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[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

I'm sure there are peaceful ways to remove dictators, oligarchs and their evil henchmen.

They just haven't been discovered yet.
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They call that voting......as in an election. An election he won. Are you unaware of this or just havent come to terms with the facts?


Are you suggesting that the American people didnt prefer him over the prosecutor.


Cry on.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by spence

Just remember that your life story, harnessing ingenuity and immense talent to build a house and career would be far less likely under Trump’s vision of America.

You dont know me well at all......i have the will and the means to succeed ...anywhere anytime....and yes Im that confident.
I have gone it alone, refuted pessimism and understand that the American dream doesn't come easy.
If I had to start over it would be even easier. God blessed me with good health, and great parents. The land of opportunity is still alive and well and the last election has been a godsend to those who struggle and strive for success.

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

They call that voting......as in an election. An election he won. Are you unaware of this or just havent come to terms with the facts?


Are you suggesting that the American people didnt prefer him over the prosecutor.


Cry on.

Oh that post is so full of hypocrisy, you mean like Trump and the MAGA nuts accepting the will of the people, oh wait you probably believe Biden didn’t win.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Oh that post is so full of hypocrisy, you mean like Trump and the MAGA nuts accepting the will of the people, oh wait you probably believe Biden didn’t win.

More ass umptions. Who is the president now? c'mon...you can say it. Hypocrite...cry some more

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Wonder what the Oligarchs want?
Technofeudalism?
Apparently Marsh is all in

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Ive come to the obvious conclusion that even when you rub your two remaining brain cells together you still got nothing.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

More ass umptions. Who is the president now? c'mon...you can say it. Hypocrite...cry some more

The President swears an oath to uphold the US Constitution, what’s in office today is hellbent on destroying it.

If you wanted to live in Russia would could have just moved.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

They call that voting......as in an election. An election he won. Are you unaware of this or just havent come to terms with the facts?


Are you suggesting that the American people didnt prefer him over the prosecutor.


Cry on.

The Felon won, he received 49.9% of the popular vote and won the electoral college. Hardly a mandate.

He then took the oath consisting of these words

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

That entitled him to the Article 2 powers listed in the Constitution that he swore to preserve, protect and defend.

Among the flurry of legally dubious executive orders Trump signed is an EO to end birthright citizenship, a direct violation of the Constitution, which cannot be changed by executive order.
He also attempted to create a new Department (DOGE) 𝔻𝕖𝕝𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝- 𝕆𝕡𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕠𝕣𝕤- 𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘- 𝔼𝕩𝕔𝕝𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕥𝕪 or something like that.
In order to be a department it would need to be established by Congress, as part of their Article 1 power.
Musk and his team of incels have been running amok in the federal computer systems. Nobody is quite sure what they are doing but they claim to be eliminating Congressionally authorized departments, which is an Article 1 power. They also seem to be expropriating all data from the Federal Government, this information is worth Billions if not Trillions and they’re likely stealing it.

The Felon is also imposing tariffs, another Article 1 power, by claiming there is an emergency. His emergency keeps changing from fentanyl to deficit to I want to annex a sovereign nation.
There are far more instances of violations of the Constitution than I care to list here, feel free to use your Google.

Trump has no interest in upholding the law or protecting and preserving the Constitution. According to him, the law is whatever he says it is. So, are we a nation of laws? Do we care about the Constitution? Or are you good with terminating it?
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[Pete F.]

