I find it fascinating, listening to people talk about, draining the swamp. It means different things to different people. Matt dropping out of the AG race was a draining the swamp action for me. Who wants a man who thinks it’s OK to buy and screw young women as the attorney general of the United States. A job that demands ethics run by a man who has none? Getting rid of him is draining the swamp.
It’ll be interesting to see how the team Trump is put together trims-government waste. Will they consider waste anything that doesn’t support the elite as they are both part of that class? Do they have the knowledge and expertise to understand the safety issues that some policy has been in place for? Well they listen to people in positions of knowledge, or exert their ignorant egos into the process.
Cutting government waste is long overdue and necessary. I’m a little concerned that they’re going after the most vulnerable population via Medicare and Social Security to save dollars. I haven’t heard anything about the Pentagon that hasn’t passed a budget audit in a decade and has little oversight and lots of hands in the cookie jar.
Time will tell and hopefully not too many Americans will suffer from poorly thought decisions
Gene, Duplication of services and no legislative foundation for current expenditures is pretty neutral. Can you accept that? Not everything is "partisan". Unless that is where one is coming from. These are tax dollars. They are not "government" dollars.
I saw Ramaswamy proposing a possible way to eliminate half of the workers in the massive bureaucracy. Remember back in the 1970's during a gas "crisis" when to buy gasoline your license plate had to end with an odd or even number on a given day? Well, he said they'd be mired in discrimination lawsuits FOREVER if they didn't do some kind of lottery..... so everyone whose Social Security number ends in an even number, you're fired. Bingo. Now you have a number of workers remaining who can self-select by insisting they must come to work IN the office 40 hours a week. He proposed VERY generous buy-outs, of, say 18 months salary. By doing such a method, his big business brain has come up with a way to begin the process of elimination of the vast number of people who need to retrain to do something useful.
No surprise DC Bureaucrats voted to save their jobs.
How many people did something they don’t like to keep their jobs. One of the most recent agregious acts was the forced jabbing of people to keep their jobs. People complied just to save their jobs, food on the table, roof ver their heads, etc…
But in the end tax payers cannot support all the government employees. It’s not personal, it’s financial, it’s not political, it’s reality of balancing a budget and not raising taxes.
Like employees of numerous private corporations and businesses that were forced because they were run irresponsibly. Take one look at Kamala spending $10 million per day on her campaign. Totally irresponsible.
Look at our own City in debt up to their eye balls spending $11 million to beautify an underpass.
Financial incompetence spending tax payer monies on projects that do not generate revenue while facing a huge multi million debt that has been approaching and warned about for at least five years.
End the self entitlement, elect officials who are not stock boys, camera assistants or professional politicians that bilk the American tax payer.
This applied to SB County....The variance in the voting statistics with the distance from DC is too great to be random.
How many employees are there in the Santa Barbara, City of Goleta, City of Carpinteria, County of Santa Barbara, and other government locations? How great was the vote for big gov. candidates?
The destruction of transportation grids and plans for further grinding down streets is directly related to the amount of money being funneled to these governments. Does anyone else find a direct correlation to the increases and maintaining expanding government workers is the grant factor?
Misery of the population and turning off of community participation is a direct relation to the locale pound (not big enough to be a swamp)>
Good Article…Trump is going to slash government (hopefully, by half) & scatter the remains across the states, meanwhile exposing the deep state player within…great to see!
When my father was in the government there was a pay grade for all federal employees. He was head of the CIA for the southern states and I was shocked st how little he made BRICS the pay grade which was the highest.
I hope that this pay grade can be put back I the government. Of course, it will need a cost of living. It has gotten way out of have especially fir the senate and the congress.
Rita, be sure to incorporate the value of a government pension in the former government (civil servant) pay schedules. The old ethic was lower pay during the working years, but the security of a good government pension plus often lifetime medical benefits at the end of one's civil service.
Now studies show government employees make nearly 20% more than similarly skilled private industry employees during their working years, plus have guaranteed pensions and perks others in the private sector only dream about.
Times have definitely changed since your own personal experience - and they are now finally catching up with the US taxpayers who is forced to fund this gross disparity. We also lost the critical incentive for government employees to be honest, productive, and accountable as to not jeopardize their promised future perks and pensions.
