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11 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

State taking over USAID via Liltle Marco as the temporary leader of USAID may be the best option. If USAID was out there by itself, Elon would have worked to crush it since he was the only person talking to Trump about it. Marco might be able to convince Trump to keep it. Remember, the last person to speak to Trump usually wins.  But that also means that Elon will be at the WH or talking to Trump every night.

As for the EPA note...

This is a fear tactic to convince EPA employees to take the buyout offer. Take 6 months paid or get fired next week. Seems like an easy choice but I would still hold out.

A little light reading on the man just named in charge of USAID right now:
Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’
Former Trump official reportedly in the Capitol on Jan. 6 now working with the transition

 

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13 hours ago, randomhorn said:

One party holds the House, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court and you’re “both partying”? What do you think the Democrat’s options are here? Unless you get a Republican to step up this country’s cooked.

Not to mention all the cockgobbling the GOP has done that got us here.  Invertbrates.  Fucking paramecia.

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14 minutes ago, bolverk said:

He's also one of the cunts behind Dallas' recent inadvisable voter initiatives, RSTU.  

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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

He's also one of the cunts behind Dallas' recent inadvisable voter initiatives, RSQT.

I don't know what this acronym means, and Google wasn't helpful.

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I have a theory that Adelson forced the Luka trade as a way to punish Mark Cuban for his vocal criticism of Trump. They're petty enough to do something like that.

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3 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

This is the Central Valley lakes that were released into a flood zone miles away- great job by the press on the follow up. 

According to Trump, it was huge and great.

According to local experts, it was bad.

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1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

I have a theory that Adelson forced the Luka trade as a way to punish Mark Cuban for his vocal criticism of Trump. They're petty enough to do something like that.

They showed Cuban by giving him $3.5b and he still owns 1/4 of the team.

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37 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

They showed Cuban by giving him $3.5b and he still owns 1/4 of the team.

but what's that 25% worth now?

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Ownership of the means of production!

When are our free marketeers going to stop this march toward socialism? 

The three-paragraph executive order tasks the Treasury and Commerce Departments with generating a plan within 90 days for creating a such a fund. Sovereign wealth funds are popular in oil-rich countries like Norway and Saudi Arabia that can invest large budget surpluses in projects around the world.

But the United States runs persistent, and widening, budget deficits, and it is unclear where the Trump administration could find the money to seed such a fund. Howard Lutnick, Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the Commerce Department, suggested that the government could take a stake in companies it does business with.

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“And I think in a short period of time, we’d have one of the biggest funds. And you know, some of some of them are pretty large,” Mr. Trump said. “So, that’s a big deal, huh?”

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2 hours ago, Satchel said:

Augustus was a Nazi, who over time began to understand the evils of Hitler’s regime. Once he fell in love with  a Jewish woman, he found his strength to love so empowering, he was able to resist evil, when standing in the midst of it. 

So….. undefeated?

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This motherfucker is talking about making Canada the 51st state, in exchange for our protection.

From whom?  Everybody likes Canada.  And they're surrounded by nothing but oceans and us.

This sounds like when the mafia shows up at your small business telling you that you need to pay them for their protection (because they're gonna burn your store down if you don't).

It also sounds like, "Look, squirrel!" as they're driving the leading race car into the wall on a daily fucking basis.

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He just wants more people to rule over, Dictators are like that. Surprised Rep. Ogles hasn’t already introduced a bill declaring Canada as the 51st State. 

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

This motherfucker is talking about making Canada the 51st state, in exchange for our protection.

From whom?  Everybody likes Canada.  And they're surrounded by nothing but oceans and us.

This sounds like when the mafia shows up at your small business telling you that you need to pay them for their protection (because they're gonna burn your store down if you don't).

It also sounds like, "Look, squirrel!" as they're driving the leading race car into the wall on a daily fucking basis.

I'm surprised they haven't asked the middle class to pay higher taxes for our own protection. Turnip may choke soon enough, but Musk is going to be a problem for awhile.

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5 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Trump will use it to try to buy an NFL team so he can finally say he is an NFL owner.  and if that fails, he can buy a Premier League team.

Turnip stiffs contractors.  No way he pays players.  

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5 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Trump will use it to try to buy an NFL team so he can finally say he is an NFL owner. 

If the U.S. taxpayers "gifting" Trump a NFL team would make him step away from politics, I can think of a few teams worth the sacrifice.

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5 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

August Landmesser (German: [ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst ˈlantˌmɛsɐ]; 24 May 1910 – 17 October 1944) is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.[2][3] Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. For this, he was imprisoned and eventually drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action.[citation needed]

Is this what the other side is counting on? That people won't fight becuase they know they're going to die, or be hurt, and that's not what Americans are about these days. Did your pastor mentioned what happened to August in his sermon? 

He did. He also mentioned that most of the people to whom he was preaching are acquainted  with the price of resistance, and that it is a price worth the cost. 

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Rubio's notes from meeting in El Salvador today. Bold is mine. Yay??

