Polymarket.com/doge

[CosmicCowboy]

An excellent savings tracker. Whinehole will hate it.

[ChumpDumper]

Why is Elon's financial disclosure a state secret?

[Yonivore]

An excellent savings tracker. Whinehole will hate it.

Thanks, CC! Excellent website.

[Blake]

Has yet to be determined if this will end up being any kind of net "savings"

[Winehole23]

An excellent savings tracker. Whinehole will hate it.What authority does the Musk/Trump junta rely on to nullify appropriations and mass fire civil servants?

Is it valid in your opinion?

[Winehole23]

How does Musk functioning like a Soviet-style shadow government commissar strike you?

Have you ever seen anything like it in the USA, CC?

[Yonivore]

What authority does the Musk/Trump junta rely on to nullify appropriations and mass fire civil servants?

Is it valid in your opinion?
It's all being challenged in the courts, isn't it? I suppose we'll find out, eh?

[Yonivore]

How does Musk functioning like a Soviet-style shadow government commissar strike you?

Have you ever seen anything like it in the USA, CC?
Nothing shadowy about what DOGE is doing. It's all out in the open.

We haven't seen anything like it but, it's about time.

[ChumpDumper]

It's all being challenged in the courts, isn't it? I suppose we'll find out, eh?

You sure shut the fuck about the ICA, eh?:lol

[Yonivore]

You sure shut the fuck about the ICA, eh?:lol
No, y'all did. Congress is actually working on legislation to codify some of the EO within the 45 day (I think it was 45 days) time limit.

[Blake]

It's all being challenged in the courts, isn't it? I suppose we'll find out, eh?

It's ridiculous it has to come to that. It's retarded they didn't know about who works on nuclear weapons before they whacked them.

Just fucking retarded.

[Blake]

Nothing shadowy about what DOGE is doing. It's all out in the open.

We haven't seen anything like it but, it's about time.

Rofl "nothing shadowy"

[ChumpDumper]

No, y'all did. Congress is actually working on legislation to codify some of the EO within the 45 day (I think it was 45 days) time limit.

Where is the special message to Congress, yoni?

You shut the fuck up right after I asked you about it.

[ChumpDumper]

Nothing shadowy about what DOGE is doing. It's all out in the open.Is Elon's financial disclosure out in the open?

Link, please.

[Yonivore]

Well, well, look who’s back at the Troll Booth—fresh off a gourmet feast of Hot Pockets and Spaghetti-O’s. Hope the basement WiFi is holding up, ChumpDumper.

[ChumpDumper]

Well, well, look who’s back at the Troll Booth—fresh off a gourmet feast of Hot Pockets and Spaghetti-O’s. Hope the basement WiFi is holding up, ChumpDumper.

yoni folds like a little bitch again.:tu

Now shut the fuck up about the ICA again.:tu

[ducks]

Has yet to be determined if this will end up being any kind of net "savings"

You need to get off the drugs

[Winehole23]

It's all being challenged in the courts, isn't it? I suppose we'll find out, eh?what, that the whole thing has been a crime spree and an autocoup?

[Blake]

You need to get off the drugs

:lol says ducks

[Winehole23]

lol CC ducking his own thread after the call out

[Winehole23]

Just curious, how are the savings calculated and what happens to them afterwards?

Or does DOGE not do double entry accounting

[ChumpDumper]

Whatever it is, CC fell in line behind Trump with lightning speed.

[hater]

Just curious, how are the savings calculated and what happens to them afterwards?

Or does DOGE not do double entry accounting

You multiply the number of Elons babies times the current date in unix format

Easy peezy

[Winehole23]

Whatever it is, CC fell in line behind Trump with lightning speed.

He was for Trump all along, turns out

[Winehole23]

You multiply the number of Elons babies times the current date in unix format

Easy peezyin other words, it's all shitposting

[Blake]

Whatever it is, CC fell in line behind Trump with lightning speed.

Anyone but Kamala

[Thread]

Anyone but Kamala

She was gonna be the big shot.

Uh, uh, Blake.

Nope.

[TSA]

Rofl "nothing shadowy"

What exactly is “shadowy”? You’ve railed against DOGE since its inception but have still been unable to say what’s wrong with it and why you’re against it.

[hater]

in other words, it's all shitposting

Well duh

[ChumpDumper]

What exactly is “shadowy”? You’ve railed against DOGE since its inception but have still been unable to say what’s wrong with it and why you’re against it.
Why is Elon's financial disclosure a state secret?

[ChumpDumper]

What exactly is “shadowy”? You’ve railed against DOGE since its inception but have still been unable to say what’s wrong with it and why you’re against it.

Is Elon, a NASA contractor, going to "audit" NASA?

[CosmicCowboy]

lol CC ducking his own thread after the call out

I posted it and split whinehole. I actually work running a business and don't live in Spurstalk like you do.

[CosmicCowboy]

Whatever it is, CC fell in line behind Trump with lightning speed.

Meh. I disagree with the tariffs but totally agree with downsizing the federal government. We have been paying for a lot of ridiculous bullshit.

[ChumpDumper]

Meh. I disagree with the tariffs but totally agree with downsizing the federal government. We have been paying for a lot of ridiculous bullshit.Wow, what a surprise you totally agree with what Trump is doing.

[Winehole23]

I posted it and split whinehole. I actually work running a business and don't live in Spurstalk like you do.No time to post in your own thread and nothing topical to say, how sad and unoriginal

[CosmicCowboy]

No time to post in your own thread and nothing topical to say, how sad and unoriginal

Lol pot kettle black. Keep on living in spurstalk. I have better things to do

[baseline bum]

Meh. I disagree with the tariffs but totally agree with downsizing the federal government. We have been paying for a lot of ridiculous bullshit.

Like cancer research

[CosmicCowboy]

Didn't Biden cure cancer? I remember that.

[ChumpDumper]

Didn't Biden cure cancer? I remember that.

Is this your serious response to the cuts made to medical research?

[Blake]

What exactly is “shadowy”? You’ve railed against DOGE since its inception but have still been unable to say what’s wrong with it and why you’re against it.

Not to mention all the backtracking they're having to do because of public safety and national security but there's a shit ton of conflicts of interest having someone who already has billions in government contracts doing these retarded audits you fucking idiot.

[Blake]

Lol pot kettle black. Keep on living in spurstalk. I have better things to do


Didn't Biden cure cancer? I remember that.

Lol one quick snark before hitting the road

[Thread]

Wow, what a surprise you totally agree with what Trump is doing.

Me too, daddy.

[Thread]

Not to mention all the backtracking they're having to do because of public safety and national security but there's a shit ton of conflicts of interest having someone who already has billions in government contracts doing these retarded audits you fucking idiot.

Blake gettin' his mad on again. Losin' his temper.

Blake

[Thread]

Is this your serious response to the cuts made to medical research?

Well, Dumper, did Biden cure cancer?

[Winehole23]

overstated by a factor of ~8, according to the WSJ

another CC thread fails at inception, the DOGE tracker is just El0n shitposting

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3i66m4j7mevyn6tmfdfhiore/bafkreigx6ufxxm7j75v4xa6yod36u5vdzex4wrnhlozybbais lh335zt7u@jpeg

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-doge-federal-savings-claims-783b9507

[Winehole23]

same article

shitposting isn't an audit


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j53tav4pdcpfxyx2gcfr5fhb/bafkreiafjj7bcoazjmc52ndohtvactuadsxvjyaz45krrpz2w zuwjfx2iu@jpeg

[Winehole23]

even AEI doesn't believe El0n's reported "savings"


For a more sensible estimate of savings, we can again turn to USASpending.gov. Across these contracts, the difference between the Total Obligated Value and Total Outlayed Amount is $197.6 million— far less than the $590 million in Total Obligated Values, the $881 million initial DOGE figure, or the $1,062 million in Total Potential Contract Values.

