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1 minute ago, softlynow said:

So, now they’re OK with paying  for Gazans’ conoms?

This was wild yesterday. I couldn’t find in the previous spending bills anything mentioning condoms and Gaza. New press sec is the same lying shit as the previous trump ones or was she right?

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11 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

Y'all are looking at this all wrong.  These things that the Trump administration is doing are good things.  They are so blunt forced, so arcane and idiotic that a LOT of people are going to get hurt, including a LOT of Magats.  It's the only way they are going to learn.  Get out the popcorn and let them all fucking burn.

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4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Quick observation from yesterday. I still do some work in Indian Country. Tribal governments are heavily dependent on federal grants and loans to provide services to their people. Most of the big tribes yesterday made public statments about fear and uncertainty for the future of some of their more important programs especially for youth and the elderly. Most rural Natives in Oklahoma are MAGA af, especially the 1/16 blood quantum types. The vast majority of commentary in response was about how it's Biden's fault for bankrupting the economy, or some other nonsensical word salad about Biden, democrats, the economy, and the defecit. The thinking is that the freeze was necessary because of Biden. That is how these people think and why I have abandoned all hope for this country.

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

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20 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I used to think that too but I was wrong. I’m even hearing it now in ordinary conversations with people I used to think were decent people. A bunch of excuses and joy in seeing him “shake things up.” It’s over, there’s no coming back from this, these people would cheer them on if my wife is hassled by ICE at her school because of her last name and those of the children she serves. Gotta be safe right?

It's still not the majority of people in this country. Oklahoma, well . . . 

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31 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

We'll agree to disagree.

Yeah taking the political temperature of the whole country based on Mobilehoma and Texas is a bold strategy.

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4 hours ago, 'stache said:

I get that some types of work are more amenable to remote work, and others work better in person, but it’s astonishing yet not surprising that it has become a left-right political issue. A republican administration saying that the entirety of a 2 million person workforce needs to be in person across the board is stupid beyond the pale. 

 

Maybe it's already been posted, but they truly believed that only 6% of the federal workforce actually worked in an office.

 

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/6-percent-of-federal-employees-work-in-the-office-fact-check/536-0b6e4537-677e-4bab-ac00-62e98c3824a8

 

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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa on Dec. 5 released a report criticizing current workplace practices, particularly remote work. Ernst was appointed as the chair of the newly formed Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus, a caucus that collaborates with an advisory group led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to reduce government waste.

According to the report, only 3% of the federal workforce teleworked daily before the COVID-19 pandemic. Ernst claims that now just 6% of federal employees work in-person full time, while nearly one-third are entirely remote. She has reiterated this claim on Fox News. 

 

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Sen. Joni Ernst claims only 6% of federal employees report to an office, but an August report from the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) contradicts this. According to an OMB report from August 2024, 10% of federal employees work fully remotely and 54% worked fully on-site because their jobs required in-person presence. 

There are 2.28 million federal government employees, OMB says.

The remaining 46%, about 1.1 million employees, were telework-eligible, meaning they could work remotely unless they chose to go into the office. Only 10% of employees were in fully remote roles, because they lacked a physical office to report to. According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), telework policies vary by federal agency and an arrangement is usually made between the employee and management on how often an employee can work remotely.

 

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Ernst’s 6% figure came from a survey conducted by the Federal News Network (FNN), which publishes news and analysis impacting federal employees, not official data. The study relied on self-reported and self-selected responses from 6,338 people who said they were federal employees. After Ernst’s report citing FNN’s study was released, the article was updated with an editor’s note explaining the data’s limitations and including OMB’s actual figures.

 

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14 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Republican leadership sucking turnip’s bunghole with all their might.

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The chair of the appropriations committee not knowing that the appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed by the President are in fact laws is something.

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53 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

Y'all are looking at this all wrong.  These things that the Trump administration is doing are good things.  They are so blunt forced, so arcane and idiotic that a LOT of people are going to get hurt, including a LOT of Magats.  It's the only way they are going to learn.  Get out the popcorn and let them all fucking burn.

Well I don't know the future, but I don't think they will ever learn. We had Trump I and they didn't.

Anyway Trump walked back the funding freeze so most people will not notice anything happened. And all of this will quickly be forgotten. And on it goes.

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1 hour ago, 'stache said:

Quick observation from yesterday. I still do some work in Indian Country. Tribal governments are heavily dependent on federal grants and loans to provide services to their people. Most of the big tribes yesterday made public statments about fear and uncertainty for the future of some of their more important programs especially for youth and the elderly. Most rural Natives in Oklahoma are MAGA af, especially the 1/16 blood quantum types. The vast majority of commentary in response was about how it's Biden's fault for bankrupting the economy, or some other nonsensical word salad about Biden, democrats, the economy, and the defecit. The thinking is that the freeze was necessary because of Biden. That is how these people think and why I have abandoned all hope for this country.

