That explains why Dark Brandon was so tired. :-)

They'll still collect the data, but just won't show it being used ...

I think that guy was just too cheap to buy toilet paper and/or was just used to flushing documents ... :-)

(classified files are now quilted for a reason)

He'll be sending his resume to DOGE -- to help with all our SSA and IRS data (that they need, for some reason).

(And before anyone starts... Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims)

From TFA:

The Trump Administration, via Elon Musk and DOGE, is trying to get rid of, or otherwise shutdown, the CFBP. Not sure why, (/s) but may be due to its probable regulation/oversight of X providing financial services/payments (via partnership wVISA). Hmm...

Elon Musk's DOGE takes aim at agency that had plans of regulating X
Vought orders CFPB to stop investigations and suspend new rules from taking effect

I have an example of where I recommended something like that. I worked on a small development team at a large defense contractor and we were looking for a junior person. We interviewed several and I recommended a guy with less practical coding experience because he had a great attitude, acknowledged his shortcomings, demonstrated a strong willingness to learn and seemed to have the right personality/fit for our team. We hired him and I mentored him to bring up his coding skills. It worked out well.

Pretty sure it's been determined that "time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' Into the future" [citation] by Steve Miller and his band of associates.

I'm not going to argue against that, but would add that many people are either too busy or lazy to be properly informed and many of those, as well as others, wouldn't even try because the truth/facts would probably be contrary to what they want to hear. Others (may) know what's going on and are fine with it, possibly because they believe the bad stuff won't happen to them or only to other people they don't like -- ask the brown Trump supporters who are now getting deported how that's going... In any case, they believe the, mostly plainly obvious, lies and buy into the caustic us-vs-them rhetoric and that's on them.

Not everywhere, but expectations are high since Jan 20, 2025 -- can't have any of that critical thinking stuff now...

Whenever I do something like this, I always size up the cashier and make a silent bet with myself as to what the result will be. Older people usually seem better than younger at grasping what's expected -- probably more/longer experience dealing with cash themselves. Using your example. I once got back $0.15 + my original dime from a youngster (*sigh*) -- instead of a quarter, for you youngsters reading this. :-)

Or as Russian ships call it, the anchor.

Except, by his own admission in the Oval Office the other day, "Nobody's going to bat a thousand." My problem with Elon is that he's happy to apply Zuckerberg's saying, "Move fast and break things" to his mouth, w/o even bothering to check if what he's saying is even remotely true or accurate, especially when that check would be trivial in time and/or effort.

And he's continuing with adding financial services (w/VISA) to X, now that the CFPB has dropped their investigations and oversight -- (not sure why /s):

Elon Musk's DOGE takes aim at agency that had plans of regulating X

And, for some reason, he's now less concerned about investigations by the FAA into SpaceX, the NTSB/DOT into Tesla, the SEC/FDA into Neuralink ... (not sure why /s)

SEC 'reopens' probe into Neuralink
Musk's Neuralink brain implant company cited by FDA over animal lab issues
(Google the others ...)

Don't know what his actual motivations are for whatever he's doing with USAID, the Treasury, or DoEd, etc... but I'm pretty sure they're *not* altruistic.

Oh, come on. As Elon said in the Oval Office the other day, "No one bats a thousand." -- especially when speaking w/o knowing, or even caring about, the actual facts. It's the (self-serving) thought that counts.