Because Musk did such a good job with that at Twitter… “I don’t understand what it is you do, you’re fired.”

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    Claiming to be able to make massive cuts without cutting national defense, Social Security/Medicare, or loads of basic government stuff (like the U.S. Mint, patent office, passport services, etc.) is how you know this will never happen.

    Every conservative comes to Washington ready to cut whole departments and then learns the Department of Energy manages the nuclear weapons stockpile and the entire National Park system is a rounding error on a B-2 bomber order.

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      Meanwhile the current republican plan, project 2025, involves killing the national weather service and noaa. A lot of stuff the government does without people noticing either saves average Americans’ lives, money, or both, and those departments are both.

      Round here in the Midwest the nws is the difference between a tornado being a massive loss in property and a massive loss in life. And their flood alerts and severe thunderstorm alerts are critical.

      But that’s just lives, let’s talk to the supreme deity of the American religion, the dollar. Farmers rely on the nws providing free and high quality forecasts to all weather providers. We’ve got geostationary weather satellites thanks to noaa’s goes project. And that high quality weather data shared across everything means farmers know when to plant and when to water. That does more than just preventing famine, it also keeps food prices as stable as it can. The fact that food prices are only now being disrupted thanks to climate change, corporate greed, and supply chain issues instead of just being unstable year to year is a miracle of our weather monitoring system.

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      Ah yes. But now the National Park System is squarely in the cross hairs of real estate and tourism developers. And we all know private ownership is far more efficient. They surely won’t do anything to mar the natural beauty of our land.

      ^Guarantees ^do ^not ^apply ^to ^ghost ^towns, ^oil, ^billionaires, ^or ^formerly ^native ^land…

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    Elon is a drug addict who is high on ketamine all day long and has never worked a day in his worthless life. No wonder he and Donnie get along.

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      Oh, but they only get along as long as one doesn’t steal the other’s spotlight. They’re both narcissists, and will quickly become mortal enemies as soon as that happens. Musk sees Trump as a tool to gain (even more) political power. Trump sees him as a tool to get the tech bro vote. I don’t think either of them has real friends, or even fully understands the concept of friendship.

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    Trump just doesn’t realize everyone hates the assholes he’s trying to trot out as a positive to his shitty campaign. They really need to stop letting him make his own decisions.

    “Hey guys, I bet you’re all excited for our musical guest, so without further ado…NICKELBACK!!!”

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    Elon: Running Twitter into the ground Trump: He’s doing a good job I guess Trump would know because he’s the master of running businesses into the ground O_o

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    Has Musk actually worked a day in his life? He obviously hasn’t been working for some years now, spending all of his time shitposting and propagandizing on Twitter instead of running the multiple companies he is somehow CEO of.

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    “Agreed to fork over $50 million per month until trump gets annoyed at the smallest slight or misunderstanding and fires him by tweet when he’s in the shitter.”

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    6 months ago I made a ridiculous joke about Trump giving Musk Texas.

    This is literally worse than I could possibly imagine.

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      Well, yeah, they all think they are John J Rambo and armed to the teeth ready for anything…until the diabetes medication runs out.

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          I recently watched a small-time documentary by a YouTube person on life in the ruralest parts of Appalachia. Deep red places. He talked with multiple locals who estimated that something like 50% of them got by on “checks”, which is their euphemism for welfare when they’re the ones receiving it (mostly SSDI).

          It was sad but interesting.

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    Sounds like a good way to ensure it’s neither efficient or economic. I’ve come to expect nothing less from Trump’s policy suggestions.