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9 minutes ago, troph said:

JD’s not going to bring reason and accountability if he rises to power. He’s arguably more dangerous because he can look the part of a traditional politician. 

And, he actually understands and probably better knows how to implement the P2025 agenda.

HOWEVER, unlike Trump, he can't cover it all with a veneer of "hilarious bigotry" and would be massively unpopular.

I think things would actually be worse under Vance, but I am also relatively certain it would mean the complete electoral destruction of the GOP.

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29 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Oh no big deal- just Trump and Project 2025 assholes usurping the power of the purse from Congress and creating a constitutional crisis. It’s Day 9

It'll go to the SC who will rule in favor of the President having spending authority.  Without spending authority, Congress is no longer necessary.  Think of all the money saved by eliminating Congress!

 

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2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

It'll go to the SC who will rule in favor of the President having spending authority.  Without spending authority, Congress is no longer necessary.  Think of all the money saved by eliminating Congress!

 

They'll probably do this, but it is diametrically opposed to their reasons for dismantling the administrative state.  At least the ostensible, political philosophy reasons:  that Congress impermissibly delegates its authority to executive agencies and that is undemocratic.

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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

And, he actually understands and probably better knows how to implement the P2025 agenda.

HOWEVER, unlike Trump, he can't cover it all with a veneer of "hilarious bigotry" and would be massively unpopular.

I think things would actually be worse under Vance, but I am also relatively certain it would mean the complete electoral destruction of the GOP.

I’ve given up the hope that GOP is long term turbo fucked. Unless a state like Texas, Florida or Ohio flips reliably we are in deep doo doo. That doesn’t even consider the internal gerrymandering of state congressional districts that further compounds the issue. GOP has a broader territorial reach in our modern electoral politics. 

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Just now, troph said:

I’ve given up the hope that GOP is long term turbo fucked. Unless a state like Texas, Florida or Ohio flips reliably we are in deep doo doo. That doesn’t even consider the internal gerrymandering of congressional districts that further compounds the issue. GOP has a broader territorial reach in our modern electoral politics. 

You raise a valid point about the subtle GOP takeover of state legislatures and congressional delegations.

But, at least at the federal level, I think the GOP is going to have a massive problem on their hands when they lose Trump, however that occurs.  Once they can't cover this shit with "hilarious bigotry," they're going to have a rough time and the more insidious portions of their agenda will be more front and center.

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You sure about that?  It seams like he's accomplishing the things he said he was going to accomplish?  Is he incompetant?  Or a national terror?  Y'all are all over the place.

Do you want to know who Trump is? He’s this guy:

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He’s just signing whatever shit is placed in front of him. He doesn’t read the EOs. He understands next to nothing about them. As long as he’s able to line his pockets he doesn’t give AF what insane policy is put in place. Therefore, he’s both a moron and a national terror.
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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

You raise a valid point about the subtle GOP takeover of state legislatures and congressional delegations.

But, at least at the federal level, I think the GOP is going to have a massive problem on their hands when they lose Trump, however that occurs.  Once they can't cover this shit with "hilarious bigotry," they're going to have a rough time and the more insidious portions of their agenda will be more front and center.

Until the democrats learn to fight back I just don’t see it. I mean shit they are maddeningly silent right now. Just a bunch of political imbeciles. 

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Fight Come At Me GIF by Indiana Jones
 

this scene is the dems - fancy ideas the best ideas and they think it’s enough. they fail to realize they brought a knife to a gun fight and are done before the fight starts. 

learn how to fight stop assuming the pure ideas will win the day. 

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7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

just a fyi for mags ...

California is the largest contributor of tax revenue to the federal treasury by far.
 
In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it received.
 
Louisiana took $34.5 billion more federal dollars than it paid.

 

1 hour ago, Nivek said:


It has always been this way. California is basically keeping several other states a float but no Republican will ever know or admit this.

yeah, and yet they cheer on, re: Texags, the notion that California should secede. Cutting loose the 5th largest economy in the world doesn't seem like a good idea.

