Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Give me Greenland or you're dead – Trump
Exclusive: Denmark’s PM Opens Up About Fiery Trump Call, Greenland, and NATO’s Future
By Simon Shuster | February 20, 2025 8:03 AM EST
https://time.com/7259818/exclusive-denmark-frederiksen-trump-greenland
-interview/
Speaking anonymously since then to the media, European diplomats called the tone of the phone call “horrendous” and said the Danes are “freaked out” about the pressure Trump could bring to bear against them. In an exclusive interview with TIME on Feb. 16, Frederiksen spoke out in detail for the first time about her call with Trump, what it means for his relationship with Europe, and how she’s navigating new transatlantic tensions on Ukraine and NATO.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Feels normal if you are a disgrace to the human race:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.
Things just kind of feel normal again.
It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.
It's kind of nice, innit?
Happy Inauguration Day!
'It's morally disgusting': Trump torched for lying Ukraine 'should have never started' Putin's war
Trump is siding with Putin against Ukraine, just as he famously sided with Putin over the FBI.
And just as — or at least reminiscent of the way that — Charles Lindbergh and the America First Party sided with Hitler in 1938 when he invaded Austria.
And again in 1939 when he invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland.
And in 1940 when he invaded Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France.
And in 1941 (Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, the Soviet Union) — until Pearl Harbor, when they dropped their opposition to opposing Hitler.
And it got worse yesterday, as I’m sure you know, when Trump explicitly doubled and tripled down.
https://andrewtobias.com/must-watch-siding-with-putin/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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FUCK UKRAINE.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:Why not say fuck GOP Congressmen for being ungrateful for what Musk gives them?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
FUCK UKRAINE.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds
Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.
Senators have in recent days made the case to Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials to let money flow back into their states. They are trying to finagle exceptions to President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders or cuts made by billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service that freeze hundreds of billions of dollars, including money for farmers and infrastructure projects. That push comes as the administration has also sought to fire a wide swath of federal employees — some of whom live in red states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/19/trump-musk-senators
-funding/
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“He’s a fantastically bad manager — a tone-deaf bully who inspires ridicule rather than trust.”
On Monday, President Donald Trump nominated Ed Martin to become the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and thus one of the most powerful prosecutors in the country. Martin has been serving in the role on an interim basis for a month.
Because of Martin’s inexperience, he will need to persuade someone in his office to carry out his projects. Thus far, he seems to have done a terrible job of ingratiating himself to others: Most recently, the office’s top criminal prosecutor resigned rather than follow his allegedly improper orders. One former prosecutor in the office said, “He’s a fantastically bad manager — a tone-deaf bully who inspires ridicule rather than trust.” Perhaps as a result, Martin’s officewide emails are often leaked, including a message complaining about leaks.
More at U.S. Attorney Ed Martin May Have Already Messed Up Trump’s Retribution Tour
By Brendan Ballou | Feb 20, 2025 2:43 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/ed-martin-musk-trump-reven
ge-prosecutions-fail.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Why not say fuck GOP Congressmen for being ungrateful for what Musk gives them?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
FUCK UKRAINE.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Fuck GOP Congressmen regardless.
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U.S. Attorney Ed Martin May Have Already Messed Up Trump’s Retribution Tour
By Brendan Ballou | Feb 20, 2025 2:43 PM
Been hearing shit like this out of you for over 8 years now.
Nobody gives a shit.
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Quote:Donald Trump says he's going to expand IVF. Not quite, it turns out:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
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U.S. Attorney Ed Martin May Have Already Messed Up Trump’s Retribution Tour
By Brendan Ballou | Feb 20, 2025 2:43 PM
Been hearing shit like this out of you for over 8 years now.
Nobody gives a shit.
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Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall submit to the President a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment.
A list of policy recommendations falls a little short, no? What's more, Congress would have to pass these recommendations, something they've shown no inclination of doing in the past. It's just more smoke and mirrors.
“Don’t be fooled. Donald Trump’s executive order does nothing to expand access to IVF,” Duckworth said in a statement. “In fact, he’s the reason IVF is at risk in the first place. But if he is actually serious about taking real action to accomplish his own campaign promise to make IVF free for everyone, there’s a simple way he can prove it: He can call on Senate Republicans to immediately back my Right to IVF Act that would require insurance plans to cover IVF. Otherwise, it’s all just lip-service from a known liar.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-02-19/what-to-
know-about-trumps-ivf-executive-order
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Trump’s Economic Promises Timeline (Many promises of fast improvement before the election. After the election, promises changed to either slow or no improvement. Sometimes Trump even changed the prediction to economic conditions getting worse. Sad for you but that makes life easy for Trump.)
https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline
8/9/24:
NBC Montana, Trump Rally in Bozeman, MT, YouTube (August 9, 2024).
“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”
8/14/24
PBS NewsHour, Trump Rally in North Carolina, YouTube (August 14, 2024).
“Under my administration, we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months”
“Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”
8/17/24
PBS NewsHour, Trump speaks at campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, YouTube (August 17, 2024).
“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again. We’re going to make it affordable again.”
