Living under Trump 2 aka Musk!!!

[Jumbo]

Ya gotta sign up and pay to read it all, but ny times has a piece on all the erroneous claims DOGE has made, and continues to make, on savings and cancelled contracts and how their website is full of errors and misinformation. Maybe Elon is Nazi-lite with a dash of rooskie flavoring.

One example was a list of dozens of government contracts in various fields of research, inc. military, medical, weather, agriculture etc., all based on relevance to national security and economic stability (and I believe it's necessary to always debate each case in real value for money spent).

But the vast majority of these examples given as DOGE cuts and savings were really just the programs expiring at their arranged dated. Every year that happens with dozens of programs. DOGE had nothing to do with it. They weren't cuts, not were they up for renewal that DOGE "rejected." They just expired at their predetermined time.

Another bunch were actually programs that had ended YEARS earlier.

The trump admin and cabinet: liars, crooks, traitors fascists, and sociopaths.

What's the link? Maybe can get past the paywall with webpage archive or something similar.

What is this dark magic you speak of?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/p ... rrors.html

I think there was another ny piece on this same topic too, but not seeing it in my history.


Oops, I just saw China already got it. I'll leave this post here so everyone has one more piece of evidence of what a numbnutz I can be.

[BraveLilToasterOven]

So this happened yesterday. Stop offensive cyberoperations on Russia. What could possibly go wrong there Hegseth?

Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia

I hate to be an alarmist, but we are so unbelievably cooked as a country and it has only been 6 weeks....the amount of bullshit they've been able to get people to agree to is maddening.

Imagine telling someone with a straightface that Russia isn't a threat to our critical infrastructure....and these dipshits do it and MAGAmorons eat it up and ask for more.

[The Evil Genius]

[China]

US judge says mass firings of some federal workers likely illegal

A California judge has said the mass firings of probationary employees by the Trump administration were likely unlawful.

The ruling said the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had told thousands of employees across a handful of federal agencies they were fired using authority the agency does not have, US District Judge William Alsup ruled.
"[OPM] does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees at another agency," he said. "They can hire and fire their own employees."

In court the government argued OPM asked, not ordered, the agencies to fire these employees.

They also argued that probationary employees are not guaranteed employment and that only the highest performing and mission-critical employees should be hired.

Government workers have been the target of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the federal workforce in the name of cutting costs.

Many employees affected by the firings are probationary employees - usually those in their first or second year in a job - though they can sometimes be long-time employees who were recently promoted.

There are some 200,000 probationary employees in the federal workforce.

Judge Alsup ordered OPM to revoke its directives to multiples agencies - including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Park Service, and the Defence Department - to terminate employees.

He issued a temporary restraining order which puts a momentary pause on the government's actions until a judge revisits the matter in the coming weeks.

The case began after a coalition of labour unions and non-profit organisations sued the government, arguing OPM unlawfully fired individuals by falsely claiming workers were performing poorly.

Everett Kelley, the National President of the American Federation of Government Employees, called the ruling a victory for Americans were were "illegally fired" from their jobs by an agency with "no authority to do so".

Click on the link for the full article

[Renegade7]

"...likely illegal..."

Can we please stop beating around the bush while the forest is on fire???

[Jumbo]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/black-w ... rt-7822595

[China]

Trump Announces ‘Crypto Strategic Reserve’—Here’s What To Know

President Donald Trump said Sunday the U.S. will create a “crypto strategic reserve” that includes major cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum—boosting crypto prices—the latest effort by Trump to court the cryptocurrency industry as he’s become a major crypto backer in recent months.

A national crypto reserve will “elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks” Trump said, adding he directed his administration to “move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve” that includes cryptocurrencies XRP, solana and ADA.

He then added a second post saying the reserve will “obviously” include bitcoin and ethereum as the “heart of the Reserve,” saying he “loves” the top two cryptocurrencies.

Trump’s announcement Sunday builds on an executive order Trump issued Jan. 23 directing his administration to create a “working group” to propose a regulatory framework on digital assets, which includes evaluating a “national digital asset stockpile.”

Bitcoin prices shot up more than 10% from around the time of Trump’s announcement to more than $94,000 early Sunday afternoon, while ethereum prices soared more than 13% from before the announcement to briefly top $2,500 in the early afternoon. Prices for the smaller market cap coins Trump mentioned—XRP, ADA and solana—all spiked at least 20% shortly after Trump’s announcement.

Click on the link for the full article

[Renegade7]

https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonwade/s/TItlFIrcAp

Corpratitsts vs Oligarchs....his point is Oligarchs won and only two paths left are tyrany or revolution...

This is why I never hear about AlJezeera in the US...they hit on the nose too hard for some folks liking...

[Emir of Schmoe]

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports, in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency could possibly cause an economic downturn.
“You know that governments historically have messed with GDP,” Lutnick said on Fox News Channel's “Sunday Morning Futures.” “They count government spending as part of GDP. So I’m going to separate those two and make it transparent.”

Doing so could potentially complicate or distort a fundamental measure of the U.S. economy's health. Government spending is traditionally included in the GDP because changes in taxes, spending, deficits and regulations by the government can impact the path of overall growth. GDP reports already include extensive details on government spending, offering a level of transparency for economists.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-ad ... 41347.html

[88Commanders00]

I wouldn’t trust any report coming from the Trump administration. It will hide negative information and only make everything sound rosy.