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Today at a Glance:
In Court: The trial on a first-degree murder charge of Stephen Monroe, the last of four defendants involved in the shooting death of 16-year-old Noah Smith on a street in Bunnell three years ago, enters its second day before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols in Courtroom 401. Monroe alone declined to plead out, as the other three have. See: “Stephen Monroe, Last of 4 Defendants in Murder of Noah Smith, Goes on Trial Monday After Declining Deal.” The trial is expected to take most of the week.
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. The council takes on an analysis that will result in an increase in water and sewer rates. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor Commissioner Conference Room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join virtually by computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting. Meeting ID: 276 236 998 121 Passcode: CyEKoW [Download Teams | Join on the web]
The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. Note: meeting start times vary from month to month. Check here to verify the time. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.
The Flagler County School Board meets in a closed-door session to discuss insurance rates for employees in the context of collective bargaining, 12:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to go over the items on its upcoming school board meeting two weeks hence. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Sightings: Palm Coast’s Town Center is beginning to look very different, at least in some parts. A crane has replaced cranes at the corner of Central Avenue and City Place, as you can see from that shot taken from City Hall Monday. The development known as “Promenade at Town Center” broke ground there in July to become the first mixed-use bloc in Town Center, which was originally designed as all mixed-use. It hasn’t turned put that way, and vast parts of it are still looking for concrete and steel and glass. By itself, Promenade will have a hard time. We need a half dozen like it. From a different angle: I prefer the picture below, but it’s less informative and more metaphorical (the arc of development etc.), offsetting the focus on the crane with the contrast between sky and arc, and the broader glimpse of Town Center’s remaining trees. The two pictures give you a sense of how easy it is to manipulate reality and convey two quite different narratives merely by changing the angle. There’s even a wink at Magritte in the one below, at least in the contrasts.
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
Al-Anon Family Groups
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In orthodox city planning, neighborhood open spaces are venerated in an amazingly uncritical fashion, much as savages venerate magical fetishes. Ask a houser how his planned neighborhood improves on the old city and he will cite, as a self-evident virtue, More Open Space. Ask a zoner about the improvements in progressive codes and he will cite, again as a self-evident virtue, their incentives toward leaving More Open Space. Walk with a planner through a dispirited neighborhood and though it be already scabby with deserted parks and tired landscaping festooned with old Kleenex, he will envision a future of More Open Space. More Open Space for what? For muggings? For bleak vacuums between buildings? Or for ordinary people to use and enjoy? But people do not use city open space just because it is there and because city planners or designers wish they would.
–From Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great Cities (1961).
Laurel says
Well, one of the things that Trump supporters believe is that he will not touch Social Security and/or Medicare. I tried to tell y’all about “means testing” and guess what? It’s here. The ultra wealthy think that cutting your budget (which is minimal in the grand scheme of the Federal deficit), and giving themselves tax cuts, is going to be best for all of us. Common sense?
Here is an except from the letter sent out to our veterans:
“Veterans with medical conditions or injuries that occurred or worsened during active-duty service may receive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Payments are structured differently than other disability programs. VA’s disability payments are intended to compensate for the average earnings that veterans would be expected to lose given the severity of their service-connected medical conditions or injuries, whether or not a particular veteran’s condition reduced his or her earnings. Unlike disability programs such as Social Security Disability Insurance, payments are unaffected by a veteran’s earnings or other types of income.
Under this option, VA would means-test (that is, restrict full compensation to those with income below a certain amount) all current and prospective recipients of VA’s disability compensation. Beginning in January 2026, veterans with service-related disabilities and total household income below $135,000, excluding disability income from the VA, would receive full benefits. That threshold corresponds to the 70th percentile of total household income in the United States in 2022, adjusted for inflation to reach the threshold value applicable to 2026 benefits. CBO estimates that nearly 30 percent of veterans receiving disability payments from VA will have household income above that threshold in 2026. (After 2026, that income threshold would rise with the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers.) Above the threshold, benefits would be phased out at a constant rate: For every two dollars of gross household income, disability compensation would decrease by one dollar.”
