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Daily Fail aren't always wrong. I know they often are. Maybe they are just ahead of the rest this time. The BBC outlines Trumps opinion.

That's alright then. The world is safe - just like the US Social Security system.

Don't worry, Trumpster is going to screw it all up anyway.

Is there anything this bastard won't stuff up? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14359569/Trump-plan-scientists-climate-change.html?ito=social-facebook

And the RED hats.

WIRED magazine, the reporters who initially broke the story of Elon Musk's team accessing our Social Security data, has just a new development. Elon Musk's team is introducing backdoor code into the Social Security payment system, thereby rendering the $6 trillion system compromised and inoperable. In short, Elon Musk and his team are committing a multi-trillion financial terrorist operation on our own government. A billionaires coup in plain sight. Without a single shot fired.

Never thought I'dr quote anything Sarah Hansen Young had to say, but... Elon Musk triggers warning for Aussies Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young is calling for safeguards to stop tech billionaires gaining greater influence in Australian politics, calling the “control” the likes of Elon Musk wield over the Trump administration “scary”. Donald Trump tasked Mr Musk, the world’s richest person, with cutting back on government spending after the tech baron carried out a charm offensive on the US President in the lead-up to last year’s election. Since Mr Trump entered the White House for a second time last month, several of Mr Musk’s ideas have been given legs. Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has scrapped fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the wake of Mr Trump’s election in a move also broadly seen as favouring the new administration. Senator Hanson-Young, who is also her party’s communications spokeswoman, has long called for greater regulation of big tech. She has backed Labor’s proposals for a digital duty of care and a levy on social media companies to pay for news consumed on their platforms. She also said the Albanese government appeared to be “following tune with the billionaires of just wanting to suck up to Donald Trump rather than taking on the agenda”. “I am concerned that Australia is trying to hide behind the couch and hope that Donald Trump and Musk and Zuckerberg and all of Donald Trump’s billionaire bros don’t notice us,” she told the ABC. “It’s not the type of politics we need here in Australia. “This creeping in of Trumpian policies into Australia and the type of the control that billionaires have over politics in the US right now is scary and it can’t be allowed to happen here.” But she warned on Wednesday that Labor and the opposition were “starting to crab-walk away from stronger regulations”.

Sales of Tesla electric cars – the best-selling electric-only car brand in both Australia and the world in 2024 – have fallen to record lows as CEO Elon Musk becomes increasingly involved in global politics. Figures released by the Electric Vehicle Council show January 2025 Tesla sales in Australia fell 33 per cent to 739 compared to 1107 in January 2024. The Tesla Model 3 – the second-best selling electric car sold locally in 2024 – suffered the most with a significant 62 per cent drop, posting 274 sales against 723 in January 2023.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/mexican-cartels-declare-war-on-the-us-border-patrols-with-kamikaze-drones-and-bombs/ar-AA1ynIn6?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=81250c2ff5bc406fc35e567de6568e35&ei=32

That will help get the cost of eggs down.

The Aga Khan, a spiritual leader, philanthropist and one of the world's richest men, has died aged 88. Most often in the public eye thanks to his racehorses, the British citizen was the religious head of the Ismaili sect of Islam, which has as many as 15 million members. He inherited his title from his grandfather in 1957 aged just 20 and is believed by his followers to be 'the bringer of life'.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it needs more time in the oven.

MAGA supporters have been convinced by their Dear Leader that it is their patriotic duty to pay higher prices for groceries and gasoline, to pay the tax cuts for the mega-rich.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/china-retaliates-with-tariffs-on-united-states-goods/104896638 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj31l4p7vzo https://www.reuters.com/world/us-tariffs-chinese-imports-take-effect-after-trump-reprieves-canada-mexico-2025-02-04/

This could be called a bloodless coup, however, millions WILL be bleeding for a long time. Just image an unelected individual being given unfettered access to Services Australia and ATO files and downloading them to his own servers. He is like a Russian or Asian hacker, only he has the full support and approval of the President.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14354683/Elon-Musk-shuts-USAID-Donald-Trump-approval.html?ito=social-facebook

Actor and comedian Brian Murphy, best known for his role in 1970s British sitcoms Man About The House and George and Mildred, has died aged 92.

https://au.yahoo.com/news/stephen-fry-names-modern-invention-131614815.html

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance explained how she believes the Trump White House’s buyout offer to all federal employees will backfire. President Donald Trump “summoned the sleeping giant” of the civil service with the proposal that has drawn skepticism over its validity from critics, Vance warned in her “Civil Discourse” email newsletter. Vance noted how in some cases ― detailed in online posts by federal workers ― it had actually appeared to spur them into staying in their roles to “hold the line” against Trump. “On Reddit last night, it was clear that a sizeable number of federal employees are digging in for the fight,” wrote Vance. “Donald Trump has always fantasized about a deep state inside of government that opposes him, something that didn’t exist,” she added. “Now, he is well on the way to creating one. It turns out federal employees take their oath, their job, and their duty to serve very seriously.”