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The goal is to privatize everything.
They aren't even trying to hide it.
Thanks a lot, Reagan.

Yellowstone to host the 2025 Rednecks with Paychecks festival


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Just now, Gourmand said:

yeah duh!

Hate to break it to some people but THIS WAS THE GOP"S PLAN FOR THE LAST FORTY FUCKIN YEARS.

I'm a simple man of average intelligence but I've always been a leftist/Republican critic (save that one brief Alex P Keaton phase in my mid teens) for one fundamental reason: people applying for a job in a sector they basically hate should not be given the opportunity to prove why they think it sucks!

That's the GOP approach to government. GUMMINT BAD! ELECT ME SO I CAN PROVE IT!

And the rubes fall for it over and over and over again. And here we are, watching them in their endgame as they fundamentally destroy everything our government has ever built for the betterment of our society so the richest, most powerful, least deserving individuals can profit at the expense of every class below them.

Brisket, kindly point me to the highest ledge.....

There is a plausible argument that Ronald Reagan was the most destructive president in the history of the United States.

He made regular people hate the very government that guaranteed and protected their way of life.

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2 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

 

Well, he might be leaning on his studies from his time at Divinity School.

Donald Trump, the Bible, and White Supremacy | Harvard Divinity School

 

 

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4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Nope. Too much of America “still supports” him. 

But Trump doesn't care about them.  He doesn't care about any American other than a couple of rich people.  It is truly "Trump VS America".

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3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

There is a plausible argument that Ronald Reagan was the most destructive president in the history of the United States.

He made regular people hate the very government that guaranteed and protected their way of life.

Yes, which is why I booed and hissed Slotkin's stupid ass response to Trump's nutty speech before Congress. Stop praising failed Republican policies and the politicians that ushered them in.

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1 minute ago, Gourmand said:

Yes, which is why I booed and hissed Slotkin's stupid ass response to Trump's nutty speech before Congress. Stop praising failed Republican policies and the politicians that ushered them in.

"Ronald Reagan would be quite nonplussed with what we are seeing from Donald Trump. The ol' Gipper would be quite peeved, let me tell you." 

(I just remember rolling my eyes and turning it off)

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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

"Ronald Reagan would be quite nonplussed with what we are seeing from Donald Trump. The ol' Gipper would be quite peeved, let me tell you." 

(I just remember rolling my eyes and turning it off)

Wait. She actually said that?

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1 hour ago, LTbear said:

I'm in Yellowstone 100 days a year. I might see a ranger once each day. Might. 

I go to PINS once a year. A ranger will swing by once a night to make sure I'm not burning shit or dead.

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3 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

y'all understand the end goal here, right? make the national parks inefficient and get people to care less about them so they can privatize the land. same with all these institutions. the goal is to ruin them to "prove" government doesn't work so they can roll everything into the private sector. if you look at what is going on right now through that lens, I guarantee things will start making more sense

Yep. If we were smart, we'd quit spending our time on Surly and found an NGO that replaces NOAA.  Call it Liberty Weather Services, work a flag into the logo and make the right contributions/donations.  We could hire all the fired government meteorologists and scientists for 50% of their previous salary, buy all the now surplus government equipment and infrastructure for a nickel on the dollar "to help pay off the national debt" and charge the government 150% of what NOAA used to cost for our superior services.

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5 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Yep. If we were smart, we'd quit spending our time on Surly and found an NGO that replaces NOAA.  Call it Liberty Weather Services, work a flag into the logo and make the right contributions/donations.  We could hire all the fired government meteorologists and scientists for 50% of their previous salary, buy all the now surplus government equipment and infrastructure for a nickel on the dollar "to help pay off the national debt" and charge the government 150% of what NOAA used to cost for our superior services.

Dude...the Accuweather guy already has that path locked up.  You think I'm kidding....he has actively worked towards this, and has made a shitload of political contributions towards it, for years.

We are completely and totally governed by oligarchs, in no small part because Trump is handing them the keys to different aspects of the country as fast as he possibly can.  That's how it's done.  He's just following the post-Soviet model, letter-for-letter.

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Just now, David Dennison said:

They still think there are moderate Republicans.

There are, but the naked truth is that for so many of these "moderate Republicans" who held their nose and voted for Trump, white supremacy and/or greed was a higher priority for them than voting their political conscience or just simply not voting affirmatively for either candidate. 

I have a cousin who was a hot-shot Travis Co prosecutor for 20+ years and was let go in the Margaret Moore purge of DA's office. She was always a Republican, grew up with a hardcore Republican father and never really wanted for anything in her life. Whip-smart, graduated high school early and got her degree in like two years or so from UT back in the 80's and went on to law school, eventually pursuing a career as a law enforcement officer where she sent many, many people to prison for child sex crimes, family violence, and murder. She prosecuted  high profile crimes in Travis County, a few of which have been discussed in this forum and the old site, a couple that resulted in death penalty verdicts, and one high-profile case that resulted in an innocent person spending twenty years in prison on bullshit "scientific evidence" only to be exonerated and released a couple of years ago. By all accounts she had a successful career and was a powerful, connected lawyer who could have parlayed her time at the DA's office into a lucrative private practice. She was the quintessential Liz Cheney-ish Republican, someone who staunchly believed in law-and-order to the point where she took less money to be a public servant because she truly believed in her role as an advocate for victims of violent crime. This motivation was always something she spoke of and believed in, to the point where I think it blinded her to inequities in the justice system, but she was also someone who I  saw as a fair-minded, objective lawyer who believed in the Constitution and law and order.

