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3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

From the article:

In a statement to the AP, the State Department said the U.S. has provided more than $168 million to the Rohingya since the beginning of Trump’s term, although data from the U.N.’s financial tracking service show the U.S. contribution in 2025 is $156 million. Asked about the disparity, the State Department said the U.N.’s financial tracking service had not been recently updated and “generally does not show the latest information on all U.S. funding.”

What disingenuous bullshit.

"Brisketexan has actually paid $1,000 a month as a house payment, totaling $12,000 in 2025, according to Brisketexan."

Gosh, sure seems like Bristketexan is doing everything right.  That's a chunk of cash!

But...leaving out the paragraph above that text:

"Brisketexan has slashed the amount he pays on his house payment in half, from $2,000 to $1,000, leaving his mortgage underpaid by 50% for the year."

Here's what Ana left out:

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In the Bangladesh camps, the U.S. — which has long been the biggest provider of aid to the predominantly Muslim Rohingya — slashed its funding by nearly half compared to last year. 

What he posted, which was intended to make you believe that the US is providing the necessary level of funding to alleviate the crisis, and that funding has been restored or somesuch, was a lie by omission.  

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Posted
15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

If they suspend him, Trump will issue an executive order banning the Rams from playing or some shit, and he will 100% have the DOJ investigate and indict every member of the Rams' ownership group on charges of "being bad" or some shit.

Private enterprises cannot take any action against racists/bigots/magats because the US government will punish them for doing so.

Trump will pardon him and his agent will pen a missive demanding the nfl let him play. 

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Posted
43 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Stop believing that anything good will happen that we don't FORCE to happen.  It hasn't, it isn't, and it won't.  Evil wins. 

No. Young adult women win. That is the singular lesson of revolutions in western societies since the Renaissance: whoever has the preponderance of young women behind them will win. It’s not always for good- the grass roots of the Nazi movement, for example, was powered in many ways by the mothers of young children. But in a revolutionary moment a majority of young adult women will coalesce around the eventual winners. And that’s not what is happening here. 

So what we are looking at right now is just a chaotic interim step. Towards what, I have no idea. 
 

Posted
11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

What disingenuous bullshit.

"Brisketexan has actually paid $1,000 a month as a house payment, totaling $12,000 in 2025, according to Brisketexan."

Gosh, sure seems like Bristketexan is doing everything right.  That's a chunk of cash!

But...leaving out the paragraph above that text:

"Brisketexan has slashed the amount he pays on his house payment in half, from $2,000 to $1,000, leaving his mortgage underpaid by 50% for the year."

Here's what Ana left out:

What he posted, which was intended to make you believe that the US is providing the necessary level of funding to alleviate the crisis, and that funding has been restored or somesuch, was a lie by omission.  

Ain't there one of those commandments against doing that?

Posted
37 minutes ago, G650 said:

Man, that was my only glimmer of hope during the last election, and a lot of good it did us.

Yeah, but Harris really doesn’t have it. Not like Clinton or Bush II or Obama or Trump, anyway. Trump is horrible but he’s got authentic swag. That’s why he got along so well with Mamdani. Game recognizes game. 
 

22 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

That's a great post, but in no way responds to anything I said. Great, the Republican caucus continues to fracture. Oh no, Mike Johnson gets embarrassed. That in no way continues the discussion for the questions I posed you, which is a situation where many Americans are given license to stick their heads back into the ground and not look at how fucked things are currently, because they're given just enough to allow them not to face reality. 

I think you and I see the behaviors of the voting public differently. You’re describing voters as semi-rational actors making a direct connection between the tangible impact of policy and the messaging around it. I don’t think that’s how this works right now.  
I see the voting public as a market where about 85% of the buyers have near-total brand loyalty, and the ability to take and hold share among the remaining 15% is a function of wholistic marketing execution and discipline that is maintained through consistency across all four Ps: relevant Product, at the right Price, with the right Promotion, for the right People. A fractured party is going to struggle with any of that.

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Posted
18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

What he posted, which was intended to make you believe that the US is providing the necessary level of funding to alleviate the crisis, and that funding has been restored or somesuch, was a lie by omission.  

Funding has been continued, yes at reduced level. According to that article we are sending aid money there at greater than a 2 to 1 ratio compared to the rest of the world combined.  

Posted
Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

 

I think you and I see the behaviors of the voting public differently. You’re describing voters as semi-rational actors making a direct connection between the tangible impact of policy and the messaging around it. I don’t think that’s how this works right now.  
I see the voting public as a market where about 85% of the buyers have near-total brand loyalty, and the ability to take and hold share among the remaining 15% is a function of wholistic marketing execution and discipline that is maintained through consistency across all four Ps: relevant Product, at the right Price, with the right Promotion, for the right People. A fractured party is going to struggle with any of that.

