Todd
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And the funny thing is, the few things I can point to and say, this is substance. This may be just another bone being thrown to us, but at least this one has genuine meat on it. This isn't pie in the sky bye and bye any more, you don't even seem to be looking at.

I'm supporting terrorists? Your proof had better be good. Bryan I need this poster's identity. My lawyers will be sending a subpoena. Libel like this is a serious matter.

It's an "executive order protecting the second amendment" to the freaking Constitution. To say an XO has power to defend the very words of the Law of the Land is goofy. As a concept it's asinine. It's like a CFO being protected from his boss by a janitor.

All I know is you can't possibly know yet if you're right or not. That's not even an opinion. And that you're silly when you try to make me feel like a man alone without a herd, because I'm not the only person on this site, much less in the world, who knows that same thing. You honestly are just pissy that I rain on your irrational exuberance.

Thanks for the neg rep, Captain. You say I can't help myself, I have to make this thread about Trump. But you know you're the acolyte who brought the subject up here. Knowing about USAID doesn't do the citizenry much good if we do nothing about it. Is Trump the river of discontent, or the dam that tames it? It's way to early to tell. It's way to early to decide we don't want to be confused by facts any more, having made up our minds.

Why? And do you mean people in general, or us in particular? Like you said, these things aren't news to us (in particular), they're receipts. We (in particular) are way ahead of the curve. Why shouldn't people who are way ahead of the curve be already inquiring about whether any heads will roll? If something is to really be done about this, we have to strike while the iron's hot. Unlike most people, we already know how hot this iron is. Why shouldn't we have an adult conversation about whether Trump's going to fix it, and if not, what we can use on him as a political cattle prod? Some people treat him as a god. Well, if you want him to be godlike, somebody has to challenge him to do something besides posture and bathe in their adulation. You have to set goals for him. You have to arrange it so him idolators lose faith if he doesn't measure up. If you really want Trump to be Great Again (or for the first time really, his first term wasn't so hot) help us hold his feet to the fire. Otherwise he'll make his second term as mediocre as his first.

He's a lap dog, yapping in frustration at cats because he's not big enough to chase us up a tree somewhere. He thinks joining the MAGA Cult gives him the Authority of the Crowd, and he's trying to exercise that authoritay. That's what makes him think he's entitled (like a Karen) to have his wild flights of illogic slide by without challenge (like a Karen). Remember when Obamamessiah Cultists did the exact same thing? They didn't impress us either.

Not unless we get more than a study, and not unless we get more than some Soros-funded professional whiner giving us the pleasure of seeing their head explode on air. I, for one, am not that cheap, sailor. I'm not that easy. I said I'm keeping that at my leisure. Now that Trump whacked the USAID head, what other heads are going to pop out of the CIA Whack-A-Mole machine? Will any of the bad apples in the CIA take the buyout, or is this just a way for them to purge their ranks of good apples? Which of these departments is actually going to close? Which of these criminals is going to get snatched out of their golden parachutes and indicted? How much money will really be saved, and how much of that will escape this fate?

That's your problem, not mine. I can be patient. I'm keeping score at my leisure. And I'm not moving anything into the win column unless and until we get something more than another six million dollar, three year government study about it.

Good case in point. He commissioned a study? We've already done our homework. There's not a one of us who wouldn't be out to demolish the ATF. A government study is not my idea of substance.

Al Qaeda is the CIA, and everyone else here is well informed enough to know it. Al Qaeda is the CIA's way to throw a tantrum when we won't use up enough missiles to necessitate us buying more. You're saying brats should be rewarded for throwing deadly tantrums, whether you know it or not. The DS, which regularly kills Muslims by the thousands, because they want to spend our money on missiles, because some of them have petroleum, because many of us don't much like Arabs anyway so it's an easier sell than (f'rinstance) massacring cute little Thais, is on the same side as the Muslims they seem to be trying to genocide? Now there's some twisted "logic". Are you a man or a pretzel, cultist?

Heads are exploding and some find that entirely satisfactory. This is what someone who cares only about style looks like. And here is someone who knows substance when he sees it, and won't settle for less. See the difference, kiddies?

Not for a second. I have no doubt that such things as “malicious compliance” went on. I simply don’t see the AG’s memorandum as in as real, substantive way addressing the issue. Let me know when Trump puts some people on researching the thousands of innocent gun owners’ and dealers’ cases who have been railroaded by ATF into federal prison with the intent of pardoning and releasing them, and of prosecuting the criminals who put them there in the first place. THEN, maybe, I’ll be impressed. Otherwise? We’ll see how things play out.

Hey! Another government slush fund. What could possibly go wrong?

But, but, but … muh tariffs! Nobody cares about the CONstitution when it stands in the way of doing what they want. Trump fans have demonstrated this repeatedly as have most paleocons. Judge Nap will just be dismissed as a deep state swamp creature and excuses will be made to make it ok for Trump to do whatever he wants, mainly because some of what he wants aligns well with his fans’ and paleocons’ preferences. Long live the king!

I'm sure glad to see USAID go, because stuff is coming out that makes the Red Pill more potent. I'm not fooling myself into thinking this agency was made a scapegoat before three new replacements were created to carry on what it does. The CIA is a giant Whack-A-Mole machine. I love watching the heads of Biden loyalists roll. But are their seats being thrown out with them? Or are those seats being filled with Trump loyalists while they're still warm? One of these things is a cut, the other is just a changing of the guard. Which other agencies besides USAID are getting the axe? I, for one, am still waiting for an answer to that question.

Sadly, you are not.

Blah blah blah. You couldn’t handle any “plan” I might present. Trump has done a few good things this time around, but not nearly enough to counterbalance the damage he’scalready done. Carry on with the Trump ass kissing though. Even authoritarian monsters need some love.

Ooga booga. Tariffs good.

That is, quite simply, a lie. I’m not calling on him to do anything at all. Unlike you, I’m well aware that anything someone in government does, except just get the hell out of the way, or in Trump’s case veto just about everything, is more likely to result in less liberty rather than more. People around here used to understand that. Sadly, they seem to have forgotten.

Yawn. You need new writers. Your stuff is getting old and predictable.

Haven’t you heard? America’s version of a South/Central American strong man ruler is a hit. Just wait till he really gets going.

Some people must just love being poked in the left eye, there’s no other explanation for their rabid reaction to being poked in the right eye.

From other people I get, "Guys like you are why us white men were discriminated against so hard the last four years," and from you I get this. Fine. I certainly didn't come up with anything that worked. I'll own all of that from both sides. But I won't cop to volunteering for slavery.

I've fought it tooth and nail since before I voted for Ron Paul in lieu of George HW and Dukakis. And I don't have the means to gtfo. Paddle that up your river.

Speak for your own self, Aggie.