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1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

you are the #1 reason everyone doesn't place an embargo on it

if you join the ignore contingent, everyone who posts will follow

i just lost 15 valuable minutes reading 2 pages that are 90% quoting it

make the dt crowd come in here to quote it

oxygen starvation

this is the way

Counterpoint: I submit that it's actually quite important to continue to watch how the opposition works.  Disingenuous POS propaganda dispensers like Ana are how they keep winning.  Pay attention.  See how they tick and how they work.

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Counterpoint: I submit that it's actually quite important to continue to watch how the opposition works.  Disingenuous POS propaganda dispensers like Ana are how they keep winning.  Pay attention.  See how they tick and how they work.

cool, you go right ahead. let us know how far you get with that. 

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Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

cool, you go right ahead. let us know how far you get with that. 

"How far we get" has nothing to do with convincing Ana not to be a disingenuous asshole.  You might as well try to force the sun to rise in the west.  Rather, "how far we get" relates to how we communicate with the audience of Ana and folks like him.  Counter-programming and such.

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3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

I have a friend who's working down there.  Vocal critic of tfg.  This sucks.  

Yup, I have a friend who just made it down there to complete his bucket list of setting foot in all 7 continents.  I'm sure he'll get home just fine, but holy crap.

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This isn't news, but I thought it was pretty interesting stat on the polarization of the country. 

Look at that approval by party gap explode from 1981-2025.

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"How far we get" has nothing to do with convincing Ana not to be a disingenuous asshole.  You might as well try to force the sun to rise in the west.  Rather, "how far we get" relates to how we communicate with the audience of Ana and folks like him.  Counter-programming and such.

again, you got the energy for that, more power to ya. I got better shit to worry about.

Posted
1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How did we keep air traffic going during the Reagan era atc strike?

Well, I sat in the Montreal airport for almost 3 days, so I don't think we did?

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Posted
14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, I sat in the Montreal airport for almost 3 days, so I don't think we did?

Miami for 5. Ironically heading to Montreal.... Hmmmm...

Posted
3 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

When asked by a reporter whether he still believed Zelensky was a dictator, Trump responded: “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5167646-trump-zelensky-dictator/

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This fucking timeline.  

We're dealing with Schrodinger's Moron: he both said a particular thing, and did NOT say that particular thing.  Whichever one of those you want to be true is the truth, regardless of what actually happened.

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Well, at least the Brits get it. Pic taken in London (according to friend)

Too bad the US Media and Legacy Media are busy .... denying, enabling, sanewashing, normalizing, doublethinking ... 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Nope, he was a filthy immigrant. 

Good point. And on related note it’s amazing to watch the once absurd plot of “Canadian Bacon” taking shape before us in real life.

Posted
3 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

So....potentially weird and off topic question. How would one go get trained and/or apply to be a flight air traffic controller? Do have to have a flying or military background? Is there a for profit/private school you can attend to get the training and the hours like they have with pilots? Asking for a nephew who could use a decent white collar job and some middle class stability...

Every couple years there is an announcement put out and you can get hired with no experience at all. The KBAZ tower proves this on a weekly basis

Posted
46 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Map showing Fed jobs as a % by district

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Interactive map on this link.

https://apnews.com/article/doge-federal-job-cuts-congressional-districts-data-5d79e2a7ef2160166b0bee59dfa4e9e2

 

Easy to see where Border Patrol is.  Aside from that, the thing people don’t get is that fed jobs are among the best paying around outside of DC and environs and of course other big markets. Take a look at Appalachia and the South.

 

As I mentioned elsewhere, MAGA is basically designed to inflict max pain on the MAGA base.

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10 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Every couple years there is an announcement put out and you can get hired with no experience at all. The KBAZ tower proves this on a weekly basis

That’s a contract tower.

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I continue to maintain that HB is the Florida of California

 

 

 

 

Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe says he has been fired from his job as a high school football coach after his protest at a city council meeting in California.

Kluwe was arrested at the Huntington Beach city council meeting last week, at which he spoke out against the decision to erect a plaque at a local library. The plaque features the words “Magical, Alluring, Galvanizing and Adventurous” and the city commission confirmed it was a reference to Maga. The former Minnesota Vikings player then made critical comments about the Trump administration before saying he would “engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience” and walked on to the meeting’s stage. He was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for disrupting an assembly.

 

On Thursday Kluwe said he had been fired from his job as a football coach at Edison High School in Huntington Beach.

 
 

“I knew it was a possible consequence,” Kluwe told the Guardian by text. “I think it just goes to show what Maga actually stands for – they don’t want to build anything, they just want to tear people and institutions down to make themselves feel better, regardless of what it costs the community. I sincerely doubt Edison is going to find another ex-NFL player to coach freshman football.” He said he was not given a reason for his dismissal but was told he had brought a lot of attention to the school.

At the council meeting, Kluwe was highly critical of the Donald Trump’s Maga movement.

