🚨🧳 BON VOYAGE: Another TAXPAYER-FUNDED Vacation for Emporer Whitmer.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer jets off to Paris for her 2nd European 'trade mission' of 2026, another week in luxury. She is the ONLY governor in the United States attending this business conference.
Gretchen Whitmer's 'business travel' as MI Governor:
🇯🇵Japan '23 ($285k)
🇹🇼Taiwan '24 ($142k)
🇦🇪UAE '25 ($175k)
🇬🇧UK '25 ($204k)
🇦🇹Austria '25 ($220k)
✈️Multi-country '25 ($470k)
🇩🇪🇮🇹Germany/Italy '26 ($208k)
🇨🇭Switzerland '26 ($61k)
🇫🇷France '26 (TBD)
Well over $2 Million to 'bring investment to Michigan'.
Gotta get those taxpayer funded luxury vacations in before her term expires.
Enjoy paying for it, Michigan.
🇯🇵 $285K to Japan
🇹🇼 $142K to Taiwan
🇦🇪 $175K to the UAE
🇬🇧 $204K to the UK
🇦🇹 $220K to Austria
✈️ $470K on a multi-country tour
🇩🇪🇮🇹 $208K to Germany & Italy
🇨🇭 $61K to Switzerland
🇫🇷 France… still adding up.
Meanwhile, Michigan residents are dodging potholes, paying higher utility bills, higher insurance premiums, higher property taxes, and higher grocery bills.
At this rate, Gretchen Whitmer has spent more time collecting passport stamps than explaining the return on over $2 million in overseas travel.
Michigan taxpayers funded the trip.
They’re still waiting for the souvenir.
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Robert De Niro told a TDS crowd Sunday that loving America right now is like an abused spouse loving their abuser. There's just one problem: he diagnosed the wrong person in the relationship. An abused spouse loves someone who hurts them. A narcissist only loves you on their terms and walks the second you stop doing what they want. He's not describing a victim. He's describing himself. No one man, politician or president is bigger than the county itself.
EPIC! Some pictures capture a moment.
Others capture an era.
This image will go down in history as one of the most uniquely American scenes ever photographed. Sports, patriotism, tradition, and pride all in one frame!
The soundtrack takes it to another level.
THIS IS THE MOST EPIC VIDEO YOU’LL SEE TODAY.
A U.S. Army paratrooper flying the massive American flag like a damn cape right over the Lincoln Memorial and National Mall at sunset. Old Glory dominating the D.C. skyline.
Freedom isn’t just words — it’s this level of badass.
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Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?
You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.
I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.
In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.
I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.
Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.
Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).
His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.
Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
Published in the BMJ … it is negligent & illegal, to not record the biological sex of patients. Many medical procedures & diagnosis differ depending on sex. It’s dangerous, stupid, & ruins data collection information which we base policy & practices on. This nonsense has to stop
Graham Platner just won his primary
Democrats voted for a guy who:
- had a nazi tattoo
- lied repeatedly about his nazi tattoo
- said he would rape people
- sexted with women while married
- bragged about drawing penises in porta potties
- praised islamic terrorists
- said he’s a communist
- joined an app known to be used by predators to contact minors
🏛️ USGLC Recruited Hunter Biden... before Burisma 🏛️
Credit to @MarcoPolo501c3 for assistance with emails.
In 2012, two years before Hunter Biden joined Burisma, Liz Schrayer, CEO of the Gates/Soros-backed US Global Leadership Corporation (USGLC), personally recruited him to their board.
❓If not for influence peddling, why was the sitting Vice President's son such a priority?
Here’s the timeline:
👉 June 25, 2012: Schrayer invites Hunter to be a special guest at a USGLC gala honoring Senators Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy (with Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell in attendance).
👉 July 17, 2012: Hunter attends the event.
👉 July 26, 2012: Schrayer schedules a call with Hunter to discuss a "C-3 Board" position.
👉 August 21, 2012: Schrayer sends a formal letter: Hunter is unanimously nominated to the board, despite USGLC typically filling seats with CEOs and former senior officials.
Again, all of this happened before Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014.
📌 It looks like strategic access to influence peddling while his father, the Vice President, held office.
Hello Mr. Hunter Biden,
You're getting six-digit likes on every post lately. I don't have any hope to ratio you or whatever through traditional "Hello" means.
But for those uninitiated, those who are captivated by your fake-humble persona obviously PR-engineered to capture unsuspecting disaffected Republicans:
You are not some humility, witty guy turning over a new leaf. You are the ultimate proof of nepotism, everything that the so-called "Epstein Class" is supposed to represent.
Let me explain - off the top of my head.
You were a board member of USGLC. U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The most powerful NGO that nobody's ever heard of. Last year, I documented in several threads, how Liz Schrayer, USGLC lead, took credit for ramming through a 90 billion dollar bill for Ukraine in 2024, even as @mattvanswol demonstrated that Western North Carolina got zero help in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene because FEMA threw up their hands and said they ran out of funds.
USGLC, arguably, is the most powerful NGO that nobody has ever heard of. It includes a bunch of corporations, a bunch of nonprofit leads, and ... for some magical reason, I documented, extensively, linked, that Liz Schrayer started pursuing you in 2012. During the Obama years, when you were Biden's son. Are you a former Secretary of State? No. Are you a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? No. That puts you below the average USGLC board member, by a good tier.
So what DID get you on USGLC? The only reason: that you were the son of a sitting Vice President known for corruption, and you yourself were known for corruption.
You are not "folksy." You are the worst of the worst of the elite. Most of the elite, at least, get their credentials through Georgetown/George Washington/Harvard Kennedy. You got yours purely on nepotism. Any photographs you have of yourself at motels is proof that you are so incompetent that you waste all your money, not that you come from humble beginnings. Because others like @MarcoPolo501c3 have thoroughly documented that you benefited a great deal from your nepotism.
You even tried to bait those in with saying you prefer to keep immigration "legal" - but we all know the trap that keeps illegal immgrants here: outlaw deportations, and make every immigrant case "asylum", and magically, everyone who might've been here illegally a few years ago is legal.
You may get 175K likes on your semi-subverting, PR-designed photographs. But those of us who know, know you're fake.
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Turns out that @LeaderJohnThune was totally projecting when he said the SAVE Act was an influencer campaign.
Senator John Thune is compromised by a company that literally exists to sell access to himself.
Pass it on.
When John Bolton was indicted last October, he compared Trump to Stalin and said he was the "latest target in weaponizing the DOJ to charge those he deems his enemies."
Today, he plead guilty.
Michigan's property tax:
Raises 22% more than inflation since 2013
Largest tax levied by state and local governments
Rate is 27% higher than national average