TRUMP AND HIS NAZI SUPPORTERS
POSTED BY: THG
UPDATED: Thursday, July 23, 2026 04:24
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Laughing here; Trump can't stop losing.
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21 former USDS employees resign in refusal to work for DOGE
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Sounds like more winning to me.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Apples 500 billion commitment. A proper look. "For context, not long after Biden’s presidency began in 2021 — notice the timing — Apple committed $430 billion in U.S. spending across five years, so 2025 is presumably included in both pledges." Thanks Joe
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Accounting For The $500 Billion
How much incremental new spending does the $500 billion represent? For context, not long after Biden’s presidency began in 2021 — notice the timing — Apple committed $430 billion in U.S. spending across five years, so 2025 is presumably included in both pledges. That makes math fuzzier. We should not forget, either, that inflation since April 2021 has totaled 18.8%, so that annualized number is a lot lower than it looks, especially with the 2025 overlap.
How much of the $430 billion pledge announced in 2021 was actually spent? It would be great to see a breakdown of that spending, but as far as I know there isn’t one available for public consumption. The same applies to Apple’s January 2018 pledge to invest $350 billion in the U.S. spread across five years. I think you see the trend.
Hiring And Payroll Questions
How many new jobs will today’s pledge create? Apple’s announcement said that the company will hire “around 20,000 people” in the next four years. But at the close of its most recent fiscal year in September 2024, Apple employed 164,000 FTEs worldwide. So bringing on 5,000 people per year for the next four years to hit that 20,000 number would imply hiring a whopping 3% new employees per year — and it’s not even clear if all of those would be net-new hires.
Seriously, just 20,000 new hires? To correspond with a $500 billion outlay? I get it that Apple always does lots of work through its suppliers and other ecosystem partners, so not all of the money will translate directly into new headcount at Apple. But a 20,000-person increase doesn’t seem that high for a half-trillion-dollar investment. Also, both the 2018 and 2021 pledges from Apple came with U.S. hiring commitments, in each case for 20,000 workers. So I think we can be forgiven for wondering whether this is just a pro forma number that sounds good to Apple. To put this in context, the BLS says that there are 164.9 million workers in the U.S. today. Apple’s commitment, if it were all enacted this minute, would raise that jobs number by .012%.
What part of the $500 billion is wages, including indirect wages?
This is the last payroll question, I promise. Apple’s announcement today talked up the 2.9 million jobs “currently supported” by Apple in the U.S., which includes personnel at Apple’s suppliers — and even developers for independently produced iOS apps. So are the projected wages of those existing 2.9 million U.S. workers across the Apple ecosystem counted as part of the $500 billion?
Manufacturing Plans
How big a deal is this new server assembly plant? Apple said that in 2026 it will begin producing servers at a 250,000-square-foot facility in Houston. This will replace some amount of offshore manufacturing for these servers, which will support Apple’s Private Cloud Compute initiative and Apple Intelligence. As a longtime Texan who once worked for Compaq in Houston, it’s good to know that this facility will bring thousands of new jobs to the city, and that Apple expects to expand its datacenter capacity in several other states, too. But during Compaq’s heyday, the company had about 6.5 million square feet of manufacturing, labs and office space in Houston. With that in mind, 250,000 square feet of final assembly space strikes me as a midrange build-out. Big factories are in the millions of square feet. For a more immediate comparison, the initial phase of the Stargate project aims to create at least 10 — and possibly up to 20 — AI data centers of 500,000 square feet each.
So it would be nice to see more than this from Apple.
Was the Apple Manufacturing Academy in
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Why, because Trump is a moron.
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"Anthrax for the economy"
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This country is fucked.
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Trump Takes on Trade
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Keep throwing the word Nazi around in 2025 and see where it gets you, stupid.
It's worked out stunningly well for you so far, hasn't it?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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What every American should know about US foreign aid
The Vitals
Foreign aid is money, technical assistance, and commodities that the United States provides to other countries in support of a common interest of the U.S. and that country. Opinion polls consistently report that Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget, when it is actually less than 1%. As the world’s wealthiest nation, the U.S. provides more assistance than any other country, but a smaller proportion of its gross national product (GNP) than other wealthy nations. Historically, support for foreign aid has been bipartisan.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-every-american-should-know-abo
ut-us-foreign-aid/
Aside from being the humanitarian thing to do, it buys friends. When needed these countries work with us instead of authoritarian countries. Countries that work to undermine America. Trump and his minions keep showing they are clueless.
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Quote:Nazis thrive because Libtards have moral qualms about pulling the trigger.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep throwing the word Nazi around in 2025 and see where it gets you, stupid.
It's worked out stunningly well for you so far, hasn't it?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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]Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep throwing the word Nazi around in 2025 and see where it gets you, stupid.
It's worked out stunningly well for you so far, hasn't it?
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Nazis thrive because Libtards have moral qualms about pulling the trigger.
"Simon, it goes without saying, does not support Trump"
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35801184
Jack wants to quote Paul Simon but has to do it dishonestly because Paul Simon doesn't support Trump. While Simon says he isn't a political junkie, he did approve Bernie Sanders playing his music at his rallies. He feels Sanders wants to build something not destroy it. In other words, Paul Simon doesn't find MAGA amusing.
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Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
quote]Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep throwing the word Nazi around in 2025 and see where it gets you, stupid.
It's worked out stunningly well for you so far, hasn't it?
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Nazis thrive because Libtards have moral qualms about pulling the trigger.
"Simon, it goes without saying, does not support Trump"
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35801184
Jack wants to quote Paul Simon but has to do it dishonestly because Paul Simon doesn't support Trump. While Simon says he isn't a political junkie, he did approve Bernie Sanders playing his music at his rallies. He feels Sanders wants to build something not destroy it. In other words, Paul Simon doesn't find MAGA amusing.
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This feeling that "building" rather than "destroying" is the only path to peace is a bunch of liberal nonsense caused by their fear of appearing to be heartless and evil. The Civil War turned around in favor of the Union Army when Generals who had a reputation for being heartless butchers, Grant and Sherman, took charge of killing slave owners and burning down plantation mansions. WWII was not won with clever maneuvers and precision bombing minimizing enemy casualties. The war was won by massively killing Germans and dropping nukes on civilians. Even in 2025, goodness cannot win over evil without killing Nazis. Expecting gentle words of persuasion to call Nazis back to sanity is a guarantee that Nazis will win.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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