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17 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Hope we have a quiet Hurricane season. States are not ready to take over. Not even close.

Here is one I doubt they fill.

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been fired one day after he broke with fellow members of the administration when he told lawmakers he does not support dismantling the agency, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

Cameron Hamilton, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, was escorted out of FEMA’s headquarters on Thursday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. *clipped for brevity

A couple of thoughts....

Cruelty is the point, so that's a checkmark right there. Dismantling FEMA means citizens suffering when disaster strikes and yes, most states would have insufficient means to respond. This (in my cynical view) leads to the transactional nature of this regime. Loyalty, bending the knee, giving in to whatever concessions the regime requests, because otherwise your state is going to be underwater (financially and or literally)

A second and somewhat niggling thought regarding the dismantling would require not only some forethought (which would be the puppeteers behind the scenes and not the puppets..so somewhat conspiracy/sketchy logic) would be related to the tariff thread and Project 2025 where @TexasEd commented:
 

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Tax reduction - Still in the barrel and it will be for the richest, industry based to incentivize factories and prop up real estate values.

Trump will sell out the working class in favor of the Real Estate class

 

Buying up land cheaply after a disaster and people are forced out of their homes is not only cruel but allows for the developers to pick and choose what parcel to purchase. I've stated before that some rural areas have turned into a quasi feudal system where locals cannot get healthcare and other needs but can survive by supporting the larger land owners who need certain services. A nation of slumlords and vassals where life is cheap and violent and desperate.

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8 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

A couple of thoughts....

Cruelty is the point, so that's a checkmark right there. Dismantling FEMA means citizens suffering when disaster strikes and yes, most states would have insufficient means to respond. This (in my cynical view) leads to the transactional nature of this regime. Loyalty, bending the knee, giving in to whatever concessions the regime requests, because otherwise your state is going to be underwater (financially and or literally)

A second and somewhat niggling thought regarding the dismantling would require not only some forethought (which would be the puppeteers behind the scenes and not the puppets..so somewhat conspiracy/sketchy logic) would be related to the tariff thread and Project 2025 where @TexasEd commented:
 

Buying up land cheaply after a disaster and people are forced out of their homes is not only cruel but allows for the developers to pick and choose what parcel to purchase. I've stated before that some rural areas have turned into a quasi feudal system where locals cannot get healthcare and other needs but can survive by supporting the larger land owners who need certain services. A nation of slumlords and vassals where life is cheap and violent and desperate.

Yes, and not only nice coastal properties. S Dakota and such receive a lot of FEMA cash when they flood every year. If the states are now  expected to care for their own, how? Where does that money come from? Are we going to see a reduction in obligations to the feds?

FEMA is no way perfect, but it did what it was supposed to do. An issue was people expected magic. Fix my home overnight. Where is my check? I want it yesterday.

Fun times. And just on a personal note. That is the third job focus I had that has been taken away! Makes me think I was doing the right thing all along.

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Posted
10 hours ago, linux said:

his idiocy was in denial about the buildup and literally being caught with his pants down despite all the evidence to the contrary.

I remember reading about how Stalin personally censored some anti-Nazi books from being published in the USSR because he thought it would provoke Hitler (citation is Geoffrey Roberts' Stalin's Library, IIRC). That historiographical position is one where Stalin respected Hitler but deeply misunderstood him and thought that he would respond to literature like Stalin presumably would have based upon his insatiable reading habit. I'm not enough of a Stalinist to know if that's a popular position in the academic community.

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34 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Some rumors that doge is going to merge HHS, SS, and IRS data into one database.

 

The Struggle No GIF by The Runner go90

Too late:

  • They uploaded it to xAI through Starlink 
  • Russia has compromised Starlink and stole all the data as soon as it was uploaded
  • Watch for an uptick in:
    • identity theft
    • contacts by foreign intelligence services with compromising information
    • more targeted ads from big tech using your personally identifiable information and financial records
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Posted
4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Dismantling FEMA means citizens suffering when disaster strikes and yes, most states would have insufficient means to respond. This (in my cynical view) leads to the transactional nature of this regime. Loyalty, bending the knee, giving in to whatever concessions the regime requests, because otherwise your state is going to be underwater (financially and or literally)

Correct.  The plan is to turn disaster needs and assistance as a tool to force fealty, loyalty, and surrender of all resistance.

Disaster hits, and you bow to Trump and call him lord of all?  You bet ad hoc assistance (because none of this, not even a little bit, is about being "wise stewards of federal dollars").  Gobble his crank and call him Your Highness, and you'll get a spigot of dollars that doesn't ever shut off.

Disaster hits, and you aren't sufficiently loyal/subservient to Trump?  Get fucked.  Your people can die, your economy can crash, fuck 'em, that's what you deserve for your disloyalty to our King.

