Posted on 10/13/2025 9:58:06 AM PDT by little jeremiah
"[S]omebody once observed that so much of leftism is pretending not to understand things that everyone understands." — Kurt Schlichter on "X"
Of the 251 hostages seized in the Oct 7, 2023, Hamas raid on Southern Israel, 20 came out alive today, all men. None of the captured 76 women and girls made it out alive. This should tell you something about the moral disposition of Hamas, on top of the shockingly low number of survivors altogether. World opinion has not processed this in the heat of this moment, with the Gaza War ostensibly resolved, for now. . . or so we’ll see. Soon, the captives’ stories will be told.
Of course, world opinion is not what it used to be even a few years ago. These days, it oscillates around the poles of sane / insane. The Lefty-Woke wine-ladies of the Boston suburbs and their nose-ring Ivy League daughters must have the blues today over the implicit surrender of their heroes, Hamas. The keffiyeh is headed out as a fashion accessory. Who will be their next pet oppressed minority? (The Eskimos? The New York Times will put out a whole cooking section on blubber.) Note to the men (so-called) in their orbits: the gals will be loading up on Paxil and Klonopin, on top of all that Chardonnay. Consider hiding the car keys.
Meanwhile, over at Conflict Central, the action shifts to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, today for a “peace summit” among the various parties involved in a war settlement, many of them Arab nations of the region, plus key Euroland players. Somebody will have to police the joint, probably some combo of Gulf State soldiers and American troops. The UK, France, and Germany will have to content themselves with pretending to participate, as they have their hands full just now pretending to ignite a war with Russia. Turkey could be in the mix, too, though the odor of pre-1918 Ottoman subjugation lingers on in that corner of the world. Don’t expect a whole lot to be sorted out quickly.
Donald Trump will take a few brief victory laps and, by Tuesday, all that nasty business might be behind him, at least for a while. . . maybe. Mr. Trump has a whole lot of fish to fry back here. He is fixing to disassemble the entire armature of Democratic Party sedition by wrecking the armature of NGOs that feed it — and you should not be surprised to learn that billions of the dollars sloshing through that colossal money-laundry originate in US government tax receipts.
For instance, the diligent “X” account known as “DataRepublican (small r)” reports that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) with gross receipts of $363,001,576 received $362,047,237 from taxpayers, mainly through the State Department (including pre-Trump 2.0 USAID). The org, initially founded by Reagan Republicans, is now controlled by Democrats and their Neocon cronies bent on “nation-building” and color revolutions. Wherever there is turmoil in the world — Ukraine, Sudan, Pakistan, Myanmar — the NED has a piece of the action.
Stanford University, with an endowment of $23,780, 883,880, received $1,518,836,616 in taxpayer funds (those are billions), used to sponsor its Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), which spun off the Election Integrity Project (EIP) and the Virality Project. The former was dedicated, under “Joe Biden,” to assist Christopher Wray’s FBI and the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, in censoring social media on matters such as the Hunter Biden Laptop .
The Election Integrity Project ran a parallel op under “Joe Biden” tracing 2020 election “disinformation” — i.e., anybody who reported ballot fraud — and the EIP worked to censor such content across platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube with help from Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Global Engagement Center (GEC). The Virality Project likewise dedicated itself to Covid-19 speech suppression. A lot of this money was funneled through subsidiary NGOs such as the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Omidyar network (the eBay fortune).
You see what I mean by armature? (And that was a mere schematic sketch of a small part of it.) This is a vast edifice of funny-money. The Democratic Party had captured all of it, and has been using it largely to maintain its power, which is to say, to keep the colossal money-laundry operating, because the salaries of all the people employed in these supposedly beneficent endeavors support a huge managerial cohort of officers who circulate in and out of government and comprise much of what’s called the “Swamp,” the “blob” or the “Deep State.”
This matrix is the same source of funding for Antifa and other Lefty-Woke outfits seeking to sow chaos through our country. The next big event on the agenda is another national “No Kings” protest, scheduled for Saturday, October 18, in over 2,000 US towns and cities. It’s organized by the umbrella NGO, Indivisible, with cash from George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundation, the Berger Action Fund (the philanthropic vehicle of Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss), the Tides Foundation, and the Act Blue donation platform (currently under DOJ investigation for campaign contribution fraud). These outfits supply placards, transportation, and protesters’ stipends for what amounts to an “astroturf” (fake grassroots) spectacle.