So, what that letter means is, if a veteran, on disability, makes $135,001, he/she begins to lose earned benefits. That amount includes the gross household income, combined with a spouse. So, if he makes $67,500, and she makes$67,501, the disability benefit begins to decline. If they have a house payment, food payment, kids, etc., they had better not have a combined gross household income of $135,001. Don’t take that job. Don’t take that promotion. Maybe don’t get married.
30% of veterans on disability will see their disability decline. The rich get richer, and the middle class lose earned benefits.
This is how the very people who protect our freedom, with life and limb, are going to be treated. People who are already on disability as promised, and those who should need it in the near future. The people we keep thanking for their service! This is how much Trump, and his billionaire sidekicks care. So, do you still believe they won’t do it to you? Means testing can reduce your benefits, that you worked for all your lives, put into all your lives, and your employer put into all your lives. And do you believe housing, food, transportation and daily life will become so much cheaper in the future that these cuts won’t hurt you?
I can remember, several years ago, asking my Republican husband if those who are wealthy should give up their Social Security and Medicare, as they really don’t need it. He gave me a resounding “NO! They worked for it, and they earned it.” He’s right, they worked for it, and they earned it. But now, the ultra wealthy, up on stage with Trump, seem to have no problem taking it away from the rest of us.
Why should young people want to join the military now? Promises made, promises not kept. Speak now, or forever hold your peace, and the cuts you have allowed to happen to enrich the ultra rich. Watch your disinformation more closely. It’s your future, and your children’s future.
Pogo says
@Open spaces
Lure explorers — and grave diggers.
Coming soon, mixed use storage facilities; live upstairs — spend eternity in your first floor storage unit — just drop on in when you’re ready!
Laurel says
Pogo, yeah.
Bill w says
Accurate between the gerrymandering, voting restrictions, dirty money, and propaganda tv like the Murdock and Sinclair media, no wonder people elected a nazi. Interesting how 20 years ago we fought against terror now we elect them.
Pogo says
@American bad dream
…becomes waking nightmare:
“…Few developments better typify the unique insanity of the current political moment than the ascent of “Big Balls,” a 19-year-old software engineer who briefly worked at Elon Musk’s brain startup Neuralink, got recruited to the billionaire’s government-deconstructionist effort DOGE and, now, in a twist so ridiculous it seems like it was stolen straight out of South Park, has apparently been hired as a “senior advisor” to the U.S. State Department.
In reality, “Big Balls” is Edward Coristine, a high-achieving tech wunderkind, and the large-testicle-alluding-honorific is merely his online username. The Washington Post reports that Coristine, who is also a staffer at DOGE, was recently assigned to the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. It’s unclear what Coristine, who only recently graduated from high school, will be doing at America’s diplomatic hub, but it understandably seems to have rattled senior officials at the agency. The Post notes that, for some reason, a government directory also lists Coristine as working for USAID—the international aid agency that Musk has all but shut down in the span of a week…”
https://gizmodo.com/i-regret-to-inform-you-that-a-19-year-old-doge-stooge-named-big-balls-is-now-advising-the-state-department-2000562035
The best people…
Ed P says
To clarify the “kids” label and end that false moniker, the average age of the Musk team is 36 years old. He has expert career people from the legal field, Human Resources, financial and high profile acquisition/investment field, computer and coding field, as well as long term high ranking administrators from multiple branches of the government, even SSA. Yes, they range in age from 19 to 67. All super accomplished with specific expertise suited for their role in DOLE. These are not elected politicians or hired federal employees but abject experts in efficiency, waste/fraud detection, and governmental policies and procedures. Can you believe it?
So we don’t have a bunch of kids running around the agencies. Let’s end the gullible sound bites and headline misinformation.
Laurel says
Says who? Who are they? Who is watching them? Where are their credentials displayed, and who checked them and gave them clearances? Rocket man, whom we are financing his “Occupy Mars” fantasy?
