<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Pailofperch wrote:</div>
Lots of internal findings with the DOGE team showing accounts receiving SS payments past 110-300 years old.I think DOGE should focus on Musk’s cash cow, aka the US government contracts.
Now, back on topic.
Yeah, he’s not taking a paycheck, he’s there only til 2026, MANY of the policies pushed by trump are actually going to hurt his businesses. Oh, and like AOC says, he’s dumb.
Keep drinking
Echo all of the above sentiments. That is my MIL’s trajectory right now. God bless you
Wow?!
I am w Dutch.
They are a hazard to the rest. I drive ALOT for my part time job (9 hrs day).
People are TERRIBLE drivers these days. Most of them have never lived in a place with snow………
You can hate on me but the vast percentage are not “native” and I leave it at that. AND they are on their phone, oblivious to the world around them. Have no idea what a blinker is and no situational awareness, roundabouts freak them out, 4 way stops are a challenge and the difference between a green light and green arrow are above their pay grade.
Randy for president!
(No, seriously)
I saw a lot of home schooled families during my career-from small out state to a large metro school.
ALOT of success depends on the parent and how they “teach” at home. Some brought their kids to the local fieldhouse for exercise in the gym and with other home schooled families and they and took the kids on trips around town, businesses etc. Very good.
Others did the least possible and it showed. The “ teacher” is the biggest determinant of success at home or in the public school( the teacher in the public schools runs into far more policy, procedural BS) they have to abide by that hurts their efforts. And YES parent involvement is critical in public or catholic type schools. The “ value” of one over the other is not necessarily apple to apple. MY OPINION
Parents……………..
Helicopters………
Values are so different and parents who have been raised by parents who were the “progressive” type have infected our children. Yes, “non-progressive” parents too.
I LOVE my phone – greatest thing EVER. WORST invention ever from a societal standpoint.
Until our leadership (local, state, federal) decide it’s time to be the adults in charge change will never occur. Parents, sue?? Go ahead – let’s get this settled once and for all.
ABSOLUTELY no reason they need a phone at school. Been doing school since the 19th century in the current fashion. Never needed them until the 90’s/00’s?! Yeah, right.
I love baseball more than any other sport. My wife is a huge fan of all sports.
I told her tonite I am not ponying up an addtl $99 to watch them on tv ( i built those cheapskates a stadium and they respond by gutting the team and not replacing it with anything of substance. More money for them and less enjoyment for us) and we have Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Apple and anything else that costs to watch already, but I digress.
Radio it is until something else changes.
After 34 years in public schools ~ it IS the parents AND admin.
There are policies in place and policies to put in place. Many school administrators/principals/building leaders/instructional leaders don’t have the courage to enforce or are not backed up by district admin.
Many are completely mired in identity politics and claim inequity when the policies are enforced.
I’m with ripjiggen here. Confused.
I don’t eat fish, I just catch and release. I see it as no different than all those people who play on grass and spend too much time on one spot and kill it. Primarily bass fish and never deep for what it’s worth. The biggest takeaway for me is being out and about in nature.
Interesting reading all of this.
I have the JBL charge 5 and an older Bose. The jbl is LOUD w good sound, waterproof and about the size of a quart bottle of booze w/o the bottle neck.
Ockham’s razor
a scientific and philosophical rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities
Or
KISS – keep it simple stupid
I said in other threads he’s using the tariffs as a club. He will get the compliance he wants, that favors the US, and then move forward.
Same with trade agreements, cabinet appointments and everything else. He has less than 2 years to make historical changes to the landscape- that is barely enough. If we lose seats in the mid terms his last two years will be spent fighting impeachment.
EVERYTHING is at warp speed right now to get it done and keep the dems off balance. DOGE is doing what he promised. It’s only his third week in office. He has literally done more in these three weeks than Biden in 4 years in terms of good – Biden and whoever was pulling his strings did not have an America first policy.
They will dig up much more waste and dems AND republicans alike who are profiting from this will push back. You will start to see who very soon.
Gaza? Haha -their neighbors need to get their act together and police themselves. No one takes Palestinians because they always cause uprisings/problems with their new “parents” EVERY time. You can look this up anywhere for the historical perspective. We have spent hundreds of billions there in the past decades-all w the same outcome. He is going to force them to try something new. Definition of insanity:keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. That is NOT his style. He did not create the empire he did by being naive or stupid.
