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I will say that the whole relocation of Palestinians sounds similar to what was done to Israel by previous empire in the past, the Babylonians and Roman empire. 

So not sure if that is good or bad. 

And the whole relocation of prisoners to El Salvador prison sounds weird as well. I don't know if the Soviet Union used to do that by sending prisoners to neighbor countries...

So not sure if that is good or bad, time will tell what comes of all of this. 

 

 

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Jonathan Pie - The Corporate Con

 

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'Popularity in the toilet': Report claims even Republicans now revolting against Elon Musk

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is a potential liability for President Donald Trump's new administration as polling reveals voters are not on board with his takeover of federal systems 

House Oversight ranking member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) saying, “This guy who says he’s your champion has hired a billionaire from South Africa who doesn’t give a damn about you or your family and is proving it every hour of the day,” and conservative Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) calling Musk an "unelected, weirdo billionaire" who is "swinging left and right and smashing things."

70 percent of voters opposed “the creation of a government of the rich for the rich by appointing up to nine different billionaires to the administration,” 

AP Press

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Musk shields his finances as he hoards private data of millions of Americans

Elon Musk vowed "maximum transparency" in his government work but won't even share his financial disclosures, according to a new report.

"So just to recap: Elon Musk has all of your personal confidential data," posted the co-executive director of the activist group Indivisible Guide. "And he will not be disclosing any of his information to the American people. One set of rules for Musk and Trump, one set of rules for the rest of us."

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Heritage Foundation Wants Trump To Deport Prince Harry

They want you to know they'll come after disloyal rich white men too

https://www.wonkette.com/p/heritage-foundation-wants-trump-to

The tentacles of our new Christofascist overlords the Heritage Foundation were back in court last Wednesday, this time continuing a two-year fight they’ve been having with the Department of Homeland Security to make public the visa application of one HRH Prince Henry Charles Albert David George of Wales, the Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton, and Baron Kikell K.C.V.O., AKA Prince Harry, AKA the ginger married to the lady from “Suits.”

Heritage has been slobbering over the possibility that his visa application will reveal that when he immigrated during the first Trump administration he lied about “numerous drug offenses” he mentioned in his memoir, like some kind of British Hunter Biden. Harry was never arrested or convicted of anything, but he wrote that he and his wife-to-be smoked pot while watching Inside Out, angry face! Also he tooted some lines at a party once, and did some shroomin’, so they think he should be DEPORTED. Harry is married to a US citizen and has two American children, but if he lied on the application, he could still be deported anyway. And what a fine example he would make of the Heritage Foundation’s newly boundless power to harass people and upend their lives!

Nile Gardiner, the director of the foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and Fox News blatherer, told Vanity Fair, “I think that US immigration law has to be applied equally and fairly to anyone who applies. It doesn’t matter whether you are a prince. If Harry has nothing to hide, he should support the release of the records [...] I think it’s very clear that if Prince Harry lied on his immigration application, which is a criminal offense, he will be deported.” And Heritage is also reportedly appealing to Trump to ORDER Harry’s confidential records released, too.

And if they can do it to Harry, well, they can do it to anyone, they’re hoping. Maybe even to El Salvador!

Hm, one could say the same “nothing to hide” thing about immigrant Elon Musk, who came to the US from Canada on a student visa and openly admitted to the Washington Post and in a legal deposition that he violated the terms by stealing American jobs instead of going to school. And his brother Kimbal humblebrag-hyuked on a podcast that the two of them committed fraud on entry by lying to border agents that they were going to a David Letterman taping, instead of to break the law by working at a web company. Which if true should make him inadmissible to the US for the rest of his life, and made him ineligible for citizenship!

Elon Musk Was An Illegal Immigrant

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Or how about the immigration records of one Melania Knauss Trump, who came here on an extremely rare EB-1 “Einstein” visa for people of extraordinary ability, who are supposed to show evidence that they will be continuing to work in the area of their expertise, and:

provide evidence of a major award or meet three of 10 criteria proving excellence in their field. The criteria include coverage of the applicant in major publications, original and significant contributions to a field, and work displayed at artistic exhibitions.

