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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:44am On Apr 22, 2025
bemeruca:
About time
The leftie war om religion. If the progressives had their way, they could demand papal selection be by universal suffrage .
Many Babylon bee articles are thought provoking.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:56pm On Apr 21, 2025
Republicans especially those who are war hawks are always sabotaging Trump.
Brian Fitzpatrick PA congressman went to Ukraine last week to the frontlines and signed artillery shells in a message to Putin. He spent time with Ukraine drone operators. Dressed in combat gear he made way to the front lines and fired off a rifle towards Russian positions
Then went to meet Zelensky .

Pure sabotage.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:33pm On Apr 21, 2025
feedthenation:
John Ullyot, who just resigned as chief Pentagon spokesman, and is a friend of Hegseth, says that the Pentagon is in “total chaos”.

He writes:

“It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president.

Even strong backers of the secretary like me must admit: The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon — and it’s becoming a real problem for the administration.

There are very likely more shoes to drop in short order, with even bigger bombshell stories coming this week, key Pentagon reporters have been telling sources privately.”
Your Pulitzer winning media house for the Russian hoax has not told you that Trump is planning to defund PBS and NPR.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5352827/npr-pbs-public-media-trump-rescission-funding

You think it's a pure coincidence that the latest Hegseth Signal leak chat is doing the rounds.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:30pm On Apr 21, 2025
cococandy:
The only sustainable economic system is social capitalism.

Greedy capitalist overlords have convinced you guys that the only way the economy can grow is if they’re given free reign to milk life and happiness out of existence.
Those who are communist always say it's say pure form never been practiced .
One leading a school of thought has a paper that provides a pathway for a just wage. Overwhelm the social security nets such that govt has to give in and decree a living wage .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:28pm On Apr 21, 2025
IjeBos:
Fyi this is the Department of Defense not the Real Husbands of the Defense Department.
When you wrote this post did it all not sound pretty insane and chaotic given we are only 4 months into this administration?
Who was to blame for the girls who turned you down.
Depending on whom you ask it's always the other person who was at fault.
The leakers were fired, don't expect them to praise Hegseth. Maybe they are bitter because they have mortgage repayments that were seriously disrupted.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:23pm On Apr 21, 2025
armyofone:
Wow! This is serious. Finances don't matter anymore?
The Interviewer is interested in one thing only. Are you likely to come back? If you have property at home that you manage, or a business or a family,anything that fies you firmly to Nigeria.
Once the finances and documents are in order that's the next thing you need to convince them. If your passport has never been stamped ,you aren't scoring points .If your passport has exit Stamos from Europe especially that's a bonus
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:38pm On Apr 21, 2025
GloriousGbola:
in the 90s, we witnessed the failure of late stage communism and then complete collapse o the soviet union. today we are seeing the failure of late stage capitalism - where egotistical megalomaniacs deceive themselves that all that matters is their own prosperity , and the accompanying collapse of the united states
When capitalism collapses what will. Replace it?
Communism or some fancy social demo ratic equity mumbojumbo.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:34pm On Apr 21, 2025
feedthenation:
John Ullyot, who just resigned as chief Pentagon spokesman, and is a friend of Hegseth, says that the Pentagon is in “total chaos”.

He writes:

“It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president.

Even strong backers of the secretary like me must admit: The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon — and it’s becoming a real problem for the administration.

There are very likely more shoes to drop in short order, with even bigger bombshell stories coming this week, key Pentagon reporters have been telling sources privately.”
Please include Hegseth rejoinder. 3 leakers got fired and suddenly the Pentagon is a fish market.
Also check his response to claims that he used Signal messaging to his close family over Yemen strikes.

When democrats are after you they never relent.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:07am On Apr 21, 2025
zendi:
So when Central American Rival Gangs fight each other, the fugitives thereof qualify for Residence in the USA.

