TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2025
News orgs avert their gaze: Late yesterday afternoon, we linked you to Alex Griffing's report for Mediaite.
It concerned the latest crazy remark. Shortened headline include, the report started as shown:
Musk Says 60 Minutes Staffers ‘Deserve a Long Prison Sentence’
Elon Musk accused the staff of CBS’s 60 Minutes of being the “biggest liars in the world” on Sunday and declared they “deserve a long prison sentence.”
Musk made the chilling post on X in reply to a 60 Minutes tweet promoting its latest episode.
Those are the things Musk said. We'll start with he obvious question:
Are staffers at 60 Minutes "the biggest liars in the world?" Especially under the circumstances, we're going to guess that they aren't.
Quickly, it gets worse. Under the circumstances, Musk's second assertion—his statement that the staffers “deserve a long prison sentence”—is essentially insane.
These are overtly crazy remarks, made by an extremely powerful person. Within the context of western world reckoning, he seems to be out of his mind.
That said, we can all be glad that Griffing reported these latest bizarre remarks. Elsewhere, news orgs have largely agreed to act like they never were made.
How crazy was this post by Musk, who may need a lot of help? You have to consider the circumstances which led him to fashion his post.
As he directly continued his report, Griffing described those circumstances. This is truly remarkable stuff:
“President Trump says USAID is rife with fraud. But Andrew Natsios, a Republican former administrator of USAID, calls that ‘utter nonsense.’ Natsios says USAID is ‘the most accountable aid agency in the world,’” read the 60 Minutes post, which linked to a clip from the show’s interview with Natsios. Natsios has been a prominent defender of USAID as a key national security tool around the world and has publicly refuted Musk’s claim that DOGE needed to shutter the agency to stop widespread fraud and wasteful spending.
Musk replied and wrote, “60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence.”
According to Musk, why do staff members at 60 Minutes "deserve a long prison sentence?” The gentleman cited two reasons:
First, the program allowed Natsios, a deeply experienced (Republican) former director of USAID, to contradict one of the infallible statements made by Pope Donald J. Trump.
Also, 60 Minutes had allegedly "engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election." This was a reference to the way the program had edited one small part of its interview with Candidate Harris—an absurd complaint the Wall Street Journal has dismissed as inconsequential.
There was nothing wrong with the edit in question—but according to Musk, staffers at 60 Minutes should be frog-marched off to prison because of what they did. Even more crazily, Trump has described the utterly pointless edit as “quite simply, Election Fraud" and “the biggest Broadcasting SCANDAL in History!!!”
No, we aren't making that up. To peruse the Journal's dismissal of this apparent insanity, you can just click here.
Transparently, Elon Musk seems to be out of his mind. Once again, we cite last year's lengthy report in that same Wall Street Journal about the concerns expressed by Musk's business partners with respect to his alleged drug use. (For last Wednesday's report on that matter, click here.)
For ourselves, we don't have the slightest idea why Musk says the things he does. But by any normal manner of reckoning, this latest statement would seem to qualify as the work of a transparent nut.
Is something wrong with this powerful person? Also, is something wrong with the high-end reporters and editors who refuse to discuss the apparent madness involved in the things he says?
It's time to lock the staffers up! They let an extremely well-informed man contradict Donald J. Trump!
Musk's second complaint was even dumber. This is the divorce from reality into which we've all been thrown.
In our view, attention must be paid to this free-range meltdown. Luckily, Griffing did. Most others keep looking away—keep refusing to wonder or ask about this modern Samson.
It took Elon Musk three weeks to respond to DeepSeek with a superior product. He is the greatest pioneering figure of our time. How lucky that he is an American.
ReplyDeleteOther industry giants are overwhelmingly impressed and Elon's status as the first trillionaire in history is coming soon and entirely deserved.
Perplexity AI CEO
Congratulations to XAI for building world-class reasoning models in such a short period. This is a super strong response from America to DeepSeek. America builds fast, and xAI team and Elon are setting the bar for it! When the API becomes available, we'll integrate!
