Beyond a desire to help people in need even if they fucking morons who need to be protected from themselves I simply don't have the ability since my party is in the minority. They bought the ticket and now have to take the ride.
A part of me says "fuck them, they voted for this" - if you keep slapping my hand away when I extend it to help, then it becomes clear that they don't want help.
At the same time, I would still like to see them get the help they need, because doing the right thing still matters to me, even if it doesn't matter to Republicans.
Wait, I thought he had no powers there and wasn’t running things so how would he fix it?Elon Musk says Doge didn’t cut HIV programs. But it threw a ‘miracle drug’ into chaos
Global health officials say USAID cuts upended their work, as billionaire claims he will fix any defunding ‘right now’www.theguardian.com
What a huge liar (not surprising). "Don't believe your own eyes and the effects you saw when we destroyed USAID".
A part of me says "fuck them, they voted for this" - if you keep slapping my hand away when I extend it to help, then it becomes clear that they don't want help.
At the same time, I would still like to see them get the help they need, because doing the right thing still matters to me, even if it doesn't matter to Republicans.
Beyond a desire to help people in need even if they fucking morons who need to be protected from themselves I simply don't have the ability since my party is in the minority. They bought the ticket and now have to take the ride.
As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.
Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.
Mr. Musk had been using ketamine often, sometimes daily, and mixing it with other drugs, according to people familiar with his consumption. The line between medical use and recreation was blurry, troubling some people close to him.
He also took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at private gatherings across the United States and in at least one other country, according to those who attended the events.
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered. Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life.
Musk sometimes refers to people he holds in contempt as “NPCs,” videogame speak for characters who aren’t controlled by players and thus have no agency. More than just an insult, the term, I think, reveals something about his worldview. He either doesn’t view most other people as entirely real or doesn’t see the point of treating them as such. As he told Joe Rogan this year, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,” referring to the emotion as a “bug” in our system.
Looks like I'm out of a job if Congress doesn't do anything. Forest Service R&D (Rangeland and Forest Research etc.) is completely zero'ed out in the President's budget.
That’s a lie! President Trump is very concerned about proper forest maintenance and cleaning the floors to prevent forest fires!! I’m told he has a top secret R&D program working on a big, beautiful rake to clean debris from forest floors!
Looks like I'm out of a job if Congress doesn't do anything. Forest Service R&D (Rangeland and Forest Research etc.) is completely zero'ed out in the President's budget.
Poor Elon, so much given...so little received.
What does Barbara Streisand have to do with it? Musk is a true African American patriot who was betrayed by big spending politicians. 😞Thats some BS right there
What does Barbara Streisand have to do with it? Musk is a true African American patriot who was betrayed by big spending politicians. 😞
Liberal parody troll and mental defective. Just remove the "or".It's shit like this that makes it hard to know if Felix is trolling or is a legitimate mental defective.
Im sure all our resident trump voting veterans are ok with this. Otherwise, why would you keep voting for it?DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts
Staffer had no medical experience, and the results were predictably, spectacularly bad.arstechnica.com
Good article on the process (if it can be called that) Doge was using to identify contracts to cut.
Wouldn't surprise me if this was one of the "more successful" variations of DOGE fucking things up.DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts
Staffer had no medical experience, and the results were predictably, spectacularly bad.arstechnica.com
Good article on the process (if it can be called that) Doge was using to identify contracts to cut.