4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Buying up land cheaply after a disaster and people are forced out of their homes is not only cruel but allows for the developers to pick and choose what parcel to purchase. I've stated before that some rural areas have turned into a quasi feudal system where locals cannot get healthcare and other needs but can survive by supporting the larger land owners who need certain services. A nation of slumlords and vassals where life is cheap and violent and desperate.

And this is also part of the plan.  For states (via actions like killing FEMA) and businesses (kill all small and medium sized businesses with tariffs and other economic folly), the plan is to destroy anyone below the billionaire class, and enable the billionaire class to swoop in and OWN IT FUCKING ALL.  It is 100% the plan to create a nation of two classes: oligarchs, and vassals.

Hey MAGAs....if you aren't an oligarch (and almost none of you are)....then guess fucking what?  The plan is for you to be a fucking serf, you fucking dumbasses.

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Posted (edited)
22 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

Does anyone think he has any clue what that statue is?

I do remember being blown away when i saw video that the still was taken from to make the statue.*

 

 

*but I was probably 12 years old at the time.

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1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

I remember reading about how Stalin personally censored some anti-Nazi books from being published in the USSR because he thought it would provoke Hitler (citation is Geoffrey Roberts' Stalin's Library, IIRC). That historiographical position is one where Stalin respected Hitler but deeply misunderstood him and thought that he would respond to literature like Stalin presumably would have based upon his insatiable reading habit. I'm not enough of a Stalinist to know if that's a popular position in the academic community.

Stalin was criminally idiotic in trying to appease Hitler in 41, going so far as to execute defecting German soldiers that risked everything to try to warn the Red Army of the imminent invasion, part of it makes sense since the Heer seemed unstoppable in 41, but at the same time it was so stupid to appease people like Hitler (or Trump). The invading army was much larger than the Red Army in 41. Even in terms of quantity they were woefully unprepared. 

Still it was Munich that kicked everything off, not only did it naively surrendered all of Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland was mountainous terrain that offered the perfect buffer against a blitzkrieg) all of their tanks and factories (the 38t was comparable to the Panzer III), but most importantly split in half the continental alliance that would ever give Hitler pause, it was a complete and utter failure, I used to buy the argument that it was done to buy time, but British aircraft production was still a joke on year later, it was ideological appeasement through and through.

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So they are approving White South Africans as refugees saying they’ve faced so much racial persecution in their home countries.

 

Deport any and all Brown people, import any and all Whites

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1 minute ago, Pancho said:

So they are approving White South Africans as refugees saying they’ve faced so much racial persecution in their home countries.

 

Deport any and all Brown people, import any and all Whites

did you expect anything else from this regime?

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1 hour ago, yoladu said:

I do remember being blown away when i saw video that the still was taken from to make the statue.*

 

 

*but I was probably 12 years old at the time.

Then you'll love this.  I've read several times that the flag went up but they did not capture it on movie film but the people sending back clips to run in the news reels identified the photo taken as the perfect war bonds sales ad or something like that.  They staged a reenactment that was filmed but the original guys that put up the flag had moved on so they rounded up a few guys that arrived later to do the photo shoot.

 

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edited for clarity/acuracy
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Posted
30 minutes ago, C-Man said:

 

"It depends on if the judges do the right thing..."

"That's a mighty fine judiciary you have there.  Be a shame if something were to happen to it."

 

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We've got no food!

We've got no jobs!

Our ships' jets are falling off!

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Another Navy jet falls into sea, marking fourth major mishap in months

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A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.

The F/A-18F Super Hornet jet, worth about $67 million, went overboard after an unsuccessful attempt to slow it down upon landing on the USS Harry S. Truman, the Navy said in a statement. Both aviators aboard the jet safely ejected and were rescued at sea by helicopter with minor injuries, and no one aboard the warship’s flight deck was harmed, the service said.

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While the incidents have not killed any service members, they have raised questions about the strain placed on the aircraft carrier’s crew and its ability to carry out a grueling deployment in which troops have clashed for months with Houthi militants in Yemen. The mishaps have the attention of senior U.S. military leaders, a defense official familiar with the discussion said Tuesday night, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has twice extended the aircraft carrier’s deployment since it left its home in Virginia last September, most recently last week, to ensure that the Navy had two aircraft carriers on hand to battle the Houthis. Since March, the carrier has been on the front lines of a full-scale assault that President Donald Trump ordered against the Yemen-based militant group in response to its attacks on commercial and military vessels dating to late 2023.

Opsec is clean though

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I cannot emphasize enough how the country works now. The President acts based on what he sees on Fox and Friends which broadcasts what the President wants to see and then the President makes decisions based on what he watched  and then Fox and Friends reacts to what he does and then the President . . . 
 

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:

New Acting FEMA head David Richardson tells employees "don't get in my way." Seems like a major asshole.

