US continues to go backward...

[CowboyJD]

Y’all should’ve started with the squirrel bait first then. Instead, the focus was on me using the word Somali before the word fraud.

I’m certain plenty of people think I’m racist now because of that. A prerequisite was even laid out. Apparently, before I can comment on left fraud I must call it out the right, which I had and will continue to do so.

Think I can do it now actually. The Pentagon failed the 8th audit in row. That’s a lot of time under a Trump administration. $13.4bil in weapons have disappeared in Israel. Wonder what terrorist group(s) have those to use against us or other groups of incident people for the next “conflict” we’ll pour more billions into?

There. I did it again.

You do understand using the word Somali before the word fraud IS the squirrel bait I’ve been talking about from the start, right?

Fraud is fraud. Crime is crime. The nationality of the crime doers is completely irrelevant to the seriousness or concern and attention that should be given to stopping and prosecuting it.

 

[Polds4OSU]

You do understand using the word Somali before the word fraud IS the squirrel bait I’ve been talking about from the start, right?

Fraud is fraud. Crime is crime. The nationality of the crime doers is completely irrelevant to the seriousness or concern and attention that should be given to stopping and prosecuting it.

Well I mean Hitler did the same thing with the Jewish people and began calling out Jewish Crime

 

[Big Huck]

Thank you.

No problem! Curious, were you around on the old Orange Power board? Your avatar reminds me of a poster that was on there named Cimarron. He was a good dude.

 

[steross]

Funny.. I hardly seen any liberal wrongs called out here. Maybe I miss all that as I only pop in and out of here. Anyway.. (checks thread title) F the politicians, right and left. They’re sending this country backward.

Happy New Years!

Being that the democrats are in charge of absolutely nothing that is significant for Oklahoma (R supermajority in the state, Federal R holding all three branches of government) it is a little hard to find things to complain about since dems do nothing (which has been complained about).

But, there are examples. Sorry about the link editing, don't know how to fix that.

Dems do nothing and suck:

Post in thread 'US continues to go backward...'

Nov 2, 2025

Democrats have a perfect opportunity here but don't appear to have the competence to take it. How can a country with 330 million people have such a vacuum of good leadership?

https://wapo.st/4oMSmrs

Voters broadly disapprove of Trump but remain divided on midterms, poll finds​

Most Americans disapprove of President Trump’s handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.


Americans broadly disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling his job, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising the powers of his office...

• steross

Post in thread 'Funny Political Memes'

Aug 25, 2025

No, they are not equally FOS.

California may have taken until 2023 to fully enact the changes from the 2020 census, but that was not a mid-cycle redistricting.
The last time that happened was Georgia Republicans in 2005. Two decades is not an "all the time" thing.

Democrats suck, they have some ok ideas and some bad ideas. They have very weak candidates and poor leadership at the current time. They let Trump win by being reactive to his antics rather than charting a better course.

That said, attempting to equate their normal political suckage to the MAGA/Trump roughshodding of...

• RxCowboy

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Newsome:

Post in thread 'Trump 47'

Jul 16, 2025

Gavin Newsom: “There’s no fiscal conservatives left. They proved that in the Big Beautiful Betrayal. But this is comedy. Donald Trump waxing on about the Fed chair and cost overruns on a new building? How about the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s burned to sear in your mind that he’s some tough guy because he didn’t get enough hugs from his parents growing up.”

Marco Foster (@marco.foster) on Threads

Gavin Newsom: “There’s no fiscal conservatives left. They proved that in the Big Beautiful Betrayal. But this is comedy. Donald Trump waxing on about the Fed chair and cost overruns on a new building? How about the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s burned to sear in your mind that he’s some...

www.threads.com

Am I allowed to be absolutely sick of Trump, but also tired of Gavin Newsome, too?

• steross

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Post in thread 'American Healthcare continues to go backward'

Oct 2, 2024

Newsome must have gotten some pretty nice meals paid for at the French Laundry from the people sucking all the money out of health care. He vetoed this bill too.

