March 5Mar 5 Popular Post Like I said earlier, I think actual violence against the GOP will be conducted by PTSD suffering veterans financially and emotionally destroyed by Elmo and Trump. Not only is our country caring for our injured veterans, a sacred obligation, it’s similar to the respect owed all who gave their life in World War I on its hundredth anniversary, and….. Oh crap. Never mind.
March 5Mar 5 4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: What is that? 20%? Of VA hires? I think that’s about right Inka. I think that veterans make up 20 to 25% of the entire federal workforce, so veterans are gonna be taking it in the ass in a proportion greater than other demographics when you look at all of Elmo’s cuts across the board. Now all we need to make America Great Again is Trump gutting FEMA - and the Gulf of Trump to get even hotter and bring some cooling 140 mph winds and storm surge water to several hot red states this summer.
March 5Mar 5 Just now, Gatorubet said: Of VA hires? I think that’s about right Inka. I think that veterans make up 20 to 25% of the entire federal workforce, so veterans are gonna be taking it in the ass in a proportion greater than other demographics when you look at all of Elmo’s cuts across the board. Now all we need to make America Great Again is Trump gutting FEMA - and the Gulf of Trump to get even hotter and bring some cooling 140 mph winds and storm surge water to several hot red states this summer. I know it was about 400K last time I looked. FEMA is already fucked. But really we only expect them to come in and they cut checks, so AI can do it. No fraud for you Sir. Damn 169 year old lawyers... Fleecing the system.
March 5Mar 5 8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: Damn 169 year old lawyers... Fleecing the system. And I finally got my hurricane insurance to pay for a new roof. Which is fortunate, because of the dudes who put my new roof on have all been deported or disappeared. Because of course they were, the company owners were two Canadians.
March 5Mar 5 8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: I know it was about 400K last time I looked. FEMA is already fucked. But really we only expect them to come in and they cut checks, so AI can do it. No fraud for you Sir. Damn 169 year old lawyers... Fleecing the system. Looks like 80,000 cut from about 480,000 existing. https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712
March 5Mar 5 36 minutes ago, 4th&Five said: A very healthy individual. You couldn't show the stark divide any better than that. Empathy and humanity aren't just "not for them" -- they are an active ENEMY they have to attack and destroy. Research and history tell us that empathy and humanity are a huge part of what has helped us ADVANCE as a species. Think of the old apocryphal Margaret Mead story - the first sign of civilization was a healed femur, showing that humans cared for each other even when injured. These are the dramatically opposed values of this era: empathy and basic humanity on one side, vs. pure individualism and zero-sum actions on the other. We know how this goes. We've seen it a million times before. But it seems we're going to have to keep touching the stove and find out.
March 5Mar 5 9 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said: With ketamine? Best I can do is that his bladder is destroyed
March 5Mar 5 51 minutes ago, 4th&Five said: A very healthy individual. MAGA: White heterosexual males built western civilization. That's why it sucks except when it's great.
March 5Mar 5 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said: You couldn't show the stark divide any better than that. Empathy and humanity aren't just "not for them" -- they are an active ENEMY they have to attack and destroy. Research and history tell us that empathy and humanity are a huge part of what has helped us ADVANCE as a species. Think of the old apocryphal Margaret Mead story - the first sign of civilization was a healed femur, showing that humans cared for each other even when injured. These are the dramatically opposed values of this era: empathy and basic humanity on one side, vs. pure individualism and zero-sum actions on the other. We know how this goes. We've seen it a million times before. But it seems we're going to have to keep touching the stove and find out. dear mr musk - You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill. this and that saying the whole quiet part out loud thing. its not only the acknowledgement that empathy is weak, but eventually the need to reward cruelty. Its coming and well, already here see Russia support now that I think of it. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with special forces, it seems 1,000 centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, he was crying, he couldn't see. We went back there and they had come back and they had hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were, in a pile, a pile of little arms, and I remember I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond. A diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought of the genius of that the genius of that, the genius. The will to do that. Perfect genuine, complete crystalline. Pure. They realized that they could stand it, these were not monsters, the men were trained cadres. The men who fought with their hearts who had families with children who had families who were filled with love, but they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles would be over here very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their premortal instincts to kill without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us. Edited March 5Mar 5 by staboner
March 5Mar 5 1 hour ago, bolverk said: Looks like 80,000 cut from about 480,000 existing. https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712 Gracias. I did not realize it had gone up. Think about that for your local hospital. To lose 1/5 of the work force.