First, obviously, he continues with full cooperation on the returning of Salvadorans who find themselves illegally in the United States and welcome them back home, and that’s already existing and that will continue.  But second, he has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, and house them in his jails.  And third, he has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of U.S. citizenship and legal residents.  No country’s ever made an offer of friendship such as this.

You can think about it: any unlawful immigrant, illegal immigrant in the United States who’s a dangerous criminal – MS-13, Tren de Aragua, whatever it may be – he has offered his jails so we can send them here and he will put them in his jails.  And he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States, even if they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents. We are just profoundly grateful.  I spoke to President Trump about this earlier today, and it’s just one more sign of what an incredible friend we have here in President Bukele and the people of El Salvador.

 

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Many have seen the supermax jails in El salvador. Well there is 1 of them and it is full. The other jails? Yeah, they are not that nice.

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9 hours ago, bolverk said:

E.P.A. Tells More Than 1,000 They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.

An email, reviewed by The New York Times, was sent to staff members who were hired within the past year and have probationary status. Many of those employees were encouraged to join the E.P.A. under the Biden administration to rebuild the agency, which had been depleted during President Trump’s first term. Others are experienced federal workers who had taken new assignments within the agency.

Many had been hired to work on programs that Congress created through two recent laws, doing things like helping communities replace lead pipes, remediating toxic sites and funding clean energy projects aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet.

“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you,” the email states.

Molly Vaseliou, an E.P.A. spokeswoman, said in a statement that “our goal is to be transparent.” She declined to answer questions about the email, though, including whether Lee Zeldin, the agency’s new administrator, intended to terminate employees and, if so, for what reason.

“On his first day in office, he engaged directly with career staff across E.P.A.’s headquarters — spanning two city blocks in downtown D.C. — listening to their insights and perspectives,” Ms. Vaseliou said. “Ultimately, the goal is to create a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans.”

At 9:21 a.m. on Monday, E.P.A. employees received another email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs.

The email from E.P.A.’s Office of Mission Support reads “Access to work.epa.gov is current unavailable” and that technical specialists were working to resolve the issue. It was not immediately clear if the outage was related to efforts to reduce the work force.

Asked about the email, Ms. Vaseliou said “There was an outage.”

Other federal agencies have been directed by the Office of Personnel Management to submit lists of probationary employees, but E.P.A. workers appear to be the first to receive notice that they may be immediately dismissed.

Leaders at the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents unionized E.P.A. employees, called the move a clear attempt to gut an agency that Mr. Trump dislikes. Through the E.P.A., the Biden administration developed aggressive regulations to curb planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil and gas wells.

“E.P.A. is at the center of the bullseye for President Trump’s vindictive purge of public servants,” said Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, a group of agency alumni.

She called it “the most chaotic and vindictive transition in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

Two E.P.A. employees who received the email said it had caused them to rethink the Trump administration’s offer to federal employees to resign but be paid through the end of September. The employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are concerned about being fired, said they had initially dismissed that offer as untrustworthy.

Being informed that their jobs are particularly precarious has caused them to rethink their options, both said.

Probationary employees are considered easier to fire because they do not have the full range of civil service protections, but rules still exist, said Marie Owens-Powell, president of the federation of government employees union, which represents about 8,000 E.P.A. workers.

“There has to be cause, and the cause can’t be because you’re a Democrat and it’s a Republican administration,” Ms. Owens-Powell said. The union is consulting lawyers about whether the administration can fire workers based on a simple declaration of a change in agency priorities, she said.

Ms. Owens-Powell said the Trump administration had placed about 15 E.P.A. employees who were working on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on administrative leave. She said the next likely targets are those working on environmental justice, or programs to help marginalized communities that suffer from disproportionate amounts of air and water pollution.

Staffing at the E.P.A. peaked in 2004 during the George W. Bush administration, when there were 17,611 employees, according to the agency. Those levels ebbed and flowed slightly, but began to take a sharp dip during the Obama administration amid Republican control of the House and Senate.

When Mr. Trump entered the White House in 2017, the E.P.A. had 15,408 employees. The following year that number dropped to 14,172 as political appointees reversed regulations, shut scientists out of decision-making and shrank the agency’s budget.

The Biden administration sought to reverse those losses. The agency currently employs about 15,130 people around the country, a level slightly higher than when Ronald Reagan was president.

Of course Lee Zeldin got a spot in this farce. A stone cold loser that New York did not want so here he is now on a national level stage being the same clown he was before.

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Posted
9 hours ago, bolverk said:

I don't know what this acronym means, and Google wasn't helpful.

Aye, and what is 'Insider415'? Google also no help with that one.

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1 hour ago, mchookem said:

i changed my reaction like five times 🤣🤬🤣

the end bit 'From the Whitehouse' was killer 🤣

 

Yeah it was brilliant.

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6 hours ago, wood said:

Aye, and what is 'Insider415'? Google also no help with that one.

My guess is they were keeping track of the people who went inside the Capitol building.

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17 hours ago, bolverk said:

E.P.A. Tells More Than 1,000 They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’
A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.

