Discussion on Musk's DoGE ideas, the federal deficit, and GDP

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Haloski said:

It seems to me that anyone who is alright with the unconstitutional stuff that's going on sure had better not be one of the people that previously clung to a claim that they loved the Constitution. I'd strongly caution against being cool with this, because the public is fickle and can swing the other way. The slope is slippery, peeps. Trump is gonna die sooner or later. He's a master at what he does. He may not have a worthy successor in that game. Set a precedent on this now and you may be eating s&*t in a few years. This isn't good for anybody.

You have to eat your s&*t first.

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Elon Musk vows revenge on college staffer who threatened his nerd army



https://mol.im/a/14361093

DOGE follows longtime Musk pattern and turns attention to Social Security Administration | Semafor


https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/inside-doges-march-with-the-social-security-administration-soon-to-come
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Exclusive: Catholic Relief Services lays off staff, cuts programs after USAID shakeup | National Catholic Reporter


https://www.ncronline.org/news/exclusive-catholic-relief-services-lays-staff-cuts-programs-after-usaid-shakeup


I wonder if the good Cardinal Dolan is yucking it up now.
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Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr and other prominent conservatives are sharing a video that claims to show E! News reporting that the US's humanitarian agency paid millions of dollars to celebrities including Angelina Jolie and Ben Stiller to visit Ukraine and help boost President Volodymyr Zelensky's popularity amid the country's war with Russia. But the clip is not an authentic report, a spokesperson for the entertainment news channel told AFP, and Stiller has publicly rejected the allegations as false.

"Did you know that USAID spent your tax dollars to fund celebrity trips to Ukraine, all to boost Zelensky's popularity among Americans?" says a February 5, 2025 post on X from "I Meme Therefore I Am," a popular conservative account that has previously spread misinformation, including about the Ukrainian leader.


Musk amplifies fake report claiming USAID paid celebrities to support Zelensky | Fact Check
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Liars, hypocrites, and useful morons unite!

MAGA!!! DOGE!!! In Elon we trust!
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
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Opinion: Worried about Elon Musk and 'DOGE' getting your Social Security number? Here's how to protect yourself. - MarketWatch


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/worried-about-elon-musk-and-doge-getting-your-social-security-number-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-6b556f6e

Who is 'Big Balls'? Teen DOGE Engineer Edward Coristine - Newsweek


https://www.newsweek.com/who-big-balls-teen-doge-engineer-edward-coristine-2027698
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Prediction: People will start renaming their USAID work history from their resumes and Linkedin profiles
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bearister said:

Who is 'Big Balls'?
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AunBear89 said:

Liars, hypocrites, and useful morons unite!

MAGA!!! DOGE!!! In Elon we trust!



Trump turns on Time magazine after new cover shows Musk sitting behind his Resolute desk
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bear2034 said:


So far, all the ones I know that have taken the offer were over 60 and planning to retire in the next year or two anyway. After mulling it over, they decided that they didn't need to hang around to enjoy the hostile work environment.
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Hostile work environment? Weren't many of them working from home and just didn't want to come back to the office?
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bear2034 said:

Hostile work environment? Weren't many of them working from home and just didn't want to come back to the office?
If you had bosses (quite a fantasy) that called you "lazy" and said you were ripping off the company and were asking you multiple times a day to resign, you'd consider it a hostile work environment too.

As for working from home, I haven't done that in over a year, even though I'm allowed to. There is about 10-20 percent of my job I can't do from home as I need to access our secured servers and documents that don't leave the office. It's only about a 7-10 drive to our office, so it's no big deal. As for others in my office, they mostly work in the office about 4 days a week as they have similar needs to access our secure servers and can't do that from home. In any event, studies have shown that employees actually get more work done while teleworking than in the office.
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bear2034 said:




Do the CIA next. If he's still alive we know he is a fraud
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Anarchistbear said:

bear2034 said:


Do the CIA next. If he's still alive we know he is a fraud

Elon is waiting until Tulsi and Kash are at their jobs first..
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$516 billion is kind of a big number, even for AntiochWags.
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concordtom said:

Musk will be Machiavellian - he detests Trump. But he has aligned himself with him in order to achieve his own goals.
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Democrats can't find the DOGE team because no one works on a Friday night in DC.
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Elon is finding the same things going on with the federal government as when he first took over Twitter but at a much larger scale.
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Maureen Dowd, as presented by our Armenian brother pay wall destroyer:

Musk's Lost Boys and Trump's Mean Girls DNyuz


https://dnyuz.com/2025/02/08/musks-lost-boys-and-trumps-mean-girls/


"Presidents Trump and Musk have merged their cult followings, attention addictions, conspiratorial mind-sets, disinformation artistry, disdain for the Constitution, talent for apocalyptic marketing and jumping-from-thing-to-thing styles.

With a pitiless and mindless velocity, they are running roughshod over the government and the globe.

Queasy D.C. denizens are waiting anxiously to see if judges can save the country from the scofflaws running it.

… The president and the tech lord even have progeny, little Elons: the lost boys of DOGE, a gang of Gen-Zers in jeans with backpacks and bags of Doritos bursting into federal agencies to gut them and force bureaucrats to justify their existence.

Their backgrounds and work are shrouded in secrecy, even as they access the government's most sensitive information.

…. The Silicon Valley digerati don't care about the old world in Washington, D.C., churning out meddlesome regulations, laws and taxes. They are cocky about creating a new world, shaped by a new species, A.I.

…. And the bromance may not end with a bang. It could very well end with a bot.

When Trump turns 80, as a birthday present, Elon and the lost boys could create an A.I.-fueled Trump bot, a real-time video head trained on his news conferences and everything he has ever tweeted.

Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, slyly says that Trump would be "an unusually easy person to plausibly fake."

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I am Spartacus. I am Nemik.: "The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014. This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.* #resist" Bluesky


https://bsky.app/profile/spartacus-nemik.bsky.social/post/3lhown2hn4225

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bearister said:

I am Spartacus. I am Nemik.: "The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014. This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. *Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous.* #resist" Bluesky
thanks for the recommend, added nemik to my "bs" follow list (nearly up to a hundred)..
https://bsky.app/profile/spartacus-nemik.bsky.social
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Everybody should read this

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MinotStateBeav said:

Everybody should read this


I can't vouch for customary business at the Treasury Department, but if I mess up my timesheet codes (and there are hundreds, many with very minor differences) for working days, working nights, working Sundays, working Sunday nights, working holidays, time off for holidays, earning comp time, earning comp time when traveling, using comp time, using comp time from traveling, sick leave, annual leave, etc, then I don't paid until I correct it.
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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

MinotStateBeav said:

Everybody should read this


I can't vouch for customary business at the Treasury Department, but if I mess up my timesheet codes (and there are hundreds, many with very minor differences) for working days, working nights, working Sundays, working Sunday nights, working holidays, time off for holidays, earning comp time, earning comp time when traveling, using comp time, using comp time from traveling, sick leave, annual leave, etc, then I don't paid until I correct it.


You are one of the payees who isn't fraudulent or dead.
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"My new pronouns are 'We're f@ucked,' Apatow said from the stage of the Beverly Hilton. The multihyphenate filmmaker and TV producer hosted the DGA Awards for the third year in a row, and the sixth time since 2018."
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Looks like those cuts to NIH funding are gonna cost the UC research system at least $350 million.

MAGA!
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DiabloWags said:

Looks like those cuts to NIH funding are gonna cost the UC research system at least $350 million.

MAGA!



Don't worry, Bobby will makes us uber healthy on roids, HGH and other PED's.
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DiabloWags said:

Looks like those cuts to NIH funding are gonna cost the UC research system at least $350 million.

MAGA!



That seems like pocket change compared to your swing trade profit claims. Can't you just donate that back to the system?
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Hold the uni-party in Congress accountable.
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