President Donald Trump continues his efforts to reduce the size of the federal government, including the Pentagon, with the help of Elon Musk and his DOGE commission. NBC News Correspondents Kelly O’Donnell and Ryan Nobles and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Meet the Press NOW.

JDPON Don you done it again

  • astronot [he/him]English
    70•1 month ago

    Fucking lol. Bet this is just another way for Elon to grift some more sweet sweet DoD money. Suddenly the army is going to “need” 10k milspec cybertrucks at $10million a pop. You know, for efficiency.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]English
      45•1 month ago

      Eventually Trump’s gonna go in front of the media and say something like “We gotta get new missiles. Elon’s making new missiles - future generation hyper 100 times sound so very, very fast. $500 billion contract to HyperMissile…” There’s no information about HyperMissile anywhere. But HyperMissile.com was created the day before and the only thing on the website is a ginormous poop emoji.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]English
          16•1 month ago

          people

          Slave laborers. I just needed to be a bit pedantic.

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          I wanted to leave a Wikipedia link and quote here but pages had no easily quotable stuff. I do not want to link to a .mil page but it’s convenient.

          German V-Weapons: Desperate Measures > National Museum of the United States Air Force™ > Display

          The Nazis used forced labor to build V-weapons and an estimated 20,000 people died producing them in brutal work-camp conditions.

          As if “forced labor” wasn’t creepy enough - the following paragraph makes things even creepier. I wonder if that was intentional. Hey, they might have used slaves forced labor but there was significant technological advancement!

          Both the V-1 and V-2 foreshadowed future weapons development. The V-1 Buzz Bomb’s pilotless, self-guided aircraft features reappeared in later cruise missiles, and the V-2, as the first practical rocket-guided ballistic missile, pointed the way toward nuclear-armed ballistic missiles…

          • ...m...English
            1•1 month ago

            …i think season two is on disney+ in april…

    • REgon [they/them]English
      36•1 month ago

      First you need the period of Elon Musk being publicly anti-grift until he realises it’s a grift and he can get in on it. He’s gonna go out and talk about the mic being corrupt and then, in a few days, when someone has explained it with enough bazinga terms, will he understand that yes it is corrupt and would you like some money Elon?

      Then he’s gotta fuck up the grift somehow. Tale as old as time.