Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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AGI: "This does not compute."
Trump Administration Issues Formal “Just Kidding” on Attempt to Shut Down Government
Picture the GIF where Grandpa Simpson walks in and walks right back out again.
By Ben Mathis-Lilley | Jan 29, 2025 3:10 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-news-federal-funding
-freeze.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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That's what I thought bitch.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:This is what you "thought"?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's what I thought bitch.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Quote:In other words, what Trump did "Does Not Compute/Does Not Compute/Does Not Compute" and the White House staff undid what Trump did.
After a two-page Office of Management and Budget memo purporting to “pause” $3 trillion in federal spending to review whether it promoted “Marxist equity,” “transgenderism,” or “green new deal social engineering” triggered 36 hours of confusion, angry backlash, and a national shutdown of the Medicaid payment system, the Trump administration has abandoned the effort. Journalist Marisa Kabas scored the Memo That Undoes the Other Memo, which reads, simply: “OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President’s Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.”
So that’s that—sort of. For one, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has since put up a post on Twitter/X claiming that spending that promotes Marxism, etc., is still subject to a “freeze,” just not a freeze directed by OMB. This seems to mean that agencies are basically on the honor system as far as whether to spend their legally allocated money—but, really, who knows? It doesn’t seem as if robust planning and process-defining are features of this initiative.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The government purge, explained
Why the exodus of government employees matters for everyone.
by Patrick Reis | Jan 29, 2025, 4:05 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/397375/the-logoff-federal-employees-p
urge-trump-musk
What’s the latest? The Trump administration last night emailed almost all federal employees with something between an invitation and a threat. The email gave them two options:
Resign effective at the end of September. Until then, you can keep your job and don’t necessarily have to come to the office.
Do nothing and keep working, while subject to new expectations (including in-office work requirements) and without any guarantee of job security.
It’s the latest in a string of actions designed to force out career government employees. (Career employees are the ones who keep their jobs from one president to the next; “political” appointees generally turn over with each administration.) Trump has also issued an executive order to temporarily raise the limit on how many noncareer appointees he’s allowed to have.
Why are they doing this? Trump’s team wants to thin the ranks of career employees and replace some of them with political appointees, shrinking government and giving the president more control of what remains.
If you don’t work in government, why should you care? Because the Trump administration is conducting a giant national experiment, and we’re all the subjects. Career employees bring longstanding expertise and continuity to the countless functions our government performs — everything from keeping airplanes in the sky to reviewing medication to enforcing laws to tracking national security threats.
Driving civil service members out of government en masse is a bet that these workers were never necessary to begin with. Many experts have warned that poses great risks for keeping the government functioning. If the purge is successful, we’ll all find out if they’re right.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:This is what you "thought"?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's what I thought bitch.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Nope. This is what I thought, pussy.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That was an obvious one, since you don't play table tennis alone. It practically jumps out of the fucking page at you.
Might I suggest you don't offer the solution of a test immediately after asking the question in the future. Yanno... so you can't sit back and claim that the person you asked didn't easily figure out your dumb little riddle before they've had a chance to read it because you already gave the solution along with the question.
What are you? A little boy?
I don't even understand what you were trying to prove here because I don't speak Retard.
And what's up with your last two sentences there? Are you drunk? Your written words somehow look slurred.
You're all fucked up right now.
Aren't you, boy?
Really though... Who could blame you?
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:
The government purge, explained
Why the exodus of government employees matters for everyone.
by Patrick Reis | Jan 29, 2025, 4:05 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/397375/the-logoff-federal-employees-p
urge-trump-musk
What’s the latest? The Trump administration last night emailed almost all federal employees with something between an invitation and a threat. The email gave them two options:
Resign effective at the end of September. Until then, you can keep your job and don’t necessarily have to come to the office.
Do nothing and keep working, while subject to new expectations (including in-office work requirements) and without any guarantee of job security.
Excellent.
Another victory.
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Quote:Until Congress passes a bill to pay these 2 million employees to quit, Trump's request that they quit has no substance.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Excellent.
Another victory.
