US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Failed Lurker]

What? Is that because of some kind of paperwork problem or is somehow the king of england not allowed to have a passport and driver's license? That's fucking wild if the reigning monarch can't fucking drive.

It's because the licence and passports are on effectively granted by the head of state so they are above the system...UK passport states you're a subject of the crown, licence from the crown etc

And yeah, double posted, my bad.

 

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[Kuritan Deplorable]

What? Is that because of some kind of paperwork problem or is somehow the king of england not allowed to have a passport and driver's license? That's fucking wild if the reigning monarch can't fucking drive.

And their travel is highly monitored and orchestrated. The Monarch doesn't need a passport because they're never going to casually hop through standard border controls and travel on a normal plane anywhere in the world, for the rest of their life. Any visit they make anywhere will be a royal visit, with drivers and escorts, any flight to another country is a diplomatic event preapproved and waved through and all that.

I find part of the issue is that the Corp level are also so far removed from the day-to-day, front line staff, that they think a new process or system will fix it because some HR bullshit prevents them from actually removing the idiots who are the middle management with their little cliques, who then ultimately are the ones who come up with the emails and ways to work round it so they don't get found out to being a waste of a wage, or take credit for the work of others

They really aren't - They are exceedingly aware of the day-to-day. But those HR checks means its impossible to grab an entire team and fire them for compliance refusal. So when you know the human process is fucked, and your the senior executive, you actually can't solve the human problem, because mass firings is a huge deal with piles of extra severance and departures and shareholder announcements and the struggle to rehire, plus inevitable lawsuits, accusations of favoritism, etc for the competent people you retain. So often enough, all they can do is desperately ask IT to lead a horse to water, and put those increasing guardrails around it.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Not gonna upload the video to save some bandwidth during these times but it's literally people carrying bankers boxes like you would if you're moving a small amount of stuff. I never thought about it before but they will definitely raid another Trump residence soon, and in Bedminster they'll have dems in various state positions open the door for the DOJ, maybe even cuff the staff just to rub it in as they pretend to be the good guys.

 

[Failed Lurker]

And their travel is highly monitored and orchestrated. The Monarch doesn't need a passport because they're never going to casually hop through standard border controls and travel on a normal plane anywhere in the world, for the rest of their life. Any visit they make anywhere will be a royal visit, with drivers and escorts, any flight to another country is a diplomatic event preapproved and waved through and all that.


They really aren't - They are exceedingly aware of the day-to-day. But those HR checks means its impossible to grab an entire team and fire them for compliance refusal. So when you know the human process is fucked, and your the senior executive, you actually can't solve the human problem, because mass firings is a huge deal with piles of extra severance and departures and shareholder announcements and the struggle to rehire, plus inevitable lawsuits, accusations of favoritism, etc for the competent people you retain. So often enough, all they can do is desperately ask IT to lead a horse to water, and put those increasing guardrails around it.

Appreciate the insight but can't agree, in the sense of Corp knowing who's shit and can't do anything about it as they're often reliant on those assholes.

Been in too many presentations with Upper/Senior level management, who are pushing out the new great thing, telling their little anecdotes about why the new thing is going to be so much better then are asked a question about how the correlation on the actual process will benefit and the holes in their stories are exposed, suddenly the topic shifts.

Or from being in panels with developers who are creating the new tech/IT are asked how introducing 3 new processes and the follow on impact it has on overall output, the answer is "well this is what management want so..."

Yeah, this type of shit gets me MATI (should probably take the rest of this stuff to PM's) cause, to me, it's a result of the current culture, that the human problem is embraced and created by Corp, often justify their over inflated positions and have their little favourites underneath cause I'm fairly confident everyone has seen those failures being promoted up, to shore up the one's above...again to bring back on topic, see the current US Vice President.

 

[9Style]

Important caveat regarding all those Charles facts is they came out when he was prince. His speech yesterday made very clear it won't be the same now as King - and indeed he actually lost a lot of autonomy assuming the throne (e.g, no passport, no driver's license).

I'm no lover of the monarchy or denying that Charles is bought and paid for, but I'm not about to deny acknowledging a man who knows what the public limits of his office are or the expectations on his shoulders. That semblance of humility and symbolic unity is something Biden should be espousing since, you know, it's what the dementia addled fool ran on in the first place.

I always thought this photo interesting though.

 

[SCSI]

I always thought this photo interesting though.

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Standard Freemason compass and rule emblem on the left, the single point up pentacle on the right might be the badge for the 27th Degree in the Scottish Rite Freemasons.

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

Tie that in with the latest Diversity and Inclusion horseshit and it explains why things are often so shit, from both the perspective of an employee and a consumer.

Welcome to my nightmare. The level of DEI shit I have to suffer through monthly would choke a stronger Farmer than I. The worst part is, these meetings are ALWAYS taken over by some Shaniqua, Lucinda, or insert name here and become a sad tale of whoa of how they struggled against the racist regime and overcame it all, to cheers and asspats from everyone else in the meeting.

Fuck that. I was a poor ass white boy, worked my fucking ass off to overcome divorced parents, no college, drugs, and kept my small white boy dick firmly planted against the grindstone to enjoy the modicum of success I enjoy today.

WHERE'S MY DEI? WHERE'S MY ASSPATS?

Sorry sir, DEI is reserved for people of color and their struggles.

Poz all that bullsit right in your neghole.

 

[9Style]

Standard Freemason compass and rule emblem on the left, the single point up pentacle on the right might be the badge for the 27th Degree in the Scottish Rite Freemasons.

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Why do Freemasons use pentagrams so much?

It's in Order of the Eastern Star and The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as well.

 

[SCSI]

Why do Freemasons use pentagrams so much?

It's in Order of the Eastern Star and The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as well.

They're drawing off of old Neoplatonic, Kabbalah, medieval Christian mystic symbology, and Christian Hermeticism ideas, mostly. If you skim through their publications over the centuries, you can see a lot of references to those earlier systems. Quick and easy way to draw off a developed set of lore and religious and/or philosophical thought, plus trying to claim lineage from older, established movements is a classic marketing maneuver to instantly give your new organization more gravitas and authority. Wiki's section on the history of the symbol is actually not terrible, and saves me from sperging up the thread with an OT Western occultism/mysticism derail.

 

[Michael Wade]

They're drawing off of old Neoplatonic, Kabbalah, medieval Christian mystic symbology, and Christian Hermeticism ideas, mostly. If you skim through their publications over the centuries, you can see a lot of references to those earlier systems. Quick and easy way to draw off a developed set of lore and religious and/or philosophical thought, plus trying to claim lineage from older, established movements is a classic marketing maneuver to instantly give your new organization more gravitas and authority. Wiki's section on the history of the symbol is actually not terrible, and saves me from sperging up the thread with an OT Western occultism/mysticism derail.

Funny enough that's been used in Japanese too. There was a religious sect called the Onmyodo that was sanctioned by the government until the 19th century.

One of their most famous members Abe no Seimei used that symbol to drive out demons,


They literally call it the Seal of Abe no Seimei.

Fascinating dude. Unlike many, his deeds are well documented in history. He was a living legend even until his death in his 80s. The freaking emperor built a shrine in his honor. Very abnormal and interesting character, Inspired all manner of legends and stories.



https://www.westernjournal.com/pentagon-troops-not-paying-enough-feed-apply-welfare/

We are so screwed.

 

[Kane Lives]

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https://www.westernjournal.com/pentagon-troops-not-paying-enough-feed-apply-welfare/

We are so screwed.

I'm all for doomposting, but that article is clickbait, lol. What was actually happening was that the brass was asking the soldiers to check out some sort of pamphlet. And one of the recommendations is that they get on SNAP. I assume there were other, more pertinent suggestions before that.

Still bad that it was even included as an option at all, given the tacit admission of not being able to pay the grunts enough but we're not in the military mutiny stage yet, I don't think.

 

[9Style]

https://twitter.com/erickallen/status/1568951192344231936

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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It's still surreal to encounter people that will say these things unironically without ever realizing there is a distinct difference between those 2 dates.

 

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[Kuritan Deplorable]

I'm all for doomposting, but that article is clickbait, lol. What was actually happening was that the brass was asking the soldiers to check out some sort of pamphlet. And one of the recommendations is that they get on SNAP. I assume there were other, more pertinent suggestions before that.

Still bad that it was even included as an option at all, given the tacit admission of not being able to pay the grunts enough but we're not in the military mutiny stage yet, I don't think.

Consider the plummeting standards as diversity hires are emphasized and women are emphasized, your gonna get some peak welfare queens and their broods, no chance in hell a grunts salary would keep up with that. Not that dumb fuck marines didn't put themselves in that position already, but now y'all direct recruiting them instead of forcing them to seduce a boot first.

 

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I'm all for doomposting, but that article is clickbait, lol. What was actually happening was that the brass was asking the soldiers to check out some sort of pamphlet. And one of the recommendations is that they get on SNAP. I assume there were other, more pertinent suggestions before that.

Still bad that it was even included as an option at all, given the tacit admission of not being able to pay the grunts enough but we're not in the military mutiny stage yet, I don't think.

Knowing the grunts I know, it's just as likely they are pissing and burning away their yearly salaries on $40,000 Ford F150s and then bitching about their finances.

 

[silverstacks]

Today marks a very special anniversary for all Americans.

Of course I'm talking about the famous "side of beef" incident which happened 6 years ago.

NEVER FORGET

 

[Some Badger]

Swamp gonna swamp

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I feel a little bad for boomer conservatives now. The party whose hand they've been eating out of for most of their adult lives has cucked out on what is still a wedge issue for a many and is probably getting more attention between Roe v. Wade getting overturned and the aggressive push by LGBT educators in the public school system to poz their kids. I don't expect the populist right to do anything about gay marriage when they inevitably eat the old guard GOP either, and considering Obergefell v. Hodges has stronger legs than RvW, it's likely that gay marriage is here to stay short of an apocalyptic collapse of society.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Your kids or grandkids are going to read about 1/6 alongside Pearl harbor in their history books. That will happen. They will learn about how the middle aged men and streamers tried to topple democracy by standing on desks and throwing paper around. Sometimes I wish I would just die in my sleep.