The next stage of things really going off the rails will happen this summer. I’m afraid the rioting we saw in 2020 is going to be dwarfed. And once the rioting starts troops will be called in and people will be killed. Which will be the pretext for CJ sending in troops to depose blue-state governors by force and replace them with ‘appointees’.
Sound alarmist? Think about this–there’s absolutely nothing to stop him from doing so.
Just wait five months.
You guys are really getting carried away with your TDS imminent dire dystopian predictions.
Are those sorts of thing possible, maybe.
Are they even remotely likely, hell no.
Let’s talk in August.
Here is a quote from the WSJ article:
Elon Musk also has a lot of potential conflicts of interest through his interests in China.
I posted about this in a now closed thread earlier:
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Maybe some find comfort in being able to label them; “Chinese crap”?:
That may has just have become a bit bigglier:
The deranged component in this conversation is Trump. He refreshes his insanity on a daily basis. There are a few here who share his delusions and derangement but they are easily spotted, harmless, and just as easily dismissed.
If they were born outside the US & know the right people, they could get up to a million dollar grant to study in the US from USAID. This fellow here, Anwar Al-Awkaki, who’s name was in the news a while back got a full ride from USAID during the Reagan/Bush years. I don’t know all the details but guess he put that Uncle Sam/USAID paid education to change the world?
When I think of deranged I think of a senility addled felonious president talking about taking over Greenland in order to defend the USA which apparently can’t defend itself in spite of spending a trillion dollars a year on defense. Talks of turning Gaza into a resort which alienates the entire middle east and he never mentions how he is going to accomplish this. Meanwhile rages against DEI while making DEI hires like his Secretary of the Treasury a gay protege of George Soros and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who is a wrestling promoter plus other tabloid fodder appointees.
It’s a clown show not TDS [which I thought stood for The Daily Show]
In fairness he has proposed one idea to MAGA which I 100% agree with, Abolish the Penny !
When you calculate what the DoE spends in a year, and divide by the number of students, that is the quotient. I was a bit high with $16,000 but one source used that figure. This is from census.gov. APRIL 25, 2024 – Nationally, public school spending per student rose 8.9% from $14,358 in FY 2021 to $15,633 in FY 2022, according to new data from the 2022 Annual Survey of School System Finances released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
That $15,633 is primarily local and state funding. Thru the Dept. of Education and other agencies the US government spends about $2400/student in the USA on K-12 programs. Much of which comes from the US Dept of Agriculture for school meal programs
Funny I never heard this much bellyaching about presidential appointees during the past 4 years.
Awful lot of people mad about the curtain being lifted on graft, theft, kickbacks, nepotism and inefficiency… and that was just USAID. Now imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth when the DOD is in the crosshairs. Anyone who has a hate boner for the GOP ought to enjoy seeing their sacred cows slaughtered too.
Observers are absolutely zampolits. I’ve been an observer and also a fisherman. Observers are well paid for kids with just a BS in biology. It’s a thankless job, prone to terrible bias, and data collection is cherrypicked, based on both need and goal-setting for policy support. NOAA Fisheries overstepped by trying to expand observer programs w/o legal basis or budget to do so, by requiring boat owners to pay for Kommissars in subsistence fisheries who simply couldn’t afford them. Doing so cost them the Mandate Of Heaven, and they’ve been in retreat since.
To be fair, retarded immoral and impractical policy and management decisions supports my earlier opinion where I said NOAA is staffed by scientific midwits.
Midwits.
I like that word.
Worked at NOAA as an engineer on their vessels. The NOAA corp was on the chopping block back in the nineties. NOAA corp should be dismantled. The amount of times the vessels I was on grounded because of lack of skills was unbelievable. Imagine a 0-6 in charge of a 273 foot vessel 25 crew. All the rights and privilege’s of a USN officer. NOAA during my tenure at one time had 8 admirals in active service. Most of them had only done about max eight years assigned to vessel in 20 year career. You would not believe some of the cushy shore assignments they got. Paris embassy, Key west, and even multi engine aircraft flight training at gov cost. Yes, move licensed mate and masters into the slots on the vessels.
Now the vessel operations do accomplish good things. The charting division does get good data cheaper then commercial contract. The deep ocean section accomplishes the tasks put before them.
