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Under boob or under roll? 

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12 hours ago, bluto said:

The FO stage is warming up on the “Texas miracle”?

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/surveys/tmos/2025/2502

You know, I was just going to post a couple of statistics from that article but they just get better and better.  And they used the word "tumbled."  When it comes to economics, "shrink" and "negative" are bad but "tumbled" is Ooff worthy:

Texas factory activity fell in February after rising notably in January, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. The production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions, fell 21 points to -9.1.

Other measures of manufacturing activity also declined this month. The new orders index fell 11 points to -3.5, and the capacity utilization index slid 14 points to -8.7. The shipments index remained positive but edged down to 5.6.

Perceptions of broader business conditions worsened in February. The general business activity index tumbled 22 points to -8.3, and the company outlook index fell 24 points to -5.2. The outlook uncertainty index shot up to 29.2 from a near-zero reading last month, reaching a seven-month high.

Labor market measures suggested flat head counts and shorter workweeks this month. The employment index came in near zero, with 12 percent of firms noting net hiring and an equal share noting net layoffs. The hours worked index slipped to -14.2, its lowest reading since mid-2020.

Input cost pressures intensified in February, while wage pressures retreated slightly. The raw materials prices index pushed up 18 points to 35.0, a multiyear high. The finished goods prices index inched up to 7.8, near its average level. The wages and benefits index edged down to 16.7 from 20.9.

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They voted for Trump, but now they’re losing their U.S. government jobs

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-02-26/federal-job-cuts-hit-trump-supporters
 

Some deliciousness:

“I was thinking that there would be changes,” said a Department of Agriculture researcher in the mid-Atlantic region who studies drought- and pest-resistant crops. “But instead of being focused, this is just going completely off the rails, chopping and slicing up parts of the government that are protecting Americans.”
 

The worker — who asked to remain anonymous to increase his chances of regaining his job — said he twice voted for Trump and was disturbed at how much authority over government reductions the president had turned over to his chief cost-cutter, Elon Musk.
 

Jocelyn Steward, a health insurance specialist with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said she thought it was the Trump administration that had lost the focus on the proper priorities.
 

Steward said she had consistently voted as a Democrat but felt that, as a Black woman, the party had taken her vote for granted. She voted for Trump, hoping for change, in 2016, 2020 and last year. But she now feels Musk has helped lead the president astray. “I would love to see Trump remove him and put himself back in complete charge,” she said. “I believe it’s going to ruin his presidency.”

 

Another Trump voter described how he had served with the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, and recently found fulfillment at the Veterans Affairs Department, helping others work through financial difficulties.

“I mean, I’ll recover, but this, this was really a job that meant a lot to me,” said the worker, who identified himself only as Mike. “It was a way for me to give back, to help veterans that are struggling, and that was something I felt that I did a very good job at.”

He said he had “proudly” voted for Trump. “But at this point, I mean obviously, I never would have expected things to go this far. I’m still in shock,” he added. “To say whether I regret that vote, I don’t want to go as far as to say that.”

Trump Gaza ad is absolute lunacy.

I kinda hope that asteroid in 8 years speeds up and hits me directly in the face.

11 minutes ago, Left Coast said:

 

They voted for Trump, but now they’re losing their U.S. government jobs

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-02-26/federal-job-cuts-hit-trump-supporters
 

Some deliciousness:

“I was thinking that there would be changes,” said a Department of Agriculture researcher in the mid-Atlantic region who studies drought- and pest-resistant crops. “But instead of being focused, this is just going completely off the rails, chopping and slicing up parts of the government that are protecting Americans.”
 

The worker — who asked to remain anonymous to increase his chances of regaining his job — said he twice voted for Trump and was disturbed at how much authority over government reductions the president had turned over to his chief cost-cutter, Elon Musk.
 

Jocelyn Steward, a health insurance specialist with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said she thought it was the Trump administration that had lost the focus on the proper priorities.
 

