The DOGE Clown Show

[Aloha Hoosier]

If they were truly serious about cutting wasteful spending they’d go after the $2 trillion program to design a new fighter jet (F35) that engineers can’t get to work.

F-35: $2T in 'generational wealth' the military had no right to spend

The Joint Strike Fighter had a $200B price tag in 2001, now babies born that year are out of college and the plane is still not ready for prime time

responsiblestatecraft.org

Don’t work? They’ve been flown in combat by the US and Israel. The US already has more than 1100 of them and our allies are buying many hundreds of them. The development was very expensive with many design problems but “don’t work” is a totally inaccurate description of the F35.

By the way, the sunk costs aren’t recoverable.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

Ketamine got me.

 

[Bowlmania]

The fallout from the Trusk Shit Show continues.

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE

Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

apnews.com

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

I don’t have a problem with employees being fired with just cause, but how can this rapid fire happen at this pace? There’s no way there was a proper vetting of all these employees and their departments. This had to be preconceived. I’m not a corporate man so please correct me if wrong. If a new CEO is hired to fix a company. Does he come in ready to fire employees or is there some form of due process to determine how best to fix the company? Seems like a fair question to me.

It depends on how bad the fiscal bleeding is. Sometimes you have to move fast, win or lose fast then course correct as needed. The fiscal bleeding in the swamp is terrible. So a large # of people get an extended unpaid vaca for now.

 

[Bowlmania]

More than 20 staffers quit Musk's DOGE, rebuke Trump admin government cuts

The resignations of engineers, data scientists and product managers are a setback for Musk's tech-driven federal workforce purge.

www.newsweek.com

 

[GooglyMooglyWooglyBoogly]

NSA sex chats?

The NSA’s Secret Sex Chats

Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.

www.city-journal.org

 

[Bowlmania]

Laura Ingraham, that compassionate Christian who frequently displays a cross on her jewelry, says it’s high time the fired federal government employees (thousands of veterans included) get “a real job.”

Maybe she should.

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

Who the heck can function normally with all the chaos and confusion?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-setback-musk-presses-forward-with-federal-worker-threats-2025-02-25/

 

[Ohio Guy]

The fallout from the Trusk Shit Show continues.

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE

Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

apnews.com

Trusk is good, but Mump might be better, given and outbreak is probably on the horizon.

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

The right way:

A veteran of the only successful government reduction effort in 30 years has a warning for Elon Musk: ‘All hell is going to break loose’

Clinton’s ‘reinventing government’ effort cut 400,000 federal workers and made bureaucracy more efficient—by doing the opposite of DOGE.

fortune.com

 

[mrhighlife]