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And the acting head of the CFPB also ordered all workers to stop doing anything and not to bother coming into work. The CFPB is one of those organizations that most businesses wants to halt progress on. This is very helpful for the industry I work in, honestly, but it's foolhardy to believe the CFPB shouldn't be doing something, even if you have a good-faith belief that it oversteps its authority here and there. To just shutter a consumer protection agency is terrible for consumers. But I'm sure our trade association will be rejoicing on next week's call... |
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I hope these morons die a slow, painful, public death while onlookers laugh and their family members weep inconsolably, and at the last second they realize there is no god and they've wasted their pathetic lives.
Otherwise, America, fuck yeah! Just a moment... |
Oh, I get it - Greenland! Har-dee-fucking-har-har!
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the state food of the newly minted Red, White and Blueland.
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Little slow to the draw there, BYU ;)
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I guess one of the young DOGE/Thiel boys ran an image sharing site that specialized in child porn.
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The dumbest people fell for it. What a shock.
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Elon complaining about unelected bureaucrats having more power than elected representatives while currently wielding more power than any elected representative is amazing.
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Also, could Trump have possibly looked weaker today? Elon standing behind the resolute desk speaking to reporters while Trump sits there like his minion waiting for orders.
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New EO basically puts Elon in charge of staffing the entire government.
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Apparently the AP has been banned from Oval Office press conferences because it refuses to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Someone posted that they got banned because they wouldn't use the Gulf's preferred pronouns. Ha!
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Hindustan Times with the hard hitting stories:
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I never thought I'd see the day when Mitch McConnell would be the only GOP voting with dems on anything, let alone a confirmation but that's where we're at. Tulsi confirmed 52-48.
It's crazy how insignificant he's become. |
Wake me up when someone fit for the job for which they've been nominated is, uh, nominated. What a joke this has become.
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Here in KY, there have been some recent developments about the next Senate race. Andy Barr, a Rep from Lexington, is throwing his hat into the race "if Mitch doesn't run." It's expected Daniel Cameron will also run. And I'll be shocked if perpetual morons Comer and Massie don't also take their shot. Some Dem has announced already as well.
I know the GOPers have to be mostly deferential to Mitch, but his continuing to take positions out of lock(goose)-step with the rest of the GOP almost certainly means he's finished. Barr would be the best of a sorry lot if a GOPer is going to replace him. But it's KY, so he's still a big Trump supporter. He does strike me as a more normal (and serious) guy who, if Trump hadn't taken over the party, would be a more level-headed centrist. But that's not gonna win anyone over in 2025. |
Kentucky seems like an odd state from the outside. It really should be a purple stare that leans moderate either way, based on the national political temperature but continues to vote strongly red. Center left policies seem to be popular and play well there, they just don't vote that way.
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I'm from Iowa the home of Chuck Grassley. I thought back in 2016 with his experience he should have worked to shut Trump down and was disappointed that he did not. Be it CIA bad, FBI bad, McCain bad, etc. etc. we got almost nothing. I think he floated a couple of "trial balloons" and saw where the wind was taking them, and he caved. Turns out he wanted to keep his job and power( how much do you really have when having to tow the Trump line?). He was right to keep quiet if keeping the job was the goal. Grassley should have put country first, but he didn't. He's respected by the GOP, Mitch is not. To be clear I don't think Mitch ever put the country ahead of the party, but he finally got tired of choking on Trump's cock and tried to make a stand. Not for the country but to try regain his power in the party. He failed, pretty much the same as anyone that didn't bend the knee. |
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It's a holdover of the old south, but was also a free state, it just sympathized with the south during the civil war. Slaves could still be captured and repatriated even though it was not officially a slave state. Further, it's under heavy influence from appalacia in the east. Those areas are well known to be anti-government with a libertarian bent of leave me alone and I don't trust anyone. However, they are some of the most stringently conservative people around too. The bible belt rips through the southern part of the state, and the state is mostly rural and white. Being a poorer state, it was always pretty reliant on the dems to bring money into it, and they ran the state for a pretty considerable amount of time, but the southern culture wars of the past 30 years have helped push the other groups to right.
The state's most reliably dem areas are in Louisville, the largest city, which also has the largest black population. The state's history from the civil war can be seen in the impact it has on Cincinnati. The city was a free city, and safe for slaves, but you still see some of the more notorious white supremacists come from this area as well. The kid who ran over the crowd in Charlottesville was from here. We just made national news with a small pro nazi demonstration on an overpass. The undertones are all over the region. In the end though, they don't like to be told what to do, don't want to help anyone unless it's through the church, totally don't realize they live in a 'commonwealth', and are heavily influenced by religion. They like the national attention they get from their crazy reps, and it makes them feel pretty important nationally, and you know, after being ignored most of the time, you can see why they would hold onto them. However, they have had times where they will break with the Rs if they threaten things that are more libertarian, and will kick out people who embarrass them ( hard to do, I know), but more and more, it's full of self righteous people who don't want to give away what little they have to support anything that seems immoral or against God. They refuse to see successful people as anything other than good and those who have their own best interests at heart, because they worked hard and were successful, and that's how they see themselves. Not as getting handouts and help. |
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https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025...y-center-board Ben Folds resigned as artistic advisor in protest, good for him |
Turning the Kenndy Center for the Performing Arts into something political is Nazi Germany shit. But hey, that's what MAGA obviously wants.
