Re. EU Leaders Meet in Brussels to Discuss Defense and Ukraine:
It takes a brilliant strategist like Pres. Trump to get the European countries to step up and take responsibility for their own defenses.
In his first term, Pres. Trump got them to finally increase their NATO giving (which is still in progress), and now he is compelling them to actually take responsibility.
“This popup NGO shell company story is only going to get bigger. It may end up becoming the story.
Looks like this may have been one of the primary vehicles to take advantage of the giant taxpayer-funded slush funds created by Biden—or whoever was running him.
This is more than Grant Laundering. This is Program Laundering. And it looks like Obama’s fingerprints are all over it.”
“This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes.
Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden’s massive climate slush funds.
Kamala Harris and Biden’s EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7 billion total to the suddenly created Climate United Fund in April 2024 after it launched just five months earlier in November 30, 2022 when Its tax returns show it started with a tiny $547K in revs.
But it spent a massive $451K of that $547k in just two months in 2023, a quarter of that on legal fees and the majority $323K mysteriously blown on no one knows what because its tax returns don’t say.
It has no stipulated plans for how it will spend your $7B in tax $$, just ephemeral solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas, and Oregon that amount to only about $50M total, a fraction of the $7B. It also gave money out of that $7b to Power Forward Communities linked to Stacey Abrams.
It has little to no details on how much its officers get paid that you typically see on NGO 990s, in fact virtually no details, red flags that it’s a shell.
It supposedly is a partnership betw Dem insiders at investment firm Calvert Impact Capital, Community Preservation Corp. and a group called “Self-Help” (irony noted).
Beth Bafford is its CEO, a former “special assistant” in Obama’s OMB and a regional field director for the Obama Campaign.
As we tweeted about a month ago, it has ties to Democratic Party of California chairman and California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Obama’s Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta and Patrice Willoughby of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Judge Glock, the Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted on X that the Climate United Fund got your $7B ater submitting a small 49-page report. That was all it took.”
Gotta have a little Bee with my coffee this morning:
Hitler Defeated After Opposition Party Holds Up Tiny Signs On Paddles
“BERLIN — In a shocking turn of events, Hitler was defeated and the Nazi regime overthrown after the opposition party in Germany held up little paddles with tiny signs on them.
The Führer was giving a speech in the Reichstag when suddenly, opposing politicians began holding up miniature signs attached to what appeared to be tiny ping-pong paddles. Within minutes, Hitler had been deposed and the Nazi regime collapsed.
“We did it! I knew the little signs would work,” said opposition leader Hagan Schulz. “No one can withstand little paddles that say ‘False’ on them. The world is saved!”
According to sources, Hitler’s iron grip on power began to immediately weaken when the signs saying “False” were raised. Still, it seemed like the Nazis would be able to hang on to power, but the opposition was not done. They quickly turned their paddles around, revealing another sign that said, “Hitler steals”, defeating the Nazis once and for all.
A recent controversy has erupted regarding a CNN fact-check that erroneously dismissed former President Trump’s claim about government spending on transgender research involving mice. During a Joint Session of Congress, President Trump highlighted various instances of governmental waste and misuse of funds, one of which included “spending $8 million on making mice transgender.” This claim was quickly pounced upon by CNN, which accused the former President of falsehoods.
However, this narrative took a sharp turn when the White House presented evidence confirming that $8.3 million had indeed been allocated for “studies that involve mice receiving treatments that can be used in gender-affirming healthcare.” This revelation forced the fact-checkers at CNN to retract their previous statements about the inaccuracy of Trump’s claims. The White House’s proof left no room for doubt about the allocation, spotlighting again how mainstream media can mislead the public.
“CNN just quietly edited their “fact check” article after they reported that Trump’s statement on spending $8 million for making mice transgender was “false.”
It sounds so crazy that they thought Trump made it up…
It’s 100% true and now even CNN is forced to admit it”
“Lower courts don’t have authority to usurp the executive branch through restraining orders and injunctions, no matter what the SCOTUS says.”
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“Put another way, if the Supreme Court can simply disregard the Executive branch’s constitutional authority and allow it to be usurped by an inferior federal court, which is what happened, then there’s no reason the Executive branch under Trump should pay any attention to what the Supreme Court says in this case, because it’s trying to assert an authority it simply doesn’t have.”
