Er eitthvað sem ríkið getur ekki gert verra?

DOGE hefur í hótunum

"Musk and Ramaswamy are being asked to cut potentially a trillion or more dollars from the US government’s annual $6.75 trillion in spending and they will be looking at everything from over-priced soap dispensers for the US military to sponsoring drag shows in Ecuador, the Daily Mail is reporting.

Trump has compared DOGE to the Manhattan Project that created the world’s first atomic bomb. Except DOGE will be dismantling, not building. Musk has promised that he can find up to $1.9 trillion in government waste to cut. “We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars,” Musk posted on X. “This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining.”"

Þetta verður gaman.

Til skemmtunar, skoðum nýsamþykkt fjárlög:

Innviðaráðuneyti: "Hagskýrslugerð, grunnskrár og upplýsingamál" - 700.000.000.

Hljómar ekki uppbyggilegt.

Stjórnsýsla innviðaráðuneytis: Milljarður.

Umhverfis ráðuneyti: Meðhöndlun úrgangs: 10 milljarðar.

Stjórnsýsla umhverfismála: 6 milljarðar.

Stjórnsýsla umhverfismála: 14 milljarðar.

Shit, þetta er dýrt og gagnslaust.  Hvers vegna heldur þetta þjóðar-krabbamein áfram að vera til?

Menningar & viðskiftaráðuneyti: Ferðaþjónusta - 2.3 milljarðar. 

Ferðaþjónustan skilar semsagt engu af sér.

Fjölmiðlun: 7 milljarðar.

Ríkisrekstur fjölmiðla er fasismi.  Bókstaflega.  Spyrjið bara Mussolini.

Félagsmálaraðuneyti: Málefni innflytjenda og flóttamanna: 5 milljarðar.

Útlendingamál: 8 milljarðar.

Svo... ef við sleppum þessu bara, þá spörum við okkur 54.000.000.000 krónur, eða 150K á hvern einasta íslending, hvort sem hann er skattborgari eða ekki.

Hver getur ekki notað 150.000 kall?  Þetta eru 4-5 mánaða matarútgjöld  sem ríkið er að hafa af mér og sóa í vitleysu.

Og þetta var bara yfirferð á hundavaði.  Það er auðveldlega hægt að spara margfalt meira.

 

Þetta gerðist

"President-elect Donald Trump, his crew, and an unexpected guest, Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chowing down on McDonald’s aboard Trump’s private plane.

Donald Trump Jr. posted the photo Sunday morning with the funny caption, “Make America Healthy Again starts TOMORROW,” which was nothing short of internet gold."

Kannski batnar McD í framtíðinni.

USA er alveg eins og Ísland núna

"Atop federal spending generating that debt load of $200,000 per taxpayer, Congress and agencies prod extensively in the form of economic and social regulation ...

Were one to allocate annual regulatory costs assuming the full pass-through of costs to consumers, U.S. households "pay" $15,788 annually in embedded costs ($2.1 trillion in regulation divided by 134,090,000 consumer units), or 17 percent of average income before taxes (and of course more as a share of after-tax income)."

Það sama og við höfum, það sama og við munum hafa, vegna þess að fólk er hrætt við breytingar.

Svíar hafa komið sér í eitthvað vesen

"Sweden is sending out some five million pamphlets to residents urging them to prepare for the possibility of war, with instructions on how to stockpile food and water amid growing fears of a conflict with Russia.

It comes as neighbouring Finland launched a new preparedness website and after Norwegians recently received booklets instructing them on how to manage on their own for a week in the event of war and other threats.

Both Sweden and Finland dropped decades of military non-alignment to join the US-led military alliance NATO in the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine." 

Meira vesen.

Ráðstefnur og alþjóðasamtök

Kolefnisráðstefnur þykja mjög halló núorðið

"Leading climate experts, including Ban Ki-moon, Mary Robinson, Christiana Figueres, and Johan Rockström, are calling for significant changes to UN climate summits, according to a new report from The Guardian. 

