NBC "News:" Trump Plans to Fire Very Senior Bureaucrats Resisting His Voter-Mandated Agenda

From Jeff Charles at Townhall, NBC "News" is very sad.

This week, the three sources told NBC News, career employees at high managerial levels, namely Senior Executive Service and General Schedule 15 employees, may be removed from agencies across DHS -- not to reduce the size of the workforce but to remove employees whom the administration sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump administration has for the agency.
DHS, which includes Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is the primary agency tasked with enforcing U.S. immigration law. Trump has relied heavily on CBP to secure the southwest border and on ICE to ramp up arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

Charles adds:

A former senior Biden administration official told NBC News that those targeted "are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions."
An official in the current administration argued that the individuals who will be released "willfully grind things to halt" when it comes to enacting President Trump's agenda -- especially as it pertains to immigration policy.

Meanwhile, a Democrat DOJ ringer has resigned rather than carry out her lawful order to investigate Biden's lawless spending of taxpayer monies on "climate change."

Some former DOJ prosecutor has been saying for months since the election that they way you clear out the Dem partisan ideologues is to fgive them work to do that they don’t want to do.

See how it works in practice? https://t.co/QGn1yM0UyC
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) February 18, 2025

Bonus: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will investigate NBC for its illegal DEI racial and sex discrimination.

Posted by: Ace at 03:55 PM

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1 Wut?

Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

2 Happy happy joy joy

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 18, 2025 03:55 PM (a/dOO)

3 Chop chop!

Posted by: gdgm+ at February 18, 2025 03:55 PM (FyLCZ)

4 Godzilla had a stroke reading that post.

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (T6Rtu)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Screw all of them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (jbnUc)

7 NBC "News:" Trump Plans to Fire Very Senior Bureaucrats Resisting His Voter-Mandated Agenda

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Translation:

Bureaucrats think the American people should have no say in the workings of the executive branch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

8 The media - NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS!

Everyone - YES WE DID! Pound sand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

9 I called the corgis.

Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (ctrM5)

10 Cutting the head off the snake is the only way

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2025 03:57 PM (VE6XX)

11 A former senior Biden administration official told NBC News that those targeted "are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions."
An official in the current administration argued that the individuals who will be released "willfully grind things to halt" when it comes to enacting President Trump's agenda -- especially as it pertains to immigration policy.

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So, their experience should supersede the will of the sovereignty through the chosen method of electing the head of the executive branch?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

12 GO GO TRUMPZILLA!!!

HE PICKS UP A BUS AND HE THROWS IT BACK DOWN
AS HEADS TO THE CENTER OF TOWN.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 18, 2025 03:57 PM (17s+e)

13 Should have invested in quotation marks. They do have to be added to every "news" organizations' names.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 18, 2025 03:57 PM (n4GiU)

14 Oh, and bye-bye Denise.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 18, 2025 03:57 PM (a/dOO)

15 >> not to reduce the size of the workforce but to remove employees whom the administration sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump administration has for the agency.
———
ahem clinton firing all doj attorneys ahem

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (wFFVS)

16 8 The media - NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS!

Everyone - YES WE DID! Pound sand.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

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No one voted for Musk. Also, no one voted for these nameless bureaucrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

17 Bureaucrats think the American people should have no say in the workings of the executive branch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Managerial state which is why so many of them are pinkish socialist when they are not outright communists.

They view themselves as the vanguard for the proletariat.

Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (ctrM5)

18 The real reason why Trump wants a base in Greenland?

To transfer generals who won't follow orders to Fort Thule.

Posted by: Blanco at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (645LH)

19 Some guy once said elections have consequences.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (mB6WH)

20 The Executive Branch has no Executive Power under the Constitution!

Posted by: Defeated Democrats at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (GD2xa)

21 not to reduce the size of the workforce but to remove employees whom the administration sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump administration has for the agency.
———
ahem clinton firing all doj attorneys ahem

Posted by: electronic means
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Obama did the same thing and all the IGs.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 18, 2025 03:59 PM (17s+e)

22 I have a feeling there will be a lot of resignations, followed by firings. 90 percent of these jobs are held by the 'elite' that Scott Rasmussen interviewed last year.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 18, 2025 03:59 PM (lTGtQ)

23 17 Managerial state which is why so many of them are pinkish socialist when they are not outright communists.

They view themselves as the vanguard for the proletariat.
Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (ctrM5)

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The irony in these people thinking that they are at all proletariat.

I mean...I'm not entirely into the whole class warfare definitions as put into action by Lenin, but...

I am watching a shit ton of Soviet propaganda right now. It's in the brain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

24 >>A former senior Biden administration official told NBC News that those targeted "are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions."

Dirtier.

Talk dirtier.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2025 03:59 PM (oa1NA)

25 NO ONE votes for appointees unless they are LIBTARD appointees. THEN, they're acceptable.

They honestly think no one sees through this garbage, don't they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

26 22 I have a feeling there will be a lot of resignations, followed by firings. 90 percent of these jobs are held by the 'elite' that Scott Rasmussen interviewed last year.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 18, 2025 03:59 PM (lTGtQ)

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Some DOJ attorney chose to resign instead of...investigating the climate fund Biden had set up.

It's obvious that senior political appointees by Trump are using literally every trick they can imagine to get people out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

27 Organizations are probably sad, they are losing all their 'sources''. What will they write about?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 18, 2025 04:00 PM (n4GiU)

28 I rate Trump's first few weeks as exceeding expectations.

Posted by: Weasel at February 18, 2025 04:00 PM (iu4Pw)

29 Trump Plans to Fire Very Senior Bureaucrats Resisting His Voter-Mandated Agenda

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Good hunting !

Posted by: runner at February 18, 2025 04:00 PM (g47mK)

30 I want a fun post now like mark Hamill's pants falling down or something

I agree completely. What a buffoon. Was he getting oral just off stage before he came on or is he just that drunk, stoned, and mindless now??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:00 PM (2VST1)

31 No one voted for Musk. Also, no one voted for these nameless bureaucrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

In a roundabout way they did...Trump clearly said he was appointing Musk to oversee Government "oversight" for efficiency.. The folks knew and voted Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2025 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

32 Fuck glass, I'm now able to cut diamond with my schadenboner.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 18, 2025 04:00 PM (17s+e)

33 To transfer generals who won't follow orders to Fort Thule.
Posted by: Blanco at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (645LH)
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Fort Brass Monkeys is further north than Fort Thule.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:01 PM (6K6Eu)

34 Also, I was 28th!

Posted by: Weasel at February 18, 2025 04:01 PM (iu4Pw)

35 TRUMP SMASH!!!!

Posted by: HULK at February 18, 2025 04:01 PM (wtvvX)

36 Some former DOJ prosecutor has been saying for months since the election that the way you clear out the Dem partisan ideologues is to give them work to do that they don't want to do.
.......

Like cleaning the hallways at the EPA.

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

37 REEEEEEE

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 18, 2025 04:01 PM (WIRXc)

38 It's a Trumpist purge

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Wo ist der Bahnhof? at February 18, 2025 04:01 PM (AOsQT)

39 I love the exodus of heads of departments now, they are fleeing like cockroaches when the lights come on. Rats from a sinking ship.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (2VST1)

40 TURN THOSE VOTING MACHINES BACK ON!!!

Posted by: Democrat Bureaucrats at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (17s+e)

41 Bureaucrats think the American people should have no say in the workings of the executive branch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

Voters come and go, but the state is forever.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (lHPJf)

42 It can't happen fast enough.

Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (ufJfM)

43 Bonus: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will investigate NBC for its illegal DEI racial and sex discrimination.

TRUMP SMASH MORE!!!

Posted by: HULK at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (wtvvX)

44 Rule One: The Boss gets to tell you what to do.
There is no rule Two

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (D7oie)

45 "The American people didn't vote for Trump to implement his agenda. The American people voted for Trump to be a figurehead while the nameless bureaucracy increases its hold on American governance without pushback from the body politic."
-George W. Bush, 94.6% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

46 ZOMFG DRUMPF IS USING HIS POWER LIKE HE MEANS IT
i’m strangely aroused
—-what some progressives feel but cannot utter

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (wFFVS)

47
"This is an outrage! I demand an investigation! You can't fire us! We've had jobs in this department since it was founded! We founded this department! It's ours!! It belongs to US!!!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2025 04:03 PM (dxSpM)

48 Orange Trump > Red Trump

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:03 PM (wFFVS)

49 Unless they've all gotten massive payoffs and don't need to work anymore and don't want to be investigated, I expect they'll be the large resistance force in the Spring funded by Alex Soros or the Chinese.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 18, 2025 04:03 PM (fW6LD)

50 Just run over the snake 16 or 17 times with your off road golf cart thingee.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:03 PM (bF7Q5)

51 Doing what the boss tells me to do is not in my job description.

Posted by: Democrat Bureaucrats at February 18, 2025 04:04 PM (17s+e)

52 Like pouring molten lead down an ant nest, we not only kill all the ants but afterward get to see what the shape of their hive looked like. Spectacular!

Posted by: zombie at February 18, 2025 04:04 PM (pMi6S)

53 52 Like pouring molten lead down an ant nest, we not only kill all the ants but afterward get to see what the shape of their hive looked like. Spectacular!
Posted by: zombie at February 18, 2025 04:04 PM (pMi6S)

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That effect is awesome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

54 Some former DOJ prosecutor has been saying for months since the election that they way you clear out the Dem partisan ideologues is to give them work to do that they don’t want to do.

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Make them go and register Republican nationwide to vote -- reporting to Scott Pressler -- as well as finding and identifying for Tom Homan & deportation illegal aliens illegally registered to vote (

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (cWCUS)

55 Bonus: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will investigate NBC for its illegal DEI racial and sex discrimination.

Investigate NBC for some of those 'SNL 50' skits, too.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (lHPJf)

56 Did they find the leaker(s) ?

Posted by: runner at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (g47mK)

57 Should I see my doctor about this schadenboner Ive had since January 20th?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (5oliX)

58 48 Orange Trump > Red Trump
Posted by: electronic means

I look forward to Ultraviolet Trump.

Posted by: zombie at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (pMi6S)

59 It's my job ain'ts it, precious

Posted by: Ben Had at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (mB6WH)

60 >> Like pouring molten lead down an ant nest, we not only kill all the ants but afterward get to see what the shape of their hive looked like. Spectacular!
———
I like it but there isn’t enough lead in North America. We must not allow a molten lead gap.

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (wFFVS)

61 Am I tired of all the winning?

Not by a longshot.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 18, 2025 04:06 PM (wtvvX)

62 Voters come and go, but the state is forever.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:02 PM (lHPJf)

HA!

Posted by: The dead always vote D at February 18, 2025 04:06 PM (/6GbT)

63 Organizations are probably sad, they are losing all their 'sources''. What will they write about?
Posted by: From about That Time

Is there really anything to stop them from just making it up?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 18, 2025 04:06 PM (mlg/3)

64 {i]56 Did they find the leaker(s) ?
Posted by: runner

Considering how the entire Left is pissing their pants in fear and apoplectic rage, they're ALL leakers now.

Posted by: zombie at February 18, 2025 04:06 PM (pMi6S)

65 Graveyards are full of "career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions". Somehow the country got on regardless. The same will be true here.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 18, 2025 04:06 PM (CwhoI)

66 Gee, if I was trying to obstruct the goals of my boss, do you think I would get fired?

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (Sf2cq)

67 Meanwhile, a Democrat DOJ ringer has resigned rather than carry out her lawful order to investigate Biden's lawless spending of taxpayer monies on "climate change."

So the interesting part about this is she didn't just take the role and sit on the actual investigation which leads me to believe:

1) She knows the corruption would be impossible to hide
2) She fears that the people doing the actual investigation work under her would turn her in for insubordination if she did just try and sit on the investigation

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (t0Rmr)

68 Several department heads are "resigning in protest" because DOGE is getting their data. Yeah, that's it, its not "oh crap I'm gonna get caught with two arms elbow deep in the trough"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (2VST1)

69 Should I see my doctor about this schadenboner Ive had since January 20th?
Posted by: Mr. Bingley
.......

Either that or a scantily clad nurse.

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

70 I wouldn't be surprised to find out SNL stayed afloat on government graft money. Sure as hell didn't stay afloat on humor. They ain't funny, or entertaining, or even interesting.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (pohLc)

71 70 I wouldn't be surprised to find out SNL stayed afloat on government graft money. Sure as hell didn't stay afloat on humor. They ain't funny, or entertaining, or even interesting.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (pohLc)

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I really liked the movie from last year, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

72
Meanwhile, a Democrat DOJ ringer has resigned rather than carry out her lawful order to investigate Biden's lawless spending of taxpayer monies on "climate change."

