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7 minutes ago, wood said:

These appointments are nuts, even for Trump. Utter freakshow.

I'm not saying this is what's happening here, but if the Russians had run a 50 year sleeper program to take over the White House and the cabinet, it seems like it would look a lot like we're seeing here, except it probably wouldn't be so obvious and ham-fisted. This is weird, wild stuff ... and just like his campaign, you couldn't make this shit up. If you were writing a political thriller, even if you did imagine this stuff, you'd never write it, because you'd think "I can't write that, because it's so stupid that people would just stop reading".

 

he’s appointing the ultimate ‘yes’ men 

the next time he talks about dropping a nuke in a hurricane, all he’ll hear is ‘fuck yes !’

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So is Hegseth for or against bombing cartels in Mexico and Central America? Because that will be suggested by Trump again, once he needs to fan the flames of fear against gangs coming through the border.

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I’ve been thinking this afternoon about whether or not we will see a bunch of brain drain from federal agencies under Trump 2.0. Not the Elon “efficiency” shit, but just plain old career bureaucrats that see someone like Gaetz becoming their new boss and say “nah, fuck this” and bail. Not sure what career opportunities those types of people can parlay from being a bureaucrat so that might have an impact. It also strikes me that this result might entirely be an intended consequence as part of the P2025 playbook to stock federal agencies with blind loyalists.

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Just now, tx 3 putt said:

 

he’s appointing the ultimate ‘yes’ men 

the next time he talks about dropping a nuke in a hurricane, all he’ll hear is ‘fuck yes !’

100%. I remember back in the day in the fire department when the Chief of the department appointed a Lieutenant to Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, skipping 4 or 5 ranks. Everyone's immediate reaction was the same. Sure would be a helluva fall from Asst. Chief pay back to Lt. pay, right? Better do what the man says, or else.

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23 minutes ago, wood said:

These appointments are nuts, even for Trump. Utter freakshow.

I'm not saying this is what's happening here, but if the Russians had run a 50 year sleeper program to take over the White House and the cabinet, it seems like it would look a lot like we're seeing here, except it probably wouldn't be so obvious and ham-fisted. This is weird, wild stuff ... and just like his campaign, you couldn't make this shit up. If you were writing a political thriller, even if you did imagine this stuff, you'd never write it, because you'd think "I can't write that, because it's so stupid that people would just stop reading".

November 18, 1956 ...

“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.”

- Nikita Khrushchev

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29 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

November 18, 1956 ...

“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.”

- Nikita Khrushchev

 

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1 hour ago, wood said:

These appointments are nuts, even for Trump. Utter freakshow.

I'm not saying this is what's happening here, but if the Russians had run a 50 year sleeper program to take over the White House and the cabinet, it seems like it would look a lot like we're seeing here, except it probably wouldn't be so obvious and ham-fisted. This is weird, wild stuff ... and just like his campaign, you couldn't make this shit up. If you were writing a political thriller, even if you did imagine this stuff, you'd never write it, because you'd think "I can't write that, because it's so stupid that people would just stop reading".

If you showed these results to republicans in the 1980s, they wouldn't even believe you. If you were able to convince them that this is their future, they would be horrified and disgusted at what we've become. Now? Cool, cool. 

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13 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Merga radical republicans just dumb af

 

To be fair, this is a two-way phenomenon, though it's always been notably stronger on the Republican side. Just really dumb.

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55 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

November 18, 1956 ...

“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.”

- Nikita Khrushchev

Yeah, well, we have the toilets. Checkmate!

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Who survives this? Assuming this is not the full Brisket scenario - who comes out of this kinda ok? Business owners? Top 5%? Just the billionaires?

*Brisket scenario - full on nuke war, so we all are fucked.


Also - what countries do we take down with us? As we go a lot of the world goes.

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did someone on here say they'd gotten a letter from JPMorgan recommending or advising something about moving things to cash? 🤔

the way the last 10 days have gone for me that absolutely could have been a fever dream/nightmare 😜... am i the only one that saw that?

