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Monday Efficiency Open Comments

Elon Musk:

“The interest payments on the debt exceed the defense department budget of a trillion dollars a year, and that is rising rapidly. There have to be quite radical reductions in costs. If, please Lord, Trump wins and the Department of Government Efficiency happens, we will be very open and transparent. Here are the issues. We’re going to lower spending, and if we don’t, we’re going to bankrupt the country. I’ve tried Googling it, and I’ve asked all the AIs how many government agencies are there. Even the government doesn’t know. The AIs don’t know. It’s about 450, but maybe it’s 420. That’s a lot of agencies just at the federal level. We have to unwind the situation. It will unleash a new era of prosperity because people don’t realize how much they are getting held back by millions of federal regulations. If it turns out that we actually got rid of a good regulation, we’ll put it back. It’s that easy.”

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75 responses to “Monday Efficiency Open Comments”

  1. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I get worried about him if I come in here in the morning and Super Dave hasn’t commented.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Don’t worry about me, I’m here!

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I’m here! Waving frantically, I’ve already been out and this morning after I finished up my coffee. FWIW; I needed my flashlight 25 minutes ago. 😉

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I thought Vivek Ramaswamy had the best speech yesterday at the rally. As disappointed and angry as I am at Tucker, he made some excellent points. JD Vance gets better and better in front of a crowd. He’s already top-notch in one on one situations like interviews. The organization and timing was great and everybody stuck to their time limits.

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Environmental Suicide Watch – Part 1 and 2

    San Antonio based Valero may have finally had enough of Gavin and his morons in California. Chevron called it quits on the state last week.

    #1

    Short on the heels of another major refinery closure, Valero signaled it is considering closing its two California refineries that produce over 14% of the state’s gasoline. Refinery closures already have the state importing 8% of its gasoline supply, which means the state could soon have to significantly increase its imports of refined products such as gasoline, on top of its existing reliance on the Middle East and South America for the majority of its crude oil.

    Valero announced its profit is down significantly due to very low margins from its refinery business, prompting a question during its earning call about its costly California refineries.

    #2

    GE Vernova, the company that manufactured the blade that broke off a wind turbine off the coast of Nantucket and littered the shoreline with shards of potentially dangerous fragments is taking a financial hit over the incident.

    In its third quarter earnings call, according to RTO Insider, the company stated its onshore wind business saw its best quarter since 2021, but the problems with its offshore business had taken the wind out of the good news. The July 13 blade failure and subsequent delays will cost the company an estimated $700 million.

     

    GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik said the company cut offshore jobs in the third quarter, and it wouldn’t be taking new orders until there’s a substantial change in the financials of the offshore wind industry. In the meantime, GE Vernova will focus on satisfying a $3 billion offshore wind backlog.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Me: Speechless

    I really didn’t think the Dems could shock me anymore, but this….

    Collin Rugg

    @CollinRugg

    NEW: Democrat groups release an ad of a young man m*sturbating in an effort to get people to vote for Kamala Harris.

    The Democratic Party: The party of abortion and p*rn addicts.

    Progress Action Fund and Defend the Vote have released a $2.5 million ad campaign with the 30-second ad.

    The ad was called “Republicans Rubbing You the Wrong Way,” with an actor playing a Republican congressman watching the young man rub one out.

    The ad campaign is being displayed on streaming services in all seven swing states.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I HAVE NO WORDS!!!! Speechless He!!?!?
      I guess by the time this is all over there will NO SHOCK VALUE in anything!!!
      ~SPITS~

    2. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      1st comment was that they should have used Toobin.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; I’ll gladly trade Liz Cheney for RFK. ~ Newt Gingrich ~
    AMEN to that! 😀
    Mornin’ Gang!

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So, GJT, when’s the last time you gapped a plug? Asking for a friend. 😀

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      This past summer, actually. On my John Deere rider before the motor blew up a few weeks later. 😀

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        I’ve been neglecting the old Red Mule so on Friday a changed out the plug (had it for months) and was going to change the oil/filter but I got distracted. No where did I put that dang oil filter?

