Friday, April 04, 2025
DOGE Finds VA Contract Paying $380K a Month for Minor Website Maintenance
Good work by @DeptVetAffairs
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 2, 2025
VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to find outrageous abuse and waste of taxpayer money.
While digging through contracts for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a previous contract was uncovered, exposing hundreds of thousands of dollars paid out PER MONTH to do minor routine website maintenance.
The contract was not renewed, and the work is now being done internally by a VA software engineer who is spending only 10 hours a week on maintenance.
Bringing the maintenance in-house will save the VA $4.5M+ annually.
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Fuck You and Fuck Off!
Fauci's scum-wife, Christine Grady, the head of bioethics for the NIH, mandator of covid shots, and the marital partner of the self proclaimed “I am science” Anthony Fauci……has been relieved of her duties at the NIH.
She will not be missed.
Enjoy the above video when she was asked about people choosing to not get covid vaccinated. Karma is a dish best served cold. She got hers.
"He's going to raise the barriers around the country, and he's going to remove the barriers inside"
Shortly after the election I was invited to speak to a group of French CEOs to explain Trump's economic policies. I was asked to summarize them in a sentence.
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) April 3, 2025
Here's what I said: "He's going to raise the barriers around the country, and he's going to remove the barriers inside…
Donald Trump is the first president in generations to tell Wall Street to screw itself—he's for the working men and women of this country
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:Here's the truth about tariffs: For 60 years they destroyed the American working class to funnel money upwards into the pockets of the rich. Donald Trump is the first president in generations to tell Wall Street to screw itself—he's for the working men and women of this country. pic.twitter.com/sCZRFeITYh
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 3, 2025
AND THIS:I am so confused because here is Janet Yellen telling you last year that when Joe Biden put tariffs on retail goods, consumers would never see a price increase? pic.twitter.com/aIm3lFOiaa
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 3, 2025
2018. Chuck Schumer after Trump proposed tariffs on China.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 2, 2025
Like many Democrats, he speaks a little differently when he's not on MSNBC or CNN.pic.twitter.com/NKwnp93hJg
Tucker Carlson Horrified as Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic
WATCH - Dr. Mary Talley Bowden STUNS Tucker Carlson
— McCullough Foundation (@McCulloughFund) April 2, 2025
💉 9 MILLION American children have received the latest COVID-19 mRNA booster shot… and no one’s talking about it.@MdBreathe @TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/bQWYEZBAi2
TRUMP: "What Is That Which Gives Me Joy? BASEBALL!"
Ontario Premier Doug Ford expressed confidence that Canada would remove its tariffs on U.S. goods if President Donald Trump ends his trade war.
“We’d be willing to take those off tomorrow, if he took all the tariffs off. We are not the problem,” Ford said.
Meanwhile, it looks like Mexico is backing down, too. According to Reuters, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Wednesday that Mexico has no plans to impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States just ahead of President Donald Trump’s expected tariff announcement.
Trump Announces "Liberation Day" Tariffs; Will Calculate the Direct Tariffs and Non-Monetary Barriers to Entry Foreign Countries Impose on Us and Slap Them Each With Reciprocal Tariffs Equalling About Half of Their Own Tariff Level
President Trump announces new tariff rates pic.twitter.com/79TOEumA5g
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) April 2, 2025
Nashville Trans Shooter Plotted Attack for Years, Was Obsessed with Other School Shooters
Nashville Trans Shooter Plotted Attack for Years, Was Obsessed with Other School Shooters
Nashville police have released their final report on the Covenant School massacre -- a targeted March 2023 attack on a Christian school by a transgender shooter who killed three third-graders and three adults.
Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that killer Audrey Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about her plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999.
Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biological female, began "fantasizing" about and researching mass shootings as far back as 2017, according to investigators. A year later, she wrote "detailed fantasies" about shooting up the Isaac T. Creswell Middle Magnet School for the Arts, killing her father and killing her psychiatrist.
"In this case, a manifesto didn't exist," the document reads. "Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack."