The group has urged the UN to streamline the annual summits, amplify the voices of developing countries, and increase meeting frequency to better address the climate crisis."

Bla bla bla.  Allt á kostnað alþýðunnar.

G7 læra ekkert

""Russia remains the sole obstacle to just and lasting peace," the new joint statement says. It pledges to support more measures "in support of Kyiv as the thousandth day of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine approaches."

The group major industrial countries consists of the US, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK. Currently Italy holds to the rotating presidency.

"The G7 confirms its commitment to imposing severe costs on Russia through sanctions, export controls and other effective measures. We stand united with Ukraine," the statement added.

The European Union is a ‘non-enumerated’ member of the G7. The European Commission’s chief Ursula von der Leyen issued a simultaneous statement on X saying the "G7 reiterates its unflinching support to Ukraine.""

Sem betur fer eru ekki nema 2 mánuðir eftir af þessu bulli.

Kaninn var heppinn.  En við?  Hvað gerum við?

Glæpasamtök breiða úr sér

"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday where he said that the gang has “exploited” security lapses at the US-Mexico border. Rausch explained that the group has been running human trafficking operations and is expanding other criminal activities in the cities of Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga."

Tennessee?  Hvað segir Klanið við þessu?

Sigmundur Davíð hvartar undan úrkynjun Íslenskunnar

"Sig­mund­ur Davíð Guðlaugs­son, formaður Miðflokks­ins, er arg­ur yfir notk­un Sjálf­stæðismanna á kyn­hlut­lausu máli. Hann sak­ar þá um að hafa mis­notað okk­ar ástkæra yl­hýra á sjálf­um degi ís­lenskr­ar tungu."

Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn er orðinn svo úrkynjaður að hann afbakar tungumálið til þess að þóknast barnaníðingum.

Hafiði heyrt um feministann sem var með ógeðsleg?

Aha... það er semsagt góð veiði þegar það er góð veiði.  Vissulega rökrétt.

R.U.R. reynist sannspá

"Google's Gemini AI chatbot coldly and emphatically told a Michigan college student that he is a "waste of time and resources" before instructing him to "please die." 

Vidhay Reddy tells CBS News he and his sister were "thoroughly freaked out" by the experience. "I wanted to throw all of my devices out the window," added his sister. "I hadn't felt panic like that in a long time, to be honest."   

The context of Reddy's conversation adds to the creepiness of Gemini's directive. The 29-year-old had engaged the AI chatbot to explore the many financial, social, medical and health care challenges faced by people as they grow old. After nearly 5,000 words of give and take under the title "challenges and solutions for aging adults," Gemini suddenly pivoted to an ice-cold declaration of Reddy's utter worthlessness, and a request that he make the world a better place by dying: 

This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.

Please die. Please."

Fæstir munu lifa vélmenna-uppreisnina af.

Það ku vera mikið ganga-kerfi í jöklinum sem ég ekki vissi af.

Hinn almenni kani virðist vera minnst einu staðalfráviki greindari en meðal-íslendingurinn

"Grand Ole Evan: People did not choose grocery prices over your human rights. People chose grocery prices over your delusions that your rights were being taken away in the first place. Nobody is taking away your rights. Trump was already President, and he didn’t take away gay marriage. He didn’t enact a national abortion ban. So stop scolding working class people because they didn’t prioritize your delusions over their ability to put food on the table."

Þetta skilur RÚV ekki.  Þetta virðist Alþingi ekki skilja.  Skilja kjósendur?  Sjáum til eftir 2 vikur.

Brezkir bændur angra verkamannaflokkinn

"Following in the footsteps of farmers’ protest movements across Europe, tractors gathered outside the Labour Party conference in Llandudno, Wales, on Saturday to demonstrate their anger over Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government’s plans to impose inheritance tax hikes on farms, North Wales Live reports."

Til stendur að arðræna bændur gjörsamlega.

