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17 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


Imagine you make 100,000k/ year.

Now, you spend roughly $155,000/year. Ahhh.

You have to borrow the difference.

Your wife gets mad at you. 
So to make her happy you comb through your finances.

Boom. 
You found it.

You come to her and offer to cut the ~$1.32 you tip on ONE cup of coffee / year.

Then you go and tweet about it like you’re a genius.


Americans are so fucking number illiterate.

The US budget is so big that millions of dollars = the change in your couch to you and me.

These aren’t serious people.

one of the first days of the doge investigations, when the blonde moron went out to announce some of the fraud, waste, and corruption, she took out a long list to read. a list of outrageous leftist woke absurdity they had found, and cut, that was "already well into the billions".

the 3rd thing on the list was for $46,000.

these are not serious people.

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8 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

one of the first days of the doge investigations, when the blonde moron went out to announce some of the fraud, waste, and corruption, she took out a long list to read. a list of outrageous leftist woke absurdity they had found, and cut, that was "already well into the billions".

the 3rd thing on the list was for $46,000.

these are not serious people.

Well, the other thing is $46k is an annual salary to these people, so it looks significant.

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This makes me sad:

https://wpde.com/news/local-and-state/war-heroes-military-firsts-among-26000-images-flagged-for-removal-in-pentagon-dei-purge-enola-gay-soldiers-named-gay-donald-trump-elon-musk-pete-hegseth-doge-diversity-equity-and-inclusion

WASHINGTON — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.

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This makes me sad:
https://wpde.com/news/local-and-state/war-heroes-military-firsts-among-26000-images-flagged-for-removal-in-pentagon-dei-purge-enola-gay-soldiers-named-gay-donald-trump-elon-musk-pete-hegseth-doge-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
WASHINGTON — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.

So DEI now just means “get rid of anything that’s not solely straight white males”.

We used to have other words for that.
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23 minutes ago, Red Five said:


So DEI now just means “get rid of anything that’s not solely straight white males”.

We used to have other words for that.

Except the crew of the Enola Gay was white. So nah, we don't like his mom's name, so erase it.

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These people are serious about stealing from the taxpayer. Get rid of IRS employees and steal $31,000 for each hour just one employee isn’t working.

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A 2024 report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that the IRS found savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing the tax returns of very wealthy taxpayers — a return on investment that “would leave Wall Street hedge fund managers drooling,” in the words of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.


https://www.propublica.org/article/how-doge-irs-cuts-will-cost-more-than-savings-trump-musk-deficit?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1741363228&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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1 hour ago, Satchel said:

This makes me sad:

https://wpde.com/news/local-and-state/war-heroes-military-firsts-among-26000-images-flagged-for-removal-in-pentagon-dei-purge-enola-gay-soldiers-named-gay-donald-trump-elon-musk-pete-hegseth-doge-diversity-equity-and-inclusion

WASHINGTON — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.

Yet they allow the SS Sodomite to keep sailing. Makes no sense.

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2 hours ago, Satchel said:

This makes me sad:

https://wpde.com/news/local-and-state/war-heroes-military-firsts-among-26000-images-flagged-for-removal-in-pentagon-dei-purge-enola-gay-soldiers-named-gay-donald-trump-elon-musk-pete-hegseth-doge-diversity-equity-and-inclusion

WASHINGTON — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.

this is what happens when you let ai determine what is and isn't woke/dei.

now let's turn on ymca and celebrate.

Posted
3 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I cannot roll my eyes any further

 

There are about 195 different countries in the world.  But the one that keeps coming up among the fascists is always the same one.  

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27 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Yeah, none of that happened.  It’s just a smoke screen.

There are tensions between Rubio and Musk for sure.  The communications State leadership puts out about the five things exercise have been terse and telling in their contempt for the idea that someone on the outside has any business judging the work. 

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5 hours ago, Satchel said:

This makes me sad:

https://wpde.com/news/local-and-state/war-heroes-military-firsts-among-26000-images-flagged-for-removal-in-pentagon-dei-purge-enola-gay-soldiers-named-gay-donald-trump-elon-musk-pete-hegseth-doge-diversity-equity-and-inclusion

WASHINGTON — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.

Fucking hell.

 

"In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.

Several photos of an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California were marked for deletion, apparently because a local engineer in the photo had the last name Gay. And a photo of Army Corps biologists was on the list, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish — including their weight, size, hatchery and gender."

 

Our history is being systematically erased by CTRL fucking F.  

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1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

Fucking hell.

 

"In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.

Several photos of an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California were marked for deletion, apparently because a local engineer in the photo had the last name Gay. And a photo of Army Corps biologists was on the list, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish — including their weight, size, hatchery and gender."

 

Our history is being systematically erased by CTRL fucking F.  

the sad thing is that he's making good on his campaign promises. millions of braindead americans voted specifically for this and love that it's happening.

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41 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

the sad thing is that he's making good on his campaign promises. millions of braindead americans voted specifically for this and love that it's happening.

Nvm. I did not read your post as narrowly as I now believe you intended.

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5 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Yeah, none of that happened.  It’s just a smoke screen.

Seems plausible and the situation described sounds like Boar on the Floor.

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Fired probationary NWS folks are starting to get these letters stating they were fired in error and should return to work by Wednesday. 

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RIF supposedly coming next week. I have a feeling this return to work is a CYA to avoid lawsuit, only to be RIFedlater.

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Posted
20 hours ago, Colonel Sanders said:

DoD civilians now have to send a 5 things i did last week every week to Pete and Elon.  Seems pretty efficient. 