DOGE has an unprecedented opportunity to cut waste and bloat. However, the sloppy work shown so far should give pause to even its most sympathetic defenders. If we can’t trust DOGE’s “receipts,” we can’t know what its “move fast and break things” approach is actually saving.
https://www.aei.org/education/running-down-doges-department-of-education-receipts/

[Winehole23]

I guess CC is too busy running a business to check whether he's amplifying totally inaccurate agitprop

[Winehole23]

even AEI doesn't believe El0n's reported "savings"

https://www.aei.org/education/running-down-doges-department-of-education-receipts/


I guess CC is too busy running a business to check whether he's amplifying totally inaccurate agitprop

[z0sa]

Atoms in the bucket. The real goal was to intimidate federal workers, mission accomplished by the sieg heiling Nazis

[ChumpDumper]

An excellent savings tracker.
Turns out it isn't.

At all.


:lol cc

[velik_m]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1895136616441905228

[velik_m]

Farmers, green groups sue USDA over ‘unlawful purge’ of climate data

...
The organizations involved include Earthjustice and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which are representing the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group.

The coalition says that valuable datasets relating to climate-smart agriculture, forest conservation, climate change adaptation and investment in clean energy projects in rural America were purged from the site.

“By wiping critical climate resources from the USDA’s website, the Trump administration has deliberately stripped farmers and ranchers of the vital tools they need to confront the escalating extreme weather threats like droughts and floods,” Anne Schechinger, Midwest director for the Environmental Working Group said in a statement.

“This lawsuit isn’t just about transparency — it’s about holding those in power accountable for undermining the very information that helps protect the livelihoods of food producers, the food system, and our future.”
...


https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5163917-usda-climate-data-lawsuit/amp/

[Winehole23]

January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza (https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/no-evidence-us-spent-50-million-condoms-gaza-2025-01-30/)
January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms for Hamas (https://apnews.com/article/gaza-condoms-fact-check-trump-50-million-26884cac6c7097d7316ca50ca4145a82)
February 12: ‘Some of the things that I say will be incorrect’: Musk backs away from false claim of $50 million for Gaza condoms (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/some-of-the-things-that-i-say-will-be-incorrect-musk-backs-away-from-false-claim-of-usd50-million-for-gaza-condoms/index.html)
February 17: No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits (https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/)
February 18: Why DOGE’s ‘Receipts’ Show Elon Musk’s Math Doesn’t Add (https://www.thedailybeast.com/many-of-those-much-hyped-doge-receipts-arent-adding-up/)
February 18: DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html)
February 19: New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-doge-100-150-year-olds-cobol-elon-musk/)
February 19: DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn’t add up (https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates-savings-federal-contracts)
February 19: T (https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased-false-claims-doge-ed2885f5769f368853ac3615b4852cf7)ens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims (https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased-false-claims-doge-ed2885f5769f368853ac3615b4852cf7)
February 21: DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html)
February 22: Musk’s DOGE says it has saved $55 billion. Not so fast. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/22/doge-savings-found-list-analysis/)
February 22: DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where. (https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-doge-federal-savings-claims-783b9507)
February 25: Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings (https://apnews.com/article/doge-federal-contracts-canceled-musk-trump-cuts-a65976a725412934ad686389889db0df)
February 25: DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.html)
February 26: Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/dozens-doge-receipts-saved-no-money-killed-contracts-meant-boost-effic-rcna193682)
February 26: DOGE releases updated “wall of receipts” with more discrepancies (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-wall-of-receipts-more-discrepancies/)
February 26: Musk’s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/musk-doge-savings-website)
February 26: A look at the misleading and incorrect claims on DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts’ (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-misleading-and-incorrect-claims-on-doges-wall-of-receipts)
February 26: Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/elon-musk-ebola-prevention-usaid-doge/)

[Winehole23]

An excellent savings tracker. Whinehole will hate it.partial credit

DOGE is a shite savings tracker

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao "excellent"

[Winehole23]

he just means he likes it, the word excellent has no objective meaning

[velik_m]

GSA eliminates 18F

...
The team was founded the same year as the U.S. Digital Service, which has since been transformed into Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Musk has said that he wants to fix the government’s at-times antiquated technology — which featured prominently in the executive order creating the DOGE, too — but legacy staffers at USDS who’ve been working on government tech problems have also been fired or quit in protest.

The billionaire wrote on his social media platform X that 18F and TTS had been “deleted” weeks ago, re-posting another account that called the 18F a “far left government computer office” and pointed to its work on the IRS’ free tax filing system, Direct File.

Other examples of the team’s work include the redesign of a website at the Justice Department on a key disability civil rights law, ada.gov. Last year, the office celebrated its tenth year, highlighting 450 government tech projects it had worked on since its inception under former President Barack Obama. The team’s size has fluctuated over the years, beginning with several dozen staffers and at times growing to well over 100 technologists in its ranks. About 90 people were impacted, two of the affected employees told Nextgov/FCW.

“As federal employees, we don’t have conflicts of interest, just dedication to your mission,” the 18F website reads. “Together with our government agency partners, we deliver projects that stay within budget and improve their technology.”
...


https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/

[velik_m]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M

[Winehole23]

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/possible procurement capture


Tycoons don't like any game that's not rigged in their favor. And right now, government spending at the federal level is mostly controlled by an agency called the General Services Administration, which oversees procurement. Is it complicated? Sure! Sometimes the complexity is for the same reasons that processes are inefficient around the office at your job, and that's frustrating. But sometimes it's good, because they're trying to make sure nobody is buying $800 hammers. It's not perfect, and it's overly complex, but it is not totally captured by the richest guys in the world right now.

Now, imagine you were a tycoon who is also a defense contractor that is trying to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of military equipment to the government, and you know that the procurement process requires them to go with the lowest bidder. But, since you're a dude with hundreds of billions of dollars, it doesn't seem fair that the system isn't even more rigged in your favor. How would you "fix" this system? Well, you'd have to capture procurement, so that it was rigged to only buy stuff from you and your friends, at whatever price you guys want. And if it could screw your competitors (https://fortune.com/2024/11/29/vivek-ramaswamy-elon-musk-doge-tesla-rivian-biden-federal-government-loan-trump/) along the way, and punish them for not kissing your ass? That would be a bonus.

Enter DOGE.
https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-capture/

[Winehole23]

Say you're a government employee trying to figure out who to buy rockets from. Maybe it better be from the guy who runs the "department" that's in charge of deciding where money gets spent in the government! But what if you're that government employee and you're still trying to do things by the book, and follow the laws as written, and listen to the process that says you should go with the lowest bidder so you can spend less taxpayer money on things?


Well, wouldn't it be a shame if the guy who runs the "department" also ran a huge social media company, and also had started mentioning individual government employees by name (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-targets-federal-employees-harassment-doge-1235183987/), and had a rabid army of followers who consistently targeted those employees for violent threats — including death threats — and had in fact just carried out two different terrorist attacks in the last week while specifically talking about (https://nevadacurrent.com/briefs/cybertruck-explosion-a-wake-up-call-not-terrorism-driver-wrote-on-iphone/) how enemies of this new regime needed to be targeted for violence? Would that be enough to get you to reconsider following those written policies? Maybe so.

