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Stupid is as stupid does.

Non-essentials. We were very quickly able to categorize people into that category.

So, all the automakers go all in on the hoax fully toady-ing up to the Climateers in a conspiracy against their customers' desires and wonder how it went so bad so quickly. If only someone could mandate a Flux Capacitor - or the upgrade to the Mr. Fusion - for these companies and solve all their problems.

You assume wrong. The whole 100 year chart is inflation adjusted and on a per-capita basis so the actual size of the governments' budgets in real dollars are about 14 or 15 times larger than in 1920.

I know. I'm agreeing with you and emphasizing the point by calling out the most recent favorite hot shot senator from the repub side. My wishing a pox on both "your" houses was not directed at the honorable Mr. Caviera. It was directed toward the dems and the repubs. Unfortunately, it appears I was too subtle.

Posted 6 minutes ago (edited) Term limits are a different topic, I think, than what this demonstrates. I am conflicted on term limits and the right of the public to choose their representative(s) from the pool of eligible candidates. However, WITHIN THE SENATE, every repub senator who voted to keep this guy as minority leader is just as much at fault as everyone in the administration and media who covered up for Joe Biden's mental incapacitation and growing incompetence. So, JD, why didn't you call out McConnell's incapacity during your time in the senate? Expediency? The same thing as Harris not calling out Biden's. A pox on both your houses.

Term limits are a different topic, I think, than what this demonstrates. I am conflicted on term limits and the right of the public to choose their representative(s) from the pool of eligible candidates. However, WITHIN THE SENATE, every repub senator who voted to keep this guy as minority leader is just as much at fault as everyone in the administration and media who covered up for Joe Biden's mental incapacitation and growing incompetence. So, JD, why didn't you call out McConnell's incapacity during your time in the senate? Expediency? The same thing as Harris not calling out Biden's. A pox on both your houses.

Per person spending by the federal government more than quadruples (constant dollar basis). The problem is not tax cuts for the rich - or for anyone. The problem is the spending at every level of government - including my local library that has millions in the bank but still pushes for a milllage increase every election. Dear DOGE, make this trend return to the 1990's level of $10k fed and $5k local spending per capita. Then flatten it. Then find a way to "government efficiecy-ize" our tax code to a flat tax. Then encode it with a constituional amendment. Then close your department's doors as you last cutting action.

Now THAT is an energy secretary!! He knows the value of what his company / industry produce and is proud of it. So, don't send North Face any raw materials from the industry it so loves to demonize. Zip, Zero. Zilch. Nada. The industry should work only with customers that appreciate it.

She wants identity politics so very deeply. Why doesn't she just wear a mask and tin foil hat to signify for whom she voted? Or, she can join the normal people and just be an American. That seems to work for everyone who tries it.

Is that a NM Amish? Or NM Eskimo?

The insults thrown at the Grinch in the song are priceless. My personal favorite: You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch, With a nauseous super "naus"!

I hate when that keeps happening.

The slime oozing out of this swampie is disgusting. Drain, drain, drain the swamp. Good for Stewart to push back by basically saying "audit failing swampies don't get to lecture on semantics".

The self-owns continue from the Climateer COPter Hoaxers: Then someone pulls up facts and, dare I say it, science. The chart shows > 15x reduction in climate deaths in a century. But wait. More science and bad math. The world population is > 4x larger now than in 1920 so the chances of dying in a climate disaster is actually more than 60x lower than before our SUVs started trying to kill us. So, I guess technically we need to say The UNSECGEN is correct. People do die in every country. He could even add that people die in every country every day and still be technically correct. But if he wants to make a qualitative statement about the trend and state of climate disasters he must say that we are living in the greatest times ever with respect to the climate and it not killing us.

At least the CEO who went full Evil Team Green is now gone and someone with sense is trying to rescue this corporation from its manmade disaster. Now, GM needs to let DEI hire Mary Barra go visit her Hertz buddy for extended drives in their EVs. The problem is that GM can't fire her - nor even find a way to ask her to resign with dignity - just like the dems were stuck with the Kam-ster after ousting Joey B in the coup. Seen this week. A normal pickup truck pulling a trailer with a non-functional Tesla Cybertruck (I know, redundant term) strapped on the bed. I did not have time to snap the iconic and ironic picture of the future - according to one of our brethren on this board - being so perfectly displayed.

