President Trump Thread (Part 2)

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You are if they have $22B in government contracts.
That's not their main source of income and you know it.

But any waste or fraud coming from the government that We The People fund should be eliminated. How can you argue against that?
 

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Musk is trying to eliminate any entity in the government that might make it harder for him to keep fleecing the government. He's pulling a few others into the whirlpool just to make it seem like he's on the up&up, but he's not. Amazing that some of you can't see that.

Hey remember that time Musk said he saved the government $8B last week when it turned out it was only $8M? Not a peep from any of you cheerleaders.
 

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You are if they have $22B in government contracts.

You're still not getting it. If we don't like what a government contractor is doing we can choose to contract with someone else in the future.

Except it's government bureaucrats making that choice. So if they don't choose to go with another contractor or at least end the contract with the company that we don't like, we can just vote them out of office, right? Oh wait we can't.

At least our actually elected officials and their chosen administration can fire them though...oh wait, that's what the morons are complaining about.
 

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Musk is trying to eliminate any entity in the government that might make it harder for him to keep fleecing the government. He's pulling a few others into the whirlpool just to make it seem like he's on the up&up, but he's not. Amazing that some of you can't see that.

Hey remember that time Musk said he saved the government $8B last week when it turned out it was only $8M? Not a peep from any of you cheerleaders.
Reagan Republican my ass.
 

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So Irv, you have no problem with trying to eliminate the waste and fraud, you just don't like who sent the email? If these same decisions had come from some 30-year government bureaucrat you'd be fine with it?

I call bullshit.
 

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So Irv, you have no problem with trying to eliminate the waste and fraud, you just don't like who sent the email? If these same decisions had come from some 30-year government bureaucrat you'd be fine with it?

I call bullshit.
There is no strategy to any of this shit, that's what I have a problem with. Actually, the only strategy is to get rid of anyone who has investigated him and his companies because they themselves have probably been ripping off the government, but you're fine with that.

The chainsaw thing was pretty close to what he's actually doing.
 

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There is no strategy to any of this shit, that's what I have a problem with. Actually, the only strategy is to get rid of anyone who has investigated him and his companies because they themselves have probably been ripping off the government, but you're fine with that.
Sounds like what Twitter employees said when he cut a huge percentage of their workers and the company ran just as well or better without them.

I'm sorry, but this is what we voted for. We can't keep running trillion dollar deficits no matter how easy and fun they seem at the time. Hard decisions have to be made at some point or this country is finished.

And I hate to say it, but I detect in your posts that you've forgotten that this is our government. They don't exist without us and our money. And we're sick of them wasting and stealing it.
 

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Sounds like what Twitter employees said when he cut a huge percentage of their workers and the company ran just as well or better without them.

I'm sorry, but this is what we voted for. We can't keep running trillion dollar deficits no matter how easy and fun they seem at the time. Hard decisions have to be made at some point or this country is finished.

And I hate to say it, but I detect in your posts that you've forgotten that this is our government. They don't exist without us and our money. And we're sick of them wasting and stealing it.
I guess it depends on who you talk to about Twitter. It’s probably about 50/50 as far as who thinks it’s better than before he bought it.
 

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Well the White House told a judge that Elon is in fact NOT in charge of DOGE.
Please give me a source for this. I have not heard that anywhere.
 

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HHS, the agency ran by RFK Jr., literally said to expect that responses to the email could be accessed by "malign actors".

Nobody really cares about reporting what work people are doing and I'd imagine a large number of government workers already do that internally within their groups, the issue is the security risk of an insecure email mechanism and having potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of responses being fed into it.

Funny, I vaguely remember some sort of controversy about insecure emails from the distant past.
 

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HHS, the agency ran by RFK Jr., literally said to expect that responses to the email could be accessed by "malign actors".

Nobody really cares about reporting what work people are doing and I'd imagine a large number of government workers already do that internally within their groups, the issue is the security risk of an insecure email mechanism and having potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of responses being fed into it.

Funny, I vaguely remember some sort of controversy about insecure emails from the distant past.
Again, the original email actually stated not to send any secured information. This is also why many of the agencies has sent follow up emails directing their personnel not to answer and that they would handle it internally.
I actually care a great deal about them at least having SOMETHING to report. They are spending my money on a bloated government, and while I realize most of what is happening is necessary, I would at least like them to attempt to spend my money somewhat wisely.
 
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