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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Sorry about that. Gift link because it has a couple of videos: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/weather/dust-storm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k4.Fjln.BDjXYxAt3cN0&smid=url-share
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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Same corruption playbook. In just this week in Washington, Mr. Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who was seeking basic information about his mass deportation efforts, fired two Democratic commissioners of an independent trade commission and was rebuked by a judge who said his administration’s gutting of the agency in charge of foreign aid most likely violated the Constitution. This week in Jerusalem, Mr. Netanyahu’s cabinet fired Ronen Bar, the head of Shin Bet, Israel’s equivalent of the F.B.I., after the agency started investigations into the prime minister’s aides. Among other claims, the aides are accused of mishandling classified information and leaking a document to a foreign newspaper. Mr. Netanyahu’s office has strongly denied the allegations. ***** Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Netanyahu is seeking to rein in domestic watchdogs and judicial authorities that, like in the United States, have pursued investigations against him or his allies. Like Mr. Trump, the Israeli prime minister has faced criminal charges that he says are false claims fomented by left-leaning and unelected bureaucrats. In Mr. Netanyahu’s case, he is standing trial in a yearslong corruption case that requires him to appear in court several times a month. ***** Alon Pinkas, a political commentator and Israel’s former consul-general in New York, said it was doubtful Mr. Netanyahu would have moved against the Shin Bet chief had Mr. Trump not been president. The two leaders were kindred spirits politically, he said, and had “both adopted an identical language that would make George Orwell cringe with envy.” Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu also regularly use this language to discredit the news media, another institution they often view with contempt. Israel’s national broadcaster, Kan, reported this week that it was during a meeting with Mr. Trump in Washington last month when Mr. Netanyahu was inspired to fire Mr. Bar. Asked to comment on that report, Mr. Netanyahu’s spokesman, Omer Dostri, responded with a terse text message: “fake news.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-netanyahu-israel-political-strategy.html
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Effects of USDA cuts by DOGE hitting the food banks. Key passage: The halt to the funds, which was first reported by Politico, comes in addition to other recent cuts to federal food assistance. Earlier this month, the Agriculture Department halted two other programs that distributed food to banks and schools. Lawmakers are also mulling cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as food stamps, which were used by about 42 million people in the 2023 fiscal year. Food bank directors fear that an across-the-board contraction to federal food assistance could drive more people to food banks just as they are losing access to critical supplementary funds. “This is perhaps the first moment in the history of food banking that we have seen record low unemployment and record high demand at food banks,” Mr. Hall said. “Any circumstance that would cause even a modest increase in demand at food distributions will result in a food crisis.” Representatives of the Agriculture Department did not respond to requests for comment. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/food-banks-usda.html https://archive.is/2MZ2s -
Where our Christ-followers thread posters at? Effects of USDA cuts by DOGE hitting the food banks, especially in rural areas. Key passage: The halt to the funds, which was first reported by Politico, comes in addition to other recent cuts to federal food assistance. Earlier this month, the Agriculture Department halted two other programs that distributed food to banks and schools. Lawmakers are also mulling cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as food stamps, which were used by about 42 million people in the 2023 fiscal year. Food bank directors fear that an across-the-board contraction to federal food assistance could drive more people to food banks just as they are losing access to critical supplementary funds. “This is perhaps the first moment in the history of food banking that we have seen record low unemployment and record high demand at food banks,” Mr. Hall said. “Any circumstance that would cause even a modest increase in demand at food distributions will result in a food crisis.” Representatives of the Agriculture Department did not respond to requests for comment. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/food-banks-usda.html
