Enemy of the people: Elon Musk

[Winehole23]

not the way it's done in a free country

hacking US IT to spy on the whole of government and apply pressure to the whole of government from the top down isn't the style of presidential leadership we're used to

it isn't particularly presidential either



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreiaw4n2bnkt77nl6fxe2gnyyd7bfan5xshgdsy4wtszmn uorv6iyye@jpeghttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/

[Yonivore]

It's part of Expedition 72

Expedition 72 began on Sept. 23, 2024 and ends in Spring 2025. The orbital residents will explore a variety of space phenomena to benefit humans on and off the Earth including pharmaceutical manufacturing, advanced life support systems, genetic sequencing in microgravity, and more.

The astronauts who came up on the Starliner were always part of Expedition 72 and continue to fulfill the duties of crew for that expedition.

You can read what they do every day.

If you're not a fucking moron.
You're talking about the mission of the ISS Crew. Yes, when originally planned, SpaceX Crew Dragon 9 was going to deliver 4 astronauts and loiter while they conducted their mission. SpaceX deliberately sent SpaceX Crew Dragon 9 with two empty seats, with the expressed intention of bringing home the 2 stranded astronauts.

The actual space craft is not involved in the mission of the astronauts aboard the ISS.

The mission of SpaceX Crew Dragon 9 was to deliver astronauts and, before launch, it was changed to bring back the 2 stranded astronauts.

Soyuz would have been there --- like they've been there for 10 years -- waiting for the next crew rotation in March of 2025.

[ChumpDumper]

You're talking about the mission of the ISS Crew. Yes, when originally planned, SpaceX Crew Dragon 9 was going to deliver 4 astronauts and loiter while they conducted their mission. SpaceX deliberately sent SpaceX Crew Dragon 9 with two empty seats, with the expressed intention of bringing home the 2 stranded astronauts.

The actual space craft is not involved in the mission of the astronauts aboard the ISS.:lmao of course it is.

The craft brings the crew to the ISS.

And takes it back.

It's mission critical.

You're flailing dude.

[Yonivore]

:lmao of course it is.

The craft brings the crew to the ISS.

And takes it back.

It's mission critical.

You're flailing dude.
Nah, I'm pretty sure of my conclusion. I don't think NASA would have allowed two empty seats on SpaceX Crew Dragon 9 if they didn't know the intent, unless you're suggesting SpaceX just took it upon themselves to make that alternate plan.

I think it's you that's misunderstanding -- probably deliberately. Go troll someone else.

[Winehole23]

Lord Protector Trump

[Yonivore]

Lord Protector Trump
Nah, just President Trump, fulfilling his oath to protect and defend the U. S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's it. And, doing a bang up job. He's got all the right people whining.

[Winehole23]

Nah, it's a neo-puritan revolution

[Blake]

Nah, just President Trump, fulfilling his oath to protect and defend the U. S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's it. And, doing a bang up job. He's got all the right people whining.

Against personal enemies is not in the Constitution.

[Winehole23]

Y'all started a religious war because society changed not to your liking

[Thread]

Y'all started a religious war because society changed not to your liking

After you started the war because Trump bull rushed the gate and made President.

You were able to oust him and thought you was safe again, then Biden quit, you misfired in PA., and Trump made President again.

Could end in the streets, could end with your side standing down again...but, he never quit, and quite frankly neither have you all.

Let us proceed...

[Winehole23]

totes normal



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[Yonivore]

totes normal

"...could be torpedoed..."

Meh, let me know when it happens, then we'll talk.

[Blake]

"....The New Republic added, “Several parts of Musk’s businesses concern India. The tech mogul is trying to get access for his Starlink satellite internet service in the country, and is fighting with Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who has competing interests. Musk also is trying to sell low-cost Tesla vehicles in India and get past the country’s tariffs on electric vehicles.”

Was the billionaire meeting with the Indian prime minister in his businessman capacity, or as the head of a quasi-governmental “department”? When the president was asked this question, he replied, “I don’t know.”

How reassuring......."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-says-personally-checking-ensure-musk-actions-dont-pose-conflict-rcna192259

No conflict to see here

[Yonivore]

"....The New Republic added, “Several parts of Musk’s businesses concern India. The tech mogul is trying to get access for his Starlink satellite internet service in the country, and is fighting with Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who has competing interests. Musk also is trying to sell low-cost Tesla vehicles in India and get past the country’s tariffs on electric vehicles.”

Was the billionaire meeting with the Indian prime minister in his businessman capacity, or as the head of a quasi-governmental “department”? When the president was asked this question, he replied, “I don’t know.”

How reassuring......."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-says-personally-checking-ensure-musk-actions-dont-pose-conflict-rcna192259

No conflict to see here
In the video I saw, the President actually said, "I'll ask him." I don't think he said, "I don't know." He may not have known but, since he said he would ask him, I'm betting it wasn't a meeting had in his official capacity as Special Advisor to the President. Musk is fan of Modi's and, yes, he's trying to get business there. How convenient Modi was in the same place at the same time as Musk. Why not meet?

Are you suggesting Musk couldn't have gotten a meeting with Modi, outside his capacity as President Trump's Special Advisor? Just checking my understanding.

[ChumpDumper]

He didn't know. Otherwise he would've said.

[Yonivore]

He didn't know. Otherwise he would've said.
Which should tell any reasonable person Musk wasn't acting in his capacity as Special Advisor to the President.

The President said he would ask. Has it come back up in any Press gaggle?

[ChumpDumper]

Which should tell any reasonable person Musk wasn't acting in his capacity as Special Advisor to the President.

The President said he would ask. Has it come back up in any Press gaggle?He didn't say Musk wasn't acting in that capacity

He didn't know.

[Blake]

Which should tell any reasonable person Musk wasn't acting in his capacity as Special Advisor to the President.

The President said he would ask. Has it come back up in any Press gaggle?

So you're saying Trump isn't a reasonable person

[Yonivore]

He didn't say Musk wasn't acting in that capacity

He didn't know.
And he said he'd ask. Has it been revisited by the press?

[ChumpDumper]

And he said he'd ask. Has it been revisited by the press?

Trump didn't know but you say you know.

:lol

[Blake]

Trump didn't know but you say you know.

:lol

"Any reasonable person!"

* other than Trump

[Yonivore]

Trump didn't know but you say you know.

:lol
I didn't say I knew. I said that since he said he'd ask, means he probably doesn't know and is an indication it wasn't in his official capacity as Special Advisor to the President. What could Musk and Modi have to discuss remotely related to his position as Special Advisor to the President, helping to strategize the efficiency audit of the federal government?

Your comprehension skills have never been very sharp, Chump.

[ChumpDumper]

This is what you said:
Which should tell any reasonable person Musk wasn't acting in his capacity as Special Advisor to the President.
If you want to walk it back now, just say you're walking it back.

[Yonivore]

This is what you said:
If you want to walk it back now, just say you're walking it back.
I'm not walking anything back; I assert that any reasonable person could assume it had nothing to do with his official capacity as Special Adviser to the President because Trump seemed not to know. He said he'd ask. Has anyone followed up?

Now, there's another possibility. The President of the United States enjoys Presidential Communications Privilege with his immediate staff, including Elon Musk. He doesn't have to fucking tell you what he and Elon Musk discuss.

Again, I'd ask what possible conflict-of-interest could the Special Advisor to the President (overseeing the efficiency audit of the federal government) have in meeting with Prime Minister Modi?

[ChumpDumper]

I'm not walking anything back; I assert that any reasonable person could assume it had nothing to do with his official capacity as Special Adviser to the President because Trump seemed not to know.Now you're assuming?

Walkback confirmed.

[Yonivore]

Now you're assuming?

Walkback confirmed.
Okay, I'm asserting. I believe. I think. It's probable. You pick the strangest things on which to latch and shake around like a dog with his toy.

Has anyone in the press followed up on the original question?

[Yonivore]

I wonder if there will ever be a point at which the Left concedes the federal government was rotten to the core and was in desperate need of this audit.

https://x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1892567459820970303

[ChumpDumper]

:lol "audit"

[Blake]

I wonder if there will ever be a point at which the Left concedes the federal government was rotten to the core and was in desperate need of this audit.

https://x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1892567459820970303

You voted for a felon

[Yonivore]

You voted for a felon

https://i.imgflip.com/9kxpup.jpg

[Blake]

Crime ok when your hero commits it

[Yonivore]

Crime ok when your hero commits it
Not yet my hero but, he's well on his way to becoming one. So, in that spirit, let's review:


Prosecutor campaigned on "getting" Donald Trump.
Former President Trump was convicting of falsifying business records in the first degree under New York Penal Law § 175.10.
Acting Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo left his federal government job with Biden's DOJ to take a demotion in order to assist with the prosecution.
They had to elevate the crime to a felony, in order for them to be able to "toll" the statute of limitations - claiming Donald Trump's was out of the State or at whereabouts unknown in during the limitation period.
They had to make up a predicate crime in order to elevate the crime to a felony. A predicate crime that was not listed in the indictment.
Trump is appealing so, the convictions may be thrown out. And, if they are, it will probably be for lack of a predicate crime being listed.
The Judge didn't punish Trump but, instead, issued an unconditional discharge. Why?