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1 hour ago, royiv said:

I’ve been thinking this afternoon about whether or not we will see a bunch of brain drain from federal agencies under Trump 2.0. Not the Elon “efficiency” shit, but just plain old career bureaucrats that see someone like Gaetz becoming their new boss and say “nah, fuck this” and bail. Not sure what career opportunities those types of people can parlay from being a bureaucrat so that might have an impact. It also strikes me that this result might entirely be an intended consequence as part of the P2025 playbook to stock federal agencies with blind loyalists.

Going to be a huge waive of retirements. 

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7 minutes ago, mchookem said:

did someone on here say they'd gotten a letter from JPMorgan recommending or advising something about moving things to cash? 🤔

the way the last 10 days have gone for me that absolutely could have been a fever dream/nightmare 😜... am i the only one that saw that?

Sounds like a good way for JPMorgan to very quickly go under so I would guess fever dream. 

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Oh.  The fucking.  Irony.

Remember when Michelle Obama championed better nutrition in schools, and it was BIG BROTHER COMMUNISM SHE IS EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED???  That was the fucking chorus we heard from Republicans for....well, going on 14 years now?

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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act changed nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program by requiring that schools serve more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fat-free and/or low-fat milk more frequently and less starchy vegetables or foods high in sodium and trans fat. The Obama-era policy has since seen a series of rollback measures.

Let's check out the news today.  Now that we live in Trumpland, which is truly the bastion of freedom and opportunity and no regulations and AIN'T NO GOVERNMENT GONNA TELL US WHAT TO DO OUR KIDS SHOULD DO AND EAT WHATEVER THEY WANT BECAUSE FREEDOM!....let's pop over to the news: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/texas-legislature/kelloggs-cereal-ban-texas-legislature-schools/269-fa20f916-5f4a-457f-aecd-c40dab3f80ca

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During that meeting, HumanCo founder and CEO Jason Karp testified, pushing for Texas to ban Kellogg's "and any other anti-American companies" from public entities, including schools statewide. 

"Very few Americans know that Kellogg's sells a safer version of their cereals, without artificial food dyes or carcinogenic preservatives, in other countries," Karp said. 

According to Karp, Kellogg's claims "American children prefer the brighter colors, and they will continue selling the more toxic version," as long as current laws are unchanged. 

So far, Karp said he and a group of fellow advocates have collected more than 450,000 signatures pushing Kellogg's to use safer ingredients in the U.S.  

A video of Karp was posted Wednesday to Instagram by Truvani founder Vani Hari and has already received thousands of comments and reactions. 

"BIG FOOD WATCH OUT. We have a revolution here," Hari wrote in the post's caption. "We will hit this issue from every single angle possible. We cannot be stopped."

During the committee meeting, State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) also shared concerns about companies using different ingredients in the U.S. versus overseas. 

"Why are foods in Europe different than foods in America, but we have the same companies making it?" She asked.

The fucking idiocy.  It is infinite.

Is having healthier food in schools bad policy?  YES.  100%.  IT IS THE WORST THING EVER, AND A SYMPTOM OF THE DEATH OF THE REPUBLIC!  I mean, ummm.....if a Democrat proposes it.

But if a Republican proposes it, well, we're just gonna MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!  LOOK AT ME WITH MY BRILLIANT IDEA!

This country is too stupid to go on.  I'm now on board with the MAGAs.  Burn the whole fucking thing down.  Why lament the immolation of something this gut-numbingly stupid?

 

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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Sounds like a good way for JPMorgan to very quickly go under so I would guess fever dream. 

that's what i was thinking...maybe it was just for that poster's accounts or something.  or yeah, traumatic fever dream on my part lol

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This country is too stupid to go on.  I'm now on board with the MAGAs.  Burn the whole fucking thing down.  Why lament the immolation of something this gut-numbingly stupid?

 

 

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

If you showed these results to republicans in the 1980s, they wouldn't even believe you. If you were able to convince them that this is their future, they would be horrified and disgusted at what we've become. Now? Cool, cool. 

