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Should be a wild four years.

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Remember when your company announced they were going green which really just ment they were not going to stock plastic forks anymore and you were on your own? It's sort of like that except with hiring cheaper less experienced employees. Many such cases across every industry it's just more obvious when they fuck up flying a plane full of people.
I've been seeing adds in my shithole about becoming a pilot or flight attendant for the past few years. I wouldn't be surprised if they are trying to H1B visa people with the bare minimum flight experience to cut costs even more.
 
Chris Kluwe...I knew that name sounded familiar.

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Fuck me, it never ends, does it, Sargon? Time really is a flat circle.
Kluwe famously got a huge payday threatening to falsely accuse several of his teammates of homophobia all the while being caught making jokes about kids being sexually abused in the locker room. Leading to him being blackballed from the NFL for his evil.
 
Singapore says Asia now views U.S. as a ‘landlord seeking rent’
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By Philip J. Heijmans
2025-02-17
Asian perspectives of the U.S. have shifted from a country once perceived as a force of "moral legitimacy” to something akin to "a landlord seeking rent," Singapore’s defense chief said on the sidelines of an international security meeting.
Ng Eng Hen said in a round-table discussion at the Munich Security Conference that assumptions undertaken in the years after the end of World War II have fundamentally changed.

One example is that from the time of then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address more than 60 years ago, the image of the U.S. was of a country that would not allow tyranny such as colonial control to be replaced by another form of tyranny. Now "the image has changed from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent," according to a prepared text of his remarks posted on a government website over the weekend.

The remarks came after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration blindsided historic NATO allies with plans to directly negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the future of the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. The fear for many officials gathered for the conference in Germany is that by dialing back support for Ukraine, Trump is inviting Putin to probe NATO’s willingness to defend the alliance’s eastern borders.

National security adviser Mike Waltz, meanwhile, said the U.S. deserves "payback" from Ukraine for its support against the Russian invasion and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy would be "very wise" to accept a minerals deal offered by the Trump team.

Zelenskyy has rejected a U.S. draft agreement that would give Washington access to critical minerals in the war-battered nation because it didn’t offer investments and sufficient protections.

In its first month, the new Trump administration has made clear it’s willing to quickly alter defense and economic policies that have been in place for decades. It’s a shift that has drawn in attention in Asia, where the U.S. has stationed tens of thousands of troops, as nations there seek to navigate persisting tensions between the U.S. and China.

Singapore, like much of Southeast Asia, has sought a middle path in an increasingly complicated geopolitical picture, seeking to balance ties with the U.S. as a major security partner and source of investment, and China, as one of its biggest trade partners.

Under previous President Joe Biden, the U.S. worked to form a lattice of security arrangements in the region as a counter to Chinese assertiveness in places such as the South China Sea. Another persistent security concern is China’s pledge to bring Taiwan under its control someday, by force if necessary.
Not sure if this was posted before. I searched thread for singapore
 
DOGE is a fair and rewarding group as long as you believe in the mission:

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People where right when saying that reason that DOGE is able to move so fast is that they found the career govies that were tried with the bullshit and started working with people that know the ins and out of the agency.
This really makes in apparent that having an internal accountability team in every single agency was a mistake.

A DOGE like watchdog was clearly the answer all along. The question is who watches the watchman?
 
Orange Man buck breaking neocons and shitlibs with this statement.

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It was only a matter of time. Z man just doesn't know when to shut the hell up and take it. Trump gave him plenty of opportunities to kiss the ring before now, but this idiot kept going behind his back and bad mouthing him till Trump has just had ENOUGH of his shit.

He has very low chances of getting out of this conflict alive and intact without Trump's protection. I think on some level he's puffing his chest and making unreasonable demands because he knows when this war ends and the true scope of the senseless horror and sacrifice gets out he's going to earn a bullet.

Unfortunately all that coke and blow fried his brain Hitler style, so he keeps pressing buttons for diminishing returns.



Think about it, it's corruption related to NYC construction; Trump is probably pardoning Adams for taking the exact kind of bribes that he's been on the other end of in the past. It's likely routine and they're just going after Adams because of other shit, and Trump considers the idea that a Turkish consular building can't fucking get done in NYC completely embarrassing diplomatically, and if anything the regulations and stasis are worse than the corruption that allows developers to bypass them.
Something tangibly related was the way they treated Rod Blagojevich
They kangaroo courted that dude to an insane extent and went the extra mile to sully his name.


Dude got fucked over by the system not because he did anything particularly wrong or different. He got screwed as a game of political chess to hurt Obama and let the bush era attorneys keep their jobs. He also probably got targeted because he pissed someone off when he stood up for the workers of Chicago. Was absolutely shocked at the comments and how popular he was as a governor. I remember trusting the medias assessment that he was corrupt, but now with how none of the Dems under Biden got any accountability, im becoming more and more convinced that was bullshit. These pardons feel like a tactical message to Dems on the edge of the fence that Trump will back up anyone who puts the people of America first before the graft. There will be no investigations.... If you play ball


Dam I ended up in the Elon thread from the happenings thread those people are legit bluesky tier lmao. Do people really think the SSA isn't being scammed out of money with dead SSN numbers? we have seen stories of that exact thing happening for decades just because they didn't have a way to ensure someone who dies is marked as deceased. There have been legit govt investigations confirming yes millions of SSNs never got marked deceased and due to how poorly the system is run and payments are barely monitored at all as seen in the recent treasury stuff.

Every single govt program is scammed by bad actors in one way or another and they all basically need to be torn down and remade at a minimum.
It's a massive circle jerk in there. Yes it is genuinely informative to know about Elon's fuck ups and affairs but they can't or won't acknowledge his successes and ability to rebound and adapt from failure. I want concrete analysis of his fuck ups and successes, not an endless pile on Pete.
Head of FDA's food division resigns after dozens of terminations at the agency: report (Archive)
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It seems the various leaders in The Beaurocracy are choosing to resign and flee, rather than put up a fight.
They were never brave in the first place. It's like a serial rapist coming up against a navy seal. The moment there is actual resistance they break and flake.
Do you know what role the Imperial Czar and as such the Russian Empire played in the American Civil War?

The British and French were about to join the Confederacy and so the Czar send the far east fleet to San Fransisco first then another to new york to help blockade Confederate ports
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Its widely believed by historians this helped shortened the conflict my may years and stopping it becoming the first proto world war much like the Crimean War

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They helped blockade critical ports the south controlled and brought a faster end to the war

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That's...not entirely accurate. Russia's diplomatic support definitely was a point against the UK and France getting involved in the conflict, but both of them had their own reasons for not doing so that weighed very strongly against the idea. The UK was opposed to the Confederacies embrace of chattal slavery, and were deeply concerned of the possibility the war could still not be won and put British North America (Canada) in jeopardy.

The French for their part were mucking around in Mexico, and even that was proving a headache. Russia viewed the situation in more broad stroke terms of wanting to shit in the Brit's cheerios by backing what at the time was one of Britain's most dangerous geo-strategic rivals. The UK and the USA prior to the civil war almost ended up in conflicts over a variety of different issues. Russia, who at the time was locked in a hegemonic contest with the UK saw the USA as a potential ally. But this alliance would be for fighting Britain, not the Confederacy. Russia's naval presence was a show of force, showing the Brits they had the capability to deploy militarily to the Western Hemisphere, but beyond that their presence was ceremonial and Russia never engaged in any of the hostilities.
The French actually were willing to go in and help the Confederacy but without approval from Russia or Britain it was never gonna happen. The Confederates foolishly assumed foreign intervention was guaranteed when they declared war, and it was part of the reason they were eager to kick things off in the first place. They didn't take into account British sentiment against slavery or their ample stockpiles of cotton that gave them no economic reason to support the Confederacy. That's not to say there was no chance of it happening. The detainment and boarding of a British ship to capture Confederate diplomats pissed off the Brits very badly and could have led to something if cooler heads hadn't prevailed. If the Confederacy was smart enough to abolish slavery ahead of time they might have had a chance to get support from Britain. ( Confederate congressmen even admitted as much in the third year of the war) As it stood, they only got token observers and a couple privateer ships out of them
HALO is now a game for faggots, my god
The only good thing coming out of this shit show is the older releases coming over to PlayStation in the near future.
It is clear that you don't have your heart in it anymore. Maybe you should just find a new job or something.
The @Fatpacks experience


 
Makes sense, considering their main tactic now is shouting "OH NO YOU DI'N'T" and chimping out like sheboon at a Walmart Black Friday sale.
Just going by the recent protests at my state capital, it's just old Boomers and brain rotted soys screaming at the Tom MacDonald wing of MAGA passing by on pick-ups to troll them, while the brainier MAGA types do their work dismantling the Deep State ignored and unimpeded.
I got to give those MAGA wiggers credit, they're doing the good work of keeping the proggies distracted and occupied with their own personal vision of Trump supporters being dumb and unsophisticated instead of twigging on to how things have changed.
Somewhere James Carville is crying himself to sleep.
 
Has anyone here heard of this video titled

I don't know why I always get this video suggested to me whenever I watch YouTube logged out, but this former X Factor winner apparently claims there's a secret world religion. I have not watched it, as it's 5 hours long. Unfortunately, the comments are off too, so has anyone here watched this video?
I've watched a chunk of it. I honestly think he's legit. Especially the hand signals and hidden meanings. The main issue I have, is I can't entirely listen to it like a podcast because he's showing a lot of stuff that needs to be looked at and compared.
 
Was absolutely shocked at the comments and how popular he was as a governor.
He to this day is still considered one of, if not the best governor for any state to have ever had ever. When he talked about how Illinois politics is a type of feudalism that is seen nowhere else he is 100% correct.
 
Something tangibly related was the way they treated Rod Blagojevich
I remember Rod from his guest spot in Freakonomics, in which he played the role of the dumbass governor who doesn't understand that correlation does not equal causation. If I recall correctly, he saw a study showing that the presence of books in a child's home correlated with educational success, regardless of whether anyone ever actually read the books; so he wrote up a bill to buy poor kids encyclopedia sets. However, rather than the presence of books magically increasing academic aptitude, it was more likely that both were simply correlated with a third variable, money (which was probably a key factor in causing the books to appear, but may not even have been the causal factor for the academic success).

Well, if you held not understanding causality against politicians, you'd probably end up without anyone to run the country, hell probably a lot of academics couldn't survive that. Ol' Rod is probably something of a political lolcow though, as far as they go.
 
What world do they live in?
They live in the world that they want to see. They cant handle the harsh reality of what goes on and need to be lied too. It's really that simple. You have run into the person that just cant accept the way things are and continues to lie to justify it. Something something MGS2 ending.
 
They live in the world that they want to see. They cant handle the harsh reality of what goes on and need to be lied too. It's really that simple. You have run into the person that just cant accept the way things are and continues to lie to justify it. Something something MGS2 ending.

The sin of man is living in fear of what needs to be done by titillating yourself with what you want to be done.
 
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