DOGE employee cuts fall heavily on agency that regulates Musk’s Tesla

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45 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Is that why you had to move to third world Cambodia, because you couldn't afford Thailand prices anymore?

Now be fair. For all we know for sure, he could be living in a room in the Brisbane YMCA. A roomie hasn't left in the past 50 years. For all we know for sure.

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1 hour ago, blaze master said:

 

Really ? I recall you supporting a mentally unfit biden while the poster you are replying to tried to warn you he wasn't fit.

I recall going into this with you before. And you never offered any proof then. 

[Mavideol]

1 hour ago, mogandave said:

Tax evasion is illegal. That’s how they got Cohen to flip on Trump. Do you think Musk and or Trump are tax evaders?

that's very possible, Musk dealings are very controversial as for Trump,  @placeholder provided you with more than enough evidence

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4 minutes ago, PomPolo said:

I think the conflict of interest ship probably sailed before the inauguration!

Just because there were 40 anonymous whales who purchased huge quantities of Trump's meme coin just before he took office? Why don't you understand that because they are invisible that means that they are also transparent?

And transparency is crucial.

[PomPolo]

3 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Just because there were 40 anonymous whales who purchased huge quantities of Trump's meme coin just before he took office? Why don't you understand that because they are invisible that means that they are also transparent?

And transparency is crucial.

Confused with this response 🙂 

Are you saying that the trump BS coin is crypto fraud?
Invisibility I guess totally different to transparency 🙂

[Dan O]

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Show me one lawsuit that will be sucessful. Pick one. The one you want. Show us how its a winner. You wont and cant. you dont even know how to cite.

You are making idiotic statements again. I didn't bring the lawsuits and they won't make it thru the courts without merit.

 

I have heard stupid comments but this one takes the prize. You take the list and tell us how they will lose or are not valid? You can't and won't because you do no research and are just a trumpbot running your mouth.

 

You wait and see which are successful and which are not then you will know. There are more coming. 

 

His poll numbers are dropping rapidly and the GOP congressmen and women are being grilled in their states constantly about when they will take action against Trump and doge actions. They can't even give coherent responses because there are none.

 

Inform yourself before you troll posts. Are you even an American citizen?

[spidermike007]

No amount of dribble can justify the terror and the destruction that Trump has rained down upon America in just one month's time. 

[Dan O]

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

Reading the news does not make you smarter, it makes people dumber. You need to do puzzles and solve problems to grow. That's what Musk is doing.

He's such an IT  genius he didnt even understand that the SS base software was written in Cobol so the date issue he kept referring to about people 150 years old, older or dead was a none existing artifact of the software. Helping to fire tge security at nuclear storage facilities and Nation Defense facilities was great along with the FAA firings of tech support and radar operation and maintenance staff doesn't present any issue.  Are those the problems he's solving ? 

[Harrisfan]

23 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

No amount of dribble can justify the terror and the destruction that Trump has rained down upon America in just one month's time. 

Destruction? Where do you get your news from?????

[SunnyinBangrak]

21 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

No amount of dribble can justify the terror and the destruction that Trump has rained down upon America in just one month's time. 

Hard to say what is more enjoyable. Seeing the deep state and its corruption (that we were promised was just a conspiracy) being smashed to smithereens, or the impotent rage being spewed by lefties( that ensured us it was a conspiracy) because their perverse mega $$ deep state era is over.

Best twofer ever IMO

[Harrisfan]

1 minute ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Hard to say what is more enjoyable. Seeing the deep state and its corruption (that we were promised was just a conspiracy) being smashed to smithereens, or the impotent rage being spewed by lefties( that ensured us it was a conspiracy) because their perverse mega $$ deep state era is over.

Best twofer ever IMO

Yes it's great watching grown men lose it in only a month. 4 more years of meltdowns. In 2029 what will they talk about? 

[candide]

1 hour ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Hard to say what is more enjoyable. Seeing the deep state and its corruption (that we were promised was just a conspiracy) being smashed to smithereens, or the impotent rage being spewed by lefties( that ensured us it was a conspiracy) because their perverse mega $$ deep state era is over.

Best twofer ever IMO

Which deep state imaginary corruption? 

[SunnyinBangrak]

5 minutes ago, candide said:

Which deep state imaginary corruption? 

The one you guys have been crying over since Musk/DOGE kicked the lefts corrrupt hornets nest square in the jimmys.

[MicroB]

https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-doge-staffer-is-grandson

 

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Among the cadre of DOGE engineers now rooting through the guts of the administrative state, few have attracted more curiosity than Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, a 19-year-old coder who interned for three months for Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company. ..........

 

......A lot about DOGE remains unknown – like who’s officially in charge – but Coristine has email addresses at USAID and the Department of Homeland Security and was recently seen inside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the State Department. Across the federal government, he seems to have the run of the place.

 

.....There’s one aspect of Coristine’s background that has escaped public notice: his grandfather, Valery Martynov, was a KGB spy who played an intriguing role in a sprawling 1980s espionage drama.

 

 

His Grandfather was tricked into returning to the USSR, was arrested and executed. His Grandmother blames the US for outing him and not helping him.

