Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

I love that the maga trumpettes think a man who has had dozens of business go under, filed bankruptcy 4-7 times can run a country's finances

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372801]I’m perfectly fine with cutting waste where appropriate just do it the right way through acts of Congress, not a hack and slash executive order which is unconstitutional.

This doge nonsense isn’t about rooting out waste anyway, there’s a whole different agenda going on there.[/quote]

I trust Big Balls

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid

[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-boosted-false-usaid-conspiracy-theories-global-aid-rcna190646[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372809]How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid

[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-boosted-false-usaid-conspiracy-theories-global-aid-rcna190646[/url][/quote]

Brandy Zadrozny has a long history of calling things she doesn’t like “misinformation” she’s a clown.

The evidence of paid grants from USAID can’t be dismissed and they have been the primary source of wasted foreign money abroad and here in the country as well.

It needs to be completely folded and rebuilt with accountability and transparency.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372812]Brandy Zadrozny has a long history of calling things she doesn’t like “misinformation” she’s a clown.

The evidence of paid grants from USAID can’t be dismissed and they have been the primary source of wasted foreign money abroad and here in the country as well.

It needs to be completely folded and rebuilt with accountability and transparency.[/quote]

LOL, you didn't even know it existed till trump cut it.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

We can save money not doing any of this since we can't do it for the actual Solders.


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/hegseth-wants-50-000-emergency-224234848.html[/url]

Military.com
Hegseth Wants $50,000 for 'Emergency' Paint Job to Move into Military Family Housing, Lawmakers Say

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is looking to live in military family housing and requested to use $137,000 in taxpayer funding for repairs -- including nearly $50,000 for an "emergency" paint job -- a pair of top Democratic lawmakers said in a letter Friday demanding more details.



"We know that many service members and their families currently live in unacceptable housing conditions including houses with mold, lead paint, and other hazards," Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said in their letter to Hegseth about his housing. "What commitment will you make to provide service members with a similarly high quality of housing for themselves and their families?"

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

EU to reduce tariffs against US automakers from 10% to 2.5%

Wild so EU had targeted tariffs during the Biden administration? Oh yes that doesn’t make news cycle as a Democrat was in the White House.

Another win for the Trump administration

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

JHC....................

Donald Trump Says He’s Fired Kennedy Center Board Members and Will Name Himself Chairman


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-says-firing-kennedy-232612293.html[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372819]EU to reduce tariffs against US automakers from 10% to 2.5%

Wild so EU had targeted tariffs during the Biden administration? Oh yes that doesn’t make news cycle as a Democrat was in the White House.

Another win for the Trump administration[/quote]

What were the Tariffs in trumps first 4 years? DA!

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372809]How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid

[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-boosted-false-usaid-conspiracy-theories-global-aid-rcna190646[/url][/quote]

And there is this..................

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/finance/news/exclusive-trump-air-force-nominee-215053425.htm[/url]

[B]Reuters
Exclusive-Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX, sources say[/B]

By Joey Roulette, Marisa Taylor and Aram Roston

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract.

Changes to the requirements for the classified contract led the inspector general of the agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, to investigate whether the official, Troy Meink, had improperly directed the transaction toward SpaceX, two of the people told Reuters. Musk's space venture ultimately won the contract in 2021. It isn't clear whether the inspector general concluded a report or if any investigation remains underway.

Neither the allegations related to the contract, nor the inspector general's probe, have previously been reported.


It must be noted trump has [B]fired all the "Inspector Generals"[/B]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjPrreIXcAA2lxa?format=jpg&name=medium[/IMG]

Liberals can’t square this fact.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

So much for protecting the Public...................

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/trumps-acting-cfpb-chief-halts-151814753.html[/url]

Reuters
[B]Trump's acting CFPB chief shutters headquarters, halts supervision[/B]


Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Washington headquarters will be closed for the coming week, according to a Sunday internal email seen by Reuters, the latest escalation in the Trump administration's efforts to neutralize the government watchdog created after the 2008 financial crash.