No, I don’t believe the felon, or rocket man, for a minute, or the billionaires whose personal financial earnings increased by hundreds of millions in two weeks time.
Exactly how do you justify cutting disability for veterans? How do you trust a man who blatantly states he wants to develop Gaza, and states “I’ll own it” while telling us the Palestinians won’t be able to go back to their homes? Is this the America you have known all your life? China and Russia are besides themselves with glee.
This is not freedom. This is not justice. This is not us. This is just sad.
Ed P says
Absolute expert and Doge…
Tony Mack says
From the Economic Times — “…Who are the engineers behind Musk’s initiative?
The group of engineers working with Musk are between 19 and 24 years old, many of whom have backgrounds in technology but limited government experience. Some of them are known to have connections with tech investor Peter Thiel, a close associate of Musk. Wired reports that their direct involvement in government financial operations is unprecedented and raises questions about their qualifications to handle such a massive responsibility.
Elon Musk, known for his role in Tesla and SpaceX, has now gained significant influence over the U.S. government’s financial operations. His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), consisting of engineers aged 19 to 24, has been granted access to the federal payment system, which manages over $6 trillion annually. This system is responsible for handling Social Security and Medicare payments, two of the most critical programs in the U.S. economy.
Laurel says
Peter Thiel. There you go. He is the billionaire who groomed inexperienced JD Vance and introduced him to Trump.
Okay, middle class, explain to me, with factual backup, how, and why, all these billionaires are working for us. Is it their altruistic nature? To cut our benefits to fill their pockets? This will make America great again?
When will you begin to doubt?
Pogo says
@DepartmentOfEvilGovernment
Run by SOBs (Sleazy Oligarch Bros)
Sherry says
DICTATORSHIP= Maga says: Doge “Security Clearances and Vetting”. . . we don’t need no “Woke” security clearances! Our lord and savior has spoken. Move Aside! Stop asking questions! Do as you are told! “We don’t need no transparency”! “Laws are for “you” to obey! “Laws are NOT for our Supreme Leader”!
Sherry says
Simon, of the American Federation of Government Employees, said she doubts DOGE staff members have proper clearances to have access to sensitive government data.
“It seems impossible that any of the DOGE people underwent proper security or background checks,” she said. “There simply wouldn’t have been enough time to perform these checks.”
Sherry says
trump’s culture wars and knee jerk BS Executive Orders have “Life, Health and Death” consequences!
This is precisely why “Character Matters”, “Thoughtful Decision Making Matters”, “Integrity Matters”, “Science Matters”, “Process Matters”. . . Take a Good Read:
After Trump signed executive orders aimed at “gender ideology” and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, federal health agencies began to scrub their websites to comply with the orders.
Several health agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went almost completely dark as a result. Some of that data has been restored already, like CDC resources for tracking and preventing HIV.
But most of what has been removed is still missing, including recommendations for treating sexually transmitted infections and guidelines on prescribing contraception.
Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, concluded that the removal of data likely violated a provision requiring federal agencies to provide “adequate notice or reasoned explanation.”
“This opinion has documented the harm DFA members have suffered and will continue to suffer absent intervention, but the harm extends beyond them,” Bates wrote in his ruling, referring to members of the advocacy group.
“DFA has also supplied declarations from doctors around the country who, although not DFA members themselves, are representative of the widespread disruption that defendants’ abrupt removal of these critical healthcare materials has caused,” he continued.
Health care workers routinely use such guidelines to determine how best to treat patients, making their removal harmful to doctors and the people they care for, according to Zachary Shelley, an attorney representing the physicians group.
“You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube that has already come out,” Shelley said. “You can stop it from flowing out going forward. Every day that this goes on, there’s harm to the doctors and their patients and public health.”
Sherry says
How to grow fascism. . . first get rid of the “Independent Press”:
The Associated Press said the White House barred its reporter from Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing because of the AP style guidance on using the name Gulf of Mexico versus Gulf of America.
