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What he should have said is: the culture wars are divisive and pointless. Let's move on.

That's all government over many years. This story is, unsurprisingly, just fiction. "Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data—and the resource used by Becker in his post—Politico received $8.2 million in total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025. However, only $44,000 of this total came from USAID. In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—purchased a subscription to E&E for $20,000. According to E&E, prices for its professional subscription packages typically start in the upper four-figure range and vary based on how many users have access to a subscription. Another subscription to E&E was purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security. Funds received by Politico LLC from other government agencies also came mostly from subscriptions to E&E, or for the company’s policy intelligence platform, Politico Pro. The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE). In July 2020, for example, HSS paid $73,857 for a Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185. The DOI similarly purchased a subscription to E&E in September 2021 for $200,000, which it has been extending since. The DOE has also been extending a Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000."

Here's some facts: You are willing to put other people's children at risk of diseases you won't expose your own kids to. You lied when you said RFK Jr did not say "“there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective." You seem ignorant of the concept of herd immunity and what it entails. Anything else, shithead? Zero self awareness.

How come no one can ever define woke? If you use a term, you’d think you would know what it means.

as discussed in other posts... the Trumps admins furry to attack government spending is a failing attempt to somehow offset the hole his extended tax cuts for corporations is going to blow in the debt ceiling. its not going to work. if he can't cut military spending or non-discretionary spending then its just going to be another borrowing fiasco. Republicans stare down massive deficits to extend Trump tax cuts

what are you missing? they were neutral for most of their independence. they have suggested they continue to be independent and not seek NATO membership to negotiate the end of the war. Putin doesn't care. he wants to rebuild the old Soviet Union. he's said so! don't you get that?

you mean posts about Trumps "crap for brains". as many as Trump gives me reason to... they're coming in hard every day now. the volume of shit for brains executive actions is truly staggering.

We all know it doesn't matter what actually happens, you're so senile and deranged you'll spin every failure as a success. You worthless old turd.

I'm not denying anything. The initial claim was all ATC's were hired under Biden, the counter was "many" ATCs have been around for a long time, and your counterargument to that showed a 1/3 or a minority of ATCs have been there for 5 years or less. I would consider 2/3s of anything to be "many" and not "all" but your mileage may vary. Furthermore, the number of "new" ATCs (one year or less experience) is even less, around 10% of the total. To circle back to the main point: DumbFux's claim that all ATCs were hired under Biden is laughably false as your own figures show. QED.

Anecdotal? If it were, then would my vocabulary be so excellent goat Barber Mambo dogfoody ? 🙃

Yes. That's it. Go further even. Show the voting public just how hate-filled and unhinged y'all really are.

What a dumb statement.

I don't know what the limit should be but I don't have a problem with this, fentanyl traffickers are mass murderers.

If they were having trouble recruiting controllers before, how are they going to find intelligent, competent people who want work for a mean spirited mob who hate civil servants and who's primary job requirement is loyalty to Trump? DEI will be mice nuts compared to the chaos this bunch is going to cause. Not only will they make it far more difficult to find good people, they will destroy the moral of the ones who are already there.

hahahahahahaha! it that it? the Trump administration has access to the entire DOJ portfolio and thats all they could pull off? that James O'Keefe (who has a criminal record associated with his "journalism") got hold of stolen writings of a private individual and was about to conspire to illegally publish it... was being watched? and then not watched after he decided not the break the law?

This has to do with protection of children...screw your "controlling." If a child has not been vaccinated, they should not be allowed in public schools.

Of course he never said any such thing. He said that while Americans engage in a war on woke, Canadians will continue to value the truth. Anyone got a problem with that?

My fuzzy understanding of this conflict is that it is rooted to the Donbas region (East Ukraine) that is supposedly ethnically Russian. They were trying to become independent or merge with Russia. Ukraine and Zelensky did not exactly like this move. One thing that eludes me is why Ukraine has been relatively poor for as long as has been recorded. No, they are sub-saharan africa poor but relative to the US, Canada, and Western Europe.. they are pretty poor. Any ideas as to why?

Yeah. Eating cereal with Butylated Hydroxytoluene and Maltodextrin is your right! And you don't need to know what vaccines are doing for you. You have no right to know if it is more harm than good or more good than harm. That's just crazy talk.

This would not have to be a forced removal of people from the Gaza. The west would in effect be purchasing the Gaza. This would go a long way to ending the conflict in that area. I don't see any other way to stop the fighting originating in the Gaza strip. 1. It could be done by offering financial incentives. Every Palestinian who moves could be paid a certain amount of money. The money could come from the U.S., Canada, other countries, and the U.N. 2. The money could also involve spending billions of dollars to build apartments, and create jobs in the countries they settle in. 3. It seems Hamas cannot be eliminated in the present situation. However, moving them by offering financial incentive may provide a solution. This would mean it would not be compulsory but would be in effect purchasing the Gaza strip. So far nobody in the news media has mentioned the idea of paying billions of dollars to the Palestinians to make it feasible. Part of the payments would have to be used to build apartments and create jobs. All of the money would not be given to the Palestinians directly. Some money could be paid directly to the ones who actually move. Part of the money would have to be retained and only used for the purpose of building new apartments, infrastructure, creating jobs, and communities in the destination countries. At present Jordan and Egypt oppose moving them to their countries. But the financial benefits have not been negotiated. That is the missing key to this. Perhaps if there was billions of dollars on the table, they would be willing to take in the Palestinians. But there would need to be a way to ensure the money was used only for the relocation and building of the homes, infrastructure, and jobs for the Palestinians. Also, the payments to the ones who relocated would have to be ensured somehow. The money could not be just handed over to the countries they moved into.

So carney got the opportunity to change the election from a carbon tax election to something else, and he went with making it an election on 'woke'. With this guy leading the party in the next election campaign, the liberals will be lucky to get enough seats to fill a Hugo. I was going to say 'smart car' but given the circumstances that seems wildly inappropriate.

The NDP and the liberals are the dictators and supporters

Ukraine should stop trying to force NATO down Russia's throat, unless they like war.

everyone gets what Musk is doing with DOGE. what people don't understand is that he is a bull in a china shop for a reason... to try and pay for the huge deficit Trump is about to blow to extend his tax cuts for the rich. Musk said he could cut $2T in spending... then $1T... i bet he can't leverage more than a few hundred million. not unimportant but at great cost and chaos. when you look at the pie of where the US government spends its money, if you cut out all non-discretionary spending... its really peanuts. thats why these guys are SO DESPERATE. a case in point. the recent attempt to get ANY federal workers to quit. its very non-surgical nature is going to be a disaster. every bureaucracy has inefficiencies and its a constant task to identify those and rectify. but it never goes away. will the people who are not productive in the federal service take the "buy out"? no. the people can easily get other jobs the private sector will. the talented people. but these guys don't care because the Trump TAX CUTS are all that matters.

For sure. Creative destruction in nature results in a more resilient diverse ecosystem that replaces the one(s) that are destroyed. The process of being destroyed just isn't a whole lot of fun is all.

Hitler and the Nazis did this in Germany in 1933, after he was appointed Chancellor. It took Hitler 52 days to dismantle the Wiemar Republic, and turn it into a fascist state. If the Trump Administration is on par with Nazi Germany, Project 2025 will be fully implemented by March 12.

lol what. I'm saying people have a moral duty to take measures to protect the community. Typical conservative, all about me me me, no interest in any greater responsibilities. Toddler ideology. lmao "RFK jr didn't say the things he actually said but you clearly meant something you didn't say" f*ck off nerd. there's no right to be a disease vector. If people don't want to vaccinate their kids because they have crackpot ideas about their safety and effectiveness, fine, but they should have to homeschool them.

Wow. Looks like the corrupt (allegedly) media isn't going to get away with defrauding the public out of millions of dollars.

That's not what he said. You really have a problem with reading for comprehension.

Hilarious. Wha's a matter Pup? Cat got ur tongue?

Over many decades, billions of dollars in aid has gone to sub-Saharan Africa, primarily from Western nations. It is fair to ask why all those countries still seem to be always lagging behind the rest of the world. Where did all that money go? Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former military ruler, was a billionaire - and not in naira, but in dollars. Upon his death in 1998, the Nigerian government uncovered over $3 billion linked to the sadistic despot held in personal and proxy bank accounts in tax havens as diverse as Switzerland, Luxembourg, Jersey and Liechtenstein. Following a series of negotiations between the Nigerian government and the Abacha family, Abacha’s first son, Mohammed eventually returned $1.2 billion to the Nigerian government in 2002. Another theoretical billionaire was Mobutu Sese Seko, the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over his 30-year reign as ruler of the resource-rich Central African country, Sese Seko amassed a personal fortune estimated by various sources (including Transparency International) at somewhere between $1 billion and $5 billion. Experts believe virtually all of it was illicitly acquired from the nation’s coffers and stashed away in Swiss banks. While his reign lasted, Sese Seko earned an international notoriety as a poster boy for the excesses of typical African despots. He owned a string of exotic Mercedes cars and divided his time between plush palatial residences in Paris and Lausanne, Switzerland. He also developed a special taste for pink Champagne and flew in fresh cakes from Paris for his consumption. But one of the wealthiest, albeit lesser-talked about African leaders to emerge from Africa is Nigeria’s former military president, Ibrahim Babangida. The gap-toothed military general and self-acclaimed “Evil genius” is unofficially one of the richest men in Nigeria and in Africa. The 70 year-old former military ruler governed Nigeria from 1985 to 1993 and is widely believed to have laundered some $12 billion earned from an oil windfall during the 1992 Gulf War.

