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4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Gen X's kids, tho.

 

And that's fair (to borrow my kids' lingo.)

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Posted
7 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Gen X's kids, tho.

 

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most of their entire lives have been 'unprecedented'. they're either angry, resilient, anxious...or all three (my niece lol) 

but i saw this license last week and chuckled, appreciating my choices 😄

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Posted
2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

I think it's a little late for that in our lifetimes.

DOGE is popular because the American people have been conditioned to hate government for generations. There is no pro-government Progressive Era or New Deal grassroots movement right now. As long as the average American isn't the one being let go (and most people don't work for the government) then they're completely fine with nameless bureaucrats getting the axe. Hell, not just fine, they're all for it.  "That's my money"

Ukraine vs Russia? "That's my money" and we're not conditioned to understand complex international conflicts or the way that military procurement works.

USAID? "That's my money" and we're not a nation that understands the long game (look at our collective retirement accounts)

Immigration? "That's my money" + "They're different than me" Nativism is nothing new and scary foreigners is one of the classic hits in the American album

 

Asking the most selfish people on earth to suddenly care about others with their wallet is just not going to happen, imo.

This is a pretty great post, even if I don't fully agree with all of it.  In 2024, about 60% of the electorate was 55 or younger.  That means, a large percentage of voters have never lived through/were old enough to have a memory of living through:

  • The first or second World War
  • A time where women didn't have the right to vote, seek an abortion or lead a Fortune 500 company
  • The Great Depression
  • The fight for civil rights and relative racial equality
  • The assassinations of US political leaders like JFK, RFK and MLK
  • The Vietnam War, a draft, its unpopularity and the discord here at home

The government we are dismantling today arose from the pain of people felt by people living (and dying) through those things.  But for the vast majority of voters in 2024, what it would be like to live through those things without a protective federal government is just an abstract idea.  I mean, that's true of me, too.  I have an idea that living that would suck, but I certainly don't know it from my own life experience.  People are just going to have to live through some shit before they can recognize the value of what they had and demand its return.

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Sen. Jeff Merkley, D, Oregon, doing work: "Is President Trump a Russian asset? .... What else could a Russian asset actually possibly do that Trump hasn't yet done?". + a lot more in the video.

I was in a call-in town hall the other night with Lloyd Doggett, who did the call from Capitol Hill. This is one of the things he mentioned that he thought we'd start seeing more of - Dems using their time that's designated for other purposes for things like what you see in this video.

 

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3 minutes ago, Goredho said:

This is a pretty great post, even if I don't fully agree with all of it.  In 2024, about 60% of the electorate was 55 or younger.  That means, a large percentage of voters have never lived through/were old enough to have a memory of living through:

  • The first or second World War
  • A time where women didn't have the right to vote, seek an abortion or lead a Fortune 500 company
  • The Great Depression
  • The fight for civil rights and relative racial equality
  • The assassinations of US political leaders like JFK, RFK and MLK
  • The Vietnam War, a draft, its unpopularity and the discord here at home

The government we are dismantling today arose from the pain of people felt by people living (and dying) through those things.  But for the vast majority of voters in 2024, what it would be like to live through those things without a protective federal government is just an abstract idea.  I mean, that's true of me, too.  I have an idea that living that would suck, but I certainly don't know it from my own life experience.  People are just going to have to live through some shit before they can recognize the value of what they had and demand its return.

 

It's kind of wild though, as I was born just as Vietnam ended, and it's always been the defining cultural touchstone of my lifetime. More than 9/11, Afghanistan, the Great Recession, any of that. it permeated everything. The only thing that was close was the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, G650 said:

This place is like a Gen X paradise, it is well known.

We were the generation that got on message boards in the 1990s.

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Posted
Just now, Valmy77 said:

We were the generation that got on message boards in the 1990s.

And the first emails and learned the best way to download porn.

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Posted
52 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm no boomer, you fuck!

Gen X. And yes we are prepared to watch the world burn.

 

7 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Casually calling someone a boomer.  Them’s fighting words.  GenX all the way MF’s.  

 

6 minutes ago, G650 said:

This place is like a Gen X paradise, it is well known.

Yeah it is, which is going to make what I'm about to say even harder. Gen X is by far the worst generation. Saw the Boomer excess and greed and fought to one up them. I'm borderline Gen X, and I can't believe how hard that group turned heel. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Macanudo said:

You have a newsletter?  How come I only keep getting dick pics and cat facts?

You only have a "Select" Brisket subscription.  You need to upgrade to "Choice" to get the newsletter.  I can't even talk about what you get with a "Prime" subscription.

