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Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« on: February 16, 2025, 08:43:06 pm »
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2025, 08:49:26 pm »
See BS  :3:
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2025, 09:48:07 pm »
Yeah, well.

Having gone from six figures to zero overnight more than once, I can sympathize a little, but no job is guaranteed.

A person can only go into a field that will be in demand, and be their best at it, and even that is no guarantee. When demand for your abilities or services slumps, jobs go away. Government will be run more like the business it is, not a charity.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2025, 09:54:42 pm »
Welcome to how the rest of us live. Something government workers never experienced before.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2025, 09:58:45 pm »
Where was CBS when people lost their jobs, businesses and hope for the future, thanks to the covid lockdowns?
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2025, 09:58:57 pm »
Quote from: DB on February 16, 2025, 09:54:42 pm
Welcome to how the rest of us live. Something government workers never experienced before.
It has long been a reason to seek government jobs: once in, chances of your job going anywhere --or you, for that matter-- are pretty slim, or at least have been. Benefits are golden, and retirement good, and the job is on rails, unlike the private sector where literally nothing is guaranteed.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2025, 06:34:50 am »

‘Such Liars’: Elon Musk Joins MAGA Crusade Against ‘60 Minutes’
Story by Will Neal • 47m

MAGA henchman Elon Musk jumped aboard the anti-CBS bandwagon late Sunday, accusing the network’s flagship investigative program of lying about DOGE’s raid at the United States’ international aid agency.

The billionaire “first buddy” tweeted in response to an X post from 60 Minutes featuring an excerpt from an interview with a USAID worker fired during the Musk-led shutdown, who spoke about the uncertainty she and other former colleagues face after losing their livelihoods.
 
“60 Mins are such liars,” Musk wrote. “As the Community Note states, all employees were offered 8 months of pay and benefits,” he added, referring to a severance package extended only to workers who actively chose to leave their posts within a few working days of the offer being announced.


Responding to a comment below from a pro-MAGA account about the show’s November interview with Kamala Harris, Musk wrote: “60 Mins lied in a futile attempt to change the outcome of the election.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/such-liars-elon-musk-joins-maga-crusade-against-60-minutes/ar-AA1zczZ4?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=1b9e2fe67988442e9c6c68d10175eb3e&ei=134
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2025, 06:48:28 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on February 17, 2025, 06:34:50 am


MAGA Crusade Against ‘60 Minutes’
What about the "crusade" against Trump by SeeBS?  I've never seen that from the media.



MAGA henchman 
That is a pretty negative term for someone who is saving Americans billions and billions of dollars.  But it is a "crusade" by Trump.



The billionaires"first buddy"
How can anyone who is Trump's first buddy be trusted?

 
a pro-MAGA account 
What did this add to the story?  Absolutely nothing, except tie it to Trump and it shows the "conspiracy" against SeeBS.

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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2025, 08:39:32 am »
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So what we learned from 60 Minutes today is that bureaucrats should be able to spend taxpayer money however the F they want and we should shut the F up about it.
9:09 PM · Feb 16, 2025


60 Minutes pulled in 2 comms consultants who were never actual employees of USAID and presented them as though they were longtime employees who were fired for lack of "loyalty."

https://twitter.com/HaMeturgeman/status/1891324811172806799
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2025, 08:44:11 am »
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2025, 08:48:07 am »
Quote from: DB on February 16, 2025, 09:54:42 pm
Welcome to how the rest of us live. Something government workers never experienced before.



Amen.  Welcome to the real world Palie!
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2025, 02:22:18 pm »
Nolte: Disgraced ’60 Minutes’ Misleads Viewers on USAID Staff Reductions

John Nolte 17 Feb 2025

Sunday’s episode of the disgraced 60 Minutes from far-left CBS News worked overtime to mislead its gullible viewers about the recent layoffs at USAID, a left-wing slush fund paid for with about $40 billion taxpayer dollars each year.

Despite the U.S. Senate’s previous good-faith attempts to discover where all that money went, the USAID bureaucrats stalled and stalled. No one could find out how those billions were being spent, which was the whole point. What we had was an unaccountable federal agency spending billions with no oversight or accountability.

Enter Elon Musk and his DOGE boys. More importantly, enter their technical expertise allowing them to work around the dissembling bureaucrats and run a computer program that told them exactly where the money was going — and where the money went should infuriate anyone with a conscience. Waste, fraud, and abuse don’t begin to explain it.

So President Trump closed the corrupt agency, laid off thousands of unnecessary bureaucrats, and moved whatever was worth saving (including 600 or so employees) into the State Department. This move ensures 1) the small percentage of USAID money that makes sense keeps flowing, 2) someone is watching spending in the future, and 3) the spending aligns with the priorities of the elected United States President—Republican or Democrat.

To sane and honest people this all makes sense. To the corrupt pigs with their noses in the taxpayer trough, people who probably cannot survive in the free market and count on federal corruption to keep them fat and warm, this is the apocalypse.

And naturally, any attempt to reduce any amount of federal spending is met with shrieks of horror from the regime media. To the surprise of no one, the shrieks of horror from Sunday night’s 60 Minutes were acts of blatant misinformation.

The entire angle of the 60 Minutes clip below is a laughable attempt to turn public opinion against Trump and DOGE because those poor bureaucrats at USAID lost their oh-so-vital jobs.


https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1891278117915767216

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https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/02/17/nolte-disgraced-60-minutes-misleads-viewers-usaid-staff-reductions/
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2025, 02:28:55 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on February 16, 2025, 08:43:06 pm
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“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight,” says Kristina Drye, who was fired in the USAID shutdown. https://cbsn.ws/3CU2X1y

Of course they did.  They knew it would be paid for by printing up money out of thin air and inflating prices for everyone else.

And they call us 'selfish'.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2025, 02:30:32 pm »
Most of the federal employees losing their jobs were "probationary." That kind of implies there was no actual guarantee they'd work there forever.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2025, 02:35:49 pm »
OMG, listen to the video!  CBS is using an AI generated voice for commentary, meaning that they have axed one of their own workers and replaced that worker with AI.  Unfriggin'believable.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2025, 02:36:58 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on February 17, 2025, 02:30:32 pm
Most of the federal employees losing their jobs were "probationary." That kind of implies there was no actual guarantee they'd work there forever.

Now now, @mountaineer .  You know that there is nothing more permanent in this world than a temporary government program.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2025, 04:44:52 pm »
I feel for these folks as I would anyone that has lost their job. But it is a part of life.

As far as 60 Minutes? At one time in my life I watched 60 Minutes and Saturday Night Live regularly. But I figured out as time went on that neither was reliable or amusing.
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Re: Of course this is the angle 60 Minutes is going with.
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2025, 05:10:30 pm »
Quote from: berdie on February 17, 2025, 04:44:52 pm
I feel for these folks as I would anyone that has lost their job. But it is a part of life.

At one time in my life I watched 60 Minutes and Saturday Night Live regularly. But I figured out as time went on that neither was reliable or amusing.

Ain't that the truth. 
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