> [ Won't be my little defense b? Then you can't do government contracts at all! ]
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Cheney's office touched the presentation presented by Gen. Colin Powell which led Congress to believe that there was need to invade Iraq to save US from WMDs. Tours of duty were extended from 3 months to 24 months because "stop loss". Subsequently, the United States paid out trillions for debt-financed war and some $39 billion to Cheney's company KBR.
Today you learned that the oil company Cheney worked for (Chevron) was trying to bully Afghanistan into a pipeline deal in 1998 and also in 2001.
Cheney donated less than $10 million dollars of his Haliburton/KBR returns; mostly to a heart medicine program in his own name and retained a compensation package.
Why did Kushner and Affinity Partners try to sell these American companies to foreign interests?
"Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery" https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/jared-kushner-paramount-war... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195124 :
> Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing
> Affinity Partners was not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196242 :
> "Letter to DOJ on Kushner - FARA (Wyden - Raskin) final.pdf" (October 2024) https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/demo... :
> Recent public reports and a Senate investigation have uncovered significant evidence that Mr. Kushner acted as an unregistered foreign agent of [SA]
>> Kushner - who was never credentialed by State Department, an ambassador, or registered as a foreign agent in the US or in any other country - has now, in 2025, helped sell Electronic Arts to SA and is trying to help sell Warner Brothers Discovery to SA, a foreign territory which does not support Freedom of Speech.
"Kushner's Affinity Partners exits Paramount bid for Warner Bros. Discovery" (2025-12) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/kushner-affinity-paramount-w...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196370 :
>> Trump wanted Ellison to purchase TikTok (from the owners in China that weren't offering to sell it) so that US data would remain in the US.
>> By comparison, why did Trump/Kushner help sell EA (NFL Madden, NBA Live, PGA Tour,) to foreign interests, and why is Trump/Kushner trying to help sell WBD to foreign interests?
Odd that Internet Research Agency (Prigozhin, Putin) were paying for info ops to get Trump elected.
Likes flying to Scotland and hotels in Russia on a gold-plated plane after multiple bankruptcies.
FWIU there was unpaid debt to Deutsche Bank of over $400m as recently as 2016.
Trump could not get a loan in 2016 without underwriting it himself, due to having defaulted on so much debt.
Will they be able to negotiate peace and arms treaties as dutifully obligated?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035266 :
> Bannon's company Cambridge Analytica was a subsidiary of SCL Group, a British psyops/infoops firm that explicitly intended to tamper in foreign elections.
> US money paid to such firms also paid for Brexit.
SCL Group Trump: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Scl%20group%20t...
SCL Group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCL_Group
> Mercer, Bannon, Nix, EmerData, Prince
It doesn't look like it was possible to contain the Ballstein Battenmount situation.
What is fiscal conservatism?
What is accountability?
Can a person be fiscally conservative if they intend to force the government into debt by deceasing revenue and increasing expenses?
So they're more of a social conservative to think that it's the business of government to impose morality despite strict constructionism conservatism?
Why does this government think that it owns Anthropic when it does not?
Are they demanding elimination of security controls that protect us and them? What would be equal force?
How does the posse comitatus act apply to this?
Infidelity that requires people at work to lie for you is the military's problem.
Apparently exoneration by one's partner for example in an open marriage does not change whether infidelity is an offense per UCMJ.
On a standard DNA paternity test, one's parents will test positive.
Wouldn't keeping DNA on file (and other biosignatures like heartbeat at a distance) make it easy to identify actual.
That person didn't remember their wife in a deposition. And, "I thought he was pretty good at what he did."
Deposition video featuring Trump not remembering his ex wife: https://youtu.be/lonTBp9h7Fo?t=1028
It turns out that orders are nullifiable in cases of usurpation, but what about fraudulent use of likeness by one's own kids on bibles and beer pong sets, for example.
Where is our moral outrage at Trump with Miss Daniels while his wife was at home with the baby? Where is our moral outrage at them employing a tabloid to keep that in our faces?
Recently I learned that Mr Epstein was well acquainted with Ken Starr, prosecutor of Clinton for lying about non-duty-related infidelity.
Isn't there an interview with one of them about how Epstein and Trump have this need to "cuck", shame, and otherwise sexually humiliate others?
(While infidelity is technically still a crime per UCMJ for persons who have signed a UCMJ contract, my understanding is that infidelity is very rarely prosecuted.)