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Previously, I'd never read WIRED magazine for their political reporting or op/eds, but with Elmo Mush in the White House, they've really found their calling. "Chaos is a ladder" strategy Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Chosen Chaos Elon Musk secured his choke hold on the mechanics of the federal government weeks ago. Along with Donald Trump, he has already standardized chaos across the US. Two months into the second Trump administration, the United States is in pure chaos mode. Tens of thousands of workers are fired one week and forcibly rehired the next. Tariffs rise and fall based not on strategy but on one man’s ire. Deportations fly in the face of judicial orders, careening the country toward a constitutional crisis. The only constant is the volatility itself. On paper, that may be surprising. A central premise of Donald Trump’s appeal is that he is an apex businessman. Same with Elon Musk. The elevator pitch: Through the sheer force of their combined savvy, America will be saved from “bankruptcy”—or worse. There aren’t many Harvard Business School case studies, though, that suggest maximum instability is the path to success. There’s plenty of Occam’s razor at work here: The US is wobbling wildly because its president and de facto CEO are some combination of self-serving and inept. But in between and among the absurdities, something darker takes shape. Inherent in every chaotic act is a challenge. Every outrage is a test. In the meantime, the uncertainty has international consequences. Tourism has plummeted, as potential visitors cancel their trips to a country increasingly, openly hostile to noncitizens. Europe is rearming itself in the face of a heightened potential for conflict, as Ukraine becomes the fulcrum on which decades of solidarity between the US and Europe may pivot. Allies have considered sharing less intelligence with their US counterparts, given the Trump administration’s increasingly cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin. It’s a heel turn worthy of a WWE Monday Night RAW plotline. But the US is not in the business of selling spectacle. Its value lies in its reliability. Instead it is now erratic, unpredictable. It’s messy. International politics is a relationship business; Donald Trump seems intent on undermining America’s relationships at every turn. (Well, except toward Moscow.) There’s the slash-and-burn approach to budgeting, a seeming race to create a minimally viable government. The operative part of a turnaround plan is the “plan” part. Firing as many people as possible as quickly as possible—without apparent consideration for actual skills or value that they bring to the role—does not qualify as a plan. It’s just more instability. The good news is that many of those employees are being reinstated, as the gears of the judiciary have slowly begun to turn. But that reinstatement itself may prove temporary, depending on what higher courts say. And even if those workers do come back, how motivated will they be to stay now that they know how their employer views their worth? More to the point, who would go work for the US government in its current state? Civil service doesn’t pay great, but at least you get to feel like you’re serving a higher calling with a side order of job security. The only callings being served right now are Donald Trump’s retribution tour and Elon Musk’s amateur hour AI jamboree. Eventually they’ll run out of SpaceX interns to hire. (A quick side note: Donald Trump reportedly told transportation secretary and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons champion Sean Duffy that he should hire Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates to work as air traffic controllers. The average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate is $126,438. The starting salary out of ATC school is $43,727. Business savvy!) As for Musk, he secured his choke hold on the mechanics of the federal government weeks ago. But the installation of Starlink terminals at the White House, his repeated attacks against federal judges on X, his open dismissal of Congress—none of these are normal. The longer they go on, though, the more they feel like they might be. That’s the point, really. The standardization of chaos. The steady insistence that no matter how outlandish, how dangerous, this tilt away from democracy gets, it’s actually nothing to get upset about. Attempt to remake the US government as quickly and radically as possible, because otherwise how will you know how far you can push it? Shoot for the moon; even if you miss, you’ll land among the kakistocracy. The good news is that there is a way out of this. The courts have already stopped DOGE at various turns and reversed some of its most extreme activities. Congress could wake up tomorrow and remember that it’s a coequal branch of government. Public pressure can remind politicians that elections aren’t decided only by whose corner the world’s richest man is in. Boundaries do exist, even if they need to be reinforced with rebar. And then there’s the bad news, which is the likelihood that Trump and Musk will at some point stop pretending to care about any official checks on their power. Or that they already have.
