Ohs noes! I might have to figure out how to use 'Linked In' to find something I can slouch through for a living. I wonder what a venn diagram of these jokers and the people who were angry about being let go for not coming into the office would look like. Pretty concentric, methinks.
it pays to have a real hand skill. i used to always say that when things collapsed, i could make uniforms for the military. chris martenson says that in times of great change, things get simpler. if you were an "administrative assistant" before, now you'll make coffee. if your were a "landscape designer," you're now a farmer. jobs get basic and the multi syllabic, do nothing "positions" become just work. grab a broom and make yourself useful!
there's a town in NY called Newburgh. it's on the Hudson, has a stunning inventory of victorian houses, some nice restaurants right on the water and is a pretty easy commute to NYC. it's seemed poised for a renaissance for decades. it has everything going for it and yet, it's mired in poverty and drugs.
when we asked our pioneering friend who lives there why the town can't shake off the poverty and crime, he says "poverty is big business."
the other day, they were talking about this on the Duran podcast. those small european countries are so happy that the usa has turned off the money flow to the george soros groups bent on destabilizing them. they want to manage their own countries and not worry about CIA funded color revolutions and regime changes. not the bureaucrats in brussels, of course. they aren't happy. ursula von lederhosen is miserable but who cares about her?
Wheeeee!!! Greedy bastards pushed too hard and too long. They FAFO.
Many will have grifted enough to be set for life, some may have to get jobs, but we don't have to support the moochers, who don't produce a penny's worth of value, going forward.
I keep remembering the scene in the movie, "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1984) after the mutineers successfully take over the ship. They humiliate one of the officers by putting a stick in his mouth - like the officers made the sailors do for punishment - and making him dance a jig. The officers comeuppance has come at last.
WELL SAID! Or as Hunter said: "On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
And...drive like you are in Rome...all gas and no brakes. Not for the faint of heart...like watching this show. It is glorious. I never thought I would like a show where Las Cucarachas were disguised as moles. BRING IT.
Make sure you answer the question that will come up. My favourite is "USAID helps people and gives them food!" and I love to answer that COVID gain of function research was given $38 million dollars by Fauci and team for BEN HU to develop COVID on the word.
A bit nervous I would say: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine only received about $75 billion of the $177 billion in U.S. taxpayer money sent as aid.
The worst part is that while USAID is obviously a huge corruption machine, it's one of the smallest huge corruption machines in DC. Hopefully DOGE uses this momentum to go after the corruption in the DoE, or the other DoE, or the DoD!
This is just a tiny tiny tiny glimpse at the malfeasance of the swamp.
Yes, yes, and hell yes! BC and SC, y'all have hit the nail squarely on the head. We don't know, and can't yet fathom how many of these "Acacia Centers for Justice" there are out there. Still reading, but R. Starbuck makes this point too. Peel back a few layers and you'll be stunned to find that these NGOs/"non profits" are overrun with people connected to names like Warren, Biden, Clinton, etc. We've been robbed. And if we don't stop it, we'll continue to be.
This project has to be seen through to the end with the people responsible put in prison, or the hell Trump went through 2021-2024 will look like a picnic, and they will come for all of us.
Those shrilling the loudest give you a clue to where to look next. I don't think we've yet seen what the DJT team is going to unleash on the swamp. Wait until his Cabinet is in place, or as it comes into place. It will be a continual assault on the entrenched interests.
"the circle of malfunction is like a plasmid for anti-social outcomes. it takes taxpayer money and uses it to fund agencies that create outcomes (like homelessness or illegal immigration) which taxpayers hate. these agencies then donate some of that taxpayer money to politicians who then force taxpayers to pay more money to solve the now larger problem."
This sounds exactly like how public employee unions work. Take taxpayer money, use it to fund their preferred candidates, perform terribly at their jobs, then use that as an excuse to grant themselves even more funding. And in some states, they've even managed to embed protection for this model into state constitutions!
I would love to see what they do, if anything, to the National Labs, which are DOE, DOD, Darpa. LANL has not ever passed a financial audit as far as I can find out about. I can't imagine the powers that have taken over even wanting to expose the labs because military supremacy(?) over China and Russia.
The era of theater kid occupied government has ended. The era of autist anon occupied government has begun. All the right demoralization agents are melting down.