She could have pretended to be dead.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 18, 2025 04:08 PM (63Dwl)

73 >>I look forward to Ultraviolet Trump.
———
Once X-Ray Trump has arrived, Gamma Ray Trump can step in and there may be a singularity somewhere in London County, VA.

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:08 PM (wFFVS)

74 Not having "career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions"will most likely provide much better outcomes for most Americans.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 18, 2025 04:08 PM (17s+e)

75 I wouldn't be surprised to find out SNL stayed afloat on government graft money. Sure as hell didn't stay afloat on humor. They ain't funny, or entertaining, or even interesting.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (pohLc)

The sad part is, after everything we've learned, there's a 70% chance you're right.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:09 PM (lHPJf)

76 Everybody Fire Cheung Tonight?

Too soon?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 18, 2025 04:09 PM (zeWHP)

77 The media - NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS!
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Everyone - YES WE DID! Pound sand.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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No one voted for Musk. Also, no one voted for these nameless bureaucrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I voted for Trump, knowing he was gonna use Musk this way. So yes. I voted for Musk.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 18, 2025 04:09 PM (MsrgL)

78 Babylon Bee. SNL celebrating the 25 year anniversary since the show was funny.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:09 PM (bF7Q5)

79 63 Organizations are probably sad, they are losing all their 'sources''. What will they write about?
Posted by: From about That Time

Is there really anything to stop them from just making it up?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 18, 2025 04:06 PM (mlg/3)

No wonder Acosta is trying to organize a "news boycott".

Modern journos are illiterate, incurious trash.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 18, 2025 04:09 PM (wtvvX)

80 I wouldn't be surprised to find out SNL stayed afloat on government graft money. Sure as hell didn't stay afloat on humor.

Or ratings. But they do sell a hell of a lot of advertising. I swear for every 1 minute of show, its 45 seconds of ads.

Like pouring molten lead down an ant nest, we not only kill all the ants but afterward get to see what the shape of their hive looked like. Spectacular!

Nice! I like the silver ones better, though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:09 PM (2VST1)

81 IIRC this was pretty much the plan Trump's administration had to begin with; lay out the agenda, give the orders and direction and those that balk... walk.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 18, 2025 04:09 PM (Q4IgG)

82 69 Should I see my doctor about this schadenboner Ive had since January 20th?
Posted by: Mr. Bingley
.......

Either that or a scantily clad nurse.
Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

Hey Mr. B ...

***Forrest Gump Wave***

Posted by: browndog unearthing eternal truths at February 18, 2025 04:10 PM (TTAGa)

83 There a tally board of money saved/ number of govt positions eliminated?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 18, 2025 04:10 PM (/6GbT)

84 I voted for Trump, knowing he was gonna use Musk this way. So yes. I voted for Musk.

Yeah, indirectly. He announced that DOGE was going to be formed and do this stuff, its part of what we voted for. But Madison is right: we did not vote for the bureaucracy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:10 PM (2VST1)

85

Steve Miller is back to giving CNN robots shit. It’s hilarious.

Posted by: E Buzz at February 18, 2025 04:11 PM (kFtsj)

86 Trump really is clearing out the deadwood.

When he fired those 20 immigration judges Biden appointed at the last minute I looked up the one name actually mention in the article on linked in.

And do you know who this partial Solomonesque judge was going before Biden appointed her?

She worked for a string of NGOs that paid illegals to come here.

Obviously the perfect person to be an impartial judge right?

Its like appointed a convicted counterfeiter to be head of the Treasury's printing presses.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:11 PM (t0Rmr)

87 73 >>I look forward to Ultraviolet Trump.
———
Once X-Ray Trump has arrived, Gamma Ray Trump can step in and there may be a singularity somewhere in London County, VA.

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:08 PM (wFFVS)

I'll settle for VHF Trump, as long as it comes with horizontal and vertical control.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 18, 2025 04:11 PM (wtvvX)

88 Orange Trump > Red Trump

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:03 PM (wFFVS)

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Can we get an "Orange Wedding" a la Game of Thrones?

I want blood ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 04:11 PM (h+f0D)

89 There a tally board of money saved/ number of govt positions eliminated?

Estimated money saved, yes:

https://dogegov.com/dogeclock.html

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:11 PM (2VST1)

90 Unbelievable.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at February 18, 2025 04:11 PM (UFPtw)

91 Trump is really going down a checklist and doing all the things he'd wished he'd done in 2017.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (6ydKt)

92 84 Yeah, indirectly. He announced that DOGE was going to be formed and do this stuff, its part of what we voted for. But Madison is right: we did not vote for the bureaucracy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:10 PM (2VST1)

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I'm mostly just poking fun at the stupid line.

Media screaming about how no one voted for Musk so we must trust some nameless bureaucrat whom...no one voted for.

I mean...I don't expect much from the media, but that's levels of dumb that I thought they could suss out at some level.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

93 Like the rest of the left, the bureaucrats that attacked Trump in his first term have an inability to see beyond the intended results to their actions.

The idea that there may be consequences other than what they want ALWAYS surprises them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (N1tpc)

94 New York Stock Exchange Plans to Relocate Chicago Exchange to Texas

The new stock exchange will reincorporate the Chicago-based exchange in Dallas.

Posted by: SMOD at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (RHGPo)

95 Almost willowed last thread...

Gee, our MFM here had a chyron about arresting the 'Zizian' leader for six murders etc. using AP's copy but failed to inform readers/viewers that the Zizians are a "Trans rights extremist group". [Even ignoring it should have read "tranny terrorist group" to have been genuinely accurate.]

Checking my Zizians spelling, I see even AP used "cultlike" in its longer written reports that was ignored by our MFM too.

Just wanted to get that off of my chest.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (5LoD7)

96 The irony in these people thinking that they are at all proletariat.

I mean...I'm not entirely into the whole class warfare definitions as put into action by Lenin, but...

I am watching a shit ton of Soviet propaganda right now. It's in the brain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

These latest socialists are more Nazi than Bolshevik or Maoist. Tight with Ukraine, Anti Russian, likes street violence.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (n7h9X)

97 We need a photoshop of Trump with all of those folders of EOs on the Resolute Desk being signed, only the one he's holding up is a pink slip with "You're FIRED!" scrawled across it in big bold letters.

Extra bonus points for working in an "Afuera!"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (O7YUW)

98 I'll settle for VHF Trump, as long as it comes with horizontal and vertical control.

VHS Trump, just adjust the tracking

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (2VST1)

99 Not having "career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions"will most likely provide much better outcomes for most Americans.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

When Hegseth gets around to doing this to the DoD, and the Missile Defense Agency...there are some GS-15s that had best hope and pray they don't end up working with me in the private sector. Useless... (searches short term memory) ...hirudinean assholes.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (MsrgL)

100 Hey B D!

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (5oliX)

101 I want a fun post now like mark Hamill's pants falling down or something

I agree completely. What a buffoon. Was he getting oral just off stage before he came on or is he just that drunk, stoned, and mindless now??

The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

Posted by: Supreme Chancellor Palpatine at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (D0HYP)

102 83 There a tally board of money saved/ number of govt positions eliminated?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 18, 2025 04:10 PM (/6GbT)

Somebody posted a board on X showing the budget deficit AND the money DOGE was saving. Elon quote-tweeted it.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (wtvvX)

103 A former senior Biden administration official told NBC News that those targeted "are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions."

An official in the current administration argued that the individuals who will be released "willfully grind things to halt" when it comes to enacting President Trump's agenda -- especially as it pertains to immigration policy.

What am I missing? Am I supposed to be upset that people who are sabotaging the voter's choice are being fired?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (xCA6C)

104 Pro tip:

Be sure to take a look at the $6.3B loan/grant to Rivian that the Biden Admin released on 1/17/2025. That feels like money going up in smoke.

Posted by: Ned Pondry at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (HEaqw)

105 96 These latest socialists are more Nazi than Bolshevik or Maoist. Tight with Ukraine, Anti Russian, likes street violence.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (n7h9X)

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I prefer to imagine them in clown outfits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

106 Every time a federal goldbrick is fired, a penis gets it's wings.

Posted by: Clarence Odbody at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM (NAF5O)

107
Either that or a scantily clad nurse.
Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

Do you have an erection that won't go away?
Can you sing Karaoke in Japanese?
Are you ok with being filmed on Japanese television?

If you answer yes to all these questions we have a show for you!

Posted by: Sing What Happens at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM (t0Rmr)

108
teve Miller is back to giving CNN robots shit. It’s hilarious.
Posted by: E Buzz

He's a joker

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM (63Dwl)

109 AP: Trump will sign new executive orders while his first joint TV interview with Musk airs in prime time at Mar-a-Lago...followed by an awards program by a conservative group led by Mike Flynn, who briefly served as national security adviser in the Republican president’s first term.

I hate these fuckers. I want them fucking DEAD.They're determined to incite massive stress-induced mental illness in any thinking American. Deep breathing exercises, folks

I think they are trying to kill us all. Maybe they want to steal all our Soc Sec $ that we just started collecting after a lifetime of contributing to our savings.

What the fuck next? What role is muskRAT playing in this press conference? The other day the lawyers for the coup told a judge that muskRAT is not the head of DOGE. What elements of our Constitution are they going light on fire in the event tonight?

Musk is a Creepy idiot --and that is being to nice!! In an excerpt from the interview that Fox News released on Sunday, Musk said he “used to be adored by the left” but “less so these days” because of the work he’s doing at Trump’s direction.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM (JCZqz)

110 Trump had 4 years to get his shit together, and his shit is together. All mapped, planned, and ready for instant execution. And execute he has.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM (pohLc)

111 We need a photoshop of Trump with all of those folders of EOs on the Resolute Desk being signed, only the one he's holding up is a pink slip with "You're FIRED!" scrawled across it in big bold letters.

Extra bonus points for working in an "Afuera!"

Trump: What would you say you do here?

Bureaucrat: Well, I...

Trump: Never mind. I don't really care. You're out.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:15 PM (xCA6C)

112

Can they investigate Amy Globuchar for smelling like urine and boiled cabbage?

Or cabbage boiled in urine.

Posted by: E Buzz at February 18, 2025 04:15 PM (kFtsj)

113 Extra bonus points for working in an "Afuera!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (O7YUW)
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And a "harrumph." Definitely a "harrumph."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:15 PM (6K6Eu)

114 OT: Pope Francis (88 years old) is now said to have bilateral pneumonia.

No idea where that ranks among types of pneumonia, but doesn't sound good for him.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:15 PM (lHPJf)

115 109 I hate these fuckers. I want them fucking DEAD.They're determined to incite massive stress-induced mental illness in any thinking American. Deep breathing exercises, folks

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM (JCZqz)

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Why should the firing of bureaucrats induce mental illness in all thinking Americans?

Were people expected to have mental illness induced from the lost jobs when Biden canceled Keystone?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

116 Terrible!
Just terrible.

We voted for this

Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2025 04:15 PM (Hkcdp)

117 I hate these fuckers. I want them fucking DEAD.They're determined to incite massive stress-induced mental illness in any thinking American. Deep breathing exercises, folks

Too late.. You're already mentally ill...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (VE6XX)

118 What is the Mark Hamill pants fail story? Missed that one.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (LxER7)

119 109 I think they are trying to kill us all. Maybe they want to steal all our Soc Sec $ that we just started collecting after a lifetime of contributing to our savings.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM (JCZqz)

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These people need to learn that SS is a tax, not a savings account.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

120 >> Media screaming about how no one voted for Musk so we must trust some nameless bureaucrat whom...no one voted for.
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It’s incredible that all that was required to sink the Unsinkable Media Titanic was electing one man, really pissed off about the Blob rifling through his wife’s underwear drawer and, oh… literally trying to assassinate him.

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (wFFVS)

121 I mean...I don't expect much from the media, but that's levels of dumb that I thought they could suss out at some level.

As many people voted for Elon Musk as voted for Kamala Harris as presidential candidate last year, heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (2VST1)

122 @EndWokeness
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18m
BREAKING: AZ Gov. Hobbs (D) vetoes bill to speed up election results and combat fraud

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Wo ist der Bahnhof? at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (AOsQT)

123 I think they are trying to kill us all. Maybe they want to steal all our Soc Sec $ that we just started collecting after a lifetime of contributing to our savings.