100% this. Throughout all of this I keep thinking back to some of the real shitty assholes we've had in various high positions of power who would never, at least not so openly, flaunt basically every law or structure we have in place to limit their powers. For sure, some have tried to 'paint outside the lines', to much lesser degrees than what we're seeing now, but even then, they attempted to hide it and still weren't trying to, effectively, fundamentally destroy the Union. Much or all of what this crew openly says they'll do is stuff that none of those assholes would have even tried in secret. 

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On 11/6/2024 at 12:55 PM, Frank Drebin said:

Elon is an American citizen, last time I checked.

Dude. You really can't be this stupid. This has to be an act.

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1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

Going to be a huge waive of retirements. 

Already hearing about it. Mainly from State, DHS and USAID contacts. All asking how to get into the civilian world. Now wait for all the colonels. That will be fun.

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1 hour ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

"Chill bitches.  I got yo back."

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And the rumors have come out today with Susan Rice considering challenging her.

 

This with what Axlrod said yesterday makes me want to punch things.

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6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Yep.  The boy had a similar pain in the ass when he moved to the UK, as did the daughter.  Was MUCH easier to open an account when she moved to Canada (walked over to the RBC branch, opened a student account with her, done deal).  Germany was a similar pain in the ass when the boy lived there.  One thing we encouraged them to do was to KEEP all those accounts active, forever.  Daughter keeps a low balance in her RBC account.  Boy kept his German account, and now he's back over there for a year, so it's active again (although he doesn't ever have that much money in it, so not reportable).

We had to report our UK account starting last year.  We also have a separate account for German expenses that we need to report next year (they require a "blocked bank account" with sufficient funds to support the student for the year).  But our family rule is "keep every bank account in every country active."  It's just a nice hedge to have a quick and easy way to move money in or out of any country as pressing needs may arise.

Yeah, if we have tariff-based inflation, then it will ripple globally for sure.

So, speaking as a fairly financially-illiterate person, I'm sure there are downsides to having to report that account. What are they?

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9 minutes ago, wood said:

So, speaking as a fairly financially-illiterate person, I'm sure there are downsides to having to report that account. What are they?

The reg is really to track drug money.  As I do not traffic in narcotics (if you're a cop, you have to tell me), I'm not overly concerned.  I don't necessarily like the gov't knowing that I have a large account elsewhere, but if it ever gets hairy enough to be a problem....it'll be hairy enough for me to GTFO anyway.

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4 hours ago, royiv said:

I’ve been thinking this afternoon about whether or not we will see a bunch of brain drain from federal agencies under Trump 2.0. Not the Elon “efficiency” shit, but just plain old career bureaucrats that see someone like Gaetz becoming their new boss and say “nah, fuck this” and bail. Not sure what career opportunities those types of people can parlay from being a bureaucrat so that might have an impact. It also strikes me that this result might entirely be an intended consequence as part of the P2025 playbook to stock federal agencies with blind loyalists.

One of original brain drains was after WWII when the scientists left the government and went to the private sector.  Lots of innovation and product development occurred so maybe this is a good thing?

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The reg is really to track drug money.  As I do not traffic in narcotics (if you're a cop, you have to tell me), I'm not overly concerned.  I don't necessarily like the gov't knowing that I have a large account elsewhere, but if it ever gets hairy enough to be a problem....it'll be hairy enough for me to GTFO anyway.

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I'm a little surprised I didn't see this posted...but I didn't, so nsiap.

The secret auction is over ... and the good guys won.

 

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6 minutes ago, wood said:

I'm a little surprised I didn't see this posted...but I didn't, so nsiap.

The secret auction is over ... and the good guys won.

 

 

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2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

He’s not joking and anyone who thinks he won’t do everything he can to remain in power for the rest of his life just hasn’t been paying attention. 

I’d like to see him try. No really. Not because I think Congress would stop him. But someone would. 

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2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Already hearing about it. Mainly from State, DHS and USAID contacts. All asking how to get into the civilian world. Now wait for all the colonels. That will be fun.

So many resumes touting “leadership”

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