Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 6:21 a.m. No.18029902   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0324 >>0435

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Friday continued the annual tradition of celebrating “Festivus,” airing out his many grievances as it relates to government waste.

 

Paul’s 2022 Festivus report highlights $482,276,543,907 in government wasteand includes $2.3 million used by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for an experiment involvinginjecting puppies with cocaine, $202,000 used by the Department of Defense (DOD) on Starbucks espresso machines, and $3 million for the construction of a Gandhi museum.

 

“This will be the 10th year in a row that I’ve celebrated #Festivus with you. By celebrated I mean have a little fun at the expense of Washington. If we don’t laugh we might cry,” Paul wrote before sharing some of the highlights of the report to his social media page and invoking the infamous Seinfeldquote from Frank Costanza, “I’ve got a lot of problems with you people!”

 

The NIH also wasted a significant amount of money. That includes $2.1 million on encouraging Ethiopians to wear shoes, $2.3 million injecting beagle puppies with cocaine, $1.1 million on “training mice to binge drink alcohol,” over $519,000 using mice to study racial aggression, and $187,500 on “verifying that kids love their pets.”

 

According to the report, the pet grant went to Kent State University, which used the funds to apparently “verify that the relationship between pets and children is beneficial to mental health.”

 

Other highlights directly from the report include:

 

Maintaining 77,000 empty Federal buildings (GSA)………………..………….$1,700,000,000

Helping illegal immigrants avoid deportation (DHS)……………………….…. $168,000,000

Overpaying government contractors for a terminated contract (GSA)…………..$69,000,000

Using COVID relief funds to construct an 11,000 square foot spa……….……. $140,000,000

Watching hamsters fight on steroids (NIH)………………………..………….…..$3,000,000

Studying the romance between parrots (NSF)……………..………………………….…$689,222

A radio campaign telling drivers to stop at railroad crossings (DOT)………………..$200,000

The war on cannabis is among the many dumb things congress does, but it's by no means the dumbest. Every year hundreds of billions of your dollars are wasted. Let's look at a few more of the worst examples of that.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/26/rand-pauls-annual-festivus-report-482276543907-government-waste/

 

Link to 24 page report

 

https://www.paul.senate.gov/sites/default/files/page-attachments/Festivus 2023 Clean AJS edits 5p.pdf

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 6:24 a.m. No.18029920   🗄️.is 🔗kun

OK standing up for state’s rights!

 

https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1607831617501908995?s=20&t=JIxbg5BeJAGc2cPzw63rbQ

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 6:32 a.m. No.18029952   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9989 >>9993 >>0001 >>0002 >>0122 >>0324 >>0435

John Basham 🇺🇲@JohnBasham

Meteorologist, AI, Data Scientist,

@USArmyRet., #IC, #OSINT #SIGINT, Fmr Elected Official, Wife=@TammyBasham9..As Seen @AmThoughtLeaderHeard On

@SeanHannity

 

https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1607596201188421634?s=20&t=JIxbg5BeJAGc2cPzw63rbQ

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 6:46 a.m. No.18030012   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0027 >>0122 >>0324 >>0435

>>18029987

 

In Response to the Twitter Files, Establishment Media Rushes to Defend the FBI

The Hunter Biden laptop story shows the extent to which the corporate media has become the propaganda arm of the state

 

Leighton Woodhouse23 hr ago

Last week, the FBI responded to the revelations exhumed from the Twitter Files in the most predictable way imaginable: by calling the journalists who reported on them“conspiracy theorists.”A decade ago, an attack like this on the free press by the federal government’s top law enforcement agency might have united journalists in indignant outrage. No longer. If the Twitter Files showed the extent to which the intelligence agencies are in bed with the social media platforms, the story’s reception by the mainstream press has only shown how eager the establishment media is to jump into the sheets with them. It’s not just that the corporate media has abandoned the kind of adversarial journalism exemplified by the reporting on the Twitter Files; it has taken on the role of defending the state against those who continue to practice it.

 

A few days after my friend and colleague Michael Shellenberger dropped Part 7 of the Twitter Files, CNN reporters Evan Perez, Donnie Sullivan and Brian Fung published a big story, also featured on the news channel, expressly aimed at refuting its findings. The central claim of the story was that the FBI had never “ordered” Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. That claim is true: the FBI, indeed, had never issued a direct order to Twitter that they had no legal authority to issue. But neither Shellenberger nor any other Twitter Files reporter had ever made that allegation in the first place. Elon Musk had, in a tweet posted two and a half weeks prior to Shellenberger’s thread, in a discussion of an earlier Twitter Files installment written by a different reporter.