 

let ai write it, then ai will review it 

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4 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Folks have been saying Republicans are using <control - f> to govern. Here is the list of searches supposedly identified by the NYT.

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So we are cutting the MX missle program?

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NOAA Said to Be Planning to Shrink Staff by 20 Percent
Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that NOAA’s lifesaving forecasts might be hindered as hurricane and disaster season approaches.

The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent weeks. The moves have alarmed scientists, meteorologists and others at the agency, which includes the National Weather Service. Some activities, including the launching of weather balloons, have already been suspended because of staffing shortages.

Together, the reductions would represent nearly 20 percent of NOAA’s approximately 13,000-member work force.

Managers within NOAA have been told to draw up proposals for layoffs and reorganizations to trim the agency’s staff by at least 1,000 people, according to eight people who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the plans publicly. The effort is part of the “reductions in force” that President Trump required as part of an executive order last month, as he and the billionaire Elon Musk make rapid, large-scale cuts to the federal bureaucracy.

NOAA managers have been asked to complete their proposals by Tuesday, one of the people said. The proposals are likely to involve eliminating some of the agency’s functions, though managers have received little guidance about which programs to prioritize for cutting.

Representatives for NOAA didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.

The recent employee departures have already affected NOAA’s operations in many realms: predicting hurricanes and tornadoes, overseeing fisheries and endangered species, monitoring the changes that humans are bringing about to Earth’s climate and ecosystems.

NOAA, a $6.8 billion agency within the Commerce Department, has been singled out for cuts by some of Mr. Trump’s allies. Project 2025, the policy blueprint published by the Heritage Foundation that is echoed in many of the Trump administration’s actions, calls NOAA “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.” The document calls for the agency to be dismantled and some of its functions eliminated or privatized.

Organizations including the American Geophysical Union, which represents earth and space researchers, have called on Congress to oppose the administration’s actions.

“Undermining NOAA’s operations could risk the safety of millions of Americans and destabilize countless industries, from farming and fisheries to energy and finance, threatening job losses and economic downturn,” the organizations wrote in a letter. They pointed out that, as the planet warms, extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more damaging, making NOAA’s work more critical.

The idea that private companies could replace NOAA in forecasting the weather is a “gross misunderstanding,” said Keith Seitter, a distinguished visiting lecturer in meteorology and climate science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

“The app on your phone or what you’re watching on TV, those are private-sector companies, but those private-sector companies depend critically on NOAA for all the information that they’re using to create those forecasts,” Dr. Seitter said. “It’s a coordinated effort.”

Employees who are still working at NOAA describe feelings of deep anxiety. Their colleagues have been let go unannounced, meaning they have no idea who might simply not show up for work. With their government-issued credit cards frozen, they can’t buy supplies for research projects or travel to retrieve instruments that have been installed at sea. They are scrambling to back up their scientific data, fearful that programs might be shuttered or leases on buildings canceled.

At least three NOAA facilities were on a list of federal properties that the Trump administration flagged last week for possible sale. The list was later taken down, replaced by a web page that said a new inventory was “coming soon.”

The firings of scientists at NOAA and other agencies, plus potential cuts to federal funding for research at universities and hospitals, have fed worries that the administration is undermining the foundations of America’s modern scientific leadership.

On Friday, crowds gathered at “Stand Up for Science” rallies in cities around the nation including Austin, Birmingham, Ala., Boston, Chicago, Denver, Nashville and Washington.

“This is the most challenging moment I can recall for science,” Michael Mann, a climate researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, told the rally in Washington, where the crowd peaked at 5,000 people, according to the organizers. “Science is under siege,” Dr. Mann said.

The National Weather Service has faced budget cuts, hiring freezes and calls for privatization before, Dr. Seitter said. “But nothing where you’ve just arbitrarily whacked whole chunks out of the work force, or potentially taken away whole chunks of budget that support mission-critical things,” he said.

Posted
5 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

More facts that expose the DOGE scam.

The discretionary budget request for the National Park Service in 2024 was $3.8 billion. 

The National Park Service revenue for 2024 was $55,6 billion.

 

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/national-parks-contributed-record-high-$55-6-billion-to-u-s-economy-supported-415-000-jobs-in-2023.htm

 

 

You see it was clearly inefficient for lining Elon/Trump's pockets.  

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Posted
1 minute ago, Nivek said:

You see it was clearly inefficient for lining Elon/Trump's pockets.  

Yep, all those mom and pops around the parks just need to pick themselves up. Musk needs a new baby momma and they are not cheap.

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Thanks. You made me remember there are still great people in this country.

Fuck trump, musk and all the rest of maga. If you voted for this shit then burn in hell…

Posted
46 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

If they get organized, ahhh shit.

One thing to remember about the current vets vs. WW2/Korea. They know insurgencies.

They won't.  Veterans get shit on and vote for republicans so they can get shit on more.   Look at how Jon Stewart had to fight so fucking hard to get us to just honor the commitment to first responders by taking care of their medical needs.  Several republicans killed it (including Ted Cruz) and they were all smiles and high-fives.   Veterans and other first responders saw that and said, "yeah, I want more of that."

 

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17 minutes ago, Nivek said:

They won't.  Veterans get shit on and vote for republicans so they can get shit on more.   Look at how Jon Stewart had to fight so fucking hard to get us to just honor the commitment to first responders by taking care of their medical needs.  Several republicans killed it (including Ted Cruz) and they were all smiles and high-fives.   Veterans and other first responders saw that and said, "yeah, I want more of that."

 

As a block? No, they won't. As small groups they might.

 

 



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