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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:31am On Jun 07, 2025
Proud Boys file $100 garillion lawsuit against the FBI and DOJ for violations of their constitutional rights
FBI had infiltrated the group and was actively leading it long before Jan 6.
The lawsuit warns the media that it was complicit .
Lawsuit references "Fight Fight Fight" ,warns we shall be seeing more action .

DAntuono the Washington DC FBI who oversaw the Michigan Governor kidnapping plot should be sweating bullets.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:22am On Jun 07, 2025
DC Appeals court rules Trump admin can ban the AP from the white hi house.

The three-judge panel included the majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump) and the dissent: Pillard (Obama).


A Trump appointed judge ( (recommend by the Federalist Society?) had granted an injuction to AP determining that journalists can't be banned wholesale because AP refuses to use ' Gulf of America' despite an EO renaming the Gulf of Mexico. I think there was some merit to that injuction but the President should be able to ban journalists anytime anywhere without giving any reason.

Nevertheless most of these injunctions will be overturned on appeal ,but the idea is to stymie the administration and run out the clock.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:51pm On Jun 06, 2025
bemeruca:
The conundrum stemming from the Trump v. Elon dichotomy is interesting. Both are valid based on their concerns on the spending bill however, serious matters shouldn't be discussed on social media i[i][/i]nstead of private phone calls.


Elon gave a lot to cut spendings. So I see why he is pained
Tesla Too Shareholders.


Elon Musk: Owns 411.41M shares (12.77–13.04%), valued at ~$136.61B, Tesla’s CEO and largest individual shareholder.

Vanguard Group Inc.: Holds 239.62–243.19M shares (7.43–7.56%), valued at ~$101B, largest institutional investor.

BlackRock, Inc.: Owns 194.74–202M shares (6.00–6.29%), valued at ~$82B, major asset manager.

State Street Corp.: Holds 111.71–112M shares (3.49%), valued at ~$47B, manages ETFs and funds.

Geode Capital Management, LLC: Owns 59.35M shares (1.85%), valued at ~$25B, Boston-based asset manager.

Capital World Investors: Holds 41.1M shares (1.29%), valued at ~$18B, manages investment funds.

Morgan Stanley: Owns ~0.53% (est.), valued at ~$17B, holds shares through asset management.

JP Morgan Chase & Co.: Owns ~0.40% (est.), valued at ~$13B, invests via asset management division.

Norges Bank Investment Management: Owns ~0.40% (est.), valued at ~$13B, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund.


Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 8:08pm On Jun 06, 2025
seunny4lif:
Right in front of the German chancellor Trump claims credit for ending Nord Stream 2, and suggests part of the calculus was to replace Russia as Germany's gas supplier.

"I'm the one who ended Nord Stream 2, going to a place called Germany, come to think of it. I'm sorry I did that. I ended Nord Stream 2, nobody else did. And then when Biden came in he immediately approved it... And by the way we have so much oil and gas you will not be able to buy it all."

You quite literally have the American president claiming credit for the largest act of sabotage of Europe's strategic infrastructure since WW2, and you can bet 100% it won't even be a story in EU media.
Trump stopped it's construction after sanctioning the contractors doing the work.
Biden revived it.
When the war started the Americans and the west claim they didn't blow it up.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:45pm On Jun 06, 2025
Ibeme:
Basiloco for a reason

Reality is different to what they used to shout on their podcasts to take advantage of the mentally unhinged

Now they are dealing with reality, not podcasts
Bongino and Kash have béen a disappointment. They have not released details of what they have discovered
_ The SDNY and NY have thousands of videos that Epstein secretly recorded.
_FBI discovered a room full of incriminating evidence linking Comey and his fake Russian investigation spying .
_Addtionally Joe Biden signed 8 bills in one day but an autopen signed executive orders. All his pardons were by autopen save for his Hunter Biden one. Obama. used the autopen once while he was on holiday.Biden was present in WhiteHoise in several cases when autopens decided to sign orders on his behalf.

These are details that need to be released yesterday.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:28pm On Jun 06, 2025
Ibeme:
She couldn't stomach January 6th and left, exactly what I said about democratic ideals, unlike you whose democratic morals are fluid, some things are sacrosanct. Elon as a purveyor of lies, conspiracy theories, election denial, January 6th, prosecute Fauci, kill Zelensky nonsense, has no better chance of winning back the Dems than Trump or Rudy Giuliani. A despicable and disgusting fellow who is anathema to any democrat
I am disgusted by Kash Patel , Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi regarding their silence on the 2020 election fraud.
Hopefully I shall revisit this accusation by you about Elon Musk being an election denier. Sometime in the near Future. Hopefully.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
An Obama judge has blocked Trump order barring foreign students from joining Harvard for the next six months.
I would understand revoking visas for continuing students would cause harm and injury to the pro hamas brigade in Harvard but not to a foreign student who wants to join.. Don't see any harm. Maybe to Harvard finances with it's $50B endowment considering that terror sponsoring nations like Qatar sponsor their nationals fully to eg Harvard.

When applying for a students visa from abroad , one must specify what university he or she is joining. If embassy denies them visa ,then what. Will the judge order the students to be granted a visa ? You can be denied a visa solely on how you're dressed .

These injunctions are just democrats blocking everything Trump wants to do. Judicial coup. Judge ruled that the admin didn't provide enough evidence on how the foreign students harm national security. As if they would provide details of CCP or FSB spies joining Harvard.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:49pm On Jun 06, 2025
Democrats are calling for the release of Epstein files.
Pam Bondi is a huge disappointment. I would like democrats to file impeachment articles against her.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Michelle Obama’s Childbirth Comments Spark Controversy by basilico: 4:04pm On Jun 06, 2025
LordBiden:
God bless Michelle,America most decent and intelligent first lady,best selling author of "Becoming".

I will never forget her popular political slogan"when they go low,we go high".
Respected doctor spoke against Obamacare.
Obama had her sentenced for years after using 40,000 records from another clinic to accuse her of fraud. Case that was later thrown out on appeal.
Yea right. When they go low we go high or whatever.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:39pm On Jun 06, 2025
Ibime:
The beef over the NASA issue had already broken as of Wednesday, comot dia
Worry about California style bill coming for your meme coins.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:30pm On Jun 06, 2025
Ibime:
Afar is 2 days ago after news has already broke of the beef. Afar ko, Mr optician
That was before the blow up when I wrote that. My neck is like that of a giraffe.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:25pm On Jun 06, 2025
This post pretty summaries most of what is in the public about z Trump and Epstein's relationship.
In a nutshell , the smears were accelerated by Billary Clinton.

https://www.stonecoldtruth.com/p/trump-and-epstein-the-truth-emerges
Excerpt.

.....Trump turned down numerous invitations to Epstein’s hedonistic private island and his Palm Beach home.The one time I visited his Palm Beach home, the swimming pool was full of beautiful young girls,” Trump told a member of his Club, Mar-a-Lago. “‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’” According to his personal security guard, Trump left Epstein's home within 15 minutes of arrival, feeling uncomfortable with the strange ratio of men to much younger women.

........... preparation for his confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate when he was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Donald Trump, Acosta told U.S. Senate staffers that if asked about his disposition of the Epstein case as U.S. Attorney, he would say that the DOJ told him that Epstein worked for the CIA and that the matter needed to be closed and the file legally sealed.

........
The Clinton Foundation provided one hundred percent of the funding for TerraMar, a nonprofit controlled by Epstein love-vendor Ghislaine Maxwell, which was utilized to hire young female interns to allegedly work on environmental projects while actually constituting a grooming pool of Epstein's future victims.


It's by Roger Stone, expect any unfavourable detail to be left out. But from everything I've read , it pretty much corroborates. I've posted most of what I've read here previously.


**** Trump is not willing to meet with Elon Musk****

*** David Choen who Epstein's lawyer in 2019 yesterday said on X that Epstein had no nothing whatsoever on Trump. Which pretty much corroborates Roger Stone article I've quoted.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:09pm On Jun 06, 2025
nateevs:
Hehehehehe. Popcorn. Watching these two idiots go at each other. I predicted it was only a matter of time for the epic fallout, but even I couldn't predict it would be this quick.
I saw it coming from afar.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:03pm On Jun 06, 2025
Judge Murphy ordered the following illegal aliens deportees not to be released to an African country before being given a chance to challenge their deportations. Their own countries don't want them.

3 ICE officers are detailed with them in Djibouti camp.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/ice-officers-stranded-in-dijbouti-under-outrageous-conditions-after-court-blocked-criminal-migrant-deportations-source/

_Enrique Arias Hierro, a Cuban national, who was convicted in 1999 of attempted second-degree murder and robbery and in 2007 for kidnapping, robbery and impersonating a police officer, earning him a 15-year prison sentence.
_Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, another Cuban national convicted in 2008 of arson and cocaine trafficking; in 2020 of illegal possession of a firearm; and in 2022 of attempted first-degree murder, earning him a four-year prison sentence.
Thongxay Nilakout, a Laotian national, who was convicted in 1995 for the first-degree murderof a German tourist in California — and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
_Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, a citizen of Mexico, who was convicted in 2005 of second-degree murder for stabbing his then-roommate with a knife and later sentenced to 25 years in prison.
_Kyaw Mya, of Myanmar, who was convicted in 2019 for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor from 2011 to 2017 starting when the victim was 7 years old. Mya was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
_Nyo Myint, also of Myanmar, who was convicted in 2020 of first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
_Tuan Thanh Phan, of Vietnam, who was convicted in 2001 of first-degree murder after he “randomly” discharged a firearm into a crowd following a gang dispute and later sentenced to 22 years in prison.
_Dian Peter Domach, the only Sudanese national in the group, who was convicted in 2014 of armed robbery and sentenced to 14 years in prison.



Trump should bring them back and have them detained in the judges house.
You may want to compare their sentencing to Tina Peters whose crime was taking copies of 2020 electoral data from Dominion computers the Colorado Sec of State had ordered be wiped out. She got 9 years.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:45pm On Jun 06, 2025
S Korea impeached the President (conservative) .
Then went ahead to entrench themselves.
They learnt from the Democrats.
Expect Trump style inquisitions to anyone they view as a future threat.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 1:33pm On Jun 06, 2025
Kingsnairaland:
Putin tamed Russia billionaires

Let see if Trump has the brain to do the same to Elon

Ordinary zelensky a comedian he could not tame at the White House

Zelensky the first president to shout and argue with a USA president inside the Satan White House

Trump can't tame a comedian is it Elon he can tame

Let watch and see
Democrat have been saying that Trump only cares about billionaires.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Michelle Obama’s Childbirth Comments Spark Controversy by basilico: 1:23pm On Jun 06, 2025
She is a woman. Her daughters were conciieved via IVF.She revealed this back in 2018.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46154857

I don't think any woman who had problems conceiving naturally will make a big splash about her pregnancy. Like doing naked photoshoots or stopping the sun from shining the day your kid is born During that period ,I doubt anyone ever commits sins .
Give it to her olaadegbu.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:15pm On Jun 06, 2025
raumdeuter:
Import reduce, export increase for a 4th straight month

Signs of a recovering economy
Trump can never do right. They are alwats "Wait till you see what will happen in 3,2,.... "
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:03pm On Jun 06, 2025
bemeruca:
Elon and Trump are good people, they are simply engaged in a foo lish cat fight.
Trump only cares about billionaires
The narrative spinners need to work out a new one.
Trump supporters and himself can now say he intends to keep his promises, given he wants to cut Tesla subsidies.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:47pm On Jun 06, 2025
LordAdam16:
Elon is in his element when he gambles big.
Tesla stock was gaining momentum because of robotaxi launch but sales cratered because of his DOGE involvement.
You don't have to be in the Tesla boardroom to suss out that he was read the riot act.
Fix your mess or get the boot.
This is him fixing his mess Elon-style.

We'll see what comes of it.
It makes for prime entertainment.
But only the numbers would matter.
Oh and Trump has to make sure the bill passes. Hand Elon an L. Make him the heel.
Conflict resolution comes after if Elon begs hard enough.
Vance is Trump's VP and he said unprintable things about Trump.
There are more acts and scenes to come in this play.

