… I truly believe that they are trying to crater this agency, and that they are driving it to a total system collapse,” O’Malley said, sounding the alarm. “That is going to happen a lot sooner rather than later.”
“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley told CNBC. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.” He warned those who receive benefits currently to “start saving now.”
The Social Security Administration has been crippled by cuts to the agency pushed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The Washington Postreports that employee cuts at the SSA have led to office managers at field offices being forced to answer phone calls at the front desk in place of fired receptionists. In addition, the agency’s website crashed four times in 10 days in March due to server overloads, preventing millions of retired people and the disabled from accessing their online accounts.
On top of that, the office that monitors whether people are satisfied with their service was also cut by DOGE, making it nearly impossible to figure out small ways to fix some, if any of the problems.
Unable to get answers from the SSA, Americans who depend on Social Security have flooded congressional offices with angry phone calls. The AARP says it has been getting 2,000 calls a week since early February, double its usual amount, from people concerned about their Social Security benefits.
The SSA is responsible for $1.5 trillion in benefits to 73 million retired workers, their survivors, and poor and disabled Americans, and now is struggling to deliver to these vulnerable groups. About 40 percent of older Americans depend on Social Security as their primary source of income.
At present, the agency is being run by acting Commissioner Leland Dudek, who has cut more than 12 percent of the SSA’s 57,000-person staff and says DOGE is calling the shots, despite a court order last week preventing Musk’s cronies from accessing the agency.
Dudek’s predecessor, Michelle King, quit her job as acting commissioner rather than hand over Americans’ sensitive personal information to DOGE. Still, Musk’s staffers have pressed on with their quest to find fraud in Social Security benefits, a problem that isn’t as extensive as they claim. Instead, their efforts have resulted in the people who depend on those benefits being shut out altogether.
Dudek and DOGE’s actions have caused chaos within the agency, pushing out experienced officials who were running the SSA’s complicated information technology and benefit systems. As a result, an agency that has been underfunded for years now is on the brink of being shut down, according to Dudek, who wasn’t happy with last week’s court order blocking DOGE from accessing Americans’ data.
Is all of this by design? Musk has called Social Security “the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time,” and conservatives have long sought to privatize the agency. One former agency veteran who took early retirement this month told the Post, “They’re creating a fire to require them to come and put it out.” If that is the goal, is there anything that can save one of America’s most successful anti-poverty programs?
“The Atlantic” published Team Trump’s shocking Signal text chain, exposing the Defense Secretary’s sloppy handling of military secrets while National Security Advisor Mike Waltz tried to spin the incident as a common, relatable tech issue.
bId – White Hat types try to stay legal so they continue to get work. These are the people hired by companies to try to break into their systems, email, social media and things like that. They find the vulnerabilities and holes to help toughen things up. They might have started out as Black Hat, learned a lot and decided to be a good guy.
The tools they use are numerous as there are innumerable systems with various security tools that have to be defeated. There are multiple levels starting with the password, pin or physical security. large passwords are important. Adding the secondary phone or email confirmation, the two factor, makes it even more difficult.
Leading to IF a hacker team working for a nazi wanted to break the voting systems in several states, how and what would they do? I could not list all the software needed, probably a few are on the Dark Web. Not all states use the same systems. I have thought about this a little bit. The best way would be to attack when the votes are loaded from the local to the county, discrepancies would be more difficult to see at this point. Trying to break the voting booth numbers would be local things. I remember one little village in Alabama that consistently had more votes then living people. Easy to see issue. But, when those numbers and the rest of the county numbers are being mixed into larger numbers, a few extra or less might not be picked up in the stream to the master database. It might be possible to get through the filters and checks.
Women are the majority of adult beneficiaries, collecting Social Security as retired or disabled workers, and as wives and widows. They make up 56 percent of Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older, and 66 percent of beneficiaries age 85 and older.
I’m thankful my recent intense dealings with Social Security got settled just before this. Had to go through quite a few hoops, lots of phone calls and website sessions to fix their screw-up, even enlisted the help of our Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, whose case worker dealt with local SSA office. As irritating and time-consuming as that was, I can’t imagine what it would have been like under this regime.
Frank Bisignano, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Social Security Administration, testified under oath at his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he has had no contact with the Elon Musk cost-cutting team that is directing a major downsizing of the agency.
But Sen. Ron Wyden (Oregon), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said the claim is “not true,” citing an account the senator said he received from a senior Social Security official who recently left the agency. The former official — whose detailed statement was shared with The Washington Post — described “numerous contacts Mr. Bisignano made with the agency since his nomination,” including “frequent” conversations with senior executives.
The nominee “personally appointed” Michael Russo, the chief information officer leading Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service team at Social Security, and the two speak frequently about agency operations, the former executive said.
The Post confirmed the former official’s account with two people, including another former senior official who heard Russo speak regularly about his interactions with Bisignano over policy changes. The other, a disability advocate, said she was told by acting commissioner Leland Dudek that the nominee and Russo “spoke multiple times a day” about Social Security operations. The advocate spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve her relationship with the agency, while the former official did so because they were not authorized to disclose internal details.
Bisignano largely ducked Wyden’s allegation while acknowledging that he has “known Mike Russo for 20 years.” But he said, “I don’t know him as a DOGE person, I know him as a CIO.”
On Tuesday, Russo was reassigned to a senior adviser role in the commissioner’s office. He was replaced by Scott Coulter, a DOGE official also at the agency.
[…]
Bisignano, a former Wall Street and financial technology executive, faced questions from senators in both parties about deteriorating phone service and a surge of in-person visits to field offices already overwhelmed by staffing cuts — just as DOGE has announced plans to close an unspecified number of local offices.
“In the last two months, DOGE has been rampaging through Social Security,” Wyden told Bisignano. “I need to know if you’re responsible for some of this current chaos.”
[…]
Asked by several Democrats whether the Trump administration plans to privatize Social Security by first degrading its operations, Bisignano said he would not seek to privatize the agency.
“I’ve never thought about privatizing,” he said. “I don’t see this institution as anything other than a government agency that works to the benefit of the American public.” He told CNBC in February that he is “fundamentally a DOGE person” but denied that his objective was to “touch benefits.”
Hearing at 9:30am on White House ban of Associated Press reporters. US District Court Judge Trevor McFadden will be calling witnesses. After all the parties are heard, the judge could rule immediately. I don’t see much difference from the case Jim Acosta won when they tried to ban him.
Hearing at 9:30am ET on White House ban of AP reporters. US District Court Judge Trevor McFadden will be calling witnesses. After all the parties are heard, the judge could rule immediately. I don’t see much difference from the case Jim Acosta won when they tried to ban him.
PatD, it appears Waltz is the one who put Goldberg on the call. And my hunch is he’s a longtime Goldberg source, our at least that’s what the MAGAts will persuade Trump to think, and fire him.
Yep, BB, you’d think Hegseth putting all that targeting detail in an unsecured chat would get him fired.
The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week
– Shared attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application.
– Denied doing it.
– Denied the plans were classified.
– Denied the plans were plans.
– Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
No witnesses, no statements, no media reporting “what the WH said”. Or, WH says out of control by judiciary, unelected judges, etc, trying to build up case to be dictator for life.
I think the continuing drop of stuff off of the interwebs of personal data, including contacts with media and others, is building the case to drop Hegseth, Tulsi, and pick one from the list. With krasnov drifting deeper into dementia he might not remember who and why he picked the persons, shedding his protective arms on his cult.
The contact details for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were found online, with some of them still connected to services such as LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
*** https://www.newsweek.com/trump-officials-emails-passwords-numbers-signal-reports-2051136
German news outlet Der Spiegel reported Wednesday that it was able to find phone numbers, email addresses, and in some cases, passwords for top officials including Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Der Spiegel reported that many of the numbers and email addresses that were freely available on the internet still appear to be in use, and in some cases linked to social media accounts and LinkedIn profiles. The outlet found that some of the numbers are also linked to WhatsApp profiles and Signal accounts.
*Add to that, four US soldiers dead in Lithuania; this administration wanting to call them missing, but NATO saying they are dead. Orange Adolf says he’s clueless.
*Add to that, folks being kidnapped in the street and moved across state lines, without due process; others being taken to another country and we have no idea who they are…but one man was sent to El Salvador for having an AUTISM AWARENESS tattoo.