 

Steward said she had consistently voted as a Democrat but felt that, as a Black woman, the party had taken her vote for granted. She voted for Trump, hoping for change, in 2016, 2020 and last year. But she now feels Musk has helped lead the president astray. “I would love to see Trump remove him and put himself back in complete charge,” she said. “I believe it’s going to ruin his presidency.”

 

Another Trump voter described how he had served with the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, and recently found fulfillment at the Veterans Affairs Department, helping others work through financial difficulties.

“I mean, I’ll recover, but this, this was really a job that meant a lot to me,” said the worker, who identified himself only as Mike. “It was a way for me to give back, to help veterans that are struggling, and that was something I felt that I did a very good job at.”

He said he had “proudly” voted for Trump. “But at this point, I mean obviously, I never would have expected things to go this far. I’m still in shock,” he added. “To say whether I regret that vote, I don’t want to go as far as to say that.”

fucking idiots, especially Steward.

11 minutes ago, safe sex said:

It is not hard to post plain text ffs

You would think but here we are.

14 minutes ago, safe sex said:

It is not hard to post plain text ffs

@immamac needs to figure out how to make plain text the default paste and they have to click to keep the formatting instead.

Then we can crowdsource posters who click that instead of having to ask them to click plain text like we do now. 

Yeah, shit is bad enough in regular size font.

42 minutes ago, Left Coast said:

They voted for Trump, but now they’re losing their U.S. government jobs

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-02-26/federal-job-cuts-hit-trump-supporters
 

Some deliciousness:

“I was thinking that there would be changes,” said a Department of Agriculture researcher in the mid-Atlantic region who studies drought- and pest-resistant crops. “But instead of being focused, this is just going completely off the rails, chopping and slicing up parts of the government that are protecting Americans.”
 

The worker — who asked to remain anonymous to increase his chances of regaining his job — said he twice voted for Trump and was disturbed at how much authority over government reductions the president had turned over to his chief cost-cutter, Elon Musk.
 

Jocelyn Steward, a health insurance specialist with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said she thought it was the Trump administration that had lost the focus on the proper priorities.
 

Steward said she had consistently voted as a Democrat but felt that, as a Black woman, the party had taken her vote for granted. She voted for Trump, hoping for change, in 2016, 2020 and last year. But she now feels Musk has helped lead the president astray. “I would love to see Trump remove him and put himself back in complete charge,” she said. “I believe it’s going to ruin his presidency.”

 

Another Trump voter described how he had served with the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, and recently found fulfillment at the Veterans Affairs Department, helping others work through financial difficulties.

“I mean, I’ll recover, but this, this was really a job that meant a lot to me,” said the worker, who identified himself only as Mike. “It was a way for me to give back, to help veterans that are struggling, and that was something I felt that I did a very good job at.”

He said he had “proudly” voted for Trump. “But at this point, I mean obviously, I never would have expected things to go this far. I’m still in shock,” he added. “To say whether I regret that vote, I don’t want to go as far as to say that.”

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46 minutes ago, safe sex said:

It is not hard to post plain text ffs

 

30 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

@immamac needs to figure out how to make plain text the default paste and they have to click to keep the formatting instead.

Then we can crowdsource posters who click that instead of having to ask them to click plain text like we do now. 

Sometimes I intentionally don't post in plaintext so it's more apparent I'm posting the direct text from the thing I'm linking to, is it really that disruptive when formatted text comes up?

7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

the font wars have begun.

 

 

Sad to say but the apostrophes have already surrendered.

2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

 

Sometimes I intentionally don't post in plaintext so it's more apparent I'm posting the direct text from the thing I'm linking to, is it really that disruptive when formatted text comes up?

On dark mode it puts a white background sometimes. If you paste into notepad or any text editor then post it it won't though. I'm not really sure why, but the editor changes pretty drastically in the next version so I wouldn't do much 

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Never fear. Brainworms got this.

