Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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During Trump's campaign, he repeatedly promised lower food prices ‘immediately’ if elected president. But during his first week of office, he focused on mass deportations and pardoning the January 6 attackers.
There is an absurd gap between what Trump is doing and what the swing voters who elected him were promised. They voted for the cheaper-egg candidate and received the permanent termination of cancer research in the United States instead. Winds of Change, indeed.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/price-of-egg-democrats-don
ald-trump.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Funny. The only people complaining about it are the News agencies and Leftist retards who didn't even notice the prices were high until last week.
All of us who voted for Trump are feeling good so far.
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MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson
Neither does anybody at Salon, who will be shuttering its doors soon.
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Funny. The only people complaining about it are the News agencies and Leftist retards who didn't even notice the prices were high until last week.
All of us who voted for Trump are feeling good so far.
Speak of the Devil...
These are the type of retards that you're getting your news from today. Enjoy it while it lasts because they will all be unemployed soon.
SALON: Surviving "political grief": You're not alone, and there is a path forward
Collective mourning at this four-year horror show is real, and highly understandable. But we're not helpless
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/27/surviving-political-grief-youre-not-a
lone-and-there-is-a-path-forward/
Oh Boo Hoo, you little fucking pussies.
I missed the part where Trump voters got together and collectively had cry sessions with each other every single day in 2021.
You ARE helpless. You are helpless by nature. You are weak. You are pathetic. Most of you would be completely unfit to take care of yourselves if you went more than 2 months without a steady paycheck.
You had the power of the Media behind you for the last 12 years. This is no longer the case.
You are alone and in the cold.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
And you will be laid off and your propaganda outfit will shutter its doors soon.
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What in God's name is Trump talking about here?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!
This is beyond weird. It's hallucinatory.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/trump-said-military-turned-on
-the-water-in-california-not-quite-00200907
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Lincoln warned the Trumptards what would happen
By Heather Cox Richardson | Jan 26, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-26-2025
On January 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln rose before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, to make a speech. Just 28 years old, Lincoln had begun to practice law and had political ambitions. But he was worried that his generation might not preserve the republic that the founders had handed to it for transmission to yet another generation. He took as his topic for that January evening, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions.”
Lincoln saw trouble coming, but not from a foreign power, as other countries feared. The destruction of the United States, he warned, could come only from within. “If destruction be our lot,” he said, “we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
The trouble Lincoln perceived stemmed from the growing lawlessness in the country as men ignored the rule of law and acted on their passions, imposing their will on their neighbors through violence. He pointed specifically to two recent events: the 1836 lynching of free Black man Francis McIntosh in St. Louis, Missouri, and the 1837 murder of white abolitionist editor Elijah P. Lovejoy by a proslavery mob in Alton, Illinois.
But the problem of lawlessness was not limited to individual instances, he said. A public practice of ignoring the law eventually broke down all the guardrails designed to protect individuals, while lawbreakers, going unpunished, became convinced they were entitled to act without restraint. “Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane,” Lincoln said, “they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much as its total annihilation.”
The only way to guard against such destruction, Lincoln said, was to protect the rule of law on which the country was founded. “As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor…. Let reverence for the laws…become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.”
Lincoln was quick to clarify that he was not saying all laws were good. Indeed, he said, bad laws should be challenged and repealed. But the underlying structure of the rule of law, based in the Constitution, could not be abandoned without losing democracy.
Lincoln didn’t stop there. He warned that the very success of the American republic threatened its continuation. “[M]en of ambition and talents” could no longer make their name by building the nation—that glory had already been won. Their ambition could not be served simply by preserving what those before them had created, so they would achieve distinction through destruction.
For such a man, Lincoln said, “Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.” With no dangerous foreign power to turn people’s passions against, people would turn from the project of “establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty” and would instead turn against each other.
Lincoln reminded his audience that the torch of American democracy had been passed to them. The Founders had used their passions to create a system of laws, but the time for passion had passed, lest it tear the nation apart. The next generation must support democracy through “sober reason,” he said. He called for Americans to exercise “general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws.”
“Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its basi
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What in God's name is Trump talking about here?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!
This is beyond weird. It's hallucinatory.
Here you go, dummy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/27/trump-executive-
order-california-wildfires-water-management/77971910007/
You might have caught that one last year before you stopped reading USA Today because they don't report the way you want them to report anymore.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
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Democrats' playbook for Trump 2.0: Tune out the noise and focus on economic issues
As Trump floods the zone in his first week in office, Democrats are departing from their "resistance" strategy in his first term and zeroing in on issues that cost them the last election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-playbook-trump-tun
e-noise-focus-economic-issues-rcna189180
Oh. So you mean that Democrats are going to finally get the fuck out of the way and do their jobs?
Great.
Winning.
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Lincoln warned the Trumptards what would happen
By Heather Cox Richardson | Jan 26, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-26-2025
On January 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln rose before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, to make a speech. Just 28 years old, Lincoln had begun to practice law and had political ambitions. But he was worried that his generation might not preserve the republic that the founders had handed to it for transmission to yet another generation. He took as his topic for that January evening, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions.”
Lincoln saw trouble coming, but not from a foreign power, as other countries feared. The destruction of the United States, he warned, could come only from within. “If destruction be our lot,” he said, “we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
The trouble Lincoln perceived stemmed from the growing lawlessness in the country as men ignored the rule of law and acted on their passions, imposing their will on their neighbors through violence. He pointed specifically to two recent events: the 1836 lynching of free Black man Francis McIntosh in St. Louis, Missouri, and the 1837 murder of white abolitionist editor Elijah P. Lovejoy by a proslavery mob in Alton, Illinois.
But the problem of lawlessness was not limited to individual instances, he said. A public practice of ignoring the law eventually broke down all the guardrails designed to protect individuals, while lawbreakers, going unpunished, became convinced they were entitled to act without restraint. “Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane,” Lincoln said, “they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much as its total annihilation.”
The only way to guard against such destruction, Lincoln said, was to protect the rule of law on which the country was founded. “As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor…. Let reverence for the laws…become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.”
Lincoln was quick to clarify that he was not saying all laws were good. Indeed, he said, bad laws should be challenged and repealed. But the underlying structure of the rule of law, based in the Constitution, could not be abandoned without losing democracy.
Lincoln didn’t stop there. He warned that the very success of the American republic threatened its continuation. “[M]en of ambition and talents” could no longer make their name by building the nation—that glory had already been won. Their ambition could not be served simply by preserving what those before them had created, so they would achieve distinction through destruction.
For such a man, Lincoln said, “Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.” With no dangerous foreign power to turn people’s passions against, people would turn from the project of “establishing and maintaining civil and religious liberty” and would instead turn against each other.
Lincoln reminded his audience that the torch of American democracy had been passed to them. The Founders had used their passions to create a system of laws, but the time for passion had passed, lest it tear the nation apart. The next generation must support democracy through “sober reason,” he said. He called for Americans to exercise “general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws.”
“Upon these let the proud fabric
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Med prices are already starting to go up. Someone I know on FaceBook, just posted that one of scripts went up 800% even with the insurance forms.
Also Trump wants to strip naturlized citizens of their citizenship in spite of these people coming into the US legally.
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Med prices are already starting to go up. Someone I know on FaceBook, just posted that one of scripts went up 800% even with the insurance forms.
Also Trump wants to strip naturlized citizens of their citizenship in spite of these people coming into the US legally.
I do not believe either of these things.
Going to need some receipts.
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Very smart man was Mr. Lincoln and I can admit is a bit of hero of mine. And in his speech he was right. The destruction will be from within if no one does anything.
We did.
We got the Democrats who were destroying our country from within out of office.
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Quote:We Democrats are doing fine but the angry poor white trash Trump voters around me in Texas are continuing to stumble toward an early death, furious at Democrats who, according to my local Trumptards, are stealing wealth away from the oh-so-long-suffering Trumptards who, one of these days, are going to rise up and take the wealth back. Not gonna happen because Trumptards are too cowardly to actually take anything from a guy with a shotgun and happy to shoot them in the face in order to give them a reality lesson.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Very smart man was Mr. Lincoln and I can admit is a bit of hero of mine. And in his speech he was right. The destruction will be from within if no one does anything.
We did.
We got the Democrats who were destroying our country from within out of office.
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Trump's initial net approval rating of +7 percentage points is lower than that of any newly elected president since World War II, with one exception: Trump himself during his first term. Trump and his voters are complete assholes.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/trump-starts-term-weak-approval-rating/stor
y?id=118146633
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The one big question looming over Trump’s power grabs
No one knows if the Supreme Court will enforce the law against Trump.
By Ian Millhiser | Jan 28, 2025, 1:30 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/scotus/397104/supreme-court-donald-trump-lawlessne
ss
Much of what Donald Trump has done in his first eight days back in the White House is legally unjustifiable. What’s uncertain is whether the Supreme Court will do anything to stop him.
In two particularly egregious cases, Trump ordered an end to birthright citizenship for many Americans, and ordered the federal government to pause spending on a wide range of federal grants and loans already approved by Congress. While the order announcing the pause is confusing, early reporting suggests that tens of billions of dollars could be cut off (although the White House argued the order is more limited than it appears).
In both cases, the law is clear. The Reagan-appointed federal judge who blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order said that in his 40 years on the bench he “can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.” (Birthright citizenship is a right enshrined in the Constitution.)
Similarly, the Department of Justice has long warned that there is no argument to justify a president’s decision not to spend money appropriated by Congress. As future Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in a 1969 DOJ memo, “it is in our view extremely difficult to formulate a constitutional theory to justify a refusal by the President to comply with a congressional directive to spend.”
Assuming that Trump actually wants these orders to take effect — and it’s possible that they are nothing more than political stunts — he appears to be making a risky bet. The premise of many of Trump’s executive actions appears to be that the Supreme Court will let him get away with things that aren’t just illegal, but that, until recently, weren’t even considered debatable.
Sadly, the outcome of this bet is uncertain. A year ago, the idea that presidents are allowed to use their official powers to commit crimes was also considered laughable. Among other things, why would then-President Gerald Ford have pardoned former President Richard Nixon in 1974, for crimes Nixon allegedly committed using the power of the presidency, if Nixon were already immune from prosecution?
And yet, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority did not simply give Trump immunity from many of the crimes he allegedly committed during his first term, they went out of their way to specify that Trump can order the DOJ to target his enemies and nothing can be done to him.
The Republican Court’s hands-off approach to Trump contrasts sharply with the extraordinary oversight it applied to Democratic President Joe Biden. During the Biden administration, the Republican justices fabricated entire legal doctrines — such as its so-called major questions doctrine — which allowed it to strike down policies that were explicitly authorized by federal law.
The Supreme Court, in other words, functions less and less like a court of law, and more and more like another arena for partisan politics. Both parties choose justices based largely on whether those appointees are likely to toe a partisan line on a long list of legal questions. And all nine justices have behaved more or less as you’d expect someone chosen through such a partisan process to behave.
All of that said, the Court does sometimes balk at the most outlandish right-wing legal arguments that land on its doorstep. The Supreme Court routinely reverses the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, for example, which has become a breeding ground for far-right legal theories that would do lasting harm to the Republic if they were ever taken seriously. Last term, a 7-2 Supreme Court rejected a Fifth Circuit decision that could have seized up the entire US mortgage industry and caused an economic depression in the process.
So, if you’re asking whether this Court will block any of Trump’s illegal actions, the only honest answer that any
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Very smart man was Mr. Lincoln and I can admit is a bit of hero of mine. And in his speech he was right. The destruction will be from within if no one does anything.
We did.
We got the Democrats who were destroying our country from within out of office.
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No. You're not.