 

And CNN’s conclusion was correct: Musk, who is famous for his reckless tweets, had spoken inaccurately.But so what?Musk carelessly hyping a tweet thread with the hyperbolic claim that the FBI “ordered” suppression of a story does nothing to undermine the actual claim in the reporting, which is that the FBI used its influence improperly to discredit a true but politically inconvenient story. Seizing on Musk’s sloppy editorializing is a classicmotte and bailey that CNN is using to tarnish a story that it cannot in fact factually refute.

 

What the Twitter Files do show is that the FBI ran what appears to be a disinformation campaign to persuade social media platforms to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story— a story they knew to be true. That last part bears repeating, as it is crucial to understanding the gravity of the FBI’s alleged impropriety: the FBI knew from the start that the story was authentic. FBI agents knew that Hunter Biden had personally dropped off his laptop at a computer repair shop in Delaware in 2019 and then abandoned it, that the computer repairman had viewed its contents and then contacted Rudy Giuliani to inform him of the sensitive information stored on the machine, and that the New York Post was writing a story on it. The FBI knew all of this because in 2019, the computer repairman had, via his father, contacted the FBI himself to tell them about it. FBI agents had visited him at his home, and the agency had then taken physical possession of the laptop. The FBI was also spying on Giuliani, which is how they were aware that the New York Post had an article coming. Knowing all of these facts, the FBI nevertheless went on to represent the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” to social media executives.

 

https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/in-response-to-the-twitter-files

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 6:50 a.m. No.18030027   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0122 >>0324 >>0435

>>18030012

The reason for media hitpieces is because all of these news media and outlets KNEW the Hunter laptop story was true and they KNEW what the FIB was doing.They are not called mockibird media for no reason. Just like they KNEW Russiagate was a lie and a coup against PDJT. Media participated and they still are taking orders from gov agencies

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 7:07 a.m. No.18030111   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18029974

We’ll be seeing the articles for days since the committee released them yesterday. Its another Russiagate delusion routine, to reconvince people that had changed their minds. Media will have the first sharp uptick since Trump left office. Next up Maddow crowing like a loon, “we’ve got him now the transcripts prove it”

 

And the gov will arrest him now to prove it! Timing is everything when planning a coup

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 7:13 a.m. No.18030140   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0171 >>0445

>>18029956

At this point, I’m pretty much convinced almost every judge is comped and the ones that are not are mercilessly attacked, like the judge that assigned a special master to review Mara A Lago raid. The district court in GA shut her down.

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 7:21 a.m. No.18030169   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0174

>>18029928

You should take pics of the judge constantly looking for approval or revolt when the plaintiff atty tried to get something in, looks fishy as fuck. Judges don’t get approval from lawyers, he did it numerous times, was pointed out on Ghost body language video

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 7:34 a.m. No.18030223   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0247 >>0256 >>0324 >>0435

>>18030195

This poll is funny, sort of. Many people told me they wanted to take a vacation or fly somewhere, so they took the jab. Others said they received a lot pressure. Our society is very weak, when someone tries to pressure me, I say,sorry Catholic guilt doesnt work on me anymore. My mother tried it for years.

 

https://twitter.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1608057573525315587?s=20&t=Z03n3cPW9nr6yctergpTtQ

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 7:45 a.m. No.18030268   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0298

>>18030224

He doesn’t state the US military, that maybe even a bigger stretch. But we know generals (not the tv generals) asked Trump to run. So there maybe a secret military that hasn't been comped. Like the Psyop group. Thats all I got.

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 7:50 a.m. No.18030291   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18030256

Yeah my siblings still do it and look for sale prices. I keep on saying, “you know you had an immune system that could have handled this”. Not out loud of course, I have 6 siblings that took them! Kek two besides me didn't and the other one passed on years ago. A very opinionated group

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 8:01 a.m. No.18030336   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18030279

So your right the best of times, accelerated public exposure. With the exposure comes that sinking feeling for those who know, “shit what else have I believed”. For some it a tragic awakening, others say, “damn it, I knew something wasn’t right, but I made fun of my CT friend”, others are going into depression and grief. Some knowing that they lived a life in sheer intellectual darkness is the hardest to cope with; harder still they believed the people that told them lies.

 

I really think we are close to the precipice.

 

I’ve studied and known about conspiracy theories “or true crime stories” as I know them, since the mid 1970’s. The thing that pisses me off the most is I didn’t know anything about WW pedophillia. The day I found out in early 2017, was a shocker, and emotionally gut wrenching. The pain and sorrow to know children were used like that, I was angry that I never knew!

Anonymous ID: 0388a7 Dec. 28, 2022, 8:16 a.m. No.18030393   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18030175

They ate trying to knock him out because reps only have a two person lead, wouldn’t be surprised if the plan on an accident for another rep.

 

They all lie, Santos should be proud they put so much energy into him and no democrats.