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Trump decided that $15/hr was too much for people working on federal projects.

He has killed the executive order that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15/hr and drove federal investments toward companies that agree to union neutrality.

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41 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I had a phone call yesterday from one of my best buddies from law school. We were discussing MAGA, and the inability of those morons to see what Trump is as a person or leader, and he said that he knows so many people who have cut off contact with relatives and friends over this, but none of the people being shunned would ever admit that any of the issues about team MAGA being anti-women anti-minority anti-brown people anti-science, etc.

He told me, “I have no earthly idea why people think something like a discussion with facts will change the mind of someone MAGA - when that someone is more than willing to suffer being cut off from friends and family without a second thought rather than abandon the cult“

I thought that was an astute observation,  as there is literally nothing we can say or do to change most cultists minds about Trump. it is a fever dream that we can convince people to be less gullible, less ignorant, or less hateful.   At this point, it is baked in beyond withdrawal unless they and there’s personally suffer some unusual amount of pain and poverty that can be directly attributed to Trump.   And even then it is not a given.

It was never about reaching the core MAGAs.  It was always about reaching the fringe MAGAs.  People like my mom, who irrationally hated Hilary because she was told to do so.  She got sick of Trump, in particular it was his bleach injection moment that pushed her over the edge, as my sister and I worked on getting her to recognize the idiot for being an idiot.  She voted for Biden in 2020.   But we failed to keep up the pressure, we got busy, and by 2024 she hated Harris for some mysterious reason yet again.    Those are the people who can be reached.   But if they are married to MAGA and surrounded by MAGA they are susceptible to revert.   

 

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I had dinner last weekend with a family member who voted for Dotard at least once. He fucking hates him now, and is ashamed that he ever supported him. So, it does happen.

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3 hours ago, South Austin said:

Three rapists.  I don't think those couches gave consent.


If you would have seen the legs on it though…..  They don’t call it a sextional for nothing.

/JD

 

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It does happen but that is like a fifth of the people that vote for him the so called "independents", 40% of the country is completely evil, I keep telling people that are still naive in believing in the constitution, that the only avenue left is not a dead piece of paper but  people in the streets. massive protests first, then refuse to buy anything for a set amount of time and lastly a general strike.

He will never obey the courts. And if he does it is only temporary before he arrests all judges.

I keep reading the /r/conservative subreddit but it is a waste of time, they are not repentant they are evil 100% of the time, just that liberal reddit upvote the occasional dissenter.

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16 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

If you would have seen the legs on it though…..  They don’t call it a sextional for nothing.

/JD

 

So you think the couch was just asking for it, and that makes it okay, you fucking pig?

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It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

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26 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I had dinner last weekend with a family member who voted for Dotard at least once. He fucking hates him now, and is ashamed that he ever supported him. So, it does happen.

well, in honor of st patrick, here's what I'd say to them
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Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

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12 minutes ago, linux said:

I keep reading the /r/conservative subreddit but it is a waste of time

They should rename it r/russianbotorgy

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Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

The US has been in economic decline since Y2K the single most important economic metric to keep fascism at bay was real median income and it has been declining for 25 years, most of the growth has accumulated on top, that is the real fuel. Then social media, talk radio etc provided the oxygen with their stale breath and Trump was the ignition.

Democrats becoming the corpocrat party could not have come at the worst possible moment, when we needed an FDR we kept getting the Clintons over and over and over.

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13 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

 

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Remember how Biden insisted on inviting Trump to the White House, being all cordial, offering to help where he could, saying "welcome home!" to Dotard at the WH, riding over to the inauguration with him, etc? 

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26 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

It feels like this selfish idiocy was mostly tamped down in the 70s/80s/90/s/00s. The embers were clearly still lit underneath, but society generally shunned this behavior and kept it at bay. So what happened? Did the invention of the internet and social media eventually unleash a consequence free platform to re-popularize these shameful thoughts and ideas? 

Yes, before the internet people would say stupid shit like  "Hitler didn't murder millions of people, public workers did" and they would be laughed at and either 1) forced to realize that they are wrong and their innate desire to be a part of a community would take over and lead to a reevaluation of their beliefs or 2) exiled into a life as that weird hermit guy down the street.

