Month: February 2025

Finally A Cut In War Spending?

I have been bitching about the money thrown at the War5 Dept for decades….there should be less of it and more spent helping the Average family….

Finally that amateur SecDef has stated that there will be some cuts to his budget…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered Pentagon leaders to develop plans to make sweeping cuts to the Defense Department’s budget, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

According to a memo obtained by the Post, Hegseth’s order calls for an 8% cut to the Pentagon budget each year for five years. The Pentagon budget for 2025 is about $850 billion, and an 8% cut for five years would bring it down to roughly $560 billion, a reduction of $290 billion.

Hegseth wants the proposed cuts to be drawn up by February 24, and the memo included a list of 17 categories that would be exempt from the spending cuts.

The Post report said the exemptions include operations at the southern border, modernization of nuclear weapons and missile defense, and acquisition of submarines, one-way attack drones, and other munitions

(antiwar.com)

When I read the news I was impressed but that did not last very long….

Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert G. Salesses said in a statement on Wednesday night that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of Pentagon spending to realign spending to fund priorities of the Trump administration.

The statement from Salesses came after a report from The Washington Post said that Hegseth ordered a plan to cut Pentagon spending by 8% each year over the next five years. But according to the statement from Salesses, the idea is to redirect spending and not actually make cuts to the budget.

“Secretary Hegseth has directed a review to identify offsets from the Biden Administration’s FY26 budget that could be realigned from low-impact and low-priority Biden-legacy programs to align with President Trump’s America First priorities for our national defense,” Salesses said.

“The Department will develop a list of potential offsets that could be used to fund these priorities, as well as to refocus the Department on its core mission of deterring and winning wars. The offsets are targeted at 8% of the Biden Administration’s FY26 budget, totaling around $50 billion, which will then be spent on programs aligned with President Trump’s priorities,” he added.

On Thursday, Hegseth said that the Trump administration would be taking $50 billion away from “woke Biden-era non-lethal programs and instead spend that money on President Trump’s America First, peace through strength priorities.”

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Salesses said spending priorities from the Trump administration include the “Iron Dome for America,” referring to an order from the president to establish a major new missile defense system, a project that would be a boon for the weapons makers and likely start a new arms race. Trump has also backed a budget plan drawn up by House Republicans that would increase military spending by $100 billion.

(antiwar.com)

This is becoming all too familiar Donny makes a statement or one of his lackeys and then someone has to ‘clarify’ what was meant.

This is a perfect example of why you should not take news reports at face value there is always something hiding in the meat of the discussion.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

No More Independent Agencies

Within the US government there are independent agencies that report without interference from the Executive Branch….agencies like…

For more the list can be found here….https://pitt.libguides.com/usgovinfo/independentagencies

But first what are these agencies purpose?

Independent agencies of the United States federal government are those agencies that exist outside of the federal executive branch . More specifically, the term is used to describe agencies that, while constitutionally part of the executive branch, are independent of presidential control, usually because the president’s power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.

I throw this at you because our dear slightly rotund leader has used his smoking Sharpie again…..

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order bringing independent agencies under the control of the White House — an action that would greatly expand his power but is likely to attract significant legal challenges.

It represents Trump’s latest attempt to consolidate power beyond boundaries other presidents have observed and to test the so-called unitary executive theory, which states that the president has the sole authority over the executive branch. And it reflects the influence of Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, one of several conservatives in his orbit who have called for axing independent arms of the executive branch.

The theory was long considered fringe, and many mainstream legal scholars still believe it is illegal, given that Congress set the agencies up specifically to act independently, or semi-independently, from the president. These include the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, all of which enact regulations and can impose hefty fines on businesses that violate the rules.

The order would take that independence away by granting Vought, who reports to Trump, supervising power.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

Just another attempt to give myself dictatorial powers.

The basics of his newest EO….

The new executive order, titled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” laments that previous administrations “have allowed so-called ‘independent regulatory agencies’ to operate with minimal presidential supervision” and states that, going forward, “the president and the attorney general, subject to the president’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch.”

The order goes on to require that “all executive departments and agencies”—including those granted some independence from the presidency by Congress—”shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register.”

(commondreams.org)

Just another plank in Project 2025 is being cleared….

The order would essentially put independent agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission under the watch of Office of Management and Budget Review Director Russell Vought, a key Project 2025 author.

OIRA is part of the Office of Management and Budget, which is run by Project 2025 architect and far-right extremist Russell Vought.

In a fact sheet released alongside the order, the White House specifically names the FTC, the SEC, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as agencies it claims have “exercised enormous power over the American people without presidential oversight.”

