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Boris Petrov's avatar

Thank you — this is beyond belief. Trump surrendered once again to “deep state” blob.

Marco Rubio is another Bolton/Pompeo who will destroy Trump’s presidency

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Michael Ginsburg's avatar

Trump IS the "deep state blob". Don't be deluded to thinking otherwise.

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J Robert Burgoyne's avatar

Great reporting, thank you.

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Michael Ginsburg's avatar

Never pay any attention to anything they say. Only observe what they actually DO!

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Angel Rivera's avatar

It isn't surprising to me that the President is nothing but an agent for the deep state. He's "shutting down" all of these "soft power" imperialism that the Obama administration championed. However, he's taking those NGO's and putting a layer of secrecy and burying the funding in the State Department or in other government agencies. MAGA has been tricked once again.

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Chris Gorman's avatar

I would rather be tricked by this than the overwhelming pile of s perpetrated by the Democrats. They have no dignity, no sanity, no coherent platform, and they hate the country in which they live along with half of its population. At least they're great at spending my money to pit illegals against American citizens and unhinged leftists against everyday folks. I despise the Perle/Wolfowicz/Rumsfeld Israeli backed agitators too however. Theirs is an evil lot.

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Scuba Cat's avatar

So, what they meant by "draining the swamp" is clawing back domestic funding for cancer and alzheimer's research while continuing to support Israel's genocide in Gaza and color revolutions around the globe. Got it.

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Arthur's avatar

Sadly, "draining the swamp" is a deceitful diversion from reality.

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

There was never a question of it being refunded. However would the US spread "democracy" without it?

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AnonmymousAddict's avatar

How bout giving real democracy a chance at home FIRST. BEFORE espousing our infinite wisdom of the best practices across the fuckin globe. Stay free-minded boys and girls. Same game, just a different schematic layering.

Long live the ghost of George Carlin!!

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Real democracy requires anarchy. Hierarchies cannot be democratic. Top down rule is always AUTHORITARIAN.

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Timothy Wallace's avatar

Congratulations to NED for having avoided the budgetary axe so that perhaps another million can die in Ukraine’s fallow wheat fields and elsewhere across the world as you continue to undermine democracy and the open elections that you undermine for fun and profit. Satan thanks you for all the chaos that have sown and will undoubtedly continue to sow into the future with American citizen’s tax dollars. BTW, you suck and the American people wish you would just disappear into the dustbin of bad American ideas.

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Steve Hindmarch's avatar

Adding to that incredible list, was the NED’s role in the political assassination of former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbin!

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Arthur's avatar

..., just like when then-#45 supposedly exited the U. S. from the Paris Climate Accord (PCA). Yes, he may have withheld direct payment for the PCA ..., but,

1) the push for deploying the PCA (and related agendas) continued, unabated, through Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and/or Area Transportation Authorities (ATAs). In order to receive federal funding, federal law requires cities and counties to cooperate with their respective MPO and/or ATA. People need to learn a lot about these Non-Government Government Organizations that have been and continue to surreptitiously manipulate the laws, codes, etc., to advance the global agenda at the local level using federal taxpayers' funding.

2) the money withheld from the PCA was redirected to Gates' GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance. With what happened, how intuitive was that?

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Chris Gorman's avatar

I didn't like this reporting, I loved it. Nicely done. As usual, whatever President is in the office, he turns to a POS as soon as the intelligence agencies start their work on him. I suspect Rubio is a giant neocon turd as are the rest of the State and Defense shills. Democracy dies a little bit every time a neocon is born.

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Philip Mollica's avatar

As Thomas Massie reported, the congressional vote to shutter some of these DOGE exposed black holes was cancelled last week.

Expect USAID, NPR and PBS to return to full funding.

So we saved nothing, and are raising military spending anyway.

I am so done.

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Emmanuel Goldstein's avatar

So much for "draining the swamp." Mango-bootlicking Orange Bolshevists rival Vegetocratic Fascists and Ku Klux Kamalists for #1 trophy in American political stupidity.

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SocraticGadfly's avatar

Remember people like Schmuck Talk Express John McCain pushing for Georgia, even further away from the North Atlantic than Ukraine, to get NATO membership?

As for Trump, I think the Dissident recognizes what a weathervane he is, on talking the talk vs walking the walk on all sorts of foreign policy issues.

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AAA21's avatar

Same old nonsense. The scum in government never change.

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Carol Eaves's avatar

No audio. Why??

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