Posted on 08/30/2026 4:59:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
While we were spared another one of those ironically dubbed, ”summers of love,” the lawfare war continues, and with some interesting developments.
Summer’s almost over. Have you noticed how peaceful it has been compared to the last few years? This calm is particularly remarkable since ICE activity is at an all-time high and the mid-term elections are right around the corner. Dismantling USAID certainly put a crimp in these orchestrated demonstrations. But there was more behind the cutback, notes Jeff Childers at Flopping Aces. He credits Secretary Scott Bessent’s close examination of nonprofit organizations being used as conduits to move illicit funds to support political terrorism:
On July 16, Bessent spoke at a State Department event organized by Marco Rubio. “Increasingly,” he said, “legitimate nonprofit and charitable structures are being exploited as a mechanism to conceal the movement of illicit funds to support political terrorism.” Then he dropped the hammer. “In the fall, the United States designated four far-left Antifa extremist groups abroad as foreign terrorist organizations.”
In January, Chris Rufo interviewed Bessent. “When you see these protesters, someone is financing them,” Bessent explained. “There are safe houses. When you see the 300 people with the same laser that they’re using to blind DHS agents in courthouses in Portland, someone bought those lasers.” Meaning, a left-wing NGO. If that isn’t a threat, I don’t know what is.
Rufo asked Secretary Bessent, “There are 501(c)(3) nonprofit groups funded by left-wing dark money, that are organizing -- or at least at arm’s length encouraging -- criminal activities. Is the Treasury looking into this? Is it something you have authority to crack down on, and what can we expect?”
Note Bessent’s answer: “Yes, yes, and yes. So these groups that are engaging in this -- we have the
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Will these NGOs get taken down for funding terrorism? I sure hope so.
For all the complaints about Trump wielding his own laser pointer and cat raging the TDStards, I voted for this. People screaming about "Lake America" as the Soros funding quietly gets shut down and antifa soils their shorts.
With surveillance tools it’s easy to take down the individuals in this EVIL collective.
Going to hard to do when the Democrats sponsor that terrorism
In the mid 1960’s I read about how the NGOs like the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations were supporting all kinds of far left activities around the world. Some of the articles were in the American Opinion magazine, the monthly publication of the John Birch Society.
Time to send some strongly worded letters telling them to knock it off ...
NGOs and “non-profits” should be fumigated out of existence!
They’re nothing but termites undermining our foundations.
And we've been bombing Iran, but he's right: no massive demonstrations. None of it was really "grassroots" reaction; it was all funded and orchestrated. Even Minneapolis has been relatively quiet. If we can get on top of these "teen takeovers," we'll actually be on the road to a peaceful society.
The Trump administration also needs to look into Mexico’s numerous consulates where they are also funneling monies to NGOs to interfere with our elections and foment dissent in protest of ICE and CBP activities.
“For all the complaints about Trump wielding his own laser pointer and cat raging the TDStards”
What complaints about a Trump laser are you talking about? Never heard of that or cat raging.
“People screaming about “Lake America” as the Soros funding quietly gets shut down and antifa soils their shorts.”
Yep, classic slight of hand. If you see something happening, watch for what you don’t see.
When Trump casually throws out posts such as renaming Lake Ontario, he's employing Truth Social like a laser pointer to distract all the retarded cats in the media while, with the other hand, he takes out drug runners, signs oil deals, shuts down antifa funding...
The calm concerns me. I doubt the extreme leftists are back on their heels; more likely working out new plans.
Has proven to be remarkably prescient.
I say this having NOT been one of them. Didn't like them at all back in the day.
Scott Bessent is turning out to be a formidable key player in the administration, on several fronts.
Btw, I found this interesting:
“””...the same laser that they’re using to blind DHS agents in courthouses in Portland...”””
Does anyone know more about this? Sounds like they’re actually lasering DHS security people inside the courthouses. Talk about brazen.
Absolutely!
Meanwhile over here, Antifa literally controls Portland.
Oh. OK.
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