Your party is falling apart before your very eyes.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
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Quote:6ix, you keep repeatedly cutting and pasting the same words to convince yourself that Trump annihilated the past. But the past hasn't changed. Christianity will not change directions to align with Trump's Presidential orders:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. You're not.
Your party is falling apart before your very eyes.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
MAGA Has a Catholic Problem
By Christopher Hale | Jan 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM EST
The Catholic Church's stance on immigrants is as old as the Gospel of Luke itself, which describes how Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt to protect the infant Jesus from King Herod's murderous decree.
The words "there is no room at the inn," of which Catholics are reminded every Christmas, seem apt to describe our country's new Herodian regime.
Pope Francis—who Catholics like Vice President JD Vance honor as the vicar of Jesus Christ—has highlighted the plight of migrants as a tragedy of our time, urging global solidarity and humane treatment of those fleeing violence and poverty.
Meanwhile, the MAGA movement's rhetoric and policies demonize immigrants, equating them with crime and economic instability. The administration's decision to target sacred spaces for immigration enforcement exemplifies this stark contrast with Catholic values.
While the MAGA movement claims to champion religious liberty, it increasingly conflates faith with partisanship and undermines the moral authority of religious leaders who challenge its agenda. By accusing the bishops of prioritizing financial interests over spiritual principles, Vance's remarks signaled a troubling willingness to dismiss the Church's moral teachings when they conflict with MAGA priorities.
The tension between Trump's White House and the Catholic Church is not limited to immigration policy. Vance's combative tone was emblematic of the broader MAGA cultural agenda, which prioritizes division over unity and power over mercy.
Catholic teaching calls for dialogue, humility, and the pursuit of the common good. The Gospel's beatitudes—blessed are the meek, the merciful, and the peacemakers—stand in stark opposition to the movement's rhetoric of anger and grievance.
The MAGA movement's economic priorities, which favor tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation, conflict with Catholic social teaching's emphasis on economic justice and the dignity of labor.
Similarly, MAGA's embrace of nationalism—encapsulated in the "America First" mantra—contradicts the Church's vision of a global human family united in solidarity and mutual care.
All told, MAGA has a Catholic problem because its vision is rooted in power, exclusion, and grievance, clashing with the Gospel's call to love, inclusion, and humility. The Catholic Church challenges its faithful to transcend partisan allegiances and live out a radical, sacrificial faith.
Although many Catholics will continue to align with conservative positions on issues like abortion, these deep moral and ideological tensions between Catholic teaching and MAGA policies are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
As long as the MAGA movement prioritizes division over unity and self-interest over the common good, it will struggle to authentically engage with the heart of Catholicism across the nation.
The future of the Catholic Church's relationship with the Republican Party remains uncertain. But if the first week of this administration is any sign, my fellow Catholic JD Vance will choose the ego of Donald Trump over the gospel of Jesus Christ.
My prayer is this will change, and that the words of angel Gabriel will be proven right: "Nothing is impossible with God."
More at https://www.newsweek.com/maga-has-catholic-problem-opinion-2021693
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Crashing the economy: Inside Trump's blueprint
By Thom Hartmann | January 28, 2025
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-grifting/
Trump’s threats to increase our national debt by as much as $7 trillion (with new tax cuts for billionaires) and impose tariffs on imported goods will risk creating a financial crisis and maybe even a Great Depression.
To the average person, the idea of a recession or even a crash like we saw under Bush in 2008, Reagan in 1981/82, or Hoover in 1929 seems grim. So why is Trump so willing to risk an economic crash on his watch with these risky policies?
To understand why a billionaire like Trump — and the billionaires who put and keep him in office — might be not just willing but enthusiastic about creating an economic crisis, you first must view it from a rightwing billionaires’ point of view.
March 16, 2020 — just after Trump declared a pandemic and lockdown — the Dow sustained the largest single-day crash in its entire history. For the investor class, Trump, and his billionaire buddies, this was an even better stock purchasing opportunity than the Bush crash of 2007.
Fewer than three months later, on June 4th, we learned that the seven richest people in America had seen their fortunes increase by fully 50 percent.
And with Trump’s massive tax cut for his fellow billionaires, they could keep most all of it: by that time the average American billionaire was paying less than 4 percent in income taxes (a situation that persists to this day).
Just during that one single terrible “crash” year of 2020, the Institute for Policy Studies documents, the world’s 2,365 billionaires saw their wealth increase by a full 54%, as U.S. billionaires saw their net worth surge 62 percent by $1.8 trillion. Average billionaire wealth worldwide increased 27% in that one year alone.
And now it begins anew: Republicans are meeting at Trump’s Doral golf resort in Miami today to plan strategy. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5105756-house-republican-retreat-tr
ump-agenda/
Don’t expect Republican Congressmen to argue that it would be a bad thing if his plans provoked an economic crisis: To the contrary, that may well be exactly what they — and their billionaire owners — are hoping for.
Much, much more at https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-grifting/
A fake $2,020 bill featuring President Donald Trump
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. You're not.
Your party is falling apart before your very eyes.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
Oh... I'm not copying and pasting anything.
I type 65 WPM the last time I was tested, and it's a pleasure to type that out every single time. You might have even noticed if you were looking closely that I've also worded it several different ways over the last week too.
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to convince yourself that Trump annihilated the past. But the past hasn't changed.
Trump did no such thing. The People did.
The past is always going to be there, and it will remain unchanged.
But we're putting YOU there with it, right where you belong.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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The entire Hegseth saga confirms one thing: Donald Trump does not care about national security. It’s hard for people to grasp that; there’s never been another president I’d say that about. Hell, I wouldn’t even say it about Hegseth. He’s not qualified for the job and a lot of his ideas are, in my view, odious, but I’m willing to assume that he thinks he has the best interests of the nation in mind — just as I believe George W. Bush did with the Iraq invasion and Lyndon Johnson did in Vietnam.
More generally, I’m on the side of those who say not to question the motives of political actors. But in Trump’s case, I’m not so much questioning his motives as I am removing the normal assumption that he is motivated, among other things, by a sincere desire to keep the nation safe. Removing that assumption makes his actions a lot more understandable, whether it’s nominating Hegseth and Gabbard or leaving classified documents lying around where anyone could get at them, or not bothering with initial background checks before handing out security clearances.
Of course, every president has competing motives, including re-election, that sometimes can threaten national security priorities. That’s perfectly fine. Trump, however, doesn’t seem to give any weight at all to it. Oh, I forgot — he doesn’t pay attention during his security briefings, either.
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trump-and-congress
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The entire Hegseth saga confirms one thing: Donald Trump does not care about national security.
You see now... You don't get to say shit like this after the last 4 years with the expectation that anyone outside of your cult will take you seriously.
I've already told you that Democrats, the Legacy Media and the entire leftist movement has lost its currency. Not only in the US, but worldwide. You know this is true because in an attempt to downplay the meaning of Trump being reelected for a 2nd term, you've posted no less than half a dozen articles stating that this was a worldwide trend.
You still don't understand the true extent of the damage that your party and Liberalism worldwide has done to itself over the last decade.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
And I already told you 2 years ago in the Hollywood thread that I saw all of this coming.
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Quote:The winds of change are blowing and with a simple test I can demonstrate that you are a bit of dust swirling around and near to being blown away. The test:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The entire Hegseth saga confirms one thing: Donald Trump does not care about national security.
You see now... You don't get to say shit like this after the last 4 years with the expectation that anyone outside of your cult will take you seriously.
I've already told you that Democrats, the Legacy Media and the entire leftist movement has lost its currency. Not only in the US, but worldwide. You know this is true because in an attempt to downplay the meaning of Trump being reelected for a 2nd term, you've posted no less than half a dozen articles stating that this was a worldwide trend.
You still don't understand the true extent of the damage that your party and Liberalism worldwide has done to itself over the last decade.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
And I already told you 2 years ago in the Hollywood thread that I saw all of this coming.
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There are five people (A, B, C, D and E) in a room. A is watching TV with B, D is sleeping, B is eating chow mein, E is playing table tennis. Suddenly, a call came on the telephone, B went out of the room to answer the call. What is C doing? State your reasoning. 6ix, you have five seconds:
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Given that there are five people in the room and E is playing table tennis, they would need a partner to play with. Since D is sleeping, and A was watching TV with B (who just left), A is likely still watching TV. This leaves C as the only person who could be playing table tennis with E.
Answer: C is playing table tennis with E.
The test is from "The Most Important Time in History Is Now"
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-most-important-time-
in-history-agi-asi
6ixStringJack, I know you flunked but then everything you write at fff.net indicates you are slow and you are malfunctioning. That's a Trumptard's role in life. They fail. They die. Bye-bye sad loser.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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That was an obvious one, since you don't play table tennis alone. It practically jumps out of the fucking page at you.
Might I suggest you don't offer the solution of a test immediately after asking the question in the future. Yanno... so you can't sit back and claim that the person you asked didn't easily figure out your dumb little riddle before they've had a chance to read it because you already gave the solution along with the question.
What are you? A little boy?
I don't even understand what you were trying to prove here because I don't speak Retard.
And what's up with your last two sentences there? Are you drunk? Your written words somehow look slurred.
You're all fucked up right now.
Aren't you, boy?
Really though... Who could blame you?
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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AGI: "This does not compute."
Trump Administration Issues Formal “Just Kidding” on Attempt to Shut Down Government
Picture the GIF where Grandpa Simpson walks in and walks right back out again.
By Ben Mathis-Lilley | Jan 29, 2025 3:10 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-news-federal-funding
-freeze.html
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That's what I thought bitch.
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Quote:This is what you "thought"?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's what I thought bitch.
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Quote:In other words, what Trump did "Does Not Compute/Does Not Compute/Does Not Compute" and the White House staff undid what Trump did.
After a two-page Office of Management and Budget memo purporting to “pause” $3 trillion in federal spending to review whether it promoted “Marxist equity,” “transgenderism,” or “green new deal social engineering” triggered 36 hours of confusion, angry backlash, and a national shutdown of the Medicaid payment system, the Trump administration has abandoned the effort. Journalist Marisa Kabas scored the Memo That Undoes the Other Memo, which reads, simply: “OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President’s Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.”
So that’s that—sort of. For one, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has since put up a post on Twitter/X claiming that spending that promotes Marxism, etc., is still subject to a “freeze,” just not a freeze directed by OMB. This seems to mean that agencies are basically on the honor system as far as whether to spend their legally allocated money—but, really, who knows? It doesn’t seem as if robust planning and process-defining are features of this initiative.
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The government purge, explained
Why the exodus of government employees matters for everyone.
by Patrick Reis | Jan 29, 2025, 4:05 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/397375/the-logoff-federal-employees-p
urge-trump-musk
What’s the latest? The Trump administration last night emailed almost all federal employees with something between an invitation and a threat. The email gave them two options:
Resign effective at the end of September. Until then, you can keep your job and don’t necessarily have to come to the office.
Do nothing and keep working, while subject to new expectations (including in-office work requirements) and without any guarantee of job security.
It’s the latest in a string of actions designed to force out career government employees. (Career employees are the ones who keep their jobs from one president to the next; “political” appointees generally turn over with each administration.) Trump has also issued an executive order to temporarily raise the limit on how many noncareer appointees he’s allowed to have.
Why are they doing this? Trump’s team wants to thin the ranks of career employees and replace some of them with political appointees, shrinking government and giving the president more control of what remains.
If you don’t work in government, why should you care? Because the Trump administration is conducting a giant national experiment, and we’re all the subjects. Career employees bring longstanding expertise and continuity to the countless functions our government performs — everything from keeping airplanes in the sky to reviewing medication to enforcing laws to tracking national security threats.
Driving civil service members out of government en masse is a bet that these workers were never necessary to begin with. Many experts have warned that poses great risks for keeping the government functioning. If the purge is successful, we’ll all find out if they’re right.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's what I thought bitch.
