The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Thumpalumpacus]

The fed is shuttering the ev station program.  This is no small issue.  The infrastructure for ice vehicles that allowed them to become central to our development strategy and useful on a practical basis did not grow organically.  The fed created a program to put pumps across the nation..and the same will have to happen for evs for them to be more than garage queens.  As per usual, this is aimed at owning the libs, but will hurt red state voters the most.  From donalds end, it's just more money to untether from a program so they can better loot it.

https://www.wired.com/story/feds-halt-na...g-program/

On the bright side, it will probably have a negative impact on Tesla.

[Belacqua]

Musk's exposure of USaid funding is good.

What is he exposing about USAID funding and how is it good?

He is showing us where the money goes.

It's good because we should know what the government is doing.

[Angrboda]

What is he exposing about USAID funding and how is it good?

He is showing us where the money goes.

False. The amount of misinformation in Musk's posts is staggering. This has been documented in the mainstream media. I can't speak for RT's take on it.

It's good because we should know what the government is doing.

Why is that good? Are you in a position to do anything about it? Am I?

[The Grand Nudger]

"Where money going" was a question already answered by a public website which donald shuttered, and askable to an appointed watchdogs who donald fired. In this case, the unforgivable sin of "where money going?"...was to an investigation into elmo. It's him or the government, so the government is gonna get it.

[The Grand Nudger]

On the bright side, it will probably have a negative impact on Tesla.

Tesla is a front for bitcoin laundering and securities fraud.  He's a rocketman now. Maybe even the shadow king of america (and a number of other small countries). Certainly the lord of all our data.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Just Three Weeks In, and He's Literally Grasping At Straws

President Donald Trump was slammed by critics and some of his own supporters after he announced he would be halting the Biden administration's previous attempts to phase out plastic straws and other single-use plastics by 2027.

"I will be signing an executive order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws, which don't work," he wrote via Truth Social and shared to X on Friday, February 7. "BACK TO PLASTIC!"

Boru

[Alan V]

Trump's illegal actions since his inauguration have demonstrated, yet again, that he is a wannabe dictator. He is still undermining the separation of powers.

I really hope he dies soon, for the sake of our democracy. I hate his guts.

[Sheldon]

What is he exposing about USAID funding and how is it good?

He is showing us where the money goes.

No he's not, it was duplicitous nonsense, and we already knew where the money went, that's why we know it is duplicitous nonsense. 

It's good because we should know what the government is doing.

We already knew, how stupid would someone have to be to imagine USAID operated without any oversight? Newsflash, the facts don't mesh with Musk's rhetoric. 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...ty-america 

"Musk shared a screenshot quoting the false claim that “less than 10 percent of our foreign assistance dollars flowing through USAID is actually reaching those communities”. The implication is that the remaining 90% was diverted, stolen, or just wasted. In fact, the 10% figure is the proportion of the budget going directly to NGOs and organisations in the developing world. The remaining 90% is not wasted – instead, it comprises all the goods and services that USAid, American companies and NGOs, and multilateral organisations deliver in kind, from HIV drugs to emergency food aid, malaria bed nets, and treatment for malnutrition. It is simply untrue that 90% of aid falls into the wrong hands and never reaches the most vulnerable."

Second source

Well now look at this:

"Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink’s Contracts in Ukraine

The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's equipment at the time of Musk's assault."

CITATION 



Who's shocked?

[Sheldon]

Trump's illegal actions since his inauguration have demonstrated, yet again, that he is a wannabe dictator.  He is still undermining the separation of powers.

I really hope he dies soon, for the sake of our democracy.  I hate his guts.

As bad as this shit is, this is likely to be a 4 year Reich, the Democrats need to focus on the midterms, and challenging as much Herr Trump's lies as possible.

[h4ym4n]

Trump's illegal actions since his inauguration have demonstrated, yet again, that he is a wannabe dictator.  He is still undermining the separation of powers.

I really hope he dies soon, for the sake of our democracy.  I hate his guts.

You really think maga will just dissolve if he dies?


The Xian Taliban is fully established in the USA and it’s not going away.