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Sardines said:
Agreed. Cruelty is a feature, not a bug. Absolutely no MAGA supporters care about this ****.
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Ya I mean I'm not looking at the maga posters posts but I'm extremely confident that not one of them made a post like "maybe the US shouldn't deport a 10 year old US citizen recovering from brain cancer".
I'm 99% certain.
 
fishonjazz said:
Ya I mean I'm not looking at the maga posters posts but I'm extremely confident that not one of them made a post like "maybe the US shouldn't deport a 10 year old US citizen recovering from brain cancer".
I'm 99% certain.
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I'm not looking at their posts either. I'm very proud of my self control lately, I have not been peeking at their posts.
 

However, the DOGE payments encountered a potential setback, as recent fiscal reports indicate that Musk's department's anticipated savings have not materialized.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported a 5 percent increase in the federal deficit for February, driven by a 7 percent rise in spending compared to the same period last year.

The DOGE stimulus initiative proposes directing 20 percent of the department's savings to taxpayers and another 20 percent to reduce the national debt. It estimates DOGE could save $2 trillion in 18 months, allowing $400 billion to be distributed to about 79 million taxpayers, providing $5,000 checks each.

The latest CBO data casts doubt on the feasibility of these savings. The federal government borrowed $1.1 trillion in the first five months of Fiscal Year 2025, including $308 billion in February alone.

This borrowing trend raises questions about the effectiveness of DOGE's cost-cutting measures and the likelihood of achieving the projected savings needed to fund the stimulus checks.

Even with the potential savings of recent cuts, stimulus checks are an incredibly expensive endeavor for a government already deeply in debt and facing no pandemic-level emergency to undertake.
 
fishonjazz said:

However, the DOGE payments encountered a potential setback, as recent fiscal reports indicate that Musk's department's anticipated savings have not materialized.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported a 5 percent increase in the federal deficit for February, driven by a 7 percent rise in spending compared to the same period last year.

The DOGE stimulus initiative proposes directing 20 percent of the department's savings to taxpayers and another 20 percent to reduce the national debt. It estimates DOGE could save $2 trillion in 18 months, allowing $400 billion to be distributed to about 79 million taxpayers, providing $5,000 checks each.

The latest CBO data casts doubt on the feasibility of these savings. The federal government borrowed $1.1 trillion in the first five months of Fiscal Year 2025, including $308 billion in February alone.

This borrowing trend raises questions about the effectiveness of DOGE's cost-cutting measures and the likelihood of achieving the projected savings needed to fund the stimulus checks.

Even with the potential savings of recent cuts, stimulus checks are an incredibly expensive endeavor for a government already deeply in debt and facing no pandemic-level emergency to undertake.
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Not to mention, how are they going to send out a stimulus if they ain't got nobody to sign the ****ing checks?
 
"Tesla shareholders are facing yet another rough patch as key insiders continue to sell off their shares at an alarming rate. This time, it was board member James Murdoch who added to the ongoing turmoil. On Monday, the company revealed that Murdoch had offloaded a significant amount of stock, worsening the already declining situation.

Murdoch exercised stock options for 54,776 shares, receiving them as part of his compensation for serving on the board. However, instead of holding onto them, he immediately sold them off for $13.2 million in cash. This transaction contributed to Tesla experiencing its worst single-day stock decline since September 2020.

Murdoch wasn’t alone in his decision to sell. Over the past few weeks, other high-profile figures connected to Tesla have also cashed out their shares. Chairperson Robyn Denholm, along with Elon Musk’s younger brother, Kimbal Musk, and Chief Financial Officer Vaibhav Taneja, recently sold their stock as well. These moves have left dedicated retail investors feeling uneasy, as they rely on key figures in the company to show faith in the stock rather than selling at a low point."


 
Sardines said:
Today Trump asked the Supreme Court to allow him to end birthright citizenship.

In short, he doesn't consider that little girl a U.S. citizen and wants to make it official.

Trump is a ****ing monster.
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Oh and just to add some context. Birthright citizenship was part of making sure that emancipated slaves were considered as full U.S. citizens. So I can see a few reasons why Trump is against it.
 
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Red said:
A little forgiveness for mass murderers. Musk reposted a tweet that might annoy some…

www.independent.co.uk

Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages

‘Our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians ... are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers,’ fires back angry union president
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk





Musk does seem to find a humorous side to the Holocaust:


View: https://x.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1882477385804919159
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Musk is not entirely wrong.

Sure Hitler and the nazi elite gave the orders BUT they were carried out by people at lower levels- often with enthusiasm.

You see the German people had been softened up with decades of a blizzard of lies about a minority group, against whom they already had their own prejudices

They subverted all the state institutions and got rid of dissenters. Everyone who disapproved was too scared to do anything about it

They had a plan to make Germany great again, which was swallowed hook, line and sinker by enough people to vote them into power

Does anyone see any parallels?

The nazis dismantled the State, incidentally also on accusations of inefficiency. What remained was then bypassed by a flurry of parallel nazi institutes.

Read:

Fritzsche, Peter (2021). Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-887112-5.

Joseph Goebbells promoted misinformation about minorities to incite the general public into acts of violence.

at Hitler's behest.

much the same is going on in the US right now.
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fishonjazz said:
Musk is not entirely wrong.

Sure Hitler and the nazi elite gave the orders BUT they were carried out by people at lower levels- often with enthusiasm.

You see the German people had been softened up with decades of a blizzard of lies about a minority group, against whom they already had their own prejudices

They subverted all the state institutions and got rid of dissenters. Everyone who disapproved was too scared to do anything about it

They had a plan to make Germany great again, which was swallowed hook, line and sinker by enough people to vote them into power

Does anyone see any parallels?

The nazis dismantled the State, incidentally also on accusations of inefficiency. What remained was then bypassed by a flurry of parallel nazi institutes.

Read:

Fritzsche, Peter (2021). Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-887112-5.

Joseph Goebbells promoted misinformation about minorities to incite the general public into acts of violence.

at Hitler's behest.

much the same is going on in the US right now.
Sent from my OPD2203 using Tapatalk
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As someone, usually attributed to Voltaire, once said, paraphrasing, “if you can get people to believe absurdities, you can get them to commit atrocities”.
 
Another reminder that the cruelty is the point. 10 year old U.S. citizen with cancer deported….

www.independent.co.uk

Texas child being treated for cancer is deported to Mexico with undocumented parents

‘The fear is horrible. I almost can’t explain it, but it’s something frustrating, very tough, something you wouldn’t wish on anyone,’ mother says
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A Texas child and U.S. citizen being treated for brain cancer has been deported to Mexico along with her undocumented parents.

The parents of the 10-year-old girl are now desperate to return to the U.S. to continue her treatment, after immigration enforcement removed the child and four of her U.S.-born siblings from Texas on February 4, according to NBC News.

The family was traveling from their home in Rio Grande to Houston for an emergency medical check last month when they were stopped at an immigration checkpoint. They’d visited the specialists five other times without problems, lawyer Danny Woodward, who is representing the family with the Texas Civil Rights Project, told NBC.
 
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