Trump's DERP State

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Confirmation Hearings for the Trump's incredibly bad choices for cabinet leadership positions.  Traitors, drunks, rapists, pet killers and television personalities were the first choice of the mentally ill old man.  

My Senator, Dan Sullivan is all over his social media singing the praises of these folk so we should expect most of them to be confirmed.   

Hegseths hearing should be starting about now.  

 

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nursej22 said:

This is so typical of this administration. Forcing out true experts at the behest of whackadoodles. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/west-point-easterly-trump-loomer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk8.He-e.6HzZakW6McSf&smid=url-share

 

The article described Loomer as "largely unaccountable". "Largely unaccountable" describes all of the incompetent and corrupt people surrounding Trump, doesn't it?  Isn't it weird how Trump's Chief of Staff allows these kind of people into his daily orbit? In his first term, Trump's Chief watched the president socialize and take advice from people like Mike Lindell and that went so well they've decided that Laura Loomer should be the next personal influencer of the POTUS this term.   

Maybe she's more than an unaccountable advisor. 

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nursej22 said:

The federal response to the Texas flooding just seems to get worse and worse. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.6Hz0.VeCaYyYlK7z4&smid=url-share

And the FEMA director has yet to make a public appearance in Texas. 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/fema-leader-texas-flooding-00445902

Even President Stupidhead has made an on the ground appearance, where he bragged about lowering the price of eggs. 

 

 

We now know that Noem is using some of the FEMA money to fund concentration camps.  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypy14ll32o

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

The Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a report today  showing that Elon Musk's  DOGE, has generated at least $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government between January 20, 2025, and July 18, 2025.

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/07/31/2025/the-217-billion-blunder-new-psi-report-reveals-billions-in-taxpayer-dollars-squandered-by-doge

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Today's report follows an April 2025 memo completed by PSI Minority staff that estimated the legal liability Elon Musk was able to avoid through his previous efforts to gut the federal workforce and exert influence over federal agencies while he was at the helm of DOGE. PSI found that Musk and his companies were able to avoid at least $2.37 billion in potential liability due to federal investigations or other regulatory actions. 

I would rather have rural hospitals stay open and hungry kids fed. But then again, I am not part of MAGA. 

[Beerman, BSN]

nursej22 said:

The Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a report today  showing that Elon Musk's  DOGE, has generated at least $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government between January 20, 2025, and July 18, 2025.

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/07/31/2025/the-217-billion-blunder-new-psi-report-reveals-billions-in-taxpayer-dollars-squandered-by-doge

I would rather have rural hospitals stay open and hungry kids fed. But then again, I am not part of MAGA. 

LOL....Sen Blumenthal figures (apparently correctly) that the Trump critics won't figure out that 95% of that is for termination/retirement related costs that in the long run will save money.  Much of the other 5% could be debated if is wasteful.