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With some of the economic indicators of the last few days coming out and the continued actions of the administration, we could be heading for some good old stagflation.  We get stagflation plus the almost certainty of some shooting/conflict between law enforcement and a minority group and this summer is gonna be off the hook.  You look through periods of civil unrest in this country over the last 50-60 years, outside of a few always warm places like CA it almost all happens between April and October.  

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1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

With some of the economic indicators of the last few days coming out and the continued actions of the administration, we could be heading for some good old stagflation.  We get stagflation plus the almost certainty of some shooting/conflict between law enforcement and a minority group and this summer is gonna be off the hook.  You look through periods of civil unrest in this country over the last 50-60 years, outside of a few always warm places like CA it almost all happens between April and October.  

"Riot Season."

However, in this era, what that means is that we're going to get a cascade of fashion collections and such shit hawked on social media: "Top 10 things to wear this Riot Season, brought to you by your favorite influencer!"

Because....this fucking timeline.

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41 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Half the business of any decent lawyer is telling his client he's a damn fool and should just stop.

-Elihu Root

How do I give infinity rep?

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15 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

With some of the economic indicators of the last few days coming out and the continued actions of the administration, we could be heading for some good old stagflation.  We get stagflation plus the almost certainty of some shooting/conflict between law enforcement and a minority group and this summer is gonna be off the hook.  You look through periods of civil unrest in this country over the last 50-60 years, outside of a few always warm places like CA it almost all happens between April and October.  

Well, yeah because no one wants to go freeze their ass off no matter the cause. 

 

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40 minutes ago, 'stache said:

That wasn't his point

I am quite sure that you don’t track.
 

How does a charity affiliated with the Catholic Church not have the budget resiliency to weather for at least a couple weeks a minor federal grant getting pulled? Thats crazy. I wasn’t joking about passing another tray. If they are running that fucking thin they have a real problem. That’s a pretty short leash to cut 120 jobs within a few weeks. I know that this board is uninterested in really thinking about these things critically. Just rhetoric after rhetoric. 
 


 

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1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

 

Do you want to know what the boss move would be?

To prep and file a pleading to the court, notifying the court -- as is your duty -- that the court should be aware of an attempted fraud upon the court, and requesting that the court scrutinize any and all pleadings filed, especially any pleadings that purport to be "joint" or "agreed."  

That way, you put this shit in the judge's hands.  A judge is under no obligation to grant a motion to dismiss if he has reason to believe the agreement to do so was obtained via fraud or other improper action.  And as an officer of the court, an attorney has a duty of candor to the court.

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Shit, even "America" is too ethnic. Are we gonna continue to name this place after a goddamn i-talian? 

Whiteland?

Christland? Nah, Jesus was a Jew. Fuck that. 

Whiteland. 

 

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2 hours ago, Goredho said:

 

On the plus side, Yellowstone Bison gorings will be up 1000% year over year.

Sadly, probably so will abandonment and starvation of bison calves petted and handled by dipshit tourists.

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3 hours ago, royiv said:

Fuck off more. You’re a certified piece of shit that needs to go away.

It’s like you’re telling a stray cat to go away while you set out a plate of food. That’s not going to work. 

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9 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Shit, even "America" is too ethnic. Are we gonna continue to name this place after a goddamn i-talian? 

Whiteland?

Christland? Nah, Jesus was a Jew. Fuck that. 

Whiteland. 

 

The etymology is a little muddled, but the name Henry is likely the best modern cognate for 'Amerigo' in English. But since the name has been feminized to America, Henrietta (or maybe Harriet) hits closer to the mark. So, really, we should pick one of those two and go with that instead.

Personally, I'm more fond of the latter and would go with the United States of Harriet and, therefore, it's also her gulf now and the whiteness of that name couldn't be more obvious. 

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33 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I am quite sure that you don’t track.
 

How does a charity affiliated with the Catholic Church not have the budget resiliency to weather for at least a couple weeks a minor federal grant getting pulled? Thats crazy. I wasn’t joking about passing another tray. If they are running that fucking thin they have a real problem. That’s a pretty short leash to cut 120 jobs within a few weeks. I know that this board is uninterested in really thinking about these things critically. Just rhetoric after rhetoric. 
 