March 6Mar 6 33 minutes ago, staboner said: dear mr musk - You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill. this and that saying the whole quiet part out loud thing. its not only the acknowledgement that empathy is weak, but eventually the need to reward cruelty. Its coming and well, already here see Russia support now that I think of it. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with special forces, it seems 1,000 centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, he was crying, he couldn't see. We went back there and they had come back and they had hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were, in a pile, a pile of little arms, and I remember I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond. A diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought of the genius of that the genius of that, the genius. The will to do that. Perfect genuine, complete crystalline. Pure. They realized that they could stand it, these were not monsters, the men were trained cadres. The men who fought with their hearts who had families with children who had families who were filled with love, but they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles would be over here very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their premortal instincts to kill without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us. We are currently governed by people who read/see Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now.....and it makes them smile as a happy story. We are SO....SO.....SO fucked. Evil and cruelty are VIRTUES. Empathy and humanity are VICES. That's how you end up with....well, the EXACT fucking horrors we saw last century. But sure, let's give it another whirl, this time, it will be GOOD! Edited March 6Mar 6 by Brisketexan
March 6Mar 6 6 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: Gracias. I did not realize it had gone up. Think about that for your local hospital. To lose 1/5 of the work force. The local VA hospital in this small town employs about 500, so you can obviously do the math on that one. Imagine a single neighborhood of 100 homes in such a town where all the breadwinners are suddenly unemployed. Are they going to work out in the oil fields, the refinery, Walmart, or the prison? I guess that new subdivision being built won’t be needed after all, especially since oil is down $20 since last spring. But, more importantly, 56,000+ vets live in the service region covering 33 counties, about half of whom get most of their care at the main hospital here or supporting clinics (also seeing staff cuts). This would adversely affect care for vets in Midland/Odessa, Abilene, San Angelo, parts of Far West Texas, and Southeastern NM. FAFO, y’all.
March 6Mar 6 5 minutes ago, bolverk said: The local VA hospital in this small town employs about 500, so you can obviously do the math on that one. Imagine a single neighborhood of 100 homes in such a town where all the breadwinners are suddenly unemployed. Are they going to work out in the oil fields, the refinery, Walmart, or the prison? I guess that new subdivision being built won’t be needed after all, especially since oil is down $20 since last spring. But, more importantly, 56,000+ vets live in the service region covering 33 counties, about half of whom get most of their care at the main hospital here or supporting clinics (also seeing staff cuts). This would adversely affect care for vets in Midland/Odessa, Abilene, San Angelo, parts of Far West Texas, and Southeastern NM. FAFO, y’all. Yep, I know. It all sucks.
March 6Mar 6 1 hour ago, staboner said: You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill. Not to minimize an excellent post, but I can only read this in J. Peterman's voice now.
March 6Mar 6 Popular Post say what you want about the French, but they are professionals at domestic protesting
March 6Mar 6 1 minute ago, mchookem said: say what you want about the French, but they are professionals at domestic protesting Aux barricades mes braves!
March 6Mar 6 34 minutes ago, mchookem said: say what you want about the French, but they are professionals at domestic protesting yeah but they throw like non-softball playing girls. Their molotovs go like 15 feet.
March 6Mar 6 29 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: yeah but they throw like non-softball playing girls. Their molotovs go like 15 feet. Yeah, but you don’t have to throw that far to hit something in such a small country.
March 6Mar 6 4 hours ago, bolverk said: Looks like 80,000 cut from about 480,000 existing. https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712 Shit is getting fucking crazy. I recently talked to a married couple I know that both work for the V.A. They were both on vacation together when the "Reply with what you did last week or be fired" email was sent out. When they returned to work on Monday there were emergency voice mails left stating that they need to respond to Musk's email. They are both veterans and have been with the V.A. for years and both have already lost staff with the initial round of firings.
