Trumps Presidency 2025

[Tigeraholic1]

I wonder what concert Kash was there for? Rage Against the Machine or Sabrina Carpenter?

 

 

[gehringer_2]

15 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I wonder what concert Kash was there for? Rage Against the Machine or Sabrina Carpenter?

 

 

this is generally why so many of these back and forths are silly. And a big piece is that the internet reports factoids without context instead of complete stories; and with a factoid the listeners add whatever context fits their bias. A half-way decent political press should tell you what Patel or Whitmer are doing there overall. I certainly don't care if either of them show up at the games if they manage to do something useful overall on the trip, we don't need to be Puritanical. But we don't get that - or at least never until well after all the hot air and venom has been spewed around. 

Like the right's big MN story. There is fraud and abuse in every program. It's just the way it is - in the end it always costs more to get rid of last few percentage points of loss than to just let them go. That's just being practical - the most money in NOT saved by the most buttoned down program because the buttons cost a lot of money too. So the real question is the context - is it worse in one place than another, what is the actual scale compared to the overall spending? Numbers with lots of zeros always sound newsworthy, but the dollar aint what it used to be. 'Billions' in fraud may be less than rounding errors when Trillions are being spent. But we don't get those contexts reported either, because the media machines aren't interested in truth, only in scoring points for their side.

Edited 2 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

So Kash was in Italy looking for fraud money missing from Minnesota and just happened to be there during the Men's Ice Hockey Championship game.

 

Hey guy, I've got some Vacation Club points I can sell you real cheap. Put you right at Presidential Level 

The FBI is an American domestic law enforcement agency. Kash had absolutely no business in an overseas foreign country, other than the fact that he wanted to go to a gold medal Olympic game. How many Americans would jump at a chance to attend such an event? What he did was the equivalent of stealing from a company to go there, he would be fired at any normal business. Trump just tells him "good job, keep up the good work." Grifters gonna grift.

[Sports_Freak]

22 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

this is generally why so many of these back and forths are silly. And a big piece is that the internet reports factoids without context instead of complete stories; and with a factoid the listeners add whatever context fits their bias. A half-way decent political press should tell you what Patel or Whitmer are doing there overall. I certainly don't care if either of them show up at the games if they manage to do something useful overall on the trip, we don't need to be Puritanical. But we don't get that - or at least never until well after all the hot air and venom has been spewed around. 

Like the right's big MN story. There is fraud and abuse in every program. It's just the way it is - in the end it always costs more to get rid of last few percentage points of loss than to just let them go. That's just being practical - the most money in NOT saved by the most buttoned down program because the buttons cost a lot of money too. So the real question is the context - is it worse in one place than another, what is the actual scale compared to the overall spending? Numbers with lots of zeros always sound newsworthy, but the dollar aint what it used to be. 'Billions' in fraud may be less than rounding errors when Trillions are being spent. But we don't get those contexts reported either, because the media machines aren't interested in truth, only in scoring points for their side.

The Italian government covering for someone in the MAGA administration isnt a surprise. Italy is also run by a MAGA type right wing grifter.

 

[romad1]

53 Missing Epstein Pages Raise DOJ Transparency Questions

Pam... do your job or go to jail.  November is coming. 

[ewsieg]

23 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

The FBI is an American domestic law enforcement agency. Kash had absolutely no business in an overseas foreign country, other than the fact that he wanted to go to a gold medal Olympic game. 

You're probably right about Kash just wanting to be there for the game, but the FBI absolutely has a role outside of the US and Mueller was in Greece ahead of the last Olympics there to consult on security preparations.  If something happened to US athletes while in Italy, Kash absolutely would have been partially responsible.  

All that said, you're absolutely right.  He wanted to be there for the Olympics, just like Whitmer.  

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

You're probably right about Kash just wanting to be there for the game, but the FBI absolutely has a role outside of the US and Mueller was in Greece ahead of the last Olympics there to consult on security preparations.  If something happened to US athletes while in Italy, Kash absolutely would have been partially responsible.  

All that said, you're absolutely right.  He wanted to be there for the Olympics, just like Whitmer.  

I didn't see Whitmer drinking like a frat boy and dancing around like an idiot. Kash showed a serious lack of decorum and would be fired by an administration that isn't so dysfunctional.

[ewsieg]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

I didn't see Whitmer drinking like a frat boy and dancing around like an idiot. Kash showed a serious lack of decorum and would be fired by an administration that isn't so dysfunctional.

Absolutely agree.  Only reason he wouldn't have been fired in my administration is because he would have never been allowed to sniff around DC if I was in charge to begin with.

[Sports_Freak]

6 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

It gets better. The Orange Cheeto has his panties in a bunch over the Women's Olympic Gold Medal winning hockey team turning down his invitation to his upcoming LieFest speech;

 

At least we have this one to enjoy;

 

[ben9753]

21 minutes ago, romad1 said:

53 Missing Epstein Pages Raise DOJ Transparency Questions

Pam... do your job or go to jail.  November is coming. 

Got halfway through that article, but I just can't. The writing is so clearly AI

[romad1]

31 minutes ago, ben9753 said:

Got halfway through that article, but I just can't. The writing is so clearly AI

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Either the 53 pages fall within the scope of the transparency law, or they do not. Either they are being withheld under a specific statutory exemption or they are missing because the department has not maintained firm control over its own rollout. In either case, the responsibility rests with the same leadership that has publicly vouched for the integrity of the process.

That seems relevant.