Arestovych sums it up best of all:
That really does impress. We had no idea it was even possible actually to do something without all the prattle.
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Arestovych sums it up best of all:
That really does impress. We had no idea it was even possible actually to do something without all the prattle.
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Trump did in two weeks what Biden couldn’t in 4 years. Illegal crossings are massively down, something in the order of 93% since Trump took over. Biden kept saying he needed Congress to do anything on immigration, Trump proved that so wrong it must be humiliating to be so wrong about something.
Fundamentally I think the progressive’s minds must be broken right now. Not only is Trump beating them badly, their leadership is in shambles. They have no response. They relied endlessly on guilt and shame to get their way, but that doesn’t work anymore.
Even though I don’t have love for Trump, he may be positioning the US to enter the new world order. The Europeans are still stuck in the past, and so are a lot of countries.
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Ukraine received its permission to strike within, it seems, hours of Trump assuming office. In 3 years Biden didn’t manage to but Trump got it done. How am I supposed not to be glad over this?
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I know, Biden’s “escalation management” strategy was a disaster. I don’t see anyone saying otherwise.
I’m still not too hopeful for Ukraine. I don’t necessarily see Trump interested in devoting a lot of resources to a country in Russia’s sphere of influence. I guess we’ll see if my fears have merit.
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Sorry, but where are you getting this information? Can you point to a source? The only thing I see is Biden giving this permission last year and Trump criticizing him for it.
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Yes, hmm,where can I possibly get this kind of information? What a mystery.
For those who don’t have access to those sources and want something in English, I’d recommend @WarMonitor3 or other similar accounts.
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I do follow Ukrainian and Russian-language sources, so happy to read whatever ya got. Thanks.
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I would love to see an accountant’s writeup of the savings in hotel and travel costs for these Panels… It’s probably peanuts compared to the national budget (but of course that is how we got into this budget hole, right? Ten million here, ten million there, who’s counting?), but I think normal tax-filing people would be interested in this massive unnecessary global-travel subsidy for a small city’s worth of government functionaries.
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“Arestovych sums it up best”
Not so sure about that, the excerpt posted isn’t that far from Curtis “We need a tsar!” Yarvin territory.
I’d say Trump is a very good example of a different principle: People who don’t want to solve a problem will claim it can’t be solved and surround it with a lot of protective incrustations of committees and interest groups to prevent anyone from trying.
People who really want to solve problems can/will find ways to.
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People often identify with their opponents. There seems to be a post-Soviet need for a fuhrer.
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The reaction of shitlibs to Trump’s actions is pure narcissistic injury.
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It’s highly amusing, though.
Mother lode is here:
https://datarepublican.com/expose/?eins=831567380
lemme see if I can post this gem:
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https://datarepublican.com/expose/
Mother lode there. Holy Mackerel.
No wonder they’re all so butthurt. Literally years of taxpayer-funded payoffs, suddenly going all out there in public. Not even halfway there yet, in the making-it-public side, so I’m sure there are all sorts of fun and exciting surprises in there.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/doge-and-the-budget-audit-of-doom
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Tell me honestly, did you have any idea it was going to be this good? Because I didn’t. I had no clue, and I’m still in shock every day with all the new possibilities.
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Not in my wildest dreams.
Voted for the least-bad option, as usual, hoping nobody would stomp us too hard.
Now reading the headlines is like Christmas morning every day for weeks. Thank heaven they learned something over the last eight years.
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The thing going on with the CIA right now is… oh, there is not enough popcorn in the universe.
Benz pointed it out, childers has the plain-english explainer going on in today’s C&C:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/doge-days-wednesday-february-5-2025
TL:DR: Trump designated cartels, which have a long history of being CIA pets, as terrorists. He’s ordered the CIA to fight their own guys. 😀 and now (on a delay, after issuing same offer to other govt functionaries), stepping in and offering (apparently) everybody at the CIA a chance to quit now and collect 8mos pay or (threat left blank for everybody to let their guilty consciences fill in).
If this were a book, I’d be peeking at the last chapter to see how it ends, I wanna know so bad.
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Totally. Never expected to see any of this in my lifetime. It’s quite extraordinary.
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Every day: “They did WHAT?!? AAAAhahahaha!! This is great! Could this possibly even be real?” (starts to send link to siblings, realizes they’ve already sent it to me, then we all get on the horn with each other to marvel at it)
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I’m looking at the records of the organizations and initiatives that have been sponging off the taxpayer, and it’s enough to make one’s hair stand on end. The luxurious lifestyles, the bonuses, and these are the most unproductive people in existence. The same people who have been telling us, “learn to code” and “just move.” The scope of the grift is extraordinary.
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Watching it burn in public is so beautiful.
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…I do hope Trump won’t poach *all* our OK office-holders though. I hope we can find replacements. Looks like Patronis is going to be replacing Gaetz here, which is a step up. But that leaves the CFO spot open, and we also have to replace Bondi and Rubio.
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Nobody is poaching anybody from Illinois for obvious reasons. Although I’d be very willing to see these losers get taken away from here.
We are deep in creating “policies” on how to interact with ICE agents if they appear on campus. The policies are miles long and say absolutely nothing whatsoever.
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FL is apparently one of the few places that has been promoting for competence instead of connections, these last several years. So now we’re the talent bank?
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Another thing we’ve learned from the last two weeks is that the republican party has been the designated controlled opposition for the last 50+ years. You can just do things, you know. But the republican party didn’t, even when it had power, and this is why Trump needed it destroy it. He might go away but I don’t think the republican base will ever go back to the traitorous Mitch McConnell wing of the party. Fucking snakes who sold out their base and their country. And for what?
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Oh, I reckon their kids got cushy multimillion no-show jobs at “nonprofits” funded by taxpayer money, too. The Deep State isn’t republican or democrat. It buys everyone.
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Case in point.
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Aye. Reckon they saved enough to live on? Or will they have to go find real jobs?
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These are such disgusting people.
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Wait… WHAT?
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Nepal used to be the only Hindu state in the world (India is constitutionally secular), until 10 years ago. They abolished its Hindu monarchy, and is now ruled by a coalition of leftist parties.
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