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Old 05-12-2025, 12:06 PM   #3301
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Someone should write a white paper on it.
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Old 05-12-2025, 12:57 PM   #3302
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I’m seeing headlines saying that Trump got a big win with the China trade deal. What exactly did he win? The ability to lower his own tariff? I honestly don’t understand what Trump won here. Is this like shooting your self in the left foot but claiming victory because you didn’t shoot yourself in the right foot too?
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Old 05-12-2025, 12:59 PM   #3303
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Some products are already more expensive and if I know anything about big companies it that they will always walk back those price increases when the market allows it. Right?
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Old 05-12-2025, 01:15 PM   #3304
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Mark Waters says sales at his Odessa, Texas, tools business, which he describes as a “Home Depot for the oilfields,” are down about 10 percent. He does not regret voting for Trump, saying he is willing to take a personal hit to support the president’s agenda.

But he said it is ironic that over the decades he has made a lot more money when the party he despises is in power.

“The oil business has thrived under Democratic leadership despite them being true haters of all things fossil,” Waters said. “For whatever reason, I made millions of dollars under Clinton. Then I made even more under Obama and Biden. I have never had a solid explanation.”

Trump promised U.S. dominance. Instead, energy companies are faltering.
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Old 05-12-2025, 01:22 PM   #3305
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Imagine being so cucked you'll destroy your livelihood for some guy who doesn't know or give a shit about your existence. Just pathetic men if you can even call them that.
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Old 05-12-2025, 01:24 PM   #3306
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Some products are already more expensive and if I know anything about big companies it that they will always walk back those price increases when the market allows it. Right?

It's also just a 90 day pause so no one is lowering prices for 90 days hoping for a deal. They'll wait for something more permanent.
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Old 05-12-2025, 04:13 PM   #3307
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So I guess the factories aren't coming back and the tariffs won't replace the income tax?
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Old 05-12-2025, 04:36 PM   #3308
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So I guess the factories aren't coming back and the tariffs won't replace the income tax?

I for one, am shocked I tell you.
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Old 05-12-2025, 04:47 PM   #3309
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Get ready for our tech dystopia. The GOP has inserted language into the reconciliation bill that would make it illegal for any state to regulate AI in any way for 10 years.
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Old 05-12-2025, 05:09 PM   #3310
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I'm ready to accept our AI overlords. Can't be worse than the human ones.
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Old 05-12-2025, 05:27 PM   #3311
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I can’t remember a time in my lifetime where existing tech got more expensive but NVIDIA GPUs are up 5-15% MSRP and XBoxes are up, what, 30%?
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Old 05-12-2025, 05:59 PM   #3312
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I can’t remember a time in my lifetime where existing tech got more expensive but NVIDIA GPUs are up 5-15% MSRP and XBoxes are up, what, 30%?

It's hard to find a 9800x3D under $500 right now and it had pushed up to near $600 a couple weeks ago.
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Old 05-12-2025, 09:10 PM   #3313
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Great timing for all of us who have to replace aging computers that don't qualify for Windows 11 (when W10 goes out of support in October).
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Old 05-13-2025, 08:50 AM   #3314
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Of 67,000 small-dollar investors who bought Trump's meme coin using debit cards, 80% have lost money while only 3% have gained and the rest are about even, a @washingtonpost review finds.

I'll never understand why conservatives aren't furious about all of the myriad scams to steal their money.
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Old 05-13-2025, 09:03 AM   #3315
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Great timing for all of us who have to replace aging computers that don't qualify for Windows 11 (when W10 goes out of support in October).

Pretty sure you can bypass any requirements by creating a custom install iso with Rufus (or similar)
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Old 05-13-2025, 11:13 AM   #3316
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I like that the Qatari jet revolt from MAGA isn't about the gross abuse of the office, but that it's from brown people.
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Old 05-13-2025, 02:02 PM   #3317
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This party is still so cooked. Why bother?


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Old 05-13-2025, 08:36 PM   #3318
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Pretty sure you can bypass any requirements by creating a custom install iso with Rufus (or similar)

But I won't be getting security updates, right?
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Old 05-13-2025, 09:02 PM   #3319
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But I won't be getting security updates, right?

No, not any downsides as far as I’m aware. A TPM 1.2 chip is required (versus the 2.0 the upgrade tries to force upon you) though, but most should have that already.
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Old 05-14-2025, 10:13 AM   #3320
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Old 05-14-2025, 01:46 PM   #3321
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Trump's Saudi speech was actually not bad. I mean you can question the morality but at least it was somewhat honest about America and its handling of the Middle East.
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Old 05-14-2025, 02:02 PM   #3322
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Trump's Saudi speech was actually not bad. I mean you can question the morality but at least it was somewhat honest about America and its handling of the Middle East.
Yeah, we have been shit in the Middle East forever. The problem is he is pretty schizophrenic about the Middle East himself, and it really seems his main goal is to personally pull as much money out there as he can.
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Old 05-14-2025, 05:24 PM   #3323
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Not Trump related but the stuff coming out about Biden’s handlers having no faith he could respond to a middle of the night emergency and intentionally keeping cabinet members away from him so they wouldn’t realize how demented he was should result in charges being filed.
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Old 05-15-2025, 05:18 AM   #3324
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Imagine being so cucked you'll destroy your livelihood for some guy who doesn't know or give a shit about your existence. Just pathetic men if you can even call them that.

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“98% of MAGA identifiers approve of the way Trump is mishandling the economy.”
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Old 05-15-2025, 09:43 AM   #3325
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We sure are playing with fire here.

