B-Man

More on the above.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

end thread. .

We had a Biden thread, we will undoubtably need a dedicated thread for DJT's many foreign policy changes. He is actually not being straightforward. He said in 2027-2028. He's buying time in hopes the US changes hands again. I am sure that we will keep the pressure on.

Do these people have any clue how ridiculous that sounds now? No. They learned nothing.

Billionaire Dan Pena says that number is closer to 0% Billionaire Dan Pena reveals that all the money pledged to impoverished countries “gets stolen” He says the wealthiest countries get together every year, “They pledge between $100-$500 million. How much money has been given (to those in need)? $0.” “We could solve poverty in the entire world with the stroke of a pen. And you know why they don't do that in Africa, Ethiopia, wherever? Because of corruption” “it's because of the c word, corruption, but nobody talks about it. Nobody talks about it. Everybody knows it, but nobody talks about it” “Almost none of the money's gonna get down to where it belongs. Dan Pena talks about Haiti is a favorite location to steal aid money from

Haven't even taken effect yet.

Fauxahontas steps in it again.

Right on cue. Didn’t read any of the articles , felt compelled to respond childishly. .

Trying to give the campaign a talking point against Trump for the debate. They never thought they'd get caught.

The next time you see anyone claiming Trump is racist or xenophobic or any other 'ist or phobic' for securing the border and deporting illegals show them this video of a young Mexican American woman explaining WHY she voted for Trump.

TARIFFS ARE ONLY STUPID AND DESTRUCTIVE WHEN AMERICA IMPOSES THEM.

Whenever I want to know the world's view I turn to Roundybout. LOL Oh look, his repetitious "you've lost the narrative" claim. There is absolutely no evidence mind you, but he will claim it over and over. . . . . . . . . . . (mostly for his own benefit I suspect) .

How Kash Patel Can Fix the FBI A former agent addresses President Trump’s nominee to lead the bureau. By Pat McMonigle Mr. Patel: Congratulations on your nomination to become the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where I spent nearly two decades serving our nation. Running history’s most advanced law-enforcement and intelligence organization would be a herculean task under ideal conditions. Years of mismanagement, scandal, and political attacks make it much harder. Recent failures, from the terrorist attack in New Orleans to the bureau’s investigation of “radical” Catholics to high-profile sexual misconduct, have further tarnished the bureau’s reputation. You are an unconventional pick, and many of my FBI friends, former colleagues, and I are concerned about what you might do with such broad operational powers and list of vendettas. But the bureau stands at a turning point. If you approach your task thoughtfully, you could be exactly the kind of outsider that the FBI needs now. As you know, the FBI employs nearly 14,000 agents and 23,000 professional support staff across the United States and around the world and maintains a $11.4 billion budget. At its best, the bureau workforce is driven by a shared commitment to integrity. As director, you would have tremendous power over personnel and priorities. At present, however, the institution is broken. The rank-and-file are grossly underpaid. Morale has cratered. New special agents, many recruited from lucrative careers in other industries, are often sent from the FBI Academy in Quantico to expensive and crime-ridden cities, where their families live below the poverty line. Agents frequently room together and endure long commutes for a job that gets little respect and loads of administrative burden. As agents struggle, the public’s trust has receded. Prior Directors’ choice to wade into the political fray—starting with the epic mismanagement of the Steele Dossier controversy, and continuing with the ongoing weaponization of the bureau—has raised serious questions for many Americans about our commitment to a nonpartisan mission. https://www.city-journal.org/article/kash-patel-fbi-trump

Too long an article for most here, but I encourage you to read it. We Need a Reckoning on the 1619 Project By Peter Wood Editor's Note Like all revolutionary movements, the destructive Left cannot achieve its goals without convincing enough people that the old order is so evil it can only be destroyed. This is the purpose served by Critical Race Theory and, more specifically, by the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which cast slavery as the foundational principle of the United States. The project’s educational component has been hugely influential but, as Peter Wood points out, the actual numbers on its reach are unclear and even conflicting. Wood argues that a clear accounting of the propaganda’s reach in American schools will be a necessary, if difficult, step in any course correction. The New York Times launched its torpedo at American history on August 18, 2019. I speak, of course, of “The 1619 Project,” which first emerged as a special edition of the newspaper’s Sunday magazine. In the ensuing five years and five months, the 1619 Project outgrew its original 100 pages of newsprint. It became a somber 50 second television commercial on February 9, 2020, that aired during the Academy Awards and featured the singer, song-writer, and actress Janelle Monáe. In 2021, it ballooned into a 590-page hardback book, supertitled “A New Origin Story.” In 2023, Hulu turned it into a six-part “docu-series” with Oprah Winfrey as executive producer. During those five-plus years, the New York Times ran thousands of print advertisements for the “project.” It substantively revised the magazine text without any public acknowledgment, which means unless you saved the original copy, you can’t know exactly what it said. {snip} The faults in the 1619 Project are many and egregious. The shortest summary is that it collapses all of American history into a tale of racial oppression. Some of its claims are factually correct; many are not. But the overall claim is egregiously false, and the alarm it has occasioned arises principally from the authors’ aim of teaching this false narrative to American school-age children. Critics of all races, from Trumpian conservatives to Trotskyite socialists, have raised their voices, but seemingly to little effect. In 2021, legislators in Arkansas, Iowa, South Dakota, Texas, Missouri, Florida, and Mississippi introduced bills to ban the teaching of the 1619 Project in public schools. The Arkansas bill failed. Iowa passed a bill banning the teaching of “divisive concepts,” which did not explicitly mention the 1619 Project. South Dakota’s governor issued an executive order banning the state’s department of education from applying for federal grants tied to critical race theory. The Texas bill, which more broadly attacked “critical race theory,” passed. It said, “A teacher may not require an understanding of the 1619 Project.” The Missouri bill stalled and continues to be debated. In Florida, the state board of education banned the 1619 Project in 2021, and the legislature passed the Stop WOKE Act in 2022, effectively banning the 1619 Project. In Mississippi the bill failed. This is to say that public opposition to teaching the 1619 Project in schools has so far not yielded much in the way of results. Perhaps it has been eclipsed by concern over the active promotion of transgenderism in the schools. But repairing schools is a terribly difficult problem for those bent on reform. The unions stand in the way. The traditional autonomy of teachers stands in the way. School boards, usually aligned with the teachers unions, stand in the way. The progressive ideology, driven by schools of education, stands in the way. Above all, the opacity of American schools stands in the way. It is very difficult for parents, citizens, or political leaders to find out just what teachers are teaching. One thing the U.S. Department of Education could do is impose strict reporting requirements on schools to report what texts and teaching materials they use to teach history and social studies. As it is, no one knows how deeply institutionalized the 1619 Project has become. But we should find out https://tomklingenstein.com/we-need-a-reckoning-on-the-1619-project/