Just in case you missed the reality of your paranoid delusions:
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Hereās where the comedy is:
Google āsalt mine ā and ādocument.ā Youāll find the whole thing has been repeatedly reported by the media since the 1980s. Itās not a secret. Every administration has known about it and could have shut it down.
But they didnāt. Why? Because of pork. The system is archaic but it gives work to people in some congressmanās constituency. You want to shut it down and put people out of work? Say it out loud. But this stuff about the Mafia targeting it is just plain nuts.
Hereās whatās really going on:
Musk has $400 million dollars worth of contracts under scrutiny with the DOD. A sweet deal with CJ. Remember when CJ said electric cars were worthless because they wouldnāt work in the cold? And they caught fire? Well heās giving $400 million to Musk for āarmored Teslasā which wonāt work in the cold and will catch fire (according to CJ).
Look it up. Only, Musk tried to hide all this corruption by recently dropping the word āTeslaā from the procurement order.
Thatās what the saltmine thing is really about. Distraction from a $400 million swindle. Look it up. But donāt look on Fox or Truth Social, because they will never report it.
Remember when the MAGAs lost their minds because Biden forgave a $300 truck payment from Hunter? Corruption!!!
But when CJ tosses $400 million to Musk for armored Teslas (whatever the fuck those are)āelectric cars that MAGAs insist are unreliable and dangerousātheyāre cool with it.
Comedy gold!
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I do find it humorous that there is a segment of the population that for years derided electric cars as a con job forced on society by the lefties, but now many of those same people embrace and celebrate the stylings of the man most responsible for making electric cars part of our society.
But then Donald Trump was a Democrat most his life and donated $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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The interesting thing to watch is whether or not Trump will retain the $7500 tax credit to buy a new electric car. He threatened to stop it during the campaign on occasion. Yesterday oil money backed senators proposed abolishing the $7500 tax credit for new electric cars as well as the $4000 credit for used ones plus they want to add a $1000 fee to the purchase of a new EV. They say to make up for the loss in gas tax money 
It remains to be seen which policy Presidents Trump and Musk will agree with.
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Something tells me Trump will capitulate to anything Musk advises or recommends. Trump values wealth and fame as the ultimate symbol of someoneās worth, therefore he idolizes Musk and wants to keep him in his fold, especially if Musk keeps praising him.
Trump isnāt some one who is known for his own convictions. The guy has never had a fixed agenda or a specific cause that drove him to politics in the first place. He just wants to be popular and powerful to feed his ego and cover his very deep insecurities, everything else is a means to an end.
Apparently DOGE has switched its sight to look at NASA, while at the same time SpaceX has $22 Billion in government contracts, $15 Billion of which is with NASA.
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Even if we switched to an electronic database today the hard copies would still have to be stored for years until that information was able to be uploaded, likely by government workers who were all just offered immediate resignation with 7 months of full pay for doing zero work. Downsizing the number of government employees will only make the transition to electronic records take longer. For prior years the hard copies will remain the sole record until we are finally able to transcribe the information to whatever electronic system that is eventually put in place.
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If 25% of government employees are eliminated it will reduce government expenditures by about 1%.
It is still interesting that the single largest expense is the DOD and it is not being looked at by the Dodge muskateers. I mean if one is really interested in fraud and wasteā¦?
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Imagine if George Soros or Bill Gates were actively doing what Musk is doing as part of a Democratic administration. Would if liberal billionaires were installed as government advisors actively deploying teams to slash those portions of the government that they disagreed with, while not being subject to any of the rules such as ethics pledges or financial divestment that are normally part of serving in the Federal government? People would understandably be livid and rightfully so, but given the blind allegiance to the current administration many donāt see an issue with it as long as it is only their side doing it.
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We are watching the beginning of another age of insanity. Hopefully this one will be very short lived. For the first time in my life I am looking forward to the midterm elections ā¦ if we have them.
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Since you mention comedy. Even though this is a satirical take it has more value than the supposed facts and truth being regurgitated out here on the forum these days.
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Who needs publicly shared info on government spending contained in dry reports as has always been available? I want sensationalism without context and click baity exaggeration to feed my outrage!
Drain the swamp using the richest man in the world who also benefits from billions in government contracts, subsidies, and tax breaks.
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Would we be better off with Trump doing whatever on his own?
Or should we be relieved that a super smart genius, visionary, and futurist like Elon is donating his time to us, and keeping Trump from going completely off the rails?
I have a lot more confidence in Elon, than in Trump.
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I only wish there was a third party or fourth party to break the two party system. Until then, not much is going to change it will continue to be the lesser of the two evils and that is not much of a democracy.
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Weāve desperately needed a third party (or 4th or 5th or ā¦) for decades.
For years I only voted third party for president (Ross Perot x2 & Nader x1). Unfortunately the Dems and GOP learned their lesson with Perot and will NEVER again allow a third party candidate equal exposure for fear of what it might mean. It is in both parties best interest to make it an either or choice, lesser of two evils, when in reality most Americans would likely vote for a third party if given the opportunity without feeling like they were wasting their vote. The Electoral College combined with winner take all in nearly every state and the difficulty in getting on the ballot in every state all helps to ensure that there isnāt any viability to third party or grassroots political movements.
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The solution is to kill Citizens United and prohibit contributions in cash or in kind from any source except constituents and impose a reasonable limit on those.
Since I am just dreaming that any form of campaign finance reform will ever happen, I might as well include an end to the electoral college as well as any and all forms of gerrymandering.
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Maybe you guys sucked at keeping logs? Because I can open a log book from any day in the last 10 years and find what I need? It even has the time it was done! Amazing!
Dawg the more you keep saying this the more it just shows how youāre the same on the other side of the spectrum. We get it youāre not a liberal!
Bull sheet. Or you obviously donāt work with a large crew in busy engine room, nor do you keep good records in those rough logs. 10 years of rough logs for the ship I work on now is about 35 books, 3 or 4 new record books every year. For the last 8 years Iāve (weāve) used the highlighter method of highlighting certain jobs different colors, electrical one color, mechanical another, fuel/lube another etc & that does make it easier. But if a new part numbered, double threaded adapter was changed for a spin-on type filter & that part number was only recorded in the rough log, the only way youāre going to find it is to go through all the rough logs until you find that entry. I know you think very highly of yourself beercaptain but you donāt have me fooled enough to believe you remember every page of 35, 200 paged log books & you can just walk to a file cabinet, pull out the right book & open to the correct page. Without a doubt, youād be just like I was concerning that long ago adapter, with a stack of books on your desk, slowly turning pages, reading as fast as you could hoping whomever installed the updated piece recorded the new part number. Claiming to remember every page of every log book for the last 10 years is a good one.
Concerning you dems being upset that DOGE has called out the idiocracy of having all the federal employee retirement applications/packets in paper format only stashed in an underground cave to the tune of over 6 million envelopes. Someone has said it would take years just to scan & digitize all those documents. That would take several teams of people & tens of millions of dollars just to scan so forgot about auditting until after all the scanning is completed. So weird some of you guys used to ride on a high horse complaing about unchecked spending of the DoD & other government agencies but now that Musk points out a system that really canāt be auditted you all are against government accountability. Maybe the DoD, the CIA & DARPA keeps their financial information on Etch-A-Scetches dangling over a giant lavapit & you guys can cheer how great it is if Musk calls it dumb. Itās 2025 for Peteās sake, computers have been widely used since the 1980ās!!! These people are hiding something, or lots of something not to have switched over from paper format only. So funny to see you guys defending it, keep it up.
What kind of vessel do you work on where you keep all that in a rough log and not in some kind of electronic PMS?
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No, we do electronic now. Thatās what I stated with shipeng several comments ago. Electronic is the only way to go, has been for the last 20 years aboard several different types of vessels. Real easy to find things now. I canāt imagine a company could run profitably or a ship could run efficiently with paper only. We do still keep a rough log for daily activities but maintenance goes in our maintenance program, ballasting in the ballasting program, requisitions in the requisition program etc. When auditors come on board they usually only hit the ORB & the electronic maintenance/SMS programs. Itās hard to quickly & efficiently audit paper logs, everyone knows that. IMO, thats why that government retiring office only works with paper. No one is going to audit those folks. 10,000 packets a month since at least the 1970ās all in paper? No one can be so stupid they claim they didnāt know about computers or digitizing in all that time.
Havenāt you people ever heard of NS5? Go to part, look at old work orders and POs, done. Takes about 45 seconds. As long as your relief remembered to tag the part on the work orderā¦
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