"If the bureaucracy’s in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?... It does not match the will of the people."
ADDED: "We're told the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000. We're like well, why why why is that? Well, because all the retirement paperwork is manual — on paper — it's manually calculated, then written down a piece of paper, then it goes down a mine. I'm like what do you mean a mine. Like, yeah, there's a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork... and this this mine looks like something out of the 50s because it was started in 1955 so it looks like it's like a time warp and then... the limiting factor is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire... and the elevator breaks down and then sometimes and then you can't — nobody can — retire doesn't that sound crazy? Like, a thousand people that work on this... working in in a mineshaft, uh, carrying manila envelopes to, you know, boxes in a mineshaft..."
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It is not a rhetorical question…
No democracy is a given. But not even a republican form of government under the Constitution would be terminal.
No children in politics tag?
Boyers, Pennsylvania! It is legendary. I've heard they have rows of bureaucrats sitting in a mine in front of computers processing papers by the bundle. They are said to eat Twinkies from a huge bowl of complimentary Twinkies. Seriously.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/causey/2012/10/all-feds-wind-up-buried-in-limestone-mine/
I LOLed when they zoomed out, and Lil' X was on Elon's shoulders! I love that this administration is making kids part of the program, again.
"After fact check, the 50 million dollars for condoms was sent to Mozambique, not Gaza, could you correct this statement?"
Great gotcha question.
To be fair, Boyers processed my federal retirement in five days, after 26 years of work. I had everything in order, though
"Democrats Uncover Devious Billionaire Plot To Spend Billions Buying Social Media Company To Get President Trump Elected In Order To Access The Treasury Database And Steal Grandma's $695 Social Security Check."
-The hivemind
No inflation!
Bring on the democratic mob disease spread a-holes.
the corrupt leftist democratic media are completely annoyed and stunned - because they are economic idiots. All of them.
Working in the file mine
Going down, down, down
Working in the file mine
Whoop, I wanna sit down
Five o'clock in the morning
Ten thousand already quit
Lord, I'm so tired
How long can Trump do it?
Working in the file mine
Going down, down, down
Working in the file mine
Whoop, I wanna sit down
'Cause I work every morning
Hauling files by the ton
But when Saturday rolls around
Ten thousand more, sez Elon
Working in the file mine
Going down, down, down
Working in the file mine
Whoop, I wanna sit down
JSM
Corrupt left are furious that our books are being cleaned up.
If this was a book I would stay up all night to finish it.
Corrupt Biden butt sniffers don't want the war in Ukraine to end - because it ends a lot of American Democxratic grift.
Duty of Inquiry said...
"If this was a book I would stay up all night to finish it."
It is, but I'm betting Infinite Jest will take you at least a week
"Boyers, Pennsylvania! It is legendary. I've heard they have rows of bureaucrats sitting in a mine in front of computers processing papers by the bundle."
I got to visit the former limestone mines in Boyers Pennsylvania that were repurposed for storage of government paperwork when I was working for the MITRE corporation. This was at least 35 years ago. Those huge caverns were filled with rows and rows of filing cabinets containing federal government workers records. At that time the government was mandated to maintain paper copies of these records. Every Christmas vacation they would have new filing cabinets brought in. They would they hire an army of students to come in and empty the documents from half of the filled filing cabinets into the empty ones. I asked the government workers what happens if the records were misplaced. They said that they would be lost forever.
This $30m woman needs to be named and arrested if she stole money.
@Dave Begley: She has been named. Samantha Powers --- former head of USAID.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-investigating-feds-whose-net-worths-have-exploded-after-samantha-power-bombshell
I suspect its was nominally "legal" insider trading akin to Nancy Pelosi.
“It’s mind blowing.”
Yes, it is. Happy to see the Dems defending theft, corruption and paying terrorists.
Enigma:
I told Samantha Power, to her face at the Texas Book Festival, that she was a liar. Hope to see her in prison.
There are people under the top managers that have a ridiculous net worth making $150K. Musk seemed to suggest they were looking at that at well. They are smoking out the whistleblowers.
the "mineshaft gap!" That's funny.
As we watched the interview on the news, and Little X picking his nose, I turned to my wife and said, "You know, I bet there's a lot of presidential boogers on the underside of that desk."
