A deranged billionaire who regularly converses with Putin has assembled a team of a half dozen babyfaced techbros and they’re literally breaking into secure federal buildings and accessing sensitive systems and data.  Neither the people nor the hardware have been vetted.  DOGE hasn’t been created by Congress, Muskrat…

the condoms thing was made up bs 

Don’t be surprised. These are the same people who would never believe in a merciful God because they like the idea of an angry, vengeful one so much better.

That’s just “Nazis”.

USAID also offers informal insights and intelligence into countries we aren’t typically friendly with. Same as with NGOs - you can learn a lot from just mingling with the locals, which often leads to useful intelligence.

Why is this filthy, Nazi scumbag defiling my country?

It’s interesting how little the MAGA folks understand about how power actually works. Sure we can threaten other countries with our military strength, in much the same way that pariah states like Iran do (whole other conversation). 

USAID was a form of soft power not unlike the diplomatic services. It was the US doing things that were, at first glance, “merely” charity and aid, but also gave us a lot of less obvious benefits. Once again, we shoot ourselves in the foot for short-term gain, but long-term losses. The world is more chaotic and less…

Will blue ketamine keep that space junk up?

No, that actually costs money.  

Perhaps Elon wasn’t doing a Nazi salute and was just pointing to falling space junk? 

Oh, Audi got feedback from dealers and customers. So they are going to go back to knobs and switches on everything now too, right? Riiiiight???

Came here for cars, got an economics lesson... no regrets.

Awesome stuff.

“I could be wrong and he’s that stupid”

So normally I would come on here and call conservatives a bunch of pejoratives, but I’ve had a number of social media interactions that make me think perhaps people legitimately don’t understand how economics and government budgets work. So this is going to be a rare, good-faith attempt from me to explain this stuff…

I mean the GOP is basically 100% victim mentality.

I think his baked potato logic is that “me tough on country, they do things about issue me no like”.

Oh you must have missed his early morning rant in which he now says that the tariffs on Canada will only end once Canada agrees to be the 51st state.

“Trump is billing the move as a means of clamping down on crime and immigration from the three nations”