        1. Super Dave Avatar
          Super Dave

          Oh and it’s a BPR5ES, Gap =.028″ – .032″ .7 – .8 mm. 😉

          1. GJT Avatar
            GJT

            My stepdad used a dime no matter the engine lol.

            1. Super Dave Avatar
              Super Dave

              Miked a Dime, .0515″ 1.31mm. 😉

            2. GJT Avatar
              GJT

              😀

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The biggest thing this past week or two and especially the rally yesterday is everybody on the Right is so happy, smiling, laughing and having a great time. Trump and his supporters have stolen the “joy” from Kamala and Timmy.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I predicted 100,000 people in streets outside the rally and I was close.

    GPS—a total of 98,678 mobile devices were at or in the immediate vicinity of Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

    Just under 20,000 were in the venue itself and the balance were outside watching.

    47% had never attended a Trump rally.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      It hadn’t occurred to me technology allows an actual crowd count these days. Wonder how all those million man marches would have faired? And how come they were only men??

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Delta is suing Crowdstrike and Microsoft for at least $500 million for the outage this summer that caused over 7000 flight cancellations. Delta is alleging that Crowdstrike never tested the update on a single computer before it released it and therefore is guilty of gross negligence.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Just listened to the Vivek Ramaswamy, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance’s speeches from last night. Show me that brick wall, I’m going through it!!

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Man those were the days. Check out this beautiful late 60’s Yamaha DT 250 Dirt/Street bike. I can hear that 2 stroke and smell the castor Oil. 😉

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A PSA for the ladies out there. Be careful where you get your facial moisturizer. Daughter ordered some stuff off of Amazon that was shipped from South Korea and it made her face swell up and her skin burn. Her eyes were almost swollen shut. Afterward she scrubbed her face with makeup remover and used aloe. She was fine the next day but her skin was still tender. I figured that the company that made the moisturizer also made that skin rejuvenator that causes your skin to peal off and maybe they mixed them up.
    FWIW; Daughter doesn’t usually skimp on anything to do with makeup and such so was kind of surprised that she would buy a product that she wasn’t sure of. Also she never leaves the house not looking like she might be on the cover of Vogue Magazine. 😉

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      There’s a lot of counterfeit stuff on Amazon. Best bet is to order directly from manufacturer or buy locally.

      Some manufacturers have a linked Amazon site also if you like the convenience.

  13. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Happy Birthday, Super Dave

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally finished my rosary time. I stayed up last night writing up an essay for my Latin class. Almost finished it, and learned some new words along the way.

    Soleō inciper dieī cum caffea Arabica et globulī perforatī. … Post ēligo, considerō alterum fīlum adhibeo, aut fīlum aēneum aut līnea, etiam adhibō argeneus, aureus, vel aēneus partēs. Soleō faciō aēneus pars cum globulī perforatī lignōrum. Argentus et aureus partes soleō faciō cum colorēa alterī.

    That was part of the homework. If I didn’t make any mistakes (snuffle, snort!), the above should translate to:

    I usually start my day with coffee and beads…After selecting (beads) I think about which string to use, either wire or string, and to use silver, gold, or bronze parts. I usually use bronze parts with wooden beads. Silver and gold parts usually I use with other colors.

    I have one more paragraph to complete before sending it in to get red inked by magister. It was midnight and I decided to call it quits and hopefully finish it today.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, a birfday! Happy birfday, SuperD! May your tractor never break down your chickens always lay eggs!

  16. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Fake news! It is not SD’s BD.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      It is OTL’s birthday.

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Ah, well. Save up the birfday wishes until you can use them, SD.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    On to the C&C:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! It’s the last week of October. And there are only eight short days until the election. Your rapid-fire roundup this morning includes: massive Madison Square Garden rally triggers the Left but evidences joy, energy, and enthusiasm on the Right; on the Left, Democrat resistance energy slowly leaking out of the party like air out of a deflating party balloon; and the BBC counted the cost of covid jab injuries and we examine comparisons to the last time they ran this game on America.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Despite the joy at MSG yesterday, the lefty media was having none of it:

    … For instance, behold the New York Times’ top headline this morning: “Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism.” And in the subheadline, the Times ominously warned, “Donald Trump’s rhetoric has grown darker and more menacing.”

