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Goredho

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  1. There's a rural, working-class white-guy zeitgeist going on in entertainment. It's not inherently MAGA, but it does sell well to people who don't see 21st century progress as worth a damn, and that's a big overlap with MAGA. Taylor Sheridan is seen as having his finger on this pulse, much like Puff Daddy was seen as having his finger on the pulse of urban black culture. I don't care, fucking entertain me as the world burns.
  2. Funny enough I’m going on an Eastman buying spree before the tariffs really get up to speed. ETA tomorrow.
  3. Nine-nines of reliable stupidity
  4. SHAPE OF… A WEEPING CUNT BOIL!
  5. That’s not Kid Rock, that’s Mike Lindell in drag.
  6. I wonder how these pro-corporate, anti-government folks would react if the government shut down a business the moment it finds any evidence that a regulation had been violated? Boeing cut corners bringing the 757 max? Several hundred people died? Sayonara, bitches. You are no longer allowed to exist and thoughts and prayers to your employees. Somehow I don't think there would be the same zeal...
  7. I’m more likely to win Mr Congeniality in pursuit of the Masturbatory Arts.
  8. Based on my adolescent listening habits, it would have to be…
  9. MAGA’s Johnny Football.
  10. My hypothesis that scientists and scholars are just as susceptible to buzzword hype as executives and marketers has proven true.
  11. Surly shart poll... Do you try to salvage the underwear, throw it in the hamper for your wife to deal with or do you...
  12. While I totally agree, I don’t think Musk or Trump are the kind that explain themselves, provide transparency or feel the need to answer to anyone. There is a reason the founding fathers wanted a system of checks and balances. Because they were leaving a monarchy where power was consolidated into a single individual that answered to only themselves and whatever conscience they possessed.
  13. They also opened @NowThis in the 2020 Kobe death thread.
  14. I appreciate the data link. Thanks. Maybe adding a million out of work federal employees to the steady state of terminated employees in a year will be a blip for those employees and everyone else? Regardless, we will see soon enough. I was going by largest layoffs in the private sector for a single employer in a single year: IBM: Currently, the all-time record for the largest corporate job cut belongs to tech company IBM, which laid off 60,000 people in 1993, the same year it posted an $8 billion loss. Sears: Sears, Roebuck & Co. cut 50,000 jobs and closed 113 stores in 1993. Citigroup cut 50,000 jobs amid the 2008 financial crisis.
  15. This conversation is for everyone else.
  16. I have no problem with the TSA going away. Are they being targeted by DOGE? Most disagreements here seem to be over how federal government downsizing is carried out. I would like to see it done in a controlled and responsible fashion with A) empathy for people that are only guilty of accepting a job and doing what was asked of them in civil service and B) an eye on effects to the broader economy, jobs market and reliability of necessary government services. Those concerns seem to be an afterthought at best.
  17. I mean, for every $100 I made, the state was charged $150, so Utah was getting charged 150% of what I cost Thoughtworks. All of our contracts were for time and materials.
  18. Ok, I will defer to your expertise, but my margin was when I contracted through Thoughtworks to the state of Utah was 50%.
  19. The same people would get the jobs at 150-200% the cost to the government if their salary stays the same. The Deloittes and IBMs gotta eat, too.
  20. I honestly have no problem with the idea that the federal government needs a good trimming. It would be nice if this could be done in a throttled fashion, say over a couple years to "flatten the curve" of joblessness and all of its known and unknown effects and to provide for the ability to pause and pivot if/when damaging effects arise, but that runs into midterms. I imagine that is why this has been outsourced to our unelected modern-day Howard Hughes to execute. He need only answer to the President, not voters. The elected politicians can take credit for the good and avoid blame for the bad.
  21. Pay is treefiddy?
  22. Trump has already shown he will pause or backoff if he's given a reason to do it and a path that includes saving face. If a republican governor calls the White House and says this or that is going to harm too many people that vote the right way, Elon's efforts will be adjusted. Like, I seriously doubt Trump would allow the VA to be gutted and made worse. He wouldn't want to damage support among the military. So I doubt 75% of government employees are cut. Maybe it's 65%, maybe it's 30%. If it's 20 percent, it will be 600,000 people and an order of magnitude larger than the largest layoff in our nation's history. They don't have to get anywhere near 75% to create a massive amount of jobless Americans.
  23. Given that is Doge's stated goal, there is 0.0% chance that this will be anything other than the most massive layoff in our country's history. Will they wind up hitting the mark or exceeding it? Probably not, they are a government organization after all and we all know they can't do anything. But its still going to be disruptive to a lot of people's daily lives.
  24. There will absolutely be a butterfly effect.
  25. I don't disagree, but the "should we" and "how" debates are kind of pointless now. The gutting of the federal government and release of public sector workers into the market is happening, and it's not going to be a surgical procedure. It's gonna be a leg amputation with a sledge hammer and no painkillers. So... what are going to be the effects of that? Your previous post discussed that better.
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