Lightning changes in agency policy also come as workers denounce what they say is a glaring conflict of interest because representatives of billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have gained access to computer systems at an agency that would likely regulate one of his pending business ventures as well as its competitors.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372824][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjPrreIXcAA2lxa?format=jpg&name=medium[/IMG]

Liberals can’t square this fact.[/quote]


Sure you can. You shrink it down till the only power remaining is the one at top.

Not even a liberal and I can tell you that.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=NC_Skins;1372898]Sure you can. You shrink it down till the only power remaining is the one at top.

Not even a liberal and I can tell you that.[/quote]

I get what you are saying, but traditionally a big government will insulate a dictator. If Washington DC federal worker collective give 75% to democrats, it seems like that was occurring based on the reactions of attempts to shrink workforce, seek out and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in federal programs.

Let’s be honest, what seems more radical

making the government more efficient with cuts, rooting out waste/abuse/fraud and ending some federal foreign aid

Or

Packing the Supreme court, ending the filibuster, pardons of family members and allowing an open border policy



Quite frankly it’s amazing

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Clown show

[url]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-edward-coristine-b2695812.html[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372906]I get what you are saying, but traditionally a big government will insulate a dictator. [B]If Washington DC federal worker collective give 75% to democrats, [/B]it seems like that was occurring based on the reactions of attempts to shrink workforce, seek out and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in federal programs.

Let’s be honest, what seems more radical

making the government more efficient with cuts, rooting out waste/abuse/fraud and ending some federal foreign aid

Or

[B]Packing the Supreme court, ending the filibuster, pardons of family members and allowing an open border policy [/B]



Quite frankly it’s amazing[/quote]

Quite frankly , you lie.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Everything said by anyone left of center: Absolutely true

Everything said by someone right of center: Absolutely false

That has summarized the political threads since my existence in them. And G1 is such a brown-nosing dick-weasel in the non-political threads and the left's little barking chihuahua in the political threads, he gets to control all of the political threads unchecked with non-stop spamming of the boards. He loves to give out the advice but never does it himself and STFU. He probably posts more than all other posters combined in these threads.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889437908094042277[/url]

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.


[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjihwzxW8AA2kY5?format=jpg&name=small[/IMG]


No no this is totally fine.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372917][url]https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889437908094042277[/url]

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.

No no this is totally fine.[/quote]

Until the average American fully grasps what $36.22 trillion of debt (as of 2/10/2025) really means, it's simply a lost cause. Our government has fucked us up the ass so hard that 90% of American's bury their heads in the sand and pretend like it doesn't matter.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1372918]Until the average American fully grasps what $36.22 trillion of debt (as of 2/10/2025) really means, it's simply a lost cause. Our government has fucked us up the ass so hard that 90% of American's bury their heads in the sand and pretend like it doesn't matter.[/quote]

Why didn't trump change /stop any of this in his first 4 years? The trump cult act like this was all done by the left in the last 4 years . Bush 1 or 2 or trump first 4 years ever did anything about this so now we are to believe his cult he has the Country at Heart . Fuck that!

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1372913]Everything said by anyone left of center: Absolutely true

Everything said by someone right of center: Absolutely false

That has summarized the political threads since my existence in them.[B] And G1 is such a brown-nosing dick-weasel in the non-political threads [/B]and the left's little barking chihuahua in the political threads, he gets to control all of the political threads unchecked with non-stop spamming of the boards. He loves to give out the advice but never does it himself and STFU. He probably posts more than all other posters combined in these threads.[/quote]


[B]Sonny, I've been called worse by better people.[/B]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Giantone;1372922][B]Why didn't trump change /stop any of this in his first 4 years?[/B] The trump cult act like this was all done by the left in the last 4 years . Bush 1 or 2 or trump first 4 years ever did anything about this so now we are to believe his cult he has the Country at Heart . Fuck that![/quote]

That's a fair question. And that's why I didn't vote for him in 2020. He never even talked about the debt (even before COVID). Also didn't vote for him in 2024.

