Stephen A Smith informs Democrats that Trump already being recognized by world leaders as acting POTUS is proof that โ
โ "You got your *ss kicked in every way imaginable."
"This man is making headlines about political issues that are supposed to be dominated by President Biden in the White House. It's not happening. It's him. If that ain't definitive evidence that you have lost and it is time to lick your wounds, look in the mirror and revisit all of those tactics you tried to exercise, clearly, in an effort to keep him out of the white House, it's now."
Another Congress Insider Trader for Matt Gaetz to look at
Democrat Rep โChellie Pingree's net worth before joining politics was just $316,000. Just 4 years later, it spiked to $46 MILLION
She bought an island vacation house just for fun and flies on a private jet from her island to her job in Washington DC
It turns out that several politicians use under the table information to trade stocks.
And the fact that Chellie Pingree is in politics means she might also have access to that kind of information.โ
โRules for thee, not for me.โ Thousands of IRS employees & contractors literally *arenโt paying their own taxes.* @SenJoniErnst audited the IRS & found they owed nearly $50 million. The government-wide number of employee unpaid taxes is over $1.5 billion. The hypocrisy is insane.
BREAKING: Vivek just announced that he will be pausing his own weekly podcast to launch a new show with Elon called "DOGEcast," which they will use to give the nation regular updates on their cost-cutting
I am going to be watching every single minute of their new show. Imagine each week they talk about a shocking new piece of waste they found.
Gentlemen @VivekGRamaswamy@elonmusk, you are present-day founding fathers.
๐จNew @WSJ Op-Ed by @elonmusk & @VivekGRamaswamy about @DOGE
Select quotes:
"The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. Thatโs why weโre doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we wonโt just write reports or cut ribbons. Weโll cut costs."
"When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach. In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorized by Congress."
"The use of executive orders to substitute for lawmaking by adding burdensome new rules is a constitutional affront, but the use of executive orders to roll back regulations that wrongly bypassed Congress is legitimate and necessary to comply with the Supreme Courtโs recent mandates. And after those regulations are fully rescinded, a future president couldnโt simply flip the switch and revive them but would instead have to ask Congress to do so."
"DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions."
"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees donโt want to show up, American taxpayers shouldnโt pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home."
"We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington. We expect to prevail. Now is the moment for decisive action."
The Pentagon failed its 7th consecutive audit (budget: $826B). The Department of Education just failed to receive a clean audit for its 3rd time in a row (budget: $268B). USDA showed significant deficiencies across multiple divisions (budget: $203B). Auditors declined to give a clean opinion to AmeriCorps (budget: $1B). This is utterly unacceptable. Time for @DOGE.
@profstonge Adopt Dubai model :
No personal income tax
VAT 5 %
Corp tax over 350 k AGI
only 9 % .
No deductions
Shred all that paper
Abolish IRS as top
New Years Resolution
concurrent with abolishing
the Fed .
Bliss index for Americans
would soar .
@VivekGRamaswamy
Is anyone else seriously sick and f*cking tired of Americans coming last?
Why does this administration have bottomless pockets for Ukraine, illegals, and other nations, but Americans dealing with the aftermath of the hurricane are getting $750?
It doesnโt cover a damned thing. Especially not in Harrisโ economy.
Iโm ashamed of my own government right now. Seriously ashamed. We deserve so much better.
If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.
I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help.
I cannot confirm the reasons why in NC, but i can tell you the reasons in other storms i have worked - i'll explain below.
Let me share with you the first disaster area that i finally realized that this was all about money.
In the FL Keys with Hurricane Irma, after Texas got hit with Harvey, we finished our efforts in Texas and were the first citizen team to make it to Key Largo.
The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn't let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.
We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people.
They didn't care and wouldn't let us in.
It was night by that point and you rarely saw the lights of vehicles in the distance on the individual keys, meaning the emergency response teams from FEMA weren't even working, it was all quiet.