These people know that they would be able to tell if the check did not come right? Because they seem to be very sure that no one would actually notice their SS checks stopping and Musk depositing the amount in his account....

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (t0Rmr)

124 What does Bilateral Pneumonia mean? Both lungs?. If so he's screwed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (bF7Q5)

125 I look forward to Ultraviolet Trump.

Posted by: zombie at February 18, 2025 04:05 PM (pMi6S)

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Trump giving new meaning to "Red-Shift."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (HStfP)

126 I hate these f***ers. I want them f***ing DEAD.They're determined to incite massive stress-induced mental illness in any thinking American. Deep breathing exercises, folks

We don't need to incite stress and mental illness in you. You have that covered already.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (xCA6C)

127 Another glorious milestone for the Trump administration.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

128 94 New York Stock Exchange Plans to Relocate Chicago Exchange to Texas

The new stock exchange will reincorporate the Chicago-based exchange in Dallas.

Posted by: SMOD at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (RHGPo)

HAH! Fuck you, Chicago!!!

But they REALLY need to relocate the NYSE to Omaha.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (wtvvX)

129 Now that’s an image, zombie - a lead sculpture of the fedgov hive!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (Hkcdp)

130 I have been cleaning house today. Now it's all done except for taking the trash out to the curb. I don't want to go out there. It's 10 degrees. And windy. If anyone wants to come over and take my trash out, I would really appreciate it! Not like ...Y'know payment or beejer appreciate. Just a heartfelt thank you for being a good person appreciation.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (4XwPj)

131 114 OT: Pope Francis (88 years old) is now said to have bilateral pneumonia.

No idea where that ranks among types of pneumonia, but doesn't sound good for him.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:15 PM (lHPJf)

bilateral means both lungs.. Not good indeed

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (VE6XX)

132 The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
Posted by: Supreme Chancellor Palpatine at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (D0HYP)

Didn't help that the Skywalker linage was hijacked by the most stronkest, most independent wyman character evar - Rey Palpatine-Skywalker.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (9Ovst)

133 You can see DOGE money being saved at the top left of the Debt Clock here:

https://usdebtclock.org/

Currently around $110 billion.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (6ydKt)

134 My new MacBook Air just arrived! Yay! It’s navy and very pretty, the cord even matches it. But of course it is a different cord than the one from my old MacBook. I swear Apple and their cords.

Back to leftists being ridiculous!

Posted by: Piper at February 18, 2025 04:17 PM (pZEOD)

135 >>VHS Trump, just adjust the tracking
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DIVX Trump, he fits on a single CD but delivers the whole show.

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:18 PM (wFFVS)

136 114 OT: Pope Francis (88 years old) is now said to have bilateral pneumonia.

No idea where that ranks among types of pneumonia, but doesn't sound good for him.

Unless he has gills, he's in trouble.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:18 PM (xCA6C)

137 are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions

....

Influence on policy and strategy is the closest they will get to saying they used to run the country

Posted by: TexasDan at February 18, 2025 04:18 PM (VAJnF)

138 What is the Mark Hamill pants fail story? Missed that one.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

His tux pants fell down while he was presenting at the BAFTAs. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2025 04:18 PM (oaGWv)

139 >>>Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 04:14 PM

Those DU posts were written by despairing people in full panic. It's afraid - gotta keep pushing.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 18, 2025 04:19 PM (CwhoI)

140 But of course it is a different cord than the one from my old MacBook.

It's USB-C now so it matches everything else. EU requirement.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2025 04:19 PM (2ocoG)

141 Didn't help that the Skywalker linage was hijacked by the most stronkest, most independent wyman character evar - Rey Palpatine-Skywalker.

Lucas's prequels were stupid and the plot didn't make much sense. But the Disney movies? Their collective plot is dumber than a teenager's Start Trek/Dr Who mashup

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:19 PM (t0Rmr)

142 70 I wouldn't be surprised to find out SNL stayed afloat on government graft money. Sure as hell didn't stay afloat on humor. They ain't funny, or entertaining, or even interesting.
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SNL is supposed to offer a 50 Year Anniversary show sometime soon. I don't think I will watch it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 18, 2025 04:19 PM (pLaQB)

143 Trumps real plan for balancing the budget is to sue "The View" for slander and defamation whenever they say something stupid.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (n7h9X)

144 >>>His tux pants fell down while he was presenting at the BAFTAs. LOL

Showed off his lite saber.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (CwhoI)

145 Gotta wonder how all these fucktards feel when it dawns on them that, since Dopey Joe didn't give them a pardon, they're the ones who will be left holding the bag.

Posted by: Tom Cruise at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (W5ArC)

146 Getting rid of them in any and every way.

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (KQk9m)

147 BREAKING: AZ Gov. Hobbs (D) vetoes bill to speed up election results and combat fraud
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Wo ist der Bahnhof? at February 18, 2025 04:16 PM (AOsQT)

Can't imagine any fraud going on in AZ... LoL keep your 3 weeks after election day counting ya useless grifters

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (/6GbT)

148 142 SNL is supposed to offer a 50 Year Anniversary show sometime soon. I don't think I will watch it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 18, 2025 04:19 PM (pLaQB)

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Last weekend.

Apparently ratings were 200% more than the normal episode.

So...3 people watched it, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

149 Am I supposed to be upset that people who are sabotaging the voter's choice are being fired?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:13 PM (xCA6C)

Yes. They should be fired, and then have their pay clawed back!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (mWSu4)

150 >> But the Disney movies? Their collective plot is
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Girlboss
Black sidekick
Repeat as needed

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (wFFVS)

151 149 Yes. They should be fired, and then have their pay clawed back!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 04:20 PM (mWSu4)

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But 60 Minutes made me cry at their hardship!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

152 Time to re-re-read Angelo Codevilla's "America's Ruling Class - and the perils of revolution"

LINK (American Spectator): https://tinyurl.com/4avresju

Hard to believe that the essay was published in Barry's first term.

Posted by: mrp at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (rj6Yv)

153 No idea where that ranks among types of pneumonia, but doesn't sound good for him.

Posted by: Dr. T

It means it's in both lungs. It's pretty bad.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (OUMaO)

154 OT: Pope Francis (88 years old) is now said to have bilateral pneumonia.

Odds of them electing a new pope look good, lets hope this time they don't find another commie.

As for the rest of what's going on with stubborn Biden appointee's I'm still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (qZdIZ)

155 A former senior Biden administration official told NBC News that those targeted "are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions."

First rule of working in any organization. Understand what the boss wants and work to achieve it.
Fools. Review the oath you took bureaucrats.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (W/lyH)

156 BREAKING: AZ Gov. Hobbs (D) vetoes bill to speed up election results and combat fraud

Nothing says elections are above board like vetoing that bill.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (2ocoG)

157 Lucas's prequels were stupid and the plot didn't make much sense.
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They at least had the consistent through line of the rise and corruption of Anakin Skywalker. The sequels show every sign of different writers/directors trying to yank the story line the way they wanted it to go. Which is what actually happened.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (6K6Eu)

158 Maybe the DHS people can scream "RESIST!" as they are thrown out. That will teach Trump a lesson.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (lXCUP)

159 138 What is the Mark Hamill pants fail story? Missed that one.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

His tux pants fell down while he was presenting at the BAFTAs. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2025 04:18 PM (oaGWv)

So, the joke's on the Joker!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (wtvvX)

160 What is the Mark Hamill pants fail story? Missed that one.

He was at the BAFTA awards talking at the podium and his pants fell down. LOL. I will give him this: he didn't miss a beat, very professional.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (2VST1)

161 Can they investigate Amy Globuchar for smelling like urine and boiled cabbage?

Or cabbage boiled in urine.

Posted by: E Buzz
......

A lot of waste and abuse in there somewhere.

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

162 Girlboss
Black sidekick
Repeat as needed

TBH the black sidekick was the best part of the Disney movies because he's the only character that acted like a real human being...

Not saying he was great but based on the other leads well...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (t0Rmr)

163 What is the Mark Hamill pants fail story? Missed that one.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

His tux pants fell down while he was presenting at the BAFTAs. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2025 04:18 PM (oaGWv)

How did I have such a f*ck-up for a son?

Posted by: Darth Vader at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (lHPJf)

164 49 Unless they've all gotten massive payoffs and don't need to work anymore and don't want to be investigated, I expect they'll be the large resistance force in the Spring funded by Alex Soros or the Chinese.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I think most of the Resistance was being funded by you and me that pay taxes. Leftish Rich people tend to be very stingy with their actual money but they are glad to tax and spend every single dollar from the rest of us by their government agents.

Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

165 Didn't help that the Skywalker linage was hijacked by the most stronkest, most independent wyman character evar - Rey Palpatine-Skywalker.

Lucas's prequels were stupid and the plot didn't make much sense. But the Disney movies? Their collective plot is dumber than a teenager's Start Trek/Dr Who mashup
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:19 PM (t0Rmr)

What? You didn't see it as all being due to a coven of Lesbian witches from the very first movie?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (n7h9X)

166 124 What does Bilateral Pneumonia mean? Both lungs?. If so he's screwed.
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We all get issued four lungs. This was good planning.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (pLaQB)

167 157 They at least had the consistent through line of the rise and corruption of Anakin Skywalker. The sequels show every sign of different writers/directors trying to yank the story line the way they wanted it to go. Which is what actually happened.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (6K6Eu)

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The Last Jedi was a rejection of the head over heels nostalgia of The Force Awakens. And then Rise of Skywalker was a veering back towards The Force Awakens' nostalgia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

168 My new MacBook Air just arrived! Yay! It’s navy and very pretty, the cord even matches it. But of course it is a different cord than the one from my old MacBook. I swear Apple and their cords.

Back to leftists being ridiculous!
Posted by: Piper

I've got a navy MacBook too. Yes, it is very pretty and matches my light blue iPad Air. Matchy, matchy.

Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (oaGWv)

169 Trump must be using The Force to get these idiots to all rage quit.

He's not having to raise a finger.

The Donald is a Jedi.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (aOqEy)

170 So, Elon is not an employee of the federal government and has no real authority... But he has so much influence he doesn't need the former. LOLOLOL!!!!

Posted by: lin-duh of the garbage clan at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (C39D0)

171 An official in the current administration argued that the individuals who will be released "willfully grind things to halt" when it comes to enacting President Trump's agenda -- especially as it pertains to immigration policy.

And that is why they are getting the boot.
Don't let the door hit you in the asses dipshits.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 04:23 PM (W/lyH)

172 Please tell me someone took the opportunity to punch "CockKnocker" Hamill in his Vajayjay.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:23 PM (t0Rmr)

173 But, but, but we're EXPERTS!

Posted by: The Deep State at February 18, 2025 04:23 PM (cHVLk)

174 A new PSA we're thinking about adding.

HAVE YOU SEEN ME?

(photo)

Name: Pamela Jo Bondi
Age: 59
Home: Tampa, FL
Political Party (R Democrat before 2000)
College: University of Florida
If seen call WH

Posted by: Blank Milk Carton at February 18, 2025 04:23 PM (/U5Yz)

175 They at least had the consistent through line of the rise and corruption of Anakin Skywalker.

Yeah he had a consistent story. A badly written, badly plotted story, with terrible character direction, but it was at least consistent. And the fight scenes were pretty good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:23 PM (2VST1)

176 175 They at least had the consistent through line of the rise and corruption of Anakin Skywalker.

Yeah he had a consistent story. A badly written, badly plotted story, with terrible character direction, but it was at least consistent. And the fight scenes were pretty good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:23 PM (2VST1)

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All Lucas had in his head for the prequels was Episode III.

Episode I and II he essentially just made up as he went along.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

177 With all the house sales in DC and northern Virginia, one wonders if the Board of Realtors is warming up to the Trump Era. Commissions don’t earn themselves.

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (wFFVS)

178 It's sort of crazy that 4 weeks ago, President Biden was pardoning people like Fauci.

It's insane what Trump's been accomplishing, Biden seems like a fart in the wind.

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (4pwAx)

179 Popes tend to be elected old for the same reason that Supreme Court justices are often appointed old.

There's no getting rid of them (other than VERY RARE exceptions), so you want to limit the time over which they can do damage if you make a mistake.

My namesake only got 9 years at the helm.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (W5ArC)

180 Jeebus, the gits are banging on about Star Wars again.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (pLaQB)

181 177 With all the house sales in DC and northern Virginia, one wonders if the Board of Realtors is warming up to the Trump Era. Commissions don’t earn themselves.
Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (wFFVS)

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Major changes in commissions over the past couple of years. Realtors, I believe, are making a lot less than they used to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

182 These people need to learn that SS is a tax, not a savings account.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It's in a lockbox, a lockbox, I tell ya. Don't let GWB pick that lockbox.

Posted by: Al Gore the Bore at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (ctrM5)

183
Tori Bedford
@Tori_Bedford

Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.

"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @GBHNews . "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."

Steve Kerrigan
@stevekerrigan

The twisted agenda of an unelected billionaire that leads to the genius idea of closing the JFK Presidential Library during school vacation week is not what anyone voted for.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (TGPs7)

184 taxes. Leftish Rich people tend to be very stingy with their actual money but they are glad to tax and spend every single dollar from the rest of us by their government agents.
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This is a breathtakingly true statement. They are all too happy to donate your tax dollars to their special projects. And wail about your lack of charity if you object.

Posted by: Self licking cones at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (JsT2K)

185 And then Rise of Skywalker was a veering back towards The Force Awakens' nostalgia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
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With the dumbest line of exposition in the history of movies: "Somehow, the Emperor has returned."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (6K6Eu)

186 > Commissions don’t earn themselves.
Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (wFFVS)

But they only get those if the house sells. I'm predicting a race to the bottom on DC real estate prices.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (W5ArC)

187 And the fight scenes were pretty good.

I'd say mixed. In the prequels there are plenty of "why are those guys intentionally aiming for their enemies's lightsaber instead of trying to stab them like a real sword fighter would?"

Once you start noticing that in Star Wars it becomes painfully obvious...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)

188 TBH the black sidekick was the best part of the Disney movies because he's the only character that acted like a real human being...

Not saying he was great but based on the other leads well...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (t0Rmr)

The way things ended for him in The Last Jedi is why I hate that movie so much. Not because of Rey, or Purple Admiral, or anything else.

The death ray had the Resistance trapped, and he was going to sacrifice himself by flying his fighter into it--sad, but a heroic end to his story arc--and f*cking Rose what's her face knocks him off-course and he crashes, and then she justifies it with some stupid line about using love, not hate, that's supposed to sound super wise, because she's an Asian woman. Even though she's put everyone else in imminent danger of being killed.

What a stupid, stupid ending.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (lHPJf)

189 Clutch my pearls, Trump wants to shitcan all of the Biden Open Borders Army Leaders from DHS! Oh no Mr. Bill!

Here is what I would like to know.

When?
Where?
Will there be cameras?
Will the eggs and tomatoes be supplied?
Will they be perp walked out of the building?
Will souvenir programs and tee-shirts be for sale?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (Q8Bj8)

190 179 Popes tend to be elected old for the same reason that Supreme Court justices are often appointed old.

There's no getting rid of them (other than VERY RARE exceptions), so you want to limit the time over which they can do damage if you make a mistake.

My namesake only got 9 years at the helm.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (W5ArC)

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Francis was a compromise choice after days of voting. The African cardinals apparently ended up backing him because he was consistently polite to them when they visited Rome.

I doubt they feel good about that choice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

191 Major changes in commissions over the past couple of years. Realtors, I believe, are making a lot less than they used to.

I read something that said about 70% of RE agents have dropped out of the field since rates went up and inventory became scarce.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (xCA6C)

192 Never a star wars fan. Fights were basically all the good guys never miss, all the bad guys never hit, everybody wearing armor that does exactly nothing to ward off injury.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (pohLc)

193 TBH the black sidekick was the best part of the Disney movies because he's the only character that acted like a real human being...

Not saying he was great but based on the other leads well...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:22 PM (t0Rmr)

Of course Finn's origin blew up the nonsensical "all clones of a hispanic-ish guy" which kinda blew up the previous "Aren't you short to be a storm trooper" before that.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (n7h9X)

194 >>But they only get those if the house sells. I'm predicting a race to the bottom on DC real estate prices.
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oh please oh please

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (wFFVS)

195 Jen Rubin sure is going to have a lot of top-tier guests with sudden amounts of free time for her podcast.

It'll be a "must-watch!" on the Paint Drying Channel.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (fPmw+)

196 TBH the black sidekick was the best part of the Disney movies because he's the only character that acted like a real human being...

He was, but what a wasted opportunity. They should have made Rey the scrappy smuggler type and made the ex storm trooper guy (I can't remember his name and don't want to look it up) the jedi. Why did he break the conditioning and reject being a Storm Trooper when literally none of the others ever have? THERE is your story.

Instead they made him into a clown, a running joke.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)

197 All Lucas had in his head for the prequels was Episode III.

Episode I and II he essentially just made up as he went along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

How wude!

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (lHPJf)

198 This is very relevant to this post:

https://ringsideatthereckoning.sub
stack.com/p/sean-spicers-revenge

About Spicer suing over Biden firing him.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (baIR6)

199 Organizations are probably sad, they are losing all their 'sources''. What will they write about?
Posted by: From about That Time at February 18, 2025

***
This is just a weird, blue-sky idea, now stay with me here, but . . . how about the truth and the actual facts?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (J2vNu)

200 193 Of course Finn's origin blew up the nonsensical "all clones of a hispanic-ish guy" which kinda blew up the previous "Aren't you short to be a storm trooper" before that.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (n7h9X)

========

Lucas himself was saying that the clones were gradually replaced by recruits over the years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

201 Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.

"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @GBHNews . "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."

---------------

$37,000,000,000,000 in debt.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (N28XY)

202 Trump Plans to Fire Very Senior Bureaucrats Resisting

Is it resisting when they are out-right ignoring a direct legal order from the C-in-C and in fact and deed trying to subvert it?

That ain't resisting, it's sabotage, and it's treasonous.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

203 Of course Finn's origin blew up the nonsensical "all clones of a hispanic-ish guy" which kinda blew up the previous "Aren't you short to be a storm trooper" before that.

It's almost as if the writers (including Lucas) were just making it up as they went along.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (D0HYP)

204
My namesake only got 9 years at the helm.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 18, 2025 04:24 PM (W5ArC)

At least he was orthodox about doctrine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (dxSpM)

205 =======

Francis was a compromise choice after days of voting. The African cardinals apparently ended up backing him because he was consistently polite to them when they visited Rome.

I doubt they feel good about that choice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)
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IMHO, high time for an African Pope. Those Cardinals do NOT screw around.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (LxER7)

206 What is the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? It's not blaster proof.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (bF7Q5)

207 All Lucas had in his head for the prequels was Episode III.

Episode I and II he essentially just made up as he went along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And it showed. Without Marsha Lucas editing the first one (original now no. 4) and without veteran sci fi writer Leigh Brackett writing the second one (Empire aka no. 5), Lucas would have never made it as big as he did.

Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (ctrM5)

208 everybody wearing armor that does exactly nothing to ward off injury.

They have awesome codpieces, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (xCA6C)

209 I'd say mixed. In the prequels there are plenty of "why are those guys intentionally aiming for their enemies's lightsaber instead of trying to stab them like a real sword fighter would?"

Yeah its standard Hollywood sword fighting, with daffy spin maneuvers and such. But it looks impressive when done right.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (2VST1)

210 205 IMHO, high time for an African Pope. Those Cardinals do NOT screw around.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (LxER7)

========

The American press writing about the "African American Pope" are gonna be so fire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

211 >>>Popes tend to be elected old for the same reason that Supreme Court justices are often appointed old.

There's no getting rid of them (other than VERY RARE exceptions), so you want to limit the time over which they can do damage if you make a mistake.

Ahem.

Posted by: Pope Benedict XVI at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (lHPJf)

212 I read something that said about 70% of RE agents have dropped out of the field since rates went up and inventory became scarce.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:26 PM (xCA6C)

Probably a good thing.. for a while there I think everybody was siding as a realtor

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (/6GbT)

213 It just boggles my mind that the Democrats openly want fraud now.

If say Obama had just been elected and found potentially trillions in Social Security fraud, I would cheer that on.

Who exactly is the constituency for people stealing SS checks?

Even if you're a left-winger, you want somebody pretending to be a 130 year old person so they can steal tax dollars?

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:29 PM (4pwAx)

214 >>>Jim Jones, head of the food division at the Food and Drug Administration, has resigned in protest.

He drank the Kool-Aid.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:29 PM (Wm/Cm)

215 Trump Plans to Fire Very Senior Bureaucrats Resisting

Is it resisting when they are out-right ignoring a direct legal order from the C-in-C and in fact and deed trying to subvert it?

That ain't resisting, it's sabotage, and it's treasonous.

Yes, but resisting sounds so much more butch and virtuous.

Posted by: Very Senior Bureaucrats at February 18, 2025 04:29 PM (xCA6C)

216 Rose what's her face knocks him off-course and he crashes, and then she justifies it with some stupid line about using love, not hate, that's supposed to sound super wise, because she's an Asian woman. Even though she's put everyone else in imminent danger of being killed.

What a stupid, stupid ending.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (lHPJf)

Then he has to drag her ass across a field of salt between two battle lines all the way back to the cave to some door for the next scene.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (n7h9X)

217 214 >>>Jim Jones, head of the food division at the Food and Drug Administration, has resigned in protest.

He drank the Kool-Aid.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:29 PM (Wm/Cm)

Those junkets to Guyana...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

218
The original 1977 Star Wars was a fun movie. Then they made the mistake of making more all weighed down with bong-hit dorm-room philosophy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (dxSpM)

219 Lucas himself was saying that the clones were gradually replaced by recruits over the years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, I didn't have a problem with that. Honestly, rewriting the stormtroopers as clones was a dumb move in the first place. One of many in the prequels.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (lHPJf)

220 Posted by: Blank Milk Carton

Are you suggesting that Pam Bondi is a criminal or that she's missing in action? Do you think that the AG needs to inform the public every day about what she's doing? Is so, why?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (42Vb+)

221 Francis was a compromise choice after days of voting. The African cardinals apparently ended up backing him because he was consistently polite to them when they visited Rome.

I doubt they feel good about that choice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

I've been saying for at least a decade that the future of the Catholic church is in Africa. I hope the next time they elect an ultra-conservative African Bishop.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (wtvvX)

222 One of the Zombies collecting SS is older than these United States.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (bF7Q5)

223 207 And it showed. Without Marsha Lucas editing the first one (original now no. 4) and without veteran sci fi writer Leigh Brackett writing the second one (Empire aka no. 5), Lucas would have never made it as big as he did.
Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (ctrM5)

======

Lucas would have made a solid, long term, career film editor.

His reputation as a visionary was always oversold. He relied way too much on other people.

I mean...filmmaking is a collaborative medium and requires input from a host of people. On 2001, Kubrick was asking for ideas from everyone (Gary Lockwood came up with the idea of HAL reading the astronauts' lips), but with Lucas, it was like everyone was carrying him. He wasn't collaborating, he was getting lucky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

224 If say Obama had just been elected and found potentially trillions in Social Security fraud, I would cheer that on.

Its basically forgotten now, but Obama set up a version of DOGE, to find fraud and waste. It was a comedy and a fraud, but he did it first, and the press was tongue bathing him for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (2VST1)

225 Even if you're a left-winger, you want somebody pretending to be a 130 year old person so they can steal tax dollars?
Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:29 PM (4pwAx)

If they are you, absolutely. If they are in a cubicle down the row, no.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:31 PM (n7h9X)

226 There is no transition in power if bureaucrats can stay in place and disregard the President.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 18, 2025 04:31 PM (f1kZG)

227 >
Ahem.
Posted by: Pope Benedict XVI at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (lHPJf)

He was the first one to resign since the year 1415.

As I said, VERY RARE exceptions.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 18, 2025 04:31 PM (W5ArC)

228 What is the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? It's not blaster proof.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (bF7Q5)

Space herpes. And it doesn't stop that either.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:31 PM (Wm/Cm)

229 What is the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? It's not blaster proof.
Posted by: Boss Moss
......

Makes it easy to mass produce the plastic action figures.

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:31 PM (v0R5T)

230 Dis gunna be gud

@R_S_Morgan 2m
🧵I was able to confirm members of the U.S. Army's 7th Special Forces Group are in Mexico.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (mlg/3)

231 Well, looks like another TRO failed.

The states' lawsuit against DOGE to keep the agency out of federal data was tossed.

