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no DoE means the govt will just send all that money directly to states ? 

blue states will have to jump through hoops to get their funding ?

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  On 2/5/2025 at 8:46 PM, tx 3 putt said:

no DoE means the govt will just send all that money directly to states ? 

blue states will have to jump through hoops to get their funding ?

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There’s not going to be federal funding for education anymore. That’s what “leave it to the states” means

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  On 2/5/2025 at 8:50 PM, Pig Bellmont said:

There’s not going to be federal funding for education anymore. That’s what “leave it to the states” means

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The best part is each state can have a different curriculum, guaranteeing that we'll no longer have a shared reality or shared history. Further widening the divide. 

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Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Now, new reporting shows USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.

 

 

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

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Eldest is doing microbiological research at UT Health in SA. Federal funds have been cut. UT stepped up and filled in the gap.

She is concerned about the future of her doctoral studies.

 

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Why is this made up team now going to “upgrade” the aviation system per the Real World secretary? 

What does this even mean? 

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  On 2/6/2025 at 2:30 AM, Pancho said:

Why is this made up team now going to “upgrade” the aviation system per the Real World secretary? 

What does this even mean? 

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They're gonna hot insert some shit to see if it works on the bet if it does there's a lot of money to be made in it and if it doesn't everybody will forget it.  After all who really remembers a few hundred people dying in a plane crash, or the aviation system being brought to its knees and hundreds of thousands of travelers having days ruined when they can't get anywhere they are trying to go?  They watched Texas re-elect the same government that oversaw the 2021 grid shitshow so they're probably not wrong.  

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we covered the fact that spaceX didn’t seek a higher clearance for musk because of his prior drug use and interactions with foreign leaders? There’s like what 200 spaceX employees with a higher clearance than musk (prior to DOGE)?

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  On 2/6/2025 at 2:48 AM, troph said:

we covered the fact that spaceX didn’t seek a higher clearance for musk because of his prior drug use and interactions with foreign leaders? There’s like what 200 spaceX employees with a higher clearance than musk (prior to DOGE)?

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Yeah but his is the richest man in the world.

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  On 2/5/2025 at 10:29 PM, Michael Knight said:
Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Now, new reporting shows USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.
 
 
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

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  On 2/5/2025 at 8:24 PM, C-Man said:

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If our news media had a shred of its supposed leftist leanings, you'd be seeing this kind of story wherever you looked. Even if what remains of our press were purely concerned with profit, it would be inescapable. Good luck finding it anywhere but Surly. They could add to it an accounting of the billions Elon gets in government contracts. 

Michael Corleone : Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?

[Tom nods] 

Michael Corleone : And they might like a story like that.

Tom Hagen : They might, they just might.

Except they won't. Because they're long since non-existent or they're part of this caper. 

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  On 2/6/2025 at 11:08 AM, Bojack said:

If our news media had a shred of its supposed leftist leanings, you'd be seeing this kind of story wherever you looked. Even if what remains of our press were purely concerned with profit, it would be inescapable. Good luck finding it anywhere but Surly. They could add to it an accounting of the billions Elon gets in government contracts. 

Michael Corleone : Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?

[Tom nods] 

Michael Corleone : And they might like a story like that.

Tom Hagen : They might, they just might.

Except they won't. Because they're long since non-existent or they're part of this caper. 

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FWIW, the WSJ is doing a pretty good job of reporting this.  Yeah they’re subscription based, but maybe that money keeps them level?

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  On 2/6/2025 at 4:51 PM, Revolution512 said:

What a time to be alive. I will say I’m interested in an audit of Medicare/Medicaid. UGAO reported 100 billion in improper payments in 2023. 

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You are interested in an audit on Medicare and Medicaid because the GAO already audits Medicare and Medicaid?

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  On 2/6/2025 at 6:24 AM, UpperWestside said:

Not the best idea to give an extremely impulsive narcissist control it seems.

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You’re gonna need to be more specific. America has >1 person at the highest levels of power that meets this description.

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A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, has resigned from from his post in the Trump administration. The WSJ is reporting that he was the author of social media posts that called for the abolishment of the civil rights act, and a return to racism and eugenics.

Why would the FOTUS associate with these kind of people?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93

 

 

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  On 2/6/2025 at 10:26 PM, Satchel said:

A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, has resigned from from his post in the Trump administration. The WSJ is reporting that he was the author of social media posts that called for the abolishment of the civil rights act, and a return to racism and eugenics.

