As the DOGE turns.

Let me give everyone one quick example of why Elon and his pack of flying monkeys at DOGE aren't quite the savvy tech geniuses playing 4D chess MAGA seems to think. They're more like a bunch of idiots playing checkers with rocks, bottle caps, and some saltine crackers the high schoolers keep nibbling on.

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Here's how the idiocy began:


1. A wanna-be political influencer named Mario Nawfal went over to USASpending.gov and uncovered what he THOUGHT was a $9M contract between the Department of Defense (DOD) and Reuters (the news outlet) for a nefarious psy-op.

Nawfal then tweets out to his 44 million followers: "DOGE investigations reveal mysterious Defense Department payments to Reuters for "large scale social deception" project between 2018-2022."

2. Elon Musk sees Nawfal's tweet, reads it, doesn't bother to double check the story about what HIS OWN department is doing, and shares it to his 218 million followers.

3. Donald Trump reads Elon's tweet, and "truths" it out to his [sad] 9 million followers on Truth* Social, calling out the "Radical Left Reuters" and demanding they give back the money!!!

Here's WHY it's 9 levels beyond idiotic:

If you go to the USASpending.gov website (which Nawfal actually provides a screenshot of), you can plainly see the contract in question is between the DOD and "Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC."

REUTERS is a news outlet.

THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES is a cyber security firm ( https://www.trssllc.com/ )

Other than having the name "Reuters" in common, these businesses are different entities to each other.

"Okay, Shane, but then why did the DOD give THOMSON REUTERS a $9M contract for some 'large scale social deception'?!? Why is the DOD paying ANYONE—even if they're not a media outlet—to engage in 'large scale social deception?'"

THEY DIDN'T!

Look at the ENTIRE line item Mario Nawfal took a screenshot of:

ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)

Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC is a cyber security firm that was contracted by the DOD to provide cyber DEFENSE AGAINST "large scale social deception."

This contract DOGE "uncovered" doesn't involve in any way the media outlet they're naming. They got confused because 2 different companies have the same name. And the actual contract they're freaking out about does the exact OPPOSITE of what they're claiming it does.

Aren't we all so lucky to have DOGE uncovering all this "waste, fraud, and abuse?"
 
Let me give everyone one quick example of why Elon and his pack of flying monkeys at DOGE aren't quite the savvy tech geniuses playing 4D chess MAGA seems to think. They're more like a bunch of idiots playing checkers with rocks, bottle caps, and some saltine crackers the high schoolers keep nibbling on.

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Here's how the idiocy began:

1. A wanna-be political influencer named Mario Nawfal went over to USASpending.gov and uncovered what he THOUGHT was a $9M contract between the Department of Defense (DOD) and Reuters (the news outlet) for a nefarious psy-op.

Nawfal then tweets out to his 44 million followers: "DOGE investigations reveal mysterious Defense Department payments to Reuters for "large scale social deception" project between 2018-2022."

2. Elon Musk sees Nawfal's tweet, reads it, doesn't bother to double check the story about what HIS OWN department is doing, and shares it to his 218 million followers.

3. Donald Trump reads Elon's tweet, and "truths" it out to his [sad] 9 million followers on Truth* Social, calling out the "Radical Left Reuters" and demanding they give back the money!!!

Here's WHY it's 9 levels beyond idiotic:

If you go to the USASpending.gov website (which Nawfal actually provides a screenshot of), you can plainly see the contract in question is between the DOD and "Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC."

REUTERS is a news outlet.

THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES is a cyber security firm ( https://www.trssllc.com/ )

Other than having the name "Reuters" in common, these businesses are different entities to each other.

"Okay, Shane, but then why did the DOD give THOMSON REUTERS a $9M contract for some 'large scale social deception'?!? Why is the DOD paying ANYONE—even if they're not a media outlet—to engage in 'large scale social deception?'"

THEY DIDN'T!

Look at the ENTIRE line item Mario Nawfal took a screenshot of:

ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)

Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC is a cyber security firm that was contracted by the DOD to provide cyber DEFENSE AGAINST "large scale social deception."

This contract DOGE "uncovered" doesn't involve in any way the media outlet they're naming. They got confused because 2 different companies have the same name. And the actual contract they're freaking out about does the exact OPPOSITE of what they're claiming it does.

Aren't we all so lucky to have DOGE uncovering all this "waste, fraud, and abuse?"
Thank you for auditing DOGE’s sloppy work.
 
Let me give everyone one quick example of why Elon and his pack of flying monkeys at DOGE aren't quite the savvy tech geniuses playing 4D chess MAGA seems to think. They're more like a bunch of idiots playing checkers with rocks, bottle caps, and some saltine crackers the high schoolers keep nibbling on.
But they still have the power to fire tens of thousands of civil servants!

And so far, it seems like they're doing it at random!

But NASA was spared -- NASA is SpaceX's biggest customer!
 
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It may have surprised some, but honestly we could all have anticipated worse. After all, this is the guy who called someone a 'pedo' because he had a better plan for rescuing stranded children in a cave than his idea of inventing a remote-controlled submarine.

 
What part of "both houses have Republican majorities" are you missing? It's cute you're trying to blame Democrats for the failings of the Republican party.
I think he was referring to the possibility of Senate Dems filibustering the budget.
 
I think he was referring to the possibility of Senate Dems filibustering the budget.
They have a majority, they can use the "nuclear option" to over come the obstruction, or and I am not 100% clear if the Cloture rule could also be wielded. Which means the Republicans can pass the budget, without needing Democrats.

Which was my point
 
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