AOC isn't alone in calling Musk an idiot: she has plenty of other imbeciles to keep her company. (UPDATED)

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Election night, 2016: “It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

NYT, October 19 2023: “X, formerly Twitter, may soon offer a lesson in what it takes to make a nexus implode,” Krugman wrote in The New York Times.

Like his lackwit barista friend, Krugman, who finally and mercifully was let go from the NYT last December, wasn’t the only “expert” to decry their better’s folly and lack of common sense:

In Case You Forgot When Every Financial Writer Mocked Elon Musk’s X Purchase

When Musk bought the company for $44 billion in 2022, most critics derided his purchase.

In October 2023, economist Paul Krugman bashed Musk’s project and predicted he would lead his platform into a “death spiral.”

“X, formerly Twitter, may soon offer a lesson in what it takes to make a nexus implode,” Krugman wrote in The New York Times.

In the British publication, The Guardian, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich lambasted Musk’s decision to fire the majority of Twitter’s workforce, over 6,000 employees.

“Without this knowledge and talent, Twitter is a shell – an office building, some patents and a brand – without the capacity to improve or even sustain its service,” he wrote. “It’s unlikely to fail all at once, but bugs and glitches will mount, the quality of what’s offered will deteriorate, hateful tweets will burgeon, and customers and advertisers will flee.”

Daily Caller:

While many advertisers left X, contributing to a decline in total revenue, the company is more profitable now than it was before Musk took over.

The company brought in $5 billion in revenue in 2021, the last full year before Musk took over, and reported earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $682 million, X recently reported to shareholders, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The company also reported that while X’s 2024 revenue was just more than half of pre-Musk levels at $2.7 billion, the EBITDA was nearly double what it was before Musk took over. X reported $1.25 billion in 2024 earnings. (RELATED: SEC Sues Elon Musk For Buying ‘Artificially Low’-Priced Twitter Stock. His Critics Agreed He Overpaid)

The company is bringing in less total money, but it’s more profitable under Musk, at least in part due to low overhead from slashing employees.

That last part sounds familiar.

UPDATE: No wonder federal workers are so frightened:

Within hours of acquiring Twitter, Musk had fired its top executives; within days, he’d laid off around 3,500 employees, around 50% of the company’s total staff. Ultimately, he trimmed 80% of Twitter’s workforce, demanded everyone return to the office, and often required employees to work far more than 40 hours a week.

Nailed it

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“Here: the taxpayers would just waste it”

My Three-Letter Response to the Dems' Caterwauling About 'Unelected Officials': EPA

In its earliest days, the EPA was largely focused on protecting the environment. That's not what the 21st-century incarnation of the agency is tasked with. It's now a climate change hysteria propaganda factory and the primary vehicle for Democrats to dole out taxpayer-funded favors to Big Green. 

It's a grift factory. 

Here's the kicker that the Dems won't dare mention: the EPA has over 14,000 employees, none of whom are elected. When there is a Democrat in the Oval Office, the agency is on a steady cycle of steroids, growing bigger and more powerful by the day. These people have the power to kneecap entire industries that they decide aren't a good fit with their Climate Church New World Order.

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Regarding their "shadow government" fantods, what the Dems are really upset by is the fact that Musk and DOGE are in the business of exposing all of the shadowy stuff that they've been up to. Their myriad boondoggle rabbit holes are being discovered, cleared out, and closed up. 

TEAM TEEN. 18, 20, 21, 25; how dare we let babies terrorize and disrupt our country?

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And after all we’ve done for (to) them, the ungrateful little snots

The Deep State and its gravy train dependants are panicked and outraged that their interlocking funding partnerships are being unearthed and exposed. They can’t defend the waste and fraud that’s already been exposed, let alone the trillions of dollars to come, so they focus on the age of the whiz-kids who have been enlisted to bring these entrenched crooks down. This attack is typical:

Unmasked: Musk’s Secret DOGE Goon Squad—Who Are All Under 26

But here’s the thing: those ages recited in this post’s headline? They aren’t the ages of Musk’s kids, they’re those of some radicals from long ago:

Ages on July 4th 1776:

  • James Monroe, 18

  • Aaron Burr, 20

  • Alexander Hamilton, 21

  • James Madison, 25

  • Thomas Jefferson, 33

  • John Adams, 40

It’s not the age of the “Goon Squad” members that so frightens these people, but their competence: I’m sure they’d be perfectly comfortable if an assemblage of typical liberal arts graduates were coming to look at the books; these are not those students.

Meet the young team of software engineers slashing government waste at DOGE:

Six young men between the ages of 19 and 24 — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger and Ethan Shaotran — have taken up various roles furthering the DOGE agenda, according to a report from Wired.

