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So being a systems genius (and the singular guy who put electric cars on the US map) should disqualify him from gub'ment audit work? And his Twitter purchase shows he's pretty much incorruptible by mere money. He's exactly who and what we need. I'm not a big fan of his ego, but I can live with that if he identifies $trillions of waste and fraud. And he's well down that path in the limited time and access that he's had. BTW, the projects you've named add up to a few percent of his net worth. I don't believe he'd piss away his legacy for another few percent.

Take away the baby blood and you've pretty accurately described the Diddy sex parties. Which is why they probably dreamed up and spread Pizzagate. So anyone who mentioned the Diddy sex parties would be scoffed at and ridiculed.

Maybe that's because he can deliver when the old standards like Boeing can't. Or won't. The US would be much weaker if Space X (and Starlink) weren't getting $ billions from the US gub'ment to do amazing things. And no telling what other secret squirrel projects his companies are working on.

Did that stop China (or Thailand or SEA) bound US flights from the west coast from overflying Russia? I can't count the number of times I've flown over Russia on the way from LA, SF, Seattle, Vancouver and Anchorage. Not any more... Euro airlines are also screaming bloody murder because they're being undercut by airlines that can overfly Russia to SEA. That cuts the flight time and fuel use.

Yet you're screaming bloody murder when DOGE gets in, audits and reveals that corruption. That's the beauty of Trump. He's an outsider. He can't be blamed for decades of rot like, for example, Biden. Had the Biden administration revealed decades of corruption, Biden would have been smack dab in the middle of it, after 40+ years in various offices. To answer the OP question, neither. Musk and DOGE have been hired to audit the books. Then the elected leaders with the legal authority will either dismantle the swamp, or not. Either way, the corruption will be a festering sore that the public will finally see.

That's when anyone does anything he disagrees with.

My biggest question is which of the lefties just hate Trump so bad they'll do anything to damage him, regardless of how much it hurts the USA and the American people, and which of them are so balls deep in the corruption that they can't afford to have it come out lest they lose their livelihood and maybe even end up in prison. And in a nod to Kamala, the Venn diagram where those 2 groups intersect. I'll betcha that's a big overlap.

Don't you mean a welcome acknowledgement that there are places in the world where it's virtually impossible to do business without greasing a few gub'ment palms? Why should Americans concede that business to other countries that are less prudish in their FCPA laws? Which is most of them... MAGA. Let Thailand (et al) deal with Thai (et al) corruption. Not our job.

Is that the same as an American nooner?

I'm sure Trump is getting a lot of pressure from US airlines who are losing business because they can't fly over Russkie airspace. That costs time and fuel that Russkie friendly countries' airlines don't have to spend. Trump's not big on conceding business to competitor nations.

I wish I could say that's the stoopidist thing I ever did at that age.

They lost me when they quit accepting cash. Went 2 doors down and got a great coffee for half the money and they took my cash. Starbucks is still better if all you want to do is sit and watch the scenery walk by. But I feel bad sitting there with no spend...

I wonder if that's how he lost that leg, and now he's on a one dog crusade against cobras?

Because that worked so well in November? By all means... Keep doing it.

Has the market price of crushed concrete gone up? From a selfish standpoint, I'd like to see a reduction in the US tax money going to protect Israel. $$Billions a year...

I wonder how many lives have been saved with commuters unable to buy alcohol before the drive home. It's still a silly rule.

Back door reminded me of Cornholio.

I know, right? Take me out back and put me out of my misery if I ever get petty enough to call for someone to be locked up or deported for something that trivial. Even Russkies. Which is probably the root of most of the hate on this thread.

Which makes it even likelier that the x-ray story is fabricated to hide the real process they used. I can believe they were ratted out by someone. I can believe that there were dogs working discretely in the back rooms. But I cannot believe that an x-ray machine was able to distinguish between cake mix and cocaine in a box packed in luggage. I carry spices, soup mix, pancake mix and cake mix through airports all the time. So many people do, that they'd have to be really lucky to find the cocaine in all that background.

I wonder how many drug sniffing dogs it would take to cover the entire Bali airport luggage system? Not many, I'd bet. 'Couple of pounds of kibble a day, a rubber ball to chase as a reward, and they're probably better than any x-ray machine. What a dumb move...

Looks like the Danes are scraping up some coin to make an offer on California. If they agree to take Newsom and Bass, maybe we can work out some kind of a straight across trade? A crowdfunding group in Denmark has proposed that their country acquire the US state of California for $1 trillion and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries. Danes offer to buy California — RT World News Who said that GoFundMe was useless?

MB is being hard on Jingthing. I don't think Jing wears any makeup. And did his father even have a lawyer?

Maybe. But I hear she can sing okay.

I expected more crazy and deranged.

I love the way they classify Louisiana and Florida as their own countries. Virginia, not so much. It must be Blue.