He 100% thinks cognitive tests are like the SATs. He keeps bragging about them. It’s like no dude. It’s just to make sure your brain is functioning on the same level as a second grader.
I’m sure he thinks she’s “low IQ” because “smart people abuse their positions to enrich themselves, and those idiots who ruin the grift for soulless ghouls like myself are the dumbest people in the world”
Or something along those lines.
I’m sure these goons are planning on tying having any kind of measurable emotional intelligence to terrorism any day now.
Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration. Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign, bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. The company running the Mount Rushmore shoot, called the Strategy Group, does not appear on public documents about the contract. The main recipient listed on the contracts is a mysterious Delaware company, which was created days before the deal was finalized.
The contracts total $220 million so far, leading the DHS ad budget to triple in the most recent fiscal year, according to Bloomberg. The lion’s share of ad contracts is typically used to buy TV airtime or spots on social media. Advertising firms make money by taking an often-hefty commission. Federal records show the contracts have gone to two firms. One is a Republican ad company in Louisiana called People Who Think, which has been awarded $77 million.
But the majority of the money — $143 million — has gone to a mysterious LLC in Delaware. The company was created just days before it was awarded the deal.
It's such a shame the the number of Democratic Congress people I can name off the top of my head can be counted on one hand, because there are only like 5 of them actually doing anything worthwhile.
There you go. Right out in the open for anybody to see should they actually care to look.
Kristi’s creative use of taxpayer dollars goes all the way back to her time as Governor, learning the MAGA ropes while riding her state plane to rally’s, fundraisers and “book” events from Florida to Texas to Arizona, Nevada, California and DC. This and her use of state credit cards to cover things like luxury hotels, a hunting trip to Canada and a speaking engagement in Paris were enough to raise eyebrows back in SD. Not an easy thing to do given her home states traditional apathy toward Republican entitlement.
Now word is finally trickling down about hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars funneled through a pop up LLC in Delaware? Delaware? Good choice. Controlled by a corporation with a track record of ties to Kristi? Ostensibly used for a DHS ad campaign with a target audience aimed overseas and the funnel justified by some sort of emergency clause?
Sounds about on par as a Trump golf score.
This arrangement may not be as straight forward as a car wash but i can’t help but suspect $ome things are still getting laundered.
Of course, through it all she had a guide on her tours of OZ. The guide is still there, at her elbow as an “unpaid special government employee.”
Television buys are based on LUR: the lowest unit (commercial) rate (price) is what’s charged. That’s to prevent stations/networks from jacking up prices for elections and also to prevent charging one party a higher or lower rate. The reporting function is detailed, burdensome and public record by law.
Source: had to do it a million times and it’s all forms and filed with FTC and FEC and easily prove able. It makes this pretty straightforward: if TV invoices are clear- about 15% goes to the AOR (Agency of Record) and all the rest is GRAFT
Are you just repeating sound bites you've heard? This isn't about a tax funded bail out for a mismanaged company, this is just straight theft. There is no profit to be privatized, it's just government spending being funnelled to friendly companies that will kick back the predetermined portion.
it's just government spending being funnelled to friendly companies that will kick back the predetermined portion.
Yeah, that's the privatize part. It means put what you can siphon in your pockets and whatever costs you make the government pay. This quote has been around for decades.
It's all just one giant fucking grift. From top to bottom, all of it is just a bunch of racist assholes enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else.
I’m not American but a Swede who am involved in a company that receives public funding here in Sweden. Reading this article was mind boggling to me. From the lack of transparency to how weak your institutions seem that are supposed to do something about it. What’s worst is how arrogantly these corrupt people respond to questions about it.
In Sweden there are public bidding processes for military defense procurement. That's why our F35s have been tentatively rejected by Sweden as a true, long-duration, long-distance next generation fighter platform due to life cycle maintenance costs.
In America, citizens have little input towards something like the NDAA, or National Defense Authorization Act, an annual bill that Congress must pass. Committees, subcommittees, and individual representatives contribute to marking the bill up with edits and additions untill it eventually comes, again, for a closed vote which may only be publicly observed. That's how 90% reject increased military spending, but we still end up with a $1 trillion Defense spending bill.
Thank you, Sweden, for having the most transparent legislative, and government administration processes that we all can learn from. Please, go and tell your fellow Swedes, if they want to know what's going on here, this administration has turned our Treasury (Government money and assets) into their own private auction house. Land, buildings, contracts, pardons, and favors are all now for sale for an undisclosed prize.
I'm surprised he's letting his underlings steal money that he himself could be stealing. In these types of situations the mob boss is typically angry about the increased scrutiny
That she knows them isn't the problem. The problem is, the diddler and DHS cooked up some BS deal where it did not need to go out for bid. More like 'hey you know anyone that can do this...wink, wink.'