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I am telling you. The USAID programs were not cut since they don't like what they do. Well maybe. They were cut because every RFP had a DEI clause. So when they searched using AI for DEI everything came up.

Like managing the port at CC and the aid shipment component. Yep, had the DEI clause. Also had a branding and marking clause. Also had a corruption clause. An anti-boycott of Israel clause. Rapid disbursement of emergency equipment to Latin America, run out of Miami. Yep, had all those clauses.

 

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1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm no boomer, you fuck!

Gen X. And yes we are prepared to watch the world burn.

He's lying. All of us boomers are lying. I've seen MIA at all the white man boomer meetings. He eats all the best babies.

 

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1 minute ago, RomaVicta said:

He's lying. All of us boomers are lying. I've seen MIA at all the white man boomer meetings. He eats all the best babies.

 

Nah, he ain't. He just looks like one.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

They are just so incredibly stupid

Transgender mice, raw earth materials, mental institution inmates flooding the border, the hits just keep coming.

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34 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Casually calling someone a boomer.  Them’s fighting words.  GenX all the way MF’s.  

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Posted
3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

It's hard to give him less.  You really have to work at it.  

I'll stick with "that fucking guy."  Even that seems too grand.  

"The dotard" is all you need to use.  Ever.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

"The dotard" is all you need to use.  Ever.

That works.  Cheeto Benito, Il Dunce, there are others.  

That fucking guy contains a level of contempt I'm comfortable with.  

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

"The dotard" is all you need to use.  Ever.

and the more you use dotard the higher chance you will encounter someone who thinks it's a mash up of Donald and regard (hard t), which is always super hilarious.

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On 2/28/2025 at 2:49 PM, Fudge Nuggets said:

The infuriating thing is our coward in chief doesn't realize we hold all the cards against Russia.  He could bow up to Putin and tell him to hand over whateverthefuck we want.  But he won't.

I want to preface this by "Don't neg me bro"

But Biden held the same cards, but raised a few hundred million here an there instead of flopping out his Hunter Biden size dick and telling Russia to GTFO of Ukraine . It was fucking infuriating giving them HIMARS but not allowing them launch into Russian territory, withholding tanks and just giving them 35 old M1A1s, withholding ATACMS missiles, not giving other countries permission to give Ukraine F-16s.

 

With that said, Fuck Trump even more for parroting Russian talking points. Voting against Ukraine in the UN, aligning with China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria and other shithole counties that rely on Russian military force to oppress their people was fucking embarrassing.

If Trump's America is abdicating its position as supporter of democracy, then step aside and STFU. Let the UK and Poland step into Ukraine. The UK has already said they will put boots on the ground in Ukraine. Poland will probably do the same.

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1 hour ago, mchookem said:

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most of their entire lives have been 'unprecedented'. they're either angry, resilient, anxious...or all three (my niece lol) 

but i saw this license last week and chuckled, appreciating my choices 😄

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As a dink myself, they should be able to afford a carwash 

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Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, Hank_Hill said:

As a dink myself, they should be able to afford a carwash 

and something other than a Hyundai, no? I mean, at least get a Genesis. p-shaw

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12 minutes ago, Superhero said:

I want to preface this by "Don't neg me bro"

But Biden held the same cards, but raised a few hundred million here an there instead of flopping out his Hunter Biden size dick and telling Russia to GTFO of Ukraine . It was fucking infuriating giving them HIMARS but not allowing them launch into Russian territory, withholding tanks and just giving them 35 old M1A1s, withholding ATACMS missiles, not giving other countries permission to give Ukraine F-16s.

 

With that said, Fuck Trump even more for parroting Russian talking points. Voting against Ukraine in the UN, aligning with China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria and other shithole counties that rely on Russian military force to oppress their people was fucking embarrassing.

If Trump's America is abdicating its position as supporter of democracy, then step aside and STFU. Let the UK and Poland step into Ukraine. The UK has already said they will put boots on the ground in Ukraine. Poland will probably do the same.

We didn't hold all those cards at the very beginning.  It took some time to expose Russia military as the paper tiger and wipeout 30% of those shitheads.  By the time this became clear, the election campaign was ongoing and that probably played into it as well.  Not having the House the last two years certainly took a shit on things.

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the entire world thought Russia would sack Kyiv in less than a week. let's not revise history please.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

and something other than a Hyundai, no? I mean, at least get a Genesis. p-shaw

Seriously. I’m Camry ballin.

Posted
9 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

and something other than a Hyundai, no? I mean, at least get a Genesis. p-shaw

Hey hey hey.... my last two cars have been Hyundais. I'm a fan.

Posted
12 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Seriously. I’m Camry ballin.

