And you’re a homophobe, a collaborator, and a coward.
Cite please . . . YOU FUCKING LIAR.
Take it outside guys.
Have you already forgotten literally four posts ago when you attempted to insult me by pejoratively calling me effeminate?
I’ll note that you DIDN’T deny being a collaborator or a coward, though.
It’s a fucking reference to a scene in Die Hard with a Vengeance where Simon pokes fun at an FBI agent for growing a mustache so he’ll look tough, just like you and your Antifa mask.
Right, and Musk’s salute was just a reference to Charlie Chaplin in The Dictator.
Thanks for confirming that you think not looking appropriately masculine is something to be ashamed of, though. You got any more problematic '90s zingers you wanna toss at me while you’re at it? I’m sure the first couple seasons of South Park had a TON of gay jokes nobody has felt comfortable repeating in public for 20 years now!
And I’ll note that insead of actually answering my fucking question,
Please, tell me what I’m supposed to do about this if the folks that actually have the power to stop Trump aren’t even staying in town to do anything?
you went for libel.
Sue me, then.
Make them do something. Call out their inaction. Shame them. Shine light on the consequences of their behavior. Spread the word. Find someone who’ll primary them and do what you can to support them. Fucking run for Congress yourself. Anything besides sticking your thumb up your butt and waiting for the death squad to show up at your door.
So much for all that lecturing about “Don’t worry, the Constitution will stop Trump”.
You know what’s really gonna stop Trump? Gloating about how our leaders aren’t doing enough to fight him using the tools at their disposal.
Shove your doomerism up your ass sideways if this is all you’ve got to offer.
And the AMA through HIPAA, don’t forget them!
Just for fun, can we get back to the topic of this thread, to wit the clusterfuck continuing in the US government?
I just want to share that I have never been in a plane. I know the statistics yadda yadda, but as my dad used to say: I dont like the idea of flying 'cause I can’t keep one foot on the ground.
I used to feel at least bad or slightly embarrassed by my hesitation. I’ve even mused that I would fly with the proper motivation. However, once elmo and his merry band of misogynist, racist little tech bros get their dirty hacking mits into the ATC systems, I’d be nuts to fly. Once they guys like, “big balls,” have access to the guts of air safety and FAA info, I foresee more catastrophic crashes in our future.
Alas, we probably won’t be lucky enough for Elon’s meddling to result in one of those crashes landing directly on his big fat head.
‘Muhahahahaha, foiled again!
My helmet protects me from falling airplanes and the woke mind virus!’
~ Elmo the First, President of Earth, King of Mars
Why does that have a NASA logo? (Or at least an AI’s attempt to approximate it.)
Shouldn’t it be this?
*My links below are all to articles on Yahoo.)
And in “birds of a feather flock together” news, we have one of Musk’s bright young things is (was?) an unrepentant racist.
A member of President Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about ties between the staffer and a deleted social media account that promoted racism and eugenics, the paper reported Thursday.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to the Journal that the staffer in question, 25-year-old Marko Elez, departed his role after the outlet inquired about an alarming X account possibly belonging to him. The account, which was deleted in December, once carried the handle @marko_elez and had posted multiple racist comments, including: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” and “Normalize Indian hate.”
And what exactly was the role he departed?
On Tuesday, Wired reported that through his work at DOGE, he was given direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the U.S. government. Talking Points Memo confirmed Wired’s reporting, adding that Elez had “already made extensive changes” to the code base for the payments systems.
Someone must have had this on their bingo card. Trump’s looking for a way to get out of an approved financing deal for clean energy. (The link goes to Yahoo.) Yeah, I know; as soon as you read “clean energy”, you knew exactly where this was heading.
The Trump administration is exploring legal options to cancel loans issued under a $400 billion program to finance clean-energy technology as it considers overhauling the initiative, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The newly installed director of the Energy Department’s loan program, John Sneed, told agency officials in a meeting last week the effort will be retooled to focus on technologies favored by the new administration such as nuclear power and liquefied natural gas, according to the person who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Sneed also has said he’s exploring canceling existing financing deals, although it remains to be seen if that would be legally viable and no decisions have been made, the person said.
I can’t keep up with the stupidity of this clusterfuck now. Has this been mentioned on this site yet?
The New York Times is reporting that the Central Intelligence Agency, complying with Trump’s attempts to purge the federal government, sent his administration an unclassified email containing a list of every single person the CIA had hired over the past two years. Security experts everywhere are alarmed at the news, as many of those named closely monitor U.S. adversaries like Russia and China—and could soon become targets because of it.
The list, which was sent to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, contained names of operatives whose identities are typically guarded. It’s not clear how many names were in the email.
WTF? Do they think this is a joke? We’re talking about people’s lives here. I think I just answered my own question.
