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Is Trump diminishing American influence with his policies? He's sure pissing off a lot of the right people. Addicts get testy when you withdraw their drug. And too many around the world are addicted to American free money.

Agree, how can transfer be a valid response? We never get to read about the ultimate resolution(s). But it makes perfect sense to transfer someone being investigated to an inactive post so they can't muck around with the investigation.

I think they will be done when DOGE reveals how much tax money they've been funneling into anti-American, anti-sanity, and very anti-democratic programs. (Small d democratic. Big D Democrats have been wallowing in fraud and waste) As satisfying as the early DOGE releases have been, I fear they've jumped the gun on some of the releases... way too early. Once they get the AI trained up (which will take months), the real results will be staggering.

That's only one side of the ledger. How much have they cost on the other side? How many jobs have been sacrificed to high energy costs? How much GDP has not been realized? How many exports haven't sailed because of the higher costs? How many people will literally die this winter because they can't afford the heat?

If you agreed to spend 2%, and over 10 years later you only spend 1.5%, what do you call it?

Scary as that is, as long as people are aware of the risks, it should be their decision. I suspect a lot of people drop dead of heart attacks while running to lose weight, too. Good to see the information being honestly depicted (assuming that's the case). Of course, that leaves out the issue of public funding for the jabs themselves and the cost of treating any aftermath if people do decide to go down that road. That's the sticky part, IMO. For which I have no opinion, being from the US where we don't have an NHS.

NATO will be stronger than ever. Especially once the cheaters start paying what they agreed to invest in our collective defense.

But I thought Putin wanted all of Europe. Or does he just want the areas he already has. The ones he declared even before he moved militarily. The ones he's been holding since years ago. The ones that have already voted to break from Ukraine. If he already holds them, and they've voted to stay, how is Trump giving him anything? Here's the map from CNN in mid 2023. It's past time for the dying to stop and the rebuilding to start.

1) Google "Wikipedia bias", especially Larry Sanger. 2) There are no singular reliable sources. You have to actually look at all sides. That may mean holding your nose and looking at sources you don't like. Besides, it never hurts to know what your adversaries are peddling.

Typical lefty tactic. Take the orders and only obey the ones that will do the most damage to the other side. And it's not as if they'll have to stop spray cleaning El Capitan or they'll be shutting down Old Faithful on account of budget cuts. (Yeah, I know Old Faithful isn't in Yosemite. Yellowstone is my favorite place to visit in the USA, followed closely by Grand Tetons)

I think it has more to do with pent up aggression energy from several years of being locked down, unable to travel. Not to mention losing a lot of social skills, for the same reason. And YouTube, which glorifies even the nastiest behaviors for clicks. It doesn't seem unique to Thailand, either.

Here's a helpful tip for dealing with the IRS during the DOGE audits: Don't threaten to assassinate Musk. On Monday, Libs of TikTok uncovered a video by alleged TikToker named Sarah C. Roberts. “I promised myself I would avoid the news, but obviously, I haven’t,” Roberts began before turning her attention to Musk. “Elon Musk, we need to X him,” she continued while making a throat-slash gesture. “And by X, I mean formally known as assassination.” (Roberts) then said she knew the FBI would show up and challenged them to arrest her before taunting law enforcement, claiming they did not have enough resources to investigate her. She also boasted she had not filed her taxes in eight years. The TikToker then closed by saying: “Let’s assassinate some motherf***ers!” Death threat and admission of multiple counts of tax fraud @EagleEdMartin — Elon Musk Duly noted. Thx for letting us know. We’ll put you in the system. Talk soon, M’am. — U.S. Attorney Ed Martin

Contract SAP programmers only get paid while they're working. Gub'ment employees get paid for the rest of their lives. Including the time they're complaining on social media how bad they have it there at work.

There's over 300 million Americans, and your claim rests on the alleged experience of 2 of them. What's next? The 1/10 of 1% of transgenders who won't be getting women's basketball scholarships because of the Bad Orange Man and his policies?

And most voters are focused on the fact that the money's gone. With no benefit to them. Whether it went to condoms in Gaza or to drag queen story hours in Lower Slobovia. It's not being spent to benefit taxpayers.

Most voters focus on the $50 million of US taxpayer money that went out the door to stupid programs in the Middle East. The MSM and Dems focus on the minutia, that the wasted $50 million didn't actually buy condoms. Who cares? It was spent on other stupid stuff that doesn't benefit Americans who paid the money. And if you believe in Occam's razor when it comes to wasting (and stealing) tax money, there's no way to have a reasonable discussion. That's why $billions are spent each year by businesses auditing their books. And now the gub'ment is auditing our books. It won't be simple, because it's gotten so convoluted that humans can't do it. It's going to take AI.

So out of the $billions ($trillions?) in waste and fraud that they've already identified, that's the hill you're going to fight on and die for? That's a great strategy for the Dems in the midterms. Focus on the minutia...

As if they'll have much say in the matter. Gone from ruling 1/4 of the earth's surface to a little island the size of Michigan. All in living memory. And I don't say that to gloat. I think it's tragic.

Does agreeing with you make me a racist? Because if it does, I am. It's not about skin color or accent. It's about shared culture.

Thank you for perfectly demonstrating my point. It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion with anyone who goes personal instead of actually discussing. That's the difference. Lefties attack the person when they don't have a reasonable argument.

Musk's comments on X: The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all! In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used…

You're not paying for the sex. You're paying for the peace and quiet the rest of the day.

Maybe. But you get that way after being on the receiving end for so many years, watching all the disasters that's brought on.

Lord a'mighty. They blame everything on Trump. Meanwhile, Trump spends much of his day in the company of the most qualified guy on the planet to actually do something. If it's needed.

I gave you a like on general tenor. But here, I disagree. We had quite a few excellent and productive Thai employees. The few lazy ones wouldn't be tolerated by the good ones, and they didn't last long. We did pay an excellent international salary, so we had our choice of candidates. Our IT guys (both Thai) kept herd over the interweb use from office computers and network. We also had to fill in a sheet each week for hours we'd put in- both inside and outside the office. Because we operated 24/7, a lot of hours happened outside of the business day- middle of the night callouts, etc. The Thai folks were right there with us. I do acknowledge that we had an unusually good team. Office politics were a thing, but not laziness.