 

Relief and humanitarian staff are not overhead. They come and go based on funding. Look at the a group like Havens for Hope. They have a baseline budget. Anything above that depends on external or additional funding. so when that goes away, so do the people and equipment specific for that.

So when you cut, say Pepfar, the impact is not at the USAID level, or federal accounting office. It is way down the line. And lots of these groups, including Christian organizations, outsource the actual work with beneficiaries. Did someone in DC lose their job? Maybe 1 or 2. Were entire medical teams in say Senegal cut? Yep.

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9 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Were entire medical teams in say Senegal cut? Yep.

The.

Cruelty.

Is.

The.

Point.

 

The suffering is what tells you it's working.

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36 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Shit, even "America" is too ethnic. Are we gonna continue to name this place after a goddamn i-talian? 

Whiteland?

Christland? Nah, Jesus was a Jew. Fuck that. 

Whiteland. 

Gulf of Honky has a nice ring to it.

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4 hours ago, 'stache said:

Shit like this is why I hate this country. Yeah, we fucking remember. We're being led by people with no compass whatsoever, they are just for what the other side is against and make shit up as they go. Absolutely fucking pathetic.

May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy Bring back the presidentia fitness test in schools. Serve healthier food in the cafeteria & start physical education earlier in school. The best way to save on health costs in the long run is to create a healthier population in the first place. Mike Ne... @MikeNellis Yeah, no shit shitMichelle Obama tried to do this and Republicans called her a radical communist.'

 

the trump presidential fitness test 

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I’m reminded of the joke, the beatings will continue until morale improves. I have to guess that any federal worker is performing at the absolute lowest level now. Not so low that you stand out to be fired or that could easily be discovered by Elon’s minions but tap the brakes on work product that isn’t quantifiable in their data systems.

obviously I’m not talking about workers who have been ordered to stop working or fired this week. 

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I couldn't even get through the second verse.

 

When we ultimately change it back, you know the snowflakes will purposefully say Gulf of America. Especially in the bitchy voice to the waitress at a beach restaurant. “I don’t want shrimp fresh from the Gulf of Mexico, I want fresh shrimp from the Gulf of AMERICA!”

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2 hours ago, DaysOff said:


Meh. Starbucks is burnt bean garbage.

A blonde roast pour over is pretty solid.

All others are not worth it or downright ick

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Hundreds fired, and then attempts to get them to temporarily come to work to man our nuclear strike capabilities… just real genius stuff 

And never mind the lack of congressional authority or oversight for any of these actions. Incompetent cowards

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2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Hundreds fired, and then attempts to get them to temporarily come to work to man our nuclear strike capabilities… just real genius stuff 

And never mind the lack of congressional authority or oversight for any of these actions. Incompetent cowards

Season 9 Episode 24 GIF by The Simpsons

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Hopefully he doesn’t blow it up like the American Nazis did in Man in the High Castle.

Great show but I could not watch that now. We’re too close to it.

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Hannity is going to get a “joint” interview with Musk and Trump from the White House. Has a sitting POTUS EVER done a “joint” interview with another American? 
 

I am struggling with my historical analogy.  Am I watching Diocletian create the tetrarchy? Am I a Russian titular councillor trying to understand why Rasputin is speaking for the Tsar?

 

Regardless, I think any historian will have to write that in 2025 the U.S. experimented with a dual executive system.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5146248-trump-elon-musk-hannity-fox-news-doge/amp/

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5 hours ago, Anastasis said:

  

 

Damn, those Christian charities must be really essential to keeping society glued together. Kind of a weird position for this board to take given the historical levels of bullshit spewed here and the semi-regular calls to tax churches. 

The Catholic church has an enormous budget, hundreds of billions. Over 60MM members. They should pass another tray next Sunday to fund the roles that are being laid off. 

 


Holy fucking shit.  Poor people starving but at least Anastasis gets to score some political points. 

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This is what he has a mandate for.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/politics/mar-a-lago-trump-grass-rose-garden.html

 

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President Trump has been busy upending the federal government, reorienting U.S. foreign policy, threatening trade wars and winning confirmation for his Cabinet choices.