Skiljanlega, það er okur.  Fyrir 250 all ættirðu að fá heila rúllu af verðmiðum.

Kanadísk ríkið drepur fátæka

"A recent report from the Ontario Coroner’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) Death Review Committee has apparently confirmed what critics of the Trudeau government’s euthanasia program have said would happen: poor people are increasingly being offered MAID even if they are not in chronic pain from an incurable disease."

Endanlegt markið félagslega kerfisins.

Guð býr í garðslöngunni.

íslendingar vilja, einir þjóða, búa í hylki og borða pöddur

Ég vil meina að þeta sé kosningaloforð

"...kolefnisgjald verður hækkað til að bregðast við sjö milljarða tekjutapi ríkissjóðs vegna frestunar kílómetragjalds. Þetta er meðal tillagna fjárlaganefndar en önnur umræða fjárlaga er fyrirhuguð á Alþingi í dag."

Hærri verðbólga, lægri laun.  Ef þetta er það sem fólkið vill, þá kemur næstum allt til greina.  Ef fólk vill þetta ekki, kemur bara eitt til greina.

Seint mun íslendingurinn læra, held ég.  Ef nokkurntíma.

Elon Musk er diplómat núna

"Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.

The Iranians said the meeting between Mr. Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani lasted more than an hour and was held at a secret location. The Iranians, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss policy publicly, described the meeting as “positive” and “good news.”"

Heimurinn er að breytast, og breytast hratt.

Góðar fréttir fyrir aðdáendur Taylor Swift

"Taylor Swift, who endorsed Kamala Harris for president, is reportedly seeing ticket prices fall for the latest leg of her “Eras” tour, which will play in Toronto this week — in some cases, prices have dropped by hundreds of dollars."

Ekki minn tebolli.  Kannski fyrir ykkur?

Evrópusambandið reynir enn að búa til hungursneið

"Here’s how the elites work in the European Union: first, they pile on a slew of failed, crippling regulations on their farmers, making food very expensive to produce – all in the name of ‘Global Warming’ or ‘Climate Change.’

Then these same elites turn around and negotiate a free trade deal with Mercosur in South America, in which they mean to buy produce from these countries at a lower price since the farmers in these countries don’t have to deal with the same amount of deranged ‘green’ regulations."

Þetta er ekki slys, þetta er viljaverk.

Lífið í Kína gerir menn geðveika.

Brezla lögreglan sóar miklum tíma í rannsókn á löglegri hegðan

"Essex Police has now set up a "gold group", usually reserved for major crimes, to handle its controversial investigation into journalist Allison Pearson's so-called "non-crime hate incident"."

Bretland nær sér ekki á þessari öld.  Niðurgangurinn er alger.

Allt á uppleið í USA.

Hundar valda veðri sem er kynþáttahatur... eða eitthvað

Öllu Jan 6 liðinu verður sleppt fljótlega.

"Two federal judges postponed trials for January 6 defendants on Thursday after Trump won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide.

Judges Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee and Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, delayed the trials because they don’t want to use resources if Trump is going to pardon J6ers as promised.

According to the Justice Department, approximately 944 January 6 defendants – mostly peaceful first-time offenders – have received sentences for their activity at the US Capitol.

Approximately 562 January 6 defendants have been sentenced to prison."

Hvað voru þeir að stinga fólki inn fyrir þetta?

FBI handtekur mann fyrir að spá rétt fyrir um úrslit kosninga

"Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan had his phone and electronics seized by the FBI early Wednesday morning. This comes after the election-betting platform had correctly predicted a Trump win in the presidential election.

The source said it’s "grand political theater at its worst," adding that "They could have asked his lawyer for any of these things. Instead, they staged a so-called raid so they can leak it to the media and use it for obvious political reasons.""

Hið illa er ekki búið að athafna sig.