Give him time – he is giving all parties, at home and abroad, the rope needed to hang themselves or the ability to get their sh-t together – whatever benefits the United States the most is his goal.
My two cents
Gilligan: 
That’s right Tlazer – 30” (inches ).
Yes the smaller Buddy heater. I assumed the gas traveled slowly but was unsure how to speed it up. Unfortunately Dutchboy, patience is not a strong suit.
I have opened the heater valve all the way and left it open while I set other things up and it helped somewhat but thought you all would have better options for me which you do, thanks!
Everyone – makes perfect sense will try it soon. appreciate the help.
THIS is the kind of thread we’ve been looking for 
ALL awesome!!
I was on my way home from my mother’s with my 5 drunk sisters in the van. Loud as hell in there! Came up behind a truck and pulled around to pass him. When I looked over I saw it was a cop. He motioned to pull over, I did and when he asked “why the hurry” I told him I had about 45 more minutes before we all got home and just gave him that look of “can you see what I’m dealing with?” He smiled and “try and slow it down” and left before I did.
Sorry Suzuki, I think he’s currently in New York on the Rachel Maddow show. The world is listening you know……. 
Many valid points – some more lucid than others.
Guy’s been in office for two weeks. TIME WILL TELL
His last effort was pretty dang good – honestly if I were him i Would be spending my time getting a pound of flesh out of these a- holes. How about a commission to examine Biden’s mental capacity and find out just WHO has been pulling the levers the last 4 years. GOOD FOR HIM BEING THE BIGGER PERSON
You have already seen him deliver on promises. $10K to send illegals back? – They SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN HERE in the first place! What did it cost to fly them here, pay their cell bills, pay their housing, food, insurance? WHY? We have never had that explained…………
Biden selling off wall parts for 5 cents on the dollar knowing what we paid for it?!?!
Root out corruption in Federal offices?! AMEN
Make people work in the office and be accountable?! AMEN
Anyone who runs a business should be applauding his efforts.
He has been TRANSPARENT as hell the last two weeks. A welcome change.
As I said earlier – the TARIFFS are a club. How long and how hard he wields it will depend on results he has promised us and those of you who expect them in 2 weeks are just gonna have to live w that reality.
This is what Trumps mission is – to fix that for the country.
I believe him at his core and pray that I am right. If you feel I am naive’ as hell, okay. But, it’s all about the power and the dollar when the sun sets.
Time will tell.
I stand by what I said. Tariffs are a big club right now. He will use them as long as he needs to.
YES an alpha male is back. He actually knows what day it is and how to negotiate a deal. Trudeau will get kicked to the curb but not sure even his “ conservative” replacement will be better.
We have allowed ourselves and our charitable selves to be used far too long, time to look out for US for a change.
Tariffs won’t work on Hamass but maybe on their “ handlers “ let’s hope we put a concrete end to their reign of violence once and for all
Unfair trade practices, taxes, and regulations are economic growth killers.
Well said Hey – the new administration has campaigned on the taxes and regulation piece – he runs a global business and understands this intimately
On a global level, we look like an absolute clown show right now. Renaming mountains and bodies of water for no reason. Blaming airplane crashed on DEI instead of offering sympathy. Its a gong show right now Hardly………
you are seeing someone in action, doing what he campaigned on and keeping you apprised all the while. The previous admin did nothing close to this. The country resoundingly said they wanted change. They are getting it so hold on. Can’t wait til the idiot mayor of Mpls is arrested for interfering w ICE. Send a message to the other sanctuary love lords.
Your tax dollars are financing ALL of this. My other neighbor is a pilot. Mad as hell they have been flying in illegals for the past three years.
This “gong show” was created on purpose and will take some courage and common sense to clean up. Unfortunately that won’t happen overnight. I hope we have the courage for the long haul.
The other side plays the long game much better. They left this admin w a shitshow and thank god there is someone willing to try and clean it up.
