wizardwatson
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I don't want to spit on it, it is great that 1500 people + Ross get the boot off their necks. But yeah, I worry it's "peak liberty" for Trump 2.0. We will see. Yes, war in Ukraine, Middle East is a shitshow, but in terms of Trump victims, what about the multitudes of families whose lives were destroyed by mRNA poison? Were they not also railroaded by a corrupt machine? Plus, this poison has emergency auth for another 5 years. People like McCardle want to shame people for not being optimistic. Well, all this shit Trump did barely takes us to the beginning of Biden's term. Trump could've pardoned all these people before he left office. Oh, but then where's the leverage for next run? It's 10 steps back and 1 step forward and we're supposed to be grateful? It's a silly game of teeter-totter where every new President issues orders countering the last four years while the Uniparty war pigs, big pharma, and big tech march forward unabated.

Checking in on the beacon of democracy in the Middle East.... (THIS IS FROM TODAY 1/21/2025) 1881792286226571299 Source from JPost: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-838603 Denying Israel's victimhood is now punishable by jailtime in democratic Israel.

It's so nauseating listening to these gimps talk about China when you know that history shows America is much worse. He characterizes China as loan sharks who bribe officials. No doubt. The difference between America and China is America will kill you and your family if you don't take the bribe. Where was all this anti-China sentiment when the corporations sold out the American worker and moved our manufacturing base to China? And now Trump wants to slap tariffs on the only thing we got out of the deal, cheap crap. "But the Chinese are in Cuba, man! 80 miles from Florida!" Well, F#$% me runnin'. You didn't tell me they were all the way in the Gulf of America. :rolleyes: Anyway, they got their man when Israel needs American blood to murder innocent Iranians or whoever else they want to murder.

Well, the pardons are the news. Do you want to smear that with a reference to the silk road drug dealer website guy? That's all liberal news would talk about.

Lot's of people commented on #freeross twitter account that Trump has assured Ross will be free. Kelley Paul, Thomas Massie, Elon Musk....very likely this will happen. Maybe the stalling is to diminish the publicity as this is not a popular move for a lot of the conservative base. The same reason you won't see a Snowden/Assange pardon. Too much U.S. troop idolatry in this country.

My theory: Dotards gonna dotard. Dude is pushing 80, probably preoccupied that he needs to take a piss.

1881741478764097799 ...this is probably a big part of why they want this "back to in-person" rule (which is mostly I.T. and information work). "I.T. modernization" is essentially an outsourcing directive. In order to build their panopticon, they need the tech stack in the hands of the CIA/et al. So federal workers must all be in-person, which creates a great incentive for the federal employee to just move over to the contractor who will let you work remote. Clever if your goal is to outsource all the I.T. That is what happens in reality. Someone who used to work for the Feds now works for a contractor that works for the Feds. The contrator doesn't have subject matter experts, they have to pull them from the client. The I.T. person makes the same or slightly more money, and the government pays the contractor twice as much. What is end result. Same tech, more money, more deep state control of government infrastructure. And guess what... they still gonna be remote.

Also.... 1881741478764097799 ...this is probably a big part of why they want this rule. "I.T. modernization" is essentially an outsourcing directive. In order to build their panopticon, they need the tech stack in the hands of the CIA/et al. So federal workers must all be in-person. But they want to outsource all the I.T. So what happens in reality. Someone who used to work for the Feds now works for a contractor that works for the Feds. The I.T. person makes the same or slightly more money, and the government pays the contractor twice as much. What is end result. Same tech, more money, more deep state control of government infrastructure. And guess what...

Agree to disagree.

This to me, is why people want to go back. Managers who manage by anecdote instead of data. In information work (coding, data analysis) managing by anecdote doesn't work. You need data. And the employees who avoid work, need a micro-manager. Working in cubicle land is hard for coders. Because I can't stop coffee people from walking into my cube ranting about B.S. So, I agree there's different work cultures. If you struggle to manage people in-person, you'll certainly struggle when they are not. If you are managing by data (results), and you are in information work, your employees have more time to work, and less disturbances when they are remote. Many jobs are just writing. You wouldn't expect an author of a book to go work in a cubicle with a bunch of other writers. It would just be distracting.

I will say, the EO for "returning to in-person work" is dumb. Even before Covid, our state-level government offices had some remote work. It makes sense for I.T. people. The machines typically aren't in the building anyway. This is even more true today in the cloud environment. This is Elon Musk's influence. Here was the main dilemma that really was the issue for government. "Wait, if all these cubicle monkeys go home, what about all these office space leases?" Remote work, where it can be done, saves money. Grifters who make money of government bureaucrats don't like it. But if you read the order, it actually says departments can make exemptions. I assure you they will.