I'd vote for him again, in a heartbeat. Fucker's kicking Democrat, Deep State, and Woke ass.

[ChumpDumper]

Not yet my hero but, he's well on his way to becoming one. So, in that spirit, let's review:


Prosecutor campaigned on "getting" Donald Trump.
Former President Trump was convicting of falsifying business records in the first degree under New York Penal Law § 175.10.
Acting Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo left his federal government job with Biden's DOJ to take a demotion in order to assist with the prosecution.
They had to elevate the crime to a felony, in order for them to be able to "toll" the statute of limitations - claiming Donald Trump's was out of the State or at whereabouts unknown in during the limitation period.
They had to make up a predicate crime in order to elevate the crime to a felony. A predicate crime that was not listed in the indictment.
Trump is appealing so, the convictions may be thrown out. And, if they are, it will probably be for lack of a predicate crime being listed.
The Judge didn't punish Trump but, instead, issued an unconditional discharge. Why?


I'd vote for him again, in a heartbeat. Fucker's kicking Democrat, Deep State, and Woke ass.

You talked much the same way about W. What changed?

[Blake]

Not yet my hero but, he's well on his way to becoming one. So, in that spirit, let's review:


Prosecutor campaigned on "getting" Donald Trump.
Former President Trump was convicting of falsifying business records in the first degree under New York Penal Law § 175.10.
Acting Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo left his federal government job with Biden's DOJ to take a demotion in order to assist with the prosecution.
They had to elevate the crime to a felony, in order for them to be able to "toll" the statute of limitations - claiming Donald Trump's was out of the State or at whereabouts unknown in during the limitation period.
They had to make up a predicate crime in order to elevate the crime to a felony. A predicate crime that was not listed in the indictment.
Trump is appealing so, the convictions may be thrown out. And, if they are, it will probably be for lack of a predicate crime being listed.
The Judge didn't punish Trump but, instead, issued an unconditional discharge. Why?


I'd vote for him again, in a heartbeat. Fucker's kicking Democrat, Deep State, and Woke ass.

Trump is absolutely your hero. You gush about him daily like a schoolgirl talking about her favorite member of her favorite boy band

[Yonivore]

You talked much the same way about W. What changed?
Why don't you start a thread about George W. Bush. Maybe I'll participate. Meanwhile, let's stay on topic, shall we?

[ChumpDumper]

Why don't you start a thread about George W. Bush. Maybe I'll participate. Meanwhile, let's stay on topic, shall we?It simply goes to your track record as a fickle fanboy.

If you don't want to be reminded about it, you shouldn't have been one in the first place.

[Yonivore]

Trump is absolutely your hero. You gush about him daily like a schoolgirl talking about her favorite member of her favorite boy band
It's not gushing to agree with what he's doing as President. He still has time to fuck it up but, so far, his month of presidency has been on point.

Instead of launching insults all the time, why don't you refute what I say?

[SnakeBoy]

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1ztgy0.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=766&y=283&s=46&d=46

Tech billionaire Elon Musk waved a silver chainsaw in his debut appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference to the delight of the packed crowd before delivering withering attacks against Democrats.

At the behest of President Donald Trump, Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has moved to slash the federal workforce and government spending, prompting protests from Democrats.

Musk, donning sunglasses and a gold chain, seemed unconcerned with the protests against him and even questioned Democrats' ability to mount any resistance to the Trump administration.

"At this point, I'm not sure how much of the Left is even real," Musk mused. "It doesn't have popular support."

Musk also slammed Democrats who he claimed went "crazy" and led him to leave behind his politically neutral stance.

"No, I mean the whole cancel culture, and, you know, it's trying to stop freedom of speech and infringe upon, just in general infringe upon people's personal freedoms," he said.

[Blake]

It's not gushing to agree with what he's doing as President. He still has time to fuck it up but, so far, his month of presidency has been on point.

Instead of launching insults all the time, why don't you refute what I say?

:cry "insults" :cry

[Yonivore]

:cry "insults" :cry
Up to you but, you don't have to compulsively respond when you don't have anything to say.

[Blake]

Up to you but, you don't have to compulsively respond when you don't have anything to say.

I don't have to, I like to. Cheap entertainment.. You dismiss every refutation so what's the point of doing anything else with your posts but loling

[Yonivore]

And y'all are seriously worried about Musk?

https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1892620331421925487

[SnakeBoy]

I don't have to, I like to. Cheap entertainment.. You dismiss every refutation so what's the point of doing anything else with your posts but loling

Weak excuse not to have meaningful conversations

[Winehole23]

Weak excuse not to have meaningful conversationsyou're one to talk

[ChumpDumper]

And y'all are seriously worried about Musk?

https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1892620331421925487

You guys have been off by a factor of 1000 before.

[Blake]

And y'all are seriously worried about Musk?

https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1892620331421925487

Lol freebeacon.

[Blake]

Weak excuse not to have meaningful conversations

Lol what's yours?

[SnakeBoy]

Lol what's yours?

I'm not interested in anything you have to say

[Blake]

I'm not interested in anything you have to say

Weird response after that chiding you just gave me

[benefactor]

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1ztgy0.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=766&y=283&s=46&d=46

Tech billionaire Elon Musk waved a silver chainsaw in his debut appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference to the delight of the packed crowd before delivering withering attacks against Democrats.

At the behest of President Donald Trump, Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has moved to slash the federal workforce and government spending, prompting protests from Democrats.

Musk, donning sunglasses and a gold chain, seemed unconcerned with the protests against him and even questioned Democrats' ability to mount any resistance to the Trump administration.

"At this point, I'm not sure how much of the Left is even real," Musk mused. "It doesn't have popular support."

Musk also slammed Democrats who he claimed went "crazy" and led him to leave behind his politically neutral stance.

"No, I mean the whole cancel culture, and, you know, it's trying to stop freedom of speech and infringe upon, just in general infringe upon people's personal freedoms," he said.
Hello simple people...look at this shiny thing and cheer. Brawndo is available in the refreshments area

[GAustex]

You voted for a felon
Bs charges in front of of a kangaroo court and you know it

[DarrinS]

You voted for a felon


https://i.imgflip.com/9kxpup.jpg

:lmao

[Winehole23]

El0n is barely coherent at CPAC

is he gakked out?

RAi7cAW6jVI

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:k2vqgq3czdvq65346u2ntazb/bafkreifzdfxxi3qdm5xrytqmsvmjzxda2cgj35cbihtaxxiqq slc6s3jqi@jpeg

[Winehole23]

“At present, every hacker in the world knows there are a small number of people new to federal service who hold the keys to access (https://www.rawstory.com/doge-trump-musk-2671112387/?utm_source=msn) all U.S. government payments, contracts, civil servant personal info and more,” wrote one recently departed federal technology official in draft testimony for lawmakers.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:25cztqjrqfedqg22bpoqjljr/bafkreicpnbxeuonhowoi2ykxp2fv2gi2egdowcppmx7delv6i isjvs2xcq@jpeg

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:pmhyscv7t7incelmoevkijpr/bafkreih6yuqfmgoytexrjnlft2m4wvjlztkhivzf43pkfhc2f 2b25xqjzm@jpeg

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:pmhyscv7t7incelmoevkijpr/bafkreigxa3epiiubbyrnfdzsj7grvx2bwmlrf34cba336rcyg bfsjyaz7m@jpeg

[Blake]

Bs charges in front of of a kangaroo court and you know it

Yeah that's it!

[Winehole23]

good luck with that



The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/politics/elon-musk-most-powerful-bureaucrat-washington/index.html) private security detail, giving them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents, three law enforcement officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

It was not immediately clear how many members of Musk’s security team were made special deputies.

Musk, the tech billionaire and ally of President Donald Trump (https://www.cnn.com/politics/president-donald-trump-47), is not eligible to have a US Secret Service detail – meaning members of his personal security detail were limited in what they could do in Washington, DC.

Now that members have been deputized, they have more rights and could be authorized to carry weapons on federal grounds. It also means that if something went awry with the detail, the Marshals Service could be held legally liable, one law enforcement source said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/elon-musk-private-security-deputized-marshals-service

[Winehole23]

as has been true ever since Jan 20th, the straight description of US current events sounds insane


a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers (https://bsky.app/profile/theophite.bsky.social/post/3liloen4x6c22)is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4p2civbp5qvabihjsxaquen2/bafkreidlfhaxpvvmiooc4oseqmojsveue7ju62aare3yxscl6 ve4espomi@jpeg

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:pkz6pnvt7c5fuk5q6gcytow3/bafkreigzkftbntwtbpqyeafvu5gtum2yhzfpvf2lbzvws4jua 4fegcs2lu@jpeghttps://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-irs-layoffs-firings-union-president-trump/4114738/

[Winehole23]

is calling someone a dick a threat?


