Unpaywalled version: https://archive.is/rQuTE

Web page gave my phone herpes. Here’s a clean link: https://archive.is/wip/aNQ5a

Out of curiosity how does one nationalize a company like SpaceX? Do they have to be willing to sell themselves to the US Government?

And yet union membership has declined almost every year since the 1980s

Literally none of the government cuts are about money. The way they’ve been doing it basically guarantees the government loses even more money.

We are the bad guys and have been for a long long time.

The question is how will CA circumvent the tariffs? Reimburse them? But then I’ll be on the hook for the reimbursement as a CA taxpayer…and I’m still expected to pay federal taxes.

Please stop buying our shit, we beg of you. Money is the only thing these cockgoblins understand!

Don’t kid yourself, Thiel and Musk founded PayPal together and despite prior friction they’ve always been on the same team. In fact Musk becoming a full blown fascist has been Musk’s “return to Jesus” moment as far as Thiel is concerned.

It’s not just recently, conservatives have been threatening social security for decades.

Government discretionary budget is like $2T. Wasting say a quarter of a day (2 hours) of the 250 or so working days in a year is about 1/1000th the total year wasted. So figure $2B wasted, approximately.

Half serious question: can Trump order state borders to be modified? He wouldn’t be creating/destroying a state…I really don’t know the practical limits of presidential power anymore.

Problem is I don’t see any person in military doing this. They’re been brainwashed to love their country and their president since birth.

“Expected to conclude in August”

Government needs to be MUCH faster if they have any hope of prevailing here. Slow rolling ain’t gonna do shit.

ICE has 20,000 employees. If we deported all of them, that would more than double the numbers!

Hey, it’s back up now. Progress.

Except they haven’t. A ton are still down.

Example: https://yrbs-explorer.services.cdc.gov/

I guarantee the CPI will stop being published very soon. Can’t have high inflation if you don’t measure it!

All the federal websites they took down were supposed to be back up today. They are not back up today. That’s a direct violation of a court order.

I disagree, I think it was more like nineteen ninety eight when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table