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![Scott Jennings takes Bill de Blasio to the woodshed after he claimed Republicans were “re-embracing” President Nixon. That haymaker came completely out of nowhere, but it landed clean on the former mayor of New York City. DE BLASIO: “Do you worry that your party’s re-embracing a guy who had to resign his office because he violated the law?” JENNINGS: “Well, he’s dead. So I don’t know…” [Jennings chuckles] DE BLASIO: “Do you worry—” Jennings stepped back in and dropped the line: JENNINGS: “I mean, you all had Bill Clinton rolled out at EVERY convention!” “Are you worried about that?!” Cooked. Democrats love to throw rocks from...](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2105860250855260454/amplify_video_thumb/2105857900627267584/img/Kqhp3I3F_xZdZqJj.jpg)
![Whoopi Goldberg finally SNAPS at Ana Navarro for her constant interruptions of Vice President JD Vance. As the panel was letting Vance finish his point before a commercial, Navarro just couldn’t help herself. Vance cracked up the moment it happened. VANCE: “You guys might be skeptical of this, but I promise you it’s true.” NAVARRO: “Can I ask about a specific piece of Black history...” GOLDBERG: “I gotta...I have to...I have to...” NAVARRO: “Do you think the attack against Michelle Obama...” GOLDBERG: “I have to go to break!” [Navarro keeps chattering] “Ana, God!!” “Please! We have more with Vice President JD Vance when we come back.” [Goldberg turns to Navarro] “Don’t do that!”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2066932478791532848/amplify_video_thumb/2066930456877006848/img/Px4g4XNx24Hl8-ER.jpg)
![Bill Maher nails the biggest difference between Republicans and Democrats. Maher told JD Vance he found it “odd” that Republicans who don’t have his vote still come on his show, while Democrats who do have his support refuse to appear. MAHER: “That’s what I love about those Republicans.” “The first thing I said to him [Vance] was, it’s so odd, isn’t it, that like, I didn’t vote for you and yet you guys come to the show and take your beating like a man.” “The Democrats don’t come.” “And yet they got my vote!” “That’s just odd, isn’t it?”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2078866463050318019/amplify_video_thumb/2078865852305166336/img/nJHG6ruRq7TROwLm.jpg)
![Joe Rogan just debuted his Trump impression while telling the story of how President Trump personally ROASTED him for being a liberal during his Oval Office visit. ROGAN: “So, you saw that thing I had to do at the White House the other day?” GOMEZ: “I did see it. People are pissed.” ROGAN: “Who’s pissed?” GOMEZ: “I don’t know, people online.” ROGAN: “What, because I was at the White House?” GOMEZ: “Yeah, they’re like, ‘Yo Joe, you can’t be at the f*cking White House. Joe, you said you were f*cking politically homeless.’” ROGAN: “I am!” “He joked about it.” “He called me a liberal, during the whole thing.” [Thick New York accent] “He’s like, Joe, he’s very liberal!”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2046648246588633445/amplify_video_thumb/2046644742226575360/img/2gyKB6sKIXAbBCcN.jpg)
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Democrat James Talarico just got EMBARRASSED by a pro-life Catholic Texan from the audience at his CNN town hall. His face at the end was priceless. Talarico claimed that the Bible “is silent” on the issue of abortion. The audience member — Jody — let him finish, before she dropped a brutal Biblical reminder that brought the town hall to its feet. JODY: “And I just want to add that the Bible is not silent on abortion.” “There is the Ten Commandments. ‘Thou shalt not kill.’’ “And as Catholics, we take great, um, insult, I guess sometimes when it’s spouted that way.” The audience immediately erupted in applause for her. This is not going well for him.