Leftism kills.
Kilmar Garcia had exhausted all appeals for deportations. The judges already knew he was an ms-13 gang member . He then claimed he would be at danger if a rival gang in El Salvador ih he was deported. I think it's called Barrios or something like that.
The judge then gave a restraining order for him not to be sent back to El Salvador, but not to any other country.
The jail in El Salvador houses 12000 members if the gang but in different units. Kilmar is perfectly safe wherever he is ,a citizen put away by his own govt.
President Bukeye recently said they have to imprison a few thousands to free millions.Who could not go to school, stadiums etc. NGOs are actively pushing against jailing the gang members, there are many who are not gang members .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:55am On Apr 21, 2025
You fellas in America who think Trump supporters are just cukg followers.
Palantir owned by Peter Thiel , s co-founder of PayPal with Musk has a contract to provide real tine with Immigration ICE.
Palantir us one of three companies with a security clearance to cloud host sensitive secret govt data. He has a suite of AI tools that can quickly match CCTV video to other data collected from spying.. Everything from emails, texts, phone records that spies collect . Effectively at the click of a button data from Social.Security,ISPs, Mobile phones,CCTV, traffic cameras , federal and state agencies will be easily matched and displayed in a dashboard.

Beginning with illegal immigrants the surveillance state will later expand to domestic terrorists and finally everyone.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/palantir-building-ice-immigrationos-track-migrants


This is why silicon valley put in JD Vance, they are his benefactors.

No crime at all , everywhere ,business people need politicians to advance their investments if they deal with govts.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:38am On Apr 21, 2025
cococandy:
every time I get a mention and open it, it’s a hidden post cheesy

Like who’s talking to me sideways that spambot is working overtime to get them 🤣
This text is getting me banned for 2 hours every time.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:10am On Apr 21, 2025
cococandy:
every time I get a mention and open it, it’s a hidden post cheesy

Like who’s talking to me sideways that spambot is working overtime to get them 🤣
Not hasn't banned me so far with all the spelling mistakes. I go again.

The report has transcribed interviews of professionals including Fauci, Daszak and every top expert who agreed to testify.Some refused. It has the ODNI input too.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:48am On Apr 21, 2025
cococandy:
every time I get a mention and open it, it’s a hidden post cheesy

Like who’s talking to me sideways that spambot is working overtime to get them 🤣
So far so good. Let's see whether bot dont like this

As a health professional ,you should be the one taking us through the flaws of the investigation.Instwad you are joining the choir if empty liberal heads who refuse to see the truth when it's in open sight,rightly because it makes democrats look bad You should be the last person to spoutvif such nonsense,when it's in your area of interest to understand exactly what happened.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:46am On Apr 21, 2025
cococandy:
every time I get a mention and open it, it’s a hidden post cheesy

Like who’s talking to me sideways that spambot is working overtime to get them 🤣
Let's me see what is causing the boy go black.
I post the first few lines
The report is here. A house select committee is investigating that completed in Dec 4 2024 started in Feb 2023. 520 pages of it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2024.12.04-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT-ANS.pdf

The committee conducted 38 transcribedinteviews, sent over 100 investigative letters and reviewed over a million documents.
The purpose was to find out what happened ,and lay a blueprint if how to manage the next pandemic.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:43am On Apr 21, 2025
GloriousGbola:
good to see the spambot is correctly identifying some shit posters tongue
I'm back. There was nothing bad I wrote.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:51am On Apr 21, 2025
Democrat James Raskins threatens to retaliate when they get power back.

We need to be engaging in far more work of transnational democratic solidarity with the democratic governments and the democratic movements and peoples and parties of the world, to try to prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascist chaos that’s been unleashed against us.

But implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power, and we will, we are not going to look kindly upon people who facilitated, to use a word of the day, who facilitated authoritarianism in our country.

That’s an assault on our constitution and on our people.



Yet some people are throwing tantrums over an Easter message troll by Trump .

James Raskin was the lead impeachment manager in the second shampeachment. A JD holder from ... Harvard
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:07am On Apr 21, 2025
feedthenation:
---Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private signal group chat that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer---the info included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen---

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html
Democrats will demand a probe in congress Subpoena every they can obtain from him.
Whatever secrets he has be they infidelity will be leaked to NYT and other media will force him.to resign

Consider this case

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/marine-sniper-was-denied-permission-to-shoot-isis-suicide-bomber-who-killed-13-us-troops-testimony/

Marine Corps sergeant said he was denied permission to take out the Kabul airport suicide bomber who killed 13 American troops and over 170 Afghans in August 2021.

Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a sniper stationed at the Kabul airport, shared the testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.