Doesn’t the public have the right to know what the First Lady wrote down for that? Was Melania perhaps the first-ever model to appear naked as a jaybird in high heels on a bear rug? Did she invent getting greased in baby oil and turning around to make a pouty “you caught me, you naughty boy!” expression?

Anyway, back to Harry. The Heritage Foundation first started trying to get Harry’s confidential records in 2023, with FOIA requests to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services as well as US Customs and Border Protection, which turned them down because these records are confidential. Then Heritage sued the Department of Homeland Security, demanding an injunction to force DHS to expedite the request because Heritage would suffer irreparable harm if they didn’t get Harry’s private documents immediately.

Last October Trump appointee Judge Carl Nichols — the same judge blocking the Trump administration from putting all the USAID employees on leave right now — told Heritage to fuck on off, because “the public does not have a strong interest in disclosure of the Duke’s immigration records.”

And the Heritage Foundation has appealed, hoping that Trump, longtime voracious tabloid reader that he is, will make an example out of Harry. Trump told the trashy London Express last year: “I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me,” and “I think they [the Biden administration] have been too gracious to him after what he has done.”

The Queen, of course, loved her grandson, and did not like Donald Trump, much less ask his fucking opinion about anything. And Trump has written eleventy hundred books bragging about how the real Art of The Deal is fucking over any contractor with bad enough sense to work for you. Also, you know who is entitled to write a book about their life, and should? EVERYBODY!

Especially Harry, who has been dogged and lied about by shitty publications since before he was born, and shamed into not defending himself by his glamorously inbred family. Until now! He got out of their clutches and off his dreary little island, and just settled a lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch’s British NewsUK operation that included a full and unequivocal apology and admission to all the illegal hacking and intrusions that they plagued him with his entire life. He’s been working to tell his own story, live his truth, and better his lot, and there ain’t a damn thing wrong with that.

But to conservatives, it was unforgivable to break the omertà of the royal family and write a book called Spare, titled for the way it was openly discussed in the royal family that Harry existed to be spare parts for his brother. He also talked about his grief over the death of his mother, and the fact that his family was made up of humans who did human things. Why does Heritage care so much? Perhaps because in a cult, the only unforgivable sin is leaving. If their minions discovered that by being reasonably nice people they could find a nice person to marry and go live a happy life outside of the cult instead of snorting powdered haterade all day long, the whole scheme falls apart. Just a theory.

Also Harry is what a Klansman or probably Princess Michael of Kent would call a race traitor for marrying a half-Black lady, instead of one of his horsefaced cousins, or at the least a blandly pretty white girl whose parents sold party supplies. And they are “woke,” of course. Recently the Sussexes called out Meta for their disgusting new Hateful Content Policies, which Wallis and the late Duke of Windsor would have adored.

Judge Nichols said that he’d make public what he could and asked the government to submit redactions, so maybe something will be released, hopefully as redacted as a Michael Flynn court document.

Meanwhile, Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are near Vancouver for the Invictus Games, the 11-year-old international sporting event for wounded veterans that he founded. Invictus has also just broken ground on a new rehabilitation center in Nigeria! The couple also let people who’d lost their homes in the LA fires stay in their house, had been working alongside chef Jose Andres's World Central Kitchen handing out food, and played with displaced kids at the San Diego Zoo. Meghan even helped track down a replacement Billie Elish T-shirt that a 15-year-old lost in the fire. So of course the Twitter trolliverse is shitting all over her for being the worst person ever born, and gossip websites are reporting that she and Harry are on the brink of divorce, based on nothing. They want her to be miserable so bad.

Oh well! And best of luck to them. We need more Americans like these!

