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Patrick says

I heard on the radio today that the $20 billion Biden (gold bricks off the Titanic) last minute giveaway cannot be clawed back.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/triggering-thursday-february-20-2025

Hahahaha! Behold, the most side-splitting headline since they had to figure out how to climb down from mandatory outdoor masking. Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, and I am not making this up, “Trump Team Finds Loophole to Defy Spirit of Court Orders Blocking Spending Freezes. The sub-headline explained, “Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money.”

Speaking as a litigator, try as hard as you like, but it is literally impossible to “defy” the “spirit” of an order—because a court doesn’t issue a “spirit.” It issues orders. Not spirits. Parties aren’t required to hold séances asking spirits what the judge really meant. ‘Spirit of the Injunction, speak to us!’

The phrase “defying the spirit” is semantic skullduggery. It hints darkly at malfeasance without actually alleging any particular violation. It’s how journalists (or robed activists) smear someone even when they are following the rules. If a judge wanted to prohibit a specific action, they could —arguably, they are duty bound to— do so clearly. If they didn’t, but wished they had done, that’s on them.

The Times isn’t even accusing the Trump Team of malicious compliance. It should know the difference too, since the Times lovingly reported Biden’s childlike efforts to skirt the Supreme Court’s slamdown of his criminal student loan forgiveness programs. Oh, Biden’s lawyers are so creative! So brave! So persistent! But I guess when Democrats actually defy the express terms of orders, that’s okay. Just not spirits.

The Times’s knickers are twisted. It wasn’t supposed to be this way! Things were going so swimmingly. Last week, Judge Amir H. Ali —the country’s first Muslim-Canadian federal judge— ordered the Trump Administration’s foreign payments freeze to itself be frozen. In other words, get out your Ouija boards and reopen the money gates!

Biden appointed Judge Ali, 39, to the DC District Court last year based on his experience practicing as a civil rights activist lawyer. (He was confirmed 50-49.) In other words, Ali had never been a judge, not even a county judge, not even a traffic ticket magistrate. But now, he’s a brand-new federal court justice. Ta-da! And he is conjuring up restraining orders against the President of the United States faster than a drive-thru medium reading palms at an interstate travel plaza.

This week, after the payments gusher failed to resume gushing (it resumed only a flaccid trickle) as per the spirits of Judge Ali’s order, the plaintiffs complained in court they still hadn’t gotten their checks. The judge summoned the parties into court, and the Trump Team explained that they were complying, they were ignoring Trump’s instructions, as ordered, but they were still withholding payments under various other statutes, contractual and grant provisions, and other rules that have been around for a long time. The judge never ordered them to ignore other laws.

Young Judge Ali is discovering what a more seasoned benchholder might have foreseen: the vexing difficulty of micromanaging the federal bureaucracy. The bureaucrats know the byzantine laws and regulations and contract rules— and he doesn’t. So one simple order won’t resurrect USAID. He’ll need an entire team of Ghostbusters.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/cancelation-notices-saturday-february

NBC ran a terrific story yesterday headlined, “Judge gives go-ahead for the Trump administration to gut USAID's workforce.” The sub-headline explained, “The decision comes after the judge had temporarily paused efforts to place thousands of USAID employees on administrative leave following a lawsuit by labor groups.”

Following the hearing on the preliminary injunction, Judge Terry Nichols dissolved his earlier temporary restraining order. “Weighing plaintiffs’ assertions on these questions against the government’s is like comparing apples to oranges,” the judge wrote. “Where one side claims that USAID’s operations are essential to human flourishing and the other side claims they are presently at odds with it, it simply is not possible for the Court to conclude, as a matter of law or equity, that the public interest favors or disfavors an injunction.”

Womp, womp. Judge Nichols apparently either didn’t feel like playing hero for bureaucrats, or he decided that this case wasn’t the best case to test the unitary theory of executive power on appeal.

