On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump introduced recently confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi for her swearing-in ceremony in the oval office. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the oath of office. WATCH:
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The following message is the only message on the landing site of USAID.Gov
“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).
For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.
Thank you for your service.”
The American people have only just begun to discover what the USAID operation was all about. Many people thought it was a charitable enterprise and are only just now realizing it was something else entirely.
Historically we discussed how USAID was actually the front group for CIA influence operations globally. The intelligence community aspect is only just beginning to be discovered by the American people. However, in keeping with the theme, multiple U.S. leftist media outlets were also funded by USAID as part of their information control mission.
Yes, USAID is a ball of worms.
Director of National Intelligence nominee, Tulsi Gabbard, and Health and Human Service Secretary, RFK Jr have advanced by a straight party line vote in their respective committees and now head to the full senate vote as controlled by Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Tulsi Gabbard advanced from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) during a closed-door 9-8 vote, with all the committee’s Democrat members voting against her. [Source] Similarly, in a completely partisan vote, the Senate Finance Committee advanced Robert F Kennedy’s nomination 14-13 with every Democrat voting against him. [Source]
For FBI Director nominee, Kash Patel, the Senate Judiciary Committee has internal rules that permit the Democrats to delay the committee vote for a week. Judiciary Committee Chair Senate Chuck Grassley expects Kash Patel to receive the committee vote next week.
WASHINGTON DC – Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said in a statement Tuesday his committee plans to take a final vote on FBI director nominee Kash Patel as early as next week.
The committee has a business meeting scheduled for Thursday to consider Patel’s nomination. Under committee rules, Democrats can delay the full committee vote for one more week, at which point senators are expected to advance the nominee along party lines to the full Senate for confirmation.
Senate Judiciary Democrats on Tuesday asked Grassley for another hearing to question Patel on several matters, including the recent personnel shakeup at the FBI. Grassley denied their request. (read more)
lol… Don’t you just love it when exactly what you knew would happen, starts to happen – SEE PREDICTION HERE.
This is, quite simply, a super-blast of Trumpian fuel that will overwhelm the DC outrage machine’s capacity to keep up. Exhausted media heads will explode as the machine’s narrative engineers struggle -against all odds- to keep the system operating…. “Stop the Hammering“.. lol
WASHINGTON DC – The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday night that it is temporarily suspending accepting packages sent from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
The suspension is effective immediately, the USPS said. Letters and flats are not included in the suspension, it said.
The postal service did not provide a reason for the suspension or say how long it expects it to last.
Earlier Tuesday, Beijing announced it would counter President Trump’s new 10% tariff on Chinese goods with retaliatory tariffs of its own. China said starting next Monday it would implement a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas products along with a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars imported from the U.S.
Mr. Trump’s tariff increase also eliminated a duty-free exemption for low-value packages coming from China. The “de minimis” exemption allows goods valued at $800 or below to come into the United States without paying duties or certain taxes. (read more)
Remember when President Trump established the “External Revenue Service?” … It’s all connected and sequential.
Almost everyone will miss, in part because outcomes appear in a sequence that few care to follow, but buried in the Trump tariff Executive Order {SEE HERE} you will discover something. As the unofficial Deep State strategist, and the self-appointed misfit explainer of stuff, lol, we will explain:
So, Canada and Mexico get 25% tariffs, but China only 10%. Why? The secret is in that subsection “(h)” when it talks about de minimis treatment. Essentially, what President Trump is doing is levying a much more massive import tax, and possible confiscation impact on the core source of fentanyl (and other illegal) substances.
Approximately a billion packages are estimated to enter the USA under the cover of the de minimis exemption. This is where the enforcement mechanism of the “External Revenue Service” combines with the tariff approach and the “state of emergency.” President Trump imposed the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a nearly 50-year law that gives the president sweeping power to impose sanctions after declaring an emergency.
Now the billion packages, mostly from China, Mexico and Canada are going to be subjected to review and interception.
The de minimis loophole comes from back in the 1930s. The idea back then was, say you went on a vacation to Paris, you shouldn’t have to file customs paperwork or pay taxes if you decided to ship some little Eiffel Tower statues to your friends back home.
Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800. However, the e-commerce world exploded, and Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods (ex. Temu and Shein) into the USA direct to consumers without paying any customs duty.
It was reported last year that the U.S. was on track to receive a billion packages through the de minimis loophole that aren’t taxed and don’t have customs slips saying what they are. Making matters worse, illegal items are slipping through the cracks, including, knockoffs, unsafe items and even chemicals used to make fentanyl. The worst abuser that exploits this de minimis loophole is, by far, China.
President Trump can require a customs and duty declaration stating what is in every package and subsequently collect tariffs and duties.
Put it all together and President Trump is executing an Emergency Act executive order, plus the imposition of a tariff review, and simultaneous interception of de minimis packages previously unchecked as the enforcement mechanism. All executed by the External Revenue Service.
President Trump has got them surrounded, and the scope of it has the media so overwhelmed they cannot quite put it together.
Almost too much winning….
…. Almost!
Today, “no rush“…. This guy cracks me up.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he is in “no rush” to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping despite expectations they would meet the same day, as trade tensions increase after both countries imposed tariffs early in the morning.
“We’ll speak to him at the appropriate time. I’m in no rush,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office less than a day after both countries exchanged new trade curbs. The leaders of the world’s largest economies were unable to reach an agreement to stave off Trump’s threat to impose 10 percent duties on Chinese imports before midnight Monday, even after Trump opted to delay 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada. (link)
President Trump signs several executive orders February 4th, and holds a lengthy press conference to discuss details of ongoing operations by the administration.
Within the XO’s President Trump targeted several sub silos within the United Nations pulling the U.S. out of UNHRC (UN Human Rights Council) and UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization). [Executive Order Here] Additionally, the XO extracts the United States from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
“The Secretary shall inform the UN Secretary General and the leadership of UNRWA and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that the United States will not fund UNRWA or the UNHRC and that the United States will not satisfy any claims to pay 2025 assessments or prior arrears by these organizations.” [source]
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The blitz upon the silos of corruption continues, as President Trump also notes in the event he is killed or assassinated by adversaries, he has left instructions to “decimate” the nation responsible for the assassination.
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference following a bilateral meeting in the White House. The anticipated start time for the presser and remarks is approximately 5:30pm EST. Livestream Links Below:
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was again asked about the USAID review pause and the likely impact to the matrix of NGO’s and financial dependents, including the families of DC politicians, if funding is not quickly restarted. WATCH:
WASHINGTON DC – […] Some of these anticipated layoffs have already begun. According to an email obtained by POLITICO, early last week development group Credence Management Solutions sent formal emails to contractors in its global health bureau laying off around 400 employees.
The CEO of DT Global, one of the world’s leading development contractors, reportedly told employees last week that 2,000 to 3,000 positions would likely be eliminated in the sector the first week of February. Both Credence Management Solutions and DT Global did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A director at a leading USAID contractor who spoke with POLITICO said that more than two-thirds of their company would be furloughed by the end of the week, describing the future of the sector as “bleak at best.”
“This is starting to look like an industry crash,” a different person in the aid sector said.
In addition to companies facing crisis, individuals who work in foreign aid in Washington say the job market is about to be oversaturated with thousands of newly unemployed people with no clear path forward. One person who spoke with POLITICO had been due to begin a job in the foreign aid space but had their offer rescinded because the job no longer exists. (read more)
Glenn Greenwald and Mike Benz discuss USAID in theoretical principle and real-world practice.
Greenwald asks, ‘why do these USAID officials seem so entitled’?
The answer to the tone of the officials goes back to the past 20-years of a mindset that has permeated U.S. government.
After the Patriot Act was created in October 2001, DHS was created to monitor American behavior; the TSA was then created to scan American travelers, and the FBI was enhanced with resources to conduct surveillance despite Fourth Amendment protections within our Constitution. All of this was done under the larger dynamic of preserving the “continuity of government.”
Instead of the U.S. Govt protecting U.S. citizens from foreign threats, the Patriot Act changed the mission of government to protect itself from potential citizen threats.
By the time the 2016 election arrived, We the People had already been defined by the Patriot Act as a threat to government.
