Houston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex charge
Andrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor.
NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.
06.02.2025 23:03 β π 2319 π 911 π¬ 120 π 138
Not so brilliant.
07.02.2025 04:47 β π 14722 π 4051 π¬ 917 π 165
07.02.2025 01:24 β π 16 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0
Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money?
Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Muskβor any presidentβfired all of us, it wouldnβt make much of a dent in government spending. Donβt fall for it.
05.02.2025 16:46 β π 11376 π 2294 π¬ 222 π 84
Please spare me with your lies. I AM Palestinian and liberals have always been the worst to us because they LIE just like this.
At least repubs are honest with their evil. Liberals are evil AND **fake**.
Not to mention, this situation was set up BY liberals.
Your ignorance is disturbing AF
05.02.2025 05:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Literally.
05.02.2025 04:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Bingo!!!!
The liberals only "care" when THEY feel personally impacted or threatened. It's really sick and pathetic that so many lack basic human empathy.
05.02.2025 04:17 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We must remember that liberals think Palestinians aren't actual humans. So for liberals, a live streamed genocide is NBD.
05.02.2025 04:16 β π 32 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This made me lol. And I'm pretty sure this has been thr spoon-fed propaganda for years.
"We have to kill others so *you* can have your 'freedom'"
04.02.2025 23:21 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
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04.02.2025 22:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Early this morning Wired reported that, contrary to published reports, Elon Musk and his operatives at the Treasury Department are not limited to βread onlyβ access to department payment systems. Rather, a 25-year-old member of Musk's illegal task force named Marko Elez has assumed control of admin privileges over these critical systems. These systems directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the U.S. government, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo further reports that not only does Musk have full access to these systems, he has already made extensive changes to the code base, over which only he likely has access and control. These changes were not tested or vetted in a development environment. They were plugged in live, on the fly, and now exist in such a way that the changes may be difficult to detect, let alone undo.
Which means that the coup I've been talking about over the past several days is no longer merely in process, is no longer theoretical, and is no longer hypothetical. Elon Musk now has the power, and no doubt the intention, to unilaterally stop the United States government from paying contractually obligated debts. He now has the power to begin using federal funds as a means of enriching himself and those he and Donald Trump favor while punishing political enemies, perceived or otherwise. Regardless of his intentions, chaos has been sowed.
As I'm writing this on Tuesday afternoon a large group of protesters led by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost has arrived at the Treasury Department but have been barred from accessing the building. The crowd is growing in size and it is unclear how, or if, the situation will be resolved.
Reports now have Musk and his team moving next to the Department of Labor and Department of Energy.
A foreign-born billionaire Nazi has single-handedly taken control of the United States government. The President has endorsed aβ¦
I just posted this on Facebook because while super online people see what's going on, normies don't. I just re-read it and it sounds unhinged. But it's what's happening. And even I can't believe it, even if we're seeing it.
04.02.2025 22:46 β π 327 π 127 π¬ 29 π 8
I think it's critical for people to know who is organizing these. Asking for basic information does not make that person an undercover trump supporter. It's basic 101 "how to safely protest"
Can ANYONE name the group/groups who are organizing these? I'm seriously looking for that information.
04.02.2025 19:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
if youβre 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you donβt delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen
04.02.2025 12:04 β π 12477 π 2580 π¬ 79 π 72
Oh. Super cool of the US attorney for DC to write a public letter threatening anyone who Elon doesn't like.
04.02.2025 14:43 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Musk bragging of a crime
Demand prison time for Musk, only Congress has the legal mandate to get rid or cut USAID. Cutting off the aid will cause thousands of deaths, especially among women and children around the world. Thatβs called mass murder.
04.02.2025 11:26 β π 6519 π 1813 π¬ 313 π 108
Yes it is illegal. Executive orders cannot undue what has been decided by congress. But CLEARLY none of our laws actually f***ing matter.
04.02.2025 10:45 β π 29 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I completely agree. He is a stupid SOB. But he still knows what he is doing. He knows many are even less informed/intelligent and he will do anything to take advantage of that fact.
04.02.2025 10:40 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I couldn't agree more.
I think muskrat wants world control and taking over the usa is step one for him. He will burn the entire planet down if it means he gets to crown himself king of the ashes.
04.02.2025 10:37 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I really hope you're right π€πΌ
04.02.2025 10:35 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
03.02.2025 16:49 β π 32291 π 4827 π¬ 1648 π 495
Mexico and Canada won the trade war, now they are signing contracts with countries all over Europe, Asia, and South America. The repercussions of this cannot be overstated, the US is on the down spiral and North America will be great again, the real America is back.
04.02.2025 00:08 β π 2644 π 447 π¬ 78 π 21
Musk tweet boasting of "feeding USAID into the chipper"
βI went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,β Musk said. βAnd I actually checked with him a few times [and] said βare you sure?ββ
The answer was yes, he said.
βAnd so weβre shutting it down,β Musk said.
USAID staffers were told that the agencyβs headquarters in Washington will be closed Monday amid the turmoil.
In an email to staff early Monday, the agencyβs leadership said: βAgency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely β¦ with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership.β
The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress.
Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional.
The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
03.02.2025 12:33 β π 4556 π 1619 π¬ 136 π 131
I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
03.02.2025 21:07 β π 38881 π 9728 π¬ 501 π 295
Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Muskβs gaming posse.
03.02.2025 22:21 β π 19023 π 4022 π¬ 985 π 165
03.02.2025 21:33 β π 63 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0
If the US judicial branch canβt uphold the law equally or at all, then alternative actions or proceedings need to be explored.
03.02.2025 21:31 β π 2057 π 379 π¬ 85 π 18
Twitter account, lol. Didn't the muskrat rename that stupid platform "X"?
03.02.2025 21:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
03.02.2025 06:16 β π 32923 π 8552 π¬ 1004 π 589
Pay attention to what the mainstream media isn't showing.
Now they are pushing the tariffs really hard so you forget to follow-up on the theft of your private data, the preparing of the stocks for the buyout, the flurry of executive orders,
Whatever the mainstreams are showing is the misdirection.
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