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24 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Just blatant, unabashed corruption 

I’m starting to wonder how much the constant stream of stories they are feeding the media about firing people all over the government is intended to screen us, or at least distract us, from this kind of stuff. Because this is the core of what they are trying to accomplish. The rest of it seems intended only to keep us scared, confused, and/or fighting with one another.

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Posted
11 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Every single reversal should be treated as an admission of failure by DOGE. And the failures are piling up

Should be the required lead on all "State owned" news programs

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31 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I’m starting to wonder how much the constant stream of stories they are feeding the media about firing people all over the government is intended to screen us, or at least distract us, from this kind of stuff. Because this is the core of what they are trying to accomplish. The rest of it seems intended only to keep us scared, confused, and/or fighting with one another.

They are firing people all over government because they want to fire people all over government. 

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3 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

They are firing people all over government because they want to fire people all over government. 

It's not necessarily one or the other but not both.

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43 minutes ago, romad1 said:

 

1. Please send thousands of federal jobs to Detroit, in particular in the national security field.  2. what a dumb ****.

Send people who are going to resent this administration to swing states? I mean... it will take a few years for the payoff but...

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1 minute ago, Edman85 said:

Send people who are going to resent this administration to swing states? I mean... it will take a few years for the payoff but...

500-1500 or so FBI agents wouldn't move a needle too much but yes...

Also, Detroit does have a very legit national security nexus because of all the international trade and international corporations in SE Michigan.   I'm not against the general idea of shifting function there.   I'm sure Kash is all about smashing the "Dearborn Mooselambs" on behalf of Suzy Tradwife. 

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There's an FBI office a couple miles from my house. I've never really thought of it as anything more than pretty cool that I'm among FBI agents in the general public, tbh.

As an aside, Gaetz's old district has a loooooooot of federal workers, and trust me when I say DOD has not been shielded from this bs as people thought.

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49 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

There's an FBI office a couple miles from my house. I've never really thought of it as anything more than pretty cool that I'm among FBI agents in the general public, tbh.

As an aside, Gaetz's old district has a loooooooot of federal workers, and trust me when I say DOD has not been shielded from this bs as people thought.

Is his district the one with Eglin/Hurlburt Field?  

Edit:  Yep

I spent my share of time in the Redneck Rivera aka LA, aka Lower Alabama.   No shortage of special ops folks trained on the very large Eglin AFB range which is notable for having been denuded of anything you could eat by every other person going through survival training on that range. 

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2 hours ago, romad1 said:

 

1. Please send thousands of federal jobs to Detroit, in particular in the national security field.  2. what a dumb ****.

When it comes to in major cities, Minneapolis does not have an exceptionally high violent crime rate. But they did have the highly-visible George Floyd killing and subsequent protests there. And Chicago’s violent crime rate is lower than theirs.

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Just now, chasfh said:

When it comes to in major cities, Minneapolis does not have an exceptionally high violent crime rate. But they did have the highly-visible George Floyd killing and subsequent protests there. And Chicago’s violent crime rate is lower than theirs.

yeah the premise is right from the curvy couch of "Fox and Friends."  Also, we have seen Detroit make great strides.  

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Although...

Trump will try to **** them as well.

Better get cash up front.

Auto-pay on a monthly retainer that replenishes before the current retainer reaches max hours applied...

Posted
7 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

This has to be one of the dumbest arguments I've ever seen

agains, it betrays how little these guys actually know once outside their particular domain. If the government buys a truck, that's just as real a piece of production as if i bought it. And if the government pays a Post office employee, the service is just as real as if that service was provided by a UPS employee paid privately. IOW, Elon doesn't know jack about what he's talking about. But of course, we knew that.

I did have the advantage of having Elon's ignorance demonstrated to me a while ago as some of our kids got a hyperloop project proposal funded. Everyone at the Eng School laughed at the whole idea, but we took his money anyway. 😂

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56 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

agains, it betrays how little these guys actually know once outside their particular domain.

Or that they know enough more about it than we think so that all they have to do is craft a dumb argument that sounds smart enough to convince ignorant red hats. To do that right, you have to know at least something about the subject matter at hand.

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54 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

agains, it betrays how little these guys actually know once outside their particular domain. If the government buys a truck, that's just as real a piece of production as if i bought it. And if the government pays a Post office employee, the service is just as real as if that service was provided by a UPS employee paid privately. IOW, Elon doesn't know jack about what he's talking about. But of course, we knew that. 😂

Yup, and government workers, when they are off the job, use their salaries to eat at restaurants, drink at bars, go to the movies, buy cars, etc. All of which is economic activity that reflects in GDP.

Just monumentally stupid stuff from our Tech Overlord 

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