The AP said in a statement it was informed Tuesday that if the news agency did not “align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.”
Ed P says
Laurel, Tony Mack and Sherry, along with anyone else who wants the truth
Google, who is. Elon Musks demolition crew. Pro Publica
They even ask if you have information on Doge members to report to ProPublica
Anti- Doge will also prove to be a losing Democratic strategy. Quite possibly a trillion dollars of waste, inefficiency, fraud and corruption might be approved. Who doesn’t want to bring into the sunlight? Who?
Laurel says
So, Ed P, is Google now our vetting authority? Pro Publica wants information? That’s because they cannot find out either! How about going to dogegov.com, that Musk puts out, and see if you can find them there. No, you can’t, but you can view “Big Balls” employee of the month plaque. You can check out their memes, and maybe buy some meme coins. There is a buy and sell section, which is there to help the middle class, right? There are a lot of pictures of Musk in his leather jacket and sunglasses. Actually, the website is interestingly dark, literally. But back to Google…
Laurel says
So, Google in now your vetting authority?
I went to Musk’s DOGE official website, dogegov.com, and I recommend others do it too. There is no list, with credentials, of the people he has working on our private information. There are, however, lots of pictures of Musk in his black leather jacket and sunglasses. There is a plaque for “Big Balls” being “employee of the month.” You can also buy meme coins there. Total government efficiency. All for us.
What’s interesting is, the website is strangely dark. Huh.
When will you begin to doubt?
Kennan says
DOGE…. Department of Greed Eternally.
Ed P says
2 words to amplify the net worth of Doge.
Iron Mountain
Too incredulous to wrap one’s mind around. How could you not want to remodel our agencies? This early and this easy leads to the thought that “ you ain’t seen nothin yet”
Talk about waste.
Swing open all the locked doors and vaults so it’s possible to get as much of this jackassery exposed. We can’t fire enough of these fools quick enough.
Even the most anti Trumpers have to agree.
Kennan says
Our version of authoritarianism comes not with jackbooted military soldiers, but instead with evangelicals and ultra right wing that will try to demonize as many government entities as they can.
A framework of big government or government overreach and its conflation with what does work, like government programs. Programs like food, assistance for women, infants, and children. Health insurance programs like Medicaid that provides this for people with low income. Housing assistance, public housing, and housing vouchers. Cash assistance like SSI.(supplemental security income.) which provides cash to people with low income, who are aged blind or disabled. Social Security. Programs that provide economic security through retirement, disability, and survivor benefits, all of which are earned.!
These essential programs which are provided to a large swath of our population, but our broad brushed and conflated with anything seen as inefficient or overspent. An example of classism, and could ultimately not only exacerbate the wealth inequality in this country, but could literally break its people and create the kind of class gap you see in Third World countries.
This is a level of greed and decadent rule that happens slowly until it doesn’t.
A divided nation that is no longer consisting of people, but parties. A two party system so on policy, driven and useless, that as the rich and powerful continue a seemingly decades long food fight while the voters they work for just die.
Meanwhile: the Crips and the bloods continue to sell this American freedom illusion…. And we’re still buying it.
Laurel says
Ed P: But you act as if all Federal workers are crooks, so around Two million of them should be fired.
It’s the politicians, billionaires and Lobbyist’s who should be fired, not the average working person, making an average eage.What is going on is a government overthrow.
Your statement that even those against Trump would agree, may not show up to be true. We are hearing first hand that veterans are getting afraid, and pissed. Some are commenting they wish they could take their Trump vote back.
We may be in a bumpier ride than you imagine.
Sherry says
Just take a couple of minutes to watch what is going on in Congress regarding the alarming concerns over “unelected, unvetted’ musk and doge:
Tony Mack says
Ed P…Let’s be clear — if a Democratic President appointed George Soros to a position to “clean up the Government”, you would be screaming bloody murder. Firing 6,000 FBI agents because they did their jobs investigating a man who encouraged the insurrection, who stole classified documents and who cooked the books thereby committing fraud, is not saving taxpayer money — it is retaliation.
