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Sandbox – 1feb25

[No one knows how to price their AI-enhanced productivity tools like the MS Copilot.  One of the problems is that it’s hard to tell how much benefit a desk worker gets out such a tool for the various prices charged.  I tried it about a week ago to help write a post (here), and it produced what was obviously low-grade ore.  Now China enters with its DeepSeek at markedly lower costs but nobody still knows how to rate the benefits.  Meanwhile we’re concerned about DeepSeek vacuuming up Americans’ information and thereby compromising our national security. gjr]

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  1. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Paul 8:27 –
    1. “Did he lie…”
    I have no way of knowing. And neither do you.
    2. “Also what proof do you offer…”
    For you – none.

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  2. scenes Avatar
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    “[No one knows how to price their AI-enhanced productivity tools like the MS Copilot. ”
    I honestly don’t think they’ve arrived at a price for internet advertising yet, and you’d think that would be the most straightforward thing to instrument you could think of. I can’t believe that the current valuations for Google, FB, X, etc. could possibly be so much higher than old school ad-selling media as they seem to be. It’s all very odd. US gubmint propaganda operations can only explain part of it.
    My other confusion of the day is this whole business of Elon&Co (no doubt with borrowed money) offering to buy OpenAI. What sort of secret sauce would they be buying? The brand name can’t be that valuable, and you’d think that their cleaned data and super secret software is not significantly better than the other dozen or so plays in that area. George, could you ask your Microsoft relative what on earth the point of that purchase attempt is?
    I admit that I’m waiting for AI to be amazing rather than providing code snippets for programmers and generating PowerPoint bullet item lists for all the useless HR business consultant DEI marketing drags on the economy out there.
    It’s good to see psul and his BFF, Resurrected Hillbilly show up to complain about some Trump public statement or the other. All the real Trump Effects are the large moves in the fedgov right now, and worrying about Arnold Palmer’s Dick is a good way to keep all the local fishwives busy. I’m surprised how any old captive judge from East Bumfuck can push their own crazy opinions on the whole federal government, but this should all be a good chance to clean up that system…which makes no sense currently regardless of who is using it.

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You’ll know that real change has arrived when local governments and law enforcement start being operational again. In days of yore, this would have lasted about 5 minutes until the sheriff showed up.
    “Passionate anti-forestry activists know how to enact change!
    Screaming, moaning, and howling like a wolf in response to state timber sales is the way to get people to respect your cause. Listen and tell me you’re not moved by this.”
    https://x.com/JebraFaushay/status/1889318571915858347

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “For a solid week, blue states, labor unions, and non-profit organizations have descended on federal courts up and down the East Coast seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s agenda. And they have found receptive partners in a handful of federal judges willing to enter temporary restraining orders, or TROs, to immediately — and sometimes without any notice — prohibit the normal functioning of the executive branch.
    To be clear, the TROs entered are not addressing specific disputes between Trump and the litigants, where the plaintiffs allege a particular action injures them in some concrete way. Rather, the country is seeing large coalitions of plaintiffs who oppose the president’s agenda filing lawsuits challenging the broad policies and the management of the executive branch….”
    https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/11/donald-trump-is-not-a-threat-to-democracy-those-shredding-article-ii-are/

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    I hope the DOGE boys look up from their terminals once and a while…..

    (c) Security. The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained. The United States, its officers, and its agencies are not required to give security.

    Time to impose some costs on the defenders of the “Iron Guitar Case”!
    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=4209387

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: fish | 11 February 2025 at 07:44 AM
    Of course there is a reason why they have these things heard ex parte in front of freshly shopped judges!

