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I was really surprised when it was announced they were doing away with pronouns (they/them) on personal profiles / badges at work. Didn't make 2 shits to me personally because I never opted in, but I know several people that did. I work at one of the Big 4 and they are very inclusive. Them taking a step back was a shock. Can't help but wonder what's coming next.

Also glad I don't have any money in stocks or crypto right now.

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16 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Sounds like GOP congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-Asheville) held a town hall meeting last night and got lit up like a Christmas tree!

https://www.mediaite.com/news/house-republican-torched-by-furious-constituents-as-town-hall-goes-off-the-rails-fck-you/

 

I hope my lesbian cousin, who's a women's coach living in aSheville (yes, she's living the stereotype), was in attendance kicking some ass, too.

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I mean, how will a shutdown really make things worse?  It's one of the few opportunities the Dems will have until at least the midterms to flex what little muscle they have.  Sure, Donald will blame the shutdown on the libs like he does for everything else, so who gives a fuck this time?

Trump and Musk won’t shut down. 

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If or when we pressure Greenland to join us, how would that be any different than if Russia pressured Finland to join Russia for national security reasons? Or pull Estonia back into Russia (obviously the Soviet Union but the same thing.)

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1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Trump and Musk won’t shut down. 

saw a blurb yesterday that musk would use a shutdown to basically nuke very large groups of govt employees 

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30 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Sounds like GOP congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-Asheville) held a town hall meeting last night and got lit up like a Christmas tree!

https://www.mediaite.com/news/house-republican-torched-by-furious-constituents-as-town-hall-goes-off-the-rails-fck-you/

 

Less reported but Edwards was asked why it was ok that the VA or other agencies are firing 20% of their workers but Edwards is keeping his full staff. Edwards' reply was that he needed his team of 15 to fully support his district.

Obviously it doesn't take an intelligent person to identify the flaw in his logic that maybe just maybe the agencies also need most of their staff as well.

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3 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Less reported but Edwards was asked why it was ok that the VA or other agencies are firing 20% of their workers but Edwards is keeping his full staff. Edwards' reply was that he needed his team of 15 to fully support his district.

Obviously it doesn't take an intelligent person to identify the flaw in his logic that maybe just maybe the agencies also need most of their staff as well.

Well, it doesn't sound like he or his team of 15 are even attempting to support his district. Fuck'em.

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See, he needs 15 cuz another rep has 14, and they made fun of him when he only had 13.

The size of these staffs are funny. We have entire embassies with less people than on a staff. The number of US Government officials in a country can triple when a congressional delegation comes to visit.

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28 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I hope my lesbian cousin, who's a women's coach living in aSheville (yes, she's living the stereotype), was in attendance kicking some ass, too.

NC has some real fucked up gerrymandering because Asheville is not a place I’d pick to go red. 

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6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

The size of these staffs are funny. We have entire embassies with less people than on a staff. The number of US Government officials in a country can triple when a congressional delegation comes to visit.

given that the district is comprised of 750K constituents, I think 15 is ridiculously small. Take out the staff that do not deal directly with the public, and you probably have 5-7 people who help constituents with questions or problems. No wonder none of feel any connection to our congress member.

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4 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Charles Pierce of Esquire magazine:

 

What lady is he talking about (he has unfairly and nastily riducled too many to narrow it down, unfortunately)?

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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

given that the district is comprised of 750K constituents, I think 15 is ridiculously small. Take out the staff that do not deal directly with the public, and you probably have 5-7 people who help constituents with questions or problems. No wonder none of feel any connection to our congress member.

I stand corrected. I should have said DC based staff. Local staff are critical and probably not enough. As long as they are real people and not some third cousin on an internship.

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What lady is he talking about (he has unfairly and nastily riducled too many to narrow it down, unfortunately)?

Probably E. Jean Carroll.
NC has some real fucked up gerrymandering because Asheville is not a place I’d pick to go red. 

Was thinking the same thing.
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1 minute ago, South Austin said:

I wasn't an economics major, but seems like balancing the budget, then wiping out tax revenue from a huge portion of the country's population, might result in an unbalanced budget.  

Tariffs will make up for it, duh. And the top of the end of earners in this country already don’t pay taxes, might as well let some on the lower end get in on the action.

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Unsurprising, I guess, but Howard is proving to be a complete shill.

I suppose so. He called the Dotard tariffs “the most important thing America has ever had”.
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1 hour ago, RPM said:

I was really surprised when it was announced they were doing away with pronouns (they/them) on personal profiles / badges at work. Didn't make 2 shits to me personally because I never opted in, but I know several people that did. I work at one of the Big 4 and they are very inclusive. Them taking a step back was a shock. Can't help but wonder what's coming next.

Also glad I don't have any money in stocks or crypto right now.

We were given the option to at work as well. I didn't do it, others did. Some people felt really passionate about it, so great. I think it was mostly a generational thing, but not exclusively.

I don't feel the need to belittle it or cause pain to others by taking it away. I don't get why others feel the need to or even feel delight in it.

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15 minutes ago, Red Five said:


I suppose so. He called the Dotard tariffs “the most important thing America has ever had”.

And said prices would reduce under them.

And, I'll say it again, if tariffs are truly effective -- stopping US "dependence" on imports -- collection of them will dwindle to nothing.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

And said prices would reduce under them.

