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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:25am On Feb 09, 2025
Ibime:
How far you have fallen, that you now follow and quote Laura Loomer
So somebody saying antiislam stuff should be shunned?
You like money , don't you? Christian Prince has offered a million dollars to any one who can prove him wrong on islam. .Noone has ever come out with his brains intact after debating him.
Try your luck there.
P/S. I have listened to him destroying those who take the dare.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
happney65:
grin
Very little amount you think so . USAID gave Palestinians billions of dollars. What do they do with that cash..

(Feb. 6, 2025 / JNS)
Many terrorists released by Israel are millionaires, flush with cash from years of receiving monthly Palestinian Authority “pay for slay
In total, the terrorists received $141,837,087, or more than half a billion shekels. Of those, 316, or nearly half, received more than a million shekels.


They have the audacity to kidnap Americans then use their generous aid to pay off the murderers and rapists. And that's besides building tunnels .
They are not happy that Trump defunded UNRWA and USAID.

Tell me why are you spending so much time defending grand wastage of funds.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:12am On Feb 09, 2025
GloriousGbola:
Oracle
SAP

these are enterprise packages used by government organisations
there are people trained in auditing ERP software records

what is even more embarrassing is you are literally pulling facts out of your ass. you have no idea what the actual skills or competencies of these children are

'elon techies deal with databases' .

this is the equivalent of a computer science graduate saying i have worked with database software so i can audit your company business records.
You think training an AI only requires a few database commands. SQL has I guess no more than 100 commands and less than 20 are frequently used.
Or you think training an AI is like feeding a toddler with a spoon.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:07am On Feb 09, 2025
I'm having a blast on Social Media today. Letitia James overvalued her properties to get favourable loans Same thing she charged Trump with...... should I add that whatever values one attaches to their property will not be what the bank thinks it's worth.

This from Roger Stone is suspect maybe he wants sleuths to dive deep into her finances... There will be a Soros connection somewhere.

Trump would not re-truth knowing it's a lie though.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:36am On Feb 09, 2025
American taxpayer. Elon techies deal with databases (sql and nosql ) all the time.
This should blow your mind at the underlying corruption perpetuated by bureaucrats.
Fruits of the original sin.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:10am On Feb 09, 2025
cococandy:
Not to mention how disheartening it is that some of the applause is coming from people who should know better. Who you’d swear under different circumstances that they know better.

How coincidental that the organizations he’s picking a fight with are those investigating his businesses. Or those who have fined him in the past. Or those who will have oversight over his projects in the near future.

Even if he stops now the kind of irreparable damage he’s done is unquantifiable. My and everyone else’s social security information on a drive in the hands of a barely legal adolescent who can be kidnapped by anyone and made to sing..
Exposing theft and wanton misuse of funds is damage
You have 4 more years of crying
I hear Elon might run Superbowl ads about the wastage of your tax dollars.
Stop demonizing the messenger he is no angel but he has a message tailored for your types.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:53am On Feb 09, 2025
GloriousGbola:
it was the same case with the BBC story

like i said before - all these 'exposes' are noise for the barely literate. the court of public opinion.

the Doge team are computer programmers barely out of school. they are inexperienced. they are mid twenties

this is a feature not a bug

Elon wants impressionable inexperienced zealots who will take instructions without question. kids who will follow instructions without question because they have complete faith in the dear leader.

you will note there are no reports of actual supervisors

most importantly, as i have seen noted elsewhere - if you want to uncover fraud, you get actual experienced forensic accountants, not wet behind the ears computer programmers

the irony is some of those cheering for this actually know this is all BS because they actually have an audit background.

is this how audits are run in professional organisations?

incidentally, this is also how Sanusi was embarrassed as CBN governor when conducting an investigation and announcing figures that had to be amended.

this is the type of shit we get from EFCC - the court of public opinion - going around half cocked announcing results of barely started investigations

https://www.latintimes.com/federal-employee-had-justify-existence-doge-college-freshers-interviews-575079?utm_source=pocket_shared





this is what Musk is unleashing on the federal government - literal children with no work experience given the duty of evaluating senior employees.

even worse from what is coming out - the team are a bunch of racist, edgelord - its just a joke bro trolls
A forensic accountant. Several years of large teams cross referencing each and every every payment, invoice and receipts.
An accountant. Sample a large number of transactions to confirm If accounting policies were followed. Then recommends best practices.

DOGE software engineers. Give them several terabytes of databases and they will map out every transaction , who got paid, geolocation ,etc in a day.Will produce visual representations, searchable tools and the interrelationships. Better stil they are l using AI LLM to process the data .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:51am On Feb 09, 2025
happney65:
grin
That explains it. How long did they take to correct the misinformation?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
A judge appointed by Obama has Temporarily Blocked Musk’s DOGE Access to Important Treasury Dept. Payment System. In addition he Ordered IMMEDIATE Destruction of ALL Data Obtained Since Trump’s Inauguration .

