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[+] 116 points 1 year ago* (10 children)
  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's also that cutting doesn't necessarily lead to spending less. I can cut 50 dollars on lunch, but then I end up real hungry, get fired and can't resist a honey bun from the vending machine.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Its not even that.

    It is throwing away your jacket because you don't want to go out for lunch in the middle of the day. And then realizing you still need that jacket to get to and from work and having to buy a new one. And THEN buying lunch anyway because you are hungry.

    A few articles have done a great job of documenting it but it boils down to the problem being the fundamental argument of WHY they are doing this. Officially their stance is to move fast, break things, and then repair what they actually needed. Except those repairs cost a LOT of time and money.

    And... to add on to the brutally beaten metaphor: It also costs money to get rid ofy our old jacket because you can't just throw it in the trash. You have to drive down to a good will to drop it off. Because government employees have PTO that needs to be paid out and so forth.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Trump: "They get PTO? Don't bother paying them, it is money better spent on visiting the Olympics." (Millions of dollars later, he leaves within 30 minutes of entering the stadium.) "So dull, those so-called foreign women throwing balls. Arrest them, they clearly are men in drag."

    ...As ever, my well of sarcasm has become dryer than a desert. You can throw just about anything malicious or stupid at the wall, and it would be a plausible scenario with this regime. :(

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean we were deporting people at higher numbers than Trump has for as long as I know. Trump's just spending more money to deport less. Some might call it horrible money management skills.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And I’m sure he’s paying El Salvador, and for all these flights, and then for creating and distributing all of these propaganda videos and Kristi Noem tv commercials. Have to make a big spectacle about it. That’s not cheap.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    DOGE was never about cutting spending and I hate when the media frames it that way. I don’t know what they teach in journalism school but pretending to not know what time it is has to be a required course. It’s like when they use “free speech absolutist” (even ironically) to describe Elon Musk. He was never that and if you believed it and are disappointed, I hope you were just not paying attention. Motherfucker was being sued for discrimination and promising flight attendants horses to get his dick sucked and people act like he betrayed his formerly-held values.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I don’t know what they teach in journalism school

    It's not what they don't teach. It's that what they do teach is immediately and unobjectionally discarded by the oligarch paying their salary.

    If something doesn't benefit the ownership or the ideals promoted by the ownership, it won't be published. If it's in opposition to the ownership or their ability to retain wealth and power, the journalists behind it won't be employed any longer. Outside of publicly-funded or independent journalism, journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting are practically dead.

    This is what happens when news and media are consolidated into a few large conglomerates owned by a wealthy few.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Are you talking about this article specifically? It seems like this article is taking the promise Trump made and following all the dollars to prove exactly how that promise was bullshit. This seems like journalism at work.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    Par for the Course (pun intended) when republicans take control. Anything they whine about is projection; From national debt to sex crimes to censorship. Scream loud enough so when you begin doing it you can claim that your opponents have done it for forever and a day after the inevitable pushback. These are not creative people.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Believe it or not, all of it was spent on golf!

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Honestly I'd rather money be wasted on golf than dismantling the entire US

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I saw the story of a 60 mil fighter jet falling off a aircraft carrier. Kind of odd to think that that one incident will counteract my entire life's tax contribution multiple times over. Glad I'm making a difference guys.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    It's almost as though there's massive contradictions in conservative ideology.

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  • [+] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    he did say to his supporters," i dont care about you, just your votes"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    BUT they DID Eliminate MY Social Security so that's a Plus!

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  • [+] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Police States are expensive.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    LOL, LMAO, LOL

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Just cutting things for fun, anyone said anything about spending less?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Ah. Than the first 100 days of last year. Here I couldn't tell from the title, and really I wouldn't be surprised either way.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    That's OK, since our tariffs tax is giving the government even more.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought it wouldn't be needed here, but since I have similar up votes and down votes, I was apparently incorrect.

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