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Francisco 2.0

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  1. Paid $50k finders fee on top of the cost of the vehicle. Sideswiped by a fucking scooter caused the vehicle to be "totaled". And insurance won't cover the full cost.
  2. Dude, effective at noon on Jan 20, if MAL gets damaged, it will get fixed or rebuilt courtesy of Uncle Sam. Or some oligarch kicks in $100 million into a Trump crypto coin or whatever. Shit, maybe they just hand the money over to Trump on TV; it's not like anything is going to happen to either of them
  3. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-staff-musk-conflict-00200311
  4. Pre-covid, I took my parents and family on a 2 week road trip to the northeast. One of the places dad wanted to see was the Air Force museum in Dayton. The Air Force One that carried Kennedy's casket back to DC is one of the exhibits. They actually had to take a saw to a partition on the inside of the plane to get the casket inside. Bottom pic is where the cut was made; the partition is wider at the bottom. The saw marks were covered up with some silver metal trim afterwards. Francisco Jr. Ms. Francisco and Dad: And the interior picture where the cut was made. Not my pic; I thought I had taken one of this, but alas. Pic courtesy of the Air Force museum website:
  5. This might be one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever read on this fine forum, and I've been around now for [checks notes] 13 years or so.
  6. Somewhere, a MAGA senator or rep is sitting up and taking notes:
  7. Politico has the article, but for some reason, I can't paste a URL here any longer. Aside from that, here's a heartwarming story: Your next congressperson just got pardoned
  8. Well, sure. But the sale of Trump branded "freedom masks" will be acceptable.
  9. Well, yeah, but you see, the silk road guy had quite a collection of bitcoin. Assuming he still has access to them, I'm guessing there will be a nice chunk of change headed to the Trump Presidential Library fund.
  10. Or I. Or anyone I work with. And most, if not everyone here. But the rules really don't apply to him. Shit, nothing does. He's a convicted felon, and one can argue "see! he's not above the law!". Yes, yes he is. Wake me up when he suffers any consequences of, well....anything.
  11. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/21/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge/
  12. He's such a piece of shit. All he knew is they were J6 "hostages" and needed freed. So, an EO was shoved in front of him, he signed it...and here we are.
  13. I asked my fed wife if it does; the EO excludes (paraphrasing) "positions of public safety" from the hiring freeze. So...yeah. Her agency had a really nice gig in Houston that she had been strongly encouraged to apply for; we talked about it last week, and I told her that it might not be available after the 20th. Her agency had mulled this possibility over, and their counsel felt that as long as the job was listed/made available prior to the 20th, then it would still be open after a potential EO for a hiring freeze, as in past hiring freezes. Nope. The EO shut down any opening (and as we saw upthread, job offers as well) nation-wide, except for "public safety".
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