“Democrats are weaponizing the Senate’s rules to block the SAVE America Act, defund @DHSgov, & hurt the American people to spite @POTUS.
@SenateGOP can either let Dems keep obstructing & smash the filibuster the first chance they get, or we can act now & use the mandate the American people gave @realDonaldTrump & Republicans to secure our elections, protect our homeland, & bring back common sense.
Democrats started this fight. I support whatever changes to Senate rules are necessary to finish it and pass the SAVE America Act.”
“New polling in the runoff primary Texas US Senate race shows Ken Paxton with an 8 point lead over RINO Senator John Cornyn.
Both are low on cash after the first primary vote. Trump has delayed making an endorsement, because it likely won’t matter.
Voters are locked in. Spending more money won’t matter, the voters already know everything about the candidates.
So now Senate majority leader John Thune has to decide, does he throw another $30 million at trying to save Cornyn, and it might not even move the needle? Or does he save that money for other competitive races that need the national senate fund campaign resources?
Wasting another $30 million on Cornyn is ridiculous. It’s time for everyone to get behind Ken Paxton for the general election.”
“CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FRAUD: There’s a stretch in Los Angeles with 500 registered hospice companies within just three miles of each other. And 89 in a single building. But when we visited, we found empty offices, piled-up mail, and phone lines dead.
Watch CBS News’ exclusive investigation into the fraud that’s costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“They steal $250 million and do 5 years of federal time. This is nothing to them. The only way to stop the fraud is to cut the programs totally. This guy would be out in 85% of his time, his family is filthy rich, this is not punishment.”
“Understand what Thune is doing right now. It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues from beingexposed for opposing it.
How does Thune accomplish his? By avoiding a simple majority vote at all costs. Thune knows a public vote where Republicans get less than 50 votes—with people like Tillis and Curtis and McConnell and Murkowski voting against IT—is electoral poison. He doesn’t want it to pass, but he also can’t have it die at the hands of his own puke colleagues.
So how does Thune do this? By refusing to move to the already-passed House bill (this only requires a simple majority because the House message is privileged) and instead moving to a new, standalone Senate bill. A new Senate bill is not privileged, and therefore the motion to proceed to it is debatable, meaning it requires 60 votes.
Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.
So when you watch the GOP Senate bring up a brand new SAVE America Act bill and hold a single vote on a motion that needs 60 to pass, know that they’re doing it because they think you’re stupid.”
The WORLD article states the obvious — the attack on Iran is in the interests of the Arabs (and outside of the article, also, Israel). But is it in the interests of the US?
The Arab regional powers, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Gulf emirs, have always viewed Iran as a regional rival — both on ethnic and religious grounds. Iran’s arming Shia Arabs undermines the authoritarian Arab regimes and Israel. Overthrowing the current regime and destroying their military capability benefits the Arabs and Israelis, but how does it benefit the US? What needs to be achieved in order for the US to “finish the job”?
As the attacks continue — Russia fills its coffers with increased oil revenues and China is moving weapons along the new Silk Road. Iran, taking a page from Ukraine, is throwing cheap drones at the massive and expensive US equipment based along the west coast of the Gulf. And of course oil prices continue to rise.
Meanwhile — the DOD managed to spend 93 billion in September alone on furniture, grand piano, steak, lobster, Apple, and even some ice cream machines — have to spend it before the end of the fiscal year. Its estimated that the Iran attack is about a billion a day; the emirs thank the American taxpayer.
Maybe Coryn realises the only way to defeat Talarico is to disenfranchise married women? Whether Paxton or Coryn win the primary both are only ahead of Talarico by 1-2% or the margin of error.
US medicare fraud always astounds me — there’s far too many private for profit industries in the US system and its thus ripe for fraud. You’d think they learned from Rick Scott in Florida but instead they made him Senator — the gov’t needs to take profit away from health care.
It’s incredibly difficult to move physical cash overseas — you can’t just carry briefcases of cash with you — either your carry on gets screened at security or your checked in luggage gets screened elsewhere. And they do look for money. You can carry upto $10 000 but anything over a few 1000$ will send you to secondary screening. I read a book on the cocaine smugglers of the 80s and 90s and the lengths they went to smuggle their cash out of the country was phenomenal.
Finally, the sexual harassment bill proposed by Mace was well intentioned but it appears not well written. From what I read, it failed to protect victims who settled out of court, and failed to protect those who faced false accusations. It’s too bad but the bill was written quickly and should’ve been better vetted.
Unexpected moment in a new Rick Jackson for Governor ad: in reference to illegal immigrants and crime in which at one point a photo of Laken Riley’s killer is shown, he states, ” . . . be deported or departed.”
