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• Hokey Smokes! Those must be some homes!

  🚨 🇺🇸 EXPOSED: USAID'S HAITI SCAM – $4.4B SPENT, SIX HOMES BUILT
  
  USAID and partners funneled billions through multiple "administrative fees," with DC firms pocketing 56% of contracts while Haitian companies got just 2%.
  
  The Red Cross's numbers tell the story: $500M raised,… https://t.co/GIVy3R2iTn pic.twitter.com/uWTXH9DZmA

  — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 22, 2025

  Posted 02/23/2025 01:03 PM ·
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• Hokey Smokes!

  🚨 Unimaginable fraud in Maryland#BREAKING – The state of Maryland “accidentally overpaid” $807.4 MILLION in unemployment benefits — Problem is, a large percentage of people NEVER RECEIVED A CHECK
  
  The state says this money cannot be recovered. Oops our bad..
  
  So, who got that… pic.twitter.com/Yf1tlP4TS7

  — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) January 14, 2026

  Posted 01/15/2026 11:58 AM ·
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• Hokey Smokes

  Piloto y acompañante en un Bechcraft King Air se encontraron sobre EUA en 2023 con un UAP un objeto sin medios de propulsión a una mayor velocidad que el avión que al estar frente a la cabina le gira.
  
  Hi uncertainvector</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyCorbell">JeremyCorbell LueElizondo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/USD_IntelSec">USD_IntelSec#UAPV pic.twitter.com/QoklNr2Kdk

  — 💧J. Alberto (@admpubmx) April 6, 2023

  Posted 04/10/2023 09:54 PM ·
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• Hokey Smokes!

  🚨 HOLY CRAP! A witness testified under oath to Sen. HawleyMO</a> that over $60 MILLION in dark money has already flowed to funding the Minnesota riots<br><br>This funding is coming from 14 groups, per <a href="https://twitter.com/seamusbruner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">seamusbruner
  
  “Over $60 million, just according to the latest 990 disclosures. $60… pic.twitter.com/ZqdQaVcpKN

  — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 12, 2026

  Posted 02/13/2026 12:26 PM ·
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• 'I Think You're An Angry Man': John Kennedy Directly Confronts Judicial Nominee Over Past Statements

  This creature wants to be a JUDGE. Hokey Smokes!
  
  

  Posted 12/01/2021 04:17 PM ·
  Categories Clips, Morons

• that's a mighty big if...

  If.
  Hokey Smokes!
  The media says that if either party declines to finish the deal there will be a 1 billion penalty. Pocket change for Musk. What company would put themselves in a position like this?
  
  This tells those of us that watch such things volumes.
  
  Twitter had nowhere to go.
  
  Musk can grind away at the corrupt infrastructure, removing the bad elements until either he has a functioning company – or not. Delighting us in the interim and absolutely torturing the bad actors, all tweeted in real time for our enjoyment.
  
  

  God Bless You Mr. Musk.
  
  

  Should Musk decide the company is not salvageable he can walk away for a cool billion. Probably crash the stock, turn around buy the bankrupt company, restaff and build something useful.
  
  

  This is extreme corporate hardball and everybody is watching. What went down with Twitter was ART. It was ENGINEERED and is a brutal message to the other corporate players…
  
  

  Enjoy the Show.
  
  

  
  

  Posted 05/06/2022 09:20 AM ·
  Categories Clips, The AssHat

• You Have More Than You Know.

  ‘You Have More Than You Know.’
  
  Whoa Nelly! Another recurring phrase in those posts.
  
  Ever had the experience of looking at an image, a picture many times over many years and of course over those years the image always looks the same. It’s an image right? Maybe a family photo, a historical image, or a framed photo of his family on the desk of a co-worker. And then one day you learn something. Might be a historical fact unknown to you, or something happens to someone in the photo, say that co-workers son gets sick. And from that day on the photo looks exactly the same – but way different?!
  
  Information has added to our perspective and we adjust how we ‘read’ that information into how we view the world.
  
  In effect we ‘see’ the abstract information acquired applied to our visual processing. We build the information in our minds with a new ‘bias’ or ‘perspective’. And the same picture never again looks the way it did.
  
  For me it’s been that way with ‘those’ posts. I have a very good memory and having studied these posts over the last four years have pretty much memorized them the way you do when you have a favorite book you read many times. There are less then 5 thousand posts.
  
  Look, I could have memorized all 10,000 Kardashian posts and seriously annoyed everybody.
  
