Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

Sad, and undeniable.

Along with the insanity of this:

"The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN."

"The shuttering of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and planned reassigning of team members follows a directive from incoming and newly sworn in US Attorney General Pam Bondi dissolving the team."

“To free resources to address more pressing priorities, and end risks of further weaponization and abuses of prosecutorial discretion, the Foreign Influence Task Force shall be disbanded,” Bondi wrote in a memo issued Wednesday."

"The special task force was established by former FBI Director Christopher Wray in 2017 following a wave of foreign influence operations targeting the US electoral process, including Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election that Trump won."

"Wray previously said the purpose of the team was “to identify and counteract the full range of malign foreign influence operations targeting our democratic institutions and our values. The task force now brings together the FBI’s expertise across the waterfront — counterintelligence, cyber, criminal, and even counterterrorism — to root out and respond to foreign influence operations.”

There is no "weaponization" just as there's no threat from Canada. This is madness, absolute madness...

"Trump vows sweeping tariffs on oil, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors"

“Tariffs don’t cause inflation. Tariffs cause success,” Trump said."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5119696-trump-tariffs-oil-semiconductors/


“Tariffs don’t cause inflation. Tariffs cause success,” Trump said."

And if you believe that, I got a bridge to sell you...

"2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump’s order to open dams"

"The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California."

"Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, “the water is flowing in California,” and adding the water was “heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles.”

"There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season."


“They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer,” said Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the Pacific Institute. “This puts agriculture at risk of insufficient water during the summer months.”

“This release is extremely concerning,” Cooley said. “It’s providing zero benefit and putting California farmers at risk of water supply constraints in the coming months.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/california-water-release-donald-trump-2025864

What Trump is doing is insane, absolutely insane!

"At the Supreme Court, at the White House and at his house, Clarence Thomas is the go-to justice to swear in Trump’s Cabinet"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/politics/clarence-thomas-trump-cabinet-swearing-in/index.html

"US cedes ground to China with ‘self-inflicted wound’ of USAid shutdown, analysts say"

"Sudden suspension of aid funding a ‘perfect opportunity’ for Beijing to fill the gap and grow its own soft power"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/07/donald-trump-usaid-shutdown-impact-china-relationship-funding


"The halting of the U.S. development program has prompted speculation that China could fill the vacuum through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing's massive infrastructure investment strategy across the world, including countries where USAID operates."

"One China expert told Newsweek that the USAID funding freeze had handed an "enormous gift" to Beijing's push to influence the Global South."

Meanwhile, one Kremlin propagandist has said on Russian television that Moscow could exploit the gap left by USAID and project geopolitical power with a similar program."


"The halt to USAID has already impacted Ukraine, which at $16 billion was the top recipient of the program in 2023. The funds were essential in helping the country deal with the humanitarian crisis caused by Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion."

"In comments reported by Russia watcher Julia Davis, Sardaryan, dean at the school of Governance and Politics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, told the Russia 1 channel how much Moscow has welcomed the demise of USAID."

https://www.newsweek.com/china-russia-usaid-trump-2026404

Can you imagine the vitriol spewing from Davis if Biden had appointed a billionaire like George Soros as a "special employee" of the government which is the classification Trump has bestowed on Musk? 

He'd be jumping around his house like an orangutan, posting his customary bizzaro posts, furiously banging away on his keyboard, all the while the right wing echo chambers are erupting like volcanoes inside of that gargantuan void in his head.

There's little doubt that Musk's band of juvenile delinquents, headed by a twenty five year old who identified himself as "big balls", the same guy who resigned after his own racist posts surfaced and is now being called to return to the Musk team by Elan,"JD" and, subsequently by Trump, would delight Richard to no end. 

Ditto for the twenty three year old Musketeer who's busy burying into the DOE, all without proper security clearance, and the teen team member who got fired from another company for divulging their secrets. (I mean you can't make this stuff up!) To be sure, Rich Davis is all in...

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

You endlessly trying to call out the "Rino" is funny as hell as everyone knows he's not going to respond to your taunts and trolls. Now that's hilarious.

Answer the question posed to you in this thread instead of defecting and calling us kindergartners and Rinos and evoking Romper Room. I bolded it so you wouldn't miss the question and point like you normally do.

What would you think if a democrat won the presidency and appointed George Soros in the same way your hero has done with Musk?

If you aren't good with Soros being a high level presidential advisor then you are a hypocrite.

And if you aren't good with it you should be screaming and carrying on in your weird ways to have Musk thrown out of the WH.

To answer the question: Your head would explode.

I'd add to that he'd probably be posting his usual vitriol everytime a judge stops the insanity in the Trump administration by blocking the Musk team from infiltrating and destroying government agencies and if it were turned around and George Soros and his team in a Biden administration attempted to do the same to any Republican-backed agency or commission, we'd likely be reading something along the lines of "Judge shoves it up their asses and blocks the bastards!" 

Of course, the Biden administration doesn't have Clarence Thomas and his friends on SCOTUS on speed dial to overturn an adverse ruling like Trump does but that's another matter.

That said, I'm sure Rich will be happy to know the guards overseeing ISIS terrorists in jails in Syria had their funding cut off along because they were being paid by USAID. So, more ISIS back free in the middle east....

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/economy/us-jobs-report-january-final/index.html

If Trump's policies continue as they are, Harris' prediction that we'll be in a prodromal period of recession by spring will likely be realized.

In the meantime, 51,000 private sector jobs are predicted to be lost as a result of Musk/Trump's axing of the USAid program along with Kansas farmers who are taking it on the chin since they grew the food for the project. They're already screaming at their Republican senator, who, in turn, is begging the Trump administration to reconsider.

Additionally, China and Russia are eager and happy to fill the void in the countries abandoned by the US and their aid will arrive along with their influence and dominance thus making the US less secure in the world.

As of about a week ago: "Some of the 8,000 migrants arrested under the Trump administration's deportation crackdown have already been released back into the U.S., according to a report."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-already-released-immigrants-161222261.html

The number has probably increased by now....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeLywyk7NEw

BTW, Gitmo can only, at present, house about a few hundred detainees...