Roundybout Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago I wish I knew why MAGAs hated the weather service so much. I always wanted to be a meteorologist as a kid. I once wrote my local weather office and they sent me a huge folder full of posters and stuff. I still do COCORAHS as a volunteer rain gauge reader.
Joe Ferguson forever Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago Liar, liar, pants on fire https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/here-s-doge-s-plan-for-social-security/ss-AA1zNvWW?cvid=eaf1107d3df44350a6330d1a4f9a11a8&ei=37#image=7
Joe Ferguson forever Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago (edited) 13 minutes ago, SCBills said: ahem... https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-deletes-five-biggest-cuts-055036667.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall In another mistake, DOGE counted one USAID contract three times, CBS News reported. In another finding, DOGE claimed it had saved $232 million by canceling an IT contract for the Social Security Administration, The Intercept reported. In reality, the cost-cutting agency only cut a fraction of it: $560,000. The Wall Street Journal found that over one-quarter of the contracts mentioned by DOGE as being cut had already been paid. The largest point of savings allegedly stemmed from cutting an $8 billion contract at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The contract in question in fact was $8 million, the Times reported. Edited 6 hours ago by Joe Ferguson forever
Joe Ferguson forever Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago (edited) 5 minutes ago, B-Man said: WSJ isn't really known for being a parasite or for thrashing. Edited 6 hours ago by Joe Ferguson forever
B-Man Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago 6 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: WSJ isn't really known for being a parasite or for thrashing. Hey look, Joe misinterpreted a clear tweet again.
Joe Ferguson forever Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago (edited) 5 minutes ago, B-Man said: Hey look, Joe misinterpreted a clear tweet again. no, WSJ, NYT, CBS news and the intercept all reported serious errors on the DOGE site, greatly overestimating savings. Is that not pushback? Edited 6 hours ago by Joe Ferguson forever
Joe Ferguson forever Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago 2 minutes ago, B-Man said: I spoke this morning with a person who provided care at our regional VA before retiring last year. She said they fired 100 employees including clinicians recently. She also said they were greatly understaffed before the cuts, a fact I can attest to from "sharing" patients with them over the years. Maybe your cartoon characters should be pouring beers for the veterans who will be seeing longer waits and diminished care.
B-Man Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service. The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too. Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller. Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured. No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control. This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue. All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all. The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing. MUCH, Much more at the link: 2
stevestojan Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGecJ9kvIY4/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
B-Man Posted 57 minutes ago Posted 57 minutes ago They NEVER learn. Left Flips Out Over Elon Attending Cabinet Meeting -- the Internet Has Perfect Response By Nick Arama Elon Musk was at the White House to attend a Cabinet meeting and talk about the progress of the Department of Government Efficiency. President Donald Trump outlined some of what had been done with DOGE. He spoke about the purpose of the "List what you did last week" email. Trump pointed out how it was a check to see if some of the folks were even working for the government at all. It's a common practice in Cabinet meetings to have speakers come to inform the Cabinet on important topics. In this case, Musk was speaking about DOGE. He was not "presiding" over the meeting. Trump was. He introduced Elon and discussed that subject, then moved on to other topics. But the left doesn't care about reality. This stupid tactic also got eviscerated by many who pointed out how Jill Biden also spoke at the first Cabinet meeting that Biden had in months after not having any https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/26/elon-speaks-at-cabinet-meeting-left-has-a-meltdown-n2186040
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