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Satchel

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  1. That Texas could be so big and so backward, is disgusting: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-measles-abbott-lawmakers-response/ State and local health officials are setting up vaccine clinics and encouraging people to get the shot, which is more than 97% effective at warding off measles. But neither Gov. Greg Abbott nor lawmakers from the hardest hit areas have addressed the outbreak publicly in press conferences, social media posts or public calls for people to consider getting vaccinated. State and local authorities in West Texas have not yet enacted more significant measures that other places have adopted during outbreaks, like excluding unvaccinated students from school before they are exposed, or enforcing quarantine after exposure. The response to Texas’ first major public health crisis since COVID is being shaped by the long-term consequences of the pandemic, experts say — stronger vaccine hesitancy, decreased trust in science and authorities, and an unwillingness from politicians to aggressively push public health measures like vaccination and quarantine.
  2. Trump signed an EO intending to make English the official language of the US. He’s also done the following: Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website. The site — currently https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/ — now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his first term and on the campaign trail. The button was later updated to read “Go To Home Page Wonder if Republicans will stop lying on Spanish speaking radio stations in South Texas.
  3. JD Vance brings SDE wherever he goes.
  4. I hope Americans take to the streets in the millions when Trump hosts Putin later this year.
  5. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5305281/trump-police-misconduct-database-background-checks A federal system for doing background checks on law enforcement officers has gone offline — thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump when he returned to the White House on Jan. 20. The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) was launched in 2023 as a central repository of the professional records of federal law enforcement officers. The main purpose was to allow prospective employers — other federal agencies or local police — to check their backgrounds for misconduct. The system is now offline. Why did President Trump decommission the database? It appears to be a casualty of Trump's flurry of first-day executive actions, which included the revocation of a long list of President Biden's executive orders. One of those Biden orders was a package of police reforms signed on May 25, 2022, the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. The database was just one item among many in Biden's order, and the Trump administration has not criticized it specifically, though in the preface to the revocation it criticized the Biden policies in general over what it called "unlawful and radical DEI ideology."
  6. And this was before Trump fellated Putin before the whole world today - in Oklafreekinhoma!
  7. Don’t threaten him with a good time. in other news…US has canceled financial obligation to support Ukrainian energy grid.
  8. Yep. It’s true. We switched sides. We’re a axis power now.
  9. The champagne corks are popping all over Moscow. Why did America do this to us? Good grief.
  10. HUD secretary announcing elimination of rule Trump warned would ‘destroy the value of houses’ https://www.yahoo.com/news/hud-secretary-announcing-elimination-rule-223223838.html I know him He put the butter in butter biscuit.
  11. Measles cases now being reported in Rockwall County. One school age kid has died in west Texas. I guess we should brace ourselves for measles outbreak all over the state. This is so unnecessary.
  12. As my gran’ would say, her ways make her ugly.
  13. I wouldn’t say never. The important thing is you were able to get the point. That’s what really matters.
  14. Well, all that will have to be done on 880 billion fewer dollars. Rich people need their money!
  15. https://people.com/elon-musk-says-he-didnt-do-nazi-salute-at-trump-event-video-goes-viral-8777743
  16. Here is part of the tweet that prompted aggy to ask the following: “Is it fair or unfair for Democrats to be mad about this tweet from a political perspective? Dear Mods. I rephrased the question in a political manner without mentioning "paleoconservatism". I also phrased the question in the most neutral way possible with even asking if it is fair for Democrats to be mad about this. If not ok then please remove and delete. Thanks.” In my 90% white town, I can walk around wearing all of my jewelry, a cashmere coat and a nice handbag with a wallet full of cash. I can leave my doors unlocked. I can leave my laptop in my car overnight and no one steals it
  17. This is why I get so disgusted about the dishonest way we discuss race in this country. The take on the Black History Month purge at MSNBC is but the latest reminder of how screwed up we are on the issue of race: https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3529937
  18. Watching all those alpha men sitting there with arms folded is telling.
  19. It turns out none of the “receipts are real. From the NYT: DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved. These were the original five largest savings on its list: An $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The actual contract in question was worth $8 million. The mistake seemed to stem from an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database. But contracting experts said that the service should have known better: ICE’s entire budget is about $8 billion, making it implausible that one contract could be so large. The U.S. DOGE Service adjusted the figure on the site after The Times wrote about it, and said in a post on Mr. Musk’s X platform that it had “always used the correct $8M in its calculations.” Three $655 million cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. This was actually a single cut that was erroneously counted three times, as first reported by CBS News. That mistake also seemed to reflect a misunderstanding of the way government contracts work; they sometimes have “ceiling values” far in excess of what will be spent. Experts said this cancellation was unlikely to produce anything close to $655 million in savings even once. Now, the site lists a much smaller savings for these three cancellations: $18 million in total. A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead. Some of the new canceled contracts added this week appear to make some of the same types of errors. The largest savings on the latest version of its list is a $1.9 billion cut at the Treasury Department. But The Times reported last week that this contract was canceled last fall, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was president — and when DOGE did not yet exist.
  20. When I googled Abbott responds to measles outbreak in Texas, this is what I found:
  21. It’s still absolutely astonishing that this man can brazenly give a Nazi salute before the entire world, deny he did so, and have people agree with him.
  22. You think Joy is unattractive? And who gets to weigh in when a show/host is deemed to be overly race baiting?
  23. Are the plans in place to ship all the measley Texans off to work camps to recover?
  24. I liked her show, and her guests. I get that the way she brought smoke could be off putting to some. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. This was nothing more than a politically driven purge directed by Trump buddy and chairman of Comcast.
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