“It’s incredibly difficult to move physical cash overseas — you can’t just carry briefcases of cash with you — either your carry on gets screened at security or your checked in luggage gets screened elsewhere. And they do look for money. You can carry upto $10 000 but anything over a few 1000$ will send you to secondary screening. I read a book on the cocaine smugglers of the 80s and 90s and the lengths they went to smuggle their cash out of the country was phenomenal.”
—
Oh really….
Biden allowed it, because some of that money always, ALWAYS made their way back to Democrat coffers.
“JOHN SOLOMON: $700 million in suitcases flew out of Minnesota via a sophisticated Somali cash-courier network. TSA confirms $136 million was tracked from Columbus, Ohio, and funneled to Minneapolis couriers who combined loads and shipped it overseas.
Why were suitcases used instead of banks? Why did the Biden admin ignore it? Where was the money going?
The same Somali communities defrauding government programs are at the center. This investigation is just beginning.”
“Meanwhile — the DOD managed to spend 93 billion in September alone on furniture, grand piano, steak, lobster, Apple, and even some ice cream machines — have to spend it before the end of the fiscal year. Its estimated that the Iran attack is about a billion a day; the emirs thank the American taxpayer.”
—-
As if every Dem admin in the last 30 years didn’t do similar stuff. It’s a use it or lose funding. This is what happens.
And I would much rather see my tax money giving some home type comfort and food to troops in harms way, or heading there, than some Somalian invader stealing it.
Or better still, than leaving 100 billion in military equipment for the Taliban in Afghanistan, as well as monthly cash payments.
Do you believe everything on X or only that which confirms your biases? I usually am skeptical of many social media stories — right now the left side of the internet is full of weird stories on Iran and I skip past them. Apply a measure of reason and most stories don’t pass.
I’m having a hard time with the TSA agents story — in order for this to have occurred for over 5 years (so into Trump’s first term); countless TSA agents would have ignored the law. Perhaps one or two but 5 years worth of agents? If the agents had stopped the passengers and recorded their information, then there should be a record yet no Republican accessed it — why not? it would have been perfect material last election. Given the rules governing the movement of cash — I find it hard to believe it happened; just try to leave Canada or the US with a briefcase of cash, it won’t happen. In fact try to travel in the US with thousands of dollars — your local police will confiscate it for suspicion of drug trafficking
Another reason for my scepticism is the simplistic and cumbersome method — way too many things can go wrong. It’s far easier to transfer up to 10 000$ through a money transfer company — various ethnic groups have their own companies, there’s one for Filippinos around the corner here. For most Muslims, money has to be handled in a halal manner — so they would have their own method (Somalis tend to give the cash to someone here and they inform a relative in Somali who releases the money there. The money doesn’t actually travel). And of course, the easiest way for terrorists or drug dealers is to use the same methods of international corporations. Transfer money in and out of places like the Cayman Islands — there ‘s no need to actually carry the money.
An extraordinary claim demands extraordinary evidence. The evidence isn’t in so I’ll remain sceptical. btw, I said the same thing about the Epstein files ….. so I could be wrong…..
Use it or lose it is correct. I understand the motive. However, why was so much leftover that they had to hurry up and spend so much in the last month. That’s an administration error. Spending should have been organised better. From what I read this was the worst case in over twenty years. And lets think about it — a grand piano for a general’s home?? Should have given the grunts an end of the year bonus.
And as I’m sure you well aware, the money for Minneapolis daycares are both a different department and level. That doesn’t even qualify as a squirrel. As for the Afghan withdrawal — that was an error of both Trump and Biden — the plans were in place to withdrawal during the Trump admin but he didn’t act on it. The failure to act then made it difficult later. And again, the withdrawal has nothing to do with yearly defence spending — Hesgeth needs to manage better
Wandering Views 
A military action long overdue | WORLD
LikeLiked by 2 people
Another great article, Kathaleena.
LikeLike
Thanks, Janice. I try to share what I find interesting or helpful and think someone else may as well.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, he’s flip flopping. He saw the writing in the wall. This is the only choice he has if he wants to stand a chance in the runoff.
https://x.com/i/status/2031684276060582317
“Democrats are weaponizing the Senate’s rules to block the SAVE America Act, defund @DHSgov, & hurt the American people to spite @POTUS.
@SenateGOP can either let Dems keep obstructing & smash the filibuster the first chance they get, or we can act now & use the mandate the American people gave @realDonaldTrump & Republicans to secure our elections, protect our homeland, & bring back common sense.
Democrats started this fight. I support whatever changes to Senate rules are necessary to finish it and pass the SAVE America Act.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
But it may be too late for Cornyn already.