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gkgmduxh722ocstroyi75gbg/bafkreiegysdbcdsw2fkyutwvdn7bymsvjiyvon5dn7fdq4bdh fteanl3ky@jpeg

[Winehole23]

"an extremely senile Trump was re elected after being convicted of a felony but the real president is Elon Musk, who's a Nazi now, and he's employing his drug dealer and nazi child pornographers to tear down the entire US government"

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4xwxmnh6mu62j322mglp7tt6/bafkreif3t325oexclu2k7cykdrmoxj7yevewvsrdw76arybst vln2ipptq@jpeg

[Yonivore]

is calling someone a dick a threat?
I think it's the "What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy." Calling the President a "dick" was just icing on the cake.

Senator Schumer and his threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are next in the DOJ hopper.

[Yonivore]

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-irs-layoffs-firings-union-president-trump/4114738/
Whatever Robert McCabe was doing "to help change," wasn't fast enough. Trump took care of it.

What was his job? Did they say?

[SnakeBoy]

Hello simple people...look at this shiny thing and cheer. Brawndo is available in the refreshments area

You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

[ChumpDumper]

I think it's the "What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy." Calling the President a "dick" was just icing on the cake.

Senator Schumer and his threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are next in the DOJ hopper.


Whatever Robert McCabe was doing "to help change," wasn't fast enough. Trump took care of it.

What was his job? Did they say?


You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

:lol defending that dork deadbeat dad

[CosmicCowboy]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:25cztqjrqfedqg22bpoqjljr/bafkreicpnbxeuonhowoi2ykxp2fv2gi2egdowcppmx7delv6i isjvs2xcq@jpeg

Whinehole doesn't understand the difference between income and unrealized gains in stock prices. Net worth does not equal income.

[Winehole23]

Whinehole doesn't understand the difference between income and unrealized gains in stock prices. Net worth does not equal income.lol simping for rich tax cheats, you don't ever change

[Trill Clinton]

0 rizz, -5,000,000 aura

1892700604461404428

[Winehole23]

I think it's the "What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy." Calling the President a "dick" was just icing on the cake.

Senator Schumer and his threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are next in the DOJ hopper.the "bar fight" metaphor is a terroristic threat or something?

god you guys are wusses

[Winehole23]

Bs charges in front of of a kangaroo court and you know itgrand juries returned indictments, dozens of them

that means they thought the evidence was good enough

[Winehole23]

the gang's all here

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

[Winehole23]

El0n lies on the reg


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:oqr5mp25r7z3vfr3igeerxbw/bafkreifpdtxg4i3edapms4kd2lrov3vlrn5ww7vlgy5pcmcyd cz5dh3nw4@jpeg

[Winehole23]

Trump's war on science will probably make us all poorer


In her 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato, a leading economist studying innovation at University College London, found that every major technological transformation in the US (https://time.com/4089171/mariana-mazzucato/), from electric cars to Google to the iPhone, can trace its roots back to basic science research once funded by the federal government.



https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/

[Winehole23]

a real benefit just fell in El0n's lap, as if from the sky

ttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/spacex-elon-musk-discrimination-doj.html

[DarrinS]

a real benefit just fell in El0n's lap, as if from the sky

ttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/spacex-elon-musk-discrimination-doj.html

He won't hire illegal aliens. :cry

[DarrinS]

El0n lies on the reg


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:oqr5mp25r7z3vfr3igeerxbw/bafkreifpdtxg4i3edapms4kd2lrov3vlrn5ww7vlgy5pcmcyd cz5dh3nw4@jpeg

8 days turned into 8 months

[Winehole23]

driving is still more dangerous by far, but this ain't good


While air traffic controllers were supposedly immune from the purge, some air traffic control support workers were terminated, the FAA worker says. Rolling Stone separately spoke with (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-faa-firings-purge-air-safety-1235271233/) a fired FAA employee whose job involved ensuring flight paths account for hazards like cranes and new buildings, as well as another terminated FAA staffer who ensured that pilots (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-faa-layoffs-space-x-1235270623/) are medically able and cleared to fly. No one wants their plane to cross paths with a crane, of course, but the latter role is important, too, given the nation’s ongoing pilot shortage.

One particularly confounding round of firings last week — one that confused even agency personnel who were anticipating a Trumpian bloodletting — included several attorneys who work to ensure that licensed pilots in the United States aren’t putting the broader public in danger or hiding criminal records, health concerns, or serious addictions, according to the sources.

This work in the Aviation Litigation Division involves investigating flight schools that improperly or negligently train pilots; potentially suspending the licenses of private or commercial-airline pilots who get DUIs and other relevant criminal charges that would suggest it is unwise to allow them to fly planes full of passengers; dealing with commercial pilots if they’re caught engaging in reckless or unsafe behavior, or lying about a drinking problem or an illicit drug dependency; and addressing reports that drone operators are breaking FAA rules and regulations.

Across the country, the FAA employs just dozens of these types of lawyers who handle this kind of enforcement. Last week, Trump and Musk abruptly got rid of several of them, which some estimated to be upwards of 10 percent of an already overworked legal team.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-elon-musk-faa-air-planes-pointless-bloodbath-1235274324/

[Winehole23]

He won't hire illegal aliens. :cryI'm more bothered by the open corruption

[ChumpDumper]

8 days turned into 8 months

They just replaced two crew members that were going to come up on the next flight, dumbass.

You fucking morons couldn't make a schedule at a Dairy Queen.

[DarrinS]

They just replaced two crew members that were going to come up on the next flight, dumbass.

You fucking morons couldn't make a schedule at a Dairy Queen.

They were supposed to return in June 2024.

[ChumpDumper]

They were supposed to return in June 2024.

And?

They're staying longer and doing the work the two astronauts who didn't come up were going to do.

If you didn't realize, the ISS is in space. You wanted to pay for an entire extra space flight when you didn't have to? Yes or no.

What's your conspiracy theory here?

[DarrinS]

And?

They're staying longer and doing the work the two astronauts who didn't come up were going to do.

If you didn't realize, the ISS is in space. You wanted to pay for an entire extra space flight when you didn't have to? Yes or no.

What's your conspiracy theory here?

No conspiracy. Just a Boeing failure

[ChumpDumper]

No conspiracy. Just a Boeing failure

Boeing has sucked ever since the businessmen started running it. Your death on their planes is acceptable now.

[Yonivore]

the "bar fight" metaphor is a terroristic threat or something?

god you guys are wusses
Bar fight was his metaphor. "Real weapons" is the threat.

We're wusses? Ask Steve Scalise or Justice Kavanaugh or President Trump what this type of rhetoric leads to.

Talk about wusses, Sarah Palin puts crosshairs on a poster and the Left blames her for Gabby Giffords shooting.

Kids make fake guns out of their PB&J get expelled or arrested.

Leftists need therapy after they lose elections, safe spaces on college campuses, and crying rooms.

Yeah, we're the wusses. :rolleyes

[Yonivore]

I'm more bothered by the open corruption
What open corruption?

[ChumpDumper]

Bar fight was his metaphor. "Real weapons" is the threat.

We're wusses? Ask Steve Scalise or Justice Kavanaugh or President Trump what this type of rhetoric leads to.

Talk about wusses, Sarah Palin puts crosshairs on a poster and the Left blames her for Gabby Giffords shooting.

Kids make fake guns out of their PB&J get expelled or arrested.

Leftists need therapy after they lose elections, safe spaces on college campuses, and crying rooms.

Yeah, we're the wusses. :rolleyes

Yes, you are.:tu

[Winehole23]

What open corruption?paying Trump to make regulators go away

[Winehole23]

never forget




DOGE Slashes Health Care for Sick 9/11 First Responders
Musk, Trump, and RFK Jr.'s cuts to the CDC have halted 9/11 health care for Ground Zero workers
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-musk-rfk-jr-doge-slashes-9-11-responders-health-care-1235274404/

[DarrinS]

never forget



https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-musk-rfk-jr-doge-slashes-9-11-responders-health-care-1235274404/


That article was evidence-free.

[Winehole23]

Go play with yourself, Darrin

You'll get more out of it and you won't be missed here

[ChumpDumper]

That article was evidence-free.

The job cuts at CDC eliminated 20 percent of the federal workers responsible for certifying 9/11-related illnesses, preventing fraud, and ensuring research continues. That means thousands of firefighters, police officers, construction workers, and volunteers could see delays or denials in their care.

What evidence do you need Darrin? A guy saying his care is delayed or denied? It's a logical conclusion.

I know anecdotally they cut funding for Medicare telehealth doctor visits. Why wouldn't they cut support for 9/11 victims?