I am almost...(almost) embarrassed to say that the start of this administration has me more excited than I have ever been before....giddy in fact and hope they keep going....and going....and going. Though minor in the scheme of things, Somalia and that pitiful excuse of a government representative from Minnesota....well it just makes me smile....bring on the others of the "squad".....so much to do so little time. I am 70.....keep on getting on...
It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.
It's well past time we starved the beast! Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Speaking of disinfectants, LySol comes to mind. Sunlight (Sol) shall wash away all the 'Lyes'...
Well in terms of optimism, for me, not since JFK. But time has tempered my optimism. The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The most wonderful thing about having lived with and cared-for someone with autism is that I know that they are literal. No lying. wysiwyg. Their age is less-important than what they know and, of course "the content of their character," is ageless and extremely important. Part of that amazing character is that lying is too uncomfortable. I prefer that to the chaotic borderline personality disorder that I have seen of late, especially in the current hysterics during the hearings for Presidential appointments.
My family member with autism always makes me think of the line from *Jerry Maguire* when Tidwell's wife says she's pregnant and "incapable of bull****." That is this guy, to a T, and you're right that it can be a tremendous asset to his employer.
And I was a little blown away by Walter Curt's comfort at phrasing things the way he did. I mean, maybe "journalist" just means "blogger," but if he had said "Imagine being a bureaucrat losing your job because of a blind guy," I would expect the outrage squad to say something.
I don't know. There IS Bill Gates. Also another young autistic man I know does not fit the description. There may be differences among the larger group.
I'm sure you are right about the person you cared for.
I do - having worked with High Functioning Autistics quite a lot. And I agree, Bill Gates is not autistic. There's zero evidence in any of his mannerisms or behaviours for that idea.
There's a "sweet spot":
High IQ, no significant impairment to the cognitive functions barring social ones/skills, and a positive home/social environment during age 0-20. Also, most often, no medication for the often co-morbid ADHD.
This group makes up maybe at best ca 5% of all autistics, if that, and they generally don't like to be grouped in with the normal autistics, given that they cannot relate to them due to the vast difference in cognitive abilities.
It sure is something, to have students clinically proven to have IQs in the 150+ range, and being their teacher. I often feel it served as whetstone for my own intellectual faculties.
However, and this will come become obvious as DOGE moves on and the employment of HFAs become more common (typically, unemployment among autistics of all kinds is way above 50%, based on my nation of course) - as brilliant that they can be in some limited areas, they are equally stupid in others. Musk's recent spat with Youtuber 'Asmongold' f.e. over Musk's claimed status as a "Gamer" and one of the top three players in the world for a specific computer game. When Musk was called out on having paid people to play his games to get him the rating he had, he lashed out in a couple of very telling ways: he essentially threw an autistic tantrum online over being publicly challenged and denied credit for something he thought he controlled (the narrative about himself, in this case).
What is also obvious (to me, could be wrong) is that the cult of personality around him isn't good for his mental health - he is becoming more erratic and more prone to lash out and retaliate without being strategic or smart about it (his behaviour during the initial H1B-debacle f.e.) because he has been weened on the "tech-bros" egging him on whatever he does.
And being autistic, it is much more difficult for him to realise that for all the professed admiration for him online (just scroll through this thread for some good examples of near-sycophantic adulation) the support and admiration is conditional on Musk's own behaviour, not his person as such.
Certain people, you give them a hard problem and they just buckle down and solve it. Steve Jobs was like that. It’s fascinating to see Elon being turned loose on our deficit spending
I manage a team of engineers responsible for maintaining a test and development facility occupied by over a thousand techies running dozens and dozens of programs and projects. If you let things go, a lab like that will become so heavy with new equipment and cables it will sink to the center of the earth, which would then become a growing black hole that would suck in the entire solar system. I very frequently need to implement the “unplug it and see who screeches” strategy when deciding what labs are still working and which aren’t. They hate it so much they even named the practice after me, and not in a nice way. But it works. Every time. Without fail. DOGE is a bunch of engineers run amok in the DC Swamp Laboratory of Horrors…. unplugging the whole thing to see who comes out of the woodwork. I heartily approve.
