Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:Trump said tariffs would replace income taxes and also make America wealthy. I want Trump to collect those tariffs without delay so that I can cancel my taxes and so that little people such as 6ixStringJack can become wealthy. If I were 6ix, I'd be concerned that Trump is delaying collecting tariffs because he is also delaying making 6ix more prosperous.
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"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year.
Why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, so we'll just forget about that idea.
Who said he's forgoing tariffs?
He just put the leadership of Mexico and Canada on notice, and they both folded like lawn chairs in record time.
This isn't over. I've already told you this isn't over. The piddly little offer they made to get their 30 day stay on tariffs is only the beginning. And the fact that both of them came running to Trump to kneel and kiss the ring means that they have a hell of a lot more they'd be willing to offer.
You are a short-sighted idiot, and nobody believes you have any idea how to run a company, let alone own one.
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Elon Musk controls the check-writing of the US government. An unelected, very powerful, very wealthy person is exerting great control over the government.
As opposed to ... unelected, faceless bureacrats?
From what I gather, money was just hemorrhaging out of that payment system.
Another group of people who deserved being gotten rid if are the Inspectors General. Using the DOD as an example, if the Inspector General was really doing his job, why has the DOD failed every audit ever conducted on it?
It is not Musk doing this all by his lonesome and on a whim. He has a team of outstanding geniuses working to understand and ferret out government waste. If anyone can work their way thru arcane software systems, it's them.
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Elon Musk is hiding information so that he can't be sued for what he is doing
Employees working for the agency now known as DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
. . . under Elon Musk’s leadership, DOGE is actively taking steps to make sure its communications and records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, a records transparency law commonly used by journalists and lawyers to hold government accountable. Instead, DOGE is asserting that rather than reporting up through the Office of Management and Budget as the United States Digital Service did for years, it is reporting through the Executive Office of the President and to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Under OMB, it was generally subject to FOIA. Under the White House Chief of Staff, records it creates are generally not subject to FOIA.
This would make DOGE a Presidential Records Act entity, meaning records it creates are not FOIAble until years after a president leaves office rather than a Federal Records Act entity, which would make its records FOIAble now.
https://www.404media.co/doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using-slack-whi
le-agency-transitions-to-a-records-system-not-subject-to-foia/
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Quote:Musk had $50 billion in government contracts, but he can now pay himself far more than that. As a matter of fact, Musk can pay himself however much he wants. It is the ultimate case of Embezzlement by a bookkeeper.
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Elon Musk controls the check-writing of the US government. An unelected, very powerful, very wealthy person is exerting great control over the government.
As opposed to ... unelected, faceless bureacrats?
From what I gather, money was just hemorrhaging out of that payment system.
Another group of people who deserved being gotten rid if are the Inspectors General. Using the DOD as an example, if the Inspector General was really doing his job, why has the DOD failed every audit ever conducted on it?
It is not Musk doing this all by his lonesome and on a whim. He has a team of outstanding geniuses working to understand and ferret out government waste. If anyone can work their way thru arcane software systems, it's them.
Musk could theoretically be caught for Embezzlement by the Freedom of Information Act. But Musk will very soon not be required to answer pesky questions about his Embezzlement: https://www.404media.co/doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using-slack-whi
le-agency-transitions-to-a-records-system-not-subject-to-foia/
Elon Musk won't be limited to $400 billion in wealth when he can steal from the Federal Treasury. Musk will be the first $Trillion-aire in history with Trump's help.
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Look at Donald Trump’s two big tech-related proposals — a strategic cryptocurrency reserve and a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment. From the point of view of the national interest, the first makes no sense at all; the second might conceivably have merit, but sits oddly with the Trump administration’s attempts to unravel all the Biden administration’s efforts on behalf of strategic technology, let alone green energy.
But suppose that we think of these proposals not in terms of the national interest, but in terms of who would get the money. Who holds a lot of cryptocurrency that the government would buy up? Which companies do you think would receive the lion’s share of subsidies for AI?