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![FAILED gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter got STOMPED by Scott Jennings after claiming Democrat James Talarico is “going to win” on the issues. Porter looked like she was about to LOSE IT on air. All Jennings had to do was repeat Talarico’s own words back to her to completely destroy her narrative. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. JENNINGS: “On what issue do you mean?!” PORTER: “Data centers, AI. He is way stronger and people are big mad about that…” “Oil prices, the price of fueling up…filling up their pickup truck, the issues favor Talarico.” JENNINGS: “What has he proposed to do anything about that?” [Silence from Porter] Jennings then laid out Talarico’s own positions. JENNINGS: “He’s he’s come after the oil and gas industry. He’s called it a blight. He’s tried to get rid of it. He’s come after capitalism.” “He’s referred to being a White male as a, ‘virus.’” “Do you think that sounds like a middle of the road Democrat that Texas could identify with?!” Porter had no rebuttal, and Jennings knew it.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2110397699652796441/amplify_video_thumb/2110393631144054785/img/zSJfJmdWLNaE0h_h.jpg)
FAILED gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter got STOMPED by Scott Jennings after claiming Democrat James Talarico is “going to win” on the issues. Porter looked like she was about to LOSE IT on air. All Jennings had to do was repeat Talarico’s own words back to her to completely destroy her narrative. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. JENNINGS: “On what issue do you mean?!” PORTER: “Data centers, AI. He is way stronger and people are big mad about that…” “Oil prices, the price of fueling up…filling up their pickup truck, the issues favor Talarico.” JENNINGS: “What has he proposed to do anything about that?” [Silence from Porter] Jennings then laid out Talarico’s own positions. JENNINGS: “He’s he’s come after the oil and gas industry. He’s called it a blight. He’s tried to get rid of it. He’s come after capitalism.” “He’s referred to being a White male as a, ‘virus.’” “Do you think that sounds like a middle of the road Democrat that Texas could identify with?!” Porter had no rebuttal, and Jennings knew it.
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The Democrats aren’t going to like this one bit. Bill Maher just rocked Chris Cuomo’s world with brutal reality check about the midterms. It’s no secret that Maher thinks Republicans are going to lose badly, but the part that will piss off his own party is what he said next: the Democrats aren’t going to “win” either. This is an important distinction and Maher nailed it here. CUOMO: “Do you believe that if Trump takes a beating, the party takes a beating, is that the same thing saying that the Democrats made the case to the American people?” Maher cracks up. MAHER: “Absolutely not!” “They have not renounced their crazy at all. In fact, they are going full steam ahead. That’s why I’m so worried about 2028.” “And a lot of the far-left will take it, Trump’s loss, they will misinterpret as a recommendation for what they’re trying to do.” Maher then called out the left’s embrace of communism, arguing that Trump’s use of the term doesn’t automatically make it wrong. MAHER: “You know, the whole thing with to communism and it is communism. I know Trump says it, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. When you talk about taking over the means of production and taking over all the private industries, that’s communism, folks! You can look it up.” This is exactly the point. The Democrats will try to parade any midterm victory as an endorsement of their radical policies.
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This may be the most incredible detail of the entire story. Reuters has reported that the pilot who was stabbed aboard FlyDubai Flight FZ 1073 manually released the lock on the cockpit door while he was lying on the floor. That pilot’s name is Captain Smit Machchhar. FOX: “The wounded pilot, listen to this, covered with blood and lying on the floor, had clicked open the release of the cockpit door.” “A second set of pilots on board who were due to replace the first pair, landed the plane.” “A pilot who had just been stabbed, had the wherewithal to open that cockpit door. This man can be described as none other than a hero.” That decision allowed the replacement pilots to reach the cockpit and take control of the aircraft. His heroic actions likely saved the the lives of every passenger on board.
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Joe Rogan just took time out of his podcast to express genuine concern for his friend Theo Von. He admitted that some of Von’s recent behavior after getting on SSRIs “freaks me out” — especially his comments about suicide. ROGAN: “Theo Von’s going through the exact same thing and last time he was on the podcast he was explaining it to me.” “It freaks me out because I know Theo has had conversations before...like even publicly.” “He had a Netflix taping and it didn’t go well. It was like they actually never...they shelved it. They never used it.” “And you know there was all these stories from people that were there saying he bombed. I think he just had a kind of a breakdown.” “And when he was talking to the crowd and there’s a video of it, he said, you know, the people were saying, hey, we still love you.” “He goes, thank you. Look, I’m just I’m trying not to take my own life.” “And like you hear stuff like that and you just go like, oh, Jesus Christ.” “I’ve known too many people that I didn’t think were going to kill themselves and then did.” “And then he goes down these spirals where he starts talking about world events and freaking out. I’m like, oh, Jesus Christ! Like, I got to help this dude.”
