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very conflicted man
did Trump extort a bribe from El0n?
very conflicted man
He doesn't seem conflicted at all
You're just so full of .
You're just so full of .
this ing moron
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889896827513868734
dismantling US soft power is a boon to US adversaries
El0n is kinda conflicted as regards China
DOGE’s Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP
The National Endowment for Democracy has long been a thorn in the CCP's side. On Tuesday, its funding was frozen.
https://www.thewirechina.com/2025/02...ft-to-the-ccp/Only a small portion of NED’s budget come directly from the State Department’s foreign assistance funding, all of which was halted last week, the insider says. The vast majority comes — via the Treasury payments system — from the portion of the State Department’s budget allocated to internal operations and related agencies. It is unclear why the funding was cut off
A billionairewho has attached himself to the federal government while sucking massive amounts of money from it thinks *other* people are “parasites”
Silicon Valley's push to replace the civil service is on
replacing public servants with privately owned AI would be oligarchy and top down control of everyday life by unelected elite businessmen connected with Trump
maybe we'll get Skynet too
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/othe...ai/ar-AA1yUMLWOracle Corp.’s co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison said governments should consolidate all national data for consumption by artificial intelligence models, calling this step the “missing link” for them to take full advantage of the technology.
Fragmented sets of data about a population’s health, agriculture, infrastructure, procurement and borders should be unified into a single, secure database that can be accessed by AI models, Ellison said in an on-stage interview with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Countries with rich population data sets, such as the UK and United Arab Emirates, could cut costs and improve public services, particularly health care, with this approach, Ellison said.
Oracle, known for its database software, has been focusing on expanding its cloud infrastructure business, renting computing power and storage to customers including government agencies, competing larger rivals like Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. Growth in that unit has been driven by demand for training large-language models in the cloud.
could roil CRE
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02...nancial-crash/It hasn’t gotten much attention, but one of Elon Musk’s major DOGE initiatives is a massive fire sale of federal office space. Despite forcing federal employees back to the office by abolishing telework programs, Musk and company want to unload a large number of unused properties and recoup that money for the budget, a process that could expand if worker purges continue.
That theoretical win-win, however, will soon come into contact with the realities of commercial real estate markets, which are particularly depressed when it comes to the very type of inventory the government wants to sell. Older office space is experiencing record vacancy levels, with owners struggling to refinance the buildings. Putting large amounts of it on the market could have dramatic consequences, including damaging the economy in cities like Washington, D.C. It could lead to widespread defaults in financial securities linked to commercial mortgages. And if unchecked, that could lead to broader pain.
“Every additional shock is painful,” said Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, a professor of real estate and finance at the Columbia Business School. “I’m not sure they’ve thought this fully through.”
Over 20 percent of U.S. office space was vacant in 2024, according to financial analysts at Moody’s, and this year is expected to be rocky as well. A growing number of older buildings (known as Class B and C offices by the lingo of CRE) are simply being torn down; one industry veteran lists about 30 percent of the entire office portfolio as “basically worth nothing.”
Van Nieuwerburgh told me that many older buildings in particular are going at discounts of up to 90 percent relative to their pre-pandemic valuations. Banks have taken large losses on CRE mortgage debt, though most have been able to absorb the losses. (Signature Bank did fail in 2023, largely because of CRE, and New York Community Bancorp, which bought Signature, has been teetering.)“The intention of GSA and the whole federal government is to reduce the number of old buildings that are owned with high liabilities … in favor of newer leased buildings, which can be more flexible and are more modern, that have ways for teams to collaborate and have private spaces,” said Thomas Shedd, head of the Technology Transformation Services, a division of GSA, in a recording of a staff meeting on February 5.