    /snip

    Back in 1939, Democrats and their socialist allies once held a Nazi Party rally at Madison Square Garden, and that fact instantly became an intoxicating catnip that far-left reporters could not ignore….

    Did Trump plan to trigger the left this way? Trolling the media to make them overreact is a classic Trump marketing maneuver. Their knee-jerk outrage is his publicity…..Trying to smear Trump this way always backfires, but media keeps doing it anyway. They can’t help it.

    It’s a frikkin’ addiction, that TDS.

    I’ll stop the commentary there, but Mr. C. has some delicious comments about the attempt to connect Trump and Hitler. I think I saw on Dr. Malone’s Friday Funnies (linked yesterday) about Hitler drank water, Trump drinks water, ergo Trump is just like Hitler.

    I’d love to play that on a liberal myself, some day.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C’s next topic is about the “resistance movement” failed and one reason being the lack of depth on the opposition’s bench. I think that particular point was painfully obvious when the Cackler became the candidate. Or that Biden was put into office (yes, I believe the election cheating stories).

    Somehow, 2016’s “#Resistance” movement has “already splintered, with clashes between hard-edge progressive and moderates driving out some key leaders.” It’s almost like someone has run a kind of color revolution against the Democrats, exploiting the weaknesses inherent in a political party patched together from dozens of separate victim groups with competing priorities.

    Read the whole article. It was encouraging to hear from the article’s bunch of 2016 anti-Trump activists who now seem much less fired-up about a possible Trump victory, and more drained, dispirited, and disillusioned. The Journal’s description of Democrat enervation was the exact opposite of the joyful energy and excitement beaming into space from Madison Square Garden yesterday.

    That particular comparison becomes more obvious every day, and depending upon which side you’re on, even more painful or joyful with each setting sun.

    They are now in “rebuilding” mode. Let’s hope that “Build back better” works just as well for them as it did for all of us.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    In the UK, the system set up to compensate folks for jab injuries is denying claims right and left. Forget that neurological problems, blindness, heart issues, etc., are going to be lifelong (for however long THAT turns out to be) burdens.

    Then, to America:

    Alas, we are fighting the very same battle here in the United States, in our case over the PREP Act’s embarrassing failures to compensate vaccine-injured folks. It’s a sick joke….

    Mr. C. reminds us that this isn’t the first vaccine boondoggle. Remember swine flu in 1976? A similar event: new virus->coercive vaccination program->resulting illnesses->Quick! Shut it down!->lawsuits

    Famously, Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes broke the failed vaccine story, and the government’s jab program rapidly collapsed in disgrace. Wallace harshly criticized the CDC and exposed government officials who pushed the swine flu jabs while minimizing the risks. At the time, CBS’s swine flu story was hailed as courageous investigative journalism and it cemented 60 Minutes’ place in history….

    …The U.S. Government had indemnified the vaccine makers, so taxpayers wound up footing most of the butcher’s bill, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (in 1976 dollars).

    Ah, how CBS has squandered their reputation!

    To keep the swine flu debacle from happening again, free speech was “managed,” concealing the jab injuries. Media of all types were straitjacketed – some of them more than willingly – to suppress any opposing information from becoming accepted. Doctors had to be shut down, sometimes by yanking their medical licenses. Pharmacies were discouraged or even ordered not to fill prescriptions for cheap and safe alternatives, like ivermectin. (My personal experience – I finally ordered some from overseas. Didn’t even need a prescription.)

    In the government’s view, vaccine injuries were collateral damage, unfortunate but unavoidable friction generated while speeding toward that magic 80% jab rate they wrongly thought would stop a pandemic. They never got to try it in 1976, not really, thanks to those meddling reporters.

    Another extremely unfortunate byproduct of all this engineered deception was that governments could not afford to betray any expectation of vaccine injuries by increasing staffing or funding of the various vaccine injury compensation programs. Had they done so, it would have immediately exposed the lie and torpedoed the rollout.