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Nope. This is what I thought, pussy.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That was an obvious one, since you don't play table tennis alone. It practically jumps out of the fucking page at you.
Might I suggest you don't offer the solution of a test immediately after asking the question in the future. Yanno... so you can't sit back and claim that the person you asked didn't easily figure out your dumb little riddle before they've had a chance to read it because you already gave the solution along with the question.
What are you? A little boy?
I don't even understand what you were trying to prove here because I don't speak Retard.
And what's up with your last two sentences there? Are you drunk? Your written words somehow look slurred.
You're all fucked up right now.
Aren't you, boy?
Really though... Who could blame you?
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Originally posted by second:
The government purge, explained
Why the exodus of government employees matters for everyone.
by Patrick Reis | Jan 29, 2025, 4:05 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/397375/the-logoff-federal-employees-p
urge-trump-musk
What’s the latest? The Trump administration last night emailed almost all federal employees with something between an invitation and a threat. The email gave them two options:
Resign effective at the end of September. Until then, you can keep your job and don’t necessarily have to come to the office.
Do nothing and keep working, while subject to new expectations (including in-office work requirements) and without any guarantee of job security.
Excellent.
Another victory.
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Quote:Until Congress passes a bill to pay these 2 million employees to quit, Trump's request that they quit has no substance.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Excellent.
Another victory.
6ixStringJack, Trump may disappoint you on Ukraine. If he does, blame the Winds of Change:
If You Think the U.S. Will Abandon Ukraine Now, You Don't Know Donald Trump
Published Jan 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM EST
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
Lester Crown Professor at Yale School of Management; Research Director at Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute
https://www.newsweek.com/if-you-think-us-will-abandon-ukraine-now-you-
dont-know-donald-trump-opinion-2022859
President Donald Trump's recent apparent switch of positions regarding Russia and Ukraine is surprising many, but it shouldn't. We write this not as diplomats or historians, but as informed leadership scholars who have known Trump personally for decades; and having recently spent time on the ground in Ukraine, Central Europe, and Central Asia, we believe there are good reasons for Trump to reverse his position and escape Russian President Vladimir Putin's quicksand.
In a startling flurry of Truth Social posts and press conference remarks since taking office, Trump has revealed his pragmatism over principle. After once condemning President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine, he now praises Zelensky as a seeker of peace. Similarly, Trump has flipped from expressing admiration for Putin to declaring that Putin is destroying Russia. To diplomatic scholars, this is a paradox. To leadership scholars, Trump's reversals demonstrate the consistency of his character. That is because of three distinctive qualities of Trump's leadership style.
Much more at https://www.newsweek.com/if-you-think-us-will-abandon-ukraine-now-you-
dont-know-donald-trump-opinion-2022859
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Do you realize how sad your position is here?
8 years ago you morons couldn't shut the fuck up about the Walls Closing In On Trump and the end of his presidency because of your dumb Russian hoax that's been thoroughly debunked, and even your media admits that now.
Now this is all you've got in 2025?
You think I'm going to take anything seriously about Ukraine coming from Newsweek not even 2 weeks into Trump's 2nd term?
You must be joking.
Nobody at Newsweek has a fucking clue what Trump is going to do.
Cool your jets, dummy.
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Wow.
Holy shit.
You didn't even read that article past the 3rd paragraph or you NEVER would have posted it.
Nice self-own again, retard.
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Quote:I'm sure that I told you dozens of times that the judicial system in America will malfunction if you have good enough defense lawyers to sabotage it for you. Vice President Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton. Did Burr go to jail? He did not. When Burr attempted to start a new country within the Louisiana Purchase, was Burr convicted of treason? He was not. When millions of Confederates murdered a million Americans, were they executed for what they did? No, they were pardoned. When thousands were lynched, who went to jail for murder? Nobody. When hundreds of thousands of Americans were placed in concentration camps during WWII, how many officials went to prison for this illegal behavior? Nobody. Did Vice President Spiro Agnew, Nixon's VP, go to jail for accepting bribes? Nope. If you've got enough money and connections, you can get away with murder in America. That's what makes America what it is, the Greatest Country in History! But not so great for losers like you, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you realize how sad your position is here?
8 years ago you morons couldn't shut the fuck up about the Walls Closing In On Trump and the end of his presidency because of your dumb Russian hoax that's been thoroughly debunked, and even your media admits that now.
Now this is all you've got in 2025?
I completely forgot the Indians! Killed them by the millions. More recently there was "Killers of the Flower Moon" the movie and the book. Killed hundreds of Indians for their oil rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_of_the_Flower_Moon_(book)
From Chapter 26, Blood Cries Out, of Killers of the Flower Moon:
Quote:Impressive, isn't it, 6ixStringJack.
Though the bureau estimated that there were twenty-four Osage murders, the real number was undoubtedly higher. The bureau closed its investigation after catching Hale and his henchmen. But at least some at the bureau knew that there were many more homicides that had been systematically covered up, evading their efforts of detection. An agent described, in a report, just one of the ways the killers did this: “In connection with the mysterious deaths of a large number of Indians, the perpetrators of the crime would get an Indian intoxicated, have a doctor examine him and pronounce him intoxicated, following which a morphine hypodermic would be injected into the Indian, and after the doctor’s departure the [killers] would inject an enormous amount of morphine under the armpit of the drunken Indian, which would result in his death. The doctor’s certificate would subsequently read ‘death from alcoholic poison.’ ”
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I'm just left wondering why your first thought is murder every time you don't get your way.
Not only that, but it's been many years since I've been shocked by the fact that between the time your poisoned little brain conceived the murderous thoughts and the the time that you clicked the "SAVE RESPONSE" button here, there was no internal filter mechanism preventing you from posting your murder porn fantasies for the 100th time.
You are a little boy.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I'm sure that I told you dozens of times that the judicial system in America will malfunction if you have good enough defense lawyers to sabotage it for you. Vice President Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton. Did Burr go to jail? He did not. When Burr attempted to start a new country within the Louisiana Purchase, was Burr convicted of treason? He was not. When millions of Confederates murdered a million Americans, were they executed for what they did? No, they were pardoned. When thousands were lynched, who went to jail for murder? Nobody. When hundreds of thousands of Americans were placed in concentration camps during WWII, how many officials went to prison for this illegal behavior? Nobody. Did Vice President Spiro Agnew, Nixon's VP, go to jail for accepting bribes? Nope. If you've got enough money and connections, you can get away with murder in America. That's what makes America what it is, the Greatest Country in History! But not so great for losers like you, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you realize how sad your position is here?
8 years ago you morons couldn't shut the fuck up about the Walls Closing In On Trump and the end of his presidency because of your dumb Russian hoax that's been thoroughly debunked, and even your media admits that now.
Now this is all you've got in 2025?
I completely forgot the Indians! Killed them by the millions. More recently there was "Killers of the Flower Moon" the movie and the book. Killed hundreds of Indians for their oil rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_of_the_Flower_Moon_(book)
From Chapter 26, Blood Cries Out, of Killers of the Flower Moon:Quote:Impressive, isn't it, 6ixStringJack.
Though the bureau estimated that there were twenty-four Osage murders, the real number was undoubtedly higher. The bureau closed its investigation after catching Hale and his henchmen. But at least some at the bureau knew that there were many more homicides that had been systematically covered up, evading their efforts of detection. An agent described, in a report, just one of the ways the killers did this: “In connection with the mysterious deaths of a large number of Indians, the perpetrators of the crime would get an Indian intoxicated, have a doctor examine him and pronounce him intoxicated, following which a morphine hypodermic would be injected into the Indian, and after the doctor’s departure the [killers] would inject an enormous amount of morphine under the armpit of the drunken Indian, which would result in his death. The doctor’s certificate would subsequently read ‘death from alcoholic poison.’ ”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
That's no surprise to me. This isn't directed at you Second but it is one more dead Indian and it doesn't matter the time frame. We are the bad guys. I grew up hearing horror stories from both sides of the border. More from the States because of my grandmother. Resources found on reserve land the government stars chipping away at the reserves. A lot was already land not fit for farming or anything. In the late 1800s you had Indian agents who were responsible to see that food was distributed among maybe a couple or 3 reserves. Indian agents would take the good meat and leave the maggot ridden for the reserves and who know what was in the flour. Course the alcohol which flowed freely on both sides of the border.
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
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Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Musk forced the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to resign because the FAA fined Musk $600,000 for breaking the rules before Trump was elected. A little more than one week after Trump was sworn in, there was a major plane crash in Washington DC caused by a helicopter pilot who felt he could fly wherever he pleased now that Trump is the President who doesn't follow rules. Too bad that Musk fired the head of the FAA but Musk doesn't follow rules, either, just like Trump.
FAA Administrator Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-michael-whitaker-quit-on-jan-2
0-after-elon-musk-told-him-to-resign/
Trump does his thing: Trump Fuels Crazy D.C. Plane Crash Theories With Insult to Army Pilots
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fuels-crazy-dc-plane-crash-theorie
s-with-insult-to-army-black-hawk-pilots/
Musk does his thing: Elon Musk Foe Escorted Out of Fed Office After Refusing to Resign
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-foe-escorted-out-of-fed-office
-after-refusing-to-resign/
A 22-year veteran of the department has been investigating Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked into his Senate confirmation hearing like a man stepping onto an ice rink wearing banana peels for shoes. He had one job: convince the world that he was not a bug-eyed conspiracy theorist who once hoarded a whale head and left a bear carcass in Central Park. Instead, he walked out as the leading cause of migraines among Democratic senators.
This was supposed to be his moment of redemption, his big I’m-not-actually-insane speech. Instead, it turned into a political demolition derby featuring protesters screaming that he was a liar and a killer, Bernie Sanders interrogating him about baby clothes, Elizabeth Warren asking if he planned to run HHS like a side hustle, and a surreal moment where Kennedy had to confirm that he probably said Lyme disease was a military bioweapon. By the end of the day, Capitol Police had forcibly removed more people from the chamber than a dive bar on St. Patrick’s Day.
Kennedy barely got through his opening statement before a woman exploded from the gallery like a jack-in-the-box filled with rage and science degrees.
“YOU LIE!” she screamed, holding up a sign that read VACCINES SAVE LIVES before being swiftly tackled and dragged out by Capitol Police.
Kennedy blinked rapidly, which is how you know he was hearing the voice of the worm that used to live in his brain whispering, Abort mission, Bobby. Abort mission.
A brief moment of peace settled over the room, and then it happened again.
“YOU’RE KILLING PEOPLE!” another protester howled, launching into a full-body rage spiral before security carried her out, legs kicking, like a screaming suitcase with opinions.
Kennedy took a deep breath and tried to regain his footing, but Senator Ron Wyden had been waiting for this moment like a prosecutor with a personal vendetta.
“Are you lying to us, Mr. Kennedy?” Wyden snapped, staring daggers at him.
Kennedy forced a nervous smile, but it came out looking like he’d just been told he had to fight a horse for a parking spot.
“That claim has been repeatedly debunked,” he said, attempting to sound reasonable despite an entire room full of people who were watching YouTube compilations of him saying the exact opposite.
Wyden wasn’t buying it.
“You signed a petition to restrict access to the COVID vaccine. Did you or did you not?”
Kennedy mumbled something about the petition being “misrepresented” as the air in the room thickened with sweat, bad decisions, and organic supplements.
Wyden was gearing up for a finishing blow when another protester detonated like a landmine.
“YOU’RE A FRAUD!” she shrieked as security dragged her away in a full-body lock.
Even the cops looked exhausted now.
Then came Bernie Sanders, a man who has not been in the mood for nonsense since 1972.
“Are you supportive of these baby onesies?” he demanded.
