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Here is what is odd.
Kash doesn't do the budget. It's not like the director of anything is running the numbers.
He approves stuff. So I am at a loss to understand how he can fuck it up so badly and at such a basic level. Even if he is partying all day and all night, if he doesn't give two shits, shouldn't he rubber stamp shit?
It's beyond bizarre.
It may be intentional.
They seem to be pushing back against any congressional and judicial oversight. They are probably trying to make it so the executive branch doesn’t have to answer for anything including how the FBI uses money.
It certainly looks like they’re doing a soft setup for autocracy.
Everything they've done since Jan makes sense when viewed from the perspective that they never plan on facing consequences, accountability, or fair elections ever again.
Everything also makes sense if viewed from the point of view of benefiting Russia.
Its not tin-foil hat, it's Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.
When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.
All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they've cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.
Why would they need to worry? They already stole the election in 2024, they can do it again.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs
https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0
https://electiontruthalliance.org/eta
All the evidence I've seen to date is shaky at best. The strongest evidence is how brazenly they have acted since taking office, indicating the type of confidence you'd expect after already successfully subverting democracy, but they've been already successfully subverted democracy for decades with the endless stream of disinformation and propaganda... I still haven't recovered from the migrant caravans or Obamas tan suit.
Russia hacked in multiple times, mapped things out and coordinated attacks in swing states. Defcon started doing a whole village for voting machines after the first time and very few municipalities fixed anything. There still hasn't been a legitimate recount anywhere there should have been.
Oh I'm well aware. I've read dozens of articles over 2 decades about the horrors of American e-voting. Every election since their intro could have already been used for fraud at some level, all the way to federal.
The problem is that there isn't some smoking gun to prove it, and there probably never will be. It's better to focus on the anti-democratic flaws in the entire system, especially oligarch/corporate control over politics through bribery — sorry, "donations" — and all other forms of corruption. Those are already proven.
I think what we really need, short of direct action, is journalism. Journalists could find a smoking gun. There should be several. There should be physical ballots, records of destruction or missing ballots.
Read the first and last link. The Russian Tail is obvious. There's your smoking guns.
I would but I've never heard of either of those sources. Do you have any reputable sources? I would love to have some ammo to use against some MAGA relatives.
The first one is a newspaper in San Diego I believe the author linked the academic sources in the article, and the last link is a non profit foundation that was set up by a cybersecurity veteran, a data analyst, and a third academic. I don't know how to give you better sources than that.
MSM isn't going to breathe a word of this. They'll get taken off the air.
Unless he and his cronies are also bullet proof, stab proof, immune to poison, immune to radiation, and possess no flammable property, that doesn't seem like a very good plan.
They think that when the revolution hits, they can use Peter Theil's spy tech to crush it, and then they will go full mask off.
They will just be like well we didn't do a budget but need money we'll get it from doge don't worry about it
It is intential. This is exactly the monkey wrench that Trump wanted to throw into the FBI, while he ramps up funding for ICE, who are more loyal to him.
Five bucks says he was told to wait for a budget to be provided from the DOGE.
He wrote a book describing how, among other Unitary executive theory-friendly proposals, he would dismantle and reform the FBI into a Trump-supporting organization. See Government Gangsters (2023).
On his Trump loyalty
President Trump has proven that if you don’t bend the knee to the left’s disinformation attacks, you can win. In fact, as Devin Nunes and I learned during the Russia Gate probe, when they attack us, it’s because we are, as a friend once told me, “over the target.” Their attacks got louder and more desperate the closer we got to the truth. So we must stay the course. The more we expose of their machinations and lies, the more the American people will understand the truth and demand reform. That is how public officials keep the mission first, that is how they deliver accountability, and that is how they honor their duty to serve the American people they work for.How the FBI can be made to stop investigating crimes of the President or Congress (e.g. the Mueller investigation, the Mar-a-Lago raid, etc.)
Congress can remove funding from the Washington, DC, headquarters and instead reassign FBI funding—and therefore FBI personnel—throughout the United States, putting field-level agents back in the field. If Congress wanted to, it could reduce the FBI behemoth in Washington, DC, to just a single field office dedicated to investigating crimes within the district and place the headquarters anywhere else in America. They could even go so far as to have senior FBI leadership run the circuit, as it were, managing the affairs of the bureau from different branches and moving after a set period of time to reduce the chances of entrenched interests and political relationships being formed. Yet even if Congress doesn’t alter funding, the president and a reform-minded FBI director can internally reassign agents outside of Washington, emptying out the DC HQ in order to put agents back in the field. A new FBI director could also change the rules dictating that FBI agents must do a tour of duty in DC before getting a promotion, instead focusing on promoting those with the most experience and success in the field.MAGA should he shielded from committing crimes like the January 6th insurrection
January 6th gave the Deep State and the entire ruling regime afraid of the America First movement the perfect vehicle to label normal, patriotic, God-fearing Americans as not just racists or white supremacists (something they had been falsely charging for years) but as insurrectionists or even domestic terrorists. In the past, they charged us with having bad opinions. They said our policies would hurt the country or even that we were bad, mean people. Now, they have gone a giant step further to make the ridiculous claim that we want to overthrow the government. This escalation in rhetoric is intended to try and legitimize their efforts to move the political battlefield from the court of public opinion much closer to the court of law, where they can prosecute MAGA Republicans by politically weaponizing federal law enforcement. Really it moves us one step closer to a world where dissent isn’t just deemed objectionable, but it’s ruled illegal. That isn’t America—it’s Venezuela, Russia, Iran, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, or all the other hell holes of the world that we are happy we don’t live in.the budget request is probably collecting dust in his in-box while he's multiplexing online poker tables. or raid shadow legends. he looks like the kind of guy that plays raid.