Trump considers Elon for role in auditing US agencies

originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: network dude

If gettign fired from your job becuase you suck at doing it, makes a person trade their commitement to America, they not only neede to go, they need to go right #ing now.

Sorry, I didn't realise you were an expert in HR and recruitment for 3 letter agencies....

I"m just a guy with an opinion.

but filling the US Goverment with ANTI US people seems like a stupid way of doing things. But if that's how you opperate, you do you boo.

redacted we have a goof that's aloof ignore me A LOT GOING ON THIS MORNING THANKS "WHITE HAT" TRUMP.

a reply to: network dude

I"m just a guy with an opinion.

Fair play, but what worries me is Musk trying to act like an "Alpha Male" which is laughable and sacking people who are the in the background saving America daily from terrorist attacks. He may have made lots of money but like Trump, he seems to forget how to be a business man quite often??
Would you really want to risk one of Musks accidents with Americas safety and its protectors?

By now, you've probably heard about Elon Musk's grand plan to turn X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, into an "everything app." One of the major pillars of Musk's reimagining of X includes a payment platform much like PayPal or Venmo.

New documents obtained by Bloomberg shed new light, not only into Musk's financial service vision for X, but also into just how much the company has struggled financially since he acquired it in October 2022.

In the first six months of 2023 — the first full year in which Musk controlled the company — X's revenue fell by nearly 40 percent from the same period the prior year.

originally posted by: nugget1

originally posted by: UpIsNowDown2
a reply to: pianopraze

Can I just check is DOE department of education?

If so what is it to be replaced with and how quick could it be replaced ?

States get supplimental funding for their public schools in exchange for the government setting the curriculum that schools must teach, such as DEI.

DEI isn't a curriculum subject. It's a hiring policy and a policy for student inclusion.

a reply to: pianopraze

How about as Ambassador to Brazil

Cheers

originally posted by: pianopraze

originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: pianopraze

Might I suggest starting with all 3 letter agencies?

I'm sure there are plenty of other countries out there who'd welcome those recently fired individuals with open arms.

Be careful what you wish for.....

I wish for a tiny federal government with very little influence in our life.

Not the bloated nanny socialist authoritarian monstrosity it’s become.

I agree with this sentiment… but I think there are milestones that need to be completed before we can do it the right way.

Root out insane corporate donations to campaigns.

Create rules around bailouts, like if you’ve ever gotten one you can’t help in governance decisions again.

I’m sure we can come up with more. But we’re trading government corruption with corporate oligarchs if we continue down this path. Not to mention the most socialist the government has been was with bailouts and asset purchases. We bought corporate bonds, stocks and other assets to prop them up.

Why am I required to make sure I have rainy day funds set aside but not them? Why do they get to lobby and contribute to campaigns if we’ve bailed them out?

I don’t say this coming from a left leaning perspective, I say this as a libertarian leaning perspective. At what point is the market not free anymore if they have such a cozy relationship with the government? More so than the average voter.

How can small businesses thrive, and the best ones succeed if the prerequisite is pay to play?

originally posted by: Sookiechacha

originally posted by: nugget1

originally posted by: UpIsNowDown2
a reply to: pianopraze

Can I just check is DOE department of education?

If so what is it to be replaced with and how quick could it be replaced ?

States get supplimental funding for their public schools in exchange for the government setting the curriculum that schools must teach, such as DEI.

DEI isn't a curriculum subject. It's a hiring policy and a policy for student inclusion.

And if a public school doesn't follow that policy they stand to lose their government funding. Duh.

The point that you don't seem to grasp is government funded public schools set the policies amd the curriculum that must be followed.

Spin that.

originally posted by: pianopraze

Trump is reportedly eyeing a plan to involve prominent business executives, including Elon, in auditing federal agencies to identify programs to cut.

Elon has already shown interest in taking on the role.

Source: The Washington Post

Twitter/X


When Elon came into Twitter he slashed over 2/3 of it including all DEI.

Hope he does this to our government.

Might I suggest starting with all 3 letter agencies?

Trump has already said he is going to axe the DoE. Hope he goes a lot further.

Trump making a lot moves to court Libertarians - moves that I appreciate.



Meanwhile Harris going socialist and says she wants to price fix.

Screw socialists and socialism. I’m sure they think it will work this time because it’s never really been done right before.

Yes, when Elon came into Twitter/X he fired 2/3 of the staff. And Twitter/X quickly lost 70% of its value.

What a great model for the US. What could possibly go wrong?

originally posted by: Boomer1947

originally posted by: pianopraze

Trump is reportedly eyeing a plan to involve prominent business executives, including Elon, in auditing federal agencies to identify programs to cut.

Elon has already shown interest in taking on the role.

Source: The Washington Post

Twitter/X


When Elon came into Twitter he slashed over 2/3 of it including all DEI.

Hope he does this to our government.

Might I suggest starting with all 3 letter agencies?

Trump has already said he is going to axe the DoE. Hope he goes a lot further.

Trump making a lot moves to court Libertarians - moves that I appreciate.



Meanwhile Harris going socialist and says she wants to price fix.

Screw socialists and socialism. I’m sure they think it will work this time because it’s never really been done right before.

