Things that made you frown today (Political Version)

[Methais]

And yet, there were zero crash fatalities during the four years that Buttigieg was Transportation Secretary. Trump made abrupt and massive changes to FAA personnel the day after the inauguration.

Your desperation just keeps getting more and more pathetic. And hilarious.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

And yet, there were zero crash fatalities during the four years that Buttigieg was Transportation Secretary. Trump made abrupt and massive changes to FAA personnel the day after the inauguration.

I mean it only goes back 6 months but I found 4 mid-air collisions. Didn't bother looking at the NTSB for fatalities because I'm not a hypocrite and won't strawman that single word. I am pretty sure mid-air collisions in the past 4 years are greater than 4 and that there were fatalities though.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/stateme...dent_incidents

[Gelston]

And yet, there were zero crash fatalities during the four years that Buttigieg was Transportation Secretary. Trump made abrupt and massive changes to FAA personnel the day after the inauguration.

There were 199 fatal airline crashes in just 2023.

[ClydeR]

Want to know why Musk is dismantling USAID? Read this page from the USAID website, which is available only because the Wayback Machine had the sense to archive the things Trump and Musk don't want you to see..

https://web.archive.org/web/20241204...ing-investment

This tweet from Trump is further corroboration..

[ClydeR]

The news that Musk is terminating USAID reminds me of this incident from 2016 in which Trump showed he did not want the hassle of the day-to-day work of running the country and was looking for someone who could do that part of the job for him..

The New York Times’ Robert Draper has a rather remarkable accounting of how Donald Trump went about picking Mike Pence as his running mate more or less by default, which includes this doozy:

One day this past May, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, who left the presidential race just a few weeks before. As a candidate, Kasich declared in March that Trump was “really not prepared to be president of the United States,” and the following month he took the highly unusual step of coordinating with his rival Senator Ted Cruz in an effort to deny Trump the nomination. But according to the Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?

When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.

Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?

“Making America great again” was the casual reply.

A few important caveats: This particular leak is coming from Team Kasich, which is not on the best terms with Team Trump at this particular moment. Meanwhile, the story could be true in a narrow sense (Donald Jr. really did actually say that) without being true in a larger one (this was the deal that was really on the table). The Trump camp has shown time and time again that the entire team is rarely on the same page and—even if they were in this case—it’s possible that this was a promise Trump never planned to deliver on, or, alternatively, that he’d simply change his mind sometime after November.

And yet! This isn’t the first time someone close to Trump has suggested that the GOP nominee would effectively outsource the day-to-day job of actually being president of the United State of America. Here, for instance, is how campaign chief Paul Manafort discussed his boss’s VP desires in a Huffington Post interview back in May: “He needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He sees himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO.” And there’s also the not-so-small matter that, setting aside the power and the prestige of the title, the day-to-day job of being president doesn’t sound like one Donald Trump would actually want.

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[~Rocktar~]

Report: Biden Admin Made Improper Payments Totaling $236 Billion in 2023

$236 BILLION according to the GAO. Just in 2023.


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-billion-2023/

[Parkbandit]

The news that Musk is terminating USAID reminds me of this incident from 2016 in which Trump showed he did not want the hassle of the day-to-day work of running the country and was looking for someone who could do that part of the job for him..

The only more tone deaf thing you could have done is to link a Politico story.It shouldn't shock anyone but our current Retard Champion.. that the NY Times was being paid millions of dollars during the Biden Administration...

[Back]

You know we could all comb through all of it and find things we don't think money should be spent on. You've got your priorities, I've got my priorities, and they may not align. That's why in a democracy there's compromise.

I don't mind spending money to feed other people. In fact I'd erase defense and have it all spent on feeding people. But that's never going to happen and I accept that. Someone else may not want to feed people. Someone else may want all of that money spent on defense. Same rules apply. We compromise.

Don't get me started on subsidized oil companies and billionaires. You want to start cutting some budget have at it.

How this is all unfolding before us is a shit show. A completely off the rails mess that's embarrassing and quite frankly probably extremely dangerous to a number of people. A simple review of things could have been requested but these fucking clowns want to attention whore for the keks. They are drunk with power. They don't give a shit.

[Parkbandit]

You know we could all comb through all of it and find things we don't think money should be spent on. You've got your priorities, I've got my priorities, and they may not align. That's why in a democracy there's compromise.

I don't mind spending money to feed other people. In fact I'd erase defense and have it all spent on feeding people. But that's never going to happen and I accept that. Someone else may not want to feed people. Someone else may want all of that money spent on defense. Same rules apply. We compromise.

Don't get me started on subsidized oil companies and billionaires. You want to start cutting some budget have at it.

How this is all unfolding before us is a shit show. A completely off the rails mess that's embarrassing and quite frankly probably extremely dangerous to a number of people. A simple review of things could have been requested but these fucking clowns want to attention whore for the keks. They are drunk with power. They don't give a shit.

Give me some examples of DOGE spending cuts you are against... because so far, I haven't seen one cut that I'm like "Well, we really need to spend that money on that program"

[Back]

Give me some examples of DOGE spending cuts you are against... because so far, I haven't seen one cut that I'm like "Well, we really need to spend that money on that program"

Bro, you ever hear the term flood the zone? They are doing so much so fast it's impossible to keep track of it all.

So called cuts to employment in the federal agencies under the executive branch is pure political targeting/elimination of non-republicans from the government.

USAID is an entirely different animal. I'd have to see everything it funds and I don't have the time to do that because I've got to go to work to support my family. I'm sure there are things that can be cut from it but I don't see the point of shutting it all down to do that. Why not have an audit? From what I understand a lot of people's livelihoods depend on that money not to mention everybody who works for the agency and their livelihoods.

And tell me how erasing climate change or transgender issues from government websites is saving any money at all? It's not. It's Big brother erasing information that you have a right to see.

Do you really expect to see any benefit from all of these cuts? Do you expect a check in the mail? If you do you are a fool. You will not see one dime of any of these savings because it's all going to the corporations in terms of tax cuts and subsidies. Don't be fooled my friend. They are not doing this for you and me.