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Should be a wild four years.

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Damn, 271,000 people really died? I can't believe it. I just can't believe 2.17 million Jews died like that. It's just unthinkable to me that 6 million Jews could be slaughtered for no reason other than bigotry. The idea that anyone could stand by and let 60 million innocent Jews perish like that is barbaric.
You know, I'm splinkin' from the heart here. I have did my duty to win the World Series Cup. We gotta stop Donald Sterns.

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This guy was the Mayor of Boston for 20 years and he was still better than all his successors.
 
Are EVs seriously just this fragile/volatile? What causes totally secured and powered down EVs to spontaneously combust? These ones are from China so anything is possible I guess, but it seems like this keeps happening all over the place in ways I never heard of happening with explosive gasoline cars.
if lithium batteries are pierced, crushed, or overheated, they can go off in an uncontrolled chemical reaction that releases tons of heat until the whole battery is burnt out. now combine this situation with chinese (lack of) safety regulations and standards and, well, the result speaks for itself.
 
He definitely wants them to but I think he’s toast as far as they are concerned. I think him shitting all over the administration he was a part of until very recently is him trying to win back over the consumers he alienated with his work for Trump. His wealth is mostly TSLA and he was on the verge of losing his seat at Tesla if he continued to play politics. Hence the butthurt.
He's definitely trying to save his ass. He figures this way if it passes, he can say "Well, I tried!" and if it fails, he can claim "I personally stopped it!"

What he's not considering is that the dems have already turned him and Tesla into their designated shitting street punching bag. And they're not going to give that up easily.

All this is doing is making everyone else hate him.
 
Everything he does makes a lot more sense when you realize that he was called a fucking retard by his dad and everyone else growing up so he has some major complexes going on. There’s no other reason for a guy like this to lie about video games, pathetic behavior.
That was actually fucking embarrassing. Just fucking say you cheat, it’s not a big deal.
 
What entitlement cuts is this guy talking about? The BBB increases medicaid and medicare spending. It just increases it at a lower rate than it had been increasing in previous budgets, which is offset by protections from fraud and abuse.
He's talking about what Rand, Massie and Elon effectively want which is like a 6%+ cut of all spending which is fucking political suicide and would wipe out the GOP in 2026 and 2028 which they know but don't care about because Kentucky is retarded and will keep voting them in while they do nothing.

Rand and Massie would be fucking overjoyed for the Dems to have a clear majority in the senate and house so they do their big grandstanding filibuster shit about spending but not have to actually do anything.
 
Maybe you can qualify for some kind of early retirement? Might as well extract value from the company before they don't let you anymore/there isn't any value to extract.
There is talk of a 3 year retention bonus. Wife and I are already in a position where we "could" retire if we needed to and be alright. 3 years of salary + that bonus will make things good. There are plenty worse positions for me to be in. I always thought it would be Bankruptcy or just the owner closing up shop that would end it.

I wasn't emotionally ready for the form of my network's destruction to take the shape of a Curry Stained Jeet. It hurt on a level I wasn't expecting.

Are they making you train your pajeet replacement?
Nah. They'll probably just nuke my whole array and replace it with their shit for "economical" reasons.


I can respect a man who configures a network in a way that seems completely reasonable when managed by intelligent and competent people who understand the company's business needs, but is undetectably a company-ending time bomb when placed in the hands of pajeets. Moreso than any necessarily complex system placed into pajeet hands becomes a time bomb, that is.
My network is purpose built for the organization. It does exactly what it needs to do, in the simplest and "least points of failure" way possible. It's fast, easily maintained and reliable. My biggest downtime is directly related to our one and only ISP available to us constantly shitting the bed and doing nothing. I caught wind of what the Jeets have, and they are going to fucking absolutely hate it. ... and I can't wait.
 
He's talking about what Rand, Massie and Elon effectively want which is like a 6%+ cut of all spending which is fucking political suicide and would wipe out the GOP in 2026 and 2028 which they know but don't care about because Kentucky is retarded and will keep voting them in while they do nothing.

Rand and Massie would be fucking overjoyed for the Dems to have a clear majority in the senate and house so they do their big grandstanding filibuster shit about spending but not have to actually do anything.
The perspective fiscal conservatives advocate for is understandable but it isn't very attractive politically, especially if spending cuts start effecting things used by sizable portions of the country. Wasteful funding needs to be eliminated but the GOP needs to move with surgical precision and focus on the matter.
 
He's talking about what Rand, Massie and Elon effectively want which is like a 6%+ cut of all spending which is fucking political suicide and would wipe out the GOP in 2026 and 2028 which they know but don't care about because Kentucky is retarded and will keep voting them in while they do nothing.