Not a word from the media.Noond was prosecuted or fired .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:06pm On Apr 20, 2025
bemeruca:
Basilico, this guy has buried his head up his own ass I am still wondering how he managed to type this nonsense.

Facts:
It was funded by the NIH through EcoHealth Alliance. A sub-award (a smaller portion of the grant, ~$100k annually) went to WIV, a leading virology lab in China, to conduct parts of the research, likely due to its expertise in bat coronaviruses and access to local bat populations.

The project aimed to study how coronaviruses, particularly those found in bats, naturally evolve in their animal hosts (reservoirs) and assess their potential to jump to humans, causing disease.

Ibime saying they don't know is a big lie.
NIH initiated the research through Ecohealth. That's the bottom line.
Its on their own website
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus-bat-research
I've been banned Twice today by the bot when replying to Ibime and cococandy.
I'll just copy paste my reply to her and see whether I get a few more hours ban.
Or maybe the bot is banning me because of typos!!
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:56am On Apr 20, 2025
Ibime:
We are getting there.

So Ecohealth independently sub-awarded a $100k yearly grant to Wuhan and you expect the NIH boss who is dealing with budgets of tens of billions to know and approve such small sum in a different organisation. Why not take it one step up the ladder and blame the next person up, Trump who is dealing with budgets of trillions?

That's before we even come to whether the grant is specifically for gain of function. I hope you know the common cold is a Coronavirus as are all flu viruses and are routinely studied along with SARS, MERS and other Coronaviruses. How many lab assistants salary can you pay with $100k?

Una go well one day.
List in point form what you dispute about the report . I ouvt you have read it
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:54am On Apr 20, 2025
GloriousGbola:
The US is also going to lose out on academic tourism too. People already in the US will finish their courses, but few people are going to opt for academic courses when the govt can revoke your visa at will.

Trump and magats of course think only short term and they don't understand that international students also bring in money and are a valuable human resource for American industry.
.it was sarcastic. You are dismissing an exhaustive investigation based on facts You should read the report first before dismissing it
You also bring in members if the Committe as if they don't have a legal team that goes through the evidence
Let Faucci and Co dismiss the contents , instead they lied to the committee. Because nothing happens to democrats when they lie
I can give you several examples
James Clapper, Hunter Biden, KlineSmith, . When republicans lie or refuse to appear they are jailed.. Bannon, Papadopoulos, etc
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:52am On Apr 20, 2025
bemeruca:
Trump should not touch USCIS oh.
He should ask the judges first before doing anything
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:50am On Apr 20, 2025
Ibime:
You are a clown.

State the funding amount given to Wuhan and the period the funding covered.
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What was the amount given to Ecohealth Alliance towards the him if function research in Wuhan

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The EcoHealth Alliance received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling approximately $3.7 million from 2014 to 2019 for studying bat coronaviruses, with about $600,000 of that amount subawarded to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

There is debate over whether this funding supported "gain-of-function" research. EcoHealth Alliance and NIH officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have denied that the funded work met the specific definition of gain-of-function research, which involves modifying viruses to enhance their transmissibility or virulence in humans. They argue the research focused on understanding naturally occurring bat coronaviruses and their potential to infect humans, not on enhancing pathogens.

However, critics, including some scientists and congressional members, argue that certain experiments, such as creating chimeric viruses that showed increased growth in humanized mice, fit the definition of gain-of-function research. Documents indicate that some experiments resulted in viruses with enhanced growth, which EcoHealth failed to report promptly as required by NIH grant terms.

The exact amount directly tied to alleged gain-of-function experiments is not explicitly separated in available records, as the $600,000 to WIV covered various studies, not all of which were classified as gain-of-function. Thus, while the total subaward to WIV was $600,000, it’s unclear how much was specifically for experiments critics label as gain-of-function.

What was the amount given by Faucci to South Carolina for gain of function before the programs was discontinued

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There is no specific evidence in the provided references or broader records that directly states Dr. Anthony Fauci or the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) allocated funds explicitly to South Carolina for gain-of-function research before the U.S. government paused such research from October 2014 to December 2017.
However, the references do mention gain-of-function research in the context of other locations, notably the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance, and some work involving Dr. Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina (UNC), which is not in South Carolina. For clarity, here’s what’s known:
EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan: The NIH, through NIAID, awarded EcoHealth Alliance a $3.7 million grant from 2014 to 2019, with approximately $600,000 subawarded to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research. Some of this work has been debated as gain-of-function, though Fauci and NIH have denied it met the specific regulatory definition.

