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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:23am On Feb 19, 2025
cococandy:
Yep we’re supposed to be clapping for him as he’s rendering hundreds of thousands of Americans jobless from a position that he may or may not occupy under the authority that the white house said he doesn’t have.

But he probably does have since he’s the head but also not a part of department. Are You picking up on how dense you guys are ?

People like you will be studied in years to come. Because this level of brainlessness has never been seen before.



You people sold shame and your souls for the defense of this Buffoon.

One minutes he’s part of DOGE. The next minute he’s not. He’s just advising. The next second he’s the head.

Anything Trump changes the tune to is what goes. The cuckery. EuGH.
Nah, I predict people like you will face loss of self confidence in a few months time. You will question why you believed fairy tales from the criminal democrats. I trust that you are emotionally mature to handle the realization that they been doing g a number on you.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:40am On Feb 19, 2025
Biden judge poised to reverse transgender Executive Order in the military.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=118927094

With the DOD policy expected to be finalized over the coming week, Reyes said she would hold off on issuing an order but had largely made up her mind about the legality of the order, at one point remarking that “smarter people on the D.C. Circuit would have to tell me I’m wrong” about the policy
. She added that the central premise of the executive order -- that only two genders exist -- is “not biologically correct.”


Reyes also


Judges are legislating from the bench.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:26am On Feb 19, 2025
Global warming caused by using fossil fuels and cow farts .

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/weather/frigid-cold-us-flooding-tuesday-hnk/index.html

Temperatures will plunge as much as 50 degrees below February averages, threatening to break more than 270 temperature records across at least 27 states
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:15am On Feb 19, 2025
Livelystone01:
Lol, the people who think others are brainwashed are the ones brainwashed here. They call names, but they are actually speaking from the same channels they support. Bot action!

The war shouldn't have started to begin with.
These people ignore the genesis of it and lie about everything but the same thing happens somewhere, this same guys change their minds and type opposite of what they supported previously.

Israel entered Gaza, no one did anything but Russia footballers have been banned because of the war. FIFA was politicized, something they preach against.

If you look deep into each of the people claiming moral high grounds here, you'll understand that they are hypocrites. They speak against what they supported with the last 4 years, just because it is from the party.

The biggest disinformation is that Russia wants to take over Europe. Before the war and now, Russia doesn't have the capacity to do that. So-called woke minds believe the nonsense being sold to them from their morality channels. If you question their takes, they tag you with a name to silence you just like the MSM operate.
I used to think highly of Russia military.
I doubt they can beat say Britain if from day one no nukes and both obey rules of war.
Britain or other western armies would by now have complete air superiority, anti aircraft radars would have been taken out, every Russian position would have been bombed out by now.
Russia has been fighting for months to take over some villages. Both armies are clearly identifiable , unlike fighting insurgents hiding within civilian positions in urban areas.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:06am On Feb 19, 2025
grandstar:
This isn't the first time the US has suffered from bird flu, buy this is the first time prices have risen so high!

Eggs are extremely critical in the American pastry industry and others. It isn't something to be taken lightly.

What steps as Trump taken to bring prices down or help consumers? None.

Why not encourage the importation of eggs until US hen sticks recover? Think outside the box. He can't because he doesn't even think.

Look! There's no point arguing with you. You're a Trump supporter.

Nevertheless, have this at the back of your mind: Trump is a man like you. He is not God. He like you can make mistakes. Don't you make mistakes, make bas decisions? So does Trump.

The US will certainly enter into a downturn this year. The only thing that may prevent it are his tax cuts which would drive the budget deficit sky high, and seriously increase the budget deficit.
We can argue Biden reason for being installed was to make America poorer and just another country.
A poor people are easily controlled by govt being everything. Providing food, shelter and clothing almost literally. Govt dictating everything including where to live, school,how much air travel, health care etc. A subservient population is good for globalists
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:56am On Feb 19, 2025
cococandy:
So Elon has nothing to do with it?

This is another one of those “his words don’t really mean what he’s saying except when it’s convenient for us” situations, isn’t it?

