[ExI] Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency

[spike at rainier66.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Sent: Saturday, 3 October, 2026 7:58 AM
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Cc: Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency

On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 10:19 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


>>... Congress paid for it John.  If they don’t like it, they can cut DHS’s budget.

>...This is not the use that Congress authorized.  It'd be akin to a board of directors approving a security budget for a corporation, then the person in charge of security decides to spend some of the budget bribing shareholders to vote out part of the board.  The laws against doing that with government money are stricter - if they get enforced - but it is illegal.

_______________________________________________


OK, cut the DHS budget.  If congress decides these ads are illegal, impeach the president.  That is what the impeachment process is for.  Unless congress acts, congress is responsible for those ads.  I don't see anything wrong with them.  They are saying America will never be a communist country, ja, I agree.  One is encouraging the Iranian people their hour of freedom is at hand.  Ja, I agree.  One is about demolishing the deep state.  OK, I agree.  All of those are Public Service Announcements.  We have always had those.  But congress is still funding it.  If they don't like the ads, they are responsible for defunding DHS.

spike