Too true... One does not have to work to identify the abusers of the system. When the life blood stops flowing, they will self-identify. So very much of *anything* that is touched by entrenched Washington will be corrupted. The allure of so much easy money is impossible for a denizen of the State to resist. Programs, ah programs, USAID, NIH, agencys, FBI, DARPA, IRS and so on. the Dept of Ed has over 1000 bodies making at least $100,000/anum. Being wise, 95+ percent of those donate to the Democrats and complain mightily when forced to appear at their workplace. Moving on...
Every IT engineer alive with more than 5 yrs experience knows a data center more than a few years old needs an unplanned full power outage every decade where you only turn back on upon request and with an explanation of purpose and benefit.
...there was a SciFi type story that sorta touched on this, by Heinlein I believe. Coventry? Round up criminals and just dump them in a cordoned area and let them fend for themselves. I could wish this on at least 75% of congress critters, along with their NGO's, deep state contacts etc.
And I've been informed that all government employees are tireless and dedicated to the Public Good. I'm sure they'll have no problem finding other jobs. No, really. Heh heh.
I’m gonna start a trade school for them, teaching the newly in-demand skills in areas of farm labor, lawn mowing, and toilet scrubbing. I’d apply for a government grant to do so, but apparently they’re going to have to pay out of pocket now.
I have to admit, I didn’t think this type of thing was possible. Rather, I was skeptical that Trump, who never before seemed to care much for shrinking government or spending, would make it a priority. I thought maybe he just wanted to appease Musk to get his support.
And I definitely didn’t bank on autistic teenagers finding and attacking the choke points.
They made it personal and went after him. He quickly realized that if you can take their money away, they have no power. That is why he is doing it. This will change the next elections as well. He is going after their power like his life depends on it, and it very well may.
You did warn them. I keep a hard copy of "dear Washington DC" on my coffee table and I have that warm, happy feeling every time I look at it. The left can't stand that brilliant, innovative problem-solvers are not only uncovering the millions spent on USAID and sushi and coffee K-cups, but they are telling us all about it.
I was a federal civil service employee of DoD from 1982 until 2003 and from there I was a "support contractor in DoD offices until 2019. From 1972 I was a USAF airman.
Reagan said the most frightening sentence for most Americans is "I am from the federal government and I am here to help you."
To most federal civil servants the most frightening sentence is "I am here to figure out what the hell you do".
The most common answers to that question, if made public, would cause rebellion in the streets of honest citizens carrying about the country.
Well, see what happens when I whore out my integrity for the sake of the nation? Never did my dainties sacrifice so well.
And funny thing. A couple of hours ago a FOX Money reporter who'd covered Latin America for like 40 years, many of them with the WSJ, was telling how bad USAID was even in the Reagan years, funding socialist projects to go toe-to-toe with the Soviet Union in the fight to woo hearts and minds etc. by handing out bigger goodies but in the same flavor family.
Anyway. It's just been day after day, since the Inauguration, of what Flounder said and I continue to feel all sparkly.
Beautiful post, El Gato! Explains what’s happening perfectly. Find the point of leverage and pry it open. To DOGE…Keep prying! Keep publicizing the black mold underneath the rocks turned over. Let’s Go!!!
It just couldn't be more beautiful. The amount of "WTF?" these young, brilliant minds must be encountering - giving them a big fat eyeful of the government they never spent a lot of time thinking about before.
ALL GAS, NO BRAKES, BABY!
They're just shaking the rug now...wait till they snap it.
Yee haw!
I used to think they weren't poisoning our food to make us sick..."𝐛𝐮𝐭" this changed everything.... https://t.co/ic4ncVIGJT
Yippee-kai-YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
Roll the windows down, turn up Freebird, and stick your head out the window with your tongue hanging out like a dog kind of yeeeehaaaaw
"Where do normal people find normal jobs?" Unbelievable. I'm picking my jaw up off the floor, for the fourteenth day in a row.
Lolol
Me too. I'm gonna need surgery on my face muscles from all the smiling and laughing.
Im not even sure I've done a single productive thing in the last two weeks!...;)
I’ll need a spa month from just the blue light in my face.
Hey. you've been spreading your good cheer here!! Now THAT'S a service I can embrace.
They meant "where do people who don't know a single useful skill and have no brain find jobs?"
Ohs noes! I might have to figure out how to use 'Linked In' to find something I can slouch through for a living. I wonder what a venn diagram of these jokers and the people who were angry about being let go for not coming into the office would look like. Pretty concentric, methinks.
