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Elon imploring his employees to hold onto their Tesla stock while company executives are cashing it in is EXACTLY what happened at ENRON before it fell.
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He's playing it like I used to play SimCity, you know, you realize you're bored and just start calling in Godzilla attacks and nuclear meltdowns and shit.I've mentioned it before here, but it really feels like Musk is treating the US like his own personal game of Sims. In Sims, you can build a functioning city within a few hours because all the boring stuff is cut out/reduced to something that's resolved in a few button clicks.
Would you really be opposed to Godzilla destroying New York or California?He's playing it like I used to play SimCity, you know, you realize you're bored and just start calling in Godzilla attacks and nuclear meltdowns and shit.
It sure as hell sounds like Vance.
Perfectly said. I couldn't have said it better. It's fine to distrust government, but then you should lobby to get oversight and accountability instead of just giving Elon full control over everything with no oversightMy issue with it is we're paying a rich retard instead of government funded scientists.
With the scientists we have leverage and oversight, meaning we can put the resources to better use, kick an arse if we need to and put in a process of accountability.
With the rich retard we get neither leverage nor oversight, and shouldn't be surprised the money we give to the retard instead ends up in ketamine and lego sets.
It is fine to be skeptical and distrust government. The sensible thing would be to lobby to put in transparency and auditing processes to keep government accountable. The retarded thing is say fuck government, cut the funding and give the money to someone or something you have no leverage over and expect better (or any) results. In this, Elon, and others, keep proving me right.
How will Kentucky and Alabama and all the other right state leeches survive?Would you really be opposed to Godzilla destroying New York or California?
Elon imploring his employees to hold onto their Tesla stock while company executives are cashing it in is EXACTLY what happened at ENRON before it fell.
Now that we know the White House uses Signal for their Top Secret discussions, and invites random journalists into their Top Secret Signal groups, we shouldn't dismiss any leak out of hand [archive].
BUT. HER. EMAILS.Now that we know the White House uses Signal for their Top Secret discussions, and invites random journalists into their Top Secret Signal groups, we shouldn't dismiss any leak out of hand [archive].
Were actually a pretty big deal. So is this. They should all be in jail.BUT. HER. EMAILS.
And here we are, 9 years later, she’s still not in jail and it’s gotten worse.Were actually a pretty big deal. So is this. They should all be in jail.
The drugs are putting him further down the path of retardationI like the notion of nVidia getting along with GM with autonomous vehicles that Elon promised ~10 years ago. Frankly, I don't know much about Musk's businesses and his business model. But for me, talking shit and throwing unreal schedules for goals without understating the necessities for achieving them is a nut job. I would feel unsure about sending people to Mars without prior research what is actually needed to do that. What technology is required, how to maintain people in rocket flying toward red planet for months. What countermeasures are required to be laid out in case something goes wrong. Maybe I am kinda retarded, but in case I was running a multibilion dollar companies, I would be very restrained from blatantly lying about my plans for coming years without actually showing that I have the tools and research that backs me up.
From my POV Musk is a very good in marketing. He acquire companies on brink of extinction and turn them into gold turd that people buy. However, he does a shitty job as a CEO spending too much time on his X, getting into personal fights that hurts his businesses. But hey, maybe this is just an acustic moron who in mundane circumstances would be isolated or would rot in his mother's basement.
I can tend to agree. Elon gets to gut the regulatory bodies and stymie/cull any investigations that could hit close to home. Blatant corruption, but not very deep.I think the reality is none of them actually have a solid plan beyond remove regulations and make money. Not Trump, not Vance, not Elon, no one involved in this whole thing really has a solid way forward and have no clue how to put into action whatever it is they're seeking to achieve (and I don't think any of them have any basic agreement on what needs to be achieved). It is why it is a shit show, you have so many different personalities all trying to bullshit themselves and everyone else that they know what is going on, all the while tripping over each other because there is no beat to march to nor a unified sense of direction.
Free market libertarians and anarchists are like a dog chasing a car. They haven't the faintest idea of what the car is, how it works, how it runs, how to keep it running, it is all blind faith about how great it is going to be once they catch the car. The problem now is the dogs have finally caught that car and I don't think any of them have a coherent contingency for anything after that. And like dogs they're going to fall into bouts of snarling, barking, fighting and sniffing each other's assholes as there is nothing the dogs can do productively with the car they just caught.