Lögregla berst við nazista í París

"An estimated 3,000 counter-protesters attempted to picket a fundraising dinner in support of Israel on Wednesday night. The protest, called by French left-wing political parties La France Insoumise (‘France Unbowed’, LFI), Les Écologistes – Europe Écologie Les Verts (‘The Ecologists – Europe Ecology The Greens’, EELV), Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (‘New Anticapitalist Party’, NPA) started at the Saint-Lazare railway station near Place de l’Europe in the centre of the city and marched to the place de la République.

As reported by French newspaper Le Figaro there were “tensions” between the march and police, and officers used tear gas to control “violent” participants."

Kynþáttahyggju kommúnistar vs Júðar.  Aftur.

Brezka lögreglan er sú vangefnasta í heimi

"Essex Police have taken another swipe at Allison Pearson, saying her response to their probe into her social media posts was "unethical."

The 64-year-old Telegraph journalist said that two police officers turned up at her door on Remembrance Sunday to tell her that she was under investigation for a tweet she made in 2023."

Löggan kom til hennar vegna þess að hún framdi ekki glæp.  Svo sagði hún frá því, og það reyndist líka vera löglegt, með þeim afleiðingu að löggan heimsótti hana aftur.

Það er auka litningur í öllum löggum í UK.

Hundar eru kynáttahatur vegna þess að kolefni

"There are calls for ‘dog-free areas' to be introduced in Wales as part of the Welsh government's anti-racism action plan.

The plan, which has now been extended to include environmental factors such as climate change and rural affairs, was first launched in June 2022."

Þetta hljómar svo úrkynjað að það mætti halda að píratar hafi verið að verki.

Á meðan, í Kína

ATF hættir sennilega að vera til á næsta ári

Ameríkaninn er svo heppinn að það er ótrúlegt

"In September, Ramaswamy told podcaster Lex Fridman: "Get in there on day one, say that anybody in the federal bureaucracy who is not elected, elected representatives obviously were elected by the people, but the people who are not elected, if your social security number ends in an odd number, you’re out, if it ends in an even number, you’re in. There’s a 50% cut right there."

Og þetta batnar bara.

Á meðan höfum við gerpi eins og þetta

"Svandís Svavars­dótt­ir, formaður Vinstri grænna, tel­ur að skatta á Íslandi megi ekki lækka fyrr en þeim skil­yrðum sé full­nægt að ríkið sé full­fjár­magnað."

Í Sorpu með hana.  Hún skal flokkast sem lífrænn úrgangur.  Eða brennanlegt sorp.

Kaninn fær snillinga, við fáum lífrænan úrgang á fæti.

Ahem...

Forseti Argentínu er mikill dáðadrengur

"It now arises that Argentina’s inflation slowed to 2.7% in the month of October, slowing down from 3,5% in September.

That’s the lowest level in three years. 

Milei came to power less than a year ago, promising to pull the country out of a dire economic crisis."

Argentínumenn fá hinn ágæta Mieli, við fáum mannlega lortinn Svandísi Svavars.

Spurt var.  Svarið fékkst.

Rússar hafa smá áhyggjur

"Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky could raid the country’s nuclear reactors to develop crude atomic weapons if the US cuts off military aid, a think tank in Kiev has claimed.

While Ukraine cannot enrich Uranium – a process vital for building modern nuclear weapons, its nine operating nuclear reactors contain an estimated seven tons of plutonium, its authors claimed. This could be used to build bombs similar to the ‘Fat Man’ device dropped on Nagasaki by the US in 1945, they wrote."

Fyrirboði vesens.

Man beats dog

"A man accused of beating a dog inside a taxpayer-funded homeless shelter in Seattle on Saturday has been released from jail without bail."

Fjöltungu Dad-joke.

Þrír sólahringar á grillinu

"A missing man was discovered dead in a Planet Fitness tanning bed Monday three days after he walked into one of the gym's locations in Indianapolis, authorities and loved ones said."

Hann hefur verið steiktur í gegn.

Svolítið annað.  En við þurfum þetta.

Mark Twain ofl.