[DarrinS]

The job cuts at CDC eliminated 20 percent of the federal workers responsible for certifying 9/11-related illnesses, preventing fraud, and ensuring research continues. That means thousands of firefighters, police officers, construction workers, and volunteers could see delays or denials in their care.

What evidence do you need Darrin? A guy saying his care is delayed or denied? It's a logical conclusion.

I know anecdotally they cut funding for Medicare telehealth doctor visits. Why wouldn't they cut support for 9/11 victims?


could see delays or denials

[ChumpDumper]

could see delays or denialsHow is it not a logical conclusion for firings that just happened, Darrin?

[DarrinS]

How is it not a logical conclusion for firings that just happened, Darrin?

Its a hypothetical

[ChumpDumper]

Its a hypotheticalThe firings actually happened, Darrin.

Who's going to do the jobs those 20 people did for the 9/11 victims?

[Yonivore]

Talk about a conflict of interest...

By Blocking Federal Funding Freeze, Judge Kept Millions Flowing to a Non-Profit He Headed (https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/blocking-federal-funding-freeze-judge-kept-millions-flowing-non-profit-he)

No wonder the House is drawing up articles of impeachment.

[Winehole23]

the Musk/Trump junta relied on no valid authority to freeze the spending in the first place, hence the TRO

[Winehole23]

we have a process for recissions, and this ain't it

[ChumpDumper]

Talk about a conflict of interest...

By Blocking Federal Funding Freeze, Judge Kept Millions Flowing to a Non-Profit He Headed (https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/blocking-federal-funding-freeze-judge-kept-millions-flowing-non-profit-he)

No wonder the House is drawing up articles of impeachment.You don't care about conflicts of interest with Elon.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol ketamine is a helluva drug

1892701463006097721

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1892701463006097721

[Yonivore]

we have a process for recissions, and this ain't it
Whatever he's doing (you're calling is a recission) it is apparently the way to do it.

[Yonivore]

You don't care about conflicts of interest with Elon.
Name one. What conflict does he have as special advisor to the President over matter affecting the efficiency of government?

That's a serious question.

When asked, he said - should he encounter a circumstance where it might present a conflict (which doesn't seem possible in an advisory role having no actual authority to make spending or staffing decisions) - he'd stay out of it. All Musk is doing is acting as a technical advisor on improving government efficiency. All decisions to cut spending or staff are being made by agency heads, who answer directly to the President.

[z0sa]

Name one. What conflict does he have as special advisor to the President over matter affecting the efficiency of government?

That's a serious question.

When asked, he said - should he encounter a circumstance where it might present a conflict (which doesn't seem possible in an advisory role having no actual authority to make spending or staffing decisions) - he'd stay out of it. All Musk is doing is acting as a technical advisor on improving government efficiency. All decisions to cut spending or staff are being made by agency heads, who answer directly to the President.

:lol eating up blatant lies

[Spurminator]

Don’t Tread on Me—Unless You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Addiction, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Support It
by Maggie Downs (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/authors/maggie-downs)

Listen, I don’t know how to say this, but I think I’m finally okay with being trodden on. Just a little. Just enough to feel the reassuring weight of a billionaire’s boot pressing gently against my liberty-loving neck.

For years, I stood tall against tyranny. I flew my DON’T TREAD ON ME flag so high it violated three HOA regulations and traumatized at least one bald eagle. I stockpiled an arsenal so vast that Bass Pro Shops sent me a Christmas card. I wrote Facebook posts in all caps demanding FREEDOM FROM GOVT OPPRESSION while using the same device the NSA is probably reading this on right now. But in the midst of it all, I had a revelation.

(https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/griefstrike-the-ultimate-guide-to-mourning?taxon_id=1)What if I’ve been focusing on the wrong tyrants?

What if, instead of fearing the iron fist of Big Brother, I actually feared the absence of a firm, guiding hand? A hand that knows how to launch a car into space for no discernible reason? A hand that cradles the future of humanity like it’s a cryptocurrency—overhyped, weirdly fragile, and only available to a select few investors? A hand that pops ketamine like it’s a biohacker’s multivitamin? A hand attached to a man who has definitely read Atlas Shrugged as a how-to manual?

Yes, I used to fear centralized control. But now I understand that true oppression isn’t the federal government taxing my diesel F-150. Oppression is NOT having a billionaire tell me what to think about immigrants, free speech, and which letter of the alphabet is the coolest. And folks, if this tweeting tycoon says “X” is the best letter, then I say, by God, let’s rename the entire alphabet.

I once declared I would rather die than let anyone take my guns out of my cold, dead hands. But now? If a billionaire knocked on my door and asked for my AR-15 to melt down into a Neuralink prototype, I would personally hand it over and say, “I hope this helps you install X into our brains, sir.”

Because you see, I trust this guy. He’s not like the others. When the government tracks you, that’s tyranny. When a billionaire does it? That’s innovation.

You know who taxed me last year? The IRS. You know who DIDN’T tax me? This self-made genius. (By “self,” I mean family money and government contracts.) And that, my friends, is why he is a man of the people. The Lord of Layoffs understands that taxes are just a way for the Deep State to fund things like roads, schools, and weather-manipulation robots. Meanwhile, he spends money on things that actually matter, like tanking a social media platform and legally renaming his child a CAPTCHA test.

The wealthiest reply guy on earth could be living the easy life on a yacht somewhere, but instead, he’s up at 3 a.m., posting memes about the selfless work he’s doing to help people find a new career path by personally firing them. He toils, not for wealth, but for the betterment of humanity, bravely battling SEC regulations and woke park rangers. Mother Teresa wished she’d had that level of devotion to humankind.

Some of my so-called friends say, “Hey, weren’t you just ranting about personal freedom last week?” And to that, I say: Exactly. PERSONAL freedom. And PERSONALLY, I feel freer knowing that a man with unlimited wealth, influence, a Nazi fetish, and a mysterious South African backstory is steering the ship of civilization toward Mars.

Liberty isn’t about resisting power; it’s about choosing the right overlord. And I, for one, welcome our Tesla-driving, meme-posting, allegedly ketamine-fueled king. If you disagree? Well, that just means you haven’t been trodden on correctly.

So, I say this with love: Tread on me, Megaboss. Roll your Cybertruck right over my previously untreadable body. I eagerly await the tire tracks of progress.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dont-tread-on-me-unless-youre-a-billionaire-with-a-ketamine-addiction-in-which-case-i-enthusiastically-support-it

[Yonivore]

:lol eating up blatant lies
That doesn't even make sense. So, name a conflict.

And, while you're at it, Did special advisor to President Biden, Mike Donilon, a media consultant who is/was involved in 3 media consulting business, have a conflict of interest?

[Winehole23]

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments?

LEAVITT: It's a clever question

[Yonivore]

Is that all she said? If so, I interpret that to mean, wait and see.

[Yonivore]

:lol eating up blatant lies
Not to mention the amount of access and influence Hunter Biden and his Stepmom, Dr. Jill had to the Oval Office in Slow Joe's waning years in office (all four of them).

Turner: Is Hunter Biden Receiving Classified Information at the White House? (https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1437&utm_source=chatgpt.com)

[Yonivore]

Is that all she said? If so, I interpret that to mean, wait and see.
Frankly, I'm hoping for some 5:00 A.M. Mar-a-Lagoesque FBI Raids!

I wouldn't let 1 corrupt Biden administration criminal turn himself in with his lawyer. Nope, I want to see them perp walked, placed in the back seat of a vehicle, and hauled off to jail.

[ChumpDumper]

Name one. What conflict does he have as special advisor to the President over matter affecting the efficiency of government?

That's a serious question.

When asked, he said - should he encounter a circumstance where it might present a conflict (which doesn't seem possible in an advisory role having no actual authority to make spending or staffing decisions) - he'd stay out of it. All Musk is doing is acting as a technical advisor on improving government efficiency. All decisions to cut spending or staff are being made by agency heads, who answer directly to the President.Which ones is he staying out of?

Show us the list.

[ChumpDumper]

Not to mention the amount of access and influence Hunter Biden and his Stepmom, Dr. Jill had to the Oval Office in Slow Joe's waning years in office (all four of them).

Turner: Is Hunter Biden Receiving Classified Information at the White House? (https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1437&utm_source=chatgpt.com)

:lmao Betteridge

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

Name one. What conflict does he have as special advisor to the President over matter affecting the efficiency of government?

That's a serious question.

When asked, he said - should he encounter a circumstance where it might present a conflict (which doesn't seem possible in an advisory role having no actual authority to make spending or staffing decisions) - he'd stay out of it. All Musk is doing is acting as a technical advisor on improving government efficiency. All decisions to cut spending or staff are being made by agency heads, who answer directly to the President.

Lol "name one". He's a walking conflict of interest.

The mental gymnastics you guys do to justify him being in this position is unreal.

[SnakeBoy]

Lol "name one". He's a walking conflict of interest.

The mental gymnastics you guys do to justify him being in this position is unreal.