An email, reviewed by The New York Times, was sent to staff members who were hired within the past year and have probationary status. Many of those employees were encouraged to join the E.P.A. under the Biden administration to rebuild the agency, which had been depleted during President Trump’s first term. Others are experienced federal workers who had taken new assignments within the agency.

Many had been hired to work on programs that Congress created through two recent laws, doing things like helping communities replace lead pipes, remediating toxic sites and funding clean energy projects aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet.

“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you,” the email states.

Molly Vaseliou, an E.P.A. spokeswoman, said in a statement that “our goal is to be transparent.” She declined to answer questions about the email, though, including whether Lee Zeldin, the agency’s new administrator, intended to terminate employees and, if so, for what reason.

“On his first day in office, he engaged directly with career staff across E.P.A.’s headquarters — spanning two city blocks in downtown D.C. — listening to their insights and perspectives,” Ms. Vaseliou said. “Ultimately, the goal is to create a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans.”

At 9:21 a.m. on Monday, E.P.A. employees received another email notifying them of that the agencywide intranet was out of service. Without the internal agency network, employees cannot access documents or other information needed for their jobs.

The email from E.P.A.’s Office of Mission Support reads “Access to work.epa.gov is current unavailable” and that technical specialists were working to resolve the issue. It was not immediately clear if the outage was related to efforts to reduce the work force.

Asked about the email, Ms. Vaseliou said “There was an outage.”

Other federal agencies have been directed by the Office of Personnel Management to submit lists of probationary employees, but E.P.A. workers appear to be the first to receive notice that they may be immediately dismissed.

Leaders at the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents unionized E.P.A. employees, called the move a clear attempt to gut an agency that Mr. Trump dislikes. Through the E.P.A., the Biden administration developed aggressive regulations to curb planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil and gas wells.

“E.P.A. is at the center of the bullseye for President Trump’s vindictive purge of public servants,” said Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, a group of agency alumni.

She called it “the most chaotic and vindictive transition in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

Two E.P.A. employees who received the email said it had caused them to rethink the Trump administration’s offer to federal employees to resign but be paid through the end of September. The employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are concerned about being fired, said they had initially dismissed that offer as untrustworthy.

Being informed that their jobs are particularly precarious has caused them to rethink their options, both said.

Probationary employees are considered easier to fire because they do not have the full range of civil service protections, but rules still exist, said Marie Owens-Powell, president of the federation of government employees union, which represents about 8,000 E.P.A. workers.

“There has to be cause, and the cause can’t be because you’re a Democrat and it’s a Republican administration,” Ms. Owens-Powell said. The union is consulting lawyers about whether the administration can fire workers based on a simple declaration of a change in agency priorities, she said.

Ms. Owens-Powell said the Trump administration had placed about 15 E.P.A. employees who were working on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on administrative leave. She said the next likely targets are those working on environmental justice, or programs to help marginalized communities that suffer from disproportionate amounts of air and water pollution.

Staffing at the E.P.A. peaked in 2004 during the George W. Bush administration, when there were 17,611 employees, according to the agency. Those levels ebbed and flowed slightly, but began to take a sharp dip during the Obama administration amid Republican control of the House and Senate.

When Mr. Trump entered the White House in 2017, the E.P.A. had 15,408 employees. The following year that number dropped to 14,172 as political appointees reversed regulations, shut scientists out of decision-making and shrank the agency’s budget.

The Biden administration sought to reverse those losses. The agency currently employs about 15,130 people around the country, a level slightly higher than when Ronald Reagan was president.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

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13 minutes ago, tokamak said:

So we’ve agreed to deport American citizens to El Salvador. Totally cool, totally normal.

Yeah, that was my reaction.  Pretty sure there's going to be some people who have issues with this.  

 

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51 minutes ago, tokamak said:

So we’ve agreed to deport American citizens to El Salvador. Totally cool, totally normal.

If anyone isn’t already familiar, read up on El Salvador’s CECOT, their Supermax for what Bukele deems to be terrorists.

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57 minutes ago, tokamak said:

So we’ve agreed to deport American citizens to El Salvador. Totally cool, totally normal.

Wait, so we're exporting our correctional officer jobs to a foreign country now?  I'm so confused!

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Posted
3 minutes ago, 27-25 said:

Wait, so we're exporting our correctional officer jobs to a foreign country now?  I'm so confused!

CoreCivic is going to be pissed!

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46 minutes ago, tokamak said:

So we’ve agreed to deport American citizens to El Salvador. Totally cool, totally normal.

Leavitt said on Fox that flights are taking migrants to Gitmo today. 

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I was on conference call and could barely see that tiny font on my phone lol. Youdoodle spell check has let me down!

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4 hours ago, royiv said:

If anyone isn’t already familiar, read up on El Salvador’s CECOT, their Supermax for what Bukele deems to be terrorists.

It is at capacity. The gringos will be sent to Mariona. check that one out.

 

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4 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Leavitt said on Fox that flights are taking migrants to Gitmo today. 

Yes, but a question is I have is where they gonna put them? X-ray is still occupied. Last time the other sections were used was a bit ago. How many hurricanes have gone through there? Guess that one Houston company and their friends are loving life.

At least our Sec Def knows base.



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