Consider also what recently happened with Bidenomics. Democrats crammed though ruinous inflationary debt-induced spending, but since government employees got automatic COLA, they did not miss a beat while the rest of the taxpaying public continues to suffer. Their smug response was, you should join unions too.
Insightful article; peer pressure and self-protective job bandwagon behavior evident. Bloated jobs are simply welfare for the middle class which must end. Our federal and state governments need to be decentralized, downsized, bureaucrats (including college teachers) accessible in the office 5-days a week, with major spending cuts made for the plethora of unnecessary programs and tasks. Will promises made be promises kept? The only way to take back our country is to reduce the number of voters dependent on income from a government source. Americans vote their wallets, their personal- family survival.
To poster Gene who is concerned about the most “vulnerable” on social security: those at the bottom— I share your concern and would like to read a SBCurrent article on topic. It is beyond time to revamp SS. TOO MANY of richest among us who were paid the most during their working careers — and now receive guaranteed pensions and/or have multi-million 401Ks — are getting an additional $4500/mo from SS with an annual % SS COLA increase; while the majority of essential laborers with NO PENSIONS, NO IRAs get $1500/mo for their minimal survival. Life expectancies have increased for certain demographic subsets. SS was never intended to be what it has become. It’s a tax; not a retirement plan based on 35 quarters of employment. Even with compounded interest, how many get benefits that exceed what was ever contributed? The SS tax burden on young workers, the taxable earning cap are other considerations. Some retirees, former public employees, are the wealthiest among us. Is it time for a worker welfare program replace SS?
Thank you for this very interesting article on DOGE and voting patterns Esquire Zepke!
I think what we see at the center of DC and what happens the further we get away the swamp is the general pattern all over the country. The closer people are to state sponsored institutions, especially those propagating the mandated narratives, the more the votes go to the progressive left. The more one is geographically, intellectually and morally distanced from these swamps, the more common sense they possess and the more likely they are to vote for the common good over radical self-interest. We need decency more than we need efficiency, still I wish those boys great success.
It seems that about half of federal employees are in organized union bargaining units, but under the law, they are unable to strike. But I imagine that they could in effect "work to rule". About 100 unions are involved. Under the law some employees in specialized jobs cannot belong to a union.
As Musk has observed, he is expecting a great deal of resistance to the work of DOGE. Much of that will be aimed at slowing it all down with every conceivable act of resistance for stopping progress with lawsuits, demonstrations and every method, short of strikes, to deter and stop the work of DOGE.
Therefore, given the Republican majority in all three areas of government, it would seem wise to have congress pass a bill putting into law the work of DOGE, according to President Trump's specification and direction.
It would be satisfying if each state followed suit, starting with the largest states in the union.
Interesting discussion by Mr. Zepke. Just watched an interesting report indicating that many State Department employees are requesting “crying sessions “ and prolonged psychological counseling due to the recent Trump victory. The report concludes that many from State, whose job is to promote our duly elected representatives to foreign governments are increasingly rejecting the new administration. Clearly, start cleaning house at the State Department. Further, move departments such as Commerce, EPA, Agriculture, Energy, HHS and Education to other states, west of DC. The only Departments I would think need to be in DC is intelligence related activities, ie CIA, FBI and NSA, but then again, it could be argued those Departments especially, should be de-centralized.
As for the hysteria related to Matt Gaetz, time to get over it, get a grip and consult to your comfort animal. Pam Bondi is an excellent choice and will serve DOJ with distinction. I didn’t see the mass outrage when wack job, Rachel Levine made a mockery of HHS.
The real concern obviously remains with what the disgraced Biden administration is doing in their final days. Escalating war in Ukraine, relaxing requirements for ICE detainers and going through the US Treasury like a bunch of drunken sailors!
Your final comment is right on - “ . . disgraced Biden administration . .” These fools almost sank the ship. I just hope they don’t do even stupider stuff in the 59 days ‘till Trump and his thoughtful, intelligent, qualified group take over.
Y’up on day one after the Inauguration Day, go after traitors at State and Justice with criminal complaints. Then have FCC pull licenses for MSN, CNN, NPR and PBS for conspiracy to promote insurrection.
Excellent analysis. Thank you so much for putting this together with the supporting data. There will l be many, many steps in this turnaround journey.
