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31 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Perhaps the beginning of accountability and sunlight into this shadow presidency 

What I don't understand is how DOGE isn't being DROWNED by FOIA requests from news outlets, members of the public, etc.  It is unquestionably part of the US government.  It thus is subject to FOIA.  Demand.....EVERYTHING.

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There was a time when this would have been a solidly conservative poem, but it is absolutely on point for Trumpian populism. 
 

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true

That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

 

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Just another example of our current disinformation climate. We've received quite a few lump sums from backpay for social security from the Social Security Fairness Act that was a bipartisan bill passed in December 2024 and signed by Biden on January 5th. 

We received a message from the operations department to let our customers questioning their deposits know that they're deposits that resulted from the "Trump Administration making changes" and nobody questioned shit about it.
 

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59 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Meemaw can just turn on 2FA or drive to the service center.  We at DOGE are normal people who have relationships with elderly members of our family. 
 

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Also, most banks don't handle deposit changes for average consumers. We just put it in the account where the ACH designates it to be deposited and then allow you to move it from there. Basic facts wrong as usual. 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Meemaw can just turn on 2FA or drive to the service center.  We at DOGE are normal people who have relationships with elderly members of our family. 
 

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The SSA Service Center that they just closed ten of? Nice.

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20 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

What I don't understand is how DOGE isn't being DROWNED by FOIA requests from news outlets, members of the public, etc.  It is unquestionably part of the US government.  It thus is subject to FOIA.  Demand.....EVERYTHING.

They are. They're simply ignoring them. 

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21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

What I don't understand is how DOGE isn't being DROWNED by FOIA requests from news outlets, members of the public, etc.  It is unquestionably part of the US government.  It thus is subject to FOIA.  Demand.....EVERYTHING.

Because of the legal shell game they set up. Ostensibly these people were hired into the US Digital Service and that was folded into the Executive Office of the President so it’s “not an agency”. A federal court only just ruled that DOGE is subject to FOIA

 

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Great interview by Michel Martin during today’s Morning Edition on NPR. Edgar is unable to answer when she asks him to describe the “specific conduct the government alleges [Mahmoud Khalil] engaged in that merits removal from the United States.” During the interview she compares Khalil’s actions with Trump’s on January 6 and keeps pushing him to provide specifics.

http://DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations

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11 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

real leadership ....

Mexico’s President declares start of nationwide census in all elementary schools to provide FREE GLASSES to every child who needs them. 

 

I smell corruption.  Everybody knows that the Sheinbaum family is full of optometrists.  It's  practically the family business. 

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12 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Holy shit - I don't think this is going to turn out well for the protestors once the ICE brownshirts show up.

Who cares?  In fact, the more public violence the brownshirts commit, the better.  Make them be lawless fascists in the full light of day.  Because they won't stop at merely arresting these people (as is their right).  They'll beat them for fun, to make a point, to set an example, and to "teach them a lesson," all of which is outside what they are legally permitted to do.

Make fascists be fascists for the world to see.  It's an important step.  

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Local tour group

Yep.  Just tourists, checking out the sights.  Isn't that the "January 6th play?"  Peaceful tourists, just checking out an important landmark related to our beloved President.

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2 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

My dumb fuck uncle sharing a fake news story from something called the “Dunning Kruger Times” is a tad on the nose to be honest. The simulation may be glitching a bit. 

Well, I laughed.  Huge props to whoever came up with that name.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:


I don’t care why - this is a good thing 

agreed. it's also funny. 

these people are legitimate idiots.

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Let’s pour one out for all the fake leftists and libertarians like Glenn Greenwald who will tie themselves into knots to avoid calling out DJT. “Deported for protesting Biden” LMFAO. 
 

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1 hour ago, mchookem said:

Unsurprising because they clearly violated regs with that process.  There is some humor here, Project 2025 had smart evil fucks who mostly mapped out the pain points and levers for dismantling the federal government, and then Elon and the League of Extraordinary Incels got to fuck up the implementation. 
 

Sadly, we are closer to a SCOTUS decision on the “Donald J. Trump is the living embodiment of law and the Constitution” doctrine. 

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4 minutes ago, C-Man said:

CNN: Trump asks Supreme Court to let him end birthright citizenship

Roberts better have ACB on speed dial.

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12 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Along those same lines, Matt Taibbi is either the dumbest person alive or pretending to be:

 

 

Matt Taibbi’s brain has the electrical activity of barbershop floor sweepings. 

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Party of law-and-order: https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-senator-brian-kelsey-pardon-trump-414323db508cda6cf3243623a35c9e0c

Trump Pardons Ex-Tennessee State Senator Imprisoned for Campaign Fraud

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned a former Republican Tennessee lawmaker who was two weeks into a 21-month prison sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme that he pleaded guilty to in 2022, before he tried unsuccessfully to take back his plea.

Former Sen. Brian Kelsey announced the pardon in a social media post Tuesday evening. He had been ordered to report to FCI Ashland’s minimum security satellite camp in Kentucky on Feb. 24.

Kelsey received a “full and unconditional pardon” for his case and authorities were ordered to release him from prison immediately, according to a copy of the president’s action provided by Kelsey’s attorney.

 

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6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Matt Taibbi’s brain has the electrical activity of barbershop floor sweepings. 

What do you expect from the moron who brought us the "Twitter Files"?

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50 minutes ago, C-Man said:

CNN: Trump asks Supreme Court to let him end birthright citizenship

So, if that passes, a fetus wouldn't have constitutional protections until it is born.  

 

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19 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Raise you a Yeats.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst   
Are full of passionate intensity.
 
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   
The darkness drops again; but now I know   
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
 
That is uncannily on point.
 

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