From my soul brother Elon:
“We find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who who have a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow manage to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth.” [beat] “We’re just curious as to where it came from…”
Yeah, me too. Investigate all of them — Democrats and Republicans.
Representative Val Hoyle (D-OR) said on Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that Democratic lawmakers will not vote to fund the government if Republicans are advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Wait, does that mean that the entire Feddle Gummint will shut down and won’t be paid? Including Congress?
Oh, please let it be so.
And by the way, you little pinko pustule: maybe the voters in your Commie district didn’t vote for Trump’s agenda, but the rest of us sure as hell did.
Now get out of the way so the adults can do what we sent them to D.C. to do.
I see that Tulsi Gabbard made it over the NO vote of soon-to-be-gone Mitch McConnell and was conformed as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Excellent.
Now I’m wondering: who, exactly, approved the action which placed her on a “security risk” (SSSS*) list last year after she switched parties and became a Trump supporter?
If it was her predecessor, then he’s gone, no big deal. Then we have to ask: who motivated the action, if it wasn’t him?
Either way, I hope that Gabbard goes after the asshole — because if a former member of Congress can get blacklisted that way by the government, who is safe?
(Oh, and one last thought: I just hope that in her new positions she leaves behind all her earlier anti-2A bullshit.)
*SSSS: the code letters printed on your boarding pass that cause an “enhanced security check” when you check in. (FYI: it once happened to me too, for reasons never specified.)
One might think at first that this was heartening news:
More than 65,000 federal workers have reportedly accepted the Trump administration’s buyout offer.
However:
“If you resign under this program, you will retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30, 2025 (or earlier if you choose to accelerate your resignation for any reason),” the memo sent in January to roughly 2 million federal employees reads.
So: 65,000 down, leaving 1,935,000 still to go. And:
A federal judge is expected to weigh in on the matter Monday.
A federal judge in Massachusetts. The People’s Soviet of Massachusetts. Any prizes for guessing how that will turn out?
Gah. Still, I guess we should take heart in the 65,000 number — it’s better than nothing.
As long as Trump and Musk keep applying the screws…
Something struck me when I was reading this fine report about the closure of the dreadful USAID department, and it relates to budget priorities. Consider this little litany of silliness:
Now just in cash terms, those items alone account for about $7.5million, being sent to furriners.
The question: Wouldn’t those dollars have been better spent by sending them to those folks in North Carolina blown out of their homes by tropical storm Helene?
And the corollary question: Wouldn’t those “hundreds of thousands of meals” been more appreciated by those same North Carolinians, many of whom, months after the storm, are still living in TENTS?
Let’s put all this into concrete terms that people can understand.
The problem with being such a wealthy country is that sometimes we’re blase about sums of money that seem trivial in the grand scheme of things; $7.5million doesn’t seem like a lot of money compared to other budgetary expenditures, and indeed it isn’t at a macro level.
But let’s convert that “macro” to “micro”. Giving $75,000 dollars each to a hundred families in desperate need of assistance — American families, let me remind you — has the potential to turn their lives around completely. And that’s worth a lot more than a ticket to an LGBTOSTFU opera in Colombia.
Stop pissing money away on foreigners and start looking after American taxpayers.
“USAID was established by an act of Congress, and it can only be disbanded by an act of Congress.” — some Socialist politician
Challenge accepted.