 

 

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In 1994, Natalya Martynova, still mourning her husband, spoke bitterly of her family’s experience in an interview with the Washington Post. She said that, after Ames’ arrest earlier that year, she had contacted the U.S. embassy, requesting assistance. "If he was really working for them, I think some kind of help would be fair," Martynova told the paper’s Fred Hiatt. "Of course, maybe it was all concocted here, and he was not working for the Americans. I am sure I will never know the truth... . The main thing is that I want my children to be somehow protected."

 

Sometime later, Martynova moved with her two children to the United States, where she started a new life. Her son became a Virginia police officer who sometimes posts comments on blogs about his historically famous father. Her daughter became a financial professional who married Charles Coristine, the proprietor of LesserEvil, a snack company. Among their children is a 19-year-old young man named Edward Coristine, who currently wields an unknown amount of power and authority over the inner-workings of our federal government.

 

 

This is why Developed Vetting, or whatever the Americans call the same process, exists. DV can go really deep, probing the beliefs of your grandparents and neighbours. Its designed to weed out the Sleepers and keep society safe

 

 

[MicroB]

4 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

Is that why you had to move to third world Cambodia, because you couldn't afford Thailand prices anymore?

 

 

delete

[MicroB]

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

Now be fair. For all we know for sure, he could be living in a room in the Brisbane YMCA. A roomie hasn't left in the past 50 years. For all we know for sure.

 

 

I recall on ARRSE, a forum for mainily ex-British servicemen, there was an account where the poster had come up with a biography that he was ex-British soldier, settled in Australia but traveling around in Asia, and of independant means. Part of that biography included a resentment at British foreign policy at the time in the Middle East. So he was pretty consistant with his posts, using army lingo as needed, and displaying some knowledge of the services. But there were a few lapses, and sometimes he had apparently forgotten his back story, or his English would get quite poor. The account was outed when someone pointed out the times he was posting at fitted with Moscow time, not Bangkok/Bali/Sydney time. Then he admitted, he was a Russian, and this was his job. There were shifts that operated the account, with handover notes. He was still quite genuinely anti British/West, which was fine, and the debate became more honest.

 

So take all of our claims about ourselves with a strong pinch of salt I suppose is the message.

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4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Oh. You think her organization was entitled to a........BILLION DOLLARS? Is this the new Thieves Law? Give us first and chase it later?

 

Its not your money so why do you care other than your desire to troll.. Save your bile for when you have to pay more to defend yourselves. Its gonna be great watching you leeches in Europe squeal.

More nonsense allegations about my nationality. Even if my views differed from many commentators known to be Americans, you still wouldn't have a valid point. But they don't. You do have something massive to back up your claims though: fanaticism.

[MicroB]

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This is not surprising at all, if the supporters of Trump realized the extent of the corruption and the moral decay of both Trump and Musk, they would be utterly appalled and my guess is that within a year or two they will begin to realize just who they supported. 

 

I do have some friends that will come right out and say the man is a butthead, he's an idiot, and he's an absolute clown, but I like his policies. Those are the Republicans I admire. I'm a Democrat but during the Obama presidency and the Biden presidency I was very willing to criticize some of their very ignorant policies. Very, very few Republicans seem to be willing to engage in that sort of intelligent banter. Only fealty, with absolutely no criticism allowed, it would appear. 

 

With many people, once they got attached to a theory, it was hard to get them detached. They’d screen out unhelpful facts, invent favorable ones, and ignore contradictions in their own claims. Look at those Sandy Hook, multiple fraud convictions, and Jan. 6th truthers, babbling about false flags and crisis actors and all the rest. When people were motivated enough to believe something, they were going to believe it no matter what. There was no such thing as a bridge too far.

 

 

https://thesignsoflife.com.au/cult-behaviour/

 

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What can a cult look like?

• Members of the group are encouraged into unwavering faith in the group and its cause (Kern & Jungbauer, 2022).
• Behaviour or intentions that aren’t displayed honestly or openly.
• People within the group strongly defend the group, its identity, values and any cause it represents to anyone who disagrees with their position.
• People outside of the group can be perceived as dangerous, capable of undermining the group in some way or living in opposition to the aims of the group (Tajfel and Turner, 2004).
• People within the cult are encouraged to stay away from outsiders (Collins, 2020) and can be forbidden from having relationships or friendships if the people don’t belong to the group (Collins, 2020).
• People who leave the group can be outcasted, losing family, friends and relationships. 
• People who leave (or are thinking about leaving) can have their reputation, livelihood, or relationships threatened.
• The group and its leader might have tactics to isolate and scare a person who considers leaving, and to prevent them from speaking out against the group.

 

 

With the DOGE cuts, one has to wonder what's happening about recruitment of Customs Officers, given that the US is instigating an extremely complex range of tariffs.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

The one you guys have been crying over since Musk/DOGE kicked the lefts corrrupt hornets nest square in the jimmys.

Another case of circular reasoning.  The hornets nest or whateve please you to call it is corrupt because Musk claims it is which proves that it's corrupt. As pointed out before, William Barr tried his damnedest to proof such a claim in the case of the Justice Dept and completely failed.

