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Politics : The Donald Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D.Austin who wrote (61615)	1/5/2025 4:26:17 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Recommended By D.Austin GROUND ZERO™ Thehammer Respond to of 74332

Man accused of entering woman's home naked with duct tape, now on immigration detainer. https://t.co/gpk3sDL4SD pic.twitter.com/gUlLvEwa4A — Illegal Alien Crimes (@ImmigrantCrimes) January 4, 2025

To: D.Austin who wrote (61615)	1/6/2025 12:09:02 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By D.Austin Respond to of 74332

44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe 2024 was definitely one of the wildest years* that any of us have ever experienced...* Now here we are at the end of the year, and we are being told to brace ourselves for a bird flu pandemic. I have a feeling that the year ahead is going to be absolutely nuts, but for a moment I wanted to look back at the crazy year that we just went through. The following are 44 statistics from 2024 that are almost too crazy to believe… #1 Over 155 million votes were cast in the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump’s win in that election capped what many consider to be the greatest political comeback in U.S. history. #2 Nearly 11 billion dollars was spent during the 2024 election cycle. That is the most money ever spent on an election by a very wide margin. #3 1.2 billion dollars was spent on political ads in the state of Pennsylvania alone. #4 Prior to the election, one survey found that 79 percent of Americans believed that the nation was on the wrong track. #5 The U.S. government is currently $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt. #6 If our politicians keep spending money at the current rate, the U.S. government will be 51 trillion dollars in debt four years from now. #7 Total U.S. household debt is nearing 18 trillion dollars. #8 The number of shoplifting incidents per year in the United States is up 93 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels. #9 On a single day in December, Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the prison sentences of nearly 1,500 criminals and he issued full pardons to 39 others. #10 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 37 percent of Americans are having trouble even paying their most basic bills. #11 According to Bank of America, almost a third of all households “spend more than 95% of their disposable income on necessities such as housing costs, groceries and utility bills”. #12 The price of orange juice is up 327 percent over the last 3 years. #13 The average household in Miami spends 327 dollars during a single trip to the grocery store. #14 It now takes more than $100,000 a year for a typical U.S. household to live “the American Dream” in all 50 states, and in 29 U.S. states it takes more than $150,000 a year. #15 For the average person, it now costs 4.4 million dollars to live “the American Dream” over the course of a lifetime. #16 Thanks to rampant inflation, the average American now believes that it takes an income of $270,000 a year in order to be “financially successful”. #17 Overall, U.S. home prices are up more than 1,000 percent since 1974. #18 Only 10 percent of Americans believe that becoming a homeowner is “easy or somewhat easy”. #19 37 percent of U.S. cardholders have already maxed out at least one credit card. #20 The amount of money that Americans owe on their credit cards is twice as large as the GDP of the 100 poorest nations on the entire planet combined. #21 30 percent of all student loan borrowers have “gone without food or medicine due to their monthly bills”. #22 At one food bank in New Jersey, demand has actually quadrupled since the peak of the pandemic. #23 An all-time record high 770,000 people are homeless in the United States, and that number grew by 18 percent in just one year which is also an all-time record high. #24 We are being told that more than 3 million Americans are now living in their vehicles. #25 The number of job openings in the United States has fallen by about 4 million since 2021. #26 U.S. retailers have announced 7,100 store closures in 2024. #27 For the 12 months ending June 30th, the number of business bankruptcy filings was up more than 40 percent compared to the previous 12 months. #28 An office building in Manhattan that sold for 332 million dollars in 2006 sold for just 8.5 million dollars in 2024. #29 Half of all workers in the U.S. make less than $43,222.81 a year. #30 According to Bank of America, from 2019 to 2024 there was a 10 percent jump in those that are living paycheck to paycheck. #31 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 29 percent of all U.S. households were one person households in 2024. #32 40 percent of Americans report feeling lonely at least some of the time. #33 30 percent of Americans have been clinically diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives. #34 The market capitalization of Fartcoin is currently 973 million dollars. Meanwhile, the market capitalization of Office Depot is just 680 million dollars. #35 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.2 million people that were not born in the United States are now living here. #36 The federal government has admitted that there are approximately “425,000 convicted criminals living in the U.S. illegally”. #37 According to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, the total damage caused by Hurricane Helene in his state exceeds 50 billion dollars. #38 According to the official website of the GAO, Congress had appropriated a total of 174 billion dollars for the war in Ukraine as of April. #39 According to the Institute for Economics & Peace, there are 56 active military conflicts raging around the world right now. That is the highest number that we have seen since World War II. #40 According to the United Nations, there are over 2 billion people that eat insects as part of their normal diets right now. #41 It is being projected that the market for insect protein in the United States will be valued at 274 billion dollars in 2031. #42 Sperm counts have fallen by more than 50 percent since 1973. If this trend continues, soon we will not be able to produce enough viable offspring and the human population of this planet will plummet dramatically. #43 Our brains are slowly but surely filling up with plastic. One team of scientists discovered that human brain samples from 2024 had concentrations of microplastics that were 50 percent higher than human brain samples from 2016. #44 If the amount of plastic in our brains continues to rise at a rate of 50 percent every 8 years, 28 percent of our brains will be plastic 80 years from now and everyone will be dead. * * *

To: D.Austin who wrote (61615)	1/6/2025 12:16:22 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By D.Austin Respond to of 74332

