New aircraft carrier to be named…

USS MUSK

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APRIL FOOLS!!!

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Originally posted by HK Ag:
We need to win the Wisconsin Supreme Court too!

Hope Wisconsin Trump voters showed up!

We did our best, but fell short. I want to thank all those who helped us in this election.

Well, we did get another win in Wisconsin. Just saw that the voter ID law (requiring a photo) was passed by 60%.

This is a huge win for us.

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Originally posted by JohnCourage:
Tulsi Gabbard. Now that is someone young women can look up to! A real American role model.

The gift that keeps on giving

The joy that the new Trump administration has given to me has not yet abated. Last week, Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in which a slack-jawed, dumb-founded Sen. Angus King of Maine noted that the 2025 annual threat assessment by the U.S. intelligence community made no mention of climate change. Tulsi responded by saying, “I can’t speak to the decisions made previously, but this annual threat assessment has been focused very directly on the threats that we deem most critical to the United States and our national security.” In short, the intelligence service is now focusing on real threats, not ones manufactured by the climate industrial complex.

King responded with a laundry list of problems that climate change was causing such as “mass migration, famine, dislocation, and political violence”. Tulsi did not take the bait. She might easily have noted that the former administration’s open invitation to the world, not climate change, caused tens of millions of refugees to resettle here, but she instead let King keep going on like a porkchop about extreme weather, heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires, and storms of Biblical proportions. Tulsi then calmly responded that the annual threat assessment only focused on real threats, (not the imaginary fears of a bedwetter like the Senator).

An enraged Angus demanded to know if Gabbard gave explicit instructions to the authors of the report to not include climate change, and Gabbard replied, “I don’t recall giving that instruction.”

Tulsi, you are doing great!

https://www.americanthinker.co...keeps_on_giving.html

Really rubs me wrong to hear these people claim (or otherwise state) they were fired.

They were not fired, they were laid off due to lack of funds.

If the individual was fired, ass the knucklehead above claimed, then yes, he probably did deserve / earn it.

FDA "Head vaccine scientist" wasn't. And he overrode FDA experts' recommendations to delay COVID vaccine approval.

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On Friday, Dr. Peter Marks announced his resignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Director of CEBR (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) citing differences with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kennedy regarding vaccines. The New York Times, Washington Post, and other media outlets such as STAT News breathlessly reported that “FDA’s top vaccine scientist had been pushed out.” We have been told that science is at risk. The irony of these reports is that Marks didn’t resign and is not a vaccine scientist. Dr. Marks was asked to leave and then subsequently wrote that he did not want to become “subservient to [Secretary Kennedy’s] misinformation and lies.”

Peter Marks is not a hero of the resistance but instead has been subverting the scientific process at FDA for years.

The media proclamation that Dr. Marks’ is “FDA’s top vaccine scientist” is ironic because he decided to give himself that position. Marks is a physician but has no clinical or scientific training in vaccines or immunology. Dr. Marks trained as an oncologist, a field far from the important and complex area of vaccine biology. At FDA in 2021, Dr. Marks removed top career vaccine scientists so he could force through the approval of the COVID vaccine to meet an arbitrary Biden administration deadline. He also declined to convene the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee to review his decision. These events are clearly outlined in the June 2023 House Judiciary Hearings. Marks ousted Dr. Gruber and Dr. Krause, the top scientists at the Office of Vaccine Research, due to “intransigence” of these real vaccine experts to not ram through the approval of the vaccine. Drs. Gruber and Krause had voiced concerns that they needed more time to understand the safety of the vaccine especially as it relates to inflammation of the heart, now a well known and accepted toxicity of the COVID vaccine. Marks approved the use of the vaccine in children despite the known fact that children have an extremely low risk of serious health effects of COVID-19 infection and yet a known significant increased risk of serious vaccine related toxicity.

Link: RealClearPolitics

Not mentioned in this vid, unverified, I heard this on the radio today.

Maher showed up with a list of insults Trump had thrown at Maher over the years (a dick move meant to put the Donald on his heels.)
What did Trump do? Autograph the list .

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Originally posted by oddball:
Kid Rock talks about Trump's dinner with Bill Maher.

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^^^^^
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...e-called-bill-maher/

Musk steps down



President Donald Trump has told his Cabinet and inner circle that Elon Musk is stepping back from his government role.

The Tesla and Space X founder will soon be returning to the business world, Politico reported, in a move that rattled the stock market and caused shock waves in Washington.

Musk's designation as a special government employee meant he was scheduled to step down in May but he's now leaving early in a cloud of controversy.

It was a joint decision between the two men and Trump said he remains happy with Musk's work with the Department of Government Efficiency.