How do you people sleep at night? 🤣
He is the head , his role is advisory.
You should read a book called Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol .Or watch the play .
Today auditors don't come into an org to catch thieves . They analyse systems, procedures and policies vs a best practices benchmark. They will catch fraud because they sample a good number of transactions but that's not their main reason. Experienced auditors can smell fraud from across the Atlantic. . Their report will usually lead to a forensic audit.
Elon and his group are auditing. At the end of the day , data doesn't lie.Theirs is essentially a forensic audit.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:41am On Feb 19, 2025
IjeBos:
This really isn't complex.
There's less labor so companies are forced to pay more to compete for that labor.
They now have an increase in costs.
They will choose to pass on the increase in costs to the consumer by raising prices.
Increased prices is what inflation is.

But I assume your Masters in all things Bullshit knows better.
You think we are stupid? You are justifying why immigration especially illegal is important and redefining inflation.
Inflation. Too much money in circulation chasing too few goods

We can say if govt issued a mandate that everyone has to shave his hair and beards every 2 days , the cost of shaving would increase causing inflation.
Take your BS elsewhere.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:36pm On Feb 18, 2025
cococandy:


Can someone tell us who’s running DOGE if Elon is not an employee of and is not the head of it?

While you’re at it, explain to us why he’s giving press conferences on behalf of doge from the White House. Find a lie or gaslight tactic Chop chop
DOGE is playing an advisory . Elon is not being paid, initially he tweeted he needed volunteers with a high IQ and skills before the inaugration.
But DOGE is a fully established body with it's own staff and mandated to look into govt IT systems . It's just USDS rebranded and repurposed to catch and prevent waste.
That's my understanding,.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:31pm On Feb 18, 2025
Android17:
Imagine the type of gaslighting required to tell someone labor shortage rather than govt spending is responsible for inflation.

What is it about hating Trump that makes fools out of otherwise intelligent people?
Everything must be blamed on Trump policies, whether it's the slightest reason his name must be sullied.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:33pm On Feb 18, 2025
cococandy:
Oh really you knew all along that Elon wasn’t an employee of DOGE?
So what was this?
was he just moonlighting around the department? And the president was just tossing his name around for fun.

You people are capable of incredible goals shifting and lying capacity. If that were an Olympic sport, all of you would be household names.

Mentally unhinged my gosh🥴🥴
Doesn't matter , he is not the one doing the firing and contract cancellation. His team has the required skills to ferret out where your tax dollars are being diverted to, you should thank him and kiss the ground he is walking on
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:27pm On Feb 18, 2025
grandstar:
Inflation can't be countered by a drop is spending.

Inflation is rising due to labor scarcity on the farms which has led to reduced food supply, forcing buyers to pay more.

The imposition of import tariffs on goods simply means consumers will pay more for goods as the duties paid on those goods would be passed on to the consumers.
Okay I'll take your position as the gospel truth. Now me knows govt spending recklessly has no effect on inflation, farm labor shortage is the key driver. I'm now wiser
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:56pm On Feb 18, 2025
Android17:
Did Biden not get his Inspector Generals to obliterate 100-140m Chickens shortly before Trump's Inauguration?

If you kill Chickens (for a fictitious bird flu), that has already affected the supply chain of eggs and the cascading effect will lead to more expensive eggs.

You have to be profoundly dishonest (not You obviously), to skip the part of the cause and hop on the effect. But the D in Denialism is for Democrats.
We are on the same page.
Democrats are the modern day prophets. They can read Trump's mind and foretell the days of gloom and doom ahead.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
bemeruca:
Stupid lies. Trump is winning cases based on this matter. Check your head
Shut up . You don't live in America. smiley smiley
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:47pm On Feb 18, 2025
IjeBos:
In a legal brief, the White House now says Musk has no authority to make decisions in DOGE and is not DOGE's administrator nor an employee of DOGE.
Seems they realized what they were doing was illegal and now are backpeddling some.
So now the question is, if Musk isn't in charge, who is?
Who didn't know that, maybe you. He is recommending actions not issuing any orders. Do you live in America.
He recommends DHS to fire , then Noem fires. Rocket science
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:45pm On Feb 18, 2025
grandstar:
The American economy will definitely enter a downturn by the third or fourth quarter, basically this fiscal year.

