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  1. Do you like your job at the call center? Refresh Reset
  2. It really is a national security issue if it helps even a few tens of thousand American farmers have the difference between a good year and a bad year, and keeps them in production and not shutting down and getting out of the farming business, so that down the road, if the shit hits the fan, we've got those farmers still chugging along that can help keep our food supplies going. For instance, this stuff is what USAID does and it helps use keep our agriculture chugging along. https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2024/04/18/usda-usaid-deploy-1-billion-emergency-food-assistance The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will deploy $1 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation funding to purchase U.S.-grown commodities to provide emergency food assistance to people in need throughout the world, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced today. “America’s farmers are the most productive and efficient in the world, and we rely on them to supply safe and nutritious food not only to our nation, but to the global community,” Secretary Vilsack said. “With many millions of people in dire need worldwide, the U.S. agricultural sector is well positioned to provide lifesaving food assistance. The United States produces more commodities than are consumed, and therefore has the opportunity to partner with USAID and extend this food to those in our global community who are struggling.” “During this time of staggering global hunger, America is extending a hand to hungry communities around the world – and American farmers are crucial to that effort,” said Administrator Power. “USAID is honored to collaborate with USDA to purchase, ship and distribute our surplus food supplies to people in urgent need across the globe.” In October 2023, USDA stated its intention to bolster efforts to combat global hunger by purchasing U.S.-grown commodities and working with USAID, the lead federal coordinator for disaster assistance, to ensure those commodities reach people in need around the world. An initial tranche of approximately $950 million will support the purchase, shipment and distribution of U.S. wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans – commodities that align with traditional USAID international food assistance programming. USAID will determine where the available commodities will be most appropriate for programming without disrupting local markets. USDA will purchase the commodities and transfer them to USAID for distribution.
  3. Yeah, for somebody who is some big on space, he seems to get really shy when asked why he doesn't take a trip into orbit on one of his own rockets. Almost as if it's a facade.
  4. I love that they are going with the Jack Kirby vibes. Really love that. Glad they are playing with design, even if this F4 is from a different universe.
  5. I honestly think the USAID stuff is personal for him. Think about if you grew up in a certain environment that you were mostly happy in, then something changed it fundamentally., and then decades later you got the chance to dismantle something that was a part of helping to fundamentally change the environment you grew up in, no matter how small it is (such as USAID in this case). It's like the Gen Xers in Russia who have a fondness for the Soviet Union, because in their minds things were somehow better (ignoring all of the other problems). They remember the good times, and right now a lot of them are faced with a "a big chunk of the world hates us, so fuck it, let's really give them a reason to hate us!". People get nostalgic when they get into their 40s and 50s.
  6. There was an article in the Followers of Christ thread in DT about it, or maybe I read it on another side, but we've got this cultural problem now where...for lack of a better phrase, "fuck you pay me" has taken hold. It's not even racial or political, and part of it is driven by social media, and it's especially odd given how so many think we are a "Christian nation" but we don't mind seeing other Americans suffer as long as we are okay. And it's being used against us - witness Leon trying to dismantle an agency that literally A) buys food from American farmers and goods from American companies that would otherwise not be produced or even rot (and by keeping those farmers going, it contributes to our national security) and B) shipping it overseas where it buys us some goodwill (good for American business), but also can help stabilize countries and help slow down refugee crisis (that could affect us here when we talk about immigration). Musk doesn't understand any of that. He doesn't understand that helping stabilize countries around the world is good for America and good for American business (not just our farmers). We have the military we have so that our companies can do business around the world. We have the aid programs that we have so that we can help stabilize countries and regions and keep their folks from trying to come here while also creating markets for our companies. It's like him wanting to take over Treasury payments - he doesn't understand why all of that is funneled through the government and not through a fucking app made by a private company, and he doesn't understand why so many people are getting Social Security payments every month and Medicare reimbursements. Or him wanting to abolish the Department of Education and public schools in general - he grew up a rich kid and sends his kids to private school, and he doesn't understand why everybody else doesn't do that. So for him I don't even know if he understands that Americans will suffer from the changes he is making, because he thinks everybody should be doing what he's doing.
  7. From that article https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ The 19 year old The coup has l ready happened. Musk’s people have the keys to the government. The President Musk memes aren’t memes, they are more true than people realize.