“We’re going to get your energy prices down. We’re going to get your energy prices down by 50%.”
9/5/24
NBC News, Trump Addresses Economic Club Of New York, YouTube (September 5, 2024).
@ 10:56 “We will bring our auto-making industry to the record levels of 37 years ago, and we’ll be able to do it very quickly through tariffs and other smart use of certain things that we have that other countries don't.”
@ 18:05 “Energy is going to bring us back. That means we’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs.”
@ 48:04 “We will eliminate regulations that drive up housing costs with the goal of cutting the cost of a new home in half. We think we can do that.”
9/18/24
Former President Trump Campaigns in Uniondale, New York, C-SPAN (September 18, 2024).
“While working Americans catch up, we’re going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates. We can’t let them make 25 and 30%.”
9/29/24
Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Campaign Rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Roll Call (September 29, 2024).
“We're going to get the prices down. We have to get them down. It's too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We're going to get the prices down. While working Americans catch up, we are going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates at 10%. People are being made to pay 25%. Temporary ban.”
10/1/24:
PBS NewsHour, Trump delivers campaign remarks in Waunakee as vice presidential debate set to begin, YouTube (October 1, 2024).
“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again. We’ll do that. We’ve got to bring it down.”
11/04/24
Former President Trump Campaigns in Pittsburgh, C-SPAN (November 4, 2024).
“A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper”
12/12/24
Time Staff, Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump’s 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME, TIME (December 12, 2024).
“I can’t guarantee anything. I can’t guarantee tomorrow”
1/5/25
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), X (January 5, 2025, 9:11PM).
“We must secure our border, unleash American energy, and renew the Trump tax cuts, which were the largest in history, but we will make it even better - There will be no tax on tips. It will all be made up with tariffs, and much more, from countries that have taken advantage of the U.S. for years.”
1/7/25
Associated Press, Trump holds a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, YouTube (January 7, 2025).
“We’re going to have prices down- I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.”
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DOGE Said It Cut $232 Million From Social Security Budget. It Was Only About Half a Million.
By Matt Sledge | February 20, 2025, 3:54 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/20/doge-social-security-cuts-musk-rec
eipts/
The “Department of Government Efficiency” claimed to have saved the American taxpayer nearly $232 million by canceling an IT contract for the Social Security Administration.
They were only off by about $231 million.
In fact, the government cut only $560,000, a paltry savings generated by yet another Trump administration anti-trans attack: the elimination of a project to develop an “X” gender marker for the agency’s internal databases. The Social Security Administration Wednesday confirmed the discrepancy between the DOGE claims and the actual total, which was first uncovered by The Intercept.
DOGE’s mixed-up math came as no surprise to Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, the director of government affairs at the Project on Government Oversight, who testified before the House DOGE subcommittee last week about the shortcomings of the Elon Musk effort.
“This, to me, is just part and parcel of the amateur-hour nature of what DOGE is doing,” he told The Intercept. “They’re going to destroy more than they help. It’s absolutely counterproductive.”
“They’re going to destroy more than they help.”
When Musk’s “Department of Governmental Efficiency” — officially the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization — was first announced in November, it seemed like little more than a stunt. Immediately following Trump’s inauguration, however, the initiative sprang into action with murky processes and unclear outcomes. The Social Security contract snafu is just the latest example of confusion spread by Musk and DOGE as they boast of big cuts that vanish upon closer inspection.
On Monday, in response to criticisms from Democrats that the entity was not producing evidence to back up Musk’s extravagant claims of success, DOGE first posted its “wall of receipts,” an effort billed as follow-through on promises of transparency.
The rollout since then has been anything but smooth. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that one claim of having saved $8 billion by axing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract was wildly incorrect, since the underlying contract only amounted to $8 million.
On Wednesday, other media outlets such as CNN picked apart DOGE’s claim to have saved $1.9 billion from USAID contracts — the hypothetical maximum of contracts that have so far only cost the government $55 million over several years.
The Cut That Wasn’t
The mislabeling of savings from cuts to the Social Security Administration stem from apparent confusion — or misdirection by DOGE — around a massive IT contract with Leidos, a Fortune 500 company that also contracts for defense and intelligence agencies.
Since 2018, Leidos has billed $1.5 billion to the Social Security Administration through an overarching contract that currently has a ceiling of $1.9 billion.
On the surface, the contract’s goals of upgrading Social Security software systems seem to align with Musk’s stated concerns about outdated technology.
Still, DOGE claimed that it had taken a hatchet to the contract, in the process slashing $231,864,794 in government spending.
The actual savings were limited to the funds allocated to the Gender X Marker project, and were orders of magnitude smaller: According to a Social Security spokesperson, DOGE snipped a grand total of $560,000. Somehow, by the time that cut appeared on the “wall of receipts,” the amount it purported to save the government had ballooned by hundreds of millions.
“The task order referenced on the DOGE receipt website includes numerous IT development efforts, one of which was Social Security’s former Gender X Marker project,” said the spokesperson, Darren Lutz. “While the overarching task order was not terminated, we continue to assess and identify other projects under this task order that may be cancelled or streamlined to create further cost savings.”
The cancellat
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