It’s Wednesday…
President Shitshow’s public schedule for 01/22/2025:
| No official presidential schedule released or announced. The White House In-Town Pool |
How did President Shitshow spend his first full day in office?
First, he went to the National Cathedral where Right Rev. Mariann Budde had the nerve to ask the “Leader of the Free World”, to have mercy on the less powerful.
After leaving the Church as seen in the above clip, President Shitshow is asked what he thought of the service and he said “I don’t think it was a good service”.
At 12:39 AM D.C., time, President Shitshow took to his social media platform; Temu Twitter and demanded the “nasty” lady and her “church” to offer a public apology for her hurtful words…
That asked for unity, humility, and mercy…
In between visiting the church and demanding an apology from the church and the Right Rev. Mariann Budde he held a press to unveil a new “infrastructure deal”.
The YouTube is 46 minutes and 24 seconds long; it’s not very likely we will get transcripts of all his remarks.
He spent the first like 14 minutes of the YouTube discussing the announcement and the rest focused on himself and his taking office on Monday.
Anyhoo…
The gist of the deal was shared in a lengthy twitter posted by one of the people present in the room when the announcement was made…
Announcing The Stargate Project
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 21, 2025
The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure…
Show more =’s This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.
The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.
Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.
As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.
President Elon replied to the above…
SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2025
Aww trouble in paradise!
Before he demanded an apology from the church for telling him the truth he also offered up another pardon…
You won’t find it posted at White House.gov, cause yeah, this is a new dawn where “truths” are official Presidential acts.
When I endorsed Trump for President, he and I had a conversation in which he assured me he would free Ross Ulbricht. He even suggested I could include it in my endorsement statement, which I did. Many thanks to @angela4LNCChair of the Libertarian party for elevating this cause. pic.twitter.com/gdGNq1XYpH
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 22, 2025
NPR (01/21/2025): Ross Ulbricht, also known as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested him at a California public library. At the time of his sentencing in San Francisco in 2015, Ulbricht was 31 years old. He was convicted of distributing narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, and conspiring to create fake identities and launder money. He was sentenced to life in prison.
So not all drug dealers are bad and deserving of the death penalty…
He weighed-in on the war in Ukraine via Temu Twitter…
I searched for the number of Soviet Union soldiers deaths in World War II; the number is around 24 million, but different websites have a different number and those numbers include civilian deaths along with military deaths. But, it’s not close to 60 million anywhere I read this morning…
From the White House…
01/21/2025:
Guidance Regarding Section 7 of the Executive Order Unleashing American Energy
The directive in section 7 of the Executive Order entitled Unleashing American Energy requires agencies to immediately pause disbursement of funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169) or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58). This pause only applies to funds supporting programs, projects, or activities that may be implicated by the policy established in Section 2 of the order. This interpretation is consistent with section 7’s heading (“Terminating the Green New Deal”) and its reference to the “law and the policy outlined in section 2 of th[e] order.”
For the purposes of implementing section 7 of the Order, funds supporting the “Green New Deal” refer to any appropriations for objectives that contravene the policies established in section 2. Agency heads may disburse funds as they deem necessary after consulting with the Office of Management and Budget.
OMB Memo M-25-11. 01/21/2025.
Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation
Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), within the U.S. Department of Transportation, oversees safety for more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers. These Americans trust the FAA’s public servants with their lives, and it is therefore imperative that they maintain a commitment to excellence and efficiency.
Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation. 01/21/2025.
During the prior administration, however, the FAA betrayed its mission by elevating dangerous discrimination over excellence. For example, prior to my Inauguration, the FAA Diversity and Inclusion website revealed that the prior administration sought to specifically recruit and hire individuals with serious infirmities that could impact the execution of their essential life-saving duties.
Illegal and discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring, including on the basis of race, sex, disability, or any other criteria other than the safety of airline passengers and overall job excellence, competency, and qualification, harms all Americans, who deserve to fly with confidence. It also penalizes hard-working Americans who want to serve in the FAA but are unable to do so, as they lack a requisite disability or skin color. FAA employees must hold the qualifications and have the ability to perform their jobs to the highest possible standard of excellence.
I hereby order the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administrator to immediately return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law. All so-called DEI initiatives, including all dangerous preferencing policies or practices, shall immediately be rescinded in favor of hiring, promoting, and otherwise treating employees on the basis of individual capability, competence, achievement, and dedication.
The Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administrator shall review the past performance and performance standards of all individuals in critical safety positions and take all appropriate action to ensure that any individual who fails or has failed to demonstrate requisite capability is replaced by a high-capability individual that will ensure top-notch air safety and efficiency.
I’m not copying and pasting the rest of the White House “news”…
It’s all about DEI and how it’s bad or something…
This is an open thread