*Add to that, kidnapping victims in an overcrowded concentration camp (KROME in FL) dying from lack of water and medical care.
Orange Adolf & his administration sure are acting like n@zis, and Republicans in Congress sure seem to be following orders. Nuremberg awaits.
EU urges citizens to stockpile 72 hours’ worth of supplies amid war risk
The 18-page document warns that Europe is facing a new reality marred with risk and uncertainty, citing Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, rising geopolitical tensions, sabotage of critical infrastructure, and electronic warfare as prominent factors.
The Commission’s European Preparedness Union Strategy says citizens across the continent should adopt practical measures to ensure they are ready in case of an emergency. This includes having enough essential supplies to last them for a minimum of three days, the document says. “In the case of extreme disruptions, the initial period is the most critical,” it says.
Overall, civilians should be encouraged to foster self-reliance and psychological resilience, the document states.
*At least the rest of the world is taking this seriously.
Well, at least for me so far, so good. SS transfer was deposited yesterday. I think I’ll leave the cans of beans in the pantry just in case next month is different.
anonreluctantprepper
6 days ago
i already got cans stocked for when the trumpers cause civil order to collapse
anonreluctantprepper
6 days ago
i’m getting insider gossip tonight!
*does knows-too-much-dance
gonna be one of those “wish i could post this” nights 😒
omg the teaser is already ominous AF
i hate this timeline
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anonreluctantprepper
6 days ago
i’m being overly cryptic about something that’s likely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things because i’m a patriot
Europe should enhance stockpiling of critical equipment and encourage the public to maintain sufficient supplies for at least 72 hours in case of emergencies, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
*All of the folks trying to move abroad, or to get a second passport if eligible…the entire world is gonna be in it, if they aren’t already.
All of the canned beans won’t save anyone from nukes, but with enough shovels…
T.K. Jones (deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, strategic, and theater nuclear forces under Reagan) claimed that the US could recover fully from nuclear war in two to four years, saying that “everybody’s going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around. Dig a hole, cover it with a few doors, and then throw three feet of dirt on top. It’s the dirt that does it.”
Recent reviews for my Lazy Man Cooks! Channels in YouTube and TikTok:
“I like these videos because the internet is over saturated with professional cooking videos that act like unless you dedicate 15 hours to making pasta from scratch you should be ashamed or something and this goes to show how easy it really can to make something cheap, good, and quick” — DiamondEyeball
“This man’s a genius” — jactuscack6
196
“Enjoy watching your videos” — BobbieLedbury
“Have you ever done radio or voice acting? You have the voice for it!!” — CornKingsReborn
“Looked lovely! Good video” — Twothreeone231
“I never knew the parchment paper trick! Thank you” — CindiCares
“Mouth watering dinner!” — GennyBernard-q2r
“Keep up the great tips!!’ — heavengate7613
“I have learned in my life that grampa’s always know what they do and i trust this one too” — GisellaRoda
Other IC agencies, not U.S., are looking into the little group of idiots. They are coming across some things about Pete Hegseth that are raising a lot of concern. One is he has russian email and phone connection. Foreign agencies may release more as it looks like he is not wanted by other countries to have access to their information.
There is also info about the others which is being released.
They have their own spies in the russian agencies.
Dumbass just now figuring out you shouldn’t pick 3 House members for your cabinet when you only have 220 Republicans, now down to 218! And upcoming special elections could cost them the whole House.
Poobah, congrats on the lazy man cooking reviews. Simple cooking certainly has its place.Like Louisiana has it mirapoix, I’ve got my own “universal” topping. Sauteed onion, mushroom, garlic and jalapenos (w/olive oil, salt, pepper and Arrabiata seasoning mix). I put that shit on everything.
Anon, I click “Newest” below the Post Comment button. Makes most recent posts closest to the comment block.
Elon Musk hands out $1m to voter in desperate attempt to flip Wisconsin’s Supreme CourtMusk’s political committee, America PAC, announced that Scott A, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, was the first to be gifted the surprise million-dollar donation for signing up
“Exciting to announce our first million-dollar award for supporting our petition against activist judges in Wisconsin! Next million dollar award will be announced in 2 days”, the world’s richest man posted on X late Wednesday.
The open seat race will decide which party controls the Supreme Court in the Badger state, a major battleground. More broadly, it could be viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s first two months in office.
