Vested interest in not getting caught stealing from taxpayers…

Good deal. What are the rules?

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Elon, standing in the Oval Office with President Trump, puts the corrupt bureaucrats who have been stealing our taxpayer dollars on notice 🔥

“We do find it rather sort of odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred… pic.twitter.com/blAzQJpZ6n

— TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) February 11, 2025

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Wonder when he will look into the dude sitting next to him?

Also the irony of Elon going on about "unelected officials" while being unelected and meddling in everything.

This board would be losing its ****ing mind if a democrat was doing what Trump is doing. Hypocrites all of you.

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What do you think nearly all of biden's term was?

Is sure as **** wasn't biden making any decisions

99.973% of federal employees are not elected. HTH

NM. Covered better above.

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agent-maroon said:

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How are they identifying the high net-worth individuals?

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You really have to ask that?

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It was a serious question. Sorry if I'm the only one that doesn't know.

Saxplayer8 said:

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Missing the point, but I don't know what I expected coming here to ask if anyone was worried about the school affiliated with this website being affected by politics.

What's the conservative hang up on the NIH and COVID anyways? Please enlighten me as I'm out of the loop on this one

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As long as the NIH exists in its current state, you will not be able to decouple the two. In 2011 studies around H5N1 were suppressed and then later in 2014 breaches in protocol that exposed CDC workers to anthrax, vials of small pox were found lying around in a CDC store room, and then vials of influenza contaminated with H5N1 accidentally sent out from the CDC.

All of the above led to the moratorium on funding gain of function research until appropriate work could be done establishing controls and understanding risks. The problem is, it doesn't appear this was ever stopped, GoF was just moved out of direct US oversight and as it pertains to COVID....moved to China. I expect further investigation will reveal greed, over-zealous researchers, and a healthy dose of narcissism from elites including, but not limited to Faucci, are the reason we had over a million die from a lab leak. Arrogance from people who "knew better" than anyone who dared try to put a pause on this.

That said, any funds coming in from NIH are 'fruit of the poisonous tree' until you can get rid of the old guard. As with all other public programs there is a some good mixed in with a lot of bad. Some of the money is going to ethical and valuable research, but the current NIH cannot be trusted to be the arbiter.

To take it a step further....have you noticed how all of the preemptive pardons from Biden had a start date of January 1, 2014? Obama and Biden were in the Oval Office from January 2009 to January 2017. I find it very hard to believe this is all a coincidence. What was happening in 2014 that could land these folks in hot water?

TLDR.... Some of us believe that until the NIH can be investigated and cleaned up, A&M needs to find funding and grants from some other stream. For that matter, all funding needs to be paused until it can be audited and found to be 'above board', ethical, and transparent.

We fixed the keg said:

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Saxplayer8 said:

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Missing the point, but I don't know what I expected coming here to ask if anyone was worried about the school affiliated with this website being affected by politics.

What's the conservative hang up on the NIH and COVID anyways? Please enlighten me as I'm out of the loop on this one

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As long as the NIH exists in its current state, you will not be able to decouple the two. In 2011 studies around H5N1 were suppressed and then later in 2014 breaches in protocol that exposed CDC workers to anthrax, vials of small pox were found lying around in a CDC store room, and then vials of influenza contaminated with H5N1 accidentally sent out from the CDC.

All of the above led to the moratorium on funding gain of function research until appropriate work could be done establishing controls and understanding risks. The problem is, it doesn't appear this was ever stopped, GoF was just moved out of direct US oversight and as it pertains to COVID....moved to China. I expect further investigation will reveal greed, over-zealous researchers, and a healthy dose of narcissism from elites including, but not limited to Faucci, are the reason we had over a million die from a lab leak. Arrogance from people who "knew better" than anyone who dared try to put a pause on this.

That said, any funds coming in from NIH are 'fruit of the poisonous tree' until you can get rid of the old guard. As with all other public programs there is a some good mixed in with a lot of bad. Some of the money is going to ethical and valuable research, but the current NIH cannot be trusted to be the arbiter.

To take it a step further....have you noticed how all of the preemptive pardons from Biden had a start date of January 1, 2014? Obama and Biden were in the Oval Office from January 2009 to January 2017. I find it very hard to believe this is all a coincidence. What was happening in 2014 that could land these folks in hot water?

TLDR.... Some of us believe that until the NIH can be investigated and cleaned up, A&M needs to find funding and grants from some other stream. For that matter, all funding needs to be paused until it can be audited and found to be 'above board', ethical, and transparent.

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This post makes me want to have a beer and toast the guy who fixed the keg.

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She was also acting director for the David Rubenstein center for WH history before that. The David Rubenstein Trump just fired from the Kennedy Center.

I hope there's a plan here as the woman who now has replaced her, in that role again, Debrah Seidel Wall, is also complete scum and is the one who really played along to get the FBI to ransack Mar A Lago for documents they already had copies of, and oh by the way made guards at the national archives remove any pro-life stance stuff.