McDonald's. Taco Bell. Burger King. Sonic.
A list of fine establishments Trump frequents.
I doubt they could handle the indignity of doing something so "honest."
They might be able to get a job by filling out government grant forms for money.
Poor babies!! I hear there's some jobs picking fruits & vegetables that have just come available.
😂🤣
His "whole 13-year career" of never having a real job 😂
Costco is now paying $32/hr. Sorry, but they'll need to move to Topeka or Amarillo. At they won't have to fight thatvDC traffic.
Except they'd have to go in to the job in person. And work.
Day-um! $32/hr?! If it wasn't a 60 mile drive to get to Costco I'd apply. The drive would eat up all my wages. 😢
it pays to have a real hand skill. i used to always say that when things collapsed, i could make uniforms for the military. chris martenson says that in times of great change, things get simpler. if you were an "administrative assistant" before, now you'll make coffee. if your were a "landscape designer," you're now a farmer. jobs get basic and the multi syllabic, do nothing "positions" become just work. grab a broom and make yourself useful!
there's a town in NY called Newburgh. it's on the Hudson, has a stunning inventory of victorian houses, some nice restaurants right on the water and is a pretty easy commute to NYC. it's seemed poised for a renaissance for decades. it has everything going for it and yet, it's mired in poverty and drugs.
when we asked our pioneering friend who lives there why the town can't shake off the poverty and crime, he says "poverty is big business."
the other day, they were talking about this on the Duran podcast. those small european countries are so happy that the usa has turned off the money flow to the george soros groups bent on destabilizing them. they want to manage their own countries and not worry about CIA funded color revolutions and regime changes. not the bureaucrats in brussels, of course. they aren't happy. ursula von lederhosen is miserable but who cares about her?
Wheeeee!!! Greedy bastards pushed too hard and too long. They FAFO.
Many will have grifted enough to be set for life, some may have to get jobs, but we don't have to support the moochers, who don't produce a penny's worth of value, going forward.
I keep remembering the scene in the movie, "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1984) after the mutineers successfully take over the ship. They humiliate one of the officers by putting a stick in his mouth - like the officers made the sailors do for punishment - and making him dance a jig. The officers comeuppance has come at last.
Start at the 3:30 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yum10wFfif0
I hope you are happy. You just cost me 2 hours (that I now have to spend watching the whole movie). ;>)
My deepest apologies. 😪
WELL SAID! Or as Hunter said: "On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
Hunter S. Thompson
😂🤣 I thought you were takling about the "other" Hunter!
In my world there is only ONE!
Dr. Thompson, I presume.
How ‘bout “Stairway to Hell” (my apologies to the greatest rock band ever!), where those Ba’al lickers should be kicked to.
Mike Foxtrots
And, while I'm a tasteful person, you forgot the tag line - 'motherf****er'!
Breaks...Brakes. :-)
Glad to see your glitch is fixed.
And...drive like you are in Rome...all gas and no brakes. Not for the faint of heart...like watching this show. It is glorious. I never thought I would like a show where Las Cucarachas were disguised as moles. BRING IT.
No breaks works too tho!...;)
It does. I like it.
That’s why the sofa beds.
Guy on X called them, “DOGE Team Six”😂
Yeah. I noticed it earlier
Make sure you answer the question that will come up. My favourite is "USAID helps people and gives them food!" and I love to answer that COVID gain of function research was given $38 million dollars by Fauci and team for BEN HU to develop COVID on the word.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886452197501640786
Snap it hard like my mama used to do.
They're just getting the surface critters at this point. Snap to!
A bit nervous I would say: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine only received about $75 billion of the $177 billion in U.S. taxpayer money sent as aid.
“I don’t know where all this money is.”
All gas and no brakes inevitably leads to fatal collisions and lives ruined.
For no reason. Without reason.
Love it!!
The worst part is that while USAID is obviously a huge corruption machine, it's one of the smallest huge corruption machines in DC. Hopefully DOGE uses this momentum to go after the corruption in the DoE, or the other DoE, or the DoD!
This is just a tiny tiny tiny glimpse at the malfeasance of the swamp.
