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I'm really surprised more people aren't all over this one. It's income! Lot's of servers make DAMN GOOD money for unskilled labor. Would it only be restaurants? I could see other industries converting how they do business if not. How about adding a 10% gratuity to your oil change after lowering the price 10%. Things that never crossed trump's tiny mind.

It wouldn't be very white, conservative male at all of us to admit we drive crazier than everyone, but we can 'handle it'. LOL Rolling coal to prove global warming is BS, because the smoke disappears eventually(and goes back to the emissions Gods).

The poor will have to hope they don't starve before those jobs come back from China. Seriously, when has he ever made sense in anything complicated, and when did his followers ever care. He could claim that he could jump the Snake River Canyon in a rocket, and they'd get all sentimental about Evil Knievel, and believe it. Then they'd say, well, maybe he couldn't, then a few minutes later, they would say well he might be able to.

If it doesn't make you laugh to offset the frustration, it ain't worth it. The rest of the world is laughing at our politics, and unfortunately, I laugh with them sometimes as a personal defense mechanism. End DEI driver's licenses! You finally got me on board! trump: How did they not see that carrier?

Let me make this clear to the confused. Did soft power money get out of hand. ABSOLUTELY. Is throwing gasoline and a match on it a bad idea. ABSOLUTELY. Maybe some don't understand this, but strife elsewhere around the globe WILL be identified and taken advantage of by our enemies if we don't. If we provide assistance to a country, with American-made goods(that help American businesses/workers), and it helps us globally, then that's WORTH EVERY PENNY. What's that you need X materials from Y country, but they only deal with China now?

Most people don't understand soft power, and there's no way to really objectify it, so that's why it's a good easy target to funnel money to the billionaires. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait for an administration that doesn't have billionaire's interest at heart, and hopefully nothing happens in the meanwhile. Hopefully, that new administration will be smarter than the ones in the past, who made it so awful, that it allowed for the dismantling. My point was a good chunk of that humanitarian aid helps US businesses as well. Those businesses are now left out, because they're earmarking that money for tax cuts to possibly create businesses. It doesn't even make an ounce of sense. The sooner you realize there's tons of politics and greed involved in these decisions the better.

That's fair enough, but illegal tampering with the Constitution is gonna make me maddest. That's the foundation, and w/o it, we have NOTHING.

Honestly, the media and political rhetoric HAS basically made this team red vs team blue, when we should be team people. If the Supreme Court becomes clearly and obviously partisan(in either direction), then stacking it to dilute the partisanship is probably the best idea out there. Who's going to tank the economy and SS. The Republicans aren't even talking to the Democrats about budget, or anything else. They may as well stay at home for all the participation they're going to be allowed to have. You mean AMERICAN food and medicine. Money that goes DIRECTLY back into the economy. Nah, let's give it to billionaires, and hope they create business, just like the one's they just took it away from. F'in clowns.

Can't I be outraged at both? Trust me, when illegal is used against you, you'll care then.

Ok, so you're good with the illegal part. Glad we cleared that up. All this "cleanup" is going to billionaires anyway.

By "focus" do you mean enjoy the culture based crap they've been tossing out at the public? Well, I'm focused on the cuts to programs that help Americans, while we give permanent tax cuts to billionaires. Let's face it, you're "focused" on EXACTLY what they want you focused on. Did the previous administration illegally dismantle the government, and if they did would you have wanted transparency? I rarely respond to the "what about Biden" crap, because me being/not being a hypocrite isn't on the docket right now, and I wanted to make that clear. How much better will the country be if I'm proven a hypocrite? How much better will the country be if we quit playing "what about", and ask questions, and look for answers? I'd like to add that "how this money was spent" IS transparent, and it's all in the budget that THE REPUBLICANS wrote, unless you mean USAID, which is less than 1%. They went after USAID first for two reasons. One, Elon was investigated by them. Two, they KNEW that would be red meat for the mouth foaming maggats.

Do you have a link for the "red phone" claim? How effective is diplomacy with someone you can't trust. What good is diplomacy with a nation, when your president's stance is, 'they fear me because I'm unpredictable'?? If Russia wants some diplomatic channels, how about stop invading countries, and get out of the one you're currently invading? Russia may be friends to the GQP, trump and Fox news, but they're the enemy of the world and USA. Go have a look see about what Europe(you know our ACTUAL ally) thinks about Russia. It's almost like they realize they could be invaded at any time, and they'd like to be secure. trump isn't even notfifying them of the "negotiations". They spent more on Ukraine aid recently than us, but no seat at the table? Psht!

Nope, it's an outright lie to think anyone is against waste and fraud, so now everyone is just jealous? That's the best you got? How about you jump on the ask questions train with us? Is there something wrong with transparency and knowing the facts? It's more than seems unnecessary, it seems SUSPICIOUS.