National Archives may seem mundane vs. other stuff but they've injected their TDS leadership into the political world quite heavily the past 10-20 years.

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Quoting myself here as this is going to escalate today I think. Some of this is old data now but Trump's team is digging through the NA records.

/2 In 2023, AFL explained how a “special access request” from the Biden White House led to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. https://t.co/JI0lA95Awh

— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) February 12, 2025

/4 But by the summer of 2021, even though NARA was assured they’d “get to a resolution relatively soon” on Trump’s boxes, then-Archivist of the United States David Ferriero was “out of patience,” and NARA General Counsel Gary Stern started “working on a letter to the AG.” pic.twitter.com/bZldIdvrK6

— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) February 12, 2025

/6 But because NARA’s ongoing engagement with President Trump’s reps “could help to clarify, if not actually resolve, the issue,” they nixed the DOJ letter. Instead, Biden’s Dep. WH Counsel devised a pretext for a “special access request” to NARA for Trump’s Presidential records. pic.twitter.com/5BzskyKXnv

— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) February 12, 2025

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/7 This new timeline is further proof that Biden's FBI raid on MAL was never about securing classified documents it was always about weaponizing the full force of the Department of Justice against President Trump by whatever means necessary.

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“National Archives employees who helped make the shocking decision to seek an unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful Biden Justice Department home raid on the former president — including searching Melania and Barron Trump’s underwear drawers — over a dispute essentially about…

— The Article III Project (A3P) (@Article3Project) February 11, 2025

Again the David Rubinstein impact is a cancer:

Revisionist history has no place in America. pic.twitter.com/B5tB74VUse

— Eric Kunkel (@doctorkunkel) February 9, 2025

Common sense indicated the charges were bogus. POTUS has the highest clearance and POTUS decides what is classified or not. To charge DJT with classified secrets was ludicrous. Happy when it backfired on Biden.

A couple of add-ons here...this popped up in my feed since I posted my response.

Link to NIH funding for Trans animal research

Yes, you can make an argument that "if we are going to do gender re-assignment, we need this research" but WOW. I am of the opinion, money should be spent on research with the greatest impact. Research for cancer impacting millions as opposed to what I consider a mental health matter for tens of thousands. Even if the money stayed with gender dysphoria from the mental health aspect and not how to surgically change genders, I would support some spending.

To try to bring this back to the topic, there is ample evidence that the agenda of the NIH has been co-opted by politics and greed. I would expect the HHS will have a lot of opportunity to identify bad actors who either run the NIH like their private fiefdom, or worse, their piggy banks. As it stands, the NIH is just another agency that is highly politicized and apparently rife with corruption.

We will see once we have a confirmed head of HHS and we see the outcome of State AG's investigations into Faucci and COVID. I am confident we will see more "deep state" resignations and firings out of the NIH.

Like so many US health programs they started off with good intentions but politics and greed have taken them over. Places like the NIH used to be critical but when they started getting funding for trans animals they put politics in front of health. They need to be investigated, gutted, and given clear guidance moving forward.

The flood of people in DC searching "Criminal Defense Lawyers" starting January 28th was so massive that it drove nation-wide search volume up over 30% https://t.co/z1K9L43EMu

— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) February 12, 2025

And I would wager three quarters of those criminal defense attorneys have a spouse or family member involved with an USAID NGO in one form or another. Very tangled web rife with conflicts of interests in every direction.

Of course there are no ethics present in the DC bar, that I have seen.

agent-maroon said:

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aggiehawg said:

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agent-maroon said:

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How are they identifying the high net-worth individuals?

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You really have to ask that?

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It was a serious question. Sorry if I'm the only one that doesn't know.

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I think the answer is their security clearance paperwork allows access to that information. At least that was what my wife found when she asked the question.

DaShi said:

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99.973% of federal employees are not elected. HTH

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I would love to know what percentage of the 99.973% have access to personal data in one form or another.

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agent-maroon said:

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aggiehawg said:

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agent-maroon said:

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How are they identifying the high net-worth individuals?

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You really have to ask that?

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It was a serious question. Sorry if I'm the only one that doesn't know.

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I think the answer is their security clearance paperwork allows access to that information. At least that was what my wife found when she asked the question.

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They can start with every federal employee subject to the Ethics In Government Act that has to submit the OGE-450 Financial Disclosure. That disclosure doesn't report net worth but it is relatively easy to audit what it does include for accuracy e.g. income, equity, board membership and compensation, loans, etc. There is (in my experience) ZERO effort expended to verify that what is reported on OGE-450 is complete or accurate. I don't know if Congress and their staffs are even subject to EIGA. I wouldn't doubt that they exempted themselves.

https://ethics.od.nih.gov/forms450

https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/OGE%20Forms/2026049D943E0C34852585B6005A23CE/$FILE/OGE%20Form%20450%20Confidential%20Financial%20Disclosure%20Report.pdf?open