There were over a 1,000 qualified air traffic control bodies in place that were passed over in favor of other check the box bodies. My neighbors son for one. And that is just one dept. California is a perfect example of how DEI impacts the community in a negative way. The best I can glean from all the news is helicopter pilot error but I am in no position to blame as I am no expert. Will wait for the investigation to be over. Night, night vision goggles, military training exercises at one of the busiest and smallest runways in the country etc contributed to this. Let’s hope they figure something out so it never happens again.
Huge trump supporter but, he gave great deal of sympathy and outpouring for the accident. Wish he would have stopped there but that is not his style.
I believe that w a 50% tariff and given the volume of trade we have with Canada- minus energy – 50% tariff would collapse their economy.
I think trump is hitting the tariff piece hard because in one respect he sees value in it to a point. In another respect it’s a club he can use to get what he wants quicker. The effectiveness of it and how long he “swings” it for remain to be seen.
I have WAAAAY more faith in his policies than the previous administration.
Think recent……
I drive part time for Enterprise. The shifters are all over the place these days. The buttons on the dash or the console you push or pull, the shifter knob buttons you have to hold in a button for reverse while pushing in another button while pushing the shifter tp get them in gear or to the P,R, D button on the windshield washer stick on the right side of the steering wheel in order to order to make them move and the parking brake buttons that are literally hidden sometimes. Some of these engineers need to be slapped.
There are Multiple ways to look at this. Many valid points raised. I think inflation/price increases, taxes, money in people’s pockets can be addressed by his policies. We KNOW that the previous administrations efforts at stimulating the economy were disastrous. You don’t print billions of unsecured funds and flood them into the economy for free to stimulate people buying things. As stated above and many times before ( by myself and others) companies are in it for the profit that’s why they exist. Billions of extra dollars to chase after the same amount of supply was GUARANTEED to result in higher prices to us the consumer – period.
I believe one of trumps goals is to eliminate the hundreds of billions we spend on the illegal immigrant problem. That will save us money for other projects that will help our citizens we are currently not funding.
Making other countries fully fund their defense instead of us paying for their protection will save us billions. These other countries provide enormous social welfare nets for their populations cause we’re footing their security bill. That will stop. Tariffs are one heavy handed approach to make them comply. Will they work long term _ not certain as their are side effects as mentioned already. We are on the wrong end of the stick for many things because we are seen as weak on the world stage and countries/regimes/ dictatorships can take advantage of us. I believe Trump is more of an isolationist at heart and puts us first. Oil production, bringing manufacturing back, making our military stronger, re-defining education to get us back to respectability, growing jobs for our own citizens and many other goals he has all need to be implemented quickly and decisively.
He has two years to make a difference. Otherwise we go back to trans gender surgeries, bankrolling welfare programs and check the box hiring. We see where that got us. Common sense is a welcome concept. Regardless of anyone else’s opinion. The cost for ALL of us to fix California is going to be massive. Stupid policies around forest management water management and business policies that drove away insurance companies and DEI hires have shown that a more “common sense” approach could have averted this disaster or SIGNIFICANTLY reduced its impact but I will be stuck paying for their incompetence through higher prices for many things.
MY HUMBLE OPINION
Yes this state SUCKS AT TECHNOLOGY
Un friggin believable!
With a “teacher” at the helm too?! ( See what I did again?)
Stay- anyone butthurt by comments on here can stop reading posts or grow a pair
We all have options
trump has the country
The dems have Sauros 
See what I did there ?!
I’m w Bigwerm and KP
Probably watch “ the land that time forgot” w Doug McClure or some other old movie. Don’t like either of the teams. Brady is my wife’s cousin, don’t want whiny Patrick to break ANY of his records
Or to Bigwerms point ~ a rel life situation. My colleague at work was a school nurse. Office was hot and stifling, down a hallway, go to the right 3 feet then left into her office. Used a box fan to draw the air down the hall from the main office to try and get the cooler AC air. Kid comes down the hall, sick, turns the corner where the box fan is and spews all over. Gets sucked into the box fan and becomes vomit spray. Funny? yes. Less than ideal result? For sure. Vomit/poop hitting the fan nothing good comes of it. 
Kinda like when someone asks how I am ‘ I couldn’t be better if I were twins’
Or when I ask Gene at work what he knows ‘ less and less’
Sorry, it’s already there when you open it – after you click where it says “Statewide” and then type in your school name