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3 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Hard to say what is more enjoyable. Seeing the deep state and its corruption (that we were promised was just a conspiracy) being smashed to smithereens, or the impotent rage being spewed by lefties( that ensured us it was a conspiracy) because their perverse mega $$ deep state era is over.

Best twofer ever IMO

Thanks for sharing your feelings with us. That is so wonderfully feminine of you. Even if utterly irrelevant to the topic at hand. Still, good to see you're in touch with your female side.

[candide]

2 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

The one you guys have been crying over since Musk/DOGE kicked the lefts corrrupt hornets nest square in the jimmys.

Ah, you mean the one made up by Musk and Trump! 🤣

 

Repeat later your masters: corruption, corruption!

[freedomnow]

Tariffs, deportation of (illegal) income generating foreigners, mass lay-offs in central government...time to buy gold ?....

Unfortunately with the price move in gold I think the smart money got in over 12 months ago...steady 50% incline in a year.

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4 hours ago, PomPolo said:

Confused with this response 🙂 

Are you saying that the trump BS coin is crypto fraud?
Invisibility I guess totally different to transparency 🙂

It was a joke. The point being of course, that Trump's meme coin makes it possible to win his favor with money with little chance of being outed. You may recall that Qatar once helped to bail out the Kushner family from a disastrous investment made by Jared Kushner. It was a deal that made no financial sense for the investors. It was only due to a quirk of NY State law that Qatar's participation was revealed. At the time, Kushner was in charge of Middle East affairs. He was working to reconcile the Saudis and the Qataris.

[MicroB]

6 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Good

 

Obviously the Tesla Robotaxi, which is critical for the future of the company and its revenue stream, needs less regulatory oversight.

 

 

 

Cybertaxi is critical to Musk, not because he merely wants to monopolise the US cab market (which he will), but because the passengers become a captive source of data, which is much more valuable. The most valuable data of course being biological; the biological signature you leave behind just being sat in the back of the taxi. It will all belong to Musk to train his AI (because that will be part of the T&Cs on the App that you have to use if you have any hope of getting a cab from the airport, from the bar, to the hospital).

 

Breath analysis  and non-invasive genomic analysis is coming.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36290855/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05943-x

 

[Harrisfan]

6 minutes ago, MicroB said:

 

Obviously the Tesla Robotaxi, which is critical for the future of the company and its revenue stream, needs less regulatory oversight.

 

 

 

Cybertaxi is critical to Musk, not because he merely wants to monopolise the US cab market (which he will), but because the passengers become a captive source of data, which is much more valuable. The most valuable data of course being biological; the biological signature you leave behind just being sat in the back of the taxi. It will all belong to Musk to train his AI (because that will be part of the T&Cs on the App that you have to use if you have any hope of getting a cab from the airport, from the bar, to the hospital).

 

Breath analysis  and non-invasive genomic analysis is coming.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36290855/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-05943-x

 

Never use taxis

[Harrisfan]

15 minutes ago, placeholder said:

It was a joke. The point being of course, that Trump's meme coin makes it possible to win his favor with money with little chance of being outed. You may recall that Qatar once helped to bail out the Kushner family from a disastrous investment made by Jared Kushner. It was a deal that made no financial sense for the investors. It was only due to a quirk of NY State law that Qatar's participation was revealed. At the time, Kushner was in charge of Middle East affairs. He was working to reconcile the Saudis and the Qataris.

So Trump is smart. Glad you admitted it.

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16 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

So Trump is smart. Glad you admitted it.

It's funny. Your takeaway from this is that Trump is smart. So you think that other presidents didn't engage in flagrant conflicts of interest because they weren't smart?  He's just greedy and ethically clueless. The system of governance always assumed that the Chief Executive would have some respect for ethics and morality. So it's not built for a creature like Trump. Or a Supreme Court that enables his criminal activity. Or Americans who actually believe there's nothing wrong in setting up a system where bribery is enabled.

[Harrisfan]

24 minutes ago, placeholder said:

It's funny. Your takeaway from this is that Trump is smart. So you think that other presidents didn't engage in flagrant conflicts of interest because they weren't smart?  He's just greedy and ethically clueless. The system of governance always assumed that the Chief Executive would have some respect for ethics and morality. So it's not built for a creature like Trump. Or a Supreme Court that enables his criminal activity. Or Americans who actually believe there's nothing wrong in setting up a system where bribery is enabled.

He isn't a pensioner. Instead he is working and living the dream. So yes he is smart. 

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I think the reason that Trump supporters here are having problems understanding the problem is that they don't know what "conflict of interests" means. (Maybe because they are not native speakers of English?) Anyway, here's a definition:

"A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. Typically, this relates to situations in which the personal interest of an individual or organization might adversely affect a duty owed to make decisions for the benefit of a third party."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest

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18 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

He isn't a pensioner. Instead he is working and living the dream. So yes he is smart. 

Try to keep in mind that he his gather gave him about half a billion dollars. And a business that Trump ran into the ground. Whether smart or not, ethically speaking, he's a slimeball.