This is an elaboration on the YouTube video I posted yesterday

MEMORANDUM
Date: February 5, 2025
Subject: Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries
Executive Summary
Following President Trump’s Executive Order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), many
have been shocked by the speed and scope of changes led by Elon Musk. While DOGE in theory aligns with
longstanding conservative ambitions, the reality is that Musk has not limited government or dismantled the deep
state; he has replaced it with himself. Under his radical restructuring of federal power, the White House is at risk of
becoming captive to Musk’s demands. This memo outlines four alarming developments that transcend
partisanship.
I. II. III. IV. Musk-aligned operatives have seized control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM),
purging career civil servants and installing loyalists with ties to Musk’s private ventures.
DOGE has deployed unvetted hires—many under 25 years old—who now wield de facto
control over sensitive government functions without security clearances. These individuals,
drawn from Musk’s orbit and Silicon Valley’s neo-reactionary (NRx) network, operate without legal
oversight or accountability.
DOGE has gained read-write access over Treasury pipes and federal payment systems,
granting Musk direct influence over the financial infrastructure of the U.S. government. This
unprecedented control over money flows creates a national security risk and a personal power
lever for Musk.
The congressionally mandated divestment of TikTok has been delayed, with reported
Chinese interest in Musk as a buyer. If successful, Musk would control not just X (formerly
Twitter) but also the largest platform shaping youth political discourse—further concentrating his
influence over public opinion.
Rather than operating as an ally of the Trump administration, Musk has hijacked its ambitions for his own purposes.
His rapid takeover of federal infrastructure mirrors the broader ambitions of the neoreactionary (NRx) movement—a
small group of Silicon Valley elites who reject democracy and seek to install a "CEO Monarch" to rule by
technological and financial dominance. This network includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, David
Sacks, and Curtis Yarvin, among others. Once considered fringe, purveyors of this ideology have now been
embedded into the core of government operations.
Musk’s maneuvering demonstrates a long-standing strategy of this elite class: not dismantling government, but
replacing its power structures with ones they control. DOGE has not reduced bureaucracy—it has privatized it.
Treasury has not been made more efficient—it has been placed under a billionaire’s influence. TikTok has not been
secured from foreign threats—it has been delayed so Musk can position himself as its gatekeeper. President Trump,
far from asserting dominance over the administrative state, may now find himself hostage to Musk.
Congress Must Act to Prevent Private Takeover of Government. This memo calls for immediate congressional
action to reassert democratic control and prevent Musk’s further entrenchment into government infrastructure
including launching urgent investigations into DOGE’s hiring practices, Treasury access, and OPM purges;
strengthening security and conflicts-of-interest laws; enforcing divestment measures; barring Musk from
acquiring TikTok; and limiting Musk’s influence over national security and diplomatic affairs.
The scale, speed, and opacity of Musk’s actions demand urgent scrutiny—not just as a policy concern, but as a
direct challenge to the constitutional order and the President’s independence. If left unchecked, Musk’s
consolidation of power will shift control over critical U.S. infrastructure away from accountable governance and into
the hands of a single private actor, setting a dangerous precedent for the future of American democracy. Congress must act now to prevent a hostile private takeover of public power.
https://america2.news/content/files/...ary-5-2025.pdf
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[spence]

God, the connection of outside hardware to secure government systems, shadow teams likely still on their parent’s insurance with hidden identities, CIA employee names being sent via regular email…and now it looks like Musk may be uploading the confidential information of millions of Americans to the Cloud to run AI???

John’s head must be ready to pop. This is so insanely bad.

It really seems like Musk sold a trump a fantasy of eliminating a million government jobs with AI. This will either fall apart or go very, very, very badly.

[Pete F.]

We’re at the very, very, very bad spot.
The Trump Musk administration is currently under a court order to not do several things that violate the law, if they violate the court order in normal times, the judge asks a US Marshal to go pick them up.
That Marshall works for Trump.
I don’t see a good outcome, even if the Republicans in Congress wake up, they and the Supreme Court have given the Felon absolute power.
This won’t take a long time to play out
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[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

