LEAVITT: “They’re encouraging service members not to follow lawful orders!”
REPORTER: They’re talking about illegal orders.
LEAVITT: “Every order the president gives is lawful.”
This is how authoritarianism gets laundered: declare every command legal by default, then attack anyone who questions it.
It’s really hard to know how to navigate a political and social landscape when a core feature of one of the two political parties is blatant, intentional dishonesty.
these people spend their whole lives fantasizing about using their 2A rights against an overreaching government, just to root for said government when the moment finally arrives
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.
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