March 6Mar 6 Just now, F250 said: Shit is getting fucking crazy. It's about to get crazier - they are planning to sell buildings that are currently in use by various federal agencies. Musk is hell-bent on disposing federal properties and he and his merry band of 19 and 20-somethings don't know what the fuck they are doing and buildings get listed for disposal only to be pulled back because it turns out they are in use. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/trump-admin-may-sell-j-j-pickle-federal-building-austin-buildings-used-by-veterans-affairs-treasury/ Quote Over a million square feet of federal property in Austin may come up for sale soon, according to a now-deleted list from the US General Services Administration (GSA), which manages the government’s real property. According to the GSA, the list includes properties “not core to government operations” that it has marked for a disposal process. “Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions,” it said on the list’s webpage. Quote However, it removed the list Wednesday morning, per its website. The GSA said in a Wednesday afternoon statement that its list was built to “align with the President’s direction to bring federal employees back to high performing office spaces” and to the “benefit of the American taxpayer.” “To be clear, just because an asset is on the list doesn’t mean it’s immediately for sale. However, we will consider compelling offers (in accordance with applicable laws and regulations) and do what’s best for the needs of the federal government and taxpayer,” the Wednesday statement reads. Quote Prior to the list’s removal, it included four buildings on a property near the interchange of Interstate 35 and US-71. Those buildings are a US Treasury Department office, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Austin’s IT Center, a childcare facility for federal workers, and an IRS service facility. The list also included the J.J. Pickle Federal Building at 300 East 8th Street, which houses the offices of US Senator Ted Cruz and US Representative Lloyd Doggett. KXAN learned in January that the building was also used to detain people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s not yet known if the next version of the list will still include these buildings. The GSA said it intends to republish the list soon.
March 6Mar 6 4 minutes ago, F250 said: Shit is getting fucking crazy. I recently talked to a married couple I know that both work for the V.A. They were both on vacation together when the "Reply with what you did last week or be fired" email was sent out. When they returned to work on Monday there were emergency voice mails left stating that they need to respond to Musk's email. They are both veterans and have been with the V.A. for years and both have already lost staff with the initial round of firings. Well duh, dude. There's trans mice out there! They had to lose their jobs
March 6Mar 6 Popular Post 5 hours ago, Brisketexan said: Research and history tell us that empathy and humanity are a huge part of what has helped us ADVANCE as a species. Think of the old apocryphal Margaret Mead story - the first sign of civilization was a healed femur, showing that humans cared for each other even when injured. It's been a while since I took an anthropology course, but there is pretty solid fossil evidence in multiple clades suggesting they cared for injured or aged individuals. Neanderthals (Shanidar Cave is a notable example), anatomically modern humans and others I can't recall off the top of my head. Evolution, by definition, responds only to selection pressures and lacks a a pre-determined trajectory, but this forced devolution of human decency has both a very obvious pre-determined trajectory and obvious instigators. It's a shame so many people refuse to see it. Edited March 6Mar 6 by Pods
March 6Mar 6 Musk wasted and pupils bulging at SOU, doesn't even know how to drink water from a bottle. - (won't be able to see the post w/out being logged into bluesky due to how the owner has her account coded) https://bsky.app/profile/kendrawrites.com/post/3ljogttvacc2m Edited March 6Mar 6 by Chopper
March 6Mar 6 58 minutes ago, Chopper said: Musk wasted and pupils bulging at SOU, doesn't even know how to drink water from a bottle. - (won't be able to see the post w/out being logged into bluesky due to how the owner has her account coded) https://bsky.app/profile/kendrawrites.com/post/3ljogttvacc2m She knew what was up.
March 6Mar 6 1 hour ago, Chopper said: doesn't even know how to drink water from a bottle. - What is it with these people not knowing how to drink from a fucking water bottle?
March 6Mar 6 29 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: What is it with these people not knowing how to drink from a fucking water bottle? lack a titty.
March 6Mar 6 41 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: What is it with these people not knowing how to drink from a fucking water bottle? It certainly lends credence to the theory that they're an alien species.
March 6Mar 6 6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said: What is it with these people not knowing how to drink from a fucking water bottle? They've devolved to the point where the opposable thumb is returning to a claw?
March 6Mar 6 10 hours ago, InkaUtexas said: yeah but they throw like non-softball playing girls. Their molotovs go like 15 feet.
