Elections; 2024
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Quote:Look around you, 6ix. A majority of Americans are suffering great difficulties in life because they are goddamn idiots more than half out of their minds. This includes 6ix, you fucking little Nazi who worships Fuhrer Donald Trump:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up with your fascism propaganda, tool.
The Democrat party is dead, and if that's the tactic you're going to take, you're not going to revive it any time soon.
You have an opportunity to learn here. But if you're going to choose instead to just keep going to go around calling more than half the country Nazis, it's going to be a sad, scary world you're living in now that the world you thought you were living in is finally dead.
6ixStringJack is silly to write the following but what he wrote follows from “Only Trump can fix it (if and when he condescends to solve it).”
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65275&mid=12055
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Monday, November 11, 2024 5:32 PM
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My prediction is that Trump settles the Ukraine/Russia as well as the Israel/Palestine conflicts before he's inaugurated.
Wouldn't it be great if he invited Putin, Zelensky, Netanyahu, Abbas and even have Kim Jong Un around to watch and enjoy the party after the Inauguration?
They seem a lot more open to conversations on all sides now that the screaming kids were sent to their room and Daddy is home.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Conservative Judge Luttig: American voters ‘do not care’ about Trump’s misdeeds
By Ella Lee - 11/13/24 9:50 PM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/4989843-conservative-judge-luttig-america
n-voters-do-not-care-about-trumps-misdeeds/
American voters are unfazed by President-elect Trump’s various misdeeds, said retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist who has vocally opposed the former president.
“The American voters do not care about who, as an individual, is in the White House,” Luttig said Wednesday evening during a panel hosted by the Society for the Rule of Law.
“They don’t care, in this instance, what this man has done for the past eight years,” he said. “They could care less that he’s the first American president ever to be indicted for grave crimes against the United States of America…They do not care about his views on women. They do not care about any of this.”
It’s one of many lessons to be learned from the presidential election, he said, explaining that Republicans successfully convinced the American electorate that “nothing mattered” from Trump’s previous term and he ran on a “clean slate.”
“And the American people bought it,” he said. “Hook, line and sinker.”
“For the first time in American history, an American president has corrupted democracy itself and the rule of law in America,” Luttig said Wednesday. “And he got away with it, on Nov. 5, 2024.”
Trump won both the electoral college and popular votes in November’s contests. Luttig called the outcome “terrible for the country.”
“But sometimes people have to learn the hard way,” the retired judge said. “And that’s what’s happening.”
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:Look around you, 6ix. A majority of Americans are suffering great difficulties in life because they are goddamn idiots more than half out of their minds. This includes 6ix, you fucking little Nazi who worships Fuhrer Donald Trump:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up with your fascism propaganda, tool.
The Democrat party is dead, and if that's the tactic you're going to take, you're not going to revive it any time soon.
You have an opportunity to learn here. But if you're going to choose instead to just keep going to go around calling more than half the country Nazis, it's going to be a sad, scary world you're living in now that the world you thought you were living in is finally dead.
6ixStringJack is silly to write the following but what he wrote follows from “Only Trump can fix it (if and when he condescends to solve it).”
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65275&mid=12055
77#1205577
Monday, November 11, 2024 5:32 PMQuote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My prediction is that Trump settles the Ukraine/Russia as well as the Israel/Palestine conflicts before he's inaugurated.
Wouldn't it be great if he invited Putin, Zelensky, Netanyahu, Abbas and even have Kim Jong Un around to watch and enjoy the party after the Inauguration?
They seem a lot more open to conversations on all sides now that the screaming kids were sent to their room and Daddy is home.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Thank you for bumping my opinions.
They're far more thought out than any of the trite bullshit sloganeering and mindless platitudes about nothing that you shit out all over the place everyday.
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Quote:IMHO fatalism is just an excuse. We're ALL gonna die of something, SIX. If you truly believe it doesn't make any difference what you do, then just stop taking your insulin.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
All I'm saying Sigs is that everything is poisonous. I don't even worry about my smoking because everything I eat and drink is killing me to. Who cares?
Maybe things would be worse today if the EPA wasn't around. I guess it's nice that I only have 10 years of leaded gas in my body making me only 145 IQ instead of 155, but I've still ingested enough teflon to kill a horse.
I love the idea of the EPA, but our government is shit and it doesn't work.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
Or recognize and accept that you're rationalizing, for whatever reason. You'll think about/do something about some things but not other things of equal importance ... and be honest about it.
FWIW everyone I met from other regional, state, and Federal agencies was an intelligent, honest, and diligent worker. Of course, I only met tech people, and only up to about the manager level. If their agencies were like ours, the higher you went the more crooked it got, and once politicians were involved...