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The House budget bill looks like it would cut Medicaid by 10-15% and SNAP by 25%.
SNAP is a bug handout to farmers, who continue to get fucked over by the man they voted for. It should be noted that none of this is being done to reduce the deficit. It's to give billionaires tax breaks. DOGE, budget cuts, and everything else they're trying to claw back is to pay for 4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich. |
How long until we find out that Mayor Adams gave the okay for Trump to pull 80 mil out of a private NYC bank account? He's barely made a peep about it.
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Totally didn't see that coming!
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The Trump administration is going to petition SCOTUS to end Humphrey's, which protects employees of independent agencies from political retribution.
Meanwhile, Fetterman has gone full Sinema and is cheering the Trump admin on and Jeffries and Schumer are acting like it's business as usual. |
Hegseth sure does like to talk about how strong the Russians are.
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By the end of Trump's reign, the USA will have 0 allies left. We're less than a month in, and global relations with so many countries have already been damaged.
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Not true. Russia will be an excellent ally.
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Israel will still be an ally of sorts which is the only country either party really cares about.
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The resignation letter of the attorney in the Adams case is something. She says the attorney for Adams offered the government immigration enforcement for dropping the charges and also demanded that nobody take notes. Very The Wire.
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Striking quote from that article, DOGE can get access to anything they want, but nobody can see what they are up to? Sounds fair...........ly corrupt. "Employees working for the agency now known as DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, 404 Media has learned." |
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This years Kennedy Center Honors Recipients are Music: Kid Rock and Squidward, Acting: Scott Baio and Barney the Dinosaur (but that's only because he meant to choose Barney Rubble)
For art: himself for his ketchup stained wall |
Good article on tariffs, easy read but thought provoking.
It goes beyond the typical "tariffs are bad, consumers get hurt" and provides a lot of context re: other countries doing it, how reciprocal tariffs may break from WTO rules, how difficult it would be to calculate, exceptions to the rules etc. The article says its not clear if Trump is talking about country average tariffs (see graphic in article) and/or individual tariffs like on milk, cars etc. which would be very hard to calculate. Is Trump right when he says the US faces unfair trade? Quote:
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My stance on tariffs is we should be strategic & selective on tariffs to help protect emerging, incubating industries & technologies, and national security. Trump is not selective with reciprocal tariffs; but yet to see how strategic he is in using the threats of tariffs to secure more favorable terms. So far, some countries are moving towards accommodating him, but on the other hand, we are unnecessarily pissing off other close allies like Canada and UK. |
The chart in the BBC article shows that India has pretty high tariffs. Searched on what we import & export from India.
What we import from India 403 Forbidden 1) Electrical, electronic equipment $14.4BI can see #2, but never would have thought #1 or #3. What India imports from US, below makes sense. GoDaddy Security - Access Denied 1) Aircraft & Aerospace equipment $8.5B |
Much how Trump is a dumb person's idea of a rich person, tariffs are a dumb person's trade war.
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Been reading how the layoffs are gutting the National Park Service, which will likely lead to a decline in services at national parks, which will likely lead to them being opened up to private control.
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I love that we have Elon meeting with world leaders and the Trump administration has no idea why or in what capacity.
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The eventual (and inevitable?) Trump-Musk breakup is going to be spectacular, right?
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Musk is just the vessel that will allow maga to flourish long after trump is dead. With his money, he will play literal kingmaker and ensure that the old south (africa) rises again.
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HS they just bribed “any prosecutor” that’ll sign off on dismissing the case against Eric Adams with promotions.
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Projection is the hallmark of the GOP. Everything they accuse of others, they are already guilty of.
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I would rather go to prison than debase myself like Adams did this morning. Dude didn't even get a pardon either.
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Just like Musk did with Twitter, some of the people that opted into the deferred resignation program have received notice of termination.
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People have basically been induced into self-identifying as easy termination targets? All of a sudden those were jobs that needed to be immediately terminated for "efficiency" reasons. Is that what's going on?
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Trump wants to be Napolean but he can't even make sure people an buy eggs.
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I'm okay with below for law abiding citizens, there are applications for hunting and hearing. But we know it'll be used by bad guys and that'll be a problem for LEOs, so would prefer if it didn't pass. But it probably will.
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"Hearing protection act," what a crock of shit. Just a way to arm their militia's more effectively. Crazy how my hearing has never been damaged firing thousand's of rounds over the years, ya know, cause I wear ear protection.