I think we found the problem.

Without a freeze on the debt limit and a Balanced Budget Mandate (with an exception for world war III and nothing else) then we all engaged in a discussion less useful than counting how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. However, the DOGE will go a long way to restoring confidence in the credibility of our government, institutions, and swampies. That is a very important first step because right now the government/financial/media complex is at an all time low in terms of the esteem the public has for it. DOGE can be a crucial demonstration of resolve - and a sort of restitution - before the really big next steps required to get our interest payments back to the equivalent of federal pocket change. Right now interest is number two - above Defense and Medicare - in what our tax money pays:

Yeah, I deserve that. I was just too lazy to look it up. I can see Palmer in my mind's eye but could not come up with his name. Before I came up with Gillespie's name I wrote "that kid from the east coast with a G name". I carry photo ID not to vote or buy hooch but to keep as a reference whenever I forget my own name.

From this link posted above: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7575229/#:~:text=This period has started in,in the decade 2031–2043. "This global cooling during the upcoming grand solar minimum 1 (2020–2053) can offset for three decades any signs of global warming and would require inter-government efforts to tackle problems with heat and food supplies for the whole population of the Earth." No, no, no. A thousand times, NO! Governments should apply absolutely zero efforts whatsoever toward heat and food. Governments should use the temporary authority granted to them by the citizens to focus solely upon ensuring truths that are self-evident. The only valid job of any government is to secure for us and our posterity our inalienable rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, among others) granted by our creator - or by some weird randomness of electrons bumping into each other as arranged by our (don't say creator). A court system to resolve conflicts so we don't have to individually exact revenge, roads/infrastructure, mutual defense - and almost nothing else should be provided - communially. Food and heat are up to us.

Ooh, a new outlet for WKN's talents. Wasteknownothing. Does not even need a new monogram. WKN could really create some Government Efficiency with his incredible analyses. Get out the swampie cutting knife!! Maybe we can somehow learn to live without 18 intelligence agencies and 80 welfare programs.

Here's an idea: all of those IRS agents hired by Biden in one of his bloat bills should be deputized to Vivek and Musk. They should start going after swampie bureacrats like they go after citizens right now. Freeze all the assets of the agency in question until they can account for every penny spent over the past 7 years. They get to spend no other money until everything is cleared up. If they are not able to clear it up then they get to go to jail for tax fraud. In this case not the fraud of underpaying taxes but the fraud of not using taxes properly. Let's dust off the logic of the case against Al Capone: you live like a rich man therefore you must have income yet you paid no taxes. GO TO JAIL. For the swampies: we gave you untold billions yet you have nothing to show for it therefore you must have stolen it or wasted it negligently. Criminally negligently. GO TO JAIL.

It is just crazy how easy it is to lose track of other people's money. How many of these World bank bureacrats are going to jail until they find the money? Zero, zip, nada. These people have authority with no accountability. Lose a billion dollars or two - get a face tattoo from Bruno while he's prettying you up to be his new cell-wife. That might focus some World Bank Bureaucrat attention!

Are you saying it is a crime to say there was no crime?

I heard this same statement almost word for word 4 years ago. Simply put the narrator on the other side of the political divide, take out one name and put in the other, and there you go. Were you careful with your wishes and have things turned out how you thought? "One side hates the other's existence." This part is telling. You did not say both sides hate the other's existence. I agree with you that one side hates the other. And that the hate is not returned. There is a meme that dems think repubs (and indies who don't vote for them) are evil while repubs think dems are unwise. I find this article pretty level-headed in describing the phenomenon. The article is a bit long. https://igeek.mywikis.wiki/wiki/Dumb_Democrats_and_Evil_Republicans That was before the past 8 years when dems started breaking all rules, laws (yes, laws), and using the federal government to politically target Americans (from Lois Lerner at the IRS through the latest outrages by the DOJ). So, people who vote for democrat politicians are not actively thinking about the weaponization of the state and federal bureacracies against political opponents but the democratic operatives - elected, appointed, and part of the existing bureacracy - think and act on it. This article is shorter. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-democrats-and-democratic-norms/ar-AA1p8F1A