So name one

[ChumpDumper]

So name oneYou'll never talk about it.

[SnakeBoy]

You'll never talk about it.

I really triggered you

[ChumpDumper]

I really triggered youYou'll never talk about it.

It fits any topic you're in.

[Winehole23]

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[ChumpDumper]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/480187013_10226099701310307_1147207523319183457_n. jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=dmwjy33v4ewQ7kNvgFpc8bu&_nc_oc=Adj6Ze3B_I-SIw_dKZ0Dve6Kl4Wrg5W2nwzCeMaVuQuF3I5D6_p1qKY9jEV1N qby6Ho&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&_nc_gid=Arev50jBL7GH-y460FCZzqz&oh=00_AYBfaXMuRCewM3KtSPC9QZwM6Hn0QevmxzcqPgvKJR7e LA&oe=67BEC275

Yoni is in love with this boy.

[koriwhat]

"Elon wasn't elected!" says the idiots who've never heard of Civics. RETARDS!

[ChumpDumper]

Was he elected? What's being argued here?

[Winehole23]

the Greater Musk/Trump co-prosperity sphere baffles even Trump's closest associates


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreihk7juifksqbycghkkzdkwdrr2kefiebjyrz2latejjy oljkhfoh4@jpeghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/21/doge-cuts-frustration-musk-trump/

[Blake]

For example, Musk bragged that he spent last weekend “feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” That came a day after he posted, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.” What Musk failed to mention is that these comments come months after the agency announced a probe of his company Starlink’s terminals, according to pages that still remain on the agency’s website, as reported on by The Lever..."

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-elon-musk-conflict-of-interest-rcna191032

Here's one conflict of interest that was a 5 second Google. The link has more to choose from if you read it and dare to discuss.

But you guys are pussies and will go back to your memes.

[Blake]

Yoni is in love with this boy.

I doNt sEE anYthiNg wrOnG wiTh what hE diD

[Thread]

For example, Musk bragged that he spent last weekend “feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” That came a day after he posted, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.” What Musk failed to mention is that these comments come months after the agency announced a probe of his company Starlink’s terminals, according to pages that still remain on the agency’s website, as reported on by The Lever..."

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-elon-musk-conflict-of-interest-rcna191032

Here's one conflict of interest that was a 5 second Google. The link has more to choose from if you read it and dare to discuss.

But you guys are pussies and will go back to your memes.

You couldn't drag us away.

[Thread]

Was he elected? What's being argued here?

Nothing. It's already been argued. You missed in that Pennsylvania berry patch and Trump proceeded to whip the dog shit out of Harris came November.

[Yonivore]

Which ones is he staying out of?

Show us the list.
So, you don't know of a conflict of interest.

[ChumpDumper]

So, you don't know of a conflict of interest.
I do.

So does he.

[Winehole23]

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[Thread]

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- "Promises, promises."

- Ernie "The Cat" Ladd

[SnakeBoy]

1893388728053146045

[ChumpDumper]

1893388728053146045

Why?

[Winehole23]

just curious, why does El0n need black hat hackers for DOGE?


Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to take part in a sweeping overhaul of the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the subject of a heated dispute between two executives at the Arizona-based cybersecurity firm where he was an intern.

At issue was whether to allow Coristine to keep his job even though he was suspected of leaking proprietary information to a competitor.

“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”

In a recording of the call, reviewed by CNN, Marshal Webb, the CEO of Path Network, a company that offers services to protect businesses from cyberattacks, defended his decision.

He said he wanted to allow Coristine to continue with his internship, in part, because he didn’t want to make him “an enemy” or have him “running amok” with information he was suspected of taking. Webb allowed him to stay with the proviso that the young employee “not be exposed to anything that’s really sensitive.”https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/doge-musk-edward-coristine-invs/index.html

[z0sa]

:lol people saying "why would Musk want your social security?!" as if it's impossible to be leaked to bad actors, either as a form of holding the government hostage later or by his teenaged hackers to gain immense amounts of wealth from foreign bad actors.

It's really just a joke defending Trump and Musk now. It's completely indefensible, unquestionably, provably. You hate America and Americans and love hackers and foreign all-but-enemies if you disagree.

[Blake]

just curious, why does El0n need black hat hackers for DOGE?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/doge-musk-edward-coristine-invs/index.html

Conspiracies only matter when it's the other team

[SnakeBoy]

:lol people saying "why would Musk want your social security?!" as if it's impossible to be leaked to bad actors, either as a form of holding the government hostage later or by his teenaged hackers to gain immense amounts of wealth from foreign bad actors.

It's really just a joke defending Trump and Musk now. It's completely indefensible, unquestionably, provably. You hate America and Americans and love hackers and foreign all-but-enemies if you disagree.

You know social security was already hacked right?

[Winehole23]

You know social security was already hacked right?do you have a point, or is this more handwaving?

[ChumpDumper]

You know social security was already hacked right?All your tax records too?

[SnakeBoy]

Why?

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNWxrYTdpMGU5NDY2dGdiMjVtMmZqbml uYng1OXZzajNsdm0xczJkOSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/b7MdMkkFCyCWI/giphy.gif

[ChumpDumper]

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNWxrYTdpMGU5NDY2dGdiMjVtMmZqbml uYng1OXZzajNsdm0xczJkOSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/b7MdMkkFCyCWI/giphy.gifYeah, that was satire.

It wasn't real.

Do you think it was real?

[Blake]

You know social security was already hacked right?

Oh well then might as well let Musk cronies walk right in and take what they want

[Winehole23]

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[ducks]

Bill Clinton reduced the Federal workforce by 377,000 employee’s and fired all of the US attorneys. All of Joe Biden’s job and inflation numbers had to be revised.

https://x.com/ShaeAaron/status/1893423710302019864

[ChumpDumper]

Bill Clinton reduced the Federal workforce by 377,000 employee’s and fired all of the US attorneys. All of Joe Biden’s job and inflation numbers had to be revised.

https://x.com/ShaeAaron/status/1893423710302019864

Every president always fires every USDA if they don't resign.

:lol ducks

[Winehole23]

On Saturday night El0n sent out an email (apparently) to the whole of government telling recipients to bullet point their own performance and copy supervisors, and that failure to respond would be treated as a voluntary resignation.

Outside of OPM and DOJ, it's being treated like spam.

This week internal cracks in the Trump administration have become visible


Over the course of the evening top leadership at the FBI, the State Department, the VA, the Department of the Navy (to its civilian employees) and other parts of the government have explicitly instructed employees in their departments and agencies to ignore the email. Meanwhile the DOJ seems to be instructing its employees to follow it. (And yes, FBI is sort of under DOJ and that’s kind of weird but that’s where we are.)


It’s important to note that these emails are authorized or allowed if not directed by the President of the United States. And yet whole wings of the government are saying to ignore it. I mentioned to someone this evening that they’re treating a presidentially authorized email as some kind of insider threat. And this person says, we’re surprised that Trump is an insider threat? To which I said, yes, I’m surprised that his own appointees are doing so.


This is all a bit comical and also manages to be a certain degree of state disintegration we’re watching in real time. But it also seems clear that Musk has gotten a bit over his skis finally. We’ve been in this world of upside where a lone wolf is on a wilding spree through the federal government, clear not operating at anyone’s direction but his own. And yet the President is at least okaying it all after the fact. And thus our system can’t really makes sense of what’s happening. Yes, it’s almost all illegal even or in a sense especially if the President is authorizing it. But it’s also pretty clear that the elected President is in the backseat of this car if he’s in the car at all.


But here you have seemingly the first time where his own appointees are pushing back and in a fairly public way.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-doge-musk-email-goes-seriously-sideways

[Thread]

On Saturday night El0n sent out an email (apparently) to the whole of government telling recipients to bullet point their own performance and copy supervisors, and that failure to respond would be treated as a voluntary resignation.

Outside of OPM and DOJ, it's being treated like spam.

This week internal cracks in the Trump administration have become visible

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-doge-musk-email-goes-seriously-sideways

Well, they've been duly warned not only by Musk, but, also by Miller.

So, we shall see.

[Winehole23]

Patel overruled Musk's memo with his own message, making it clear that the FBI 'is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures.'

'When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses,' he wrote.

[Thread]

^^^Musk will simply turn the Gatling gun turret & fire away.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

The problem (https://bsky.app/profile/hhesterm.bsky.social/post/3liu6orkb722x) of states that build dual structures because of ideologies - the Soviet Union, Communist China, Nazi Germany - where people working for the state never quite knew which of the two structures (party? state?) they have to obey.

[Winehole23]

Acting CISA Director Bridget Bean wants employees to respond to OPM's "what did you do last week?" email.