The room froze.
Kennedy’s brain crashed like a Windows 98 PC.
“Excuse me?”
Sanders lifted a printed-out photo of a baby bodysuit covered in anti-vaccine slogans.
“These are being sold by the Children’s Health Defense, the organization you founded.”
Kennedy looked like he had just accidentally eaten a ghost pepper and was trying to play it cool.
“I—I don’t have oversight over that organization anymore,” he mumbled.
Sanders cracked his knuckles like a man ready to fistfight a CEO and leaned in.
“Are you supportive of these onesies?”
Kennedy started sweating through his suit.
Laughter rippled through the room. A Republican senator actually covered his face.
Kennedy, now looking desperate for a fire alarm to pull, tried to pivot to his real passion: banning corn syrup.
Sanders wasn’t having it.
Then Elizabeth Warren took the mic, radiating pure prosecutorial energy.
“Will you commit to not taking money from pharmaceutical companies while serving as Secretary of Health?” she asked, in the tone of a woman who already knew the answer but was going to enjoy watching him squirm.
Kennedy grinned like a dog that just chewed up your furniture and is hoping you’ll laugh it o
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Wow. Don't anybody take it personal when Second quotes you and replies with something completely unrelated.
In an exchange so rare it may as well have been the first time they've ever directly addressed one another, Second just did the exact same thing to Brenda that has been a source of annoyance for me for the last 8 years.
Autism sucks bro. I'm sorry.
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THE GUARDIAN: Selena Gomez fell prey to Trump-trashing one-upmanship: the game no one can win
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/29/selena-gomez-don
ald-trump-actress-us-president
The Democrat party is dead.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Quote:Brenda, I am sorry for being annoying.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Wow. Don't anybody take it personal when Second quotes you and replies with something completely unrelated.
In an exchange so rare it may as well have been the first time they've ever directly addressed one another, Second just did the exact same thing to Brenda that has been a source of annoyance for me for the last 8 years.
Autism sucks bro. I'm sorry.
6ix, I'm not sorry that my existence annoys you. Where I live in Texas, the people who admire Trump, vote for Trump, and have Trump's loathsome personality traits are superabundant and contaminate what they touch.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Donald Trump owns the safe skies — until disaster strikes
Classic example of taking credit when flying high, but blaming others when things crash and burn. Amazing what a difference a disaster makes.
https://boingboing.net/2025/01/30/donald-trump-boasts-about-safe-skies
-until-disaster-strikes.html
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It’s a Scam! It’s a Purge! It’s a Scam *and* a Purge
Trump offers federal buyouts for resignations
By Paul Krugman / Jan 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-a-scam-its-a-purge-its-a-scam
Before Donald Trump was inaugurated, there was extensive discussion of his known plans to convert a number of civil service jobs into presidential appointments, politicizing the higher levels of the federal bureaucracy. Since the inauguration, however, it has become clear that almost everyone greatly understated the threat. We’re now seeing clear efforts to politicize everything, to force every federal employee to act, in effect, as a MAGA operative.
The latest and biggest move has come in the form of an email from the Office of Personnel Management, which appears to have effectively been taken over by associates of Elon Musk, effectively offering a buyout to federal employees who resign in the next few days. On paper, it isn’t exactly a buyout; those who accept the offer will be placed on administrative leave but supposedly continue to be paid until September. But being told that you can stop working while receiving eight months’ salary is just a buyout by another name.
There are five things you should know about this plan:
1. It’s illegal
2. It’s almost surely a scam: workers who take the offer probably won’t see the money they’ve been promised
3. To the extent that workers actually take up the offer, they’ll be the workers we can least afford to lose
4. The move will cost, not save money
5. What this really amounts to is a purge, replacing professional civil servants with political loyalists
Legality: Some initial reports described the Trump plan — or is it the Musk plan? — as if it were a simple buyout, which immediately raised the question, where would the money come from? Congress hasn’t voted funding for a mass worker buyout, and the president doesn’t have the right to spend money without Congressional authorization.
The “administrative leave” language was probably intended as a way to get around that little problem. But someone didn’t do their homework. The law appears to make it clear that federal employees can be placed on administrative leave for no more than 10 days in a calendar year.
Now, does the law still matter? Laws must be enforced by people, and maybe we’re already at a place where Trump can simply ignore Congress’s power of the purse, choosing not to spend money on things Congress has funded while spending money on things it hasn’t authorized. But I don’t think we’re quite there yet.
The big scam: If you accept Trump’s deal, resigning but expecting to receive 8 months’ salary, you’re a fool. Trump has a history of not paying what he owes; the Wall Street Journal reported that his business career “left a long trail of unpaid bills,” while a separate study from USA Today found hundreds of contractors alleging that Trump doesn’t pay his bills.
So if you accept the not-a-buyout offer believing in Trump’s promise to keep paying your salary — a promise that won’t even be legally binding, because the whole thing is illegal anyway — you should expect to be stiffed. That’s just who he is and how he operates.
Losing the best: Some federal employees may be naïve enough to accept President Musk’s not-a-buyout offer. Others — my guess is a significant number of high-level workers — may leave because they’ve concluded that politicization and disrespect has degraded their work environment to the point that it’s not worth staying.
So who will leave? The workers we as a nation can least afford to lose.
Many people probably imagine that the federal government offers cushy, well-paid jobs. And as a 2024 report from the Congressional Budget showed, federal workers without a college degree generally do earn more than their counterparts in the private sector — in part because many of them are unionized:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Wow. Don't anybody take it personal when Second quotes you and replies with something completely unrelated.
In an exchange so rare it may as well have been the first time they've ever directly addressed one another, Second just did the exact same thing to Brenda that has been a source of annoyance for me for the last 8 years.
Autism sucks bro. I'm sorry.
6ix, I'm not sorry that my existence annoys you. Where I live in Texas, the people who admire Trump, vote for Trump, and have Trump's loathsome personality traits are superabundant and contaminate what they touch.
Your existence is an annoyance I inflict upon myself by coming here and has nothing at all to do with you. You are meaningless. You are nothing. If I stopped coming back today and never returned, I would never think about you again. I know that breaks your heart since you religiously read everything I post.
Good on you for apologizing to Brenda though.
That's the only evidence of human behavior anybody here has ever seen out of you in your history at fff.net.
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President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens.
President Trump blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and his two Democratic predecessors for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, saying that standards for air traffic controllers had been too lax.
Mr. Trump cited no evidence, and even admitted when pressed that the investigation had only just begun.
Moments later, he blamed the pilots of the Army helicopter that appeared to fly into a passenger jet that was on final approach to Reagan National Airport, across the river from the capital.
Mr. Trump went back and forth between blaming diversity goals that he said were created by President Barack Obama and President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and then saying that an investigation was necessary.
His instant focus on diversity reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens, whether the facts fit or not.
It is something he has done before: After a terrorist attack in New Orleans a month ago, he blamed illegal immigration, even though the attacker was a U.S. citizen born in Texas.
When asked how he could say that diversity hiring was to blame for the crash even though basic facts about the midair collision were still being sought by investigators, he said, “Because I have common sense.”
“For some jobs, we need the highest level of genius,” he said.
Of the F.A.A. under Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump said: “They actually came out with a directive, too white.”
An audio recording of the air traffic controllers’ warnings to the helicopter just before the crash indicated that a controller first warned the helicopter to look for a Canadair Regional Jet, and then told the helicopter pilot to go behind the jet as it was landing. That exchange will be part of the investigation.
Mr. Trump appeared in the White House briefing room with Vice President JD Vance; the newly sworn-in transportation secretary, Sean Duffy; and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. All three men began their comments by praising Mr. Trump’s leadership and repeating that they would eliminate diversity requirements and focus on competence.
Mr. Trump named a new acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration during the news conference; none had been appointed by him until Thursday. The appointee did not speak at the news conference, nor did the head of the National Transportation Safety Board, who was also in the room.
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Yup. He just keeps saying what has needed to be said many years ago.
It's why Trump's popularity keeps rising.
Meanwhile... are you fucking kidding me, dude?
This is still "under investigation"?
The US Military knew exactly who was in that chopper and who was flying it. With the tech available to them in current year, EVERYTHING they do is recorded in the military today. The race and sex and name of every individual on that chopper was known before it took off and took 2 seconds to "investigate" by anyone in the government with the clearance.
Just because YOU don't know who was on that helicopter doesn't mean that Trump doesn't already know.
I mean for real man... You think they're sifting through ashes and collecting teeth to match against dental records right now or something? How stupid are you?
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Trump extorts $25 million from Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a vacuous lawsuit that Donald Trump filed against Meta years ago. Why now? Here's all you need to know:
Toward the end of the November dinner, Trump raised the matter of the lawsuit, the people said. The president signaled that the litigation had to be resolved before Zuckerberg could be “brought into the tent,” one of the people said.
A lovely post-election dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Maybe some relaxing chat afterward about Greenland and the Panama Canal. Then Trump "signaled" that the lawsuit had to be "resolved" before Zuckerberg could be "brought into the tent."
This is extortion. Trump, as always, chose the wording of his threats carefully but the meaning was crystal clear and Zuckerberg jumped at the opportunity. What choice did he have?
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-signs-agreement-calling-for-meta
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How to charge someone with extortion?
A prosecutor bringing an extortion charge usually needs to show that the defendant acquired or tried to acquire money or something else of value by threatening another person.
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Good luck with that.
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"Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?" -- 6ixStringJack
Indeed we do:
America's Deadliest Airliner Crash in 23 Years Happens a Week After Trump Guts Airline Safety Groups
By Victor Tangermann | January 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM CST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-deadliest-airliner-crash-23-151206
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Just over a week after firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard, eliminating all members of a key aviation security advisory group, and freezing all hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration including key air traffic controllers, the United States has experienced its deadliest aviation disaster in nearly 24 years.
The timing of the Trump administration's gutting of aviation safety prior to the crash is impossible to ignore.
Trump posted a chilling update on Truth Social in which he speculated wildly about the event in what sounds a lot like an attempt to deflect blame for the deadliest crash in the US since all 260 people aboard an American Airlines flight died just after takeoff on November 12, 2001, in New York, just two months after 9/11.
The Trump administration's gutting of aviation authorities highlights the potential consequences of throwing the entire federal government into chaos.
The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating the incident. In the meantime, we should expect to hear more harebrained theories as to what may have led to the crash, considering the sheer amount of disorder the Trump administration has stirred up over its first two weeks.
On that note, multi-hyphenate billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk — who has previously blamed Black pilots for causing plane crashes without providing any evidence whatsoever — has yet to comment on the matter.
"It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE," he wrote in a January 9 tweet, a bafflingly racist outburst that intentionally mixed up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
The deplorable utterance had civil groups horrified at the time.
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Watch now, how that story which is tailored to enrage their usual moronic readership gets zero traction and goes nowhere.
And realize how 6 months ago it would have dominated the conversation for the next 3 weeks, but the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Yup. He just keeps saying what has needed to be said many years ago.
It's why Trump's popularity keeps rising.
Meanwhile... are you fucking kidding me, dude?
This is still "under investigation"?
The US Military knew exactly who was in that chopper and who was flying it. With the tech available to them in current year, EVERYTHING they do is recorded in the military today. The race and sex and name of every individual on that chopper was known before it took off and took 2 seconds to "investigate" by anyone in the government with the clearance.
Just because YOU don't know who was on that helicopter doesn't mean that Trump doesn't already know.
I mean for real man... You think they're sifting through ashes and collecting teeth to match against dental records right now or something? How stupid are you?
Ain't looking good buddy...
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1884979350249918876?mx=2
FLASHBACK: FAA turned away qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/1/editorial-faa-turned-a
way-qualified-air-traffic-co/
NOTE: This "Flashback" was written exactly 1 year ago tomorrow.