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On 06/02/2025 at 19:07, Fernando said:

 

 

How Much More F*cked Can Trump's War On USAID Get? Let Us Lose Count Of The Ways!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-much-more-fcked-can-trumps-war

Now that the lawsuits and restraining orders against Donald Trump’s executive orders are flying, it’s also time for some injunctive relief to protect the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which was targeted by Elon Musk and his Incel Clown Posse last weekend.

Yesterday, unions representing federal employees at USAID and members of the foreign service sued to stop Trump from dismantling the agency and freezing foreign aid. The complaint argues, with 100 percent accuracy, that a president can’t eliminate a federal agency that was created by Congress, so knock off that unconstitutional shit toot sweet, OK?

The lawsuit demands an immediate halt to efforts to shut down the agency’s operations and to put nearly all staff and contractors on leave, to restore the funding that Congress authorized, and calls for USAID’s offices to be reopened.

The suit also includes as defendants the State and Treasury Departments, USAID, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Notably, Elon Musk isn’t a defendant, possibly because he doesn’t deserve recognition as any official part of the federal government (the complaint refers to the “so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’” because that too is a fake entity.)

Honestly, that’s plenty, although the complaint goes into detail on why exactly USAID can’t be dismantled by the executive branch, as well as the many harms the agency’s shuttering will cause, both to the plaintiffs, those receiving congressionally authorized aid, and to the Rule Of Goddamned Law In These United States.

Your Tax Dollars Not At Work

The complaint emphasizes that the attempt to eradicate USAID is already having “life-threatening consequences” (we’ve removed footnote numbers in the quote below; see complaint for links):

Clinics stopped distributing HIV medication. Staff who operate humanitarian operations at refugee camps in Syria were told to stop work, leaving thousands of people vulnerable to instability and violence at the hands of ISIS.

Soup kitchens that feed nearly a million people in famine-stricken Khartoum were shut down. Toddlers in Zambia were deprived of rehydration salts to treat life-threatening diarrhea.

Doctors at U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan that treat severely malnourished children were forced to choose whether to obey Defendants’ orders and “immediately stop their operations or to let up to 100 babies and toddlers die.”

Temporarily happy ending: In that final example, the workers continued caring for the babies, and hope they won’t face reprisals. They only had a few days of supplies left as of last Friday, however, and we know how things have deteriorated since then.

Even the State Department’s alleged “waivers” to the funding freeze, which on paper were supposed to allow “life-saving humanitarian assistance” and the continuation of HIV care and treatment, did no good. As ProPublica reports, the waivers didn’t actually restore funding and the overseas partner organizations had no way to apply for it. All the USAID workers who could have processed the requests were laid off.

Aid Workers Ordered To Stop Saving Lives So They Can Come Home And Be Fired

Also this week, virtually all of USAID’s employees abroad were ordered to drop their work, pack up their families, and move back to the USA by midnight tonight so they can officially be shitcanned, thank you for your service. Overseas contractors were fired without warning and locked out of computer systems, leaving some who work in violent regions unable to ask for help getting the hell out. Just as well, though, since nobody was left at USAID offices in Washington to take their calls.

One contracted staffer in a dicey situation somewhere in the Middle East told the AP that even the emergency “panic button” app was wiped off their smartphone. We’re sure the Trump team will come looking for the contractor and their family eventually, if only to prosecute the staffer for violating a ban on speaking to the media.

Some 6,000 of the agency’s 10,000 employees (before today’s decapitations — metaphorically, one hopes — of the workforce) are stationed overseas, so it is of course turning into a logistical clusterfuck. Some staff will have up to 90 days to GTFO, but others had just days to return to the US. Several US embassies have held town-hall style meetings to pass on any information they have, where, as one employee said, “Everyone was in tears, from leadership all the way down to janitors of our building. […] The community is gutted.”