This is exactly what many of us have been saying. It’ll take actually seeing pain and suffering for some to realize the shit we’re in. Their inability to conceive of the pain of others, or how it may be visited upon them, will result in everyone getting burned by the flames. Fucking insanity.
1 minute ago, immamac said:

On dark mode it puts a white background sometimes. If you paste into notepad or any text editor then post it it won't though. I'm not really sure why, but the editor changes pretty drastically in the next version so I wouldn't do much 

Oh, like the site-generated dark mode? Interesting, I leave the site on the "light" style and use system level settings on my phone/computer OS to render pages as dark. Never had a problem like that with block background coloring to the text.

Sorry to anyone I've ever unintentionally flash banged with a big block of white text lol

23 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

the font wars have begun.

 

 

*Begun the font wars have.

And come on.  Posting as plain text is not hard.  Do better.

17 hours ago, Incredulity said:

For the millionth time.  You all crowd sourced anyone inclined to argue pro-maga points.  Now you scratch your head and mockingly declare triumph in the “debate”.  
 

it’s laughable.

 

For me personally, again for the millionth time, there is no defense of Trump.  He is a loudmouth asshole.  I’m in favor of a massive reduction of the federal government.  The process we are undertaking with DOGE is chaos.  Maybe it’s the only way a massive reduction can happen is chaos. 

Are you willing to admit that neither you nor any of your people ever gave a single shit about “THe dEfiCIt” or are you going to be a bitch ass pussy and pretend that talking point ever existed. Or maybe it’s “Trumps budget and Trumps budget approved by Congress” aren’T ThE SAMe ThIng.

 

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“Reducing the size of government” is and always has been fucking over poor people to transfer wealth to the rich. It’ll never cease to amaze me to see useful idiots like you support this crap in real time while parroting their bs narrative justification or falling for their nonsense ragebait. “Look another trans kid came in 12th at a high school track contest!”
 

1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

Trump Gaza ad is absolute lunacy.

I kinda hope that asteroid in 8 years speeds up and hits me directly in the face.

 

Womp womp.

https://fox2now.com/news/national/asteroid-no-longer-poses-a-threat-to-earth-scientists-say/#:~:text=After two months of observations,the world's asteroid-risk lists.

 

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Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid.

After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

ESA has since lowered the odds to 0.001%. NASA had it down to 0.0027% — meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for the next century.

 

3 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Are you willing to admit that neither you nor any of your people ever gave a single shit about “THe dEfiCIt” or are you going to be a bitch ass pussy and pretend that talking point ever existed. Or maybe it’s “Trumps budget and Trumps budget approved by Congress” aren’T ThE SAMe ThIng.

 

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“Reducing the size of government” is and always has been fucking over poor people to transfer wealth to the rich. It’ll never cease to amaze me to see useful idiots like you support this crap in real time while parroting their bs narrative justification or falling for their nonsense ragebait. “Look another trans kid came in 12th at a high school track contest!”
 

Or maybe...

$521 Billion Annually
 
Fraud Risk Management: 2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments. GAO-24-105833 Published: Apr 16, 2024. Publicly Released: Apr 16, 2024.
 

Pretty obvious the morons are blaming musk and not trump for the issues they are feeling. Nevermind that Trump has said that Elon only does what Trump approves him to do. 

12 hours ago, Bullneck said:

Fuck all that: what does the D in Kamala D Harris stand for?

"Demon."  

I mean, obviously.

It could just as easily be Devil.

20 minutes ago, Parliament said:

*Begun the font wars have.

And come on.  Posting as plain text is not hard.  Do better.

Shut up Sheldon.

 

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1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

fucking idiots, especially Steward.

She may be OK and wind up being a house slave on a Miller Plantation.  But she is a two DEI strikes gal. 

10 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Or maybe...

$521 Billion Annually
 
Fraud Risk Management: 2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments. GAO-24-105833 Published: Apr 16, 2024. Publicly Released: Apr 16, 2024.
 

Approximately 300B shift is interesting.

what is that of the total budget? My abacus does not go that high and my quipus are in the quipu shop for redying.

19 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Or maybe...

$521 Billion Annually
 
Fraud Risk Management: 2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments. GAO-24-105833 Published: Apr 16, 2024. Publicly Released: Apr 16, 2024.
 

