Major Strasser has been shot! I blame Trump!

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February 19, 2025

□ [“Zelensky Launches PR Offensive, Accuses Trump of Living in a Russian ‘Disinformation Bubble’"]

Somebody is getting desperate.  I'm guessing that, however far the peace talks have progressed, Russia and the US are agreed on Zelensky.  Just the fact that he has enough free time and money to spend on this shows that he doesn't have anything important going on these days.

It's not like he has to worry about elections.  He also doesn't need to answer any questions, like where the hundreds of millions of unaccounted-for money went.  How would he know?  Joe Biden just kept sending in tons of money, wasn't his business to keep track of anything.  At this point I'm guessing that Zelensky doesn't have access to Ukraine's laundering process, or even a list of those who take part in it.  If he did, he'd be calling them constantly, threatening to make this public unless they silence Trump.

We can see this problem with Europe, they just had a summit to discuss the war.  It might still be going on now for all we know, it's not like they can do anything.  They even have some advantages, I'm sure these leaders have a clue who to blackmail, but the results remain the same.  They want all the benefits of a war without actually doing the work.  It always fails, which is why Europe spent centuries learning how to fight a war and avoid losing, which they've completely forgotten now.  No wonder Trump doesn't want much to do with them.

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February 19, 2025

□ [“Elon Musk Open to ‘DOGE Dividend’ Payments; $5,000 Checks to Every American Taxpayer"]

I like the idea in theory, I'd certainly like to get $5000 of my money back.  There's a few limitations, that it would only be open to those who have proof they're paying taxes and it wouldn't be done this year, it would be for 2026 when DOGE is supposed to close down.  So it sounds good and is quite appealing.

But it does sorta come off as a bribe, even though I think it's a good thing.  As I've said before, GWB's tax refund really helped me, the initial paycheck and the tax cut going from almost being able to pay one month's rent to being able to pay two months and still order a pizza.  Twenty years later, I've yet to find any leftist praise helping poor people like that, they're only obsessed with the rich.  So I'm not putting down this 'dividend payment' for any objection to the concept.

My problem is that it does look like it's paying people off to go along with them.  You can say it's giving us our own money back, but it's the government.  As far as they're concerned, it's a gift to us, even if it comes from Trump.  There's also the enormous other bills that need to be paid off.

Gotta admit, my vote would probably go for using this money to pay off the fricking debt.  Lowering our taxes overall would be the benefit we deserve, more than writing a one-time check.  I won't turn down the check, just putting in my two cents.  Anyway, we'll have to see what Congress is going to do about this.

Leftists Lose It After White House Trolls with ‘Long Live the King’ Trump Meme
February 19, 2025

□ [“Mike Pence Trashes Trump Again – Scolds Him For Calling Out 'Dictator' Zelensky"]

Strange how this guy is only now speaking out in public and only to attack Trump.  I'm sure I said nice things about him four to eight years ago, but you don't find very many Veeps who have anything to say after they leave office.  Pence proved in the primaries he has no chance of continuing that career and has only sided with the left ever since.  One of the most successful members of the uniparty, but it's time we made them all past-tense.

He doesn't have anything to say about the unsecure borders.  He doesn't mention all the waste and fraud in government spending.  Even regarding Ukraine, he has no complaints about the hundreds of millions of dollars being unaccounted for.  It's like non-American non-taxpayers getting the money is more important to him than keeping track of any of it.  How does that work?

It would be interesting to know if ex-Veeps have any particular status.  They probably have more access to classified info than you or I might, but do they have any particular legal standing.  I ask because at some point Trump is going to be going up against the domestic enemy, i.e. the uniparty, and Pence will obviously stand out for that.  He was also a state governor and a member of Congress, so he's have a lot of connections.

He's also making more public statements than Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or any of the other senior Democrat leaders.  Or Obama, Bill and Hillary, Joe Biden, etc.  Pence isn't even speaking out that much, but where are the others?  Well, they know what's coming, that's probably why they're hiding.

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February 19, 2025

□ [“Trump to Fire 6,000 IRS Workers Tomorrow – Terminations will Target Employees Hired in Biden Era"]

DOGE keeps moving.  You'd think the IRS would be getting more attention, just because it's the IRS.  Or maybe everybody is just too shocked by what they've gotten done in the last (checks calendar) month.  Woah.  Mind.  Totally.  Blown.

This might be where Musk got the notion of giving everybody a $5,000 refund, after seeing the basic info they found.  Trump is already putting out an executive order banning federal tax benefits to all illegal immigrants.  Wouldn't surprise me if a similar EO had followed every department being checked out, i.e. no military benefits, no housing benefits, nothing that's not in a law passed by Congress or the Constitution itself.

Of course leftists are freaking that this one DOGE software engineer is going through IRS files to find fraud, waste and abuse.  Files show that Biden gave almost a thousand unelected officials that access but nobody cares about that.  Despite all the places in society we're required to use our social security number or other similar info, somehow this is a horrifying experience for the left.

I think this is one of those things that shows the limitations of atheism.  God knows our social security number too.  If He wants to do something with it, it's going to happen, just accept it.  I think this also extends to the notion of the government watching over us.  Believers take it as a given that we're watched every second of every day.  It doesn't mean we support others who aren't God doing this, but it changes our perspective of what's being done and how we should react.

Not all that different from installing digital files in our body.  You don't think that can be used by the government or hacked?  A couple years ago, the left was in favor of that.  The only thing that's changed is that they're not the ones in charge of it.  That's not how you decide whether an idea is good or bad.  They're fine with having access to all our private info, they just don't want it reciprocated.

ABC Slammed for ‘Disgusting and Vile’ Coverage of "Deceased" Israeli Hostages
February 19, 2025