How good is Grok3 compared to DeepSeek? We have no idea. All we know is that Musk released a product. Musk, of course, did none of the work himself. He has been too busy smashing up our government. The Grok product has been in development for a while. Slapping a number on it and representing it as a new release is a marketing ploy. For all we know it is no different than it was.
DeleteBut look at the hype @2:18 is dishing out! That's the scary part.
The term 'fanboy' is wildly overused at this site, but it does seem apt when applied to those who admire Musk.
DeleteIt's not doing any favors for Musk right now since he's wrong 75% of the time and lies through his teeth 25% of the time.
DeleteIs your mommy a good cook?
Don’t know if Grok 3 is better than OpenAI. But xAI achieved something significant in its GPU clusters. Azure, AWS and Meta hit the limit at 30000 GPUs and could not scale higher. xAI found a way to scale to 100000 GPUs in a single cluster and they are going to 200K soon. This means the time required to train each major version of the model will be shorter. xAI’s success surprised everyone, including the CEO of Nvidia. If people here aren’t addled with EDS, they can appreciate the beauty of this.
DeleteJargon doesn't prove Musk's AI works any better than any other AI. And of course, Musk didn't do any of the work himself. He just owns stuff.
Delete@6:48 I for one am furious that Elon Musk is enjoying another victory lap of success. I hope Tesla FSD breaks, Starlink satellites crash to earth and that we never get to Mars.
DeleteI hope the price of eggs goes to a million dollars a dozen, so Republicans can support Musk stealing their personal data and selling it to China, while not complaining about grocery prices.
DeleteDOGE has saved taxpayers $110 Billion so far.
ReplyDeleteLET’S GOOOOO
They have. And the tooth fairy will leave it all under your pillow tonight.
DeleteKeep dreaming.
2:32 PM - from Professor Otto Yerass to you courtesy of Shitposter MC.
DeleteIs that including the $80 million they mistakenly listed as $80 billion?
DeleteThe next Right-winger who knows anything about basic mathematics, will be the first.
DeleteWhen someone targets political opposition and threatens to throw them in jail, they are not crazy. They are behaving like tyrants, dictators everywhere have done throughout past regimes. Musk and Trump are colluding to take power and destroy our government. They are attempting to govern by fear and threat and that works primarily by targeting people and hurting them, so that onlookers will be reluctant to step up and oppose them. CBS is the target in order to make other media fall in line.
ReplyDeleteDoes it matter whether Musk wants CBS to toe his party line or just agree that 2+2=5? No. Exercising power is the point. Dictators and authoritarian rules are not crazy. They are power seeking individuals with no ethical constraints, but they behave in logical ways once you understand their motives. They are not insane or crazy in that their behavior is predictable and makes sense in the context of their goals.
Somerby needs to wise up. Mislabeling Trump and Musk can be very dangerous if we fail to do what we can now to limit their takeover of our government. Destroying the independence of the media is a step in that direction.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Bob. It wasn't a non-name website. It was the fucking CBS.
How is it not election fraud, to broadcast fake interview of a major presidential candidate over the public airwaves.
Where's the Federal Communications Commission when you need it? Ah, yes, it's owned by the Democrats, most likely. Hopefully, not for long.
It wasn't a "fake interview." It was a very real interview and CBS News showed excerpts from her statements--just like every other news organization does.
DeleteBut go off!
The thing that gets "my gall" about this QIB is the answer in question is a long stumbling mumbling weak ass answer by the otherwise whip smart Kamala on the difficult issue of Israel/Gaza. She had not yet formulated the very stable genius plan of giving 2,000 lb. bombs back to Israel, occupying Gaza with US troops, forcing 1.8M people out to somewhere, and gain personnel profit. The lack of this plan was mostly 'cause she is not a fcking nutso weirdo.) So anyway instead of one weak ass answer CBS did the Felon a solid by by splitting it into two weak ass answers on two separate newscasts; getting more eyeballs on her shtty answer. The level of sht lies these MAGA weirdos have to eat on the daily is just crazy. There is no limit to their appetite for stupid lies.
DeleteI guess Fox news will need to go to prison too:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRMUF3dZLk
They do deserve to be in prison for abusing the public trust. That said, "deserves to be in prison" is common hyperbole.
ReplyDeleteHere is some massive govt waste pointed out by Digby at Hullabaloo, concerning Trump's lap at the Daytona 500:
ReplyDelete"While some were relishing in their fan moment, others were not so happy about the whole show.
@CalltoActivism shared the disappointment and pointed out how American taxpayers’ money was being wasted. “Since we’re on the topic of government waste, Donald Trump’s joyride around the Daytona 500 cost American taxpayers around $5,000,000,” the tweet said. Giving further breakdown, the user wrote,
“Air Force One Costs: estimated $800,000 – $1,000,000. Presidential Motorcade & Transport: estimated $200,000 – $500,000, Secret Service & Security estimated $1 million – $2 million., FAA & Airspace Restrictions: estimated $100,000 – $300,000, Staffing & Logistical Support: estimated $200,000 – $500,000, Additional Emergency & Military Resources: estimated $100,000 – $500,000.
The government is being run on a day to day basis by our Prime Minister Elon Musk and various henchmen. King Trump appears to be mostly doing ceremonial duties, as monarchs tend to do.
These ceremonies cost a lot of money but they are important to ensure that the public is given many moments they can relish as assurances that their president is a star. As you know, when you’re a star they let you do it."
His campaign should have paid for that. That kind of spectacle resonates really strongly with his supporters.
DeleteThe American people are paying for it. Is that OK with you? It isn't OK with me.
DeleteThe President’s appearances at significant sporting events contributes intangible unifying and national morale benefits. Well worth the cost.
DeletePoliticizing sporting events is a long-time strategy of the Republican Party.
DeleteBob is taking figurative statements and treating them as if they were meant literally. Surely Bob knows that “They’re the biggest liars in history” means “ They tell a lot of lies.”
ReplyDeleteAnd “they should be locked up” means “They did some bad things.”
It’s a good thing Musk didn’t say “Holy cow!”
Translating venal statements into vague paraphrases doesn't let Trump or Musk or Somerby off the hook. It is a distortion of the reality of what these people said. David is pretending that Musk is being figurative when he talks about people going to prison. Trump has shown us repeatedly that he means such things literally. Now that the DOJ is under their control, no assurance that they do not intend to prosecute their perceived enemies is going to be believable.
DeleteAnd that "I care about grocery prices", means "I won''t admit I love Trump's bigotry".
DeleteWe're lucky Trump called the marching torch-carriers chanting "Jews will not replace us!", "fine people".
4:59 wrote, "Trump has shown us repeatedly that he means such things [putting people in prison] literally."
Delete@4:59 can you please show us the many people Trump literally put in prison after he talked about putting them in prison?
Pam Bondi has "filed charges" against Letitia James and Kathy Hochul, two of Trump's political enemies.
Deletehttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1186235263510251
"According to Reuters' Sarah N. Lynch, Denise Cheung — the top senior prosecutor in DOJ's Washington office — told her colleague Ed Martin, in her resignation letter, that she is leaving DOJ because of a request from Trump Administration officials she considers improper. The Trump allies, Lynch reports, asked Cheung "to launch a criminal probe" and "ordered her to investigate a government contract awarded during Joe Biden's administration and pursue a freeze of the recipient's assets."
DeleteIn her resignation letter, Cheung wrote, "I have been proud to serve at the U.S. Department of Justice and this office for over 24 years. During my tenure, which has spanned over many different administrations, I have always been guided by the oath I took.... to support and defend the Constitution."
Good try, @5:34. But, I believe these charges are a lawsuit, not a criminal prosecution that could lead to a prison sentence.
DeleteThe Trump allies, Lynch reports, asked Cheung "to launch a criminal probe"
DeleteDickhead in Cal: "I believe these charges are a lawsuit, not a criminal prosecution,"
Damn.
https://freedom.press/issues/34-arrests-44-physical-attacks-and-more-chilling-numbers-us-press-freedom-trackers-first-year/
Delete@7:36 Lynch (whoever that is) may or may not be correct that some (unidentified) Trump allies asked for a criminal prosecution. But, the actual charges are only a lawsuit, according to NBC News ‘You're next': DOJ files lawsuit against New York, Hochul, Letitia James over immigration
DeleteDickhead, that was a completely different lawsuit, had nothing to do with the reason Cheung resigned, jackass.