[Winehole23]

Would anyone let any other defense contractor or government vendor run a "department" that was trying to reduce government spending? What if the CEO of Boeing said they were going to cut government spending? A big pharma CEO said he was going to increase government efficiency? Maybe the head of an investment bank was going to come in and reduce spending at the Commerce department? That sound credible to you? What makes these particular corporate executives even remotely credible to do this job? How is it not a massive conflict of interest to put people who sell hundreds of millions of dollars of products directly to the government in charge of reducing government spending?

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:odni6vxm6u2hydonytgjhvfn/bafkreicgdhynqhn5l5wrehpajkqsgh5vm7xmuqz2tdkvulhor vgrjkpbk4@jpeg

[Winehole23]

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/Getting rid of top notch technologists like 18F and USDS seems more like a bid to amplify waste fraud and abuse than curtail it

if talent like this is ever rehired to the USG, it'll cost a lot more

Introduction | 18F De-risking Guide (https://guides.18f.gov/derisking-government-tech/)

[Winehole23]

DOGE operatives reportedly couldn't pass basic tech tests to become members of USDS


Here is a thumbnail sketch of the two units: USDS offered support and guidance to agencies, but could not dictate a governmentwide approach on most issues. In times of crisis, or when a President prioritized a policy outcome dependent on digital innovations, it could play a more prominent role, serving as a de facto firefighter for digital governance. The General Services Administration set up its own digital consultancy team, 18F in 2014. This team’s mission is to work with agencies to “[transform] the way the federal government builds and buys digital services.” 18F was a cost recoverable office, meaning that they charge partner agencies for their work rather than being funded directly through a congressional appropriation. Both organizations use similar managerial technologies, which includes agile, iterative design, a user-centric approach, a reliance on data-driven decision making, directly managing relationships with vendors, favoring open-source solutions, the prioritization of platform models, and a flatter organizational culture.


USDS and 18F represented a hopeful trend for American government: embedding serious tech skills inside the bureaucracy, rather than relying on private vendors. They care about public services, and represented the most visible public sector manifestation of “civic tech” in government.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forced

[velik_m]

Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say

...
Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk of being terminated, who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy, two of the sources said. At least two countries have already set up recruitment websites and begun aggressively targeting federal employees on LinkedIn, two of the sources said.

A document produced by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said the intelligence community assessed with “high confidence” that foreign adversaries were trying to recruit federal employees and “capitalize” on the Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs, according to a partly redacted copy reviewed by CNN.

It added that foreign intelligence officers were being directed to look for potential sources on LinkedIn, TikTok, RedNote and Reddit.

At least one foreign intelligence officer directed an asset to create a company profile on Linkedin and post a job advertisement, and to actively pursue federal employees who indicate they are “open to work,” the NCIS document says.

The adversaries think the employees “are at their most vulnerable right now,” another of the sources said. “Out of a job, bitter about being fired, etc.”
...



https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html

[Thread]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html

Sure they are.

[Blake]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:odni6vxm6u2hydonytgjhvfn/bafkreicgdhynqhn5l5wrehpajkqsgh5vm7xmuqz2tdkvulhor vgrjkpbk4@jpeg

Of course they do

[Winehole23]

DOGE operatives reportedly couldn't pass basic tech tests to become members of USDS

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-technologists-are-being-forcedso they fired the USDS

[Thread]

Of course they do

Of course they were.

[Winehole23]

so they fired the USDSI thought this was worth a golf clap, there's a relative dearth of straight political takes lately

For some reason, the Trumpies don't want to talk about politics and power

All personal and culture war bullshit

[Winehole23]

another week, another round of DOGE postings that do not hold up to momentary scrutiny

DOGE has had trouble understanding the information they collect the whole way


Every time the U.S. DOGE Service (DOGE) has updated its “wall of receipts,” an online database where it reports the money it has supposedly saved taxpayers, massive new errors have emerged. Last week was no different. DOGE claimed credit for saving $53.7 million by cancelling U.S. Coast Guard contracts that were fulfilled in 2006 and 2011 and a Treasury Department contract that was axed when former President Joe Biden was still in office, according to the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-errors.html). The Times also found that DOGE had inflated the value of a cancelled National Institutes of Health contract by $148.8 million.

Asked about the discrepancies, a senior administration official told the Times that individual agencies are providing the numbers. Of course, this would not absolve DOGE of blame. It has deputies planted at nearly every federal agency and has pressured agencies to provide them with numbers DOGE can claim as budget cuts. “The group has even created a ‘leaderboard’ to measure which ones have eliminated the most,” the Times reported.
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/the-week-in-musk-a-wall-of-errors

[Thread]

another week, another round of DOGE postings that do not hold up to momentary scrutiny

DOGE has had trouble understanding the information they collect the whole way

https://www.muskwatch.com/p/the-week-in-musk-a-wall-of-errors

Just keep shit canning these lifetime fucks.

We'll pick up & match the pieces later on.

[Winehole23]

^^^ends justify the means talk is very trendy now

[Thread]

^^^ends justify the means talk is very trendy now

Pennsylvania set the trend in blood.

[Winehole23]

Pennsylvania set the trend in blood.your own shot him

[Winehole23]

if he was shot

was the medical report ever released?

[Thread]

if he was shot

was the medical report ever released?

HIPPA, that's why.

You have a bug up your ass, on spec.

[Winehole23]

HIPPA, that's why.

You have a bug up your ass, on spec.anything not to discuss the topic

why would Trump want to keep it a secret?

[Thread]

anything not to discuss the topic

why would Trump want to keep it a secret?

So, what is your reasoning as to why he didn't release it?

[Winehole23]

So, what is your reasoning as to why he didn't release it?if Trump is telling the truth, I have no earthly idea

modesty?

[velik_m]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyS_WRNgovc

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d6wtextmdf4jzr4oouyapzmm/bafkreielnzuamb7ego7nodpucvhe6aydqb7firtufqwmvbehm dsbf6lnru@jpeg

[Blake]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d6wtextmdf4jzr4oouyapzmm/bafkreielnzuamb7ego7nodpucvhe6aydqb7firtufqwmvbehm dsbf6lnru@jpeg

Unless 2nd amendment

[Winehole23]

Unless 2nd amendmentlegally things seem to be jamming up for Trumplandia, perhaps it's too soon to completely write off the old USA

[Winehole23]

but the administrative coup is devastating

El0n hacked the US system of payment, now Trump is using control of US payments to directly coerce US states, institutions and legislators

[Thread]

legally things seem to be jamming up for Trumplandia, perhaps it's too soon to completely write off the old USA

Only nigh on 4 years left, stink-pot.

[velik_m]

https://x.com/Brendan_Duke/status/1899453481968185545

[Thread]

https://x.com/Brendan_Duke/status/1899453481968185545

In for penny.
In for pound.

[Winehole23]

"we'll leave out identifiers so y'all can't check our work and make us look bad"


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gdj5pzurklijmlknynlpaora/bafkreietlbdej6oflixl24l6s36i7h7i5pv6yg3yjtbp5254b zy7x2jkra@jpeghttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/doge-errors-funding-grants-claims.html

[Winehole23]

wildly overstated "savings"


Elon Musk claims that the U.S. DOGE Service (DOGE) — a small group of Musk associates embedded in virtually every department of the federal government — have already saved taxpayers over $100 billion. In an appearance on Fox Business this week, Musk claimed he was saving $4 billion per day and was on track to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget.

Most of these purported “savings,” however, are not backed up with any details or documentation. In other cases, DOGE has provided documentation, but the documents reveal that DOGE has grossly overstated the potential savings to taxpayers.

That is why, today, we are launching theMusk Watch DOGE Tracker (http://doge.muskwatch.com/). The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker allows anyone to easily cut through the spin about DOGE and see how much savings can be verified. It also allows the public to go deeper and see what is being cut and who is being impacted. It will be updated weekly.

