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9 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

Obama didn't have total control of both the house and the senate correct?

I think he did for the 1st 2 years.  That's how the ACA was passed IIRC

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4 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

I think he did for the 1st 2 years.  That's how the ACA was passed IIRC

Well I stand corrected. I had it twisted. Thought he gained it 2 years in for some reason. @Gourmand I get the sentiment then. I just think he was trying to play the game without knowing what the game was. Either way, the impact of funding and propaganda overtakes everything. 

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9 minutes ago, Satchel said:

The “girlfriend” referred to in the chat, reportedly is an Israeli spy the Houthis  now know about: 

On a side note, talk about a shit spy gig.  

"Ok, so, we'd like you to move to Yemen and start having sex with a guy who's been living in the desert without running water for the past few years.  How does that sound?"

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1 hour ago, DixonHur said:

On a side note, talk about a shit spy gig.  

"Ok, so, we'd like you to move to Yemen and start having sex with a guy who's been living in the desert without running water for the past few years.  How does that sound?"

The source was almost certainly local, meaning it probably took many years to develop the relationship. 

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15 hours ago, Satchel said:

At some point, Israeli intelligence will tire of having their secrets and assets exposed by these bumblefucks. The “girlfriend” referred to in the chat, reportedly is an Israeli spy the Houthis  now know about: 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/wsj-israel-provided-intel-for-us-strike-on-houthi-official-mentioned-in-signal-chat/

 

Information on US airstrikes leaked by senior US officials in a group chat that accidentally included a journalist was reportedly based on Israeli intelligence drawn from a human source in Yemen, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The report, citing two US officials, said that Israel provided intelligence from an individual in Yemen about a senior Houthi figure who was targeted in the March 15 US airstrike discussed in the group chat on the Signal messaging app.

 

The Atlantic published a number of the messages sent in the conversation, including one from Waltz writing on March 15 that “the first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

According to the newspaper, Israeli intelligence assisted the US in identifying and eliminating the suspect in question.

A US official quoted by the WSJ said that Israeli officials have privately complained to their US counterparts over the security breach and the now-public nature of Waltz’s messages.

 

 

15 hours ago, DixonHur said:

On a side note, talk about a shit spy gig.  

"Ok, so, we'd like you to move to Yemen and start having sex with a guy who's been living in the desert without running water for the past few years.  How does that sound?"

Isn't she likely among the dead?

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16 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

All of this WOULD be true if the standard was applied equally and not selectively as a cover for an absence of any GOP policies that were put forth in good faith to promote the general welfare.

Hillary was a first person witness to an investigation into a supposedly shady real estate deal for which her husband was ultimately absolved that was parlayed into a fishing expedition that culminated into an impeachment over a consensual extramarital affair overseen by adulterer Newt Gingrich and pedo Dennis Hastert pushing a carnival revival of "moral absolutism". I think it would be silly (especially considering Comey's selective announcement 11 days before the the election they were reopening the Hillary  investigation while remaining quiet about the FBI's Trump investigation AND McCarthy proclaiming multiple failed investigations were a success in hurting Hillary's polling) was not simply another fishing expedition that the GOP virtually admitted to. 

Hunter Biden wasn't just investigated. He was charged with lying about his drug use on a federal form for a gun purchase, something I'm sure no freedom-loving, 2A-loving friends of mine have ever done or ever been charged with, much less having a plea deal yanked to insist on prosecution.

It's not a both sides issue, it a LUDICROUS false equivalency issue.

All of that is true.

The point I was making is that Democrats are willing (maybe even eager) to see their side investigated and punished when appropriate, and Republicans are absolutely not.  I wasn't comparing the magnitude of the alleged bullshit on each side.

 

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On 3/24/2025 at 7:41 PM, Ted Lange said:

So what made up emergency or bs stunt will this band of deceitful fuck stains come up with in attempt to get this off the front page?
 

the good old migrant caravan?   Maybe rename the Gulf of California?  Make an announcement that we will be restoring all confederate general statues (honestly surprised that hasn’t happened yet)?  

 

 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Again, why was he holding court in a Greenland airplane hanger?

Passive aggressive bullying of a gigantic frozen island that they want to steal. The entourage wasn't welcome, so he never left the US base that's located almost 1,000 miles north of Greenland's capital.