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Hollywood actor Michael Douglas just made a pretty stunning pledge about President Trump on Joe Rogan’s podcast. The lifelong Democrat told Rogan that he would “commit his life” to getting Trump the Nobel Peace Prize if he could convince Vladimir Putin to give up nuclear weapons. As Rogan pointed out, it’s a great “utopian idea,” but getting Russia to agree to something like that is highly unlikely. Still, it’s interesting to hear a Hollywood Democrat say Trump would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize if he pulled it off. DOUGLAS: “I’m hoping that President Trump can make a deal with Putin…U.S., Russia, let’s give up our weapons.” “Because it’s totally obsolete…because these weapons will just destroy the world.” “If he can do that — and he could — if he spent the next two years of his presidency negotiating with Putin, we could get rid of nuclear weapons…” “And I guarantee I would commit my life for him getting that Nobel Peace Prize because he would deserve it.” Interesting.
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WHOA: A Jewish, lifelong Democrat from Oakland County, Michigan admitted on MS NOW that she’s likely going to vote for MIKE ROGERS over Abdul El-Sayed. And you just know MS NOW hated airing this moment. That is how toxic these radical Democrat candidates are. VOTER: “My daughter goes to University of Detroit Mercy. She’s in her second year of law school, and she has to hide being Jewish.” “And it’s a hard thing to say when October 7th came. Horrible for her. Lots of tears...” “I may go to Mike Rogers. Sorry, guys.” It’s a pretty remarkable admission from a lifelong Democrat. Just imagine how many more stories like this are going to come out as November gets closer. Amazing.
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The final minute of Secretary Marco Rubio’s address in Athens is truly spellbinding if you listen closely. This will go down as one of the greatest speeches ever delivered by a Secretary of State. He perfectly weaved in the history of ancient Greece to show why Western civilization is worth fighting for. Most importantly, it was a warning to the rest of Europe about what could be lost if the West forgets where it came from. RUBIO: “But Europeans and our friends across the West must relearn the lessons our forefathers took from this place and from its history.” “The history of Greece does not just offer us a glimpse of our institutions in the earliest forms. The history of Greece shows us an image of ourselves.” “It shows us that ours is the inheritance of great heroes and we should be proud, intensely proud, where we come from.” “We should marvel at what our forefathers carved out of this countryside.” “The story of our civilization is the greatest story ever known to man, and it began here with the first men and women of the West, from them, from them we can rediscover the virtues, the courage and the strength to confront the dangers that we face in our time.” The entire place erupted in applause at the end. That was a special moment from Rubio.
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CBS’s Margaret Brennan tried to back DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin into a corner over the ICE shooting in New York City. After playing video from the shooting, Brennan pressed Mullin on when the body camera footage would be released, seemingly suggesting that ICE officers had made mistakes. But Mullin shut down that narrative immediately. MULLIN: “Well, Margaret what you’re seeing is a poll cam. What you’re not seeing is the actual audio footage or a different angle, where you have multiple officers that are actually approaching this individual, named Oscar, with a long, very long extensive rap sheet.” “He’s only been in the country for three years, and he has a rap sheet of four charges of felony robbery, two charges of felony assault, felony larceny…” “And this guy evaded officers last month when we tried to get to him.” “We knew he was armed. We knew he was dangerous.” “When we approached his vehicle, we were giving lawful commands. We had approached him just like any other undercover agency that’s out there from local, state, federal, or county that has undercover officers.” Mullin’s point was that viewers were seeing only part of the encounter, while officers were dealing with a criminal illegal alien he described as armed and dangerous. He wasn’t about to let Brennan’s framing go unchallenged.
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This will go down as one of Joe Rogan’s BEST moments. Rogan pinpointed the exact issue that drove him away from the Democrat Party. He called the border disaster “F*CKING INSANE!” before launching into an EPIC two-minute monologue right to the face of Hollywood Democrat Michael Douglas. ROGAN: “It was really clear that a game was being played. You could speculate all you want as to what that game was.” “Was it for cheap labor? Was it to turn these people into citizens and have them permanently voting your side?...” “I don’t what it is but it’s F*CKING INSANE! And if you want me to be a Democrat while you’re just letting people fly in from the open border.” “I’m like, HEY! FIX THAT!” That was long overdue.