Yes, yes, and hell yes! BC and SC, y'all have hit the nail squarely on the head. We don't know, and can't yet fathom how many of these "Acacia Centers for Justice" there are out there. Still reading, but R. Starbuck makes this point too. Peel back a few layers and you'll be stunned to find that these NGOs/"non profits" are overrun with people connected to names like Warren, Biden, Clinton, etc. We've been robbed. And if we don't stop it, we'll continue to be.
This project has to be seen through to the end with the people responsible put in prison, or the hell Trump went through 2021-2024 will look like a picnic, and they will come for all of us.
by the time they are done, quite a bit of the deficit will be gone.
do not settle for quite a bit, all it the goal. This is our $$$$.
🤞🙏
Those shrilling the loudest give you a clue to where to look next. I don't think we've yet seen what the DJT team is going to unleash on the swamp. Wait until his Cabinet is in place, or as it comes into place. It will be a continual assault on the entrenched interests.
"the circle of malfunction is like a plasmid for anti-social outcomes. it takes taxpayer money and uses it to fund agencies that create outcomes (like homelessness or illegal immigration) which taxpayers hate. these agencies then donate some of that taxpayer money to politicians who then force taxpayers to pay more money to solve the now larger problem."
This sounds exactly like how public employee unions work. Take taxpayer money, use it to fund their preferred candidates, perform terribly at their jobs, then use that as an excuse to grant themselves even more funding. And in some states, they've even managed to embed protection for this model into state constitutions!
Governments are the only entity on the planet that when they fail they get bigger. (I count unions as the governments’ front office)
I would love to see what they do, if anything, to the National Labs, which are DOE, DOD, Darpa. LANL has not ever passed a financial audit as far as I can find out about. I can't imagine the powers that have taken over even wanting to expose the labs because military supremacy(?) over China and Russia.
They are probably hard at work on a strongly-worded position paper right now.
New nightmare unlocked, thanks!
That would be on the Treasury systems. DOGE got that too.
Is this giving the others tome to zip up and purge? 😬
I don't even think that's possible, the grift is so extensive.
🎯🎯🎯
The era of theater kid occupied government has ended. The era of autist anon occupied government has begun. All the right demoralization agents are melting down.
I love it.
Use free speech against them. Keep shoving them into the spotlight and let them destroy themselves.
I am almost...(almost) embarrassed to say that the start of this administration has me more excited than I have ever been before....giddy in fact and hope they keep going....and going....and going. Though minor in the scheme of things, Somalia and that pitiful excuse of a government representative from Minnesota....well it just makes me smile....bring on the others of the "squad".....so much to do so little time. I am 70.....keep on getting on...
It's SO MUCH FUN to watch. I'd about given up on turning it around. It may not get totally fixed but things will probably never be the same. ❤️
Yeah, when it all comes out some regular folks are going to be so unsettled they'll ignore it out of shock
It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.
Niccolo Machiavelli
like. Machiavelli knew what was afoot. Probably knew what a hand was too.
RG I think you're right about that, given my family and friends' reactions already.
"Some?" You mean ALL the dumbocraps?
Its the opposite of ED...
It’s been much more than 4 hours-and I’m not calling my doctor-I’m calling the neighbors!
"Drill, baby, drill...!"
It's well past time we starved the beast! Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Speaking of disinfectants, LySol comes to mind. Sunlight (Sol) shall wash away all the 'Lyes'...
... Hydrochloric acid also comes to mind....
I love HCl. But my favorite is, and had always been H2SO4.
We can get that from the sky sprays.
Well in terms of optimism, for me, not since JFK. But time has tempered my optimism. The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I love the drama! Schadenfreude is tasty. Although you have to wonder if this might train a new breed of grifter…
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886132832495378684?s=19
58% of all funds sent to Ukraine are unaccounted for while Zelensky is on a multi home buying spree!!
Dang! I hear a "certain party" here in the States is looking for some new blood........
Clowns. Look at this
https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1886209173743919468?s=19
Didn't he go to avacados after that? Ole! Where's the mariachi band?
Worthless POS is probably invested in/bribed by avocado farms and Corona brewing.
It never ceases to amaze me that there's a species of snakes that can walk on 2 legs....and he's one of them.
but look he's smiling. He's showing you the light hearted side of grifters.
@Jersey- it's Schadenfreudelicious
My new favorite word!
