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Tuesday, February 25. 2025

Tuesday morning links

Everybody Freeze! It’s the Climate Police


Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming?


The CIA Issued This Response Regarding the Secret Sex Chat Fiasco Involving the Intel Community


NYC Mayor Eric Adams Announces The Roosevelt Hotel’s “Asylum Arrival Center” is Closing Down


The Trump funding cuts will backfire if they are not stopped


Are We Winning?


"Give Us Back Our F**king Money" - How Washington Stole Everything...


Stonewall, UK's Largest Trans Rights Organization, Turned Out to Be a USAID Front


How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe


Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope


Who Lost Ukraine?


"Center Right" Party in Germany Wins Elections, Vows to Not Close the Borders


Germany's Brand New Chancellor Elect Pulled the Old Magoo


Germany’s Merz vows ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be dead


By Defending Free Speech Worldwide, Team Trump Reclaims America’s Global Moral High Ground

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re Germany’s Merz vows ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be dead

This is a good thing.

It's like your basement dwelling child getting mad at you for suggesting they pay a little rent. They'll show they reply. They'll move out. That'll fix ya.

Of course Merz is all talk. Nothing else. We have been hearing similar BS from the Euroweenies for years.

I only wish they would follow through on their big talk.
#1 feeblemind on 2025-02-25 09:56 (Reply)
feeblemind: I only wish they would follow through on their big talk.

The only time in history NATO's mutual defense treaty has been invoked was in 2001—by the United States. NATO countries, including Germany, answered America's call, fighting and dying in Afghanistan.
#1.1 Zachriel on 2025-02-25 14:07 (Reply)
The misuse of Nato is why it needs to go away. Clintons 'nation building' in Kosovo, which did not involve a Nato country and in which we were NOT invited, is a prime example of political meddling where we have zero interests. The US needs to get out of Europe and make the Europeans provide their own defense. Now they are little more than wagon riders with endless complaints.
#1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-02-25 15:03 (Reply)
Yes, 2001, ten years after NATO should have declared victory and disbanded.

What is your point? Are you trying to imply that Germany made a bigger contribution to the USA's defense than the USA made to Germany's defense? That we needed Germany as much or more than Germany needed us? Those are two reasonable inferences from your comment, and they are both obvious nonsense. Very on brand for you. Just imply something absurd then deny it when confronted.

But on to specifics. The USA suffered 67% of the fatalities among the alliance in Afghanistan. Two other members of the Anglosphere who would have been involved even without NATO, the UK and Canada, accounted for another 18 %. Throw in Australia and New Zealand and you get about 90% of the fatalities. And over 90% of the combat capacity.
#1.1.2 James on 2025-02-25 17:10 (Reply)
hmmm, and how many Americans fought and died in Germanys world wars. Payback was tiny in comparison, and long overdue.
#1.1.3 LibDis on 2025-02-25 18:35 (Reply)
James: What is your point?

That when the United States called on the NATO alliance, the only time in history the pact was invoked, NATO stood up.
#1.1.4 Zachriel on 2025-02-25 20:12 (Reply)
re The Trump funding cuts will backfire if they are not stopped

So someone's personal fiefdom at USAID was shut down?

Boo hoo.

It was a bureaucracy better suited for the UN anyway.

It won't affect us in the least.

There's probably 10000 other bureaucrats feel the same way about their little kingdoms as well.

These people make my blood boil. The little people, being ground to dust between the millstones of inflation and taxation can barely make ends meet and these basturds whine about the gravy train ending.
#2 feeblemind on 2025-02-25 10:03 (Reply)
QUOTE:
As its first director, I pushed to expand the project’s scope


Yep. You're fired.
#2.1 foxmarks on 2025-02-25 12:55 (Reply)
We have one small (3 person) IRS office here in my small, ultra liberal, college town. Sometime toward the end of the last Obama administration two of the three people (white males) were no longer working there. Staff cut was the only excuse I got. The one woman was so "booked out" you could never get an appointment to speak with her. When Covid hit and Biden shut down the country she disappeared and was according to the hand written sign on the door--"working from home". She has not yet returned to the office, but is still on staff as THE IRS representative to help with our problems! :-) Ohh...and don't forget all of the paper documents were discontinued by Biden's administration. That means I have to print every IRS information booklet I need, or call someone and ask for a paper copy to be mailed to me. This happened at the same time Biden hired all those new IRS employees (DEI hires). ohh. . .and by the way--not one of those new employees has showed up at the physical office to turn the lilghts on and open the door for helping the local citizens!
#3 Apple Pie on 2025-02-25 10:45 (Reply)
I solved the IRS problem by getting Turbo Tax software. It is more reliable than the IRS answers and for about $50 bucks I don't have to wait for answers from the state or federal returns. And I don't e-file. It gives them something to actually do which is worth the postage cost.
#3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-02-25 15:10 (Reply)
You should e-file. If for no other reason, you should never, ever put a check in the mail. If you must mail checks, at least keep only a bare minimum in your check account in case it becomes compromised.
#3.1.1 jack walter on 2025-02-26 07:05 (Reply)
DOGE Might Hold the Key to Opening up All of Washington's Dirtiest Secrets

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A confidential source of Data Republican (Small-r)'s reveals that a PATRIOT Act provision meant to track terrorists' funds could prove to be a goldmine of information about NGO funding — and that might be the real reason Washington is so afraid of Elon Musk and his DOGE boys.

"One of the lasting impacts of the PATRIOT Act," Data R posted her source informed her, "is its requirement for financial institutions to report all transactions over [$10,000 (listed as $3,000 in Data R's original post but quickly corrected)] to the U.S. Treasury—a threshold that has never been adjusted for inflation."

The Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is in charge of processing all that data and going after the bad guys or whoever. But that's where things get weird, according to Data R's source.

. . . Data R's source concluded, "Maybe this is why everyone is so keen to keep DOGE out of the Treasury systems. It isn’t about Social Security checks, it is more about people rooting through the FinCEN database" and getting an unimpeded, inside look at where our money has gone.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/02/24/washingtons-dirty-little-secret-might-be-what-they-let-the-banks-do-for-them-n4937272
#4 feeblemind on 2025-02-25 10:51 (Reply)
Finding out where the money went is half the fun. Being able to prosecute tons of deep staters because they didn't report properly is the other half of the fun.
#4.1 Freddo on 2025-02-25 11:08 (Reply)
VDH is wish casting. I don't care about China. I don't care about Russia. I do care about the uncounted trillions stolen from the American people. If he thinks I want Trump to 'pivot to China' he's delusional. If he thinks Trump will do anything but use tariffs against China he's not paying attention.

The American people want Trump to take a chainsaw to the government blob, that includes the MIC.
#5 TWS on 2025-02-25 11:13 (Reply)
At this point it looks like everything has "Turned Out to Be a USAID Front."
#6 Slow Learner on 2025-02-25 16:50 (Reply)

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