"I want to make sure that everyone is clear that this is a legitimate request from OPM," she wrote to staff last night. "I will share more information as it becomes available."https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/23/musk-email-government-agencies/



That’s (https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3liud5dz62227) the federal government’s digital security agency, CISA, telling its employees in so many words to report their activities to an email account outside the chain of command with no real information about who will receive and review their messages or how secure they’ll be.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfsefp5skxsk2s53jz55juv2/bafkreiea33s2bpxk2wfcawwd3c4jsibdovmquj7cgjzsr6wl2 4p7vpxsnu@jpeg

[DarrinS]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfsefp5skxsk2s53jz55juv2/bafkreiea33s2bpxk2wfcawwd3c4jsibdovmquj7cgjzsr6wl2 4p7vpxsnu@jpeg

How's this messaging working out?

[Winehole23]

we'll see, people are just starting to wake up to the Musk/Trump putsch

[Winehole23]

when I see someone sieg heiling I see someone who wants to murder my family

what do you see, Darrin?

[Winehole23]

Member of the DOGE caucus pleads ignorance at a town hall


At an open house in Fairbanks on Monday, Alaskan Congressman Nick Begich (R) told constituents that there was nothing he could do to stop agency budget cuts being implemented by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.


During the meeting, Begich was confronted by constituents laid off from federal jobs, a major source of employment for the state. "I was fired," one said. "Now I have no choice but to leave that community and probably leave Alaska, and so I just don't understand how these budget cuts are helpful to any Alaskans or their communities. And I'm just wondering what you plan to do about this."


Begich said he was "not in a position to approve or deny the cuts."



In another exchange, Begich said he found out about budget cuts impacting Alaska "on Twitter" and "had no idea these things were going on" in advance.https://popular.info/p/freshman-congressman-tells-constituent

[DarrinS]

when I see someone sieg heiling I see someone who wants to murder my family

what do you see, Darrin?

^ I see a salute truther who posts cringey memes from bluesky

[Winehole23]

^ I see a salute truther who posts cringey memes from blueskystay dumb, Darrin

[Winehole23]

Utter cowards, not worthy to be members of Congress, a body cloaked with the awesome power of the US Constitution and a co-equal sovereign to Trump


Tulsa Congressman Kevin Hern (https://www.newson6.com/storiesByEntityId/6242200a6880e45323ac49d8/Kevin%20Hern) said Thursday he doesn't know how many federal employees have been laid off in Oklahoma.

Hern met with people in Glenpool Thursday, who wanted answers about cuts. He did not criticize the cuts or the way they are being handled.

As a member of the most important budget committee in Washington, several constituents told him he wasn't doing his job.
First District Congressman Kevin Hern spoke first about the border, the deficit, and China. His constituents, however, only had questions about government cuts.

“We're seeing the administration undermine Congress,” said one speaker.

“Will you call Elon Musk in to under oath explain what he's doing?” said another.

“My concern is Elon Musk,” a third said.

The Chamber of Commerce gathering turned into a spirited debate, but Hern stuck to his long-held position that government spending is out of control and Congress hasn't been capable of stopping it.

“Because I do support getting the waste, fraud, and abuse out of government,” he said.

Hern said he had no reports of any services impacted by federal cuts and criticized federal employees who worked from home.

He deferred oversight of the president and Musk to the judicial branch, and when pressed, wouldn't commit to holding hearings to ask his own questions.
ttps://www.newson6.com/story/67b7b17784194e492d129cc1/hern-faces-tough-questions-from-constituents-on-federal-cuts

[SnakeBoy]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfsefp5skxsk2s53jz55juv2/bafkreiea33s2bpxk2wfcawwd3c4jsibdovmquj7cgjzsr6wl2 4p7vpxsnu@jpeg

Well get out there and do something already

[Winehole23]

Well get out there and do something alreadyI am doing something right here

[Thread]

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Ha. That's rich.

Russia beat 'em.

We were 5 years tardy and operated at 36k against Yellow people.

Russia was on the ground butchering White Nazi's.

[Thread]

Utter cowards, not worthy to be members of Congress, a body cloaked with the awesome power of the US Constitution and a co-equal sovereign to Trump

ttps://www.newson6.com/story/67b7b17784194e492d129cc1/hern-faces-tough-questions-from-constituents-on-federal-cuts

You have your own cowards standing down in PA., & FL., over the Summer.

You've nary room.

[Winehole23]

You have your own cowards standing down in PA., & FL., over the Summer.

You've nary room.lol @ the idea that Secret Service agents are murderous libs

[SnakeBoy]

I am doing something right here

The lazy revolutionary :lol

[Winehole23]

The lazy revolutionary :loly'all are the revolutionaries overturning the form of government

by contrast I'm conservative

[Thread]

lol @ the idea that Secret Service agents are murderous libs

Unfortunately the old man is lol'ing as well at my belief. One of 'em/SS on that stage that day is like Trump's favorite since then.

You can lead a horse to water, but...blah, blah, blah.

He's, you know what Effy brought to the Board...He's Fucking Around. Hope he, his wife and those children don't Find Out what I'm sure I know.

I'd kick the SS out & bring the Marines in.

[SnakeBoy]

y'all are the revolutionaries overturning the form of government

by contrast I'm conservative

You're an old man clinging to the status quo

[Trill Clinton]

Awwww mind you white women are the biggest beneficiaries of DEI.

1893798382100996346

[SnakeBoy]

Awwww mind you white women are the biggest beneficiaries of DEI.

1893798382100996346

phony tweets :lol

[DarrinS]

phony tweets :lol

:lol


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[ChumpDumper]

:lol denial

[sickdsm]

Lol, this thread went stupid the minute it was spam posted.

People worried about Musk using his position for financial gain ignore two things.

1. Musk never cared for money. He's always went nearly bankrupt in order to fund the next thing. He sold his house and possessions when the billionaire backlash hit during the SpaceX push.

2. Fuckers look a blind eye to people like Pelosi directly using her govt. insider info to grift into $$$.

[baseline bum]

Lol, this thread went stupid the minute it was spam posted.

People worried about Musk using his position for financial gain ignore two things.

1. Musk never cared for money. He's always went nearly bankrupt in order to fund the next thing. He sold his house and possessions when the billionaire backlash hit during the SpaceX push.

2. Fuckers look a blind eye to people like Pelosi directly using her govt. insider info to grift into $$$.

LOL thinking robber barons don't care about fucking money

[ChumpDumper]

Musk never cared for money. :lmao

What a colossal rube.

[sickdsm]

:lmao

What a colossal rube.

Took the bait, worried more about Musk possibly making money than Pelosi outperforming almost every hedge fund with her insider trading.

[Thread]

Took the bait, worried more about Musk possibly making money than Pelosi outperforming almost every hedge fund with her insider trading.

AOC too. Broke on her ass 6 years ago when she got elected.

Now? 29 million dollars to her name.

[ChumpDumper]

Took the bait, worried more about Musk possibly making money than Pelosi outperforming almost every hedge fund with her insider trading.p:lolssibly

Bait? So you think he cares about money?

What a colossal rube.

[Thread]

p:lolssibly

Bait? So you think he cares about money?

What a colossal rube.

Beats your moron ass, ya moron, you.

[sickdsm]

LOL thinking robber barons don't care about fucking money

Yeah because money drives all those on the autistic spectrum, amirite?

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah because money drives all those on the autistic spectrum, amirite?
Why wouldn't it for Elon?

Now he's such a special little boy he can't even care about money.:lol

Great. Take all his money away if he doesn't care about it. Put it toward the debt.

[baseline bum]

Yeah because money drives all those on the autistic spectrum, amirite?

Richest robber baron in the world doesn't GAF about money, haha funny shit. LOL blaming autism when he's a sociopath.

[ChumpDumper]

Richest robber baron in the world doesn't GAF about money, haha funny shit. LOL blaming autism when he's a sociopath.

:lmao mother of his child has to beg for a phone call on Twitter

[GAustex]

^selective outrage

[ChumpDumper]

^selective outrageOver what am I not outraged that I need to be?

[GAustex]

Over what am I not outraged that I need to be?

Uncle Joe denying his bastard grandchild

[ChumpDumper]

Uncle Joe denying his bastard grandchildGrandchild?

How did he personally deny him?

Tell us the whole story.

I'll be outraged.

Are you outraged about Elon's ghosting his child or are you being selective?

[GAustex]

Elon is supporting his child and you know it
Biden fought to provide stripper mama any support
I do not recall you bitching about Biden forsaken his child
I get it
That’s (D)ifferent

[ChumpDumper]

Elon is supporting his child and you know it
Biden fought to provide stripper mama any support Which Biden?

Joe Biden fathered a stripper's kid?

Are you getting them mixed up?

So you're not outraged at Elon's ghosting his own child?

Ve(R)y selective of you.

[baseline bum]

Took the bait, worried more about Musk possibly making money than Pelosi outperforming almost every hedge fund with her insider trading.

How much of a shitbag are you to be defending a nazi? JFC the right is a bunch of lunatics in this country.

[ChumpDumper]

How much of a shitbag are you to be defending a nazi? JFC the right is a bunch of lunatics in this country.

