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So Utterly Delusional Yeah, ignore the actual results and just go with Groper’s lie that he won. Smart. Why even bother counting votes, or casting ballots? Just declare the biggest liar the victor and pray the idiot doesn’t do half the vile wickedness he promised. What could go wrong? |
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Dodgey Plus, he has all our bank and SS numbers. Lots of powerful private information. MAGA: Furious Hillary has a private email. MAGA: Nods agreement Musk owns all our confidential Treasury data, |
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A silly question or two coming up... 1. As far as I have read, DOGE is NOT a government department. It is an informal group the President set up as advisors, but not within the governmental system. It has less authority than an external consultant, whose expenses are at least included within appropriations. So how can he send out offers of termination bonuses? 2. Has Musk been through security assessment, like any ordinary employee or advisor would undergo? 3. Isn't this centralisation of power into the President's hands, with direct oversight rather than through Departmental regulations or oversight by elected Representatives, exactly the 'tyranny' that sparked the revolt against George III? |
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Obsteve <<I think you must do DEI the opposite, over your way. Here in the UK, it's about maintaining a broader workforce, which does not exclude potential talent through historical prejudices. White people over here don't become the "whipping boys" of DEI philosophies. Rather, it is about ensuring meritocracy over chumocracy. Equality Act 2010 makes it illegal to positively discriminate. How have whites become the “whipping boys” of DEI philosophies in USA? It doesn't seem to make sense to me.>>. Obsteve Well, the UK eliminated slavery long before the US, blocking slave trade itself. Mexico too abolished slavery long before we got around to it. So I think there was backlash against treating farm equipment like genuine human beings, a stance that persists to this day. AG Pam Bondinis investigating DEI in private industry and universities, though it is troublesome understanding exactly what laws are transgressed. A number of Groper’s female supporters who were fired on Groper’s DEI mandate have started complaining DEI firings should have been racial based, not gender. I guess leopards ate their faces. |
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Security Clearance |
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Frank Fights <<So, this is your last word about establishng common ground and a civil discourse? That will be one fine legacy, sir. I don’t expect there will be very many unsaved souls in heaven on your account who you couldn’t show God’s grace towards, will there?>> Frank to Andrew Actually, I have to agree with Frank here, without having read any of the prior exchange. Ok, read through—no change in my opinion. |
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Lying as Usual So the Arab nations should recognize Groper is full of bullshït (to use Obsteve’s euphemism) and should tell Groper to FO? Everyone should. |
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Gaza Final Solution They will be relocated all right. Vuelos de la muerte. Flights to sama, or jann. جَنَّة |
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Dodgey “I was racist before it was cool.” This “highly trained professional” was released. I haven’t seen Obsteve’s ruling cited anywhere yet—I am not pleased Elon has my SS and private bank accounts, as well as God only knows what other personal information about me. Granted, I did own stock in Tesla before the election, but I sold it right before it shot up. It cannot be doing well after his Nazi salute, as sales are down dramatically all across Europe. Car sales are down 9% in France, but Tesla is down over 60% there. You take out Tesla and you probably impact that overall number a percent. I haven’t seen the US figures, but I bet sales have fallen here too. Hard to wage war against your customer base without some kind of negative feedback. |
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I laugh at the farmers who voted for Groper while selling USAID $3 billion in staples shipped to third world nations. Leopards dine on their visages. |
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Shiva 19:36 This is something that too many Trumpists don't realise. The vast majority of US 'foreign aid' is NOT money sent to foreigners. It is American goods sent to foreigners, the money to pay for those goods staying in USA. There's aid in the form of medicines. These are also produced in America and the sales go straight into Big Pharma's bank accounts. The amount of money quoted might look impressive, but that's because the figures are quoted assuming Big Pharma's standard prices, which include R & D costs and their usual huge profits. In fact, the MARGINAL cost of producing more of the drug than needed purely for full-price commercial markets is bugger-all. Then take the biggest single item of 'foreign aid', which is military hardware sent to Israel. Virtually all that money is paid to US corporations, and includes R & D as well as profits. The marginal costs of production are much lower than the nominal costs, but the greater volume means that the American military isn't embarrassed by letting the public know how much money these toys really cost. The Treasury pays for it through the 'aid' bucket instead of the Defense budget. Same with famine relief as you pointed out. If this excess production isn't bought by USAID, the market price of the commodity would drop so low that American farmers would go out of business. The same thing happens with American sugar beet which costs twice as much as Brazilian cane sugar to put onto supermarket shelves. If it was a genuinely 'Free Market', American farmers would go out backwards. That's Socialism for you; government intervention in the market to put a floor under prices. Hands up everyone who thinks this Socialist intervention should stop, because nobody in the GOP seems to think so. |
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jonheck 07-Feb-25, 03:00 |
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Shiva "Dump for trump" might work better here. See: We dump for trump the 2,000,000 or so surviving ... ... |
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Bob 21:22 Yes. Followed by Egypt. One and two. 2023 was $18 billion to Israel in military hardware, plus more billions. Egypt was far less, around $2 to $5 billion. It used to be higher. The next highest expenditure doesn’t break a billion, out of a USAID budget of $40 billion. Liberals imagine foreign aid constitutes 20% of the federal budget, conservatives think it is 40%. (Numbers are approximate from hazy recollection). That ACTUAL figure is just under 1%, where the international agreement was 2%. And if we subtracted military hardware we would hover at 0.5%. |
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