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“The most serious problem, though, is this pernicious notion that any district judge, anywhere in the country, can dictate to the executive branch what it must or must not do, under the guise of issuing a temporary restraining order or a universal injunction in a pending case. In the first Trump administration, anti-Trump plaintiffs simply venue-shopped for the most radical anti-Trump judges they could find to ask for universal injunctions and temporary restraining orders against nearly everything the Trump White House tried to do. It was easy to find judges willing to comply with this abuse of judicial power, just as it is this time around.But it’s almost certainly a violation “
“BREAKING: I am demanding the DOJ investigated whether President Biden’s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval.
If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.”
“Article II of the Constitution states that the executive power shall be vested in @POTUS. No court may take over that rule. No court may define or limit the scope of the duties of an official within the Executive Office of the President.”
The country is sharply divided – regarding party reactions to the State of the Union, rudeness should not be acceptable and, frankly, just harms the party that engages in it. It does make one ask, What’s happened to us? But the ‘practice’ is growing and has happened on both sides. …
~ Bad behavior from members of Congress during one of Washington’s most hallowed events has gotten more frequent in recent years, and more raucous. History shows it’s also been a bipartisan affair. ~
~ The rise in rudeness at the State of the Union and other presidential addresses appears to start in 1975 — at least that’s the first instance POLITICO could find of lawmakers acting out of turn. And it tracks neatly with the coarsening of our broader national politics, which perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise: The ugliness in our political culture can’t help but bleed into even the most prestigious moments. … ~
Nothing new there. At least eighty acts of violence between 1830 and 1860. Griswold and Lyon in 1798. Guns drawn ( and fired ), canes wielded (was that what Green was alluding to?). Fisticuffs. Name calling. Duels.
Maybe we should be just grateful there were no duels? Still, that may be a rather low bar?
For those interested, Tangle did a day-after rundown of key points in the speech which I thought was well done and even-handed — it’s under “My Take,” before that are the views from the left and from the right on the link below.
The “both-sides” argument doesn’t hold water – in the last several decades, Republican disruptions have been rare, individual, spontaneous reactions to a perceived lie or injustice. That’s nothing compared to the premeditated, en masse nastiness and lack of decorum of the Dems as a whole on Tuesday evening. Add in their incivility, disrespectfulness, and lack of empathy towards people from the human interest stories, and there is no comparison. They refuse to even shake hands with members of the Cabinet. Disgraceful.
Other than Scalise yelling “you lie” at Obama, and he was lying, I don’t recall a single instance on the one side the aisle. If there were, they were minor, and already forgotten.
Dems on the other do it en masse, with props, and matching outfits.
Well MTG yelled at Biden saying “say her name” due to the leftist dismissal of their open border to murderers and criminals of all sorts. Which resulted in one of many murders including Laken Riley. Broebert yelled at him over the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster. He didn’t even know where he was when that happpened…truly!
Having said that the “other side” stands for the murder and mutilating the bodies of children. So I see a huge difference in the two sides.
Both sides have been rude. One side may have been more rude, I have not read all the way back to the 1700’s on that. But any rudeness means they are not being considerate. Seems to me, both sides have ample time to argue outside this venue, and they always have somebody assigned to rebut the address.
Wandering Views 
Re. EU Leaders Meet in Brussels to Discuss Defense and Ukraine:
It takes a brilliant strategist like Pres. Trump to get the European countries to step up and take responsibility for their own defenses.
In his first term, Pres. Trump got them to finally increase their NATO giving (which is still in progress), and now he is compelling them to actually take responsibility.
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Accountability for their crimes is what they fear most.
https://x.com/themarketswork/status/1897389631362228568?t=3evqS9hTZHTP8fyPjFh1_w&s=19
“This popup NGO shell company story is only going to get bigger. It may end up becoming the story.
Looks like this may have been one of the primary vehicles to take advantage of the giant taxpayer-funded slush funds created by Biden—or whoever was running him.
This is more than Grant Laundering. This is Program Laundering. And it looks like Obama’s fingerprints are all over it.”
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https://x.com/LizMacDonaldFOX/status/1897358225650991288?t=6ydnnRqz1j4VTbO5uvzEJQ&s=19
“This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes.
Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden’s massive climate slush funds.
Kamala Harris and Biden’s EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7 billion total to the suddenly created Climate United Fund in April 2024 after it launched just five months earlier in November 30, 2022 when Its tax returns show it started with a tiny $547K in revs.
But it spent a massive $451K of that $547k in just two months in 2023, a quarter of that on legal fees and the majority $323K mysteriously blown on no one knows what because its tax returns don’t say.
