Offthemat

The only way to make money off the data you are so convinced he is collecting (I’m not) is to sell it or use it for advertising. I don’t believe he is interested in selling it, he’s already the richest man in the world. As for advertising, as on X, he’d be better off collecting it from X, where it would more closely correlate to the people who visit the site and see the advertisements, not everybody in the country. It wouldn’t be efficient.

“Elon Musk is officially an employee of the US government — but he's not getting a paycheck” https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-special-government-employee-doge-2025-2?op=1

How so? He’s not getting paid for DOGE.

So, good management.

What you don’t seem able to differentiate is that Congress appropriates the money for USAID without direction of where to spend it.

You don’t understand that one is directed by Congress and the other is general funding for an agency? Drugs? Is that your excuse?

The information has been widely available for a long time. When they do something that sounds innocuous, like an irrigation project in Afghanistan, they pressured the Afghans to grow poppies. This is from over ten years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/15/when-is-foreign-aid-meddling/secret-programs-hurt-foreign-aid-efforts

Who’s idea was that?

The way USAID does it, about 90% is, yes. That’s why Marco Rubio is going to oversee the 10% that is legitimate and end the rest. USAID has developed into mostly a CIA cutout. If you don’t know that then you don’t know.

What personal financial gain?

You mean the funding that was proposed in a bill that was passed by Congress and signed by a previous president? Unlike the money the CIA cutout USAID was sending scattershot around the world for deleterious purposes.

Yep. Split it open against Teemer, bumped it hard Friday night, and again today. It hasn’t had time to heal and is probably at its peak for painful. It’ll probably leave a Frankenstein scar.

Supposedly knowledgeable announcers calling chicken wings arm bars.

That’s the problem, Musk, nor anyone else is pointing at legitimate aid, and what Trump has said is that that part of the program will be moved to the State Department, where it will be more responsibly managed. These squawkers aren’t informed, honest, nor do they care.

No, do it your way - let Politico go get the astronauts.

I would say there’s no similarity whatsoever.

“According to the Federalist–one of the last truly conservative media sites in America–in an article called Follow the Money: Feds Gave Millions to Left Wing Media Outlets to Politico, New York Times: “Federal agencies have been funneling millions to leftist media outlets including The Associated Press, Politico, Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, according to public grant disclosures. These legacy corporations have fashioned themselves the gatekeepers of information to the American public. But ever since 2015, when now-President Donald Trump announced his first campaign — and even earlier — they have spewed lie after lie in an attempt to control the political narrative.”“ https://johnkassnews.com/democrat-insanity-triggered-by-plain-common-sense/

And there’s none more afflicted.

Confused little boy cries wolf.

I thought they all moved down a weight so Weigel could get back in the lineup.

He wasn’t dropped from the program over his wrestling skills.

I don’t think anyone expected Witcraft or Young to win, Fish was a disappointment, but it happens.