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Steve Bannon just said the quiet part out loud during a NewsNation town hall...and said it straight to Chris Cuomo’s face. Cuomo did NOT like it one bit. BANNON: “Chris an administration you supported wholeheartedly and said the guy was not sick and hadn’t lost his fastball, Joe Biden, allowed 20 MILLION illegal aliens in this country that are still here today.” “That is the issue before us.” Cuomo immediately began spiraling over what Bannon had just said on his show, but Bannon wasn’t backing down. He doubled down with a brutal message about what needs to happen next: BANNON: “All of them have to leave the country!” Cuomo wasn’t expecting that.
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This was a total SMACKDOWN. Far-left Democrat Xavier Becerra just got completely EXPOSED by Republican Steve Hilton for losing track of hundreds of thousands of migrant children during his time as HHS Secretary. Becerra just stood there looking nervous as Hilton laid it all out. It was absolutely brutal to watch. HILTON: “When you were HHS Secretary, you were responsible for 479,000 unaccompanied migrant children and for their welfare in camps that you ran.” “You sent them because you dismantled the vetting that should have made sure that they were with a safe, protective family or sponsor.” “You sent thousands of young children directly into the clutches of child sex and labor traffickers, hundreds of thousands of children that you were responsible for are still missing today, 100,000 of them are under ten years old.” When Becerra attempted to play off the narrative as just another “Trump talking point,” Hilton landed his final haymaker: HILTON: “It was the New York Times — and they won a Pulitzer Prize for it!” There’s just no coming back from that. Becerra knew it was over.
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Ro Khanna had a rough morning on Squawk Box. When Joe Kernen asked him how he would make “succeeding in America easier,” Khanna pitched his idea for expanding zero-down, low-interest mortgages to everyone. It didn’t go well. CNBC’s Becky Quick immediately started poking holes in the premise. KHANNA: “Here’s one proposal you may actually agree with. For our veterans, we give them zero down payment and low interest loans.” “I say if you work seven years, you got to work, you get zero down payment and low interest loans for your first home. And we make home buying possible for people by 35…” QUICK: “People who aren’t veterans?” KHANNA: “People who aren’t veterans. Expand it, to expand the program. But you got to work for seven years. Here’s another idea. I have…” QUICK: “But…zero percent loans, I mean, that’s a…if interest rates rise beyond where they are right now, you are talking about a huge program.” “I get it for people who have served their country, I absolutely think that they should get those things. Those of us who haven’t, maybe not.” Quick had gotten to the root of the issue. Democrats love to say things that sound good in theory, but don't work in practice. Simply expanding programs without actually thinking about the cost to taxpayers is not a “win.” Quick’s message was that Veterans who have served their country absolutely deserve these benefits, but expanding them to everyone is not really feasible.
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New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan just got a stunning reality check from both Bill Maher and author James Kirchick. Swan was spiraling over President Trump barring CNN and MS NOW from the White House, until Kirchick reminded him of some of the Obama-era media scandals. KIRCHICK: “During the Obama administration they tapped the AP bureau’s phones and the phones of AP bureau reporters. They tapped their phones!” Maher backed up some of the claims and seconded Kirchick’s point about the Obama administration. MAHER: “I looked this up about freezing out one…they did it with Fox News. Josh Earnest, he was in the Obama administration. He admitted it.” “The White House has demonstrated our willingness to exclude Fox News from news making interviews…” “This is exactly what…you know, this is what I say about this country. Everybody’s like this is the worst thing in the world except when we do it.” “And then it’s always perfectly okay.” Maher nailed the hypocrisy in one sentence. Well done.
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Joe Rogan tells Theo Von to his face he’s “losing his f*cking marbles” during the latest episode of the podcast. Rogan then urged him to get off antidepressants after Von went on a bizarre rant. VON: “It’s all just a cat and mouse game.” “People are like, ‘we’ll elect the Democrats next time.’ But it’s all...the same sh*t has been happening forever.” “They haven’t been helping anybody forever.” “They’re letting f*cking politicians slurp on kids!” “All of our f*cking money goes to Israel and they’re using it to f*cking genocide people!” “It’s like, everybody is scared out of their wits right now. It’s like, our religious leaders are afraid to speak out.” “It’s like...the...it’s a time where it’s like...satan is amongst us and our religious leaders are talking about bullsh*t at the polls!” “It’s just like, what is going...I don’t know man.” ROGAN: “We gotta get you off those antidepressants, son.” “You’re losing your f*cking marbles!” VON: “You think I am?” ROGAN: “Come hang out with us. Just chill out!”