(msnbc.com)

You were warned about Project 2025 and few heeded the call….and now we all are paying for your laziness.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Slip Sliding Away

It has been a month of Little Donny and his magic Sharpie signing EO after EO after EO after….and so far not much in the way of making life better for us peasants….and that is having a effect….

President Trump’s approval rating has slipped since his first week in office, down 2 percentage points to 45%, a Gallup poll released Wednesday found. At this point, 51% of respondents disapprove of his job performance. Trump’s approval rating is running 15 points below the mid-February average of all other elected presidents since 1953, the New York Times reports, though it’s 5 points above where he was in February 2017. Two other polls released this week showed Trump ally Elon Musk is less popular, per Politico.

Pew Research Center found Musk’s approval rating at 42%, with 54% of respondents saying they have an unfavorable opinion of Trump’s head of the Department of Government Efficiency. Quinnipiac University posed a different question, asking if respondents think Musk’s role in the government is too big. A majority, 55%, said it is, while 36% said Musk has about the right amount of power. Just 3% want him to have more. Trump’s approval rating by issue doesn’t vary much, with 42% liking his handling of the economy, for instance, though he was at 48% in February 2017. His approval rating on immigration is 46% and on foreign affairs, 44%.

But not to worry Donny has a plan, the same plan in his first term….

Could Americans see some cash from all these DOGE cost-saving measures? President Trump says he’s considering the idea, the Wall Street Journal reports. “We’re thinking about giving 20% back to the American citizens and 20% down to pay back debt,” he said at a Saudi Arabia-sponsored gathering of business and tech executives in Miami. “If it were a real-estate balance sheet, the debt is tiny, but we still, we still want to pay it down.” He gave no further details. Elon Musk earlier this week responded to a post on X suggesting the same idea, saying, “Will check with the president.”

The co-founder of the investment firm who suggested the idea on X estimated that if DOGE hits its targeted savings of $2 trillion, 20% of that is $400 billion, meaning each US household could get about $5,000, CNBC reports. It’s not clear how close DOGE is to hitting that savings target at this point, but Musk has admitted in the past that number is a best-case scenario. DOGE has claimed cuts of $55 billion so far, but outside reports indicate that’s likely an overestimate, with one report pointing out the department has so far only accounted for $16.6 billion of those cuts. The federal budget for the most recent fiscal year was $6.75 trillion.

Since many of his ardent support pretend to worry about the debt he might throw some money at it and quieten the mob and then sending out checks will make the more pathetic and slow in society embrace him.

In other words Americans are for sale…..in more ways than one.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Trumpian Ignorance Of International Affairs

I have been saying this person is a ninny for at least a decade….but he fires off his mouth before his brain is loaded….his most recent stupidity came when talking about Ukraine….

President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine for starting its war with Russia, despite the fact that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Responding to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anger that Ukraine was not invited to Tuesday’s US-Russia talks, and his assertion that Ukraine won’t agree to any peace deal it wasn’t a part of negotiating, Trump said, per CNN:

  • “I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it’s going well. But today I heard, ‘Oh well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you been there for three years. You should’ve ended it after three years. You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal.”

Trump also falsely claimed Zelensky has just a 4% approval rating, Axios reports. As for the supposed “deal” Ukraine could have made, Trump said, per the BBC, that it “would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land—and no people would have (been) killed, and no city would have been demolished.” He said Russia wants “to stop the savage barbarianism.” As for whether Ukraine is an equal member of peace negotiations, he wouldn’t answer the question directly, the Hill reports, but only said, “Their people are being killed, and I think they have to make peace. I said that was not a good war to go into, and I think they have to make peace. That’s what I think.”

His lack of knowledge is troubling and a bit clown-like.

How can anyone with half a brain take this babbling buffoon seriously?

Then there is wannabe dictator calling someone a dictator….(god I love this stuff)….

The war of words is heating up between Donald the Orange and Ukraine’s Zelensky….Trump’s newest attack is a personal one….

President Trump doubled down on his attacks on Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, a day after he blamed Ukraine for starting a war that began with Russia’s invasion. In a Truth Social post, Trump accused Zelensky of talking the US into spending $350 billion “to go into a War that couldn’t be won.” Trump called Zelensky a “Dictator without Elections” and said he “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.” The president described the war as one that Zelensky, “without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Politico reports.

“He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle,'” Trump said of Zelensky. Earlier Wednesday, Zelensky pushed back against Trump’s remarks about Ukraine starting the war, saying the president is in a “disinformation bubble” influenced by Russia. Vladimir Putin has called for Ukraine to hold elections, which are not allowed during wartime under Ukrainian law, the Wall Street Journal reports.”