-Lord
DOGE caucus to present a bill
the Delivering On Government Efficiency (DOGE) in Spending Act, would require the Treasury Department to link each federal payment to a budget account, include a clear description, and cross-check it against existing government databases to verify accuracy and eligibility. The legislation would also ensure every expenditure is made publicly available on USAspending.gov, with annual updates for ongoing transactions. It’s a major transparency push—and a potential pay-for in the Big Beautiful Bill.

Treasury just gets a pay request and wires the money often without indicating the purpose of the payments. $6 Trillion a year is wired out , $2.88 Billion an hour ( 40 hour week).
Without clear indication , auditors will take a gazillion years to cross reference every payment , they still ran COBOL on their mainframe.
US Treasury relies heavily on COBOL for many of its critical systems, particularly within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). COBOL, a programming language developed in 1959, is used in legacy mainframe systems to process high-volume financial transactions, such as tax processing, Social Security payments, and other federal disbursements. For example, the IRS uses approximately 160 COBOL applications with an average of 235,000 lines of code per application, including systems like the Individual Master File (IMF) for taxpayer data, which also incorporates IBM Assembler. The Treasury's Payment Application Modernization (PAM) and Secured Payment System (SPS) also run on COBOL, handling trillions of dollars in payments annually, with PAM alone processing $4.7 trillion in 2024.

Despite its age, COBOL remains in use due to its reliability, scalability, and precision for financial calculations, especially with fixed-point decimal arithmetic critical for accurate monetary transactions. However, challenges include the scarcity of COBOL programmers, as the language is no longer widely taught, and the complexity of modernizing these systems without disrupting critical operations.

Advice your young ones to master COBOL smiley smiley
cc bemeruca
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:44am On Jun 06, 2025
Elon Musk is willing to make peace with Trump.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:43am On Jun 06, 2025
Obrigardo:
You know I'm willing to forgive you even after all the stuff you pushed here, I'm ok with you being on your centrist arc, I hope you find liberal freedom at the end of the tunnel. Being free of sound mind is the best life you can get.
Conservativism built the society that liberalism is destroying.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:35am On Jun 06, 2025
Obrigardo:
This is funny 🤣😂🤣
But he's been instrumental in shaping your ideologies over the years, are you going to return back what he had fed you
I've always said I'm rationally rational. He is no longer at Fox and life can be hard outside . Not that he is broke , he is darn rich , he needs the spotlight too . I read widely before I form a conclusion.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:25am On Jun 06, 2025
bemeruca:
Basilisco see Mark Levin exposing Tucker as a Mor on.
Tucker is a bad person driven by stupid ego.

https://rumble.com/v6ud8q7-tucker-exposed.html
Tucker was earning $20 million annually at Fox. It's not easy to come up with that type of income on your own in the media. If you take people with a following. On substack the top 10 earn about $25 million a year combined and you can imagine the amount of work one puts in to have 100k people subscribing to read your articles faithfully

Tucker I believe is probably paid by anyone including despots to put h in a good word about them. His views depend on what's putting food on the table that day.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:48pm On Jun 05, 2025
Ibime:
I doubt you know what is being discussed. Stick to Comproboko talks

Like I said during that whole insincere DOGE political fiasco below:



They don't even want me to reach end of the year to draw conclusion. Something anyone with 2 braincells could see from a mile off.
I don't think politics is any strong point of yours. Worry about your liberal paradise Commiefornia.
They want to seize Bitcoin and other crypto left unclaimed after 3 years .

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/california-state-mulls-seizing-crypto-assets-left-unclaimed-for-3-years

The California State Assembly has passed Assembly Bill (AB) 1052 with a 69-0 vote that mandates the state to seize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies left unclaimed for 3 years

