As predicted, the hubris of Elon Musk's promises of $2 trillion in DOGE savings now crashes on the rocks of reality as he promises only $150 billion in savings in FY 2026

 

 Have there been no savings from the Department of Defense, the costliest department in the federal government? No $1,000 toilet seats to be found? No savings from sex change operation eliminations? How about the $7 billion in military equipment left behind in Afghanistan, stuff like that? Didn't we get booted from Niger last year? Anything left behind there? You get the idea, but we've heard nothing about Department of Defense waste, fraud, and abuse.

I mean, where did Army Surplus come from in the first place?

Oh, by the way, the Pentagon failed its seventh audit in a row in November 2024. It has $4 trillion in assets in every US state and 4,500 locations worldwide, but Elon Musk couldn't find one thing to eliminate?

Yeah, but they're on track to fire 300,000 federal workers.

Meanwhile the $150 billion in claimed savings to come, if they actually do get here, is already gone, swallowed up by the Giant Squid. The deficit year to date is already $242 billion higher than it was last year at this time.

DOGE has been nothing but theatre, and Elon's just taking a bow as his gig comes to an end at the close of May.

Has anything in recent memory failed more spectacularly than this?

 

 

 

Some have asked, Where did the party of Ronald Reagan go?

 It went to Afghanistan and Iraq and never came back.

As with the Biden administration after the Kabul debacle, there won't be any accountability for people at the top in Signalgate while tens of thousands lose their gubmint jobs

 "One law for me, another for thee."

Signed, The UniParty.

But look on the brightside. You just lost your job working for Uncle Sam, you didn't get killed or left behind in a hellhole to rot.

 

 

Yeah that worked out great for Afghanistan, might as well try it for Ukraine omg

Cue record needle scratching across the record here.

 

You are the asshole now Donald Trump

 

Remember that Donald Trump betrayed freedom in Afghanistan in February 2020 as coronavirus was about to explode, and in Hong Kong in May 2020 as America was about to explode over George Floyd

 Betraying Ukraine is just another day's work in February 2025, but the question is, Who will it next be, in May 2025?

 

"We just signed an agreement . . . the Taliban will be killing terrorists."

 

"Up until yesterday I still believed Hong Kong has the rule of law."

 

Another Trump MO is his perverse demand for reimbursement from totally wrecked countries which we "helped"

 

Trump's MO is to cut people out of negotiations: He's cutting out Ukraine just like he cut out the Afghans and negotiated directly with the Taliban

"Watch me hand over Ukraine to Putin like I handed over Afghanistan to the Taliban."

 

 

Donald J. Trump was against the H-1B Visa Program before he was for it lol

Donald J. Frankenstein is the GOP's version of Boltneck, who was for the use of force in Iraq and Afghanistan before he was against paying for it. 

Elon Musk has that effect on people lol.

Don't get the Neuralink from the mad scientist or it could happen to you, too!

 

2024 Biden pledging aid to the new terrorist regime in Syria is 2020 Trump putting the war against terror in Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban

 Syria's new leader.

In March 2016 Pete Hegseth was no different from NeverTrumpers like Erick Erickson, Mark Levin, Charlie Kirk, and Ben Shapiro who all now bend the knee

 

 CNN video here from Dec 3rd, in which Hegseth criticizes Trump for being an arm chair warrior who had the temerity to criticize John McCain while avoiding the draft.

Which is rich coming from Hegseth who was never regular military.

It's Megyn Kelly interviewing him, too, lol, who has been defending Pete The Warrior and his PTSD for his bad behavior with the women.

I keep waiting for someone to ask Hegseth how many firefights he was in in the field in Afghanistan. We'd all like to know in this age of stolen valor. We know that's a fact about his time in Iraq, but everyone keeps talking as if that's what he did in Afghanistan when the only evidence I find is that he taught a course there and that his stay was very brief.

More at Mediaite here.

Bunch of phony, baloney, plastic banana, good time rock 'n rollas.

It's amazing how so-called conservative women will twist themselves into pretzels to defend Pete Hegseth, for example by lowering Brett Kavanaugh to his level

 

 Don’t let the left do to Pete Hegseth what it did to Brett Kavanaugh 

It’s the Brett Kavanaugh show all over again. ... Was Hegseth also in another relationship at the time [2017]? Maybe. But he’s being nominated for secretary of defense, not for the role of our boyfriend or husband. His personal life issues should stay personal. 

As Megyn Kelly pointed out, “Having difficulty in one’s personal relationship, especially after having served two tours — which it’s not uncommon for these combat vets to come back and not be able to navigate their love lives all that well — is much different than being a rapist.”

 

Brett Kavanaugh isn't on his third wife, or his second, and hasn't cheated on his first one, let alone on three and then lied about it by omission. There is no moral equivalence between Pete Hegseth and Brett Kavanaugh whatsoever. 

Hegseth meanwhile served in combat in Iraq in 2005-6, having married wife number one in 2004. That marriage ended in 2009, reportedly due to his infidelity, and he remarried the very next year in 2010, both of which life-altering events occurred while he was executive director of Vets For Freedom, 2007-2012.

In 2012 he was an active duty military instructor in Afghanistan, but evidently for not very long.

In that same year he had started a political action committee called MN PAC, briefly ran for the US Senate from Minnesota starting in February, lost at the Republican Convention in May, and also became CEO of Concerned Veterans for America that year, a job he held until 2015, having become a Fox News contributor the previous year.

It is laughable to suggest that this biography matches a man suffering from the post-traumatic stress of two tours of duty in the Middle East. He looks more like an ambitious climber trying to make the most he can out of what little he's got.

 

A US serviceman hurt while building Joe Biden's failed Gaza Hamas-aid pier has died of his injuries

Joe's administration began with the deaths of US soldiers in the ignominious Afghanistan withdrawal, and ends with the death of a US soldier in the ignominious attempt to help the enemy which attacked America's ally Israel on October 7, 2023.

I wonder if Kamala can think of anything now that she would change.

 

She couldn't think of anything she'd do differently

 On The View in early October.

But Jen Psaki assured us all the Afghans from the surrender debacle were thoroughly screened

 

According to prosecutors, Tawhedi entered the United States in September 2021 and is currently on parole status pending the adjudication of his immigration proceedings. He lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and child.

Story.

 

This is why The Babylon Bee earns the big bucks

 

Kamala Harris wasn't at the dignified transfer of the remains of the Afghanistan Abbey Gate victims because she already knew what time it was: Space Story time

 

Democrats: Only we get to use Arlington National Cemetery for a political prop

 

Kamala Harris enrages parents of soldiers who perished in Afghanistan pull-out because she lied about Trump: The parents invited Trump to Arlington National Cemetery

 

Kamala Harris proud to be the last person in the room for the Afghanistan debacle