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Frank wrote on Feb 18^th, 2025 at 12:50pm:


CNN do this, say one lie then use another lie to counter it.

Old habits die hard, and Trump and Musk have continued to play the culture war card because that still seems the best way to get people’s attention. So their recent focus on USAID spending has highlighted the multi-million-dollar grants to LGBTQ+ groups in Guatemala and Serbia and the $47,000 earmarked for a transgender opera in Colombia. Such line-by-line scrutiny is important, but DOGE’s more meaningful work is exposing the shocking lack of oversight and accountability regarding far larger piles of government spending. On Saturday, for example, Musk sent out this Tweet:

“To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.
- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!”

Heads would roll and prison terms contemplated if this were happening in the private sector. But it’s government, so it’s been met with a shrug. How else to explain the fact that the Pentagon, which has a budget of $824 billion, has failed seven consecutive audits – though its leaders promise it will achieve its first clean audit by 2028. Try telling that to the IRS agent auditing your personal return.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/12/doge_makes_math_great_agai...

Leroy wrote on Feb 21^st, 2025 at 10:57pm:


Thank you.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2025 at 10:32am:


Obviously, they're not written by him, but they're not crafted by him either unless he lied during the campaign.

Remember when he said,

"I have nothing to do with Project 2025"

Yet so far we can see,

https://www.project2025.observer/

They're 1/3 of the way through implementing it.

So either Trump lied about the very foundation of what his Presidency and its goals would be during the campaign, betraying not only the country but the very MAGA base who adore him so much, or someone else is running the show, getting the monkey to sign the orders.

They're both horrible outcomes and I'm having a hard time judging which is the worse option...

ProudKangaroo wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2025 at 10:49am:

So, you're saying a politician lied to get elected??!!

Just moved outta Fantasyland, then??!!

Given Musk's duplicity over the uncleansed data issue with old Social Security datasets, indicates that DOGE is a complete diversionary tactic, designed to give Yankists two things they need to survive as Yanks... Mo' gummint money and gummint conspiracies to take thur money and thur raahts...

Expect more diversions, like the Fort Knox fiasco, which will be stage-managed like a Hollywood blockbuster... I'm guessing there'll be enough gold there to be reasonable but not enough to rule out some 'theft', 'fraud' or a gummint conspiracy to use it for covert operations... a conspiracy that won't be off the mark, anyway.

Trump knows his people for the dumbcunts they are.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2025 at 12:06pm:



as i have pointed out on numerous occassions.

in what way is this trumps fault?

he is doing what every sensible businessman does.

meets the market "where they are at"

when a businessman owns a mcdonalds and sells garbage foods to the masses, do you lecture him about selling "green vegetable juice" instead?

thats not his job.

neither is it trumps.

his job is to "manifest the oval office, the congress, senate, courts, media and the tech sector'

this he has done

he therefore has accomplished his mission and won the game by the rules of the game itself