Current events discussion

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

What are your plans when AI takes your job?

I'm lucky, I think my job is isolated for a while. OTOH, the next rung up the ladder I was eyeing might be at risk to AI, so it have this weird cap on my career.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Trump the fraudster.

Donald Trump’s Great Escape: How The Former President Solved His Debt Crisis

The 45th president was chained to money-losing real estate and drowning in debt when he left office. Now, magically, he is flush with cash and free to deal— thanks to a little help from powerful friends.

www.forbes.com

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Top tier journalism here…Everyone know you kept the money under the mattress or freezer

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

But let's get back to the convo.
Are you you going to act like an adult and refute all of the unethical and illegal things Trump has done since Jan 20th, or is your "adult conversation" going to be something along the lines of "all liberal Democrat lies fabricated to make Trump look bad"?

Listen, Trump is going above and beyond to make this country great again for ALL of us. Many of the things you keep trying to bring up to insult him were made up things to smear Trump.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Budgets are a spending plan. These have to be approved the same as actual appropriations.

Dunning-Kruger effect in action here, folks.

Show me in the dictionary definition where it says that.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

The concept of DOGE dates all the way back to Clinton. When my pops took an early retirement from the VA under Clinton, no Federal Judges stepped in to stop Clinton/Gore.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

I didn't say any of that. Why are you asking? You know I said none of that.

You shared a definition of a budget in this fashion: "A budget doesn't mean anything was "approved". A budget is an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time. -"

So you are saying that Biden's budgets were just an unapproved estimate.

No, you are. I gave you the definition of the word budget. It's not my problem if you can't understand definitions. No where in the definition does it say anything about "approved".

Again, that would mean that Biden's BUDGETS have not been approved.

Approving a budget is a different discussion.

Except when you are talking about the budgets of a POTUS who is no longer in office.
Unless you want to suggest that the US government had no budgets while Biden was in office.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

If X, et al aren't going to censor these independant and right wing sources and the left isn't able to effectively cancel them, then they have to swat them, or burn down Tesla charging stations, set fire to Cyber Trucks, etc.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

The concept of DOGE dates all the way back to Clinton. When my pops took an early retirement from the VA under Clinton, no Federal Judges stepped in to stop Clinton/Gore.

Was he offered the early retirement legally?

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

You shared a definition of a budget in this fashion: "A budget doesn't mean anything was "approved". A budget is an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time. -"

So you are saying that Biden's budgets were just an unapproved estimate.

I am saying that you have the definition.

Again, that would mean that Biden's BUDGETS have not been approved.

Except when you are talking about the budgets of a POTUS who is no longer in office.
Unless you want to suggest that the US government had no budgets while Biden was in office.

A budget is set aside for a thing. If the thing is not approved then it does not get the budget. The budget is still there to now be used for something else that can be approved or not approved.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

I am saying that you have the definition.

A budget is set aside for a thing. If the thing is not approved then it does not get the budget. The budget is still there to now be used for something else that can be approved or not approved.

Huh? After the budget is approved by Congress, you think someone gets to decide that they don't like what's in the budget and just arbitrarily change it?

That's exactly what Trump did when he stole that money back from New York.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Budget - ($1,000)
Thing - (New rainbows on sticks for the parade $5,000)
Not in the budget - NOT APPROVED

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Huh? After the budget is approved by Congress, you think someone gets to decide that they don't like what's in the budget and just arbitrarily change it?

That's exactly what Trump did when he stole that money back from New York.

Rob, what do you think a Budget is?

 

[stocker08 10+ year member]

Show me in the dictionary definition where it says that.

ROFL! You don't know that the federal budget has to be approved by congress? Dunning-Kruger effect in action, folks.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

ROFL! You don't know that the federal budget has to be approved by congress? Dunning-Kruger effect in action, folks.

I will ask you as well. Do you know what a Budget is?