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Jon Stewart Loses His Mind As He Learns About The Insane $42 Billion Biden Administration Plan To Expand Broadband That Connected Zero Homes In 4 Years
Whiskey Riff ^ | Aaron Ryan·CULTURE·March 28, 2025 | Aaron Ryan·CULTURE·March 28, 2025

Posted on 04/01/2025 1:43:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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After three decades of mind-losing, how much mind does Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz have left to lose?


41 posted on 04/01/2025 2:36:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: coloradan

Check your math.


42 posted on 04/01/2025 2:38:18 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ShadowAce

I need to check my reading. Sorry.


43 posted on 04/01/2025 2:39:21 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Beowulf9

“I wonder if people on the left are faking it because they did know or are genuinely having their eyes opened.”

I doubt VERY seriously that Stewart was surprised by leftist lunacy - after all, he’s been one forever. And if he was surprised it’s meaningless - since, as a lifetime leftist, it will have absolutely no effect on the (100%) odds of him voting leftist forever.


44 posted on 04/01/2025 2:41:37 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: coloradan

84 million is close to the population of half the states in the USA. Considering there would only be one Starlink per household. $42 billion would be enough to provide fast Internet to more than half the states in the USA.

Trump talked about this abomination of taxpayer dollars given out during Biden’s administration at many of his rallies. Who got the money? Someone did. I hope that DOGE con figure it out and expose it.

It’s a shame that the people on the left and the Democrats’ willing accomplishes in the legacy media refused to broadcast what actually was said at the rallies. They were only there hoping for a gotcha moment or worse, which almost happened in Butler, Pennsylvania.


45 posted on 04/01/2025 2:44:49 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: 100%FEDUP

I think that there is a major in some colleges concerning writing proposals for grants from the federal government. That is just sickening.


46 posted on 04/01/2025 2:48:56 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: vpintheak

You say that, but don’t forget that back in the 1960’s our great government got us to the moon.


47 posted on 04/01/2025 2:53:37 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Beowulf9

I think most of them are getting red-pilled ( maybe 60%), but the rest are in on it or just absolutely ignorant/stuck on stupid.


48 posted on 04/01/2025 3:07:11 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: nickcarraway

Government is only interested in the process and never the outcome.

That’s what keeps them employed. Until now. He he.


49 posted on 04/01/2025 3:07:18 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: coloradan

Or you could supply one year free for 29 million households.


50 posted on 04/01/2025 3:11:25 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: nickcarraway

If they dig into this, I bet they will find billions already paid out for “studies” and other stuff tangentially related to rural broadband. And I bet the studiers are left-wing NGOs.


51 posted on 04/01/2025 3:26:24 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: nickcarraway

Well here we are 4 years later and not a SINGLE new home has been added to broadband as a result of that $42 billion. That’s right, zero.

Ah but how much of that 42 billion is still around and if not where did it go?


52 posted on 04/01/2025 3:47:12 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: ShadowAce

With $42 billion, if they were $1000 each you could get 42 million of them. But they’re half as expensive as that, so you can buy twice as many as that, 84 million. I’m using the American billion here, 10^9.


53 posted on 04/01/2025 4:03:27 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: nickcarraway

“Now, I’m sure this isn’t going to do anything to change Stewart’s mind on the bigger picture, but you can see that his mind was blown when he realized just how inefficient and downright ridiculous our government really is.”

Certainly one factor in Stewart’s ignorance is the fact that the major media networks like CNN spew propaganda. If you listen to these celebrities it is clear where they get their information.

People can get all the information and still be liberal or conservative depending on how they prioritize issues. However when all their info is completely one-sided they can be clueless as to how corrupt the old Democrat Party has become.


54 posted on 04/01/2025 4:18:59 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: nickcarraway

Is there a reason we shoulc care what this jerk thinks?


55 posted on 04/01/2025 4:42:46 PM PDT by Bigg Red (My long-time tagline has been removed and will be stored on my home page as it has proved true.)
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To: Magic Fingers

THAT I can believe.


56 posted on 04/01/2025 5:11:56 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: nickcarraway

How much of the $42 billion has actually been spent? Not just appropriated and rolled over.


57 posted on 04/01/2025 5:31:32 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder if that $42B is sitting somewhere earning interest for someone who then has a very good reason to delay paying out as long as possible.


58 posted on 04/01/2025 5:40:41 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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it’s his first time learning just how inefficient our government is

Inefficient? Those criminals have laundered billions into their own pockets for years. And nobody did a thing. That's a pretty efficient con.

59 posted on 04/01/2025 6:38:50 PM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist)
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To: ModelBreaker

The NGO’s are the big deal. I started analyzing them years back by reading their 990’s. I started doing that because of Larry Klsyman and Judicial Watch, I didn’t like that it was a “charity”. At that time there was about 500,000 nonprofits in the US. Today there are over 1.5 million. Many are in business to fight tax paying businesses, push a political agenda or launder money.

The left bitches about “corporations not paying taxes”. IMO they should pay no taxes because that gets added to the cost of goods and services. The left bitches about corporate taxes while not saying a word about “nonprofits / charities NGO’s” paying zero taxes. Neither does the right. You know why? Every state and federal politician has a 501 they get money funneled into then that money get put back in their pockets or their family pockets. Elon Musk has figured this out. I’m a data analysis and do is he, all he has to do is take the raw 990 data and start looking at it.

After all these years I still want to spit when I look at a Judicial Watch 990 filing. See if you can figure out why:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521885088/202412149349301561/full


60 posted on 04/01/2025 10:24:42 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (UD" )
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