hellokeenan.bsky.social
Here until the weirds take over
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Do the people who don't think it was a Nazi salute think it's just a coincidence that he hired a bunch of young Nazis? Or that Nazi speech is pretty much the only protected speech on Twitter now that he owns it? Or that he always seems to back Nazi parties? I'm confused how they don't see it.
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We also need our lawyers to become judges and our people to go into policing. We desperately need good people in positions to uphold the law.
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Unfortunately, the people we need to win over don't have empathy. Instead of framing Medicaid as a service for poor people, we need to share what it actually does: pays doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes. Cut funding? Might be harder to find a doctor in your area even if you aren't poor.
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The writers of Idiocracy could never have created a fictional universe nearly as idiotic as what we are currently living through
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And they pay taxes! A good chunk of money that goes out to pay salaries and contractor salaries comes right back to the gov in taxes. Some of their "savings" is actually just robbing other programs and states through reduced tax revenue.
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I really appreciate your openness to engage in this exchange. I know I probably won't change your mind right now but please consider some of what I've shared as you see things over the next few months. They are selling a lot of snake oil and it's hard to spot so we have to look out for each other
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Here's one, he has only had 4 jobs. A camp counselor, a bike mechanic, his dad's company, and he was fired from the other one. He is currently a senior advisor for reasons that I can't even begin to comprehend. There are literally thousands of more qualified people, why him you have to ask.
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There absolutely is and there are already agencies that recover hundreds of billions of dollars to taxpayers every year. Many of those people were just fired. Do you really think hacker kids with so little experience their resumes still include summer camp are actually looking for fraud? Be honest
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Clinton had the support of a law passed by Congress and worked with agencies to phase out jobs that were no longer needed. This administration brought in hackers, locked agency staff out of staffing decisions, and is firing so indiscriminately that they accidentally fired nuclear weapons handlers.
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And if you think DOGE even has expertise to conduct financial audits or would do that in a fair and comprehensive way rather than only going after political or business opponents, I'm not sure you're being honest with yourself because they have provided no evidence so far of impartiality.
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Politicians are not the same as the government employees who are being let go by the tens of thousands and who were just hanging on in the middle class. Laying those people off does nothing to stop corruption in politics like say, cutting agencies regulating your companies or starting meme coins...
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You think he earned 80,000+ years of your lifetime earnings by owning a company that has less than 5% market share of cars sold in the US and a, so far, unprofitable rocket company? Honey, no. He's robbing us all.
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He's well on his way to being a full Sacagawea
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Also, to question gov employee salaries but not question why Elon Musk has enough money that he could spend $10,000/day for over 80,000 years and still not run out of money is really special.
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What is that assertion based on? I've worked with gov data and everyone I've ever encountered was extremely competent, had extensive experience, took their job seriously, and handled the data with extreme care. That's why DOGE stands out as such an appalling exception.
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If you get an electronic refund or pay electronically, it includes your bank account info. That's a reason to worry. Another reason is that they are likely compiling all of the info with voter records, Treasury info they acquired, purchase histories, private messages on X, etc. as blackmail
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I suspect it's because they need more free training material for AI so they are basically using our daily communications under the auspices of providing a service to us. It's incredibly dumb.
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I was driving the other day and asked my phone to read a text that came through. Instead, it told me that there is a new feature where AI will summarize texts but warned it may not always be right. Who thinks people want to replace messages from loved ones or friends with lifeless AI?
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If a judge has ruled that they shouldn't be in those systems and they have already accessed those systems, why haven't they been arrested for at least subpoenaed like anyone else would be? What remediation process is underway to ensure they haven't stolen data or made changes? This is a data breach.
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This is not about reviewing the operations of the agency. This is about reports that they are accessing protected patient information, which would not tell you anything about that kind of waste. There is no good reason they would need to be in those systems if true.
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Also, if what they're doing is legal, what is the explanation for seeming to bypass the normal security and privacy protocols for people accessing this data?
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These guys are hackers. They don't have training as accountants or in medicine. Why are we supposed to believe that they will do a better job finding fraud than people who know what to look for? It's not efficient, it's redundant at best and the US's largest health data breach at worst.
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This is all misleading though because $2 trillion in spending goes to pay American workers and businesses, who then pay a good chunk of that money back into Medicare, SS, income tax, and state and local taxes. Not to mention all of the industries their consumer spending supports that also pay taxes.
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He's also just flatly lying. You think the red hats knew what USAID was or how much we spent on it? We're all subjected to hundreds of interviews with voters every election cycle and this has never been uttered once. So we should ask ourselves who exactly Rubio was referring to.