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Meta (FaceBook) Announces End of DEI Programs
A surprise but a welcome one, to be sure.
Axios is very upset by this and they say it's just Zuckerberg positioning himself to be friendlier to Trump. The thought that DEI programs are wasteful and illegal and racist and also lead to a bad workforce never, ever crosses their minds, not for a single moment. Nope, DEI is good and great and good for corporations and any corporation that goes back to merit-based hiring and promotion obviously just wants to appeal to the Baddest Orange Man.Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs Mike Allen, Sara Fischer Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately -- including for hiring, training and picking suppliers, according to a new employee memo obtained by Axios. Why it matters: The move is a strong signal to Meta employees that the company's push to make inroads with the incoming Trump administration isn't just posturing, but an ethos shift that will impact its business practices. Context: Meta said it was changing course because the "legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing," per a memo by Janelle Gale, vice president of human resources.Yes, because race-based hiring has been illegal for oh, about 100 years but the left demanded the law be suspended as regards discrimination against white, male, straight and Christian people. That five year suspension of basic law is coming to an end because it's illegal and unfair and the American public has had enough and said so in no uncertain terms two months ago.
The moves come just three days after Meta ended many of its efforts to fact-check and police speech on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.Coordination with the government to censor speech is also illegal, FYI.
So none of these companies changed their policies to be more friendly to the leftwing woke Biden Administration? That was just them expressing their true favored policies, but this reversion back to the old ways (and the legal ways) must be due to political pressure?
The announcement also follows a host of public moves by tech companies and executives to align with the politics and cultural views of President-elect Trump and the MAGA movement.
It's illegal and always has been, at least since the modern era of civil rights law.
State of play: Friday's memo by Gale -- announcing changes to "our hiring, development and procurement practices" -- was posted for Meta employees in Workplace, the company's internal communications tool. "The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing," Gale wrote. "The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI. ... The term 'DEI' has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others."
... Zoom in: Citing the "shifting legal and policy landscape," Meta's memo announced five big DEI pullbacks. Cutting Meta's DEI team: Meta will no longer have a team focused on DEI. Maxine Williams, the company's chief diversity officer, is taking on a new role at Meta, focused on accessibility and engagement, Gale wrote. Ending equity and inclusion programs: Meta will instead build programs "that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background," Gale said. Sunsetting supplier diversity efforts: Meta will end efforts to source business suppliers from diverse-owned businesses. Moving forward, the company will "focus our efforts on supporting small and medium-sized businesses that power much of our economy," Gale wrote. Ending the "Diverse Slate Approach" to hiring: While Meta will continue to source candidates from different backgrounds, it will no longer use the diverse-slate hiring approach, which ensures a diverse pool of candidates is considered for every open position. "We believe there are other ways to build an industry-leading workforce and leverage teams made up of world-class people from all types of backgrounds," Gale wrote. Ending representation goals: Having representation goals, "can create the impression that decisions are being made based on race or gender," Gale wrote. "While this has never been our practice, we want to eliminate any impression of it," she said. She noted the company, "previously ended representation goals for women and ethnic minorities." Zoom out: Data suggests tech employees tend to be more liberal than their employers. But over the last year, the public sentiment has shifted about corporations taking a stand on major issues like DEI, as well as environmental, social and governance issues.Zuckerberg says that Biden officials would routinely "scream" at his people and "curse" at them, demanding they take down memes he didn't like. When he refused to take down some memes and posts, Biden began investigating his companies for anti-trust violations and the like. Right now the entire media is pushing the idea that Zuckerberg is acting due to (perceived future) pressure from Trump -- but they've denied for years that he previously censored people due to Biden. Despite Zuckerberg himself saying that he was coerced by Biden.
HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 10, 2025
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.” pic.twitter.com/rNwZtoq0hO
Meta approaching all time high market cap after announcing closure of DEI program this morning. pic.twitter.com/4pKMDaWZqR
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) January 10, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: It's me donna at January 10, 2025 02:40 PM (VE6XX)
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Hiring on the basis of race is illegal.
Also, all corporations must hire on the basis of race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
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Norms, man.
Norms.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 02:41 PM (Unq3t)
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:42 PM (iMpf5)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:43 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:43 PM (ynpvh)
Someone on X pointed out that there would be ZERO of these changes made had Kamala won. None. It would have been business as usual for him.
Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 02:43 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Eromero at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (9V+R+)
BOOM! Mark Zuckerberg admits 𝕏 is better at fact-checking with community notes than what Meta had in place.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (iMpf5)
It's not going away. Too many iron rice bowls.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:42 PM (iMpf5)
New Admin, new policies. Microsquish learned the importance of greasing the political wheels early on when they got slapped by the FED. Spending money on lobbyists that grease both sides is a less-expensive business expense.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mr tmz at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (rJ48h)
It's German. The, DEI, The!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:43 PM (ynpvh)
May the liberal tech execs, like Sideshow Bob, keep stepping on rakes for eternity.
Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (KQk9m)
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (/U5Yz)
Like he learned Mandarin and married a Chinese woman, largely to just get Facebook in China.
He just feels the Democrats are probably going to be on the outs for a while.
Posted by: Leupold at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (2VST1)
Someone on X pointed out that there would be ZERO of these changes made had Kamala won. None. It would have been business as usual for him.
Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 02:43 PM (gWBY1)
He was all in on the J6 Fedsurrection and cover up of the steal, in addition to funding the same. Fuck that guy with a red hot fire poker.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (i24o9)
Yes, just as the term "final solution" suggests preferential treatment of some groups over Jews.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 10, 2025 02:46 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Dr. DEI at January 10, 2025 02:46 PM (hXQfZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:46 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 10, 2025 02:46 PM (9V+R+)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: LSD at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (q/LY2)
I don't care how "real" any of this is, as long as we are moving toward more free speech it's a good thing.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: P.Diddy, Homosexual Rapist at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (KQk9m)
I didn't know Trump ran Kalifornia, and that Trump ran LA and that Trump ran the LA Fire Department. I'm just amazed at how much power Trump has here in Kalifornia!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 02:48 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: tubal at January 10, 2025 02:48 PM (yaVrF)
Now let's have the books opened on what personal data they collect, and what govt agencies they share it with.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 10, 2025 02:49 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 02:48 PM (1bNHn)
Chuck Norris peed a moat around his house too wide for the fire to cross?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 02:49 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:49 PM (KQk9m)
They perceive that absence of pressure from biden as pressure from Trump. The same way they perceive the absence of persecution of their enemies as injustice towards them. They have no sense of objective truth, just quick emotional responses to relative and temporary changes.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 02:49 PM (Y6IkP)
And just in time For Trump to make it all go away, in a big beautiful Presidency.
We have a long way to go, but hopefully some regular folks are starting to see the cause and effect of bad policies and personnel.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (H+1uc)
There's and army of Marxist judges out there staying quiet.
The administrative state is bidding it's time.
Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Trump 2018 at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (CFrOc)
There's and army of Marxist judges out there staying quiet.
The administrative state is bidding it's time.
Posted by: Auspex at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (j4U/Z)
Not just judges.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (ynpvh)
After that, Facebook became Stasi central and started to silence, ban, and censor anything that remotely questioned the official leftist party line. They managed to scare him into compliance.
Now, Zuck has caculated that the pressure is off him and he can reverse this crap. What does he really want? I think its just to make money, I don't think he has a political agenda at all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (QSrLX)
NOW - Zuckerberg describes his experience with third-party "fact-checkers" as "something out of 1984."
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (iMpf5)
https://tinyurl.com/2x3bevde
Posted by: Ciampino - Good people at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Trump 2018 at January 10, 2025 02:50 PM (CFrOc)
Honeypot?! --Winnie the Xi
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (KQk9m)
How ignorant. California has been a one party state controlled by democrats since at least the 90s, not counting brief republican governors. The California Senate has been controlled by democrats since the 50s with brief interruptions.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 02:51 PM (qPFUY)
I don't even care if it's true, but the idea that P Diddy and Luigi are in the same prison, and Luigi's popularity is driving Diddy nuts, made my day.
Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 02:51 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: steevy at January 10, 2025 02:45 PM (KQk9m)
How ignorant. California has been a one party state controlled by democrats since at least the 90s, not counting brief republican governors. The California Senate has been controlled by democrats since the 50s with brief interruptions.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 02:51 PM (qPFUY)
Didn't someone post that over 70% of the area burned voted for Kumala?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)
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"The Competency Crisis" AKA "Everything Is Broken."
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (MQTc2)
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (krQz2)
AP Posts misrepresent Mark Zuckerberg’s election spending, by Josh Kelety, Published May 3, 2022
CLAIM: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg spent more than $400 million in 2020 to elect Joe Biden, violating campaign finance rules that limit donations.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. While Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, collectively donated at least $400 million to two nonprofit organizations to help various government election offices across the country, the funds were not contributions to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and did not violate campaign finance laws.
THE FACTS: Posts suggesting that Zuckerberg improperly spent a large sum of money to elect Biden have circulated widely as some social media users and conservative lawmakers continue to push the unfounded claim that fraud played a significant role in the 2020 presidential election.
“The legal maximum an individual could donate to a Presidential campaign in 2020 was $5,600. Mark Zuckerberg spent over $400,000,000 in 2020 to help elect Joe Biden,” one social media user wrote in a tweet that was shared more than 13,000 times. “Why isn’t this being investigated?”
But the claim is misleading ...
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: ballistic at January 10, 2025 02:53 PM (Sa0bK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Sure he does. He doesn't want to be investigated. He doesn't want to be prosecuted. He donated over a million dollars to Trump's inauguration. Looks like sucking up to me.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 02:53 PM (OVrCp)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 02:53 PM (Y6IkP)
Related: Disparu just did a video on an upcoming conference where entertainment companies will learn how to more stealthily jam social-behavioral influence into their movies, tv shows, games and toys.
They are NOT abandoning wokeness!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 02:53 PM (Hkcdp)
There were references by the government censors' emails from the Twitter Files to also contacting Facebook. And Mike Benz says it was common knowledge in the "intelligence community" how to get Big Tech to censor things.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 02:54 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ballistic at January 10, 2025 02:54 PM (Sa0bK)
Sure he does. He doesn't want to be investigated. He doesn't want to be prosecuted. He donated over a million dollars to Trump's inauguration. Looks like sucking up to me.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January
Works for me...