And, I'll say it again, if tariffs are truly effective -- stopping US "dependence" on imports -- collection of them will dwindle to nothing.

No, see, they're Schrodinger's tariffs: simultaneously 1) generating trillions in revenue, because trillions in foreign goods will keep flowing into the US, thus providing a revenue stream that will replace all taxes on Americans, just as Trump promised, while also 2) causing the flow of foreign goods to STOP coming into the country, thus immediately boosting American manufacturing etc. so we will become the manufacturing economy we were in the 1950s.  Both a massive inflow of goods, and no inflow of goods....happening at the same time.  That's the Trump economic miracle!

And we have fucking morons around here who still think that's great, although they insist that "they don't support Trump."  FFS, they engage in magical thinking of the impossible.

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46 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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Shumer is actually voting to give trump and musk money to continue destroying the government? 

It's starting to get to the point that Democrats not doing the obvious thing and drilling these assholes publicly for the shit they're doing means they're secretly ok with it all happening. They aren't poor. They aren't losing their jobs. Their kids go to private schools too. 

Not rising up as a voice for the American people at this time means they just flat out don't want the responsibility of following through on promising to help the American people. 

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If we eliminate federal income tax because tariffs are covering the bills, but the increased prices due to tariffs are being paid by the people, isn’t it just a shell game?  
how are the rich going to avoid what is essentially a sales or consumption tax, when income tax creativity isn’t available to them?

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Shumer is actually voting to give trump and musk money to continue destroying the government? 
It's starting to get to the point that Democrats not doing the obvious thing and drilling these assholes publicly for the shit they're doing means they're secretly ok with it all happening. They aren't poor. They aren't losing their jobs. Their kids go to private schools too. 
Not rising up as a voice for the American people at this time means they just flat out don't want the responsibility of following through on promising to help the American people. 

They’re scared. Plain and simple. Most don’t want the mob sicked on them and/or eventually sent to a camp or prison.
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2 minutes ago, Red Five said:


They’re scared. Plain and simple. Most don’t want the mob sicked on them and/or eventually sent to a camp or prison.

So we need to threaten them with violence to get them to represent us? Is that what they are saying?

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4 minutes ago, Red Five said:


They’re scared. Plain and simple. Most don’t want the mob sicked on them and/or eventually sent to a camp or prison.

Then it's all over, this is a dictatorship run by the dumbest dictator since Nero, and we all might as well just enjoy every day the system and infrastructure hasn't collapsed on our heads and killed us. 

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10 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Then it's all over, this is a dictatorship run by the dumbest dictator since Nero, and we all might as well just enjoy every day the system and infrastructure hasn't collapsed on our heads and killed us. 

It's okay.  We'll be distracted by the war with Canada before the end of the summer.  So we have that to look forward to.

And no, I'm not kidding.  It has ratcheted up from "no fucking way" to "maybe it could happen" to "holy shit, it's really going to happen" in no time. 

You cannot demonstrate the level of belligerence that Trump has towards Canada and NOT end up in a shooting war.  

Dear God, this is all so dumber than even I could have imagined.

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3 hours ago, Red Five said:


Nothing bad has ever happened under Trump.

Is there any doubt that if he hadn’t been president in 2020, he’d be saying “Covid never would have happened with me as president!”.

Biden derangement syndrome 

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

unfucking real. anyone that supports or cheers this needs a 2+2 pill asap to the head ....

The Arlington National Cemetery website "scrubbed dozens of pages on gravesites and educational materials that include histories of prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members buried in the cemetery" to meet Trump/Hegseth orders, via @PJMatt

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/arlington-cemetery-scrubs-website-dei/

 

a fuckign draft dodger leading all this 

 

if this doesn't make your blood boil, there's something wrong with you ....

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074#3le0od4xwtkldf9ncgh2wy4m9sol8req

 

 

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Then it's all over, this is a dictatorship run by the dumbest dictator since Nero, and we all might as well just enjoy every day the system and infrastructure hasn't collapsed on our heads and killed us. 

Gavin Newsom, perhaps the front runner for the dem nomination in 2028, started a podcast last week. His first guest was Charlie Kirk. We are so screwed.
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57 minutes ago, Red Five said:

They’re scared. Plain and simple. Most don’t want the mob sicked on them and/or eventually sent to a camp or prison.

The rationale is that if the government shuts down, Trump and Musk will go hog wild destroying institutions and do far more damage than if the government stays open. Would we even hear what all they were cutting until the government re-opened?

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26 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The rationale is that if the government shuts down, Trump and Musk will go hog wild destroying institutions and do far more damage than if the government stays open. Would we even hear what all they were cutting until the government re-opened?

They're going to do it anyway. Don't give them the funding and approval of Congress to do it. Make them do it on their own and fight it in the courts. 

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2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

It’s so perfect. 
 

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in other words, "all of you people under 150K, give us free reign to reduce the govt and we will reward you with no income taxes." This is the illusion of a bribe that will never happen.

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9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

in other words, "all of you people under 150K, give us free reign to reduce the govt and we will reward you with no income taxes." This is the illusion of a bribe that will never happen.

... but rest assured that regardless you'll pay 3x as much in increased costs due to tariffs (while the rich folks somehow end up paying even less as we eventually gut any progressive taxes in favor of regressive sales taxes / tariffs).   



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