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when is every media outlet going to stop playing along with this stupid "saving money" narrative? it was never about saving money, or efficiency, or literally anything any trumpistan official says it's about
shift the conversation around the fact that they are deliberately destroying the country, and maybe something productive can happen. this whole "hey waitaminute!?! they're nOt SAvInG aNy MoNeY!!!" is such a fucking waste of time
it's all theft baybay. this is a kleptocracy and a kakistocracy at the same time
As soon as every media outlet isn't owned by an Oligarch
when is every media outlet going to stop playing along with this stupid "saving money" narrative?
when the tech oligarchs are dead or no longer in power.
That's the neat part: they don't!
I can't help but wonder who the fall guy is gonna be when the guillotines finally come out. When the rich (enough) have felt enough pain for it to trickle-up to their betters. fElon? Trump? Big Balls?
Who's going to be the albatross around the neck keeping America from being Great Again?
Don't think it's going to be Trump. Their power hinges on him and his cult. Plus, he is very easy to manipulate, so the perfect marionette.
Elon seems to be a better candidate to take the fall. His cult is somewhat fading.
But honestly they might just prop up one of their goons.
Imagine believing that fascism has anything to do with saving money.
This kind of credulous reporting is a huge part of why we have fascism.
Musks only intent, from the get go, wasnt cutting costs/saving money/fixing waste.
His only intent was to undermind, disarm, and dismantle the agencies that were either actively investigating him, or held power to do so.
My mom's been bitching about how she can't pay for her water bill because of immigrants. Meanwhile the city is just trying to play catch up on infrastructure that's been neglected for decades.
Her bill isn't going to get any cheaper, but hey, at least everyone gets to fear for their lives now.
"God damn immigrants made my local government not do its necessary maintenance and upgrades for over 20 years, making me have to pay 20 extra dollars a month! GODDAMN THEM!"
Pretty fucking much. I've been arguing with her about (I know it's a waste of time but here I am).
Her evidence:
Mine:
But hey, "we each get to have our own conclusion" so fuck me I guess.
I swear, ever since Obama won the presidency, I feel like the collective intelligence of the country plummeted, cause even the closet racists and "enlightened centrists" gave up any semblence of rationality to lean hard into the racism.. Which trump them came in and threw jet fuel on and lit with thermite.
In his first term, Trump increased both the budget deficit and total outstanding debt with his unsustainable fiscal policy. Now, his antagonistic and erratic trade policy is raising Treasury yields. He and his political project are brewing the very debt crisis they keep fearmongering about. The solutions they contemplate, like currency devaluation, messing with the Federal Reserve, perpetual or century bonds and a partial default on repayment obligations to China, further erode trust in the global financial system that underpins American power.
Only far right politicians (and pundits) can get the numbers over 200% wrong and not just keep their job, but still be lauded as fucking folk heroes 🤦
Their voters seem to only care about what these politicians say, rather than what they actually do.
They're never going to hear this on fox much less conservative radio, or Sinclair much less farther right sources.
They also fired so many IRS employees that they're projecting a 500Bn Revenue loss.
Less IRS to go after billionaires. Theyll implement AI to make sure all the poors are taxed though.
They will make sure that they are overtaxed, too. And make the appeals process cost money, meaning they'll have far less money and far less time to deal with the bullshit.
So much winning.
well, yeah? They have a very simple and elegant strategy called "starve the beast" that they've been trying to do for decades and this appears to be it
They're offering a second round of paid-leave-to-quit at the IRS, and a lot more employees are going to take it this time around. There's not going to be many left.
Its what the gop always does. Republican in charge spending soars. Democrat in charge spending decreases. Its been that way as long as I've been alive.
Longer than that, I bet. This report from EPIAction doesn't specifically mention spending increases and decreases, but all other economic indicators have been better under Democrats than they have under Republicans for at least 75 years.
Since 1949, there has been a Democratic advantage in the average performance of key macroeconomic indicators measuring economic health, including:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth
Job growth
Unemployment rate
Growth in inflation-adjusted wages
Growth of market-based incomes per capita
Inflation
Interest rates
The US economy has performed better when the president of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance…The superiority of economic performance under Democrats rather than Republicans is nearly ubiquitous: it holds almost regardless of how you define success. By many measures, the performance gap is startlingly large.
