That's just the cultural engagement budget for 7th group.
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I tried it once with my GTCC and they NJP'd me and took my card away....
That would be something like “Recreation & Party services”.
If only we could be so lucky
Well yeah cause people are stupid- I took part in JADE HELM, and immediately discounted the public outcry because a lot of it came out of a small town in NM, where I was on the helicopters people reported as "taking over the mountain with SEALs". It's pretty simple to look at that event, look at the information given, and go, "Oh, this is dumb." No context needed.
Here is the contract on usaspending.gov. - scroll down and look at the first graph. Notice anything weird about the years where spending exploded? Keep scrolling down- "large scale social deception" and "active social engineering defense" is pretty interesting, no? To an American company? On American soil?
Dig a little deeper on the site and check out Thomson Reuters LLC- they were actually awarded $13.6M in the child contract, with $4.72M going to "Internet Publishing and Broadcasting"... so they were using the internet to engage in large scale deception and active social engineering defense... to decieve whom? And defend against what, exactly? Now if you want to intimate that because some hills have eyes locals made some facebook posts about JADE HELM and ipso facto a vetted contract award from a .gov site is just a "random spreadsheet", I am not here to tell you you're wrong. But also, given the last few weeks, I can't possibly understand that position.
I think it falls in the same bucket as all of the other things DOGE is uncovering- we (collectively) don't know what any of it is. I can sit here and intimate that I was read into programs that seem innocuous or shady that provide a valuable and live-saving tactical purpose, especially in the PR realm- but that makes me sound douchey. I had no clue how much money was awarded to those programs and if it was used effectively, and I 100% can't say it wasn't wasted, or worse- used against Americans.
Given the tranche of malfeasance we are seeing, I'll use Occams razor and assume that the DoD funding a news organization for "large scale deception" and "active social engineering defense" during a time where the Biden admin was leveraging big tech and media to run psyops against the American people, here in America, leads me to suspect that it's not some super secret development program, cause, you know, I have eyes, and I don't trust the government.
BL- I think you're operating from the premise that there could be a super secret and necessary reason to pay Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC $60.21M (that is one of more than 20 separate LLCs that Reuters has on the site, and they operate worldwide) to engage in "large scale deception" and "active social engineering defense". I am operating from the position that we know the government has vetted programs like PROJECT MOCKINGBIRD, and the more we uncover, the more I am sure there is malfeasance, and until the government accounts for every penny and explains why we need it- I don't believe it.
We need to be able to like a thing a million times.
Ka$h advances out of Senate committee...
Is he the last one of the President Trump's major cabinet picks still on the table?
You have to get the local supplier to put it down as fuel on the receipt.
Do you know how much OPFUND I have spent on "gravel" and "fuel"?
***Legal disclaimer, this is satire and I have never allocated government funds incorrectly or outside of their intended use***
There are a few out there still waiting, but for the big/contentious ones, yes.
Other than Mitch "Totally wasn't a stroke" McConnell, the voting on contentious people or topics has been along party lines. On a few close votes Fetterman and Welch went against their own party. Unless there's a nominee that would push Republicans to side with the Democrats (Hegseth), they are going to be rubberstamped.
re: noms still on the table- I was just reminded that this chick should not be pushed through, I am hoping she doesn't get tapped for labor, I assume she gets the ole "no" in hearings. Her history leads me to be a no (dog) on this one.
https://www.congress.gov/member/lori-chavez-deremer/C001135
Lori Chavez-DeRemer walks political tightrope in pursuit of job as America’s labor boss
ETA- I wasn't clear above- I 100% disagree that she was even nominated, this was a Trump miss.
https://www.congress.gov/member/lori-chavez-deremer/C001135
Lori Chavez-DeRemer walks political tightrope in pursuit of job as America’s labor boss
ETA- I wasn't clear above- I 100% disagree that she was even nominated, this was a Trump miss.
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I think she'll make it through, because Trump has been pushing pretty hard to flip unions from D to R.
It's a pretty easy bone to toss to those groups without a loss for him. He can always replace her if she doesn't stay in line,
Yeah, I don't disagree here. I definitely think there were better candidates and I really dislike her history.
I was a young Pte, on a road move up North for some winter training with locals on a reserve. Our last fuel stop, my Sgt had me carry several cases of assorted fuel and get the amended receipt. Mind you we already had rum rations with us, the good old days. Lesson stuck with me for my career.
Thank you @realDonaldTrump for putting American workers first by nominating Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for US Labor Secretary. Nearly a year ago, you joined us for a @Teamsters roundtable and pledged to listen to workers and find common ground to protect and respect labor in… pic.twitter.com/C6jZw1PqkB
— Sean M. O'Brien (@TeamsterSOB) November 23, 2024
100% union appeasement. Honestly a good political move by Trump to pull in the teamsters.
Helps keep swing states more red in next election as long as nothing gets bad.
I've long thought and said if the Republicans would soften their stances on unions and abortion, they would not lose an election for a decade. Executive and Legislative are red for a decade. No back and forth shift every 2 years which is our history...everything stays Republican for a decade.
I agree it's the right move for the reasons you elucidated, I just don't like her. Definitely a "me" problem.
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