Bobba was part of the highly regarded Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology program at UC Berkeley and has held internships at the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Meta and Palantir.

"Let me tell you something about Akash," Grata AI CEO Charis Zhang posted on X about Bobba in recent days. "During a project at Berkeley, I accidentally deleted our entire codebase 2 days before the deadline. I panicked. Akash just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch in one night — better than before. We submitted early and got first in the class. Many such stories. I trust him with everything I own."

Coristine, a recent high school graduate who studied mechanical engineering and physics at Northwestern, previously worked for Musk’s Neuralink project, Wired reported.

Bobba and Costine reportedly work directly under Anna Scales as "experts" at the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). 

Kliger is listed on LinkedIn as a special advisor to the director of OPM and attended UC Berkeley in 2020. Kliger has also worked at the AI company Databricks. 

Killian is listed as a volunteer for DOGE who attended McGill University after graduating from high school in 2019. Wired reported that Killian previously worked as an engineer at a company called Jump Trading that deals with high-frequency financial trades and algorithms.

Shaotran was studying computer science at Harvard University last year and is the founder of Energize AI, an OpenAI-backed startup. Additionally, Shaotran participated in a "hackathon" sponsored by an Elon Musk company where he finished in second place. 

Farritor, who dropped out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has a working GSA email address, was previously an intern for SpaceX and is also a Thiel fellow. 

In 2023, at 21years old, Farritor became the first person to successfully decode text inside a 2,000-year-old Greek scroll using AI, according to the University of Nebraska website.

More here:

‘Little Boys’ and ‘MAGA Chuds’ In Charge of Your Money Identified, and They're Brilliant

Here’s a taste of just one untanglement the “children” have accomplished since beginning work.

Now they’re moving on to where the real money is, like Medicare/Medicaid, where, the GAO estimates, there’s at least $100 billion a year lost to fraud each year, with under 4% recovered. Back in September 2023 Forbes looked at the problem:

Fraud Prevention Requires Modern Technologies

Surely part of the problem is the volume of data that may be trapped in too many silos. Think about the 20 or so MACs, all processing claims separately. Even if all their data is combined, that amounts to more than 1 billion claims each year. Traditional databases can’t handle so much data.

What’s needed is a modern cloud-based fraud prevention system that can aggregate every claim into a single data lake, normalize and correlate the data, and analyze it in real time using machine learning, anomaly detection and artificial intelligence. With billions of legitimate claims as comparative data points, fraudulent claims would stand out as anomalies that should be investigated before any payment is made to the provider.

It’s essential to break down the silos of the MACs doing their separate claims processing. By centralizing and correlating the data and scrutinizing for outliers, the large fraud schemes that span across MACs can be readily surfaced.

As Medicare continues to represent a large and growing percentage of the federal budget each year, costs can be lowered by using the right technology to detect and prevent fraud. Modern cloud-based systems have the scale and processing capacity to detect bogus claims in real time and deny payment to fraudsters.

Just wait until defense spending gets scrutinized. The nuclear explosions will be heard around the world.


So long as we're looking at California's spending preferences ... (Sorry — we're not allowed to see my desired picture, because it would violate XGrok's woke standards)

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No problem, however, with a white man dancing in front of three other fat whites. Phew!

The Washington Free Beacon February 3, 2025

'Indigenous Knowledge' Pseudoscience Thrives in Newsom's Government

"Indigenous knowledge," a pseudoscience that posits Native Americans possess an innate understanding of how the world works, is thriving in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D.) administration has contended that "Western science" must embrace "the generations of knowledge held by Indigenous communities," according to a Washington Free Beacon review of state documents.

Since Newsom entered office six years ago, the California state government has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars on programs promoting the idea, which the state also refers to as "traditional ecological knowledge," and has leveraged it across several government functions, including wildfire mitigation, energy development, wildlife recovery, and land conservation, the documents show. The Newsom administration has made indigenous knowledge a central pillar of its climate agenda in particular.

The extensive taxpayer-funded indigenous knowledge efforts in California, which are detailed in an intricate web of state initiatives, reports, programs, and laws, highlight just how far a fringe academic theory has proliferated throughout Democratic Party-controlled governments. While scientists describe it as "dangerous" and a rejection of the scientific method, the Biden administration forced indigenous knowledge into agencies across the federal government, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the Department of Defense.

Newsom's embrace of indigenous knowledge has been similarly enthusiastic.

"Western science has overlooked the generations of knowledge held by indigenous communities, who have stewarded the land since time immemorial," states a draft copy of California's 2024 climate adaptation strategy released last year. "Seeking and elevating Traditional Ecological Knowledge can augment conventional research methods to better understand how California’s climate and environment have changed over time."

