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Saturday, December 07, 2024

Newly installed into Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), the tech entrepreneur, along with co-chair Elon Musk, have been making broad claims of eliminating trillions in government expenses without providing much in the way of messy details.

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These spoiled and entitled sh--heads are serious about all of it.

If their plans are carried out, then the only good thing to come of it is that MAGA is going to suffer along with the rest of us, and likely much more sharply than I will personally.

MAGA is stupidly self-destructive. No, their tears won't be delicious. They'll be pathetic.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-06 08:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

How well did the Grace Commission work out for fmr Pres Reagan?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-06 01:36 PM | Reply

The way to financial rationality in gov spending is to grow the economy, not cut off your nose to spite your face.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-06 03:08 PM | Reply

@#3 ... In general I agree. ...

But, then I have to ask, is there waste in government spending?

Of course there is.

And I think such waste should be eliminated.

But the first step in eliminating that waste is not, imo, an expression of unfettered fealty to Pres-elect Trump.


Let's go after (continue to go after) those who actually defraud the government on a large scale.

Is this what the GOP actually wants to do?

Well, look at the GOP history of funding tax enforcement.



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-06 07:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

But the first step in eliminating that waste is not, imo, an expression of unfettered fealty to Pres-elect Trump.

Ramaswamy's federal bureaucrat reduction plan was simpler. "Here's how: if your SSN ends in an odd number, you're fired,"

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-06 08:13 PM | Reply

Ramaswamy is a festering sack of puss.

One can only hope that a few republican senators turn out not to be.

#6 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-12-07 05:45 PM | Reply

Just anything Trump does can be translated to: It is all about me and my bank accounts.
Anything those oligarchs want can be translated to: take from the poor and give to the rich.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-12-08 07:29 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It only takes one.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-08 12:16 PM | Reply

Here is a fun question to ask any GOP politician who is all hot and heavy about DOGE cuts: sir/maam these cuts will result in significant job losses in your state or district. Which jobs will you propose for cuts? A follow-up: which military bases, programs or personnel are on your list for cuts?

All this silly DOGE talk will go silent shortly thereafter ...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2024-12-08 06:47 PM | Reply

Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (1986)
www.youtube.com

The Pogues are a quite interesting group of performers (and I do not say that lightly). I have enjoyed the music and their alternate ~style~ of music for many years (decades?).

But on this tune, they get serious. Very serious.

A traditional tune, and they did an excellent rendition.


imo, worth the listen.


Lyrics excerpt...

genius.com

...
When I was a young man, I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over

[Verse 2]
Then in 1915, my country said, "Son
It's time to stop rambling, 'cause there's work to be done"
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war

[Chorus 1]
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off for Gallipoli

[Verse 3]
How well I remember that terrible day
When the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

[Verse 4]
Johnny Turk, he was ready, he primed himself well
He showered us with bullets and he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia

[Chorus]
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then it started all over again

[Verse 5]
Now those who were living did their best to survive
In that mad world of death, blood, and fire
And for seven long weeks, I kept myself alive
While the corpses around me piled higher

[Verse 6]
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over ---
And when I awoke in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, Christ, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying

[Chorus 3]
And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
To the green bushes so far and near
For to hang tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

[Verse 7]
So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

[Verse 8]
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
...


#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-09 01:34 AM | Reply

But what did anyone expect?
Ramasalamy is a joke anyway, a vulture Capitalist of the worst sort; he and Musk then are in the same orbit.

They will do nothing but leech off the government, all while posturing, photo-opping, and decrying government agencies that THEY CLAIM leech off the government.
The Swamp grows bigger, all because of Trump.

#11 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-12-09 11:34 AM | Reply

"MSNBC expert" LOL. Was this one of the same "experts" that said the laptop was Russian disinformation and that Covid came from a market?
But do keep at it Earthmuse, you must be one of the last people that still get their news from MSNBC even after their ratings nosedived because people are on to their endless lies. Sorry Corky, you too. Didn't mean to leave you out.

#12 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-12-09 01:12 PM | Reply

Here is a fun question to ask any GOP politician who is all hot and heavy about DOGE cuts: sir/maam these cuts will result in significant job losses in your state or district. Which jobs will you propose for cuts? A follow-up: which military bases, programs or personnel are on your list for cuts?

All this silly DOGE talk will go silent shortly thereafter ...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2024-12-08 06:47 PM | Reply | Flag:
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And a better one to ask any Democrat politician. Why do you support only 6% of the federal workforce not actually going to work even though Covid ended years ago? Or why do you support paying for federally leased buildings that are 80% vacant?
Do you support these Cat or are you one of these employees that instead of doing your job gets on Drudge all day and then complains that you are overworked?
The Fed needs an overhaul, long overdue.

#13 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-12-09 01:19 PM | Reply

DOGE doesn't have any real power power. All it can do is make recommendations. Good news is some Democrats have expressed a willingness to work with DOGE.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-09 01:25 PM | Reply

Democrats have expressed a willingness to work with DOGE.

#14 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

They just wanna get off the "enemies within" list.

They are probably just hoping to not be the first to be investigated and purged.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-09 01:40 PM | Reply

They are probably just hoping to not be the first to be investigated and purged.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-09 01:40 PM | Reply | Flag:
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At least you have finally excepted that Democrat politicians need to be investigated and purged.

#16 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-12-09 03:23 PM | Reply

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