Also, DOGE never stopped despite the TRO.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

232 Then he has to drag her ass across a field of salt between two battle lines all the way back to the cave to some door for the next scene.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (n7h9X)

For some reason, when watching it in theaters, I thought she had died, and that was the only redeeming feature of that scene.

And then I learned she lived and would be in the next movie. Which, coincidentally, I have never yet watched.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (lHPJf)

233 But they only get those if the house sells. I'm predicting a race to the bottom on DC real estate prices.

=====

The fact that it's happening this quickly is a pretty clear signal that the bureaucrats are not confident they'll win.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (8AONa)

234 I wonder if a lot of those DC sellers are underwater in their mortgages. Owing $750,000 for a tiny two-bedroom in a saturated market may be a bit problematical.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (CwhoI)

235 >> The original 1977 Star Wars was a fun movie. Then they made the mistake of making more all weighed down with bong-hit dorm-room philosophy.
——-
These dorm rooms must have been at a third-tier junior college, where the weed grows wild and heady.

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (wFFVS)

236 Jonestown served up Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (bF7Q5)

237 What is the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? It's not blaster proof.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The blaster pulses are colored light, so it would seem reasonable to make the armor out of mirrors.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (xCA6C)

238 The plot of the prequels should have been:

1) The republic IS corrupt
2) The Jedi are incompetent, blinded by their own insular hubris
3) The Separatists, led by Dooku are 100% justified and it is the Jedi/Republic that are 100% to blame for the war instead of letting leave the corrupt Republic
4) Sidious mostly does nothing outside of encourage bullheaded arrogant Jedi and Republic pols to keep making things worse, but by not being an obvious corrupt SOB he builds a following
5) The people tired of war with no hope of victory turn to Sidious, who in turn uses the real corruption of his enemies to use the laws of the Republic to get rid of them
6) Only at the end of the prequels do Yoda, Obiwan, and their allies realize THEY were the cause of the rise of Sidious and realize they have to turn everything over to new leaders that aren't clueless - which is why at the start of the original star wars movies they aren't important any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (t0Rmr)

239 It's almost as if the writers (including Lucas) were just making it up as they went along.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (D0HYP)

--------

It's fiction. Science Fiction.

It's right in the name.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (EY5xj)

240 Will the last DC refugee please turn out the lights?

Posted by: Very Fixed Income at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (G5+As)

241 They view themselves as the vanguard for the proletariat.

Posted by: whig at February 18, 2025 03:58 PM (ctrM5)

So in Guild Wars 2, there's a former slave race called the Dredge that are basically giant bipedal moles. They're convinced that their revolution two hundred years ago against their dwarf overseers actually worked, when in reality, the dwarves had a civil war and pretty much died out. But they're written as Soviets (with often unintentionally hilarious dialogue), and their war cry is...

"FOR THE MOLETERIAT!"

(I think my favorite Dredge line is "Comrade, when they handed out the brains, you did not get an equitable share.")

Posted by: pookysgirl, viva le ratvolution at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (Wt5PA)

242 I'll take "Bureaucratic Self Deportations" for $1 trillion, Alex

Posted by: Ziz Lasota and the Hateful 8 at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (CTUih)

243 Makes it easy to mass produce the plastic action figures.
Posted by: wth

*snort*

Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (oaGWv)

244 222 One of the Zombies collecting SS is older than these United States.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (bF7Q5)

"...The chart shows that there are more than 17 million centenarians who are marked as alive and eligible for benefits in the SSA system, of which more than 12 million are allegedly older than 120....
More than 1,000 individuals are listed as being between the ages of 220 and 229.
Another person is purportedly in the 240 to 249 age bracket, while the oldest person in the system is a medical marvel older than the United States itself at more than 360 years old."

https://tinyurl.com/4j5z3c4c

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (ynpvh)

245 Jim Jones, head of the food division at the Food and Drug Administration, has resigned in protest.

If my surname was Jones and my parents named me Jim, I would change that on my eighteenth birthday.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (D0HYP)

246 He was the first one to resign since the year 1415.
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And wasn't that one because there were multiple popes at the time?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (6K6Eu)

247 I hate these fuckers. I want them fucking DEAD.They're determined to incite massive stress-induced mental illness....

==

keep going , you are almost there!

Posted by: runner at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (g47mK)

248 On February 27, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence appointed Birx to the position of White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator.

Birx led the creation of a reopening plan presented by Trump on April 16, 2020, with voluntary standards for states to end coronavirus lockdowns.[31]

Jul 17, 2022
Dr. Deborah Birx admits being deceitful when recommending Covid strategies to Trump "I couldn't do anything that would reveal my true intention," she writes, "to use the travel ban as one brick in the construction of a larger wall of protective measures we needed to enact very soon."
https://tinyurl.com/ymbv7mcc

George W. Bush Institute
In March 2021, Birx joined the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, as a senior fellow, working on initiatives to reduce health disparities and prepare for future pandemics.[58][59][60][61]

Career health officials like Dr. Deborah Birx circumvented Trump's instructions to moderate COVID lockdowns. Environmental Protection Agency lawyers pursued cases against fossil fuel producers and withheld the information from Trump appointees.

https://tinyurl.com/y2w27efc

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 18, 2025 04:34 PM (5LoD7)

249 What is the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? It's not blaster proof.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:28 PM (bF7Q5)

It helps them shoot straight.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:34 PM (lHPJf)

250 246 He was the first one to resign since the year 1415.
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And wasn't that one because there were multiple popes at the time?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (6K6Eu)

=======

"This decision is unprecedented! Look at this precedent about the last time it happened!"
-The American media

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

251 Stormtrooper armor is like that old Billy Connolly song about Wellies.

It keeps out the water and keeps in the smell.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 18, 2025 04:34 PM (1PnpG)

252 Its basically forgotten now, but Obama set up a version of DOGE, to find fraud and waste. It was a comedy and a fraud, but he did it first, and the press was tongue bathing him for it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (2VST1)

So Emporer Trump has unleashed the fully operational DOGE Star?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 18, 2025 04:34 PM (/6GbT)

253 #248 Sorry, forgot to add "A BLAST FROM THE PAST".

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 18, 2025 04:34 PM (5LoD7)

254 Jonestown served up Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:32 PM (bF7Q5)

That broke the joke.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:34 PM (Wm/Cm)

255 Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.

"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @GBHNews . "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."

---------------

$37,000,000,000,000 in debt.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM (N28XY)

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$4.7 Trillion Dollars worth of untraceable federal disbursements.

Posted by: mrp at February 18, 2025 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

256 >>>What is the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? It's not blaster proof.

Chicks dig it.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 18, 2025 04:35 PM (CwhoI)

257 "SSA data also reflect that the number of eligible Social Security recipients in the system is more than 398 million, yet the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the national population to be roughly 341 million."

https://tinyurl.com/4j5z3c4c

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:35 PM (ynpvh)

258 236 Jonestown served up Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I thought it was Hawaiian Punch.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2025 04:35 PM (/U5Yz)

259 154 OT: Pope Francis (88 years old) is now said to have bilateral pneumonia.

Odds of them electing a new pope look good, lets hope this time they don't find another commie.

As for the rest of what's going on with stubborn Biden appointee's I'm still not tired of winning.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 18, 2025 04:21 PM (qZdIZ)

As I told the spouse, if there's a papal election this year, I expect an Italian to win. Apparently, there is one seen as the "compromise" candidate, I think from Bologna. Not great, not terrible...and back in Italy after a choice outside Europe was less than ideal.

Maybe I'm Nostradamus...maybe I'm not...Cardinal Matteo Zuppi is my bet...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2025 04:35 PM (exHjb)

260 Its basically forgotten now, but Obama set up a version of DOGE, to find fraud and waste. It was a comedy and a fraud, but he did it first, and the press was tongue bathing him for it.

I'm quite sure it was just a way for him to get rid of the people who weren't on board with his revolution. That's when he brought all the commie moles on board.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 18, 2025 04:35 PM (xCA6C)

261 Any bets as to whether or not the JFK library employees refused to remove their pronouns from their email, as instructed?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 18, 2025 04:35 PM (tT6L1)

262 Jonestown served up Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Good luck. I've been trying to point out that the "Top Men" in Indiana Jones actually did the smart thing by boxing up the Ark and storing it in the warehouse.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (D0HYP)

263 245 Jim Jones, head of the food division at the Food and Drug Administration, has resigned in protest.

If my surname was Jones and my parents named me Jim, I would change that on my eighteenth birthday.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (D0HYP)

Go with James Earl.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (ynpvh)

264 With RFK, Jr on at HHS and Jim Jones gone at FDA, does this mean I can get my TRT prescription filled without being treated like a goddamned heroin addict now?

Asking for me.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (1PnpG)

265 What is the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? It's not blaster proof.

See this could have been an interesting plot point.

Make the armor blaster proof at long to medium range.

So how do you fight people in armor then? Why you bring a laser sword that the armor can't deflect...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (t0Rmr)

266 Jim Jones, head of the food division at the Food and Drug Administration, has resigned in protest.

If my surname was Jones and my parents named me Jim, I would change that on my eighteenth birthday.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (D0HYP)

Who hired him to oversee people's food and beverages?

Seems like a major oversight.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (Wm/Cm)

267 >> I was able to confirm members of the U.S. Army's 7th Special Forces Group are in Mexico.

Uh, that’s their AOR. Sine Pari.

And why would you broadcast troop movements if you thought it was good intel?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (aIUv1)

268

Hope they pick an actual Catholic this time

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2025 04:37 PM (VE6XX)

269 Lucas would have made a solid, long term, career film editor.

His reputation as a visionary was always oversold. He relied way too much on other people.

I mean...filmmaking is a collaborative medium and requires input from a host of people. On 2001, Kubrick was asking for ideas from everyone (Gary Lockwood came up with the idea of HAL reading the astronauts' lips), but with Lucas, it was like everyone was carrying him. He wasn't collaborating, he was getting lucky.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

I really don't see much of Lucas in the OT, if the prequel trilogy is a sample of his writing and directing.
I think one of the big contributors was his wife at the time.

The idea he has had 12 movies even roughed out is an obvious lie. He's even hiding out under his real father's name with his real aunt and uncle. And he planned to join the Navy? Vaders place in the universe was buffed up massively between 1 and 2 when he was a big hit.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:37 PM (n7h9X)

270 Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:33 PM (t0Rmr)

Not a bad alternative, although if the Separatists are going to be more heroic, they probably should have renamed Dooku. I mean, come on.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:37 PM (lHPJf)

271 Do you have an erection that won't go away?
Can you sing Karaoke in Japanese?
Are you ok with being filmed on Japanese television?

I want to sing that to the tune of Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor on the Bed post Overnight?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 18, 2025 04:37 PM (kTd/k)

272 those targeted "are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions."

'Career' = unelected and, also, not the President.

You will have NO influence on policy and strategy and you will like it.

Posted by: t-bird at February 18, 2025 04:37 PM (4Nep/)

273 Huuuuge

BREAKING: HUGE WIN FOR ELON!

Judge Chutkan shut down 14 Democratic attorneys General’s bid to block DOGE from slashing waste at 7 federal agencies.

- Labor
- Education
- HHS
- Energy
- Transport
- Commerce
- OPM

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 18, 2025 04:38 PM (t/2Uw)

274 If my surname was Jones and my parents named me Jim, I would change that on my eighteenth birthday.

Or, at least go by "James". Like Dick Rasch, you go by Richard, dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:38 PM (2VST1)

275 272 those targeted "are career people who have an influence on policy and strategy in those positions."

'Career' = unelected and, also, not the President.

You will have NO influence on policy and strategy and you will like it.

Posted by: t-bird at February 18, 2025 04:37 PM (4Nep/)

A Japanese friend congratulated me on the "Erection" of Donald Trump...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

276 Which piece of crap had Jar Jar Binks? Was that “Jamaicans in Space?”

Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:38 PM (wFFVS)

277 267.
Exzachary.

I don't want to know until they are back home in lawn chairs drinking beer with big-titted womens.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (1PnpG)

278 Trump reading off all the super-agers on SS; explaining why Musk is running DOGE.
Then reading off ridiculous spending.

The questioner was trying to buttress the "Musk is not a vetted employee!! Reeee!!"