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “court considers proper to pay the costs ”
    Which is, what?, $10k?
    There’s probably a book in that somewhere, the growth of partisan judges as yet another branch of government, superior to the executive branch in some ways. If they both make a policy and determine the possible fine for being wrong, ya gotta problem.
    Any quick googling of news archives shows the times that Biden (and probably other Presidents) ignored judges, but it’s not a way to do business. There’s too many judges with their own private fetishes. It’s funny how the real Third Rail of the establishment was non-profit funding, but I expect that’s how people have lined their pockets (both parties) for fifty years now.
    I saw that Elon said that they went after USAID mostly because people squealed the most when it was nudged a bit. Like the way cops become suspicious on a traffic stop, I think his instincts were exactly right.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    cracked me up:
    “JD vs Kamala on AI:
    JD: The US possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms and transformational applications.
    KH: AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all it’s two letters. It means ‘Artificial Intelligence.’”
    – Western Lensman on X.

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Fauxcohantas…..every time you open your mouth you weaken the progressive cause……so by all means chat away!

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Current FDIC staffing shortages ‘threaten the safety and soundness of the banking system’

    Because a fully staffed FDIC has prevented so much fraud and destruction prior to this!
    You really have to wonder if she took a blow to the head as a child in order to believe her own nonsense?
    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/elizabeth-warren-fdic-staffing-shortages-put-banking-system-at-risk.html

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    re: fish@9:33AM
    You can’t blame her. She’s feeling a bit of power slipping from her scrofulous old claws and is looking for anything that will stick.
    EGG PRICES ARE HIGH BECAUSE USAID FUNDING OF THE FDIC STAFF WAS CUT BY ELON MUSK AND BIG BALLS!!!
    God help us the day that harridans became important.

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “People are worried that Elon is going to steal everyone’s money. He has $400B. Elon’s not going to steal your money. That’s not what he’s doing. He’s a super genius that has been fked with. When you’ve been fked with by these nitwits that hide behind 3-letter agencies, and you’re dealing with one of the smartest people alive helping Donald Trump get into office and find out what corruption is really going on, you fked up.
    You f    ked up and picked the wrong psychopath on the spectrum. He’s going to hunt you down and find out what’s going on, and that’s good for everybody. That’s how you should be looking at this, like ‘Wow, we have a brilliant mind examining these really corrupt and goofy systems and bringing in a bunch of psychopath wizards.”
    -Joe Rogan

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The tail doe wag the dem dog –
    [P]olitically, none of that matters a whit. Trump occupies the high ground in this fight, which is probably why he and Musk picked it. If voters dislike anything, it’s bureaucracy and foreign aid. And USAID is a 10,000-employee bureaucracy—housed in a palatial building on prime downtown real estate—that spends $40 billion a year on other countries.
    “Skepticism about foreign aid is one of the most consistent and durable findings of public opinion research,” he adds. “In a 2023 AP-NORC poll, 69 percent of respondents thought U.S. government spending in this area was “too much[.]”
    The problem for the Democrat Party is that its extreme left is the tail that wags the dog and that extreme left demands the Party oppose Trump on absolutely everything, including a 70/30 issue like this one. Worse still for the jackass party, although it’s an 80/20 issue, Democrats are still forced to demand that men compete (and ruin) women’s sports.
    By giving the far-left control over the Party, Democrats have jumped into bed with a base so far outside mainstream opinion, they are forced to make fools of themselves defending nonsense, blatant immorality, and gross unfairness to women and girls.
    Teixeira is correct in his assessment, but what he doesn’t consider is what happens to a Democrat Party that does decide to learn the lessons of their 2024 election loss. If Democrats suddenly become sane and reasonable on women’s sports, USAID, protecting the border, jailing violent criminals, and Israel, they will lose their political base — and when you lose your base, the bottom falls out forever.
    Ask George W. Bush about that. He didn’t limp out of office with a sub-30 percent approval rating because of Iraq or Katrina. What bottomed him out was losing his conservative base by calling for a mass amnesty for illegal aliens.
    Democrats have painted themselves in a corner and have no idea how to escape it, for if they try, the Party will implode, the money and volunteer base will dry up, and things will get much worse before they get better.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/11/nolte-leftist-operative-declares-it-suicide-democrats-defend-usaid/
    😉

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well of course it’s “Newsweek”….a more misleading and inappropriate name for a magazine hath never been!

