(12-22-2024, 11:32 PM)Jag149 Wrote:

(12-22-2024, 11:19 PM)TDOSS Wrote:
The fact that they are celebrating the number of *pages* in the bill should be a clue as to whether this was actually the big win Republicans wanted.

Normally in an actual win, one celebrates something that actually matters.

LOL they are celebrating

A LOT of the spending is no longer there and has been cut. (despite reports to the otherwise.) 
What is not there anymore? Well a few examples....

The 70 page section that would have given the government the legal right to force vaccines on the public, masks,  etc
The funding of an additional 12 gain of function labs (aka covid came from one of those)
3 million to study how the testers test and approve molasses. NOT the testing, grading the testers (a bunch of this kind of poop)
Giving DC free federal land for a stadium.  (This was passed later and while I disagree oh well, win some, lose some)
The J6 Committee protection provision


A department agency associated with censorship has been cut

While GEC's funding has been cut, the Administrative State (corrupt DC bureaucratic swamp) is moving (hiding) the GEC's staff and activities to 'other bureaus', only to continue their censoring activities.

Quote:The State Department sent a notification to Congress that it plans to terminate an agency accused of censoring conservatives after losing support from lawmakers, according to a court filing and a source familiar with the correspondence.

In the filing, attorneys for the State Department said the agency told lawmakers on Friday of its plan to move the Global Engagement Center's staff and funding to other bureaus aimed at fighting foreign disinformation. The filing was made public as part of a lawsuit brought by conservative media outlets against the State Department over its funding of the Global Disinformation Index, a fact first reported by the Washington Examiner in 2023 that sparked congressional oversight and a flurry of lawsuits.

The Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department, was launched in 2016 and was intended to be reauthorized after eight years. But following reports from the Washington Examiner and journalist Matt Taibbi in connection to the "Twitter Files," House Republicans grew increasingly frustrated with the GEC and its ties to apparent efforts to censor speech.

In part, their discontentment grew from the fact that the Global Disinformation Index, which received $100,000 from the GEC, crafted a blacklist of conservative media outlets and fed it to advertising companies to strip right-leaning websites of revenue.

"The GEC is guilty of the highest crime an agency of its kind can commit: that it weaponed itself," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who led the charge pushing not to reauthorize the GEC, told the Washington Examiner.

https://denvergazette.com/news/nation-wo...a772d.html

The Dems, Libs, progs, and their allies in the Administrative State (corrupt DC bureaucratic swamp), appear to be hell bent on censoring, suppressing, silencing conservative voices by their core value of 'By any means necessary'.

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