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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/cancelation-notices-saturday-february

NBC ran a terrific story yesterday headlined, “Judge gives go-ahead for the Trump administration to gut USAID's workforce.” The sub-headline explained, “The decision comes after the judge had temporarily paused efforts to place thousands of USAID employees on administrative leave following a lawsuit by labor groups.”

Following the hearing on the preliminary injunction, Judge Terry Nichols dissolved his earlier temporary restraining order. “Weighing plaintiffs’ assertions on these questions against the government’s is like comparing apples to oranges,” the judge wrote. “Where one side claims that USAID’s operations are essential to human flourishing and the other side claims they are presently at odds with it, it simply is not possible for the Court to conclude, as a matter of law or equity, that the public interest favors or disfavors an injunction.”

Womp, womp. Judge Nichols apparently either didn’t feel like playing hero for bureaucrats, or he decided that this case wasn’t the best case to test the unitary theory of executive power on appeal.

As I’ve explained, short-term TROs are relatively easy. Longer-lasting preliminary injunctions are brutal.

The judge explained he could not find sufficient irreparable harm — an extremely difficult showing for employees getting laid off. “Plaintiffs have presented no irreparable harm they or their members are imminently likely to suffer from the hypothetical future dissolution of USAID,” Nichols wrote. He added, nor is it “clear why the speed of proceedings in the relevant agencies would be insufficient to address the only actions that have already happened and are presently ripe for review: administrative leave placements, expedited evacuations, and other changes to working conditions of the sort those bodies routinely confront.”

The plaintiff unions vowed to appeal. If there is a harder case to appeal than the denial of a preliminary injunction, I’m not sure what it could be. But if they do appeal, it will only play right into Trump’s lawyers’ hands, who are praying for a window to launch challenges over executive powers toward the Supreme Court.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/blowback-monday-february-24-2025

The FBI wasn’t the only culprit involved in creating the two-tiered justice system that is now experiencing blowback. The Hill ran a deeply gratifying story yesterday headlined, “Angry Democratic donors turn off the flow of money.” The Democrats “have a major problem as they try to refashion their brand— the money isn’t there.” Weird. Where did all that money go? ...

The Hill said big donors were pulling back the cash pallets because they don’t see any plan. And small donors, explained the Hill, are snapping shut their change purses because they want to see more combat with Trump. The consistent theme among all levels of immigrant-loving Democrat donors is, apparently, no mas.

If I were just a little more conspiratorial, I’d suspect they are frantically trying to lower expectations for future Democrat fundraising, after Trump’s team canceled all that murky USAID funding for Nigerian trans operas. Haha! That would be crazy though!

The Democrats’ fundraising woes probably has nothing to do with the funding freezes...

Why not 100%?

Patrick says

Why not 100%?

Might be a few legit programs. Government is corrupt, but not certain it's 100% corrupt.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/11/usaid-official-tells-remaining-staffers-shred-and-burn-all-your-documents-00224404

WookieMan says

Patrick says

Why not 100%?

Might be a few legit programs. Government is corrupt, but not certain it's 100% corrupt.

there is as america before usaid, and it was better

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1899569636250702328#m

Patrick says

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1899569636250702328#m

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/usaid-employees-told-burn-shred-classified-documents-rcna195853

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Anyone who shall shred and burn evidence should be shreded and burned as well. …..

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-burn-order-shred-classified-documents-f042a51c0a9f74c96b0259b51a0d4a83

WASHINGTON (AP) — A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors asked a federal judge Tuesday to intervene in any destruction of classified documents after an email ordered staffers to help burn and shred agency records.

Judge Carl Nichols set a Wednesday morning deadline for the plaintiffs and the government to brief him on the issue. A person familiar with the email who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal verified that it was sent to at least some essential personnel.

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1899577194457829396#m

https://www.kunstler.com/p/springs-frightful-awakening

The President and his sidekick, Elon, keep coming at the country’s resident blob-of-evil like pit-bulls on a pack of wild hogs. Shreds of bacon have been flying all over the Beltway. I could have told you years ago that the blob was mostly lard and little meat. Now you know. It’s a sight to behold for the ages.

Yet, strange things keep happening day by day. The Democratic Party’s main grifting engine, the USAID, was deconstructed weeks ago, yet we hear that just this week USAID workers were ordered to go back into their offices to shred all their documents. Did they have anything to hide, ya think?

Questions: 1) federal janitors pried the nameplate off the building back in February, and we must suppose that somebody also locked the joint up, or what?. 2.) How did these former USAID workers propose to get in the building and do their dirty-work? 3.) Why have we not heard that the FBI or the US Marshals Service was dispatched to prevent such a document shredding party?

