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Bojack

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  1. Would be so refreshing if the response to that was "so the fuck what?" but it'll be some jihad bullshit with firings, special sessions, investigations, and rolling over.
  2. This shows one of the ways that we're worse off than Idiocracy and that we'd kill to have President Camacho right now. Instead of the smartest man, Trump gets the richest man to solve all our problems. Then there are no consequences for Elon's failure. If Not Sure failed, he was to be killed by Beef Supreme with a flamethrower.
  3. The guy that's really in charge of this abomination of an administration that you voted for threw up nazi salutes at the inauguration, you nazi dumbfuck.
  4. Fucking national disgrace. A real low point in our nation's history.
  5. When I was working in Columbia, South Carolina back in 2003, many of the convenience stores would have "prayer lists" by the register. You were invited to write the name of a person and what you wanted some circle of weirdos to pray about on their behalf. I would write on there about my friend Jeff Spicoli who needed prayers for his substance abuse. If I ever encounter something like that again, I'll ask for prayers for my friend Avon Barksdale and his legal troubles.
  6. Everything is so fucking broken. There's just no way to adjust my expectations low enough. No matter where you are. No matter if you're corrupt or even human trafficking scum, Donald Trump will come to your rescue if only he can extract some favor or if you say you like him. But some park ranger or special education student? Fuck off, parasite!
  7. I think they're in a hurry for all sorts of reasons. This is perhaps one of them. If I remember correctly, you're someone that was thinking a second Trump term wouldn't be so bad. This isn't meant as an attack, but how do you feel now? Do you think there's some chance we somehow don't have elections in 2026 or 2028? I expected unbelievably awful from Trump 2 but it's been worse than I expected so far.
  8. For one thing, Trump's demand that the US get 50% of Ukraine's mineral resources. I know they've been successful in flooding the zone to where no scandal or outrage or absurdity gets the attention it should but I feel that demand is a real low point in our nation's history.
  9. This right here. Some of the more chilling things I've heard from the new oligarchs are when they acknowledge there will be "temporary hardship" or that things will be painful during their process of destroying everything before they rebuild it. It certainly doesn't sound like people that are willing to lose power in midterms next year or in 2028. They're also not seeing themselves in sharing those hardships or willing to give away their fortunes.
  10. Or this.
  11. All done by Donald, Elon, and the nazi kids, people who have no appreciation for National Parks or nature. People who have never had a real job and look down on the very idea of work itself.
  12. Seems like Anastasis has finally found politicians in our 2 party system that he openly supports.
  13. He transferred between agencies. He went from USDA to DHS then back to USDA recently.
  14. A huge part of why this is such a clustercuss is that it's being done by people that have never had a real job. Trump, Elon, and the nazi kids don't value work itself. They all have grossly distorted views of leadership. They remind me of the Fyre Fest brat. It's nowhere near enough to have some bright idea. People with skills have to labor to make anything worthwhile happen. They're like many of our most dim-witted right wing posters, there's just not a job out there that they respect. They respect ownership and capital. On this board, it's often we see workers dismissed as burger flippers, button pushers, low skilled, entry level, replaceable, lazy, deserving low pay or no pay, etc...This is the mentality of Dotard and Musk.
  15. I remember hearing a news story several years ago about regular press conferences that Putin holds where commoners come forward and tell him of some problem they're having like a road in disrepair, broken down tractor, or whatever. Putin will then make a grand gesture of fixing their troubles and Russian state media will cover it. I expect we'll be getting some of that soon with these people pleading with Trump and Elon.
  16. Let's not forget they already butchered it.
  17. Pretty much that Limbaugh, Fox and all that have been enormously profitable by validating people's ugliest feelings. It's like state media but it doesn't require support of the state because the rubes eat it up. That along with the diminishment of traditional press.
  18. A decent thoughtful person might respond: Apologies, Troph. I misunderstood and made a hasty assumption. I'm glad you're better and the ketamine helped. Something tells me Anastasis will do otherwise.
  19. If our news media had a shred of its supposed leftist leanings, you'd be seeing this kind of story wherever you looked. Even if what remains of our press were purely concerned with profit, it would be inescapable. Good luck finding it anywhere but Surly. They could add to it an accounting of the billions Elon gets in government contracts. Michael Corleone : Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom? [Tom nods] Michael Corleone : And they might like a story like that. Tom Hagen : They might, they just might. Except they won't. Because they're long since non-existent or they're part of this caper.
  20. This is the biggest motherfucking crock of revisionist shit. The only significant, sizable opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was from the left. Sorry that your liberal neighbors only kept their No War signs up for 10 years or whatever but you're a low down, witless, lying troll that's quick to fling petty insults like duh, duh goldfish brain. You have 24,000 posts on this website. That is a sad pathetic waste of time for someone that has ever in his life said to anyone else, "go touch grass." Fuck off.
  21. Aside from the long hours, hard work, and low pay being reasons why American citizens won't be rushing to fill those vacated construction jobs, there's also the fact that construction is skilled labor. I spent about 10 years working for a plumbing contractor as a supervisor. We did nothing but new apartments. We'd have subcontractor piece work crews of maybe 4 guys that would do all the top-out and water pipe on a job. They could do an entire 8 unit floor of top-out (the drainage system) with 2 or 3 bathrooms per unit in a day. That's all the time they got between the framers standing up walls and another crew of framers returning to lay out floor trusses for the floor above. This work included drilling all the holes for drains and vents, putting all the materials in the building, installation itself, plus things like nail plates and strapping. The same top-out crew would later fall back to the more finished units and do the water pipe as well. They were also required to test everything for us to get our city inspections. The crew you had made all the difference in the world. They were elite, highly skilled workers that would require years of training to even begin to replace. Almost none of them were here legally. We also had specialized tub setters, gas pipers, ground rough crews, fixture setters. My job was pretty much to make sure the sub crews that did the actual work had materials and everything else they needed and weren't burdened by distractions like repairs or dumbass jobsite politics. Other trades like framing, electrical, HVAC, roofing work the same way and all have their sub specialties. You will never replace people like this. To me, the idea that you can take someone with no previous training, bring them to a jobsite, point to a pipe-threader and a pile of materials and have them install a bunch of gas pipe is the most absurd, disconnected notion in all of this bullshit. I'm sure it's much the same in all sorts of work that often gets labeled as unskilled. These work forces are built over time and new people are integrated into them as necessary. You can't have abrupt absolute turnover without a complete halt to production even if you had legions of willing workers.
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