SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

So... Those who won the electoral college vote and the popular vote are working to decrease the spending while increasing transparency of the federal government.

Those who supported the losing candidates say this shrinking of government and more visibility is... The end of democracy, fascism, and a reason to out themselves as terrorists, blowing things up, doxxing people who... drive electric cars?

CNN currently showing a special on a DOGE employee who posted to instagram during business hours. Wildly inappropriate, "insulting," "Are you kidding me!?"

I know this is an attack on DOGE, but... the reason is because... of government waste.

So CNN is sort of asking for DOGE to DOGE even harder.

Weird argument.

Oh, tariffs as foreign election interference. It's a bold strategy, let's see how that works out for them... No one show them the popular vote...

@threalist my favorite nonprofit has never accepted a dollar or government funds. A quick web search found The Salvation Army's annual report which shows they receive over $640,000 from the federal government.

Doesn't mean it's fraud and abuse. It's just a funding decision large nonprofits need to make.

Ottawa removing half of federal internal trade barriers in response to tariff threats from the US

"Removing all internal trade protections could lower prices by up to 15 per cent, boost productivity by up to seven per cent and add up to $200 billion to the domestic economy, according to Anand."

Comment: what an amazing move. Why has the Canadian government kept these anti Canadian regulations in place until now? I guess.... The Trump Effect is making Canada better.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anand-ottawa-removing-cfta-exceptions-1.7465125

Hahaha. The article says nothing has been banned, but I appreciate the outage in defense of JD Vance. The wild outage about rules being applied evenly, even to the VP is hilarious.

The narrative has shifted! What was "Trump will fire anyone who isnt loyal to him personally, which makes him Hitler" is now, "Trump is laying off people regardless of their loyalty, and that's...uh...worse...somehow"

The AP takes on the #Trump #doge claims about suicidal security improper payments, reporting that according to the Biden administration ONLY "$71.8 billion" in was fraudulent and that the agency "clawed back" a whopping $31 billion. Yep, they clawed back a huge 0.05% of the waste? (it's very early, is that decimal right?)

The article says most of those billions were sent to loving people, but the goes on to say the data is wildly inaccurate without dates of birth, so no one knows. And the Biden admin saw the $71.8 BILLION and assessed that it would take $9 million to fix the system to stop the waste so decided not to.

Way to teach Trump a lesson. Nothing to see here, only $71.8 billion in waste, hardly anything.

This is a story about how management found out about bad actions of an employee and proactively acted with urgency to fire the employee and correct the situation, even before the customer was aware of it. The response has been outage and a lawsuit against the company that did the right thing. Sad.

Would the Biden admin have been very upset had they found out about this happening on their watch?

@wdlindsy for clarity, in this context does "unprecedented attacks on faith communities" mean cutting off government/tax dollar funding of church adjacent ngos, or does it mean something else?

@redwhitebluedude makes me wonder if dudes are going to just start standing in front of doors to see if it triggers a gathering of grandstanding politicians with their cameras

Who had Trump Takes Gaza on their 2025 bingo card? Wierd news day.

Certainly #Trump will claim #tariffs work today.

Over the weekend I read shock pieces in both US and Canadian news from the experts warning of the dire impact of tariffs that were about to bring North America to it's knees... overnight skyrocketing fuel costs, hundreds of thousands just in Ontario to become unemployed.

Reports today are that before the Canadian and Mexican tariffs even kicked in (scheduled for tomorrow), both Mexico and Canada have committed significant funds and action to secure the borders?