DeleteThe DOJ does not exist so that politicians can target their political enemies.
DeleteTrump famously said Hillary Clinton should be in prison. Too bad he didn’t follow through.
DeleteI agree with David in Cal.
DeleteTrump is afraid to put anyone in jail. Remember, Trump recently pardoned a whole slew of bigots who tried to overthrow the USA, just because black people's votes were counted in the 2020 Presidential election.
Also, he's an adjudicated rapist himself.
Trump is not at all the law and order President gullible morons think he is.
Trump is not going to empty our prisons. That's just another lie he told bigots to get them to vote for him.
DeleteDavid in Cal calls lying to bigots "political genius". I call it a Republican campaign rally.
Here is a description of the lack of due process being enacted by Musk et al. affecting the Forest Service. This specific account of from North Carolina, concerning a forest ranger involved in Hurricane disaster repair:
ReplyDeletehttps://digbysblog.net/2025/02/18/terminated-effective-immediately/
The fact that people work their hearts out and are then terminated with form letters accusing them of poor performance makes me angry. People should not be treated this way.
It is a whole different level of callous and sociopathic.
DeleteLeadership can require a level of callousness. Trump/Musk's callousness is minor compared to various historical actions. Imagine how Gen Eisenhower felt when he ordered the invasion of Europe on D-Day. He knew that a great many Americans and a great many French civilians would be killed or wounded, but believed that sacrifice was necessary.
DeleteHow callous was President Biden when he sent weapons to Ukraine, prolonging a war in which over million people died?
It callousness sans leadership or any semblance of reason. It's drug-addled sociopaths running amok. That's about the sum of it. And you, David, haven't shown a single example of DOGE finding any fraud. Not a single one. Imagine that!
DeleteIlya -- I don't know what your favorite news source is, but public reports show that DOGE has identified dozens of cases of inappropriate spending adding up to billions of dollars. Finding the fraud is a lot harder, because the people committing the fraud do whatever they can to hide it. Each individual fraud could require a lot of effort. E.g., suppose USAID gives money to a NGO who in turn gives money to some supposed good cause, but this good cause pays a kickback to someone in USAID. How could you prove that? You'd have to subpoena all the people involved, many of whom are not in the US, and question them under oath. You might have to check foreign bank records. All this for a single (hypothetical) instance of fraud.
DeleteTherefore, I suspect that the great majority of fraud cases may never be identified. But, it looks like DOGE has a reasonable shot at identifying and eliminating $1 trillion of inappropriate spending, If they succeed, every American should be thrilled.
Exactly, an accusation of fraud is serious and it tequires actual investgation and substantiation, not baseless accusations and random firings. This is wrong, David. And they are not finding the inapropriate spending.
DeleteTrump says Ukraine should never have started it.
Delete"it looks like DOGE has a reasonable shot at identifying and eliminating $1 trillion of inappropriate spending"
DeleteWhat I've seen on the DOGE website so far are tiny little contracts, some less than $100k. How in the name of the Gulf of America are they going to get anywhere near a trillion dollars?
How will we know how much is ultimately cut? Will we take Musk's word for it? We've already seen him lie about Treasury payment codes.
Will there ever be a DOGE report that can be fact-checked, or just a bunch of cherry-picked screen shots like they're giving us now?
Hector: If I had to hazard a guess: Doggies will be coming after SS.
DeleteDavid:
Deleteinappropriate spending adding up to billions of dollars
Another words, we disagree with this spending and it makes it inappropriate.
USAID gives money to a NGO who in turn gives money to some supposed good cause, but this good cause pays a kickback to someone in USAID. How could you prove that?
Right, and this inflamed bit of your imagination is apropos of nothing. There's no fraud; there's not corruption.
One more time: you have nothing! There's a reason you never include any links to anything. When I see something on NPR, NY Times, WaPo, AP, Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg, then I will pause to think about it.
Another Presidential lack of compassion:
DeleteThe 60,000 people who got cut loose when the Keystone XL pipeline extension was canceled after Biden took office know the feeling. Except they weren't bureaucrats. They were skilled construction workers and engineers.
