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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:13pm On Feb 06, 2025
happney65:
"Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government. Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions."
How many accounts totalling $8 million.
$444K for these 37 users.. lifetime subscription?
Im sure you will explain FDA uses 37 accounts for it's 18,000 workforce to read propaganda like killing Hunter Biden laptop.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3XiIKD910

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:38pm On Feb 06, 2025
budaatum:
Because..



And because they are not unthinking maga who insurrect because they lost an election.
Have you heard. A review of the cases Trump faced will be ordered by the AG.
Then you'll see I been right on point every waking moment.
Stop using insurrection, use fedsurrection. The guy who coined it., he is now an Undersecretary in the State Department.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico:
Whether CIA or USAID should have classified budgets,
In 2023, acording to the Columbia Journalism Review, USAID supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society organizations in 30 different countries budgeted at $268 million .

Example of an echo chamber.

List down 10 media that used gravitas on July 24,2024.

Forbes published an article titled "What Is Gravitas? And Why Does It Matter?" on July 24, 2024, exploring its significance in leadership.


Here are 10 media outlets that used the term "gravitas" on July 24, 2024:

Bloomberg Television - Discussed the market's gravitas during their closing segment.
Forbes - Featured an article titled "What Is Gravitas? And Why Does It Matter?".
The New York Times - Mentioned gravitas in an article about political leadership.
CNN - Used the term in a discussion about presidential speeches.
The Washington Post - Analyzed the gravitas of various political figures in their editorial.
NPR - Included gravitas in a segment about effective communication in politics.
Politico - Discussed the gravitas of candidates in the upcoming elections.
Harvard Business Review - Explored the importance of gravitas in executive presence.
The Guardian - Referenced gravitas in an article about international diplomacy.
Business Insider - Highlighted gravitas in the context of corporate leadership.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:24am On Feb 06, 2025
cococandy:
Most people in those rural Virginia areas overwhelmingly vote red.

They did this to their healthcare system because they thought they were voting against others. I hope their master Trump listens to the judge who blocked his executive order and gives them back access to healthcare.
There are always teething problems whenever change is happening.
It will be sorted out in due time.Funds will go to the needy . Funds won't be going to New York Times . Their grants over $40 million within the last 5 years. The spigot has been turned off

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:19am On Feb 06, 2025
cococandy:
50 protests in all 50 states and it hasn’t even been two.
Overwhelming support my ass.

When him and Elon fall out, the tea will be piping hot.
Why didn't they occur spontaneously on inaugration day.
Big donor has poured money to the resistance..
George Soros? I'm willing to bet on that.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:18am On Feb 06, 2025
Unlimited22:
Lol
And y'all keep expressing support for the candidate who all white supremacist groups support

People who think anyone in a position who isn't a straight white male is a DEI hire.


Oh no. Anyway.
So I should support Kamala? You are way over your head.
Blacks also hate other blacks. Arabs are even worse.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:05am On Feb 06, 2025
budaatum:
They are coming after you next.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1885715410898559262
That X thread . Whites don't like blacks at all. Many of those who promote black interests and people are just virtue signalling.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico:
Can't seem to get enough of lawfare getting the middle finger.
President expected to get personal belongings back from DOJ that were seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago – including birthday cards, golf shirts and a photo of Celine Dion

Pam Bondi is expected to issue a memo to authorize a scrutiny of Trump cases including the New York cases.

In the Mar a Lago case Kash Patel in an interview with Tucker Carlson had said the reason FBI raided Melania's closet was to look for documents that touched on their Spygate investigation. Documents that showed how FBI concieved and carried out the crooked Russia Spygate investigation.
Kash Patel , they are dragging their feet confirming him So the FBI grabbed documents compiled by Kash Patel because they were "classified".

