daz28
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Just now, Orlando Buffalo said:
I made an inaccurate assumptions when I saw your name and I got egg on my face 🥁
Stop wasting eggs!
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13 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
RoundyLogic - GAO is just saying 233-521B is lost to fraud because it’s spending on things they don’t like.
Fraud is criminal, so if he found all this fraud, where are the criminal cases? I hope he does find it, but claiming to have found it, without proof, is political theater. So far most of what I've seen has been spending on things the trump administration doesn't like, but were appropriated through budgets. Republican budgets mind you. I wish they'd save the fraud/corruption accusations for when they can present their case to the people.
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8 minutes ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
This is what Tibs, Homelander, and Daz have been reduced to complain about. That eggs are being limited at one store chain.
I called this thread idiocy. Nice try.
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32 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
Trump hasn't amended any budget. He isn't required to spend what was budgeted.
Much like Trump, President Richard Nixon didn’t want to spend money on certain social and environmental programs that Congress had approved, so he just refused to spend it.
“He was sued over that. He lost all the cases that were decided on the merits, including 9-0 in the Supreme Court,” Super said. “But Congress decided to pass a law giving him a legitimate path to propose impounding, or not spending, money.”
That law — the Impoundment Control Act — says that if the president doesn’t want to spend money on, say, food stamps, upgrading infrastructure or foreign aid for whatever reason, he must go back to Congress and ask them to reconsider.
So far, Trump hasn’t done that.
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1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:
What happened to option C : Don't send the check, and arrest the fraudster.
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41 minutes ago, Homelander said:
Who controlled the budget for the past two years?
Doh!
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1 minute ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said:
to each his own
You can't beat idiocy with more idiocy.
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There's no need to take the MAGA approach here. Eggs aren't his fault, and he's not rationing them.
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1 minute ago, Roundybout said:
Of course not. If Elon executed his plan as a systemic and careful review of spending, followed by a public report and recommendation to Congress, I’d really have no issue with it.His methods are unconstitutional, insipid nonsense designed to generate outrage. Why do you think Charlie Kirk and the like were foaming at the mouth watching the USAID signage come down?
It's almost comical how they paint anyone who wants a metered approach to be pro wasteful spending.
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10 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
So your position is, since USAID does some good, everything it does is good?
As usual the truth is somewhere between what both parties are selling you. The rotting crops, unpaid farmers, and starving people are empirical evidence that the gasoline and match approach wasn't wise.
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Just now, Chaos said:
The USAID scandal is the worst scandal in US political. People supporting the people who stole from the taxpayers simply reveal themselves as pure partisan political hacks.
LOL. Wait until you see what was going on with the REAL money. The corruption at the Pentagon and foreign aid makes that look like nothing. USAID's budget is $40B. Peanuts! The real question is, why do we keep funneling hundreds of billions more into this black hole:
The Pentagon, which houses the United States Department of Defense (DoD), failed its financial audit again, marking the seventh consecutive year of such failure. This latest audit revealed that the DoD could not account for 60% of its $4.1 trillion in assets. This amounts to a staggering $2.46 trillion that remains unaccounted for. The DoD’s inability to track such a vast sum of money underscores significant financial mismanagement within the department.
The failed audits themselves cost $175M. That's A LOT of drag shows.
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4 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
How does this play with the whole Musk is the real president story that liberals like to tell themselves? Seems a juxtaposition.
Musk is trumps play toy. I have no idea how anyone thinks Elon's above him. I think it ends badly for Musk.
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2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
I strongly believe they will have long term success. They innovate. Technologies change and mature. Musk owned companies will be at the forefront of it. That’s already been proven. Whether the planet cools, heats, or stays the same, they will have a market. It will never be the all EV world pipe dream the eco-warriors are interested in.
What’s the bottom line to your argument? You seem to be all over the place without actually saying a single thing.
Elon's green grift is over(hopefully). Just reminding his fans about what they had forgotten. When he saves us double what he took, then we can discuss forgiveness.
Officials are "immediately suspending" approval for all state plans funded by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, a $5 billion initiative to build a network of EV chargers across the US, according to a memo to state transport directors released on Thursday.
The memo said leaders at the Transportation Department had "decided to review the policies underlying" the implementation of the NEVI program, with updated draft guidance due to be published this spring.
Until then, "no new obligations may occur" under the NEVI program, a move which puts plans to build EV chargers across multiple states announced late last year into limbo.