This situation is getting interesting but calling Zelensky a dictator is pot calling the kettle black.

Trump will keep up the pressure or at least the verbal pressure for as long as possible….

President Donald Trump continued to attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, asserting in a social media post that the U.S. was duped into spending billions to help Ukraine defend itself following Russia’s 2022 invasion — and himself seemingly threatening the country’s existence.

“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social. “A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/19/trump-attacks-zelenskyy-as-a-dictator-without-elections-who-duped-us-00204881

I love it a moderately successful business man and calling Z-Man a modestly successful comedian….who writes his stuff?

Where will this battle go from here?

More words or will someone find some action to be had?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The ‘Way Back Machine’

Another IST Public Service Message.

Since Donald the Orange has taken office and allowed Elmo free movement in the government agencies sites and pages have gone from public view….but for those that keep up with the government and what is done in their name there is way to reconnect with those missing pages.

The White House has ordered thousands of government web pages to be taken down over the past month, leaving virtually no trace of some federal agencies’ policies regarding critical topics such as sexual orientation, January 6 cases and discrimination.

Since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the government’s mass removal of data and policies it finds objectionable has illustrated just how quickly data can disappear from the internet, and it has sparked renewed interest in preserving information online among digital archivists.

Thousands of pages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website were taken down in January to comply with Trump’s executive orders, although some of the pages are back online following an order from a federal judge. Other taken-down sites include Justice Department web pages related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach; information about care for transgender patients on Healthcare.gov, a gender diversity page on the TSA’s website, and sexual orientation and general identity discrimination pages on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Census Bureau’s websites, as well as many others across the government.

While it is not uncommon for presidential administrations to delete or change government web pages, the second Trump administration seems to have taken down more content than usual, according to Mark Graham, the director of the Wayback Machine.

The Wayback Machine, which the nonprofit Internet Archive operates, is a tool designed to help with preserving online data, and it has been used in the past when new presidents’ administrations took down information from past administrations. The site allows users to enter a URL and, if the page has been archived, see what it looked like in the past, dating back to the database’s founding in 1996.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/tech/internet-archives-deleted-websites-wayback-machine/index.html

Transparency is leaving the building and Trump and Elmo are holding the door for their exit.

Is this what you had in mind when you voted for the clown?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Now They Want A Holiday

This is a recovery from the post that got dicked up earlier this morning…..

Some are proposing another benefit for our Little Donny….it is bad enough that he is destroying our way of life now they want to make his birthday a federal holiday.

A Republican congresswoman has proposed making Donald Trump’s birthday a public holiday, in an effort probably doomed to failure in Congress but obviously intended to curry favor with the president.

Claudia Tenney, a representative from New York’s Finger Lakes region, introduced legislation on Friday aiming to combine the US annual commemoration of Flag Day with a new observance of Trump’s birthday on 14 June, arguing that the president is “the most consequential … in modern American history”.

“His impact on the nation is undeniable,” Tenney said in a news release. On X, she suggested that Trump’s birthday deserved the same treatment as that of George Washington, which is observed annually as a federal holiday on the third Monday of February.

“Just as George Washington’s birthday is codified as a federal holiday, President Trump’s birthday should also be celebrated to recognize him as the founder of America’s Golden Age,” Tenney wrote.

Among other differences, Washington helped the US win its independence from Great Britain and served as its first president. Trump was the first to be elected after being found guilty of felonies – specifically, 34 related to falsifying business records involving hush-money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels right before the 2016 election that he won.

Many users on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, who has overseen the slashing of various federal agencies on behalf of the Trump administration, mocked Tenney’s proposal. “Is this satire?” one asked.

Referring to Trump’s unfulfilled campaign promise to quickly bring down consumer prices if given a second presidency after losing his 2020 re-election race to Joe Biden, another wrote: “Sure, that will bring down the cost of my groceries.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/trump-birthday-holiday-republican-bill

What bullshit is this?

This is the most stupid idea I have heard from a low IQ GOPer in Congress.

I am sure that there will be those that think this is all yippy skippy but I am not one of those mental midgets.

How about you?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You?

I think I solved my ‘editor’ problem so I will try again to give an excellent post.

It started with the GOP and their relentless assault on the Affirmative Action policies….they won that battle with the help of the hacks on the Supreme Court and they continued their assault especially when the DEI program was introduced and then Donny shows up and wins and now the assault is almost complete….the total elimination of any fairness in government and society.

