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

  • 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…