New Report Suggests New Orleans Islamist May Have Had Some Assistance After All At first, the FBI insisted that the mass-murder vehicular attack in New Orleans wasn't terrorism. Then they announced that Shamsud-din Jabbar had several accomplices to help him place two IEDS, only to reverse that later and claimed that he'd worked alone. However, a new report from NBC News suggests that Jabbar may have had some assistance with the bombs after all. The explosive used turns out to be so unusual that it has never been used in terror attacks in the West before now, and it's not at all clear how Jabbar either received it or manufactured it himself: Federal investigators examining the attack say that Jabbar used a very rare explosive compound in the two devices, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News. Authorities are investigating how Jabbar acquired the knowledge to create this homemade explosive, the officials said. Those officials say that the explosive has never been used in a U.S. terror attack or incident, nor in any European terror attack. A key question for investigators is how Jabbar learned about the compound and how he managed to produce it. Let's get the biggest caveat out of the way: can we trust the accuracy of this report? It's not as though investigators have covered themselves in glory over the last four days in this case. Presumably, NBC's sources are in the FBI, since they have taken control of the investigation, and as I noted in my preamble, the FBI keeps hitting reverse on public declarations, let alone unauthorized leaks. Assuming that this report is accurate and Jabbar used such an exotic explosive, one has to wonder why. Explosives are not difficult to find, and more common explosives would presumably be harder to trace back to a source. One can find Internet recipes to make C4, a common explosive used by the American military and others, without too much trouble. (I'd recommend not Googling that without a specific benign purpose, of course.) It's not as if Jabbar's military experience would have lent itself to expertise in explosives, exotic or otherwise. He primarily worked in Human Resources and Information Technology, although he did do a tour in Afghanistan and qualified as a parachutist too. He may have come across explosives during his tour, but his record shows no particular assignment where Jabbar worked specifically with explosives of any kind as a specialist. Add to that the curious fire that Jabbar apparently set in his AirBnB rental after his death: ATF agents on Thursday scoured a St. Roch short-term rental where authorities say a Texas man stayed before he ran down dozens of revelers on Bourbon Street early Wednesday — a home that erupted in flames two hours later. Joshua Jackson, ATF special agent in charge, said Thursday that a timing device or pressure cooker could explain the delay in the reported fire after police shot and killed Shamsud-Din Jabbar. Authorities say he'd just killed 14 people and wounded at least 35 others in what the FBI has called an act of terrorism. "The working theory now is that the fire started after Jabbar was already deceased,” Jackson said. “There are a lot of ways that could happen. You could have a timed device. ... You could also have pressure cookers, put on top of a stove, filled with gasoline. There are a lot of ways to do it, and that is why the ATF tactical response team is here.” Sure, there are lots of ways to set a fire after you die, if you expect that to happen in a narrow time frame. But why bother? Criminals will sometimes torch vehicles to remove evidence that might be used against them once police are on the case. If you plan to die in a terror attack, though, why bother torching your rental? Why bother hiding the evidence, unless it implicates others? That seems like a lot of work and potentially dangerous preparation before an attack, only to deliver an F-U to the FBI later. This action lends itself to a motive of concealment, and since Jabbar's attack would either have resulted in his capture or death (not to mention his Facebook postings just before the attack), it didn't intend to conceal his involvement. So who and what did Jabbar want to hide by burning the apartment? Of course, perhaps the answer to this is just that Jabbar was insane, and of course that's clearly part of the story. No one commits mass murder in this fashion against completely innocent civilians without having several screws loose. But these actions show a rational purpose of some kind, including the use of an apparently rare explosive that seems far beyond Jabbar's ken, sane or insane. And all of that suggests that Jabbar had help from someone and wanted to keep investigators from connecting those dots. Unless investigators have gotten it wrong again, this time on the explosives and the timing of the fire, of course.

To: D.Austin who wrote (61615)	1/6/2025 12:19:00 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By D.Austin Thehammer Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74332

Former Trump NSC Senior Staffer Warns of Dangerous Move Being Made that Will Undermine President Trump in His Second Term Steinman described the National Security Council as a group of staff officers who sit in the White House and ensure that the “Departments” and “Agencies” of the United States Government DO WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS THEM TO DO. Their job is to ensure that President Trump’s orders and vision are implemented by government agencies. Joshua Steinman has heard that “a significant number” of Biden NSC staffers will be kept on once President Trump is sworn into office. This is the same agency that produced Eric Ciaramella, the Obama Deep State asset who manufactured the complaint that led to the first Trump impeachment. Ciaramella lied about Trump’s call to the newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about Hunter Biden’s illicit payments from Ukrainian Burisma Holdings.

To: D.Austin who wrote (61615)	1/6/2025 1:14:10 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 74332

SCANDAL: Damning Telegraph Story Highlights How U.K. Authorities Covered Up Grooming Gangs

To: D.Austin who wrote (61615)	1/6/2025 1:14:27 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By D.Austin Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74332

Oh Great, Now We Need a Survival Guide Just to Ride the NYC Subway

To: D.Austin who wrote (61615)	1/6/2025 1:18:17 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By D.Austin Thehammer Respond to of 74332

Green Beret explosives expert doesn't know how to make simple bomb. I call bullshit. NEW Footage of Cybertruck Explosion From Different Angle Raises Even More DAMNING Questions (Watch) A can of gas and some fireworks for a bomb sure seems amateurish for a guy that actually blows stuff up for a living, don't you think? — Kevin Rooney (@krooney61) January 5, 2025 The saddest part of all of this beyond the man who lost/took his life remains the fact that Americans simply don't trust law enforcement to tell us the truth, especially at the federal level. Three-letter agencies have unfortunately proven time and time again we simply can't trust them. We've all grown so used to be lying to that even if they are telling us the truth about the Cybertruck explosion, few if any of us believe them. And to be fair to the nonbelievers, they have spent years and years lying to us, pretending vehicles can drive themselves and guns magically shoot themselves to avoid telling the real story because it's politically inconvenient.