Most of these board Republicans need to elevate their political figures to god status. Even usual nihilists like Darrin think this fucking moron cares about the national debt.

[Thread]

Most of these board Republicans need to elevate their political figures to god status. Even usual nihilists like Darrin think this fucking moron cares about the national debt.

You're overwrought, Dumper, et al, because you lost the election and you do not have control. And the person who has the control now is somebody you fellows detest with every fiber of your beings.

It's a tough spot. I do not envy ya's.

Who knows how long before "you" snap and attempt to end his Presidency by force. He's pushing every button that he can possibly push to yes, perhaps, maybe, attain his goals, but also to avenge himself in front of you. He's not a politician. Just a man who's been shot and wants to punish those responsible and those who wanted his assassination, and still do. He is instigating his enemies by these [actions] masquerading perhaps as policy decisions. Others may have heeled up and went on down onto the street and taken revenge. Not him. He has the power and means to avenge himself in the manner that he believes will satisfy his lust for blood and sate his anger and still guarantees his freedom. That's rare when man can do what Trump is attempting to do.

[ChumpDumper]

:rollin

1873972860106268740

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1873972860106268740

[Winehole23]

Lol, this thread went stupid the minute it was spam posted.

People worried about Musk using his position for financial gain ignore two things.

1. Musk never cared for money. He's always went nearly bankrupt in order to fund the next thing. He sold his house and possessions when the billionaire backlash hit during the SpaceX push.

2. Fuckers look a blind eye to people like Pelosi directly using her govt. insider info to grift into $$$.I posted about Pelosi many times -- y'all's eyes glazed over

Musk has grasped the US system of payment and is mass firing Americans. That power is wholly illegitimate and is breaking our form of government.

[Winehole23]

You're an old man clinging to the status quoI'm middle-aged and y'all just wrecked the status quo. At this point I'd just like to save my country from fascists like you, no illusions that the status-quo ante will return nor procedural justice for your likes -- people who pull this kind of shit usually don't end up well.

[Winehole23]

LOL thinking robber barons don't care about fucking moneypretzel logic

[Winehole23]

The idea that El0n is not directly making money is false, he's already cashing in on the $290 million he invested in Trump. Receipts can be found in this thread.

The hypothesis that he doesn't care about money is argumentative and ignores the utility of the power he's wielding to kneecap federal agencies that regulate his companies:


Musk's decisions aren't informed by research and analysis. They're vindictive, erratic, and fueled by outright lies and racist grievances (https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/ends-diversity-efforts-in-government-is-the-private-sector-next/). Whatever "targeting" is going on is guided by Musk's desire to kneecap agencies (https://futurism.com/elon-musk-conflict-interest-shutting-down-usaid) that threaten to expose his corruption. But the parrot-like repetition about "saving money" is causing the press to amplify the lie with headlines that falsely describe DOGE as a "cost-cutting" effort. The text of these articles often debunks the talking point by pointing out that Musk's numbers are made up, but most people don't read articles. All they get is a vague sense this is a "cost-cutting" effort and don't realize that actually, it's a fascist culture war dressed up in "efficiency" costumes. https://www.salon.com/2025/02/24/what-elon-musks-on-workers-owes-to-gamergate/

[Winehole23]

MAGA is like Falangism or the first mass-marketed political movement in the USA -- the 1920s-1930s KKK

"Cost cutting" and "DEI" are just fig leaves

[Winehole23]

Fred Trump got arrested at a Fascist/Klan counterrally in 1927 for fighting with cops


https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/nyttrump-1.jpg?w=970&quality=60&ssl=1

[Winehole23]

somewhat philosophical, but apt

libertarian naivete leads to reactionary control


The blood now staining our hands isn't just from failing to defend democracy—it's from betraying the sophisticated understanding of power that Madison built into our constitutional system itself. We've allowed the very fusion of private and public power that he sought to prevent, creating a new form of tyranny that wears the mask of efficiency and innovation.
This betrayal has given rise to strange bedfellows, alliances that might seem contradictory at first glance. The apparent contradictions can be confusing: How do Christian nationalists and gay atheist tech billionaires end up on the same side? Why are some reactionaries pushing ethnic nationalism while others advocate for immigration? What binds together Catholic integralists, Silicon Valley oligarchs, and MAGA populists?


The answer lies in their shared rejection of Madison's vision. Despite their surface-level differences, these groups are united by a common desire to concentrate power outside of democratic institutions. They may disagree on the specifics of how that power should be wielded, but they agree on dismantling the systems that disperse and balance it.


Tech billionaires see an opportunity to reshape society through private control of crucial infrastructure. Christian nationalists envision a return to religious authority unconstrained by secular checks. MAGA populists dream of a strongman leader unencumbered by institutional restraints. What unites them is not a coherent ideology, but a shared antipathy towards the democratic dispersion of power that Madison designed.


In this light, their alliance isn't so puzzling after all. They're not united by what they believe in, but by what they oppose: the sophisticated system of checks and balances that prevents any single group from dominating society. Their seemingly contradictory goals—whether it's open borders for cheap labor or closed borders for cultural purity—are secondary to their primary objective of dismantling democratic constraints on power.


Understanding this common thread is crucial if we hope to defend what remains of our constitutional system. We're not facing isolated threats from various fringe groups. We're confronting a coordinated assault on the very foundations of democratic governance, carried out by forces that understand all too well the power dynamics that Madison sought to balance.
Their thought-leaders provide theoretical justification, the tech oligarchs provide infrastructure and resources, and the populists provide the political energy needed to dismantle democratic institutions.


Understanding this alliance is crucial because it explains otherwise baffling developments: Why tech billionaires fund religious nationalists. Why traditionalists embrace disruptive technology. Why populists serve oligarchic interests. They're not allies of convenience—they're united in a sophisticated project to replace democracy with something they see as more effective.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/from-madisons-vision-to-musks-dystopia

[Winehole23]

DOGE is shite at accounting




One of the entries on the DOGE website, first reported by The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/2025/02/20/doge-social-security-cuts-musk-receipts/), claimed to save $232 million by canceling a technology contract with the Social Security Administration. The only aspect of the contract that was canceled, however, was "a project to develop an 'X' gender marker for the agency’s internal databases." That cancellation, part of a larger anti-trans agenda, will produce $560,000 in savings. The rest of the contract is unchanged.


Politico analyzed (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/22/doge-data-errors-inconsistencies-00002576) the data and identified "at least 14 instances where items are repeated, totaling $325 million in claimed savings." Among the duplicates was "a single $25 million item under the Agriculture Department" that was repeated four times. DOGE counted each vendor authorized to bid on the contract as a separate item. Actually, there are "only two finalized contracts from the vendors listed," and they have "been awarded less than $1 million."


In other cases, DOGE claimed credit for canceling contracts that had already expired (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html). Michigan-based environmental scientist David Reid decided to let "his contract studying invasive species in the St. Lawrence Seaway" expire on December 31, 2024, because he is planning to retire. He was surprised to find the contract included in the list of "savings" claimed by DOGE.


Overall, the Washington Post found (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/22/doge-savings-found-list-analysis/) "417 of the deals on DOGE’s list indicate that they saved $0" because they were already completed. Another 51 canceled contracts collectively saved less than $1 million.



The DOGE website links its claimed savings to information about the contracts on the Federal Procurement Data System (https://www.fpds.gov/). In several cases, however, the claimed savings and the linked contract do not match, raising questions about what contract — if any — was actually canceled. For example, "DOGE reported a canceled contract with National Jewish Health to support research on lung diseases," but linked to "a contract with the University of Oklahoma for cardiovascular research." National Jewish Health told Politico (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/22/doge-data-errors-inconsistencies-00002576) that it had not been informed that its grant had been canceled or cut.


Along with contracts, the DOGE website boasts of $144 million in savings from "canceling or renegotiating 97 leases for office space and other real estate used by federal agencies." But, according to an analysis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/22/doge-savings-found-list-analysis/) from the Washington Post, "[s]ixteen of DOGE’s 20 largest savings on real estate were calculated by assuming that those leases would otherwise have continued for another five years." In fact, "all 20 were already due to expire within the next two years — and most this year." The inflated savings accounts for $104 million of the $144 million of total claimed savings.https://www.muskwatch.com/p/doges-disastrous-accounting

[Blake]

Yeah because money drives all those on the autistic spectrum, amirite?

His non profit org Tesla

[Winehole23]

another TRO for Trumplandia to poop on

this one blocks DOE and OPM from sharing sensitive info with DOGE

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1439,w_2560,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_1044/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1491846625/articles/2017/01/24/triumph-the-insult-comic-dog-poops-all-over-trump-s-inauguration/170123-wilstein-triumph-trump-inauguration-tease_fwhjbj
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.38.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

purported HUD TV hack

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[Blake]

"......It appeared as if the State Department was taking steps to award Elon Musk's Tesla a $400 million government contract to buy armored electric vehicles to securely transport diplomats. The move to set in motion a lucrative contract to a company controlled by a high-profile ally of President Trump seemed so bold it surprised even longtime observers of the norm-busting president.
....

