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How Trump Is Decimating the Left’s Patronage Networks
Daily Signal ^ | March 30, 2025 | Jarrett Stepman

Posted on 03/30/2025 7:48:05 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 03/30/2025 7:48:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
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” “By design, the director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction fund leaves one of these NGOs, goes to work for the Biden administration to design this whole setup, and then sees his former employer get $5 billion.””

Sickening!

2 posted on 03/30/2025 7:56:16 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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3 posted on 03/30/2025 7:57:54 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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I consider myself an extremely cynical person. The depth and breadth of corruption is astonishing. But worse than that, is the fact that not everyone even sees it as being corrupt.


4 posted on 03/30/2025 7:59:53 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To them, it’s Business as usual................until it isn’t.................

It’s like that psychological experiment with apes, where a chimp is conditioned to receive a treat every time he does some thing that he has been taught to do.

Then they take away the treat when he does that thing and the chimp goes crazy, because it’s not ‘normal’ any more...............


5 posted on 03/30/2025 8:06:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I would rather see them completely destroyed than simply decimated.


6 posted on 03/30/2025 8:07:11 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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I consider myself an extremely cynical person. The depth and breadth of corruption is astonishing. But worse than that, is the fact that not everyone even sees it as being corrupt.

People are pissed at Elon for exposing the corruption in our government, but they’re not pissed at the government for being corrupt. This is the brainwashing power of the mainstream media.

7 posted on 03/30/2025 8:11:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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Bttt.

5.56mm


8 posted on 03/30/2025 8:20:11 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Thank you Jesus. )
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When slush funds are taken away from democrat hucksters their power will drop and they’ll have to earn citizens loyalty rather than buying it with cushy and VERY well paying ‘jobs’ and fake ‘research’ money.


9 posted on 03/30/2025 8:27:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (Cheaper for Soros to 'rent a small mob' for Town Halls than buy BLM thugs to burn down cities. )
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” . .the fact that not everyone even sees it as being corrupt”

They are given over to a reprobate mind. They are willingly deceiving and being deceived.

This is not a battle against flesh and blood.


10 posted on 03/30/2025 8:54:55 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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Woodrow Wilson was a big fat liar.

Theodore Roosevelt was a big fat lair.

When the early progressives were out there talking a big game about the future where the spoils system would be no more and administrative agencies were going to be the future, they always had it in mind to fatten up the unelectable agencies with friends, relatives, and political donors.

On this sort of thing, the author is making a mistake at looking at the promises made over a century ago. Look under the hood. It was always about permanent progressivism for as far as the eye could see and then after that permanent progressivism for as far as the eye could not see.

Endless progressivism, forever, that is what the early progressives tried to enshrine.


11 posted on 03/30/2025 8:55:36 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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"This is the brainwashing power of the mainstream media."

That is exactly right, but it isn't even always brainwashing in this case.

The media is supposed to protect all of us against government and against this sort of corruption and journalists simply turn their heads and look the other way because they are democrats and democrats are democrats.

The wolf is guarding the hen house! Now it does point to brainwashing that people do not recognize journalists as journalists = wolves, however, as to the specifics of said corruption regular citizens cannot get upset about something that simply is unknown. 5 billion to a green whatever with friends of this and that person. It never gets reported, so the ability of regular citizens to get outraged over 5 billion of corruption is stolen from the regular citizens. The outrage has been stolen!!!

It would be like you getting upset that there's a huge pocket of gold (au) 5000 feet in the ground under your house. How can you get upset about it, you don't even know that it is there.

12 posted on 03/30/2025 9:06:35 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”

Lily Tomlin


13 posted on 03/30/2025 9:15:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Woodrow Wilson was a big fat liar.

Theodore Roosevelt was a big fat lair.

And Pritzker and Nadler are big fat fatsos.

14 posted on 03/30/2025 9:25:57 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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I would rather see them completely destroyed than simply decimated.

Yes...terminate them all with extreme prejudice.

15 posted on 03/30/2025 9:27:31 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeon<p.s)
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Keep on going, President Trump. We stand with you.


16 posted on 03/30/2025 9:48:29 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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What exactly is a “progressive”?

Someone who promotes progress?

Progress towards what?

What were progressives called before they began calling themselves ‘progressives’?

(Yes, I take things literally, thus the questions).


17 posted on 03/30/2025 10:22:56 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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So why are key figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg breaking ranks?

They may be afraid of Trump.

18 posted on 03/30/2025 10:24:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“I would rather see them completely destroyed than simply decimated.”

I want public executions carried live on Hulu, Netflix, and Prime.


19 posted on 03/30/2025 10:29:12 PM PDT by Fai Mao (All Democrats need to go to prison.)
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Bookmark


20 posted on 03/30/2025 11:18:35 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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