    TRUMP DEPORTATIONS HALF PACE OF BIDEN…

    I of course will give him the benefit of the doubt for now…at the very least he has at least stopped their constant importation!
    https://www.newsweek.com/immigrant-deportations-removals-trump-biden-obama-compared-chart-2026835

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Yeah I remember when TEAM EVIL was all about ignoring rulings they didn’t like…..

    “The Biden Administration should ignore the court” – AOC, 2023

    Good times…..!
    https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1889337281518969102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1889339489413177613%7Ctwgr%5Ec0134fba1335f9e7ff662be73ba2d8dc5ba25661%7Ctwcon%5Es4_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F702070%2F&mx=2

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  15. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    We’ll never realize how clean and honest the Biden admin was – now we have corruption! Oh dear.
    “Trump’s Plan Comes Into Focus: Make America Corrupt Again”
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-eric-adams-make-america-corrupt-again-1235263142/

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  16. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    OK – one more humor piece for the morning:
    “What is ‘conservative girl’ makeup, and am I accidentally wearing it?”
    Some one has to keep Babylon Bee honest!
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/conservative-girl-makeup-us-republican-tiktok

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Noah Schactman manages to miss the previous 60 years of corruption entirely.

    TRUMP’S PLAN COMES INTO FOCUS: MAKE AMERICA CORRUPT AGAIN

    …..well done!
    Rolling Stone is still in business?
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-eric-adams-make-america-corrupt-again-1235263142/

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Isn’t it about time the “Wise Latina” joins Shotgun Joey in “The Basement”

    Justice Sotomayor Sounds Alarm Over ‘Monarchy’ Power Grab…
    ‘We Will Lose Our Democracy™’…

    Remember “Our Democracy™” is just their grift!
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-justice-sounds-alarm-over-trump-s-monarchy-power-grab/ar-AA1yT0B8

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    NICE!!!

    BREAKING:

    Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence.

    President Wrecking Ball continues his short march through the institutions!
    May Ms. Gabbard move swiftly and break things!!
    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/12/the-senate-votes-on-tulsi-gabbards-confirmation-as-director-of-national-intelligence-n4936900#google_vignette

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Future sister city for NC.
    https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1889676432470643077

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 12 February 2025 at 09:13 AM
    Future sister city for NC.
    Well…..wasn’t that special.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    You really have to appreciate the Limousine Revolutionaries….

    “Welcome to the last big event before they drag us all off to jail.”

    It’s really just so thrilling to pretend we’re fighting the power before departing in our hired cars to $1200 a plate dinners all the while furiously congratulating each other on our bravery!
    https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-concert-honoring-joan-baez-20159289.php

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    re: fish@12:45PM
    I always laugh when I see Rage For The Machine doing their thing.

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Rage a’gin the Machine was introduced by Steve Forbes for their second set on a Saturday Night Live appearance years ago. They seemed deflated to me for a bit…
    I think that was when Forbes played “Teve Torbes” in a skit about running for President, and Norm McDonald had the best line, “Teve Torbes, Tuck Off!”
    Joan Baez lived for a short time in Claremont when her dad taught physics there, before my time.

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    looking… the only respiratory illness that seems to be raging in this state is influenza.
    …they say it’s Still a good time to get the flu vaccine.

