Sherry Ditmer

Sold out for Jesus, Writer, Painter, Pilot, A&P mechanic and heirloom gardener, mom and grandmom 🇺🇸🙏 NO DM’s

[Tom Renz @RenzTom]

To understand anything the government does it’s usually best to start with the law or something else I might be able to sue over… in this case the executive order itself was the thing to see.

[Jeff pontz @827js]

You own nothing.

[Sherry Ditmer @ditm89883]

@CABirdGirl2 @KevinKileyCA Kevin is a hero in my book- he’s the only one who seems to be fighting- and he’s winning too! Battle tested and genuine 🇺🇸💯👍

[Sherry Ditmer @ditm89883]

Agreed 💯. Seen it firsthand. 1989 was an explosion of it.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Important advice for young mothers out there...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤨

[Todd With Trump @THeinrich22]

Holy 💩 it’s worse than we thought 😳

The USAID is (was) a front for the C 👁️ A to do covert ops when they knew a US President would not sign off on their plans!

Mike Benz nails it here👇🏻

Elon was right 👊🏻

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

50 years ago. Different universe.

[Badass @Keepfighting250]

If he is not the greatest president ever I don’t know who is! Hard to believe that he has to sign an executive bill to protect woman’s sports! But here we are! God bless Donald Trump 🙏🙏🙏

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

Absolutely beautiful moment in history for women’s rights!

I’m crying.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Remember when Politico leaked the Dobbs decision and conservative Supreme Court justices were almost assassinated?

Turns out that was govt-funded

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

I've been telling you guys forever that you've been living your whole in a carefully constructed USAID Truman Show, where none of the institutions you meet -- from the media, to public health, to universities, to NGOs, to terrorists -- are the institutions you think you are.

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

I took over a restaurant once for a friend. My first day everyone quit. I cooked, cleaned and ran the show with one utility guy for three days. In those three days, as vendors came in and customers leaked info, it came out everyone was stealing, giving way food and booze for perks, and generally being unethical. Elon is the chef in this analogy and the federal government is the restaurant. Side note, we turned the restaurant around and got awards within 6 months.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 Karoline Leavitt just DROPPED THE MIC slamming Democrats for whining over USAID 🔥

“Democrats are outraged that the American people want their taxpayer dollars going to good uses—not stuff like this.

But then they're very quiet about the fact that there are still North Carolinians and people in California who have lost everything and in the last four years the federal government did nothing to help them.”

SPOT ON.

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

Texas teen dies for 20 mins, sees Jesus, and returns with a testimony.

[Andrea S. James @AndreaSJames]

Gently, softly, calmly, let’s talk about what’s happening in DC right now.

Friends, have you ever been through a ZBB process? If not, let me give you my take. So, in a corporation where expenses are out of control, you have to put the entire company through a zero based budgeting process. It is one of the most painful things that people in a company experience.

You basically have to justify every. single. expense. And you also cut a bunch, and then only add back after you’ve gone through a proper ZBB cycle.

The US government is going through a ZBB right now. And that is necessary because spending is out of control. The complexity is so vast that I expect it will take AI to decipher.

You cannot tell me that a government that accidentally wires hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban has its finances in order. That signals an underlying disaster. That signals bad stewardship of resources.

In fact, it is a disaster. Over the last 20 fiscal years, the US government has made ~$2.7 trillion in "improper payments," according to the US Government Accountability Office. Trillion! With a T!

That financial management disaster was not caused by @elonmusk. And there is no painless way to clean it up.

Elon is doing what any executive would do walking into a giant mess. You ZBB and then build back.

So, I don’t believe that America is going to be on the wrong side of global right and wrong, as some are saying. I don’t believe that America is going to be permanently isolationist. I do believe that unwatched finances will get out of control in any human system, and that the GAO has been trying to ring this bell for years, and that scaled complexity requires scaled financial management.

Because the US has the largest budget in the world, it will now go through the single most complex ZBB ever undertaken in the history of the world.

Some states do ZBB, but it's never been done at the federal level. President Jimmy Carter tried, but the bureaucratic systems were too complex, and President Ronald Reagan abandoned the attempt.

So, if there is one person in the world chosen to lead this Grand Canyon of projects, we would hope for the president to choose one of the best capital allocators on the planet. Better if that human is also one who can leverage AI and technical talent to manage the massive complexity.

Anyone who has lived through a ZBB at the corporate level will tell you that it’s hell and everyone hates it. This is why I feel really bad for federal workers -- I have a lot of empathy for civil servants and people doing a great job every day for the United States. No doubt, the uncertainty is trying and stressful for many. It's an unfortunate situation.

So, that's my take. I don't want to speak beyond what I know and can observe from the other side of the country. I've worked both in the private sector and the public sector -- the cultures are different. And an Elon-Musk-style culture is going to be the most hard core of them all. No doubt, it's jarring. It's gonna be a lot.

But what I also know is that every time I have ever doubted Elon, I ended up being the one who was wrong.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: The Army Corps of Engineers has CONFIRMED that President Trump's Executive Order is the reason that resources are now SURGING to Western North Carolina.

"It's not a coincidence that all these machines are now out here in Western North Carolina..."

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

What the fck... $20,000,000.00 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq.

but only $700.00 for the people in NC who lost everything.

This shtshow has to end.

[Sherry Ditmer @ditm89883]

Same

[The Countess In Cowboy Boots @LooneyOldLady]

@RapidResponse47 Thank you, President Trump!! You have answered the prayers of conservatives & independents across California!

This CA native thanks you, from the bottom of my heart! ❤️

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "The train that's being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst managed project that I think I've ever seen... Hundreds of billions of dollars over budget... We're going to start an investigation of that."

[Kevin Kiley @KevinKileyCA]

It appears President Trump will sign my bill to cut off funding for the High-Speed Rail debacle.