Category: Drain The Swamp

“This feels like a setup”.

Why would one of Waltz’s staffers have Goldberg in their contacts?

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Update: Never, Ever, EVER Trust a Breaking News Story That Makes Trumpworld Look Bad.

When Ya Gotta Go…

Blacklock’s- Fed Banker Is Frequent Flyer

Deputy Rennison’s expenses released through Access To Information detailed 163 pages of travel claims. Costs totaled $261,913 in the period from September 2021 to May 2024.

Accounts showed Deputy Rennison booked 26 trips over the period including flights to Bali, Basel, Bengaluru, Berlin, Brasilia, Gandhinagar, Kamakura, Marrakech, Naples, Niigata, Paris, Sao Paulo, Washington and Zurich. Four of her six flights to the French capital coincided with springtime in Paris.

Great Success!

Blacklock’s- National Homeless Count Up 12%

“Key findings include the estimated number of shelter users in 2023 (118,329) increased by 12 percent in comparison to 2022 (105,655) and are slightly below 2019 levels (118,759),” said the October 4 note Homeless Data Snapshot: The National Shelter Study 2023 Update. “There was also an increase in the estimated number of shelter users experiencing chronic homelessness from 31,476 to 32,660.”

Unlimited Power!

It’s what we want. It’s what we need.

Rob Shaw- He wants a blank cheque to do anything he wants.”

B.C.’s David Eby proposes draconian legislation to respond to Donald Trump

Globe and Mail- Premier Eby, please practise democracy

British Columbia’s NDP government tabled legislation last week that, if enacted as is, would give it sweeping powers to pass regulations without having to bother with the tedious obligation of asking for the blessing of the provincial legislature.

Would A Tax By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?

Sun- Carney isn’t killing the carbon tax

What he actually says he is going to do is to fold Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s fuel charge (a.k.a. the “consumer carbon tax” on 22 forms of fossil fuel energy, including gasoline and natural gas) into an “improved and tightened” existing cap-and-trade regime covering large industrial emitters, known as the output-based pricing system (OBPS).

Cap and trade is a carbon tax by another name, although less visible to the public.

CrackBlue

Dem Fundraising Platform in Turmoil

The exodus comes as congressional Republicans investigate ActBlue’s security and fraud-prevention measures, including to what degree it works to block illegal foreign donations. Among those who have left are longtime ActBlue officials, such as the associate general counsel and chief revenue officer, though the exact reasons for their departures remain unclear, according to the Times.

The upheaval deals a heavy blow to the Democratic Party, as ActBlue has long played a pivotal role in fundraising for Democratic candidates at all levels. ActBlue said it has helped raise more than $16 billion for Democratic campaigns since 2004.

Zain Ahmad, who as of February 26 was the only remaining lawyer in ActBlue’s general counsel’s office, alleged that the company had revoked his access to email and other internal platforms and deleted some of his Slack messages, the Times reported.

Flashback.

Richard Nixon Got A Raw Deal

Michael Crichton for the win.

47: Starve The Beast

Without NED, how will America fund communism?

Victoria Nuland’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has released a statement following the halt of funding by DOGE and the Trump administration.

The NED, which are the architects of color revolutions in Eastern Europe including Ukraine and Georgia, states that as a result of the freeze “it has been unable to meet its obligations and has been forced to suspend support for nearly 2,000 partners worldwide.”

Related: The Mali Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggests some of the USAID funding went to fund TERRORISM and they welcome an investigation by the U.S.

“I put out a directive today that they all will be terminated.”

Sorry guys. We didn’t make the new rules, but those are the new rules.

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