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Hyperbole? Nice diving fail. This ICA activity would increase his powers, but there is that little problem of his effort to majorly cut funding, reduce headcount, and eliminate entire departments like Education that more than offset it. And realize that the ICA "increase in powers" is in the context of cutting, not adding, which would have the end effect of reducing the Executive Branch power. HTH

I asked yesterday and don't recall a response. Is an effort to majorly cut funding, reduce headcount, and eliminate entire departments like Education consistent with accumulating executive power?

Once again, it's in the articles you linked. Implied, not overtly stated, but it says nothing about consolidating exec power. If that were the case, he'd just go the current route.

Embarrassment? You have a pretty low bar for that. But we knew that. Looks like Trump is questioning the lack of impoundment powers for POTUS. If he fails at that, he'll revert to the deferral process laid out by the ICA, so he'll get the deferrals anyway. Speculation is that he might be concerned that Congress may have too many deep staters tied to the USAID grift to approve all of the permanent cuts he'll propose. Makes sense. Thanks for taking time from your busy corporate executive schedule to research this for me.

I dunno, I'm not there. Do you know he didn't? If I can read that, then I'm sure someone in the WH can. It would be kinda dumb for the admin not to do it.

Once again I'm left to believe you just got these from some MSDNC source and didn't bother to read them. From your second link: So, as I've been saying and you and The Girlfriend ignored, he has the power to temporarily pause spending through the current fiscal year. So, unless his 90 day pause crosses a government fiscal year, it appears to be legal. Thanks for clearing that up!

Very interesting, is it your own theory?

But there are no POC in Scottsdale.

With what part?

I want to add that whatever ratard from the Right side of the aisle pulled his hand out of his bagina long enough to report MDC the week before his team played in the SB, and limit his posting here during such an important time: I hope drowns in a puddle of AIDS.

I considered guys like Kim and Henley, good value here. Hell, I feel like I betrayed Kim, since he did me solid at Pebble.

Again, your model is the previous method: a committee to form a committee to form subcommittees to spend millions of dollars and months of time to generate a report that would never amount to any actual actions. I'm interested to see how this approach works on a titanic organization like the government. Unfortunately, some good causes suffer along the way, hopefully temporarily. As I heard one person say, if you spend $40B, you are likely to accidentally stumble into providing some good, no matter how big of a boondoggle it is.

Seafoam thinks everyone is a Rusty alias. Just ignore him. Also welcome back.

Jeez, what a boondoggle: Parsing through the bolded: - "Billionaire," because this impartial newspaper needs to continue the MSDNC message that Musk is an evil rich person out to steal all your data and destroy all your sorghum. - "Agricultural surpluses," which implies we sell sorghum but sometimes have extra. - Oops, there is no domestic or foreign market for it. It's only market is to be subsidized through USAID laundered money. Now, you can argue that there is a strategic reason for us to keep farmers going, so that we aren't dependent on foreign countries for our food supply. And that's a valid discussion. But let's at least acknowledge what it is, and maybe discuss if such subsidies should be laundered through an international aid money laundering agency.

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OK, if a random woman told you that, I'd say that's acceptable.

I'm struggling to think of where this wouldn't be at least a little creepy. Maybe if the guy and the woman and her husband are all friends, and she tells the guy she made brisket for her husband's poker night or something, you could pull that line off. Basically I think you'd need to be good friends, and it would have to be the right situation.

This draft is slower than the water out of an LA fire hydrant.

I'm guessing some fine Peruvian powder.

In addition to Team Tails, my biggest bet was Iggles money line. I also hit Barkley to outrush the Chiefs. Several other bets involved Barkley doing better than he did. I wish the Chiefs didn't focus on shutting him down, while letting everyone else run free.

I was not aware of it, and it seems like an odd take. Like I said earlier, defunding, firing, and dismantling entire agencies in the Executive Branch seems inconsistent with increasing power in that branch. Also, were you the one who mentioned Peter Thiel on this subject? If so, if you have any links on that, I'd appreciate it. I generally like Thiel.

I made 8-10 bets and ended up within a dollar of breaking even. Thank goodness I went Team Tails on the coin flip$#@!

Your "chisel" is what I described of committees forming subcommittees. That would only waste more money while everyone defends (and gets to keep) every boondoggle which somehow helps them within USAID. My end game is not that democracy ends, but rather we peel back all of these bloated bureaucracies. Do you think that actions like reducing investment, cutting workforce, and eliminating entire groups like the Department of Education are consistent with an attempt to increase power within the Executive Branch? That seems... counterintuitive.

I have a vision of a different end game here. Congress has spent the past, I dunno, 100 years abdicating its authority and instead creating gigantic bureaucracies under the Executive Branch which have essentially no oversight, which are filled with career bureaucrats who manage to buy 3 vacation homes on a civil servant salary. It's kinda funny that people are apoplectic about "the end of democracy$#@!" and yet Musk is in there trying to undo what never should have been done, which ultimately gets us back to our intended form of government. Ben Shapiro said recently of this, "you broke it, you bought it." It's a pretty good short description. This has been a bipartisan issue. We're hearing from the Left currently because anything this administration does is demon driven to them, but it's more of a bipartisan deep state issue in the end. In the end I hope we fund the AIDS help in Ghana you are so worried about, end LGBTQ opera funding, get Treasury to actually fill in the cell in the database which says where the payment is going, etc. You could argue that we should have a committee to form a committee to establish sub-committees to analyze waste in orgs like USAID, but we know how that turns out. I'm intrigued to see how the Musk shock and awe approach pans out. I don't think democracy will end in the process.

I hated the show and didn't know any songs, but my 20 something yr old kids enjoyed it.