Hector asks an excellent question: "How are DOGE going to get anywhere near a trillion dollars?"
DeleteFirst of all, anything I say would be a total guess. One promising area could be SS benefits being paid to illegal immigrants. There is some evidence pointing at the possibility that up to 30 million illegal immigrants might be illegally on the SS rolls using fake SS numbers. Under US law, illegal immigrants are generally not allowed to get SS benefits. (BTW that seems unfair to me. If illegal immigrants paid into SS, I think they should be entitled to SS benefits.)
Anyhow, if millions of people stop getting SS benefits, that would be a lot of money.
IMO the biggest saving would have to come from military spending. Inefficient military procurement spending has been legendary as long as I can remember.
Ending the wars in Gaza and Ukraine would save a fortune. The US has been spending money like water. E.g., the floating dock built to aid the Palestinians didn't even work, but it cost the US $320 million.
I also don't think this word, "callous", means what you think it means, David. Yeah, I guess the Biden administration didn't have to send weapons to Ukraine. Certainly, shouldn't have sent weapons to Israel.
DeleteIllegal immigrants are paying taxes, assuming that they gave a social security number to their employer. 30 million came straight out of your ass, David. In fact, as they start deporting undocumented workers, SS receipts will go down. With that said, yes, the fuckers are coming after our SS, into which I've been paying close to forty goddamn years. In the meantime, all those tax cuts have done absolutely nothing for me.
DeleteThe sheer idiocy leaves me speechless....
David in Cal,
DeleteIn your humble opinion, do you think DOGE will find enough wasted spending to reduce the deficit that you and the rest of the Republican Party don't care about at all?
You're such a fucking liar, DiC. I have not found one source that even comes close to the bullshit you just posted claiming 60000 people got "cut loose" over the Keystone XL. You're such a fucking liar. You don't even have the balls and integrity to site your source.
Delete“At the time of its closure, the Keystone XL Pipeline project was already under construction and employed more than 1,500 workers." U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
TC Energy Corp., the Canadian company that owns the Keystone XL pipeline with the Alberta government, has said more than 1,000 people are out of work because of Biden’s executive order.
The Obama-era State Department had denied TC Energy’s request for a permit in 2015. Trump revived hopes for the project once he took office, ultimately approving it with an executive order. Construction began in April 2020, but that same month, a federal court said that the project had to go through a full endangered species review. TC Energy appealed the ruling, but the Supreme Court upheld it in July.
"When combined with additional 2021 contracts to be announced later, the total number of American union workers constructing Keystone XL in 2021 will exceed 8,000 and $900 million in gross wages," the release said. "In total, Keystone XL is expected to employ more than 11,000 Americans in 2021, creating more than $1.6 billion in gross wages."
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2021/01/22/keystone-pipeline-jobs-lost-joe-biden-executive-order-cancel-fact-check/6673822002/
Musk appears never to have worked as an actual employee anywhere. He was born into a wealthy family and his father loaned him money for his initial start-up companies. Musk went right from school to forming his own start-ups, which were acquired by larger companies and sold for a lot of money.
ReplyDeleteThis is not the experience of the people whom Musk is randomly firing. Most people go through a process to get hired, learn a job and perform it under supervision, do well and get promoted (or not) and build a life around their salary and benefits that may or may not include ownership of a car or condo or house. Most people's lives depend on the continuation of their employment and too many become homeless when they are fired.
Musk has no idea what that dependence feels like. Thus he has no idea of the havoc being wrought by his wanton firings of people who mostly do not deserve to have lost their jobs. Inflicting damage on people for political reasons is despicable.
Many government jobs involve doing specialized tasks involving specific expertise or knowledge that is not easily transferred to business. Where does an air traffic controller go when fired? Where does the head of the Social Security Administration go for a new job? Or a COBOL programmer, for that matter? Musk doesn't care. The termination procedures and separation benefits someone might receive require planning and administration that I doubt Musk knows about or cares about. But these mean the difference between havoc and an orderly transition to the private sector, which is a different way of life.
Whatever their political goals, Trump and Musk have no business inflicting such chaos on so many people.