Well, the order itself (I read it) seems to just be an order for appropriate agencies to formulate a method of designating the cartels as terrorist. It also mentions something that is a real problem, which is their role in illegal immigration ("coyote" trains). So I assume the one of the primary goals is to prevent all these NGO's and charities operating in the area who are handing money to cartels in order to bus illegal immigrants into our country. I doubt it's going to be used to send Delta Force into a cartel HQ. This would be opening a can of worms. To your point, "where is the edge of a cartel". You use the drug case, but I think it's very much directed at the immigration case. And in that case, the edge is much bigger and much more American than people think. I know church people personally who are involved in Cuban immigrant smuggling that runs through Guatemalan coyotes.

This helps Trump. If Fauci and the bioweapon stuff becomes mainstream, how can Trump avoid scrutiny? All Biden did was continue Trump policies. Trump owns Warp Speed and until 2024 campaign bragged about it. Will Trump even end the Covid emergency? I would be surprised if he even did that.

So heartwarming. The Golden Age of baby killers and war pigs embracing each other and sending warm regards. 1881489776244871663 EDIT: To clarify, the "baby killer and war pig" jab mostly applies to Trump. I'm not sure what particular crimes this CIA sponsored ISIS/Al Qaeda person is guilty of.

So Xi is to Chinese corporations as AIPAC is to American Government?

The Biden pardons help Trump too, let's be honest. Fauci worked for him first. Trump brags about Warp Speed. The emergency orders started under Trump are still in effect, and will likely remain in effect during his entire term. Trump encouraged the J 6'ers, some of whom, per my understanding are still in jail. These people can only be prosecuted now with some legal gymnastics in the court system on a timeline that would exceed the insouciant American's attention span. Trump gets a free pass to ignore it.

It's always "they had to lie to trick the evil people." It's never "they lied to get my vote." Yet we never see any evidence of these noble lies bearing this sweet fruit of justice and liberty. Any day now....

So excited for another 4 years of Trump saying sensational things that the left hates and the right rationalizes. Especially when we really get rolling with team Elon 'tech-Fauci' Musk, and JD 'Palantir-gimp' Vance. Maybe Trump should just annex the world. Then we don't even need a wall. Just one big mega-empire, kinda like we already have. Anyway, Trump always says stupid crap when his attempts to re-package the status quo aren't working (e.g. H1's, empire, surveillance state, wars). Like this:

Oh, he learned, he just didn't learn what we wanted him to learn. Now he has his Elon Musk, his little "tech-Fauci" to whitewash all the Orwellian things coming our way and tell us just how darn safe, effective, and Efficient! things are going to be once we get these big beautiful bill passed. How come we don't learn? Are we that good of friends with these talking heads?

Those are rookie numbers.

... 1874549633650983306 Ron Paul 2008 Supporter to others: "Ron Paul Cured my Apathy." Trump 2024 Supporter to others: "I know things seem horrible, but there's a better than zero chance that if Trump gets in office again and does some of the things he says he's going to do-for real this time-that enough people might get hopeful enough to engage and make things slightly better. So I know you're all depressed, but victory is right around the corner! I mean, it could be. Hope is important though, seriously, if you just get sad and overthink stuff, you'll make others sad. We need to be positive and unite, and right now the best hope we have is Trump and Elon and RFK. Small wins count you know, even if they take a decade or two. Principles are great, but we also need wins. For that you need personalities with enough influence and brand equity to make a difference. For that, you need to at least appear hopeful, or no one will want to join our group." Trump support is the opposite of hope. It is the movement of desperation.

Just to clarify, this was an explosion in Vegas, and not related to the terror attack in New Orleans. The latter is due to government subsidies related to political stabilization gone right, while the former is from government subsidies meant to improve MIC public relations gone wrong. I'm only joking, haha. I love my government almost as much as I love Israel.

I have first-hand experience with H1-B system "drama". I was "questioned" during a DHS I immigration investigation in which they laid out various people associated with a family-owned business I was connected with. Essentially a lot of red-dot Indians working here on H1's. People who were presenting themselves as I.T. consultants and accountants, who were in fact just working cashiers in convenience stores and smoke-shops where they were often just temporary workers (5 years on H-1). Lying on federal forms. H-1's don't get handed out for "cashiers" and H-1's must be renewed every six years. Anyway, I thought DHS was going to bust the whole ring and send them home. They had detailed files on not only every ringleader, but every cashier. How long they've been here, how they were connected, photographs, business documentation. They knew more than I did. Anyway, TLDR; they all are still here and DHS didn't deport a prosecute a single one. People don't realize I think what it means that there are MILLIONS of these people here. The whole thing is very monolithic and controlled. Not only on the H1-B side of things, but also political refugees (like Cuban immigrants). All these NGO's and Catholic charities, et al work hand in hand bribing these other governments to move people where they want. DHS doesn't have the manpower to fight it all, they focus on terrorists and big fish. TPTB do not care about trailer park people and their anachronistic concepts of what this country is supposed to look like.