There is criminal activity in these findings. The judge is blocking access and destruction of probable evidence of wrongdoing. Is he protecting potential criminals knowingly?
Democrats are nothing but criminals.
Who does he think he is?
I think they are also stupid . This gives Pam Bondi a carte blanche to start investigating any judge who handed down ridiculous orders.
This suit was brought by Letitia and other 16 state AGs. Letitia was sponsored by Soros. Soros received money from USAID and most probably other stae bodies.
Wait a minute. The judge has barred Scott Bessent the Secretary of Treasury from accessing data in his own department? This judge is just nuts,Scott was vetted by Senate and was sworn in.
”restrained from granting access to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees, other than to civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties within the Bureau of Fiscal Services who have passed all background checks and security clearances and taken all information security training called for in federal statutes and Treasury Depar
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:54am On Feb 09, 2025
Trump lawsuit of CBS was $10 billion. FCC demanded full transcript and unedited video of the interview. They released it revealing 54 minutes of footage . They had aired only 13 minutes.

Trump is going for the jugular He has doubled his claim to $20 billion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/donald-trump-doubles-cbs-damage-claim-to-20-billion-in-amended-lawsuit/ar-AA1yF94E

Toxic CBS finito. They might as well give it to him.
I can be their Africa Chief Investigation Czar, 6 zeros salary.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:28am On Feb 09, 2025
You heard it here. The Democrat Party is the party of criminals. This from someone who has seen where tax dollars were going to .
Weighty words.

Foreign AffairsRe: Judge Blocks Musk Team Access To Treasury Department Records by basilico: 6:12am On Feb 09, 2025
Julius1995:
With what authority is Musk doing all these things? Of course you cannot do this with the president's consent only, the department must first be sanctioned by the legislature and whoever will lead it must be approved. In addition, is Elon Musk an auditor? If yes, when did he become one? Because as far as I know, even before Tesla's earnings reports are released, they have to be audited by one of the Big 4 or 5 (of you consider BDO) accounting firms, talk less of a whole country that has one of the most effective regulations in the world. Or did Elon Musk think the U.S is Twitter - which has since lost over 60% of its value since he acquired it - where he can do as he pleases.
DOGE was formed by Obama. 300 man strong team freed from hiring and vetting processes called USDS.
Trump fired remaining holdovers and renamed it DOGE.
GFY.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
I've been mentioning some names here for a few months long before nov 2024 and some of you thought I was just nuts
Trump set to revoke security clearances for
*Alvin Bragg
*Letitia James
*Lisa Monaco former Deputy AG
( The two Soros funded activists Bragg and Letitia will be banned from entering any federal building.... Implies he knows they plotted with DOJ to indict him on state charges, no pardons for state charges)
* Norm Eisen
*Mark Zaid
*Andrew Weissman
( This has to do with ~ 180 lawsuits filed against Trump by Eisen .Zaid was the lawyer for Ciaramela the CIA whistleblower in the first shampeachment, Enron Weissman the Mueller top dog)
*Tony Blinken
*Jake Sullivan
( Had to do with the IC letter signed by 51 Dirty liars)

*** Every one of these criminals is a lawyer who abused their positions and training to do everything they could to prevent Trump from being president. These dirty assholes need to be disbarred yesterday All these were Obama lackeys***
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
motymop:
Your comment shows that you are naive

The mistake you make is that you think only Magas hate blacks.

FYI, White liberals also hate blacks, they treat blacks like kids and feel like they can save blacks.

Both Magas and white liberals are all working for the common good of the white race.

Do you think white liberals and Magas will allow blacks to take economic power away from them..hell No.

Also I just want to ask, why do white liberals keep pushing mulattos on blacks?

They make them the leaders of all the protest groups and all the black associations.

Don't you understand that the whites are scared of losing powers to the blacks, so they will subtly take away power from blacks while stroking their egos.
White liberals use the theory of a protected class ie the blacks to push their agenda. Criticism of any black is racism . Expanded to others such as homophobic or islamophobia.
White liberals push their agenda of domination by shutting down their critics.
St George of Fentanyl was canonized by the left. Hell several murals of him dote the globe including one at Bagram Airbase in Taliban Afghanistan.His mural in Toledo,Ohio struck down by lightning,the gods were not pleased smiley smiley
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:56am On Feb 09, 2025
cococandy:
Moving on from cars.

I meant to address this last night but I fell asleep

The consumer financial protection agency is not an agency that’s involved in wasteful govt spending. I know you try so hard to twist yourself into weird shapes to defend the indefensible.