Threatening Department of Justice attorneys to either pledge their loyalty to Trump or lose their jobs…that’s retribution. How do I know — my son is a DOJ attorney, a Deputy Chief and a non-appointed civil servant — and he already received his “letter of notification.”…do as we tell you or resign.
Taking away funding for WIC and SNAP is not saving the taxpayer money — it is retribution…obliterating agencies including the Department of Education, OSHA, FEMA, privatize the VA (I am a veteran), NIH funding for cancer research (I also am a cancer survivor),…is not saving the taxpayer money — it is evil and intended to vilify and demonize those who can barely survive.
You want to clean up the government, streamline the money allocated by the Congress — then great — do it the right way. Pass legislation, go through committees, listen to testimony, abide by the Constitution, but don’t install some foreigner to bring in a bunch of his computer gorillas to cook the books to one person’s advantage.
You seem to think that everything a Democratic Administration does somehow is anathema to the Republic and the antithesis of the Constitution. Let me guess — you probably receive a Social Security check every month, maybe on Medicare or Medicaid…maybe even veteran. All those program brought to you by the very Democrats you hate so much. You sir, will be hoisted on your own petard.
Never will you believe that the Trump Administration, under the aegis of the Heritage Foundation, is set to destroy this democracy. It is their intent…think Germany in the Thirties…end of story…end of democracy…
Sherry says
Thank you yet again Tony Mack!
I sent this email to my senators this morning. . . please feel free to do the same:
Dear Senator
Millions of US citizens are counting on you, and other champions of democracy, to “vigorously” defend our constitution and our fundamental way of life.
We are appalled that Trump has given an “unelected/unvetted” person like billionaire Elon Musk the power to completely destroy the vital organizations that comprise our federal government with seemingly no oversight what so ever!
We are appalled that the DOGE team of “inexperienced/unvetted” people without “security clearances” have been given the power to access our most private and personal information such as our Social Security numbers. This situation not only is an egregious invasion of privacy, but also subjects millions of our citizens to “identity theft”! Many banking and health care systems still use our Social Security numbers as an identifier for account access.
There are many things you personally can do to help in these disastrous times:
1. Contact the legitimate press outlets with our concerns and your action plan to protect our constitution, our democracy and our people from this Trump/Musk crime spree.
2. Make a criminal referral to stop Elon Musk’s DOGE group from ripping apart our government institutions.
3. Demand that the Inspectors General return to their agencies, which are now operating without independent oversight
4. Use all procedural methods to stop the assaults on our democracy: Deny a quorum, block unanimous consent, Max out debate time, Use all procedural methods to delay progress, and step up in unified opposition to illegal, non constitutional actions.
Object to every procedural shortcut that the Republicans try as they attempt to implement Trump’s agenda.
5. Insist that Congressional oversight of the executive branch be greatly strengthened in order to function in the way our constitution requires.
Thank you for all you have tried to do to stop this constitutional crisis from happening. I look forward to your response.
Ed P says
Tony Mack,
First I do not believe any Democrat would aggressively tackle the waste, inefficiencies, fraud and abuse sinking our country. Their left wing special interest groups would jump ship. The left believes many of those causes to be mainstream America, they are not.
The fraud and abuse claims are not aimed at individuals employed by the federal government but more toward fraudulent billing from contractors and suppliers. The scale of government is inherently causing the “who cares attitude” or “ not my job” attitude. Most is not being done intentionally. That would be corruption.
Some, certainly not “6000” FBI were fired but, some should be fired. The FBI of all law enforcement agencies should not be a political weapon. It has credibility issues and draconian steps are needed to restore the trust and confidence of the agency.
Nutrition programs like SNAP and WIC are unaffected by Trumps funding freeze. However, neither program is legitimately available to illegal immigrants. Fraud and abuse should be ferreted out. The waste in those programs is incalculable.