Either way its tits up and side-ways on the shaft in this country rn. Whether or not they know how to accomplish it or not, they are certainly taking the old college try. I'm hoping if it does get bad, its bad enough to fracture both parties and get us out of centuries of fucking the stalemate and corrupt govt tug of war we usually have here.I think the reality is none of them actually have a solid plan beyond remove regulations and make money. Not Trump, not Vance, not Elon, no one involved in this whole thing really has a solid way forward and have no clue how to put into action whatever it is they're seeking to achieve (and I don't think any of them have any basic agreement on what needs to be achieved). It is why it is a shit show, you have so many different personalities all trying to bullshit themselves and everyone else that they know what is going on, all the while tripping over each other because there is no beat to march to nor a unified sense of direction.
Free market libertarians and anarchists are like a dog chasing a car. They haven't the faintest idea of what the car is, how it works, how it runs, how to keep it running, it is all blind faith about how great it is going to be once they catch the car. The problem now is the dogs have finally caught that car and I don't think any of them have a coherent contingency for anything after that. And like dogs they're going to fall into bouts of snarling, barking, fighting and sniffing each other's assholes as there is nothing the dogs can do productively with the car they just caught.
Hmm that's a pretty good idea. You would think in the 250 years of the US existence someone would have thought of such an idea at least once. I wonder what one would call such a team...........................I think a lot of people really like the idea of DOGE. Well, okay, the name sucks, but the idea of government oversight and cutting wasteful spending is highly popular. But it needs to be done right, which means a very boring process that takes months of vetting and planning just to get a team who understands everything, then months of pouring over boring data, somewhat more exciting meetings where they present their findings and start coming up with solutions, and then a more exciting phase of actually rolling out plans to reduce spending that will probably not even go into effect until the following year at the earliest. Obviously, that process wouldn't generate nearly enough positive attention, so we get the chainsaw approach instead that provides instant validation with little results.
Exactly. And this rich retard in particular is on course to lose the government half a trillion with his meme department nonsense.My issue with it is we're paying a rich retard instead of government funded scientists.
With the scientists we have leverage and oversight, meaning we can put the resources to better use, kick an arse if we need to and put in a process of accountability.
With the rich retard we get neither leverage nor oversight, and shouldn't be surprised the money we give to the retard instead ends up in ketamine and lego sets.
It is fine to be skeptical and distrust government. The sensible thing would be to lobby to put in transparency and auditing processes to keep government accountable. The retarded thing is say fuck government, cut the funding and give the money to someone or something you have no leverage over and expect better (or any) results. In this, Elon, and others, keep proving me right.
The IRS could collect $500 billion less in tax revenue, report says, and the U.S. may run out of cash in a few months without a debt-ceiling hike
The April 15 deadline for filing taxes is coming up, and federal officials reportedly expect less revenue this season compared to a year ago, just as the government has a few months left to raise the debt ceiling before running out of cash.
- Tax officials predict federal revenue could fall by 10% this season compared to a year ago amid big staffing cuts and changing behavior among tax payers, sources told TheWashington Post. The decline in collection would come as the federal government is expected to run out of cash as soon as June or July unless Congress raises the debt ceiling.
Sources told The Washington Post Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service officials predict a more than 10% decline in collection, translating to over $500 billion.
That’s due to changes in taxpayer behavior and President Donald Trump’s cuts to the IRS, according to the report, which cited nonpublic revenue projections based on scheduled payments from already-filed returns and outstanding balances.
The IRS has also noted more talk online about not paying taxes this year as well as claiming credits and deductions despite not being ineligible for them due to reduced concern of being audited, sources told the Post.
That’s as the IRS has plans to lay off 20,000 employees with more than 11,000 already dismissed. The report said the agency has dropped investigations of some top companies and taxpayers as it prioritizes resources to keep internal systems operating.
Even before Trump returned to the White House, IRS officials warned his transition team that plans to slash staff could hit revenue.
“Aggressive reductions to budget and personnel capacity risk backlogs, delays, reduced receipts, and diminished capacity to build next generation digital capabilities,” a January presentation from tax officials said, according to records obtained by the Post through the Freedom of Information Act.
To be sure, most tax revenue is collected throughout the year via automatic withholdings or quarterly payments. So any underpayment during tax season would have less impact on overall revenue.