LOL, defend the waste instead of attacking Musk.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (fPmw+)

279 Cheese and crackers just when I got rid of Jake Tapper Along Comes David Hogwarts WTF now I have to listen to that nitwit run his yapper

Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (vpz4i)

280 And why would you broadcast troop movements if you thought it was good intel?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (aIUv1)

In Ukraine we gave the Russians 6 months warning of the Grand Offensive and told them were it was aimed at. They spent the time entrenching the entire front just in case we had a lick of sense, which we did not.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

281 Good luck. I've been trying to point out that the "Top Men" in Indiana Jones actually did the smart thing by boxing up the Ark and storing it in the warehouse.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (D0HYP)

The Big Bang Theory has an episode that totally ruins Raiders by arguing that Indy's presence was utterly irrelevant to the outcome of the plot.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (lHPJf)

282
It's obvious that senior political appointees by Trump are using literally every trick they can imagine to get people out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

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More master trolling.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (T3es0)

283 Lucas would have made a solid, long term, career film editor.

Like JJ Abrams should be a cinematographer, maybe second unit guy. Don't let him write. Don't let him direct.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (2VST1)

284 The American press writing about the "African American Pope" are gonna be so fire.

The American press will demand to know why the Pope is always Catholic, and demand a Muslim pope.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (JDSxu)

285 281 Good luck. I've been trying to point out that the "Top Men" in Indiana Jones actually did the smart thing by boxing up the Ark and storing it in the warehouse.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:36 PM (D0HYP)

The Big Bang Theory has an episode that totally ruins Raiders by arguing that Indy's presence was utterly irrelevant to the outcome of the plot.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (lHPJf)

With one exception: would the ark have ended up in the USA in the ginormous warehouse?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

286 Looks like more houses are going up for sale in DC. Let's drive those numbers higher.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (UpGHA)

287 Space herpes is the worst. Especially when you're stuck at the ISS and everybody has it. Also space lice.

Posted by: Sunita Williams at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

288 Which piece of crap had Jar Jar Binks? Was that “Jamaicans in Space?”
Posted by: electronic means at February 18, 2025 04:38 PM (wFFVS)

First episode of the second trilogy. Should have been called "appeal to the babies"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (n7h9X)

289 The Big Bang Theory has an episode that totally ruins Raiders by arguing that Indy's presence was utterly irrelevant to the outcome of the plot.

With lots of laugh tracks to let you know it was funny because otherwise you wouldn't think it was.

They were wrong, but its a fun theory.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (2VST1)

290 Like JJ Abrams should be a cinematographer,
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I can take only so much lens flare.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (6K6Eu)

291 In Ukraine we gave the Russians 6 months warning of the Grand Offensive and told them were it was aimed at. They spent the time entrenching the entire front just in case we had a lick of sense, which we did not.

The battle of Kursk in WWII was sort of like this, but the Germans kept delaying after it was obvious where they were going to attack because they wanted to re-fit their armored units. The Soviets took that time to dig in.

There is no excuse for the way the Ukes fought this war - they learned nothing from WWII and hell arguably nothing from WWI.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (t0Rmr)

292 287 Space herpes is the worst. Especially when you're stuck at the ISS and everybody has it. Also space lice.

Posted by: Sunita Williams at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

I thought those were called crabs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

293 Tonight Hannity is interviewing Trump and Elon on his show.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (NpAcC)

294 The American press will demand to know why the Pope is always Catholic, and demand a Muslim pope.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (JDSxu)

That's basically what we have now.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (lHPJf)

295 LOL, Trump's commentary on each of these spending is hilarious.

"Millions for voter turnout in India? Why aren't we spending that here? Oh, I guess we did--$500 million for the lockboxes."

It's just amazing how he jabs the media right in the gut and they're such blobs they have no idea what happened.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2025 04:41 PM (fPmw+)

296 A Japanese friend congratulated me on the "Erection" of Donald Trump...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

Did you have a hand in it?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (Wm/Cm)

297 The Big Bang Theory has an episode that totally ruins Raiders by arguing that Indy's presence was utterly irrelevant to the outcome of the plot.

That assumes that the Nazis wouldn't eventually be able to figure out where Marion Ravenswood was living.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (D0HYP)

298 Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

Obstacles: Through. Around. Over. Eliminate.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (Aqu9a)

299
Judge Chutkan shut down 14 Democratic attorneys General’s bid to block DOGE from slashing waste at 7 federal agencies.

- Labor
- Education
- HHS
- Energy
- Transport
- Commerce
- OPM
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

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Does anyone know what's going on with Chutkan? No way is she doing this because it's the proper, constitutional thing to do.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (T3es0)

300 NTD articles seem to not be written by junior high students. Refreshing change of pace.
Thanks for the link.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (bF7Q5)

301 Curious if there is a large scale purge, does that flip VA red?

Very clear the boom of fed government employees was part of the reason a reliable Republican state suddenly leaned Democrat in a few election cycles.

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (4pwAx)

302 Good luck. I've been trying to point out that the "Top Men" in Indiana Jones actually did the smart thing by boxing up the Ark and storing it in the warehouse.
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Indiana Jones is responsible for WW2.

Posted by: Dr Amy Farrah Fowler at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (5LoD7)

303 299 Does anyone know what's going on with Chutkan? No way is she doing this because it's the proper, constitutional thing to do.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (T3es0)

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Kagan's staffer walked down the street and told the DC Circuit that if anything about injunctions hits SCOTUS in the next month, injunctions by lower courts are going away completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

304 296 A Japanese friend congratulated me on the "Erection" of Donald Trump...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

Did you have a hand in it?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (Wm/Cm)

My eyesight has been worse lately, but I don't think the two are related...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

305 The stupidest part about the ark in the warehouse is the non existent magnetic gunpowder.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (pohLc)

306 Which piece of crap had Jar Jar Binks? Was that “Jamaicans in Space?”
Posted by: electronic means
.....

The Piece of Crap Fights Back?

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

307 Strikes Back?

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (v0R5T)

308 In Ukraine we gave the Russians 6 months warning of the Grand Offensive and told them were it was aimed at. They spent the time entrenching the entire front just in case we had a lick of sense, which we did not.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

you think Russian did not know what was up ? I mean, troop buildup in the steppes is not exactly a secret..

Posted by: runner at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

309 Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

Obstacles: Through. Around. Over. Eliminate.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (Aqu9a)

Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (Wm/Cm)

310 That assumes that the Nazis wouldn't eventually be able to figure out where Marion Ravenswood was living.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (D0HYP)

They knew enough to follow Indy from the U.S. I imagine they would've figured it out.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (lHPJf)

311 234 I wonder if a lot of those DC sellers are underwater in their mortgages. Owing $750,000 for a tiny two-bedroom in a saturated market may be a bit problematical.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at

Could be even worse. When my sons were buying a couple of years ago, houses were going as much as $300,000 over asking, no home inspection and a lot of cash deals so there was no mortgage contingency on the bid. They did this by cashing 401Ks with the idea they would eventually get a mortgage and put the money back. Some sellers may also be out a huge chunk of cash.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (t/2Uw)

312 Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.

"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @GBHNews . "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."

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$37,000,000,000,000 in debt.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 04:27 PM

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I have a couple friends with fairly benign and nonessential fedgov jobs who are rightfully worried about getting canned. They're nice, so I've kept my piehole shut, but it's hard not to comment on the insularity of career gov workers. One of them was just thunderstruck that one of the bureaus in their department was shut down, "just like that, on a Friday afternoon, no warning at all." Of course, having worked in the private sector for decades, I've seen this happen this exact way a couple dozen times, including a couple times to myself. SOP. I got the impression I was supposed to be incensed. I just gave him the head tilt and wide eyes. Not worth the blood pressure spike to say what I wanted to.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (wzAuc)

313 I've been trying to point out that the "Top Men" in Indiana Jones actually did the smart thing by boxing up the Ark and storing it in the warehouse

The warehouse the size of a small city in which there is only one magnetic item in the entire building: the crystal skull.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (2VST1)

314 Does anyone know what's going on with Chutkan? No way is she doing this because it's the proper, constitutional thing to do.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (T3es0)
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She wants to keep her job. She's maybe looking at who runs the House and Senate and decided she prefers being employed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (tT6L1)

315 Lestat lives. He's still collecting Social Security.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (bF7Q5)

316 Circumcisions in Mozambique? Don't tell me the Jews have a hand in this.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (qwx/I)

317 306 Which piece of crap had Jar Jar Binks? Was that “Jamaicans in Space?”
Posted by: electronic means
.....

The Piece of Crap Fights Back?

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

All the space ganga he's smoked...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (ynpvh)

318 >> In Ukraine we gave the Russians 6 months warning of the Grand Offensive and told them were it was aimed at. They spent the time entrenching the entire front just in case we had a lick of sense, which we did not.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

Whoever is allegedly releasing that information is doing so in violation of the UCMJ. If proven to be a true source, they should be brought up on charges and court martialed. The jackass releasing that information is also in violation of USC.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2025 04:45 PM (aIUv1)

319 The stupidest part about the ark in the warehouse is the non existent magnetic gunpowder

I don't recall that scene in any of the three Indiana Jones movies.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:45 PM (D0HYP)

320 Sending Ron Paul to Nepal? Not a bad idea.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 18, 2025 04:45 PM (qwx/I)

321 Kagan's staffer walked down the street and told the DC Circuit that if anything about injunctions hits SCOTUS in the next month, injunctions by lower courts are going away completely.

Right, this is a stopgap to prevent this stuff from going to the supreme court.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 04:45 PM (2VST1)

322 314 Does anyone know what's going on with Chutkan? No way is she doing this because it's the proper, constitutional thing to do.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (T3es0)
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She wants to keep her job. She's maybe looking at who runs the House and Senate and decided she prefers being employed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (tT6L1)

Chutkan doesn't want to get shitcanned?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:45 PM (ynpvh)

323 320.
Ron N'Paul?

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 18, 2025 04:46 PM (1PnpG)

324 Curious if there is a large scale purge, does that flip VA red?

Very clear the boom of fed government employees was part of the reason a reliable Republican state suddenly leaned Democrat in a few election cycles.
Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (4pwAx)

I'd say that depends on if they stay or not.

If they stay, now you've got a bunch of really pissed off ex-feds looking for revenge, and possibly with the expertise and connections to "fortify" the elections even more.

But it's worth a shot.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (lHPJf)

325 The Big Bang Theory has an episode that totally ruins Raiders by arguing that Indy's presence was utterly irrelevant to the outcome of the plot.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:39 PM (lHPJf)

With one exception: would the ark have ended up in the USA in the ginormous warehouse?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

No, Indy led them to Marion and to the medallion Him bringing the medallion to Egypt led to the Ark being found in the first place, as the final clue was not burned into the Nazi's hand.

If he had not gone to Marion, nothing happens.

Its pretty unclear how the ark ends up in the hands of the US. I suppose he got back in contact with his friend and smuggled it out before the UK could grab it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (n7h9X)

326 Whoever is allegedly releasing that information is doing so in violation of the UCMJ. If proven to be a true source, they should be brought up on charges and court martialed. The jackass releasing that information is also in violation of USC.
Posted by: Marcus T

I'm thinking maybe they WANT that info out, eh?

Posted by: MkY at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (cPGH3)

327 One of them was just thunderstruck that one of the bureaus in their department was shut down, "just like that, on a Friday afternoon, no warning at all." Of course, having worked in the private sector for decades, I've seen this happen this exact way a couple dozen times, including a couple times to myself. SOP.
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I was working as a technical writer on a Y2K project for Hollywood Video. One Friday, they threw a party for us in the project, since it was so important to the company. The following Monday, they shut down the whole smash and I was out of there at the end of the week.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (6K6Eu)

328
Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.

"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @GBHNews . "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."

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Perfect description of people whose job was to fetch coffee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (T3es0)

329 Does anyone know what's going on with Chutkan? No way is she doing this because it's the proper, constitutional thing to do.

She understands that if you come at the king and miss, being polite to him afterwards is the bare minimum.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

330 Very clear the boom of fed government employees was part of the reason a reliable Republican state suddenly leaned Democrat in a few election cycles.
Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:43 PM (4pwAx)

That and the ticks and leeches of the NGOs and adviser corps.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (n7h9X)

331 WRT Star Wars

Unlike a lot of people, I didn't hate the prequels. I am not a fan of the actress that played Padme and Hayden Christianson was a block of wood. Both were better than the kid. I liked Jar Jar.

But ya gotta admit that was a terrific line. " So this is how the Republic dies. To thunderous applause. "

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (4XwPj)

332 If they stay, now you've got a bunch of really pissed off ex-feds looking for revenge, and possibly with the expertise and connections to "fortify" the elections even more.