Your hyperbole of elimination of benefits or agencies is nearly hinging on misinformation.
Some departments will be adsorbed or consolidated, hence eliminating duplication and excess employment. Efficiencies should save money that should be going to recipients.
There isn’t any federal employee that directly adds to GDP, they are needed but maybe not 2.3 million of them. You realize if departments are eliminated so will Cabinet positions. Bloat cost taxpayers. Every employee is an expense. An expense.
Now to your personal attack. No I do not use the V.A. for any services. I prefer and can afford private medical care. Second, I do receive a social security check monthly, in fact it $4018 per month this year. Not boasting but I paid in the maximum required amount into the social security/Medicare fund for all 50 years after service and will never “earn” back that investment given the loss of investment growth and total paid in. The actual value of my fund even at a modest 7% growth if I had invested requires me live beyond 100, maybe 125. I pay my fair share even today. You realize a high income earner in retirement pays federal taxes on their social security and Irma for Medicare part a/b and d maxes out over $650/ month additional over the base $285. Then a plan G supplement exceeds another $250/ month per person. Add it up, yes over $1000 per month per person for what you insinuated was welfare. My wife and I pay in excess of $25k per year for “ free”Health care.
I paid and pay my fair share, how’s about you brother?
Ed P says
From my perspective, people have to stop flailing at every action taken by the Trump Administration. The old adage of the sky is falling or crying wolf applies. The majority of Americans are not listening. Wake up, they are applauding.
Notice how both the criminal immigrant deportation efforts and DOGE have a majority approval rating? Both efforts initially appear to the public to be successful. Maybe they will be, maybe they will hit a snag. We don’t know. The earth was once thought to be flat and that earth was the center of the universe. We didn’t know.
Another adage, the horse is already out of the barn, too late. The appearance of these early successes provides the inertia and the impedance to transform our Federal Bureaucracy further. It’s only week 4.
There is not an assault on democracy nor are they attacking our fundamental ways of life. Hyperbole. Efficiency, safety, security, and improved health are bad things? Standard operating procedures brought us to this point. Status quo won’t fix it.
Maybe, it is that pesky rule of physics and the pendulum is swinging right. No one with any intellectual honesty would profess to agree with every action being taken. Some changes will prove to be historically beneficial/revolutionary while others may need be modified or scrapped.
Success or at least the appearance of success will inevitably accelerate change in that direction. We all have choices, embrace it, accept it, reject it. It’s not going to stop.
Ed P says
Pierre please correct Laurels post
Official Doge web site is : doge.gov
Not dogegov.com …. A spoof
Not seeking a post, fyi
Pierre Tristam says
Thank you Ed P. That is correct Laurel, the official site is https://doge.gov/, if you want to call it a site: it is essentially an X page with bare-bones substance abd a good deal of propagandistic lard, making the spoof site, amazingly, more informative.
Laurel says
Well, I guess I was fooled by Musk’s http://www.dogegov.com website that shows him and Trump, Big Ball’s employee of the month plaque, and how to purchase meme coins.
Sorry, I should have known that child Musk would run such a website. You know, “dogegov.” “The Department of Government Efficiency Memecoin Community.” “Much wow, much efficiency.”
It’s all fun and games, and profit, to Musk. The U.S. is just a joke to him.
Good catch, Ed P.
Laurel says
FL: BTW, Have y’all really looked at the “spoof” site? It very much promotes doge, and as you stated, has more information.
Also, it is fairly common for a municipality to have the address of gov.com. Palm Coast does it with their departments, but I think they are phasing it out.
Whatayagonna do?
Pogo says
@Laurel
Thanks, the best gets better…
https://www.google.com/search?q=scared+ketchup
…and the worst, well it will end — when nothing else is left. When people who roundly support the indefensible piss on your leg and tell you not to spill your drink, step over them and be on your way. Anyway, works for me.
FWIW
Department Of Government Evil bro of duh day:
https://www.google.com/search?q=robspierre