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A 2013 FAA document, “Controller Hiring by the Numbers,” raised the issue in stark terms, asking, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”
When failure is measured in human blood, the answer should have been none.
You guys are FUCKED.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Musk forced the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to resign because the FAA fined Musk $600,000 for breaking the rules before Trump was elected. A little more than one week after Trump was sworn in, there was a major plane crash in Washington DC caused by a helicopter pilot who felt he could fly wherever he pleased now that Trump is the President who doesn't follow rules. Too bad that Musk fired the head of the FAA but Musk doesn't follow rules, either, just like Trump.
FAA Administrator Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign
https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-michael-whitaker-quit-on-jan-2
0-after-elon-musk-told-him-to-resign/
Trump does his thing: Trump Fuels Crazy D.C. Plane Crash Theories With Insult to Army Pilots
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fuels-crazy-dc-plane-crash-theorie
s-with-insult-to-army-black-hawk-pilots/
Musk does his thing: Elon Musk Foe Escorted Out of Fed Office After Refusing to Resign
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-foe-escorted-out-of-fed-office
-after-refusing-to-resign/
A 22-year veteran of the department has been investigating Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink.
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I know.
And why am I not surprised that he blaming the army for the crash.
We should all know Elon Musk is a crumb of a human being.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Brenda, I am sorry for being annoying.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The worst people know how to display the outward appearance of being better people, but they have not internalized the rules of better behavior. The worst people reveal their inner rottenness when opportunities arise to profit. The worst will be the worst toward anybody, which brings me to Elon Musk.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Half breeds weren't treated any better than pure bloods. This is my family's truth.
Wow. Don't anybody take it personal when Second quotes you and replies with something completely unrelated.
In an exchange so rare it may as well have been the first time they've ever directly addressed one another, Second just did the exact same thing to Brenda that has been a source of annoyance for me for the last 8 years.
Autism sucks bro. I'm sorry.
6ix, I'm not sorry that my existence annoys you. Where I live in Texas, the people who admire Trump, vote for Trump, and have Trump's loathsome personality traits are superabundant and contaminate what they touch.
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Thank you for the apology Second and you weren't really being annoying. I shouldn't have gone off on a tangent.
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It was either the airline's fault or the military's fault.
I have no love for either of them, so I don't care who's fault it is.
But unlike the last 4 years where anything goes, an investigation will be conducted and we will find out who was responsible.
And god help them if it was a DEI hire that killed all those people.
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Quote:There is a third possibility: Within days of taking office, Trump immediately fired the heads of TSA and gutted the federal Aviation Security Advisory Committee, which serves as a TSA advisory body. He fired every committee member.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It was either the airline's fault or the military's fault.
The Trump administration could provide no reason for the dismissal of the committee. The Department of Homeland Security issued the customary response that the committee didn’t align with Trump’s agenda. It doesn’t acknowledge that committees like the Aviation Safety Advisory aren’t about politics and enforcing the right-wing agenda. They are about keeping America safe.
At the time of the plane crash, the FAA was also without a chief, as Michael Whitaker resigned on January 20. His resignation was foreseeable once Trump won re-election, especially since Trump’s right-hand man Elon Musk had attacked Whitaker and demanded his resignation. Instead of prioritizing a replacement for Whitaker, Trump focused on gutting advisory committees and firing TSA heads as the FAA struggled with dangerous staff shortages.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/let-s-remember-what-donald-tru
mp-did-trump-fired-tsa-heads-and-gutted-aviation-safety-advisory-prior-to-deadly-plane-crash/ar-AA1y8uKK
Also, Trump asked 2,000,000 Federal employees to quit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-offe
r-federal-workers-buyouts-resign-rcna189661
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There is a third possibility: Within days of taking office, Trump immediately fired the heads of TSA and gutted the federal Aviation Security Advisory Committee, which serves as a TSA advisory body. He fired every committee member.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It was either the airline's fault or the military's fault.
Explain the timeline of how Trump firing top-brass committee members last week had anything to do with any individual pilot's job performance or that of any air traffic control employees.
In what world does this theory make any sense at all other than inside the heads of brainless TDS sufferers who are just looking for any possible reason to say I told you so after your entire world just fell apart?
These are highly skilled positions that require intelligent people who are able to carry out their jobs without needing to be babysat. The entire airline industry and the military doesn't just fall apart or run around like a chicken with its head cut off when some pencil-pushing pindicks at the top get ousted.
But... if they're full of DEI hires that are not qualified for the position and/or can't fucking do anything without a boss looking over their shoulder and barking orders at them all the time, that's a problem we're going to going to have to address going forward.
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more showmanship less content, the Japan Kabuki theater, the grand pantomimes being broadcast
wings of the DC Uni-Party displayed
The DNC uses Bank DEI NGO Pharma money to get power. The RNC uses the Bible belt Mormon Christian Zion Israel Lobby power to get bank money...different ideas but similar goals.
and Spooks within media and their propaganda, foreign groups and pedophile blackmail islands Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Snowden and some Spying Act
and they expected Trump to free Julian Assange, no he got free under Biden
Legit critics??
part of the downfall?
Crony fake Capitalism more like Globalism and Multinational corporations
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Quote:Go fuck yourself, 6ixStringJack. Trump fired all of the upper echelon who control air traffic. He told all the lower level people to quit, 2,000,000 of them, starting at the beginning of this week. They have until the end of next week to make a decision. He is offering them 8 months of cash to quit. It is 8 months of vacation time. Some of them decided not to work the rest of the week in the control tower. Since Trump will be doing the investigation of himself and the accident, there won't be any facts if he can help it about what he did to the people who run the safety system. When some facts do come out, Trump and you will say the Truth is Fake. 6ixStringJack, Go Fuck Yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:There is a third possibility: Within days of taking office, Trump immediately fired the heads of TSA and gutted the federal Aviation Security Advisory Committee, which serves as a TSA advisory body. He fired every committee member.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It was either the airline's fault or the military's fault.
Explain the timeline of how Trump firing top-brass committee members last week had anything to do with any individual pilot's job performance or that of any air traffic control employees.
In what world does this theory make any sense at all other than inside the heads of brainless TDS sufferers who are just looking for any possible reason to say I told you so after your entire world just fell apart?
These are highly skilled positions that require intelligent people who are able to carry out their jobs without needing to be babysat. The entire airline industry and the military doesn't just fall apart or run around like a chicken with its head cut off when some pencil-pushing pindicks at the top get ousted.
But... if they're full of DEI hires that are not qualified for the position and/or can't fucking do anything without a boss looking over their shoulder and barking orders at them all the time, that's a problem we're going to going to have to address going forward.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who used to pilot Black Hawk helicopters as a combat veteran in Iraq, said that letters President Donald Trump's administration sent to federal workers this week asking them to quit their jobs could be partially to blame for the crash. The air traffic controller who was on duty at the time of the crash was performing duties normally done by two controllers.
"[Letters were sent to] some air traffic controllers that are responsible for airspace in the Northeast region. Basically trying to scare them into quitting at a time when we have a shortage of air traffic controllers. So I don’t think the Trump administration is in a strong position right now to start blaming others.”
https://www.alternet.org/senator-trump-workers/
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So Democrats are supposed to show deference to Donald Trump, who won by 1.5 percent — and didn’t even win a majority of the overall vote?
Now, I have a hypothesis about the belief that Democrats should defer to Trump in a way that Republicans never have to Democratic presidents. It is, I suspect, in part a perverse response to Trump’s utter lack of the moral and intellectual qualities we used to expect in a president. I’ve never seen anyone say this explicitly, but as I read it the implicit reasoning goes like this: the fact that Trump won despite his obvious awfulness means that his issues must have resonated powerfully with voters.
But was Trump’s awfulness actually obvious to voters? Not to the low-information voters who provided his margin of victory. And was it even that obvious to voters who followed the news, but only somewhat superficially? The mainstream media heavily sanewashed Trump throughout the campaign.
So why did Trump win? I’ve seen many analyses, some quite elaborate, but to some extent you need to bear in mind that at least some of the people pushing these analyses are in effect talking their own book — making the case that Democrats would have won, or will win in the future, if only they were taking the analyst’s advice. I still haven’t seen anything convincing me that the basic story wasn’t simple, and the same as the story that explains incumbent party defeats around the world.
It's a well-established result that when prices and wages both rise — as they did almost everywhere as economies recovered from Covid, stressing supply chains — workers tend to attribute higher wages to their own efforts, while blaming higher prices on external forces, especially politicians:
Source: BLS
This logic is what made 2024, as John Burn-Murdoch put it, a “graveyard of incumbents.” But it didn’t give Trump a mandate to rename the Gulf of Mexico, invade Greenland, shut down the National Institutes of Health, fire DEI administrators or really to do anything besides reduce prices and control illegal immigration (which was already way down.)
Many voters believed that he could do just that; the most recent surveys show Republican voters on average believing that Trump can magically reduce inflation to zero over the next year — and since that’s an average, many of them apparently think he can actually reduce prices, which he indeed promised to do during the campaign:
Expected Percent Changes in Prices during the next year
Source: Briefing Book
He can’t, of course, and has no plan to fight inflation, let alone reduce prices. His most recent blast on the subject is almost pathetic in its lack of ideas, other than the proposition that DEI is somehow responsible for everything bad:
Quote:But Democrats can’t j
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Because Jay Powell and the Fed failed to stop the problem they created with Inflation, I will do it by unleashing American Energy production, slashing Regulation, rebalancing International Trade, and reigniting American Manufacturing, but I will do much more than stopping Inflation, I will make our Country financially, and otherwise, powerful again! The Fed has done a terrible job on Bank Regulation. Treasury is going to lead the effort to cut unnecessary Regulation, and will unleash lending for all American people and businesses. If the Fed had spent less time on DEI, gender ideology, "green" energy, and fake climate change, Inflation would never have been a problem. Instead, we suffered from the worst Inflation in the History of our Country!
Jan 29, 2025, 5:17 PM
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6ixStringJack, the Cold Winds of Change are Indeed Blowing:
US President Donald Trump's response to the recent Washington DC plane crash has attracted criticism for being "cold", as he pinned the blame on those with disabilities as he lashed out at DEI policies.
Most recently, he was asked about whether he would visit the grounds upon which the tragic incident took place, to which he responded: "The water? I'm not going to go swimming."
As a result of these harsh responses, many have looked to the past to see Barack Obama's response in a similarly awful situation during his time as US President, with major differences being highlighted by people on social media.
READ MORE: Trump was warned about his 'dangerous' policy before Washington DC plane crash
READ MORE: Elon Musk 'pressured' FAA boss to quit one week before Potomac river plane crash
Back in 2009, Obama spoke about the Continental Airlines crash that resulted in the deaths of 49 people. He said: "Before I begin, I want to say a brief word about the terrible tragedy that took place outside of Buffalo last night. My thoughts and prayers are with the family's and friends who lost loved ones. As always, our thanks go out to the brave first responders who saved people lives and work to keep people safe."
More at Barack Obama's press conference after the Continental Airlines crash that resulted in the deaths of 49 people shows the "biggest difference" between him and Donald Trump
By Rudi Kinsella | 05:48 ET, JAN 31 2025
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/barack-obama-speech-plane-crash
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6ixStringJack, the Cold Winds of Change are Indeed Blowing:
US President Donald Trump's response to the recent Washington DC plane crash has attracted criticism for being "cold", as he pinned the blame on those with disabilities as he lashed out at DEI policies.
Nobody cares.