Newsom sides with health care industry in rejecting rules for prescription drug middlemen, hedge funds

Hedge funds can burden a health care company in debt, threatening services. Gov. Newsom rejected a bill to regulate those deals.

calmatters.org

Newsom sides with health care industry in rejecting rules for prescription drug middlemen, hedge funds​

More than two dozen states regulate the pharmaceutical middlemen that advocates and economists say drive up the price of prescription drugs, but California will not be joining their ranks. Gov. Gavin Newsom today vetoed legislation...

• steross

Henry Cuellar fraud was brought up here:

Thread 'DOJ expected to announce indictment of Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar'

May 3, 2024

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is expected to announce the indictment of longtime Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Friday, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Cuellar’s home and campaign office in Laredo, Texas, were raided in January 2022 as part of a federal investigation into Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen who have ties to the country, law enforcement said at the time. His office had pledged to cooperate with the investigation. In April, Cuellar's lawyer, Joshua Berman, told some news outlets that federal authorities informed him he was not...

• Polds4OSU
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• Forum: World News and Politics

Well, until Trump switched the dem fraud to a republican complaint by inexplicably pardoning Cuellar despite clear guilt:

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Post in thread 'Trump 47'

Dec 3, 2025

So, Trump will even pardon a Democrat for bribery if he had supported him in some way such as opposing Biden's immigration policy.

Trump says he is pardoning Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat facing bribery charges​

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/henry-cuellar-pardon-trump/

• Stillwater Townie

When, despite being popular, Mike Boyton was incompetently running the OSU basketball problem, not too many complaints about Keaton Page occurred even though he was there. The dems are there, they just don't run anything worth complaining about.

 

[steross]

Now, what would be really cool to see is a post, not a comment in a post about something else, but an actual full post by a conservative/Trump supporter ridiculing any of the absurd things Trump has done. THAT is what I can't recall ever seeing.

 

[osuwhit]

Now, what would be really cool to see is a post, not a comment in a post about something else, but an actual full post by a conservative/Trump supporter ridiculing any of the absurd things Trump has done. THAT is what I can't recall ever seeing.

I’ve done it

 

[osuwhit]

No problem! Curious, were you around on the old Orange Power board? Your avatar reminds me of a poster that was on there named Cimarron. He was a good dude.

I was and I do recall cimarron. I picked up on a trend during the OP days. A lot of posters used characters from western movies for their avatar. So, I went with Sam Elliot as the cowboy from the Big Lebowski. Haven’t changed it in over a decade.

Has Cim not made it here?

 

[osuwhit]

You think those chances are incredibly slim with little to no evidence that you can point out. And about that in general….why does the political persuasion….or the nationality….of alleged criminal conduct matter to you in this context? Fraud is fraud. Crime is crime.

And you’ve completely mischaracterized the first responses you got from others as well. I certainly haven’t claimed it shouldn’t be talked about. I’ve consistently said if the fraud occurred it should be investigated and prosecuted. And I have consistently said that labeling it as Somali fraud is squirrel bait because the nationality of the alleged fraudsters doesn’t make it any worse or better than any other fraud.

You’re the one that broke out this “race card” and “do you think I’m racist” nonsense….and are still telling others what “should’ve been the first response” made by others.

You say and discuss whatever you want….however you want.

I’m gonna do the same.

I think it was said without saying it.

 

[osuwhit]

For the record, I think “daycare fraud” is a fine description.

 

[cowboyinexile]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2005696995386621977

Just a reminder that although many Somalis were/are involved the person that was the ringleader is a white woman. Feeding our Future was raided by the FBI in 2022, so this isn't something that was being ignored prior to the current administration. Heck when it was first brought up here I mentioned Feeding our Future because it was something I had heard of but hadn't thought about in a while.

Also if this is something so important to you now you should ask yourself why you weren't so concerned 2-3 years ago when the story first broke. Are there any other big stories going on right now that the administration doesn't want you to talk about?

 

[PF5]

Do you think I’m racist?

I don’t know enough about you to give an opinion or guess…