@Ketch- A Facebook friend used it and it very quickly became mine as well!!!
unintended consequences may abound
Bureaucrat Budget Blitzkrieg!
It's weaponized autism vs. the theater kids.
The most wonderful thing about having lived with and cared-for someone with autism is that I know that they are literal. No lying. wysiwyg. Their age is less-important than what they know and, of course "the content of their character," is ageless and extremely important. Part of that amazing character is that lying is too uncomfortable. I prefer that to the chaotic borderline personality disorder that I have seen of late, especially in the current hysterics during the hearings for Presidential appointments.
My family member with autism always makes me think of the line from *Jerry Maguire* when Tidwell's wife says she's pregnant and "incapable of bull****." That is this guy, to a T, and you're right that it can be a tremendous asset to his employer.
And I was a little blown away by Walter Curt's comfort at phrasing things the way he did. I mean, maybe "journalist" just means "blogger," but if he had said "Imagine being a bureaucrat losing your job because of a blind guy," I would expect the outrage squad to say something.
You are right. Autism runs in my family, and those who have it don’t understand lying.
Glad you said that... I believe that it is genetic as well.
I don't know. There IS Bill Gates. Also another young autistic man I know does not fit the description. There may be differences among the larger group.
I'm sure you are right about the person you cared for.
Bill Gates is in no way autistic.
People talk about the "spectrum". I admit I don't know much about it. So you may be right.
I do - having worked with High Functioning Autistics quite a lot. And I agree, Bill Gates is not autistic. There's zero evidence in any of his mannerisms or behaviours for that idea.
There's a "sweet spot":
High IQ, no significant impairment to the cognitive functions barring social ones/skills, and a positive home/social environment during age 0-20. Also, most often, no medication for the often co-morbid ADHD.
This group makes up maybe at best ca 5% of all autistics, if that, and they generally don't like to be grouped in with the normal autistics, given that they cannot relate to them due to the vast difference in cognitive abilities.
It sure is something, to have students clinically proven to have IQs in the 150+ range, and being their teacher. I often feel it served as whetstone for my own intellectual faculties.
However, and this will come become obvious as DOGE moves on and the employment of HFAs become more common (typically, unemployment among autistics of all kinds is way above 50%, based on my nation of course) - as brilliant that they can be in some limited areas, they are equally stupid in others. Musk's recent spat with Youtuber 'Asmongold' f.e. over Musk's claimed status as a "Gamer" and one of the top three players in the world for a specific computer game. When Musk was called out on having paid people to play his games to get him the rating he had, he lashed out in a couple of very telling ways: he essentially threw an autistic tantrum online over being publicly challenged and denied credit for something he thought he controlled (the narrative about himself, in this case).
What is also obvious (to me, could be wrong) is that the cult of personality around him isn't good for his mental health - he is becoming more erratic and more prone to lash out and retaliate without being strategic or smart about it (his behaviour during the initial H1B-debacle f.e.) because he has been weened on the "tech-bros" egging him on whatever he does.
And being autistic, it is much more difficult for him to realise that for all the professed admiration for him online (just scroll through this thread for some good examples of near-sycophantic adulation) the support and admiration is conditional on Musk's own behaviour, not his person as such.
YES!
Is it possible that we're REALLY seeing the beginning of actual change?
Is it possible they're going to shrink leviathan - the biggest organized theft in human history?
A week in, and its lookin' good!
God willing!
Uniparty delenda est!
Certain people, you give them a hard problem and they just buckle down and solve it. Steve Jobs was like that. It’s fascinating to see Elon being turned loose on our deficit spending
I manage a team of engineers responsible for maintaining a test and development facility occupied by over a thousand techies running dozens and dozens of programs and projects. If you let things go, a lab like that will become so heavy with new equipment and cables it will sink to the center of the earth, which would then become a growing black hole that would suck in the entire solar system. I very frequently need to implement the “unplug it and see who screeches” strategy when deciding what labs are still working and which aren’t. They hate it so much they even named the practice after me, and not in a nice way. But it works. Every time. Without fail. DOGE is a bunch of engineers run amok in the DC Swamp Laboratory of Horrors…. unplugging the whole thing to see who comes out of the woodwork. I heartily approve.