It takes a fair amount of money to run these schemes though and it is much harder if the state authorities aren't leftists or GOPers.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (t0Rmr)

333 Chutkan doesn't want to get shitcanned?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:45 PM (ynpvh)

Not who we are!!!

Posted by: GOPe at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (/6GbT)

334 I just gave him the head tilt and wide eyes.
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Did you make any sympathetic puppy sounds too??

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (5LoD7)

335 The stupidest part about the ark in the warehouse is the non existent magnetic gunpowder

I don't recall that scene in any of the three Indiana Jones movies.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:45 PM (D0HYP)

Golf clap.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (lHPJf)

336 I feel sorry for Rand Paul, finding dumb pork was his calling card, but it ended up being small ball nothing. It was like $50k here, $35k here.

Nothing like what DOGE has uncovered.

The real reason Dems are flipping out is this really was how the whole machine was being fed. We took our attention off that.

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (4pwAx)

337 Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

Obstacles: Through. Around. Over. Eliminate.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (Aqu9a)

Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (Wm/Cm)

Right! Seems we're in the Act phase. Booya!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (Aqu9a)

338 324 I'd say that depends on if they stay or not.

If they stay, now you've got a bunch of really pissed off ex-feds looking for revenge, and possibly with the expertise and connections to "fortify" the elections even more.

But it's worth a shot.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (lHPJf)

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The idea that the federal bureaucracy will be REALLY ready to vote against Trump in 2025, as opposed to the last 10 years, seems silly.

Yes, they will oppose him. No, he won't be on the ballot. It'll be driven by other issues.

And tens of thousands may end up moving out of the state.

I don't know what 2025's governor election will bring, but I don't think we'll see massive turnout from NOVA out of alignment with the rest of the state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

339 Anonymous sources. Of NBC propaganda, er news. In this situation might be true given the behavior of the DOJ, but on a whole the "trust us" days of the propaganda ministries are long gone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (KXtU1)

340
One of them was just thunderstruck that one of the bureaus in their department was shut down, "just like that, on a Friday afternoon, no warning at all." Of course, having worked in the private sector for decades, I've seen this happen this exact way a couple dozen times, including a couple times to myself. SOP.

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It's SOP but she's nuts if she thinks there was no warning. She's the same flake who said she hid her Pride flag. Presumably, she is also able to read memos, headlines, THE ROOM.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (T3es0)

341 Does anyone know what's going on with Chutkan? No way is she doing this because it's the proper, constitutional thing to do.

She understands that if you come at the king and miss, being polite to him afterwards is the bare minimum.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

And she knows that if she rules stupidly, the Supreme Court will smack her hand and immediately overturn her and make her look like a fool

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (irka1)

342 Perfect description of people whose job was to fetch coffee.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (T3es0)

No, the smart ones doing that should just take turns fetching coffee for each other. They could go on for years if they kept quiet.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (n7h9X)

343 SS checks to people said by default to have been born in 1875? Inspectors General should ALL be in coding school. Learn to code.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 18, 2025 04:50 PM (QSrLX)

344 ...ex-feds looking for revenge
Posted by: Dr. T

There's a movie in that. Starring Sam Britton and Stanky Janky.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 18, 2025 04:50 PM (Dm8we)

345 Unlike a lot of people, I didn't hate the prequels. I am not a fan of the actress that played Padme and Hayden Christianson was a block of wood. Both were better than the kid. I liked Jar Jar.

Natalie Portman can act, but if she doesn't get a good director she'll usually mail it in.

Christianson's script was just too low quality.

MacGregor was probably the top actor, he seemed to have fun with the role and actually remembered what the original star wars movies were like. But...his character was almost certainly too loose to be a younger version of Obiwan.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:50 PM (t0Rmr)

346 No, Indy led them to Marion and to the medallion Him bringing the medallion to Egypt led to the Ark being found in the first place, as the final clue was not burned into the Nazi's hand.

If he had not gone to Marion, nothing happens.

They were looking for the headpiece of the staff of Ra. They knew Abner R. had it at one point. I think they could find Marion, kill her, and then find it around her neck.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 18, 2025 04:50 PM (D0HYP)

347 Unlike a lot of people, I didn't hate the prequels. I am not a fan of the actress that played Padme and Hayden Christianson was a block of wood. Both were better than the kid. I liked Jar Jar.

But ya gotta admit that was a terrific line. " So this is how the Republic dies. To thunderous applause. "
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM (4XwPj)

True, but that was from Episode III, the only prequel that was even mildly watchable. Not good, but not as bad.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (lHPJf)

348 These AGs asking for TROs which are designed for things that are in immediate danger. They are doing this because they are not immediately appealable. An injunction can be immediately appealed. These suits are baseless and the TROs were only to slow things down while they tried to turn public opinion. Problem is public wants DOGE and if the SC rules, it will not favor the left because a baseless. So, Chutkan is keeping this from going to the Supremes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (t/2Uw)

349 Trump may of screwed up.
Denying SS benefits to all those over 120 will just make them vote Democrat all the more.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (W/lyH)

350 Trump is really going down a checklist and doing all the things he'd wished he'd done in 2017.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 18, 2025 04:12 PM (6ydKt)

It wouldn't have worked in 2017. It works now because:

- X
- masks dropped
- public pissed
- more thorough vetting of underlings
- a VP he can trust

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

351 SS checks to people said by default to have been born in 1875? Inspectors General should ALL be in coding school. Learn to code.

The 1875 thing was proven wrong on Saturday. Try to keep up.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2025 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

352 I don't know what 2025's governor election will bring, but I don't think we'll see massive turnout from NOVA out of alignment with the rest of the state.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

The real keys will be the cutting off of USAID and other fraud customers. These will be the ones who have to take off and find a real job somewhere else.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

353 348 These AGs asking for TROs which are designed for things that are in immediate danger. They are doing this because they are not immediately appealable. An injunction can be immediately appealed. These suits are baseless and the TROs were only to slow things down while they tried to turn public opinion. Problem is public wants DOGE and if the SC rules, it will not favor the left because a baseless. So, Chutkan is keeping this from going to the Supremes.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (t/2Uw)

=======

In a year, no one will remember the great TRO freakout.

But I'll make fun of it from time to time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

354 And she knows that if she rules stupidly, the Supreme Court will smack her hand and immediately overturn her and make her look like a fool

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (irka1)

From your mouth to God's ear!

I have less faith in SCOTUS than you do.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 04:52 PM (mWSu4)

355 Perfect description of people whose job was to fetch coffee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 18, 2025 04:47 PM (T3es0)

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That's where the DogEater should have ended up.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (rrsbC)

356 It will be an interesting question where fired feds go but...

1) How many them actually do live in NOVA right now?
2) Based on their skill sets the best places to find jobs for them would likely be big blue state governments/university systems/health insurance companies - this would then have them moving to CA/NY/New England

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (t0Rmr)

357 True, but that was from Episode III, the only prequel that was even mildly watchable. Not good, but not as bad.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (lHPJf)
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There's a fellow on YouTube, Brandon McNulty, who analyzes good and bad writing. He's done several videos featuring the SW prequels. I like his analysis and his videos are short and entertaining as well.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (6K6Eu)

358 In a year, no one will remember the great TRO freakout.

But I'll make fun of it from time to time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

Promise you'll work it into a movie thread.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (lHPJf)

359 349 Trump may of screwed up.
Denying SS benefits to all those over 120 will just make them vote Democrat all the more.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (W/lyH)

They'll vote 200% instead of 120% for the dems.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (ynpvh)

360 352 The real keys will be the cutting off of USAID and other fraud customers. These will be the ones who have to take off and find a real job somewhere else.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

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And yet...I doubt this is a major issue in the governor's race.

I mean, I would expect Democrat Super PACs to buy ad time about it, but I suspect that other things will occupy people's thoughts on who should lead the executive branch of the Commonwealth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

361 On Raiders of the Lost Ark, once the 3rd Reich had found out it had wiped out the Nazis, obviously they would have seen its power and sent in a new team.

And read the handful of Bible verses necessary to understand what happened.

So securing the Ark in US hands made Indiana Jones the hero.

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (4pwAx)

362 We need to leave the option open of nuking it from orbit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (N28XY)

363 IT’S FUNNY THESE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THE EXECUTIVE TURNOVER THAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR EMPLOYER BRINGS IN A NEW CEO.

WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, BUREACRATS!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (Hkcdp)

364 354 From your mouth to God's ear!

I have less faith in SCOTUS than you do.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 04:52 PM (mWSu4)

========

We must recall that SCOTUS ruled 9-0 in favor of Trump on the CO primary ballot, expanded presidential immunity in his favor, and okayed all the powers Trump tried to flex in the Muslim Ban.

And even Roberts has been showing obvious signs that he's sick of the nationwide injunction game.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

365
The idea that the federal bureaucracy will be REALLY ready to vote against Trump in 2025, as opposed to the last 10 years, seems silly.

Yes, they will oppose him. No, he won't be on the ballot. It'll be driven by other issues.

And tens of thousands may end up moving out of the state.

I don't know what 2025's governor election will bring, but I don't think we'll see massive turnout from NOVA out of alignment with the rest of the state.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

It will be all blue b/c there won't be massive turnout in the bottom of the state. Thus, a wave at the top...

Youngkin did the impossible in an off year election - get turnout in red areas as big as Nova turnout. Won't happen this time b/c he (and his money) is not at the top of the ticket...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (exHjb)

366 361 On Raiders of the Lost Ark, once the 3rd Reich had found out it had wiped out the Nazis, obviously they would have seen its power and sent in a new team.
And read the handful of Bible verses necessary to understand what happened.
So securing the Ark in US hands made Indiana Jones the hero.
Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (4pwAx)

362 We need to leave the option open of nuking it from orbit.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (N28XY)

?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

367 Based on their skill sets the best places to find jobs for them would likely be big blue state governments/university systems/health insurance companies - this would then have them moving to CA/NY/New England

"Someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the housekeeping or food service indusitries" - Dr. Peter Venkman

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2025 04:55 PM (2ocoG)

368 Trump may of screwed up.
Denying SS benefits to all those over 120 will just make them vote Democrat all the more.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (W/lyH)

seems like in 2024 the people capable of fixing a national or state election finally aged out. Sure Harris sucked but Illinois, New York and CA to had much smaller margins so the local fraud machines in the inner city were not working up to standard.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:55 PM (n7h9X)

369 If potentially millions of people are fraudulently collecting SS, it's even easier for millions of fraudulent voters to vote in an election.

I hope DOGE and Trump puts all of this together in a cohesive package.

Just because Trump won this time doesn't mean this issue is dead.

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:56 PM (4pwAx)

370 I feel sorry for Rand Paul, finding dumb pork was his calling card, but it ended up being small ball nothing. It was like $50k here, $35k here.

Nothing like what DOGE has uncovered.

The real reason Dems are flipping out is this really was how the whole machine was being fed. We took our attention off that.
---
Imagine how much the Democrats laughed in private at Rand?
1) At how insignificant and small the amounts he worked so hard to find
2) and this it where they split their guts laughing, at how he could do fuck-all to stop even that piddling bullshit.

I mean, "We stole your whole fucking house and even took the five feet of dirt under it and you're crowing about finding a Burger King treasure map to a missing spoon?!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2025 04:56 PM (fPmw+)

371 So, Chutkan is keeping this from going to the Supremes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 18, 2025 04:51 PM (t/2Uw)

------------------

Can Trump make Diana Ross the Chief Justice?

/I'll bet she at least knows what a woman is ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 04:56 PM (rrsbC)

372 369 If potentially millions of people are fraudulently collecting SS, it's even easier for millions of fraudulent voters to vote in an election.

I hope DOGE and Trump puts all of this together in a cohesive package.

Just because Trump won this time doesn't mean this issue is dead.

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:56 PM (4pwAx)

Remember, some of these are names being used by living people, e.g. José Wetback.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

373 We can stuff CGI background crap into every shot when we remake Star Wars episodes. So much detail and movement that people will watch and rewatch and rewatch trying to take it all in.

What Phil Specter did with his "Wall of Sound", I'm going to do with a "Wall of Visuals".

Damn, I'm good.

Posted by: George Lucas, Super Genius at February 18, 2025 04:56 PM (Aqu9a)

374 described her theory that the two hemispheres of the brain could hold separate values and genders and "often desire to kill each other."
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This is what you called being "educated beyond one's intelligence".

Posted by: ... at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (lX8VI)

375
Youngkin did the impossible in an off year election - get turnout in red areas as big as Nova turnout. Won't happen this time b/c he (and his money) is not at the top of the ticket...
Posted by: Nova Local

==

Are you saying the Dems win in VA this year?

Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (4pwAx)

376 Good.
Fire moar!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (xcxpd)

377 368
seems like in 2024 the people capable of fixing a national or state election finally aged out. Sure Harris sucked but Illinois, New York and CA to had much smaller margins so the local fraud machines in the inner city were not working up to standard.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:55 PM (n7h9X)

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2020 and 2022 were anomalies of fraud at levels not seen before since Tammany in American history.

They happened because the RNC let them happen. The fight the RNC put up those two years were lackluster, at best.

Then, leadership changes hands at the RNC and all of the same mechanisms that were in place in 2022 suddenly...didn't work as well. Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

378 Won't somebody think about the bureaucrats?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

379 Drone strike on Kazakstan oil pipeline could cut exports 30%.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (bF7Q5)

380 Can Trump make Diana Ross the Chief Justice?

/I'll bet she at least knows what a woman is ...

She'd side with Elon given they're both experts in love children.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (2ocoG)

381 361 On Raiders of the Lost Ark, once the 3rd Reich had found out it had wiped out the Nazis, obviously they would have seen its power and sent in a new team.
And read the handful of Bible verses necessary to understand what happened.
So securing the Ark in US hands made Indiana Jones the hero.
Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:53 PM (4pwAx)

Wouldn't any other team of Nazis get wiped out, too? The Ark wasn't just some mindless weapon that would work for whoever said the right words.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (LxER7)

382 Youngkin did the impossible in an off year election - get turnout in red areas as big as Nova turnout. Won't happen this time b/c he (and his money) is not at the top of the ticket...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (exHjb)

But the GOPe is not in control of the money any more.

And Trump and his Merry men will be there.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (n7h9X)

383 AZ Gov. Hobbs (D) vetoes bill to speed up election results and combat fraud

Arizona elections seem like something an inquisitive justice department might choose to look into.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (ExV1e)

384 Joey's student loan bailout, the last attempt, permanently blocked . Enjoy retirement veg. Now pay your loans back children

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (KXtU1)

385 378 Won't somebody think about the bureaucrats?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

Oh, they are being thought about. Just like Conan's the best in life.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (ynpvh)

386 seems like in 2024 the people capable of fixing a national or state election finally aged out. Sure Harris sucked but Illinois, New York and CA to had much smaller margins so the local fraud machines in the inner city were not working up to standard.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:55 PM (n7h9X)

One can hope.
I found it interesting that the states that actually had a decent voter rolls review did better for Trump.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (W/lyH)

387 362 We need to leave the option open of nuking it from orbit.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (N28XY)

?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

---------------

DC

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (N28XY)

388 375
Youngkin did the impossible in an off year election - get turnout in red areas as big as Nova turnout. Won't happen this time b/c he (and his money) is not at the top of the ticket...
Posted by: Nova Local

==

Are you saying the Dems win in VA this year?
Posted by: Leupold at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (4pwAx)

Yes, without a doubt.

Rs have to try to hold AG if they want a shot at VA in 2028 - with an incumbent running, that's their best shot.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (exHjb)

389 378 Won't somebody think about the bureaucrats?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

I do, every time I load magazines.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 18, 2025 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

390 382 Youngkin did the impossible in an off year election - get turnout in red areas as big as Nova turnout. Won't happen this time b/c he (and his money) is not at the top of the ticket...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (exHjb)

But the GOPe is not in control of the money any more.

And Trump and his Merry men will be there.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (n7h9X)

"Another team melted? Well...send in another team!"--Nazis

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

391 Looks like more houses are going up for sale in DC. Let's drive those numbers higher.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 18, 2025 04:40 PM (UpGHA)

After prices collapse, Congress needs to buy up the homes and bulldoze them. Depopulate the D.C. area. Personnel is policy and it will be much harder for the deep state to reconstitute itself if D.C. is surrounded by a million acres of Donald J. Trump National Wetlands.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at February 18, 2025 04:59 PM (GXB4V)

392 Wouldn't any other team of Nazis get wiped out, too? The Ark wasn't just some mindless weapon that would work for whoever said the right words.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (LxER7)

Not if they didn't open it. The original only scorched the wooden box. Indy somehow transported it to the US without significant face melting.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

393 334 I just gave him the head tilt and wide eyes.
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Did you make any sympathetic puppy sounds too??
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 18, 2025 04:48 PM

--

That might have been too obvious.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 18, 2025 05:00 PM (wzAuc)

394 TRO
saying the 14 states who put forward the lawsuit failed to meet the burden of proof to prove "imminent, irreparable harm."

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 18, 2025 05:00 PM (t/2Uw)

395 Won't somebody think about the bureaucrats?

Atlantic has a hysterical article by a bureaucrat waxing panicked about how the US nuclear secrets are going to all be exposed because DOGE is looking into the energy department.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2025 05:00 PM (2VST1)

396 389 378 Won't somebody think about the bureaucrats?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

I do, every time I load magazines.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 18, 2025 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

Magazine rack means something different to Liberals and Conservatives...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 05:00 PM (ynpvh)

397 nood

Posted by: Dr. T at February 18, 2025 05:01 PM (lHPJf)

398 Not if they didn't open it. The original only scorched the wooden box. Indy somehow transported it to the US without significant face melting.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

Right, but they could never actually use it, which was their original idea.

I always assumed Indy could transport it without harm because it recognized him as one of the Good Guys and not an enemy.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 05:01 PM (LxER7)

399 394 TRO
saying the 14 states who put forward the lawsuit failed to meet the burden of proof to prove "imminent, irreparable harm."

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 18, 2025 05:00 PM (t/2Uw)

The State and Fed have exposed my personal information many more times that DoGE has...maybe an injunction on Kali and DC from accessing my info?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 05:02 PM (ynpvh)

400 seems like in 2024 the people capable of fixing a national or state election finally aged out. Sure Harris sucked but Illinois, New York and CA to had much smaller margins so the local fraud machines in the inner city were not working up to standard.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:55 PM (n7h9X)

One can hope.
I found it interesting that the states that actually had a decent voter rolls review did better for Trump.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (W/lyH)

From what I saw the biggest trouble spot is in Arizona. The McCainiax are a faction that needs crushing. Even the annoying Murkowski is just an irritant.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 05:02 PM (n7h9X)

401 382 Youngkin did the impossible in an off year election - get turnout in red areas as big as Nova turnout. Won't happen this time b/c he (and his money) is not at the top of the ticket...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2025 04:54 PM (exHjb)

But the GOPe is not in control of the money any more.

And Trump and his Merry men will be there.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 04:58 PM (n7h9X)

"Another team melted? Well...send in another team!"--Nazis
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 18, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

Change things up with the Nazi expendable replacements. Rather than snazzy Hugo Boss uniforms, let's put them in something more conventional, say red tunics.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2025 05:03 PM (Aqu9a)

402 Won't somebody think about the bureaucrats?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)
***

*cue sad music*
Sorrowful narrator begins:
"Today bureaucrats all across American are starving. Many don't know where their next graft check will come from, if at all."
*cue camera to zoom in on sad bureaucrat*
Narrator: "You can help today. For just $1.9 million a month, you too can help a bureaucrat return to happiness. Won't you bring a smile to a bureaucrat's face?"
"Just call the number at the bottom of your screen. Operators are standing by."

Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 05:03 PM (W/lyH)

403 Has Kash been voted on yet?

Are they literally waiting for the go ahead for the vote from the FBI that all the documents have been purged?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 05:03 PM (N28XY)

404
It's obvious that senior political appointees by Trump are using literally every trick they can imagine to get people out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

Little insubordination pills -- take one, act on it , and Hey! Presto! you are outta here!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 18, 2025 05:03 PM (xG4kz)

405 hmmm

"Report: Pope Francis Is Preparing for Death.....Pope Francis, hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection, is reportedly worried this might be the end. The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff is in significant pain and has "privately expressed certainty he won't make it this time," according to Politico, which cites two sources close to the situation. The outlet reports the pope has therefore been working to "tie up loose ends," including in extending the term of the dean of the College of Cardinals, 91-year-old Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. When a pope dies, it is the dean who delivers funeral rites, prepares for the papal conclave, and convenes cardinals to discuss the desired qualities of the next pope."

Posted by: runner at February 18, 2025 05:04 PM (g47mK)

406 always assumed Indy could transport it without harm because it recognized him as one of the Good Guys and not an enemy.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 05:01 PM (LxER7)

It didn't act against the Nazis before the ceremony so it didn't recognize them as the bad guys ....much. And Indy implied that it would have killed them if they had opened their eyes, good people or not.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 05:06 PM (n7h9X)

407 seems like in 2024 the people capable of fixing a national or state election finally aged out. Sure Harris sucked but Illinois, New York and CA to had much smaller margins so the local fraud machines in the inner city were not working up to standard.
---
Also, Kamala sidelined a bunch more.
Look at her campaign head in PA--a must-win state:
Asian, female
PolySci masters
Lobbying job at a Pittsburg union
Deputy for Biden's PA campaign

That's her resume for a must-win state job.

Dems got so fat and lazy, so flush with unlimited federal funds, not only is their bench of politicians weaker then ever but their operatives are even worse.
Literally anyone would win so competence was completely abandoned.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2025 05:06 PM (fPmw+)

408 hmmm

"Report: Pope Francis Is Preparing for Death.....Pope Francis, hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection, is reportedly worried this might be the end. The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff is in significant pain and has "privately expressed certainty he won't make it this time," according to Politico, which cites two sources close to the situation. The outlet reports the pope has therefore been working to "tie up loose ends," including in extending the term of the dean of the College of Cardinals, 91-year-old Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. When a pope dies, it is the dean who delivers funeral rites, prepares for the papal conclave, and convenes cardinals to discuss the desired qualities of the next pope."

Posted by: runner at February 18, 2025 05:04 PM (g47mK)

So we know what the Deep State wants us to think about this. Thanks Politico.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2025 05:07 PM (n7h9X)

409 Here's another story to bring a tear to your eye.

Missouri AG sues Starbucks for "systemic race and sex discrimination” in diversity policies
. . . .
Missouri brings this lawsuit because Starbucks has violated federal and state laws prohibiting race discrimination. Starbucks ties compensation to racial and sex-based quotas, discriminates on the basis of race and sex in training and advancement opportunities, and discriminates on the basis of race and sex with respect to its board membership. All of this is unlawful.

https://is.gd/fgSK8P

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Won't somebody think of the Ph.D. baristas?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 05:09 PM (L/fGl)

410 I guess the Force wasn't with him.

Watch: Mark Hamill's pants dropped while he was speaking at the British Academy Awards

https://is.gd/Juc8xV

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 05:12 PM (L/fGl)

411
Watch: Mark Hamill's pants dropped while he was speaking at the British Academy Awards

Pass.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 18, 2025 05:14 PM (xG4kz)

412 Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

Obstacles: Through. Around. Over. Eliminate.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (Aqu9a)

Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (Wm/Cm

Adapt, migrate or die.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 18, 2025 05:18 PM (W2Pud)

413 Leftist fools...

I really can't believe they haven't changed after that drubbin.
Maybe I'm the fool

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 18, 2025 05:29 PM (XLfSN)

414 412 Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

Obstacles: Through. Around. Over. Eliminate.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 18, 2025 04:42 PM (Aqu9a)

Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 18, 2025 04:44 PM (Wm/Cm

Adapt, migrate or die.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 18, 2025 05:18 PM (W2Pud)

———

Define. Measure. Analyze. Improve. Control.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 18, 2025 05:45 PM (H9ZTk)

415 AlrightyThen! Everyone here is imvited to my Asteroid/Valentines Party Feb 14, 2032.
Live music will be Rollng Stones and Willy Nelson

Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at February 18, 2025 06:21 PM (w4nzS)

416 Won't somebody think about the bureaucrats?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I am thinking about them. Vlad The Impaler's kabob wall needs another row of examples.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 18, 2025 06:29 PM (MsrgL)

417 If he is not using the Sun to fire them, he is doing it all wrong.

Posted by: somejoe at February 19, 2025 02:11 AM (RCAte)

418 I'm so old I remember Michelle Malkin complaining that Bush "W" was loading the CBP with people that didn't believe in deporting illegal aliens

Posted by: RollingRck at February 19, 2025 11:44 AM (72CUD)

419 Trump needs to follow Vald the impaler's example with most senior federal employees.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at February 20, 2025 01:22 AM (bXvrr)

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