I found out recently through family that she voted for Trump and it absolutely blew my mind to the point where she has become the embodiment in my mind of every white woman Trump voter. She is not stupid or uninformed, especially on matters of law, and I assumed that even though she was  lifelong Republican voter, she saw Trump as a complete moron and embarrassment to the Republican party and a threat to the law-and-order system she swore an oath to defend. I assumed that Trump's actions on Jan 6h were a bridge too far for even her Republican brain to validate in the voting booth. I was way wrong apparently and she's pretty much dead to me now. I've thought a lot about her since the inauguration and what her reasons could be for voting for Trump and my only explanation is she's lived her entire life as a privileged white woman who has never faced the class/racial hurdles so many others face on a regular basis and she's okay with compromising her law-and-order values to further her class and racial biases.

 

 

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46 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I go to PINS once a year. A ranger will swing by once a night to make sure I'm not burning shit or dead.

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3 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

There are, but the naked truth is that for so many of these "moderate Republicans" who held their nose and voted for Trump, white supremacy and/or greed was a higher priority for them than voting their political conscience or just simply not voting affirmatively for either candidate. 

I have a cousin who was a hot-shot Travis Co prosecutor for 20+ years and was let go in the Margaret Moore purge of DA's office. She was always a Republican, grew up with a hardcore Republican father and never really wanted for anything in her life. Whip-smart, graduated high school early and got her degree in like two years or so from UT back in the 80's and went on to law school, eventually pursuing a career as a law enforcement officer where she sent many, many people to prison for child sex crimes, family violence, and murder. She prosecuted  high profile crimes in Travis County, a few of which have been discussed in this forum and the old site, a couple that resulted in death penalty verdicts, and one high-profile case that resulted in an innocent person spending twenty years in prison on bullshit "scientific evidence" only to be exonerated and released a couple of years ago. By all accounts she had a successful career and was a powerful, connected lawyer who could have parlayed her time at the DA's office into a lucrative private practice. She was the quintessential Liz Cheney-ish Republican, someone who staunchly believed in law-and-order to the point where she took less money to be a public servant because she truly believed in her role as an advocate for victims of violent crime. This motivation was always something she spoke of and believed in, to the point where I think it blinded her to inequities in the justice system, but she was also someone who I  saw as a fair-minded, objective lawyer who believed in the Constitution and law and order.

I found out recently through family that she voted for Trump and it absolutely blew my mind to the point where she has become the embodiment in my mind of every white woman Trump voter. She is not stupid or uninformed, especially on matters of law, and I assumed that even though she was  lifelong Republican voter, she saw Trump as a complete moron and embarrassment to the Republican party and a threat to the law-and-order system she swore an oath to defend. I assumed that Trump's actions on Jan 6h were a bridge too far for even her Republican brain to validate in the voting booth. I was way wrong apparently and she's pretty much dead to me now. I've thought a lot about her since the inauguration and what her reasons could be for voting for Trump and my only explanation is she's lived her entire life as a privileged white woman who has never faced the class/racial hurdles so many others face on a regular basis and she's okay with compromising her law-and-order values to further her class and racial biases.

 

 

You're thinking too hard, mate. 

At what point did you ever think, "She will vote for Harris"? 

You weren't surprised. 

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3 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I just wanted to remind everybody that this is what JD Vance looks like after he shaves.

 

JD vance with no beard.jpg

I'm pretty sure Emilio Estevez's character in "The Breakfast Club" was in detention for taping this dude's butt cheeks together.

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46 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I just wanted to remind everybody that this is what JD Vance looks like after he shaves.

 

JD vance with no beard.jpg

A lot of, “buttttttttttttttttttttt mommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm” in that stupid fucking face. Fuck him. 

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50 minutes ago, Slacks said:

You're thinking too hard, mate. 

At what point did you ever think, "She will vote for Harris"? 

You weren't surprised. 

No I was very surprised because i thought Jan 6th (and Trump's lawlessness) was a bridge too far for her. I thought she just wouldn't vote for president. Or even Kamala. Her 90 year old Republican mother and sister did (who happens to be married to an Indian immigrant with two mixed-race kids).....

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2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Whoa. You guide or something?  That’s pretty amazing. 

Nah, I just have the time and love it. Do a lot of wildlife photography. 

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude...the Accuweather guy already has that path locked up.  You think I'm kidding....he has actively worked towards this, and has made a shitload of political contributions towards it, for years.

Yep, they’ve been trying to hijack the National Weather Service for personal profit for a long time. Like since Dubya was in office. 