But This particular agency protects the common man from financial abuse at the hands of mega corporations and banking institutions. It was formed after the big economic recession where people lost everything after the banks went belly up. You would know this if you read the information I posted earlier instead of rushing to respond.

This is not one of those agencies where anyone should rejoice if they no longer exist. You’re fixing your mouth to say he’s only looking at them meanwhile he has tweeted himself that he wants to destroy them. He literally typed RIP to them on his tweeter. Like it’s a sick joke or something.

You must not have any financial stake in America for this to be good news to you. The only kind of person who hates the financial protection bureau is the kind of person who’s in a position to take advantage of others and doesn’t want to be investigated or held to account for it (A person like an Elon) .

Is there a line he’ll cross that will eventually become too much for you guys? Or are you going to blindly support him as he steers the country to the grave? Because this is insane that an everyday person is cheering on a megalomaniac who’s trying to kill the agency that protects them financial ruin. I’ve never encountered this level of mind control in my life
Anything from Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren is not good for the economy.
The bureau protects consumers by fining any company .
What does it do with the money
Most of it goes to fund leftwing causes and political PACs.
That's all I know about it Good intentions creating it . Pocahontas wanted it's top executive to be independent, the president could not fire him/her Case went to SCOTUS, Pocahontas lost.
With transparency a lot of it's biases and corruption will be revealed.
You can spare us the importance of this body .
Hopefully in days it's revealed it is just another democrat slush fund
I'm willing to bet on this..
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:07pm On Feb 08, 2025
Maeve7:
Interesting .

Which moral standard are you talking about?
The 1215 AD Magna Carta Standards and it's legacy.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:10pm On Feb 08, 2025
BBC reports on 17 things Trump did this week

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdep9j31l8o
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Hilarious. Obama created 300 man USDS to work on his Obamacare initial rollout problems and fix govt IT. He deliberately gave it some autonomy within the Executive Office of the President.It hired from silicon valley too.
Biden strengthened it and reverted it's chair to a political appointment.

Trump renamed it DOGE.
Democrat bid to entrench USDS is biting their butts.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-doge-origin-story-how-barack-obama-laid-the-groundwork-for-elon-musk

USDS became a DEI haven ,hiring people from porn industry and lbgtqa++ activists. It sabotaged Trump first term too.

bemeruca,ono raumdeuter
Another shortsighted epic failure like Senate approval process of SCOTUS judges
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:54pm On Feb 08, 2025
raumdeuter:
So what Democrats couldn't do in 12yrs of power is what you want Trump to do in 4 weeks

Okay we have heard you and will consider it when it's time. For now we are taking it one step after the other. All those who did nothing should shut up and watch those trying to do something

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/07/donald-trump-musk-doge-targets-pentagon-education/78338303007/
Trump had drastically increased the military budget to its highest ever in his first term
Only makes sense to make sure that money is well spent. Before the audit he has already saved by axing DEI.

2021: The Pentagon requested approximately $66 million for DEI programs.
2022: The budget increased to about $68 million.
2023: The funding rose to $86.5 million, reflecting a growing emphasis on DEI within the military.
2024: The Pentagon has requested over $114 million for DEI initiatives, indicating a continued commitment to these programs
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:19pm On Feb 08, 2025
nateevs:
So it's next generation fighter that's making external contractors supply toilet seats at $10,000 a piece to the Pentagon.

MAGAnutter
Ever been in a position where you are controlling a financial year budget?
I got surprised that some govts allocate money in a budget and any unspent monies are carried forward to the next financial year. In others every unspent money goes back to the govt Treasury to be disbursed afresh in the next budget You can only imagine how govt finance officers scramble to use every last budgeted money in the hours to the end of financial year. They literally buy anything at any cost, auditors don't have time to go through millions of receipts for that year
I guess the Pentagon falls into the same trap. They have unspent $$$ for that year DOGE to the rescue of taxpayer funds.
Hip hip hooray.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:08pm On Feb 08, 2025
Maeve7:
Focus on Elon, the US president. wink

How much do you hate the US? I have noticed how much you rejoice in her destruction.
Very wrong you are.
I rejoice in the destruction of the evil left. I'm on record praising Trump and saying America is a force for good. I'd rather have America as the superpower than those Chinese or Russians.
I hate what the left are doing to the west. Westerners save for their resources greed have a moral standard they are proud to uphold.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:34pm On Feb 08, 2025
Maeve7:
Ask them how many percent of the budget are spent on foreign aid first please. They are getting all worked up on the topic but it’s just another distraction from where most of the money is actually going, namely into the billionaires’ pockets.