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Go fuck yourself, 6ixStringJack. Trump fired all of the upper echelon who control air traffic. He told all the lower level people to quit, 2,000,000 of them, starting at the beginning of this week. They have until the end of next week to make a decision. He is offering them 8 months of cash to quit. It is 8 months of vacation time. Some of them decided not to work the rest of the week in the control tower. Since Trump will be doing the investigation of himself and the accident, there won't be any facts if he can help it about what he did to the people who run the safety system. When some facts do come out, Trump and you will say the Truth is Fake. 6ixStringJack, Go Fuck Yourself.
FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities
https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/news/faas-diversity-push-includes-hiring
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The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which claims “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”
The FAA’s website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.
The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people.
Big Gay Pete again, huh? The idiot out of podunk Indiana who fucked up everything for years and was only hired because he enjoyed bouncing on his boy's dick.
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All eyes have been on the FAA and airline industry in recent days, after a plug door on a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5.
Good luck if you need to use planes in the near future.
The whole industry now is run by retards, idiots and the unqualified.
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Another close call ahead of FAA safety summit (March 15th, 2023)
Quote:(By March 15th, of 2023)
That makes 7 close calls, this year alone.
Biden nomination for FAA withdraws (March 27th, 2023)
I absolutely hate having to put a FOX link, but the other "news" articles only refer to big old mean Republicans keeping a black guy out without showing you any footage.
Here you go...
Biden's FAA pick makes shocking move after failing to answer simple questions
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Democrats destroyed California and they're losing power even in that state as we speak.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-los-angeles-great-again-210046594.h
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Being America’s friend is dangerous these days these days
I know this is Trump, so the answer is ¯\_(“)_/¯. But over the past two weeks his wrath has been aimed at Denmark, Colombia, and now Canada and Mexico — all of them among our staunchest allies. You could hardly pick a group of better friends to the US than these.
On a concrete basis, Denmark has agreed to increase its defense spending to 2%, meeting a Trump demand. Colombia has been accepting US deportation flights for years. Mexico has agreed to reinstate Trump's beloved Remain in Mexico policy. And Canada has been cooperating on the fentanyl front even though nobody thinks there's very much it can do. The United States simply doesn't have any big gripes against any of these countries.
Shouldn't Trump try to pick on at least a few countries that we don't actually like very much? Why the focus on longtime friends and allies?
https://jabberwocking.com/being-americas-friend-is-dangerous-these-day
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If Obama Had Sent a Mob to Kill a Cop, Republicans Would Never Let You Forget It
In your mind, turn the tables for a moment.
If Barack Obama had sent a murderous mob against the Capitol and they had beaten and pepper-sprayed Officer Brian Sicknick so badly he suffered two strokes and died the next day, how would Republicans refer to the so-called “J6 rioters”? Is there any doubt in your mind that they’d be calling them “Cop killers”? Every day, day after day, in every venue possible? And if Obama pardoned them, they’d be demanding impeachment right now?
If Bill Clinton had denied security to military or intelligence officers like Mark Milley or John Bolton who were under death threats from Iran, what would Republicans say? You know they’d be charging Clinton with attempted murder, saying he was no better than a mob boss who’d sanctioned a hit.
If Joe Biden had started shipping white supremacists convicted of criminal acts to Guantanamo, what would the GOP be claiming non-stop? We’d never hear the end about his sanctioning torture, murder, and how the entire offshore enterprise was unconstitutional and illegal. They’d call him Ayatollah Biden.
And that’s just scratching the tiniest surface of opportunities Democrats have blown in the past week to attack Trump and Republicans for very real violations of law, norms, and the Constitution.
More at https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-obama-had-sent-a-mob-to-kill-a-26a?r=5
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I know this is Trump, so the answer is ¯\_(“)_/¯. But over the past two weeks his wrath has been aimed at Denmark, Colombia, and now Canada and Mexico — all of them among our staunchest allies. You could hardly pick a group of better friends to the US than these.
Allies, huh?
Name one thing that any of those 4 countries have done for us in the last 30 years.
One thing.
It's really easy to call yourself an ally when all you're doing is being a fucking mooch.
Those days are over.
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If Barack Obama had sent a murderous mob against the Capitol and they had beaten and pepper-sprayed Officer Brian Sicknick so badly he suffered two strokes and died the next day
That's not what happened.
And all the other cops that "died" on January 6th all killed themselves in the weeks and months after the event.
And you never asked yourself why those cops all killed themselves.
The only person who died on J6, was a Trump supporter veteran who was no threat at the time and she got shot in the fucking face.
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And that’s just scratching the tiniest surface of opportunities Democrats have blown in the past week to attack Trump and Republicans for very real violations of law, norms, and the Constitution.
They know they can't even try this nonsense anymore because it no longer works in 2025.
Your party is finished. The Legacy Media is finished. And they did it to themselves.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's not what happened.
Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs. REALLY!
Government personnel received a strange request from the Trump administration in their inboxes just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday. It urged federal workers to quit their “lower productivity jobs” and seek employment in the private sector.
The mass email urged employees—including those at the Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A.)—to quit less than 24 hours after a plane crash in Washington D.C., which killed 67 people and was suspected to have been caused by air traffic controller staffing shortages.
“We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,” stated the email sent by the Office of Personnel Management, The New York Times reported. “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.”
In the form of Frequently Asked Questions, the email also encouraged employees who did choose to leave their jobs, to take on a second job, or to vacation to their “dream destination” while still on the payroll before permanently leaving. That advice is contradictory to years old regulations that have prohibited federal employees from picking up second sources of income.
The late Thursday night email follows up on an earlier one which offered federal workers other incentives to abandon their job security, such as eight months of pay if they obliged by Feb. 6.
The Trump administration did not respond to a request for comment by the Daily Beast at time of publication.
The president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Nick Daniels, told the Times that it is “not yet clear” how the resignation program will come into effect.
Daniels, who is also the union representative for air traffic controllers, added that union workers are “concerned” about the consequences of losing “experienced aviation safety personnel during a universally recognized air traffic controller staffing shortage.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-emails-air-traffic-controlle
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That's not what happened.
That's not what happened.
You lose. Your party lost. Your party is dead.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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The Trump administration did not respond to a request for comment by the Daily Beast at time of publication.
Nobody responds to calls from the Daily Beast. They are a propaganda outfit and everyone ignores them.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Democrats destroyed California and they're losing power even in that state as we speak.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-los-angeles-great-again-210046594.h
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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The End of North America
Trump pulls the trigger on tariffs
Trump is Moe. Mexico and Canada are Larry and Curly. Click the link to see the Three Stooges:
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Paul Krugman / Jan 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of-north-america
I’ve been saying for a while that markets were far too complacent about Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico, believing that he wouldn’t follow through because it’s such a stupid, self-destructive idea. As I wrote on Jan. 22,
[S]o far markets have shrugged Trump’s tariff threat off, apparently in the belief that he won’t follow through. But why not? Economists would, if he asked, tell him that high tariffs on neighboring nations closely integrated with the United States will do major damage; businesspeople would say the same thing. But if Trump wants your opinion, he’ll tell you what he wants it to be.
I believe that the only thing that might dissuade him from destructive policies would be a severely adverse market reaction — which means that the lack of such a reaction, based on the belief that he won’t really do it, greatly increases the probability that he really will.
And he really did. The New York Times reports,
President Trump plans to move forward with imposing stiff tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on Saturday, in an attempt to further pressure America’s largest trading partners to accept deportees and stop the flow of migrants and drugs into the country.
In a news briefing on Friday, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the president would put in place a 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico, a 25 percent tariff on goods from Canada and a 10 percent tariff on goods from China.
Ms. Leavitt said the president had chosen to impose tariffs because the three countries “have all enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.”
“The amount of fentanyl that has been seized at the southern border in the last few years alone has the potential to kill tens of millions of Americans,” she said. “And so the president is intent on doing this.”
The tariffs are likely to initiate the kind of disruptive trade wars seen in Mr. Trump’s first term, but at a much larger scale.
I think you have to see “fentanyl” in this context as the equivalent of “weapons of mass destruction in the runup to the invasion of Iraq. It’s not the real reason; Canada isn’t even a major source of fentanyl. It’s just a plausible-sounding reason for a president to do what he wanted to do for other reasons — George W. Bush wanted a splendid little war, Donald Trump just wants to impose tariffs and assert dominance.
Also, although I’m not sure such things matter anymore, what’s the legal basis for these tariffs? U.S. trade law gives the president huge discretion to impose tariffs, but only for a specific set of reasons: economic injury from import surges (Section 201), national security (Section 232), unfair foreign competition (Section 301), dumping — sales below costs. Drug smuggling, especially imaginary drug smuggling, isn’t on the list.
The president can impose tariffs much more broadly if he declares a national economic emergency. But has he done that? Does 2.6 percent inflation and 4.1 percent unemployment sound like an economic emergency to you? And even if Trump gets around to declaring an economic emergency, what does fentanyl have to do with it?
As far as I can tell, there’s a real possibility that Trump’s new tariffs will face a court challenge, and that he will lose. I’m not an expert on trade law, but I do know a bit, and this looks flatly illegal to me.
But even if these tariffs are blocked, or Trump finds some way to declare victory and call them off, the damage will be immense.
As I wrote the other day, in the three decades since NAFTA went into effect, North Ameri
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Nobody cares what Paul Krugman thinks.
He hasn't had a correct prediction in 20 years.
Also, unchecked drug smuggling from the wide open southern border is all Trump needs to call an emergency. Nobody will challenge this because nobody can challenge this.
Enjoy your weekend.
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Quote:Fentanyl is the Trumptards' drug. Trump wants to preserve his base by keeping the most worthless Americans alive and voting. Most of America's problems with drugs and drug cartels could be fixed by making drugs legal, which would destroy the high prices cartels can charge while, simultaneously, ridding America of drug-taking Trumptards. Making gluttony, tobacco, and alcohol legal has been very helpful in ridding America of older Trumptards who are likely to vote. Making all drugs legal would speed up the process by killing them at a younger age. Trumptards are unlikely to listen to experts telling them drugs are bad since they don't listen to warnings about tobacco, for example. Trumptards feel that "freedom" means to live and die stupidly.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares what Paul Krugman thinks.
He hasn't had a correct prediction in 20 years.
Also, unchecked drug smuggling from the wide open southern border is all Trump needs to call an emergency. Nobody will challenge this because nobody can challenge this.
Enjoy your weekend.
Would making drugs legal destroy drug cartels?
It would create a significant problem for the cartels. They would lose much of their income.
https://www.google.com/search?q=would+making+drugs+legal+destroy+drug+
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares what Paul Krugman thinks.
He hasn't had a correct prediction in 20 years.
Also, unchecked drug smuggling from the wide open southern border is all Trump needs to call an emergency. Nobody will challenge this because nobody can challenge this.
Enjoy your weekend.
You really are losing your mind, aren't you?
I think you need to call a suicide hotline.
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Quote:It is a certainty that I will continue beating up Trumptards, ones like Rush Limbaugh, rewarded the medal of freedom from Trump because he would die from tobacco, or my fat Trumptard neighbor who died of gluttony (diabetes killed him), or the Trumptard neighbor who was killed by her son, also a Trumptard who was arrested by Baytown's police for drug possession. Trumptards are killing themselves without admitting that "freedom" to do as they please is incompatible with health and longevity.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You really are losing your mind, aren't you?
I think you need to call a suicide hotline.
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6ix, you have several markers for an early death: alcohol, tobacco, diabetes, and paranoia or all around mental dysfunction. Quoting you:
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Wouldn't take much for an A.I. to kill me if it wanted to. It could just hack into my insulin pod and give me 50 units and I'd be dead within hours, likely unable to do anything in time to save myself by the time I noticed something was very wrong since my brain would probably just flip off like a light switch with a dose like that.
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Trumptard "freedom" means doing whatever stupid thing pleases them, with consequences ignored.