I'm loving every minute of this. Many obviously want to know exactly who organized the efforts to break Trump and put him away for life.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:55am On Feb 06, 2025
raumdeuter:
Put this on spreadsheet and tag DOGE
On a serious note , I think there are enough crazy Nigerians who would attempt to monetize my basilico handle.
I know people who can do anything to make money.
I'm just happy Trump won after I'd been vilified 24/7 by very many liberals here . Money can't buy that satisfaction.
I kinda think I'm very civil, I don't wake up n the morning insulting Kamala supporters. Or pissing on their threads like gambojimeta.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico:
nateevs:
Like I keep saying, these dudes will vote against their own interests, even if it means their own extermination.
I have expressed my reasons for supporting Trump. They have nothing to do with whatever my net pay package is.
He only needs to hear that basilico has supported him through thick and thin from day one and he'll no doubt offer me a job with back payment.
I have 14000 posts here that each took 1 hour each to research. That's $700,000 at $50 an hour.Add compensation for your insults and the figure can go to $1 -2 million. Then I'd still have a 6 figure job.Plus $50 extra every day to post here bashing liberals.
Moral of the story. Always look at the bright side of life.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:27am On Feb 06, 2025
nateevs:
How did Hamas come to power?
They won 74 seats out of 132 seats in Gaza.
Then violently kicked Fatah out. They executed captured Fatah members.
Majority of Palestinians were very happy with that.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:46pm On Feb 05, 2025
IjeBos:
Who would have thought Trump would be leaving us more isolated and distrusted.

Everyone, Everyone with a working fking brain.
https://www.politico.eu/article/global-fury-builds-over-donald-trump-plan-turn-gaza-middle-east-riviera/
Is that the politico that receives more USAID money than from it's subscribers?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:20pm On Feb 05, 2025
ObaIgwe1:
And you have visited Gaza and asked Gazans what they want and they told you what they want now is to be moved to Jordan and Egypt and their land taken over by US? And if the aim is get other Arab nations to enforce peace, it will be by threat?

No sir, decency and Diplomacy is Trump calling all the stakeholders to a meeting and reach an agreement on way forward before making a statement.
The people of Gaza desire and prayer is that every Jew on the surface of the earth be wiped out They loudly wish Hitler had accomplished his mission..
Trump is aware of that, that's why he is playing hard ball .
What have those Palestinians done with all the aid given to them for over 60 years? When Israel withdrew from Gaza the first thing they did was to loot and destroy numerous green houses and started begging for food.
Then in their elections they elected Hamas which routed Abbas PLA in a bloody takeover. Abbas cannot hold elections because Hamas will win hands down.
How do you negotiate peace with people who want every Jew dead?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:10pm On Feb 05, 2025
budaatum:
https://www.nairaland.com/8335630/judge-issue-more-permanent-block
As expected. Nearly if not all judges nominated by Biden , Obama or Clinton always rule against Trump Still some of his nominees will occasionally rule against him.
This case will obviously be litigated till the Supreme Court
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:03pm On Feb 05, 2025
raumdeuter:
This is why I was telling IMAliyu2 that both Republican and Democrat politicians have been running these racket for Decades, So you the Dems now want to be the party to defend this corruption and mismanagement of tax payers money? Good luck to them explaining to voters that you are against exposing these spending

I am sure even Lindsey Graham will rather keep quiet at this point and let the Dem catch the knife for him
A democrat house member Al Green
has filed articles of impeachment.
At the rate Trump is eating their goats they can muster enough votes to impeach and convict him.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:46pm On Feb 05, 2025
Thanks to DOGE. In sep 2022 Lindsay Graham introduced a bill to ban abortions at 15 weeks federally Led to a massive turnout by democrats. They still lost the house though. The timing of the bill was a coincidence?
Lindsay also supports military aid to Zelensky , he has visited Kiev too.

A data cruncher has discovered the International Republican Institute (IRI) ,an NGO received $130 million from USAID.

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1886785021236928861

Lindsay Graham is a board member.
It also has other big names on its board, including Sen Joni Ernst, Sen Tom Cotton, Sen Dan Sullivan and McMaster.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2025
raumdeuter:
Which tax paying citizen will be upset when you expose potential corruption in govt?

So what Dem want to campaign about is how upset they are that Trump or Musk is exposing potential corruption and mismanagement of public funds?

Check this link showing govt payment to Politico a new outlet and see example like one which shows a subscription for 37 users for 500k.

These things have been going on under both parties for decades until Trump an Elon came

https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=ce007c986b96d38c983ae10dc0614b6a
politico is having payroll problems smiley smiley
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 5:52pm On Feb 05, 2025
bemeruca:
stupid question. China is growing its military might for what purpose?
if Ukraine grew it military might to the tune of Turkey do you think they would have been invaded like that? why was Russia okay for Sweden and others to join NATO? because they cannot run those countries over. if it was not for the West, Ukraine would have been gone by now.
To add numbers to the payroll .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 2:29pm On Feb 05, 2025
Obrigardo:
You dont have a mind of your own. It's just deranged maga shit and piss all in your brains.

See, this is the tipping point to show if you still support ethnic cleansing, white nationalism and land grabbing and you just casually say that.