So, they cut tons of services and research to give the money directly to DOGE and Elon. Cool.
Who's surprised by the guy responsible for a quarter of the deficit.
Debt. Deficit is year by year, debt is the cumulative amount. Trump create one quarter of the total debt of the US in his first 4 years.
Thank you. 🌠
Sieg Heiling Space Karen and Felon Drink Bleach are remarkable failures and idiots.
Increasing costs - all to very detrimental effect - with nothing but the spread of human misery to show for it.
It's that damn military show they're preparing for his birthday
Well, that, and the unexpected uptick in deportations to fucking everywhere, Narnia included. It's expensive, shoving all those kids into a fucking dresser. They scream a lot, and the poor agents need lots of vacations to recover.
Additionally, burning most of the air traffic controllers at the stake probably doesn't have anything to do with a dozen mid air collisions on the daily. That's all free anyway, thank god.
And launching all the irs agents into that volcano? Yeah, we probably shouldn't have done that, but hey! Big Balls won $50 on a scratchy! That'll help offset!
And sucker punching every person, in every country that's ever bought or made anything outside murica? It was pretty funny, but that's gonna sting soon.
And we never made any fucking money on tourism, so it's fucking GREAT that nobody ever comes here now!
Which means all those people at the national parks were obsolete, so fucking dump them!
And disaster recovery? After a disaster? Sorry, we can't. You don't think Big Balls won on his first scratchy, do you? That's cute!
I'm so glad we couldn't fund all those aid programs with the money already set aside under the guise of cOsT sAvInGs so they still ended up increasing spending. Can we start asking them when they'll start hiring all the people back since we can now see how inefficient this administration is. I know the answer to that but one can only dream.
He forgot to carry the minus sign when calculating how much he saved. You can tell the products he has direct input on designing, either that blow up, panels fall off, they run over toddlers, or they turn into a paperweight.
Or sometimes multiple outcomes are possible
They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Spending and deficit going up is a staple of a Republican government.
It's almost like cutting spending was never the actual plan, and they were more likely using that as a smokescreen for ideologically guided attacks on institutions they disagreed with.
Soooooo whatcha spending it all on, Cheeto? Elmo, you?
And of course Elmo didn't really make anything more efficient, he just looked at the government like an engine, took out the oil and gasoline filter, cuz only pussies use filters , took out three out of 6 cylinder because those three cylinders can just work a little harder, he took out the spark plugs because we don't party at the government, we just work hard, and he took out the clutch a nf gears because he's the world's greatest engineer, right? The engine then obviously never started again but that isn't the point, it's much lighter now, not?
Elmo are workds greatest engineer, yay!
And a large group of people actually applauded
Oh, did I mention that an enormous amount of money that elmo possesses he got from those same government for doing shit he never did? Three billion dollars to get us ready to go to Mars and for that we've seen Elmo blow up a banana over the Indian ocean. As ridiculous as they sounds, that's literally what we got.
Meanwhile Elmo has secrets been killing all the organizations that should control and or stop him, and nobody had batted an eye because that's the world we live in
Fuck Elmo, fuck Tesla, fuck spacext and fuck Elmo defenders. No, SpaceX is not an actually great company, it's a scam company, just like Elmo is.
its hard to imagine they put Elon's Musk in charge to actually see results. Lonnie was given a hatchet to erode civil liberties and take care of Dumpy's enemies and in exchange Musky Boy gets the power he always wanted to do the same. The system is working as intended here, the increase in spending is par for the course with Republicans; Reagan pulled the exact same shit and they lauded him for it.
Because it was always bullshit in the first place. I guess it’s well deserved for Americans because we prove it right all the time but the media really does assume we all have room temperature IQs and they just have no respect for us whatsoever
I am shocked. Shocked! It's almost like they lied just to get more rich like greedy MFers...
But that can't be right. Right, MAGAts? Right, scumbags who didn't bother to vote?
Friend in fedramp at tier 1 infra company said DHS is issuing POs like hot cakes in fear of losing budgets