Why would the FOTUS associate with these kind of people?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93

 

 

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Why did he resign?  That shit is de riguer to work in the Trump administration.  It's totally acceptable now.

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  On 2/3/2025 at 8:52 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

Blue sky or Threads huh? Sure, because it’s important to ignore the largest platform. 

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Do you drive a Tesla or something?

Your fixation with Twitter/X is quite odd.  Almost as odd as your choice in burgers.

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  On 2/7/2025 at 12:29 AM, UpperWestside said:
We’re now actively abandoning our position of helping people around the world that desperately need our assistance and intervention. People will start to die because Elmo is getting revenge on a government agency that he has a grudge against. Screw the people who chose this. 
 
The thing I care most about in life is doing good for others. Everything else is a distant second. Seeing this just really, really makes me even angrier with those cretins who voted for this. The simpleton morons that chose this path decided that harming others is the way to go. All 77 million plus of them hopefully lose everything they hold dear in life. What happened to Job would be too good for them.

I also like the helping people, but helping people around the world is also a way to further US interests around the world without putting boots on the ground. Unfortunately, that tool may go away and it will be supported by a lot of Americans because the agency paid for some subsciptions.
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  On 2/7/2025 at 1:36 AM, Woland said:


I also like the helping people, but helping people around the world is also a way to further US interests around the world without putting boots on the ground. Unfortunately, that tool may go away and it will be supported by a lot of Americans because the agency paid for some subsciptions.

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This is something that bothers me as well. I have long understood this and I am okay with us buying influence, especially if it is helping the local populace out. There are areas I will be living in where our influence has waned and under this idiot we will completely lose that positive influence in areas of the world where we cannot allow that to happen. 

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  On 2/7/2025 at 2:20 AM, Ted Lange said:

Oh. Trump and that cunt press director were lying on behalf of a racist, shocking.

 

 

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Somebody find that idiot and let an Indian friend beat the piss right out of him. The only reasoning you can do with a racist at this point is something that ends with them getting a face full of left hooks and body blows.

I am so beyond tired of free speech allowing the freedom to spew crap like this. I will NOT defend their right to say these things and I don’t care what happens to racist clowns like this. Someone can light a dumpster on fire and toss in all these like-minded people for all I care about their well-being.

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  On 2/7/2025 at 12:29 AM, UpperWestside said:

We’re now actively abandoning our position of helping people around the world that desperately need our assistance and intervention.

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From what I hear the Chinese have massively expanded their infrastructure construction "for hire" across the globe (but it ain't free).  They'll do the same with aid.

 

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  On 2/7/2025 at 2:41 AM, Bullneck said:

From what I hear the Chinese have massively expanded their infrastructure construction "for hire" across the globe (but it ain't free).  They'll do the same with aid.

 

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And here we are pulling back aid in the same areas that these corrupt authoritarians will fill the gap at. There are some consequences that have grave repercussions for us and the people who live in these countries we are abandoning.

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  On 2/4/2025 at 2:27 PM, Fastbreak said:

In Singapore you get a text message. “You owe X in taxes. Press 1 to pay now. Press 2 to pay by the month”

That’s it.

Singapore is doing pretty well. Last I checked it has the highest percentage of millionaires in the world.

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And if you don’t pay it you get publicly caned right?

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  On 2/7/2025 at 2:58 AM, UpperWestside said:

And here we are pulling back aid in the same areas that these corrupt authoritarians will fill the gap at. There are some consequences that have grave repercussions for us and the people who live in these countries we are abandoning.

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It also helps keep foreign diseases from reaching American shores.  

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5284978/usaid-agency-international-development-trump
https://time.com/7213288/what-is-usaid-what-impact-does-it-have-across-the-globe/
 

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Just keep walking. Should be good footage to see a US senator in his mid-70’s getting assaulted while trying to do his job he was put there by his constituents to do. 

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Saw a billboard on the way to the airport that said something like, Elon, want to cut the government permanently? (Something like that). It’s calling for a Convention of the States. Also saw a black truck driving around the 71/45 interchange near the Tesla building with the same message and a picture of Elon appropriately holding a chainsaw up to the American flag with the same message

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  On 2/6/2025 at 12:23 AM, Willfully Horn said:

Eldest is doing microbiological research at UT Health in SA. Federal funds have been cut. UT stepped up and filled in the gap.

She is concerned about the future of her doctoral studies.

 

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She needs to study the power of prayer and its lethality on microorganisms. 

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