Que Sera, Sera
https://x.com/i/status/2031728055954166151
“New polling in the runoff primary Texas US Senate race shows Ken Paxton with an 8 point lead over RINO Senator John Cornyn.
Both are low on cash after the first primary vote. Trump has delayed making an endorsement, because it likely won’t matter.
Voters are locked in. Spending more money won’t matter, the voters already know everything about the candidates.
So now Senate majority leader John Thune has to decide, does he throw another $30 million at trying to save Cornyn, and it might not even move the needle? Or does he save that money for other competitive races that need the national senate fund campaign resources?
Wasting another $30 million on Cornyn is ridiculous. It’s time for everyone to get behind Ken Paxton for the general election.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
“Congress voted to protect their sexual harassment records but not America’s elections.
Says it all.”
https://x.com/i/status/2031565326173786298
LikeLiked by 1 person
California can’t have Minnesota outperforming them.
https://x.com/i/status/2031490599447310557
“CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FRAUD: There’s a stretch in Los Angeles with 500 registered hospice companies within just three miles of each other. And 89 in a single building. But when we visited, we found empty offices, piled-up mail, and phone lines dead.
Watch CBS News’ exclusive investigation into the fraud that’s costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
See the problem?
And now you know why they send suitcases of cash to Somalia.
https://x.com/i/status/2031484212466037003
“They steal $250 million and do 5 years of federal time. This is nothing to them. The only way to stop the fraud is to cut the programs totally. This guy would be out in 85% of his time, his family is filthy rich, this is not punishment.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
“Understand what Thune is doing right now. It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues from beingexposed for opposing it.
How does Thune accomplish his? By avoiding a simple majority vote at all costs. Thune knows a public vote where Republicans get less than 50 votes—with people like Tillis and Curtis and McConnell and Murkowski voting against IT—is electoral poison. He doesn’t want it to pass, but he also can’t have it die at the hands of his own puke colleagues.
So how does Thune do this? By refusing to move to the already-passed House bill (this only requires a simple majority because the House message is privileged) and instead moving to a new, standalone Senate bill. A new Senate bill is not privileged, and therefore the motion to proceed to it is debatable, meaning it requires 60 votes.
Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.
So when you watch the GOP Senate bring up a brand new SAVE America Act bill and hold a single vote on a motion that needs 60 to pass, know that they’re doing it because they think you’re stupid.”
https://x.com/i/status/2031481317993422854
LikeLiked by 1 person
The WORLD article states the obvious — the attack on Iran is in the interests of the Arabs (and outside of the article, also, Israel). But is it in the interests of the US?
The Arab regional powers, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Gulf emirs, have always viewed Iran as a regional rival — both on ethnic and religious grounds. Iran’s arming Shia Arabs undermines the authoritarian Arab regimes and Israel. Overthrowing the current regime and destroying their military capability benefits the Arabs and Israelis, but how does it benefit the US? What needs to be achieved in order for the US to “finish the job”?
As the attacks continue — Russia fills its coffers with increased oil revenues and China is moving weapons along the new Silk Road. Iran, taking a page from Ukraine, is throwing cheap drones at the massive and expensive US equipment based along the west coast of the Gulf. And of course oil prices continue to rise.
Meanwhile — the DOD managed to spend 93 billion in September alone on furniture, grand piano, steak, lobster, Apple, and even some ice cream machines — have to spend it before the end of the fiscal year. Its estimated that the Iran attack is about a billion a day; the emirs thank the American taxpayer.
hrw
LikeLike
Maybe Coryn realises the only way to defeat Talarico is to disenfranchise married women? Whether Paxton or Coryn win the primary both are only ahead of Talarico by 1-2% or the margin of error.
US medicare fraud always astounds me — there’s far too many private for profit industries in the US system and its thus ripe for fraud. You’d think they learned from Rick Scott in Florida but instead they made him Senator — the gov’t needs to take profit away from health care.
It’s incredibly difficult to move physical cash overseas — you can’t just carry briefcases of cash with you — either your carry on gets screened at security or your checked in luggage gets screened elsewhere. And they do look for money. You can carry upto $10 000 but anything over a few 1000$ will send you to secondary screening. I read a book on the cocaine smugglers of the 80s and 90s and the lengths they went to smuggle their cash out of the country was phenomenal.