Verifiable Canceled Funding ($8.6 billion)
This includes the amount of savings that can be verified based on the information provided by DOGE. Most Verifiable Canceled Funding comes from canceled contracts. But Musk Watch has determined the actual potential savings, rather than the inflated values provided by DOGE.

Here is how it works. For each contract, there are three key figures: the “Obligated Amount,” the “Current Award Amount,” and the “Potential Award Amount.” The Obligated Amount is the amount the agency has obligated itself to spend. DOGE calculates the savings by taking the “Potential Award Amount” and subtracting the “Obligated Amount.” The “Potential Award Amount” is the value of the contract if all options, renewals, extensions, and expansions of the contract are exercised.

“The ‘Current Award Amount’ is a better way of determining what the government has committed to a contract,” Jacob Leibenluft, the former Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget told Musk Watch. By using “Potential Award Amount” instead, Leibenluft explained, DOGE is taking credit for saving money that the government was not required to spend and might never have been spent under any administration.

Musk Watch calculates the savings by taking the “Current Award Amount,” and subtracting the “Obligated Amount.” This results in a significantly lower estimation of savings.

The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker also includes real estate savings in this category since DOGE does provide specific addresses, even though the real estate savings are also somewhat inflated. A Washington Post analysis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/22/doge-savings-found-list-analysis/) found that many of the savings “were calculated by assuming that those leases would otherwise have continued for another five years” even though many were scheduled to expire within the next two years.

The total Verifiable Canceled Funding, as calculated by the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker, is currently $8.6 billion. This means the top line claim of savings by DOGE, $105 billion, overstates the verified savings by 92%.
https://doge.muskwatch.com

[Winehole23]

Mike Shedlock supported Trump for president last year


105 is an overstatement by 1,121 percent


Even the Verifiable Canceled Funding as determined by the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker may still overstate the real savings to taxpayers.

First, since there is a delay in federal contract databases, we have to assume that all the contracts that DOGE says it canceled are actually canceled. But more than 1000 contracts that have appeared on the DOGE.gov website at one point were subsequently removed. So some of the current contracts that DOGE says it has canceled may not actually be canceled.

Second, canceling a contract that is paid for by funds appropriated by Congress does not automatically decrease the budget. Savings claimed by DOGE for canceled contracts may be “illusory” because the agency is still “required to spend the money” appropriated by Congress for the same statutorily authorized purpose.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-doge-tracker-shows-doge-savings-only-8-2-percent-of-the-claim/

[Winehole23]

Don’t count broken eggs before the Senate and House agree to break them. And don’t chalk up Musk’s claims without understanding how exaggerated they are.

[Winehole23]

Mike Shedlock supported Trump for president last year



https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-doge-tracker-shows-doge-savings-only-8-2-percent-of-the-claim/Mish still backs him, I think

[Winehole23]

still no accounting of what happened to or what's going to happen to all the $$$ that got impounded, I've seen zero reporting on that

that $$$ (i.e., funds appropriated by law) is now like a big executive branch slush fund for El0n/Trump to dole out to followers and deny to opponents

[Winehole23]

Only nigh on 4 years left, stink-pot.y'all acted like Obama was about to do something like this, but he never did

not even close

[TSA]

wildly overstated "savings"

https://doge.muskwatch.com

:lol Musk Watch

Judd Legum got taken to the woodshed and his entire site is based off of misinterpreting "potential"

Thread here

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1899994854287110166

and here

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1900251042035503255

[Blake]

:lol Musk Watch

Judd Legum got taken to the woodshed and his entire site is based off of misinterpreting "potential"

Thread here

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1899994854287110166

and here

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1900251042035503255

Do you believe Musk's numbers are accurate?

[TSA]

:lol Musk Watch

Judd Legum got taken to the woodshed and his entire site is based off of misinterpreting "potential"

Thread here

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1899994854287110166

and here

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1900251042035503255

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1900166436733014299

:lol this lady just smacking Judd around now for fun

[TSA]

Do you believe Musk's numbers are accurate?

More accurate than Judd's, yes.

Do you think Judd had an entire website built with a fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of Potential Award Value? yes or no.

[Winehole23]

DOGE is shitposting

it couldn't withstand basic journalistic scrutiny by dozens of outlets

[Winehole23]

maybe they're not perfect either, but Musk is far off the mark

DOGE doesn't even understand the information they're handling

that's why they've had to backtrack a dozen times already, and turn funding back on

[TSA]

wildly overstated "savings"

https://doge.muskwatch.com

https://x.com/johnny_bit/status/1900180069835800757

:lol Judd

[TSA]

maybe they're not perfect either, but Musk is far off the mark

DOGE doesn't even understand the information they're handling

that's why they've had to backtrack a dozen times already, and turn funding back on

DOGE doesn't cut funding, did you read that on muskwatch.com or something? :lol

[TSA]

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1900184193629409347

https://en.meming.world/images/en/9/91/Oof_Size_Large.jpg

[Winehole23]

DOGE doesn't cut funding, did you read that on muskwatch.com or something? :lolwhy are US Reps and Senators calling El0n to restore their funding?

[TSA]

why are US Reps and Senators calling El0n to restore their funding?

Again, DOGE doesn't cut funding, DOGE brings recommendations to department heads. Why is this so hard for you to understand?

:lol muskwatch

[TSA]

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1900184193629409347

https://en.meming.world/images/en/9/91/Oof_Size_Large.jpg

https://x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1900001520243859710

:lol

[Winehole23]

Again, DOGE doesn't cut funding, DOGE brings recommendations to department heads. Why is this so hard for you to understand?

:lol muskwatchyeah, we know, El0n is just a go between

you been propagandized

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreifqaoww5g7ucop5khmrsqqzmqifrow4eha2rcszd3s44 ofowbb5ta@jpeg


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreiew3qeyaockawalngj3cgytqwhi7dcdpzkg4gxkurqml ezdqspkam@jpeg

[TSA]

yeah, we know, El0n is just a go between

you been propagandized

:lol says the guy pimping a website built upon the complete misunderstanding of the meaning of potential awards

You need to take a break from ST and go touch some grass. You're are posting out of control here these days.

[Winehole23]

I touch grass plenty

I play soccer

[Thread]

:lol says the guy pimping a website built upon the complete misunderstanding of the meaning of potential awards

You need to take a break from ST and go touch some grass. You're are posting out of control here these days.

But at least he posts, T. Without the Winester were stuck with Dumper & Blake.

[Winehole23]

But at least he posts, T. Without the Winester were stuck with Dumper & Blake.total fair weather friend, TSA was a ghost from 2022-2024

[Winehole23]

Snake Boy too

[Winehole23]

El0n Musk is the commissar of Trump's shadow government of the Greater Musk/Trump Co-Prosperity Sphere
,
El0n hacked US payments, mass fired employees and cancelled US building leases and institutional grants. Agency heads that wouldn't play ball got axed. The new agency heads were carefully groomed and vetted to follow orders, and took credit for everything mendaciously, as in the OPM case in the SF federal district court.

[Thread]

El0n Musk is the commissar of Trump's shadow government of the Greater Musk/Trump Co-Prosperity Sphere
,
El0n hacked US payments, mass fired employees and cancelled US building leases and institutional grants. Agency heads that wouldn't play ball got axed. The new agency heads were carefully groomed and vetted to follow orders, and took credit for everything mendaciously, as in the OPM case in the SF federal district court.

"How's that for wet work, huh?"

[Winehole23]

we'll see if the court of last resort bows to Trump here

I see some problems for the appellant

[Thread]

we'll see if the court of last resort bows to Trump here

I see some problems for the appellant

Yep, we shall see.