They have all but destroyed education and any critical thinking skills that are associated with it to make some drones. Same for why the dipshits keep voting for longterm incompetents in Texas who have enriched themselves and created a local oligarchy off the people of Texas while blaming the everyone who isn't in decision making (and short-term) roles.   

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57 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Welcome to Calvinball - the President now is the sole arbiter of whether money appropriated by Congress will actually be spent.  We’re so fucked

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I spoke too soon apparently, TRO granted. The judge relied on the Press Secretary’s comments to essentially rule the rescission a nullity

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2 hours ago, 'stache said:

The majority of people in this country are laughing their asses off enjoying every minute of these events. If anything bad ever affects them they’ll blame Biden. Look at any comment section about eggs. For the last two years it was all Biden while dipshit said he’d fix it “on day one.” Now these people say “the president doesn’t control egg prices or bird flu.” Nothing’s going to happen because the electorate has been officially killed with brain rot. The rest of us are just along for the ride hoping for a life vest.

I'm not talking about it coming from the people. I'm talking about other politicians or big political players. Every time a regime is toppled or a democracy is overthrown there's no shortage of powerful people angling to seize power. Especially if Trump keeps going full vendetta on people like Miley, stuff like that could cause a coalition of political players to rise against him and overthrow him before he gets too entrenched. 

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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

That pic might be 20 years old. But it's still not that far off. 

Halle was on Kimmel within the past six months and still looked gorgeous. She’s 58.

 

16 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Anna Paulina Lunatic (R-FL) introduced a bill to add Trump to Mt. Rushmore today.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/trump-mount-rushmore-house-bill

Kimmel talked about this last night. It will never happen (well, I think it won’t — ask me again in four years when he declares himself leader-for-life) but if it does, I’ll be on the team that dynamites that fucking face off the mountain.

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1 minute ago, C-Man said:

Kimmel talked about this last night. It will never happen (well, I think it won’t — ask me again in four years when he declares himself leader-for-life) but if it does, I’ll be on the team that dynamites that fucking face off the mountain.

It's super duper unlikely, I agree. Just throw it on the shitfuck pile of hero-worship asslicking with all the other examples of cultish behavior put on display to garner favor from His MAGAsty like giving the fucker a third term.

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8 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

They can’t help tweeting.

 

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6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The shock workers of DOGE have increased efficiency by 20 percent over quota.  The heroes of MAGA labor expressed their determination to reach 40 percent over quota.

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they've lost the plot already.

a.maz.ing. 👏 

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1 hour ago, Nivek said:

They have all but destroyed education and any critical thinking skills that are associated with it to make some drones. Same for why the dipshits keep voting for longterm incompetents in Texas who have enriched themselves and created a local oligarchy off the people of Texas while blaming the everyone who isn't in decision making (and short-term) roles.   

The gop has been in total control of Texas government for what? 30 years yet the entire time they have been claiming they are going to fix everything that the dems have broken the entire time. It is beyond reality. This was the case study. We really have a shitload of people who are not capable of simple critical thought. At some point you have to realize you are being duped, but it is easier to just dig in I guess.

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1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

34% of the country was pro-pardoning the Jan 6th thugs. Crazy.

no - that's dead on - team turnip is probably actually only about 38-42%

our side lost because our party thought we could slam-dunk taking the high road and got out-socialed

the intelligent aware objective and enlightened caucus is probably less than 15%

the 30% in the middle were easily winnable and in hindsight the dems punted on 1st down

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

something something 1/3 watch 1/3 do something something. history repeats

that last 3rd was the people who flipped to trump cuz eggs/illegals/inflation/things and/or didn't vote cuz thinking hard.

America is not a serious country.

The educated 3rd and the angry 3rd have to duke it out, but you need to somehow influence to dumb 3rd to care at all about anything. Not sure how you do that when they are raised on one way streams of balanced new information, endlessly marketed to, and have never once, ever been challenged to think laterally on anything in their life whatsoever.

I used to laugh at people who said shit like "America's war on critical thinking" but I get it now. We have literally been murdering our every day citizenry for decades, making them soft balls of goo who don't want any intrusion on their life from any goddamn thing at all. I have no clue how you engage these people. However, I do the know the current plan, the one of the past like 20 years - whereby rational discussion and policies and shit isn't working. Its just not a serious country any longer. 

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18 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

no - that's dead on - team turnip is probably actually only about 38-42%

our side lost because our party thought we could slam-dunk taking the high road and got out-socialed

the intelligent aware objective and enlightened caucus is probably less than 15%

the 30% in the middle were easily winnable and in hindsight the dems punted on 1st down

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