Posted by: tubal at January 10, 2025 02:54 PM (yaVrF)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 10, 2025 02:48 PM (1bNHn)
In other weather issues, there has never been a hurricane named Chuck because it would have destroyed everything.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 10, 2025 02:54 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: banana Dream
Hope it has lots and lots of carrots in it.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah.... uh... military was an early adopter... Race and sex based promotions have been policy for 40 or so years.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 10, 2025 02:55 PM (QAkQ3)
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I've made one pot of chili and two pots of beef stew. I just want to stay warm and eat.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 02:55 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 02:55 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 02:55 PM (D6PGr)
"LAFD: Evacuation Warning for Archer Fire at Granada Hills-Tampa/Rinaldi/ Balboa/Sesnon. Prepare to evacuate by gathering supplies, pets, and loved ones."
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:55 PM (iMpf5)
Posted by: banana Dream
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The list of psychoses is long. Projection, Cognitive Dissonance, Hyprocrisy, Rationalization, Narcissism...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Gen. Pinkney at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 02:51 PM (qPFUY)
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Minnesota, who martyred Saint George, arguably following to a restraint technique found in the racist policing manual and where some cops were found to tell iffy "racist jokes", still is blue from top to bottom, and one of the first major acts in response was the White House siege.
It's what I call the most-adjacent non-Democrat strategy.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 02:55 PM (Hkcdp)
Appropriate means something different to folks on the left...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pudinhead
What'd you put in the stew?
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
All sarcasms aside...
The tech tyrants are not stupid. They see the anger of people who have had enough of their censorship. They see that people are done with the woke, dei, tranny, environmental hysterics, and illegal aliens being protected and pampered. They seem to understand, finally, that electing Trump 3 times was how we asked politely for this shit to stop. And I think maybe they're smart enough to figure out what happens when we stop being polite.
Same with the idiot GOPe in Congress and the Senate.
That huge win in November was a warning and these people are scared of what happens if they don't do what we asked politely to do.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: tubal at January 10, 2025 02:57 PM (yaVrF)
It's not Chuck, and has probably already been posted, but I LOVED the news clip of the reporter talking to a guy on the street trying to get cars off the road so the fire trucks could get up the hill, and he was doing a PSA about leaving the keys in your cars so he can move the cars out of the way himself. When the reporter asked his name, he said "Steve Gutenberg."
Blast from the past! Have not seen him since the Stonecutters stopped working to make him a star. Sounded like a genuinely good guy. He didn't care if the reporter recognized him or not. He was just trying to save people.
Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 02:57 PM (gWBY1)
Didn't someone post that over 70% of the area burned voted for Kumala?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)
I'm sure they did. The real test is how they vote after the curtain has been pulled back for the world to see just how crazy things have gotten here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 02:57 PM (qPFUY)
What, specifically, let to an about face? And do what lengths will META go to become, as they say, transparent about their data collection and past censoring operations.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 02:57 PM (Q4IgG)
Yeah, but nobody trusts Zuckerberg.
So, it's that that great of a development, or something.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 02:52 PM (krQz2)
Even this election, F Book had blatant Election interference.... he is trying to get the spotlight off him by becoming a born again sinner...
You know the type... the ones who get caught and suddenly find Jesus, and are the most devote out there... for about 10 minutes?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 10, 2025 02:57 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 02:57 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:58 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: garrett at January 10, 2025 02:58 PM (oLK8+)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 02:58 PM (fwDg9)
The DEI is cast...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 02:58 PM (ynpvh)
Daily Romania @daily_romania 1h
Former EU Commissioner admits that the EU was responsible for the cancellation of the elections in Romania
"We did it in Romania, and we will do it in Germany if necessary."
- Thierry Breton
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 02:58 PM (OVrCp)
Posted by: Don Black at January 10, 2025 02:57 PM (AOsQT)
So, winning..
Posted by: tubal at January 10, 2025 02:58 PM (yaVrF)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 02:59 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: LASue at January 10, 2025 02:59 PM (lCppi)
And that they are angry--not at the censorship--at the fact that it is going to stop.
As I have been saying, the two biggest shocks of the next 4 years are going to be:
1) how much our government has been working against us
2) how much better life is to have a government working for us.
But, I guess, "Government for, by and of the People" is racist disinformation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 02:59 PM (7+f8Q)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Prowl McCartney at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (qUkBO)
1. Non-democrats don't want to spend as much money as Democrats do.
2. With money, you can get everything done, if you have enough.
3. Thus, non-democrats don't want to fix problems.
4. If there is a problem, it's probably because we had to cut a budget.
5. Damn those non-democrats who don't care about human lives!
6. If Democrats actually cut your budget (as in LAFD), it's still the fault of non-Democrats because they probably wanted to cut more!
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (krQz2)
In case you were wondering, the person responsible for the censorship at Biden's White House was @Rob_Flaherty -- who then went on to be the Deputy Campaign Manager for Kamala's failure of a campaign.
Example here 👇
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 1h
HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (iMpf5)
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (qPFUY)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (W/lyH)
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Beef, carrots, celery, onions, taters, mushrooms. Seasonings. Beef stock.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (jFCkp)
The sad part is, is if only they had slow rolled most of their destructive policies instead of ramming them down our throat, they’d have 3 or 4 more generations in power.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 10, 2025 03:01 PM (1S1te)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2025 03:01 PM (LkLld)
There are several Trump EOs which kept getting renewed by Biden concerning elections and human rights (trafficking). Facebook may have been pressured and/or controlled for a while.
Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 03:01 PM (LbnIB)
HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (iMpf5)
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Now, that's malfeasance.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:01 PM (krQz2)
Well the Mizzou professor said the fire was karma against James Woods, so...who is right?!
Posted by: LizLem at January 10, 2025 03:01 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 10, 2025 03:02 PM (V6W16)
14 sexual identities and three fire trucks that don't work.
First, take all the qualified applicants and discard them. NOW start hiring.
Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 03:02 PM (LbnIB)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 03:02 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: LASue
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It wasn't easy. This is all very new to me. My first pass produced a guy with pink hair and a nose ring. Fortunently, a reviewer said, 'Do some more research'.
Posted by: AI at January 10, 2025 03:02 PM (XeU6L)
Civil rights and civil liberties.
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:03 PM (NFX2v)
Oh sure, but not because he has any kind of allegiance to the Republican Party or Trump. I don't think he believes in or stands for anything except "make money and sex up models."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 03:03 PM (2VST1)
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Suggests?
There's some real objective "reporting" right there ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:04 PM (yJIM4)
Posted by: Mark Zuckerberg [Stealth Mode] at January 10, 2025 03:04 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Wow, sounds great.
I'll be there around 6 for supper.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 42m
Biden White House staffer turned Kamala Campaign manager @Rob_Flaherty, was largely responsible for the censorship requests to Meta.
He’s apparently terrified of this meme.
So definitely don’t share the meme and tag him. That would be really bad.
https://tinyurl.com/4w9sm8x8
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 03:04 PM (iMpf5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 03:03 PM (2VST1)
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In an earlier version, I could salute that flag.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:04 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Wow, sounds great.
I'll be there around 6 for supper.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)
I'll bring the beer.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (W/lyH)
WHO GOES TO JAIL OVER THIS? The 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades, a key part of LA's water system, was EMPTY for "repairs" during the wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (iMpf5)
Does anyone know if this source (Breaking 911) is reliable?
Posted by: LASue at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (lCppi)
There are several Trump EOs which kept getting renewed by Biden concerning elections and human rights (trafficking). Facebook may have been pressured and/or controlled for a while.
Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 03:01 PM
They pressure everyone with a business.
Maybe a couple of years ago, I don't remember but I was in a restaurant and I overheard a group of men talking about how Newsome threatened their businesses to go along with him or not to kick up a fuss or they would be punished.
I can only imagine what they'd do to big companies. Look what they did to trump and the people from Jan 6.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (qPFUY)
Same with the idiot GOPe in Congress and the Senate.
That huge win in November was a warning and these people are scared of what happens if they don't do what we asked politely to do.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 10, 2025 02:56 PM (4XwPj)
VC Nick Hanauer famously penned an article that bemoaned how he feared that the peasants were angry and would rise up as support for his calls for gun control.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (i24o9)
The federal tampon trucks are on high alert and standby.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (hXQfZ)
I am thinking the Eff Bee Eye files will be shredded anything on the last 4 years.
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (fwDg9)
Not to mention: it is wrong to censor. It is wrong to deny a man a chance to speak his piece- no matter how fucking retarded that piece is. This blog is a voluntary association, that is one thing. Facebook or twitter are common spaces.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 03:03 PM (2VST1)
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In an earlier version, I could salute that flag.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:04 PM (krQz2
Lazy Fare Capitalist...
Posted by: tubal at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (yaVrF)
Posted by: SMOD at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (fV+MH)
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If the public has a falling out with this acronym, it will go underground until it is re-branded.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 10, 2025 03:06 PM (hKoQL)
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Approximately 40% of this country would trade all of the protections afforded by the Bill of Rights so long as they got a guarantee of eternal abortion rights, so I believe you're under-estimating the problem.
Posted by: Crusader at January 10, 2025 03:06 PM (TN0g+)
What an annoying writing style.
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (fV+MH)
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Wow. What a rip-off of Chris Plante.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:06 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:08 PM (fV+MH)
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If the public has a falling out with this acronym, it will go underground until it is re-branded.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM
Well it used to be called affirmative action. I'm sure they'll come up with another euphemism.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:08 PM (qPFUY)
Posted by: Dr. Bone
A gift to California from Tim Walz.
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:08 PM (77rzZ)
Rob Flaherty needs to be prosecuted for covid deaths.
Effing prick.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:08 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:09 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (fwDg9)
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Right now, I'm wondering how many FIB files were stored in Pacific Palisades.
(not really)
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:09 PM (krQz2)
Daily Mail, Mark Zuckerberg breaks his silence on Hawaii 'Doomsday bunker' under his $270m mansion compound
By Perkin Amalaraj, 27 December 2024
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:09 PM (NFX2v)
Effing prick.
Posted by: Seems Legit
Yeah, he seriously was.
-- Zombie Nanook of the North
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 10, 2025 03:03 PM (2VST1)
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Some have speculated that his involvement in MMA -- being around those guys and that lifestyle -- may have had an influence on him.
I think we forget sometimes that he's still a relatively young dude ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:10 PM (sQ6GQ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 10, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
No carrots in the chili, but one was used earlier for a snow man nose. I had actually gotten a bunch for beef stew which is an acceptable use of carrots.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 03:10 PM (Y6IkP)
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Tuesday called out the multibillionaire Meta chief for his attempts to kiss up to Donald Trump with his announcement that Facebook would shift its moderation team from liberal California to conservative Texas to reduce concerns about bias.