[ChumpDumper]

DOGE doesn't cut funding, did you read that on muskwatch.com or something? :lol

What does DOGE do?

Who is running DOGE?

[Winehole23]

What does DOGE do?

Who is running DOGE?even the DOJ keeps dancing around it

[Winehole23]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/...k-republicans/ (https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/nation/doge-cuts-elon-musk-republicans/)

[Winehole23]

lawyers don't usually step aside unless they're asked to do something illegal or unethical

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/13/musk-doge-irs-trump/

[Winehole23]

That guy was Trumplandia's hand-picked counsel, btw

[Winehole23]

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/

[Winehole23]

rules and records related to infosec

what does DOGE retain? does it keep records?

what sensitive personally identifying information is it required to disgorge or destroy, if anything?

[Winehole23]

or does El0n just get to keep all the taxpayer info?

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dnacsxh4tk6zqxhyt5i7hahh/bafkreie4icuec4wcfsuuwzp3626tdwa5llubkkfphgrmsrirs oztrcgpma@jpeg

[velik_m]

Johns Hopkins University slashes 2,000 jobs after Trump administration grant cut

The Johns Hopkins University said on Thursday it will slash over 2,000 jobs in the U.S. and abroad after the administration of President Donald Trump terminated $800 million in grants to the renowned academic institution.
It marked the biggest layoff in the university's history and involved 247 domestic U.S. workers for the academic institution and another 1,975 positions outside the U.S. in 44 countries.

The job cuts impact the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical school and affiliated non-profit for international health, Jhpiego.
"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally," the university said in a statement shared with media.

...


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/johns-hopkins-university-slashes-2000-jobs-after-trump-administration-grant-cut-2025-03-13/

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreicdzebz7x7egh4wcobjfse3yjocutb2lxbzpclqf5zfw rtxqk2zie@jpeghttps://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/

[Thread]

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/

10,000+ jobs down the shitter for USPS.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/bafkreidejwxvp3y5eftooyrrxmndskkspvh6yjf6h7adx4g7i 324paq6h4@jpeg

[Blake]

More accurate than Judd's, yes.

Do you think Judd had an entire website built with a fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of Potential Award Value? yes or no.

No. Now what?

And thanks for admitting Musk's numbers are inaccurate. :tu

[velik_m]

USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget and he’ll do that working with Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to a letter sent to members of Congress on Thursday.

DOGE will assist USPS with addressing “big problems” at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement also includes the General Services Administration in an effort to help the Postal Service identify and achieve “further efficiencies.”

...


https://apnews.com/article/us-postal-service-doge-agreement-daf3bf54fa0718908791fcb368b4d9d8

[velik_m]

Bomb sniffing K-9s become latest DOGE victims – hours after Trump shared 2019 pic with hero dog

K-9 bomb sniffer dog units have become the latest victims of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, just as the White House celebrated a national day honoring the heroic animals.

Workers at the TSA were informed via email that “new guidance” meant that requests for costs including vet visits, kenneling and dog food, had been put on hold effective immediately, according to Fox News. The directive was revealed on Thursday. TSA is in charge of airport security and its dogs can be used to sniff out bombs and other contraband.

The developments comes hours after President Donald Trump reposted a picture of himself with a now-deceased dog to mark National K-9 Veterans Day. The president shared a picture of himself with Conan.

“Happy K9 Veterans Day to all of our heroic working dogs, including Conan who fearlessly participated in the military operation that ended ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019,” the president wrote.

...


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/k9-doge-cuts-trump-veterans-b2715284.html

[Winehole23]

it's a prelude to privatizating the USPS

in fairness, it's been a long prelude -- the US Congress half-throttled the USPS in 2006 by requiring it to prefund its retirement system for 75 years

[Blake]

it's a prelude to privatizating the USPS

in fairness, it's been a long prelude -- the US Congress half-throttled the USPS in 2006 by requiring it to prefund its retirement system for 75 years

It was a nice run. It was always amazing to me that for the price of one stamp you can ask them to carry a document for you from coast to coast.

[Winehole23]

It was a nice run. It was always amazing to me that for the price of one stamp you can ask them to carry a document for you from coast to coast.a truly great US institution, we may never see its likes again

[ducks]

a truly great US institution, we may never see its likes again

We can hope it never breaks even for a year

[Thread]

We can hope it never breaks even for a year

muhahahahahaha!!!

[Winehole23]

in a court declaration -- an admission


Marko Elez, the DOGE operative who had read-write access to the Treasury payment system, sent PII found in Treasury records to GSA officials in an unencrypted form and without being authorized to do so, according to a sworn statement filed in federal court last night and first noted by Bloomberghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.116.1.pdf

[Blake]

We can hope it never breaks even for a year

So let's put someone with absolutely no experience with it in charge of it. Like Trump.

[Blake]

in a court declaration -- an admission

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.116.1.pdf

Yeah someone needs to press charges.

[Winehole23]

Yeah someone needs to press charges."GSA officials" is load bearing -- that could well be other members of DOGE

[Winehole23]

We can hope it never breaks even for a yeary'all are gonna miss it when crappy corporations take over

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oqldnktgovfhnbdqrcjgnpfp/bafkreiadmvhsyqege272hredbws4nbukzhmklx5izdsdx4pvm ea6hd42du@jpeg

[Winehole23]

sacred cow?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl9TA7DbYAIAUmD?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Blake]

sacred cow?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl9TA7DbYAIAUmD?format=jpg&name=900x900

What conflict of interest?

[Blake]

".....The proposal to use government savings to distribute $5,000 checks to American taxpayers has been backed by President Donald Trump and his billionaire backer and close confidant Elon Musk.....

.....According to the DOGE website, with current savings of $115 billion, each taxpayer would receive approximately $142 if distributed today.....

https://www.newsweek.com/doge-stimulus-check-update-creator-reveals-amount-per-person-2045784

:lol gullible boot licking country bumpkins

[Winehole23]

".....The proposal to use government savings to distribute $5,000 checks to American taxpayers has been backed by President Donald Trump and his billionaire backer and close confidant Elon Musk.....

.....According to the DOGE website, with current savings of $115 billion, each taxpayer would receive approximately $142 if distributed today.....

https://www.newsweek.com/doge-stimulus-check-update-creator-reveals-amount-per-person-2045784

:lol gullible boot licking country bumpkinsJulius Caesar gave every Roman citizen 50 gold pieces as part of his successful bid to become Emperor -- a lot of Americans would probably sell their birthrights in exchange for a small, one-time payment

[Blake]

Julius Caesar gave every Roman citizen 50 gold pieces as part of his successful bid to become Emperor -- a lot of Americans would probably sell their birthrights in exchange for a small, one-time payment

I mean, it only took just a chance at $1 million from Musk to get people to vote

[Blake]

"...Terrible, Thoughtless, and Reckless”: Inside the Firings at Big Bend National Park
Tourists are flocking to the 1,252 square miles of rugged terrain, where visitor safety is a primary concern. DOGE just slashed five employees from the already understaffed park...."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/terrible-thoughtless-and-reckless-inside-the-firings-at-big-bend-national-park/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=cm-traffic-f25&tblci=GiC18pMwoPvq_BT_ixFND6YMX2lTQjtO80DiO4e3m_zC UiDyxG0o5YrE29OLzJ8pML6uWQ#tblciGiC18pMwoPvq_BT_ix FND6YMX2lTQjtO80DiO4e3m_zCUiDyxG0o5YrE29OLzJ8pML6u WQ

[Winehole23]