Ralph Baric at UNC: Research by Dr. Baric at UNC, funded by NIH, included a 2015 study with the Wuhan Institute that created a chimeric virus. This work was described by some as gain-of-function, but Fauci testified it was conducted in North Carolina, not China, and did not meet the gain-of-function definition under NIH guidelines.

Gain-of-Function Pause: The U.S. paused funding for gain-of-function research on influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses from October 2014 to December 2017 due to biosafety concerns. During this period, some grants, like EcoHealth’s, were reviewed and allowed to continue if deemed outside the pause’s scope.

South Carolina Connection: None of the references explicitly link Fauci, NIAID, or NIH funding for gain-of-function research to South Carolina. The closest related mention is the UNC work in North Carolina, which could be a point of confusion due to geographic proximity. No specific dollar amounts or projects tied to South Carolina for gain-of-function research are documented in the provided sources.

If you meant a specific institution or researcher in South Carolina, or if you were referring to another state (e.g., North Carolina), please clarify, and I can refine the answer. Alternatively, I can search for any NIH grants to South Carolina institutions during that period, but without more details, no direct funding for gain-of-function research in South Carolina is confirmed.

I meant funding to Ralph Baric for creating a chimera virus

Dr. Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina (UNC) received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), specifically through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), for research involving coronaviruses, including a 2015 study that created a chimeric virus. This study, conducted in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has been cited in debates about gain-of-function research.
The specific grant tied to the 2015 study (published in Nature Medicine) was from NIH/NIAID, with a total award of approximately $3.7 million over several years for Baric’s broader research on coronaviruses, though exact figures for the chimeric virus experiment alone are not isolated in public records. The study involved creating a chimeric virus by combining a bat coronavirus backbone with a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV spike protein, showing it could infect human airway cells.
While critics label this as gain-of-function research due to the virus’s enhanced ability to infect human cells, Baric and NIH officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have stated it did not meet the formal definition of gain-of-function under NIH guidelines at the time, as it was not expected to increase virulence or transmissibility in humans beyond naturally occurring viruses. The research continued during the 2014–2017 gain-of-function funding pause after NIH review deemed it outside the pause’s scope.
No precise amount is publicly specified for the chimeric virus work alone, but the broader grant to Baric’s lab was in the range of $3.7 million from 2014 to 2019, with portions supporting various coronavirus studies, including the 2015 collaboration. If you need further details on the grant breakdown, I can search for additional records or clarify specific aspects of the funding.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:42am On Apr 20, 2025
cococandy:
Explain. Because I don’t want to misunderstand you.
Your opinion is worthy of being published in a peer reviewed The one I replied to.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:46am On Apr 20, 2025
cococandy:
‼️


All the countries of world got together and agreed to sabotage their trillions in their economies and kill millions of their citizens so that Fauci can sell some vaccines (that was paid for by the govt mind you).

No one paid a Penny out of pocket to get those vaccines. All govt funded. The govts that stood behind the vaccines gained what exactly? The deaths and decimated economies and the money they had to pay to get people vaccinated?

I don’t know what to tell anyone who takes MGT as their source of information. She’s prime example of brain rot. Phew 😮‍💨
I'm assuming you are capable of prescribing medicine to someone ,so what you just posted is from an authority . Very thought provoking from a medical expert.I would not be shocked if the WH headhunts you .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:40am On Apr 20, 2025
Ibime:
Who is the House committee. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her fellow loons abi?

You would think Covid only happened in America and most Ministers of Health around the world did not enact the same policies as Fauci.
Faucci funded the creation of covid-19.
That's all you need to know.
The committee grilled witnesses and went through documents.
Everyone round the world was affected and Dr Death
It’s very dangerous,” Fauci told MSNBC. “A lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science, because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science.”

Loosely translated Dr Faucci is the science..
You are questioning evidence.
Faucci was pardoned gir what reason.
A rumour about Trump from a lunatic you believe . House investigation committee you doubt.

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