    It took a couple decades, but the 1976 debacle finally blew over. People relaxed, nobody went to jail, and the hyper-profitable vaccine industry took off like a Dragon Starship. In 2005, they quietly passed the PREP Act, sneaking it through in a defense appropriation bill, protecting both the government and the vaccine makers during 2020’s do-over of 1976.

    But it will be different this time. This time, we will not let them skate past what they’ve done, like in 1976. This time, we are never ever going to quit pursuing accountability. This time, we will keep suing the PREP Act until a court finds it unconstitutional or until Congress changes the law. This time, we may enjoy the historic first of having an official leading the health agencies willing to question orthodoxy, like Robert Kennedy.

    And Mr. C. is working on his court case challenging the PREP Act.

    God bless that man.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s not just Lancaster County in PA that’s being shenaniganized:

    SCOOP:

    Major Breaking Story

    At the most recent Luzerne County Board of Elections meeting,

    Manager Romilda Crocamo revealed that

    “Beth McBride dropped off and dumped a numerous amount of applications.

    Most of them were dated in June.

    They were delivered to the Bureau of Election on the last day of registration.”

    Beth McBride was the acting Director of Elections when Luzerne County ran out of paper on Election Day in 2022

    Recently, Lancaster County uncovered a voter registration fraud operation:

    2,500 applications (the majority of which are fraudulent) were turned in on or near the deadline — just like Luzerne — & are linked to an organization that began efforts in June.

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I see a headline that Steve Bannon will be free real soon.

    Stand back. He’s gonna come out swinging.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If Adolph Hitler were alive today he would be eating at McDonald’s 3 times a day and The Donald would be making fries for him.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Whoopi claims Trump is going to break up interracial marriages and redistribute the white spouses: “He’s going to deport and you put the white guy with someone else”

    “The man is out there!” she declares.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      That whole group is batwiss crazy and should be committed.

    2. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      The butter slid off her green beans a looooong time ago.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    If this isn’t an invitation to violence by the Dems, I don’t know what is.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The fact that the left is doing these things right now makes this guy’s paranoia that much more amusing.
    When Trump wins in a landslide, get ready for some serious freakouts by the left.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      holeefreekingcrapola!

      Projection much?

      1. Adee Avatar
        Adee

        Good grief, that man has to really be a citizen somewhere in another galaxy who accidentally happened to discover how to project him/ or itself into USA business.

        Now we’ve got gypsies, tramps, thieves, and real aliens trying to screw things up with this election.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Russia and the Houthis.

  28. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I ate a LOT yesterday, much more than usual. I was actually hungry. After calculating my food, it looks like I ate about 300 more calories than usual. I felt pretty stuffed when I went to bed.

    I figgered my numbers would be off this morning, but not nearly as much as I thought they might be. Diet’s working, so yay me!

    I’m just now beginning to feel like I might be hungry. I put a roast in the crock pot this morning, and it should be ready. Looks like it’s gonna be an OMAD day today. (One Meal A Day)

    PS: Not taking time to make a meal and eat it means I get more work done at my desk. No loss of momentum.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    MSNBC Needs To Be Shut Down: MSNBC is criticized for inserting clips from a Nazi rally during its coverage of Donald Trump’s recent rally at Madison Square Garden.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1850883813972316481

    Elon responds by calling MSNBC “scum of the earth”.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Florida woman saved from being raped by an illegal. Video here.

    Cocaine changed the whole situation.

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Do go over to Ace this evening. Great stuff.

    http://ace.mu.nu/

    “Hitlerpalooza Isn’t Working”

  32. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Best costume evah!

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Say what you will about outgoing Democrat Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg…

    When she repeatedly got indictments against Mayor Sylvester Turner’s cronies and, then, felony indictments against the inner circle of woman-child Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the Rodney Ellis Machine ran their questionable candidate in the Dem Primary and beat Ogg.

    But after she lost the primary she immediately turned these public corruption cases over to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

    Ms. Ogg will be gone come Jan 1.