VW Jetta here. Basically the german version of that car

11 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Hey hey hey.... my last two cars have been Hyundais. I'm a fan.

it wasn't a slight - was trying to keep with the bit. I'm not a car shamer. I could give two fucks what you drive.

Posted
1 minute ago, Pancho said:

Wait—now they are calling their home girl Amy Coney B a “DEI hire?” She’s one of them.

 

Britney Spears What GIF

 

 

have you missed all the leopards going after women's faces after they voted to inflict harm on others, but only after neglecting the fact that anyone using the term 'DEI Hire' views them as one? it's amazing people are still somehow caught off guard.

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6 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Wait—now they are calling their home girl Amy Coney B a “DEI hire?” She’s one of them.

 

Britney Spears What GIF

 

 

 

Yeah, but she's got a vagina, so she can't be all the way one of them.

They aren't gonna stop until there's 535 white men in Congress and 9 white men on the SC.

I can't wait to see the look on MTG's face when she gets primaried by a 65-year-old white guy named Josiah who beats her easily.  Silver linings.

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Posted
41 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

and something other than a Hyundai, no? I mean, at least get a Genesis. p-shaw

Ha, my wife has a Hyundai, it's a 2022 and currently getting it's transmission replaced under warranty. Not happy.

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Posted
45 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

VW Jetta here. Basically the german version of that car [Camry]

Bet the VW Jetta breaks down a whole more than the Camry.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

That works.  Cheeto Benito, Il Dunce, there are others.  

That fucking guy contains a level of contempt I'm comfortable with.  

 

1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

"The dotard" is all you need to use.  Ever.

I giggled at 'Fat Nixon' that I saw earlier today

Posted
1 hour ago, dcbc said:

You only have a "Select" Brisket subscription.  You need to upgrade to "Choice" to get the newsletter.  I can't even talk about what you get with a "Prime" subscription.

Is it butt seks? 

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46 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

have you missed all the leopards going after women's faces after they voted to inflict harm on others, but only after neglecting the fact that anyone using the term 'DEI Hire' views them as one? it's amazing people are still somehow caught off guard.

If the leopards eating faces thread would have some focusness it would be easier to find this out

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1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

That fucking guy contains a level of contempt I'm comfortable with.  

I like how TFG presumably started as “the former guy” but most of us never read it in our head that way. It’s a nice organic term of contempt.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Mole said:

I like how TFG presumably started as “the former guy” but most of us never read it in our head that way. It’s a nice organic term of contempt.

I'm fond of Don Orangeleone.

Posted

I guess making sure we have accurate economic data isn't going to be a thing anymore.

Experts worry about degradation of economic data after advisory committees disbanded
Here at Marketplace, we report on economic data from the government all the time: stats on housing, the job market, inflation, and much more. They help us help you understand where the economy is and where it’s heading. Government data informs business decisions, and assists policy makers to, well, make policy. 

But now, the Commerce Department has disbanded two groups that worked to ensure the government’s economic data paints a realistic picture. The Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee and the Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory Committee have been around for decades. What happens next now that they’re gone?

Erica Groshen had no idea this news was coming: “This came out of the blue, nothing up until I got the email yesterday,” she said.

And she was on one of the committees. An economics advisor at Cornell University, Groshen was told that the decades-old committee was getting disbanded because its purpose had been fulfilled.

“You don’t fulfill an ongoing mission by canceling this communication mechanism,” she said.

That mission? To get a bunch of experts at the top of their economic fields to help the government.

“When the BEA wants to develop a new methodology or maybe go into a new area they haven’t been before, they can run their ideas by the committee,” said retired economist and committee member Marshall Reinsdorf.

He said advice was one major benefit. The other was government transparency — the committees opened their doors to the public.

“It gives them a chance to reach out and get their message out to a broader community,” Reinsdorf said.

Getting rid of these two committees doesn’t save much money. Mainly because the members weren’t getting paid, said former committee chair David Wilcox with Bloomberg Economics and the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“So we’re talking about eight plane tickets, twice a year, one night at a non-fancy hotel. This was really inexpensive stuff,” he said.

And it was money well spent, Wilcox said.

Former committee chair Louise Sheiner with the Brookings Institution said with less input, the data that the government gathers will get worse over time. And that data is supposed to provide answers on GDP and productivity and jobs and inflation.

“Depending on what question you’re asking, you’re going to go to the data, and if the data are not good, your answers to those questions are also not going to be good,” she said.

Sheiner said disbanding the committees was a mistake. The Bureau of Economic Analysis declined to provide Marketplace with a comment, and the Commerce Department didn’t respond to our request.

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