But Musk has become a controversial figure due to his slash and burn style of cutting down the federal government. He also just sank $20 million into Wisconsin's Supreme Court race only to have his Republican candidate lose.

And stock in Tesla has dropped sharply with sales down and sales lots are being set on fire.

The report Musk is going back to his business roots did send his company shares' soaring. He became a billionaire through his various corporate holdings.

-more at linky

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Originally posted by bcereuss:
Musk steps down

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The WH is indicating this story is not true.

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Elon Musk will exit his role with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on schedule later this spring, once "his incredible work at DOGE is complete," the White House confirmed Wednesday.

"This ‘scoop’ is garbage," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X Wednesday. "Elon Musk and President Trump have both *publicly* stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete."

Leavitt was referring to a Wednesday Politico article reporting that "Trump has told his inner circle & members of his Cabinet that" Musk "will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role." Musk, however, has long been anticipated to step back from DOGE when his 130 days as a "special government employee" run out in May.

Musk has been the public face of DOGE since President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the office Jan. 20.

Musk officially was hired as a "special government employee," which is a role Congress created in 1962 that allows the executive or legislative branch to hire temporary employees for specific short-term initiatives.

Special government employees are permitted to work for the federal government for "no more than 130 days in a 365- day period," according to data from the Office of Government Ethics. Musk's 130-day timeframe, beginning on Inauguration Day, runs dry May 30.

"Politico has become a tabloid paper that would rather run fake news for clicks than real reporting," White House spokesman Harrison Fields told Fox Digital Wednesday of Politico's report. "This is exactly why President Trump and DOGE have terminated millions of dollars in wasteful, government contracts to so-called news organizations that have diminished their credibility with the American people."

DOGE is a temporary cross-departmental organization that was established to slim down and streamline the federal government. The group itself will be dissolved on July 4, 2026, according to Trump's executive order.

Musk and Trump have both previously previewed that Musk's role was temporary and would come to end in the coming weeks.

"You, technically, are a special government employee and you're supposed to be 130 days," Fox News' Bret Baier asked Musk during an exclusive interview with the DOGE leader and members of his team Thursday. "Are you going to continue past that or do you think that's what you're going to do?"

"I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that time frame," Musk responded.

Trump hinted at Musk's departure in comments to the media Monday when asked if he wants Musk to remain in a government role for longer than the predetermined 130 days.

"I think he's amazing. But I also think he's got a big company to run," Trump responded. "And so at some point he's going to be going back."

"I'd keep him as long as I can keep him. He's a very talented guy. You know, I love very smart people. He's very smart. And he's done a good job," the president added. "DOGE is, we've found numbers that nobody can even believe."

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Originally posted by bcereuss:
Musk steps down

https://x.com/PressSec/status/...2F2671662678advanced

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1907459430980927798

I was just sayin…’

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Originally posted by bcereuss:
I was just sayin…’

The left’s narrative since before the election has been that Trump and Elon will have a falling out or there will be a wedge driven between them or something like that, they never stop with this crap.

What do you all think about the new “nice tariffs” ?

They are not reciprocal 100%. They are 50%.

It will be interesting to see how they react to this around the world.

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Originally posted by PR64:
What do you all think about the new “nice tariffs” ?

They are not reciprocal 100%. They are 50%.

It will be interesting to see how they react to this around the world.

I have no problem with what he is doing. I voted for this. He is a businessman and will make us all better off in the long run. Don’t care if the market sucks for a while and I’m retired with money in the market. It well come back like gang busters sooner or later. I’m tired of the waste and fraud. He could burn it all down for all I care. It’s going to happen anyhow if we don’t get off the path we were on.

Well…..you asked lol

^^^ I'm with cruiser.

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Originally posted by PR64:
What do you all think about the new “nice tariffs” ?

They are not reciprocal 100%. They are 50%.

It will be interesting to see how they react to this around the world.

I'm OK with it, going to bring jobs back to the US and have products similar in price with overseas.
I retired from fleet maintenance, last couple of years helping out new hires. Can't keep them off their phones, basic math skills not there, work ethic is poor, not on time, hard to find ones that pass a drug test so the company hires just about anyone that can.
Spend more time teaching basic stuff that should have been already learned, even righty is tight, lefty loose. Some have pretty good paper knowledge on theory and operation but very poor hand skills.
They don't care if the job is done right or not.
Just wondering where all these new hires for the new jobs are going to come from, they need to be taught ethics and responsibility. I've heard people can be trained for these new jobs, I'm skeptical, but hope it's possible.

The commentators complaining now are the ones who didn't speak up as we got into the mess we're in.

There's more going on than the obvious: