Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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I have a feeling that the Supreme Court will be inclined to hand Trump some minor defeats. First, they want to look independent. Second, they know they unleashed this fucking monster, and bear primary responsibility. We'll see contrition in the form of denying the appeal of a TRO, which ultimately has zero effect. That will clear their consciences for the next major thing coming down the road.
 
heelslegup said:
DOGE just announced they have "discovered" 4.7 trillion in untraced Treasury assets. An interesting number. Where have I seen that 4.7 trillion before? Hmmm wajhat a coincidence. 4.7 trillion was mentioned a few days ago as the cost of the tax cuts they Rs want to do,
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You have to be fucking kidding me. That's what they are trying to do? They are trying to steal 4.7T? Or offset the costs of their tax cuts? Where is this money coming from? Pulled out of people's bank accounts?

Edit: it seems as though they are just filling in a code in a database. They aren't saying it's untraced; they are saying it can't be linked to budget items. Watch this story, but it might be nothing more than a shitpost.
 
www.nationalparkstraveler.org

Fallout From National Park Service Firings Spreading

Crushed dreams, search-and-rescue teams reportedly asking for volunteers, and outraged community leaders are just some of the fallout in the wake of the Trump administration's firing of 1,000 National Park Service employees and thousands more from the U.S. Forest Service.
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Angela Moxley, a botanist and biological technician, was ten days shy from ending her probationary period with the Park Service when she got her termination notice.

"I received an email on my work computer that I was being 'separated from federal service' because I have 'failed to demonstrate fitness or qualification for continued employment,'" she wrote Saturday on her LinkedIn account. "I had been waiting for the email, because six of my colleagues had already received theirs. I had earned a high performance rating at my annual evaluation, I was recently asked to serve on a subject matter expert hiring panel, and my supervisor disagrees with the decision and didn't have anything to do with it."

At Zion National Park, staff reportedly alerted professional SAR responders who assist the park's rangers on rescues to say "SAR is currently volunteer only for non-NPS employees. Administratively determined hiring is currently on hold. Callout requests will proceed as normal, and all members are encouraged to respond to callout requests on a volunteer basis when available."

That directive could delay response times, particularly if some of the park's SAR rangers are on vacation.

"I have done 12+ hour SARs," one community responder told the Traveler. "There were times that it was a struggle to find enough people and this will only make it worse."

A call Saturday to the park's public affairs staff was not immediately returned, nor was an email to Zion Superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh.

Meanwhile, communities affiliated with The Mountain Pact, an organization that works with local elected officials in more than 100 mountain communities across the West, sent out a blistering release urging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum "to stop playing politics with America’s public lands and reverse these irresponsible and short-sighted actions.”

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Brian Gibbs was a ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa who educated visitors on the history of the Native American burial mounds there.

"Without any type of formal notice my position was ripped out from under my feet at 4 p.m. on Friday," he wrote in an essay posted elsewhere. "Before I could fully print off my government records, I was locked out of my email and unable to access my personal and professional records."

Along with citing his myiad roles — "I am the toilet scrubber and soap dispenser, I am the open trail hiked by people from all walks of life, I am the highlight of your child's school day, I am the Band-aid for a skinned knee, I am the lesson that showed your children that we live in a worl of gifts -- not commodities, that gratitude and reciprocity are the doorway to true abundance, not power, money, or fear I am the one who taught your kid the thrush's song and the hawk's cry" — Gibbs added that, "I am gone from the office, I am the resistance, but mostly I'm just tired.

"I am tired from weeks of being bullied and censored by billionaires. I am tired of waking up every morning at 2 a.m. wondering how I cam going to provide for my family if I lose my job. I am tired of wiping away my wife's tears and reassuring her that things will be okay for our growing family.

"Things are not okay. I am not okay."
 
Shenanigans said:
Ugh, the American people are screwed. Honestly, I never thought red-pilled, racist, incel techbros would be our overlords, but here we are. BigBalls, 26, Director of Destroying Humanity.

I had an IC handle for about 2 days, around 7 years ago. Ben said I was too mean, and banned me forever. I promise to only be an appropriate level of mean now, based on the societal conditions that the techbros make us suffer through. Deal?
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What was that IC name?
 
aGDevil2k said:
Maybe it will be that states break up into clusters of smaller countries


I hope we (NC) can be paired up with Virginia.

I mean even a NC, SC, GA and VA country would be pretty moderate if the new country didn't have gerrymandering
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No chance on God’s green Earth.

NC, SC, GA, and VA as one nation is the Confederacy resurrected.
 
Callatoroy said:
“Subcommittee Chairwoman Greene: “Mr. Talcove, do private sector companies have a lower rate of improper payments than the federal government?”

Mr. Talcove: “Yes. The fraud rate, that the criminals are taking advantage of the public sector is around 20%. In the private sector, it’s around 3%. And it’s really because the tools that are used in the private sector, aren’t used in the public sector. Front end identity verification, self-certification, and then finally, making sure that individuals are who they say they are. If we start using these tools, you will see the fraud rate go down dramatically because for the most part, this fraud isn’t taking place by individuals. It’s individuals whose identities have been stolen on the dark web.”

Subcommittee Chairwoman Greene: “We would say the private companies that pretty much have to exist on a 20% profit rate. They can’t continue to be successful if they were to allow their customers data to be something like that and used by criminals. However, the federal government, who can continue printing checks and continue an operation, never fixes its problems because it can’t be forced to go out of business. Would you agree with that, Yes or no?”

Mr. Talcove: “Yes.”
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Is Talcove lying? Who is Talcove? Where does he get his information?
Also, what does fraud have to do with what DOGE is doing?
 
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