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Francisco 2.0

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  1. Cross-posting this from the Trump's America thread, because its a different kind of Leopards Eating Faces. And I'm here for this.
  2. "In which the MAGA folk find out that Elon really didn't like them after all"
  3. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/26/california-farmers-trump-water-workers-00195839
  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/26/trump-voters-federal-benefits-food/? After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits
  5. Eh, he will be ok. But there are a looooooooot of soft targets in his orbit. Particularly loud, arrogant, and generally loathsome human pieces of shit targets that won't have the benefit of SS protection 24/7 in his administration. I'm thinking collateral damage.
  6. For at least a decade now, I've read and heard the name Soros as some kind of puppetmaster who was the ills of all society and was secretly running the legislative and executive branches of the federal government (when Dems were in charge). Today, the GOP has their very own version of this; the difference is he's actually running the show and bragging about it. And has no qualms on using his media megaphone in order to inflict as much pain and chaos as possible. And has received billions in government contracts and will use his influence to cripple any potential competitors to his business interests. But tell me all about this Soros bogeyman.
  7. Imagine the hijinks.
  8. But here's the thing: the GOP would willingly embrace and pass a CR double whatever was tanked on Wednesday of this week after January 20, because reasons.
  9. While this is terrible news, even if it had passed, RFK would have taken a scalpel to this or shifted the funds because of some theory that pediatric cancer was caused by immunizations, therefore this money would better for raw milk subsidies or some other bullshit.
  10. FYI, a deal was reached earlier today. I fully expect it to get torpedoed sometime this evening:
  11. I take a few days off, then catchup and go away. It's a fucking trainwreck with no end in sight. Some people like to gawk, some avert their eyes, some want to stare and wonder just how bad things will be. Some people crave the entertainment or just to watch the world burn. We do know this----literally anything and everything everything associated with this administration has no limits---morally, ethically, legally, whatever. There are no safeguards any longer. There's perhaps someone within the Trump high command that realizes how hypocritical they are using private email services over the stance that Trump and the GOP had less than 8 years ago. However, they have correctely surmized that it just doesn't matter any longer.
  12. I remember way back in 2016 when private email servers were a major, major issue. Now it's trans and brown people and the price of eggs. Shrugs. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217
  13. Last night, my wife was really beside herself. A refresher; she's a fed and she has to report for work whenever there is a shutdown---she can't sit at home, pick up a new hobby, whatever---her job requires her to show up for work whenever she is scheduled. For no pay, until the shutdown is resolved, then she will receive the backpay. It's not the first shutdown she's ever experienced in her 20 years as a fed, nor will it be the last. What is really grating to her, however, is this was totally created by a non-elected person with a dubious immigration history of his own with a platform that decided to bully the GOP into it. Hell, even Trump was fine with the CR up until the moment he was bullied by Musk. Imagine that. Musk bullied Trump. A man that receives billions from the federal government (oh, and as a contractor, his various companies will receive no money from the feds during a shutdown) has decided that the government needed shutting down, and turned his followers to elected officials who decided that by God, we have to do this because Elon and his congregration have told us to. That's where we are as a country. It's bad enough that hoping for Trump's death was one possibility into getting things back to a semi-normal place; now we have to hope for Musk's, too.
  14. Tell us more about this Walmart, plebe.
  15. Imagine being undocumented, having lived in the US since you were 10 months old. You're 33 now, married and gainfully employed. Yet, your wife's family are all MAGA. And they don't believe that you are in danger of getting deported. Oh, and your congressional rep is MTG. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/us/trump-immigrant-deportations-rome-georgia.html?searchResultPosition=1&login=email&auth=login-email&login=email&auth=login-email
  16. There's a few of my former high school classmates who are postal employees and hard-core MAGA. I'm sure they are thrilled. I can't muster the energy to have a shred of concern for what might happen to them.
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