Just wait until DOGE takes a look at the national science foundation grant program. OMG! some of the grants that were awarded were just ludicrous. I only saw the ones that came on the deep ocean vessels.
I lasted with NOAA only 2 years as an engineer. They hire USCG licensed engineers because NOAA Corps aren’t capable of being engineers. NOAA Corps was incompetent to say the least, none are USCG licensed. They would have been disbanded during the Clinton administration but they had too much political power. NOAA Corps was a favorite draft dodgers during the Viet Nam war for wealthy connected children. Wealthy investment bankers and others got their kids into NOAA Corp to avoid the draft and get cushy VA benefits. So when Al Gore proposed turning over the mariner positions to civilians they objected and it never happened. NOAA Corps is a waste of taxpayer money. Was then and is now.However, until it is disbanded I would advise any young person with a college education to join NOAA Corp. You make rank much quicker than any other service, you never have to worry about being shot at and you never have to go to sea for more than a year or two at the time and even then you are mostly in port in the USA and you retire in 20 years with full VA benefits
Here is another view of the terrorist’s college funding -
From American Citizen to Imam to Terrorist to Drone Killing
Published: Feb 14, 2025
Compiled and edited by Scott Shane
Scott Shane is a former national security reporter for The New York Times
Washington, D.C., February 14, 2025 - Some 14 years after Anwar al-Awlaki’s death in an American drone strike, the Al Qaeda terrorist has become the unlikely subject of a flurry of partisan news and opinion reports attacking the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which the Trump administration is attempting to discredit and shut down. Reports from Fox News, The New York Post, other outlets and social media accounts cite the first document in this 2015 National Security Archive publication to assert that, as the Fox News headline claims, “USAID reportedly bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist’s college tuition.”
The facts are actually considerably less damning to the agency than the headline suggests, because the college student would not become a terrorist until many years later. Anwar al-Awlaki was the son of Nasser al-Awlaki, a prominent public figure in Yemen who served as minister of agriculture and as chancellor of two universities. Nasser al-Awlaki had spent 11 years in the United States as a graduate student and young professor and he wanted his son to follow his path. When Anwar enrolled at Colorado State University in 1990 to study engineering, he was hardly religious – he took out the prayer rug his mother kept putting into his suitcase – and certainly no terrorist. After college, he would become an imam, serving in three American mosques and expressing conventional views. He led Friday prayers in the U.S. Capitol, spoke at a Pentagon luncheon, and publicly and privately denounced the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Only after leaving the United States for the United Kingdom did he become steadily more radical, finally joining Al Qaeda in Yemen around 2007. That was 17 years after USAID had approved his scholarship application.
As noted below, Anwar al-Awlaki falsely claimed on a USAID form that he had been born in Yemen in order to get a scholarship from the agency that was reserved for foreign citizens. In fact, he was a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico in 1971 when his father was a student at New Mexico State University. For most of his life, Nasser al-Awlaki had warm feelings for the United States, to which he was grateful for his education and career. His son Anwar, in the last years of his life, reviled the United States and spent his days plotting attacks against the land of his birth. Both are dead now, and they would undoubtedly be amazed to see Anwar’s story resurface in an American political dispute.
A link to the complete article -
Not less damning to me. Actually, I don’t care if he turned into a terrorist or not? Why in the F●CK is USAID giving any foriegn national (or US citizen) up to a million dollars for college. I’m 100% fine with US farmers food going to foriegn aide but a million cash for college. WTF!?! My coworkers & I are working our asses off on the ship paying for colleges for our kids & USAID is giving a million a pop to foreigners?! Screw that. Shut it down & start over IMO.
It is probably for the same reasons that Musk was promoting H-1B visas. As for a million dollars, is that true? In any case, I agree that such funding should go to American citizens (which, as turns out, he was - but you know what I’m saying).
USAID was 1% of the budget whereas the defense budget is close to 15% but defense has dodged the Elon’s minions. Until they take the same chainsaw to the defense budget I will continue to believe this is just Elon and the 2025 boys helping themselves and their oligarch buddies. The biggest proof of this is the massive cuts to the IRS which is a fiscally criminal move.
The PayPal Mafia paid a lot to buy the Presidency for Trump, now it is payback time:
With Project 2025 being implemented and control of DOGE, what can stop them from taking over control of D.C.?
Maybe even creating a dynasty for the future: