47: Swamp Warfare

47 Drain The Swamp 18 Comments

Nation Shrugs as Godzilla Eats Washington

On NBC, former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official Michael Schiffer wailed that the beheading of his former organization would cause national security to “erode.” His quote came as USAID’s budget has been cracked open and Americans are leafing, transfixed, through its colossal library of crazy-ass contracts. From $39 million for “Gender Equality in Water, Power, and Transportation” to “Recognizing the Third Gender in Bangladesh” to “Ukrainian Resilience Through Fashion” to a “TransFormation Salon” to a pre-Taliban plan to help “Afghan Women Enter the Financial Sector,” it’s a bottomless pit of “I don’t want to pay for that.”

A trip through USASpending.gov led me to an “art therapy” contract whose deliverables include things that look like (but can’t be, of course) suggestive pics of queer teenagers…

Can the Elites Allow Canadians To Defend Themselves?

Baiting The Left The Deplorables The Libranos 51 Comments

A rural couple in Eastern Ontario went through a traumatic episode of 3 people trying to break into their home. Naturally, the couple defended themselves. Two of the home invaders are now dead. One got away.

In any sane, just country, an investigation would be done and the couple would be left to live the rest of their lives in peace. But in Canuckistan, the elites don’t like this sort of thing (unless it happens to them), so these folks may see their lives turned upside down. For the couple’s sake, let’s hope the dead men are not members of a protected minority.

h/t Jamie MacMaster

Taste Of Asia

Basic Dictatorship Chinada Shiny Pony The Libranos 25 Comments

Andy Lee (2024);

People are asking who the man is shadowing Trudeau at his Taste of Asia dance party. It’s the head of the Federation of Chinese Canadians in Markham (FCCM) Ken Ng, acquaintance of United Front director Qiu Yuanping and Consul General Han Tao.

Always keep an eye on your assets.

Federation of Chinese Canadians in Markham (FCCM) Pro-Beijing & Liberal voter machine for Markham-Unionville & Markham-Thornhill has received over $730,633 in taxpayer grants since 2015

The Narrative Pipeline: How The Blob Operates

Democrats New Right Media There Goes The Narrative 22 Comments

John A Konrad: The NYTimes, NPR, WaPo, CNN, and the rest don’t just react to news. They function as a distributed, decentralized mission command system for the Democratic Party and the broader Blob.

Step 1: Local Bureau Chiefs – These guys are stationed across the country, watching which stories gain traction and fielding calls from Dem operatives feeding them narratives.

Stories that they need to start controlling
Step 2: New York Editors – Bureau chiefs snip the news and send it to NY, where an editor triages it:
•Will this explode nationwide?
•Will it simmer for days?
•Or should we bury it?
Step 3: Editorial Meeting – The most concerning stories get flagged. Here, editors decide on the narrative framing and who to assign to write it.
But before they assign a journalist, they make one critical call — to the Deep State.

This is a super thread.

“Thank you for your service”

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Jeff Carlson;

USAID is done. From their website:

On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).

@jbendery – WSJ reporting that the CIA is … *checks notes* … *double checks notes* … offering buyouts to its entire workforce.

I Thought We Were Going To Be The 51st State?

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Reuters- Trump, in shock announcement, says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump told reporters. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site.”

“If it’s necessary, we’ll do that, we’re going to take over that piece, we’re going to develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it’ll be something that the entire Middle East can be very proud of,” Trump added.

CBC- Trump proposes ‘permanently’ displacing Palestinians so U.S. can take over Gaza

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