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1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

I’m not the first to say this, but why would he do that? Never interrupt your enemy and whatnot. I’d be surprised if Putin didn’t have whole divisions of his security agencies monitoring for threats to Trump/Musk.

I’m not.  The post was someone didn’t think Putin ‘could’.  Not that he would.  

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8 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

It is, no matter what he thinks or what the blueprint says.

That's adorable.

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

I’ve been reflecting on this for a couple days, and I’m almost convinced that we’ve got things to be very happy about,  If Trump had not gone all in on project 2025 we would be in worse shape.   He would still be creating ill will among our allies and causing economic description with his stupid tariff talk, and he would still be terrorizing undocumented workers.

But the timing of that is incredible. He is hurting farmers and businesses.. He is shutting down much needed  federal aide to school schools and other entities - like those that depend on federal funding to meet the needs of special needs children.  He is firing a huge swath of people in the federal government, all of which will lead to bankruptcies loss of homes, children being pulled out of college, divorces, etc.       Everyone negatively affected by his policies and loss of employment will quit investing in their 401(k)s and IRA’s.  

If he had an ounce of a brain, he should’ve let things ride and been status quo while he rounded up people that had not been given temporary permission to live in the country.    After that was complete, then he could go after the other groups.   

What I am trying to say is that he did not need to create a giant swath of different demographic groups as enemies from the beginning.   Had he waited on some of his worst ideas and just focused on deporting undocumentedHispanics without temporary permits, the pressure would’ve been off him for a while - at least it would’ve been far less pressure from far fewer groups. 

What a pathetic excuse for a Hitler. Hitler annexed Austria. Then the Sudetenland. Then the Czechoslovak Republic. Then Lithuania. Then the Free City of Danzig. Then Poland. Then Prussian Belgium.   You don’t do it all at once.  If Trump had a modicum of sense, he would’ve limited the number of newly created enemies until he had successfully accomplished some of his evil but less problematic policies.

Going full dictator out of the gate is attractive to a narcissist with a 30 second attention span, but he is giving an absolute gift to the resistance by doing this.   It’s the type of business acumen that will make you fail as a casino owner. 

This might give me solace if I didn't believe that the ghouls behind this -- "led" by Trump because let's be honest, he's not really calling any shots unless it's stupid shit like plastic straws or changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico -- didn't have plans on not leaving in two or four years.

 

30 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Any legit theories on why Trump didn't go scorched earth on these government agencies the first time around?

 

He actually had adults in the room previously. They were pretty shitty themselves but most were hard-line conservatives like Barr, etc.

 

20 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I think this is pretty close to the truth.  Now he has a blueprint which includes a third (or unlimited) terms.  He is too dumb to plan that out himself.

Trump has ZERO intention on leaving office in 2029. Zero.

They stole this election and unless they're stopped, they'll steal them all moving forward.

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David Plouffe says that their internals showed them needing a lot of help in order to win the election. I don’t think it was “stolen”, but with this crew, anything’s possible.

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So Musk has already slashed his target for total federal budget cuts, saying now that they have a "good shot" at slashing half of the original $2T target.  (Gentle readers will note that the entire discretionary budget is only $1.7T.)

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OK, so work with me here. What if, and a big if, there is a game afoot. Elon gets to be the baddie. He crosses the line (told he can do it, but nothing is signed) and hung out to dry. Feds take over all his assets, sell them off to the highest bidder, and deport his ass. Teslas for all. NASA gets Space X, and twitter replaces the government messaging system that is not that great.

All these "government employees" who are laid off are hired by these groups and everyone is happy. Just a hiccup here and there, but it was that damn South African's fault. He ran amok. Trump saves the day, budget is cut, etc.

It could happen right? Right?

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Just now, InkaUtexas said:

OK, so work with me here. What if, and a big if, there is a game afoot. Elon gets to be the baddie. He crosses the line (told he can do it, but nothing is signed) and hung out to dry. Feds take over all his assets, sell them off to the highest bidder, and deport his ass. Teslas for all. NASA gets Space X, and twitter replaces the government messaging system that is not that great.

All these "government employees" who are laid off are hired by these groups and everyone is happy. Just a hiccup here and there, but it was that damn South African's fault. He ran amok. Trump saves the day, budget is cut, etc.

It could happen right? Right?

I mean, can get behind this fanfic, but nah.

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

It [re: being Trump's last term] is, no matter what he thinks or what the blueprint says.