Pretty much like learning most of those extra "popular votes" for Biden in 2020 came mainly from CA and NY, and not nationwide and coincidently from states where ballot harvesting by special interest third parties is legal. Since those banked "popular votes" did not change the state electoral vote count, using this claim to gas-light any further investigation into that covid-aberrant election must have been its intended purpose. Occam's razor applies here.
Not unlike the emerging numbers showing the ill-founded SBCC Measure P bond issue was most likely passed primarily due to the concentrated transient student votes in Isla Vista, who then inflicted this potentially in-perpetuity tax on the local property owners. Data is being digested right now. Good to expose the games that still can be played and learn what defenses are needed against them.
So much "free money" is put on the table, there are a lot of scrappers looking to take it.
But isn't proximity to major metropolitan areas correlated with greater Democrat participation nationwide? Wouldn't similar patterns appear the farther one gets from NYC, Detroit, Miami, Seattle, Portland, and so forth?
City and county seats - wherever there is guaranteed government employment, like right here in Santa Barbara. They become demographic anomalies, and highly protective of the status quo. Raid the treasury and hire the relatives often becomes their ethos.
Draining the swamp is pretty funny when he is appointing people like Matt Gaetz, known sex trafficker and general creep. So glad that guy bowed out, now I really want to see what is in that report! Appointing people from Fox news with ZERO qualifications for running the offices he appointed them to, Dr. Oz a known quack who says "antidepressants don't work" (they do, and the evidence is against him), more monsters like racist Heritage Foundation member Tom Homan who is a proponent of family separations. The dirty swamp is bubbling up from the depths with Trump.
SS your comment made me get up and do the Trump Dance! Your bs is over. We don't have to listen to it anymore. Happy days are here again, SS, because you are yesterday's newspaper.
The Popcorn dance is good for a warmup to the Trump Dance. When popping popcorn, you simply stand in front of the microwave and shake your legs and wave your arms. SS, get some buttery popcorn and start wiggling! Then try the Trump Dance which is less strenuous. You can do it, I'm nearing 80 and I can do it!
I truly hope that you are never, ever called for jury duty. You already have him tried, convicted and hung. There has been no evidence of wrong doing by Gaetz and his bowing out was to keep a smooth transition for Trump. Even one of the women on the View had to make a formal retraction about Gaetz for making false allegations. But don't worry, Gaetz may end up in a senatorial position from Florida and that will be even better.
Ms. Bond, I’m sure the exposure and release of the first Venmo payments of Mr. Gaetz exceeding $10,000 to the two 17 year old minors were totally innocent. Strange that he dropped out of contention within 45 minutes after the second Venmo payments (for a threesome) was made public. Most likely a coincidence…
Why, as a female, do you support Gaetz to be in public office, when he is a misogynist, and of low moral character? Have you listed to Gaetz’s recent speeches such as the one to the Turning Point audience? I seek to understand females, like you, who support those who attack our gender, who view females as a commodity to be controlled or owned. Gaetz and others like him don’t belong in highly visible positions of government leadership. Gaetz excels in exposing the deep state, messaging, and attacking complicit participants. May Trump appoint Gaetz as a watchdog, an informant, an attack dog whose personal life remains his to own. (His Santa Barbara raised wife must be tolerant or share his passions.)
I doubt very much, Montecito93108, that you have the capacity to "understand females" like me. You seem to think that there is a hive mind mentality to the way "we" should think or see things. I have in the past agreed with some of the comments you have written on The Current and on others not. Fair enough. I have listened to Gaetz's positions on past issues and find him competent to handle the issues that are presented to him.
Let’s hope Gaetz does not pursue future elected office until he matures— changes his attitude and messaging on American females.
Not every female is born gorgeous, by Matt’s standards: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. His ignorance is blatant. Matt, exterior visual beauty does not impact female fertility or pregnancy odds.
Wait what, Dr. Oz a quack? Shows what little you know. I met him while he was a brilliant heart surgeon at a scientific meeting in Palm Springs. He is no quack, but the real deal. A true gentleman and scholar. Unlike Tony Fauci, who is a fraud, charlatan, grifter, money launderer and should be under federal indictment.
Ya Scotty, I guess if you were in the know, you would know JAMA became a lefty rag long ago. Sure, perv Rachel Levine is their Pediatrician of the year!