It has no stipulated plans for how it will spend your $7B in tax $$, just ephemeral solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas, and Oregon that amount to only about $50M total, a fraction of the $7B. It also gave money out of that $7b to Power Forward Communities linked to Stacey Abrams.
It has little to no details on how much its officers get paid that you typically see on NGO 990s, in fact virtually no details, red flags that it’s a shell.
It supposedly is a partnership betw Dem insiders at investment firm Calvert Impact Capital, Community Preservation Corp. and a group called “Self-Help” (irony noted).
Beth Bafford is its CEO, a former “special assistant” in Obama’s OMB and a regional field director for the Obama Campaign.
As we tweeted about a month ago, it has ties to Democratic Party of California chairman and California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Obama’s Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta and Patrice Willoughby of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Judge Glock, the Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted on X that the Climate United Fund got your $7B ater submitting a small 49-page report. That was all it took.”
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Gotta have a little Bee with my coffee this morning:
Hitler Defeated After Opposition Party Holds Up Tiny Signs On Paddles
“BERLIN — In a shocking turn of events, Hitler was defeated and the Nazi regime overthrown after the opposition party in Germany held up little paddles with tiny signs on them.
The Führer was giving a speech in the Reichstag when suddenly, opposing politicians began holding up miniature signs attached to what appeared to be tiny ping-pong paddles. Within minutes, Hitler had been deposed and the Nazi regime collapsed.
“We did it! I knew the little signs would work,” said opposition leader Hagan Schulz. “No one can withstand little paddles that say ‘False’ on them. The world is saved!”
According to sources, Hitler’s iron grip on power began to immediately weaken when the signs saying “False” were raised. Still, it seemed like the Nazis would be able to hang on to power, but the opposition was not done. They quickly turned their paddles around, revealing another sign that said, “Hitler steals”, defeating the Nazis once and for all.
https://babylonbee.com/news/hitler-defeated-after-opposition-party-holds-up-tiny-signs-on-paddles
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A recent controversy has erupted regarding a CNN fact-check that erroneously dismissed former President Trump’s claim about government spending on transgender research involving mice. During a Joint Session of Congress, President Trump highlighted various instances of governmental waste and misuse of funds, one of which included “spending $8 million on making mice transgender.” This claim was quickly pounced upon by CNN, which accused the former President of falsehoods.
However, this narrative took a sharp turn when the White House presented evidence confirming that $8.3 million had indeed been allocated for “studies that involve mice receiving treatments that can be used in gender-affirming healthcare.” This revelation forced the fact-checkers at CNN to retract their previous statements about the inaccuracy of Trump’s claims. The White House’s proof left no room for doubt about the allocation, spotlighting again how mainstream media can mislead the public.
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Loved that Bee piece, Debra!
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Did anyone pist about the Democrat Senator who died?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-sylvester-turner-texas-democrat-houston-mayor-dies-70-rcna194875
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Oh, maybe he was in the House of Representatives, not Senate.
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I did read that Janice…so very sad🥲
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As mentioned above…..
The little snakes tried a quiet edit to hide their lies.
Fact checks are generally BS ways for the media to hide the truth. Don’t trust them, regardless of source.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1897410116875620788?t=ZBGlvYLkjJIMXTMq_Qao2Q&s=19
“CNN just quietly edited their “fact check” article after they reported that Trump’s statement on spending $8 million for making mice transgender was “false.”
It sounds so crazy that they thought Trump made it up…
It’s 100% true and now even CNN is forced to admit it”
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“REPORT: Stranded NASA astronaut confirms Biden rejected Elon Musk’s offer to bring his team home.”
https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1897466669112422552?t=0KUxEOZCiKwFVjOt9-jiTw&s=19
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“The astronauts were only supposed to be up there for 8 days and now have been there for 8 months.
SpaceX could have sent up another Dragon and brought them home 6 months ago, but the Biden White House (not NASA) refused to allow it.
President Trump asked to bring them back as soon as possible and we are doing so.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1897420509966688555?t=Aqg6adNS82iHMYIv6K9foA&s=19
So Elon told the truth, it was Biden and the media who once again lied.
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Ignore their illegal and unconstitutional ruling.
“If The Supreme Court Is Going To Ignore The Constitution, Trump Should Ignore The Supreme Court”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/06/if-the-supreme-court-is-going-to-ignore-the-constitution-trump-should-ignore-the-supreme-court/
“Lower courts don’t have authority to usurp the executive branch through restraining orders and injunctions, no matter what the SCOTUS says.”