“Maga is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, Maga is explicitly a Nazi movement,” he said. “You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that’s what it is.”

All seven members of the Huntington Beach city council are conservatives and one member, Gracey Van Der Mark, said there was “nothing peaceful” about Kluwe’s protest. She said he was guilty of “causing alarm among those in attendance, including two young students”.

Last week, Kluwe told the Guardian he has a court date in April over his arrest. “We’ll see what happens. There’s a possibility the ACLU might get involved. Some people have been telling me they’re looking to challenge this because they think it might not be legal.”

Kluwe was outspoken on social issues during his NFL career, which lasted from 2005 to 2013, and he claimed he was eventually released by the Vikings because of his beliefs and his support for same-sex marriage.

Kluwe’s freshman team had a poor season in 2024. They finished with a 1-1-8 record and were outscored 297-47. The varsity team won the Division 1-A state championship.

Huntington Beach High School District has been approached for comment.

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Donald Trump seems intent on killing the CHIPS act:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/trump-is-trying-to-kill-the-chips-act-that-could-tank-these-2-ai-stocks/ar-AA1zL7Nk

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Trump Is Trying to Kill the CHIPS Act. That Could Tank These 2 AI Stocks.

The semiconductor industry faces a new challenge as President Donald Trump’s administration plans to cut approximately 500 jobs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), potentially jeopardizing the future of the CHIPS Act. Analyst Robert Maire said these cuts could effectively kill the initiative to bolster domestic semiconductor manufacturing, which included roughly $39 billion in subsidies.

"If there are no employees left to administer the CHIPS Act program, it is dead by default, as there is no one left to certify that companies have met their requirements, let alone write the checks," Maire warned in a note to clients.

According to a MarketWatch report, NIST could see significant staff reductions as early as this week. The cuts would primarily target those administering the semiconductor investment program established under President Joe Biden.

The report further explains that major U.S. chipmakers Intel (INTC) and Micron Technology (MU), which have been awarded significant funding for new fabrication facilities, could face project uncertainty.

 

And then the article goes on to say INTEL and AMD are fucked by this. So maybe sell those stocks or whatever. Logic and common sense seem to have no place in the Trump Whitehouse.

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Posted
3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yup, I have a friend who just made it down there to complete his bucket list of setting foot in all 7 continents.  I'm sure he'll get home just fine, but holy crap.

He just missed my buddy who was down there a couple of weeks ago on some photography club trip.

Posted
15 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

It makes sense if you believe he is trying to run this country into the ground.

At this point, it is a credible theory.

Putin has an unabashed interest in the United States being utterly destroyed.

Putin owns Donald Trump (at this point, the circumstantial evidence -- including Trump's relentlessly destructive actions -- cannot be ignored)

Is it the sure-fire guaranteed answer as to why Trump is doing what he's doing?  No.  Is it credible enough to merit real consideration?  At this point, absolutely.

If you were to create a truly effective plan to destroy the United States as a major power and functional Republic, it would look a whole lot like exactly what is happening right now.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Counterpoint: I submit that it's actually quite important to continue to watch how the opposition works.  Disingenuous POS propaganda dispensers like Ana are how they keep winning.  Pay attention.  See how they tick and how they work.

 

3 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

cool, you go right ahead. let us know how far you get with that. 

Your enemy is your best teacher.

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1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

Every couple years there is an announcement put out and you can get hired with no experience at all. The KBAZ tower proves this on a weekly basis

We'll be 98% Unicom in four years.

 

10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

At this point, it is a credible theory.

Putin has an unabashed interest in the United States being utterly destroyed.

Putin owns Donald Trump (at this point, the circumstantial evidence -- including Trump's relentlessly destructive actions -- cannot be ignored)

Is it the sure-fire guaranteed answer as to why Trump is doing what he's doing?  No.  Is it credible enough to merit real consideration?  At this point, absolutely.

If you were to create a truly effective plan to destroy the United States as a major power and functional Republic, it would look a whole lot like exactly what is happening right now.

I've long parroted the idea that if you assume he is a Russian asset (useful idiot), it all makes perfect sense.  Was that why he championed birtherism,  I don't know.  Was it why he ran the first time and asked Putin for help and received it, maybe.  Was it why he ran a second and a third time?  Apart from avoiding prison, possibly.  Self-preservation is job one for him.  Grifting is job two.  Staying alive by keeping those he owes biggly is job three at the lowest, but in this high of office, maybe not. 

 

The first two (self-preservation and grifting) are what it's really all about.  A lot of the dismantling of the institutions of government are mostly a distraction to enable grifting, if I had to guess. Cut the budget, reallocate what you cut to new government contractors in which you have an interest or with which you have some reciprocal agreement in place, ???, profit.

 

And to a part of your point, let us not forget that circumstantial evidence is also known as evidence.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

That's the worst part for me; we have it so good relatively speaking, and our corporate overlords really had a good thing going keeping us addicted to shiny shit and working 80 hrs a week without complaining much and we are tossing that away at the behest of a few assholes.