Finally, the sexual harassment bill proposed by Mace was well intentioned but it appears not well written. From what I read, it failed to protect victims who settled out of court, and failed to protect those who faced false accusations. It’s too bad but the bill was written quickly and should’ve been better vetted.
hrw
LikeLike
Unexpected moment in a new Rick Jackson for Governor ad: in reference to illegal immigrants and crime in which at one point a photo of Laken Riley’s killer is shown, he states, ” . . . be deported or departed.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
“It’s incredibly difficult to move physical cash overseas — you can’t just carry briefcases of cash with you — either your carry on gets screened at security or your checked in luggage gets screened elsewhere. And they do look for money. You can carry upto $10 000 but anything over a few 1000$ will send you to secondary screening. I read a book on the cocaine smugglers of the 80s and 90s and the lengths they went to smuggle their cash out of the country was phenomenal.”
—
Oh really….
Biden allowed it, because some of that money always, ALWAYS made their way back to Democrat coffers.
Educate yourself.
https://x.com/i/status/2011475866052669942
“JOHN SOLOMON: $700 million in suitcases flew out of Minnesota via a sophisticated Somali cash-courier network. TSA confirms $136 million was tracked from Columbus, Ohio, and funneled to Minneapolis couriers who combined loads and shipped it overseas.
Why were suitcases used instead of banks? Why did the Biden admin ignore it? Where was the money going?
The same Somali communities defrauding government programs are at the center. This investigation is just beginning.”
https://x.com/i/status/2009764307160969446
“Ex-TSA agent confirms $1 BILLION in cash left Minneapolis airport over 5 years by groups of Somali men with suitcases.
Along with cash, was suitcases full of brand new passports being smuggled out too.
Federal sources say it funded Al-Shabaab terrorists.
Tim Walz & Ilhan Omar looked the other way.
“Walz and Omar should both resign in shame!”
$1 billion.
5 years.
All documented on camera.Investigations were silenced.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
The hypocrisy here is astounding.
—-
“Meanwhile — the DOD managed to spend 93 billion in September alone on furniture, grand piano, steak, lobster, Apple, and even some ice cream machines — have to spend it before the end of the fiscal year. Its estimated that the Iran attack is about a billion a day; the emirs thank the American taxpayer.”
—-
As if every Dem admin in the last 30 years didn’t do similar stuff. It’s a use it or lose funding. This is what happens.
And I would much rather see my tax money giving some home type comfort and food to troops in harms way, or heading there, than some Somalian invader stealing it.
Or better still, than leaving 100 billion in military equipment for the Taliban in Afghanistan, as well as monthly cash payments.
Lefties should sit this one out.
Again, educate yourself.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Do you believe everything on X or only that which confirms your biases? I usually am skeptical of many social media stories — right now the left side of the internet is full of weird stories on Iran and I skip past them. Apply a measure of reason and most stories don’t pass.
I’m having a hard time with the TSA agents story — in order for this to have occurred for over 5 years (so into Trump’s first term); countless TSA agents would have ignored the law. Perhaps one or two but 5 years worth of agents? If the agents had stopped the passengers and recorded their information, then there should be a record yet no Republican accessed it — why not? it would have been perfect material last election. Given the rules governing the movement of cash — I find it hard to believe it happened; just try to leave Canada or the US with a briefcase of cash, it won’t happen. In fact try to travel in the US with thousands of dollars — your local police will confiscate it for suspicion of drug trafficking
Another reason for my scepticism is the simplistic and cumbersome method — way too many things can go wrong. It’s far easier to transfer up to 10 000$ through a money transfer company — various ethnic groups have their own companies, there’s one for Filippinos around the corner here. For most Muslims, money has to be handled in a halal manner — so they would have their own method (Somalis tend to give the cash to someone here and they inform a relative in Somali who releases the money there. The money doesn’t actually travel). And of course, the easiest way for terrorists or drug dealers is to use the same methods of international corporations. Transfer money in and out of places like the Cayman Islands — there ‘s no need to actually carry the money.
An extraordinary claim demands extraordinary evidence. The evidence isn’t in so I’ll remain sceptical. btw, I said the same thing about the Epstein files ….. so I could be wrong…..
hrw
LikeLike
Use it or lose it is correct. I understand the motive. However, why was so much leftover that they had to hurry up and spend so much in the last month. That’s an administration error. Spending should have been organised better. From what I read this was the worst case in over twenty years. And lets think about it — a grand piano for a general’s home?? Should have given the grunts an end of the year bonus.
And as I’m sure you well aware, the money for Minneapolis daycares are both a different department and level. That doesn’t even qualify as a squirrel. As for the Afghan withdrawal — that was an error of both Trump and Biden — the plans were in place to withdrawal during the Trump admin but he didn’t act on it. The failure to act then made it difficult later. And again, the withdrawal has nothing to do with yearly defence spending — Hesgeth needs to manage better
hrw
LikeLike
Rick Jackson ad
LikeLike