 

A 17 minute speech at an intro all hands is truly bananas. There is no way to pull that off without being either insane or senile. 

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1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

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This is how any actual journalistic entity should be writing all headlines about the regime's actions.  Dead-on, balls-accurate.  

Start fucking calling it like it is.

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This is how any actual journalistic entity should be writing all headlines about the regime's actions.  Dead-on, balls-accurate.  

Start fucking calling it like it is.

Some future historian is going to want to mine other countries’ diplomatic dispatches. The Brits will be the best written but the Japanese will have incredible insight and perspective. The Russians will have the inside scoop. 

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The absolute best part is that de minimis gone in one shape or form is one of the few things I am 100% certain about this trade war. Austin is guaranteed poverty.

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Four hornet jets lost in a little over a month. That Biden hangover has legs.

 

 

Give it to republicans, they have yet to meet the length they can’t throat.

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A little bit of good news for mothers day, Strong disapproval rising fast and strong approval dropping fast is extremely important this is the way for impeachment, the good news is that I thought he would lose weak approval only holding (a pattern from Trump I) but if the fascist wing disengages and are just a puddle it means impeachment is on the table.

Its unrealistic of course because even at 10% they scare the coward GOP, but this is still big when Donny tries a second coup, but sadly 3-4 years from now.

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23 minutes ago, linux said:

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A little bit of good news for mothers day, Strong disapproval rising fast and strong approval dropping fast is extremely important this is the way for impeachment, the good news is that I thought he would lose weak approval only holding (a pattern from Trump I) but if the fascist wing disengages and are just a puddle it means impeachment is on the table.

Its unrealistic of course because even at 10% they scare the coward GOP, but this is still big when Donny tries a second coup, but sadly 3-4 years from now.

To paraphrase a Professor from some years back:

The second coup is in effect, go get a late pass.

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58 minutes ago, linux said:

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A little bit of good news for mothers day, Strong disapproval rising fast and strong approval dropping fast is extremely important this is the way for impeachment, the good news is that I thought he would lose weak approval only holding (a pattern from Trump I) but if the fascist wing disengages and are just a puddle it means impeachment is on the table.

Its unrealistic of course because even at 10% they scare the coward GOP, but this is still big when Donny tries a second coup, but sadly 3-4 years from now.

the sad reality in modern society is that a very large segment of the population will simply not care until they walk into a half empty HEB. 

that writing has been on the wall for so long now. and its infuriating. 

don't care, don't care, have some gaslighting, predict future, be called alarmist, see future right around the corner, have some more gaslighting, the here we are at said future. 

oh you mad? don't hate bro. didn't you watch the anit-hate commercials during the suberbowl? whats wrong with you?

Hey btw - have you considered bundling your home and auto insurance to save money? 

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Pancho said:

The “ICE Agents” should not be wearing face masks. 

 

Rip those fuckers off of them

It’s not at all clear that they’re “ICE Agents.” Most likely of hodgepodge of deputized goons.

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Posted
47 minutes ago, staboner said:

the sad reality in modern society is that a very large segment of the population will simply not care until they walk into a half empty HEB. 

that writing has been on the wall for so long now. and its infuriating. 

don't care, don't care, have some gaslighting, predict future, be called alarmist, see future right around the corner, have some more gaslighting, the here we are at said future. 

oh you mad? don't hate bro. didn't you watch the anit-hate commercials during the suberbowl? whats wrong with you?

Hey btw - have you considered bundling your home and auto insurance to save money? 

 

Democrats are so stupid sometimes yes "it is the economy stupid" when the macro matches the micro, but right now it is the real golden rule "all politics are local", aka me me me me! This is almost entirely because of the so called independent voter, the low engagement, low knowledge voter that decides elections based on their wallet, the only saving grace of these people is that we can count on them to shit all over future elections, give trump that brown shower, well the second saving grace that fascist cultish MAGA is only 40% of the population.

What is most interesting to me is cracking that 40% somehow, maybe the cult is not all powerful, I doubt it but I still want to enjoy the weekend on a high note.

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12 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

I remember reading about how Stalin personally censored some anti-Nazi books from being published in the USSR because he thought it would provoke Hitler (citation is Geoffrey Roberts' Stalin's Library, IIRC). That historiographical position is one where Stalin respected Hitler but deeply misunderstood him and thought that he would respond to literature like Stalin presumably would have based upon his insatiable reading habit. I'm not enough of a Stalinist to know if that's a popular position in the academic community.

The professor and director of my degree program could probably answer that for you. Google Yan Mann. He is Ukrainian I believe and he knows his stuff on Stalin. He would be my absolute go to on anything related to Stalin.

 

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So when do we start the Trump 2028 thread?   Assuming  MAGAGOP doesn’t just decide to run Trump, he’s definitely running as a “VP” to a “president” that steps down on day one.  

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