The Daily Ripple

21/02/2025

Read these headlines. Not paid for with government funds. Cruelty and wreckage is the point!

In fact, read the article and understand how misguided and idiotic the "slash and burn", "shock and awe", "days of thunder" approach is.

"Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries."

Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.

21/02/2025

Federal employees (e.g., IRS) are being fired - no notice, nothing in writing to go to unemployment, without review. And the same is reported in most agencies that Trump enables Musk to gut.

Some federal employees took "buyout", got fired anyway.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-workers-buyout-fired/story?id=119010453

These are your fellow citizens, possibly your family, your friends, your neighbors. People who answer your questions, and provide services to you. There is no reason to treat people this way.

Speak up, push back, complain, call -- support your fellow Americans. Make your Congressmen and women answer for this.

Federal workers caught up in the mass firings despite taking the "deferred resignation program" have received conflicting information.

21/02/2025

Performance posturing by Musk -- dangerous, ignorant, and cruel

The bejeweled power tool was a gift from Trump ally Javier Milei, the Argentinian president who has often wielded a chainsaw around in public

21/02/2025

https://zerowastechef.substack.com/p/february-28th-is-economic-blackout

Buy Nothing Day 2.0

21/02/2025

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-02-20/republicans-are-eyeing-cuts-to-medicaid-whats-medicaid-again

Medicaid cuts have surfaced in federal budget talks. Here's a primer on the government health insurance program.

21/02/2025

21/02/2025

This is so wrong.....

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Individuals pardoned by President Trump over their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot are off-stage stars at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year…

21/02/2025

Sing along folk---Fifth Week Blues Billy Simons Jr

21/02/2025

It's not about savings. It's about breaking democracy, impoverishing most of the citizenry (morale, money, culture, human rights), and imposing Christian nationalism under a "supreme leader", with oligarch choir.

Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree

21/02/2025

Money laundering, foreign interference, extortion, commit fraud -- parts of his toollbox

The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office.

21/02/2025

Sloppy, chainsaw approach ...

🔴 The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs. INFO: https://www.kwtx.com/2025/02/17/trump-administration-tries-bring-back-fired-nuclear-weapons-workers-doge-reversal/

21/02/2025

Interested in growing potatoes in your garden this year? Helpful hint: they're super easy to grow! 🌱

They're also an important part of a "self-reliance garden," providing plenty of calories.

Here's how: https://www.attainable-sustainable.net/how-to-grow-potatoes/

21/02/2025

https://www.principlesfirst.us/summit/2025-principles-first-summit/

Restoring principled conservatism in America.

21/02/2025

What do you think Trump's trying to do? Really? Grind the U.S. to a halt? Impoverish, depress, immobilize you? Firing 6,000 people at IRS? Gutting funding for Alzheimer's/Dementia research? Cutting Medicaid and giving another tax break to corporations and the already very wealthy? Praising Putin and extorting Ukraine? Upending national parks/libraries? Decimating VA services? Social Security/Medicare is on the chopping block. Privatize anything and everything, weather information, health research, post office, ....

They are not looking for savings. They fire thousands of people, entire departments, before looking at the agency, looking at the audits, looking at the staffing structure. Think about it. They would say we need to save money at a hospital -- okay, we'll get eliminate the Cardiac unit. Or honey, we need to trim our household budget. How about we get rid of food??

He probably doesn't care what you think because he controls his cabinet, his disciples - they grovel before him.

But Congressmen and women might listen to you - they should. You pay their salaries. They represent you. They have a job to do. Call Republicans and Democrats - tell them to do their job, and work for you!!

Keep it up, push back, speak up.

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21/02/2025

He's trying to "buy" your support, again.....

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s considering sending money directly to Americans, using funds from the claimed savings of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.�

20/02/2025

The Trump administration is looking to overturn a Biden-era policy that curtailed banks' ability to punish consumers with overdraft fees.

20/02/2025

Officials could rubber-stamp 688 permit applications—including more than 100 pipelines and gas-fired plants.