That's not how it works right now because no one, in great numbers, has truly had to face the reality of their decisions and see a real, hard impact on their day to day lives. It's all noise that they can choose to turn out and stay in their safe little tribal silos. A fractured party MIGHT struggle some with messaging, but messaging doesn't fucking matter nearly as much if the people can take the baseline and tune shit out, and if nothing really changes.

You want to shake things up and make people question their brand loyalty? Well, for starters, you've got to really change their day to day status quo for the worse. That's usually the pocketbook. 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

relevant Product, at the right Price, with the right Promotion, for the right People. A fractured party is going to struggle with any of that.

If you're weak in any of the other Ps, just amp up another P to make up for it.  The Product is hate.  The party unifies people around hate.  If the guy selling that isn't the right People.....just crank out more amped up Product.  

It works.  It always works.  Hate has done more to change humanity than any other factor.  It's the world's great change agent.

Posted
2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Funding has been continued, yes at reduced level. According to that article we are sending aid money there at greater than a 2 to 1 ratio compared to the rest of the world combined.  

"Brisket has continued to pay on his mortgage, yes at a reduced level.  According to that article Brisket is paying his mortgage at greater than a 2 to 1 ratio compared to his neighbors combined."

We provided aid of X.  More than anyone else, and added to aid from other sources.  Collectively, it was barely enough to get some better-than-awful results.  We then slashed our aid to 50% of X.  Results are now awful.

And this....is a triumph.  Fan-fucking-tastic.

There's truly nothing this admin does, or could do, that you don't chalk up as a win.  Your lurch from "both sides" to "other than perhaps his decorating taste, everything the admin does is a net positive," has been entertaining to watch.  

1 minute ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Back to the grift.

 

When the head of the FBI is such a fucking incompetent clown that his subordinate incompetent clown can't stand working for him anymore.....chef's kiss.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

There's truly nothing this admin does, or could do, that you don't chalk up as a win.  Your lurch from "both sides" to "other than perhaps his decorating taste, everything the admin does is a net positive," has been entertaining to watch.  

I am not going to lose my mind over USAID funding cuts. They intermingled the very good with the very bad under that orgs banner. My greater wish generally in terms of haircuts would be for substantial military spending cuts. We all know that that is one of the two primary areas in government where fraud, waste, and abuse is out of hand. 

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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

I am not going to lose my mind over USAID funding cuts. They intermingled the very good with the very bad under that orgs banner.

Motte and bailey, after saying "good things can be continued," retreat to "I don't really care."

Never met a logical fallacy he can't engage in.  Truly a 5-tool player in that respect.  Impressive.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

You want to shake things up and make people question their brand loyalty? Well, for starters, you've got to really change their day to day status quo for the worse. That's usually the pocketbook. 

Their economic status quo has been getting worse for five decades- that’s how brand loyalty works. It’s an elasticity killer. That’s literally how you measure the value of the brand: how much more loyal customers are willing to pay, just for the brand.

There are only a couple of things that can damage brand loyalty: insult, indifference, and incoherence. 
What’s happening to the Republican Party right now is all three- they keep saying “we’re winning,” when they are losing, and they are speaking to their least loyal (ie most persuadable)customers in a way that ignores their concerns and tells them explicitly that their values don’t matter. 
Democrats do that constantly of course, but at the moment, they aren’t in charge so they don’t have to defend themselves. 

Posted
2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

"Traditional European texts, like the New Testament."

Who wants to tell him?

Um, it was written by King James, dumbass.

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Posted
47 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"The adults are back in charge," exhibit eleventy billion, right @realgreggym?

I would love to be the contractor that gets to rip all this propaganda bullshit out once these shit stains are gone.  

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Posted
Just now, Constant said:

I would love to be the contractor that gets to rip all this propaganda bullshit out once these shit stains are gone.  

Just make sure to hire a good work team to do it.

Steer clear of starving MAGAs, they just want to game the system and get their disability checks and shit.  Maybe hire you some mexicans, and get that shit done right, quick, and for a good price.

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Posted
44 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

either i am too inarticulate or the English language is not adequate enough to fully express my feelings on this one.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Their economic status quo has been getting worse for five decades- that’s how brand loyalty works. It’s an elasticity killer. That’s literally how you measure the value of the brand: how much more loyal customers are willing to pay, just for the brand.

There are only a couple of things that can damage brand loyalty: insult, indifference, and incoherence. 
What’s happening to the Republican Party right now is all three- they keep saying “we’re winning,” when they are losing, and they are speaking to their least loyal (ie most persuadable)customers in a way that ignores their concerns and tells them explicitly that their values don’t matter. 
Democrats do that constantly of course, but at the moment, they aren’t in charge so they don’t have to defend themselves. 