Also, I don't blame all of our debt on just democrats. I've never said that. The Bush family was a huge part of the problem too. Hell, even Reagan contributed to it.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372917][url]https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889437908094042277[/url]

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.


[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjihwzxW8AA2kY5?format=jpg&name=small[/IMG]


No no this is totally fine.[/quote]

there is actually a iron MT, interesting they sherd papers at my office all the time

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=mredskins;1372932]there is actually a iron MT, interesting they sherd papers at my office all the time[/quote]

The company I worked for before my current job definitely used Iron Mountain. I didn't know it wasn't just a play on words. They actually had people working in mountains lol. I'm now interested in who my current job uses for paper shredding.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Now we need bribes to do business eh

[URL="https://apnews.com/article/fcpa-bribery-trump-antibribery-law-executive-order-b656ef40a0035591618d053aa0ac7458"]Trump’s halt of US law banning business bribes abroad raises specter of a ‘Wild West’ of dealmaking[/URL]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372917][url]https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889437908094042277[/url]

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.


[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjihwzxW8AA2kY5?format=jpg&name=small[/IMG]


No no this is totally fine.[/quote]

Maybe they can take some of those big savings Elmo is finding and have Congress invest in the technology needed to move everything digital, and also hire more employees to process the claims. But then again since when do we care about Federal workers, and whether they get their retirement benefits on time or not.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/marc-fogel-released-russia-trump/[/url]

Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who had been held in Russia since 2021, arrived back on U.S. soil late Tuesday night after the White House announced earlier in the day it had negotiated his release.

Fogel was caught with weed in Russia 6 months before Brittney Grinier…but because he wasn’t a black lesbian then the Biden administration ignored him.

Welcome back.

Trump then got a journalist, activist and another American home today

[url]https://www.reuters.com/world/belarus-releases-three-detainees-including-one-american-us-envoy-says-2025-02-12/[/url]


This is a joyous day for Andrei, his wife, Alesya, and their two young children. After more than three years apart, this family is together again thanks to President (Donald) Trump," RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372979][url]https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/marc-fogel-released-russia-trump/[/url]

Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who had been held in Russia since 2021, arrived back on U.S. soil late Tuesday night after the White House announced earlier in the day it had negotiated his release.

Fogel was caught with weed in Russia 6 months before Brittney Grinier…but because he wasn’t a black lesbian then the Biden administration ignored him.

Welcome back.

Trump then got a journalist, activist and another American home today

[url]https://www.reuters.com/world/belarus-releases-three-detainees-including-one-american-us-envoy-says-2025-02-12/[/url]


This is a joyous day for Andrei, his wife, Alesya, and their two young children. After more than three years apart, this family is together again thanks to President (Donald) Trump," RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus[/quote]
Maybe putin knew he could get his demands met with a pushover like trump, just a thought.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372944]Now we need bribes to do business eh

[URL="https://apnews.com/article/fcpa-bribery-trump-antibribery-law-executive-order-b656ef40a0035591618d053aa0ac7458"]Trump’s halt of US law banning business bribes abroad raises specter of a ‘Wild West’ of dealmaking[/URL][/quote]

Well it's well known that is how trump does business.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372824][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjPrreIXcAA2lxa?format=jpg&name=medium[/IMG]

Liberals can’t square this fact.[/quote]

The Right can't square this fact, they are being lied to again by rich men.

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/trump-musk-far-scant-evidence-212149158.html[/url]

[B][SIZE="5"]Trump, Musk so far provide scant evidence for their claims of government fraud[/SIZE][/B]

President Donald Trump said he would provide details Thursday of what he and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claim are billions of dollars of wasteful and fraudulent government spending.