...... But NPR has obtained a State Department document detailing that Biden's State Department planned to spend just $483,000 in the 2025 fiscal year on buying electric vehicles and $3 million for supporting equipment, like charging stations. It represented less than 1% of the hundreds of millions of dollars likely destined for Tesla vehicles after the Trump administration quietly revised a State Department procurement document...

.....The person said the State Department and Tesla had agreed during the Biden administration to conduct research about armoring electric vehicles, but no money had been set aside to purchase armored Teslas for the State Department. A total budget of $483,000 had been approved to buy light-duty EVs as possible State Department vehicles. That plan was moving forward as recently as November 2024....."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump

Uh huh. It'll be really fun when Tesla does end up with their armored minivan contract

[Winehole23]

the lawyer can't say that DOGE is being run illegally by a man who's impersonating the head of a US executive agency that isn't really one, so he's playing dumb


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreibxbhi5p4wvryzxbb3dmsiwvyz2valimiheyw4bdtwjz arsyllf5y@jpeg


JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time?

GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that

[Winehole23]

Government efficiency (https://bsky.app/profile/mikedrucker.bsky.social/post/3lix2eqw74k2o) is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

[Winehole23]

check the last bullet point


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[SnakeBoy]

1893505268522328189
1894173297786720718
1893726811458060584

[Winehole23]

eventually you're gonna cry too, Snake Boy

[ChumpDumper]

1893505268522328189
1894173297786720718
1893726811458060584

Fucking morons.

[ducks]

New poll: 83% of Americans want the government to cut spending instead of raising taxes—but D.C. just kept spending under Biden.

- 67% say the debt is unsustainable
- 83% want the budget balanced
- 77% demand a full review of government spending

Yet Democrats refused to cut a dime while pushing higher taxes and endless deficits. Now, DOGE
and Trump are doing what the voters asked for.

Source: Harvard/Harris Poll

[ducks]

Fucking morons.

Morons for people to have to report what the did one bullet per day

Not hard but chump thinks accountability for people getting his tax payer money is stupid

[ducks]

Fred Trump got arrested at a Fascist/Klan counterrally in 1927 for fighting with cops

What does Fred have to do with the topic at hand
We are talking about waste the gov is doing
Musk is only pointing that out. He is only on read mode
Trump has the finally saw and he does not back down unlike sleepy Joe

[Winehole23]

sounds foolproof



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreifqjmoacea7baxatrd4z64opfpkgcgme4lugiakf6uk2 dby6bj3gu@jpeghttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back-elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439

[ChumpDumper]

Morons for people to have to report what the did one bullet per day

Not hard but chump thinks accountability for people getting his tax payer money is stupidThey already have accountability without sending an email to your fucking moron's robot.

[ducks]

They already have accountability without sending an email to your fucking moron's robot.

Is it to stressfully for you ?

[ChumpDumper]

Is it to stressfully for you ?It's completely unnecessary.

Why should a robot decide if they stay employed?

[Blake]

New poll: 83% of Americans want the government to cut spending instead of raising taxes—but D.C. just kept spending under Biden.

- 67% say the debt is unsustainable
- 83% want the budget balanced
- 77% demand a full review of government spending

Yet Democrats refused to cut a dime while pushing higher taxes and endless deficits. Now, DOGE
and Trump are doing what the voters asked for.

Source: Harvard/Harris Poll

Literally nobody asked to stop cancer research

[SnakeBoy]

eventually you're gonna cry too, Snake Boy

Why?

[Winehole23]

Why?disgrace, infamy and worse

people don't like evil dipshits and goons who abuse power and make their lives worse

[z0sa]

I'd be down with a real audit, by real auditors, who had an actual plan in place and didn't just lay people off willy-nilly. DOGE is beyond unprofessional, they're not auditors, they have no life experience to make big decisions about who to hold onto and who to keep in a vacuum. DOGE is obviously, provably, undeniably and inarguably an absolute joke. Conservatives, by and large uneducated morons, think big things are happening because Trump and President Musk told them so.

[SnakeBoy]

people don't like evil dipshits and goons who abuse power and make their lives worse

Joe Biden did all of those things and you loved him for it

[sickdsm]

How much of a shitbag are you to be defending a nazi? JFC the right is a bunch of lunatics in this country.

Nah fuck off. Used to think you were the only decent one here but have had enough of loser libs. Completely ignoring the Pelosi comment puts you right in place with the rest of the group here.

[Winehole23]

Joe Biden did all of those things and you loved him for itI didn't love Joe Biden

I almost certainly criticized him more and on more things than you the last five years in this forum -- you've been a ghost

[Winehole23]

lol fair weather friends

[baseline bum]

Nah fuck off. Used to think you were the only decent one here but have had enough of loser libs. Completely ignoring the Pelosi comment puts you right in place with the rest of the group here.

LOL whataboutism when your boy is doing nazi salutes and getting ready to gut Social Security after claiming half of it is fraud. Pretty sure I hate Pelosi more than you do anyways since she fucked over a great House candidate in my district to barely push corrupt ass Henry Cuellar over the finish line in the 2022 primaries. Don't call me a lib either, fuck liberals.

[benefactor]

Nobody here loved Joe Biden. Why do you guys keep saying that? Is it because you love Trump so much and you just need us to love someone else?

[ChumpDumper]

Nobody here loved Joe Biden. Why do you guys keep saying that? Is it because you love Trump so much and you just need us to love someone else?
Yup. They're cult members and expect us to be cult members too. They can't conceive any other way.

[Winehole23]

Nobody here loved Joe Biden. Why do you guys keep saying that? Is it because you love Trump so much and you just need us to love someone else?hell, I don't even like him

[Winehole23]

I've made more "insider trading" and "gerontocracy" posts about Pelosi than anyone here over the last ten years

But in the last few days I got accused by DarrinS, Snake Boy and sickdsm -- three posters who were completely MIA during the Biden years until 2024 -- of not posting about her shenanigans at all. Because I criticize El0n.

Fine if they think I'm a hypocrite, but they picked a bad example.

[Winehole23]

They don't read, they don't think anyone else reads, and they don't care whether what they're saying is true

They just throw shit on the wall

Like El0n

[Winehole23]

anyway, the idea that the revolutionary Musk/Trump autocoup and crime spree can't be credibly criticized now if one didn't criticize mundane corruption in the past is faulty

there's a big difference between stealing from a house and burning it down

[Thread]

anyway, the idea that the revolutionary Musk/Trump autocoup and crime spree can't be credibly criticized now if one didn't criticize mundane corruption in the past is faulty

there's a big difference between stealing from a house and burning it down

Knock yourself out. Until you get that House you're impotent.

[Winehole23]

Integrity


More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (https://apnews.com/article/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654), saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

[TSA]

Integrity

https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c




Yawn

Holdovers from Obama's USDS


The staffers who resigned worked for what was once known as the United States Digital Service, an office established during President Barack Obama’s administration after the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov, the web portal that millions of Americans use to sign up for insurance plans through the Democrat’s signature health care law.

https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

[Blake]

Integrity

https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c




Still don't know what DOGE salaries are

[Blake]

What conflict of interest durrr

"New York
CNN
—
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA...."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/business/musk-faa-starlink-contract/index.html

[SnakeBoy]

anyway, the idea that the revolutionary Musk/Trump autocoup and crime spree can't be credibly criticized now if one didn't criticize mundane corruption in the past is faulty

there's a big difference between stealing from a house and burning it down

After all they've done to him, the old man thinks burning it down is better

He deserves a chance to find out...he earned it

[SnakeBoy]

MSNBC reporting 21 former USDS employees resign in refusal to work for DOGE
https://www.msnbc.com/chris-jansing-reports/watch/doj-lawyers-struggling-to-defend-mounting-legal-challenges-to-trump-s-executive-actions-232787525566

Elon's strategy is working!

[ChumpDumper]

After all they've done to him, the old man thinks burning it down is better

He deserves a chance to find out...he earned it

He deserves to be in prison.

[TSA]

What conflict of interest durrr

"New York
CNN
—
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA...."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/business/musk-faa-starlink-contract/index.html

https://x.com/FAANews/status/1894191384019525693

The FAA had been considering Starlink since the last administration, did you even read the article you linked?

If Starlink operates better, is cheaper, and makes air travel safer than Verizon's current system should the FAA use Starlink? yes or no.

[Blake]

https://x.com/FAANews/status/1894191384019525693

The FAA had been considering Starlink since the last administration, did you even read the article you linked?

If Starlink operates better, is cheaper, and makes air travel safer than Verizon's current system should the FAA use Starlink? yes or no.

False question. If Starlink works, great, use it. Get Elon out of doing audits though.

Did you even read the title of the article? It's pretty fucking simple.

[SnakeBoy]

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