You have no soul, to be honest.
I don't need any votes such that I'm forced to pander to terrorist and their 1.5 million supporters.
The Palestinians are the liars ,they can't imagine a Jewish state side by side with them . What does from the river to the sea mean .And judenrein?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 2:24pm On Feb 05, 2025
Gavin Newscum goes to WH to beg for funds Weeks after he called for a special session and allocated $50 million to fight Trump over his stance on the California wild fires.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/05/gavin-newsom-goes-to-white-house-to-beg-for-federal-money-after-legislature-passes-anti-trump-spending/

The left has no shame.

Meanwhile Trump will investigate the long delayed California High speed rail project that has never taken off.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:36pm On Feb 05, 2025
Obrigardo:
Elections have consequences.
If the Democrats really have a working brain, they need to use that as the party moto - Elections have consequences.

I mean, we are gonna see basilico loco the deranged maga cultist urging the rapist trump to occupy Gaza, right? Right?
I've written negatively about 1 5 million terrorists in Gaza. Let their brethren in the middle east rebuild.
No UNRWA and USAID funds for them from Trump. They get aid to pay for their terrorists who murder Israel citizens.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:32pm On Feb 05, 2025
Pam Bondi. Represented Trump at the first sham impeachment. They made it look like there was no there there wrt Ukraine.Doubt she has forgotten,pardons or no pardons the truth must be revealed.
New AG.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:21pm On Feb 05, 2025
AmazonTopaz:
So Orange Mussolini wants to buy Gaza. cheesy grin

Congratulations to the Free Palestine crowd for teaching "genocide Joe" and "Holocaust Harris" a big lesson. grin
Many on the left doesn't know why it's losing. You included.
Some might come around. Over at X I've seen some accounts fiercely critical of Trump now flabbergasted at the wanton reckless spending of federal funds esp USAID.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 1:13pm On Feb 05, 2025
descarado:
What! shocked shocked shocked shocked
It's millions not billions.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:15am On Feb 05, 2025
The 2023 report indicates govt overpaid $238 billion for federal programmes.

Money that would buy Ijebos a few sports cars, some bitcoins , help him get a wife and pay for for his meds.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:43am On Feb 05, 2025
9 FBI agents being asked to fill a questionnaire regarding what roles they played in the prosecution if the J6 protesters have sued the DOJ.

EXC: The lawyer suing Trump’s
@DOJ
on behalf of Jan 6 FBI agents fearing “political retribution” called to “remove MAGA” from government and “fire them ALL.”

She also demanded Biden “MUST MUST MUST remove MAGA from our institutions.
FIRE DEJOY!!! FIRE FLYNN!! FIRE WRAY!!!”

She then called for “Industrial strength disinfectant of MAGA bacteria in our institutions.”


Internet does not forget. Their lawyer Pamela Keith didn't think the tables would turn one day , she doesn't know her history.

Holy Shit. 5000 FBI agents out of it's 13000 workforce was involved in investigating grandmothers who walked into the Capitol. All the while Mexican Cartels were busy smuggling children and drugs into America.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:29am On Feb 05, 2025
They thought Trump was joking
Entire CIA staff offered a buyout 8 months of severance pay.

Implies. The entire CIA is rotten and has been hijacked by the left The CIA definitely had a role in framing Trump over the 2016 Russian collusion
In conjunction with British M16. CIA does not spy on American soil, they simply let M16 or any other Five Eyes agency do the spying or entrapping and get their results.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:47am On Feb 05, 2025
9 FBI agents being asked to fill a questionnaire regarding what roles they played in the prosecution of the J6 protesters have sued the DOJ.

EXC: The lawyer suing Trump’s
@DOJ
on behalf of Jan 6 FBI agents fearing “political retribution” called to “remove MAGA” from government and “fire them ALL.”

She also demanded Biden “MUST MUST MUST remove MAGA from our institutions.
FIRE DEJOY!!! FIRE FLYNN!! FIRE WRAY!!!”

She then called for “Industrial strength disinfectant of MAGA bacteria in our institutions.”


Internet does not forget. Their lawyer Pamela Keith didn't think the tables would turn one day , she doesn't know her history.
Is liberalism a mental disorder?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:34am On Feb 05, 2025
nateevs:
These are for the echo-chamber. Those who are paying attention know where the ultimate wastage is.