BTW, see who defeated Oz in PA Senate race? Ya, John Fetterman, the poor fool can’t even tie his own shoes! But at least he bucked the Senate guidelines on dress code in his fubar hoodie! That’s real measurable progress bruh!
SS: Goodness sakes, "known sex trafficker"? Who feeds you this stuff and why did the DOJ dismiss charging him. ZERO qualifications sounds like a post-mortem for the Biden administration.
Little in RX medicine has adequate data to support such over-arching claims when up against gold standard testing. You are giving us all the upcoming Democrat talking points. Thanks for the early warnings. We are ready for you, if we even bother this time since all we still get is the same old, same old. OMBURBP4SH.
No doubt bloat needs to go. Just taking every odd SSN and sacking them is a good example of how destructive the cut mentality could be. Considered intelligent cuts, yes. Scorched earth policy, no.
Everyone’s talking about “Draining the Swamp.” I would like to hear a little more about returning troops to the US and also cutting our military budget. Remember Eisenhower’s prescient warning about the Military Industrial complex.
Talking swamps made me think of murky places and then my mind switched to the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 when a tank ruptured and released 2.3 million gallons of molasses, flooding the streets of Boston. We can only imagine the time it took to clean up the sticky mess of goo. Likewise, cleaning up the Feds operation is going to take a lot of time and will be like drudging through molasses for a long time. No doubt there will be a lot of resistance. But whatever is learned as to "how to do it" can also be applied to small governments, such as a corrupt city government. It was reported, "Everything that a Bostonian touched was sticky." No doubt Washington, DC is likewise disgusting.
I find it fascinating, listening to people talk about, draining the swamp. It means different things to different people. Matt dropping out of the AG race was a draining the swamp action for me. Who wants a man who thinks it’s OK to buy and screw young women as the attorney general of the United States. A job that demands ethics run by a man who has none? Getting rid of him is draining the swamp.
It’ll be interesting to see how the team Trump is put together trims-government waste. Will they consider waste anything that doesn’t support the elite as they are both part of that class? Do they have the knowledge and expertise to understand the safety issues that some policy has been in place for? Well they listen to people in positions of knowledge, or exert their ignorant egos into the process.
Cutting government waste is long overdue and necessary. I’m a little concerned that they’re going after the most vulnerable population via Medicare and Social Security to save dollars. I haven’t heard anything about the Pentagon that hasn’t passed a budget audit in a decade and has little oversight and lots of hands in the cookie jar.
Time will tell and hopefully not too many Americans will suffer from poorly thought decisions
Gene, Duplication of services and no legislative foundation for current expenditures is pretty neutral. Can you accept that? Not everything is "partisan". Unless that is where one is coming from. These are tax dollars. They are not "government" dollars.
I saw Ramaswamy proposing a possible way to eliminate half of the workers in the massive bureaucracy. Remember back in the 1970's during a gas "crisis" when to buy gasoline your license plate had to end with an odd or even number on a given day? Well, he said they'd be mired in discrimination lawsuits FOREVER if they didn't do some kind of lottery..... so everyone whose Social Security number ends in an even number, you're fired. Bingo. Now you have a number of workers remaining who can self-select by insisting they must come to work IN the office 40 hours a week. He proposed VERY generous buy-outs, of, say 18 months salary. By doing such a method, his big business brain has come up with a way to begin the process of elimination of the vast number of people who need to retrain to do something useful.
Huh?
LOVE IT.
No surprise DC Bureaucrats voted to save their jobs.
How many people did something they don’t like to keep their jobs. One of the most recent agregious acts was the forced jabbing of people to keep their jobs. People complied just to save their jobs, food on the table, roof ver their heads, etc…
But in the end tax payers cannot support all the government employees. It’s not personal, it’s financial, it’s not political, it’s reality of balancing a budget and not raising taxes.
Like employees of numerous private corporations and businesses that were forced because they were run irresponsibly. Take one look at Kamala spending $10 million per day on her campaign. Totally irresponsible.
Look at our own City in debt up to their eye balls spending $11 million to beautify an underpass.
Financial incompetence spending tax payer monies on projects that do not generate revenue while facing a huge multi million debt that has been approaching and warned about for at least five years.
End the self entitlement, elect officials who are not stock boys, camera assistants or professional politicians that bilk the American tax payer.
This applied to SB County....The variance in the voting statistics with the distance from DC is too great to be random.
How many employees are there in the Santa Barbara, City of Goleta, City of Carpinteria, County of Santa Barbara, and other government locations? How great was the vote for big gov. candidates?
The destruction of transportation grids and plans for further grinding down streets is directly related to the amount of money being funneled to these governments. Does anyone else find a direct correlation to the increases and maintaining expanding government workers is the grant factor?
Misery of the population and turning off of community participation is a direct relation to the locale pound (not big enough to be a swamp)>
Good Article…Trump is going to slash government (hopefully, by half) & scatter the remains across the states, meanwhile exposing the deep state player within…great to see!
When my father was in the government there was a pay grade for all federal employees. He was head of the CIA for the southern states and I was shocked st how little he made BRICS the pay grade which was the highest.
I hope that this pay grade can be put back I the government. Of course, it will need a cost of living. It has gotten way out of have especially fir the senate and the congress.
Rita, be sure to incorporate the value of a government pension in the former government (civil servant) pay schedules. The old ethic was lower pay during the working years, but the security of a good government pension plus often lifetime medical benefits at the end of one's civil service.
Now studies show government employees make nearly 20% more than similarly skilled private industry employees during their working years, plus have guaranteed pensions and perks others in the private sector only dream about.
Times have definitely changed since your own personal experience - and they are now finally catching up with the US taxpayers who is forced to fund this gross disparity. We also lost the critical incentive for government employees to be honest, productive, and accountable as to not jeopardize their promised future perks and pensions.
Consider also what recently happened with Bidenomics. Democrats crammed though ruinous inflationary debt-induced spending, but since government employees got automatic COLA, they did not miss a beat while the rest of the taxpaying public continues to suffer. Their smug response was, you should join unions too.
Insightful article; peer pressure and self-protective job bandwagon behavior evident. Bloated jobs are simply welfare for the middle class which must end. Our federal and state governments need to be decentralized, downsized, bureaucrats (including college teachers) accessible in the office 5-days a week, with major spending cuts made for the plethora of unnecessary programs and tasks. Will promises made be promises kept? The only way to take back our country is to reduce the number of voters dependent on income from a government source. Americans vote their wallets, their personal- family survival.
To poster Gene who is concerned about the most “vulnerable” on social security: those at the bottom— I share your concern and would like to read a SBCurrent article on topic. It is beyond time to revamp SS. TOO MANY of richest among us who were paid the most during their working careers — and now receive guaranteed pensions and/or have multi-million 401Ks — are getting an additional $4500/mo from SS with an annual % SS COLA increase; while the majority of essential laborers with NO PENSIONS, NO IRAs get $1500/mo for their minimal survival. Life expectancies have increased for certain demographic subsets. SS was never intended to be what it has become. It’s a tax; not a retirement plan based on 35 quarters of employment. Even with compounded interest, how many get benefits that exceed what was ever contributed? The SS tax burden on young workers, the taxable earning cap are other considerations. Some retirees, former public employees, are the wealthiest among us. Is it time for a worker welfare program replace SS?
Thoughtful POV. Don't agree, but well presented.
Thank you for this very interesting article on DOGE and voting patterns Esquire Zepke!
I think what we see at the center of DC and what happens the further we get away the swamp is the general pattern all over the country. The closer people are to state sponsored institutions, especially those propagating the mandated narratives, the more the votes go to the progressive left. The more one is geographically, intellectually and morally distanced from these swamps, the more common sense they possess and the more likely they are to vote for the common good over radical self-interest. We need decency more than we need efficiency, still I wish those boys great success.
Interesting information on voting patterns.
It seems that about half of federal employees are in organized union bargaining units, but under the law, they are unable to strike. But I imagine that they could in effect "work to rule". About 100 unions are involved. Under the law some employees in specialized jobs cannot belong to a union.
As Musk has observed, he is expecting a great deal of resistance to the work of DOGE. Much of that will be aimed at slowing it all down with every conceivable act of resistance for stopping progress with lawsuits, demonstrations and every method, short of strikes, to deter and stop the work of DOGE.
Therefore, given the Republican majority in all three areas of government, it would seem wise to have congress pass a bill putting into law the work of DOGE, according to President Trump's specification and direction.
It would be satisfying if each state followed suit, starting with the largest states in the union.
Excellent.
Interesting discussion by Mr. Zepke. Just watched an interesting report indicating that many State Department employees are requesting “crying sessions “ and prolonged psychological counseling due to the recent Trump victory. The report concludes that many from State, whose job is to promote our duly elected representatives to foreign governments are increasingly rejecting the new administration. Clearly, start cleaning house at the State Department. Further, move departments such as Commerce, EPA, Agriculture, Energy, HHS and Education to other states, west of DC. The only Departments I would think need to be in DC is intelligence related activities, ie CIA, FBI and NSA, but then again, it could be argued those Departments especially, should be de-centralized.
As for the hysteria related to Matt Gaetz, time to get over it, get a grip and consult to your comfort animal. Pam Bondi is an excellent choice and will serve DOJ with distinction. I didn’t see the mass outrage when wack job, Rachel Levine made a mockery of HHS.
The real concern obviously remains with what the disgraced Biden administration is doing in their final days. Escalating war in Ukraine, relaxing requirements for ICE detainers and going through the US Treasury like a bunch of drunken sailors!
“ . . crying sessions . .” - oh p u l e e a s e !
Your final comment is right on - “ . . disgraced Biden administration . .” These fools almost sank the ship. I just hope they don’t do even stupider stuff in the 59 days ‘till Trump and his thoughtful, intelligent, qualified group take over.
Y’up on day one after the Inauguration Day, go after traitors at State and Justice with criminal complaints. Then have FCC pull licenses for MSN, CNN, NPR and PBS for conspiracy to promote insurrection.
Excellent analysis. Thank you so much for putting this together with the supporting data. There will l be many, many steps in this turnaround journey.
Pretty much like learning most of those extra "popular votes" for Biden in 2020 came mainly from CA and NY, and not nationwide and coincidently from states where ballot harvesting by special interest third parties is legal. Since those banked "popular votes" did not change the state electoral vote count, using this claim to gas-light any further investigation into that covid-aberrant election must have been its intended purpose. Occam's razor applies here.
Not unlike the emerging numbers showing the ill-founded SBCC Measure P bond issue was most likely passed primarily due to the concentrated transient student votes in Isla Vista, who then inflicted this potentially in-perpetuity tax on the local property owners. Data is being digested right now. Good to expose the games that still can be played and learn what defenses are needed against them.
So much "free money" is put on the table, there are a lot of scrappers looking to take it.
But isn't proximity to major metropolitan areas correlated with greater Democrat participation nationwide? Wouldn't similar patterns appear the farther one gets from NYC, Detroit, Miami, Seattle, Portland, and so forth?
City and county seats - wherever there is guaranteed government employment, like right here in Santa Barbara. They become demographic anomalies, and highly protective of the status quo. Raid the treasury and hire the relatives often becomes their ethos.
Exactly. Even if you look at Red Texas. Which went 56-42 for Trump. Dallas, Huston, Austin, San Antonio all went blue.
Draining the swamp is pretty funny when he is appointing people like Matt Gaetz, known sex trafficker and general creep. So glad that guy bowed out, now I really want to see what is in that report! Appointing people from Fox news with ZERO qualifications for running the offices he appointed them to, Dr. Oz a known quack who says "antidepressants don't work" (they do, and the evidence is against him), more monsters like racist Heritage Foundation member Tom Homan who is a proponent of family separations. The dirty swamp is bubbling up from the depths with Trump.
SS your comment made me get up and do the Trump Dance! Your bs is over. We don't have to listen to it anymore. Happy days are here again, SS, because you are yesterday's newspaper.
Ya, I've been working on the Trump Dance, too! Get in with the action S Schroeder and be Happy!
The Popcorn dance is good for a warmup to the Trump Dance. When popping popcorn, you simply stand in front of the microwave and shake your legs and wave your arms. SS, get some buttery popcorn and start wiggling! Then try the Trump Dance which is less strenuous. You can do it, I'm nearing 80 and I can do it!
Atta girl!
I truly hope that you are never, ever called for jury duty. You already have him tried, convicted and hung. There has been no evidence of wrong doing by Gaetz and his bowing out was to keep a smooth transition for Trump. Even one of the women on the View had to make a formal retraction about Gaetz for making false allegations. But don't worry, Gaetz may end up in a senatorial position from Florida and that will be even better.
