... nothing happened?

The economy didn't crash. Civil War didn't break out. Everyday life continued. The Earth didn't spin off its axis.

In other words - nothing that was defunded created value added.

Kinda funny to watch the MSM react in horror when an elected candidate does exactly what he said he was going to do.

They're reacting in horror because a large portion of their funding just went away.

But just wait until this Friday. The TikTokers are planning a big f-u to "Orange man Bad."

They won't spend any $.

While I agree with the sympathy, I don't know if I would start the victory dances just yet. Some of this is going to take time to work it's way through, and as Trump cuts off some of this funding it's going to hurt our economy (because our economy has been propped up by all of this government spending). Things are probbaly going to get worse before they get better.

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... nothing happened?

The economy didn't crash. Civil War didn't break out. Everyday life continued. The Earth didn't spin off its axis.

In other words - nothing that was defunded created value added.

Kinda funny to watch the MSM react in horror when an elected candidate does exactly what he said he was going to do.

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Give it some time brother, before you declare victory.
Though I agree that we will be fine.

A lot of American prosperity was like a man on drugs. The drug was debt. Now debt is being cut off and so there will be adverse withdrawals for some time.

The crashes and near misses of airplanes is the only thing they could possibly point to but the root cause of that is DEI hiring by airlines and ATC as well as outdated software and equipment.

People affected

- Trans community in Columbia
-Great Britain elected a conservative without our interference
-no condoms for Gaza
- people dying in Yellowstone bathrooms because they got locked in
- lgtbq ngos shutting down due to lack of funding
- catholic charities unable to smuggle in more illegals


Look at all the chaos Trump and Musk caused with their cuts.

How many agencies have been totally shut down? 1? USAID?

Not even all of that one, I think. Other than USAID, some people were supposed to send an email, and they can't seem to manage that one. That doesn't sound much like "Shutting agencies down"

I'd wait at least until the midterms before you declare victory……….that will be the true litmus test of how the American people feel about it.

I would say just cause you're not personally affected, can you say no harm has been done. My friends mother was in a program that helped her pay for injections to keep her eyesight, but now that funding to the program was cut, she's now out of pocket $400 per appointment. Injections was once every two weeks and now they're looking at end of eyesight options because they can't afford it.

My brother, too, who is a USN Veteran, worked with JSOC for years, was working for the DOD for USSF Logistics and now on the chopping block as part of the federal employment cuts. His wife and him just moved to accept this job and now they're faced with possible unemployment.

These stories just expand to many people who are affected though you don't know them. I get cuts and finding waste in Government and expunging it, but there are lives on the other end of this that will be seriously affected.

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Not sure what the cartoonist means by functioning better. The value of twitter is only 20% of what it was when he bought it.

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Getting rid of waste is going to negatively affect the people benefiting from the waste, and people who deal with all the poorly run agencies. That doesn't mean everyone won't end up better off once the shift has occurred.

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I guess that's a warm comfort to the recently unemployed and my friends mother who will be blind soon. Not trying to argue, just saying that this will bring suffering and gloating about it isn't necessarily a cool thing. My brother is a Former Student, former Ross Volunteer, Corps CO, and Naval Officer veteran. Not sure he deserves to suffer.

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I would say just cause you're not personally affected, can you say no harm has been done. My friends mother was in a program that helped her pay for injections to keep her eyesight, but now that funding to the program was cut, she's now out of pocket $400 per appointment. Injections was once every two weeks and now they're looking at end of eyesight options because they can't afford it.

My brother, too, who is a USN Veteran, worked with JSOC for years, was working for the DOD for USSF Logistics and now on the chopping block as part of the federal employment cuts. His wife and him just moved to accept this job and now they're faced with possible unemployment.

These stories just expand to many people who are affected though you don't know them. I get cuts and finding waste in Government and expunging it, but there are lives on the other end of this that will be seriously affected.

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Never see any sympathy when layoffs occur in the private sector, so why should we when it is the government letting folks go? Thousands of people affected when Biden stopped drilling on federal lands and shut Keystone down. Not a peep from the masses for those affected. These are necessary actions. The time has come to make hard decisions and cuts. This is the only way unfortunately.

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I would say just cause you're not personally affected, can you say no harm has been done. My friends mother was in a program that helped her pay for injections to keep her eyesight, but now that funding to the program was cut, she's now out of pocket $400 per appointment. Injections was once every two weeks and now they're looking at end of eyesight options because they can't afford it.

My brother, too, who is a USN Veteran, worked with JSOC for years, was working for the DOD for USSF Logistics and now on the chopping block as part of the federal employment cuts. His wife and him just moved to accept this job and now they're faced with possible unemployment.

These stories just expand to many people who are affected though you don't know them. I get cuts and finding waste in Government and expunging it, but there are lives on the other end of this that will be seriously affected.

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I can give you 37 trillion reasons why it had to happen. Those effected will adapt and move on.

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Getting rid of waste is going to negatively affect the people benefiting from the waste, and people who deal with all the poorly run agencies. That doesn't mean everyone won't end up better off once the shift has occurred.

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I guess that's a warm comfort to the recently unemployed and my friends mother who will be blind soon. Not trying to argue, just saying that this will bring suffering and gloating about it isn't necessarily a cool thing. My brother is a Former Student, former Ross Volunteer, Corps CO, and Naval Officer veteran. Not sure he deserves to suffer.

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Why don't you help them out? Why should we?

Charity begins at home.

Who do you think should pay for her injections? Should I pay? Will you pay for my medicall bill next month?

Yes it sucks but any time you are not paying for something, someone else is paying for it.

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Not sure what the cartoonist means by functioning better. The value of twitter is only 20% of what it was when he bought it.

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THE ASSESSED value.

Booting a metric crap-ton of bots and an unethical advertiser blackmail will undercut the profit side… but let's be honest: the cultural value of having a mostly free speech platform that doesn't push leftist ideology is unquantifiable.

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Not sure what the cartoonist means by functioning better. The value of twitter is only 20% of what it was when he bought it.

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How do you know what Twitter is worth? It's private.

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rocky the dog said:

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Not sure what the cartoonist means by functioning better. The value of twitter is only 20% of what it was when he bought it.

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Or maybe it was overvalued to begin with.

Elon has trimmed the massive fat and actually made it profitable for the first time in its history.