clinton tribes through alex and huma, truly a match made in hades. ahh, paris in the spring...

the soros pater familias is a phenomenal investor who understands value and reflexivity in a manner few in human history have done. he's also utterly amoral to the point of quite probably being the head of the real world version of SPECTRE, james bond's shadowy and ubiquitous foe.

his political genius has shaped the modern world because george figured out a simple thing: laws don't matter.
what matters is who applies the laws and to whom.


he then realized there was a vast value investing play here: races for judges and DA's and prosecutors were incredibly cheap to influence. the appointed judiciary was an unelected power base of great duration able to essentially rule nations from the bench. he made big investments here.

george saw that the left was going to start losing, that the WEF was cooked, that the leadership was vapid and weak. so he generated a system to keep a feckless and retarded aristocracy in power. he made the system idiot proof.

our side can do what it likes without consequence, your side will be arrested endlessly in "show me a man and i'll show you the crime" beria style show trials.

in the US, the judiciary and its astonishing incestuous corruption and unconstitutional criminality is suddenly on vivid display as they keep trying to claim they control federal employment, policy, and spending.

once is happenstance. how many times does it take for you to believe that this is "enemy action"?

all over the world, from trump to bolsanaro and goergescu to le pen, this is getting grievous.

they have lost the people.

so now comes the fist.

you think it's a coincidence that the whole of the left global is falling back into the judiciary and the police states they direct as a bastion of defense?

this is a coup.

it's the judiciary taking over elections and presidencies, tying opponents in knots and taking them off the board, allowing havoc to be wreaked by one set of activists while arresting all others and sentencing them to real, hard gulag time.

will barring le pen and georgescu from office eliminate their movements?

No.

it will intensify them just as it did in america.

and as in so many places, these convictions and "crimes" and suppressions will become badges of honor, proof that you are real, worthy, honest, proof that you were a threat to that which we all know must be overturned.

this is not the time for pessimism or back foot fear.

this is the time to realize how scared and desperate the aristo-clowns must be to be trying something this blatant.

this is the last gasp of a failing regime, a peeing of pants as short term means to stay warm for a few seconds longer.

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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 08:57 AM
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Apparently we have a Ministry of Peace???


Old Apr 1, 2025 | 10:35 AM
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https://genesiustimes.com/april-fool...oogle_vignette

BREAKING: April Fool’s Day cancelled because reality is so ridiculous

Old Apr 1, 2025 | 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
in practice, trump takes a few meaningless docs home and it's "you're a felon." hil-dog has whole unaccounted servers and reams of classified docs and is not really investigated and never charged. president puddinhead is found to have committed the same offenses as trump (as has probably every sitting president ever) but was never prosecuted because he was a senile old man whose memory was too poor to stand trial. then they left him in the oval office.
This is not accurate...

The classified documents Biden had in his garage and other places were not from his presidency, and he had zero right to have them. Trump, as Commander-in-Chief, could have any classified he wanted, and could make anything he wanted unclassified. There are no regulations written by a higher authority that restrict POTUS, because there is no one above POTUS, and there are no regulations written by some LtCol somewhere that restrict POTUS. I work with classified almost every work day. My authority to derivatively classify new documents comes from the president. The timing of the story about Biden's documents is important because AT THE TIME, he was president, but his mishandling of documents happened when he was a senator and VP.

Hilary's transgressions would have landed my happy *** in jail had I committed them.
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 02:52 PM
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NEW INTERNAL FBI CHAT LOGS SHOW THE FBI IMPOSED A “GAG ORDER” ABOUT THE NY POST STORY ON HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP THE DAY IT CAME OUT

The FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop, but on the day the NY Post story came out, the FBI refused to tell Big Tech the truth.

Last year, we detailed the FBI’s months-long campaign to ‘pre-bunk’ the New York Post story on the Biden family’s corruption ahead of the 2020 election.

Our report showed how the FBI worked to discredit the story as so-called ‘Russian disinformation’ before it was even published.

Read it here: https://t.co/1dlJWSo1CF

The FBI’s campaign to discredit the Post story continued even after it was published on October 14, 2020.

That morning, one FBI analyst tried to tell Twitter that the laptop was real—until his bosses shut him up.

The Committee had testimony from key FBI personnel, but until now, the FBI refused to produce the internal communications from that day in unclassified form for the American public to see.






An internal FBI chat log newly obtained by the Committee shows the FBI deliberately withheld information about the FBI having Hunter Biden’s laptop and an ongoing criminal investigation involving the Biden family’s corruption: “do not discuss biden matter.”



he internal FBI chat log also shows how far senior FBI officials went to silence this analyst. After the meeting, a senior FBI lawyer put a “gag order” on the analyst.





The analyst was also “admonished” by FBI staff, who lamented that he still wouldn’t “shut up.”


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With the truth-telling analyst given a “gag order” and the FBI refusing the comment, Big Tech censored the Post story because the FBI had, for months, led them to believe it was Russian disinformation and had withheld the fact that the FBI was in possession of the laptop.


During the week that Facebook demoted the story, over 30 million Americans cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election.

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in...r-biden-harris


BREAKING: FBI Imposed “Gag Order” About Hunter Biden Laptop After Employee Accidentally Confirmed Its Authenticity To Twitter

Newly released internal FBI chat messages reveal senior bureau officials actively shutting down discussion of the laptop’s credibility days before the 2020 Presidential election

An FBI official admitted to House investigators that an FBI employee had inadvertently confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop to Twitter on a conference call the morning of October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published a story about it.

“I recall that when the question came up, an intelligence analyst assigned to the Criminal Investigative Division said something to the effect of, ‘Yes, the laptop is real’,” the then Russia unit chief testified in a closed door transcribed interview.

“I believe it was an (Office of General Counsel) attorney assigned to the (Foreign Influence Task Force) stepped in and said, ‘We will not comment further on this topic.’”

For the first time, and with a change of administration, the FBI has now turned over to GOP House investigators the internal chat messages that show Bureau leadership actively silenced its employees.

The FBI, which had a special task force to counter foreign election interference, could have set the record straight by confirming the laptop was real and the subject of an ongoing criminal probe. Instead, FBI leadership allowed the false narrative about the laptop to gain momentum.

The FBI provided the chat messages to congressional investigators with heavy redactions.

Some of the redactions on the chats are marked “OGC AGC,” which appears to mean that they were made by the FBI’s Office of General Counsel and Associate General Counsel.

An individual whose name is blacked out, tells Elvis M. Chan, the San Francisco-based FBI special agent tasked with interacting with social media companies, there was a “gag order” on discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop. In a separate exchange, Chan is told “official response no commen(t).”

In the chat, the FBI officials showed awareness that the laptop may have contained evidence of criminal activity.

Asked Chan, “actually what kind of case is the laptop thing? corruption? campaign financing?”

Another FBI employee responds, “CLOSE HOLD —” after which the response is redacted.

To which Chan responds, “oh crap” appearing to underscore the serious nature of the probe, which included felony tax charges. Chan adds, “ok. It ends here”.

In the same conversation, Chan is asked if “Anyone discussing that NYPost article on the Biden’s?” Chan responds, “yes we are. c d confirmed an active investigation. No further comment.” “C D” is likely shorthand for the FBI’s Criminal Division.

Said another FBI employee, whose name was redacted by the Bureau, “please do not discuss biden matter.”

We asked for a response from the bureau and the FBI employees identified in the chat messages. An FBI spokesman declined to comment.

We go in-depth on the chat messages for subscribers!
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:01 PM
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Oh, USA Today...

To be fair, if I were lazy and unmotivated then I suspect that I would also cherish a job which came with a good paycheck and full benefits, yet had no accountability and did not require that I do anything of value.




Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
This is an amazing summary of what's going on in France and all of Europe and how it's tied into what the globalists were trying to do to Trump:
https://open.substack.com/pub/boriqu...e-spectre-over

Excerpts:

if this is not authoritarian diktat, what would be?

what would it take to convince you that the fascists are in power and ready to round up whatever dissidents they need to in order to stay there?


this is the last gasp of a failing regime, a peeing of pants as short term means to stay warm for a few seconds longer.

It's a privileged ruling class living up to the etymology of the word, for privilege quite literally means "private law"; one law for me, another for thee. We're the aristocracy.



A lot of people have figured out through DOGE that MASSIVE fraud has been happening in our government. This was a pretty big clue.
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:31 PM
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Timeline cleanse. There are four astronauts now orbiting over the North and South poles, for the first time ever. They have a monster 4 foot bubble that allows them some of the most incredible views of space...ever.

This is a private commercial flight, commissioned by a bitcoin billionaire.

Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:59 PM
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 04:26 PM
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Wait, it should be the opposite. The richer you are means you've paid more taxes, which means you should get a reduced fine, up to the point where if you're so rich you just drive however you damn well please.
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 05:00 PM
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A bunch of European countries fine you based on your income. A Nokia exec got tagged for something like $100k for speeding in Finland because he made a lot of money. They don’t do it for equity, they do it to make you hurt. And make money.
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by xturner
A bunch of European countries fine you based on your income. A Nokia exec got tagged for something like $100k for speeding in Finland because he made a lot of money. They don’t do it for equity, they do it to make you hurt. And make money.

Agreed. The point is to prevent those of us at the higher end of the scale from treating traffic / parking fines as simply a toll, without creating such a burden on the poors that the legislation gets blocked.

This is definitely becoming the new norm.
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Agreed. The point is to prevent those of us at the higher end of the scale from treating traffic / parking fines as simply a toll, without creating such a burden on the poors that the legislation gets blocked.

This is definitely becoming the new norm.
It's the continuation of class warfare, which is socialism's bread and butter. I'm just shocked they didn't say that fines would be changed based on your "DEI" scale.

Taxes should be flat. Laws should be applied equally.




Old Apr 1, 2025 | 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by xturner
A bunch of European countries fine you based on your income. A Nokia exec got tagged for something like $100k for speeding in Finland because he made a lot of money. They don’t do it for equity, they do it to make you hurt. And make money.
a bunch of EU countries don't have the 14a. or the 5a, or the 4a, or the 8a. all applicable here...

Imagine forgetting that our country exists because we got tired of euro BS.

Know how lady justice has a blindfold? If a man hits you doing 125mph and kills you, does it matter if he makes $10,000/year or $10mil/year?

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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 09:00 PM
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I never thought you people would have me *defending* anything about speed cameras...

Speeding is a violation of the criminal code. Criminal punishments are meant to be punitive, however the Constitution also forbids punishments which are "cruel and unusual."

In order for a monetary penalty to be punitive towards me, without also causing undue harm to a poor, it needs to take into account the degree to which any given fine stings, so to speak.

For your average gender studies major, a $100 ticket could easily mean having to choose between going without Starbucks or going without a new facial piercing for a whole week. That's basically the same as being tossed into a **** extermination camp.

For us normies, that $100 isn't something we're likely to notice.
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 09:01 PM
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A bunch of European countries seem to be run by incipient socialist/authoritarian/fascistic(the real kind) a-holes.
Gooder and harder.
Old Apr 1, 2025 | 09:54 PM
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I seem to recall that driving is a privilege, not a right. If an individual chooses to drive, then they need to be able to afford it in all aspects. It's just basic responsibility. Simple as that. If you can't do the time, then don't do the crime.



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