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that will be interesting –
    “California is entering an unprecedented demographic era, with declining populations of working-age adults and rapid growth in the number of older adults,” the report reads. “This shift will result in an old-age dependency ratio of 38 older adults per 100 working-age adults, up from 24 in 2020, and the highest ever recorded.”
    The report could be bad news for California’s Democratic Party, which controls the governor’s office and both branches of the state legislature.
    As younger people increasingly count for a smaller slice of California’s population, the Democratic Party will also likely see its base shrink, according to data from the PPIC.
    “Younger people are more likely to be Democrats than their older counterparts. Young Californians are more liberal than older Californians across a range of policy topics, especially on questions of race relations and immigration,” a March report from the research group reads. “Likely voters under 35 tend to embrace the state’s traditional blue, with over 50% registering as Democrats,” another recent PPIC analysis reports.
    The news comes as California has experienced plunging birth rates over the past few decades, with the state now having one of the lowest total fertility rates, or the number of children a woman has in her lifetime, in the country. California additionally lost a net of 407,000 residents to other states between July 2021 and July 2022, with a Stanford study published in October 2023 finding that young people between the ages of 18 and 29 were among those most likely to have moved away from California in the prior five years.
    The Golden State also experienced a shift away from Democrats during the 2024 elections, as Republicans flipped three seats in the state legislature and President Donald Trump captured a larger chunk of the vote than Republicans have received in previous elections.
    “This election was like a bucket of cold water to the faces of Democrats,” Riverside County pollster Carlos Rivas told the California Globe. “The state Senate was just one part of it. Going from eight seats to 10 seats doesn’t sound like a huge gain within a year, especially with 40 seats in total. But it is a start. Orange County flipped back, and now they are only a few seats away from taking away the supermajority.”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-s-unprecedented-demographic-shifts-threaten-democrats-grip-on-the-state/ar-AA1yUcBG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=cc42a95ec4ee42b89ee7dd38485369fc&ei=105
    😉

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    I bet this number is low…..

    Final Tally For Biden-Era Improper Payments? $925 Billion…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/final-tally-biden-era-improper-payments-925-billion

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    re: fish@5:18PM
    It’s been interesting watch ‘DataRepublican’ do her thing on X. Untwizzling the funds flow through the non-profits.
    Now, you’d think ol’ psul, being against the uniparty and all, wantin’ more political parties, would be glad to see this.
    It’s obvious that one of the support structures for the major parties was scoooping off big chunks of money and feeding it to their propaganda outlets and friends. Orange Hitler appears to be doing God’s work.

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The future we have been saved from –
    A friend came back from a trip to the United States recently and told me her biggest takeaway was how warm every home and business is there, even in the bitter cold of winter. Back in Blighty, this friend is always wrapped in more layers than an F Scott Fitzgerald metaphor. But in the US, no one worried about the electricity bill, or letting down money saving expert Martin Lewis by fiddling with the thermostat.
    This simple observation speaks volumes about how our quality of life is dramatically impacted by policy decisions in Whitehall. Energy costs are more than a third more expensive in the UK than they are in France, and over 70 per cent more than they are in the United States. This is almost all down to the mad zealotry with which red Ed Miliband, and much of the wider establishment, are prosecuting a war against both hydrocarbons and the laws of thermodynamics.
    For some years, Britain has been pursuing a net zero agenda that is doing little to actually ameliorate the impact of climate change while increasingly immiserating those of us who live here. We are poorer, colder and less industrious than our peers as a result. Far from leading the way, we are a cautionary tale to the world.
    There are businesses who have really staked their fortunes on the energy transition, but with waning interest in the States and other nations, this gamble will look foolish. But there are also many companies who, while paying lip service to the net zero agenda, will be quietly longing for a preference cascade that will allow them to be unburdened by these impossible-to-keep commitments.
    What would these look like? Instead of the absurd rules around the generation and use of energy, the government should promote supply side reforms that enable providers to flood the system with cheap, plentiful energy. In the short term, that means fracking here in Britain, and switching north sea oil and gas back on. We still need fossil fuels, so we should generate the benefits of doing so here.
    We also still need hydrocarbons from multiple sources to guard against geopolitical shocks. We were wise not to use Russian energy, a choice that means our economy isn’t as hopelessly floundering as, say, Germany’s. But we should be strategic and take energy from all over, spreading the benefits that brings. We could boost our allegiances in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, bolstering the fledgling democracy there. We could encourage Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus to work together to supply energy (potentially solving a chronic territory dispute along the way). And we should get more from our core allies in the US and Canada.
    With the cash we would save by not bankrupting ourselves, Britain could do what it does best – invent the future
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/net-zero-is-making-britain-colder-poorer-and-less-productive/ar-AA1yRIjh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=6979cbb65b444375ee32627626dc0fe7&ei=136
    😉

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    ”The federal workforce grew 6.3% under former President Joe Biden, fueled by pandemic spending programs. A 3% cut to the federal workforce would only bring the number down to 2023 levels,” Bloomberg pointed out.”
    Worst dried out grifting presidential husk ever!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/musk-we-need-delete-entire-agencies-total-fed-worker-buyout-tops-75000

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    That ungrateful bastard (President Stem) didn’t so much as throw a nickel into the “Iron Guitar Case”!