Given that the house budget increases the deficit by $2.5 trillion, I'm not sure what point you're making. 

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16 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

Or maybe...

$521 Billion Annually
 
Fraud Risk Management: 2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments. GAO-24-105833 Published: Apr 16, 2024. Publicly Released: Apr 16, 2024.
 

Obviously the solution is to fire everyone in the understaffed department responsible for catching and prosecuting fraud and put the largest fraudster in American history in charge of the American government. 

1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

Obviously the solution is to fire everyone in the understaffed department responsible for catching and prosecuting fraud and put the largest fraudster in American history in charge of the American government. 

the literal personification of

 

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 Shumer et al holding rallies in SUPPORT of government fraud.  

 

Jason Bateman Cotton GIF

 

25 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Are you willing to admit that neither you nor any of your people ever gave a single shit about “THe dEfiCIt” or are you going to be a bitch ass pussy and pretend that talking point ever existed. Or maybe it’s “Trumps budget and Trumps budget approved by Congress” aren’T ThE SAMe ThIng.

 

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“Reducing the size of government” is and always has been fucking over poor people to transfer wealth to the rich. It’ll never cease to amaze me to see useful idiots like you support this crap in real time while parroting their bs narrative justification or falling for their nonsense ragebait. “Look another trans kid came in 12th at a high school track contest!”
 

I am at the point where I hope they do gut Medicaid by 880 billion and dramatically shrink SNAP benefits without a single democratic rep’s vote. This will disproportionately harm red states and this is what happens when you elect republicans 

7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Approximately 300B shift is interesting.

what is that of the total budget? My abacus does not go that high and my quipus are in the quipu shop for redying.

 

according to my handy dandy desk drawer TI-30XIIS calculator, worst case 521 billion is 7.7% of federal budget and other end 233 billion is 3.5%. 

 

but yeah when the so called fiscally conservative party are ones are passing a budget that includes $2.5 trillion in deficit spending...it's kind of hard to care about a few hundred billion in fraud as bad as that may be

3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Approximately 300B shift is interesting.

what is that of the total budget? My abacus does not go that high and my quipus are in the quipu shop for redying.

Lol, so of the options I presented he chose bitch ass pussy, ignore the question, and post something nonresponsive. Remember that they've been told to say that all they’re doing is weeding out fraud waste and abuse caused solely by democrats. They also are told to believe that we sent $50 million of condoms to Gaza and that $6 million was spent “to study magic” when it was actually a grant to a Children’s museum called “The Magic City.” The absolute dumbest of useful idiots.

37 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Are you willing to admit that neither you nor any of your people ever gave a single shit about “THe dEfiCIt” or are you going to be a bitch ass pussy and pretend that talking point ever existed. Or maybe it’s “Trumps budget and Trumps budget approved by Congress” aren’T ThE SAMe ThIng.

 

image.thumb.png.3fa8fab9afc7189c150924cf1784e091.png
 

“Reducing the size of government” is and always has been fucking over poor people to transfer wealth to the rich. It’ll never cease to amaze me to see useful idiots like you support this crap in real time while parroting their bs narrative justification or falling for their nonsense ragebait. “Look another trans kid came in 12th at a high school track contest!”
 

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I didn't learn a lot of math in school, but I learned enough to know this doesn't add up. 

15 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Given that the house budget increases the deficit by $2.5 trillion, I'm not sure what point you're making. 

I mean I asked specifically about the deficit and he went with “ shUmer eT Al hOlDING raLLiEs IN sUPPorT oF gOvERnMenT FRauD.” He’s the perfect mark for maga.

18 hours ago, Incredulity said:

Trump and DOGE aren’t the same thing 

However, absolutely everything that happened in the federal government at the most granular level was solely the responsibility of President Biden….. at least when he wasn’t a completely senile incompetent wandering around drooling.

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2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I mean I asked specifically about the deficit and he went with “ shUmer eT Al hOlDING raLLiEs IN sUPPorT oF gOvERnMenT FRauD.” He’s the perfect mark for maga.

