Rich Engstrom

@PeopleOfTheInt @grok what movie is this

This football match changes everything for her 🔥

Kushner's is getting all giddy as he outlines the potential for New Gaza - aka Mar-a-Lago East

But who is going to come into the US and remove Trump from the country illegally?

The gibberish song. Haven't heard this in a while.

Australia shooting is horrible. Barely a day later the politicians are talking enacting stricter gun control laws. Too bad the US politicians don't see the problem that clearly.

Has Trump created enough global controversies/crises to effectively deflect his Epstein association? Enquiring minds ...

Congressmen asking for additional security is pretty ironic when they could just do their jobs and control guns to create a safer America.

Tariffs are taxes paid by American importers, not foreign govts, meaning the money “flowing in” is actually coming from US businesses and consumers, not China, India or anyone else. It’s like robbing your own citizens and calling it foreign income. For someone who claims to be a business genius, not understanding this basic economic principle either points to a dangerously low IQ or deliberate deception, and neither is reassuring. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

So we're defunding medical research to build detention centers. Not the direction I thought we would be going in 2025.

Notes from across the pond. US Embassy in Romania has posted this. Now evaluation of your social media is part of getting a US Visa.

67 years as an American, and today I I don't feel American, at least not my definition of it, I just feel ashamed.

What a great video. I never saw this one before. 1960 Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra singing each other’s songs.

Trump’s numbers on US & European aid to Ukraine are completely fabricated — Europe has given more to Ukraine and the US hasn’t reached anywhere near $350 billion.

Read/copy/repost if you can From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed. Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."

You ever notice how politicians have this magical ability to redefine words? Take “tariff,” for example. Used to be, a tariff was a tax on imports. Simple, right? But then along comes Trump, and suddenly, tariffs are the secret sauce to “winning.” He says, “Tariffs don’t cause inflation. Tariffs cause success.” Really? That’s like saying, “Donuts don’t cause weight gain. Donuts cause happiness.” Sure, until you can’t fit into your pants. And what’s with this idea of “temporary short-term disruption”? That’s politician speak for, “Brace yourselves, it’s gonna hurt, but don’t worry, you’ll get used to it.” It’s like when your internet provider says, “We’re experiencing temporary outages.” Next thing you know, you’re reading a book by candlelight, pretending it’s the 1800s. But my favorite is when he says, “People understand that.” Do we? Do we really? Because last time I checked, most folks are just trying to figure out why their groceries cost more and their paychecks don’t. So, here’s a tip: if someone tells you tariffs are the key to success, check your wallet. If it’s lighter, congratulations, you’ve been successfully tariffed.

Here are the FEC election contribution limits. Anyone see a problem here?

I know I'm getting old when US politics views integrity as an antiquated, or even quaint, basis for governing.

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