There are some clear similarities between the 90s tech bubble and recent AI fever. But this bubble may end, not with a pop, but with a giant tech-bro bailout.
Trump orders administration to evaluate potential for 'national digital asset stockpile'
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-bitcoin-digital-asset-s
tockpile-strategic-reserve-cryptocurrency-rcna188921
Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/tech/openai-oracle-softbank-trump-a
i-investment/index.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump said tariffs would replace income taxes and also make America wealthy. I want Trump to collect those tariffs without delay so that I can cancel my taxes and so that little people such as 6ixStringJack can become wealthy. If I were 6ix, I'd be concerned that Trump is delaying collecting tariffs because he is also delaying making 6ix more prosperous.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year.
Why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, so we'll just forget about that idea.
Who said he's forgoing tariffs?
He just put the leadership of Mexico and Canada on notice, and they both folded like lawn chairs in record time.
This isn't over. I've already told you this isn't over. The piddly little offer they made to get their 30 day stay on tariffs is only the beginning. And the fact that both of them came running to Trump to kneel and kiss the ring means that they have a hell of a lot more they'd be willing to offer.
You are a short-sighted idiot, and nobody believes you have any idea how to run a company, let alone own one.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What do I care about income taxes?
On the rare occasion I do work I hardly ever make enough to have to pay any.
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Quote:President Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be making "rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system." This announcement follows two deadly aviation crashes last week. The winds of change are blowing today.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What do I care about income taxes?
On the rare occasion I do work I hardly ever make enough to have to pay any.
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-rapid-safety-upgrades-air-traffic-contro
l-elon-musk-2026875
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I'm still wondering what you're complaining about.
Trump and his team are doing great.
Love watching you flop around like a fish in the meantime though.
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Oh...
And how many more Democrat voters do you suppose you're going to lose by 2026 when word gets out that the DNC went so far left they fell off a cliff?
I'd worry more about cleaning your own house. You're going to waste another 4 years if you keep doing what you're doing.
And by that point the DNC's target demographic is going to be 18 to 26 year olds that are too stupid and naive to realize that a Democratic Party vote is a vote against themselves.
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Quote:The Musk-Trump administration is ripping apart old agreements and promises with the world. The many examples include:
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Oh...
And how many more Democrat voters do you suppose you're going to lose by 2026 when word gets out that the DNC went so far left they fell off a cliff?
I'd worry more about cleaning your own house. You're going to waste another 4 years if you keep doing what you're doing.
And by that point the DNC's target demographic is going to be 18 to 26 year olds that are too stupid and naive to realize that a Democratic Party vote is a vote against themselves.
• The illegal dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, outsourced to Elon Musk and his frighteningly young cronies, which is already cutting off needed aid to poorer populations and undercutting American trustworthiness.
• The obstruction of PEPFAR, which was supposedly allowed to keep funding HIV and AIDS treatment in Asia and Africa, but has in reality been effectively blocked from doing that lifesaving work.
• The revamp of the State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio, which is already agreeing to send convicted U.S. citizens to brutal prisons in El Salvador, appointing white nationalists and Capitol insurrectionists to key positions, and all but scuttling necessary foreign aid.
• Trump’s latest threat to stop sending money to South Africa because of racist conspiracy theories about the supposed disenfranchisement of white Afrikaners.
• The withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, an expected but still frustrating backtrack that’s occurring as vulnerable nations continue to suffer the worst effects of the climate crisis and require assistance from richer nations.
• The withdrawal from the World Health Organization, plus the demand that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immediately stop working with the group and allow public health data to be censored on ideological grounds.
• Trump’s conditioning of further military support for Ukraine on the embattled country’s willingness to send over more of its rare earth materials.
• The ongoing destruction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is already deleting urgent public data on carbon dioxide emissions and weather patterns.
• Trump’s call for the U.S. to “take over” the Gaza Strip, all but endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population while once again cutting off needed aid.
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