As I’ve explained, short-term TROs are relatively easy. Longer-lasting preliminary injunctions are brutal.

The judge explained he could not find sufficient irreparable harm — an extremely difficult showing for employees getting laid off. “Plaintiffs have presented no irreparable harm they or their members are imminently likely to suffer from the hypothetical future dissolution of USAID,” Nichols wrote. He added, nor is it “clear why the speed of proceedings in the relevant agencies would be insufficient to address the only actions that have already happened and are presently ripe for review: administrative leave placements, expedited evacuations, and other changes to working conditions of the sort those bodies routinely confront.”

The plaintiff unions vowed to appeal. If there is a harder case to appeal than the denial of a preliminary injunction, I’m not sure what it could be. But if they do appeal, it will only play right into Trump’s lawyers’ hands, who are praying for a window to launch challenges over executive powers toward the Supreme Court.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/blowback-monday-february-24-2025

The FBI wasn’t the only culprit involved in creating the two-tiered justice system that is now experiencing blowback. The Hill ran a deeply gratifying story yesterday headlined, “Angry Democratic donors turn off the flow of money.” The Democrats “have a major problem as they try to refashion their brand— the money isn’t there.” Weird. Where did all that money go? ...

The Hill said big donors were pulling back the cash pallets because they don’t see any plan. And small donors, explained the Hill, are snapping shut their change purses because they want to see more combat with Trump. The consistent theme among all levels of immigrant-loving Democrat donors is, apparently, no mas.

If I were just a little more conspiratorial, I’d suspect they are frantically trying to lower expectations for future Democrat fundraising, after Trump’s team canceled all that murky USAID funding for Nigerian trans operas. Haha! That would be crazy though!

The Democrats’ fundraising woes probably has nothing to do with the funding freezes...

Why not 100%?

Patrick says

Why not 100%?

Might be a few legit programs. Government is corrupt, but not certain it's 100% corrupt.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/11/usaid-official-tells-remaining-staffers-shred-and-burn-all-your-documents-00224404

WookieMan says

Patrick says

Why not 100%?

Might be a few legit programs. Government is corrupt, but not certain it's 100% corrupt.

there is as america before usaid, and it was better

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1899569636250702328#m

Patrick says

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1899569636250702328#m

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/usaid-employees-told-burn-shred-classified-documents-rcna195853

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Anyone who shall shred and burn evidence should be shreded and burned as well. …..

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-burn-order-shred-classified-documents-f042a51c0a9f74c96b0259b51a0d4a83

WASHINGTON (AP) — A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors asked a federal judge Tuesday to intervene in any destruction of classified documents after an email ordered staffers to help burn and shred agency records.

Judge Carl Nichols set a Wednesday morning deadline for the plaintiffs and the government to brief him on the issue. A person familiar with the email who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal verified that it was sent to at least some essential personnel.

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1899577194457829396#m

https://www.kunstler.com/p/springs-frightful-awakening

The President and his sidekick, Elon, keep coming at the country’s resident blob-of-evil like pit-bulls on a pack of wild hogs. Shreds of bacon have been flying all over the Beltway. I could have told you years ago that the blob was mostly lard and little meat. Now you know. It’s a sight to behold for the ages.

Yet, strange things keep happening day by day. The Democratic Party’s main grifting engine, the USAID, was deconstructed weeks ago, yet we hear that just this week USAID workers were ordered to go back into their offices to shred all their documents. Did they have anything to hide, ya think?

Questions: 1) federal janitors pried the nameplate off the building back in February, and we must suppose that somebody also locked the joint up, or what?. 2.) How did these former USAID workers propose to get in the building and do their dirty-work? 3.) Why have we not heard that the FBI or the US Marshals Service was dispatched to prevent such a document shredding party?

