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That's the point, there's literally no way to verify it. It's just "trust Elon!", a man with an obvious, huge conflict of interest.

Governments are not corporations, nor should they be. I would suggest anybody that doesn't have billions of dollars of government contracts and thus doesn't stand to be able to wildly enrich themselves from within the government. The rest of your BS is just nonsense. Elon is no more free speech than his predecessors, you just don't care enough to look at his censorious actions and/or don't like the people he's censoring and they're ideologies so you're ok with it.

What experience does Elon Musk have with government efficiency?

People are interpreting this thread as a shot at Trump, when really it was more of a comment on the power McConnell still wields. Just a classic case of TDSDS. "'Orange Man Bad' is bad."

He has literally billions of government dollars that go to him and his companies, and now he gets to have a say in what government spending is wasteful. If you can't see the huge, huge issue with that...more power to you, I suppose.

I think there is a real possibility he could pick some place like Rutgers. I do not think, for once, that he is likely to go to Penn State because of the branding thing. I think it ends up being one of the other three on your list. Of course, betting against PSU in recruiting battles is typically a loser bet, so...

Literally anybody who doesn't have a vested interest. I am not. I was referring to the Government Accountability Office. Wonderful example of the fox in the henhouse, did Trump close those tax loopholes? Nope. Reduced corporate tax rates to 21% and most corporations paid way less than that because of loopholes, plus there was no closure on individual tax loopholes he brags about using in this clip. The tax system is designed to protect the uberwealthy and go after the middle class. Trump exacerbated this issue as president. That brings us back to the whole idea of this department. We all have to pretend as if Trump wasn't already president once. When he was president, how was government spending? Oh, huge spending constantly throughout? Gotcha. But Republicans and conservatives can, every 4 years, pretend they care about this issue and then do nothing about it for 4 years, great.

We shall see. They obviously should, but again, Trump et al wanted Rick Scott. Big Trump surrogates were attacking the idea of Thune or Cornyn just two days ago, guys like Tucker Carlson and RFK Jr. Take it up with them.

Just blatantly false, lol. Have you had yourself checked for TDSDS? Is the TDS in the room with you right now?

As opposed to Trump/MAGA preferred candidate Rick Scott. One last flex for dying turtle Mitch McConnell. Interested to see how this goes over with the famously temperate Trump wing.

As stated, multiple times, my issue is not with the idea, as always it's with the social media era infused execution. There already is an agency designed for this purpose. Strengthen it, give it teeth, if you truly want to do this. Nope, have to make a whole new department and put two billionaire campaign surrogates in charge (in the same role, no less, erego the original joke) one of whom has massive government contracts and thus has a vested interest in how this plays out.

If you guys can't read, that seems like a problem on a text-based format. Anyway, I'm sure nothing bad can happen when we let the billionaire oligarch with billions of dollars in government contracts have a say in how the government spends their money. It reminds me of the story.of how those silly, naive chickens needed help, so they let that wily fox into the house to help protect them. Everybody lived happily ever after!

Lol. Trump started claiming Obama was not a citizen. Yeah, the left left him.

Me: points out very specific criticism. You: wow, just blindly hating because it's Trump. Just the internet in a nutshell in that single exchange.

Yes, I would wager they do the same thing Trump did last time: forego the actual salary for a PR win while reaping huge financial benefits in slightly less direct ways, like forcing the government to pay full freight for Secret Service at your hotels, constantly traveling to your hotels, your son-in-law getting a $2 billion plus cash influx from the Saudi government for investing, etc, and just expecting the rubes not to notice and the sycophants not to care. For Elon it likely will come in continued massive government subsidies for Tesla (and attempting to close off any potential competitors) as well as his oth34 companies, and deregulation, plus the already promised massive tax cut. Possibly a little union busting legislation, too. Either way, there are currently two people assigned to lead a department that is supposed to target efficiency. A department that is, again, immediately redundant upon its creation.

The joke is he put two people in charge of a department targeting efficiency. Regardless, this is government, not a for-profit corporation, they are run completely differently, and when Elon strays outside of his technical lane, we get things like him cratering Twitter's value. Who knows, though, maybe his seat directly next to the most powerful man in the world will magically (and massively) financially benefit Elon. What a coincidence that would be, huh?

And appoints two billionaires to run said department, which, again, is ostensibly targeting efficiency. The jokes write themselves. And obviously they named it after a meme cryptocurrency, because nothing matters any more. Also the department is, at it's inception, immediately redundant with the GAO. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/12/congress/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump-00189209?fbclid=IwY2xjawGhDU9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeVk_neQy-monfqBR516iZ96u0F9VAus2eJl0q7gJ3_O6eem0mOOge81oA_aem_cLrV2O8rHM7M-Avof_VzmA

Truly original material. You should ask Spencer how he feels about the program.

If Jax goes anywhere besides Okie State I'll be flabbergasted, even with the weird recruitment tactics. I'd love to be wrong and pull him and Bo (and Melvin and Keegan) into the Iowa Vortex! I think Bo and Iowa are a perfect fit, in particular, for Bo's goals.

How can you bet against Penn State at this point when it comes to this type of recruit? Sucks, but it is what it is.

Eligibility? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Welp.

Lol. The chart is filled with snark. Classic demand for other people to abide by some standard of decorum while the other side of the debate doesn't.

"I want to have a serious conversation" *Posts cartoonish chart*

You phrased this to make it seem like they were coming back to the US. Instead, they'll be importing goods from Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil. So strike 1. Here's the quote: "The election of Trump as the 47th president of the USA is a private matter for the Americans," Hamas Political Bureau member and spokesperson Basem Naim told Newsweek, "but Palestinians look forward to an immediate cessation of the aggression against our people, especially in Gaza, and look for assistance in achieving their legitimate rights of freedom, independence, and the establishment of their independent self-sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital." So....yeah, exactly what they've been saying the whole time, I'm sure Netanyhu is just drawing up the paperwork to hand over Jerusalem. https://fullfact.org/online/houthis-surrendered-rumours-donald-trump-election/ There’s no evidence that a Houthi spokesman announced the “complete cessation” of the group’s operations in international waters in the hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the US presidential election. One post on X, which has been viewed more than two million times, says (when translated from Arabic using Google): “Houthi spokesman: Our operations in international waters were only defensive, and we announce their final cessation.” It has been screenshotted and included in posts by other accounts on X as well as Facebook and Threads, some including the caption: “Trump Has Just Been President Elect For A Few Hours & The Terrorist Houthi Spokesman Has Issued A Statement Ceasing Terror Operations On High Seas." But there is no evidence the Houthis, an Iran-backed rebel group in Yemen, have stopped their operations in the Red Sea. Credible reporting from the region does not mention any such statement or a ceasefire. In the last few hours, the group has reportedly shot down a US drone and has taken responsibility for a ballistic missile attack on an airbase in southern Israel. A statement by the Houthi leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, posted on 7 November, after Mr Trump won the US election said (translated from Arabic by Google): “Our operations continue in the seas and deep in the occupied territories, with a decision to deal with the camouflage operations of Israeli ships.” The Houthis have repeatedly targeted commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since November 2023, in action they say is in retaliation for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. It’s unclear exactly how many attacks there have been, with figures ranging between 130 and 190, but at least four sailors have been killed. Strike 3. ..he started the war. He wants to annex part of another country. Literally a thing every world leader says after an election. Plus there's this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/xi-jinping-trump-china-trade.amp