UK should soon follow.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:16pm On Jun 05, 2025
raumdeuter:
The first question should be, Is the family here legally?
I doubt. Joe Biden was rushing madly to import democrat voters and making it hard to remove the overstays.
Obama deportations, over 80% were expedited removals with no judicial process involved. He deported 3-5 million .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:06pm On Jun 05, 2025
raumdeuter:
There is a liberal judge waiting to rule that you are denying the crop eating fungus its right
A judge has blocked the deportation of the wife and children of the Egyptian who threw Molotovs to pro Israel protesters a few days ago. If it's determined that the guys family knew about his planned attacks,them the family should be gone. He had prepared 14 firebombs I think .
The judge wants due process.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:00pm On Jun 05, 2025
bemeruca:
They need to be less generous and start blocking these people from entering the US.
They too generous. Another case of inviting rotten eggs into your country.
This one is facing 10 years over hate crime charges for allegedly launching a series of violent physical attacks on Jewish people .
Tarek Bazrouk, 20, of New York, New York, a self-proclaimed "Jew-hater," reportedly received information directly from Hamas while protesting at Columbia University's campus. .... Bazrouk,frequently wore Hamas' green headband, was "a member of a chat group that received regular updates from Abu Obeida," who is the official spokesperson for Hamas' ;al-Qassam Brigades.
The left is up in arms because Trump admin is considering removing accreditation of Columbia University. An Ivy League messed by the liberals. .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Trump orders investigation into Joe Biden autopen,his mental health

a) The Counsel to the President, in consultation with the Attorney General and the head of any other relevant executive department or agency (agency), shall investigate, to the extent permitted by law, whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden's mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President. This investigation shall address:

[b]i) any activity, coordinated or
otherwise, to purposefully shield the public from information regarding Biden's mental and physical health;

(ii) any agreements between Biden's aides to cooperatively and falsely deem recorded videos of the President's cognitive inability as fake;
(iii) any agreements between Biden's aides to require false, public statements elevating the President's capabilities; and
(iv) the purpose of these activities, including to assert the authorities of the President.
(b) The Counsel to the President shall also investigate, in consultation with the Attorney General and the head of any other relevant agency, the circumstances surrounding Biden's supposed execution of numerous executive actions during his final years in office. This investigation shall address:
(i) the policy documents for which the autopen was used, including clemency grants, Executive Orders, Presidential memoranda, or other Presidential policy decisions; and
(ii) who directed that the President's signature be affixed.


At the same time Congress James Corner has issued the following people with notices to appear before just Committee.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor (Former White House Physician) .Already subpoenaed.

Neera Tanden (Former Director of the Domestic Policy Council)

Anthony Bernal (Former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to First Lady Jill Biden)

Annie Tomasini (Former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff)

Ashley Williams (Former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Oval Office Operations)

Ron Klain (Former White House Chief of Staff)

Anita Dunn (Former Senior White House Advisor)

Bob Bauer (Former Biden Attorney)

Mike Donilon (Former Senior Advisor to Joe Biden)

Bruce Reed (Former Deputy Chief of Staff)


Neera Tandem is likely the worst offender of the autopen scandal.
All the above served senior roles during Obama presidency both for him and his then VP Biden.
Mike Donilon brother is chair of BlackRock Investment Institute and was Obama National Security Advisor.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:34am On Jun 05, 2025
nateevs:
And you think the NSA does not request this of tech companies?
Nn , nyet.
Remember when Apple refused to allow the FBI access an iphone of a terrorist. They got an Israel company to break into it.
The west has a lot of protections for privacy .
I can't rule out the CIA installing backdoors in vendor equipment. I know they had these in Somalia eavesdropping on Al shabaab terrorists cell phone comms The CIA will do this clandestinely, with plausible deniability where if caught will never admit .It also absolves the US govt .
How you think they got Bin Laden! They listened in to a voice call of his close aide in Pakistan and followed him to the Abbotabad residence.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:29am On Jun 05, 2025
Bemeruca. This is what I was referring to wrt China .

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chinese-made-solar-panels-used-american-farms-puts-us-power-grid-risk-former-nsa-official

Chinese products that are online may have backdoors allowing for Chinese military hackers control hem remotely.
Chinese companies are mandated by law to assist China's intelligence agencies when needed
I also believe every Chinese national working outside the country is mandated to assist mother China if so demanded. They leave families behind who like NKorea does are a bargaining chip.
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 10:24am On Jun 05, 2025
Gospelpreacher1:
Gadi (72) and Judy (70) were murdered at their kibbutz Nir Oz by TERRORISTS on October 7th and then were kidnapped dead.
Their bodies were rescued last night from Khan Yunis area in Gaza.
What despicable people murder civilians and take their bodies to be used for negotiations later.

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