"...Terrible, Thoughtless, and Reckless”: Inside the Firings at Big Bend National Park
Tourists are flocking to the 1,252 square miles of rugged terrain, where visitor safety is a primary concern. DOGE just slashed five employees from the already understaffed park...."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/terrible-thoughtless-and-reckless-inside-the-firings-at-big-bend-national-park/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=cm-traffic-f25&tblci=GiC18pMwoPvq_BT_ixFND6YMX2lTQjtO80DiO4e3m_zC UiDyxG0o5YrE29OLzJ8pML6uWQ#tblciGiC18pMwoPvq_BT_ix FND6YMXt2olTQjtO80DiO4e3m_zCUiDyxG0o5YrE29OLzJ8pML 6uWQ (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/terrible-thoughtless-and-reckless-inside-the-firings-at-big-bend-national-park/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=cm-traffic-f25&tblci=GiC18pMwoPvq_BT_ixFND6YMX2lTQjtO80DiO4e3m_zC UiDyxG0o5YrE29OLzJ8pML6uWQ#tblciGiC18pMwoPvq_BT_ix FND6YMX2lTQjtO80DiO4e3m_zCUiDyxG0o5YrE29OLzJ8pML6u WQ)prelude selling it off, perhaps

DOGE is parting out America

[Blake]

prelude selling it off, perhaps

DOGE is parting out America

Teddy Roosevelt would roll

[velik_m]

Elon Musk’s DOGE Uses Police to Seize Independent Nonprofit

...
The USIP, an independent nonprofit founded by Congress, had its president, Greg Moose, and its board fired last week by the Trump administration. The Associated Press reported that DOGE workers on Monday had law enforcement escort them into USIP, which is not located in a federal building, after previously being denied access.

“DOGE just came into the building—they’re inside the building—they’re bringing the F.B.I. and brought a bunch of D.C. police,” USIP lawyer Sophia Lin told The New York Times as she and other staff members were forced out of the building.

“What has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit,” Moose told reporters. “It was very clear that there was a desire on the part of the administration to dismantle a lot of what we call foreign assistance, and we are part of that family.”
...


https://newrepublic.com/post/192854/elon-musk-doge-police-independent-nonprofit-usip

[Winehole23]

https://newrepublic.com/post/192854/elon-musk-doge-police-independent-nonprofit-usipwild

[Blake]

Musk is going to be in court at some point to answer for all this. Just may be a while.

Trump will be summoned but will just ignore again.

[Thread]

Musk is going to be in court at some point to answer for all this. Just may be a while.

Trump will be summoned but will just ignore again.

You'll need the House, Blake.

That ain't till January of '27 at the earliest.

[velik_m]

Musk is going to be in court at some point to answer for all this. Just may be a while.

Trump will be summoned but will just ignore again.

How cute, you still think there is rule of law in USA. You guys are still talking about courts and elections, hoping you can return back to "normal", completely clueless. Meanwhile chief justice is begging Trump not to remove judges.

I get it, hope is a hell of a drug.

[Thread]

How cute, you still think there is rule of law in USA. You guys are still talking about courts and elections, hoping you can return back to "normal", completely clueless. Meanwhile chief justice is begging Trump not to remove judges.

I get it, hope is a hell of a drug.

Little v., we ain't had rule of law in USA since Trump made President 8 years back. [rule of law] was suspended Inauguration Day when President Trump was threatened to be blown up along with his wife and their son.



Last Summer in a last ditch effort to head him off at the pass from making President again he was shot down in PA..

"The bastards hung me in the Spring of '25, but I am still alive."

...then shot at him again down in Florida.



"rule of law" indeed.

[Blake]

How cute, you still think there is rule of law in USA. You guys are still talking about courts and elections, hoping you can return back to "normal", completely clueless. Meanwhile chief justice is begging Trump not to remove judges.

I get it, hope is a hell of a drug.

Copium, tbh

[Winehole23]

History ain't over yet.

This is 1776 for MAGA, the rest of America is just beginning to stir.

I think the information mostly hasn't sunk in yet among the nonMAGA, nor feelings about the enormity of the crimes that are being committed against the public in the name of an IT upgrade and managerial advice to the president and agency heads.

MAGAlandia has been stewing in anger and hate for five years, the resistance is way behind.

[Thread]

History ain't over yet.

This is 1776 for MAGA, the rest of America is just beginning to stir.

I think the information mostly hasn't sunk in yet among the nonMAGA, nor feelings about the enormity of the crimes that are being committed against the public in the name of an IT upgrade and managerial advice to the president and agency heads.

MAGAlandia has been stewing in anger and hate for five years, the resistance is way behind.

You're doin' alright...you preemptively resisted there in Pennsylvania last Summer. Took a pot shot in Florida.

You've been lighting up Tesla's over night in Vegas.

But, alas, you ain't got that House. tee, hee.

[Thread]

Copium, tbh

Bend over. I'll give ya some fuckin' Copium.

[Blake]

History ain't over yet.

This is 1776 for MAGA, the rest of America is just beginning to stir.

I think the information mostly hasn't sunk in yet among the nonMAGA, nor feelings about the enormity of the crimes that are being committed against the public in the name of an IT upgrade and managerial advice to the president and agency heads.

MAGAlandia has been stewing in anger and hate for five years, the resistance is way behind.

I concur. I'm thinking the country is in shell shock mode.

[Winehole23]

You're doin' alright...you preemptively resisted there in Pennsylvania last Summer. Took a pot shot in Florida.

You've been lighting up Tesla's over night in Vegas.

But, alas, you ain't got that House. tee, hee.I don't consider it a given that there will be midterm elections next year

[Winehole23]

If there are midterms, I have little doubt results will be set aside

[Winehole23]

.

[Thread]

I don't consider it a given that there will be midterm elections next year

Now you're being melodramatic for effect. They'll be elections and you'll most likely take the House and the Senate and then melodrama will be apparent. They're gonna go after that old man like the last pork-chop on the plate. And what's more, Winester? He's looking forward to it with equal amounts of both anticipation & determination.

It will all be personal then. We're gonna have us a full vetting.

May even see ya in the street, old horse.

[Winehole23]

Now you're being melodramatic for effect. They'll be elections and you'll most likely take the House and the Senate and then melodrama will be apparent. They're gonna go after that old man like the last pork-chop on the plate. And what's more, Winester? He's looking forward to it with equal amounts of both anticipation & determination.

It will all be personal then. We're gonna have us a full vetting.

May even see ya in the street, old horse.Not being melodramatic. I think that's naive.

Trump is gonna declare war on the American people, and you are going to cheer every moment of it.

[Winehole23]

(he'll probably say he's putting down an insurrection)

[Thread]

If there are midterms, I have little doubt results will be set aside

No, he's looking forward to venting his spleen if the House & Senate are lost. A goodly amount of him even wants it...wants it bad. He's gonna do like Wayne did in "The Shootist"...heel up, load all cylinders and head on down there where they're waitin' him.

"Ya's" shot him down, made him bleed. He's been blood drunk ever since.

[Winehole23]

well I agree with that last part

[Thread]

Not being melodramatic. I think that's naive.

Trump is gonna declare war on the American people, and you are going to cheer every moment of it.

No, just declare war on a gaggle of people who have plotted his murder since 10 years and a lifetime ago.

Oh, yeah,,,I will indeed "cheer every moment of it."

[Winehole23]

I concur. I'm thinking the country is in shell shock mode.Trumplandia will eventually catalyze their own resistance, they're trying so hard to...

[Winehole23]

Federal auditors: DOGE is a data heist

https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Thread]

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He's insured up the wazoo.