I guess murdering millions in Iraq should have been adequate foreshadowing.

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Well, I sat in the Montreal airport for almost 3 days, so I don't think we did?

I was stuck in London for 3 days. We couldn’t go back to my grandparents house since we had no idea when our plane flight would leave. My mom, and me and my brother who were like 8 and 10. No idea how she handled us. No video games etc to keep us entertained.
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59 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

It makes sense if you believe he is controlled by malevolent psychos trying to run this country into the ground.

Fify. Its the weirdos in his orbit. 

Grandpa just wants to be adored, stay out of jail and jerk off a few invisible dicks.  Maybe golf and grab a cart girl by the pussy.  He is fucking this up horribly, or more correctly the people running this shitshow are. His popularity is going to plummet while various goons like Musk, Miller etc destroy the federal government.

What he needed to do was have a bunch of fake firings and mail everyone a fat check with his name on it.  Measures with a Total lack of any fiscal conservativeism are his only popular policies.  Instead he's talking everything. Worst case scenario really.

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9 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Do you believe them?  Really?  You do?  An admin that has spewed a firehose of lies....and you are citing their STATEMENTS as authority for....anything but the OPPOSITE of what they say?

You. Are.  FANTASTIC.  Truly.  You believe nothing, are convinced that every person and institution that exists is conspiring against us.....unless it's a person or institution associated with this regime, in which case you take them at their word, without question. 

It's fucking incredible to watch.

I think that we will have uninterrupted flu vax release, yes. I don't think that you really understand the redundancies and processes involved here, but this adcom meeting (whether it happens or not) is not going to prevent a roll of our flu vaccines, imo. If you want, I will tell you exactly what strains I think will be included. It was decided last weekend with FDA and CDC involvement.  And I'll wager that if I am right on both the strains and release to market not impacting production, you make another donation to MLF for getting all blustery again. If I am wrong on both, I will. Bets off if it splits. But we make it $2500 this time. Its for a good cause, and I let you off too light last time. 

  

8 hours ago, Nivek said:

Cite your source or bullshit. 

Just want to make sure I understand what you are asking for. You want me to cite a notable pro-vax adcom member criticizing the FDA and CDC for disregarding their adcom feedback? If that is the case, I will go one step further and share the cite where he explains why the agencies are undermining public health messaging and there will be spillover to other vaccines and diseases. Prescient. 

It's kinda funny watching some of y'all lose your minds over social media outrage about a flu strain rubber stamp when the FDA has done the absolute most damage under the Biden administration to the system and the adcom process, e.g. aducanumab.  

 

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Easy to see where Border Patrol is.  Aside from that, the thing people don’t get is that fed jobs are among the best paying around outside of DC and environs and of course other big markets. Take a look at Appalachia and the South.

Yup.  During the Great Depression- to have a job in bum fuck any where as the Federal Postmaster made you King of the World. 

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Glad we finally got that much anticipated Epstein list. Such riveting information. Trump and his administration are such giant fucking pussies. 

Posted
2 hours ago, Updawg said:


I was stuck in London for 3 days. We couldn’t go back to my grandparents house since we had no idea when our plane flight would leave. My mom, and me and my brother who were like 8 and 10. No idea how she handled us. No video games etc to keep us entertained.

I did a little over 24 hours in the Madrid airport. I couldn't imagine three days. That time in Madrid felt like this meme.

Sad-Pablo-Escobar.jpg

 

Posted
20 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

It is all just a big joke to them. I don't really get the joke, but I am sure it is funny to them.

The GOP platform has been straight up edgelording for years now. This is what they do.

Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

So should I just not bother filing this year?  I’m ok with that. 

OK, hear me out here. What if nobody files this year*? They ain't got the staff to come after us all.

 

*not a tax expert, and no, I have not recently stayed at a Holiday Inn.......what am I poor, Hyatt baby!

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50 minutes ago, F250 said:

I did a little over 24 hours in the Madrid airport. I couldn't imagine three days. That time in Madrid felt like this meme.

Sad-Pablo-Escobar.jpg

 

Tip - for long layovers in fantastic european towns (Madrid is one for sure), take the train into the city.  I had an 18 hour layover last year in Amsterdam and saw 2 museums and got incredibly high.  In Madrid, you could have some great tapas and drink enough vermouth or sangria to make your cares go away...

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Trump and Elon Musk have wiped out the national database of police misconduct. Nearly 150,000 records of misconduct by federal officers erased, like it never happened. Why would Trump get rid of the database he created? Because Trump will drastically scale back police accountability to appease right-wing TV and X commentators.

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Posted
4 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

MAGA thinks this means they won’t pay taxes but in reality the vast bulk of them are W2 employees.  It’s not hard for the government to take their cut, but it’s gonna be really hard to get their refund. 



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