*Not really a referendum if Elon is paying for folks to vote for a candidate, just folks who need money. If Elon wanted to save TeSSla, he would do an about face, ditch DOGE, and pay taxes & get other wealthy folks to do the same. Pain and poverty could be wiped out if it weren’t got unquenchable greed.
Mike Waltz left Venmo account public in further security breach
A Venmo account with the name “Michael Waltz”, which bore a picture of Waltz, was visible to the public until Wednesday afternoon, Wired reported. Waltz’s 328-person list of friends included accounts that appeared to belong to Walker Barrett, a National Security Council staffer, and Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff – whose account was also public. The Signal chat leak raises questions about accountability in Trump’s cabinet
Read more
Both Wiles and Barrett were part of the Signal chat, news of which rocked Washington this week and led to Democrats to call for Waltz and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who shared timings of forthcoming airstrikes and their results, to resign.
Last year Wired reported that JD Vance, then the nominee for vice-president, had left his Venmo public. His friend list revealed a host of connections including the people behind Project 2025, the rightwing plan for government that Trump was forced to distance himself from during the campaign but which appears to have greatly influenced the direction of his second term in office.
*Venmo? I’d like some forensic accounting, please.
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anonisthishell
6 days ago
now THIS “timeless” (pun fuckintended) bop, OTOH
anonisthishell
6 days ago
lol @ the “venmo” headline, BiD
it’s all one giant Onion Special Edition
get these boomers off the internet
they’re not even boomers, how fucking stupid are these ppl
Seriously, is Walz Venmo-ing lunch money to Susie Wiles, or is she sending him money? Is any money coming from a nefarious source? How much we talkin’?
The house MAGAt doesn’t believe in the First Amendment for foreign exchange students or anyone who says anything that might be against the US’ best interests.
I hate it here.
anonreluctantprepper
6 days ago
no juicy gossip tonight, just people realizing, that yes, there are real consequences to what “we” did
…still not completely appreciative 😑
when someone told me “wait til
you hear…”
i responded “uh yeah they [trumpers] said they were going to do that… a million times”
casual liberals heard project 2025
was bad and believed it but they didn’t read it
“Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said the White House is “in denial” that the information shared was not classified or sensitive. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said there would be an investigation.”
*Tammy Duckworth exposed Hegseth’s lie about there being nothing definitive. She said it gave the timing for drones, and noted that the F-18s would follow to that spot two hours later. It could’ve turned out horribly. Most Republicans in Congress don’t seem to care.
I’m guessing (and suggesting) nobody travel to the US for any reason. Not FIFA. Not the Olympics. Close the hotels. Stop international flights. Nobody is safe.
Bounty hunters kidnapping folks in the street. No due process. Disappearing across state lines, or to other countries.
The Secretary of Defense with his Russian email, and Russian phone number.
O’Malley: Trump admin trying to “crater” Social Security | CNN Politics
‘Start saving now’ for ‘collapse’ of Social Security system, warns former chief – Investment News
Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social Security | The New Republic
meanwhile in other news
“The Atlantic” published Team Trump’s shocking Signal text chain, exposing the Defense Secretary’s sloppy handling of military secrets while National Security Advisor Mike Waltz tried to spin the incident as a common, relatable tech issue.
wonder how signal chat will affect these cases, both 2025 stories:
FBI agent arrested for leaking classified information
CIA analyst leaks top secret Israel-Iran plans
bId – White Hat types try to stay legal so they continue to get work. These are the people hired by companies to try to break into their systems, email, social media and things like that. They find the vulnerabilities and holes to help toughen things up. They might have started out as Black Hat, learned a lot and decided to be a good guy.
The tools they use are numerous as there are innumerable systems with various security tools that have to be defeated. There are multiple levels starting with the password, pin or physical security. large passwords are important. Adding the secondary phone or email confirmation, the two factor, makes it even more difficult.
Leading to IF a hacker team working for a nazi wanted to break the voting systems in several states, how and what would they do? I could not list all the software needed, probably a few are on the Dark Web. Not all states use the same systems. I have thought about this a little bit. The best way would be to attack when the votes are loaded from the local to the county, discrepancies would be more difficult to see at this point. Trying to break the voting booth numbers would be local things. I remember one little village in Alabama that consistently had more votes then living people. Easy to see issue. But, when those numbers and the rest of the county numbers are being mixed into larger numbers, a few extra or less might not be picked up in the stream to the master database. It might be possible to get through the filters and checks.