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the rights and liberties of American citizens.

But it isn’t unprecedented.

As we have written, American history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights. America’s commitment to these liberal values has competed with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that full American citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class.

The most famous example of this conflict is the Jim Crow era after Reconstruction, when many of the political and legal rights gained by African Americans in the Civil War era were swept away by disenfranchisement, segregation and discrimination. From roughly 1870 until 1940, democracy and equal rights were retreating, not advancing, leaving what was described in the 1960s by President Lyndon Johnson as “the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.”

Today, the Trump administration is seeking to roll back America’s commitment to equality and engaging in a broad effort to limit – if not outright deny – the rights, liberties and benefits of democracy to all Americans.

60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump – a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history

They have sidelined the brown population then they went after any trans people and now it looks like the next target for Elmo and Donny will be our handicapped citizens.

President Trump’s suggestion last month that the tragic Potomac air crash was somehow the fault of disabled federal air traffic controllers was appalling—but it should have come as no surprise. Trump’s contempt for people with disabilities has been well documented, and it’s that animus, combined with the accelerating MAGA assault on diversity throughout the United States, that has disability rights advocates preparing to defend decades worth of hard-won protections.

One month into his presidency, Trump has unleashed a government-wide attack on people with disabilities, from anti-diversity executive orders to proposed special-education rollbacks to threats to slash programs like Medicaid that are lifelines for disabled people across the country. If successful, these actions could have catastrophic consequences for millions of Americans, according to disability rights experts.

“This is a crisis for the disability community, and the threat is extremely serious,” Maria Town, president and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities, told The Nation. “These changes have the potential to erode decades of progress that the disability community has fought tooth and nail to achieve.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-dei-target-access-disabilities/

Who’s next on the GOP/Trump hit list?

I think our disabled vets need to be paying attention to what these thugs are doing to our society….a society that use to pride itself on fairness for all and now the government is tearing down decades of progress….and the truly sad part is that the American voter in its hatred for others has made all this discrimination possible.

Is this the true face of America?

I ask….where will you be when they come for you?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Now He Wants A Birthday Party

Being the extreme egotist Little Donny has found someone who will continue deifying of the person by making him immortal on the calendar.

The president’s birthday and Flag Day both fall on June 14. Flag Day, which acknowledges the 1777 adoption of the stars and stripes as the official U.S. flag, isn’t currently a federal holiday. Pennsylvania is the only state that recognizes the commemoration of the flag as a legal holiday.

Where The Money Went

Just another FYI from your friends at IST….

The money you pay your insurance companies with….

One is ‘on your side’ and another tells you are in ‘good hands’….etc etc….you have heard all the claims and BS from them…..

Are you getting your money’s worth out of these companies?

As Americans grapple with rising healthcare costs, a revealing new study shows where much of that money is going — and it’s not necessarily toward better patient care or medical research. According to research just published in JAMA Internal Medicine, major healthcare companies listed on the S&P 500 have been directing massive amounts of their profits to shareholders, with these payouts more than tripling over the past two decades to reach $170.2 billion in 2022 alone.

To understand the scale of this financial shift, consider that healthcare represents 17% of America’s entire gross domestic product, with total U.S. healthcare spending reaching $5 trillion in 2023. Of this enormous sum, approximately 70% comes from taxpayer dollars through various channels, including tax breaks for employer-based health insurance and direct government funding via Medicare and Medicaid.

Behind the staggering medical bills and insurance premiums that many Americans face lies a financial system that includes substantial payouts to investors. “When shareholders expect greater payouts year in and year out, that has an impact on affordability,” notes lead author Dr. Victor Roy, in a statement. “One of the ways that [health care companies] make money is to keep prices high — or raise them.”

Between 2001 and 2022, 92 major healthcare companies distributed an astronomical $2.60 trillion to shareholders through two main mechanisms: direct dividend payments and share buybacks.

Dividends, of course, are profit-sharing checks sent directly to investors who own shares in these companies. Share buybacks, on the other hand, are more like a company reducing the number of slices in a pie; when a company buys back its own stock, each remaining slice becomes worth more, benefiting the shareholders who still hold shares. Both strategies effectively channel money to investors rather than reinvesting it in healthcare services or innovation.

https://studyfinds.org/healthcare-company-profits-shareholders/

These companies challenge most claims in a way to weasel out of paying out….there must be a way us peasants can come out with our savings intact….

There is and it is called Medicare For All…..

Medicare For All

The time has come and the time is ripe as more Americans are being screwed out of the homes because of outrageous medical expenses.