Nope, just pointing out your cowardly and dishonest behaviour, b!tch.

Biden's and Obama's desperate attempt to appease globalist overlords resulted in the fraud, waste and abuse of USAID. Aside from the woketards, no tax payer wants to see their hard earned cash being wasted on DEI. No, that's the democrats. It's why you bury them in poverty and rejoice when they kill each other in the streets.

Jeez Mike I sincerely hope that wasn't anecdotal.

Would run off elections satisfy your issue. If no candidate in a particular riding receives a majority of the votes, have the two top candidates run in a second vote two weeks later. That way, the winner takes her seat with a majority of the votes. A top down structure is what works best. I hear criticism of elites but historically, it is elites (eminent persons of merit) who govern best.

Where in the Constitution does it state its America's job to fund other countries for no return?

Great post. 👍 Effectiveness means agility also. We have a moment now, a spark of unity. Our political elites need to wake up and realize that they need to work together for a short time to restitch our institutions together and to especially stop making them.... Yes Men to the deputy ministers. We can have it all. Even the feeble pre-industrial country of Vietnam was able to stand up against the behemoth when it counted. It's not just the government, it's all Canadian institutions that reflect a slow and ineffective top-down structure. Most of us have never known anything else.

Crazy. Biden used the FBI as his own personal goon squad to raid the homes of journalists for the crime of doing journalism

@West Warren donated that money to charity long ago. AKA DUPED AGAIN. Warren will donate money she's received from the family ... - Vox vox.com https://www.vox.com › warren-donate-sackler-money-o... May 8, 2019 — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren has announced she will donate $4,500 to offset donations from the Sackler family ... Missing: Liz ‎| Show results with: Liz Warren to donate campaign money she previously took ... Politico https://www.politico.com › story › 2019/05/08 › warre... May 9, 2019 — After POLITICO pointed out to Warren's campaign that her 2018 Senate reelection effort had accepted $2,500 in donations from Beverly Sackler — ...

Oh look who's pretending he doesn't know what he said before again. How shocking. 🙄

What did he say. For those who are not stupid enough to click on suspicious links, a little bit of text would be nice.

I don't have Pro access or experience, but I'm open to the argument a policy platform could be of value to policy makers. Is it LexisNexis for policy??

well its true... Don, Eric and Ivanka have been on a rampage for some time.

It's a complex world, puppy. Just sit this one out.

pretty sure they're getting the message now ; Diversity is not a strength the role of the federal government is not social programs Canada is a British Empire unto itself, to navigate & defend a Northwest Passage and all the riches therein the role of the Crown is to maximize state power, military, economic & diplomatic to defend you, defend your rights, defend your property because the World Police are not coming to save you the Neoliberal Globalists said that democracies never go to war against each other yet the British Parliament & the American Congress were both democracies in 1812 and America has always disputed Canada's claims to the Northwest Passage the American position is that the Northwest Passage is International waters beyond the 12 mile limit like Saudi Arabia, Canada needs to become so resource rich ; that Canada can Wag the Dog too and the RCN needs to be capable of defending your interests on the high seas as necessary if AUKUS won't sell Canada nuclear submarines ; buy them from the French only the Russians have Polar Class 1 nuclear icebreakers Canada should break out as the first NATO country to build them COVID cost $600 billion, a trade war with America would cost the same total cost ; $1.2 trillion nuclear warships would cost only a tiny fraction of that printing money and handing it out only incites inflation if you're going to spend money without inflation, it needs to be spent on increased production build the pipelines, build the refineries, but also build a fleet to secure the lines of communication what price do you put on sovereignty ? go big or go home

LOL I can't list it all, but Hegseth completely rooting out and destroying all the left-wing DEI garbage in the military - DOGE systematically going through government agencies and saving us money, rooting out the corruption waste fraud and abuse - Rubio taking down USAID, Getting the Chinese influence out of Panama Canal, Getting Mexico to clamp down on border security, declare cartels terorrists, unleashing the ICE and Border Patrol to actually do their jobs.... that is just the stuff off top of my head and it is only week 1!!!! Loving it.

If I were advising Poilievre, I would suggest less visibility with alternate policies and more of a consensual tone supporting the government. Don’t fight the falling poll numbers. The public is in no mood for division in our political ranks at this moment of peril - there will be ample time for normal politicking to resume down the road. Clement Attlee loyally served in Churchill’s government right through WWII and still gave him an absolute hiding in 1945. In terms of style, the crisis is a good opportunity for Poilievre to soften his image and sound less partisan. Bring us more of the guy we heard at Mulroney’s funeral.

Now why on Earth should anyone take this person seriously?