It’s ridiculous.
Soros the billionaire. He funds every leftist cause in the world , sets up initial donations then USAID fills up the rest
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:31am On Feb 08, 2025
cococandy:
Black MAGA are 🤡🤡🤡

This is who Trump means when he says there are fine people on both sides. Exalting racists and white nationalists
They are really digging up any dirt on every Trump appointment that deep state can't control.
Whatever Darren published about J6 will be proven true.
These propaganda outlets need to be sued and the activists jailed.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:27am On Feb 08, 2025
USAID building in Washington DC has sign removed.
Will be occupied by CBP.
Democrats were definitely majority of visitors to USAID. 97% of USAID staff donations went to democrat Kamala.They support illegal immigration.
I can only imagine how they feel now with their former cash cow offices being the centre of deportations.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:16am On Feb 08, 2025
happney65:
You dey mind him. The biggest agency with the most money,they are afraid to go there. Yet running after small fries that will bring up absolutely nothing

Let them enter the Pentagon on Monday make we see naa if he sure for them. grin
USAID is not designing 6th generation jet fighter. Nor the next carrier group. They won't allow DOGE, it's that simple.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:47am On Feb 08, 2025
GloriousGbola:
i desperately want to believe you are an adult and a professional and that you actually have some level of corporate work experience.

not that you are among these clowns whose post history makes it clear they have no idea of business , finance etc actually work

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/press-release/4-feb-25



unless of course you consider all charities to be run the same way trump ran his own charity

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/12/23/best-stories-of-the-decade-how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/


or let me try to break it down to you in simple terms

https://www.dangote.com/foundation/

this is dangote foundation. so is a contribution to dangote foundation a contribution to dangote?

please dont tell you me you believe all these silly figures being thrown around by these clowns without any context.

the picture below is bodies that have contributed to the dangote foundation. if we had the clowns from DOGE investigating dangote, they would say bill gates contributed money to dangote so he could disrupt fuel supply in nigeria. there is no difference between this and the posturing of the clowns in NASS during their so called investigations. a dog and pony show to pull the wool over the eyes of ignorant laymen
BBC is a propaganda outlet. Through osmosis or genetics or whatever it's charities will also be promoting propaganda worldwide.
A snake in the grass is still a snake.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:47am On Feb 08, 2025
Ouch this must hurt . Trump revokes Joe Biden security clearance and daily presidential briefings.
Meaning Joe should not be in possession of anything deened classified. He recently signed up with a Hollyweird talent agency that also represents Obama and has brought him millions.
Any book or movie from this agency will have to be vetted.
They never thought that tables would turn

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:33am On Feb 08, 2025
The US debt clock is tracking DOGE savings.
Now over $70B saved.
Fascist Trump..How dare he.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
raumdeuter:
Anyone who kept quiet in all the decades before has lost all right to point to one dept

Why didn't anyone Dem Republicans open case file for Pentagon when they were in power?

It's like a child has headache, stomach ache, rashes and the guardian ignored.

Another guardian took over and caring for the rashes and the initial person is pointing that why are you not looking at the headache? The sick child was with you for weeks you didn't touch any of the ailment

Anyone who was there for decades watching the mismanagement and didn't say anything has lost the moral right to point fingers to say why are you not checking this or that

So wait first let the audit be done on wherever and we wait to see

So which one benefits the American taxpayers more? Going to the 0.01% American billionaire like Bezos who can likely create more jobs for Americans or going to Sesame street in Iraq, Trans in Colombia and DEI in Serbia
The Pentagon is another animal. An audit will take place. It will be completed in 4 years. I think Hegseth is right on that.
During a town hall with defense staffers, Hegseth said that he will ensure the Pentagon “at a bare minimum” passes a clean audit by the end of the current administration.
“The American taxpayers deserve that,” he continued. “They deserve to know where their $850 billion dollars go, how it’s spent, and make sure it’s spent wisely.”


That's a humongous cart that you don't easily upset.
Though the audit can be completed by DOGE in a few weeks.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:41am On Feb 08, 2025
Coordinated effort by the corrupt to prevent DOGE exposing decades long corruption and wanton wastage. CNN holds an hour long segment about "big balls' . Not what his skillset brings to the table. Yes what a hormone raging teenager wrote in a deleted account should disqualify him from exposing the rot in the media and politics .
We seem to have gone full cycle back to neanderthals.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:33am On Feb 08, 2025
raumdeuter:
The European Union is scrambling to cut taxes on American cars in a bid to avert a trade war with Donald Trump.

Brussels is preparing to lower tariffs of 10pc on US cars shipped into the bloc in an effort to appease President Trump, a senior EU lawmaker said on Friday.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/07/interest-rates-house-prices-ftse-100-markets-latest-news-uk/
Americans are at the highest levelsof conspicuous consumption. Consumerism running riot.
( I'm quoting my professor).
Trump knows other countries economy would take a hit if he reduced imports from them.
That is leverage. He knows how to weld it.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:16pm On Feb 07, 2025

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