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Old 05-15-2025, 10:25 AM   #3326
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Not that it matters since performative cosplay and adherence to lies/beliefs vastly outweigh the truth/reality, but...

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‘I WAS HOPING FOR MORE EASY WINS’: Here’s the foundational myth on which DOGE is founded: The federal government is such a bloated and inefficient beast, so choked by complacent ne’er-do-wells and fraudsters skimming off the top, that all you need to do is throw a few Silicon Valley gurus into the mix to realize massive savings.

And here’s one of those gurus, Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia, whom DOGE has had moonlighting at the Department of Veterans Affairs, telling Fast Company how surprised he has been that he’s found so little to cut, “Honestly,” Lavingia said, “it’s kind of fine—because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.”
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Old 05-15-2025, 10:47 AM   #3327
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Not that it matters since performative cosplay and adherence to lies/beliefs vastly outweigh the truth/reality, but...
If only people had been saying this very thing from the start. As I've said countless times on here, the fraud and waste aren't in the areas most people think they are and it's not as widespread as the right makes it out to be.


A lot of the waste is because of antiquated systems. It requires massive amounts of resources to update and deploy new systems throughout these agencies. My site was the first to deploy MHS Genesis to replace AHLTA/CHCS and it was a nightmare.

You also see vendors take advantage of government contracts, especially when it comes to IT. We have departments in the hospital that will try to purchase their own computers for specific needs and if it doesn't go through my IT department then these companies (Dell, HP, etc) will try to sell them extra stuff they don't need to drive up the cost.

Most actual waste comes from bad contracts. You'll see senior officers and high level civilians push certain companies for a contract and then once they get out of the military they're working for that company. You also see companies that are just in over their heads because they weren't prepared for the scope of supporting a large hospital or agency. They won the contract legitimately but just do a bad job and have to be replaced and the contract gets rebid.

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Old 05-15-2025, 11:39 AM   #3328
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But I was told China would pay the tariffs?

Walmart says higher prices could hit this month due to tariffs
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Old 05-15-2025, 02:14 PM   #3329
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Old 05-15-2025, 09:22 PM   #3330
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Most actual waste comes from bad contracts. You'll see senior officers and high level civilians push certain companies for a contract and then once they get out of the military they're working for that company. You also see companies that are just in over their heads because they weren't prepared for the scope of supporting a large hospital or agency. They won the contract legitimately but just do a bad job and have to be replaced and the contract gets rabid.

1000% this, which is also why the DOGE kiddies couldn't find it.
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Old 05-16-2025, 09:12 AM   #3331
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Convicted serial killer Glen Rogers, who was known as the "Casanova Killer," was put to death in Florida yesterday, and his last words were praise for Trump. That totally tracks.
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Old 05-16-2025, 10:17 AM   #3332
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Comey sees seashells by the sea shore
Secretary seeks jail spell
for what she says sea shells spell
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Old 05-16-2025, 10:31 AM   #3333
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For a group that constantly calls for civil war and killing the libs there sure is a lot of pearl clutching over some sea shells.

The reaction from Gabbard, Patel, Noem, etc...are so over the top it's laughable.
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Old 05-16-2025, 10:56 AM   #3334
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Sea shells?
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Old 05-16-2025, 11:04 AM   #3335
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Old 05-16-2025, 11:15 AM   #3336
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Yeah, it's ridiculous.

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Old 05-16-2025, 11:24 AM   #3337
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The party that loves calling other people snowflakes sure are upset about some seashells and what Bruce had to say.
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Old 05-16-2025, 11:27 AM   #3338
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I have to assume they're about to do something truly heinous with all the nonsense posts about Comey, Springsteen and Swift. Bury it with all the stupid fluff.
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Old 05-16-2025, 11:31 AM   #3339
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The party that loves calling other people snowflakes sure are upset about some seashells and what Bruce had to say.

Also, his comment at the end of his Springsteen rant sounds an awful lot like he's suggesting Bruce could or should be 86'd:

“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.’ Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”
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Old 05-16-2025, 11:33 AM   #3340
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Old 05-16-2025, 12:07 PM   #3341
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Kid Rock is temporarily closing his restaurant to protect his employees from ICE raids.
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Old 05-16-2025, 05:29 PM   #3342
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Old 05-16-2025, 08:58 PM   #3343
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Old 05-17-2025, 09:39 AM   #3344
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Perhaps if someone was actually planning on assassinating the president, they wouldn't tweet about it first on the "state media".
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Old 05-17-2025, 11:49 AM   #3345
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Trump telling Walmart to eat the tariffs. Lol buddy. That’s not how this works
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Old 05-17-2025, 01:01 PM   #3346
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If Wal-Mart should "eat the tariffs" as Trump says, then that's an acknowledgement of what we all have known and has been repeatedly said, right? We (whether our companies or consumers) pay the tariffs, not the other countries. Just another twist of pretzel logic.
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Old 05-17-2025, 04:09 PM   #3347
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Someone bombed a fertility clinic in downtown Palm Springs today. It will be interesting to see how "Mr. In Vitro" will respond to this.

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Old 05-17-2025, 04:12 PM   #3348
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The party that loves calling other people snowflakes sure are upset about some seashells and what Bruce had to say.

Yeah, wonder why they were not as concerned about the 8646 T shirts on amazon when Biden was president......You can still find those shirts for sale BTW.
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Old 05-20-2025, 07:59 AM   #3349
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The attorney general of the Untited States said it was illegal to call yourself "The Boss" if your not in charge of the entire country. This is the world we live in.

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Old 05-20-2025, 08:04 AM   #3350
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These are the unserious leaders our unserious country deserves.
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