That strategy, the Newsom administration said, will be implemented over the next three years. According to the California Energy Commission, as part of that implementation, the state will develop its fifth climate change assessment, which will expand reliance on indigenous knowledge through its Tribal Research Program.

The Tribal Research Program establishes a new indigenous council to guide state climate policy, creates a report to summarize state-wide climate change impacts on tribes, and funds a grant-making initiative that provides $3.6 million for tribal-led climate change research that has an "indigenous knowledge focus." The purpose of those grants is to help the state government tackle a variety of "climate" issues like wildfires.

Separately, in April 2024, the Newsom administration distributed $107.7 million for 33 tribal projects, ostensibly to help implement traditional ecological knowledge and tribal expertise, though Newsom also portrayed the funding as a form of reparations. "These awards are an acknowledgment of past sins, a promise of accountability, and a commitment to a better future—for the land and all its people, especially its original stewards," Newsom said.

In the most recent example of the state's reliance on indigenous knowledge, the California State Board of Food and Agriculture formally recommended that state officials incorporate so-called regenerative agriculture techniques into food-related policies and programs. Such techniques, according to the board, have been embraced by Native American tribes for generations and help mitigate climate change.

Leaving aside the questionable theory that Indians environmental “science” has anything to offer modern Californians, we can ask about its relevance. The population of these savages was 310,000 in 1769, the year the Spanish founded the first mission in the Golden State, and had dropped to less than 150,000 by 1844, when John Fremont arrived to save the benighted souls from the yoke of Spanish servitude and bring them civilization.

California’s current population is 39 million (plus however millions of illegals hid when the census taker came by). How the experience and “environmental wisdom” of 310,000 stone age people can be scaled up to provide guidance for the running of a 21st century society of 39 million people is something only a Californian mind could grasp.

Golden shower: as Californians brace for cuts in government services and handouts, their legislature finds a new way to spend money on illegals

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piss off, peasant

And these numbers were calculated before the recent wildfires caused billions of dollars of damage to homes and businesses

And the response:

The Washington Free Beacon, February 4, 2025:

Newsom Set To Sign $50 Mil 'Trump-Proofing' Plan After State Dems Vote Down Amendment Blocking Aid for Illegal Immigrant Felons

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) is set to sign a $50 million plan aimed at suing the Trump administration and blocking its mass deportations. State Democrats passed the plan on Monday—after voting down an amendment that would have blocked state funds from benefiting illegal immigrant felons.

The legislation will send $25 million to the California Department of Justice to sue the Trump administration and another $25 million for nonprofit legal services, including deportation defenses. The vote was initially scheduled for last Thursday, but Democratic leaders abruptly canceled the proceedings after Republican assemblywoman Leticia Castillo threatened to force a public debate on an amendment to block funds from bankrolling immigration legal services for convicted felons. The Democratic assembly speaker’s office said lawmakers were going to "look closely" at the plan to make sure its defenses were "airtight" and would "protect all Californians."

But the legislation didn’t change. When Castillo presented her amendment, Assembly budget chair Jesse Gabriel (D.) called it "unnecessary," and Democrats voted to discard it without debate.

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Legislators have added millions more for nonprofits, including those that defend illegal aliens from deportation and help move their families into the United States. Under their plan, some $10 million would go to the California Department of Social Services to fund nonprofit grants or contracts for immigration legal services and removal defense. The department last year shelled out $37 million in grants to pro-immigration nonprofits like Al Otro Lado, Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, and Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Washington Free Beacon has reported.

Another $5 million would go to the nonprofit California Access to Justice Commission to expand its grants to legal aid groups. The commission’s top-funded nonprofits have included the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, which works to release detained illegal immigrants, and Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit firm that sues to fight detention of illegal immigrants as well as landlords and employers over alleged violations.

An additional $10 million, earmarked for the California State Bar’s Legal Services Trust-Fund Commission, could help illegal immigrants as well. The legislature has designated this money for legal services for indigent people at risk of detention, deportation, eviction, wage theft, and more. The commission already sends money to pro-immigration nonprofits like the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Law San Francisco, Al Otro Lado, and the LGBT Asylum Project in San Francisco, which says its clients come to the city’s Castro District, a gay tourism hub, "to find a sanctuary."

I can hardly wait for Trump’s response to Noisome’s and his fellow justice warriors’ cries for help.

There's the real story, and then there's the secondary one

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Here’s the real story: character revealed.

And the lesser one; lesser, because the presence of turds in the punchbowl like this guy has long been known. Still, it’s nice to know that he’ll be leaving the government soon, and with the collapse of the Washington NGO industry, he may have to learn to mine coal if he wants to eat.

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