  I keep telling you I’m a bad person. Not evil. Just bad. Don’t judge me.
  
  Not quite as good as those guys that have some books memorized by chapter and verse but a pretty close paraphrase, if you will. I think that has been of benefit in being able to interpret the posts against whats happening all around the world now. I’ve get that reference in my head, real-time.
  
  Many analyze those posts against a religious sometimes prophetic (some as endtimes) perspective and the posts do tell us it’s going to be Biblical.
  
  My background is systems, languages, symbols and I always viewed those posts as a sort of pseudo code, a logistical language, a description of the processes involved. When I read the first posts they just Looked to me like a high level language.
  
  From that perspective I have been pondering recent events and processing them against all those posts I carry like a big ol database in my head…
  
  So there I was, minding my own business and these two thoughts collide. Right in front of me. Could not avoid it to save my life. Shattered concepts all over the ground. And in the greatest ‘you got your peanut butter on my chocolate’ epiphany I’ve ever had I looked at the bulk of all that information rotated a few degrees askew, in just a slightly different perspective and began seeing relationships between things that from the trenches seem totally unrelated. But abstract several levels above and from that 100,000 foot view those relationships become clearer.
  
  Abstraction. You have more than you know.
  
  Hokey Smokes!
  
  This is one of the most extraordinary events in history.
  Watch it unfold without fear.
  Enjoy the destruction of our overlords – all streamed for your enjoyment.
  
  Those same posts say some of you are going to lose your minds when the data begins to drop on ‘Those you trust the most’. People. Corporations. Institutions. Foundations. Governments. All down to the local level.
  
  Anons have an obligation to help these souls understand what is going on when things get Real Weird ™ Playing Very Soon.
  
  So I will tell you things. I hope when the receipts start to drop – to show you those things too. It’s been a long time coming. In order for me to do this we have to have an agreement, a contract in effect on the context of these discussions.
  
  Consider this my disclaimer:
  
  You are sitting in an airport lounge. Not one of those lounges they let us riff raff into but one of those fancy lounges that you need to be a member of. Ones that have plastic cards for entrance in exotic, expensive colors like diamond, onyx, platinum, palladium, gold. Privileged colors.
  
  So there you are at the bar for a three hour layover grateful the place is damn near empty. And the door opens to admit another member worthy of the grandeur that is a members only airport lounge.
  
  You understand this individual has already made the first cut into this inner sanctum and only requires a brief look over. Careful, security minded traveler that you are.
  
  Well dressed, hand tooled boots, expensive suit. Groomed well, around 60. Perfectly suited for the rarefied atmosphere that is the members only airport lounge.
  
  Except for the hat. Not so much the hat, which also appears to be very well made – it was the embroidered patch on the front of the hat that was a little out of place. A little gouache. It was a very intricate, obviously expensive hand embroidered image of an ass. In any other place but an exclusive airport lounge of beautiful people it might have gone unnoticed. But here? And yet he has a piece of plastic in a precious color few others have.
  
  Sure enough he sits down at the bar next to you. And begins to talk. Everything he says stands on it’s own. Sometimes it’s a stretch, but logical thinking prevails. It’s when he begins connecting the dots, points out relationships between things you have never thought of that you begin to understand the hat.
  
  Individually everything the guy says makes sense.. It’s the connections that are so very hard to accept because if that connection is true – then this must be true… and the whole system comes down. No one wants to begin to think about the enormity of an entire system failing.
  
  Over the course of the next days, weeks and months you remember what the guy said and are surprised he makes more sense – you begin to trust more what he said – then those ‘people you trust the most’.
  
  You have begun your journey when you trust The AssHat’s information more than that creepy Max Headroom looking mofu on CNN.
  
  I’ve created a ‘The AssHat’ category on retrograde and will be posting what The AssHat has to say there.
  
  Keep in mind everything said under that category is uttered by a guy wearing a patch on his hat of a big hairy ass.
  
  You have been warned.

  Posted 12/21/2021 06:24 PM ·
  Categories The AssHat

• Hokey Smokes!