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Obviously, 6ixStringJack won't understand that Trump is showing mental illness in the way he handled a tragedy. Nevertheless, Trump is nuts:
Trump Takes Questions From Reporters At Briefing After Plane-Helicopter Crash
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You really are losing your mind, aren't you?
I think you need to call a suicide hotline.
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We're wondering when you're going to start.
Your existence here has been nothing but an embarrassment to you and to your cult.
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(6ixStringJack, Trump can extort $10 billion from Paramount. The Winds of Change are blowing.)
Paramount may reportedly settle Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against CBS so his administration doesn’t try to block its planned merger with Skydance
By Alena Botros | January 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM CST
https://fortune.com/2025/01/31/paramount-trump-cbs-60-minutes-settleme
nt-skydance-merger/
Donald Trump sued CBS for its “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris days before his Election Day victory. Now, CBS’ parent company Paramount is in talks to settle, according to the New York Times. If it does settle, that would make it the third mega media company to do so in a matter of months.
During her presidential run, Kamala Harris sat for an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired in October on CBS. It was not a live broadcast. Then, her rival Donald Trump sued CBS for $10 billion in damages, accusing it of deceitful editing. CBS and “60 Minutes” said the claims were false. That was before Trump won the election and returned to the White House.
Now, CBS’s parent company Paramount is reportedly in talks to settle with Trump, according to the New York Times. Discussions between their representatives are underway, three people with knowledge of the talks told the outlet.
Paramount executives reportedly think settling would keep the Trump administration from blocking or delaying its planned multibillion dollar merger with Skydance, several people with knowledge of the matter told the publication. Paramount and Skydance reached a deal to merge in the summer, but there has been some opposition. Skydance is an entertainment company run by David Ellison, son of Oracle’s billionaire cofounder Larry Ellison.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that executives were holding internal conversations about settling, citing people familiar with the matter. Executives at both companies reportedly think Trump’s problem with CBS would make the review process for the planned merger harder, per the Wall Street Journal. To be clear, no deal has been reached and such talks don’t always result in a deal.
Paramount did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.
Still, Paramount’s controlling shareholder and chair Shari Redstone is in favor of settling, according to two people with knowledge of her thinking, per the New York Times. Paramount was founded by her father, Sumner Redstone. The merger would end the Redstone family control, but it wouldn’t come cheap. Shari would benefit from the sale of her stock.
Whatever happens, the news comes less than two months after Disney reached a settlement with Trump in his defamation case against ABC News and its anchor George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos said on air that Trump had been found civilly liable for rape — but really, Trump had been found liable for sexual abuse. The company agreed to donate $15 million to Trump’s future presidential foundation and museum and an additional $1 million for his legal fees. ABC News and its star anchor would publish a statement saying it regretted the remarks made about Trump.
Separately, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Meta agreed to pay about $25 million to settle a lawsuit from four years ago. Trump filed the suit after the company and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg locked his social-media accounts following the Jan. 6 riot; $22 million from the settlement would reportedly go toward Trump’s presidential library and the rest to legal fees, but Meta wouldn’t admit wrongdoing.
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The tariffs that President Donald Trump said he’ll impose Saturday on imports from Canada, Mexico and China would reignite inflation and deal a significant blow to an economy that has been chugging along, economists said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/01/trumps-tariffs-economy
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President Trump's planned tariffs could effectively tax the average U.S. household an extra $830 this year, an analysis from the nonpartisan nonprofit Tax Foundation finds.
By the numbers: The foundation estimated Friday that Trump's proposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as 10% tariffs on China, would shrink the economic output of the U.S. by 0.4% and increase taxes by $1.2 trillion between 2025 and 2034.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-taxes
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Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One
Did Musk’s alleged effort to access the government’s payment systems have Trump’s blessing? Or was he going rogue? Either scenario is bad.
By Greg Sargent | January 31, 2025
https://newrepublic.com/article/191014/trump-elon-musk-treasury-purge
Typically only a small number of career officials control Treasury’s payment systems. Run by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, the sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to households, businesses and more nationwide. Tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people across the country rely on the systems, which are responsible for distributing Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to government contractors and grant recipients and tax refunds, among tens of thousands of other functions.
Former officials I spoke with were at a loss to explain why Musk would want such access. They noted that while we don’t yet know Musk’s motive, the move could potentially give DOGE the power to turn off all kinds of government payments in a targeted way. They said we now must establish if Musk is seeking to carry out what Trump tried via his federal funding freeze: Turn off government payments previously authorized by Congress. The White House rescinded the freeze after a national outcry, but Trump’s spokesperson vowed the hunt for spending to halt will continue. The former officials are asking: Is this Treasury power grab a way to execute that?
“Anybody who would have access to these systems is in a position to turn off funding selectively,” said Michael Linden, a former OMB official who is now director of Families Over Billionaires, a group fighting Trump’s tax cuts for the rich. “The only reason Musk wants to get himself in there must be because he wants to turn some things off.”
These officials describe these systems as almost akin to a series of faucets. Congress, by authorizing payments, fills the tanks and decides where the water will ultimately flow. The team overseen by the now-departing Lebryk in effect is in control of the spigots, these officials said.
What also alarms these officials is that this is unfolding even as a debt ceiling crisis looms. When the government is on the verge of defaulting on its obligations, these officials tell me, it’s Lebryk and his team who carefully monitor the situation to determine, to the greatest extent possible, on what date it will no longer be able to meet its obligations. This team monitors the water levels, these officials say, noting that this is how Treasury knows what to say in those letters that periodically warn Congress that a breach is approaching.
As it happens, this is precisely why we want career, nonpolitical civil servants to be in charge of the spigots. To put it delicately, this is some really complicated shit, and we want the process to be administered in a totally nonpoliticized way. Letting someone like Musk anywhere near it risks corrupting it quite deeply.
“The payment systems are controlled by a small number of career officials precisely to protect them and the full faith and credit of the United States from political interference,” said Jesse Lee, who was a senior adviser to the National Economic Council under President Joe Biden. Or as Linden put it: “This is exactly the kind of thing you do not want political appointees getting involved in.”
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Trump Crash Rhetoric Knocked By 'Miracle On Hudson' Pilot
Jan 31, 2025, 1:50 pm EST
Pilot Sully Sullenberger, who famously landed a damaged plane on the Hudson River in New York in 2009, said he was "disgusted" but "not surprised" by President Donald Trump's point-scoring rhetoric surrounding this week's crash in Washington.
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became a national hero after calmly piloting his US Airways airliner onto the water following a bird strike, in an episode remembered as the "Miracle on the Hudson."
A 2016 film "Sully," starring Tom Hanks and directed by Clint Eastwood, additionally wowed audiences with its account of his emergency landing.
https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-crash-rhetoric-knocked-by-miracle-o
n-hudson-pilot-0637547a?refsec=topics_afp-news
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The American science funding catastrophe
By Scott Aaronson | Jan 30, 2025
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8609
It’s been almost impossible to get reliable information this week, but here’s what my sources are telling me:
There is still a complete freeze on money being disbursed from the US National Science Foundation. Well, there’s total chaos in the federal government much more broadly, a lot of it more immediately consequential than the science freeze, but I’ll stick for now to my little corner of the universe.
The funding freeze has continued today, despite the fact that Trump supposedly rescinded it yesterday after a mass backlash. Basically, program directors remain in a state of confusion, paralysis, and fear. Where laws passed by Congress order them to do one thing, but the new Executive Orders seem to order the opposite, they’re simply doing nothing, waiting for clarification, and hoping to preserve their jobs.
Hopefully the funding will restart in a matter of days, after NSF and other agencies go through and cancel any expense that can be construed as DEI-related. Hopefully this will be like the short-lived Muslim travel ban of 2017: a “shock-and-awe” authoritarian diktat that thrills the base but quickly melts on contact with the reality of how our civilization works.
The alternative is painful to contemplate. If the current freeze drags on for months, tens of thousands of grad students and postdocs will no longer get stipends, and will be forced to quit. Basic science in the US will essentially grind to a halt — and even if it eventually restarts, an entire cohort of young physicists, mathematicians, and biologists will have been lost, while China and other countries race ahead in those fields.
Also, even if the funding does restart, the NSF and other federal agencies are now under an indefinite hiring freeze. If not quickly lifted, this will shrink these agencies and cripple their ability to carry out their missions.
If you voted for Trump, because you wanted to take a hammer to the woke deep state or whatever, then please understand: you may or may not have realized you were voting for this, exactly, but this is what you’ve gotten. In place of professionals who you dislike and who are sometimes systematically wrong, the American spaceship is now being piloted by drunken baboons, mashing the controls to see what happens. I hope you like the result.
Meanwhile, to anyone inside or outside the NSF who has more information about this rapidly-evolving crisis: I strongly encourage you to share whatever you know in the comments section. Or get in touch with me by email. I’ll of course respect all wishes for anonymity, and I won’t share anything without permission. But you now have a chance — some might even say an enviable chance — to put your loyalty to science and your country above your fear of a bully.
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President Trump's planned tariffs could effectively tax the average U.S. household an extra $830 this year, an analysis from the nonpartisan nonprofit Tax Foundation finds.
Here's what your guy did...
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2024/08/14/chairman-smith-the-biden-har
ris-administration-has-made-cost-of-living-too-expensive/
Families Falling Behind on Bills: Over one-third of families (37 percent) paid a late fee in the past year.
Everything Costs More: Prices have increased 20.3 percent since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration.
Americans Making Less: Real wages and benefits have fallen 3.9 percent since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration.
Inflation Above Fed’s Target: For 40 straight months, inflation has been above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target.
Inflation Higher Than Wages: Inflation outpaced wages for 26 straight months under the Biden-Harris Administration.
Historic Interest Rates: Under the Biden-Harris Administration, interest rates hit their highest levels in 23 years.
Mortgage Costs 85% Higher: The monthly mortgage payment for a median priced new home has increased by $970 and is 85 percent higher than when President Biden and Vice President Harris took office in January 2021.
$1 Trillion+ Credit Card Debt: Credit card interest rates are at the highest level in more than three decades, while consumer credit debt has exceeded $1 trillion for five calendar quarters and the number of Americans struggling to pay credit card bills has increased to the highest level since March 2012. Nearly 11 percent of credit card balances are more than 90 days past due.
Shrinking Savings: Thanks to higher prices, families have spent the entirety of their pandemic savings by 2024, and they are able to save less of their income. At 3.4 percent, the personal savings rate is near its historic lows.
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(6ixStringJack, Trump can extort $10 billion from Paramount. The Winds of Change are blowing.)
Paramount may reportedly settle Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against CBS so his administration doesn’t try to block its planned merger with Skydance
Good. They've earned it.
Too bad for them that they joined a cult.
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Go fuck yourself, 6ixStringJack. Trump fired all of the upper echelon who control air traffic. He told all the lower level people to quit, 2,000,000 of them, starting at the beginning of this week. They have until the end of next week to make a decision. He is offering them 8 months of cash to quit. It is 8 months of vacation time. Some of them decided not to work the rest of the week in the control tower. Since Trump will be doing the investigation of himself and the accident, there won't be any facts if he can help it about what he did to the people who run the safety system. When some facts do come out, Trump and you will say the Truth is Fake. 6ixStringJack, Go Fuck Yourself.
FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities
https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/news/faas-diversity-push-includes-hiring
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The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which claims “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”
The FAA’s website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.
The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people.
Big Gay Pete again, huh? The idiot out of podunk Indiana who fucked up everything for years and was only hired because he enjoyed bouncing on his boy's dick.
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All eyes have been on the FAA and airline industry in recent days, after a plug door on a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5.
Good luck if you need to use planes in the near future.
The whole industry now is run by retards, idiots and the unqualified.