When Elon Musk and DOGE reach the DoD to cut 60% of that $900bn annual budget, give me a buzz.
Trump intends to grow the military might
He has already begun to curb wastage like DEI, lbgtq, pride months etc
The money will go up not down but for actual military causes not social engineering
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:23am On Feb 05, 2025
GloriousGbola:
https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/17daily/1703/170308_AnotherContractor

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/13/politics/trump-small-business-owners/index.html

refusing to pay small contractors in full was a tried and tested trump tactic

because what will you do - waste money you dont have suing me

incidentally, it is a tactic a lot of nigerian big men also use very effectively

Mike adenuga is notorious for this

i experienced this directly during teh commissioning of his glo towers. all the vendors had not been paid and they downed tools. the man came, bullied everyone , work continued . i doubt anyone was ever paid in full. a friend told me that all those birthday ads for adenuga in the papers - some are people trying to remind him that he still owes them . and we are also seeing the outcome as glo is seriously lagging behind the other telcos

there is nothing trump is doing that i have not seen before on some scale

all the regulatory entities he and musk are shutting down?
i have seen that happen when well run businesses in nigeria come under new management

example - after cecilai ibru was kicked out of oceanic bank - she then took an interest on another ibru busines aerocontcarors - which ws one of the most reliable airlines in est africa. she chased out must of the upper management, embarked on numerous so called cost saving measures and the incidents and crashed began. today aero contractors is a shadow of itself

i don’t expect any of this to matter to you, or for you to even understand because you are a vacuous pretender

you claim to have worked in NNPC - well in any large oil company safety is a culture and during every meeting there is a safety briefing, especially when there are outsiders in the meeting. but you a so called oil industry hire will join the ignorant in cheering as osha is shut down.

sometime last year, we were invited to a project with a businessman who reminded me of trump. in the middle of the meeting, he started talking about signing NDA. and for what. he was not doing anything groundbreaking. we were not sending rockets to the moon. i immediately googled the man and found he is the brother of a nigerian politician who regularly uses authority to bully people.

i told my partner we needed to pull out of the job and that nothing good would come out of it. fortunately he listened to me, because he did not want to understand that the real purpose of NDAs is to bully and intimidate your employees or contractors or partners. because they cannot afford to employ lawyers full time and do not have SANs as friends incidentally may partner had worked with them previously and they had stiffed him on some technicality. believe it or not the man spent two days trying to browbeat and cajole my partner into working with them. i guess he could not believe that someone would not be swooning at the chance to work with a so called big name in nigeria.

ironically, six months later we are working on that very project right now - directivity with the mans proposed client.

anyone who has worked in a third world country where money makes up the rule of law understands exactly how this will turn out. you don't understand anything beyond parroting empty slogans thrown about by right wing politicians
New York is Trump org headquarters. Had Trump been that monster you paint him to be, Letitia would have found out by now She got some judge to order banks hand over all Trump's accounts to her office. They went through them with a fine toothcomb for a year and the only things they uncovered from his 500 plus companies......
His CFO had some company privelleged limo and apartment. Plus there was a payment entered in the ledger book as "Legal Expenses" instead of " Reimbursement to Michael Cohen for the money he wired to Stormy Daniels plus his annual retainer '. She also found that when negotiating loans Trump valuation was not what bankers who did their due diligence found was the actual value , though they still lent him money that was repaid with agreed interest . She didn't tell the judge that banks valued him as a premium customer and they wanted to do more business with him.

Anyway Trump org employs over 20000 employees who let's say on average support 3 others. You can see how many households his businesses sustains.
Now that Pam Bondi is the AG, let's see Biden bank accounts scrutinized.I guarantee you they are worse than Al Capone's . The democrats set the precedence, noone is above the law
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico:
raumdeuter:
Most of Israel's enemies hate America as well, And wont hesitate to kill Americans the way they do Israelis if given the chance

Israel helps America defence and provides intelligence that benefits US

All the Transgender for Peru and Colombia, How does it help America
USAID funding BBC with $2.6 million.
Obviously to slant their global coverage of pet topics.

****2,600,000 is millions .
****Apologies

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:35am On Feb 05, 2025
In a series of orders Monday evening, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revoked Biden-era actions that blocked drilling across 625 million acres of federal waters nationwide—an area that is equivalent in size to a third of the continental United States—in the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and in the state’s 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve


Biden blocked oil exploration because climate change.
Why I approve this.
Oil prices will go down when America reduces it's import and unconventional fracking achieves near production costs as the Saudis.
The Biden admin and the globalist want oil prices prohibitively high, so they can push their green agenda. That encompasses more govt control on what we do eg How much we can travel, eating meats, living in urban 15 minutes, Basically it's a new form of micromanaging us.

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