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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A downside to literally no one in this Administration understanding basic economics is that "we're going to raise tariffs until you give up Greenland" is the econ version of "I'm going to repeatedly kick myself in the testicles until you do what I want" www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/t...

cnbc.com

Trump: NATO members to face tariffs increasing to 25% until a Greenland purchase deal is struck

Trump recently hinted that he may pursue a tariff strategy on Greenland similar to the one he used to force foreign countries to change their drug prices.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Happy Easter! Today is Easter Monday, the day of resurrection, and the holiest day of theChristian calendar. Peace be with you all, and may we all strive to live up to the values and ethics Jesus taught us.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Reminder that France has some islands off the coast of Newfoundland. And that Denmark and Canada share an island.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Looking forwars to making an old recipe fromy grandmother's cookbook; Three Egg Cake. Followed by profiteroles that requires an entire dozen.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Russian culture. An old lady slips and falls on a crosswalk. No one passing by even stops to help. A car drives over the old lady. Even so, no one moves to help. Khabarovsk, Russia.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I am reassured for the coming pandemic that vaccine deniers will be the first to go.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

from @electricfutures

After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a
1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.
Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then.

It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen.

The first thing I did is add up the "saved" column for all canceled contracts and real estate. The numbers are $16.5B and $O.14B, respectively. Odd...
Since almost all of the purported savings come from contracts, we'll focus on that.

The single biggest ticket item is a DHS contract listed as saving $8 billion. Wow, that's a huge contract!
Actually no, it's $8 million. They must have tried to automate scraping the FPDS form and failed.
That means we're down to $8.5B in savings.
3/

The next 3 biggest ticket items are all
USAID contracts listed as $655M each, so $2B total. Wow, pretty big.
Wait, these are IDVs, not contracts. $655M is the entire set-aside, being triple counted.
In the first 5 years, only $73M was awarded, and only 2 years remain.
4/

So we're down to $6.5B in savings, and an alarming trend emerges: @DOGE does not seem to understand how the government contracts they are canceling work. The savings they are claiming are not annual savings, but rather hypothetical savings if we spent every unobligated penny.
5/

And more importantly, they are just getting it *wrong*, with alarming consistency.
These numbers are erroneous. This "select group of geniuses" has not double checked even the LARGEST items accounting for the bulk of their claimed savings. This is a sad, pathetic farce

Here's the next biggest item: an IT services contract for the Social Security
Administration worth $1B. That's a lot of savings!
Well, again, this contract spanned 6 years. 80% has already been spent. Ah well, more like $240M in savings spread over the next 3 years. $80M/year.

In 2023, this contract funded 1000 FTEs working $100/hr. Did we need 1000 SWEs working on SSA infrastructure? Probably not - these could be valid savings (disclaimer: no idea what they actually did).
But worth noting that these cuts will impact many private sector jobs as well.

And if anyone is curious, there are currently 17 lines that say "SEE FPDS" rather than the savings amount, I guess because their automated scraping failed. I did it manually and it took roughly ~10 minutes. But that's too much to ask of super geniuses working 120 hours/week!

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Here's a truth. Elon sucks as an engineer. He thinks he is one. He is not. He plays about, giving directions to his internal work units. Those are the people who accomplish the end design and goals. He buys work units to achieve a vision (okay), but needs public funds to make progress.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

RFKs camps are for the homeless, first.

ca.ps

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There has been a phase shift. We are in a bipolar world where the US is aligned with Russia. The old post WW2 structure is dead. And the other pole is being weakened in favor of China.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Does NATO now stand for Non American Treaty Organization? Asking for a dismayed friend.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Musk and Trump are using each other. Trump to become the dictator he has always wanted to be. Musk to do his Mars Shot. To do that, he needs money and resources. Take over Canada for the cheap metals. Raid the Treasury for cash. Everyone else can die unless in service to his cause.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Of all the Americans who profess to fight for themselves and their families, I did not expect Hip Hop and Rap to roll over and be Broligarchy lap dogs. Those lyrics and attitudes were for show only I guess.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#booksky, I am searching for a movie I saw on tv about 10 years ago. It was a dystopian alt u take on America. Society purposely kept in a 1950s "utopia". The hero teens figure out its all fake. The Presidency was given to a figurehead. Maybe story by Vonnegut or Dick. Any ideas?

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Unpopular opinion. John Lennon was a narxissistic deadbeat dad. Great musician; sucked at fatherhood.

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Meh @throwaway221.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Moved over from the other place. Liking the vibes here! Nothing profound. Keeping up with news and perspectives without the vitriol.

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