Do you have any understanding of the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face"? |
Yes. I wish he'd try something on Capitol grounds. That police chief has ethics and will destroy him |
Musk and Trump have done nothing in terms of transparency. Them just keep using the word and you keep believing them. If Musk wanted transparency he would have invited in the Congresspersons. If Musk wanted transparency he wouldn’t be seeking to alienate Civil Service Workers. If Trump wanted transparency he and his team wouldn’t be fire folks at the DON and FBI and instead asking that everything they found be released. If Trump wanted transparency he wouldn’t be trying to tie up everything with every company in lawsuits. If he wanted Transparency then Musk would be a government employee subject to the same laws, audits, and acts as public employees. They don’t want transparency. They are aiming for distraction. And plenty of things have been improved by the federal government. Plenty. The reason they don’t move quick and break things is because their things impact a whole lot of people. When you break them chaos ensures. As was apparent last week when Trump and Co tried to freeze grants and spending with no idea how much that touched. |
Sorry excuse. Clean up app you want. You have all three branches of government. You can do it legally. Easily. You don't have to break the law. |
USAID cannot be shut down by Trump and Elon. Only Congress can do that: "This is an entity that was created through federal statute, codified through federal statute, and something that cannot be changed, cannot be removed except through actions of Congress," Democratic Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey said, as demonstrators gathered outside USAID headquarters Monday. |
Musk has no clue how anything in government works. Everything he is saying is basic right-wing doofus troll nonsense with no attachment to reality.
Tech bros seem very prone to become destructive sociopaths or maybe destructive sociopaths are prone to become tech bros. Either way, they have no aptitude for government or any other institution with complex social, cultural, and intellectual dynamics. They don't understand the concept of compromise. They are blindly us/them, black/white simple-minded narcissists. |
That is not their track record. Why do you believe them all of a sudden? |
How much money is Elon making off his government contracts? |
Samantha was still at USAID? |
We can hope |
I want to understand where each side is exaggerating the issue. There was an EO from President Kennedy for USAID. There was also a Foreign Aid Act. Can someone provide a non-partisan explanation of how USAID and Foreign Aid Act are related. Can other agencies handle functions related to the FAA or must USAID run it? |
I grew up in DC. Never, ever bet against the deep state. |
My cat has horrible diarrhea right now and she's spewing less sh!t than you are. I'm not on any moral high ground other than follow the law. It's a really, really low bar. As I said earlier, root out the bad actors. Anyone in power should do that, I don't think that's up for debate from anyone. But no, you don't take a wrecking ball as you said and destroy the entire house when you all need to do is clean the kitchen. And putting Trump and Musk and the word transparent in the same sentence is utterly laughable. I can't believe anyone is actually defending this crap show, so I guess I'll bow out of this lovely conversation and return to the regularly scheduled programming of listening to anti-DEI BS and border wars with Canada and snatching Greenland and Panama, and payment freezes, wait TRO, wait nope they're still frozen, wait another TRO, let's issue a statement, that'll clear things up, and isn't this fun. |
If Trump wants to shut USAID down—fine. Why not go through the proper process/channel. Same with IG firings. Giving the 30 day notice would have been easy. |
“If they really wanted what they claim to want they would do it my way” is not persuasive. People do sincerely believe in doing things differently (just like you do). Nobody cared about the rule of law when VP Biden was threatening to withhold $1 billion aid if that Ukrainian prosecutor wasn’t fired... I’m over it. |