Now they can put that shit on the internet and immediately find a community of similarly insane people who agree.  No matter what you say or do, there's never a need to self-reflect when you can immediately find a new circle of people (or bots) who agree with you.  Eventually this group got big enough to hijack a political party whose only concrete belief is "lib tears."

 

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In a brazen display of defiance, the Justice Department had filed papers less than two hours before the 5 p.m. start time of the hearing telling Judge James E. Boasberg there was no reason for the government’s lawyers to appear in court because they did not intend to provide him with any further information about the deportation flights. Those flights transported about 200 immigrants to El Salvador over the weekend.

 

From NYT
 

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14 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Remember how Biden insisted on inviting Trump to the White House, being all cordial, offering to help where he could, saying "welcome home!" to Dotard at the WH, riding over to the inauguration with him, etc? 

I want Biden to know that he did this, it was his fault he decided to become Neville Chamberlain, and that Hunter and his family have had their pardons revoked, I never seen a softer man in the face of fascism in human history.

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I want Biden to know that he did this, it was his fault he decided to become Neville Chamberlain, and that Hunter and his family have had their pardons revoked, I never seen a softer man in the face of fascism in human history.

Bullshit.
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12 minutes ago, linux said:

I want Biden to know that he did this, it was his fault he decided to become Neville Chamberlain, and that Hunter and his family have had their pardons revoked, I never seen a softer man in the face of fascism in human history.

ok, so we've heard the B-team argument. moving on.

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9 minutes ago, linux said:

Joe Biden was our only hope, instead we got soft baby shit.

The fact the Joe Fucking Biden was our only hope says a lot more about our situation than you think. If that is true, then it was all futile anyway 

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24 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

We knew it already, but the Rule of Law is dead

Only for some people.  The rest of are probably still bound by laws 

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Just now, SubliminalHorn said:

The fact the Joe Fucking Biden was our only hope says a lot more about our situation than you think. If that is true, then it was all futile anyway 

Oh I know the situation is completely dire, but it now requires gigantic protests, the likes of the million man marches, and general strikes, there will probably be lots of dead from the Brownshirts that were recently pardoned Oathkeepers et al, and lastly they can brutally draw it out with police like Assad did for 15 years? and even that is not guaranteed since Maduro is still not toppled after 15 years either... and people here are angry that I blame Biden... You will come around, trust me.

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23 minutes ago, tigol said:


Bullshit.

Well, did he have turnip riddled with Seal Team bullets? Apparently, he had the power to do so, given the threat turnip then posed, and now demonstrates.

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1 minute ago, Willfully Horn said:

Well, did he have turnip riddled with Seal Team bullets? Apparently, he had the power to do so, given the threat turnip then posed, and now demonstrates.

"Damn, just nicked his ear!" 

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5 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Well, did he have turnip riddled with Seal Team bullets? Apparently, he had the power to do so, given the threat turnip then posed, and now demonstrates.

He really should have.  Missed opportunity. 

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8 minutes ago, linux said:

Oh I know the situation is completely dire, but it now requires gigantic protests, the likes of the million man marches, and general strikes, there will probably be lots of dead from the Brownshirts that were recently pardoned Oathkeepers et al, and lastly they can brutally draw it out with police like Assad did for 15 years? and even that is not guaranteed since Maduro is still not toppled after 15 years either... and people here are angry that I blame Biden... You will come around, trust me.

I’m not angry you blame Biden. I do too. He should have made it clear from the beginning he was a one term president and allow someone else to come out of the primary. But he didn’t and so here we are. Fucked

 

Protests aren’t gonna do shit. Fascists don’t give a fuck what the people think or what their poll numbers are

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19 minutes ago, Red Five said:

"Damn, just nicked his ear!" 

You joke, and I laughed. The better play would have been to kidnap the immunity voting SCOTUS justices, and fly them to Gitmo. And constantly explain why their ruling was a threat to the Constitution, and that, therefore, they already had agreed that their kidnapping was legal and that Biden had immunity from any consequence for doing so. Explain that if they would rescind the ruling they would be released.

All what ifs aside, it was apparent this was coming. Past presidents made hard choices that held on to the Republic. As much as I love Joe, I can’t help but see his return to politics as usual, which he was great at, as a huge mistake.

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Just now, SubliminalHorn said:

I’m not angry you blame Biden. I do too. He should have made it clear from the beginning he was a one term president and allow someone else to come out of the primary. But he didn’t and so here we are. Fucked

 

Protests aren’t gonna do shit. Fascists don’t give a fuck what the people think or what their poll numbers are

Protests have toppled a lot of "durable" dictatorships. The question is if Trump is agile enough for it and I see no evidence of this, Assad lasted a long long time after Arab Spring but he still fell, the question is how much protester blood will be spilled by Trump's SA and SS. A full economic collapse from tariffs would save lives ironically since it speeds up the fall of a dictatorship.

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15 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

I thought oil prices were falling.

 

And the deplorable chalk up another shameful victory:

”Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order”

 

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii

Just when you think you can't get any angrier. 

So DEI went back in time about 80 years and helped us win WW2? That's what DEI is now? 

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Brazen defiance to the chief judge of the DC federal court 

He’s bending over backwards asking them to give a written justification as case law and precedent requires more than the government screaming “NATIONAL SECURITY”. Sounds like noon tomorrow for that submission. That said - showing up to an evidentiary hearing on your own contempt of court without answers is a stupid battle to pick. They don’t have 5 votes at SCOTUS for ignoring TROs

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43 minutes ago, linux said:

Oh I know the situation is completely dire, but it now requires gigantic protests, the likes of the million man marches, and general strikes, there will probably be lots of dead from the Brownshirts that were recently pardoned Oathkeepers et al, and lastly they can brutally draw it out with police like Assad did for 15 years? and even that is not guaranteed since Maduro is still not toppled after 15 years either... and people here are angry that I blame Biden... You will come around, trust me.

There is an interesting juxtaposition on this, as many, many states (including Louisiana recently) said you can have concealed carry without a permit.

So all of the civil unrest will happen in a world where every liberal and MAGAt is armed but you don’t know who those folks are.  What could possibly go wrong?

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2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Brazen defiance to the chief judge of the DC federal court 

He’s bending over backwards asking them to give a written justification as case law and precedent requires more than the government screaming “NATIONAL SECURITY”. Sounds like noon tomorrow for that submission. That said - showing up to an evidentiary hearing on your own contempt of court without answers is a stupid battle to pick. They don’t have 5 votes at SCOTUS for ignoring TROs

They’re going to just start ignoring the Supreme Court as well. They’ve shown they do not give a fuck. 

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Here's updates from NYT

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Alan Feuer
March 17, 2025, 5:30 p.m. ETJust now

Judge Boasberg now addresses the government’s argument that it did not violate his order because the planes had passed outside of U.S. airspace by the time his written ruling came down. The judge says the problem with that position is that he still has power over the officials who make the decisions about the planes, even if the planes themselves were outside of U.S. territorial jurisdiction.

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3 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

This exact realization was what hit me, and I suspect many on this board, like a ton of bricks the morning after the election.  THIS is who we are.

I've known Americans are dumbasses for a while now, and after Trump won in November I didn't think it was possible to shock me any more. But Trump having his highest approval ever right now is absolutely mind blowing shit. This is truly a dystopia. 

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Good to know this has been restored, but the fact that it was removed at all...

Army removes, reposts website documenting Japanese-American WWII soldiers

From the article- "The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in WWII and composed of Nisei — American-born sons of Japanese immigrants..."

A friend's father was one of the members of the 442, and I was fortunate to meet him before he passed. He was drafted while his family was at Tule Lake, and went without question. Helluva man, with a deeper set of moral and ethical convictions (and love for our country) than the current occupant of the White House could even imagine.

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30 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Here's updates from NYT

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Alan Feuer
March 17, 2025, 5:30 p.m. ETJust now

Judge Boasberg now addresses the government’s argument that it did not violate his order because the planes had passed outside of U.S. airspace by the time his written ruling came down. The judge says the problem with that position is that he still has power over the officials who make the decisions about the planes, even if the planes themselves were outside of U.S. territorial jurisdiction.

So this Kambli fucker is a true believer from the KS AG office, which is much like the Texas AG office:  a hive of scum and villainy.  These fuckin Indians are getting mighty uppity in a country that doesn't like browns.

One thing the courts can do is stop granting any relief to the Trump administration and start disbarring (from local federal practice) DOJ attorneys that display lack of candor.

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1 minute ago, Pancho said:

Wait—why do the radical MAGA’s/Ana’s want the police officer who killed George Floyd to be released?

Why? He'll probably get the medal of freedom at some point.

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