Yes, when Elon came into Twitter/X he fired 2/3 of the staff. And Twitter/X quickly lost 70% of its value.

What a great model for the US. What could possibly go wrong?

so the DEI staff was the glue to a profitable company? I know you won't be back, but maybe someone else can answer for you, what did the staff that was fired do?

a reply to: nugget1

And if a public school doesn't follow that policy they stand to lose their government funding. Duh.

Only if they break equal opportunity and discriminating laws. DEI (Diversity, equity, and inclusion) isn't a law.

The point that you don't seem to grasp is government funded public schools set the policies amd the curriculum that must be followed.

That is the point of the Department of Education, to make sure that every student, not just wealthy students, have the opportunity to learn the same basic skill standards of reading, writing, arithmetic, history and social studies. It's a matter of equal rights, or don't you think children have the right to an education?

a reply to: Boomer1947

Decreasing your value so much isn't so bad if you remove the majority of you over head.

Plus, I also don't see the company losing that much value. It bs. X is as popular as ever.

The only way it could drop in value that much is if it was an artificial evaluation to begin with.

..or you get rid of the money laundering aspect of the business 😃

originally posted by: pianopraze

originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: pianopraze

Might I suggest starting with all 3 letter agencies?

I'm sure there are plenty of other countries out there who'd welcome those recently fired individuals with open arms.

Be careful what you wish for.....

I wish for a tiny federal government with very little influence in our life.

Not the bloated nanny socialist authoritarian monstrosity it’s become.

The record long government shutdown forced by professor Trump 5 years ago, proved that 80% of the employees are dispensable.... Not needed.

”What we need is a good government shutdown, to demonstrate how much waste there is.” Trump 2014

a reply to: Kurokage

LOL anonymous is BlueAnon.

Parroting all the corporate media and regime talking points.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

Musk likes to present himself as a scientific entrepenure as well as a savy businessman. Rather I think he is a corporate raider. He bought Twitter, slashed employees and from last I looked that company has lost at least half it's value.
www.investopedia.com...
I have little doubt that Musk in a government position to make decisions about what to cut and where to slash would only be made to improve his own bottom line.

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

Your assessment is fair on the macro.

One thing I would point out is SpaceX saved the American space program, and has exceeded expectations.

Props where props are due and all that.

I appreciate he brought free speech to the forefront in societal debate.

But I don’t really see the value add he brings to governance. He’s got his hands in too many baskets for me to trust him, plus he feeds on outrage. Not really something we’re in shortage of. I don’t see how stirring pots really helps, even if I find bits of entertainment in the chaos.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

Yes,the space program. Indeed, he has poured a lot of money into that. But me, I question the entire project. His goal of putting men on Mars I see as a red herring, it resounds with Kennedy's moon goal. Yah, we hit that goal but the goal itself has not offered much of anything for the expenditures made to gain it. Yes there have been a plethora of off shoot products and sciences developed because of it and there has been much value in that.

But I see making it to Mars as not being a game changer for science like the research and development that went into the moon venture. Where are our space stations, where are the moon colonies. Fifty years on and they amount to nothing. Sure the ISS offered years of experiments but it's time is over now and where is the replacement, where is the upgrade.

Mars is so much father than the moon and before it there should be both space stations and moon stations. And what do we get if we get there, red sand? What we get is putting more and more of our hopes for the future in the hands of one man of questionable stability.

And yes, he claims to be a staunch supporter of free speech. Yet under that thinly drawn rubric lies the actions of a man who espouses free speech while making ownership of a large segment of digital speech under one mans control, free to let be or restrict as he sees fit

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

The moon and space were to justify tech for ICBMs.

I imagine corporate interest in space now is mining. There are flying rocks that have untold amounts of wealth on them.

And yea, Mars seems like a red herring. We want to spend the money to move all that equipment there to terraform it… and we expect to have the technology to do that fresh on a planet as opposed to making the slight adjustments on our own?

a reply to: CriticalStinker

When I was a kid in the late fifties and sixties I read all the Heinlein and Bradbury I could find and held that dream close. All of it. The moon landing made it look like we were on our way. 2001 set the vision, surely. But years and a lack of progress in that direction have changed me a lot. Yes, robot mining of rocks is something that still holds promise and possibly that can become profitable. But the key word there is ''profitable'', and those who own the means of gathering and selling that potential will only further increase the lock stock and barrel we face at the hands of those whose fortunes will control us all.

originally posted by: Boomer1947

Yes, when Elon came into Twitter/X he fired 2/3 of the staff. And Twitter/X quickly lost 70% of its value.

What a great model for the US. What could possibly go wrong?

Twitter now has 600 million worldwide users.

When Elon bought it, it was proven many/most were bots, but the total with bots was roughly half (~250 million) what it is now.

2021 and 2022 Twitter was loosing half a billion dollars per year.

This year it is forecast to be Profitable.


The media reports are constantly deceptive or out right lies, when they report on X.

It is doing better than it ever was before usage wise. Low bot usage. And turning a profit.

Example lie: "ad revenue is down." Even if it is, Twitter was loosing half a billion a year when Elon bought it, this year it will turn a profit.

Example lie "less users". Users are double 2022 when he bought it, and half or more of those were bots.