Patrick says

USAID workers were ordered to go back into their offices

Some of them probably had their Washington work address printed on the bottom of their bunny slippers but carelessly put them in the wash. Didn't really matter until now.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/thunder-dome-saturday-march-29-2025

All surviving USAID programs have been rolled into the State Department. Border Patrol got the USAID building. And early yesterday, the State Department officially notified Congress of its plans to eliminate the agency, which massively triggered the perpetually outraged denizens of BlueSky.

Secretary Rubio explained, “USAID strayed from its original mission long ago … Thanks to President Trump, this misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over.”

Grifters, including Somali lesbian pot smokers and Afghani transgender puppeteers, were hardest hit. “Humanitarian workers” —who receive USAID grants— and former USAID officials” —formerly on payroll— “blasted what they labeled a ham-fisted shuttering of a crucial operation of the U.S. government.” Uh huh. Also, it caused “fierce backlash from Democrats,” who relied on the benighted agency to spread transgenderism and kindergarten sex-ed worldwide.

Haha, a crucial operation of the U.S. government. Good one, WaPo. It was such a “crucial operation” that nobody ever heard of it before Trump pulled the plug in February. Guess what the main “fierce backlash” argument was? Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) impotently warned that, thanks to closing USAID, “Diseases we worked for decades to confront and eradicate are now at risk of landing on our shores.”

Diseases!

For decades, they’ve relied on America’s germaphobic fears of Hollywood-style outbreaks to justify anything they wanted to do. It’s their new slogan, replacing the overused shibboleth it’s for the children. Missiles for marxists? It’s to stop germs. CIA bases in Ukraine? It’s for preventing pandemics. Billions to pay protestors to topple democratic governments in the global South? It’s for disease prevention.

We aren’t buying the disease thing anymore. They need a new mantra.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/bugging-out-monday-march-31-2025

On Friday, NPR ran a delightful little story headlined, “Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has its billion dollar grant cut by Trump administration.” The “vaccine grant” was one of the largest of the 5,200 grants announced to have been cut in last week’s final USAID takedown. Bill Gates was hardest hit.

“Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation,” NPR said, right after disclosing that Gates also funds both NPR and the story’s author, “said, ‘We are going to do everything possible to convince the Administration and the Congress to reverse these actions if true.’”

Who doesn’t the software billionaire bribe? Who’s controlling Gates? Oh, but I digress.

GAVI stands for ‘the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.” Gates’ “foundation” is its second largest funder after USAID. GAVI actually brags that it “works closely” with the WHO, the WEF, and the entire pantheon of grifting globalist bloodsuckers. The mega-NGO is a critical organ in the global vaccination hoax’s rotting body and part of the globalists’ infected brainstem.

Even though you probably never heard of it, it has long been identified as a major problem. Years ago, Robert Kennedy wrote about Gates and the GAVI Alliance in his vaccine book. In 2023, standout covid doc Peter McCullough fingered GAVI as one of the “key players” in the “greatest crime against humanity in history.” The same year, covid crimes doc Naomi Wolf called it Gates’ money printing machine.

If my long-suspected theory that Gates —an Epstein island graduate— is a deep-state tool, then they taught him how to fund the global operations using USAID money.

Now, GAVI’s USAID funding is over. Cue hysteria and outrage from all the ticks and lampreys feeding off the GAVI grift. But for the rest of us, it’s $1.7 billion saved, and maybe it signals even better things happening behind the scenes.

I don't care about all the theories. Nothing will happen. But if it's shut down it's a win. I want to see people in jail, but I'm pragmatic and know it's not happening. Just be happy money is not being wasted anymore. Hell the people that should be put in jail would cost us as much long term for fraud in white collar expensive prisons.

Take a win when you can get it. If the numbers get better the people will be more in tune to vote Republican. I'm hoping by the midterms they can prove definitively what DOGE has saved.

Saw something similar in Santa Cruz with a black guy in the 41st street restroom. Instead of money going to Euro grudge matches, or being laundered to fake virtue signaling NGOs to enrich corrupt politicians, maybe some of the dough can be directed back to maintaining our infrastructures (NOT forever projects that are just another branch of the political laundering, like forever wars). I guess that's too much to ask.

