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  On 4/4/2025 at 9:31 PM, InkaUtexas said:

Also, Ryan Hall is live and looks like will be all night.

And then it is all going to flood.

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I'm more of a Max Velocity guy. I can't get enough of that autistic weirdo pretending to be a meteorologist on YouTube.

Yesterday he cut to a friend who was giving damage reports, and the dude was obviously living in his childhood home with a small bed and a giant racecar on his wall. It was great.

 

I wonder how much he makes with a million subscribers on YouTube?

 

 

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  On 4/4/2025 at 9:35 PM, SimonBolivar said:

I'm more of a Max Velocity guy. I can't get enough of that autistic weirdo pretending to be a meteorologist on YouTube.

Yesterday he cut to a friend who was giving damage reports, and the dude was obviously living in his childhood home with a small bed and a giant racecar on his wall. It was great.

 

I wonder how much he makes with a million subscribers on YouTube?

 

 

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They just showed him!

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  On 4/4/2025 at 10:04 PM, bolverk said:

They just showed him!

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My man!

 

You know the internet and the way unfiltered information is destroying society will probably be the death of us all, but for those of us that enjoy high art there is nothing that can compare to the beauty that masterpieces like Meteorologist Jonathon McGuffin bring to the world. 

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Driving in the car, the NPR news referred to Musk's efforts as work of the Department of Government Efficiency. Please forgive my ignorance.

Is there legally such a thing as this "department?" Has Musk become an official government employee or appointee? 

If not, what the fuck is a news organization calling a bogus department a fucking department? If musk and his merry band of fuckwads aren't actually a department, a news organization calling them such becomes a big part of the problem.

Again, maybe I'm ignorant of developments, but have not heard that a department had been created.

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  On 4/9/2025 at 12:01 AM, RomaVicta said:

Driving in the car, the NPR news referred to Musk's efforts as work of the Department of Government Efficiency. Please forgive my ignorance.

Is there legally such a thing as this "department?" Has Musk become an official government employee or appointee? 

If not, what the fuck is a news organization calling a bogus department a fucking department? If musk and his merry band of fuckwads aren't actually a department, a news organization calling them such becomes a big part of the problem.

Again, maybe I'm ignorant of developments, but have not heard that a department had been created.

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My best understanding is that he, by decree, renamed and repurposed an existing entity (US Digital Services) to become the United States DOGE Service (still technically USDS but now with DOGE!!!), within which the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now resides. But, yes, the Regime has been really cagey about the status of DOGE employees.

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  On 4/9/2025 at 12:23 AM, bolverk said:

My best understanding is that he, by decree, renamed and repurposed an existing entity (US Digital Services) to become the United States DOGE Service (still technically USDS but now with DOGE!!!), within which the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now resides. But, yes, the Regime has been really cagey about the status of DOGE employees.

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Also, isn't the meme and memecoin pronounced doggy?  Shouldn't we give it the full measure of stupidity by pronouncing it doggy instead of an Italian word for duke?

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  On 4/9/2025 at 12:23 AM, bolverk said:

My best understanding is that he, by decree, renamed and repurposed an existing entity (US Digital Services) to become the United States DOGE Service (still technically USDS but now with DOGE!!!), within which the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now resides. But, yes, the Regime has been really cagey about the status of DOGE employees.

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Are their lawyers still claiming Musk has nothing to do with DOGE?

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  On 4/9/2025 at 12:26 AM, TwiceHorn said:

Also, isn't the meme and memecoin pronounced doggy?  Shouldn't we give it the full measure of stupidity by pronouncing it doggy?

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No idea. That's a question for the weirdos that have kept the CRYPTO!!! thread going.

Btw, DOGE does apparently have a .gov website: https://doge.gov/ for whatever that's worth as a signifier of official existence.

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  On 4/9/2025 at 12:27 AM, Red Five said:

Are their lawyers still claiming Musk has nothing to do with DOGE?

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That whole Appointments Clause and who is an "officer of the United States" can be pesky as fuck with new agencies.  I think he's clearly wieliding the authority of an officer of the United States, without benefit of appointment on advice and consent of the Senate.

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I don't think it's an accident that Doge already has a meaning that seems fitting. It's an Italian term:

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The Doge of Venice (/doʊdʒ/ DOHJ)[2][a] – in Italian, Doge di Venezia [ˈdɔːd͡ʒe di veˈnett͡sja] – was the doge or highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697–1797).[3] The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning 'leader', and Venetian Italian dialect for 'duke', highest official of the republic of Venice for over 1,000 years.[4] In standard Italian, the cognate is duce (/duːtʃeɪ/ DOO-chay, Italian: [ˈduːt͡ʃe]), one of National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini's titles.

Originally referring to any military leader, it became in the Late Roman Empire the title for a leader of an expeditionary force formed by detachments (vexillationes) from the frontier army (limitanei), separate from, but subject to, the governor of a province, authorized to conduct operations beyond provincial boundaries.

The Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life through a complex voting process.[5]

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I recall hearing the word visiting Italy when I was a young man. It's the first thing I thought of when Musk assumed the position of chief oligarch and shadow head of government.

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  On 4/9/2025 at 6:04 AM, RomaVicta said:

I don't think it's an accident that Doge already has a meaning that seems fitting. It's an Italian term:

I recall hearing the word visiting Italy when I was a young man. It's the first thing I thought of when Musk assumed the position of chief oligarch and shadow head of government.

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The sad part is...I think it absolutely is an accident. It is obviously a really lame internet meme.

But the fact it could also work as a fascist dictator name by referencing the oligarchy that ruled the Republic of Venice is a nice coincidence. 