—-
“Put another way, if the Supreme Court can simply disregard the Executive branch’s constitutional authority and allow it to be usurped by an inferior federal court, which is what happened, then there’s no reason the Executive branch under Trump should pay any attention to what the Supreme Court says in this case, because it’s trying to assert an authority it simply doesn’t have.”
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“The most serious problem, though, is this pernicious notion that any district judge, anywhere in the country, can dictate to the executive branch what it must or must not do, under the guise of issuing a temporary restraining order or a universal injunction in a pending case. In the first Trump administration, anti-Trump plaintiffs simply venue-shopped for the most radical anti-Trump judges they could find to ask for universal injunctions and temporary restraining orders against nearly everything the Trump White House tried to do. It was easy to find judges willing to comply with this abuse of judicial power, just as it is this time around.But it’s almost certainly a violation “
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“BREAKING: I am demanding the DOJ investigated whether President Biden’s cognitive decline allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval.
If true, these executive orders, pardons, and all other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.”
https://x.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1897388657557885403?t=6o7toymPKuOSvG0B94rQlg&s=19
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“Article II of the Constitution states that the executive power shall be vested in @POTUS. No court may take over that rule. No court may define or limit the scope of the duties of an official within the Executive Office of the President.”
https://x.com/RepHageman/status/1897402311502389553?t=ugR-CDpN9VaOo2fbeuKxtw&s=19
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The country is sharply divided – regarding party reactions to the State of the Union, rudeness should not be acceptable and, frankly, just harms the party that engages in it. It does make one ask, What’s happened to us? But the ‘practice’ is growing and has happened on both sides. …
~ Bad behavior from members of Congress during one of Washington’s most hallowed events has gotten more frequent in recent years, and more raucous. History shows it’s also been a bipartisan affair. ~
~ The rise in rudeness at the State of the Union and other presidential addresses appears to start in 1975 — at least that’s the first instance POLITICO could find of lawmakers acting out of turn. And it tracks neatly with the coarsening of our broader national politics, which perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise: The ugliness in our political culture can’t help but bleed into even the most prestigious moments. … ~
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/07/bad-behavior-state-of-the-union-00145473
It’s (fallen) human nature to “see” it only as a one-sided practice. Our political discourse, such as it still exists, seems to be in a free fall.
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Nothing new there. At least eighty acts of violence between 1830 and 1860. Griswold and Lyon in 1798. Guns drawn ( and fired ), canes wielded (was that what Green was alluding to?). Fisticuffs. Name calling. Duels.
mumsee
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mumsee, I admit I did chuckle a bit at the cane-shaking congressman – who otherwise quietly left the hall escorted by the authorities.
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Maybe we should be just grateful there were no duels? Still, that may be a rather low bar?
For those interested, Tangle did a day-after rundown of key points in the speech which I thought was well done and even-handed — it’s under “My Take,” before that are the views from the left and from the right on the link below.
https://www.readtangle.com/trumps-address-to-congress/?ref=tangle-newsletter
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The “both-sides” argument doesn’t hold water – in the last several decades, Republican disruptions have been rare, individual, spontaneous reactions to a perceived lie or injustice. That’s nothing compared to the premeditated, en masse nastiness and lack of decorum of the Dems as a whole on Tuesday evening. Add in their incivility, disrespectfulness, and lack of empathy towards people from the human interest stories, and there is no comparison. They refuse to even shake hands with members of the Cabinet. Disgraceful.
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Tychicus is correct.
Other than Scalise yelling “you lie” at Obama, and he was lying, I don’t recall a single instance on the one side the aisle. If there were, they were minor, and already forgotten.
Dems on the other do it en masse, with props, and matching outfits.
The Both Sides argument fails badly here.
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Well MTG yelled at Biden saying “say her name” due to the leftist dismissal of their open border to murderers and criminals of all sorts. Which resulted in one of many murders including Laken Riley. Broebert yelled at him over the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster. He didn’t even know where he was when that happpened…truly!
Having said that the “other side” stands for the murder and mutilating the bodies of children. So I see a huge difference in the two sides.
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Both sides have been rude. One side may have been more rude, I have not read all the way back to the 1700’s on that. But any rudeness means they are not being considerate. Seems to me, both sides have ample time to argue outside this venue, and they always have somebody assigned to rebut the address.
mumsee
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The point is to create a show for the public.
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Indeed. But not a good look.
mumsee
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