We’re at the very, very, very bad spot.
The Trump Musk administration is currently under a court order to not do several things that violate the law, if they violate the court order in normal times, the judge asks a US Marshal to go pick them up.
That Marshall works for Trump.
I don’t see a good outcome, even if the Republicans in Congress wake up, they and the Supreme Court have given the Felon absolute power.
This won’t take a long time to play out
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So what. Nothing you or the rest of you TDS suckers can do about it. Is there?
Cry some more...that's about it.
I've heard some dems are suggesting taking the fight to the streets.
He's going to proclaim that he is supreme leader soon ..... according to an anonymous source..... so you had better get the hell going.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

So what. Nothing you or the rest of you TDS suckers can do about it. Is there?
Cry some more...that's about it.
I've heard some dems are suggesting taking the fight to the streets.
He's going to proclaim that he is supreme leader soon ..... according to an anonymous source..... so you had better get the hell going.

You seem to be very happy that the grand experiment is ending after…almost 250 years.
Trump has no interest in upholding the law or protecting and preserving the Constitution. According to him and your ilk, the law is whatever he says it is. So, are we a nation of laws? Do we care about the Constitution? Or are you good with terminating it?
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[Got Stripers]

All but one discussing policy changes, non vetted individuals accessing sensitive information with national security implications, global aid assistance to avoid another pandemic, a decades old mild east hot spot and this one individual just rants about the liberal left. Paints a pretty sad picture of this guy, we discuss policy, policy, policy and he answers hate, hate, hate. A Trump mini me, vengeance, hate and name calling, adults by age but more child like in demeanor.

[Pete F.]

Small majorities in many regions prefer facts over bizarre conspiracy, democracy over authoritarianism and American pluralism over racism and xenophobia. In other Western democracies, far-right extremists win seats in national assemblies, where coalitions can constrain their ideas. But in a two-party system, the capture of one party by extremists is enough to cause great political havoc and violence - a lesson we should have learned from the destruction of our Union in 1861.
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Killing off USAID... there goes a huge amount of our global influence, particularly in Africa, which will open the door to China there even further. So much for the compassionate conservatism of GWB....

Always said that was a oxymoron.

[wdmso]

From JD Vance. Our vice president. Reguarding the firing of a Doge member for racist posts. Such as I was a racist before it was cool. And something to the effect they should kill all the Jews and the Palestinians.

Here’s my view: JD Vance tweet.

I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.

We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.

So I say bring him back.

If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.

So DEI for racists white guys is ok. got it. .. and blame the journalist for trying tying to ruin his life. .. rmarsh. Keep convincing yourself they don’t and are not acting like. Nazis….

[Pete F.]

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
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[wdmso]

Trump DEI crackdown targets books in Pentagon schools
As the DEI purge widens, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered restrictions on what books DOD schools can teach, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

And Pete was handed this Memo. direction from who? We know it’s not trumps idea.


DEI is to Republicans as Jews were to the Nazi Party. Scapegoats

[Pete F.]

No conflicts with FElon

Exclusive: President Trump's nominee as Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to seven people familiar with the contract reut.rs/4b7MUKt
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[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by wdmso

From JD Vance. Our vice president. Reguarding the firing of a Doge member for racist posts. Such as I was a racist before it was cool. And something to the effect they should kill all the Jews and the Palestinians.

So DEI for racists white guys is ok. got it. .. and blame the journalist for trying tying to ruin his life. .. rmarsh. Keep convincing yourself they don’t and are not acting like. Nazis….

^^^^^^These low IQ references to nazis, hitler, ss, etc. are what the American people rejected, and helped Trump win. Good job.
I understand it can be difficult for those whose intelligence abruptly stopped growing at age 15.
This support group was set up for just that purpose.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

^^^^^^These low IQ references to nazis, hitler, ss, etc. are what the American people rejected, and helped Trump win. Good job.
I understand it can be difficult for those whose intelligence abruptly stopped growing at age 15.
This support group was set up for just that purpose.