+

He's the richest man in the world.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

whoopsie, more "savings" just got stricken from the website

DOGE is a very unreliable tracker

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/doge-canceled-leases.html

[TSA]

Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined

[ChumpDumper]

Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined

:lol Daily Wire

[Blake]

Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings’

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined

".....What surprised me most about my FMCS investigation was what happened afterward: nothing. An inspector general made a referral to the FBI, but there were no prosecutions. Instead, President Barack Obama nominated a chief subject of the investigation to the top job.

A decade later, Trump has done what even the agency’s own employees said should happen: shut it down....."

Why didn't Trump shut it down during his first term

[Thread]

".....What surprised me most about my FMCS investigation was what happened afterward: nothing. An inspector general made a referral to the FBI, but there were no prosecutions. Instead, President Barack Obama nominated a chief subject of the investigation to the top job.

A decade later, Trump has done what even the agency’s own employees said should happen: shut it down....."

Why didn't Trump shut it down during his first term

He was afraid you'd blow up the WH, or, saw his head off.

[Winehole23]

He was afraid you'd blow up the WH, or, saw his head off.lol being afraid of Madonna and D-Lister Kathy Griffin

[Winehole23]

how puny and and cringing

[Winehole23]

Meanwhile, El0n/POTUS is running a protection racket on federal judges

Real consequences, Trumpies like violent threats to public officials and stir to official calumny.

[Winehole23]

The mainstreaming of political violence is just one of the Trumpy benchmarks

[Blake]

"....The Big Short’ investor who predicted the 2008 crash warns the market is ‘underestimating’ the economic impact of DOGE’s mass spending cuts.....

Moses argued investors are already beginning to see disruptions in consumer confidence—which last month saw its steepest drop in four years—and will continue to hear similar trends in upcoming earnings calls. These slowdowns have yet to be priced into the market, he said.

“It's not as simple as just, ‘We think there's fraud, let's cut waste, let's cut expenses,’” Moses told Fortune. “And it's not just about the federal workers, and it's not just about the expenses out of those programs. It's about the contracts with the private sector.”.......

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-short-investor-predicted-2008-181733029.html

[Blake]

No no that's too simple ^

[velik_m]

IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts at agency

...
Taxpayer behavior has changed since President Donald Trump took office and implemented sweeping federal cuts through Elon Musk’s DOGE. As a result, the IRS has “noticed an uptick of online chatter from individuals declaring their intention to not pay taxes this year,” the Washington Post reports, citing three people with knowledge of tax projections.

It added that individuals were “wagering that auditors will not examine their accounts” amid DOGE’s plans to downsize the IRS by nearly 20 percent by May 15.

New hires in taxpayer services and enforcement divisions have been targeted and the agency has dropped investigations of high-value corporations and taxpayers, according to the newspaper. The agency employs roughly 90,000 workers total across the U.S., according to the IRS data.

Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline in comparison to 2024 filings, which would amount to more than $500 billion in lost revenue, according to the Post. The newspaper said it spoke with officials who shared nonpublic IRS data.
...



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-doge-cuts-tax-filing-b2719911.html

[Winehole23]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-doge-cuts-tax-filing-b2719911.htmlyou can't balance the budget if you wreck the revenue side

[Thread]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-doge-cuts-tax-filing-b2719911.html

Fake news.

[velik_m]

Trump’s regulatory freeze throws US fishing industry into chaos

...
America’s $320 billion fishing industry relies on a branch of the federal government, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to manage coastal fisheries. Under a 1976 law, NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service develops management plans for 45 fisheries, setting quotas and determining the start and close of fishing seasons, in consultation with federal government scientists and local fishermen.

Trump’s January 20 declaration of a 60-day freeze on regulations disrupted this process for several of those fisheries, delaying key meetings and causing confusion over the issuance of new rules, according to Reuters interviews.

The freeze allowed overfishing in waters off North Carolina of Atlantic bluefin tuna which could mean reduced quotas for New York and New England fishermen when the fish migrate further north this summer, according to a Massachusetts lawmaker as well as industry groups and the federal government employees.

"There's just a lot of confusion right now, both internal and external," said Ben Martens, executive director of the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association, an industry group. "I'm getting calls from fishermen asking what's going to happen."

Some 163 probationary employees - or about 5% of the NOAA workforce dealing with fisheries - were fired last month including administrative support staff, fish biologists and fisheries management specialists, a senior NOAA employee who was among those fired told Reuters. Those roles are involved in the regulatory process, from monitoring the health of stocks to consulting on regulations for annual catch.

...



https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/trump-s-regulatory-freeze-throws-us-fishing-industry-into-chaos/ar-AA1Bu1BE

[Winehole23]

they're wrecking random valuable shit

feature, not a bug

grift and graft rush in

[Winehole23]

the whole point is to privatize the USG as much as possible and to raise the cost of the public good for everybody, so private leeches on Trumplandia's political patronage machine can optimize profit

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

70 year old woman manhandles a MAGA doofus waving a stun gun at "paid protesters"


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[Winehole23]

Narrator: Rick Fuze got arrested


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[Blake]

1902418507901628602

[Winehole23]

"empathy is the enemy unless it's empathy for me"


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Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?

[Winehole23]

the guy doing this to US government capacity and jobs begs for sympathy on national TV


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[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

^ the Republican way

[Winehole23]

^ the Republican way


“I mean, laughing about the destruction of human lives is one thing, we all do that, but to celebrate the destruction of a stock? Ghoulish.”

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Such compassion ... for himself, the richest man in the world, while he halts cancer research, upends life-saving clinical trials, destroys social security, throws thousands out of work, cancels essential shipments to food banks ...

[Thread]

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The richest man in the world.

[velik_m]

Musk claims otherwise, but the Trump administration’s spending is on track to surpass Biden’s

...
A broader look at federal spending data also appears to counter claims that DOGE’s efforts are saving money for American taxpayers.

The Hamilton Project, an economic-policy think tank, tracks federal spending using daily Treasury statements published by the government.

These data show that the federal government had spent $1.893 trillion in 2025 as of March 26, compared with $1.763 trillion as of the same date last year. In other words, federal spending is on pace to come in 7.4% higher this year than last.

It’s not uncommon for federal outlays to grow year by year along with the economy. But the government is currently operating under a continuing budget resolution that largely locks in spending levels signed into law by Biden last year.
...


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/despite-musks-claims-the-trump-administrations-spending-is-on-pace-to-surpass-bidens-levels-19cdf24c

[velik_m]

Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America

...
In fiscal 2024, the U.S. spent about $1.1 trillion on pass-through grants to state and local governments - or about 16% of the federal government's total spending, according to an analysis by USAFacts of data from the Office of Management and Budget and the Treasury Department.

During his presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly vowed to cut government waste and spending and said he supported American farmers.

"He will ensure farmers have the support they need to feed the world," Anna Kelly, White House deputy press secretary, said in a statement to Reuters.

USDA is reviewing all programs for which payments have been placed on hold, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is working to make determinations as quickly as possible, an agency spokesperson said in a statement.

Pass-throughs are a particularly effective approach when it comes to agriculture, Heflin said. The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA), which were both cut, required that money be spent on purchases either within the state or a certain radius of the delivery destination.

The White House said the LFPA, which began in 2021, was a Covid-era program that was being sunsetted.
Overall, federal funds on average comprise about one-third of states' annual spending, according to the most recently available U.S. Census Bureau data.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/akvenngozpr/chart.png

...



https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-cuts-ripple-through-heart-trump-country-2025-03-29/

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia is not ready for what's coming

[Winehole23]

tl;dr

DOGE is costing us big time, way more than it saves


Jessica Riedl, a budget expert at the Manhattan Institute, recently estimated the actual savings so far at about $2 billion — one-tenth of 1 percent of Musk’s original goal of $2 trillion, The Atlantic noted (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/doge-deficit-trump-elon/682227/)in a report Friday.