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16 minutes ago, troph said:

Until the democrats learn to fight back I just don’t see it. I mean shit they are maddeningly silent right now. Just a bunch of political imbeciles. 

Well, I think a lot of this shit is going to turn out to be massively unpopular.  But Trump is a genius at deflecting blame and dodging accountability.

I think it comes home to roost on whoever replaces him.

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1 hour ago, troph said:

JD’s not going to bring reason and accountability if he rises to power. He’s arguably more dangerous because he can look the part of a traditional politician. 

Vance worries me more than Trump.  He can push all the same buttons with the masses, and he's not stupid.

Trump is a moron who is being used by bad people without even comprehending it.

Vance is not a moron, he's one of the bad people, and he's happy to let himself be used.  I think that's even more dangerous.

I hear a lot of people calling Trumpism a cult of personality, and it 100% is that.  But this one won't die with its leader.  The infrastructure that sold Trump to the masses will remain intact, and it will sell them the next chapter of the same book.  Probably many more times.

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23 hours ago, F250 said:

I forgot that you are the Salesforce tech support guy that peddles misinformation in the CR.

Your life has been a waste.

A bit of an aside, but the market seems to love Salesforce's AI story as they are at $366 (up 5.5%) and looking to break their all-time high PR. Stassney, are you mega rich from accumulating the stock for a decade or what?

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25 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Vance worries me more than Trump.  He can push all the same buttons with the masses, and he's not stupid.

Trump is a moron who is being used by bad people without even comprehending it.

Vance is not a moron, he's one of the bad people, and he's happy to let himself be used.  I think that's even more dangerous.

I hear a lot of people calling Trumpism a cult of personality, and it 100% is that.  But this one won't die with its leader.  The infrastructure that sold Trump to the masses will remain intact, and it will sell them the next chapter of the same book.  Probably many more times.

It was a cult of personality but now it’s not. Project 2025 is the platform and the philosophy is trumpism. 

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6 minutes ago, troph said:

It was a cult of personality but now it’s not. Project 2025 is the platform and the philosophy is trumpism. 

Yeah.  The conservative media empire used Trump to create a cult of personality because it expedited their goal.  But this has its genesis in the Tea Party and beyond.  This is the culmination of about 30 years of work by a bunch of absolute ghouls, and I don't think it's ending with Trump's demise.

 

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37 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Vance worries me more than Trump.  He can push all the same buttons with the masses, and he's not stupid.

Trump is a moron who is being used by bad people without even comprehending it.

Vance is not a moron, he's one of the bad people, and he's happy to let himself be used.  I think that's even more dangerous.

I hear a lot of people calling Trumpism a cult of personality, and it 100% is that.  But this one won't die with its leader.  The infrastructure that sold Trump to the masses will remain intact, and it will sell them the next chapter of the same book.  Probably many more times.

Vance has no appeal to anyone outside of the alt-right, and they don't even really like him because he looks kinda gay and has an Indian wife. We'd be lucky long-term if Trump died on the shitter and Vance had to take over the mantle of Trumpism. He might be temporarily more effective at implementing certain shit, but he would be much less resistant to normal political pressures than Trump's celebrity allows him to be and the media wouldn't slob his knob the same way they slob Trump's.

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1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

Vance has no appeal to anyone outside of the alt-right, and they don't even really like him because he looks kinda gay and has an Indian wife. We'd be lucky long-term if Trump died on the shitter and Vance had to take over the mantle of Trumpism. He might be temporarily more effective at implementing certain shit, but he would be much less resistant to normal political pressures than Trump's celebrity allows him to be and the media wouldn't slob his knob the same way they slob Trump's.

This is true.  Trump is the only one with a cult following.  DeSantis tried being Trump without the baggage and got nowhere.