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A Bluesky post from one of the Yale professors who bailed to Canada, echoing the prevalent belief on this board. He specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Holocaust. 
 

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the magats are imbeciles - the sane pubs are the ultimate criminals here

to hold on to their jobs these cowards are silent while the magats claim denmark hasn't kept greenland safe when mother nature keeps greenland safe - denmark doesn't have to do anything because 90% of the island is frozen solid and 80% of the island is above the arctic circle with very short days and much of the island experiences polar night - thule/pituffik polar night is TWO MONTHS

it is incredibly expensive to maintain thule/pituffik - 3x or 4x diego garcia as a similar comparison

every attempt to maintain a permanent presence on the interior ice sheet has failed

but have no fear, the magats will lead the charge to ensure a global temperature rise of 4 degrees which will melt that sheet!

and that way we can get at those unprotected rare earths!  just like that asteroid in don't look up!

except it will take hundreds or thousands of years for the greenland ice sheet to melt naturally

what's that you say?  why not roast it!  we have the tools and the technology!  we can melt that ice sheet!

nukes?  we don't need to stinkin' nukes

hotter, meltier, faster

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why not melt antarctica too!  there's go to be rare earths under that ice?  right?

just like that asteroid in don't look up!

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Almost anything security related we might want to do in Greenland we could by just asking the Danes.  They (were) among the most pragmatic and cooperative, pro-American nations in the world.

This is about Trump wanting to be a president that expanded the United States.  Nothing more 

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On 3/28/2025 at 10:28 AM, Schulz2.0 said:

For decades the US disarmed Europe and most of the world with diplomacy, but then the dumbing of the American people combined with unregulated social media to cause those countries to kick off an arms race that will only end in disaster. 

Move over climate change, this has now become the most dangerous threat to world wide near extinction. 

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Posted
20 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

In shit going on in the world news, apparently one of Putin’s limousines was targeted.

 

 

A Tesla?   Trump is on the case.

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Once upon a time, the US would respond to a natural disaster in a foreign country.   Those days are over.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-usaid-cuts.html

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China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.

The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.

 

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Even as President Trump was dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, he said that American help was on its way to Myanmar, where a 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through the country’s heavily populated center on Friday. More than 1,700 people were killed, according to Myanmar’s military government, with the death toll expected to climb steeply as more bodies are uncovered in the rubble and rescue teams reach remote villages.

 

 

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But a three-person U.S.A.I.D. assessment team is not expected to arrive until Wednesday, people with knowledge of the deployment efforts said. The overall American response has been slower than under normal circumstances, people who have worked on earlier disaster relief efforts as well as on aid to Myanmar said.

 

 

Spoiler

Chinese search-and-rescue teams, complete with dogs trained to sniff out trapped people, are already on the ground in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city and one of the places most deeply affected by the quake. China has pledged $14 million for Myanmar quake relief, sending 126 rescue workers and six dogs, along with medical kits, drones and earthquake detectors.

“Being charitable and being seen as charitable serves American foreign policy,” said Michael Schiffer, the assistant administrator of the U.S.A.I.D. bureau for Asia from 2022 until earlier this year. “If we don’t show up and China shows up, that sends a pretty strong message.”

On Sunday, the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar announced on its website that the United States would provide up to $2 million in aid, dispersed through humanitarian groups based in Myanmar. But many of the systems needed to funnel American aid to Myanmar have been shattered.

On Friday, as some employees in Washington in U.S.A.I.D.’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance were preparing a response to the earthquake, they received agencywide layoff emails. Career diplomats working for U.S.A.I.D. and other employees had been bracing for layoffs for weeks; Trump political appointees in Washington had already fired most of the contractors working for the agency.

The employees who received layoff notices were told they should go home that afternoon. Some had been coordinating with aid missions in Bangkok and Manila, which handle disaster response in Asia.

Two of the employees in Washington had expected to move this winter to Yangon, in Myanmar, and to Bangkok to work as humanitarian assistance advisers out of the U.S. missions there. But those positions were cut. Had they not been, the two employees would have been on the ground to organize urgent responses to the earthquake.

After the disaster hit on Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Yangon sent a cable to U.S.A.I.D. headquarters in Washington to start the process of evaluating aid needs and getting help out the door. And the next day, a Trump administration political appointee in U.S.A.I.D., Tim Meisburger, held a call with officials from national security agencies to discuss a plan.