Meta’s new plans included scrapping its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community notes system mirroring that of X, Musk’s platform. Musk also previously announced plans to move the headquarters of his social platform X from California to Texas.
Stelter slammed both men for purporting to be advocates of free speech but instead lifting of up pro-Trump voices. He said that new policy changes at Meta are “very much a MAGA makeover, a pro-Trump makeover.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 03:10 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: t-bird at January 10, 2025 03:10 PM (HYrf+)
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Hasn't it been suspended longer than that, since the 70s(?), with Affirmative Action? Isn't DEI just the next ratchet or two up from Affirmative Action...?
Posted by: bearski at January 10, 2025 03:10 PM (Bhsk7)
My favorite gun company was shut down for "failing to follow community standards." They still don't know what these "standards" are and what violated them.
A conservative wargaming group was run off last year and never resurfaced.
One of my sisters-in-law has been banned numerous times for "violating community standards" too.
It's mostly AI driven. I can see where META and Facebook are going to complain that "it will take time" to fix all the code. Like 4 years worth.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 10, 2025 03:11 PM (Q4IgG)
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Beef, carrots, celery, onions, taters, mushrooms. Seasonings. Beef stock.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (jFCkp)
Needs more hobo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:11 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Piper at January 10, 2025 03:11 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 03:11 PM (Hkcdp)
I'm sure they will try and in very leftwing places like CA and MA it will still have some life but overall I think it's dying. People have had enough of the entire leftist agenda.
nearly 90% of US counties moved to the right last election. To me that's a much more significant measure of public opinion than even Trump winning. The country wants a return to normalcy and DEI ain't it.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2025 03:12 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 03:12 PM (g47mK)
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Our speech is violence.
Their violence is speech.
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:12 PM (sQ6GQ)
I did check the boiling point of alcohol to make sure that I didn't boil off an important ingredient.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 03:13 PM (ZmEVT)
So, the first Vance administration can deal with them then.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:13 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 03:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 03:10 PM (63Dwl)
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Which can't even compare to an administration that calls up Meta and screams at them what needs to be removed or they're going to "investigate" you on trumped up charges--like people who speak too loudly, or things that annoy school administrators, at PTA meetings as "terrorists".
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:13 PM (krQz2)
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yeah Kash Patel will show up for his 1st day of work, and all the file cabinets will be empty, all the databases wiped, all the Ts gone from the keyboards
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, homes? at January 10, 2025 03:13 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:09 PM (2ocoG)
Quite an admission there about the number of genders and reality.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:14 PM (i24o9)
This new policy means little if they don’t make amends to all the previously cancelled users are restored.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 10, 2025 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)
(not really)
Posted by: Axeman
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Stored in man-made caves.
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:14 PM (NFX2v)
God willing, Merrick Garland not only missed his seat at the summit of his profession, but will go down in history as one of the most corrupt Americans who were ever given power.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:15 PM (krQz2)
Sandberg was a big Kamala fundraiser this year, so yes. She learned nothing from when she wrote a book advising that women should be more assertive to get promotions like men are, and got brutally attacked by feminists and the media for suggesting that women have agency.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:15 PM (2ocoG)
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yeah Kash Patel will show up for his 1st day of work, and all the file cabinets will be empty, all the databases wiped, all the Ts gone from the keyboards
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, homes? at January 10, 2025 03:13 PM (AOsQT)
Either the K and P keys will be missing, or all the keyboards will have the blank keycaps so non-touch typists won't know what key is which.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:15 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, homes?"
That has to be THE most petty thing in the history of people.
2nd place is three laps behind.
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:16 PM (fV+MH)
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That was my sense of it in 143... But I dunno that it'll get recycled anytime soon. Affirmative Action was never buried, it just got more attention at some points over others. But employers have had to worry about race implications for decades since Affirmative Action caught on. But now that the pendulum has swung so far into anti-white racism and all the incompetence it's ushered in and thus public rejection of it(?), the whole thing might die. Or at least get scrolled back and knocked into some hibernation near term...
Posted by: bearski at January 10, 2025 03:16 PM (Bhsk7)
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Beef, carrots, celery, onions, taters, mushrooms. Seasonings. Beef stock.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:00 PM (jFCkp)
Needs more hobo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
>Cabbage. Never underestimate the power of expending cabbage.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 10, 2025 03:16 PM (hXQfZ)
Upon which, he fires every GS-14 and above.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 03:16 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 03:12 PM (g47mK)
Her liberal worldview was badly shaken by Oct 7, and the world's antisemitic reaction to Israel's response. She recovered, however, and still planned to support Kamala on ED 2024. She was a White House Fellow during Clinton's time as POTUS, so she's pretty blue.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 10, 2025 03:17 PM (B1U/i)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 03:18 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: runner at January 10, 2025 03:18 PM (g47mK)
When you hear "Brian Stelter says" it's fun to know, based on viewership, no one is listening.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:18 PM (gaKF9)
As I wrote at X: "The very existence of other outlets - X being chief among them [and blogs like AoSHQ] - that somehow manage to thrive in the "hostile to truth" environment shows him for the lying coward he is.