With the scarcity of EV chargers still one of the main concerns putting people off buying electric vehicles, the dismantling of the program will likely be a major blow for EV adoption in the US — and for Tesla, which has been one of NEVI's biggest beneficiaries.
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This time trickle-down is going to work, I promise:
President Donald Trump’s tax cut wish list would cost would the federal government between $5 trillion and $11.2 trillion in lost revenue over the next decade, according to a new analysis from a budget watchdog group.
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Just now, JDHillFan said:
The government hands out absurd contracts to many, many entities. Are they all bad and robbing from the government? Maybe the problem lies with the absurd contracts. You are acting tonight as though the US government is a victim. That’s not an argument you hear often.
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Not at all. The argument that Elon should have grifted an incompetent govt, because he could, isn't one I'm willing to hear. Do you think Telsa is a company that will have long-term success? Success that the government should have invested in if global warming is a hoax, and that it should be building chargers on a grid, that can't handle it?
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5 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
Who do you blame for this?
Who do you blame? Only the people who granted it, or them AND the guy who profited from it?
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2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
Which of the defense contracts Musk has been involved with are built on lies? SURELY you have an example this time.
I didn't say any were, but most people agree that subsidizing electric cars for global warming, and chargers for a grid that can't handle it were. Only fanbois would disagree.
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Just now, Roundybout said:
Damn, even Elon can’t sell annihilating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Would any of the MAGAs here like to take a stab at it?
They'll twist some stupid little thing. Why use a knife for surgery, when you can just pour gasoline?
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6 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
So it was the journalists who destroyed him, not his own racist commentary. Gotcha.
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5 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
But MUSK has made money on defense contracts!!
Contracts are better than grants/subsidies, but are also bad when built on lies.
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2 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Just heard of USAID a few days ago and are reflexively defending it:
Roundy et al.
Has known specifics about USAID corruption for years via Mike Benz:
Yours truly.
When are we going to get to work on the Pentagon, where the REAL waste/corruption is. When I was a kid they had already uncovered that a $3 screwdriver costs $800. Has "Mike" been ranting about that??? What about $400 bandages at the ER?
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6 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
I quoted your post. Look up two posts from here. Here it is again. YOUR WORDS!
On 5/23/2024 at 1:13 PM, daz28 said:
Just pure dumbassery on your part that you delivered with an air of authority. Sad.
You may notice that your Wikipedia cut and paste says absolutely nothing about 1M American nazis. Just pathetic.
The subsidy for Tesla to building chargers was part of Biden’s infrastructure bill. Are you saying it’s ROBBERY?
Yes. Most of this "corruption" is going to be what was legally distributed funds. You think all $35 trillion was taken illegally? Almost all of it was grifted.
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On 2/2/2025 at 4:29 PM, Tommy Callahan said:
How many billions. Explains why the Dems and Republican establishment didn't want the money itemized .
THIS is where the real corruption is. MIC and Pentagon, but instead we're cutting $47k drag shows.
1 hour ago, Coffeesforclosers said:Daily Mail: President Trump's Peace Plan has leaked allegedly.
Highlights:
-Ukraine is barred from joining NATO.
-Ukraine must withdraw from Kursk.
-Ceasefire on April 20.
-May 9th, Ukraine and Russia make a joint declaration of agreed conditions, after which Ukraine is encouraged to stop mobilizing and end martial law.
-Ukraine must recognize all Oblasts annexed by Russia as lawful Russian territory. This would mean Russia would gain huge tracts of Ukrainian territory it hasn't actually conquered.
There are no Russian concessions other than Ukraine may get to join the EU in 2030, and a DMZ is established between Russia and Ukraine, policed by the EU.
I don't think this is real, because it's such a pathetic deal for Ukraine, they might decide to take their chances with just European support.
Absolute trash deal for Ukraine, who can de-mobilize just in time for Russia to take the rest easily. Art of the Deal.
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5 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
Literally reaching at paper straws.
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For me it's simple that Elon needs to just shut up, and do his thing LEGALLY, especially when it comes to talking about "cutting" anything. The guy acts like he's a branch of government, and holds power. He holds no power, except that as an ADVISER. Also, he's only legally allowed to work 130 days as a 'special government employee', which I'd bet anything they won't honor. I love what he's doing, but hate how he's doing it. Him and the prez have this 'it's all about me' thing, that's unbecoming of a public servant.