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I think the shit is going to hit the fan over the next two weeks. This letter from Trump to colleges saying everything from targeted scholarships to affinity clubs to classes is discriminatory and will result in the termination of federal funds is going to cause a lot of outrage on campuses all around the country.
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They want to replace the college system with indoctrination schools because they think that they currently are that.
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We're all fucked.
Trump admin is starting to say we need to stop killing chickens when bird flu is discovered. Very similar to the Covid response of just not wanting to see the numbers go up. |
No knowledge, no critical thinking, just pure allegiance and servitude the Randian pleasure of work for the well being of the individual in the service of the country.
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Some people on X were whining that Canadians booed the US national anthem before the USA/Canada hockey game last night. What did they think would happen, when you threaten a nation's sovereignty? Somehow they must imagine that all around the world, people are jumping at the chance to be taken over by the USA. And as one of the republican senators said on an interview, they wouldn't take any risk with giving those 40 million people a vote, they would be a territory.
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Alright, Boyz. Let the SCOTUS show(s) begin.
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Interesting move (trolling?) but yet another inch forward in escalation with China.
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Imagine the outcry from the GOP if Biden had gone to a sporting event during a natural disaster that people are dying from, caused the start of the event to be delayed due to his ego, tried to make it all about himself, and then made cuts to FEMA staff when he got back.
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The right is losing their minds because DOGE ran with some numbers showing something like 80% of social security claims are fraudulent. Elon said it's the biggest fraud in US history.
Common sense would say that when your data comes back with a result that far off whar would be expected that you should double, triple, and quadruple check your data sets and work. Maybe have someone else go over it and check for errors as well. Not DOGE. It took people knowledgeable of social security and databases a few minutes to spot the errors. First, our social security uses COBOL, which was released around 1960. DOGE took COBOL data and imported it into SQL. Thats going to cause data issues. COBOL doesn't allow an unknown or nul number to be inputed for birth date. Instead it defaults to 1875. It's a limitation of a system that's 60+ years old. Additionally, Elon and his team don't understand how social security works. It's not uncommon for a social security number over 100 years old to be pulling social security. Surviving spouses and, in some instances, children can pull social security from a dead spouse/parent. The last surviving Civil War vet's social security number was pulling social security until 2020 because the guy had a child at 86 years old. I think nearly everyone would have been for a line by line and agency by agency audit by forensic auditors and people that understand government systems. Instead we have kids and a guy that always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room leading this mess and posting misinformation on a daily basis. It's also blatant misinformation. Elon claims to have uncovered a $2 billion research grant to study smart toilets that can identity your anal imprint. The grant was actually to research smart toilets that could identify early signs of colorectal cancer and other diseases. It's lies, and Musk is using Twitter as a platform to justify his work through misinformation. |
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They are going to use it as justification for nuking it altogether, but don't worry. Trump will come back with something better in two weeks.
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You don't even need to do much investigation to see there isn't anything like the levels of fraud in Social Security that Elon is claiming. Just look at the average monthly check and use it to divide the Social Security payment budget and you get very close to the number of seniors in the USA.
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WTF? Now Google is in on the Trumpian bullshit and puts "Gulf of America" on their maps. This is reaching Wikipedia levels of Trumptastic propaganda.
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Huge anti-Trump boost to the liberals in Canada has the race nearly tied now.
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I'm kind of curious to see how this all ends. It's mostly just bullshit because if this was real fraud, there would be arrests. And at some point, people are going to ask why they aren't getting refunds and why the deficit keeps going up. There's also going to be a massive crashout with Elon. The guy is so doped up on ketamine and god knows what else that I don't think it ends well. Especially when pressure mounts on his companies. Although I guess he'll just keep getting government handouts to keep them afloat like he always has. Would be interesting to see a Dem say that if they are elected in 2028, they'll kill all his government contracts. The guy is incredibly unpopular and that's a pretty good thing to get you excited over a candidate with. But Dems won't do it. |
So Trump signed an EO stating only the President and AG determine what laws are valid.
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MAGA has become to the rest of the world what the Soviet Union was to us in the 70s and 80s. We're going to be the bad guys in a lot of movies in the future.
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My most openly MAGA coworker off the Trump train. She lost her 2 days of telework per week and is seeing the havoc Elon is wrecking on the federal government firsthand
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When I first read this, some apprehension but overall, I liked it. 8% each year for next 5 years is pretty significant out of a $850B budget. And it shows "good faith" in Step 1 which is to stop the deficit bleeding.
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Let me guess what is happening here. They are going to cut vital services for the military by 8% while increasing the budget by 10% to spend the money saved and the increases on imprisonment and deportation of illegals. People have been wondering where they planned on getting this money, and here is the answer.
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When Mike Pence is fact-checking a Republican President with Fox News articles, you know the party has lost the plot.
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There's no way they're cutting the defense budget. That's a battle Trump wouldn't even be able to win with the GOP.
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Yep. There are limits. Not vaguely reasonable ones ofc, but they do exist.
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