... Trump wanted a "menacing" show of force to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday -- but got a "festive" parade instead. ...

@#3 ... "The number is 40 percent," insisted Katie Miller, a top administration aide who was working closely with Mr. Musk, according to one of the people familiar with the April 1 call. President Trump believed Mr. Musk, she said. "Do not contradict the president." ... ...

"Do not contradict the president."

Wow, that is not good.

... The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk's team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts ...

Yeah, disinformation via social media seems to be the new source of news lately.

From the cited article ...

... Elon Musk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin political rally in March and rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the Social Security Administration. Scammers, he said, were making 40 percent of all calls to the agency's customer service line.

Social Security employees knew the billionaire's claim had no basis in fact. After journalists followed up, staff members began drafting a response correcting the record.

That's when Leland Dudek " plucked from a midlevel job only six weeks earlier to run Social Security because of his willingness to cooperate with Mr. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency -- got an angry call from the White House, according to several people familiar with the exchange.

"The number is 40 percent," insisted Katie Miller, a top administration aide who was working closely with Mr. Musk, according to one of the people familiar with the April 1 call. President Trump believed Mr. Musk, she said. "Do not contradict the president." ...

@#227 ... And...you are back to ignore status. ...

Huh?

Got a translation of that into English?

... I gave you a chance -------. ...

When all else fails, revert to the ad hominem attack.

So lame.

@#225 ... I can post links that DON'T back up his point.

Yet your current lame alias does not.

In spite of multiple requests.

Troll much?

@#222 ... but I get it: you don't understand the underlying math. ...

In my view, it is either that, or that current alias is throwing all it can against the wall to discuss anything besides the topic of the thread it had posted.

I tried to pull this thread back on topic in #211, but was not successful.

So that then leads me to ask, what is the kryptonite on this thread's topic that makes that current lame alias so adverse to discussing a thread that it had created?

@#221 ... I can't post a link that does not exist - ...

Yet your current lame alias posts ...

... not a single link even comes close to stating what you did ...

Implying that it has seen links.

A nice dodge from your current lame alias.

What else it got?

OK, speaking of the "inner circle" of Pres trump, there seems to be fmr Mayor Giuliani.

In a random search engine query, I found this ....

The judgment aside, let me ask a question ...

Why do so many of Pres Trump's most avid supporters seem to wind up on the wrong side of the law?

Does this ~inner circle~ of Pres Trump date back to his days in NYC?

@#3 ... Only 2 mil instead of the 64 mil. ...

Yeah, the jury was kind.

But even at only $2M, I suspect Mr Lindell may be facing some issues.

... A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that one of the nation's most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company after the 2020 presidential election. ...

Quelle surprise.

@#15 ... I have no clue who this is. ...

Apparently, neither does the current alias that posted it.

@#215 ... Okay, you're a moron.

Got it. ...

I do not disagree.

But I also have to ask why the apparent major deflection attempt by the two current aliases (which may be related?)) from the topic of the article.

The topic I tried to pull this thread back on to in #211.

Was it the "Spanish speakers" in #211 that pushed those two current (related?) aliases away from commenting on it?

@#216 ... that not a single link even comes close to stating what you did - NOT A SINGLE LINK ...

That seems to imply that your current lame alias has links.

Care to post them?

@#213 ... I doubt you even took the class -------. ...

So, the usual ad hominem attack from your current alias?

So lame.

@#210 ... And ever since, you've been running a home run trot, all while the catcher has been holding strike three. ...

A great description.

May I borrow that in the future?

From the cited article ...

... Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksiteimmigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.

Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training. ...

@#206 ... Dude - you LOST - BIGLY. ...

Is that something else that "everyone knows" or just more of the usual excretions from your ---- pore onto this most august site?

@#203 ... Everyone knows ...

Whenever a comment starts with that phrase, i know the poster has got nothing.

And your current alias' post confirms that.

So lame.

@#198 ... What a riot.

All you exposed is you didn't understand your own posts, or the math behind ANY of it. ...

Yup.

But that seems to be the norm for that current alias.

All bravado, little (mostly, no) substance.

So lame.

@#197 ... The reality is, there are more dangerous illegal immigrants to prioritize on deporting than people who pick fruits and veggies or wash dishes. ...

And your current alias' point is?

That Pres trump's statements about immigrants were wrong?

For the record, my opinion has always been, and it still is, if you are in this Country illegally, you should be deported. But before that can be enforce, we need to take a step back and look at hos immigrants are needed in the economy, and make those good folk legal." Our economy depends upon the immigrants. So why not make that legal?

Pres Trump seemed to agree with me for nearly a whole day, then he TACO'd. Again.

{sigh}

So, Pres Trump seems to be inserting himself into the FDA drug approval process?

What might that mean?

More from the article...

..."These vouchers are non-transferrable," an FDA spokesperson told Fierce Biotech. "However, they will remain valid through changes in company ownership."

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., will determine a company's eligibility for CNPV by assessing whether the biopharma is addressing several national priorities. ...

@#193

Huh?

What is your current alias rambling on about now?

@#189 ... So, like I said, 2.1% is like 3 months under Biden ...

Got a link?

Or is this just more of the usual ---- pore excretions of your current alias?