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The detestable Trumpf junta, Marco Rubio, and DOGE dismantled USAID, so now $2 billion of American taxpayer funds will do the work of that defunct agency except with Christian indoctrination and NGO executives making extraordinary salaries without USG oversight.

Without an atom of a doubt, faux Christian Marco Rubio is the most ineffective and incompetent USSECSTATE in planetary history. Source: Vapid Republican Party Empty Suit

  • Not long after President John F. Kennedy's inauguration on 20 Jan 1961, he soon grew furious at American newspapers that openly reported about CIA's "secret" training of Cuban guerrillas (Brigade 2506) in Guatemala and Florida -- alongside 60 members of the Alabama Air National Guard -- and the obvious USG plans to overthrow the nascent Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. Now 65 years later, the New York Times openly reports that CIA established a Task Force to oust the Havana regime, just like in 1961.
    JFK inherited the Cuba invasion plan from the Eisenhower administration
  • But hey! At least in 2024 POTUS Joe Biden (D) got 138 Israeli hostages released from Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza that were seeking a prisoner exchange for any of the 4,450 Palestinian detainees being held in brutal IDF custody without trial or hearing or America would be in a deep dire strait today, led by a reckless and greedy Republican megalomaniac in the White House.

    So "Uncle Joe," go enjoy your magnificent $417,000 per year annuity -- the largest taxpayer-funded pension of any former POTUS in intergalactic history -- while the rest of us in America suffer austerity measures caused by the GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" and the international body count caused by the US and Israeli militaries soar.

  • Here's for you knuckleheads ...

    How Does Wyoming Law Compare to "Stand Your Ground" in Florida?
    www.wyomingnewsnow.tv

    Basically in Florida, the initial aggressor can claim self-defense if the other party escalates a non-deadly conflict into a deadly threat and escape is impossible.

    Which is a horrible idea, just making this sort of thing more likely to happen.

    How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US government spending? (April 2025)
    www.bbc.com

    ... Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) - set up to cut US government spending - claims to have saved, on average, more than $10bn a week since President Trump entered office.

    "We're talking about almost $200bn and rising fast," Trump told the BBC when talking about Mr Musk's cost-cutting drive on 23 April.

    Doge's website says it is focusing on cancelling contracts, grants and leases put in place by previous administrations, as well as tackling fraud and reducing the government workforce.

    BBC Verify has looked at the agency's biggest claimed savings, examining the figures and speaking to experts.

    Our analysis found that behind some of the large numbers, there is a lack of evidence to back them up.
    How does Doge report savings?

    In October, Mr Musk pledged to cut "at least $2 trillion" from the federal government budget. He subsequently halved this target and on 10 April talked about making savings of $150bn from "cutting fraud and waste" by the end of the next financial year in 2026.

    The US federal budget for the last financial year was $6.75tn.

    Doge publishes a running total of its estimated savings on its website - which stood at $160bn the last time the site was updated on 20 April.

    However, less than 40% of this figure is broken down into individual savings.

    We downloaded the data from the Doge website on 23 April and added up the total claimed savings from contracts, grants and leases.

    Our analysis found only about half of these itemised savings had a link to a document or other form of evidence.

    US media has also highlighted some accounting errors, including Doge mistakenly claiming to have saved $8bn from cancelling an immigration contract which in fact had a total value of $8m. ...


    [good graphic in the article]

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