But he has managed to find time for a project closer to home: He has told associates that he wants to rip up the grass in the Rose Garden, one of the White House’s most iconic and meticulously maintained spots, and replace it with a hard surface to resemble a patio like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago.

 

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Designers have drafted options for how to remake the surface of the Rose Garden, which sits just outside the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room. Mr. Trump has discussed whether it should be limestone or an easily interchangeable hard surface, with the possibility of installing hardwood floors for dancing, according to four people briefed on the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

 

 

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Mr. Trump has other plans for the West Wing. He wants to hang a grand chandelier from the ceiling of the Oval Office, the people briefed on the matter said.

He has already covered almost every free inch of the walls and mantle space in the Oval Office with portraits of presidents, among other images; one frame includes the New York Post front page photo of Mr. Trump’s mug shot when he processed after being indicted in Fulton County, Ga.

There are also gold vases and statuettes and at least one gold figurine embedded in an elevated wall molding. The figurine was screwed into the wall by Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, who traveled to Washington to perform the task, the people said.

Mr. Trump has also privately revived an idea he first pitched to Mr. Obama’s advisers when the former president was in office: to build a ballroom at the White House, “like I have at Mar-a-Lago,” which Mr. Trump says would cost $100 million.

But the ballroom idea is notional so far; the Rose Garden patio space is not, and it has been the subject of almost daily discussions.

A White House spokesperson did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Mr. Trump has made clear to associates that he wants to recreate the patio experience at Mar-a-Lago, his members-only club and home in Palm Beach, Fla., creating a better space for entertaining guests. When he is at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump spends hours of his evenings on the patio, with club members and other V.I.P.s dropping by his table to pay their respects. He often holds an iPad, controlling the playlist and blasting Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown at earsplitting volumes.

It is unclear what the first lady, Melania Trump, thinks of his patio plans. During his first term, she redesigned the Rose Garden. The revamp stirred controversy in part because it required an update of the irrigation system, among other items, and in part because everything involving the Trumps at the time drew criticism from some quarters. Nonetheless, she took pride in it. A spokesman for the first lady declined to comment.

The White House has, over centuries, gone through many renovations, and it often fell into disrepair. Jacqueline Kennedy established the White House Historical Association, a private advisory entity that created guidelines for changes to the physical building that have generally been adhered to.

“I think that’s one of the greatest accomplishments of any first lady, to put those safeguards in place,” said Katherine Jellison, a professor at Ohio University who has closely followed first ladies.

Timothy Naftali, a historian at the Columbia University School of International Public Affairs, noted that the building’s residential spaces are out of view and presidential families often make changes there. But he said that first families have usually had an understanding “that the White House is a museum that belongs to the American people” and that “you have an obligation not to step too far outside of tradition in the public spaces.”

The White House Historical Association has no statutory authority over the premises, and the Rose Garden is outside of its mission because it is outdoors. The group’s only involvement with Mrs. Trump’s renovation in the first term was the acquisition of a sculpture from the White House arts collection that was placed in the garden.

It is the National Park Service, which is controlled by the Department of the Interior, that maintains the grounds, including the Rose Garden.

The first version of the Rose Garden was created by Ellen Wilson, President Woodrow Wilson’s wife, in 1913.

Many modern presidential families have put a stamp on the grounds, such as President Gerald R. Ford’s directive for an outdoor swimming pool, President Barack Obama’s basketball court and Michelle Obama’s South Lawn food garden.

But remodeling the Rose Garden to take away the grass, even while apparently preserving the plantings that give it its name, would be a jarring change from tradition.

Mr. Naftali said that the approach was consistent with Mr. Trump’s ethos as a public figure.

“The whole Trump approach to leadership is to blow up existing national elites of any kind, whether that elite is defined by taste, or money, or aesthetics,” said Mr. Naftali, saying those elites are often called the “uniparty” by Mr. Trump’s advisers. “But they mean it for not simply elected officials, but they mean in terms of national aesthetics or national traditions or norms.”

 

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Just now, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


Holy fucking shit.  Poor people starving but at least Anastasis gets to score some political points. 

Send me the receipt with memo line in memory of YGIFS and I will match. 

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