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Quote:Trump kills elite tech group because it’s too woke
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, have you ever considered NOT sounding like a broken record?
18F, far from being "GSA's tech arm," is a small, elite group of coders that helps other federal agencies roll out better projects. By all accounts they did a top notch job. At the time they were let go, they say, they were working on "including improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport with the Department of State, supporting free tax filing with the IRS, and other critical projects with organizations at the federal and state levels."
In other words, 18F was "the gold standard of civic tech," exactly the kind of bang-for-the-buck group that Musk claims the government needs more of. But they're gone.
The lesson is pretty obvious here: It doesn't matter how good a job you do. If your group has a reputation for being LGBT or trans friendly, or even just too woke in general, you can lose your job. Welcome to Donald Trump's government.
Details about how Musk became aware of 18F are at https://jabberwocking.com/trump-kills-elite-tech-group-because-its-too
-woke/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency
By Evan Halper, Hannah Natanson | March 2, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/02/doge-nuclear-worker
-firings-musk-trump/
Amid the tumult of mass firings, the Trump administration’s dismissal of workers who maintain America’s nuclear weapons delivered perhaps the greatest shock. These are people with highly sensitive jobs, the Energy Department would later acknowledge, who should have never been fired.
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:Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. 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
We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.
Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And BTW Social Security IS a Ponzi scheme. The people who are paying into it now are paying for current retirees, NOT paying into their own accounts. It's a better-funded Ponzi scheme... the fund actually makes money by buying Treasuries ... but it doesn't operate like most people think.
I love how his argument about SS not being a Ponzi scheme laid it out exactly like a Ponzi scheme.
I think Second's real problem here is that he doesn't understand what a Ponzi scheme is.
Just like Insurance of any kind, and most of the way our government works, it is a Ponzi scheme.
It's just the one I hope is still there for me one day, because NGL I'm not going to be able to survive long without it. It was doomed to fail from the beginning. It's just my luck that it won't be there for me.
My entire working career all I ever heard about was how much better the place was to work 5 years before I started there before the eventual layoffs. And when I die the social security net that's existed for 100 years won't be there either.
That sounds about right.
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Quote:The Confederates had no idea that slavery was wrong. The slaves deserved it. Nazis? No idea that expelling Jews from Europe was wrong. The Jews deserved it. The Russians invading Ukraine couldn't be wrong because the Ukrainians were Nazis. They deserved it. I've noticed all through history that the bad guys were convinced they were good guys. Even the God in the Bible could not persuade bad guys to recognize their own behavior as wrong. God's patience with stubborn fools is not Infinite, which is why the Bible is filled with stories of bad guys being slaughtered, even burnt alive. Outside the Bible, good people aren't as quick as God to slaughter the bad guys but given time the good guys will lose their patience and kindness. They will burn Atlanta, firebomb Dresden and drop nukes on Nagasaki.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. 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
We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.
Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.
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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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Rubio Melts Down on Air Over Accusation U.S. Is ‘Placating Putin’
(See the video for why squeaky Rubio should not be President. Same for daffy-duck Trump)
The secretary of state could not contain his fury as he sparred with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos.
By Maurício Alencar | Mar. 2 2025 1:16PM EST
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rubio-melts-down-on-air-over-accusation-
us-is-placating-putin/
“The president is basically saying, there’s this horrible war,” Rubio said. “It’s been going on for three years. It is a bloody stalemate, a meat grinder-type war, and he wants it to end. How does it end? It’s very simple. The only way it ends is if Vladimir Putin comes to a negotiating table.”
“Right now, President Trump is the only person on earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is he would be willing to end the war,” he added.
But just moments later, Rubio admitted that the Trump administration had no idea what Putin’s demands were for a peace agreement to be made, despite several talks between American and Russian officials over the last month.
This includes at least one conversation held on the phone between Trump and Putin as well as a long and intimate meeting between the Russian leader and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow in February.
Rubio also met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia.
“Maybe…their demands will be unreasonable,” Rubio speculated. “We don’t know, but we have to bring him to the table.”
Rubio even suggested that peace may not be possible as he surprisingly claimed that Americans had not negotiated with Putin since before Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022, despite engagements in the last month.
“I’ve said from the very beginning, maybe they don’t want to deal either. We don’t know, but we haven’t talked to them in three years,” he said.