Things should heat up and get spicy this week as that great day approaches. Antifa is not done trolling the ICE buildings in Portland, Chicago, and the Boston field office in Burlington, Mass. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton will likely get indicted in the days ahead for possessing classified documents he was not entitled to keep (boo hoo). And don’t be surprised if tremors rock the financial markets. Gold (nearing $4100) and silver (nearing $50) are sending ominous signals.
Here’s Kunstler’s newest. Not jolly or funny today.
They stole all this money - now, they want Trump to make it worth something.
Bfl
“Stanford University, with an endowment of $23,780, 883,880, received $1,518,836,616 in taxpayer funds”
And similar numbers for the entire University of California system.
Ever wonder where their less then stellar graduates get work?
Working at phony in-house Rat party “programs” that run 24/7 doing dirty deeds for the ComDems. Similar to the slush funds like USAID inside the federal government.
This is where they warehouse the unemployable with their Womyn’s Studies degrees. Call it high tech patronage jobs: Boss Tweed never had it so good.
As noted here...the administration only has a few short years to root out this trash.
Not to be a nooge but 105 civilians were released during the November 2023 ceasefire, with 24 women and 13 children (all female) part of that release.
Does Pam Bondi have the backbone to go after the NGOs and their funders?
Whatever happened to the two or so American hostages?
I hope so!
I hope so, and if Trump succeeds he can replace T.Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore. He will literally have saved the U.S.
“high tech patronage” - That’s good.
I have complete faith in Bondi; and if she doesn’t do what President Trump wants her to do, she’ll be fired.
That’s good to know, that you.
The federal government should not be funding ANY colleges or universities. According to my pocket Constitution, about 80-90% of what the federal government is unconstitutional.
Pam Bondi’s ability to manage the Department of Justice has come under increased scrutiny from the right. File releases are delayed or mismanaged. No apparent action is taken against subversive government officials. And J6ers and other victims of a weaponized DoJ remain unsatisfied. Many have raised the question of whether Pam Bondi was the right choice for MAGA attorney general. Many more, including President Trump, would be questioning her bona fides if they knew about Bondi’s role in the creation of Black Lives Matter. How Trump handles the DoJ will be crucial to the success of his second term. His failure to take control of the Justice Department marred his first term. Uncertain of his powers, Trump bowed to the media and Democrats, who screamed for the DoJ to remain “independent.” He and his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, watched impotently as the Deep State subverted his presidency with the Russiagate witch hunt and prosecuted key advisers such as Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Mike Flynn. Pam Bondi is no Jeff Sessions, but her history raises questions about her willingness to fight an entrenched opposition. The case against her revolves around her mishandling of the prosecution of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. On that February night in 2012, Zimmerman was getting his brains beaten out by Trayvon Martin and screaming for help. Eyewitness Jonathon Good would testify that he saw Martin straddling Zimmerman and pummeling him “MMA style.” Choking on his own blood from a broken nose and fearing loss of consciousness, Zimmerman reached for his gun and fired a single shot. After a thorough police investigation, Zimmerman was exonerated, as the local authorities concluded that there was insufficient evidence to refute his claim of self-defense. Enter Florida attorney general Pam Bondi. As protests starring the likes of Ben Crump and Al Sharpton grew in size and intensity, Bondi caved to the mob. She could have told the protesters and the media that she’d looked at the evidence and concluded, as the police had, that Zimmerman inarguably acted in self-defense. Instead, Bondi appointed state attorney Angela Corey as the special prosecutor to investigate. Yielding to mob pressure, Corey soon charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder. As Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi publicly supported the investigation and offered her condolences to Trayvon Martin’s family. She called Travyon’s negligent parents “amazing people” and described the family attorneys, including Crump, as “friends of mine.”
She is from my home state so it pains me.
Yeah, the Zimmerman case was BAD!!!
It's way past time for Americans to stop giving to nonprofits... most of 'em are liberal and don't do crap.
The money going to these NGOs comes from the federal government, and Elon’s digging really helped expose this, waste, fraud and funding the enemies has been cut tremendously and will continue. I have no clue what’s happening with this shut down; I do know President Trump has “laid of” - fired, many drones. The foreign money is another situation.
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