Why yes, they had it coming, because Elon Musk really really hates USAID for investigating his Starlink satellite company, and maybe also for helping to dismantle apartheid, but most of all for helping people who insist on being poor, brown, and of no use at all in making Musk money. Musk tweeted in delight Monday that he a “spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” and his fans only wished they could have thrown some aid workers, vipers, and globalists into a literal wood chipper too.

Some Caught A Freight, Some Caught A Plane

The AP reports on the chaos resulting from the recall order, which of course will cost the government tens of millions of dollars in travel costs, and is probably illegal to boot, hence the lawsuit from the foreign service and federal employee unions.

Locally employed USAID staff, however, do not have much recourse and were excluded from the federal government’s voluntary buyout offer.

USAID staffers and families faced wrenching decisions as the rumored order loomed, including whether to pull children out of school midyear. Some gave away pet cats and dogs, fearing the administration would not give workers time to complete the paperwork to bring the animals with them.

That could make for an exciting scene in a movie in a few years, like the embassy evacuation in The Killing Fields, as the embassy staff and journalists tried to forge a fake US passport for Cambodian journalist Dith Pran while the Khmer Rouge ran firing AK-47s through the streets of Phnom Penh. You could win an Oscar, even.

But when it’s happening, it’s not art yet, it’s just horror, especially for the people who can’t get on the helicopters and are told to go home without AIDS treatment or left to wonder if they’ll have anything to feed their kids. (Sigh. We wish Spalding Gray were still alive, too.)

10,000 Workers Into The Wood Chipper

According to insiders at the agency and internal emails obtained by Wired, Musk and his young racist Skibidi Totalitarians have inflicted some real American Carnage at USAID, already “taking a team of over 10,000 down to just under 300.”

The move leaves only 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau and eight people in its Asia bureau, with around 290 overall. There will be some additional foreign workers retained, two USAID employees tell WIRED, but it is unclear how many.

“There are more impoverished people in Asia than anywhere else, and our presence has always helped counter the influence of China,” says one USAID employee, who was granted anonymity due to fears of retaliation and because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the agency.

Some US workers still overseas haven’t yet even gotten any official word of what’s going on from the agency. One told Wired, “The only official communication I’ve received is from the local embassy State Department facilities people, asking if or when we were moving out so they could renovate our houses.” Hey buddy, don’t forget to dispose of your pets, too.

Oh Yeah, The American Farmers. Can’t Forget About the American Farmers.

On top of leaving people in poor countries hungry, dying, and without resources to survive the effects of climate change (another gift “From The American People,” as the aid shipments are always marked), the sudden disruption of foreign assistance is taking a toll on American farmers who sell crops to USAID (Washington Post gift link) to distribute around the world. The losses could total in the billions of dollars, depending on when — or whether — aid is resumed.

American farms supply about 41 percent of the agency’s food aid, to the tune of $2.1 billion in 2020, according to the Congressional Research Service. The current chaos has frozen more than $340 million in aid shipments of rice, wheat, soybeans, and other commodities.

That has left hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone, Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Tuesday.

In addition, researchers funded by USAID have already been furloughed, but that’s OK because MAGA Chuds think science is pointless and wasteful anyway, and if people in poor countries want better crop yields they should fund their own labs.

To prove that USAID is worthless, the White House pointed and shrieked at USAID grants it said funded gender-affirming care and DEI in other countries, so shut up, nothing good for the American People comes from all that wokeness, and President Trump has a huge mandate, don’t forget that lie, too.

In addition to the farm harm and the thousands of USAID staff being fired (illegally, remember that lawsuit), thousands more jobs in the private and nonprofit sectors are also at risk as contracts are cancelled and corporate partners see projects go away.

Again, this will have no effect on anyone that matters because you seem to keep forgetting that USAID is full of Marxists who hate America, making all the other businesses working with the agency Marxists too, the end.

Aren’t we all happy and free now? If you aren’t happy and free, you hate America.

That court order blocking this shit can’t get here soon enough.

Update: And Lo, a court order has arrived, putting at least some of the fuckery on hold.

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