"Pro Tip: Never forgive or forget a lying coward. You'll inevitably regret it."
Posted by: Chas C-Q at January 10, 2025 03:19 PM (U8S9W)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, homes? at January 10, 2025 03:13 PM (AOsQT)
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"Director Patel? We're all going to need new phones.
"Somebody broke in and took a hammer to them all."
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:19 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 03:19 PM (ZmEVT)
It recently came out that the Clintons and their staff were known overseas for five-finger discounting their way through whatever accommodations they were put up in overseas. No china or crystal was safe. On the one hand, it wasn't just the White House they vandalized, but yeeesh. Even trailer trash isn't that sleazy.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:19 PM (2ocoG)
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top notch police work right there
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, homes? at January 10, 2025 03:20 PM (AOsQT)
(not really)
Posted by: Axeman
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Lots of speculation about Diddy evidence going up in flames there.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:20 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:21 PM (krQz2)
So previously you could send someone a Cock-Gram?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:22 PM (2ocoG)
God willing, Merrick Garland not only missed his seat at the summit of his profession, but will go down in history as one of the most corrupt Americans who were ever given power.
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He's up there with Lincoln.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:22 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 03:22 PM (f8rQN)
Posted by: Don Black.
I think that when you go "Excellent. Since there's no work to be done you're all fired."
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 10, 2025 03:22 PM (hB7mE)
Now when it comes to finding all of the missing $ that was to go into tech for years, the SES', Bureau and Regional Managers, contract specialists, etc. would need to be rounded up. It's a big tent.
And quite a web of deceit, internal money movement.
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:22 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Karen Bass, Marxist at January 10, 2025 03:23 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 03:22 PM (f8rQN)
I've been temporarily suspended from X for about 6 months now, pending appeal.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:23 PM (i24o9)
I think that I will make another.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 03:19 PM (ZmEVT)
Great idea - It's so cold here. Do you add tea, or just honey?
Posted by: LASue at January 10, 2025 03:23 PM (lCppi)
And that they are angry--not at the censorship--at the fact that it is going to stop.
As I have been saying, the two biggest shocks of the next 4 years are going to be:
1) how much our government has been working against us
2) how much better life is to have a government working for us.
But, I guess, "Government for, by and of the People" is racist disinformation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 10, 2025 02:59 PM (7+f8Q)
Hey, debanking has been going on for years. This was going on for years. It was just better hidden before.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (y9ksN)
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That's for corned beef. When you feel like bog stomping.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 02:44 PM
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Hose iron rice bowl with sea water. We're assured they will be destroyed by the salt.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (f8rQN)
Posted by: Chas C-Q at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (U8S9W)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (gaKF9)
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In the D-bubble, yeah. That's exactly what happened.
Because something has to explain the move from "more enlightened" behavior to less. And that's fear.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (krQz2)
Have any of these ass clowns currently infesting the hallowed halls Congress ever pointed out the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies equally to caucasians as well as negros and orientals?
Race, color, creed, religion, ethnic background.
Everything these motherfuckers have been doing for decades is illegal, not simply immoral or counterproductive.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (x1CgS)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 02:53 PM (Y6IkP)
Is it real chili or chili soup?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 10, 2025 03:25 PM (g8Ew8)
In her 2003 opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor concluded that affirmative action in college admissions is justifiable, but not in perpetuity: “We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest [in student body diversity] approved today.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 10, 2025 03:25 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (gaKF9)
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Brandy?
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Chas C-Q at January 10, 2025 03:24 PM (U8S9W)
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Isn't that better than what it's become? A lefty bitch session where grandmas concerned about the vaccine were told to step in line so they don't kill anyone.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (gaKF9)
@bennyjohnson
Gavin Newsom begs Biden to focus on addressing “misinformation” about California’s wildfires.
“We’ve gotta deal with this misinformation. There are hurricane force winds of mis- and disinformation. We'll have to address that as well.”
https://tinyurl.com/4dryppdk
Posted by: redridinghood at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (niC41)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: what it is, homes?"
That has to be THE most petty thing in the history of people.
2nd place is three laps behind.
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:16 PM (fV+MH)
It started with outgoing Clinton people stealing the Ws from keyboards.
They should have been charged with theft of taxpayer property and sent to prison for 10 years.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (FC8SQ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Seems Legit "
Everclear.
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (fV+MH)
Millions may walk away. But in 2 or 4 years, when EVERYTHING is not fixed, these people will go back to voting to cut dicks/breaststroke off children. And the reply will be, I gave Rs a "chance" to fix everything. Bet on it.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 10, 2025 03:27 PM (FxH7T)
Upon which, he fires every GS-14 and above.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 10, 2025 03:16 PM (ZmEVT
This. Fire everyone each time they show up and act the least little bit insubordinate. "TELL ME WHO DESTROYED THE FILES OR YOU ARE FIRED. YOU GOT SEVEN DAYS. COME BACK WITH RESIGNATION LETTERS OF THE PERPS OR YOURS. NIETHER? YOU ARE FIRED".
Then promote everyone below up one notch. Repeat.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 10, 2025 03:27 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:27 PM (gaKF9)
WHO GOES TO JAIL OVER THIS? The 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades, a key part of LA's water system, was EMPTY for "repairs" during the wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 10, 2025 02:39 PM (iMpf5)
Does anyone know if this source (Breaking 911) is reliable?