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Cases have also spread to three new counties surrounding Lubbock where it wasn't previously reported: Garza (Post), Hale (Plainview), and Hockley (Levelland). Hey, dipshits with kids! Vax 'em up before it spreads out of the Llano Estacado and pours over the top of the Caprock down into the part of the state that actually has people.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I just skimmed a few pages from back in April 2022 when there were rumbles about Elmo buying Twitter. Start at the top of page 12 when those folks come out of the woodwork stanning for the Nazi. 52-80 makes a real ass of himself by leading that dipshit charge while cheeseweasel mostly cheers from the sidelines for everything to burn to the ground, cajun makes weird noises, and a slew of silent supporters show their stripes with pos reps. I've got to say, though, that Pearland takes the cake with these two hilarious and unironic posts (no, I'm not being sarcastic by saying 'unironic.' This fucker bought the act.): I didn't have the stamina to continue until the actual purchase happened later that fall, and we all saw firsthand Twitter begin to be transformed into the complete cesspool that it is today. -
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Are you saying your dad lived through that? If so, come on. There's gotta be one helluva story behind that experience. Do tell.
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Wow. That had ALL the emotions. Just incredible. Such a long wait ahead. Question to be pondered: Since Mark's Cold Water project was to build all those different Gemma innies (Geminis...get it? Twins?), what the hell were the other members of MDR working on? I assume they have individual ones for themselves, n'est-ce pas?
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It's akin to his expressions of disbelief from those, such as myself, who grew up in rural fundagelical families. Many of us have patiently explained to that stubborn donkey about all the kooky shit we grew up having to hear, but Rex is a hard-headed asshole who I strongly suspect had quite a financially privileged upbringing. Oh, he'll tell you he frequently travels to the Permian Basin or SE Texas to work on deals, and so, therefore, he’s "in touch" with salt-of-the-earth, red-blooded Texans. He'll say he's *shocked* or feign disbelief by the stories we, the people actually from those places, tell about our own personal experiences. I suppose I can thank spending my formative years for exposing me to uncut christofascism at an early age. To tell the God's honest truth, I'm torn on Rex. He engages in conversations at times, but more often than not, he acts like an obnoxious and obstinate prick. I'm just not sure if he really leads such a sheltered life or if he's simply a contrarian cunt.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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As a progressive/liberal/pinko-commie bastard born and raised in Texas, spending nearly all of the first half of my life in a conservative small town out in West Texas, I can assure anyone who would question the veracity of Biff’s story that a trumptard will automatically assume that any straight, white, middle-aged man they address is also one. They take it as a given that you’ve also drank the Kool-Aid for that piece of shit, and they are not shy about it. It’s much the same way fundagelicals will try to push their perverted version of American Christianity on you without beating an eyelash.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
He can't be bothered with that kind of nonsense now. Instead, he's getting personal briefings of our top-secret war plans against China. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html The Pentagon is scheduled on Friday to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China, two U.S. officials said on Thursday. Another official said the briefing will be China focused, without providing additional details. A fourth official confirmed Mr. Musk was to be at the Pentagon on Friday, but offered no details. Providing Mr. Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets would be a dramatic expansion of his already extensive role as an adviser to President Trump and leader of his effort to slash spending and purge the government of people and policies they oppose. It would also bring into sharp relief the questions about Mr. Musk’s conflicts of interest as he ranges widely across the federal bureaucracy while continuing to run businesses that are major government contractors. In this case, Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of both SpaceX and Tesla, is a leading supplier to the Pentagon and has extensive financial interests in China. Pentagon war plans, known in military jargon as O-plans or operational plans, are among the military’s most closely guarded secrets. If a foreign country was to learn how the United States planned to fight a war against them, it could reinforce its defenses and address its weaknesses, making the plans far less likely to succeed. Cont'd: https://archive.is/GJrFA -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
bolverk replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
I seem to recall you mentioning you live in Hood County or very near Granbury, correct? That ain't exactly the "sticks," especially since you mention low green fees. That area doesn't exactly align with the traditional urban/rural divide. In fact, it's basically become the playground of well-to-do retirees from DFW and all over West Texas, living comfortably in what is basically an exurb of Fort Worth with an increasing number of retail/entertainment amenities drawn to the area's expanding population which has a good amount of disposable income. I'm pretty sure the same could all be said about nearby Glen Rose/Somerville County, just 15 miles or so down the road. If I'm right about your general location, it's not like you live in a struggling little town out in the real sticks like Menard, Brady, or Eden. -
American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
bolverk replied to Harrison Bergeron's topic in Daily Texan
Brisket might be known as this board’s Cassandra, but tell us, was she wrong? It seems to me the fine citizens of Troy would’ve ultimately been a lot happier if they’d only fucking listened. -
I went looking for an appropriate Pam JPG or GIF but found this. It's serious business.
