Recent content by BlueCheckmark

Let’s call what Trump is doing what it actually is. Financial terrorism.

Look at trump bringing everyone together. Many big strong men are coming to him with tears in their eyes saying only he is capable of uniting the world against a common enemy. Never mind that we are said enemy.

So with doge accounting practice they are going to claim 200,000*$10,000*12 and arrive at an annualized savings of $24 billion on their wall of receipts.

Cuts to research have much further reaching impact than a Facebook employee. Lab personnel have more tentacles branching to various support staff. Fewer lab people = fewer support staff jobs. Equipment maintenance, training, and repair. Core support staff for specialized equipment/tasks...

The bigger risk is that they don’t just go out the door. It’s that they leave the country entirely.

So everything is fine now that they went back and reversed their decision? How long before these workers get tired of being dehumanized and used as pawns and say fuck you? But keep on posting, as doge has to go back and fix things they are breaking, and pretend that it is okay and things are...

Never thought I would see Musk calling others out for lacking empathy.

Hegseth said last night that these aren’t budget cuts. Rather redistribution of funding priorities. They are planning to cut some things and move the money around. They are still expecting a budget increase for DOD for next year. So still just a publicity campaign to try and extend their tax...

Just wait until you need both sides to negotiate and pass a budget. You can no longer count on anything being done in good faith.

So the ones that screamed about defunding the police now want to defund the military?

I believe the entire civilian workforce is actually just over 4% of the budget. A CBO study stated $271 billion in compensation to 2.3 million civilian employees in 2022. So you would need to cut around 600,000 to conceivably get to about 1% of the budget or ~$68 billion. Those cuts would...

He now has a back door into the system. It won’t matter that he was fired, he can get back in regardless. They better be rolling it back to what the system was set at before he touched it. Even then, he would now know if there was any vulnerability inherent to the system. Good to know that...

Seriously Trump’s boobs are out there for all to see every day.

Agreed. I’d love for something like the original zzl board before they broke it.

He could sit on it. It would be his Dr. Strangelove moment.