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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If I worked in DEI for an organization who receives money from the federal govt, I would be working to transfer to a non DEI dept yesterday. It’s obvious that defunding DEI will be a requirement to receive those funds. 

 

he's going to drop a TON of new rules / regs on the woke universities 

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23 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

the media wouldn't slob his knob the same way they slob Trump's.

I kind of agreed with everything you said before this.  But I think the conservative media would slob his knob, or Vivek's, or Noem's, or anybody's, and it would work.  They are spoon feeding whatever they want to half the country.  They convinced people that being an intellectual is a bad thing, that Fauci is a monster, etc.  They can sell absolutely anything and anyone to that horde.

Hell, Joe Rogan and others have helped this party of crusty old white men somehow connect better with young people.  Even Latinos got on board.  The right completely controls the flow of information to half the country, to the point that they think anything contrary is a lie or a plot.  They can make JD Vance, or anyone else, a star.  If Joe Rogan decides that Vance is awesome, then he is.

And all of this will be compounded by the upcoming liberal exodus from this country.

I see nothing that points to anything but a very long run of power for them.

I want to be wrong.  But this is a perfect storm for them.  Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

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Let me explain how this pause on federal grants and assistance is going to go:

1. It’s going to hurt a lot of people and cause job losses and missed rent payments and service shutdowns. DJT voters will be hit hardest. 

2.  Some of it will be turned back on but worse and with his cronies grifting.

3.  DJT will announce that he fixed it just like he turned on the faucet in California and people will believe it. 

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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Quick update on the current status of higher ed: shit show

 

We already have students who have trouble with FAFSA, so this is going to take it to another level. This also impacts those students who have Pell Grants as well, which is just cruel.

I’m having an emergency meeting with all departments within my division (I’m the dean) on what to do in case ICE shows up on campus because faculty are freaking out. We in administration are having a hard time telling if students not showing up yesterday and today are because they were just lost on campus, forgot class began, or are scared of ICE showing up. 

I just thought of this. I don't work in financial aid but a student just told me yesterday she just got her financial aid cleared and she was hoping it would get disbursed before tomorrow's tuition deadline. I told her to contact the accounting office/accounts payable to tell them that FinAid is coming, and most likely it will be fine.................................. That answer just got a bit more complicated if she relies on a Pell Grant. 

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9 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

I just thought of this. I don't work in financial aid but a student just told me yesterday she just got her financial aid cleared and she was hoping it would get disbursed before tomorrow's tuition deadline. I told her to contact the accounting office/accounts payable to tell them that FinAid is coming, and most likely it will be fine.................................. That answer just got a bit more complicated if she relies on a Pell Grant. 

You also know that there is a 24 year old Liberty University graduate who is put in charge of some of the decisions because they volunteered as Trump organizer in one of the red states.

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17 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Quick update on the current status of higher ed: shit show

 

We already have students who have trouble with FAFSA, so this is going to take it to another level. This also impacts those students who have Pell Grants as well, which is just cruel.

I’m having an emergency meeting with all departments within my division (I’m the dean) on what to do in case ICE shows up on campus because faculty are freaking out. We in administration are having a hard time telling if students not showing up yesterday and today are because they were just lost on campus, forgot class began, or are scared of ICE showing up. 

I suppose the utlimate pulling up the ladder move would be for Boomers to basically shut down higher education in America, and force young people to take the shitty jobs being done by immigrants, all the while ensuring those in power can continue to wield their power until literally the last one fucking dies. 

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29 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If I worked in DEI for an organization who receives money from the federal govt, I would be working to transfer to a non DEI dept yesterday. It’s obvious that defunding DEI will be a requirement to receive those funds. 

This describes the non-profit that my wife works for to a tee.  They work in education and public health.  Every project has been shut down to scrub every mention of anything that could be construed to involve DEI.  They received instructions to remove all pronouns from signatures, not to discuss any issues regarding DEI on company email, and to remove from their personal social media any reference to the company as their employer (along with a plea to please consider the effect on the company and their colleagues when they post on social media). 
 