Ms. Bond, I’m sure the exposure and release of the first Venmo payments of Mr. Gaetz exceeding $10,000 to the two 17 year old minors were totally innocent. Strange that he dropped out of contention within 45 minutes after the second Venmo payments (for a threesome) was made public. Most likely a coincidence…
Well Mr. Scott, strange there have been no charges. Yes, most likely a coincidence.
Why, as a female, do you support Gaetz to be in public office, when he is a misogynist, and of low moral character? Have you listed to Gaetz’s recent speeches such as the one to the Turning Point audience? I seek to understand females, like you, who support those who attack our gender, who view females as a commodity to be controlled or owned. Gaetz and others like him don’t belong in highly visible positions of government leadership. Gaetz excels in exposing the deep state, messaging, and attacking complicit participants. May Trump appoint Gaetz as a watchdog, an informant, an attack dog whose personal life remains his to own. (His Santa Barbara raised wife must be tolerant or share his passions.)
I doubt very much, Montecito93108, that you have the capacity to "understand females" like me. You seem to think that there is a hive mind mentality to the way "we" should think or see things. I have in the past agreed with some of the comments you have written on The Current and on others not. Fair enough. I have listened to Gaetz's positions on past issues and find him competent to handle the issues that are presented to him.
Let’s hope Gaetz does not pursue future elected office until he matures— changes his attitude and messaging on American females.
Not every female is born gorgeous, by Matt’s standards: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. His ignorance is blatant. Matt, exterior visual beauty does not impact female fertility or pregnancy odds.
Wait what, Dr. Oz a quack? Shows what little you know. I met him while he was a brilliant heart surgeon at a scientific meeting in Palm Springs. He is no quack, but the real deal. A true gentleman and scholar. Unlike Tony Fauci, who is a fraud, charlatan, grifter, money launderer and should be under federal indictment.
Serving Hors d'oeuvres at that Palm Springs meeting? Or looking to get the little ms. LT some work? https://drqmedicalspa.com/
Ya right TJ, it was taco night as I recall. Put the water pipe down bruh.
…btw, I noticed you changed your family portrait from last night!
LT,
Evidently, the journal of the American medical Association does not share your feelings about Dr. Oz.
Quack, quack…
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/case-dr-oz-ethics-evidence-and-does-professional-self-regulation-work/2017-02
Ya Scotty, I guess if you were in the know, you would know JAMA became a lefty rag long ago. Sure, perv Rachel Levine is their Pediatrician of the year!
BTW, see who defeated Oz in PA Senate race? Ya, John Fetterman, the poor fool can’t even tie his own shoes! But at least he bucked the Senate guidelines on dress code in his fubar hoodie! That’s real measurable progress bruh!
And yet the Pennsylvania voters selected Fetterman over Oz.
…and Trump over a disastrous Harris! Progress bruh, progress.
SS: Goodness sakes, "known sex trafficker"? Who feeds you this stuff and why did the DOJ dismiss charging him. ZERO qualifications sounds like a post-mortem for the Biden administration.
Little in RX medicine has adequate data to support such over-arching claims when up against gold standard testing. You are giving us all the upcoming Democrat talking points. Thanks for the early warnings. We are ready for you, if we even bother this time since all we still get is the same old, same old. OMBURBP4SH.
No doubt bloat needs to go. Just taking every odd SSN and sacking them is a good example of how destructive the cut mentality could be. Considered intelligent cuts, yes. Scorched earth policy, no.
Everyone’s talking about “Draining the Swamp.” I would like to hear a little more about returning troops to the US and also cutting our military budget. Remember Eisenhower’s prescient warning about the Military Industrial complex.
Talking swamps made me think of murky places and then my mind switched to the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 when a tank ruptured and released 2.3 million gallons of molasses, flooding the streets of Boston. We can only imagine the time it took to clean up the sticky mess of goo. Likewise, cleaning up the Feds operation is going to take a lot of time and will be like drudging through molasses for a long time. No doubt there will be a lot of resistance. But whatever is learned as to "how to do it" can also be applied to small governments, such as a corrupt city government. It was reported, "Everything that a Bostonian touched was sticky." No doubt Washington, DC is likewise disgusting.