  This is long but a necessary read for all Oregon voters, especially those who aren’t necessarily well versed or knowledgeable of Tina Kotek’s way of governing. She was and is a terrible, vindictive person but more so to her own party members. I was a witness to all former Rep. Diego Hernandez writes here. This is a Democrat telling the truth about former Speaker now Governor Kotek. I just wish more of my former colleagues would be so brave. He is an honorable man. #orpol #orleg #orgov I’m not voting for Tina Kotek. I personally know Tina Kotek’s Leadership. I Experienced It. I’ve been watching Tina Kotek’s governorship and the growing frustration with her leadership, the staff turnover, the controversies, and the struggles to deliver on some of Oregon’s most pressing issues. And I can’t help but reflect on my own experience. I served four years in the Oregon House of Representatives under Tina Kotek’s leadership as Speaker. I worked directly with her. I experienced how she treated people who challenged her authority, disagreed with her decisions, or refused to fall in line. I was bullied, harassed, threatened, and politically targeted by Tina Kotek. I don’t say that lightly. I lived it, documented it, provided evidence and witnesses, and eventually testified publicly about it. And what I experienced says a lot about the kind of leadership I believe Oregon has been subjected to. —When Power Becomes a Tool for Control— I still remember one of my first meetings with Tina when I was newly elected. There wasn’t much interest in getting to know me, understanding the communities I represented, or discussing the policies I wanted to champion. Instead, I was told how much money I was expected to raise for the Democratic caucus and how my ability to advance legislation, secure committee assignments, and receive political support would depend on meeting those expectations. That was my introduction to legislative leadership. Now, I understand politics. I understand fundraising, negotiating, coalition building, and the difficult compromises that come with governing. I’ve participated in all of it. But there’s a difference between exercising political leadership and using institutional power to intimidate, punish, and control people. Over time, I came to experience Tina’s leadership as rooted in fear, coercion, manipulation, and political retaliation. The message was clear: Support what she wants, or risk losing what matters to you. And when you represent communities that have historically been excluded from political power, that kind of leverage can be particularly harmful. —The Day She Threatened My Career— In 2019, Tina was trying to pass controversial legislation changing Oregon’s public employee retirement system, commonly known as PERS. I disagreed with the legislation and refused to vote for it. That decision led to repeated pressure and threats. And during one of her escalating confrontations towards me, Tina told me directly: “I will make sure to end your career.” She threatened my legislative priorities, my political future, and bills I had worked hard to advance. In one of her final attempts to get me to change my vote, she said she was going to kill the legislation to restore access to driver’s licenses for undocumented Oregonians if I voted no. Think about that for a moment. A policy affecting thousands of immigrant families, people who needed to drive legally to work, take their children to school, and participate in everyday life, was being used as leverage to force my vote on an entirely unrelated issue. I wasn’t going to let that happen. Immediately after that threat, I called Rep. Teresa Alonso Leon, who was working with me on the driver’s license legislation, and told her what Tina was threatening to do. Teresa was courages and she told Tina that if she killed our driver’s license bill, Teresa would change her vote on PERS from yes to a no. With the vote already extremely close, losing another vote completely threatened Tina’s ability to pass the legislation. That changed the political equation. The PERS bill barely passed, but only after Democrat changed their vote from no to yes. That legislator had been called into Tina’s office and, from what I witnessed, emerged in tears, visibly distressed by the vote they felt compelled to make. Our driver’s license legislation survived thanks to Teresa Alonso Leon and eventually became law. But I never forgot what it took to protect it. What disturbed me most was how easily the needs of an entire community could become bargaining chips in an effort to control another elected official. And this was only one example of what I experienced. —When the System Protects Power— I eventually filed a formal workplace harassment complaint and provided evidence of Tina’s conduct, including contemporaneous messages, witnesses, and documentation of the threats. Tina worked hard to make sure the investigation never concluded or to come out and see the light of day, dragging far beyond the required time required by statute. People witnessed parts of what happened. I told colleagues about the threats immediately after they occurred, long before there was any formal investigation. The investigator even concluded that the evidence more closely supported my version of events. Yet the investigator reasoned that conduct potentially inappropriate in another workplace was different in the Legislature because politics is inherently contentious. Mind you that investigator is under the office controlled by Tina herself. These investigators work like prosecutors for her office. Essentially, the intimidation I experienced was treated as part of politics. The House Conduct Committee ultimately deadlocked 2–2 over whether her conduct violated workplace rules. That vote distinction matters to me. A complaint being dismissed by deadlocked doesn’t mean she didn’t violate the rules, yet that’s what was reported. In my experience, the legislative accountability system was deeply compromised by her political influence, institutional