What the hell is the point of your comment? Had Trump lost the 2024 election, he’d certainly be in prison and broke by now. Smith had him dead to rights. There are issues obviously inherent in prosecuting an ex-President that will take time to work through. Having a corrupt Supreme Court certainly doesn’t help. But people like you forget how many of Trump’s buddies went to prison during his first term; some would still be there had Trump not been able to pardon them. I expect the same thing will happen right after he leaves office in January 2029.
As far as I’m concerned, we’ve not punished officials who commit crimes against the United States enough since Lincoln didn’t make Robert E Lee and other high-ranking Confederate generals and officials pay the ultimate price. Nixon should have spent the rest of his life in Leavenworth. So too should have Trump after his first term. The J6ers should all have received 10 years in real prisons; those convicted of seditious conspiracy should have received life sentences. Perhaps had we done so, Trump would have second thoughts about his corruption during his first term. The only bright spot about him getting re-elected is that he believes there won’t be any repercussions about his brazen corruption during his second term, and they’ll be plenty of evidence for prosecutors.
I hope you are right, but America has shown time and again that the 'elites', particularly the conservative ones, will never face more than a tisk-tisk for committing atrocities. As evidenced by the number of people in prison for the USA's two decade murder and torture festival post 9-11.
Noem was apparently on thin ice with Trump anyway because of her long-running affair with Lewendowski. The press will hound Trump with this to the point he fires her.
Don't feel helpless, everyone - this is what it's about - it takes time to document and prosecute crimes. We are in the documenting phase. Kristi, Kash, and all the Trumps are going to prison, unless natural selection takes them out first. No more Garlands - justice is coming.
I agree. You can’t tell me that there aren’t any FBI agents who aren’t quietly investigating this crap and who aren’t going to be able to assist the Congressional investigations that the Democrats will start when they take the majority in 2027. I’d bet anything Trump and every single one of his cabinet members are corrupt as hell and aren’t smart enough to cover it up.
It's been said before and I'll say it again, we got seriously lucky the people running the show this time around are more dedicated to greed than they are to any racist ideology. Imagine how much worse things would be if Trump were as motivated by racial hatred as he is by greed and lust for power.
That's not to say Trump isn't genuinely racist; he is, but if it meant more power / money in his pocket he would put a lid on it.
Noem, Trump, Kushner, Zinke, Patel, Devos, Pelosi, Menendez, Bondi (probably), Gabbard, Lutnick, who else? All of them. It's always true and rarely is anything done
Have you considered that you're not being downvoted for you "speaking facts," but because you're trying to change the topic into something else entirely?
I'm not changing the topic, she's talking about someone getting wealthier unethically. Challenge the people in power, things aren't going to get better without doing so.
This is both disingenuous and out of context and you know it.
She’s talking about government officials making a back room deal, signed off by the president, to intentionally divert public funds to a private firm without submitting any proposals submitted.
When you don’t have roads, smooth freeways, and general infrastructure, remember that 405b was diverted from such government projects to go to DHS whereupon the public, taxpayer funds became a private payment and that does her a criminal for knowingly committing the crime.
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Incoming "low IQ" tweet at 3am
If only he knew what it meant. He probably thinks it has something to do with queueing up for an eye test. Which he aced by the way.
He 100% thinks cognitive tests are like the SATs. He keeps bragging about them. It’s like no dude. It’s just to make sure your brain is functioning on the same level as a second grader.
Well she fits right in with this administration. Money 💵 Money Money 💵
Hilarious when they added the writing SAT 2 into the normal test for a few years.
Exposed how poorly educated Americans are.
I’m sure he thinks she’s “low IQ” because “smart people abuse their positions to enrich themselves, and those idiots who ruin the grift for soulless ghouls like myself are the dumbest people in the world”
Or something along those lines.
I’m sure these goons are planning on tying having any kind of measurable emotional intelligence to terrorism any day now.
I think it’s just racism
Nope, it's a euphemism for a racial slur. Notice who he exclusively calls low IQ.
The “I queue” test?
$220 Mil for an ad campaign? Wtf? -
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group
She should pay it back personally. But better than that I love that Crockett is actually doing her fucking job unlike the majority of Democrats.
It's such a shame the the number of Democratic Congress people I can name off the top of my head can be counted on one hand, because there are only like 5 of them actually doing anything worthwhile.
Interesting, this is Corey Lewandowski's wheelhouse. How much is he rewarded.
There you go. Right out in the open for anybody to see should they actually care to look.
Kristi’s creative use of taxpayer dollars goes all the way back to her time as Governor, learning the MAGA ropes while riding her state plane to rally’s, fundraisers and “book” events from Florida to Texas to Arizona, Nevada, California and DC. This and her use of state credit cards to cover things like luxury hotels, a hunting trip to Canada and a speaking engagement in Paris were enough to raise eyebrows back in SD. Not an easy thing to do given her home states traditional apathy toward Republican entitlement.