Too true... One does not have to work to identify the abusers of the system. When the life blood stops flowing, they will self-identify. So very much of *anything* that is touched by entrenched Washington will be corrupted. The allure of so much easy money is impossible for a denizen of the State to resist. Programs, ah programs, USAID, NIH, agencys, FBI, DARPA, IRS and so on. the Dept of Ed has over 1000 bodies making at least $100,000/anum. Being wise, 95+ percent of those donate to the Democrats and complain mightily when forced to appear at their workplace. Moving on...
Those that scream the loudest have the most to lose.
Every IT engineer alive with more than 5 yrs experience knows a data center more than a few years old needs an unplanned full power outage every decade where you only turn back on upon request and with an explanation of purpose and benefit.
You are so right that this is that!!
Maybe they should build a wall around DC and make it useful… something like a prison.
...there was a SciFi type story that sorta touched on this, by Heinlein I believe. Coventry? Round up criminals and just dump them in a cordoned area and let them fend for themselves. I could wish this on at least 75% of congress critters, along with their NGO's, deep state contacts etc.
I believe that was the story theme for Escape From New York with Kurt Russell way back when.
And it's sequel, Escape from L.A.
Maybe time for a threequel, Escape from D.C.? I wonder what ol' Snake Pliskin is up to these days...
I heard he was dead.
So, instead of "Escape from New York City" it would be "Escape from. D.C.." 🤔 As long as they don't really escape. 🤨
What a great time to be alive and witness this.
And I've been informed that all government employees are tireless and dedicated to the Public Good. I'm sure they'll have no problem finding other jobs. No, really. Heh heh.
I’m gonna start a trade school for them, teaching the newly in-demand skills in areas of farm labor, lawn mowing, and toilet scrubbing. I’d apply for a government grant to do so, but apparently they’re going to have to pay out of pocket now.
I might invest in that venture.
Hey, teach them to code! :)
You’ve outdone yourself explaining this to the little kitties, Gato.
I have to admit, I didn’t think this type of thing was possible. Rather, I was skeptical that Trump, who never before seemed to care much for shrinking government or spending, would make it a priority. I thought maybe he just wanted to appease Musk to get his support.
And I definitely didn’t bank on autistic teenagers finding and attacking the choke points.
Now, I’m almost tired of winning. Almost.
They made it personal and went after him. He quickly realized that if you can take their money away, they have no power. That is why he is doing it. This will change the next elections as well. He is going after their power like his life depends on it, and it very well may.
You did warn them. I keep a hard copy of "dear Washington DC" on my coffee table and I have that warm, happy feeling every time I look at it. The left can't stand that brilliant, innovative problem-solvers are not only uncovering the millions spent on USAID and sushi and coffee K-cups, but they are telling us all about it.
I was a federal civil service employee of DoD from 1982 until 2003 and from there I was a "support contractor in DoD offices until 2019. From 1972 I was a USAF airman.
Reagan said the most frightening sentence for most Americans is "I am from the federal government and I am here to help you."
To most federal civil servants the most frightening sentence is "I am here to figure out what the hell you do".
The most common answers to that question, if made public, would cause rebellion in the streets of honest citizens carrying about the country.
Well, see what happens when I whore out my integrity for the sake of the nation? Never did my dainties sacrifice so well.
And funny thing. A couple of hours ago a FOX Money reporter who'd covered Latin America for like 40 years, many of them with the WSJ, was telling how bad USAID was even in the Reagan years, funding socialist projects to go toe-to-toe with the Soviet Union in the fight to woo hearts and minds etc. by handing out bigger goodies but in the same flavor family.
Anyway. It's just been day after day, since the Inauguration, of what Flounder said and I continue to feel all sparkly.
I am reliably informed that "learning to code" fixes this."
Hahahahahahahaha hahahhahaha hahahhahaha Hahahahahahahaha hahahhahaha Hahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahaha hahahahaha!!!!
Beautiful post, El Gato! Explains what’s happening perfectly. Find the point of leverage and pry it open. To DOGE…Keep prying! Keep publicizing the black mold underneath the rocks turned over. Let’s Go!!!
This has been the single most enjoyable bad cat to read ever. Good times!
It just couldn't be more beautiful. The amount of "WTF?" these young, brilliant minds must be encountering - giving them a big fat eyeful of the government they never spent a lot of time thinking about before.