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"But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death." Albert Camus, The Plague.

“We don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things.” - William Golding, Lord of the Flies

The MAGA motto was much pithier in the original:
"Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer!"

Fun Fact. Donald Trump has read the US Constitution the exact same number of times as have Genghis Khan and Julius Caesar! Same is true for the Declaration of Independence! Is DT more ignorant of the Bible or civics or economics or healthcare? In what area of expertise is he the most egregiously lacking?

The purpose of disinformation isn't always to make you change your mind, but to make you indecisive.

Trump floats plan for undocumented farm and hotel workers to work legally in the U.S. The president's comments suggested a vague plan that would allow the government to bring back "great" people who are "working hard" and who "go out ... in a nice way."

Curious how "Trump playing 18-dimensional chess" is indistinguishable from "Trump didn't think this through."

www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Cargo Cult Economics. MAGA apparatchiks admiring a game they don’t understand on a board that confuses them and parroting, “See! He’s playing 18-dimensional chess!”

YouTube video by rlcarnes Rockwell Retro Encabulator

A Trump Supporter explains economics.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJK...

I've scraped less nasty stuff than Stephen Miller and MTG from the bottom of my shoes after a walk through the dog park.

Target, warhead, timing - that's Top Secret.
Hegseth (SecDef), Gabbard (DNI), Mike Walz (APNSA) are all in positions where they absolutely should have known. EVERY ONE OF THEM is a retired military officer. They knew this was a violation from their military service.

They are lying.

"In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue." -- Barack Obama.

Senator Chris Murphy's team did an outstanding job of laying out the corruption of Krasnov / Trump 2.0.

Listening to Don the Con is a proxy IQ test. Failure means it takes more than 10 minutes to realize he's a fat mouth ignoramus filled to the gills with bluster and bullcrap.

Listening to Don / Krasnov the Conman is a proxy IQ test. Failure means it takes more than 10 minutes to realize he's a fat mouth ignoramus filled to the gills with bluster and bullcrap.

Watching crime dramas and believing you know for sure that any crime can be solved in one hour isn't anywhere close to as ridiculous as believing that DOGE is rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse.

Kremlin Employee of the month for March 2025: Pete Hegseth.

Today's message of hope and unity from Our Dear Leader, Krasnov: Ein Folk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer!

from @electricfutures After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen. The first thing I did is add up the "saved" column for all canceled contracts and real estate. The numbers are $16.5B and $O.14B, respectively. Odd... Since almost all of the purported savings come from contracts, we'll focus on that.

The single biggest ticket item is a DHS contract listed as saving $8 billion. Wow, that's a huge contract! Actually no, it's $8 million. They must have tried to automate scraping the FPDS form and failed. That means we're down to $8.5B in savings. 3/ The next 3 biggest ticket items are all USAID contracts listed as $655M each, so $2B total. Wow, pretty big. Wait, these are IDVs, not contracts. $655M is the entire set-aside, being triple counted. In the first 5 years, only $73M was awarded, and only 2 years remain. 4/

So we're down to $6.5B in savings, and an alarming trend emerges: @DOGE does not seem to understand how the government contracts they are canceling work. The savings they are claiming are not annual savings, but rather hypothetical savings if we spent every unobligated penny. 5/ And more importantly, they are just getting it *wrong*, with alarming consistency. These numbers are erroneous. This "select group of geniuses" has not double checked even the LARGEST items accounting for the bulk of their claimed savings. This is a sad, pathetic farce Here's the next biggest item: an IT services contract for the Social Security Administration worth $1B. That's a lot of savings! Well, again, this contract spanned 6 years. 80% has already been spent. Ah well, more like $240M in savings spread over the next 3 years. $80M/year.

In 2023, this contract funded 1000 FTEs working $100/hr. Did we need 1000 SWEs working on SSA infrastructure? Probably not - these could be valid savings (disclaimer: no idea what they actually did). But worth noting that these cuts will impact many private sector jobs as well. And if anyone is curious, there are currently 17 lines that say "SEE FPDS" rather than the savings amount, I guess because their automated scraping failed. I did it manually and it took roughly ~10 minutes. But that's too much to ask of super geniuses working 120 hours/week!

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

Trump: I AM THE LAW!
Minions: How DARE you call us fascists!

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NOAA is the premier agency in the entire world for understanding anthropogenic climate change. Of course the pro-ignorance, pro-grifter MAGAs want to sabotage or dismantle it a la Project 2025.

NOAA is the premier agency in the entire world for understanding anthropogenic climate change. Of course the pro-ignorance, pro-grifter MAGAs want to sabotage or dismantle it a la Project 2025.

You remember when every when every MAGA on FB was bleating what they had been spoon-fed by FOX; namely, that Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025? You remember that? Yea, that was bullshit.

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You remember when every when every MAGA on FB was bleating what they had been spoon-fed by FOX; namely, that Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025? You remember that? Yea, that was bullshit.

This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.

NOAA is THE premier agency for understanding climate change. OF COURSE pro-ignorance, pro-grifter MAGA will sabotage!

www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

MAGAs: Obama was The Great Divider!
Also MAGAs: elected The Dear Leader!

Essay in The Atlantic:
"How Hitler Dismantled Democracy in 53 Days"

Trump 2.0: Challenge Accepted!

Blame somebody for imaginary problem.
Curse at people. Pretend to fix problem.
Declare success!
BRAVO! I'm a genius!