You seem to be very happy that the grand experiment is ending after…almost 250 years.
Trump shows no interest in upholding the law or protecting and preserving the Constitution. According to him and your ilk, the law is whatever he says it is.
So, are we a nation of laws?
Do we care about the Constitution? Or are you good with terminating it?
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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

^^^^^^These low IQ references to nazis, hitler, ss, etc. are what the American people rejected, and helped Trump win. Good job.
I understand it can be difficult for those whose intelligence abruptly stopped growing at age 15.
This support group was set up for just that purpose.

I understand it can be difficult for those whose intelligence abruptly stopped growing at age 15.

I didn’t ask about you? Or your issues But it makes sense since you mentioned it…. Your brain is not so different from the material you work with

Cut to length dense and takes a nail and hammer for it to work … your issue is you only use one type of nail …. Insults ya know the kind only a 15 years old would use.


And let’s be Clear RMARSH. The difference between us is clear

I love our country and thats why I despise Trumps action in 2016 and now.

Yet You Love Trump the Man. 1st and country 2nd. And how do we know this. Because all you do his defend HIM…. You have Never defend the constitution or the rule of law.
Even these you’ve attacked in defense of your dear Leader Trump

[Pete F.]

Poor suffering billionaires

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
https://truthout.org/articles/tesla-...ion-in-income/
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[Pete F.]