We decided that we would go in anyways.
We filled up the boats and jet skis with all that we could reasonably carry and went by water, around all their BS blockades and around their law enforcement presence on the water.
It was 87 miles by water to get to our first stop, Cudjoe Key and Sugarloaf Key.
When we arrived there we were greeted by a homeowner (for privacy, I won't name him, though we have video) who was elated to see us and all the supplies we brought, his house was in shambles.
We started offloading supplies on the shoreline and helping to get them into what was left of his house.
During that process, he explained to us that FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren't doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER!
Instead, he explained that they were driving around using a loudspeaker, telling people to stay in their homes. They weren't even helping the home owners with supplies.
I was skeptical at first while he was telling me all of this, but then he said something that broke my heart....
He told us that the people of the keys were all in despair, because they had just seen, weeks before, the overwhelming support for Texas with Hurricane Harvey, by the citizens of this country. He, and his neighbors on all of the keys, felt like Americans had forgotten about them completely, because at this point, FIVE DAYS after landfall, all they had seen was FEMA, and they were of NO HELP.
The residents were cut off from the outside world, no cellular, no internet, no way to contact anyone or hear of any efforts to try to help them.
The ONLY communication they had was from a local radio station on Sugarloaf Key, that was broadcasting on AM to the surrounding keys.
The man, after hearing that there were citizens trying to bring them help, but being refused entry by federal law enforcement was visibly upset. He, and his neighbors, really thought the country had abandoned them.
He insisted that we get into his waterlogged truck and that he would take us to that radio station so that we could go live on air, to tell the citizens trapped in the Keys that we, the American people, were there to help and that the government was trying to stop our efforts.
And that is exactly what we did.
After that, we were determined to help as many people as we could, but we were met with red tape throughout the whole process and time we were in the keys.
We finally we able to talk some authorities to let us down to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon towards the end of Boot Key. This was the same hotel where state and local authorities were staging their personnel and they were happy to see us.
I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down to the EOC in Marathon. I was privy to the EOC meeting, BUT was informed in that meeting, that all of the semi trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around and not allowed to be offloaded for distribution by the EOC.
THE REASON they gave us, was that these donations were not from companies on their "preferred vendors list" and that they would not accept them or give them to the residents of the keys impacted by the storm.
It was at that point that I realized, this is ALL ABOUT MONEY.
These 'preferred vendors" are getting part of the money being released by the state and federal govt for each disaster. In turn, some of the "vendors" make it on the list because a friend gets them on the list, and in return for getting ridiculously outlandish amounts of compensation for the services they render, they give kickbacks.
So accepting outside donations, even though they are on location and can help people NOW, they would rather let people suffer so they can get their kickbacks.
This meeting solidified my resolve to help these people, regardless of what the greedy officials wanted, we were going to feed the lower keys that were being neglected.
I diverted ALL SEMI TRUCKS to the Faro Blanco Resort in Marathon and filled the entire first floor with pallets upon pallets of food, water and essential supplies and created a food pantry for residents to come and get anything, and however much they needed.
From local state troopers to the homeless, all were given wheel barrels and free reign to get anything they needed.
We also delivered supplies down to Big Pine Key. We helped establish the tent city on Big Pine Key. Big companies like Titos Vodka and Whelen just kept bringing trucks full of everything that was needed. When FEMA FINALLY started handing out boxes of canned goods (limited to one per household), we were filing cars full of food and supplies for people and pets.
There is so much more to the story in the Keys and further from there in other storms we worked- the common theme though, is that the federal government always tries to keep citizens from helping and the local authorities, the ones that live and work in the area are always happy to have outside help.
I call out to Elon Musk and anyone else who can monetarily help people like myself and those that work with me, who have the knowledge and the will to help those devastated by these disasters.
Help us side step the red tape and get the people the relief they need.
We are willing, and we are many, and we are ready.
@Sassafrass_84@hodgetwins@elonmusk @Alphafox78