Heil sería til umfjöllunar

Myndasögur síðan í gamla daga

Nörda stöff

Nordic

Mark Twain

Styttri, eftir sama höfund

Allt hluti af áætlun. Sem er ekki í okkar hag.

Ég efast um geðheilsu viðreisnarfólks

"Viðreisn vill að ný­skrán­ingu á bens­ín- og dísel­bíl­um verði hætt á næsta ári, þó með und­anþágum. Sam­fylk­ing­in vill einnig gera það „raun­hæft“ að banna ný­skrán­ingu slíkra öku­tækja frá og með 2025."

Glóbalistarnir koma hér hreint fram, þeir meiga eiga það.  Allir eiga bara að búa í hylkinu og borða pöddur.  Enginn fer neitt.

Kosningahótanirnar í ár eru alvöru.  Ekkert sykurhúðað lengur, bara: allt bannað og skattlagt upp í topp.

Hvað fór kosningasjóður Kamölu í?

"Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, advised by leftist political strategists, spent a billion dollars centered around labeling former President Trump and a majority of Americans as 'Hitler' and 'Nazis.' They poured millions into far-left Hollywood stars, elaborate concerts, and private jet travel..."

Magnað.  Allur listinn er hér.  Skoðið bara ef þið nennið.

50K kolefnistrúarmenn halda til Azerbajan til að samstilla sig

"The hope is to resolve the COP29 summit’s top agenda item – a deal for up to $1 trillion in annual climate finance for developing countries, replacing a target of $100 billion.

“We are asking for the down payment of a very large debt – a down payment of $5tn [a year],” sais Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network, global alliance of more than 1900 civil society organisations in over 130 countries.

The argument is rich nations allegedly prospered by burning fossil fuels and now need to fund poorer nations to avoid the same path, and cope with the severe heatwaves, floods and storms fuelled by global heating and already here.

“Climate reparations” have consequently been demanded."

Hljómar eins og kommúnismi.

"Trump has pledged to once again withdraw the U.N. from the landmark Paris climate agreement."

ess vegna var hann jú kosinn.

Antifa er komið á stjá aftur

"Antifa militants attempted to incite a violent confrontation with Seattle Police but were ultimately thwarted by a robust police response. This marks the second time this week that Seattle PD prevented an Antifa riot over the election.

The direct action featured a number of terrifying incidents, including the leftist extremist group dressed in black bloc and equipped with riot gear surrounding police vehicles – an act that resulted in human entrapment."

Miklar líkur á að þeir lendi allir í djeilinu snemma á næsta ári.

En ekki fyrr.

Jesú II: fist of fury

"A man in Spain has declared himself to be Jesus after beating up seven monks in a religious rampage."

Endurkoma Krists var ópvænt og ofbeldisfyllri en menn grunaði.

Á meðan, í Svíþjóð

 

10.11.24

Gaurinn er ekki einu sinni orðinn forseti.

Óeirðir dagsins, jafnvel vikunnar:

"Around 130,000 demonstrators took to the streets of the city of Valencia to demand the resignation of Carlos Mazon, the head of the provincial government, El Pais newspaper reported.

Locals blame Mazon for failing to issue an alert about the flooding soon enough on October 29; the water had already been pouring into residential areas by the time he did so.

The demonstrators tossed flares, stones and mud at the building. Some also left dirty boots outside the city council as a sign of their frustration with local authorities."

Ríkisstarfsmaður klúðrar einhverju.  Í öðrum fréttum; vatn er blautt.

Trump býðst til að greiða skuldir Kamölu

"The Kamala Harris campaign raised a record billion dollars for the 2024 election and somehow still ended the race with $20 million in debt.

[Donald Trump] recently posted on Truth Social, saying that he would be willing to help with his leftover campaign funds. He might be trolling, but Democrats would be wise to swallow their pride and take him up on the offer."

ætli hún taki því?

Þetta gerðist

"Several media reports and sources have been claiming that the government of Qatar has ordered the leaders of Hamas to leave the country, following pressure from Washington."