NEWS ANALYSIS: White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta
By William Boot
Two weeks into a fast-moving coup by a South African tech oligarch, the United States — which was already deep into planning for its 250th birthday next year — hangs suspended this weekend in a liminal state somewhere between the constitutional republic it has been for 249 years and an authoritarian regime akin to Europe’s infamous fallen democracy, Hungary.
Following the alarming purges of the security services last week and the successful capture of the national treasury and other federal agencies by technical junta forces loyal to centibillionaire Elon Musk, the country’s constitutional system seemed to awaken from slumber this week.
Although by Monday Musk reigned unquestioned as head of the government, he appears content to allow the country’s elected president, Donald Trump, to remain the ceremonial head of state, and overall the political situation seemed to stabilize as the week progressed. Amid widening protests by opposition leaders and the public, damning media reports, and a flurry of court orders that blocked or slowed some of the most controversial power grabs, the country even appeared — at least temporarily — to pull back from the abyss.
Nevertheless, tensions remained high on the streets of the federal district known as Washington and uncertainty filled governmental offices.
The capital’s limbo status was reflected in a bizarre power sharing arrangement—some agencies were directly controlled by Musk, while others remained led by ideologically aligned ministers appointed by the figurehead Trump. Many of those officials who support Musk’s white nationalist agenda went out of their way to pay homage to the oligarch. The transportation minister bragged publicly about inviting a Musk takeover of his ministry’s work on aviation safety, and the capital’s federal prosecutor posted a letter to social media putting his supposedly independent force at Musk’s disposal.
The small handful of correspondents whose news organizations have not been cowed into compliance by regime threats spent much of the week in the embattled capital trying to even identify the mysterious Musk-backed figures taking control of government systems. Many of the junta gang members, who would only identify themselves by first-names and were known locally as DOGE, adopted a standard uniform of t-shirts under blazers and appeared to be youths, some even in their teens — one went online by the moniker BigBalls.
Many of these child foot soldiers were apparently mercenaries pulled from the sprawling business empire run by Musk, himself a notoriously immature and boyish oligarch raised amid wealth and privilege in apartheid-era South Africa who has steadily built deep ties to far-right political movements around the globe in recent years.
Regime spokespeople refused to clarify for much of the week whether the DOGE operators deployed across Washington were officially employed by the government or just acting at the personal order of Musk.
Throughout the week, reports and rumors of surprise DOGE appearances at one government office or another spread like wildfire on social media and over text-messaging chains filled with nervous government employees. Members of the parliament’s opposition party tried to investigate some of the agencies under siege, but were blocked from even entering buildings occupied by DOGE forces; at the education ministry, for instance, they faced down an anonymous brown-shirted enforcer who refused to identify himself.
At Parliament, members of the loyalist faction spent day after day pretending to not notice that Musk’s junta was undermining laws and blocking critical federal funding that they had settled on and approved themselves just months ago. One loyalist senator went so far as to say that “nobody should bellyache” about the unconstitutional and extra-legal moves by Musk.
Beyond the DOGE forces directly controlled by Musk’s junta, Christian white nationalists aligned with Musk solidified their control on other government institutions throughout the week, seeking to restore the primacy of the white male ruling class that has held power since the country’s founding and undermine the recent progress toward equality and professional advancements made by women and the country’s long oppressed racial and ethnic minorities.
After twenty members of the Democratic opposition party held an all-night protest, loyalist Republicans who control the Senate body approved a self-described Christian nationalist to head the country’s budget office. That official wrote in 2021 that he “recognizes America as a Christian nation, where our rights and duties are understood to come from God and where our primary responsibilities as citizens are for building and preserving the strength, prosperity and health of our own country.”
In her first communications as the country’s top law enforcement officer — a post known as attorney general — Pam Bondi acted quickly to criminalize both private sector and educational programs that aimed to help hire, educate, or support minority workers. On Thursday, the government also issued a new presidential order officially favoring Christians, a policy that almost certainly violates the country’s longstanding constitutional freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
The military — now overseen by a TV host-turned-defense-minister who has tribal tattoo markings that celebrate the Christian Crusades and are commonly associated with white nationalist groups — canceled programs that support minority or women personnel, saying that he believed helping non-white men succeed and thrive was “incompatible” with military values. The defense minister’s sweeping decrees even “paused” trainings aimed at combating sexual assault and harassment, led museum officials to cover up pictures honoring women who had served the nation’s intelligence services, and the Air Force to stop teaching history about Black men who served heroically in World War II.
The country’s oldest military academy — a school known as West Point that has served for centuries as a treasured training ground for the nation’s soldiers and business elite alike — disbanded longstanding student groups for Black, Hispanic, Japanese, Korean, and indigenous students, as well as a society for women engineers, but notably preserved student groups made up of religious denominations popular with the country’s white majority.
It was clear the assault on women and minorities in the military came from the top down: In his first hours as president, Trump had fired the national coast guard commandant, the first woman ever to lead a branch of the military, and on Tuesday he capriciously ordered her to give up her government housing with just three hours notice.
The combination of actions by various federal leaders, including Bondi — whose justice ministry leadership has quickly undone decades of traditional independence and is instead primarily made up of Trump’s personal lawyers who successfully stymied last year the then-former president’s prosecution on 94 felony criminal charges stemming from four criminal cases — seems focused on turning the clock back to one of the country’s darkest historical chapters, known as Jim Crow, when it strictly enforced racial segregation laws, particularly in economically depressed southern regions that had until the middle of the 19th century legalized the enslavement of Black people.
In fact, naked racism and support for white supremacy seemed one of the defining attributes of staffers across the new government. At least three of the DOGE mercenaries, when identified, were quickly traced to racist or extremist postings online; one of them, who had advocated for eugenics and called to “normalize” hating Indians, resigned, only to be quickly reinstated by Musk with support from the vice president. (“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” a social media account linked to the staff posted last July.) Similarly, a man appointed to be the nation’s top public diplomat had been previously fired from a government role for attending a gathering of white nationalists and had called the nation’s Black population “feral” and advocated sterilizing Black men by incentivizing them with fancy sneakers.
As if to underscore the new ties between apartheid-era South Africa, the regime — which spent much of first two weeks brutally cracking down on non-white refugees — moved in recent days to explicitly welcome new white Afrikaner refugees.
It is perhaps not surprising, in retrospect, that the United States government might be overthrown by such a radical, youthful, tech-enabled junta.
Throughout the governmental upheaval, there have been consistent warning signs of the country’s creaking gerontocracy and an aging, increasingly out-of-touch generation unwilling to cede power peacefully — after all, three of the country’s last five presidents have all been born in 1946 and the just-departed president, who was forced to drop out of his reelection bid after appearing unable to answer questions during a televised debate last June, was even older.
Attorney General Bondi’s confirmation hearing was overseen by a 91-year-old senator who could barely string together coherent sentences and the body’s longtime Republican leader, now 82 and who repeatedly froze in public appearances last year, fell down twice in the Capitol building on Wednesday and was spotted thereafter using a wheelchair.
Most of all, though, that gerontocracy seemed on full display in the presidential mansion. There, the seemingly senile elected president, mid-level oligarch Donald Trump — reduced apparently without public complaint by Musk’s coup to a ceremonial figurehead — continued his practice of issuing bizarre and impractical daily announcements aimed primarily at attracting media headlines, each almost less sensical than the last. There was little evidence he was aware of the broader actions taking place across his government and no sense he was in control of the capital.
Over last weekend, the president — a failed real estate developer who remade his public image in the early 2000s as a hardened business executive through a popular reality TV show and who makes a habit of announcing that he’s solved crises that he invented himself — initiated a bizarre and ill-planned trade war with the country’s two main trading partners, only to rescind the threatened tariffs on Monday and Tuesday after the leaders of both countries placated him by announcing things they’d already been doing.
Later on Tuesday, he announced — with no official plan or even reasonable hope of execution — that the US would take over Gaza and develop it into golf courses; he devoted Thursday to an intensely personally attack on what amounts to just ten transgender college athletes nationwide, out of some 500,000 student athletes, the latest in a long series of actions aimed at inciting a moral panic over a tiny minority of an already heavily persecuted population; to cap off the week Friday evening, in a move more likely historically to emanate from Turkmenistan than the United States, he declared himself the chairman of the capital’s main arts institution, known as the Kennedy Center.
Then, for the third time in as many weekends of his presidency, he headed south to his personal beach compound located in Florida, a southern province known as a political stronghold and led by a loyalist governor. Presumably, this weekend — like the others so far — he’ll go golfing and then on Sunday, he is scheduled to attend the nation’s biggest secular holiday festival, an American football game called the “Super Bowl.”
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[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

