Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Word is that around one-half of all federal workers at the Social Security Administration are going to be fired/let go. Which will obviously make it far harder for that agency to do its job and ensure that retirees and others on SS get their checks and the other services they need. Again, I thought we were all told that SS wouldn't be touched - how is gutting the agency that provides SS not qualify as an attack on that program? I eagerly await the defenses/excuses from our House Trumpers.

Link: Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Word is that around one-half of all federal workers at the Social Security Administration are going to be fired/let go. Which will obviously make it far harder for that agency to do its job and ensure that retirees and others on SS get their checks and the other services they need. Again, I thought we were all told that SS wouldn't be touched - how is gutting the agency that provides SS not qualify as an attack on that program? I eagerly await the defenses/excuses from our House Trumpers.

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Bunch of Florida Trump voters might want to start puckering their business ends. Or making sure their children really love them.
 
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“… It takes a certain swashbuckling arrogance to propel a startup to glory. But as we’ve repeatedly said, the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits.

(The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)

And if you don’t believe in the public good? You sprint through the ruination. You metastasize from agency to agency, leveling the maximum allowable destruction under the law.

DOGE’s costly, embarrassing mistakes are a byproduct of reckless nihilism; if artificial intelligence can sell you a pizza, of course it can future-proof the General Services Administration.

Worse still, none of this will actually help DOGE make a dent in its purported mission.

What’s efficient about firing people you have to scramble to hire back? What are the cost savings of a few thousand federal employees compared to the F-35 program? What are we even doing here, actually?

There are two possible explanations for this mess. One is that Musk and DOGE have no interest in the government, or efficiency, but do care deeply about the data they can reap from various agencies and revel in privatization for its own sake. The other is that a bunch of purportedly talented coders have indeed responded to a higher civic calling but are out here batting .202. …”
 
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Cao was an awful senate candidate in Virginia this past election, but who knows, maybe he will grow into this job.
 
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And yet again we see what really motivates Trumpers. And it ain't the economy, inflation, tax cuts, or anything like that. It's the culture wars, plain and simple. The country may be going to hell and even some Republicans are starting to grow concerned about the direction of Trump 2.0, but at least we can still use our total control of the government to punish and oppress people we don't like!
 
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Cao was an awful senate candidate in Virginia this past election, but who knows, maybe he will grow into this job.
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he was trounced in every election he ran in. He even moved to a more conservative area after losing his first election AND STILL lost. Then he decided to run for Senate and was beaten like a drum
 
We didn't elect a POTUS in the last election, we elected a mob boss who now has the authority to rule as a mob boss. And that's what we're all getting right now. Imagine putting Al Capone in charge of the country and that's pretty much what we're getting now, except that Capone is probably smarter and shrewder than Trump. And maybe has more ethics, as disturbing as that sounds.
 
If the only corruption in Trump 2.0 were golf deals, Social Security agents paying inflated rates for golf carts and rooms at Trump properties, oligarchs and others cozying up to Trump by staying at his properties, etc., I’d count that as a positive.
 
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We didn't elect a POTUS in the last election, we elected a mob boss who now has the authority to rule as a mob boss. And that's what we're all getting right now. Imagine putting Al Capone in charge of the country and that's pretty much what we're getting now, except that Capone is probably smarter and shrewder than Trump. And maybe has more ethics, as disturbing as that sounds.
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I would rather have Vito Corleone as our president than this motherfucker. At least Don Vito was intelligent.
 
It's become apparent to me that "waste, fraud, and abuse" is not Musk wagging Trump. It's likely a long thought out GOP strategy on how to sell the unsellable to the masses. How do we get the poors to cheer for the cutting of programs that benefit them? How do we get them to celebrate slashing Medicaid? Food stamps? Consumer protections? Clean air? We will cage it as waste and fraud, all while sneaking through tax cuts for the wealthy.

This is just a well thought out strategy in motion, the rug pull will happen in the next few months when the DOD budget isn't touched and the "mandatory" cuts (aka removing the waste and fraud) to entitlement programs set in. It's being executed masterfully.
 
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