    Lee Zeldin Just Discovered $20 Billion Laundered by the Biden Admin

    And this after all the pro bono PR work Paul Raymond performed for his Man of Integrity!
    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/12/lee-zeldin-just-discovered-20-billion-laundered-by-the-biden-administration-n4936939

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Jesus Christ but these guys make me tired…..!

    WSJ Slams: ‘Does He Understand Money?’

    Sure….accumulating more debt than his ever existed in the history of the known universe has absolutely nothing to do with the issues we’re having and will continue to have moving forward! And it’s not like we haven’t seen this before….there exists a robust history stretching at least 2500 years of boom and bust due to governments fucking with the money…..but the WSJ thinks Trump doesn’t get it!
    Go ahead climb on the pile of dying discredited media outlets with all the other legacy idiots!
    Morons!
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/does-he-understand-money-rupert-murdoch-s-wall-street-journal-slams-donald-trump-s-intellect/ar-AA1yXSiU

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    When the local insane libs talk, this is what you are dealing with:
    “Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D) suggests that the reason more women don’t go into manufacturing is because “the name manufacturing sounds like a guy.””
    https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1889833714974416938

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Jesus Christ but these guys make me tired…..!”
    I think I can understand where psul gets his silly theories. If you understand the world purely through a little screen and take a look at Drudge Report or CNN, it’s like a MSM version of a Reddit hugbox. Pointless and meaningless propaganda to get clicks.
    Anything beyond a short paragraph of sloganeering and you ‘aint got time fer that’.

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  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    This actually makes sense:
    “Clay Travis gets audible gasps from University of Chicago audience after he declares that men view Democrats as ‘pussies’:”
    https://x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1890067702074470818
    One response:
    “He’s 100% right. The Dems and their pseudo intellectualism cannot understand why men would not want to be democrat.
    Andrew Schultz said the Democrats are for men 5’6 and under. He said no man over 6 feet is voting democrat”
    Gotta get out a tape measure.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 13 February 2025 at 08:43 AM
    I think I can understand where psul gets his silly theories.
    As happy as I am to rub Paul Raymond’s nose in his ignorance this wasn’t him….this was people who should know better!

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Never in a million years did I think they could get Kennedy confirmed…..

    RFK Jr. confirmed as HHS Secretary: Here’s how pharma might be impacted

    Of all of the candidates I thought he was the most unlikely!
    https://www.mmm-online.com/news/rfk-jr-confirmed-as-hhs-secretary-heres-how-pharma-might-be-impacted/

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I think FBI is going to be the tough confirmation, no matter who it is. Naturally, the national secret police need to be torn down and rebuilt, I think that’s always the case.
    It’s funny how much of this stuff will come out, and absolutely no one will read it.
    https://sharylattkisson.com/2025/02/sen-grassley-jack-smith-withheld-trump-impeachment-records/
    You’ll just continue to see simple-minded letters to the editor from DNC apparatchiks.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Chait being Chaitlike again…..
    I guess since the whole Nazi thing has been so effective they just can’t let go of it!
    …..pssst….Beobachter
    https://x.com/davidharsanyi/status/1889851469282812147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1889851469282812147%7Ctwgr%5E598530bd7e8cc2a68364575682ce67b29bf7fcd1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F702447%2F

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    I can’t bring myself to be any more concerned with this than I am about the “responsible people” who had access to it before.

    Does now DOGE have your SSN?

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/does-elon-musk-social-security-005600171.html

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Chaos….really…!

    ‘Honestly terrifying’: Yosemite National Park is in chaos

    But everything is unsafe and terrifies you guys! It’s a wonder you can function in modern society!
    https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-in-chaos-20163260.php

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    ….and this is being portrayed as something nefarious on the part of Musk and Trump!

    Leftover Surprise? Biden’s State Department Budgeted $400 Million For “Armored Teslas”

    No mater who much you hate the establishment media it’s not enough!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/leftover-surprise-bidens-state-department-budgeted-400-million-armored-teslas

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    Your tax dollars at work (before).
    “The Department of Education terminated grants to the four “Equity Assistance Centers” totaling $33M.
    One provided “professional learning around critical race theory and racial literacy”. Video below:”
    https://x.com/DOGE/status/1890180947473293793

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  44. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    fish 11:00 – Yeah – “Gasp!! The fed govt has access to our SS number!!!”
    Well – so does the CCP, hackers in Hyderabad, TurboTax and the guy down the road that found your mail in the drainage ditch in front of his yard.
    fish 12:25 – “It’s a wonder you can function in modern society!”
    Modern society? Can you imagine them even in the 1960s or LOL – anytime in the 1800s?
    Let’s face it – there’s been a definite societal devolution resulting in a severe reduction of normally functioning adults.
    I can remember when I realized modern American society had jumped the reality shark.
    I think it was the early aughts when I read an article in the SF Chron talking about how the city board of supes had a “discussion” as to whether or not it was acceptable for people to take a dump in public out in the streets.
    I’m sure that was actually a lagging indicator.
    The serious rot must have started earlier.
    After that, I just shrugged and figured the tipping point was past and the lunatics had taken over the asylum. It’s turned out swell, hasn’t it?

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  45. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    scenes 4:21 –
    “Identifying and disrupting the Whiteness”.
    Does that include James Watt and Dr. Salk?
    Frank Zappa, Archie Bunker and Johannes Gutenberg?
    Whatever else Trump does – this shit needs to be held underwater until the bubbles stop.

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  46. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    For a fanboy tale, or maybe a truth-telling observer, this is a rather long read of events in the last 2 days showing how our Mr. Trump has bypassed the judiciary’s flurry of TROs. It seems to tie together all of the moving parts of Congress & the executive branch in eliminating waste. At least it’s a start. If only half true, the liberals, and Repubs, are in trouble.
    https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/swamp-apocalypse-wednesday-february

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    (pardon for the bad words, but it’s funny)
    ““I dedicated the best years of my f-cking life to this party, only to see it taken over by a bunch of stupid motherfu-kers. Everything’s gone to sh-t.”
    Carville is especially livid following the DNC leadership election, reportedly saying, “Who are these people? This David Hogg guy and that other sissy (referring to Malcolm Kenyatta) come out of goddamn left field. Well, there goes the male vote forever. Thanks guys! We’re f-cked and we deserve it.”
    – James Carville

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    EF@5:36PM
    Thanks for the article. Might be 100% truth, or not, but naturally this is a fight against a tolerably intelligent foe who views this as an existential threat. It’s not just moving a boulder with a sufficiently large lever.
    Exciting time, and might turn out to be the most eventful since WWII.

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    James, my boy – you watch the Dems curry favor with the Krazies and pervs for years now and you are stumped as to how this has come to be?
    Carville’s not as bright as I gave him credit for.

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    re: scotto@6:00PM

    Oh well, it’s just units to him. In a prior life he would have written cigarette ads.

    Meanwhile…
    “EYE-WATERING MOMENT: RFK Jr. delivers an emotional tribute to President Trump after being sworn in as HHS Secretary.
    “For 20 years, I’ve gotten up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I could end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country. On August 23rd of last year, God sent me President Trump.
    “He’s now given me—he’s kept every promise that he’s made to me. He’s kept his word on every account and gone way beyond it. I’m so grateful to you, Mr. President. A lot of people told me that I couldn’t trust President Trump—that I better get it in writing.
    “And we did a handshake, and everything that he told me he was going to do, he has done. And I’m so grateful to him. And I’ve told you before, I genuinely believe that you are a pivotal historical figure, and you are going to transform this country.””

    https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1890155394779255287

    I can understand why psul and his BFF Mr. Hillbilly have been scarce. Their whole world is coming apart. Arnold Palmer’s Dick is not much of a political philosophy, but if it’s all you got…

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