FYI: reason “granny” not grandpa in thread title
I’m thankful my recent intense dealings with Social Security got settled just before this. Had to go through quite a few hoops, lots of phone calls and website sessions to fix their screw-up, even enlisted the help of our Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, whose case worker dealt with local SSA office. As irritating and time-consuming as that was, I can’t imagine what it would have been like under this regime.
Social Security nominee falsely claims no DOGE contacts, Democratic senator says – The Washington Post
NBC: A growing number of Donald Trump’s allies are calling on the president to fire his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, to try to mitigate the political fallout.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-allies-take-aim-michael-waltz-rcna198289
“…fire his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, to try to mitigate the political fallout“???
but he wasn’t the one who leaked the attack plan
Hearing at 9:30am on White House ban of Associated Press reporters. US District Court Judge Trevor McFadden will be calling witnesses. After all the parties are heard, the judge could rule immediately. I don’t see much difference from the case Jim Acosta won when they tried to ban him.
Hearing at 9:30am ET on White House ban of AP reporters. US District Court Judge Trevor McFadden will be calling witnesses. After all the parties are heard, the judge could rule immediately. I don’t see much difference from the case Jim Acosta won when they tried to ban him.
Craig – I don’t think Walz is the target. Looking through the names there are two, perhaps three, that would satisfy some even more.
PatD, it appears Waltz is the one who put Goldberg on the call. And my hunch is he’s a longtime Goldberg source, our at least that’s what the MAGAts will persuade Trump to think, and fire him.
McFarlane posted on twit that the WH is not sending anyone as a witness.
Yep, BB, you’d think Hegseth putting all that targeting detail in an unsecured chat would get him fired.
The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week
– Shared attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application.
– Denied doing it.
– Denied the plans were classified.
– Denied the plans were plans.
– Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying.
BB, if not sending witnesses it’s likely they’re just waiting for the judge to rule against them so they can provoke death threats
No witnesses, no statements, no media reporting “what the WH said”. Or, WH says out of control by judiciary, unelected judges, etc, trying to build up case to be dictator for life.
I think the continuing drop of stuff off of the interwebs of personal data, including contacts with media and others, is building the case to drop Hegseth, Tulsi, and pick one from the list. With krasnov drifting deeper into dementia he might not remember who and why he picked the persons, shedding his protective arms on his cult.
Haha
According to the O-Man the purpose of the Signal Chat was secrecy—From Trump.
The contact details for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were found online, with some of them still connected to services such as LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
***
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-officials-emails-passwords-numbers-signal-reports-2051136
German news outlet Der Spiegel reported Wednesday that it was able to find phone numbers, email addresses, and in some cases, passwords for top officials including Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Der Spiegel reported that many of the numbers and email addresses that were freely available on the internet still appear to be in use, and in some cases linked to social media accounts and LinkedIn profiles. The outlet found that some of the numbers are also linked to WhatsApp profiles and Signal accounts.
*Add to that, four US soldiers dead in Lithuania; this administration wanting to call them missing, but NATO saying they are dead. Orange Adolf says he’s clueless.
*Add to that, folks being kidnapped in the street and moved across state lines, without due process; others being taken to another country and we have no idea who they are…but one man was sent to El Salvador for having an AUTISM AWARENESS tattoo.
*Add to that, kidnapping victims in an overcrowded concentration camp (KROME in FL) dying from lack of water and medical care.
Orange Adolf & his administration sure are acting like n@zis, and Republicans in Congress sure seem to be following orders. Nuremberg awaits.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/europe/european-union-stockpile-member-states-intl-latam/index.html
EU urges citizens to stockpile 72 hours’ worth of supplies amid war risk
The 18-page document warns that Europe is facing a new reality marred with risk and uncertainty, citing Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, rising geopolitical tensions, sabotage of critical infrastructure, and electronic warfare as prominent factors.
