Mary McKinley
Have fun. Save democracy.
- Zinke dismisses ethics concerns about Qatar gifting Trump a luxury jet: "Remember who President Trump is. He's a billionaire businessman from New York. He doesn't sleep in a sleeping bag over night. He says, 'Hey, this is a great plane.'"
- Multimillionaire elected official saying $400 million gift to a billionaire elected official doesn’t matter to the billionaire because “that’s how being rich works”.
- The point was never to reform, but to make government a non responsive behemoth, so no one believes it’s good for anything. (But we still have to pay taxes…) The Soviets were experts at this, and the Russians continue the model.
Great piece about how DOGE is crippling capacity to stop necessary spending. *Remove discretion on spending from employees closest to the work *Require more justifications for routine/previously approved spending *Allow only DOGErs/senior officials to approve www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
- They are capricious and untethered people. Real bad actors. “It shows the kind of character that they have,” he added of Chan and Zuckerberg. “It really reflects on who they are as people. ”
