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Comment Re:So this was always about tricking Congress (Score 1) 197

Well, given how your ilk has behaved... now it does. I hope the next time liberals come to power, they use everything Trump has gifted them to fuck over every right winger. A good starting point, functionally ban the Federalist society. Revoke all clearances and federal access to any firm or business employing any current or former member.

Next up, impound all monies to Republican voters. Use the the brand new completely unsecure financial system to link IRS records to voting registration, and launch massive audits of only Republicans. Next up, "lose" the SS, Medicare and Medicaid payments/reimbursements for Republicans. After that, we can look at making all education funding to states contingent on states passing DEI into law, otherwise brand them the racists they are, and strip the funding.

Finally, to rebuild the federal government, we will be jacking the pay up sky high to get the best people, and cripple private industry in a one two punch. Make all government jobs pay at LEAST six figures. Top pay should exceed the president and congress, around 500k annual, full benefits package too. And make severance 1 million per year of service. So if they do a RIF or layoff or any such tricks in the future, it will be VERY expensive.

Oh, and every computer system DOGE touched? Replace them all, new security protocols, lock the President out of them, they answer only to Congress. Arrest every DOGE member, and exile them to an El Salvador prison. And just "lose" track of them.

Comment Re:I'm optimistic (Score 3, Insightful) 338

Sure, if you are willing to accept the revolution, mass murder, and mass suicides that will result.

You CAN'T make the requirements "less dumb" when talking about government, because government, unlike private sector, can't pick and choose its customers, it either serves them all potentially, or none.

Also, companies go bankrupt, people find new jobs, some guys are out money. Governments go bankrupt? Generally a prologue to mass death, carnage, potentially revolution and civil wars, along with invasions and other fun stuff.

Comment Re:Will this be possible? (Score 2) 66

Except none of that actually works, not the way you think. It isn't "US has your back". No longer. It is "every man for themselves and fuck the others".

Donald is a dumbass, he can't think more then 2 weeks ahead. He wants a deal NOW, NOW, NOW, GIMME, GIMMME, GIMME. That's all he can think. All he is doing is forcing everyone to take the short term, instant action, shit solution, that will cause lots, and lots, and lots of long term pain. End globalization? Get used to EVERYTHING getting way, way, more expensive. Or get used the US standard of living being cut in half, at a minimum.

And no, the Middle East is just laughing the whole thing off, they won't change other then "Yay, we can ignore the Americans, they are leaving now". I mean, the US has made it clear they are abandoning most of the world to somehow fight China, and China is laughing as they collect all our former allies to turn against the US. The US has no hope of containing or confronting China if South Korea, the EU, and the entire global south goes to bat for China.

Comment Re:Let's see... (Score 1) 115

The Democrats were doomed the moment Trump signed PPP into law, then promptly removed any oversight, along with fucking up Covid. That set the stage for massive inflation, that EVERYONE suffered from, which Democrats got the blame for. Really that simple. It's why Trump is going all in on corruption, they either rig the elections, or lose massively in the mid terms as they crater the economy on their way to a tech bro utopia of Libertarian fantasy where you pay extra for everything, and nearly everything will be made anywhere but the US since the US will have ended all science and research to appease the oligarchs (mainly Musks delusions about being the savior of humanity by going to Mars).

Comment Re:Not a Good Plan (Score 1) 320

Yeah, from all accounts, it would be basically a California to the US, politically speaking. And practically speaking, it would be worse for the reich wing, there would be like 5-10 new states, so that's easily 0-3 new Republican Senators, and 10-17 new Democrat senators, giving Democrats a near permanent majority in Congress.

Comment Re:I love Trump's intellectual consistency. (Score 1) 109

The 1A has nothing to do with it. Foreign companies have quite literally ZERO guarantees to do business in the US. Honestly the entire discussion should center around the Commerce Clause, which gives clear power to the US Federal government to control and regulate trade internationally. As such, any foreign business has to comply with whatever rules put forth. I would note, Tiktok wasn't banned per se. It was required to reincorporate with all materials present in a US own company, and they refused. The pure irony is this kind of arrangement is the standard law in China, it is effectively illegal to not do this in China, there's barely any true foreign companies in China.

Comment Re: Lol (Score 1) 198

Which mean we will reach Truth that we are all very, very, very stupid and catering to stupidity wins elections. So you are saying, the only people who can win elections are gifted liars, grifters, con artists and anyone else who can do a long format of bullshit while shooting the breeze. That's... impressive, will absolutely get you largely losers for office, incompetent hacks that don't know a thing about... well... anything, other then how to shoot the breeze. Under your idea of truth and the future, we are fucked... massively.

Comment Re:Okay. So let's say this is about expediency (Score 0) 117

And don't expect any favors from me.

We didn't expect any, we expected you would treat people fairly. They weren't, they were denied, murdered, redlined, etc. So you got DEI. Don't like it, don't silently abuse people. I treat everyone equally, whereas the reich wing implicitly treated anyone of the "wrong" category as subhuman and filed them away. Maybe when enough boomers are dead (the people were directly members of the Klan and were truly racist scum), and there's not racism behind closed doors, will things not require DEI. Going to be a lot of reich wing terror and violence in the next 4 years, but in true "equality" the victims won't be identified and the entire thing will be swept under the rug, unless reich wing goes truly mask off and explicitly starts listing people to be killed over sexuality (nowadays, they just terrorize for fun).

Comment Re:Buch of two-faced traitors. (Score -1, Flamebait) 225

Ahh... both sides are the same am I right?

How about the simple reality is that before, reich wingers simply LIED a TON more.

So Fuck You, you facist scumbag. The right always had billionaires (see Kochs, Adelsons, Murdochs to name a few).

Now they've gone mask off, it is time for the peasants to be culled all for the glory of the Reich of Musk, Trump and Thiel, who truly believe they are superior humans beings (which I know isn't true, a bullet to their heads works the same as any other human).

Comment Re:The check cashed (Score 1) 119

Let's all just act like adults and put the cards on the table:

Yes, let's do so, Trump is corrupt. End of story, he is entirely transactional, so ANYTHING he does is based on how much it benefits him, so it entirely comes down to who talked to him last, or who bribed him last.

And yes, to all you clown liberals, I voted for him this time. Didn't really want to, but y'all made it personal.

Thank you for confirming you have no real ethics and can be easily persuaded by propaganda. Enjoy the tanked economy. You did want to, because there's not really such a thing as "undecided" just "I'm embarrassed to enjoy this diet of propaganda, largely running on hate" Enjoy the destruction of the American experiment, it was nice while it was lasted. We will have faux elections, but we have now begun the transition to an extractive system for the elite, where the oligarchs choose how the serfs will serve them for the subsequent 4 years. Each elections will see further degradation of civil rights until we at last arrive at "What shall Ceaser command?"

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