Posted by: LASue at January 10, 2025 03:05 PM (lCppi)
Nobody will, unless the scapegoat is some straight white Christian guy.
Just like the cops who were sacrificed to BLM when George Floyd overdosed.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mayor Bass of Los Angeles at January 10, 2025 03:28 PM (7uGna)
2nd place is three laps behind.
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:16 PM (fV+MH)
The correct thing would be to track down who had which office item returned broken, or who had signed for it and not reported that it was broken before surrendering it, and bill them for the damage.
Issue bank garnishments if necessary, as well as the full amount allowed to issue garnishments and recover the money as well.
Bush never did that because he thought he needed the good will.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 10, 2025 03:29 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:29 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: anachronda at January 10, 2025 03:29 PM (qmXXH)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (IG4Id)
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Some of us didn't help with the fire!
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:29 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
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You don't get a promotion for doing your job.
You get a promotion for excelling at your job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (OVrCp)
Posted by: Paco at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (IG4Id)
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Some of us didn't help with the fire!
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:29 PM (krQz2)
"We couldn't douse the fire!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ewjUl)
Not just fired. Prosecuted.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 10, 2025 03:26 PM (IG4Id)
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Some of us didn't help with the fire!
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:29 PM (krQz2)
"We couldn't douse the fire!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (ynpvh)
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IT WAS THE WIND!!! THE WIND!!!
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (gaKF9)
This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Gay Men at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (ynpvh)
Staff Writer. Jan. 10, 2025 8:39 AM PT
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Mayor Bass of Los Angeles at January 10, 2025 03:28 PM (7uGna)
Don't forget the carbon tax on all the property owners who released all that carbon into the air when their houses burn, to pay for muh duhversity.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (OA79/)
"Look Zuck, bubby- I know you want to be hip and cool. It's why you invented this thing in the first place. But that's not your customer base. You know that Grandma who posts pictures of her grandkids and takes them to Olive Garden for a family celebration? Yeah, that's who's on Facebook. And she votes Republican."
Posted by: Wally at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (KAV+b)
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM
Fucking Pikers.
Posted by: P Diddly at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ewjUl)
The fire did start in the bushes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)
You get a promotion for excelling at your job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (OVrCp)
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Well, if superiors aren't doing their jobs, there's a case for promoting the guys who are doing theirs.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:33 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Seems Legit "
::shifty eyes::
Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2025 03:33 PM (fV+MH)
One of my colleagues pulled a "we're going to have to agree to disagree" because I said I wasn't a feminist except for First-Wave ideals. She doesn't think that the government is involved with promoting women in positions of power.
Because it's "normal".
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 10, 2025 03:33 PM (fxCK2)
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That's for corned beef. When you feel like bog stomping.
Posted by: Pudinhead
>Once I met a little Welsh girl who loved to go bog stomping. I couldn't understand a word she said, but she clung to me like a whisky hangover.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 10, 2025 03:34 PM (hXQfZ)
Basic competence, or DEI goals.
Can't have both.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (lTGtQ)
You get more of what you measure and less of what you ignore. Hence dei hires create more dei at the expense of other things.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 10, 2025 03:34 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:34 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: LASue
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Just like the bollards down for repair, New Year's Eve, NOLA.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 03:34 PM (OVrCp)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ewjUl)
The fire did start in the bushes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)
They would have been able to lick it. It would have been gone lickety split.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:34 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Seems Legit "
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Are lesbians involved? I don't want any lesbians involved.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 10, 2025 03:35 PM (gaKF9)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ewjUl)
The fire did start in the bushes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)
They would have been able to lick it. It would have been gone lickety split.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:34 PM
The dyke on the resevoir broke.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (ewjUl)
You get a promotion for excelling at your job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (OVrCp)
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Worked for a guy once who would make you do the job first for 6 months before finally promoting and paying you for it.
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (7hxLo)
Well, if superiors aren't doing their jobs, there's a case for promoting the guys who are doing theirs.
Posted by: Axeman
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Nope. It's a case for not firing them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (OVrCp)
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Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman
LA sent fire fighters to my home, but they didn't look like me, so I sent them home.
My kids will now be homeless, but equity is that important to us.
Posted by: Axeman at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (VNX3d)
Millions may walk away. But in 2 or 4 years, when EVERYTHING is not fixed, these people will go back to voting to cut dicks/breaststroke off children. And the reply will be, I gave Rs a "chance" to fix everything. Bet on it.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 10, 2025 03:27 PM
You're sadly probably correct. Libs are still blaming the current homeless problem on Reagan when he was governor fifty years ago.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (qPFUY)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ewjUl)
Too late, they ran out of water because nobody stuck a finger in the dyke.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Wally at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (KAV+b)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (VNX3d)
Staff Writer. Jan. 10, 2025 8:39 AM PT
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (NFX2v)
wow. just wow.
Posted by: LASue at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (VNX3d)
Now they all talk about manifesting. They didn't put full reservoirs on their vision boards or something.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (qPFUY)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 10, 2025 03:25 PM (g8Ew
3lbs of meat, some beans, pretty dense and I thickened it at the end. Just got a spoon to stand up in it. It will be ten times better by Sunday/Monday.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (Y6IkP)
Not The Bee yesterday had a real photo from LA of a guy in a Covid mask pouring almond milk on flames in his yard.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (2ocoG)
Zuckerberg is the wrong guy, but if he is made to do the right thing for whatever reason it takes that to happen, I can live with it.
