As the DOGE turns.

[Wat_Tyler]

Dave's not here, man.



Maybe before your time.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Everyone is somebody else in the minds of paranoid soulless husks like DeluxAuto.

LOL. It would seem so, but never mind.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Dave's not here, man.

Maybe before your time.

I know. I took my med's and he's gone for now.

 

[Oyster69]

I am, because I had to pay for my own education.

you overpaid and got undereducated!
Three and a half bucks didn’t get you much slick.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Yet, the FAA is investigating, ya dope.

And so is the NTSB. Neither had anything to do with the accident. One or both pilots made a fatal error, end of story.

 

[Rightguide]

you overpaid and got undereducated!
Three and a half bucks didn’t get you much slick.

It got me a lot further in life than a head to toe tango with an slimy Oyster, Cheek Squeak.

 

[Oyster69]

It got me a lot further in life than a head to toe tango with an slimy Oyster, Cheek Squeak.

Hey slick, you’ve made 64,000 posts on here!
You Prof of Bullshittery.
I’m gonna bet that you’re an unemployed, unmotivated, obese, lifelong welfare recipient that spends most of your day in dirty underwear in a basement!
Go peddle your bullshit elsewhere loser!

 

[schism666]

Hey slick, you’ve made 64,000 posts on here!

add another 100k to his previous account - vetteman.

 

[Rotadom]

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them

An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

 

[Rebel5soul]

It is estimated that over 6000 IRS employees will be terminated by the end of this week.

 

[Rotadom]

It is estimated that over 6000 IRS employees will be terminated by the end of this week.

It’s Easy To Save Billions In Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up
From the it's-all-fun-and-games-until-they-crash-the-economy dept

Here’s a neat trick for saving taxpayers billions of dollars: just make stuff up!

See, when DOGE claims they’ve saved $55 billion, you might expect that number to at least match the total of their own receipts. It doesn’t. Their own documents only add up to about $16 billion, which means they’ve somehow managed to inflate their headline number by more than 3x before we even start checking their work.

But oh, it gets better (or worse… yes, actually, worse). Let’s look at their crown jewel: an $8 billion contract that DOGE proudly claims to have canceled. Except… it wasn’t an $8 BILLION contract. It was an $8 MILLION contract.

That’s quite a difference! (About $7.992 billion, if you’re counting.)

See, when DOGE claims they’ve saved $55 billion, you might expect that number to at least match the total of their own receipts. It doesn’t. Their own documents only add up to about $16 billion, which means they’ve somehow managed to inflate their headline number by more than 3x before we even start checking their work.

But oh, it gets better (or worse… yes, actually, worse). Let’s look at their crown jewel: an $8 billion contract that DOGE proudly claims to have canceled. Except… it wasn’t an $8 BILLION contract. It was an $8 MILLION contract.

That’s quite a difference! (About $7.992 billion, if you’re counting.)

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Now some dems are threatening to shut down the government to protect the waste, fraud, and abuse. What could possibly go wrong there?

How can they shut down the government. Republicans control both houses.

 

[Rebel5soul]

How can they shut down the government. Republicans control both houses.

The Senate.

 

[ChinoMoreno]

 

[Politruk]

The Senate.

No government shutdown has ever resulted from the budget being filibustered.

 

[Rebel5soul]

No government shutdown has ever resulted from the budget being filibustered.

You never research before you open your ignorant mouth.

 

[Politruk]

You never research before you open your ignorant mouth.

The 2019 shutdown did not result from a filibuster.

In January 2019, representatives elected in the November 2018 election took office, giving the Democrats a majority in the House. The House immediately voted to approve the appropriations bill that had previously passed the Senate unanimously (which included no funding for the wall). For several weeks, Trump continued to maintain that he would veto any bill that did not fund an entire border wall, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the Senate from considering any appropriations legislation that Trump would not support, including the bill that had previously passed.[9][10] Democrats and some Republicans opposed the shutdown and passed multiple bills to reopen the government, arguing that the government shutdown amounted to taking civil servants "hostage" and that negotiations could only begin once the government was reopened.[11][12][13][14]