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Don't worry folks, as soon as all our bank accounts are emptied and used to balance the budget everything will be fine.  As to next year's budget, rest assured Mush will take care of it.

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  On 4/10/2025 at 4:35 AM, Firemans4Horn said:

The pillars of our democracy are in the process of being destroyed by racist, megalomaniac, technocrat grifters. 
 

 

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Hey, maybe they'll fuck something up and accidentally cancel all of our mortgages. 

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So it looks like we will all be withdrawing all of our cash, burying it in the backyard, and getting by on prepaid debit cards shortly.

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  On 4/10/2025 at 2:07 PM, Valmy77 said:

So it looks like we will all be withdrawing all of our cash, burying it in the backyard, and getting by on prepaid debit cards shortly.

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The Crypto President

By destroying the economy and the faith in the USD. 

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What could possibly go wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k4.T5Nf.m-Dm8UB0A62d&smid=nytcore-ios-share

 

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Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were allowed into the country under President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with six people familiar with the plans.

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The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.

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The initial names are limited to people the administration says are convicted criminals and “suspected terrorists,” the documents show. But officials said the effort could broaden to include others in the country without authorization.

Their “financial lives,” the Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner, Leland Dudek, wrote in an email to staff, would be “terminated.”

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So what’s the over/under until SS collapses? It’s clearly by design, so the lawsuits should be interesting, if we’re still doing that sort of thing.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20250404195913/https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/

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“I think we should consider removing Drupal as part of our workflow, and all content should just live in the codebase,” he wrote.

 

Sources say that the regular office administrators and health workers staffed at VA locations around the country are often the ones responsible for making sure that the content about their facilities are clear and up-to-date on their VA webpages. Instead of being able to log into the CMS and update the appropriate text or pages, Lavingia’s suggestion would mean they’d need to go into the actual code of the website to make simple changes. Any mistakes could break the sites, and one source worried that such a technical task would be too big of an ask for non-technical VA staffers.

 

“There's over 1,000 VA editors that work in the hospitals as administrators and other roles that update the websites for each VA medical center and hospital every day. They are not engineers, they barely can use a CMS at all,” says the second VA worker, who was shocked by Lavingia’s suggestion. “This guy is suggesting we move all 55,000-plus pages of live content into the code

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That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.” VA workers say they have no idea who the post refers to.)

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  On 4/9/2025 at 4:37 PM, Valmy77 said:

The sad part is...I think it absolutely is an accident. It is obviously a really lame internet meme.

But the fact it could also work as a fascist dictator name by referencing the oligarchy that ruled the Republic of Venice is a nice coincidence. 

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Almost like something a simulation would come up with just to fuck with us. 

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  On 4/11/2025 at 6:47 PM, Firemans4Horn said:

This is going to be a spectacular disaster that’s going to hurt ten’s of millions of people. 
 

 

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It has to be.

MAGA must suffer.  People must suffer.  They must also find their birth certificates so they can vote.  The only way out is through.

(Edit: Jack and Diet Coke has spoken).

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  On 4/9/2025 at 12:26 AM, TwiceHorn said:

Also, isn't the meme and memecoin pronounced doggy?  Shouldn't we give it the full measure of stupidity by pronouncing it doggy instead of an Italian word for duke?

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  On 4/13/2025 at 3:02 AM, Firemans4Horn said:

Make America poisoned by lead again

 


 

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If those kids were at work like they are supposed to be they wouldn’t have to worry about no lead poisoning 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/doge-contracts-savings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

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Last week, Elon Musk indicated for the first time that his Department of Government Efficiency was falling short of its goal.

He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr. Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85 percent less than its objective.

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Even that figure may be too high, according to a New York Times analysis of DOGE’s claims.

That’s because, when Mr. Musk’s group tallies up its savings so far, it inflates its progress by including billion-dollar errors, by counting spending that will not happen in the next fiscal year — and by making guesses about spending that might not happen at all.

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One of the group’s largest claims, in fact, involves canceling a contract that did not exist. Although the government says it had merely asked for proposals in that case, and had not settled on a vendor or a price, Mr. Musk’s group ignored that uncertainty and assigned itself a large and very specific amount of credit for canceling it.

It said it had saved exactly $318,310,328.30.

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  On 4/13/2025 at 1:07 PM, Sawbonz said:

If those kids were at work like they are supposed to be they wouldn’t have to worry about no lead poisoning 

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Cept from disgruntled child employees. 
 

which brings up a point in the admin’s favor- no more schools means no more school shootings. Problem solved.  

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In the end doge won’t be about the spending cuts, savings, fed carnage, life turmoil, pocket lining of musk… it’ll be about the friends we all made along the way, like with bigballz

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White House officials are struggling to hide their disdain for Elon Musk’s “irritating” behavior, with senior Cabinet members said to be “deeply annoyed” by the DOGE chief’s painful sense of humor.

“I have been in the same room with Elon, and he always tries to be funny. And he’s not funny. Like, at all,” a senior Trump administration official told Rolling Stone. “He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor. I keep using the word ‘annoying’; a lot of people who have to deal with him do.

“But the word doesn’t do the situation justice,” they added. “Elon just thinks he’s smarter than everyone else in the room and acts like it, even when it’s clear he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

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Musk’s insufferable behavior has caused several high-ranking officials to walk out of important meetings and sincerely question if he was high on drugs, the publication reports, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio is said to be barely able to hide his immense dislike of the DOGE chief and State Department officials routinely call him “Crazy Uncle Elon” behind his back.

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“Talking to the guy is sometimes like listening to really rusty nails on a chalkboard,” the White House insider claimed. “He’s just the most irritating person I’ve ever had to deal with, and that is saying something.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-growing-tired-of-unfunny-and-irritating-musk/

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