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Post by herzlos on Nov 13, 2024 5:03:38 GMT -5
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Post by crispy78 on Nov 13, 2024 5:16:13 GMT -5
Mustn't call Trump voters stupid apparently - but how the hell do they think changing your vote afterwards is any sort of possible thing to do??? |
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Post by Peregrine on Nov 13, 2024 5:20:47 GMT -5
Musk is responsible for reducing Government inefficiency, because that went spectacularly well with Twitter. I'm sure there's some cringy joke about Department Of Government Efficiency and Musks involvement in DOGE coin. Because why wouldn't he?
Tweeted by Elmu himself. Our country is an absolute circus right now.
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skyth
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Post by skyth on Nov 13, 2024 5:24:36 GMT -5
The problem with 'clear evidence of cheating' is that no amount of evidence will convince Maga cultists...
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Post by Haighus on Nov 13, 2024 5:28:17 GMT -5
I have a strong suspicion the "Department of Government Efficiency" is actually going to make the US government very inefficient whilst not targeting any of the real inefficiencies...
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Post by herzlos on Nov 13, 2024 6:28:13 GMT -5
It's going to be all about removing red tape (regulation) and wokeness (rights, anything that pushes back on madness). It's going to be total clusterf.
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Post by mdgv2 on Nov 13, 2024 7:14:09 GMT -5
I suspect it’ll be about shovelling as much tax payer’s money into Trump and Musk’s pockets as possible.
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Post by pacific on Nov 13, 2024 7:25:12 GMT -5
We in the UK had a brief interlude of looking like a clown on the world stage following Brexit, sorry to see the US is doing what it can to take that mantel away.
Reading about Musk apparently getting annoyed that Trump won't do any reading prior to meetings.. I give it 3 months before they start to openly turn on each other (I think TBH there is no secret made of what they think of each other, or certainly what Trump thinks of Musk, but at the moment they both have some sort of symbiotic relationship - I know the joke about Kwatu from Total Recall has already been made!)
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Post by tannhauser42 on Nov 13, 2024 7:35:29 GMT -5
I have a strong suspicion the "Department of Government Efficiency" is actually going to make the US government very inefficient whilst not targeting any of the real inefficiencies... I suspect it will be the usual excuse to find ways to reduce the budgets of all the lesser government agencies that only make up 10% of the overall federal budget, rather than going after the other 90%. Hooray for me being in one of those smaller agencies. |
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Post by skyth on Nov 13, 2024 7:49:46 GMT -5
Musk will probably try what he did with Twitter and then run into the issue that he's dealing with union employees that have an actual contract.
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Post by redchimera on Nov 13, 2024 7:59:47 GMT -5
It can't last surely. The narcissist Trump won't be able to bear Musk's presence in the room. Trump likes people to know he's the most powerful, the smartest and the richest, but the muskrat is so far above by several orders of magnitude. He can buy Trump out and it would be lost in the rounding up/down on the accounts. Monetarily, Trump is insignificant compared to Musk.
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Post by Haighus on Nov 13, 2024 8:04:08 GMT -5
I have a strong suspicion the "Department of Government Efficiency" is actually going to make the US government very inefficient whilst not targeting any of the real inefficiencies... I suspect it will be the usual excuse to find ways to reduce the budgets of all the lesser government agencies that only make up 10% of the overall federal budget, rather than going after the other 90%. Hooray for me being in one of those smaller agencies. That's what I was getting at. Just cutting the budgets of the "lesser" agencies will probably be a false economy that costs more in the long run, whereas several big-spending departments are probably going to get increased funding that can then be funnelled into the likes of Lockheed-Martin and Boeing... |
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Post by mdgv2 on Nov 13, 2024 8:05:29 GMT -5
Wait until Trump realises Musk is African!
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skyth
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Post by skyth on Nov 13, 2024 8:26:26 GMT -5
Is Musk even a US citizen?
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Nov 13, 2024 9:34:57 GMT -5
Yes. Funnily enough he supposedly overstayed his Visa when he first came to the US, which is grounds for denaturalizing him and kicking him back to South Africa. Not that that'll ever happen, but still.
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