Prediction markets currently expect (https://kalshi.com/markets/kxgovtcuts/government-budget-cuts) a grand total of $1 billion in savings.


Many of the cuts will actually cost, including via the taxpayer salaries going to an army of lawyers from the Department of Justice battling a cascade of court cases against the government’s dismantling that many judges have already said appears to be illegal.



Damages from any illegal firings are likely also to be extremely pricey, along with buyouts and paying people on leave, who are doing absolutely no work for full salary just so Donald Trump can keep them out of the office.



Among the most massive costs will be the huge reduction in workers at the Internal Revenue Service, who are worth their weight in gold because of the taxes they collect, the key source of income for the country.


The IRS released a preliminary survey (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-revenue-loss-federal-budget/) showing that it expects revenue to fall 10 percent, or $500 billion (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-doge-cuts-tax-filing-b2719911.html) because of a shortage of IRS workers and a boost in tax cheats confident they can get away with breaking the law. Those losses would swamp any DOGE savings to date.


“The failure” of the DOGE enterprise was “preordained,” states the Atlantic. “There isn’t anything close to $1 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse in the budget, despite Musk’s repeated statements to the contrary,” writes reporter Jonathan Chait. (https://www.theatlantic.com/author/jonathan-chait/)

Musk is also carving critical holes in the government that will have to be filled at some point before implosion by private companies — if not his, then others, with personnel likely paid far more than government workers. Some of Musk’s team of DOGE are reportedly making six-figure salaries (https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/), while veteran workers are getting the ax.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-cuts-increase-us-deficit-report-b2723835.html

[Winehole23]

because El0n is a big fat liar


On a 2023 earnings call, Elon Musk boasted that Tesla had bagged “over 1 million” Cybertruck reservations and that “demand is off the charts.”

So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?https://www.wired.com/story/where-did-the-one-million-people-who-wanted-a-cybertruck-go/

[Winehole23]

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https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/akvenngozpr/chart.png

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-cuts-ripple-through-heart-trump-country-2025-03-29/

[Thread]

Trumplandia is not ready for what's coming

...what's coming, Winester? Give me a few [for instants].

So when they either come, or, don't come.

[GAustex]

Trumplandia is not ready for what's coming
See you in the streets

[Thread]

See you in the streets

Yep.

[Blake]

See you in the streets

Lol trumptard blood lust

[Thread]

Lol trumptard blood lust

Indeed, Blake; we are blood drunk.

[Winehole23]

See you in the streetsprobably not, but it sounds like you're ready

I have not ceased from my worldly ways to prepare for battle just yet

[Winehole23]

is it too late?

:lol

[Winehole23]

are we up to 13 or 14 kids now?


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[Thread]

are we up to 13 or 14 kids now?

At least he ain't on welfare with the 13 or 14 kids.

[Winehole23]

highway robbery tbh


A court hearing is ongoing over the attempted transfer of the $500M headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent think tank, to the government at no cost.

USIP's counsel Andrew Goldfarb said that he learned about the transfer how the rest of the world did: through court papers.

[Winehole23]

El0n doesn't think much of poeple


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[Blake]

El0n doesn't think much of poeple


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How will this AI get the energy it will need to sustain itself?

Oh right, the matrix taught us that humans will be used as batteries

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

this should be interesting

real auditors will reportedly audit the fake one


The General Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) (https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/).https://www.wired.com/story/gao-audit-elon-musk-doge-government-agencies/

[Blake]

this should be interesting

real auditors will reportedly audit the fake one

https://www.wired.com/story/gao-audit-elon-musk-doge-government-agencies/

Up next: DOGE cuts funding for the GAO

[Thread]

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Amen & hallelujah!!!

[Winehole23]

Up next: DOGE cuts funding for the GAOlike temporary advisors to the president do now

does El0n still control payments?

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

it's a wash so far

the damage to government capacity will cost the public a lot of money and lives

[Thread]

it's a wash so far

the damage to government capacity will cost the public a lot of money and lives

"I'm President...and their not."

[Spurs Homer]

the cult worships him...



https://youtu.be/pVbFqzgS6Q4?si=Jyg99nqZ2eKjXfk1

[TSA]

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You should really stop running to ST and reposting everything you find on Bluesky :lol

https://x.com/juliaonjobs/status/1910319308632170895

https://x.com/juliaonjobs/status/1910319311924703631

[ChumpDumper]

You should really stop running to ST and reposting everything you find on Bluesky :lol

https://x.com/juliaonjobs/status/1910319308632170895

https://x.com/juliaonjobs/status/1910319311924703631Why do all the proposed budgets from you blow up the deficit?

[Blake]

You should really stop running to ST and reposting everything you find on Bluesky :lol

https://x.com/juliaonjobs/status/1910319308632170895

https://x.com/juliaonjobs/status/1910319311924703631

Oh look, tsa is running to a tweet wall from a Trumper. No way!

[Winehole23]

An excellent savings tracker.DOGE's announced savings are three times smaller than the $500 billion hole it blew in the IRS, and includes savings for hypothetical contracts


As the Times' David A. Fahrenthold and Jeremy Singer-Vine wrote, "...when Mr. Musk’s group tallies up its savings so far, it inflates its progress by including billion-dollar errors, by counting spending that will not happen in the next fiscal year — and by making guesses about spending that might not happen at all."


That led to Romina Boccia of the libertarian Cato Institute to complain, "They’re just spinning their wheels, citing in many cases overstated or fake savings. What’s most frustrating is that we agree with their goals. But we’re watching them flail at achieving them.”


Nat Malkus of the conservative American Enterprise Institute agreed and said the bogus claims have become de rigueur from DOGE.

“It’s like if your kid drops out of college, and you tell your wife, ‘Whoa, we saved money on medical school!’ Well, that doesn’t make any sense, but that’s the same idea. How do you call it savings?”

The Times report added DOGE officials also announced canceling a contract that did not, in fact, even exist.

"The Office of Personnel Management declined to release the request, or say what it had planned to spend on the contract, nor would the office say when it planned to choose a contractor," the report states. "Despite that uncertainty, Mr. Musk’s calculated the savings involved in that cancellation down to the cent. (It later rounded the claim to an even dollar: $318,310,328.)"

That led Steven L. Schooner, a professor who studies federal contracting at George Washington University, to label the boast "garbage."

The Times report added, "H [Schooner] said it was far too early to know for sure what the government was going to spend — especially in the year that Mr. Musk had targeted. What if the bidders competed to drive the price lower? What if a losing bidder protested, and then the whole thing got canceled?"
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-failures/

[Winehole23]

60% of so-called DOGE's claimed savings is entirely unattested

vaporware


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[Blake]

".....A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post....."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/

[Winehole23]

the IGs Trump fired were able to find similar annual "savings" without slashing services and jobs, tbh

[Thread]

".....A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post....."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/

Excellent. About time, Blake.

Trump is running this now and for the next 4 years.
You don't have to like it, kidsPERIOD

[Blake]

1910067646827057152

I was struggling with locating the the log in button right there in the middle of the main page. Thank you DOGE!

[Thread]

1910067646827057152

I was struggling with locating the the log in button right there in the middle of the main page. Thank you DOGE!

Stop whining!!!

[SnakeBoy]

Stop whining!!!

They can't, it's all they got

[Blake]

Lol "just bend over and take it"

What a bunch of retarded pussies. Just like your leaders.

[Thread]

Lol "just bend over and take it"

What a bunch of retarded pussies. Just like your leaders.

You got nary room. You won't even talk to me, Blake. You peek at my shit, but won't confront me over said shit.

You've nary room. Nary!