JSM @5:55pm… Nice take on a tune from one of America’s best songwriters (IMHO), Allen Toussaint!
I thought both Musk and President Trump did a good job explaining this to the reporters who, as usual, didn’t want to hear it.
“I told Samantha Power, to her face at the Texas Book Festival, that she was a liar. Hope to see her in prison.”
You’d better return those library books and pay the late charges, Begley, or you just might do that.
Elon giving America a civics lesson
I like Musk's coat. Has that "Tombstone" look. Keep it up Elon!
Trump's ego doesn't look threatened by Musk at all. Looks like he knows he hired the best man possible to get a job done. That a real executive. A real President.
It's always worse than initial report. I knew it.
Begley and Iman, ref seeing Samantha Power in prison:
Iman’s joke reminded me of a scene in The Chosen. The centurion whose servant Christ later heals is (non-biblically) in the stockade for disobeying his (non-biblical) legate. The legate then gets in trouble, and the centurion is freed and promoted to replace him. They wind up passing each other, one on the way into jail, one on the way out.
Too bad things don’t work fast enough for all the old regime’s people and the Trump prisoners to pass each other the same way.
Maybe it will become part of the peaceful transfer of power every four years, like the Warner Bros wolf and sheepdog clocking in and out each day.
JSM
"I thought both Musk and President Trump did a good job explaining this to the reporters who, as usual, didn’t want to hear it."
They sure seemed less interested in the actual fraud that's been found so far than the imagined fraud they're trying to imply Musk plans to commit.
Next key step ... have Congress outlaw federal public service unions. And maybe set compensation for GS-1 to GS-15 at 80 to 100% of private-sector median in the 6 dozen or so regions.
I am, however, strongly pro trade unions, to the point I believe they should be put in charge of high school trades classes. Kids graduate with a GED, plus an Apprentice license, at the same graduation ceremony as the university track kids.
Saw some CNN this morning. Dana Bash looked like she was about to faint over having to say Harry Bōlz on the air.
My suggestion is drill two more mine shafts down in the limestone mine and transfer egregious offenders like Samantha Powers and the Dept of Ed people where the sun don't shine.
I had no idea they were taking the Deep State stuff this literally.
Putin, after learning about this revelation. must be thinking "How did we ever lose the Cold War to these idiots?"
I feel like these men are now in the most pivotal battle for the Union since the Civil War. And once again, the Democrats are the bad guys. I hope they win.
As usual - the corrupt democrat party press are uninterested in cleaning up a massive and corrupt financial mess made by Crook Joe and the mob democrats. They are all part of it.
Democratic media not interested in aiding the American Tax Payer.
Nobody has a clue what’s going on in the government then Trump sends in Elon to take a look, and then they’re all worried claiming that Elon is not being transparent when he’s the one making the not-transparent, transparent,
They keep such poor records it's impossible to audit?
Somebody's got to the bookie. What's Elon Musk talking about?
"I had no idea they were taking the Deep State stuff this literally."
😂
"Putin, after learning about this revelation. must be thinking 'How did we ever lose the Cold War to these idiots?'"
I'd put our limestone warehouse against their Gulag archipelago any day.
I love Little X's reaction after Musk's "mind-blowing" revelation that a suspect identity list is not even used once it finally becomes available after a year.
You don’t need more shafts, just have two loop chains with sprockets at the top and bottom, attach flat bottom buckets every 5 feet, then drop the boxes into the buckets at the top, you could have boxes dumped at the lower shaft station every second.
I watched all of that. That is why I voted DJT 2024. I liked DJT as CEO and Elon as project manager. Elon talking while dealing with his son was funny/crazy/hilarious. Alas, I doubt there is fraud like they are talking. Not entering a memo on a payment is not great accounting control, but it does not mean there was fraud. If fraud is at the 500 billion level, then this will be bigger than Watergate. Hell, in some ways, it would be bigger than the Boston tea party. We shall see. Cheers all.
So, if there's (God forbid) an earthquake and the mine collapses, nobody can retire... until the mine is restored?
I'm so confused.
Democrats are mobsters.
Joe and his Obama cabal rigged the payments. Evil.
Democrats are pure evil.
On X there was a clip of him and the kid seemed pretty cool. Someone said that he was the mysterious "Mr X" the ultra young wiz kid behind the Doge team.