Ceffer says

Saw something similar in Santa Cruz with a black guy in the 41st street restroom. Instead of money going to Euro grudge matches, or being laundered to fake virtue signaling NGOs to enrich corrupt politicians, maybe some of the dough can be directed back to maintaining our infrastructures (NOT forever projects that are just another branch of the political laundering, like forever wars). I guess that's too much to ask.

LOL, NJT/MTA would lose $3B/year faster than you could sneeze.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-campaign-to-ban-alternative-fur

The campaign to ban Alternative für Deutschland is not going well

Womp womp. ...

The final and latest thing to go wrong, is the street campaign. Since the BfV upgraded their assessment, all the most odious NGOs have been planning massive street demonstrations across Germany to demand the AfD be banned. These protests were scheduled for yesterday, and they were supposed to repeat the massive nationwide freakouts “against the right” that we saw last year, generating more headlines and still more momentum against the AfD.

That did not happen, because only a handful of losers showed up...

This may be yet another wonderful result of cutting off USAID funding to NGOs. They just didn't have the money to pay for a crowd.

https://slaynews.com/news/trump-announces-elon-musks-doge-replacement-lighting-fuse-democrat-meltdown/

President Donald Trump has announced Elon Musk’s replacement to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Trump is appointing a longtime loyalist and budget hardliner, Russell Vought, a move that is set to ignite outrage among Democrats.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is expected to cut the federal government with a sharp pen. ...

While Musk’s bold, tech-driven approach to reforming government was fast and disruptive, Vought comes with an extensive background in government policy and budgeting.

His experience is expected to help DOGE’s reforms stick.

Trump acknowledged at a recent Cabinet meeting that Musk is headed back to the private sector.

However, Trump told the Tesla billionaire he is “invited to stay as long as you want—at some point he wants to get back home to his cars.”

Vought is expected to push for a $9.3 billion rescissions package that would claw back funding from the State Department, USAID, National Public Radio, and PBS.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1924978450349310451

🇺🇸 ELON: WE'RE NOT GONNA SEND MONEY TO D.C. GRAFTERS AND WARLORDS

"We just wanna see the evidence. That the program was doing—actually doing—good, and not just funding graft in DC and warlords in some country.

Because over and over again we saw these sympathetic-sounding programs, right?

But when we actually said, 'Well, please show us, show us pictures of the recipients of the aid,' we just—or let us get into contact with them.

No pictures were forthcoming.

They didn't give us any contact information.

And we're like, look, we're not gonna send money to DC grafters and warlords.

That's not a good use of money."

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1929586906146169323

USAID paperwork found in the Boulder, Colorado illegal migrant attacker Mohamed Soliman’s vehicle along with 14 unlit Molotov cocktails and a flame thrower

Democrat BOUGHT AND PAID FOR DOMESTIC TERRORIST ATTACKS

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/miscalculations-saturday-june-14

More arrests! Prepare to (not) be shocked. The Dallas Express ran a story this week headlined, “USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme.” It was just as snakey and vomitous as you probably already suspect.

In a story mysteriously missing from corporate media’s investigatory apparatus, the Department of Justice announced the plea deal on its website on Thursday. Roderick Watson, 57, of Woodstock, Maryland, who worked as a USAID contracting officer, pleaded guilty to bribery after steering over $550 million in generous USAID contracts to friends who bought him stuff.

Three other co-conspirators, folks who lived large on your tax money for over a decade, also pleaded guilty: Walter Barnes, 46, of Potomac, Maryland, Darryl Britt, 64, of Myakka City, Florida, and Paul Young, 62, of Columbia, Maryland, along with their federally contracting companies, Apprio and Vistant.

For just one example of many, USAID employee Watson helped Walter Barnes get a $14 million Small Business Administration loan, from which Barnes immediately paid himself a $10 million ‘dividend.’ Of course, the scheme was a loan for a “disadvantaged business”— i.e., minority-owned. You can connect the dots.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/political-whims-thursday-june-19

A drop in big donations? Or is it rather just, a big drop in donations? Either way, it’s bad. The Times was forced to report, “the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.”

Let’s organize the dot-connecting table. First consider the two massive attacks on DNC infrastructure that we can see. As one of his first acts, Trump immediately pulled the plug on the USAID gravy train. Democrats weakly deny it, but it seems patently obvious that billions in “overseas aid” were being funneled right back into DNC operations. Then DOGE got after the rest of the leaky agencies.

The scheme worked like this: USAID (and other agencies) generously funded NGOs, whose well-paid activist officers sent large donations back to Democrats, keeping the whole sordid subterfuge afloat. But all that sweet taxpayer laundry money that the Democrats were hoovering up to fund their ongoing operations vanished overnight.

Next, the DOJ (and several states) began investigating the DNC’s top fundraising platform, ActBlue, for its “smurfing” scheme, wherein large numbers of low-income donors unaccountably made thousands of weird small-dollar donations —totaling to unaffordable amounts— and when asked by independent investigators, the donors denied they’d ever chipped in. ...

While the cash kept flowing, party elders could buy peace, with patronage, perks, and padded contracts. But now the money’s drying up, and without steady payouts to keep the coalition glued together, the factions are turning on each other like rats in a sealed grain silo.

The far left doesn’t want compromise— it wants control. The problem is, it never had to compromise before. There was always enough money to buy agreement.

Without donor sugar to sweeten the message, what’s left is the bitter taste of ideological enforcement, live-streamed to an audience of twelve. The dried-up donations stem from the Trump Administration’s efforts to chop off USAID and ActBlue money. In short, the public purity spiral that we see unfolding in real time is most likely the direct result of a carefully laid plan.

It’s working.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/told-you-so-tuesday-june-24-2025

More major puzzle pieces fell into place this week, as investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger dropped a blockbuster story on Public, under the headline, “Both USAID And The CIA Were Behind The Impeachment Of Trump in 2019.” Regime change at home. This also explains why President Trump targeted USAID starting on Day One, and savaged the rogue agency like a pit bull getting after a toy poodle.

https://www.public.news/p/both-usaid-and-the-cia-were-behind

Impeachment 2.0 rested on a single ‘whistleblower’ complaint delivered to Congressional Democrats about Trump’s alleged “quid pro quo” with one Vladimir Zelensky, Ukraine’s intolerably smug Martial Law Administrator. The so-called ‘whistleblower’ was a leftover Obama-era CIA analyst still embedded in the White House. That’s your first CIA connection.

The whistleblower’s report was itself completely founded on reporting by an “independent investigative journalism” outfit with a bureaucratic mouthful of a name, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, handily acronymized as OCCRP.

OCCRP was a “soft power” (regime change) arm of USAID, receiving most of its funding from the U.S. State Department, which we have learned is bursting at the seams with CIA agents. We know OCCRP was a soft-power USAID tool because, in a 2024 German documentary, a USAID official confirmed it, saying USAID “approves OCCRP’s annual work plan” and “approves new hires of key personnel.”

The German documentary was subsequently memory-holed under pressure from the State Department. But copies remain.

In the now-deleted documentary, Drew Sullivan, co-founder and head of OCCRP, bragged that the “independent” organization had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.” That’s regime change; the classic definition.

We can now see a straight line drawn between CIA/USAID and Trump’s impeachment, running right through OCCRP. If you suspect that turning America’s regime change operation inwards at a sitting U.S. president constitutes treason, many people would agree.

This story isn’t going away. The chips are being set on the board. Players, place your bets.

The State Department began firing more than 1,350 US-based employees as the Trump administration proceeded with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps https://reut.rs/44JBcCI



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