Dan

TV and Film Editor.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@naomibrockwell GIMP for a Photoshop replacement. You can get a free version of Avid for video editing.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@LynAldenContact Consumers may not care enough about quality to actually vote with their dollars. True for media of all kinds. Everyone complaining that there is nothing good on Netflix, yet instead of cancelling they sign up for Disney+ as well. Want better music but won't pay for it, etc.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@mcuban re: moving production back to the U.S.

- all of this is being done with executive orders right now. What company is going to completely pivot production back to the U.S., for a 4 year time horizon, and just hope that the E.O.s won't be signed away by the next President?

[ML Smith @maria48308]

“The people are catching on to your fake genius bullsh*t.”

[Dan @dnacuts]

@naomibrockwell The best editors I know cut on Avid.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@laurashin This is what everyone voted for. Our government is vaporware now. Make the billionaires richer, so they can kiss each others asses and pat each other on the back. Thousands of employees fired, prices of everything skyrocketing, stocks dropping, and leadership just circle jerking

[Dan @dnacuts]

@kylascan Screwing up all of the government agencies is step 1. When they stop working they'll say "let's bring in private companies to fix it". Once the gov has a vested interest in the success of thos companies, Trump declares himself de facto CEO of said companies. It's what Putin does.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@kylascan They are slowing things down so they can buy low. Then they will repeal the tariffs and sell higher.

Same with crypto. They bought a bunch when they won the presidency, then sold a bunch right after announcing the strategic reserve.

Everyone is way overthinking this.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@alistairmilne Now you're getting it.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@wmougayar @davidsacks47 Everything Trump does is literally pay to play. Why is everyone so surprised by this? The guy is a dishonest grifter and an extortionist who brags about it.

So weird to see people still giving him the benefit of the doubt.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@JoshMcGruff The headline should have been "will hurt low income households more than high income households"

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda.

Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate.

https://t.co/3TjI4SZID2

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

“Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!"

Because I’ve been doing this for 25 years and can’t be tricked by gimmicky nonsense. Trump’s first term added $8 trillion in enacted spending hikes and tax cuts to the deficit - half of which was unrelated to the pandemic. This time around, Trump has proposed roughly $8 trillion more in tax cuts and spending hikes over the decade. And right now, a GOP Congress is preparing to abandon most reconciliation cuts and instead add $325 billion this year in new spending. We’re headed towards $4 trillion deficits within a decade.

So, no, I don’t get excited when DOGE cancels $1 billion in govt contracts. Or saves $3 billion in federal workforce reductions out of a $7,000 billion budget. Not when Trump and Congress are also preparing to add $800 billion more annually in proposed new tax cuts and spending.

And no, the huge savings are not coming. Even (unrealistically) eliminating 20% of the federal workforce would save $60 billion, and overhauling federal systems to sharply reduce payment errors may save perhaps $80 billion (and is probably unlikely too). For all of DOGE’s bluster, administrative and executive reforms would at best save 1-2% of federal spending and offset only a small fraction of Trump’s red ink agenda.

That leaves trying to unilaterally impound spending such as USAID—which is wildly illegal—or actually going to Congress to pare back spending the constitutional way. But Trump has already taken Social Security, Medicare, defense, veterans, border (and interest) off the table, which is 2/3 of all spending and is driving deficits. And the GOP Congress seems ready to give up on cutting the remaining one-third of spending. Want to cut spending and the deficit? How about they stop passing budget-busting bills. Don’t brag about your coupon-clipping frugality at the same time you are buying a $250,000 Ferrari. I’m not going to cheer Trump and DOGE for adding “only” $750 billion to deficits instead of $800 billion. We’re still going backwards.

I’ve spent decades studying the federal budget. I know that $7 trillion(!) behemoth inside and out – where the money really goes, and where the savings opportunities lie. So I can also detect bullshitters who talk tough about trillion-dollar spending cuts without doing their homework. It’s the ones who claim most spending goes to undefined “waste,” federal salaries, immigrants, foreigners, Ukraine, or non-working welfare recipients. It’s the ones who claim we can easily balance the budget or cut $1 trillion without specifying exactly what line-items to cut. Or that we can return to 2019 spending levels for each program, which means a 20% inflationary cut, defaulting on the federal debt, and kicking off every senior who has since retired into Social Security and Medicare. It’s all hot air and empty bluster. Tough talk without following through on anything substantive. Just wait until you see the final deficit numbers in October.

And this is why GOP movements to cut spending always fail. They make absurdly ambitious promises without doing their homework, understanding where the money goes, and specifying real plans to fix it. You can’t significantly cut the deficit just by cutting waste, firing bureaucrats, and defunding immigrants and foreigners. There are no easy short cuts. You have to stop cutting taxes and then address Social Security, Medicare, defense, and a lot of other popular programs. Wake me when the GOP goes there.

So, no, I will not get excited about a couple billion in DOGE savings on one hand while Trump pushes Congress to add $8 trillion over the decade in tax cuts and spending with the other hand. I’m not that gullible.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@fejau_inc It's from Vladimir Putin's playbook. You insert government interests into private companies. You give your buddies authority to "oversee" the companies on behalf of the government. You and your buddies essentially "own" the country at that point. DOGE is a hostile takeover.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@ledgerstatus This dude bankrupts all his own companies, and now we've asked him to do the same with our entire country.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@NeerajKAfood Looks great!

[Morag Mitchell @MoragMitchell3]

I just read this on Facebook:

Someone asked "Why do many British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

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[Dan @dnacuts]

@alistairmilne Remember to pay your taxes so your stacks don't get seized by their law enforcement efforts.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@DaveBlass Strikes do help people provide for their families. In the long run. A lot of us suffered for the last couple years to win gains for the future. Congrats on going around it though, I guess.

[Dan @dnacuts]

@Jackdaw237868 @DrBurkenstock @real_vijay @TylerSCrypto He got caught trying to pay someone to kill someone else. The existence of the platform is not why he went to jail. The fact that he used it in a conspiracy to attempt murder is. He also aided and abetted many others, as he had full knowledge of transactions and didn't report.