Inflation is already rising, particularly with groceries, the most affected being eggs.

The primary reason for food inflation is that 42% of the agriculture workforce is made up of illegals and they are skipping work. There's no one picking the crops or attending to the hens.

The Fed will definitely increase interest rates to bring down inflation which woukd only slow down the economy to eventually a screeching stop.

This is barely 30days and things are fast falling apart.

I wonder what a full year result would be like? A bunker busting disaster@
Can that inflation rise be countered by a massive drop on federal spending?
Assuming illegals stop harvesting and thousands of USAID orphans are fired,that would imply a lot of people seeking jobs will increase, be it farm jobs or if they learn to code.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:55pm On Feb 18, 2025
FEMA funds allocations.

Culled from
https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/shelter-services-program/fy24-awards

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
Notable FEMA SSP grants of $10 million + allocated to NGO's & local govs for migrant services in FY'2024:

Catholic Charities of San Diego - $21,598,261
Catholic Charities of San Diego again - $19,592,554
Catholic Charities of San Antonio- $16,926,129
Catholic Charities of S.A. again - $10,877,226
City of Los Angeles - $21,844,670
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - $15,408,787
Save the Children (Fairfield County, CT) - $15,946,955
Border Servant Corps, Inc. (NM) - $15,125,447
Jewish Family Service San Diego- $22,077,365
Mission: Border Hope (Eagle Pass, TX) - $12,000,000
El Paso County (TX) - $16,690,172
New York City - $38,864,884
New York City again - $22,169,838
New York City again - $20,437,241.07
State of Arizona - $19,256,041
Pima County, AZ - $21,827,581
Pima County, AZ again - $18,706,639
Maricopa County, AZ - $11,606,329
San Diego County - $19,592,554
City of Atlanta - $10,819,662
City/County of Denver- $12,670,592
City of Chicago - $12,288,565

Roughly $641 million of FEMA taxpayer funds were allocated to NGOs and local governments in FY'2024 as part of FEMAs Shelter & Services Program (SSP).
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DOGE should not investigate FEMA?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:57pm On Feb 18, 2025
cococandy:
This is how you know when people don’t know what they’re talking about.

You think private healthcare workers in America get paid from taxes? lol
Learn to extrapolate.A state going the extra mile to spend more on medical health means the medical professionals are better renumerated.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:52am On Feb 18, 2025
Interim US Attorney for DC has been nominated for the same post by Trump to replace Matthew Graves.
Ed Martin who has overseen the departure of J6 inquisition prosecutors himself represented several of those jailed. He is a trump supporter who believes 2020 was stolen.
Media are now saying judiciary should be independent
Trumps team I believe will charge those who stole 2020.
Obrigardo. I'm repeating this,so you don't suffer shock and kill yourself.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:15am On Feb 18, 2025
descarado:
Watched his interview. Kept me at the edge of my seat till the end.
All that's happening now are not new. They were termed conspiracy theories by those who raised concerns. It's just that it's coming from the quarters we didn't expect so no denying it.
The democrats ran a big illegal operation to consolidate power. Money was never a problem. Nobody including Trump would be allowed to stand in their way.
They are seething as their sources of illegal funds dry up with each exposure.
I'm.sure you have no noticed there been little protests "not my president" with well designed posters.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:03am On Feb 18, 2025
descarado:
Common, don't go that way pls.
She is the medical field. I'm in ICT but if you need anything solar feel free to ask me.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 10:36am On Feb 18, 2025
Alamkiir:
🇮🇷 Iranian Shahed-149 Gaza UAV with 8 Sadid series guided bombs
Built by Shahed industries. Shahed in Arabic is a martyr. One who dies for his faith. A suicide bomber is a Shahed. He goes to heaven straight to his 72 perpetual virgins , without waiting for Muhammad to call him.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:20am On Feb 18, 2025
Android17:
He doesn't care about facts but I can play his game. I still have posers to trap him in any argument he deflects to.

