uncle bernard

great question. because he raises a lot of money from rich NY donors. That’s how Pelosi rose to power too, but out of SF. That’s how you rise in the democratic party. If you’re wondering why he rolled over so quick on this, he has a book tour starting next week. He has “more important” things to do lol.

we need a @Scouts Honor analysis

I feel seen

Find a single post that supports that.

Blatant violation of the first amendment. You can believe these things, but don't ever pretend you care about the Constitution or principles of freedom or free speech. You care about the government enforcing your specific worldview on everybody else. That's all you want.

He has not been charged with a crime. He has not stood trial. If he committed a crime, then he needs to be charged and tried. Then he can be deported. Right now, a legal resident was whisked away with zero representation or rights without being charged with a crime or tried in a court of law. Once again, Conservatives don't actually like the constitution or "freedom." You're just an authoritarian.

This is not how the constitution works.

gibberish response lol the point of the joke is that just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t make it pointless. almost every technological luxury you enjoy today was born out of government-funded research, much of it as an accidental by-product. you may think you’re cancelling stupid “woke” research when you’re actually setting the world back decades in medical/technological progress.

Yeah, picking the woman who didn't charge Epstein in the first place definitely shows Donald is serious about uncovering the truth lmao @Scouts Honor what's the cope this time?

Ah, yes, this will be the new line. the files disappeared under Biden, not under the guy who was friends with Epstein himself. Nothing ever penetrates that thick skull of yours.

So, you admit they lied, but now you implicitly trust they're telling the truth once they got caught?

Yeah, these guys are super serious about the “truth.” EMBARASSING

LMAO

This is a limited hangout (look up the term if you don't know it). He's selectively releasing the files to right-wing influences, many of which have ties to the entities that might be implicated. In related news, Trump just pressured the Romanian government to release prolific sex-traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate. And we're supposed to believe this guy, who was friends with Epstein himself, is going to blow the lid on this whole thing? A 5'6 ginger could convince you guys he was the Lucky Charms leprechaun. Pathetic.

Yeah, it's super awesome that one of the largest news outlets in the world is now going to just be a megaphone for its billionaire owner. Right wingers are free speech advocates so long as they agree with the speech (see Elon's constant censoring on twitter).

I thought Jon Stewart actually did a really nice job laying out the flaws in DOGE's approach. If you want a shorter version, start around 13:00. (Plus you get to see Stewart accidentally severely cut his hand, but keep the show going)

1. The government budget doesn't work like a family budget. The government should run at a deficit for the good of the economy. 2. They aren't cutting the real waste. Any serious attempt to actually reduce government spending would start (and probably end) at the pentagon.

tbf, DOGE seems to ***duck** something up every few hours or so.

You think all of this was done under Dems? Did you forget Trump was already president for 4 years? And it is ideological. Just because you don't understand the purpose of something, doesn't mean it doesn't have a useful purpose. Sending condoms to Afghanistan might seem wasteful to you, but contraception has positive effects on society. For example: 1) Prevention of disease. We live in a global world. Reduction in the spread of communicable diseases makes al of us safer. 2) Reduced birth rates which correlate heavily with the advancement of women's rights. When Mike Pence was governor, he shut down a needle exchange program in the southern part of the state because he disagreed with it ideologically ("government shouldn't spend money helping people safely use drugs"). It resulted in a massive HIV outbreak, which ultimately cost the government more money than it would have spent on prevention and made everybody less safe.

There's a difference in funding a project of expansion with never-ending, no-strings-attached, weapons shipments and supplies and defending an ally country against invasion. If we turned off the money/weapon spout, Israel would be fine. We would still be there to protect them *if necessary.* They have nukes too. They're not a defenseless little lamb.

At long last, our great national scourge is over. Here's to a thousand years of peace and prosperity.

I see you've learned nothing from the "condoms to Gaza" debacle. Musk has an agenda, Willie. Stop taking everything that comes out of DOGE at face value. He is never giving you the full context. I, as one of the forum's top CIA haters, have no love for USAID, but there are some programs within it that are good and worth funding. When a billionaire presents them out of context because he knows people won't actually understand what they actually are, he is taking advantage of you. He is counting on your ignorance. *taps the sign*

He has yet to find a single example of fraud. He's found plenty of spending he disagrees with ideologically, but that is not fraud. "Democracy" is when we let a billionaire from another country unilaterally defund government programs he disagrees with. This is very similar to what happened in the Soviet Union post-collapse (and is the origin of the Russian oligarch class). As for the democrat chanting, 100% cosign. Dems are in total collapse, which is what happens when you don't actually believe in anything other than winning elections for its own sake.