All you did was talk about tears. That's trolling. What hypocrisy was exposed? Not biting on the deflection, fisherman. Asking questions and posting facts=gnashing teeth? Uh no. So again, why might this super transparent DOGE, that isn't responding to Congress, who has an ACTUAL DOGE board, need their files sealed for years? Might it be because some people have already asked damning questions, and they are hiding the answers?

Bro, you trollin' like a fisherman. Nice use of the dodger, too. How about you. Any ideas why DOGE files need to be buried? Not asking for deep thought, just ideas. So hide what could be a conflict of interest in the name of "what could appear to be impropriety", because "ethics". Brilliant! I'll stick with Elon was behind it, thanks.

That's one reason. The Democrats are the other. The complete nonsense political infighting between the outlier groups has spilled over into the moderate, sane, thinking people to some degree. The real shame is some of sane people still can't identify that as the real problem. I'd guess most of the center wishes BOTH SIDES would shut the **** up about cultural issues, and focus on the dire issues, that aren't getting attention, because the partisan crap gets all the attention.

Let's be honest. You're happy with whatever they feed you, and really don't care if what they're doing is transparent or legal. The claim that anyone is crying over cutting waste/fraud might be the dumbest claim ever. This is about being fanboi's for Elon, trump and MAGA, and that's about it. Don Jr. should open a MAGA nursing home chain, where you feed them anything and they devour it, whether it was real food or tasted horrible. The red states are about to be hit hard(so billionaires can get more trillions), and they might wake up a little then. Might. I guess they may as well celebrate something for now. Can you give me one reason why DOGE files will be sealed for years? Even a reason why maybe they should be?

I can't think of a single reason some rando at the State Dept felt the need to go in and edit that document. I can see plenty of reasons Elon would. No, I'm not in the least ok with it. I can't think of many reasons the State Dept would need $400M of electric armored SUV's, except maybe to use domestically, but against who? Citizens? It's almost like there's a reason people want transparency, and no that doesn't mean posting that you found $83k earmarked for Columbian gene-splicing climate science trannies.

That's why I was digging so hard, because the not so fake right-wing media was calling them "charges". You'd think she'd have learned something from some of trumps more mediocre lawyers about how to slow roll things. The more people you name, the longer it takes.

I believe he said to notify him. Well, notified.

I wonder how you edit State Department documents with 'read-only' access: Billionaire Elon Musk — CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X.com and leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — is promising transparency and full disclosure with his DOGE efforts. But on Wednesday night, February 12, a U.S. State Department procurement document was edited to remove Tesla's name. This followed media reports of a $400 million contract for Tesla.

Donald trump, live on television, said he would be responsible for covid relief payment oversight. So he's responsible for the $1 trillion in fraud: Haywood Talcove, CEO of Lexis Nexis Risk Solution, described to lawmakers the different kinds of criminals exploiting U.S. government benefits systems, pointing out that Covid relief provided a windfall of over $1 trillion to those criminal elements. “Outdated government systems permit criminals to access unlimited sums of money. During the pandemic, they stole $1 trillion dollars, 70 percent of those dollars went overseas. Shockingly, it’s just not criminals exploiting the system, it’s the flawed system itself acting as the accomplice. If left unchecked, the U.S. government will continue to lead the world in funding cyber criminals,” Talcove said. How much is in that republican tax cut for billionaire's budget bill for updating the systems?

I'd rather not have to believe you. I have no idea why you'd "believe" Elon to be anything more or less than government scum. Let's just stick to verifiable transparency. Can you give me one legitimate reason for this: On Wednesday evening, DOGE advisor Katie Miller wrote on X that Musk's group is protected by the Presidential Records Act. Under that act, DOGE records would remain sealed until 2034, five years after Trump leaves office and eight years after DOGE is set to disband. Do you think Elon Musk should answer to Congress?? It would be near impossible trying to argue, that with like 5 executive orders under judicial review in a couple weeks, that there's not a legitimate legislative purpose for it.

On Wednesday evening, DOGE advisor Katie Miller wrote on X that Musk's group is protected by the Presidential Records Act. Under that act, DOGE records would remain sealed until 2034, five years after Trump leaves office and eight years after DOGE is set to disband. But why???

On Wednesday evening, DOGE advisor Katie Miller wrote on X that Musk's group is protected by the Presidential Records Act. Under that act, DOGE records would remain sealed until 2034, five years after Trump leaves office and eight years after DOGE is set to disband. Musk did not give a financial disclosure as protection to us from any potential conflicts of interests with the people. How very transparent of them. I mean when you're fighting corruption, and finding the bad guys, it's always a good idea to cover your tracks. A 25-year-old associate of Elon Musk and former Treasury Department employee was "mistakenly" given the ability to make changes to a sensitive federal payment system, officials with the Bureau of the Fiscal Service disclosed in a series of court filings late Tuesday. So yeah, they lied about the read only files access. Honest mistake though, right?? No worries, it's not like the hacker kid now has a backdoor or anything.