They’ve furloughed those who have USAID related projects and placed everything else federally funded on hold (except to change all materials that may offend the new administration).

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On 1/27/2025 at 8:11 AM, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

Plus, the $3 for a 10 cent hashbrown and the $4 coffee plus tax means you can get a nice breakfast at McDonalds for $20.  Thanks Biden

Potatoes are still cheap. Make your own hash brown. 
 

we need to, I don’t know, make America grate again. 

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2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

It'll go to the SC who will rule in favor of the President having spending authority.  Without spending authority, Congress is no longer necessary.  Think of all the money saved by eliminating Congress!

 

I also see SCOTUS vectoring off slightly in that decision to employ a unique interpretation of the commerce clause to require menstruation tents. 

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57 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I will never call it the Gulf of America. 

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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

I also see SCOTUS vectoring off slightly in that decision to employ a unique interpretation of the commerce clause to require menstruation tents. 

this too.

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

 

Clearly Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico was petty, and meant to invoke US dominance, but TBH, Gulf of America is a more accurate descriptor for this body of water because it is literally surrounded by South America, Central America, and North America.

That said, fuck it.  It will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me.

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16 minutes ago, Jatrain said:

This describes the non-profit that my wife works for to a tee.  They work in education and public health.  Every project has been shut down to scrub every mention of anything that could be construed to involve DEI.  They received instructions to remove all pronouns from signatures, not to discuss any issues regarding DEI on company email, and to remove from their personal social media any reference to the company as their employer (along with a plea to please consider the effect on the company and their colleagues when they post on social media). 
 

They’ve furloughed those who have USAID related projects and placed everything else federally funded on hold (except to change all materials that may offend the new administration).

Tell her to go work for World Vision, or according to this board, the Methodists. They are going to get all that money. Oh, you want food? Send your kids to Bible Study. Oh, you need plastic for your roof after the hurricane? Come and sit for a sermon.

It already happens, now it will just be sanctioned.

12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Potatoes are still cheap. Make your own hash brown. 
 

we need to, I don’t know, make America grate again. 

That is bad, even for this site, so of course I applaud you.

I love McDonalds hash browns. They should serve them all day.

Got a recipe?

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Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

Potatoes, grater, oil, heat, pan, pepper. 

The quality of hash brown requires skill with heat and pan. 
 

Never have come close to the crispness of McDonald’s hash browns, but I wonder if cooking them in oil twice has anything to do with their crispness, as it does with French fries.

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3 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

The quality of hash brown requires skill with heat and pan. 
 

Never have come close to the crispness of McDonald’s hash browns, but I wonder if cooking them in oil twice has anything to do with their crispness, as it does with French fries.

The other option is that every McDonald’s has an unlimited supply of fry cooks with the requisite skill or can teach it. 

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1 minute ago, Willfully Horn said:

The quality of hash brown requires skill with heat and pan. 
 

Never have come close to the crispness of McDonald’s hash browns, but I wonder if cooking them in oil twice has anything to do with their crispness, as it does with French fries.

Rinse and dry your hash browns to remove excess starch.  Dust with a bit of corn starch and mix well.  Fry in clarified butter.

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3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yeah, I know how to make them and do it here and then. But that taste.... Like old oil or something.

 

I agree. What I make does not taste like what they serve. 
 

was going to mention what cooter said above- mine always seem too wet (twss) and I envisage a day where I use a cheesecloth to squeeze the water out of the hash to see how that changes things. 

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15 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I agree. What I make does not taste like what they serve. 
 

was going to mention what cooter said above- mine always seem too wet (twss) and I envisage a day where I use a cheesecloth to squeeze the water out of the hash to see how that changes things. 

Soaking in water helps to bring out the starch so they fry up crisper.

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