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Willfully Horn

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  1. Musk has control of the Treasury’s disbursement of funds. “It’s alarming that Elon Musk is attempting to gain access to the Federal Government’s critical payment system, which is responsible for delivering Social Security checks, tax refunds, and Medicare benefits to Americans across the country,” Warren said in a statement provided to CNN. “It is equally alarming that Musk and the Trump Administration drove out the most senior career official at Treasury as the agency is already taking extraordinary measures to avoid a US default.” Musk (!) offers a smoke screen: “ “discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once.”
  2. Gotta go on the offensive, militarily, of course. ”U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he ordered military airstrikes on a senior Islamic State attack planner and others from the organization in Somalia.” https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-ordered-airstrikes-islamic-state-somalia-2025-02-01/
  3. The Catholic response? There’s no evidence of this. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/38293/did-irish-saints-perform-abortions-dont-believe-it-scholars-say
  4. Obviously, the richest need a tax break. Not a 90% tax on income and a 90%+ tax on wealth. We can conscript individual lives, of course, but never assets. Edited to say it would be far better to impoverish several hundred million souls than leave a dozen billionaires as multi millionaires.
  5. You say hamstring, the government says regulations must be followed. I guess you are okay burning it all down, because of pesky non pollution regulations?
  6. Just ask for gorginzola.
  7. You have been paying attention, right? The law is not channeling any of Trump’s, or Musk’s, actions this past decade … er, I mean this past week. I don’t think you are dumb or naive. But, we all get caught flat footed at times. I certainly have. turnip did fire the air safety board. ”Just last week, Trump FIRED the heads of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Coast Guard, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee,” one X post read. The Associated Press reported on January 21 that Trump fired those heads and removed all members of the committee.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/did-trumps-firing-of-aviation-officials-increase-likelihood-of-dc-crash And, the head of the FAA did resign, about a week ago, supposedly because of a clash with non-elected Musk. The clash, again, supposedly, was due to sanctions on Space X. ”Michael Whitaker, who had led the administration since Oct., 2023, stepped down earlier this month, announcing in a Dec. 12 email to his staff that he would be leaving the post effective Jan. 20, the day President Donald Trump took office.” https://time.com/7211655/elon-musk-former-faa-administrator-mike-whitaker-history/ Of course, none of this is humorous.
  8. Looks like the installation of obsequious media in the Pentagon is a fait accompli:
  9. While I read that a judge restored federal funding to states whose attorney generals filed suit, it looks like federal funds have been frozen for federal projects. At least, projects that displease turnip. And, finally: https://items.ssrc.org/insights/warning-signs-authoritarian-constraints-on-scientific-inquiry-in-the-recent-past/
  10. Figured we could focus on the actual coup. Deflectors and deniers are coprophagists. They have my permission to die in a fire.. Here is the only national politician addressing reality, as far as I know. Bring it on.
  11. I got you, hermano.
  12. Truth. I don’t believe @raw dog has thought it through, either, as both parties had come to an immigration reform deal. Now, he’s saying the problem is Ds didn’t go far enough. Were Ds supposed to leapfrog Rs to be on the more restrictive side? Fuck that.
  13. I thought you said their approval rating had tanked.
  14. Don’t sleep on the (non religious) tech bro apocalypse. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-20/tech-billionaires-are-planning-for-the-apocalypse/101546216
  15. Counterpoint Better get to the table as the clock is ticking.
  16. Time to buy property.
  17. Centrists moved to embrace a hard line on immigration and gained nothing. The right accrued power. Wtf are you suggesting? I’m not an ankle grabber.
  18. Mango Mussolini can’t buy guns, either. Doesn’t need them, though. Armed with nukes.
  19. Had the same thought. Also thought breathing exercises wouldn’t cut it.
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