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25 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

"Make mercury emissions great again" is certainly a position.

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Darkness
by Lord Byron

 

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires—and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings—the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd,
And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face;
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;
Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour
They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black.
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest
Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
The pall of a past world; and then again
With curses cast them down upon the dust,
And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd
And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,
And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes
Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl'd
And twin'd themselves among the multitude,
Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food.
And War, which for a moment was no more,
Did glut himself again: a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought—and that was death
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails—men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devour'd,
Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,
And he was faithful to a corpse, and kept
The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay,
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Lur'd their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,
But with a piteous and perpetual moan,
And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answer'd not with a caress—he died.
The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two
Of an enormous city did survive,
And they were enemies: they met beside
The dying embers of an altar-place
Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things
For an unholy usage; they rak'd up,
And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands
The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
Blew for a little life, and made a flame
Which was a mockery; then they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each other's aspects—saw, and shriek'd, and died—
Even of their mutual hideousness they died,
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had written Fiend. The world was void,
The populous and the powerful was a lump,
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless—
A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay.
The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,
And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths;
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd
They slept on the abyss without a surge—
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them—She was the Universe.
 
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DOE is gone. we all knew that was coming. So what was the big savings to the tax payer? 1500 employees? Shit, DOGE is going to have way more than that within 6 months.
 

Doge is going to be the new SS. Ever expanding to fill any perceived power vacuum. Except their uniforms will look like shit cause Elmo.
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On 3/11/2025 at 6:30 PM, TexasHooch said:

 

Yeah.  It was a bloodbath.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/politics/perkins-coie-trump-executive-order-challenge/index.html

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A federal judge on Wednesday halted parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order that targeted a Democratic-linked law firm.

US District Judge Beryl Howell sided with the firm Perkins Coie, which represented Hillary Clinton in 2016 and has been involved in election litigation that Trump opposed.

Howell granted the firm’s request for a temporary restraining order for some sections of Trump’s order. The parts being blocked include its limitations on government contracts with clients of the firm and the potential restrictions it puts on the firm’s employees, such as bans on hiring those employees for government positions or barring their access to federal buildings.

The executive order, Howell said as she read her opinion in court for more than 30 minutes, is “a punishment for a singled-out entity being disloyal.”

When “the Queen of Hearts yells ‘off with their heads’ for her subjects,” Howell added, that “cannot be the reality we are living under.”

The judge, an appointee of President Barack Obama, said the case also touches on larger tests of Trump’s executive authority. The executive order, she said, is an unconstitutional use of “taxpayer dollars and government resources … to pursue a personal vendetta.”

“The president is certainly entitled to his own beliefs, entitled to his own causes, and entitled to his own dislikes,” Howell said. But the president cannot “bring the federal government down on his political opponents … as he has done here.”

‘Chilling effect’ to legal system

The judge also said she was blocking much of Trump’s order because of the economic harm it would cause to the law firm — and the intimidating message it sent across legal industry.

Howell said the order was an “extreme, unprecedented effort” and had an effect of “blizzard proportions across the legal profession.”

Delivering her decision from the bench, Howell said the justice system depends on zealous advocates on all sides being able to argue for their clients.

“The chilling effect of this executive order, 14230, threatens to significantly undermine the integrity of our entire legal system,” she said.

DOJ argues Trump should be trusted without question

The ruling came at the end of a hearing where the top aide to the attorney general argued that the president should be trusted without question if he wants to blacklist or sanction businesses or people as he sees fit across the country.

The argument from Chad Mizelle, the chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi, is one of staggering presidential power.

Howell was flabbergasted by Mizelle’s argument, saying it sent “chills down my spine” to hear the president could bar all government business with a particular company or person. Howell compared that type of decision by the president to Treasury Department economic sanctions that are decided by the Office of Foreign Assets Control related to national security.

“Your view is, ‘Don’t be chilled, judge. You can just trust the president to draw the right line, and yes, he has that power?’” Howell asked. “And that’s the government’s position here?”

“100 percent,” Mizelle said. “The president has every right to take that action.”

Mizelle also argued the courts shouldn’t be able to limit the president’s authority, especially as he decides upon lawyers’ security clearances or other access questions related to national security.

Perkins Coie’s lawyer Dane Butswinkas, however, said that the national security argument is a red herring, and the Trump administration’s approach refers to “a different Constitution from the one I’m familiar with.”

The firm says the order will cause top clients to drop its lawyers, and ultimately “will spell the end of the law firm,” Butswinkas said. “The president is punishing this law firm” for defending free speech.

He said that Justice Department prosecutors have canceled meetings with Perkins Coie lawyers, hurting their ability to represent clients in ongoing legal matters.

Howell also said she was blocking Trump’s order because it appears to violate several Constitutional protections, including the right for defendants to choose their lawyers, and the First Amendment right to petition the government. Perkins Coie also had no warning of the executive order or chance to oppose it before the White House issued it last Thursday, violating their due process, the judge added.

 

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6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

No votes until you get rid of DOGE and Elmo.

Yes, but meanwhile there is not even the current semblance of a national government.



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