The new one he is trying to research is why the media needed to call the aid a military one? grin

Obviously he wants to claim Trump's impeachment was justified even though I'm trying to show how they impeached Trump for something Biden did. Even though they knew the laptop was real. That's how evil these people are.
Agree. You need to watch this Professor,ex CIA guy interviewed. He is presented facts , denies the obvious, talks over and insults the host.

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/612774-goodman-rattansi-trump-policy-clash/

That's how our resident idiot behaves.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:13am On Feb 18, 2025
descarado:
shocked shocked
Cococandy is in the medical field , more taxes to fund this more take home for her.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:11am On Feb 18, 2025
PDPGuy:
Lol. But I thought, according to conservative dogma, that law enforcement are infallible? Cops must never be criticized at all costs? What changed
I have called FBI the Gestapo, the KGB and also the brains behind Jan 6 fedsurrection. You are absolutely correct, LEO can do no wrong and should never be criticized. Your thoughts are the kind that helped mankind walk on the moon.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:44am On Feb 18, 2025
PDPGuy:
I’m ALL for finding waste and corruption and revamping things after a thoughtful and intelligent examination. I would be fine with cutting or reducing programs that I feel are important if there was justification for it.

But this Willy-nilly slash and burn thoughtless destruction of jobs and entire programs is crazy. And those that do not see or understand the danger are either so brainwashed they can’t see it or too deeply entrenched to admit they may have made a mistake here and this needs to be stopped, or are just so full of bitterness and hatred that they will cut off their nose to spite their face as long as who ever they hate is hurting too.

I don’t get people who are still cheering and saying THIS is what they voted for. I don’t get it.
It's democrats who are whining the most. Granted a lot of critical projects have been put on hold. Those who swindled money or poured it into questionable projects cannot be allowed to stay on the job
while the audit is going on.
It does not seem to matter to you that IRS is after every dollar in the tax returns yet govt can't account for what they are doing with a large chunk of money it spends. I would say this happens to most world governments not only in MAGA country.
DOGE is recommending what needs to be slashed , it's not the one that's actually doing the slashing.

Bill Clinton , Obama and Biden have called for audits to prevent wastage.

Obama


We can’t sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars that have outlived their usefulness or exists solely for the power of politicians, lobbyists, or interest groups,” Obama states at the start of the footage.
Biden, who was then VP, follows by saying Americans are “entitled to accountability to make sure we’re using the dollars for what we said it was for.

“We are going to go through our federal budget…line-by-line, eliminating these programs we don’t need and ensuring that those we do need to operate in a sensible, cost-effective way,” Obama says in the succeeding clip.

In another part of the video, Obama discusses eliminating unnecessary spending while Biden talks about his and Obama’s efforts to instill an entirely new culture that every succeeding administration will hopefully follow.


Bill Clinton also slashed 380000 federal jobs. Video here.


KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore took on a challenge that few politicians dared to confront: cutting the size of the federal government.

Facing a ballooning deficit and mounting inefficiencies, Clinton announced an ambitious plan to slash wasteful spending, shrink bureaucracy, and rein in government overreach. He signed an executive order eliminating 100,000 federal jobs, a 12% cut in administrative costs, and the consolidation or termination of hundreds of outdated programs.

One of his biggest warnings? If wasteful spending wasn’t controlled, the federal deficit would soar to $650 billion per year by the early 2000s, with a growing share of tax dollars going toward interest payments on debt instead of public investment.

Fast forward to today. In 2024, the federal deficit stands at $1.83 trillion—nearly triple Clinton’s worst-case scenario. Interest on the debt alone has reached $880 billion, consuming an ever-larger portion of the national budget.

Clinton’s reforms worked during his presidency. The federal workforce shrank by 380,000 federal jobs—a 16% decrease. Programs were streamlined, waste was reduced, and deficits were brought under control.

Yet, decades later—after the War on Terror, the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID-19—government spending has soared once again, bureaucracy has expanded, and the national debt has reached historic highs.

