Narrator: Rick Fuze got arrested
"empathy is the enemy unless it's empathy for me"
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?
the guy doing this to US government capacity and jobs begs for sympathy on national TV
^ 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.”
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 ...
The richest man in the world.
https://www.marke ch.com/story/de...evels-19cdf24cMusk claims otherwise, but the Trump administration’s spending is on track to surpass Biden’s
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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.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...ry-2025-03-29/Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America
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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.
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Trumplandia is not ready for what's coming
tl;dr
DOGE is costing us big time, way more than it saves
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2723835.htmlJessica Riedl, a budget expert at the Manhattan Ins ute, 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 in a report Friday.
Prediction markets currently expect 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 showing that it expects revenue to fall 10 percent, or $500 billion 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.
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, while veteran workers are getting the ax.
because El0n is a big fat liar
https://www.wired.com/story/where-di...cybertruck-go/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?
...what's coming, Winester? Give me a few [for instants].
So when they either come, or, don't come.
See you in the streets
Lol trump blood lust
Indeed, Blake; we are blood drunk.
probably not, but it sounds like you're ready
I have not ceased from my worldly ways to prepare for battle just yet
is it too late?
are we up to 13 or 14 kids now?
At least he ain't on welfare with the 13 or 14 kids.
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