How special of a government employee is Musk? He’s so special, he gets to decide all by his lonesome if his actions constitute a conflict of interest.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt raised eyebrows during a briefing Wednesday when she said Elon Musk is self-policing potential conflicts of interest that may arise between his business empire and his role in running the nonofficial Department of Government Efficiency, which is seeking to slash public spending.
And what’s the puppy killer up to? Nothing much. She’s just removing temporary protected status from refugees from Venezuela.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost asked the Trump administration to review protections for migrants from distressed countries. Now that the explicitly anti-immigrant administration has removed those protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, Yost’s office isn’t responding to questions.
Last week, Yost and 17 other Republican attorneys general asked incoming Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to review temporary protected status designations allowing some from 17 distressed countries to stay in the United States because of the danger of returning home.
That’s not a problem, right? Surely he has an example of at least one country to which it’s now safe for these refugees to return, right? Right?
However, Yost didn’t name a single such country to which he thought it was safe for migrants to return. When asked if he could, his spokeswoman said that wasn’t the Ohio attorney general’s job.
By the way, what does the State Department say about Venezuela’s safety?
It practices “unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by security forces; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest or detention by security forces; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; political prisoners or detainees; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; punishment of family members for alleged offenses by a relative; unlawful recruitment or use of children by illegal armed groups; serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including violence or threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists, censorship, and enforcement of or threat to enforce criminal libel laws to limit expression; serious restrictions on internet freedom; substantial interference with the freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association…”
I wanted to link to the actual State Department report, but got this:
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More from that article:
“Eliminating protections for Venezuelans who are already here means that our workforce will lose hundreds of thousands of people who are currently contributing and working legally,” Murray said in an email. “This not only will affect these individuals, but it will add uncertainty for American businesses that hired them.”
Do I have to mention this is punishing people who happen to be in the United States legally and are working legally?
Now there’s another air disaster, this time in Alaska. I put this here because of Trump’s commentary on the Potomac air collision.
A search is under way for a small passenger plane that disappeared mid-air during dangerous winter weather in rural Alaska on Thursday.
The Bering Air Caravan, carrying 10 people, was reported missing at about 4pm local time (1am GMT), while travelling from Unalakleet to Nome with nine passengers and a pilot, according to Alaska’s Department of Public Safety.
Authorities are working to determine its last known coordinates.
April 15 is just around the corner, so to speak. Don’t want to pay a couple of hundred dollars to someone to prepare your filing? I understand that. So, why not use the IRS’s nifty free filing service? Why not, indeed?
The most noteworthy new program for free tax-prep, IRS Direct File, came under fire this week from Elon Musk, who tweeted Monday that the service had been “deleted.”
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However, in a post Monday on X, Elon Musk suggested Direct File had been “deleted” as part of his campaign against government overspending.
The program’s website was still up Wednesday morning, although an X account for an associated IRS agency was down. The IRS offered no official comment.
What about court orders against this administration’s orders? Trump’s never been one to love a court order against him and he’s not changing.
A federal judge on Thursday said he stood ready to enforce an order he issued blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal grants, loans and other financial assistance after Democratic-led states said billions of dollars in funding was still being tied up.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, during a virtual court hearing, said state agencies had a “rightful concern” that they were still not able to fully access money nearly a week after he issued his temporary restraining order.
He issued that January 31 order at the behest of Democratic attorneys generals from 22 states and the District of Columbia, determining it was necessary even after the White House’s Office of Management and Budget rescinded its wide-ranging directive that had announced the funding freeze.
McConnell said the order was necessary because of evidence the policy had remained in effect despite OMB’s rescission, which he said was in “name-only” and possibly done to frustrate a legal challenge.
Basically, the modus operandi here is Let’s not and say we did.
And the clearly unconstitutional “birthright citizenship” executive order is on hold for the moment.
A federal judge issued a nationwide hold on Wednesday indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s order to restrict birthright citizenship as the case makes its way through the courts, saying that “U.S. citizenship is a right no less precious than life or liberty.”
“The executive order conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth,” U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman said during a hearing in Greenbelt. “No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation. This court will not be the first.”
By the way, the EO did not just apply to those whose parents are undocumented.
It states that those born to parents who are in the country legally, but temporarily, will no longer be automatically guaranteed citizenship, including high-skill work visas and student visas.
"Venerswela is doing better than America at being great again, sad.’ ~ DJT
Deliberately misspelling “Venezuela” is insufficient in signaling whether to apply Poe’s Law.
After thirty-some-odd posts of you two going back and forth. this caught my eye:
Call their offices. That’s what gets their attention. I’ve been calling about every other day - I don’t want their staffers to see my number and think, "Oh, him. Much to my lack of surprise, my Andy Ogles, my rep, neither has a local number nor a staffer at hand to answer calls. What a singular piece of shit.