Now word is finally trickling down about hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars funneled through a pop up LLC in Delaware? Delaware? Good choice. Controlled by a corporation with a track record of ties to Kristi? Ostensibly used for a DHS ad campaign with a target audience aimed overseas and the funnel justified by some sort of emergency clause?
Sounds about on par as a Trump golf score.
This arrangement may not be as straight forward as a car wash but i can’t help but suspect $ome things are still getting laundered.
Of course, through it all she had a guide on her tours of OZ. The guide is still there, at her elbow as an “unpaid special government employee.”
How benevolent of him/her/them.
Television buys are based on LUR: the lowest unit (commercial) rate (price) is what’s charged. That’s to prevent stations/networks from jacking up prices for elections and also to prevent charging one party a higher or lower rate. The reporting function is detailed, burdensome and public record by law. Source: had to do it a million times and it’s all forms and filed with FTC and FEC and easily prove able. It makes this pretty straightforward: if TV invoices are clear- about 15% goes to the AOR (Agency of Record) and all the rest is GRAFT
Where's the "doge cuts and tax rebates" crowd now?
Still enjoying the doublespeak from the party of "fiscal responsibility" and "family values."
You could build most of a ballroom at the White House for that money
https://preview.redd.it/h22ou3mxh67g1.jpeg?width=310&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a38ecccb941bde3ccacf5c7195decc2d4d6fd35
spots on social media?
like Twatter?
I bet fElon and fuckerberg are doing well with that.
Noem is gonna call her the N word publicly and skyrocket in popularity among the base
And suggest DHS moves Crockett to Cecot....
Crazier yet. She calls her an r-word n-bomb in a speech and suggests sending Crockett to EPCOT Center. Sounds about right for these guys.
It seems like every single member of the Trump organization is more corrupt than anyone who isn't part of it.
It’s a job requirement.
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
Take what you can, give nothing back.
Are you just repeating sound bites you've heard? This isn't about a tax funded bail out for a mismanaged company, this is just straight theft. There is no profit to be privatized, it's just government spending being funnelled to friendly companies that will kick back the predetermined portion.
Yeah, that's the privatize part. It means put what you can siphon in your pockets and whatever costs you make the government pay. This quote has been around for decades.
It's all just one giant fucking grift. From top to bottom, all of it is just a bunch of racist assholes enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else.
I love everything about Rep. Crockett, especially her "I wish a motherfucker would" energy.
I’m not American but a Swede who am involved in a company that receives public funding here in Sweden. Reading this article was mind boggling to me. From the lack of transparency to how weak your institutions seem that are supposed to do something about it. What’s worst is how arrogantly these corrupt people respond to questions about it.
In Sweden there are public bidding processes for military defense procurement. That's why our F35s have been tentatively rejected by Sweden as a true, long-duration, long-distance next generation fighter platform due to life cycle maintenance costs.
In America, citizens have little input towards something like the NDAA, or National Defense Authorization Act, an annual bill that Congress must pass. Committees, subcommittees, and individual representatives contribute to marking the bill up with edits and additions untill it eventually comes, again, for a closed vote which may only be publicly observed. That's how 90% reject increased military spending, but we still end up with a $1 trillion Defense spending bill.
Thank you, Sweden, for having the most transparent legislative, and government administration processes that we all can learn from. Please, go and tell your fellow Swedes, if they want to know what's going on here, this administration has turned our Treasury (Government money and assets) into their own private auction house. Land, buildings, contracts, pardons, and favors are all now for sale for an undisclosed prize.
I find it difficult to fathom Trump would dare hire anyone less than honorable and trustworthy.
I'm surprised he's letting his underlings steal money that he himself could be stealing. In these types of situations the mob boss is typically angry about the increased scrutiny
The best people!
She also got the marlago face as a bonus for him to hire her.
Its always the grift with these people. Millionaire is not enough, they has to all be billionaire now.
Oh, they're all gunning to be the first trillionaire.
That she knows them isn't the problem. The problem is, the diddler and DHS cooked up some BS deal where it did not need to go out for bid. More like 'hey you know anyone that can do this...wink, wink.'
Look hard enough and I’m sure everyone in this administration has their pockets a lot fuller.
I doubt you'd have to look that hard....
Who else is ready for no punishment, somehow, yet again?
What the hell is the point of your comment? Had Trump lost the 2024 election, he’d certainly be in prison and broke by now. Smith had him dead to rights. There are issues obviously inherent in prosecuting an ex-President that will take time to work through. Having a corrupt Supreme Court certainly doesn’t help. But people like you forget how many of Trump’s buddies went to prison during his first term; some would still be there had Trump not been able to pardon them. I expect the same thing will happen right after he leaves office in January 2029.