6ixStringJack, Trump may disappoint you on Ukraine. If he does, blame the Winds of Change:
If You Think the U.S. Will Abandon Ukraine Now, You Don't Know Donald Trump
Published Jan 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM EST
By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
Lester Crown Professor at Yale School of Management; Research Director at Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute
https://www.newsweek.com/if-you-think-us-will-abandon-ukraine-now-you-
dont-know-donald-trump-opinion-2022859
President Donald Trump's recent apparent switch of positions regarding Russia and Ukraine is surprising many, but it shouldn't. We write this not as diplomats or historians, but as informed leadership scholars who have known Trump personally for decades; and having recently spent time on the ground in Ukraine, Central Europe, and Central Asia, we believe there are good reasons for Trump to reverse his position and escape Russian President Vladimir Putin's quicksand.
In a startling flurry of Truth Social posts and press conference remarks since taking office, Trump has revealed his pragmatism over principle. After once condemning President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine, he now praises Zelensky as a seeker of peace. Similarly, Trump has flipped from expressing admiration for Putin to declaring that Putin is destroying Russia. To diplomatic scholars, this is a paradox. To leadership scholars, Trump's reversals demonstrate the consistency of his character. That is because of three distinctive qualities of Trump's leadership style.
Much more at https://www.newsweek.com/if-you-think-us-will-abandon-ukraine-now-you-
dont-know-donald-trump-opinion-2022859
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Do you realize how sad your position is here?
8 years ago you morons couldn't shut the fuck up about the Walls Closing In On Trump and the end of his presidency because of your dumb Russian hoax that's been thoroughly debunked, and even your media admits that now.
Now this is all you've got in 2025?
You think I'm going to take anything seriously about Ukraine coming from Newsweek not even 2 weeks into Trump's 2nd term?
You must be joking.
Nobody at Newsweek has a fucking clue what Trump is going to do.
Cool your jets, dummy.
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Wow.
Holy shit.
You didn't even read that article past the 3rd paragraph or you NEVER would have posted it.
Nice self-own again, retard.
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Quote:I'm sure that I told you dozens of times that the judicial system in America will malfunction if you have good enough defense lawyers to sabotage it for you. Vice President Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton. Did Burr go to jail? He did not. When Burr attempted to start a new country within the Louisiana Purchase, was Burr convicted of treason? He was not. When millions of Confederates murdered a million Americans, were they executed for what they did? No, they were pardoned. When thousands were lynched, who went to jail for murder? Nobody. When hundreds of thousands of Americans were placed in concentration camps during WWII, how many officials went to prison for this illegal behavior? Nobody. Did Vice President Spiro Agnew, Nixon's VP, go to jail for accepting bribes? Nope. If you've got enough money and connections, you can get away with murder in America. That's what makes America what it is, the Greatest Country in History! But not so great for losers like you, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you realize how sad your position is here?
8 years ago you morons couldn't shut the fuck up about the Walls Closing In On Trump and the end of his presidency because of your dumb Russian hoax that's been thoroughly debunked, and even your media admits that now.
Now this is all you've got in 2025?
I completely forgot the Indians! Killed them by the millions. More recently there was "Killers of the Flower Moon" the movie and the book. Killed hundreds of Indians for their oil rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_of_the_Flower_Moon_(book)
From Chapter 26, Blood Cries Out, of Killers of the Flower Moon:
Quote:Impressive, isn't it, 6ixStringJack.
Though the bureau estimated that there were twenty-four Osage murders, the real number was undoubtedly higher. The bureau closed its investigation after catching Hale and his henchmen. But at least some at the bureau knew that there were many more homicides that had been systematically covered up, evading their efforts of detection. An agent described, in a report, just one of the ways the killers did this: “In connection with the mysterious deaths of a large number of Indians, the perpetrators of the crime would get an Indian intoxicated, have a doctor examine him and pronounce him intoxicated, following which a morphine hypodermic would be injected into the Indian, and after the doctor’s departure the [killers] would inject an enormous amount of morphine under the armpit of the drunken Indian, which would result in his death. The doctor’s certificate would subsequently read ‘death from alcoholic poison.’ ”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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