Yes. Go watch clips of the "protest" today in DC. I think I prefer Musk making government decisions over these bureaucrats. |
They decided a long time ago to ignore the courts. The only solution is we need people to wake up and protest. And take to the streets. But we need a massive quantity of people like in South Korea but we have more space so the effect of a street protest is diluted. The problem is that in the sound clips, he will come across as intelligent and charismatic even if he’s high as a kite. He’s lying, but he lies well. There’s a nugget of truth about the mines, but he expands it to paint a picture of a very slow bureaucrat carting down boxes of paperwork into the mine rather than retirement by computer. Americans are also primed to hear English accents as being smart and make assumptions about intelligence based on accent. South African has the same effect as English. |
What a bizarre take. |
The mine is indeed real. You can google it. |
How so? |
+1 And who actually think they're entitled to conceal their wasteful expenditures from the American people. |
Your last paragraph about English accents was so odd. And what he said about the mine was absolutely true: Fahrenthold’s article describes in painstaking detail the multi-step procedures for intake, processing, and approval of retirement paperwork, which repeatedly uses real paper that has to be internally moved by the employees taking long walks through mostly empty caverns hundreds of feet below ground, then typing data into computers and printing out documents again. This leaves the federal retirement system only able to “run at the speed of human fingers and feet,” making federal retirees wait months before they can receive their full benefits. https://www.mediaite.com/trump/the-limestone-mine-that-elon-musk-said-manually-processes-federal-retirement-paperwork-is-actually-real/ |
How long until trump realizes he looked like a weak fool and starts rage tweeting? |
I’m a fed. This means I can bring my kids to work too, right? |
It was a SNL skit come to life! |
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SNL and the late night hosts are going to have a field day. Even the meek NYT has the headline “Musk Holds Court on Trump’s Stage” |
Elon fires the IG who called out his lies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general/ So much for transparency and accountability. |
DH was watching and said it was unclear, but our guess is yes because he’s a kid and it’s what any kid would do. |
This EO functionally makes Elon the president.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/ Every agency will have a DOGE commissar reporting to Elon. The DOGE commissar will have veto power over every decision of the nominal agency head. |