Russell Smith

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

This will probably get suppressed, but I don’t care. It’s time.

Elon Musk promised DOGE would save taxpayers $1 TRILLION. But, it actually just paved his path to become a trillionaire. Let’s follow the money.

- “Claimed savings”: Final DOGE claim was $214B saved. The independently verifiable amount was less than 5% of that, not including the actually costs.

Costs
- The firing-and-rehiring churn cost ~ $135B.
- Week one: 17 inspector generals fired who return $26 per $1 spent and catch the very things happening right now with the Trump family ventures, Elon’s ventures, AI, etc.
- They didn’t touch the $850B Pentagon budget that has never passed an audit.
- Also untouched were the $38B in government contracts flowing to Elon.
- Data privacy breaches by DOGE employees

And before you say that he worked for free, he did not have to file a financial disclosure because he "worked for free". This looks more like a workaround.

Elon donated over $290M to Trump’s campaign. The morning Trump was sworn in, Musk's companies faced $2.37B in legal exposure across 11 federal agencies.

Then he was handed power over those same agencies. Inside the first quarter, six of the regulators investigating Elon’s companies were cut, closed, or told to stand down.

So, he spent ~$290M to elect Trump and he left office with his cases dead and SpaceX ~$6B RICHER in NEW defense contracts.
That is not a Department of Government Efficiency.

And as someone who was on the inside when this all went down, the strategy behind finding these contracts was incredibly inefficient and just caused defense contractors, such as Booz Allen Hamilton, to merely change their name from consulting to technology. It merely caused word changes in contracts. Contracts that are bloated and should be cut, weren’t even looked at. And in the end, it cost tax payers exponentially more than it saved, including data privacy,

Just want to call out the reality of how Space X and this shady IPO even came about.

[ZombieCow🐮(ゾンビ牛)🔞🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @_ZombieCowTTV]

@factpostnews Congratulations. You "saved" $15mil by cutting the department that was in charge of making sure screw worm stayed out of the country....Now you're spending fucking $1bil now that screw worm came back into the country. 👏👏👏👏

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Not joking but @elonmusk should have to pay for this right?

You broke it, why do we all have to pay for it?

[Jessica Huseman @JessicaHuseman]

My god the visible presence of algae is now partisan

[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

Holy crap. Peter Kyle CALLED THE POLICE on his own constituent because she wrote him a letter about Gaza.

https://t.co/XLlb6ZJphw

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

"A beautiful moment!" ❤️

Man of the match Vozinha was in tears after Cape Verde kept a clean sheet against Spain 🥹

#FifaWorldCup

[Russell Smith @RussellTheMeek]

@Darren_Mulds @Keir_Starmer When did I say that I was fine with us engaging in illegal wars? Russia used a fucking nerve agent on British soil, but I guess all you "patriots" are completely fine with that.

[Russell Smith @RussellTheMeek]

@Darren_Mulds @Keir_Starmer "for no reason"? Think there's plenty of reason to be pushing back against Russia

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence.

Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone.

Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied.

So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.

[|Spawnacus| @SpawnacusLIVE]

@theliamnissan

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Wow. I saw this piece shared by a Palantir employee & assumed it was internal company propaganda.

Turns out it’s a Spectator piece. Same difference, it turns out.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

So Derbyshire police is under criminal investigation for using AI to fabricate evidence in a case (unclear whether intentionally or not)😩

Can we please say AI HAS NO PLACE WHATSOEVER IN POLICING now once & for all & before things get MUCH worse?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.

[henry @leap_dog]

rowley should be dismissed. the police should be neutral. you will take what elected politicians give you and shut the fuck up about it. why is anyone even remotely liberal entertaining this insanity

[Rachel Millward @rachelmillward]

We're just never going to mention Nigel Farage and his role in this?

I don't know, maybe you could even write him a letter... 🤷🏽

[Russell Smith @RussellTheMeek]

@jackjam11884 @boredtweeple @BBCSport Rather that than arse licking an actual paedophile president

[Russell Smith @RussellTheMeek]

@jackjam11884 @boredtweeple @BBCSport Trump's a little bitch

[onion person @CantEverDie]

i love how insane everyone is now