Clinton was impeached for perjury about infidelity, but not for perjury about not inhaling.
Trump hasn't yet been impeached for lying to the public about when he ended his relationship with Mr Epstein, but he was not under oath at that time?
Aren't there a number of available prosecutors for congressional impeachment given the turnover and resignations at DOJ of late? Congress should hire former prosecutors in order to become adequate at impeachment.
Apparently it's practically impossible to prove quid pro quo. But then why would they have specifically cited Bribery as an impeachable offense in the Constitution?
People sell burgundy "Make Lying Wrong Again" hats that contrast with political "Make America Pray Again" hats and executive seal bibles.
God Bless the U.S.A. Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_the_U.S.A._Bible :
> The Bible translation was intended to be the New International Version,[13] but Zondervan, the division of HarperCollins which owns the rights to the New International Version, withheld them after multiple public complaints, and the King James Version was used instead, as it is in the public domain in the United States
But a CEO that intentionally starves the beast (their own company) would be criminally liable to the state and civilly liable to shareholders.
> Fewer congressional contests are expected to be competitive this fall, compared with past election cycles, and experts say the extraordinary mid-decade redistricting efforts initiated by President Trump are largely to blame.
> Fewer competitive seats means the overwhelming majority — more than 90% — of congressional races will pretty much be decided during primary elections, which see far fewer voters participate than general elections.
> "Right now, we only rate 18 out of 435 races as toss ups, which means that less than 5% of Americans will truly be deciding who's in control of the House," David Wasserman, senior elections analyst for the Cook Political Report, told NPR.
Also, FEC still lacks a quorum of commissioners and so they can't prosecute any new campaign finance violations (for example those of the current press secretary)
Starve the beast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
How did the GENIUS Act affect Trump's private profit stablecoin?
>> The Impact on USD1: Since World Liberty Financial cannot pay interest to you [due to the GENIUS Act], they are allowed to keep nearly 100% of the interest generated by the U.S. Treasuries backing the coin. This effectively protects the 75% revenue share for Trump-affiliated entities by ensuring that yield stays at the protocol level (where the family collects it) rather than being distributed to the users.
Compare the fee structure of e-CNY and USD1
"Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption" (2025-11) https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/dem... :
> While research indicates these crypto ventures have put more than $800 million into the pockets of President Trump and his family members and allowed him to double his net worth, this corruption has gone largely unnoticed by the American electorate. According to some reports, 60% of Americans say they haven’t heard about “the President’s family running a cryptocurrency business” or profiting from that business; nearly half of Trump voters believe he had not profited from the presidency at all, while a third believed he had made less than $100 million while in office. [5]
(...)
> USD1 Stablecoin
> In March 2025, World Liberty Financial also launched its own stable coin, USD1, which is pegged to the U.S. dollar and backed by short-term U.S. treasuries and other liquid assets. Since its launch, USD1’s market cap has grown from $128 million to nearly $2.7 billion. [63] The Financial Times estimates that WLF has earned around $42 million from USD1, while Forbes has valued the stablecoin business at $235 million. [64] Like $WLFI, USD1 is plagued by foreign conflicts of interest (...)
Cryptocurrency in the second Trump presidency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_in_the_second_T...
Trump signed the GENIUS Act, which regulates stablecoins, in 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GENIUS_Act
(Carter wins among US Presidents for least deaths on his watch.)
Most US invasions since 1980 have been the result of Reagan/Bush international oil meddling.
They were only able to take power because of unpopular inflation. And susceptibility to "revival superstar" oil saviors with Trilateral/CIA oil plans.
But they don't pay their bills for debt-financing illegal foreign wars.
Anyways, Nixon also disregarded the La Guardia commission and the interim findings of the Shaeffer report. So, after the supreme court back then in Leary vs in 1969 overturned the Tax Stamp Act of 1937 after 32 years on the grounds that the law required self-incriminatiom for compliance, Nixon re-criminalized medical Kaneh Bosm.
Ironically, Britain backed the slaving south in the US Civil War; Britain wanted the south the secede from the Union.
The film National Treasure: Book of Secrets mentions this.
"Internet Research Agency": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
US money paid to such firms also paid for Brexit.
"After Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, an armed man was arrested there, prosecutors say" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-trump-posted-wha...