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  Sam Carter 2.18K subscribers Jul 14, 2026 In May 2025, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that 500 tons of emergency food — high-energy biscuits bought with American tax dollars — were sitting in a warehouse in Dubai, set to expire in July. Bought. Shipped. Stored. And condemned to waste. Rubio's response: "I disagree with like 99% of it. It's just not true. We've done nothing that's illegal." Two months later, the biscuits were incinerated. Here are the confirmed numbers. 496 metric tons — roughly $800,000 worth — expired in that Dubai warehouse and were destroyed. The State Department confirmed it. The food was meant for starving children in Afghanistan and Pakistan; it would have fed approximately 1.5 million children for a week. Burning it cost the American taxpayer roughly another $100,000 on top of what had already been spent. And here's the part that's hardest to get past: in June, aid officials manag...

  NEW POSTER: SIMPLE QUESTION SCOTT BESSENT REFUSED TO ANSWER! Sam Carter 172 subscribers Jul 9, 2026 It should have been a simple question. Rep. John Larson (D-CT) asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a version of it five different ways: is the United States at war — and is that why Americans are paying more at the pump? What he got back was a word swap and a stack of talking points. Here's the context, and it's all on the record. Since February 2026, the U.S. has been militarily involved in a conflict with Iran. Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz — the route for roughly a fifth of the world's oil — triggering the largest oil supply shock since the 1970s. Oil topped $100 a barrel, gas passed $5 a gallon in parts of the country, and by one estimate the cost to U.S. taxpayers has run past $113 billion. When Larson asked point-blank, "Are we at war?", Bessent reached for softer words — "the conflict has been halted" — and even offered to c...