Instead, her motivations were scattered across those many notebooks and other writings, investigators found. They included an image showing more than two-dozen notebooks seized from Hale's car and bedroom. They also said she left a suicide note addressed to her parents.
Read the Nashville police report:
"In short, the motive determined over the course of the investigation was notoriety," according to investigators. "Even though numerous disappointments in relationships, career aspirations, and independence fueled her depression, and even though this depression made her highly suicidal, this doesn't explain the attack. As Hale wrote on several occasions, if suicide was her goal then she would have simply killed herself."
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
New York will now monitor social media writings, collect data, and use law enforcement to crack down on hate speech
Like the plot to a dystopian movie, New York will now monitor social media writings, collect data, and use law enforcement to crack down on any expression it deems to be hate speech.
— Standing for Freedom Center (@freedomcenterlu) December 8, 2023
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, D, announced on Monday that the state will ramp up surveillance efforts of social media accounts and that law enforcement will take proactive measures, including contacting people on suspicion of using “hate speech.”Hochul cited the rise in antisemitic activity in New York and especially New York City, where the world’s largest population of Jews outside of Israel resides. Hochul also mentioned alleged “Islamophobic” incidents, which she claimed were increasing and going under-reported.
The governor said she would also be increasing police presence, which she stated has been focused on protecting potential targets including “synagogues and yeshivas and mosques and any other place that could be susceptible to hate crimes or violence."
As part of that, Hochul explained,
“…we’re very focused on the data we’re collecting from surveillance efforts — what’s being said on social media platforms. And we have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity. and reach out to people when we see hate speech being spoken about on online platforms. Our media analysis, our social media analysis unit, has ramped up its monitoring of sites to catch incitement to violence; direct threats to others, and all this is in response to our desire, our strong commitment, to ensure that not only do New Yorkers be safe, but they also feel safe because personal security is about everything for them."
This sounds like EXACTY what they are doing in the UK, except they're using Jews as the excuse.
Trump's Latest Move Ought to Keep Iran up at Night
The clock is ticking on Donald Trump's ultimatum to Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program, and an unusual bomber deployment just put teeth like a pit bull's into it.
Defense analyst and retired Israeli fighter pilot/special forces soldier (what a combo, right?) Naftali Hazony reported on X Monday that "At least six U.S. B-2 bombers are now stationed at Diego Garcia air base in the Indian Ocean."
This is kind of a big deal.
"The B-2 is the only aircraft that can deliver the massive GBU-57," Hazony continued, "one of the only bombs that can destroy Iran’s nuclear sites at Natanz and Fordow." The GBU-57 is a massive, 30,000-pound bunker-buster. Lacking heavy bombers, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) simply doesn't have a plane capable of delivering anything of that size and weight.
Other reports indicate that the Air Force has deployed 15-20 tanker planes to Diego Garcia, as well. Having those available gives the B-2s the extended range needed to attack Iran's nuclear facilities (or anything else in the region, for that matter) from any direction. Still, it was awfully considerate of the IAF to cripple Iran's air defense network last year.
The number of B-2 Spirits alone signals to Iran just how seriously Trump takes the nuclear threat. Due to post-Cold War cost savings, we only built 21 out of a planned force of 132 Spirits. We've since lost two, neither in combat. Spirit of Kansas crashed on takeoff in 2008 on Guam, and Spirit of Georgia suffered a gear-up landing and skidded off the runway at Whiteman AFB in 2022. "Georgia" was deemed too expensive to repair and was retired.
That leaves just 19 stealth bombers in the entire inventory but due to their age and the challenges of prepping '80s stealth technology for flight, probably a max of 10 or 12 Spirits available at any one time.
In other words, six of maybe 12 flyable B-2s are ready to go at a moment's notice, just 2,000 miles from Iran. Typically, Spirits fly missions almost anywhere in the world from their home at Whitman in Missouri. Forward-deploying them at Diego Garcia gives them a much quicker turn-around time for a sustained bombing campaign.
The clock is ticking, and I don't just mean Trump's ultimatum that expires in the first week of May.