Posted by: Just Lily at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (DzlPc)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (VNX3d)
Don't forget that flake, Newsom was there too...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (ynpvh)
Staff Writer. Jan. 10, 2025 8:39 AM PT
Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 10, 2025 03:32 PM (NFX2v)
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IT WAS THE WIND--YOU FOX-NEWS-PARROTS!!
Posted by: Dems on X at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ewjUl)
Too late, they ran out of water because nobody stuck a finger in the dyke.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:37 PM (2ocoG)
Dyke's closed for repairs. Mooseknuckles out front should'a told ya.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:39 PM (i24o9)
Biden:"Delete posts on FB that say the Covid vaccines aren't safe."
Zuck:"No!"
Biden goes to chicken s#!+ anti-trust investigations. Even worse would be AG Garland investigating Meta for CDA 230 violations. "Meta deleted posts so Meta's not a common carrier. Anyone who wants to sue Meta for slander and libel can now do so." The first person in line to sue Meta would be Trump, followed by Carlson and Jones. Would Biden be dumb enough to wreck Meta but help his opponents?
Posted by: hurricane567 at January 10, 2025 03:39 PM (Bn9Uw)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:31 PM (ewjUl)
The fire did start in the bushes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 10, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)
They would have been able to lick it. It would have been gone lickety split.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 10, 2025 03:34 PM
The dyke on the resevoir broke.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 10, 2025 03:36 PM (ewjUl)
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They could have minimized the damage by using scissoring to prune the bushes.
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (7hxLo)
The op is being planned as quickly as we're commenting.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 10, 2025 03:40 PM (g8Ew8)
"Hey, there's a fire in my pants, which one of you ladies has enough hose to put it out?"
Posted by: fb at January 10, 2025 03:41 PM (JVEmw)
I think we can.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (Y6IkP)
No parsnips, no porcini mushrooms, no crème fraîche.. weak chili, bro.
Posted by: Gourmand at January 10, 2025 03:44 PM (FC8SQ)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2025 03:38 PM (2ocoG)
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They should drain Diddy's baby oil and fill the Pacific Palisades reservoir with Soy Milk and Delta Smelt.
Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the PanaMAGA Canal! at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (dQfoN)
Posted by: Karen Bass, Marxist at January 10, 2025 03:23 PM (R/m4+)
****
I was laborer in a cannery Teamster's Union.
In 1976 I applied for apprentice mechanic. US Dept of Labor refused to allow white males to be apprenticed until a female quota was reached. This was a mandatory notice on the timecard rack.
Five years later I quit cannery as laborer and enlisted Navy. EM2 in 30 months.
Posted by: torabora at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (f8rQN)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 10, 2025 03:30 PM (OVrCp)
Unless you work in gubmint
Posted by: ... at January 10, 2025 03:45 PM (Unq3t)
Biggest social media platform in the world, and he can't get on it and say "these mother fucking democrats are destroying free speech"?
He's playing both sides, or he is the biggest pussy on the planet. Both, actually.
But he was absolutely on board with all the censorship, or he wouldn't have done it.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (Vvh2V)
Well, there was no water around in many of the areas. May have been the only liquid he had.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 10, 2025 03:51 PM (Vvh2V)
But he was absolutely on board with all the censorship, or he wouldn't have done it.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 10, 2025 03:49 PM (Vvh2V)
Thank you! A voice of reason!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2025 03:53 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January
My bet is he did what his lawyers and his team advised him to do- and based on his location, he wasn’t surrounded by any hardcore conservatives.
Posted by: Piper at January 10, 2025 03:57 PM (p4NUW)
Originally: Two EQUALLY qualified people, White and Black = hire the Black one.
Then: we need a quota so hire Black even if 'slightly' less qualified.
Now: Hire anyone breathing, except Whites and particularly don't hire White men.
Tomorrow: Hire only NON-White women.
Posted by: Ciampino - Crash & Burn at January 10, 2025 03:58 PM (i0xsb)
So definitely a pussy. But I stand by my opinion that he was happy to do it.
Musk didn't allow censorship, even when the EU was openly threatening him.
Zuckerberg was 100 percent fine with helping the Dems censor our side.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 10, 2025 04:08 PM (Vvh2V)
It's an honor to share an opinion with the internet's most esteemed sex toy! 😉
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 10, 2025 04:16 PM (Vvh2V)
Let that sink in - what they were doing was ALWAYS illegal. The Supreme court just affirms that, yeah, that's fucking illegal. They kept trying to find some way to commit crimes that wouldn't land them in jail. Some way of skirting the law.
Now, after flouting, skirting, and ignoring the law, they have finally decided, fuck it, we are going to follow the law.
And the LEFT is upset over that. How dare they follow the law!
Posted by: El Mariachi at January 10, 2025 04:33 PM (ARlwA)
He spent BILLIONS to get Biden elected, and tried to do the same for Harris.
He's telling these stories because the leftists are going to try and pin ALL the blame for this on Biden, and act like that's the only reason it happened.
Biden was never anything but a figurehead. The left, as an institution, is the one that wanted censorship, and Cuckerberg was only too happy to oblige as long as it was safe.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 10, 2025 04:39 PM (lCHt6)
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