Thank you for getting job done, President Trump.
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Sally Vix wrote:
agip wrote:
ok this is interesting.
first tho, because DJT said it, there is a less than 50/50 chance it is true. Which is so sad. We have zero idea if ANYTHING our president says is true. He is living in a fantasy land. Shame.
but if they are going to look at the pentagon, that's a place that could move the needle savingswise. Unlike all this other piddling stuff so far.
I just wish the investigation weren't being done by a major pentagon contractor. Huge conflict of interest.
Trump confirms that he has granted Elon Musk the authority to review Pentagon spending.
When a hammer costs $10,000, I say go at it!
lol good luck
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
The right wing is destroying the journalist that named one of Musks employees. I kid you not. This person will likely need to go into hiding.
This is not an accident. This is how you squash the free press and stop any criticism going forward.
It's really quite clear at this point that America is in a very deep Great Depression.
This time it's just an intellectual one instead of an economic one. But I think we'll look back in 100 years (if we make it) and just wonder
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
The right wing is destroying the journalist that named one of Musks employees. I kid you not. This person will likely need to go into hiding.
This is not an accident. This is how you squash the free press and stop any criticism going forward.
all the autocrats work the same. Watch for more and more attempts to squash journalism under trump's boot. They all do this. They can't help themselves. In their blood. we live in the putin-orban-trump axis now.
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
Everyone knew that racism was not a disqualifier to be in Doge. It had to be something else that got the kid fired. Here is that something else:
“Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information”.He said the quiet part out loud. Actually, it is surprising that both that and the racism would be an issue for Trump or Musk.
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agip wrote:
Oldrunningguy wrote:
The right wing is destroying the journalist that named one of Musks employees. I kid you not. This person will likely need to go into hiding.
This is not an accident. This is how you squash the free press and stop any criticism going forward.
all the autocrats work the same. Watch for more and more attempts to squash journalism under trump's boot. They all do this. They can't help themselves. In their blood. we live in the putin-orban-trump axis now.
Oh how soon we forget. Biden’s boot was bigger. 🤦♂️
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Dem lawmakers trying to intimidate the DOE.
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The tax payers aren't happy with it. The people voted this team in to take care of it.
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trump2028 wrote:
US President Donald Trump said Friday he had asked his "efficiency czar" Elon Musk to review spending in the sprawling US Department of Defense, which has a proposed budget for 2025 of $850 billion.
Asked if defense was on Musk's agenda for cuts, Trump told reporters at the White House: "I've instructed him to go check out education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. And you know, sadly, you'll find some things that are pretty bad."It would be amusing to see him and his team of 20 something incels try to break into computers at the Pentagon. The military won't wait for court injunctions to protect national security data.
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BillionairesForHire wrote:
trump2028 wrote:
US President Donald Trump said Friday he had asked his "efficiency czar" Elon Musk to review spending in the sprawling US Department of Defense, which has a proposed budget for 2025 of $850 billion.
Asked if defense was on Musk's agenda for cuts, Trump told reporters at the White House: "I've instructed him to go check out education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military. And you know, sadly, you'll find some things that are pretty bad."It would be amusing to see him and his team of 20 something incels try to break into computers at the Pentagon. The military won't wait for court injunctions to protect national security data.
hah
they got TV Star Pete at the pentagon to push through whatever trump wants. I fyou think he'd push back against ANYTHING trump wants...I got a hammer to sell you for $10,000.
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agip wrote:
ok this is interesting.
first tho, because DJT said it, there is a less than 50/50 chance it is true. Which is so sad. We have zero idea if ANYTHING our president says is true. He is living in a fantasy land. Shame.
but if they are going to look at the pentagon, that's a place that could move the needle savingswise. Unlike all this other piddling stuff so far.
I just wish the investigation weren't being done by a major pentagon contractor. Huge conflict of interest.
Trump confirms that he has granted Elon Musk the authority to review Pentagon spending.
What makes you think he would even understand what he's looking at?
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
Everyone knew that racism was not a disqualifier to be in Doge. It had to be something else that got the kid fired. Here is that something else:
“Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information”.Scary
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Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:
If this "revoke their license" stuff goes anywhere it is unlikely to hold up in court because it is a Trumped up charge. More likely it is just a standard Trump PR stunt that gets dumb people believing that normal media was out to get Trump. He got equal on air time. You and most Trump supporters did not and will not watch the edited or the unedited interview. You just read a few memes on X that told you it was a scandal and you want to believe it so you ignore any facts to the contrary. Unfortunately, there is a large portion of the US population doing the same thing because they have zero critical thinking skills.
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He's correct...just very precise on the date
For nearly 80 years the American and Japanese people have enjoyed a friendship like few others. After our meeting today, I'm confident that the cherished alliances between our two countries will continue to flourish long into the future!
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
Breaking!
Hunter Biden worked for 8 months as a fashion consultant to a shadowy Cayman holding company connected to a Chinese Communist party slave labor manufacturer and he gets up to $5m in fees (for 8 months of work! wow!) that only vest after his nomination!
Wait! My mistake
Thats our new director of the FBI.
He has great knowledge and experience. Why do you care?
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
The right wing is destroying the journalist that named one of Musks employees. I kid you not. This person will likely need to go into hiding.
This is not an accident. This is how you squash the free press and stop any criticism going forward.
They tried to dox him to get him killed.DOGE must be protected!
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JohnSu2 wrote:
Dem lawmakers trying to intimidate the DOE.
Looks like an insurrection.
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Sally Vix wrote:
When a hammer costs $10,000, I say go at it!
It was supposed to be a $600 hammer, not $10,000.
Since the hammer actually cost $15, do you still say, "go at it!"?"Ever since the Defense Department procurement scandals of the 1980s, the $600 hammer has been held up as an icon of Pentagon incompetence. Immortalized in the "Hammer Awards" that Vice President Al Gore's program to reinvent government gives out to waste-cutters, this absurdly overpriced piece of hardware has come to symbolize all that's wrong with the government's financial management.
One problem: "There never was a $600 hammer," said Steven Kelman, public policy professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. It was, he said, "an accounting artifact."
The military bought the hammer, Kelman explained, bundled into one bulk purchase of many different spare parts. But when the contractors allocated their engineering expenses among the individual spare parts on the list-a bookkeeping exercise that had no effect on the price the Pentagon paid overall-they simply treated every item the same. So the
hammer, originally $15, picked up the same amount of research and development overhead-$420-as each of the highly technical components, recalled retired procurement official LeRoy Haugh. (Later news stories inflated the $435 figure to $600.)"The hammer got as much overhead as an engine," Kelman continued, despite the fact that the hammer cost much less than $420 to develop, and the engine cost much more-"but nobody ever said, 'What a great deal the government got on the engine!' "
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