    But on the way out the door – just to shoot the finger at the bastards – she has gained indictments against five Houston Independent School District officials who have been running a million dollar Teacher Certification testing scam.

    Have a Happy New Year Kim Ogg. You are one badass bitch.

    Too bad the Harris County Republican Party is run by a bunch of impotent dumbasses who wouldn’t have a clue how to encourage you to change parties.

    Perhaps you can get a job in the Trump administration.

    Job well done.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      That’s awesome.

      1. Adee Avatar
        Adee

        Indeed she is. 🙂

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      It’s sad that Harris County can’t keep a good DA, even if she is a Democrat.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If you happen to wake up in Brenham, Washington County, Wednesday morning my State Senator – and Brenham native – Lois Kolkhorst is hosting a Ted Cruz Rally at 1pm at the Washington County Fairgrounds.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve told y’all before that I really don’t like bears.
    There’s nothing intrinsically cute, nice, or even interesting about bears. I don’t want live near them. I am proudly anti-bear. Only monkeys and apes bother me more.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The only reason I believe we shouldn’t eradicate bears from the earth is because God loves them and I don’t want to make Him mad. Other than that, what possible contribution could bears be making to the ecosystem ?

    2. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      Without bears we would have forest fires and bear trap makers would be out of work.

  36. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Anyone know where my Yankees are? Good thing I bet Dodgers in 4.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      If the Yankees lose tomorrow I’m pretty sure they will be lynched somewhere in Manhattan. Maybe right in the middle of Times Square.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        There is a whole lot of history. When the Dodgers announced they were leaving Brooklyn in 1957, I can remember my mother being highly upset and I was only 5 years old.

        Although the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Yankees in 1956 during which the Yankees pitcher Don Larsen pitched the only World Series perfect game in baseball history and the only post-season no-hitter for the next 54 years, it hardly seemed to matter. Brooklyn fans had their memory of triumph, and soon that was all they were left with – a victory that was remembered decades later in the Billy Joel single “We Didn’t Start the Fire“, which included the line, “Brooklyn’s got a winning team.”

        and then,

        On April 18, 1958, the Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in L.A., defeating the former New York and newly moved and renamed San Francisco Giants, 6–5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.  Catcher Roy Campanella, left partially paralyzed in an off-season automobile accident on January 28, 1958, was never able to play for the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Haven’t watched a single pitch in this World Series.

    So, Mom’s Bombers have been winning?

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No Astros. No Cardinals. No Cubbies. No Braves. No Giants. No Mets.

    YAWN. Zzzzzz.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So I decided take a look at the game.

    No Joe Buck, either.

    Buh bye.

  40. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Yanks are stinking up the place big time. You are right Texpat if they lose they won’t be able to get out of town fast enough. Boone will be hung in front of the stadium.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The sports fans and media are meaner than junkyard dogs in NYC. There is no slack, no forgiveness and no mercy. Baseball, football, hockey, basketball….it doesn’t matter.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Haven’t seen anybody throw like Hill in a long, long time. Especially not a lefty.

    Hirts my shoulder just to watch. 🙂

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Reba McEntire is making the rounds promoting some new show.

    For an old woman born a few months before me….she’s still pretty sparkly.

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey there Dr. Phil

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dp

    As fine a tribute to Little Feat as you could hope for.

    Long Live Little Feat!

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Lowell and the girls.

    Woof.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I haven’t bought any ice cream in a month.
    Didn’t accomplish a thing.
    So….
    It’s time.

  47. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m up early. Did the butter thing and slept like a rock until 4:00 or 4:30. Tried to go back to sleep for about an hour, then started sneezing my head off. Maybe whatever gave me the sneezes is what woke me up. Gave up finally and decided to get my coffee. I’m still full from my dinner last night, which surprised me, since I only ate about half of what I usually eat.

    I figger that later I’ll try to catch up on both sleep and food.

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m still feeling that bump on my head, btw. It’s smaller but still tender. I’m reminded of it every time I make the sign of the cross – when I tap my forehead it is. right. there.

    Offering it up…

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was thinking about actually sending out Christmas cards this year. I guess I need to go find them….buy stamps…get my address list…

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