The government could also collect more revenue from Trump’s tariffs, though the IRS typically accounts for 95% of federal revenue each year.
The IRS didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but the Treasury Department denied the report.
“Sensational and baseless claims from people, who for years promoted wasteful IRS spending, should be dismissed out of hand, as should their attempts to ensure that taxpayer funds continue to be wasted in a sad attempt to stop meaningful reforms,” a Treasury spokesperson said in a statement.
A decline in tax collection would contrast with robust economic gains last year, when GDP grew by 2.8%. Meanwhile, personal income at the end of 2024 was 8% higher than a year earlier, and the stock market jumped more than 20%.
Less revenue coming into the federal government would also coincide with a cash crunch imposed by the debt limit. Because Congress has not lifted the $36 trillion ceiling yet, the government’s ability to borrow more is constrained, and the Treasury Department has been using “extraordinary measures” since January to prevent a debt default.
The Bipartisan Policy Center think tank estimated Monday the government’s ability to manage its cash flow to pay its bills on time will run out sometime between mid-July and early October, unless Congress lifts the debt ceiling.
That largely depends on how this year’s tax season goes, and less revenue could bring the deadline even sooner.
“Although it is quite unlikely, if collections from tax season fall far short of expectations, there is a potential for heightened X Date risk in early June ahead of quarterly receipts on June 15,” the report said.
Technocracy is the masterplan, as envisioned by his grandad.Sometimes the simplest answer really is the correct one.
Any 20 year old woman raise your hands if you spend your time terminally online on a platform known for creeps and 12 year olds, read lunatic brainwash books written by paedophilia and incest supporters and behave like a spoiled brat that let's officials wait for her.View attachment 7130150
Autistic man gets groomed into becoming a tranny on discord, many such cases!
Didn't Michael Waltz hate Elon?Now that we know the White House uses Signal for their Top Secret discussions, and invites random journalists into their Top Secret Signal groups, we shouldn't dismiss any leak out of hand [archive].
Will pay the thread tax later. He's firing half the IRS, I can get away with that now.
Except we're not children. Most of us can see right through all the ridiculous promises that Elon makes. How about we let NASA run our space program again, and let them set out realistic goals, instead of forcing us to listen to the village idiot?
Pretty sure they were referencing Musk's desire to colonize Mars in an impossibly fast time table and basically saying that Musk should step aside and leave anything space related to NASA, not that Musk himself is running NASA. I don't think Musk has any interest in NASA because they don't have an X in their name, but if he was given the opportunity, I'm sure he'd replace NASA with SpaceXMusk doesn't run NASA, not does he set it's objectives and goals. The entire substance of your comment displays a complete lack of understanding to a level that maybe you are a child commenting on things you know nothing about.
Sure you can say Musk doesn't run NASA, but in a way he does "run" NASA: https://archive.ph/lNhlZMusk doesn't run NASA, not does he set it's objectives and goals. The entire substance of your comment displays a complete lack of understanding to a level that maybe you are a child commenting on things you know nothing about.
Sure you can say Musk doesn't run NASA, but in a way he does "run" NASA: https://archive.ph/lNhlZ
I know your reading comprehension is below that of a child so I will summarize it for you:
-Trump appointed Jared Isaacman, who is a SpaceX investor and close ally of Musk, to become the next NASA administrator
-NASA themselves confirmed that an employee from DOGE is embedded within the agency
-The current acting administrator Janet Petro (who was also appointed by Trump) named Michael Altenhofen, a longtime SpaceX employee, as senior advisor
-SpaceX is NASA's largest private contractor
Tell me again how Musk, an unelected businessman, wielding official government power and destroying entire workforces in the hopes of (out of his own mouth) replacing them all with Indians is not a conflict of interest to Americans
Pretty sure they were referencing Musk's desire to colonize Mars in an impossibly fast time table and basically saying that Musk should step aside and leave anything space related to NASA, not that Musk himself is running NASA. I don't think Musk has any interest in NASA because they don't have an X in their name, but if he was given the opportunity, I'm sure he'd replace NASA with SpaceX
Like clockwork. Reading comprehension below that of a child. Let's try running through it again.That has nothing to do with anything else you listed.
Musk doesn't run NASA, not does he set it's objectives and goals
Followed by my points which show how Musk uses others to pull strings at NASA on his behalf.Sure you can say Musk doesn't run NASA, but in a way he does "run" NASA: