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Should be a wild four years.

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Tucker Carlson calls them "Neocons" which he applies regardless of whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
Neocon is catchy and easy to say; it also used to be a Democrat catchphrase, so we can appropriate it. War monger is another one, but it's not as catchy as Neocon. Also, bonus points because Neocon offends liberal hawks.
 
Once again I am asking people - especially journalists - to read Art of the Deal. This is Trump's opening gambit, not his final position. He's asking for the earth and expects to negotiate. IMO Zelensky knows this, which is why he hasn't thrown a wobbler about it; his last known statement on the proposal was that it wasn't ready yet.
It is shocking how few people seem to understand the basics of negotiating- or just pretend not to understand. Trump is doing what every negotiation in history has done, and everyone pretends this is some serious demand. It's insulting to readers and audiences to freak out about perfectly normal tactics. No wonder no one bothers with mainstream media.
 
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I'm with Dianna here.

Musk is giga retarded and you should think twice before believing anything he puts out. (see bulletproof cybertruck window incident)
The data he posted doesn't pass the sniff test at all and probably represents every citizen who was ever eligible to receive social security. It doesn't represent current recipients at all.
I still want my money back.
 
Musk is giga retarded and you should think twice before believing anything he puts out. (see bulletproof cybertruck window incident)
The data he posted doesn't pass the sniff test at all and probably represents every citizen who was ever eligible to receive social security. It doesn't represent current recipients at all.
Reminder that just recently we just learned that the treasury didn't refuse payments to anyone including terrorists or for any other reason you can think of and they didn't even bother to fill out the basic info about why each payment was being made.

It's so much worse then anyone can ever imagine and we know for a fact SSN's are abused by illegals and other people for $$ and have been for decades. The entire government apparatus is archaic and abused to unheard of levels and the stuff that is coming out is just the beginning.
 
Musk is giga retarded and you should think twice before believing anything he puts out. (see bulletproof cybertruck window incident)
The data he posted doesn't pass the sniff test at all and probably represents every citizen who was ever eligible to receive social security. It doesn't represent current recipients at all.
Pretty sure the post was community noted already.

"It looks like Elon’s genius coders don’t know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don’t know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 -
150 years ago.
"

https://x.com/toshiHQ/status/1889928670887739902 (A)
 
A more accurate term would be Joss Whedon comedy because I rewatched the first iron man film not too long ago and it took itself very seriously while still having a few jokes.
Joss Whedon's entire schtick is zingers. He could never come up with a hilarious scenario like a tired dude making chocolate pudding at 4 AM to satisfy a spoiled child. Even his comedy series like Dr. Horrible had straightforward premises.
 
Musk is giga retarded and you should think twice before believing anything he puts out. (see bulletproof cybertruck window incident)
The data he posted doesn't pass the sniff test at all and probably represents every citizen who was ever eligible to receive social security. It doesn't represent current recipients at all.
I'm pretty sure most people know there is at least some fuckery afloat and want this investigated. I totally believe it is be data that they forgot to delete or purge correctly but again, if this is the case then why the fuck are we paying so many people for? It's using an old as fuck system and, despite having so many workers, no one ever thought of updating and maintaining it?
 
I'm pretty sure most people know there is at least some fuckery afloat and want this investigated. I totally believe it is be data that they forgot to delete or purge correctly but again, if this is the case then why the fuck are we paying so many people for? It's using an old as fuck system and, despite having so many workers, no one ever thought of updating and maintaining it?
When I learned that they have to go into some fucking cave to do retirements for federal employees I lost whatever faith I had left in every govt system. All needs to be redone from the ground up.
 
I hate comedians larping as historians. I have no clue why Shane Gillis is supposed hailed as a savior of comedy, but he feels like Bill Burr. Some mildly funny white guy who’s being astroturfed.
Bill burr has cuck energy from being married to a domineering black woman. Shane is the modern day jim gaffigan. mostly harmless, funny jokes. But Dan Carlin isn't a comedian.
 
Musk is giga retarded and you should think twice before believing anything he puts out. (see bulletproof cybertruck window incident)
The data he posted doesn't pass the sniff test at all and probably represents every citizen who was ever eligible to receive social security. It doesn't represent current recipients at all.
fair point. What should also be considered is SSA was created in 1935 so the "people" in the age range of 190-369 were long dead before Social security was a thing, so recipients in that range are obviously fraudulent. I doubt someone born in 1665 were around long enough for to apply for SS in 1935, unless there was some precursor program to SS I dont know about. Please correct me if Im wrong
 
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I'm tryin'. This next month will be the month I start putting a plan in action. I'll be the first to admit I'm exceptionally lazy when it comes to really learning anything new or doing anything for myself health wise. I dunno. Maybe watching the Left seethe and cope has got me properly motivated again.
You're not exceptionally lazy, you're demoralized. Jordan Peterson made it sound gay and Canadian (redundant), but incremental improvement is where it's at. Do one thing better today, no matter how small, "next month" is a cope. Do that for a month and you'll start to value yourself and see who you really are.

Take one of your reflexive habits and say no to that impulse just once. Even if you don't do something better to replace it, it'll start proving to yourself that the thinking part of you is what's in charge, not the feeling part that feels like you deserve shitty food, shitty visual input, degrading behavior.

A lot of us have been there, it's been tough especially since Lockdown. But that was the whole point of Lockdown, demoralization and learned helplessness, so don't let them win.

Everything in this thread is about Trump saying he's going to do something, then doing it, then talking about how beautiful it was that he did it. That's the ideal of America; whether it was always 100% true in the past, the names you know were all people who did that. There have always been doomers but no one gives a shit about them once their dooming time has passed.
 
You're not exceptionally lazy, you're demoralized. Jordan Peterson made it sound gay and Canadian (redundant), but incremental improvement is where it's at. Do one thing better today, no matter how small, "next month" is a cope. Do that for a month and you'll start to value yourself and see who you really are.

Honestly, now that you say something, that's likely what it was. I know it wasn't depression, 'cause I KNOW what that is.
 
Pretty sure the post was community noted already.

"It looks like Elon’s genius coders don’t know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don’t know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 -
150 years ago.
"

https://x.com/toshiHQ/status/1889928670887739902 (A)
This is some literally who NFT retard parroting DailyKOS as far as I can tell and it's about what he said in the Oval Office. Nothing to do with the tweet which doesn't have anything specifically to do with 150 years.
 
Holman's nuts, there isn't anything illegal about telling people the cops are coming. otherwise you couldn't flash your headlights to warn other drivers of a speed trap.
But what if they are warning criminals or illegal aliens? "Prison approaches, child" is different than "Prison approaches, criminal, here is what to do to avoid them".
 
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