IdleRich

IdleRich
Oh yeah I'm sure that's true; Clinton, Obama and Soros took all the money... to believe this shite tou'd have to have the same level of mental sickness as someone who thought Sidney Powell had mountains of evidence of election fraud... oh
 

Murphy

cat malogen
H1B visas not being taken up our Oxbridge Trump sycophants is an utter betrayal of Trump fandom

Living the dream vicariously is simply for voyeurs
 

hmg

Victory lap
H1B visas not being taken up our Oxbridge Trump sycophants is an utter betrayal of Trump fandom

Living the dream vicariously is simply for voyeurs

Screenshot 2025-02-08 at 14.21.07.pngYou haven't cottoned on that it's a GLOBAL network of corruption and influence that is being demolished?
It's probably hard to watch for people who have long since sold their souls and got the rainbow lanyard to prove it.


"When America sneezes, the world catches a cold"
 

Murphy

cat malogen
View attachment 21696You haven't cottoned on that it's a GLOBAL network of corruption and influence that is being demolished?
It's probably hard to watch for people who have long since sold their souls and got the rainbow lanyard to prove it.


"When America sneezes, the world catches a cold"

As stated, voyeurism for TikTok non-combatants, if you want a lanyard add Vance as a Vatican asset more loyal to Rome

You think cutting shrapnel aid programs (as a % of US budget) isn’t going to accelerate the global south’s move to closer ties with Brics and further dollar pressure?

Yes, your crypto ‘portfolio’ might go up but American wealth discrepancies will continue to advance and all it’ll take is for Maga to split over such - h1b perfect example - to draw the American working classes back to the other side

Good luck with Reform
 

shakahislop

Well-known member
USAID in afghanistan is going to be a treasure trove for musk and the lads.

i went for a meeting at the USAID office once about two hours after the roundabout outside their compound had been car bombed. it killed about thirty people from what i can remember. but that kind of thing happened all the time. i found a group of pretty scared people who hadn't been in the country very long and didn't have a handle on it. it's an abiding memory of what government employees were like when they were deployed to afghanistan, they were facing threats that they weren't prepared for and they were hardly allowed outside as a result, so didn't have the chance to begin to understand the country they were working in. there's not really an easy solution to that one
 

shakahislop

Well-known member
the aid world has never really found a way to do its job properly in places where there are people trying pretty hard to kill you. that only really became a thing after the war on terror but it's the case in quite a lot of places now. believe it or not it does make it quite a lot harder to do anything
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
USAID in afghanistan is going to be a treasure trove for musk and the lads.

i went for a meeting at the USAID office once about two hours after the roundabout outside their compound had been car bombed. it killed about thirty people from what i can remember. but that kind of thing happened all the time. i found a group of pretty scared people who hadn't been in the country very long and didn't have a handle on it. it's an abiding memory of what government employees were like when they were deployed to afghanistan, they were facing threats that they weren't prepared for and they were hardly allowed outside as a result, so didn't have the chance to begin to understand the country they were working in. there's not really an easy solution to that one

What a bunch of conniving scumbags, they definitely need to be fired at the flick of a switch by a racist adolescent who illegally gained access to the payment system - and then they should be arrested and publicly flogged.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
First (no doubt of many) test of the legality of all this


Another

US judge to enter 'limited' temporary order to block Trump from moving to dismantle USAid​

A US judge on Friday said he will enter a “very limited” temporary order blocking Donald Trump’s administration from taking certain steps to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USaid), according to Reuters.

US district judge Carl Nichols in Washington said he would issue the order following a lawsuit by the largest US government workers’ union and an association of foreign service workers, who sued on Thursday to stop the administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency.

In a notice sent to the foreign aid agency’s workers on Thursday, the administration said it will keep 611 essential workers onboard at USaid out of a worldwide workforce that totals more than 10,000. This move has largely been directed by Elon Musk, who’s spearheading the president’s effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy.

A justice department official, Brett Shumate, told Nichols that about 2,200 USAid employees would be put on paid leave under the administration’s plans, saying: “The president has decided there is corruption and fraud at USAid.”

This bit is important

The judge noted that Elon and DOGE have provided zero evidence of corruption or fraud at USAID.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I admit it, I love all this... this is just today!

  • Trump followed Joe Biden’s lead by revoking the former president’s access to classified government information and removing his security clearance and daily intelligence briefings.
  • Trump appointed himself as chair of the John F Kennedy Center for the performing arts saying he was immediately terminating multiple people from the board of trustees.
  • Alaskan lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a resolution to halt the renaming of Denali to Mount McKinley.
  • Trump signed an executive order targeting South Africa, after Marco Rubio accused the country of “anti-Americanism”.
  • Trump said he is in “no rush” to make his plan to put the United States in charge of the Gaza Strip a reality.
  • The Health and Human Services Department and agencies under its umbrella – such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – may be the next targets of Trump’s mass layoffs.
  • Trump said he would soon be signing an executive order to end federal support for paper straws, saying they don’t work and to “BRING BACK PLASTIC!”
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
During his regime, Enver Hoxha banned all hair longer than 4 cm (1.6 in) for men, as well as all beards. No man could enter the country whilst wearing one of the banned hair styles

I remember when I read that and thought what kind of nutter would make such a stupid law... well now we know.


What will Trump do tomorrow? Make it illegal to drive a blue car? Announce tariffs against the moon? Announce he's seized control of Marvel and he'll be starring as Orange Man?
 

version

Well-known member
The US election also begins the cruel process of reconfiguring the post-globalization epoch, a new global order that reverses a number of trends that had advanced since the Cold War. The infrastructures that sustained the neoliberal order will be reconstructed, for better or worse. At the same time, the US election marks a true liberation of political thought from the stagnation of ideological claims such as Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis and the grand discourses of empire’s thermodynamic ideology of globalization—as well as their other pole (or twin), the elite left lost in political correctness. (Neoreactionary Curtis Yarvin termed this elite left the “cathedral.”)​
What I call “thermodynamic ideology” is the belief that societies must be open to economic activities, that economic rights determine political rights such as freedom of speech and human rights. It is also a political epistemology in the sense that it is transposed from science to the political domain. “Free markets” and “open systems” are the buzzwords of this ideology, whose triumph was marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Jean-François Lyotard witnessed:​
Marxism, the last shoot stemming from both the Enlightenment and Christianity, seems to have lost all of its critical power. When the Berlin Wall fell, it failed definitively. By invading the shops in West Berlin, the East German crowds gave evidence that the ideal of freedom, at least of the free market, had already invaded Eastern European minds.
This ideology culminated in the entry of China into the WTO in the early 2000s. China’s opening to global capitalism and the nonantagonistic attitude of the Chinese Communist Party vaguely admitted to the triumph of the liberal ideology of globalization, even giving the illusion that China would eventually follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union. Though this apparent unification between East and West through global capitalism marked the end of the Cold War, it was not the end of antagonism or conflict. As I suggested in “On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries,” the optimism of globalization has ended. The thermodynamic ideology behind neoliberalism simply doesn’t work when the process of globalization advances to such an extent that American imperial power ceases to be the sole monopoly power. China and Russia’s quest for a multipolar world clearly signals this obsolescence.​

 

0bleak

Well-known member
One thing that you maybe don't hear much about is that the postmaster general, a person appointed during Trump's first term, a person with major conflicts of interest, has basically been wrecking USPS from the inside.
Mail delivery has been getting worse year after year, and even more so in small cities and towns and rural areas.
I'll give you an example of the crack-smoking DeJoy's example of efficiency for a package I've been waiting on from Germany.
This is the timeline so far (you have to read it from bottom, and notice that it has been in the states since at least Jan. 30):

Moving Through Network - BASICALLY A BLACK HOLE OF INFORMATION SINCE THE 3RD WHERE IT WAS SITTING PRACTICALLY NEXT DOOR!
In Transit to Next Facility
February 7, 2025