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Done. I also expressed my opposition to Senate Bills 10 & 11 (Ten Commandments in classrooms and school prayer).
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Hopefully, this won't be too disruptive. From the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO): Based on all available monitoring data, AVO regards the following scenarios as possible. We consider scenario 1, explosive eruption(s) like those in 1953 and 1992, as most likely at this time. Scenarios 2 and 3 (smaller eruption, or no eruption) are possible but considered less likely, and the likelihood of a much larger eruption is currently low. Explosive eruption(s) like those in 1953 and 1992: In this scenario, one or more explosive events, each lasting as long as a few hours, would produce ash clouds carried downwind for hundreds of miles and minor (up to about ¼ inch) ashfall over southcentral Alaska. The flanks of Mount Spurr likely would be swept by pyroclastic flows (hot avalanches) and impacted by ballistic showers. Mudflows (lahars) could inundate the upper Chakachatna River valley. Lava-forming and/or small explosive eruption(s): It is possible that the volcano could erupt less explosively than it did in 1992 and 1953, and produce lava flows, a lava dome, and/or brief explosive eruptions. Such events would have less far-travelled impacts, but lahars (mudflows) in the drainages around the volcano are possible. Failed eruption: If the magma stalls and does not reach the surface, as happened in 2004–2006, we expect to see earthquake activity, ground deformation, gas emissions, and surface heating slowly decrease over several weeks or months. Large explosive eruption: Eruption(s) larger than those in 1992 and 1953 could occur. These would likely result in larger ash clouds, thicker ashfall deposits and greater overall impacts. No such eruptions are known in historical times, and the geologic record suggests these are rare. Therefore, the likelihood of such an event is low. ***** Old video about the 1992 eruption that's a little less than 7 minutes. Actual footage begins at 4 minutes:
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Noticed that as well
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Erosion of checks and balances. Consoldiation of power in the Executive. Corruption. Sounds familiar. Netanyahu Expected to Fire Shin Bet Chief Despite Protests Israelis have been demonstrating against the move, which many see as part of an effort to reduce checks on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was expected on Thursday to formally fire the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, despite growing street protests and scuffles over the move that have further roiled a deeply divided country still at war. The Israeli cabinet was set to convene for a nighttime vote on the dismissal of the Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, just days after Mr. Netanyahu announced his intention to oust him, citing a lack of personal trust between them. It comes after Israel’s military resumed a deadly campaign in Gaza that has raised concern among many Israelis about the fates of hostages still held in the enclave. Sirens warning of incoming rocket fire from Gaza sent Israelis in the Tel Aviv area running for cover on Thursday for the first time in months. The Shin Bet is deeply involved in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, providing intelligence and targets. By law, the agency is also tasked with protecting Israeli democracy. The discord between Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Bar goes to the heart of a broader battle playing out over the nature and future of Israel’s democracy and the rule of law. Critics of Mr. Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, the most right-wing and religiously conservative in Israel’s history, accuse it of working to reduce the authority of independent state watchdogs and to remove checks and balances on the powers of the government, which holds a narrow majority in Parliament. The firing of Mr. Bar on grounds of personal trust has also raised public concerns that future appointments may be based primarily on loyalty to the prime minister. Thousands protested in Jerusalem on Wednesday in anticipation of the move, and more protests took place on Thursday. By lunchtime, a long column of academics had marched in stormy weather from a campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem toward one of Mr. Netanyahu’s private residences, beating on drums, chanting, “Democracy!” and scuffling with police