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8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

One way or another, I don't think we're gonna see four years of this. We can't survive it.

I'm of the opinion we don't survive it. We already haven't. Well just continue to slug along with inertia, becoming something substantially less than we were over time, until we're like Hungary or RUssia and run by Oligarchs. 

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44 minutes ago, CowboyFred said:

This is exactly what they want to play out so that trump can call for marital law then the real party starts.

he's gonna make us all get married? the horror!

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14 hours ago, TexArcher said:

And of course he's a Christian, right?

absolutely.  he's such a Christian that he cheated on his wife with a fellow Congresswoman and only filed for divorce after he was caught.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/republican-congressman-files-for-divorce-amid-rumored-relationship-with-fellow-house-gop-colleague/

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Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) has confirmed that she is dating Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), just one day after news of his divorce broke, and his wife dropped a cryptic hint that the two had engaged in an affair. On Thursday, Van Duyne confirmed reports that the two have become more than casual, conservative colleagues. “His marriage has been over for quite some time as I understand it, he’s filed for divorce,” Van Duyne told the Daily Mail. “I’m single. We’re both parents of adult children and empty nesters. We are happily engaged in a relationship and beyond that it's a personal issue,” she added. McCormick filed for divorce earlier this month, amid reports that he and Van Duyne were seen getting cozy in the House chambers, reportedly holding hands beneath a table.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-representative-beth-van-duyne-confirms-relationship-with-rich-mccormick-amid-affair-rumors/

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2 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Just putting this here. This seems to be the Russian playbook. As it relates to America, foster dissent and isolationism. Fucking Trump and many Republicans are all Russian assets. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]

 

Does that sound like what's been happening since the advent of social media. It was ramped up with the rise of the orange dipshit. And here we are...

Ruskies been doing that shit way longer than AOL has been around.

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56 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

At what point does a group of oppositionists gather and attempt a violent coup? One week in and they are already just ignoring the law. It's already an insurrection, and the only chance to stop it is to kill/arrest them and seize power. That's where we are right now

I was told there was a deep state that would stop Trump.  

Impatient bear is impatient....

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

He can already do that now if the government is just allowing them to blatantly ignore a federal judge's ruling. There's no law at that point. He can deploy the military on Americans now, unless someone steps up to kill/imprison him and his top people and seizes power. I find it hard to believe a power the size of the USA wouldn't have a fight for control once it's established that the rule of law is gone. Get the secret service on your side and a few military generals and have him, Vance, Miller, etc killed and seize control. I wonder who could be in position to do that? It could even be someone from within his own party

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Trump is pulling funding for any school that teaches that white people were mean to Black people at some point in the past.  If you teach the slaves were taught useful skills you should get your money.

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

At what point does a group of oppositionists gather and attempt a violent coup? One week in and they are already just ignoring the law. It's already an insurrection, and the only chance to stop it is to kill/arrest them and seize power. That's where we are right now

The majority of people in this country are laughing their asses off enjoying every minute of these events. If anything bad ever affects them they’ll blame Biden. Look at any comment section about eggs. For the last two years it was all Biden while dipshit said he’d fix it “on day one.” Now these people say “the president doesn’t control egg prices or bird flu.” Nothing’s going to happen because the electorate has been officially killed with brain rot. The rest of us are just along for the ride hoping for a life vest.

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3 minutes ago, 'stache said:

The majority of people in this country are laughing their asses off enjoying every minute of these events. If anything bad ever affects them they’ll blame Biden. Look at any comment section about eggs. For the last two years it was all Biden while dipshit said he’d fix it “on day one.” Now these people say “the president doesn’t control egg prices or bird flu.” Nothing’s going to happen because the electorate has been officially killed with brain rot. The rest of us are just along for the ride hoping for a life vest.

It's not the majority of people. He doesn't even have the support of the majority of voters.

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5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

It's not the majority of people. He doesn't even have the support of the majority of voters.

I used to think that too but I was wrong. I’m even hearing it now in ordinary conversations with people I used to think were decent people. A bunch of excuses and joy in seeing him “shake things up.” It’s over, there’s no coming back from this, these people would cheer them on if my wife is hassled by ICE at her school because of her last name and those of the children she serves. Gotta be safe right?

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Just now, mdmost said:

Yeah but the "shake things up" only is until it directly affects them.

Already addressed that, they blame Biden, there is no reason or logic that can possibly sway these people.

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1 minute ago, softlynow said:

So, now they’re OK with paying  for Gazans’ conoms?

This was wild yesterday. I couldn’t find in the previous spending bills anything mentioning condoms and Gaza. New press sec is the same lying shit as the previous trump ones or was she right?

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11 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

Y'all are looking at this all wrong.  These things that the Trump administration is doing are good things.  They are so blunt forced, so arcane and idiotic that a LOT of people are going to get hurt, including a LOT of Magats.  It's the only way they are going to learn.  Get out the popcorn and let them all fucking burn.

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4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Quick observation from yesterday. I still do some work in Indian Country. Tribal governments are heavily dependent on federal grants and loans to provide services to their people. Most of the big tribes yesterday made public statments about fear and uncertainty for the future of some of their more important programs especially for youth and the elderly. Most rural Natives in Oklahoma are MAGA af, especially the 1/16 blood quantum types. The vast majority of commentary in response was about how it's Biden's fault for bankrupting the economy, or some other nonsensical word salad about Biden, democrats, the economy, and the defecit. The thinking is that the freeze was necessary because of Biden. That is how these people think and why I have abandoned all hope for this country.