The Commission’s European Preparedness Union Strategy says citizens across the continent should adopt practical measures to ensure they are ready in case of an emergency. This includes having enough essential supplies to last them for a minimum of three days, the document says. “In the case of extreme disruptions, the initial period is the most critical,” it says.
Overall, civilians should be encouraged to foster self-reliance and psychological resilience, the document states.
*At least the rest of the world is taking this seriously.
Well, at least for me so far, so good. SS transfer was deposited yesterday. I think I’ll leave the cans of beans in the pantry just in case next month is different.
i already got cans stocked for when the trumpers cause civil order to collapse
i’m getting insider gossip tonight!
*does knows-too-much-dance
gonna be one of those “wish i could post this” nights 😒
omg the teaser is already ominous AF
i hate this timeline
i’m being overly cryptic about something that’s likely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things because i’m a patriot
and these fuckers be texting out war plans yo
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/03/27/europe-prepares-for-attacks-on-power-grid-while-battling-soaring-energy-prices?utm_source=microsoft&utm_campaign=feeds_green&utm_medium=referral
Europe prepares for attacks on power grid while battling soaring energy prices
***
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/03/27/eu-commission-preparing-well-calibrated-retaliation-to-us-tariffs?utm_source=microsoft&utm_campaign=feeds_business&utm_medium=referral
EU Commission preparing ‘well calibrated’ retaliation to US tariffs
***
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/eu-tells-the-public-to-hold-72-hours-of-emergency-supplies/ar-AA1BHpml
Europe should enhance stockpiling of critical equipment and encourage the public to maintain sufficient supplies for at least 72 hours in case of emergencies, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
*All of the folks trying to move abroad, or to get a second passport if eligible…the entire world is gonna be in it, if they aren’t already.
All of the canned beans won’t save anyone from nukes, but with enough shovels…
T.K. Jones (deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, strategic, and theater nuclear forces under Reagan) claimed that the US could recover fully from nuclear war in two to four years, saying that “everybody’s going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around. Dig a hole, cover it with a few doors, and then throw three feet of dirt on top. It’s the dirt that does it.”
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3505123M/With_enough_shovels
With enough shovelsReagan, Bush, and nuclear war
Trying new Taco Bell slider tonight..
Recent reviews for my Lazy Man Cooks! Channels in YouTube and TikTok:
“I like these videos because the internet is over saturated with professional cooking videos that act like unless you dedicate 15 hours to making pasta from scratch you should be ashamed or something and this goes to show how easy it really can to make something cheap, good, and quick” — DiamondEyeball
“This man’s a genius” — jactuscack6
196
“Enjoy watching your videos” — BobbieLedbury
“Have you ever done radio or voice acting? You have the voice for it!!” — CornKingsReborn
“Looked lovely! Good video” — Twothreeone231
“I never knew the parchment paper trick! Thank you” — CindiCares
“Mouth watering dinner!” — GennyBernard-q2r
“Keep up the great tips!!’ — heavengate7613
“I have learned in my life that grampa’s always know what they do and i trust this one too” — GisellaRoda
Other IC agencies, not U.S., are looking into the little group of idiots. They are coming across some things about Pete Hegseth that are raising a lot of concern. One is he has russian email and phone connection. Foreign agencies may release more as it looks like he is not wanted by other countries to have access to their information.
There is also info about the others which is being released.
They have their own spies in the russian agencies.
So much for their boasts that Dems are on the run: “Trump pulls Elise Stefanik’s nomination after last-minute panic over losing House seats” https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-elise-stefanik-nomination-un
Dumbass just now figuring out you shouldn’t pick 3 House members for your cabinet when you only have 220 Republicans, now down to 218! And upcoming special elections could cost them the whole House.
Poobah, congrats on the lazy man cooking reviews. Simple cooking certainly has its place.Like Louisiana has it mirapoix, I’ve got my own “universal” topping. Sauteed onion, mushroom, garlic and jalapenos (w/olive oil, salt, pepper and Arrabiata seasoning mix). I put that shit on everything.
Anon, I click “Newest” below the Post Comment button. Makes most recent posts closest to the comment block.