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Another close call ahead of FAA safety summit (March 15th, 2023)
Quote:(By March 15th, of 2023)
That makes 7 close calls, this year alone.
Biden nomination for FAA withdraws (March 27th, 2023)
I absolutely hate having to put a FOX link, but the other "news" articles only refer to big old mean Republicans keeping a black guy out without showing you any footage.
Here you go...
Biden's FAA pick makes shocking move after failing to answer simple questions
We got another one...
A medical plane carrying a child patient and 5 others crashes in Philadelphia, setting homes ablaze
https://apnews.com/article/philadelphia-pa-plane-crash-incident-9f5cfa
83125137bf523558cc3738a370
Now it ain't just Laken Riley you murdered when you voted for Joe Biden. How many more planes are going to fall out of the sky now because Democrats put a bunch of retards in positions they aren't qualified for?
And now you've got Mexican Airlines flying planes into civilians buildings like they were twin towers or something.
Until last night, I didn't really give a shit because I've never been on a plane and don't ever intend on using
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Quote:Most Trumptard behavior, and their failure to thrive in America, comes down to cowardliness and paranoia. Trumptards want Trump to make their nightmares go away. They are stupid enough to believe he can.
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And now you've got Mexican Airlines flying planes into civilians buildings like they were twin towers or something.
Until last night, I didn't really give a shit because I've never been on a plane and don't ever intend on using one, but now I get to think about random planes just falling out of the sky and crashing into my house?
This shit is all coming to a very quick end now.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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The Republican Party approve anything Trump does.
Pardoning all the J6 insurrectionists? Meh. Shutting down the NIH? Yawn. Huge tariffs on two of our most steadfast allies and neighbors? Whaddayagonnado? Firing everyone associated with investigating or prosecuting J6ers or Trump himself? Well, he's the president. Halting funding for programs that you yourselves authorized a few months ago? Everyone does it. Elon Musk and his crew mysteriously taking over the Treasury's payment system? It's all fine. We trust Elon. Threatening Denmark over Greenland? Boys will be boys. Removing mpox from the CDC site because it's mostly a virus of gay men? Huh. Starting up a scam crypto empire right before the inauguration? Man's gotta eat. Opening the floodgates on two California dams in winter and sending billions of gallons of water south to soak into a dry lakebed and be wasted—all on a whim? I'll have to get back to you. Pardoning the founder of the most notorious online drug trafficking site on the planet? Uh huh. Nominating half a dozen singularly unqualified nominees to run critical government departments? The president should get the staff he wants. Ending Secret Service protection for a few people he personally dislikes? Whatevs. Gulf of America? Why not?
With a few exceptions I can count on one hand, no Republican has raised so much as a peep about any of this. Trump is the boss and that's that. It's a poltroonish performance of astonishing depth.
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Quote:I've dealt with thousands of Trumptards and they all taught me the same lesson — every one of them. I won't tell you what it is but I will hint: Your problems are caused by your behavior, not by the President. But here is a problem that the President is causing:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
President Trump's planned tariffs could effectively tax the average U.S. household an extra $830 this year, an analysis from the nonpartisan nonprofit Tax Foundation finds.
Here's what your guy did...
Alienating allies and partners means “America First” will be “America Alone.”
By David Frum | February 1, 2025, 12:48 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/price-america-trump-
tariffs/681546/
Trump is single-handedly reneging on 80 years of American work to persuade others to trust and rely on the United States. He is remodeling the international image of the U.S. after himself: impulsive, self-seeking, short-sighted, and untrustworthy. First-term Trump might have been dismissed as an aberration, brought to office by a fluke of America’s archaic Electoral College. A returned Trump, this time empowered by a genuine popular-vote victory, cannot be so readily dismissed. He obviously represents something deep in American politics, something likely enduring, something that other countries must take into account.
Mexico and Canada must ultimately suffer whatever the U.S. imposes on them. They cannot relocate; they have few credible options. Mexico has learned from especially bitter experience that any attempt to strike its own international deals will be vetoed by the U.S., using force if necessary.
Canadians have had an easier time, summed up by the cynical local joke: “The Americans are our best friends whether we like it or not.” But other countries have more options.
Over the past five centuries, the Euro-Atlantic world has seen the rise of one great power after another: Habsburg Spain, Bourbon and Napoleonic France, Victorian Britain, Imperial and then Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union. Each of those powers was ultimately brought down because it frightened other powers into uniting against it.
The United States since 1945 tried a different way. It reconciled the world to its dominance in great part by using that dominance for the benefit of willing partners. The United States provided security, it opened markets, it welcomed the improving prosperity of fellow democracies and like-minded allies. Who would hazard the costs and dangers of uniting to topple such a benign hegemon—at least, so long as the hegemon remained benign?
In the 21st century, the United States faces a new kind of adversary. Past rivals might have matched the U.S. in wealth, technology, or military strength, but not in all three. China today is the nearest peer power the U.S. has faced since Americans battled the British Empire in the War of 1812. To balance China while keeping the peace, the U.S. will need more and better friends than ever before. Trump is doing his utmost instead to alienate and offend those friends.
“America First” means “America Alone.” This week’s trade wars are steps on the way to future difficulties—and, unless a great infusion of better judgment or better luck suddenly occurs, future disasters.
The geopolitical verdict on the first Trump presidency could be written with a breath of relief: “Bad as it was, it could have been worse.” On the present trajectory, the verdict on the second may not come with any relief at all.
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What does Trump really want?
What's the end game here?
the craziest thing is that it’s not even very clear what Trump wants to happen. the fentanyl thing is obviously an excuse, the flow of Canadian fentanyl into the US is insignificant. so what does he want? https://t.co/3ijwJUa0xr
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) February 2, 2025
Trump doesn't want anything. He just wants the tariffs. He's convinced they can raise vast sums of money that will let him enact tax cuts later this year, and he likes that. That's it. There's no 4-D chess. He just wants the money, and he either doesn't know or doesn't care that he's raising it from Americans, not foreigners.
And why Canada, Mexico, and China? For the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks: because that's where the money is. Those three countries account for nearly half of all US imports, so they're the ones that got held up.
There's no need to overthink this.
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When the 3 wealthiest men in America sit behind Trump at his inauguration, everyone understands that the billionaire class now controls our government.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/01/23/musk-bezos-zuckerberg-
inauguration-oligarchy/77852313007/
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Alienating allies and partners means “America First” will be “America Alone.”
That is not an accurate or honest assessment of what is happening now, and that will the the furthest thing from the outcome.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, go fuck yourself, you goddamn Nazi. Hitler at least had Mussolini on his side. Trump has no nation on his side.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Alienating allies and partners means “America First” will be “America Alone.”
That is not an accurate or honest assessment of what is happening now, and that will the the furthest thing from the outcome.
Trump’s Gitmo Detention Center Would Be Bigger Than History’s Worst Concentration Camps
By Pedro Gerson | Feb 02, 2025, 10:00 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/donald-trump-guantanamo-ba
y-gitmo-history-clinton.html
In a press conference on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will build a 30,000-bed detention center in Guantanamo Bay. His office also issued a memorandum.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/expanding-migr
ant-operations-center-at-naval-station-guantanamo-bay-to-full-capacity/
The Tule Lake Japanese internment camp, for example, had a capacity of around 18,000. If the Trump administration actually builds the detention camp in Guantanamo, it’ll double in size Auschwitz-Birkenau’s original design and be bigger than Dachau and Treblinka combined.
When Trump claims he needs more beds for detainees, it’s useless to point out that undocumented entries had dropped to one of the lowest levels in recent years by the end of 2024.
6ixStringJack, can you say gas chambers and crematoriums for Trump's Gitmo Detention Center? That way it does not get overfull.
"Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?"
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So we’re having a trade war — and even the Wall Street Journal, which normally finds a way to rationalize whatever Trump does, calls it “the dumbest trade war in history.” We have some real trade (and national security) issues with China, but China is getting off lightly; the brunt of Trump’s tariffs will fall instead on Canada and Mexico.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-can
ada-trade-economy-84476fb2?mod=hp_opin_pos_0
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Personnel affiliated with Elon Musk have sought access to a highly sensitive Treasury Department payment system. That system, which is maintained by non-political staff, disperses trillions of dollars each year.
Senator Wyden wrote in a new letter: “To put it bluntly, these payment systems simply cannot fail, and any politically-motivated meddling in them risks severe damage to our country and the economy. I am deeply concerned that following the federal grant and loan freeze earlier this week, these officials associated with Musk may have intended to access these payment systems to illegally withhold payments to any number of programs. I can think of no good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law would need access to these sensitive, mission-critical systems … The federal government is in a financially precarious position, currently utilizing accounting maneuvers to continue paying its bills since it reached the debt limit at the beginning of the year. I am concerned that mismanagement of these payment systems could threaten the full faith and credit of the United States.”
His letter continued: “The press has previously reported that Musk was denied a high-level clearance to access the government’s most sensitive secrets. I am concerned that Musk’s enormous business operation in China — a country whose intelligence agencies have stolen vast amounts of sensitive data about Americans, including U.S. government employee data by hacking U.S. government systems — endangers U.S. cybersecurity and creates conflicts of interest that make his access to these systems a national security risk.”
https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-answers-fo
llowing-report-of-musk-personnel-seeking-access-to-highly-sensitive-us-treasury-payments-system
Elon Musk’s lead hatchet man on his DOGE team was one of his first hires at SpaceX, Steve Davis — who also ran a frozen yogurt store in Washington DC. “I like to do something new about every six to nine months and a lot of them fail.”
He describes his relationship with Musk: “Look here, Davis, get this done!”
At a gathering of libertarian devotees of Ayn Rand, Davis said: “I know nothing about politics.”
At Twitter, Davis was credited for his “success in bringing costs down by any means necessary”:
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/01/wyden-warns-bessent-politi
cal-meddling-in-treasury-payments-risks-severe-economic-damage-to-u-s/
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Elon says he’ll shut down all payments to Lutheran charities
Does Elon Musk know what he is doing?
The @DOGE team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments
https://t.co/GabhBL7gxf
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885964969335808217
Crackpot Gen. Mike Flynn searched for grants to any organization with Lutheran in its name and declared them all corrupt. What does he have against Lutherans?
The Lutheran groups provide foster care, group homes, meals, and that sort of thing all over the country. You know, charity and humanitarian services.
So why does Elon say he's "rapidly" shutting down these "illegal payments"? There's nothing illegal about them and DOGE has no authority to stop them anyway. I assume he's just fluffing Flynn, but you never know. Does he really plan to just stop Treasury from writing checks to groups he disapproves of?
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Out of the blob that SECOND just posted, this here is the scary part
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The federal government is in a financially precarious position, currently utilizing accounting maneuvers to continue paying its bills
Well, maybe the answer to that scary situation is to shut off the tap to money wasting programs, eh?
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:How about shutting off the tap for Social Security and Medicare to all Trumptards? And states controlled by Trumptard governors, i.e. West Virginia and Indiana, deserve to have shut off their Federal funds. They are a waste of money.
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Out of the blob that SECOND just posted, this here is the scary partQuote:
The federal government is in a financially precarious position, currently utilizing accounting maneuvers to continue paying its bills
Well, maybe the answer to that scary situation is to shut off the tap to money wasting programs, eh?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, go fuck yourself, you goddamn Nazi. Hitler at least had Mussolini on his side. Trump has no nation on his side.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Alienating allies and partners means “America First” will be “America Alone.”
That is not an accurate or honest assessment of what is happening now, and that will the the furthest thing from the outcome.
Don't lose your mind now, boy.
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6ixStringJack, can you say gas chambers and crematoriums for Trump's Gitmo Detention Center? That way it does not get overfull.
Sounds economical and efficient. Maybe you should be working for DOGE.
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