As far as I’m concerned, we’ve not punished officials who commit crimes against the United States enough since Lincoln didn’t make Robert E Lee and other high-ranking Confederate generals and officials pay the ultimate price. Nixon should have spent the rest of his life in Leavenworth. So too should have Trump after his first term. The J6ers should all have received 10 years in real prisons; those convicted of seditious conspiracy should have received life sentences. Perhaps had we done so, Trump would have second thoughts about his corruption during his first term. The only bright spot about him getting re-elected is that he believes there won’t be any repercussions about his brazen corruption during his second term, and they’ll be plenty of evidence for prosecutors.
You are fooling yourself
Plenty of evidence for prosecutors to ignore you mean.
I hope you are right, but America has shown time and again that the 'elites', particularly the conservative ones, will never face more than a tisk-tisk for committing atrocities. As evidenced by the number of people in prison for the USA's two decade murder and torture festival post 9-11.
Illegal. Charge her. Prosecute.
congrats on this but until there is any accountability whatsoever this is the same as adding zeros to the left
Hope every single ICE member is ready for that paper trail to fuck them the rest of their evil fucking greedy treasonous ass lives.
Nothing but thieves...
Great band, disgusting administration.
Drain the swamp republicans “but everyone does it!!!”
Ok, then fucking punish everyone
Noem was apparently on thin ice with Trump anyway because of her long-running affair with Lewendowski. The press will hound Trump with this to the point he fires her.
What press ?!?
I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya, well maybe not that shocked. Anyhoo, just throw it on the pile.
"🤷 Never heard of it." -Any republican
Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.
As a Michigan resident, I would love to vote for Jasmine!
Don't feel helpless, everyone - this is what it's about - it takes time to document and prosecute crimes. We are in the documenting phase. Kristi, Kash, and all the Trumps are going to prison, unless natural selection takes them out first. No more Garlands - justice is coming.
It's nice to dream.
I agree. You can’t tell me that there aren’t any FBI agents who aren’t quietly investigating this crap and who aren’t going to be able to assist the Congressional investigations that the Democrats will start when they take the majority in 2027. I’d bet anything Trump and every single one of his cabinet members are corrupt as hell and aren’t smart enough to cover it up.
We need Jack Smith as AG.
she probably used that money for another face operation
It doesn't cost that much to maintain her fillers, she's just greedy.
It doesn't cost that much to maintain her fillers, she's just greedy.
It's been said before and I'll say it again, we got seriously lucky the people running the show this time around are more dedicated to greed than they are to any racist ideology. Imagine how much worse things would be if Trump were as motivated by racial hatred as he is by greed and lust for power.
That's not to say Trump isn't genuinely racist; he is, but if it meant more power / money in his pocket he would put a lid on it.
And once again nothing at all will happen to any of them..Fucking travesty.
Put ICE wannabe Ken in jail
And.... Nothing will happen. Add it to the list.
And no one will care and nothing will be done about it. Murka
Sounds like her funneling funds is making the border less secure…
ChatGPT, when asked who was the most corrupt president in U.S. history, returned Donald J. Trump.
And nothing will happen
And their will be no consequences
Noem, Trump, Kushner, Zinke, Patel, Devos, Pelosi, Menendez, Bondi (probably), Gabbard, Lutnick, who else? All of them. It's always true and rarely is anything done
You will find all of these Fox News cosplay people have some sort of grift and kicking back to president of their criminal administration.
But but but, Joe Biden.
She is the ultimate fraud.
So how do you follow up on this as a government official ? Seems like some taxpayers are happy footing the bill ?
Meanwhile she's taking AIPAC money as Gazans are bombed. Be better than them Crockett.
Edit: downvoting because I'm speaking facts doesn't change the facts. She's bought, eat humble pie and accept it.
Have you considered that you're not being downvoted for you "speaking facts," but because you're trying to change the topic into something else entirely?
I'm not changing the topic, she's talking about someone getting wealthier unethically. Challenge the people in power, things aren't going to get better without doing so.
yes yes just not YOUR people in power.
But always only challenge the people standing up against the Trump administration.
Sounds like she’s just following the lead from the top.
Better clarify which "she" you're referring to here.
"Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal"
-Jasmine Crockett
This is both disingenuous and out of context and you know it.
She’s talking about government officials making a back room deal, signed off by the president, to intentionally divert public funds to a private firm without submitting any proposals submitted.
When you don’t have roads, smooth freeways, and general infrastructure, remember that 405b was diverted from such government projects to go to DHS whereupon the public, taxpayer funds became a private payment and that does her a criminal for knowingly committing the crime.
You tried, history history bro.