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

DOGE, The Money Pit

Money pit a term we all use from time to time but do we have a good grasp on the definition?  If not I can help….

Money pit….A massive non stop waste of money that you regret severely in hind sight

I would say that explains this whole stupidity of the DOGE.

Billionaire CEO and White House advisor Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has amassed roughly 30 staffers with the goal of slashing the US government’s budget.

As it’s targeted president Donald Trump’s number one bogeyman — diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — something ironic is happening: even as it’s trying to cut costs across the government, the so-called department’s expenses are ballooning.

As Business Insider reports, DOGE’s spending more than doubled from $6.75 million to $14.4 million between January 30 and February 8, according to its latest financial filings.

While that’s still quite a bit less than the roughly $60 million the Biden administration set aside for the United States Digital Services last year — the department was reincarnated as DOGE — it’s nonetheless a sign that Musk is quickly racking up bills, despite employing underqualified high school grads, drug sellers, and racist shitposters.

Meanwhile, according to DOGE’s dubious back-of-the-envelope accounting, the department is purportedly saving the government “approx. $1 billion/day.”

“A good start, though this number needs to increase to > $3 billion/day,” DOGE’s official X account tweeted late last month.

DOGE has gloated about canceling government subscriptions to news outlets and consulting contracts related to “executive coaching.”

But considering the mountain of legal complaints filed against the nascent entity, DOGE will likely have some much steeper bills to pay in the upcoming months and possibly years.

In just a matter of weeks, Musk’s group of young lackeys — who have torn through sensitive data at lightning speeds without the necessary clearances — have already amassed a litany of lawsuits from district judges, religious groups, teachers’ unions, federal worker unions, the American Foreign Service Association,  and 22 attorneys general, to name a few.

And as plenty of experts have since pointed out, DOGE’s indiscriminate combing through sensitive data is likely illegal.

Who will foot the bill for the ensuing legal challenges remains to be seen. Besides, we’ve already seen the Trump administration bristle at the legal blowback, with Trump accusing judges of “intolerable judicial overreach.” If the judicial system will survive Musk’s coup is also a hotly contested subject these days; Congress, meanwhile, has mostly sat on the sidelines.

Apart from ballooning expenses, DOGE at least won’t have to give the richest man in the world a paycheck, as BI points out, since he’s a “special government employee.”

(futurism.com)

The whole idea of giving this tool Elmo unlimited power is stupid….but then look who is allowing it.

As Elon Musk stood beside him, President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that gives Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency group control over hiring and firing at federal agencies. Six takes on what that means:

  • Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: “I don’t think it’s too much to say that it puts Musk functionally in control of the US government,” he writes, noting that “political commissars” will be assigned to each federal agency and given control over hiring and firing, with a requirement that for every four people who are let go, only one person can be hired. “We’re in dystopian quasi-science fiction territory here,” Marshall concludes.

Rex Huppke, USA Today: He likewise calls Musk the nation’s “most powerful person” and “de facto president”—an “unelected rich snot” who is “demolishing the federal government, probably illegally” and “acting downright gleeful about thousands upon thousands of Americans losing their jobs.” “It is vile, bordering on sadism,” Huppke writes. “Losing a job is a catastrophe for most families. It’s not a damn joke.”

  • Tressie McMillan Cottom, New York Times: Musk wants to dismantle and “demoralize” the federal government, she writes, noting his “narration of power as a vicarious gamelike experience of dominance” is “a skilled manipulation of content in a content-saturated culture” that “obscures what is actually happening.” Look beyond his exuberant tweets and you’ll see “a strategic takeover of national interests that will demolish the state’s functionality in a way that benefits the ones swinging the hammer.”
  • Nicole Russell, USA Today: Taxpayers should be celebrating these efforts “to bring financial responsibility to the federal government,” she writes, noting that as a parent, she’d love to know why $268 billion in annual education funding hasn’t delivered “a better return on our investment.” She believes Trump when he says billions of dollars in waste and fraud will be found and argues the hunt “is exactly what Americans want.”
  • Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency: Indeed, Trump promised to downsize government, and now he’s following through on that promise, writes Thomas. He compares Musk’s moves to “spring cleaning,” the eliminating of “wasteful, fraudulent, and, in many cases, unnecessary and duplicative programs” that came from bureaucrats and regulators who, like Musk, weren’t elected by the people. And “sometimes it takes a chainsaw, instead of a scalpel, to get a job done.”

I like the term ‘president de facto’ when describing Elmo.

Nothing about this unit impresses me….it will in the end go down as a colossal waste of time and money.

Whatcha think?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”