I think you're accurate, @5:10, but Musk represents the taxpayer, not the employee. The purpose of federal employment is to do things for the benefit of the American public. The purpose is not to benefit the employees. The employees work for you and me, not the reverse. A lot of good employees, through no fault of their own, find themselves in positions where they're not adequately benefiting the public, so they're being laid off. Government money is not unlimited, although many people in Washington behave as if it were.
DeleteThe same thing is happening at Oracle, where my daughter works. Whose departments are being let go, even though many employees in those departments are doing excellent work.
It does not benefit the American public to remove people who are doing specialized jobs and not replace them. The result will be difficulties interfacing with the govt and receiving govt services. In the case of the forestry ranger in NC, the result will be delay repairing that road through the mountains (connecting people and cities) and less effective disaster relief and fire-fighting efforts. Because that is what she was doing before she was fired.
DeleteOur govt has been operating under a budget. We are not over-spent or out of money. Firing people means that the jobs they were doing will have to be done on an emergency basis, which means paying overtime to less qualified temps who will cause more chaos due to their lack of training. It is inefficient to run govt services that way.
There is no fiscal emergency that has required Musk and Trump to do these drastic and indiscriminate, unplanned terminations. It is to slash and burn our govt, to create less faith in govt services (which are being damaged as we speak) and to justify further elimination of services that currently benefit the people, such as education for special needs children, health care for indigent people, and so on. Musk thinks that is a waste of money but the people receiving those services depend on them. This is the wrong way to revise what the govt does -- Congress and the people themselves should be part of the discussion about what is necessary and what is not. This is govt vandalism and it is illegal, but more than that, it is cruel and it is causing unnecessary suffering. You can't be in favor of that, David, and still think of yourself as a good person.
Dickhead: This is Project 2025 being implemented. Perhaps you have heard of it? You remember, it is the document that Donald J Chickenshit denied to the American people before they voted that he intended to implement? Now, go take a flying fuck, you fascist prick.
DeleteThere is no evidence that any of the fired workers were not benefitting the public in their jobs. Meanwhile, Trump spends huge amounts of money to drive his limo a lap in the Daytona 500. How does that benefit anyone but Trump himself?
Delete@5:49. The govt is not out of money. It gets lots of income from taxes. But, it is overcommitted. If you have $100 of income in year 1, and you commit to spend $120, you'll have to borrow $20. Next year will be worse.
DeleteYou do not have the money to pay back the $20 you borrowed. Worse You need to borrow an additional $20 in order to fulfill your commitments and $1.20 more to pay the interest on the first $20 you borrowed. Now your debt has grown to $41.20 more than it was in Year 1. Your interest rising at a faster and faster rate the debt rises.
You can see how this spirals up to infinity. The result is certain economic disaster at some point in time. Trump and Musk are doing all they can to prevent this disaster. Thank goodness.
This is nonsense. The govt does not operate financially like a household. If the right were seriously concerned about debt, it wouldn't be contemplating giving the rich more tax cuts while cutting the jobs of working people.
Delete"Trump and Musk are doing all they can to prevent this disaster."
Delete"Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes substantially from 2018 through 2025. The resulting deficits are adding $1 to $2 trillion to the federal debt, according to official estimates."
https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-did-tcja-affect-federal-budget-outlook
Touché
DeleteFederal workers are not entitled to compensation from taxpayers for unnecessary positions. .
Delete“Trump and Musk are doing everything …” except the one thing that will address the rising deficit: raise taxes. On the wealthiest. US tax structure is constructed to funnel wealth over time to the richest of Americans. It is a disaster that benefits Trump, Musk and their ilk and until addressed will be a major driver of this country’s deficit. It is verboten for trolls like DiC to acknowledge this simple fact. Read “Capital in the 21st Century’ by Thomas Pickety and educate yourself.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteTrump represents the tax cheats who drive up the deficit, you pretend you care about.
It's okay that you don't care about the citizens struggling to feed their families. Neither does any other standard-issue, Reagan Republican bigot.
DiC voted for the man, a pathological liar, who created the largest deficit in history during his first term.
Delete9:37,
DeleteHaven't you heard? David in Cal is very concerned about the deficit, not about the preservation of racial hierarchies.