On January 25, 2019, Trump agreed to endorse a stopgap bill to reopen the government for three weeks up until February 15 to allow for negotiations to take place to approve an appropriations bill that both parties could agree on.[15] However, Trump reiterated his demand for the border wall funding and said that he would shut down the government again or declare a national emergency and use military funding to build the wall if Congress did not appropriate the funds by February 15.[15][16]

Trump's approval rating dropped during the shutdown.[17][18] A majority of Americans opposed exploitation of the shutdown as a negotiating strategy and held Trump responsible for the shutdown: A CBS News poll found that 71% of Americans considered the border wall "not worth the shutdown"[19] and a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 53% of Americans blamed Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, compared to 34% who blamed Democrats and 10% who blamed both parties.[20]

On February 15, 2019, Trump declared a national emergency to fund the wall and bypass Congress, after being unsatisfied with a bipartisan border bill that had passed the House and the Senate a day before.[21]

 

[Rebel5soul]

So, a Senate filibuster.

 

[Politruk]

So, a Senate filibuster.

No. Read it again.

There was the threat of a filibuster, but that was in 2018.


The shutdown stemmed from an impasse over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion in federal funds for a U.S.–Mexico border wall.[5][6][7] In December 2018, the Senate unanimously passed an appropriations bill without wall funding, and the bill appeared likely to be approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Trump. After Trump faced heavy criticism from some right-wing media outlets and pundits for appearing to back down on his campaign promise to "build the wall", he announced that he would not sign any appropriations bill that did not fund its construction. As a result, the House passed a stopgap bill with funding for the wall, but it was blocked in the Senate by the threat of a Democratic filibuster.[8]

 

[Politruk]

Stephen Colbert nails it.

 

[Rotadom]

It is estimated that over 6000 IRS employees will be terminated by the end of this week.

It’s Easy To Save Billions In Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up
From the it's-all-fun-and-games-until-they-crash-the-economy dept

Here’s a neat trick for saving taxpayers billions of dollars: just make stuff up!

See, when DOGE claims they’ve saved $55 billion, you might expect that number to at least match the total of their own receipts. It doesn’t. Their own documents only add up to about $16 billion, which means they’ve somehow managed to inflate their headline number by more than 3x before we even start checking their work.

But oh, it gets better (or worse… yes, actually, worse). Let’s look at their crown jewel: an $8 billion contract that DOGE proudly claims to have canceled. Except… it wasn’t an $8 BILLION contract. It was an $8 MILLION contract.

That’s quite a difference! (About $7.992 billion, if you’re counting.)

See, when DOGE claims they’ve saved $55 billion, you might expect that number to at least match the total of their own receipts. It doesn’t. Their own documents only add up to about $16 billion, which means they’ve somehow managed to inflate their headline number by more than 3x before we even start checking their work.

But oh, it gets better (or worse… yes, actually, worse). Let’s look at their crown jewel: an $8 billion contract that DOGE proudly claims to have canceled. Except… it wasn’t an $8 BILLION contract. It was an $8 MILLION contract.

That’s quite a difference! (About $7.992 billion, if you’re counting.)

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You never research before you open your ignorant mouth.

 

[Politruk]

If not Musk, then did the WH ever make clear who is the head of DOGE?

 

[Politruk]

No. Read it again.

There was the threat of a filibuster, but that was in 2018.


The shutdown stemmed from an impasse over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion in federal funds for a U.S.–Mexico border wall.[5][6][7] In December 2018, the Senate unanimously passed an appropriations bill without wall funding, and the bill appeared likely to be approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Trump. After Trump faced heavy criticism from some right-wing media outlets and pundits for appearing to back down on his campaign promise to "build the wall", he announced that he would not sign any appropriations bill that did not fund its construction. As a result, the House passed a stopgap bill with funding for the wall, but it was blocked in the Senate by the threat of a Democratic filibuster.[8]

The difference is important, because the filibuster is usually the last-ditch resort of the minority party in the Senate. The Dems are the minority now, but were the majority party in 2019, when the shutdown happened.

 

[Politruk]

NASA employees spared layoffs! (NASA is SpaceX's biggest customer.)

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Dave's not here, man.



Maybe before your time.

Maybe one in one hundred will get this joke!