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![JD Vance had to do a double take after Joe Rogan revealed that one of his podcast guests tried to set up a meeting between him and Jeffrey Epstein in 2017. When Vance asked who it was, Rogan declined to say his name publicly. ROGAN: “I had one of my guests try to get me to meet him.” VANCE: “Really?” ROGAN: “Yeah.” VANCE: “When?” ROGAN: “2017.” VANCE: “See, that’s crazy to me! Because at that point he had already gone down for at least one like sex abuse thing.” ROGAN: “That was my position!” [Vance cracks up] “I’ll show you the emails. They’re kind of funny. I actually read them on stage.” VANCE: “Which guest?” [Rogan makes a face] “You don’t want to say? Okay, fine.” ROGAN: “People can find it. I don’t want the guy…the guy’s already ruined.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2077483940429156777/amplify_video_thumb/2077482216897064961/img/zu8-DG3j0OmrEpvc.jpg)
JD Vance had to do a double take after Joe Rogan revealed that one of his podcast guests tried to set up a meeting between him and Jeffrey Epstein in 2017. When Vance asked who it was, Rogan declined to say his name publicly. ROGAN: “I had one of my guests try to get me to meet him.” VANCE: “Really?” ROGAN: “Yeah.” VANCE: “When?” ROGAN: “2017.” VANCE: “See, that’s crazy to me! Because at that point he had already gone down for at least one like sex abuse thing.” ROGAN: “That was my position!” [Vance cracks up] “I’ll show you the emails. They’re kind of funny. I actually read them on stage.” VANCE: “Which guest?” [Rogan makes a face] “You don’t want to say? Okay, fine.” ROGAN: “People can find it. I don’t want the guy…the guy’s already ruined.”
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![TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet just delivered one of the most PATRIOTIC messages of the entire NewsNation town hall. When a first-time voter asked what matters most for the younger generation heading into the midterms, Kolvet gave an answer that brought the audience to its feet in applause. The timing made it even more powerful. It came after Grace Mausser, co-chair of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America, declared that “the American dream’s gone.” Andrew Kolvet wasn’t having it. KOLVET: “Yeah, I go back what Grace said over there. You know, she said the American dream’s gone.” “And I think young people need to understand that this is till America. This is still the land of opportunity. The home of the brave.” “I mean, we have such a blessing. You should kiss the ground that you walk on, that you get to live in this country and NEVER forget that.” “Yeah, there’s problems. Yeah, there’s issues. This is still America.” [The audience erupts in applause.] There could not be a clearer distinction between the conservative vision for America’s future and the message coming from the future of the Democrat Party.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2110200385897914689/amplify_video_thumb/2110197118547689472/img/94uFR9yLqrfyc8DI.jpg)
TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet just delivered one of the most PATRIOTIC messages of the entire NewsNation town hall. When a first-time voter asked what matters most for the younger generation heading into the midterms, Kolvet gave an answer that brought the audience to its feet in applause. The timing made it even more powerful. It came after Grace Mausser, co-chair of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America, declared that “the American dream’s gone.” Andrew Kolvet wasn’t having it. KOLVET: “Yeah, I go back what Grace said over there. You know, she said the American dream’s gone.” “And I think young people need to understand that this is till America. This is still the land of opportunity. The home of the brave.” “I mean, we have such a blessing. You should kiss the ground that you walk on, that you get to live in this country and NEVER forget that.” “Yeah, there’s problems. Yeah, there’s issues. This is still America.” [The audience erupts in applause.] There could not be a clearer distinction between the conservative vision for America’s future and the message coming from the future of the Democrat Party.
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When asked whether Republicans should “fear” or “welcome” Barack Obama campaigning in the midterms, Scott Jennings absolutely lit up the CNN panel. His answer was brutal. JENNINGS: “Well, neither because it’s expected he campaigns in every election. He’s the most partisan ate-up with politics ex-president we’ve ever had. I expect him to show up in every race, in every jurisdiction in the country. He can’t stand it. He has to be involved in politics, politics all the time.” But then Jennings turned the question around. If Democrats are really as confident about Abdul El-Sayed as they claim, why do they need Obama on the ground in Michigan? JENNINGS: “What it tells me, though, is that all this Democratic confidence you hear out there about El-Sayed is a little misplaced, because I don’t think Obama would be going there if they were so confident about it.” “And it also tells you something critical about the weakness in his coalition. He has significant trouble with African American voters in the Democratic primary. He has not shored up that support in Michigan.” “They need Obama to try to do that. I’m not sure it’s going to be the total answer, but it’s not really a surprising development to me.” That was the part the CNN panel probably didn’t want to hear. Jennings basically turned Obama’s involvement into evidence that Democrats aren’t nearly as confident about Michigan as they claim to be.