officers after trying to break through a barricade. Some prominent opposition figures joined the demonstrators. Video footage from the scene showed police officers aggressively pushing protesters, including Yair Golan, a former deputy chief of the military and now the leader of the center-left Democrats party, who ended up on the ground. The police used a water cannon and sprayed protesters with a foul-smelling liquid in an effort to disperse them. The new protests recall weekly demonstrations in 2023 against attempts to overhaul the judiciary to reduce its power as a check on the government, with business leaders at one point joining labor unions to hold a national strike. Those protests came to an abrupt halt with the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that ignited the war on Oct. 7, 2023, though the broad sense of national solidarity that prevailed then is now fraying. Mr. Netanyahu and his allies have made accusations of overreach against the judiciary and other independent branches, saying that they have hampered the government’s freedom to make decisions and to represent the will of voters. Mr. Netanyahu has been under police investigation and is on trial on charges of corruption, which he denies. He has repeatedly accused a liberal “deep state” of conducting a witch hunt against him and his family. For months, Mr. Bar had angered Mr. Netanyahu by investigating officials in the prime minister’s office over claims that they had leaked secret documents to the media and also worked for people connected to Qatar, an Arab state close to Hamas. The investigation, called “Qatargate” in the local news media, is continuing in secrecy under a sweeping gag order. Mr. Netanyahu has denied wrongdoing and his office has dismissed the episode as “fake news.” The Qatari government did not respond to requests for comment. Mr. Bar, who has led the Shin Bet since 2021, issued a rare public statement last week, after Mr. Netanyahu’s announcement, saying that the expectation of “personal trust” was in opposition to the public interest. “It’s a fundamentally flawed expectation that is in contravention with the Shin Bet law and statesmanship,” Mr. Bar said. Mr. Bar and the Shin Bet have taken responsibility for their part in the intelligence failure that led to the Hamas-led attack, which resulted in the deadliest single day for Israelis since the foundation of their state in 1948. But in a summary of the agency’s internal probe into its conduct issued earlier this month, the Shin Bet also pointed to years of lenient government policy toward Hamas and Gaza as a major contributing factor, likely angering Mr. Netanyahu. Appearing emboldened domestically, as well as in Gaza, by the staunch support of the U.S. administration, Mr. Netanyahu made common cause with President Trump in a blunt social media post late Wednesday. “In America and in Israel, when a strong right wing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep State weaponizes the justice system to thwart the people’s will,” he wrote. “They won’t win in either place! We stand strong together.” The billionaire Elon Musk, a close ally of Mr. Trump, replied with a red “100” emoji, suggesting that he agreed with Mr. Netanyahu. Many Israelis view the country’s democracy as increasingly fragile. Israel has no formal written constitution, only one legislative chamber and a president whose role is mostly ceremonial and symbolic. By taking the vote straight to the government on Thursday, Mr. Netanyahu was also defying a legal opinion of the attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, who advised that the dismissal of Mr. Bar must first be approved by an advisory committee that oversees senior appointments. Ms. Baharav-Miara, who was appointed by the previous government, has frequently clashed with the current one. Prominent members of Mr. Netanyahu’s cabinet have said that after Mr. Bar’s removal, the attorney general will be the next. The families of hostages still held in Gaza, up to 24 of whom are believed to be alive, have expressed outrage and alarm over what they view as Mr. Netanyahu’s misguided priorities, as well as the collapse of a temporary cease-fire and the renewed military campaign. “First, return the hostages. Everything else comes after!” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a grass-roots organization that advocates on behalf of captives and their relatives, said in a statement on Thursday. The forum described the hostages as being “in danger of death and disappearance in the Hamas tunnels in Gaza.”
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