March 6Mar 6 Musk said this morning that he wants to privatize Amtrak and the Post Office. If you are in a rural area...Musk is telling you to As you drive your ass 15 or 20 miles to get your mail. I would say he doesn't have a shot because, you now, the whole Constitution thing, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is a bunch of people in Congress will realize that their precious fucking campaign mailers won't be getting to their rural constituents in a timely manner and/or will cost their campaigns a lot more to mail, so they might try and push back.
March 6Mar 6 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said: Musk said this morning that he wants to privatize Amtrak and the Post Office. If you are in a rural area...Musk is telling you to As you drive your ass 15 or 20 miles to get your mail. I would say he doesn't have a shot because, you now, the whole Constitution thing, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is a bunch of people in Congress will realize that their precious fucking campaign mailers won't be getting to their rural constituents in a timely manner and/or will cost their campaigns a lot more to mail, so they might try and push back. Shit, that’s just more money to blast out commercials.
March 6Mar 6 11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: What does matter is a bunch of people in Congress will realize that their precious fucking campaign mailers won't be getting to their rural constituents in a timely manner and/or will cost their campaigns a lot more to mail, so they might try and push back. Those districts are overwhelmingly MAGA. They won’t go against anything Elon and Trump want. There will be no pushback. Look no further than the party dictate to no longer hold town halls.
March 6Mar 6 18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: Musk said this morning that he wants to privatize Amtrak and the Post Office. Seems like more and more he wants to use strong arm tactics to crater other forms of transportation through disruption, destruction, and favored legal and funding status over his competition so that his automobile company can rise from the (literal) ashes and become the only option. After all, it's been done and he's not really an innovator when it comes down to it.
March 6Mar 6 23 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: Musk said this morning that he wants to privatize Amtrak and the Post Office. If you are in a rural area...Musk is telling you to As you drive your ass 15 or 20 miles to get your mail. I would say he doesn't have a shot because, you now, the whole Constitution thing, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is a bunch of people in Congress will realize that their precious fucking campaign mailers won't be getting to their rural constituents in a timely manner and/or will cost their campaigns a lot more to mail, so they might try and push back. Taking over the railroads? Now he's just playing the fascists hits.
March 6Mar 6 1 minute ago, Mrs Whiggins said: Seems like more and more he wants to use strong arm tactics to crater other forms of transportation through disruption, destruction, and favored legal and funding status over his competition so that his automobile company can rise from the (literal) ashes and become the only option. After all, it's been done and he's not really an innovator when it comes down to it. MuskMail. Pay for postage via X. Self Driving Tesla will be buy to pick it up. I mean it is one way to make those two profitable.
March 6Mar 6 27 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: I would say he doesn't have a shot because, you now, the whole Constitution thing
March 6Mar 6 18 hours ago, staboner said: dear mr musk - You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill. this and that saying the whole quiet part out loud thing. its not only the acknowledgement that empathy is weak, but eventually the need to reward cruelty. Its coming and well, already here see Russia support now that I think of it. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with special forces, it seems 1,000 centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, he was crying, he couldn't see. We went back there and they had come back and they had hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were, in a pile, a pile of little arms, and I remember I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond. A diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought of the genius of that the genius of that, the genius. The will to do that. Perfect genuine, complete crystalline. Pure. They realized that they could stand it, these were not monsters, the men were trained cadres. The men who fought with their hearts who had families with children who had families who were filled with love, but they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles would be over here very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their premortal instincts to kill without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us. Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a soldier, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway.
March 6Mar 6 Popular Post just in case anyone has some free hours and feel like signing folks up for cat facts...
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March 6Mar 6 Surely that’s posted on Reddit and four Chan and wherever else the dark web hacker wackos, err I mean freedom fighters, hang out, right?
March 6Mar 6 1 hour ago, Captainant said: just in case anyone has some free hours and feel like signing folks up for cat facts... Edited March 6Mar 6 by MissingInAction
March 6Mar 6 Popular Post The cracks finally starting to form? https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/trump-cabinet-musk-025093 Quote President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk. According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.
March 6Mar 6 I really try to not be a hateful person. And in this case I continue to fail miserably. It is my failing and I need to stop failing. But right now my mind wants to see this dipshit get kicked out of the Whitehouse, Tesla, Space X, StarLink and everywhere else, in the loudest way possible.
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