LOL.
Who would leave their job just because Musk and Trump exaggerated about firing them? Their exaggeration might be made for effect, and they're really doubling your salary.
ReplyDeletePeople are leaving their jobs because they have received termination notices firing them.
DeleteFrom a couple of Klansmen who exaggerate for effect.
DeletePro tip: Don't take the word of a Right-winger to mean anything, unless it's bigotry.
The govt workers who ensure food safety are surely providing an important service to the American people, but Trump is firing them too:
ReplyDelete"Jim Jones, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division, resigned on Monday, citing what he called “indiscriminate” layoffs that would make it “fruitless for him to continue,” the New York Times reports.
Said Jones: “I was looking forward to working to pursue the department’s agenda of improving the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food.”
But the Trump administration’s “disdain for the very people” who would do that work gave him no choice but to depart."
Congress decides how much to spend on what things. Not DOGE, not the president. Not internet trolls.
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ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how Soros-bots have achieved such a high intensity of hatred in just a couple of weeks.
I detect serious professionalism here. Their hatred for government efficiency, their love for waste, fraud and abuse seem perfectly genuine. Very nice.
Right, Boris. Cheerleading the demented clown who just stated that Ukraine started the war with Russia is a good look for you.
DeleteTrump hates he same people I do. The mouth-breathing bigots, who make-up the entirety of Republican voters.
DeleteHa-ha. Getting desperate, Piggy? Why aren't you in the trench, coward?
DeleteMao's a gun owner?
DeleteGun owners will not fight government tyranny. They are too busy selling their guns to criminals on the black market.
Delete
DeleteThe Democrat Party of Shitheads, Idiots, Thieves, and Liars started the war, Boris. It also kept escalating the war. That's common knowledge.
I blame Obama for not taking our guns.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
ReplyDeleteHave you ever thought of learning anything about economics, and how it works, instead of swimming in your lake of ignorance?
In other words, have you ever thought of leaving the Republican Party, or is bigotry still the most important ideological trait you look for in a political party?
Shutdown ICE and layoff all their officers.
ReplyDeletePer people who exaggerate about the number of illegal immigrants who cross our border, ICE doesn't deserve any funding at all.
Asking how one can tell the difference between Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the fine people on the Right is a trick question.
ReplyDeleteThere is no difference.
If you accepted rooms full of First Graders being slaughtered for the promise from gun owners that they would fight government tyranny, congratulations.
ReplyDeleteYou are a bigger sucker than the people who believed Trump voters were upset about inflation.
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using of tracking codes when dishing out money.
ReplyDeleteNice. Thank God for Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the rest of the team.
Elon will keep the $4.7 Trillion for himself, because to give it to the hard-working people who are struggling to make ends meet is Socialism.
DeleteGood for him.
DeleteHard-working people earn their money, Soros-bot. They don't need handouts.
And now go beg George "Socialism" Soros for money, Soros-bot.
Paying workers what they are worth for their labor is woke.
Delete"Hard-working people earn their money, Soros-bot."
DeleteSo after all this lying from Musk about too many government workers, he' going to let them all keep their jobs anyway?
On the one hand, I don't think the bigots who voted for Trump are going to like that, but on the other hand, as we've seen, the snowflakes are far too afraid to use their 2nd Amendment rights to fight government tyranny.
"The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using of tracking codes when dishing out money."
DeleteI find it almost impossible to believe anyone could accept something this stupid as a true statement.
It is unbearably humiliating have to watch the President suck Putin's cock all over again. The first four years was horrible enough.
ReplyDeleteWe used to people lunatics who think they are Napoleon in a padded cell, now the party of bigots made him their leader.
ReplyDeleteI told you Republican voters wouldn't care if they elected a President who was being blackmailed by Putin, as long as they get the bigotry they crave. It's a great deal for them.
ReplyDeleteLittle Marco is such a lightweight, he has to wear ballast under his suit just to keep from floating away. The irony of watching him give a handjob under the table to Russian goons is just too rich for my diet.
DeleteEvery Republican voter concerned about inflation has already shot President Trump to death. And we're only 4 weeks into his Presidency.
ReplyDeleteMake Train Travel Great Again.
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