If we the people did not select the right kind of candidate, approved by the continuity system, then our selection would be rejected by all of the operators of that administrative system. Following the outcome of the 2016 election, that’s what happened. The system activated to repel the threat President Trump represented. Worse yet, supporters of the threat were defined, isolated, marginalized, attacked, deplatformed and removed from every system they could control.
Every move by the U.S. federal government, from 2016 to now, has been contrast against the backdrop of a newer awakening and more visible understanding of how that Patriot Act inflection point changed our relationship with government.
We the People are the threat, and those who control the DC power centers that determine the continuity of government will not accept any modification or diminishment of their mission.
This sentiment of being more important is how the DC operatives justify their conduct in very real terms, including through application of law.
This outlook is also why the people who operate these systems are very visible with their conduct and do not have any reservations about showing their omnipotent mindset.
From their perspective, they are doing what they do, running government how they run government, maintaining the continuity the system was designed to protect. We The People are what they consider futile and irrelevant voices, and ironically when we speak against them, we are attacking “their democracy.”
This is the same mindset that weaponized liberty and freedom. Remember the examples from COVID? During COVID your demand for freedom was considered a threat. Your unwavering support of liberty made you “selfish” in the eyes of those who believe they control society.
If you did not wear a mask you were putting people at risk, the larger society and government in general was being challenged.
If you did not take the “vaccine”, you were putting the nation at danger.
In essence your liberty was defined as selfish, and our freedom was considered a “threat” to the order of government.
In a way you were threatening the “continuity of government” through your non-compliance.
That’s the mindset we are now up against.
Since the end of World War II, the USA has permitted a system of one-way trade rules that allowed Europe to rebuild on the backs of the American economy. A series of trade tariffs against U.S. goods was imposed to raise funds for the reconstruction. Those tariffs never ended; the Marshall Plan continues through today.
Additionally, as a measure to allow the EU to focus internally, the USA provided most of the national security protection for the entire region and the American taxpayer funded U.S. military operations throughout Europe so the EU could spend defense money on their rebuilding. Again, that never really ended; and the USA maintains the largest majority of NATO military spending.
President Trump has stated his intention to reset both dynamics. To lower the USA footprint within NATO, demand every NATO member meet its financial obligations, and to reset the trade and tariff system to create equity and reciprocity; thereby effectively ending the Marshall Plan.
The aggregate European Union does not like this Trump trade agenda, nor are they willing to spend more on their own defense. Today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held a press briefing where she spoke about the looming negotiations with President Trump, and stated the EU will never permit financial, economic or military equity. The EU will fight any effort to stop the Marshall Plan. WATCH:
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There are trillions at stake.
It is always, always, about the economics of the thing.
As noted in the visible scale of media panic, Washington DC federal officeholders (many in their pajamas as they work from home) are having fits of apoplexy as the Trump administration bears down on accountability.
As Politico puts it, “Congressional Democrats seem flummoxed by the pace, responding to crises from three news cycles ago while new ones keep arising in real time.” Apparently, things continue to proceed according to plan, the DC system is overwhelmed by the pace of President Trump’s administrative deconstruction.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe appears on CNN to discuss the “utter disarray” as Trump administration officials enter and engage the protected silos from every vulnerable position.
“I’ve talked to more FBI people in the last 4 days than I did in the prior 4 years.” “It is a place in utter disarray right now. People are worried about how am I going to pay the bills? How am I gonna support my family?” “If you get fired, you’re done. That’s the end of your reputation, your ability to get any job, you lose your pay, you lose your chance at a pension, you lose your health insurance.” “This is a moment of terror for these people.” WATCH:
Keep in mind, these are the people who weaponized the NSA database to conduct political surveillance.
The Dept of Justice was weaponized to target their political opposition.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was weaponized to act as the police investigative units for those targets.
The Dept of Homeland Security was weaponized to control the evidence and information about their political targeting and surveillance.
The IRS was weaponized against Obama’s political opposition.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was weaponized to allow the targeting radar to sweep internally against American citizens under the guise of national security and domestic terror threats.