Patrick says

USAID workers were ordered to go back into their offices

Some of them probably had their Washington work address printed on the bottom of their bunny slippers but carelessly put them in the wash. Didn't really matter until now.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/thunder-dome-saturday-march-29-2025

All surviving USAID programs have been rolled into the State Department. Border Patrol got the USAID building. And early yesterday, the State Department officially notified Congress of its plans to eliminate the agency, which massively triggered the perpetually outraged denizens of BlueSky.

Secretary Rubio explained, “USAID strayed from its original mission long ago … Thanks to President Trump, this misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over.”

Grifters, including Somali lesbian pot smokers and Afghani transgender puppeteers, were hardest hit. “Humanitarian workers” —who receive USAID grants— and former USAID officials” —formerly on payroll— “blasted what they labeled a ham-fisted shuttering of a crucial operation of the U.S. government.” Uh huh. Also, it caused “fierce backlash from Democrats,” who relied on the benighted agency to spread transgenderism and kindergarten sex-ed worldwide.

Haha, a crucial operation of the U.S. government. Good one, WaPo. It was such a “crucial operation” that nobody ever heard of it before Trump pulled the plug in February. Guess what the main “fierce backlash” argument was? Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) impotently warned that, thanks to closing USAID, “Diseases we worked for decades to confront and eradicate are now at risk of landing on our shores.”

Diseases!

For decades, they’ve relied on America’s germaphobic fears of Hollywood-style outbreaks to justify anything they wanted to do. It’s their new slogan, replacing the overused shibboleth it’s for the children. Missiles for marxists? It’s to stop germs. CIA bases in Ukraine? It’s for preventing pandemics. Billions to pay protestors to topple democratic governments in the global South? It’s for disease prevention.

We aren’t buying the disease thing anymore. They need a new mantra.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/bugging-out-monday-march-31-2025

On Friday, NPR ran a delightful little story headlined, “Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has its billion dollar grant cut by Trump administration.” The “vaccine grant” was one of the largest of the 5,200 grants announced to have been cut in last week’s final USAID takedown. Bill Gates was hardest hit.

“Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation,” NPR said, right after disclosing that Gates also funds both NPR and the story’s author, “said, ‘We are going to do everything possible to convince the Administration and the Congress to reverse these actions if true.’”

Who doesn’t the software billionaire bribe? Who’s controlling Gates? Oh, but I digress.

GAVI stands for ‘the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.” Gates’ “foundation” is its second largest funder after USAID. GAVI actually brags that it “works closely” with the WHO, the WEF, and the entire pantheon of grifting globalist bloodsuckers. The mega-NGO is a critical organ in the global vaccination hoax’s rotting body and part of the globalists’ infected brainstem.

Even though you probably never heard of it, it has long been identified as a major problem. Years ago, Robert Kennedy wrote about Gates and the GAVI Alliance in his vaccine book. In 2023, standout covid doc Peter McCullough fingered GAVI as one of the “key players” in the “greatest crime against humanity in history.” The same year, covid crimes doc Naomi Wolf called it Gates’ money printing machine.

If my long-suspected theory that Gates —an Epstein island graduate— is a deep-state tool, then they taught him how to fund the global operations using USAID money.

Now, GAVI’s USAID funding is over. Cue hysteria and outrage from all the ticks and lampreys feeding off the GAVI grift. But for the rest of us, it’s $1.7 billion saved, and maybe it signals even better things happening behind the scenes.

I don't care about all the theories. Nothing will happen. But if it's shut down it's a win. I want to see people in jail, but I'm pragmatic and know it's not happening. Just be happy money is not being wasted anymore. Hell the people that should be put in jail would cost us as much long term for fraud in white collar expensive prisons.

Take a win when you can get it. If the numbers get better the people will be more in tune to vote Republican. I'm hoping by the midterms they can prove definitively what DOGE has saved.

Saw something similar in Santa Cruz with a black guy in the 41st street restroom. Instead of money going to Euro grudge matches, or being laundered to fake virtue signaling NGOs to enrich corrupt politicians, maybe some of the dough can be directed back to maintaining our infrastructures (NOT forever projects that are just another branch of the political laundering, like forever wars). I guess that's too much to ask.

Ceffer says

Saw something similar in Santa Cruz with a black guy in the 41st street restroom. Instead of money going to Euro grudge matches, or being laundered to fake virtue signaling NGOs to enrich corrupt politicians, maybe some of the dough can be directed back to maintaining our infrastructures (NOT forever projects that are just another branch of the political laundering, like forever wars). I guess that's too much to ask.

LOL, NJT/MTA would lose $3B/year faster than you could sneeze.