Like a Frog in boiling water? Except what dies isn't the brand, it's just democracy. You know, the economic status quo has been getting worse in Russia/The USSR/Russian Federation for like...75 years. How's that working out for them and their brand? 

I also reject your list of 3 things that can damage brand loyalty out of hand. But I'll play along. We'll go ahead and assign, for the purposes of this conversation, that removing a bunch of poor people's health care in red states, people who often don't even have any concept that their health is coming from the ACA and government subsidies, as Injury. As you said, injury can damage a brand. And here I am, cheering for maximum Injury. You're choosing for less Injury in favor of...I guess we'll call laughing at Mike Johnson Incoherence, I guess?

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Constant said:

I would love to be the contractor that gets to rip all this propaganda bullshit out once these shit stains are gone.  

Pretty sure Trump is not going to get his security deposit back.

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Posted
19 minutes ago, yoladu said:

either i am too inarticulate or the English language is not adequate enough to fully express my feelings on this one.

You're right. Sad, pathetic and embarrassing just doesn't cover it anymore. It's like a scene from Mean Girls if the one petty teenage girl was POTUS.   

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Posted
48 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Back to the grift.

 

Boingboing has been checked out for a while. He was - by far - the least qualified of the Bondi/Kash/Boing group. 

I'd expect Kash to follow suit shortly thereafter. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Pancho said:

 

What an incredible amount of money this fucking idiot is wasting on things that will go straight to the trash in 3 years.

Posted
3 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Boingboing has been checked out for a while. He was - by far - the least qualified of the Bondi/Kash/Boing group. 

I'd expect Kash to follow suit shortly thereafter. 

Yet....I think he is also the most self-aware about his lack of qualifications.  He knows he doesn't belong there, and has an inkling of "that may not be a good thing."

The other two are too fucking stupid and venal to get that far in their lizard brains.

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Boingboing has been checked out for a while. He was - by far - the least qualified of the Bondi/Kash/Boing group. 
I'd expect Kash to follow suit shortly thereafter. 

Bongino is a former cop and Secret Service member though, right? He’s wholly unqualified for his spot but isn’t Kash Patel even less qualified to run the entire fucking FBI?
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Posted
10 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Chef's kiss on the Vanity Fair article:

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To be fair, you don't have $60,000 worth of plastic surgery to let a piece of good art distract from what a fine piece of no-sex-til-marriage ass you are now.

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Posted
24 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Chef's kiss on the Vanity Fair article:

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All the tacky gold shit in the Oval Office is just Home Depot decorations spray painted gold, so this isn't surprising.

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Posted
26 minutes ago, C-Man said:


Bongino is a former cop and Secret Service member though, right? He’s wholly unqualified for his spot but isn’t Kash Patel even less qualified to run the entire fucking FBI?

It's more that the standard for the deputy director is pretty high compared to the others (in terms of qualifications). The deputy director is the one who runs the day to day operations of the FBI and is usually a career FBI employee. Boingboing is none of that. 

Kash has quite a bit of DC experience and while unqualified, he's not as bad as Bonghit.

I think I like Bonghit better than Boingboing....

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Posted
28 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Chef's kiss on the Vanity Fair article:

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i respect that way more than the tacky cheap gold knicknacks going up everywhere else.

Posted
16 hours ago, Sawbonz said:


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I would trust these folks with the government faster than what we have now.

7 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

Well, when Trump finally relented to the pleas to take over as architect and project lead, you know the outlay would have to increase just to get the commitment of the most ballroom knowledgable grifter out there.

6 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

Murder Cult Inc.

On the same page: Oligarchs laughing it up &

 

Cataclysm pressed upon the masses to thin out the herd.

The former are buying up all the abandoned land that can't be insured due to fires and flooding (Atlantic Magazine), the latter, well... the latter are on their own. 

Climate "change" (thank you journalists for your dull-minded descriptions) disaster isn't going to kill everyone. Certainly not the oligarchs. But wouldn't they make charming lamppost ornaments?

Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci hanging after execution in Milan, Italy  on 29 April 1945 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum :  Oral Histories

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

As you said, injury can damage a brand

I didn’t. That’s one of the shocking realities of brand loyalty. Loyalty is very durable and brand loyal people are, by and large, willing to put up with injury.  Isn’t that weird? And yet it plays out that way over and over, at individual and population level scales.

You can hurt them, over and over, and then the sun shines, and people forget. 

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Posted
19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I notice that none of them are really denying what she said, and even her post says things were taken out of context.

And we know they have tapes (I doubt VF pushes all of that out there unless they had tapes).

Next day or two will be interesting.

Buckle Up Caitlyn Jenner GIF by South Park

Ain’t shit going to happen. Everyone has already moved on from this. 

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