You seem to be very happy that the grand experiment is ending after…almost 250 years.
Trump shows no interest in upholding the law or protecting and preserving the Constitution. According to him and your ilk, the law is whatever he says it is.
So, are we a nation of laws?
Do we care about the Constitution? Or are you good with terminating it?
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Best not the argue with a cult member, you will only get more of the same, he is a Trump mini me, angry, racist, narcissistic, never wrong, never willing to intelligently debate the policy issues, he knows it all, but clearly knows little and is ready to welcome a country ruled by the rich few funded on the backs of the poor and middle class.

[piemma]

OH BOY!!! You guys need to fish.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by piemma

OH BOY!!! You guys need to fish.

Or play golf

Both are frozen up here
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[Pete F.]

FElon wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Bu bu but…
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[wdmso]

This is how MAGA logic works

They can round people up
They can put them in camps
They can villainized them
They can separate children
They can deport people to unsafe and other dictators
They can use them as scapegoats for the nation’s problems

But you can’t compare them to 1930 or 1940 Germany

Even if 99% of their rhetoric behaviors and actions mirror what happened in Germany

And their defense …. Is. Well we haven’t gassed them or killed them ….. AND AM I SUPPOSED TO PAT THEM ON THEIR BACKS FOR STOPPING THERE?

It’s like claiming not to be a rapist because you didn’t stick it in him or her

[spence]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

FElon wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Bu bu but…
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It’s just an attack on woke universities.

Nearly all of these “cuts” are politically driven with zero thought into the negative ramifications.

Musk thinks he can replace most of the government with an AI bot and eliminate all the pesky regulations impacting his businesses.

When the working class wakes up to what’s really going on it’s going to be ugly.