I think maybe we should be talking about length of term rather than number of them. Trump said that there would be no more elections. 

48 minutes ago, Pancho said:

They still have no idea what the purpose of the Department of Education is

It's very confusing with the Dept of Energy out there, too.

Which DOE takes care of the nukes?

You mean one of the DOE's maintains the nukes? I'm getting a headache!

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956, there are some issues here.

1- USAID is in a shit ton of garden spots. They sound rough, but they really are not. Nairobi? Dubai? Come on, lets not pretend they are all out in Darfur. Those are the locals. Heard some chuckle head complaining about how would he get home. From Tanzania.... There ain't no civil war there. We both know USAID (US/TCN's) don't live bad, and um, there are flights in and out of countries.

2- If she was not medically cleared due to an issue with a risky pregnancy she would have been pulled back early. This happens all the time.

3- Career or PSC? PSC's are direct hires, can be in the union, but are not considered career.

It does suck. Don't get me wrong, but I worry hell of a lot more about the local staff who are truly fucked. The ones who are out in the camps/field, etc. Oh yeah, and the beneficiaries. Remember them?

I am very pro-USAID, but I am a field rat. I do not have much time for the PSC's sitting in the city, playing their best Colonial Brit expat role, and bitching about life at the mission. Come on man. How do you do M/E if you never go into the field.

 

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12 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

"A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a sniveling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

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Posted
1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Maybe we should rename the thread to "Elon's America"

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the press just has to keep hammering trump on elon being the real president 

over and over and over 

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3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

the press just has to keep hammering trump on elon being the real president 

over and over and over 

fucking this

get his ass to the podium

let kaitlin at him

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PROFIT

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A text from my friend in Georgia. 
 

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Part of my job is coordinating a photography program for people with disabilities. We have received federal funding from the NEA (national endowment for the arts). We got an email today saying grant applications for FY26 have to center around “America’s rich artistic heritage” and that priority will be given to projects that celebrate America’s “Semiquincentennial” aka the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

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The grant program we have received in the past is cancelled as a future opportunity as one of the focuses of the program was DEI

 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Pancho said:

They still have no idea what the purpose of the Department of Education is

Who wants to bet when the script kiddies got into the Department of Energy's computers yesterday they were like, "what the fuck, nuclear bombs?"

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17 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

We got an email today saying grant applications for FY26 have to center around “America’s rich artistic heritage” and that priority will be given to projects that celebrate America’s “Semiquincentennial” aka the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

"Grant applications featuring happy negro slaves dancing with joy about the Declaration being signed - you know how those people love to dance, they're a very musical people - will receive priority."

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10 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Who wants to bet when the script kiddies got into the Department of Energy's computers yesterday they were like, "what the fuck, nuclear bombs?"

This 100% happened.

Russia 2.0 up in this bitch.

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19 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Who wants to bet when the script kiddies got into the Department of Energy's computers yesterday they were like, "what the fuck, nuclear bombs?"

 

how quickly did putin get that info ?

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3 hours ago, Red Five said:

David Plouffe says that their internals showed them needing a lot of help in order to win the election. I don’t think it was “stolen”, but with this crew, anything’s possible.

The article posted on the coup thread, about how the election was stolen, has some easily proven/disproven benchmarks, which center around “bullet ballots.” Bullet ballots are ballots which record a vote in the presidential race, and no other race. The average bullet ballot rate is around 1%. The claim made was that in each of the swing states, and only in the swing states, the bullet ballot rate was off the charts, and as much as 11% in NC. The bb rate in the other 43 states conformed to the expected 1% rate. Throw in the margin of victory being just above the automatic recount mov in every swing state, and there is a coherent argument that fuckery is afoot.

Should be easy to disprove the argument. Show the bullet ballot rates for every state.

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3 hours ago, Red Five said:

David Plouffe says that their internals showed them needing a lot of help in order to win the election. I don’t think it was “stolen”, but with this crew, anything’s possible.

 

trump had already said elon 'helped' with his pennsylvania numbers 

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anonymous letter from an fbi agent:

 Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice

Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.

Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.

I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you, and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.

This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.

Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.

I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

trump had already said elon 'helped' with his pennsylvania numbers 

IIRC he also cryptically mentioned knowing they'd win in the swing states because they had a little surprise for the Democrats, but wouldn't elaborate ...

But who knows. It wouldn't surprise me in the least tho ...

ETA: Now that I think about it, he may have said that at the same time as what you're talking about.

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