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20 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

the literal personification of

 

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 Shumer et al holding rallies in SUPPORT of government fraud.  

 

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Again, what does any of this have to do with the deficit? No one is holding rallies to support fraud on the government (actually, arguably Trump is), which, by the way, isn't the same thing as "government fraud". Government fraud is telling people you'll pay them and then not doing it. Fraud on the government is getting the government to pay for something it shouldn't, like when a bunch of the small government conservatives made claims for Covid relief for their businesses, but didn't actually have any employees or business harmed by Covid and didn't use the relief money to pay anyone but themselves. 

Also,  just so we are on the same page, $200-$500 billion, while a lot of money, is only 3%-7% of the yearly budget.  

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19 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

the literal personification of

 

season 8 beatnik GIF

 

 Shumer et al holding rallies in SUPPORT of government fraud.  

 

Jason Bateman Cotton GIF

 

So your argument seems to be "I'd rather move forward with an idea everyone knows is shitty, than plan out a good idea instead." Which, without further elaboration, is just moronic. If you think Trump/ Elon's current methods of slashing essential government workers in order to shave pennies off the budget while trimming the federal tax income by trillions are a "good idea," feel free to explain. 

5 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Also,  just so we are on the same page, $200-$500 billion, while a lot of money, is only 3%-7% of the yearly budget. 

remember when Hank Paulson literally stroked out trying to get congress to pass TARP to save the entire economy to the ungodly tune of...700 billion.

 

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Now we just wave away 500 billion of annual waste like its a few fucking pennies lying on the ground.  

 

What a time to be alive.

 

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1 minute ago, LTbear said:

So your argument seems to be "I'd rather move forward with an idea everyone knows is shitty, than plan out a good idea instead." Which, without further elaboration, is just moronic. If you think Trump/ Elon's current methods of slashing essential government workers in order to shave pennies off the budget while trimming the federal tax income by trillions are a "good idea," feel free to explain. 

Let's run an experiment and decrease @Incredulity income by $100,000 per year and decrease his costs by $500 per year and see how it works out for him. Maybe then he'll be able to explain it. 

2 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

remember when Hank Paulson literally stroked out trying to get congress to pass TARP to save the entire economy to the ungodly tune of...700 billion.

 

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Now we just wave away 500 billion of annual waste like its a few fucking pennies lying on the ground.  

 

What a time to be alive.

 

Again, I don't think you understand what that report means when it says the government is losing money to fraud. You don't fix that problem by reducing the size of payroll of the government. You fix it by not letting people like Elon promise to provide services in exchange for payment from the government and then not actually provide those services. 

Bwahahahahaha! We got him spiraling into meme mode again. I still can’t figure out if he’s a troll, a bot, or a truly brainwashed believer.

Just now, Dahobbs said:

Again, I don't think you understand what that report means when it says the government is losing money to fraud. You don't fix that problem by reducing the size of payroll of the government. You fix it by not letting people like Elon promise to provide services in exchange for payment from the government and then not actually provide those services. 

I understand it perfectly.  

No one in the federal government can identify what the fuck they are paying for with billions of payments.  If DOGE gets that fixed I will gladly sacrifice several hundred thousand bureaucrats jobs.

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

is it really that disruptive when formatted text comes up?

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6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

I understand it perfectly.  

No one in the federal government can identify what the fuck they are paying for with billions of payments.  If DOGE gets that fixed I will gladly sacrifice several hundred thousand bureaucrats jobs.

First, that isn't what the report says. Second, fraud isn't just what the government pays out, but also what the government doesn't receive. And you've put the tax fraud in chief in charge. And, again, reducing payroll doesn't help reduce fraud. It increases it because you're literally firing the people whose job it is to identify it and prosecute it. 

Going back to the actual topic, explain how decreasing revenue by $4.5 trillion and spending by $2 trillion results in a decreased deficit. 

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I'm not sure what's worse. Seeing a thread turn Hot because Trump has issued some new batshit decree or because Incredulity got in a feisty mood.

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