Gallup poll: Trump
Disapprove 53%
Approve 43%
Don’t call it a “comeback”, Mr. C
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-voters-wisconsin-supreme-court-b2722480.html
Elon Musk hands out $1m to voter in desperate attempt to flip Wisconsin’s Supreme CourtMusk’s political committee, America PAC, announced that Scott A, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, was the first to be gifted the surprise million-dollar donation for signing up
“Exciting to announce our first million-dollar award for supporting our petition against activist judges in Wisconsin! Next million dollar award will be announced in 2 days”, the world’s richest man posted on X late Wednesday.
The open seat race will decide which party controls the Supreme Court in the Badger state, a major battleground. More broadly, it could be viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s first two months in office.
*Not really a referendum if Elon is paying for folks to vote for a candidate, just folks who need money. If Elon wanted to save TeSSla, he would do an about face, ditch DOGE, and pay taxes & get other wealthy folks to do the same. Pain and poverty could be wiped out if it weren’t got unquenchable greed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-thirds-of-americans-now-say-they-wouldnt-drive-a-tesla–and-most-of-them-cite-elon-musk-as-the-reason-why-according-to-a-new-poll-152619516.html
is hotel california about purgatory or a love letter to CA cuz i feel like i’m in hell everytime it comes on
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/mike-waltz-venmo
Mike Waltz left Venmo account public in further security breach
A Venmo account with the name “Michael Waltz”, which bore a picture of Waltz, was visible to the public until Wednesday afternoon, Wired reported. Waltz’s 328-person list of friends included accounts that appeared to belong to Walker Barrett, a National Security Council staffer, and Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff – whose account was also public.
The Signal chat leak raises questions about accountability in Trump’s cabinet
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Both Wiles and Barrett were part of the Signal chat, news of which rocked Washington this week and led to Democrats to call for Waltz and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who shared timings of forthcoming airstrikes and their results, to resign.
Last year Wired reported that JD Vance, then the nominee for vice-president, had left his Venmo public. His friend list revealed a host of connections including the people behind Project 2025, the rightwing plan for government that Trump was forced to distance himself from during the campaign but which appears to have greatly influenced the direction of his second term in office.
*Venmo? I’d like some forensic accounting, please.
now THIS “timeless” (pun fuckintended) bop, OTOH
lol @ the “venmo” headline, BiD
it’s all one giant Onion Special Edition
get these boomers off the internet
they’re not even boomers, how fucking stupid are these ppl
Anon – Instead of a Nigerian prince scam, it’s a South African grifting money…and there isn’t anyway to hang up on the weasel.
Has he started having his cars torched for insurance money, yet?
Don’t let Signal-gate distract you from DOGE.
Seriously, is Walz Venmo-ing lunch money to Susie Wiles, or is she sending him money? Is any money coming from a nefarious source? How much we talkin’?
This version is a bit less skin crawly.
omg 8 billion times better, ty
jesse Welles…..not an eagle.
It’s in Mexico. We just had lunch there. Never cared for that song but Mr. Ivy loves it.
Doesn’t look much different.
The house MAGAt doesn’t believe in the First Amendment for foreign exchange students or anyone who says anything that might be against the US’ best interests.
I hate it here.
no juicy gossip tonight, just people realizing, that yes, there are real consequences to what “we” did
…still not completely appreciative 😑
when someone told me “wait til
you hear…”
i responded “uh yeah they [trumpers] said they were going to do that… a million times”
casual liberals heard project 2025
was bad and believed it but they didn’t read it
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5215911-duckworth-pete-hegseth-is-a-f-ing-liar/
“Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said the White House is “in denial” that the information shared was not classified or sensitive. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said there would be an investigation.”
*Tammy Duckworth exposed Hegseth’s lie about there being nothing definitive. She said it gave the timing for drones, and noted that the F-18s would follow to that spot two hours later. It could’ve turned out horribly. Most Republicans in Congress don’t seem to care.
Now Elon thinks he’s George Washington.
Trump just signed Executive Order to ‘remove improper ideology’ from Smithsonian Museums and the National Zoo. There goes those Communist Pandas.
I’m guessing (and suggesting) nobody travel to the US for any reason. Not FIFA. Not the Olympics. Close the hotels. Stop international flights. Nobody is safe.
Bounty hunters kidnapping folks in the street. No due process. Disappearing across state lines, or to other countries.
The Secretary of Defense with his Russian email, and Russian phone number.
Court rulings ignored.
Congress unwilling to do anything.
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