Now, history is repeating itself. President Trump has appointed Elon Musk, widely regarded as the world's most successful CEO and technologist, to lead efforts to streamline the government and restore fiscal responsibility.

For the sake of America, I hope the Democratic Party and the corporate media can set aside their irrational opposition and support DOGE, just as they once backed Bill Clinton and Al Gore.



It's hypocritical of democrats complaining now , when Trump is doing exactly what they had promised to do. Obama set the stage for a perpetually ballooning fiscal deficit with spending on expanded medical care, food stamps , climate change pet projects, forever wars etc while Biden topped it up with massive student loan bailouts and more climate change nonsense.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:52am On Feb 18, 2025
DOGE Monday reveal.

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to
@USTreasury
for the great work.


They intentionally left 4.7 Trillion untraceable. This is creative accounting. Enable loopholes on the system, there might be no fraud yet but it leaves room for diverting funds one day in the future.
$4.7 Trillion is last year's total taxes collected by IRS.
Why didn't IRS auditors discover this? If there was fraud, why has FBI not arrested anyone?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:25am On Feb 18, 2025
IjeBos:
I assume Fox NEws is legacy media as well...
But we all can see how well listening to "non legacy media" is working out for you
😂😂😂😂😂



Why would I shut up when schooling you is soo much fun?
Are you not embarrassed yet?
Trump already had evidence Biden forced the Ukrainian general prosecutor out for investigating Burisma.
Why was he sending them aid when Hunter was still being paid by Burisma.
Furthermore during impeachment, the FBI already had the laptop from hell and knew it was authentic. FBI didn't interject. They would have blown the impeachment apart had they revealed the corruption of the Biden
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:43am On Feb 18, 2025
Republican makes the bold announcement . There is a paper trail of money that has been sent out as aid flowing back into Washington to politicians and corruptocrats.



There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth once DOGE is finally unburdened by what has been.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:36pm On Feb 17, 2025
Trump Executive Order on DOGE was well crafted and cast in stone. DOGE predecessor USDS had direct access to all federal IT systems as crafted by its creator Obama.
DOGE is operating within the legal framework of USDS.
Those suing DOGE are wasting their time and donor funds

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:56pm On Feb 17, 2025
IjeBos:
The half blind repair shop owner confirmed that all allegations, including the one involving Hunter and Ukraine were 100% true?
Did he use his third eye to see this?
Not only that . When FBI raided Giuliani and took all his electronics, he told them to take disks with copies of Hunter Bidens laptop .He told them there was Child porn in those disks.
They refused and confiscated everything else they could leaving the disks.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:47pm On Feb 17, 2025
Obrigardo:
Fúck him and every low quality braindead maga cultists in here. They are the absolute dumbest people in this century.

Just watch these fools make an argument for the rapist trump for this.

I'm gonna re-up my prediction again - the racist trump will die an horrible death by the hands of maga because maga seems to be hurt the most with the rapist's economic wars.
He thinks maga is going to listen to Nazi elon telling them to suck it up for two years.

He was "allegedly" almost killed by assassins (that we never hear of again), both republican and libertarian leaning chuds.
Why you never hear about the assassins?
Why? Because the investigating body was part of the plan or because the attempts didn't happen as reported?

About food prices. I don't know what will happen
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:42pm On Feb 17, 2025
cococandy:
Aren’t you the one who supposedly doesn’t insult people? Lol

I see that ignoring your trolling has caused you to abandon your facade.

I know nothing irks trolls more than being ignored.🤭🤭
Generally I don't insult people unless they come at me. I'm a xtian but I don't turn the other cheek, I also didn't invent any word so I can freely use any choice insult I want.
I also dont suffer fools , I'll respond to any post I want.
I've repeated this for years, I use nairaland as my online bookmark site.I don't need you to agree with me on anything, but I won't let a lie go unchallenged. That is, if it's not from Ijebos the resident idiot. Obrigardo is beyond redemption,I periodically mention him as a caring brother to check that he hasn't killed himself.

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