After all, when he was half his current age he suggested to Big E that the solution to the rocket landing problem was the Mechano arms. (Per Isaacson's book, available at the portal)
John Henry
I am, however, strongly pro trade unions, to the point I believe they should be put in charge of high school trades classes. Kids graduate with a GED, plus an Apprentice license, at the same graduation ceremony as the university track kids.
Me too, at least in theory. There are good unions out there but there are also corrupt ones.
But to your general point about more apprenticeship and trades training programs, right on, brother!
I was talking to people at the PackExpo show last November who run companies building automated manufacturing machines. They are DESPERATE for PLC programmers (and skilled people in general) PLC programmers can make $50m right out of a 1 year (or less) training program and $80m by the end of their first year.
John Henry
I heard today on the No Agenda podcast that the minute Trump was sworn in, the DOGE boys were in Treasury downloading everything. Within a couple hours, they were offsite with hard drives.
The hoorah about them being in the Treasury building is just that hoorah. They've already got everything. If they get kicked out of Treasury, it doesn't matter.
And I'm glad to see the dept of Ed on it's last legs.
John Henry
So when it comes to gutting a bloated beauracracy and trimming waste from government… government is giving us the shaft.
“After fact check, the 50 million dollars for condoms was sent to Mozambique, not Gaza, could you correct this statement?"…”great gotcha question”.
— I liked Elon’s answer. Two points: one, he said, they’re going fast. They’re going to make mistakes. They will correct them. Two: 50 million dollars, that’s a lot for condoms, no matter where they go.
I thought this press conference was next level entertaining. Lil x stole the show.
Trump, Musk
Biden, S. Power
"A" people hire "A" people.
"B" people get rolled by the "C" rooks they hire
The FEMA situation is MUCH worse than them spending $59M on illegals as our citizens still suffer after natural disasters. Per the great work of @BreannaMorello
, we know FEMA spent hundreds of millions on illegals over the past 4 years and that’s only ONE agency. Total betrayal.
Musk demonstrates he doesn't understand how government financing works. We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s teenage subordinates stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earth-shattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers.
Musk demonstrates he doesn't understand how government financing works.
I'd say he made it pretty clear that "government financing" doesn't work. Or at least that those responsible for attempting to work it are not working it the way it's supposed to work. No spending or budget codes. No attention paid to Do Not Pay lists. Payments for 150yo retirees.
What makes you think the codes who are matching girls and teaching relationships (a) need to understand the government procurement process in order to understand dependencies in coffee? And (b) don't have sufficient understanding of what they're doing? Of what they've brought to light with regard to payment processes and controls, does it sound as if a reasonable business entity would operate this way?
The question of spending priorities is separate, of course. But when you hear about $50mm going to Mozambique, population 34mm (male population under 70yo about 7.5mm per Google), for "condoms for HIV prevention," doesn't it sound as if there might be some payola happening there? I'm sure that a certain amount of bribery is required in some areas in order to get aid to where it's needed. But why shouldn't we know how much and to whom? The bribees clearly have no sense of shame or reluctance about demanding it, it's counted as "cost of doing business" in many countries, so why not make it public?
Of course, if some of those funds are being, shall we say, "diverted" to Good Friends of USAID, those payees might be a little less willing to have their names publicized.
"Musk demonstrates he doesn't understand how government financing works."
Yeah, paper processing in a mine is world class information management.
Musk demonstrates he doesn't understand how government financing works.
He understands it better than you do.
Lord. Too many typos. The CODERS who are matching FIELDS and TRACING relationships. And dependencies in CODE.
Tiny font, tired eyes!
Furthermore - considering that SpaceX (for instance) uses accounting and procurement software developed in-house, do you think maybe some of those "teenage subordinates" might have some experience with it? Or is every coder Musk hires doing web code for X?
“Musk demonstrates he doesn't understand how government financing works. We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s teenage subordinates stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earth-shattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers.”
Best comment ever.
I would pay to watch you explain “how government financing works” to Elon Musk and to his “teenage subordinates”.
It’s so complicated Elon. Here, let Kakistocracy explain it you.
I need someone brilliant to explain the limestone mine to Elon Musk and his “teenage subordinates”. I’ll watch.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/the-limestone-mine-that-elon-musk-said-manually-processes-federal-retirement-paperwork-is-actually-real/
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