But Mr. Meisburger said that although there would be a response, no one should expect the agency’s capabilities to be what they were in the past, said a person with direct knowledge of the call.

A U.S.A.I.D. spokesperson did not reply to a request for comment.

 

The agency typically has access to food and emergency supplies in warehouses in Dubai and Subang Jaya, Malaysia. But the big question now is how quickly, after being almost fully dismantled, it can get goods from those places into Myanmar. The goods include medical kits that can each serve the health care needs of 30,000 people for over three months.

Apart from career diplomats, the ranks of the agency’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance have included crisis specialist contractors who live around the globe and can deploy quickly in what are called Disaster Assistance Response Teams. Many of those contractors have been fired, and the infrastructure to support them in Washington and other offices — people who can book flights and manage payments, for instance — was crippled by cuts over the last two months.

The agency would also usually put certified search-and-rescue teams in Virginia and Southern California on alert for possible deployment to the disaster zone, but transportation contracts for those teams have been cut, said one former aid agency employee. 

U.S.A.I.D.’s annual allocations for Myanmar were about $320 million last year. About $170 million of that was for humanitarian work, and the rest was for development initiatives, like democracy building and health. Only a few million dollars’ worth of projects remain operational, though some of those programs, like one for maternal and child health, have not received funding despite being told the initiatives are not being closed down.

Before the cuts, the annual costs of total U.S. foreign aid were less than 1 percent of the federal budget.

At a news conference in Jamaica last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States would continue foreign aid work, though in drastically reduced form. He said the aim was to provide aid “that is strategically aligned with our foreign policy priorities and the priorities of our host countries and our nation states that we’re partners with.”

On Friday, Tammy Bruce, a State Department spokeswoman, said that crisis teams stood ready to deploy to Myanmar.

The United States’ ability to provide lifesaving aid has been hampered not just by budget cuts but by obstacles in Myanmar itself. Since grabbing power in 2021, Myanmar’s military junta has closed off the country from Western influences. Myanmar is now embroiled in civil war, with a loose coalition of opposition forces having wrested control of more than half of the country’s territory. 

The United States and other Western nations have responded to the junta’s brutal human rights record with sanctions, and the military chief who orchestrated the coup, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has railed against the West, thanking China and Russia for ideological and economic support.

Nevertheless, in the hours after the earthquake struck, General Min Aung Hlaing said he welcomed outside disaster relief aid — and not just from countries with friendly relations with the military regime.

Myanmar experts say they are concerned that some of the aid that goes through the junta could be diverted to the armed forces. The Myanmar military is underfunded and short on morale as it fights resistance forces on many fronts.

In Mandalay, residents said they were upset to see soldiers lounging around the sites of collapsed buildings. Some played video games on their phones, while locals used their hands to pry bricks from the rubble.

Still, Chinese and Russian search-and-rescue teams, outfitted in orange and blue uniforms, were digging through the wreckage in Mandalay on Sunday, and a Belgian squad was making its way north.

A good chunk of U.S.A.I.D. funding had been dedicated to areas of the country not under junta control. American assistance has gone to health care and schooling for internally displaced people. It has supported local administrations that are trying to form mini-governments in conflict areas. And it has tried to provide emergency relief to civilians battered by junta airstrikes.

In the region of Sagaing, a stronghold of resistance against the junta, Myanmar military jets carried out two rounds of airstrikes on Nwel Khwe village hours after the earthquake destroyed buildings there, adding more terror to residents’ lives.

“It’s as if Min Aung Hlaing wants to make sure we die, if not from the earthquake, then from his attacks,” said one villager, Ko Aung Kyaw.

But Mr. Aung Kyaw said he did not expect foreigners, American or otherwise, to be able to alleviate the situation. Sagaing has suffered for four years, and its people have died by the thousands in fighting the junta. Foreign aid, he said, would most likely end up benefiting the military regime, not those who most need it.

“In the end, we have only ourselves,” he said. “We’ve been resisting for four years now, and it’s clear that we’ll have to find our own way forward, no matter what.”

 

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On 3/26/2025 at 2:56 PM, Dr. Teeth said:

I could see Trump Venmo-ing people for rides on AF1. 

This is why they’re cutting personnel at the IRS!



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