B-Man Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago Trump is good at explaining the "5 bullet points" email. I've been critical of what looked too harsh and unnecessarily scary, but Trump made it sound better to me in that clip (which is part of a press conference yesterday with Macron). As Trump put it: "A lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist." The email is at test that at least separates everyone into 2 groups, those who answered and those who did not answer. Among those who did not answer is some number of employees who are simply not there at all. "That's how badly" the government is run, Trump asserts. Some who don't answer could still exist, but at least the nonexistent workers would be concentrated among the nonanswerers. (An answer could come "from" a nonexistent worker could answer by fraud.) Posted by Ann Althouse
Roundybout Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 4 minutes ago, B-Man said: Trump is good at explaining the "5 bullet points" email. I've been critical of what looked too harsh and unnecessarily scary, but Trump made it sound better to me in that clip (which is part of a press conference yesterday with Macron). As Trump put it: "A lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist." The email is at test that at least separates everyone into 2 groups, those who answered and those who did not answer. Among those who did not answer is some number of employees who are simply not there at all. "That's how badly" the government is run, Trump asserts. Some who don't answer could still exist, but at least the nonexistent workers would be concentrated among the nonanswerers. (An answer could come "from" a nonexistent worker could answer by fraud.) Posted by Ann Althouse No one even knows who is running DOGE. What a joke.
B-Man Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 32 minutes ago, Roundybout said: 3 in 4 college-age voters support Trump’s DOGE cuts: poll. https://www.thecollegefix.com/3-in-4-college-age-voters-support-trumps-doge-cuts-poll/ .
Roundybout Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 9 minutes ago, B-Man said: 3 in 4 college-age voters support Trump’s DOGE cuts: poll. https://www.thecollegefix.com/3-in-4-college-age-voters-support-trumps-doge-cuts-poll/ . What a horrible way to spin a survey. The question, “should there be a U.S. government agency to cut waste” and “is doge helping make major cuts” are terrible instruments! Like sure, DOGE is making cuts. This has absolutely no bearing on if people approve or not. It asks simply if people think DOGE is doing its job. The question should be “Do you approve of DOGE.” That same poll even shows a majority of people think DOGE shouldn’t have access to sensitive information.
AlBUNDY4TDS Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 2 minutes ago, Roundybout said: What a horrible way to spin a survey. The question, “should there be a U.S. government agency to cut waste” and “is doge helping make major cuts” are terrible instruments! Like sure, DOGE is making cuts. This has absolutely no bearing on if people approve or not. It asks simply if people think DOGE is doing its job. The question should be “Do you approve of DOGE.” That same poll even shows a majority of people think DOGE shouldn’t have access to sensitive information. The government already has all our sensitive information. 1
JDHillFan Posted 18 hours ago Author Posted 18 hours ago 4 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said: The government already has all our sensitive information. Yeah, but those people can be trusted. Something like that. 2
Roundybout Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 1 hour ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said: The government already has all our sensitive information. DOGE doesn’t have a great track record of handling sensitive data. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112/amp
Doc Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 1 hour ago, JDHillFan said: Yeah, but those people can be trusted. Something like that. Because they were elected...
AlBUNDY4TDS Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago 25 minutes ago, Roundybout said: DOGE doesn’t have a great track record of handling sensitive data. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112/amp But the government, who had it forever, does?
4th&long Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week https://flip.it/m11BYb You've been lied to but you knew that. 1
4th&long Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago Trying to rehire more people they fired. Chaos. Trump administration scrambles to rehire key fired workers (again) https://flip.it/nTK7JC
reddogblitz Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago 9 hours ago, B-Man said: Trump is good at explaining the "5 bullet points" email. I've been critical of what looked too harsh and unnecessarily scary, but Trump made it sound better to me in that clip (which is part of a press conference yesterday with Macron). As Trump put it: "A lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist." The email is at test that at least separates everyone into 2 groups, those who answered and those who did not answer. Among those who did not answer is some number of employees who are simply not there at all. "That's how badly" the government is run, Trump asserts. Some who don't answer could still exist, but at least the nonexistent workers would be concentrated among the nonanswerers. (An answer could come "from" a nonexistent worker could answer by fraud.) Posted by Ann Althouse This is nonsense. Do you really think that the only way these tech savvy DOGE people can find out who's not checking their email is by sending everyone an email and see who responds? As someone who installed email archiving software for government and private industry and as a result had to know the ins and outs of email servers, I can tell you any email systems administrator worth his/her weight in doughnuts can produce a list of people not checking their email with a single query. We already know Big Balls don't do COBOL. Maybe he don't do email severs either.
reddogblitz Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago 29 minutes ago, Big Blitz said: I don't think either one should do it unless there's a really darn good reason and everyone with access passes background checks and has the proper security clearances.
SectionC3 Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago 12 hours ago, B-Man said: Trump is good at explaining the "5 bullet points" email. I've been critical of what looked too harsh and unnecessarily scary, but Trump made it sound better to me in that clip (which is part of a press conference yesterday with Macron). As Trump put it: "A lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist." The email is at test that at least separates everyone into 2 groups, those who answered and those who did not answer. Among those who did not answer is some number of employees who are simply not there at all. "That's how badly" the government is run, Trump asserts. Some who don't answer could still exist, but at least the nonexistent workers would be concentrated among the nonanswerers. (An answer could come "from" a nonexistent worker could answer by fraud.) Posted by Ann Althouse "Don't show up for work and don't even know if they work for the government." Great stuff from the guy who golfs instead of "saving" the country, and hobnobs with the Saudis in some undefined role (president, grifter, entrepreneur, loser). Also, where is this "hundreds of billions of dollars" of waste? Time to show the cards and tell the truth (for a change).
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