"I'm going to read to you some of the names that hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars have been given to," the president said in a news conference Wednesday.

But the president had not produced his list as of Thursday evening.

In the weeks since Trump's inauguration, he and Musk have made claims from the Oval Office and on social media about specific programs such as disaster relief for states, lodging for migrants in cities and that 150-year-olds are receiving Social Security payments. However, what few details were provided were vague, unsupported and sometimes false.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[B][SIZE="5"]Republicans Get A Taste Of How Wrong They Were About Michelle Obama’s Plan[/SIZE][/B]

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/republicans-taste-wrong-were-michelle-095922274.html[/url]


While the call for healthier school meals has been largely welcomed across the aisle, critics have pointed out the double standard of when Michelle Obama led a similar initiative during her husband Barack Obama’s presidency, but faced conservative anger and accusations of pushing a “nanny state.” Many questioned why the same goal is being backed by the right without the same indignation.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Didn't take long for this guy to phuck up!


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/hegseth-teams-reported-travel-invite-001332348.html[/url]

[B][SIZE="5"]Hegseth team's reported travel invite to extremist sends clear message to military[/SIZE][/B]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's team reportedly invited a prominent right-wing extremist and conspiracy theorist to travel with him and other Pentagon officials on their trip abroad this week.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec was invited to travel with Hegseth's team to Germany, Belgium and Poland. Hegseth's trip has been marred by backlash he's received from military families — and even students at a military school in Germany — protesting his assault on military diversity.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

The Rest of the World think the US is a shit show and they're right!



[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/not-well-received-hegseth-vance-062507922.html[/url]


[B][SIZE="6"]'Not well received': Hegseth, Vance embarrass themselves on international stage[/SIZE][/B]


Rachel Maddow reports on Trump defense secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President Vance making ill-considered remarks on the U.S. position on Ukraine and negotiations with Russia, and subsequently having to walk back those remarks. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia discusses with Rachel Maddow

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://www.reuters.com/world/us/personnel-elon-musks-doge-arrive-pentagon-2025-02-15/[/url]

Pentagon up next. Longtime coming…liberals can’t be mad about this one

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1373047][url]https://www.reuters.com/world/us/personnel-elon-musks-doge-arrive-pentagon-2025-02-15/[/url]

Pentagon up next. Longtime coming…liberals can’t be mad about this one[/quote]

What goes round.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[B][SIZE="5"] Pete Hegseth’s tenure at the Pentagon goes from bad to worse[/SIZE][/B]


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/maddow-blog-pete-hegseth-tenure-211824583.html[/url]

As last week got underway, it was clear that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s tenure at the Pentagon was off to an unfortunate start. When the former Fox News host arrived at U.S. European Command headquarters in Germany, for example, he faced heckling and protests from military families.

“Protests by military families against a defense secretary are extremely rare,” NBC News reported.

As it turns out, this was among the best moments for Hegseth during his trip abroad.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

trump has to own this!!!!!!!


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-inflation-back-had-125754154.html[/url]


The Hill
[B]Trump says ‘inflation is back’[/B]: ‘[B[SIZE="5"]]I had nothing to do with it’[/[/SIZE]B]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

The IRS collects Money, is this a good idea at Tax time?


Reuters
[B]IRS to lay off 6,700 employees on Thursday, source says[/B]

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/us-irs-start-laying-off-220620161.html[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1892756126170587308[/url]

Unlawful crossings at the U.S. southern border are down 94% from the same period last year, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks told CBS News in his first sit-down interview, crediting the Trump administration's government-wide crackdown on illegal immigration.


No new legislation was ever needed. That was always a lie

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Seems President musk is pissed off! They say President musk lies!

[[B]B]Astronauts vs. Musk: Public spat ensues over claims that politics delayed a flight to Earth[/B][/B]

[url]https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/astronauts-musk-spat-over-politics-delayed-flight-to-earth/3849416/[/url]