self-protection, and what I witnessed as the targeting of people she considered political enemies. My experience left me with profound concerns about whether those holding the greatest power could ever be meaningfully held accountable by a process operating within the same institutional power structure they could influence and manipulate. These systems were weaponized by Kotek against political opponents, including me and other legislators who challenged her leadership or refused to do what she wanted. Those concerns extend beyond my own experience. She had the power to initiate any investigation she wanted, when she wanted under the mandatory reporting rules, Tina herself initiated investigations through reports she submitted herself, while the process could obscure who had set the investigation in motion. I witnessed first hand the political exploitation of that authority. When political power influences who gets investigated, who gets believed, how conduct is interpreted, and who faces consequences, accountability itself becomes vulnerable to manipulation. And as a man of color, I am especially aware of how racial stereotypes, historical inequities, and systemic racism can make it easier for someone to be targeted, labeled, and presumed culpable. And how much more the consequences that come with such targeting. And that should concern everyone, regardless of political affiliation. —The Long-Term Cost of Leading Through Fear— Here’s what my experience taught me about leadership. You can get a lot accomplished in the short term through intimidation, political threats, transactional relationships, control over fundraising, and and the enormous leverage that comes with controlling legislative assignments and influencing state budgets. People will comply. They will tell you what you want to hear. They may even defend you publicly because their careers, priorities, relationships, or access to resources depend on maintaining your favor. That can look like effective leadership from the outside. But over time, that style of leadership begins to rot the very foundation of her leadership and the institutions, relationships, and trust upon which leadership depends on. Trust deteriorates. People become afraid to disagree. Independent thinking gets punished. Genuine relationships become transactional. Loyalty becomes a measure of usefulness rather than shared values or mutual respect. Eventually, the consequences become harder to contain. Unlike leadership rooted in respect, consistent values and, like that of Morse, Hatfield, Dellenback, McCall, Katz, Paulus, McNary, Courtney, Roberts, Carter, and other Oregon’s great leaders. When I see the turmoil surrounding Tina’s governorship, the departure of senior staff, the controversies over her decision-making and the questions surrounding her wife’s involvement in state government and the use of public resources to support that role,, and the growing frustration over the state’s direction, I recognize aspects of the leadership culture I experienced. I do believe how someone exercises power has consequences, especially when they become responsible for leading an entire state. A governor needs people who feel empowered to speak honestly, challenge decisions, identify mistakes, and offer different perspectives without fearing retaliation. You cannot build that kind of environment through fear. —Oregon Deserves Better Leadership— Yes, Tina Kotek has worked hard on some policies that I support. We have shared political priorities, and there are legislative accomplishments during her time as Speaker that deserve recognition. I can acknowledge those accomplishments while also speaking honestly about how she leads and what I witnessed. Political alignment should never require us to excuse hostile leadership that uses bullying, harassment, manipulation, or abuses of power from people on our own side. I’ve spent 15 years of my life working in communities where leadership is rooted in relationships, collective responsibility, restoritve justice, and the understanding that people deserve dignity, including when we disagree. I’ve also seen how political systems can reproduce the same harmful power dynamics that many of us entered public service hoping to change. Leadership requires making difficult decisions. Sometimes people will disagree with you. Sometimes you’ll lose votes, face criticism, or have to make compromises that disappoint people. That comes with the responsibility of public service. But threatening someone’s livelihood, political future, or the communities they represent because they refuse to surrender their independent judgment should never be normalized as the cost of doing politics. I know how damaging that kind of leadership can be. I live with its consequences long after leaving the Legislature. And while other people may have had different experiences with Tina, this was mine. I believe Oregon deserves leadership that builds trust rather than fear, earns loyalty rather than demands obedience, welcomes disagreement rather than punishes it, and understands that political power is a public responsibility rather than a personal instrument of control. I didn’t enter public service to be loyal to a political leader. I entered it to represent people, advocate for communities, and advance policies that improve lives. And no elected official, regardless of their title, party, or political power, should ever have to choose between their conscience and their career. That’s the kind of political culture I believe we should be challenging, including within our own political circles. And that’s why, based on my own experience, I don’t believe Tina Kotek represents the kind of leadership Oregon deserves and won’t be voting for her because we do need change, we need great leaders like the names I mentioned earlier. -Diego (I wrote this myself and not a.i. so please excuse all my grammatical errors)

  — Bill Post 🇺🇸 (@TheBillPost) October 23, 2026

  Posted 10/24/2026 10:40 AM ·
  Categories Clips