But it's like ICE: the problems start at the top.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:IMHO fatalism is just an excuse. We're ALL gonna die of something, SIX. If you truly believe it doesn't make any difference what you do, then just stop taking your insulin.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
All I'm saying Sigs is that everything is poisonous. I don't even worry about my smoking because everything I eat and drink is killing me to. Who cares?
Maybe things would be worse today if the EPA wasn't around. I guess it's nice that I only have 10 years of leaded gas in my body making me only 145 IQ instead of 155, but I've still ingested enough teflon to kill a horse.
I love the idea of the EPA, but our government is shit and it doesn't work.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
Not really a fair comparison. Smoking is going to kill me 10 or 20 years or more from now. I'd be dead in a month if I stopped taking insulin.
On a macro-scale, that's exactly how they operate. If any of that stuff killed us immediately or anything close to it, we wouldn't be exposed to it.
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Or recognize and accept that you're rationalizing, for whatever reason. You'll think about/do something about some things but not other things of equal importance ... and be honest about it.
I have nothing to rationalize. I honestly do not want to quit smoking.
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FWIW everyone I met from other regional, state, and Federal agencies was an intelligent, honest, and diligent worker. Of course, I only met tech people, and only up to about the manager level. If their agencies were like ours, the higher you went the more crooked it got, and once politicians were involved...
Well right. Your average worker isn't ambitious enough to be evil. Most are just lazy and self-serving.
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But it's like ICE: the problems start at the top.
Probably not always though.
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Quote:Not the ppl who worked for me. Not the ppl from other agencies that I met. And, since we rotated ppl thru thru sections, sooner or later everyone passed thru my group. Out of a staff of 6-14 people, at various times I did have some problem people. One was really ill, one was drinking and just a tad oppositional, one had ADHD (he really, really needed some chemical help. Analysis requires ppl to pay attention for long periods of time). One was a Hispanic snowflake, sensitive as all shit... she filed 29 complaints in HR against against a wide variety of people! As a group, the Taiwanese ladies from the upper crust were entitled, but Thai and Burmese weren't.
Most are just lazy and self-serving.
But overall I got good work out of everyone except Mr ADHD. His problem was ...is stil.. intrinsic and uncorrected.
It IS very, very hard to fire people. The process is ridiculously long and complicated. But if you cross t's and dot i's you can get all the way thru. I did.
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Quote:It is straightforward to fire people on construction projects. Suppose you don't, and I have seen projects where they weren't fired because of softhearted concerns about the families of worthless craftsmen and subcontractors who couldn't keep a promise even if they tried hard. In those cases, the projects bog down, go years beyond schedule, and are far over budget, which happens all the time on government-run projects.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It IS very, very hard to fire people. The process is ridiculously long and complicated. But if you cross t's and dot i's you can get all the way thru. I did.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimate that if Trump succeeds in deporting 8 million people, U.S. GDP would contract by more than 7 percent by 2028. Mass deportations would also likely trigger another round of inflation—the Peterson report believes that it could add up to 3 percent on top of whatever the baseline is.
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/mass-deportations-w
ould-harm-us-economy
The Yale Budget Lab estimates more than 5 percent inflation from the more extreme versions of Trump’s tariff scenarios.
https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fiscal-macroeconomic-and-price-est
imates-tariffs-under-both-non-retaliation-and-retaliation
Trump has very strong incentives to do what he always does: claim victory despite not actually getting anywhere near achieving his goals. The best thing Trump could do for himself is to do nothing but claim he succeeded.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-economy-immigration-
deportations-tariffs.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It is straightforward to fire people on construction projects. Suppose you don't, and I have seen projects where they weren't fired because of softhearted concerns about the families of worthless craftsmen and subcontractors who couldn't keep a promise even if they tried hard. In those cases, the projects bog down, go years beyond schedule, and are far over budget, which happens all the time on government-run projects.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It IS very, very hard to fire people. The process is ridiculously long and complicated. But if you cross t's and dot i's you can get all the way thru. I did.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
SECOND once again reveals that he doesn't understand how the real world works.
Unfortunately, government projects today aren't initiated to actually do anything, they're just there to throw money to some preferred contractors/ businesses. And they get tangled up in DEI/ small contractor/ minority -veteran- woman owned considerations, so the best company for a job doesn't get selected.
Look at Build Back Better AKA Inflation Reduction Act.
Quote:Have we measurably improved our energy sustainability, or improved living standards or added jobs in depressed rural communities?
Since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration, USDA has invested more than $2.7 billion through REAP in 9,901 renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements. Almost 7,000 of these projects were funded by over $1 billion provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.
And what about push to EV? Does that really reduce CO2 emissions? This is just a grab-bag of kneejerk projects designed to appease important Congresspeople. We don't have a well thought-out program to ... for example... capture the methane that we're currently flaring and use it to replace coal burning power stations.
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