  8. Go to the West Coast. Almost 50% of people in Vancouver were born outside of Canada. It’s the kind of place that would make Musk shit his pants over them losing their culture to outsiders, but it’s a decent melting pot from the few times we visited my in-laws there. Canada is not the Trailer Park Boys. Well, parts are, but they sure as fuck couldn’t afford to live in the nice areas.
  9. There is also noise about banning it nationally somehow, and that’s the fucking bat signal for /r/DataHoarders to get to work and download every version they can find and post it aorund the internet.
  10. Sorry, I’ll put him on ignore as well.
  11. I don’t really like to make fun of the mentally ill for being mentally ill, except maybe OU fans, but people like him make it so easy when they fabricate conspiracy theories out of the dumbest shit
  12. Are Denmark and Canada preventing us from sailing the Arctic seas? Is there a reason to even talk about tariffs with them?
  13. GRU, there is absolutely nothing that justifies us making a move on Greenland. Hell, Denmark sent troops to Afghanistan with us after 9/11, and their troops were with us inAfghanistan from 2002 - 2021, longer than many other countries, and far longer than they needed to. If you’d fucking do your own research, you’d understand that the loudest voices pushing for us to move on Greenland all need lots of natural resources to make more money. But you types not only hate the free market, you don’t believe in doing your own research. If you did your own research, you’d wonder why Greenland is so important now to even talk about taking it, versus the first time around, and then a lightbulb would click over your head that “oh yeah the tech bros are investing heavily in AI and batteries and need to mine the shit out of Greenland”. But don’t worry, I’m sure tariffs against Denmark are coming.
  14. State of Texas bans it from government devices, along with some Chinese social media stuff. Private citizens can still access it, of course. There are rumblings elsewhere that they are going to try and block it for everybody, but also that there is resistance and Constitutional issues. https://m10news.com/texas-becomes-first-state-to-ban-chinese-ai-app-deepseek-and-social-media-platform-rednote/
  15. Based on how Canada reacted, and their move towards replacing American trade with European and Asian trade, it’s not just inflation, it’ll be job losses.
  16. Greenland is about making tech and mining companies more money with Greenland’s resources and you know this is not about our national security GRU. No country is fucking invading the US. GRU, I don’t know what it is about you types, but you hate the free market. Enough money would probably get Denmark to open up more resource extraction, and if you types cared about the Panama Canal so much, you’d push American companies to throw money at it like the Chinese did.But no, rather than let the free market do its thing, you’d rather try and use our military or economic power to have our way with small countries. If we did what people like you wanted, we’d be no different than the fucking Russians wanting to take Ukraine’s natural resources.
  17. Only 10% and according to a talking head on TV I saw in passing while waiting at shop earlier, a lot of the contracts with Chinese were already paid for, so the price increases will take longer. We moved really fast this morning to stop them. We can pretend it was because of what Canada and Mexico agreed to long before today, but when the stocks started dropping, there was a whole lot to finding out.
  18. I don’t know. They moved pretty fucking fast this morning when the stock markets started dropping. It had to have spooked the hell out of them. If we start getting close to summer or fall when various crops are being harvested and this happens again, with the prospect of American crops rotting away somewhere because we can’t ship them out, the markets will really tank. Theres also another issue - if Canada decides it’s worthwhile to cut out as much American aluminum and steel as possible, long term that’s going to fuck a lot of big American companies. This might be a card you get to play once, but if you play it again, you will make the worst case scenarios happen - Canada and Mexico will start looking to cut America out of their lives as much as possible.
  19. 1234. Normally this stuff is confined to the places that these types congregate and not out into the wide, wide world of the internet, because they know they’ll get mocked for being incels posting batshit stuff.
  20. All it takes is the markets dropping and American businesses being destroyed if the tariffs remained. And we all predicted well in advance that the markets would drop and American businesses would be threatened. My guess is there’ll be no more tariffs going forward.
  21. Just wait, Musk has infected Texas - Texas is setting up a DOGE agency modeled after Leon’s, and Texas is also establishing a Bitcoin reserve. Becauee let’s do thing that end up costing the taxpayers more while making people like Leon even richer.
  22. Now that Musk apparently has some control over Treasury payment systems, we know where things are headed - Bitcoin is going to go To the Fucking Moon!
  23. His lawyers admitted in court that Twitter is struggling to attract well-paying advertisers. Bitcoin took a bit of a hammering this morning with the tariff fuckery. There's talk of Canada and Mexico banning twitter. None of those things are good for President Musk. But on the bright side, VP Trump signed an EO that he says could be used by the government to buy into TikTok, so Leon will control TikTok as well.
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