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![MORE - DOGE Staffer Drops Bombshell After Bombshell About Inner Workings of IRS/Treasury Dept. DOGE insider Sam Corcos, special adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department, just unloaded a jaw-dropping exposé on the IRS and Treasury’s chaotic operations. He’s pulling the mask off, and it’s wild. 1]. IRS’ Massive IT Dept. Outstrips Midsize Banks by 175x Budget and 40x Staff “A typical midsize bank will have somewhere between 1 and 200 people in IT and they have an operations and maintenance budget in like the $20 million a year range. We have 8,000 people in IT, and our operations and maintenance budget is $3.5 billion a year. I don’t really know why yet.” 2]. Contractors Eat Up 80% of IRS’ Massive Operations Budget “I will tell that you 80% of that budget goes to contractors and licenses——We cannot perform the basic functions of tax collection without paying a toll to all these contractors.” 3]. IRS’ Modernization Is a $3.7 Billion Money Pit “We have a $3.5 billion operations maintenance budget. We have $3.7 billion modernization effort within it. That’s a lot of budget and way beyond any reasonable cost for what you would expect at a private company for this.” 4]. Ghost Contracts Bleed Millions With No Accountability “You find contracts that are 10, 20, 30, $50 million and you just ask like, why are we doing this? And everyone’s just like, meh, I don’t know. And then you cancel it and then nothing happens. It’s just inertia, has just taken over.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1902908276662210592/ext_tw_video_thumb/1902901805648146432/pu/img/Jz6oYrCQa5rpJKa8.jpg)
MORE - DOGE Staffer Drops Bombshell After Bombshell About Inner Workings of IRS/Treasury Dept. DOGE insider Sam Corcos, special adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department, just unloaded a jaw-dropping exposé on the IRS and Treasury’s chaotic operations. He’s pulling the mask off, and it’s wild. 1]. IRS’ Massive IT Dept. Outstrips Midsize Banks by 175x Budget and 40x Staff “A typical midsize bank will have somewhere between 1 and 200 people in IT and they have an operations and maintenance budget in like the $20 million a year range. We have 8,000 people in IT, and our operations and maintenance budget is $3.5 billion a year. I don’t really know why yet.” 2]. Contractors Eat Up 80% of IRS’ Massive Operations Budget “I will tell that you 80% of that budget goes to contractors and licenses——We cannot perform the basic functions of tax collection without paying a toll to all these contractors.” 3]. IRS’ Modernization Is a $3.7 Billion Money Pit “We have a $3.5 billion operations maintenance budget. We have $3.7 billion modernization effort within it. That’s a lot of budget and way beyond any reasonable cost for what you would expect at a private company for this.” 4]. Ghost Contracts Bleed Millions With No Accountability “You find contracts that are 10, 20, 30, $50 million and you just ask like, why are we doing this? And everyone’s just like, meh, I don’t know. And then you cancel it and then nothing happens. It’s just inertia, has just taken over.”
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This is one of the most important moments ever aired on CNBC. Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the media lied to millions of Americans about President Trump, and that after going back to the original source material, he realized he had been completely misled about Trump’s character. PALIHAPITIYA: “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump.” “And if you just go back to the source material, you should take away two things.” “One, he didn’t say half the things he said, and two, why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character?” “I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.” “I took the time to learn about it. I admitted where…you know, the way that I met him was, I admitted on the pod, which, you know, has millions of viewers.” “And I said, I got it totally wrong because I went and I watched Charlottesville.” “And, you know, the first person to call me? President Trump.” “And I got to know him and I put the phone down, I called my wife, and I said, we got it TOTALLY, totally wrong. We were lied to.” “And then I got to know him and he is fantastic!” Chamath Palihapitiya
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