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

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20 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I used to think that too but I was wrong. I’m even hearing it now in ordinary conversations with people I used to think were decent people. A bunch of excuses and joy in seeing him “shake things up.” It’s over, there’s no coming back from this, these people would cheer them on if my wife is hassled by ICE at her school because of her last name and those of the children she serves. Gotta be safe right?

It's still not the majority of people in this country. Oklahoma, well . . . 

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It's the majority, it just is, and like 90% of Oklahoma (and 70% or so of Texas, at least, for that matter). 

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Posted (edited)
31 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

We'll agree to disagree.

Yeah taking the political temperature of the whole country based on Mobilehoma and Texas is a bold strategy.

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4 hours ago, 'stache said:

I get that some types of work are more amenable to remote work, and others work better in person, but it’s astonishing yet not surprising that it has become a left-right political issue. A republican administration saying that the entirety of a 2 million person workforce needs to be in person across the board is stupid beyond the pale. 

 

Maybe it's already been posted, but they truly believed that only 6% of the federal workforce actually worked in an office.

 

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/6-percent-of-federal-employees-work-in-the-office-fact-check/536-0b6e4537-677e-4bab-ac00-62e98c3824a8

 

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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa on Dec. 5 released a report criticizing current workplace practices, particularly remote work. Ernst was appointed as the chair of the newly formed Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus, a caucus that collaborates with an advisory group led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to reduce government waste.

According to the report, only 3% of the federal workforce teleworked daily before the COVID-19 pandemic. Ernst claims that now just 6% of federal employees work in-person full time, while nearly one-third are entirely remote. She has reiterated this claim on Fox News. 

 

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Sen. Joni Ernst claims only 6% of federal employees report to an office, but an August report from the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) contradicts this. According to an OMB report from August 2024, 10% of federal employees work fully remotely and 54% worked fully on-site because their jobs required in-person presence. 

There are 2.28 million federal government employees, OMB says.

The remaining 46%, about 1.1 million employees, were telework-eligible, meaning they could work remotely unless they chose to go into the office. Only 10% of employees were in fully remote roles, because they lacked a physical office to report to. According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), telework policies vary by federal agency and an arrangement is usually made between the employee and management on how often an employee can work remotely.

 

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Ernst’s 6% figure came from a survey conducted by the Federal News Network (FNN), which publishes news and analysis impacting federal employees, not official data. The study relied on self-reported and self-selected responses from 6,338 people who said they were federal employees. After Ernst’s report citing FNN’s study was released, the article was updated with an editor’s note explaining the data’s limitations and including OMB’s actual figures.

 

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14 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Republican leadership sucking turnip’s bunghole with all their might.

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The chair of the appropriations committee not knowing that the appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed by the President are in fact laws is something.

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53 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

Y'all are looking at this all wrong.  These things that the Trump administration is doing are good things.  They are so blunt forced, so arcane and idiotic that a LOT of people are going to get hurt, including a LOT of Magats.  It's the only way they are going to learn.  Get out the popcorn and let them all fucking burn.

Well I don't know the future, but I don't think they will ever learn. We had Trump I and they didn't.

Anyway Trump walked back the funding freeze so most people will not notice anything happened. And all of this will quickly be forgotten. And on it goes.

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It's fake.

We have no way of knowing if that particular dude supported Trump. But I guess it points towards something true. Supporting Trump won't save you.

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4 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Anyway Trump walked back the funding freeze so most people will not notice anything happened. And all of this will quickly be forgotten. And on it goes.

None of that is clear at this point 

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16 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

big bang boomerang GIF

I crushed so hard on Halle Berry in this movie. omfg total girlfriend material. hot damn.

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1 hour ago, 'stache said:

Quick observation from yesterday. I still do some work in Indian Country. Tribal governments are heavily dependent on federal grants and loans to provide services to their people. Most of the big tribes yesterday made public statments about fear and uncertainty for the future of some of their more important programs especially for youth and the elderly. Most rural Natives in Oklahoma are MAGA af, especially the 1/16 blood quantum types. The vast majority of commentary in response was about how it's Biden's fault for bankrupting the economy, or some other nonsensical word salad about Biden, democrats, the economy, and the defecit. The thinking is that the freeze was necessary because of Biden. That is how these people think and why I have abandoned all hope for this country.

They have all but destroyed education and any critical thinking skills that are associated with it to make some drones. Same for why the dipshits keep voting for longterm incompetents in Texas who have enriched themselves and created a local oligarchy off the people of Texas while blaming the everyone who isn't in decision making (and short-term) roles.   

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31 minutes ago, troph said:

I crushed so hard on Halle Berry in this movie. omfg total girlfriend material. hot damn.

Get in back of the line… 

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Posted
57 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Welcome to Calvinball - the President now is the sole arbiter of whether money appropriated by Congress will actually be spent.  We’re so fucked

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I spoke too soon apparently, TRO granted. The judge relied on the Press Secretary’s comments to essentially rule the rescission a nullity

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2 hours ago, 'stache said:

The majority of people in this country are laughing their asses off enjoying every minute of these events. If anything bad ever affects them they’ll blame Biden. Look at any comment section about eggs. For the last two years it was all Biden while dipshit said he’d fix it “on day one.” Now these people say “the president doesn’t control egg prices or bird flu.” Nothing’s going to happen because the electorate has been officially killed with brain rot. The rest of us are just along for the ride hoping for a life vest.

I'm not talking about it coming from the people. I'm talking about other politicians or big political players. Every time a regime is toppled or a democracy is overthrown there's no shortage of powerful people angling to seize power. Especially if Trump keeps going full vendetta on people like Miley, stuff like that could cause a coalition of political players to rise against him and overthrow him before he gets too entrenched. 



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