This would be exactly the wrong strategy for the moment, as Van Nieuwerburgh explained. A reliable government tenant is the only thing making any building the government currently owns at all valuable. “If the government sells the building and also vacates it, that building will be close to worthless, especially in a market with a lot of vacancy,
Did you mean to post this in the Official Biden is Doing Awesome thread? You should probably read the article you link before rushing here to spam it
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-...ment-contracts
The acquisition plan was set in motion by the Biden administration last year as part of a move to convert the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s fleet of roughly 3,000 armored vehicles into zero-emission electric vehicles by 2035. As the primary security arm of the U.S. State Department, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security is responsible for the safety of personnel posted to U.S. embassies around the world, and its Division of Defensive Equipment and Armored Vehicles (DEAV) was seeking green alternatives to its current fleet. The original request for information, from April, is available here.
According to the State Department, only a single company responded to last year’s request for information—presumably Tesla—and there are currently no plans for the award to continue. The State Department stated that the next step in the process would involve “an official solicitation [being] sent out to vehicle manufacturers to bid,” adding that “However, the solicitation is on hold and there are no current plans to issue it.”‘
they scrubbed the word Tesla from their do ent last nightDid you mean to post this in the Official Biden is Doing Awesome thread? You should probably read the article you link before rushing here to spam it
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-...ment-contracts
The acquisition plan was set in motion by the Biden administration last year as part of a move to convert the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s fleet of roughly 3,000 armored vehicles into zero-emission electric vehicles by 2035. As the primary security arm of the U.S. State Department, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security is responsible for the safety of personnel posted to U.S. embassies around the world, and its Division of Defensive Equipment and Armored Vehicles (DEAV) was seeking green alternatives to its current fleet. The original request for information, from April, is available here.
According to the State Department, only a single company responded to last year’s request for information—presumably Tesla—and there are currently no plans for the award to continue. The State Department stated that the next step in the process would involve “an official solicitation [being] sent out to vehicle manufacturers to bid,” adding that “However, the solicitation is on hold and there are no current plans to issue it.”‘
you are so gullible
No they scrubbed it...I actually read the article the first time...unlike you.
"After publication of the possible award Wednesday, State silently edited the public description to remove reference to “Tesla,” with metadata showing it was altered after our article was published. It is not clear if the planned award was halted due to the Trump administration’s opposition to electric vehicles, concerns for a potential conflict of interest regarding Musk’s roles at Tesla and DOGE, or for more opaque bureaucratic reasons. The State Department did not respond to a request for comment on the reasoning."
This happened under Biden you fool.
https://sam.gov/opp/bb1ac5870df5485a...dc8fe0511/view
Trump president, not Biden
You're a dummy if you think El0n isn't cashing in big time
Lol "90%"
decontextualizing the public record and lying about it are SOP for the Musk/Trump junta
The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was:
* first awarded under Trump
* paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom
* for researching *defenses* against deception
* not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years
https://www.highergov.com/contract/F...7886/#overview
https://www.highergov.com/do ent/h...02-pdf-a3f775/
You're a dummy if you think Elon wouldn't have been cashing in big time anyways if Biden had won.
Biden put it in motion and Trump currently has it on hold with no plans for the award to continue.
Just admit that you rushed here thinking you had a gotcha and it blew up in your face because you didn't read your own article you linked. Take the L and move on
y'all got pantsed and are backpedaling while you declare victory
I expect to see plenty more where that came from
"just wow" isn't forensic accounting
in this case the Musk/Trump junta didn't even read the contracts, they just went straight to inflammatory propaganda
Your Elon did worse with this Reuters business. Should he make a similar admission?You're a dummy if you think Elon wouldn't have been cashing in big time anyways if Biden had won.
Biden put it in motion and Trump currently has it on hold with no plans for the award to continue.
Just admit that you rushed here thinking you had a gotcha and it blew up in your face because you didn't read your own article you linked. Take the L and move on
He also can't even identify the correct Gaza.
Why is he so wrong this often?
El0n has his hands on federal transfers, federal hiring, federal contracts and the GSA (buildings and leases), Trump just appointed him to be a whole of government political commissar to which all agency heads must report, and TSA is still pretending El0n Musk is just a normal federal contractor.
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