Departed USPS Regional Facility
AUGUSTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
February 3, 2025, 4:29 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility - PRACTICALLY THE TOWN NEXT DOOR!
AUGUSTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
February 2, 2025, 2:22 am

In Transit to Next Facility
February 2, 2025, 12:10 am

Departed USPS Facility
PALMETTO, GA 30268 - BOUNCED BACK TO THE SAME FACILITY! SOMEONE'S DEF SMOKING CRACK!
February 1, 2025, 10:18 pm

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
ATLANTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER
February 1, 2025, 12:18 pm

Arrived at USPS Facility - IN A STATE RIGHT NEXT TO SC - IN THE PAST, THAT MEANS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DELIVERED WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
PALMETTO, GA 30268
February 1, 2025, 8:25 am

In Transit to Next Facility
February 1, 2025, 4:00 am

In Transit to Next Facility
January 31, 2025, 5:37 pm

In Transit to Next Facility
January 31, 2025, 9:35 am

Departed USPS Regional Facility
METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER
January 31, 2025, 5:15 am

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
METRO NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER
January 30, 2025, 12:02 pm

Inbound Into Customs

Processed Through USPS Facility
ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS)
January 30, 2025, 12:30 am
 

version

Well-known member
The US election also begins the cruel process of reconfiguring the post-globalization epoch, a new global order that reverses a number of trends that had advanced since the Cold War. The infrastructures that sustained the neoliberal order will be reconstructed, for better or worse. At the same time, the US election marks a true liberation of political thought from the stagnation of ideological claims such as Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis and the grand discourses of empire’s thermodynamic ideology of globalization—as well as their other pole (or twin), the elite left lost in political correctness. (Neoreactionary Curtis Yarvin termed this elite left the “cathedral.”)​
What I call “thermodynamic ideology” is the belief that societies must be open to economic activities, that economic rights determine political rights such as freedom of speech and human rights. It is also a political epistemology in the sense that it is transposed from science to the political domain. “Free markets” and “open systems” are the buzzwords of this ideology, whose triumph was marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, as Jean-François Lyotard witnessed:​
Marxism, the last shoot stemming from both the Enlightenment and Christianity, seems to have lost all of its critical power. When the Berlin Wall fell, it failed definitively. By invading the shops in West Berlin, the East German crowds gave evidence that the ideal of freedom, at least of the free market, had already invaded Eastern European minds.
This ideology culminated in the entry of China into the WTO in the early 2000s. China’s opening to global capitalism and the nonantagonistic attitude of the Chinese Communist Party vaguely admitted to the triumph of the liberal ideology of globalization, even giving the illusion that China would eventually follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union. Though this apparent unification between East and West through global capitalism marked the end of the Cold War, it was not the end of antagonism or conflict. As I suggested in “On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries,” the optimism of globalization has ended. The thermodynamic ideology behind neoliberalism simply doesn’t work when the process of globalization advances to such an extent that American imperial power ceases to be the sole monopoly power. China and Russia’s quest for a multipolar world clearly signals this obsolescence.​


Lots we've been discussing in various threads in this one: Trump, Thiel, Schmitt, Hegel, China, DeepSeek, Girard's scapegoat, the faltering of liberalism, Yarvin. Found this line on the US-China rivalry particularly intriguing:

... neither culture nor understanding are at stake in this larger power struggle, and those who have not woken up to this will only repeat the “clash of civilizations” cliché by insisting on respect for cultural differences. The East and the West are in fact developing the same plan, the same technology, and the same philosophy of history for domination, and are thus no longer distinguishable in this world process.​
[...]​
Reason is the most powerful discourse of the West, since what contradicts it is inevitably unreason, which is analogical to a just enemy. By the same token, the East cannot turn to unreason in order to combat the West; but does turning to reason to operate within the framework of the West end up in the atomic bomb, as Schmitt claimed?​
 
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