Rand and Massie would be fucking overjoyed for the Dems to have a clear majority in the senate and house so they do their big grandstanding filibuster shit about spending but not have to actually do anything.
So they want democracy majority so they can grandstand about being the victims?
God I fucking hate libertarians
 
The Museum honors as survivors any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps, ghettos, and prisons, this definition includes, among others, people who were refugees or were in hiding.
Nice, super loose definition and painting in very broad strokes. I believe the holocoaster happened but using this as a definition discredits what being a "Holocaust survivor" is. This reads like the watered down racial ideology/movements of today; cover a subject broadly so you can pivot and change the 'true meaning' whenever you want to include or exclude as you decide.

Under theses rules a fuck load of Italians are also Holocaust survivors, but fuck if I've ever seen a Mario, Luigi or Tony ever be called one or receive any benefits. How about the French who had to flee? Do you think that the displaced, non-jewish: Italians, British, poles, gypos, and all the rest that fled their homes due to to "ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945." The Italians had their shit being stolen by German soldiers. For the French or poles it was flee or be occupied and fight. Some Brits didn't like being bombed all day and bailed.

Under the definition you provided, from that museum, do you acknowledge that these non-jewish people are also Holocaust survivors and should receive the same level of respect and support?
 
I just find it hysterical that despite liberals' retarded attempt to meme Musk and Trump into having a falling out with the "King Elon" shit, assuming Trump's ego is so fragile he would fire him on the spot, the closest thing to causing a rift between them is almostly entirely Musk himself being a loudmouth while Trump mostly ignores him and focuses on shitting on lolberts.
Hell, Mike Johnson has said more against Musk than Trump has.
 
The perspective fiscal conservatives advocate for is understandable but it isn't very attractive politically, especially if spending cuts start effecting things used by sizable portions of the country. Wasteful funding needs to be eliminated but the GOP needs to move with surgical precision and focus on the matter.
What I think is most frustrating is the GOP has a razor-thin advantage right now in Congress and there are sitting members of the party willing to piss it away for principles that serve no purpose. Let's say the fiscal hawks get what they want. Do they think that will redound to the party's benefit in 2026 or 2028? I don't think so. I think what they are doing is short-sighted at best and selfish at worst.
 
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Nice, super loose definition and painting in very broad strokes. I believe the holocoaster happened but using this as a definition discredits what being a "Holocaust survivor" is. This reads like the watered down racial ideology/movements of today; cover a subject broadly so you can pivot and change the 'true meaning' whenever you want to include or exclude as you decide.

Under theses rules a fuck load of Italians are also Holocaust survivors, but fuck if I've ever seen a Mario, Luigi or Tony ever be called one or receive any benefits. How about the French who had to flee? Do you think that the displaced, non-jewish: Italians, British, poles, gypos, and all the rest that fled their homes due to to "ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945." The Italians had their shit being stolen by German soldiers. For the French or poles it was flee or be occupied and fight. Some Brits didn't like being bombed all day and bailed.

Under the definition you provided, from that museum, do you acknowledge that these non-jewish people are also Holocaust survivors and should receive the same level of respect and support?
go argue with the US holocaust museum, im just using their definition because it's commonly accepted
 
What I think is most frustrating is the GOP has a razor-thin advantage right now in Congress and there are sitting members of the party willing to piss it away for principles that serve no purpose. Let's say the fiscal hawks get what they want. Do they think that will rebound to the party's benefit in 2026 or 2028? I don't think so. I think what they are doing is short-sighted at best and selfish at worst.
Pragmatically speaking, the electoral benefits of the Big Beautiful Bill most likely are worth a lot more then making a stink about it increasing the national debt. Kill it over spending increasing or say you removed the tax from overtime and tips? The choice should be obvious.
 
There is also a decent chance that Priest is doing this on purpose because he doesn't like being forced to write black characters just because he's black.
Reminds me of Dwayne McDuffie's famous "Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers" letter. RIP to a real one.
go argue with the US holocaust museum, im just using their definition because it's commonly accepted
Please stop replying to the Holocaust spergers. My Bushisms and Meninoisms didn't work.
Pragmatically speaking, the electoral benefits of the Big Beautiful Bill most likely are worth a lot more then making a stink about it increasing the national debt. Kill it over spending increasing or say you removed the tax from overtime and tips? The choice should be obvious.
This is what blows my mind. Trump wants to get the spending bill done and then work on other problems so the Democrats are forced to take the big fat L and flail impotently for the next year. I am very sympathetic to the fiscal hawks, but this one should be a no-brainer. The President has always been the face of his party's leadership, so it doesn't do the party any good to snub the president's spending bill. It really blows my mind that the Democrats have better whips than the GOP after all these years. Where the fuck is Tom Emmer?
 
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