The interview became more fiery after Stephanopoulos asked Rubio why Trump officials refused to call Putin a “dictator” when they had so readily made the same claim about Zelensky.
“We’ve spent three years calling Vladimir Putin names. That’s not the point,” he said.
“We all understand that Putin is not going to be an easy negotiator,” he added. “In this regard. We all get that, but we have to start the process to see if something is even possible. And I honestly am puzzled. I just don’t understand!”
The secretary of state had lost his temper by the time he made a bold comparison between Trump’s treatment of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and former President Joe Biden’s treatment of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
“The Biden administration berated Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis put all kinds of conditions and pressure on them to try to get a cease fire. In this particular case, we’ve been nice by comparison, and all we’re trying to do here is figure out whether a peace is possible,” he claimed.
But the interview’s climax came when the ABC News presenter pointed to Senator Lisa Murkowski’s comments slamming Trump.
“Even some of your Republican allies are puzzled by the steps that President Trump has taken to placate Vladimir Putin,” Stephanopoulos began.
“Which steps has he taken?” Rubio snapped back. “Which ones? Are we arming the Russians?”
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:The Confederates had no idea that slavery was wrong. The slaves deserved it. Nazis?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.
Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:So sorry to be giving you the news:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.
The Krasnov file, so to speak. A thoughtful assessment of its credibility from “a former CIA Russia specialist who served in Moscow right about the time Trump first visited.”
He concludes:
One key misconception about espionage is the idea that ‘kompromat’ is the primary tool of recruitment. While kompromat can play a role, coerced agents are often unreliable and difficult to control. A much more effective intelligence relationship is one in which the collaborator sees mutual benefit. Trump’s rhetoric and actions in recent years — his reluctance to criticize Putin, his efforts to weaken NATO, and his alignment with Russian disinformation campaigns — do not suggest someone acting under duress. Instead, they suggest someone who, for his own reasons, has fully embraced the Russian position.
Whether or not Trump was recruited in 1987 may ultimately be less important than the fact that today, he is aligned with Putin’s interests. Whatever the origins of that alignment, its current reality is undeniable.
https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/a-deeper-look-at-claims-by-kgb-
officer
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:So sorry to be giving you the news:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.
Don't care about your propaganda.
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Quote:You don't care that Musk is growing nuttier and sicker as revealed by his nonstop tweeting?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't care about your propaganda.
You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It's Terrifying
Brain fog, mood swings, paranoia... sound familiar?
By Noor Al-Sibai | Mar 2, 6:45 AM EST
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tweets-sleep
Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia.
As flagged by politics and sports analyst Nate Silver, a graph compiled by The Economist that tracked Musk's tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts — and, since it's not (yet) possible to tweet while sleeping, how incredibly little sleep he gets.
With tiny red dots, the graph not only charted the Tesla and SpaceX owner's prolific posting output by date, but also by time of day. As his tweeting has become more and more frequent in recent years, so too has his short window of "off" hours when he's presumably slumbering.
Unsurprisingly, those gaps in tweet times also grew shorter and more erratic after he purchased Twitter in the fall of 2022, as the graph makes clear. That was also, as The Economist noted, when he began to delve seriously into politics, posting regularly — and at time incoherently — about free speech, immigration, and what he calls the "woke mind virus."
. . . he admitted to CNBC that getting fewer than six hours took a toll on his mental state.
"I’ve tried [to sleep] less, but... even though I’m awake more hours, I get less done," the billionaire said in May 2023. "And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours."
In the years since that admission, it appears that Musk has retreated further and further into that lack of sleep that he admits is bad for him, which according to accounts given to biographer Walter Isaacson were caused by stress and would often lead to intense nausea and vomiting.
. . . Musk seems to be forcing that unhealthy "all work and no rest" mentality onto his underling at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). He even reportedly moved sofa beds for his DOGE boys into the Office of Personnel Management — the same thing he did when he took over Twitter back in 2022.
"DOGE is working 120 hours a week," the unelected official posted at the beginning of February. "Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing so fast."
Unfortunately, we don't have an updated dot matrix graph like the one from The Economist for Musk's tweets since Trump took office again — but it's clear that he entered this chaotic post-election period in a state of rage-fueled sleep deprivation, and now we're all suffering the consequences.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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