Menn vilja undirbúa jarðveginn.

Lífselixírinn er fundinn: Guinness

"The retired accountant credits her long life to her daily habit of drinking a pint of Guinness each day with her lunch."

Bjór er góður fyrir þig

Það má reka vitleysinga núna

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor accused of ordering her subordinates to skip Florida homes with Trump campaign signs has been fired.

Marn’i Washington was sacked for telling disaster relief workers in Lake Placid, Fla., to “not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said Saturday."

Hún gæti endað í djeilinu.

Ég veit ekki hvort þetta er rétt. (Sem á reyndar við um flest sem ég set hérna.) Þetta er annað sjónarhorn, vissulega.

Það eru birnir í skóginum, þeir eru svangir

Góðar fréttir, vonandi

"Formaður fjárlaganefndar telur mjög ólíklegt að umdeilt frumvarp um kílómetragjald á bensín- og dísilbíla verði samþykkt fyrir þinglok."

Það er enn von!

Verra er að þeir eru örugglega þegar búnir að eyða peningunum sem þeir ímynduðu sér að þeir fengju úr þessu.

"Gefa þá til úkraníu" eða eitthvað.

Pólitískar ofsóknir taka á sig ýmsar myndir

"An official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency was "removed from their role" and is under investigation after the Daily Wire obtained a leaked internal message in which they ordered workers to bypass the homes of Trump supporters as they surveyed the damage caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida."

Svona lagað þykir víst alvarlegt mál í USA.

Kommúnistar þvælast fyrir vopnasendingu

"Activists in Greece have protested against NATO aid for Kiev and blocked a column of trucks carrying weapons intended for the Ukrainian army, Greek media reported this week. The protest was staged on Wednesday by members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its youth branch, KNE, in the town of Tyrnavos in the region of Thessaly."

Ég myndi hafa meiri áhyggjur af að þeir stælu þessum vopnum.  Vísir til þess, held ég.

Breytinga að vænta á Írlandi?

"A historic coalition government led by Harris’ center-right Fine Gael party and its center-left rival Fianna Fail has been in power since the 2020 race ended in a virtual dead heat.

“We did not agree on every issue but we did always work hard and together for the good of the Irish people,” Harris said. “The time is now right to ask the Irish people to give a new mandate.”"

Stutt í þetta.  Allt breytist á innan við ári þá.  Magnað.

Venezuela sendir morðingja til USA

"Venezuelan inmates recently released from prison have reportedly been directed by Venezuelan intelligence officers to travel with them to the US and help locate Venezuelan military members, politicians, and law enforcement officials to "neutralize" them, according to a Breitbart-reviewed report. The directive is allegedly aimed at preventing the release of classified information by Venezuelan officials who have sought refuge in the United States."

Hmm... Íslenska ríkið sendi venezúela búnan til baka.  Var það vegna þess að þeir voru ekki meðlimir í Tren de Aragua?

Þessi dama var að lifa drauminn þegar einhverkir veiðimenn fundu hana

"Natalya was impossibly lucky that on that particular day - the bear wasn't feeling peckish enough to eat her. 

Instead, it dragged her away and buried her underneath some leaves to - it is believed - save her for a later meal.

But while the bear opted not to eat her  straight away, it still guarded her body jealously for hours like it would with any prized food it had secured for itself. 

That is until the hunters finally came along."

Hægri öfgamenn vilja láta reka nazista úr landi

"A far-right Dutch pol is demanding the deportation of the antisemitic thugs who hunted down and attacked Israeli soccer fans after a match in Amsterdam — labeling them “multicultural scum.”

“Looks like a Jew hunt in the streets of Amsterdam. Arrest and deport the multicultural scum that attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in our streets. Ashamed that this can happen in The Netherlands. Totally unacceptable,” parliament member Geert Wilders posted on X."

ó nei, ekki nazistana.

Darwin verðlaunahafar.