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quickymart
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  #3346474 24-Feb-2025 23:37
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https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/24/key-us-agencies-refuse-to-comply-with-musks-latest-demand/

 

Confusion reigns at government departments where Musk (with the orange buffoon's backing) has demanded people basically justify their existence there, or be fired. Such a well-thought-out plan 🙄

 

Musk today called his latest request “a very basic pulse check”.

 

“The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!” Musk wrote on X.

 

“In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud.”

 

He has provided no evidence of such fraud. - gee, doesn't that remind you of someone??

 

 

 

(One could actually ask how Elon justifies his existence there - after all, no one voted for him, they voted for Trump).


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  #3346476 25-Feb-2025 00:57
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quickymart:

 

“The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!” Musk wrote on X.

 

 

This is probably because it was recommended that they should not reply. 😁

 

 





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  #3346477 25-Feb-2025 04:02
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This guy is an unguided missile. He has no idea what he's doing and saying. Besides, we must have been waiting for his congratulations on the federal election yesterday. In any case, we have narrowly managed to prevent a coalition government in Germany with the Elon backed far right (for now).

 

I fear he will regret his premature congratulations when the democratic work in Europe continues ... not in his favour. 😈





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  #3346562 25-Feb-2025 12:05
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The NY Times - Opinion: Here’s what Elon Musk accomplished last week: Trump Cabinet rebellion

 

today

 


Trump’s agency heads slap down an email blast to federal workers from Elon Musk. 

 

Musk’s email blast on Saturday to 2.3 million federal workers - ordering each to submit by Monday “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week,” with failure to respond constituting the employee’s resignation - was nothing but an exercise in contempt. And in many agencies, it was promptly countermanded. ...

 

Thus begins the inevitable power struggle at the court of Mad King Donald, between his various ministers of state and his billionaire Lord High Executioner. ...

 

Musk and his DOGE bros act as if they are playing a video game in which federal workers and programs are mere pixels on a screen. Pressure should and will mount for Trump to tell them: “GAME OVER.”

 





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  #3346710 25-Feb-2025 15:15
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Video shows the orange buffoon Trump licking Elon's feet at government office.

I wonder if a video showing Putin licking Kirill Dmitriev's feet ever appeared, what would happen to Kirill?

Trump agency TVs get hacked, humiliates Trump & Elon

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  #3346727 25-Feb-2025 16:08
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Snowflakes are facing tough times.





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  #3346729 25-Feb-2025 16:18
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Trump Targets China With a Maritime Salvo | Chinese Shipbuilding & Ships | Cruise Industry

What's Going on With Shipping?


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  #3346732 25-Feb-2025 16:52
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Not a lot of material about Trump, but a little. At 11 minute mark, interview turns dark:

interviewer: "Last season you told your viewers do not vote for Donald Trump"

John: "Absolutely I'm not going to sit here and say that that is not a partisan thing to do, to say 'don't vote for Donald Trump.' I think it's good advice."

interviewer: "But more than 77 million people voted for Donald Trump. Does your show speak to them?"

John: "I really hope it speaks to some of them, yes, because most of those main stories that we talk about are not actually party political. Those are lasting problems that have been there before the last two or three presidents, and may well be there for after the next two or three."

John Oliver: The 60 Minutes Interview

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  #3346744 25-Feb-2025 18:57
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Yep, bet all those Trump voters who wanted to "own the libs" are really patting themselves on the back with the way things are now 🙄


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  #3347768 25-Feb-2025 21:49
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Dear Marilyn, it’s just WYVIWYG! - What You Vote Is What You Get.





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  #3347790 26-Feb-2025 07:53
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This is before any promised tariffs have been enforced

Trump pledged to impose tariffs on Chinese goods, with some proposals suggesting duties as high as 60% on certain products.

He has repeatedly threatened imposing tariffs on Canadian goods

Trump promised to impose tariffs ranging from 25% to 100% on Mexican goods if Mexico did not take action to stop the flow of criminals and drugs into the United States.

This is vague enough that he will declare victory if two Mexican immigrants get caught crossing the border with a mostly smoked marijuana joint, a "roach"

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  #3348078 26-Feb-2025 14:55
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Trump did not understand Pearl Harbor, new book reveals: ‘What’s this all about?’: The Independent

Donald Trump barely knew of Pearl Harbor, was ignorant about the basics of geography and complained the US constitution was like reading “a foreign language”, a new book reveals.

A Very Stable Genius, by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, is the latest book detailing the Trump administration’s tumultuous three years in the White House.
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“Hey, John, what’s this all about? What’s this a tour of?” Mr Trump reportedly asked John Kelly, his then-chief of staff, when they took a private tour in 2017 of the USS Arizona Memorial, a ship commemorating the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War.

"Trump had heard the phrase 'Pearl Harbor' and appeared to understand that he was visiting the scene of a historic battle, but he did not seem to know much else," write the authors, who quote a former White House adviser concluding the US president was “dangerously uninformed”.

During a meeting with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister’s “eyes bulged out in surprise”, the Washington Post reporters claim, when Mr Trump told him: “It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.”

China and India in fact share more than 2,000 miles of common border.
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  #3348089 26-Feb-2025 16:11
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An elaborate memorial to all those he calls suckers who died does puzzle him naturally.
Its probably good Elon Musk was not with him to point out how they could eliminate the expense of upkeep and they could split the money. It might pay for one of the faces on Mt Rushmore to be recarved .

 

The bedside reading of Hitler's speeches was so much more inspiring.

 

I'm sure Trump can read what he wants to, given sufficient self interest.
He does employ a 'young thing' to print out articles glorifying him on a portable printer everywhere he goes.

 

Though perhaps equally well he can hear his Father schooling him on the great leader as he leafs through the pages his father made him memorize ?

 

 


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  #3348097 26-Feb-2025 16:34
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AI generated video, about our dear leader.

How to Know You Are In A Cult (1953)

Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies


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  #3348310 27-Feb-2025 10:39
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THIS is absolute lunacy. 

The very idea that he shared it to his social media platform is beyond unhinged. 





Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

 

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

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