The Central Intelligence Agency was weaponized allowing and permitting their “foreign surveillance” mandate to merge with the DHS internal surveillance mandate, while simultaneously the CIA conducted overseas political operations against the interests of sovereign countries. All of their activity in ideological alignment.
The Defense Department was purged of patriotism, intentionally weakened through diversity equity and inclusion, and then boiled down to a flag corps of general willing to go along with the policy of Obama.
Main Justice through the National Security Division used FARA violations to target anyone who was determined a threat to the fundamental change, and Main Justice began wholesale Lawfare operations against Donald Trump and any entity who would dare align with him.
Hundreds of millions, likely billions, were funneled through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Green New Deal, The Inflation Reduction Act, and various legislative expenditures to foreign governments; those funds went directly into the bank accounts of Democrat donors and political activist groups.
♦ And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, the part the awakened American public can look into and see for themselves.
Underneath the waterline, there’s the USAID issue where Elon Musk is currently operating with DOGE. Tens of thousands of vested interests, inside and outside of Washington DC, operating to maintain the fundamental change system that President Obama created. However, their defenses are weak and shallow, fraught with vulnerability and the endless need to avoid sunlight.
All of that scheming, rot, corruption and unlawful activity makes them vulnerable. The need for control is a reaction to fear. The ‘fundamental change’ group are fraught with fear. That is why they consider the current political landscape as a zero-sum contest. That’s the source of their panic.
WASHINGTON DC – […] All eyes are now on federal courts, where challenges to these decisions are slowly starting to take shape. Two judges have already blocked the White House from implementing its across-the-board spending freeze. And lawsuits in federal courts are potentially the last vanguard for those hoping to stop Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.
“Nobody has challenged across the landscape the way this president has,” said Stan Brand, a former top House lawyer and veteran of Washington’s highest-profile legal battles of the past 40 years. “We’ve had fights over [spending authority]. We’ve had fights over inspectors general, even before Trump. We’ve had fights over foreign aid. But this one is deeper and seems more programmatic. All of these will get challenged in some manner.”
Judges are bracing for an onslaught of challenges to the growing list of unprecedented steps taken by a president who seems determined to test the limits of his constitutional authority. The outcome of those cases will, in some ways, define the Trump presidency. But in others, the chaos is part of the design. Trump’s allies say he is making good on his campaign promise to shake up Washington no matter what sticks legally.
“Federal employees around the country are surely feeling Trump’s orders as body blows, as he likely intended,” said Daniel Richman, a lawyer and former adviser to FBI leadership. “But once the immediate shock at his extraordinary power claims wears off, I doubt they will all be cowed. Rather, they will be the source of litigation that all but the most die-hard Trumpist judges will take seriously.”
[…] Thousands more terminations at the FBI of employees who played a role in Jan. 6 criminal cases may be imminent, even as pockets of resistance begin to emerge. A group of national security lawyers and allies have offered free legal assistance to FBI officials targeted by the new leadership based on their role in Jan. 6 cases, and lawsuits to prevent wholesale terminations could be imminent.
Many of Washington’s legal veterans say they’re most alarmed and perplexed by Musk and his amorphous role in efforts to make massive, abrupt and ill-explained changes to the operations of the federal government. He routinely uses his social media platform, X, to characterize some government-funded programs as “criminal” and relished, for example, putting USAID — the agency responsible for administering international aid programs — through a “wood chipper.” Those claims of illegality have been coupled with a chorus of Trump’s MAGA allies characterizing the agency as a hotbed of progressive causes, suggesting the agency drew Trump allies’ ire for political reasons.
Musk has sent a team of allies to take control of computer systems at Treasury and in the Office of Personnel Management, which are responsible for delivering appropriated funds and overseeing the entire federal workforce. It’s unclear what responsibilities they have. Amid reports some of those incursions have been met with pushback, Washington, D.C.’s interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin — a conservative culture warrior who was a prominent conspiracy theorist about the Jan.6 attack — offered to use his office to protect Musk’s efforts.
Martin suggested that “threats, confrontations or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws.” Martin ended his letter to Musk — which Musk quickly acknowledged — by warning Musk to be wary of subversive elements in government. (read more)
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