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Ever hear the expression, "Hitler made the trains run on time“?
Thing is, he didn't. But everyone was afraid to report that they weren't running on time, so officially they always met their schedules.
That's where this is heading.
It was actually Mussolini who failed to make the trains run on time. I mean, I haven't heard of them being especially punctual under Hitler, either, but the phase is about Mussolini.
Hitler's more known for a different kind of train.
I only ever heard that Kruschev “made the trains run on time.” AFAIK, he did.
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Next week: there were 134 million new jobs
134 BILLION NEW JOBS!!!
FTFY
I mean, it's Trump. Do you really think he'd use a number that could be even remotely realistic? It has to be something truly stupid
Fair, he did say he'd bring down the cost of drugs by 1000%. Chronic illnesses about to make BANK.
Woo-cough-hoo!
I was thinking about a number greater than the population of the US, but decided on a number that was equally impossible yet somehow believable by maga.
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Well they saved "258 million" people from fentanyl overdose in 100 days; finding half of them jobs in a week should be no problem.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pam-bondi-fentanyl-258m/
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He wants people who will lie for him, like bondi, bongino, kash, hegseth, tulsi, etc.
He wants people who will lie, break the law, or support/hide/ignore illegal activities. He's a fucking mobster. Organized crime is at the executive branch. Arguably the judiciary and Senate as well.
Watching fascism play out in real time... What a time to be alive.
That's how Putin got stuck in year 4 of the 3 day special military operations. Everybody lied to him about the state of his military forces. It's inevitable with these "strong man" leader types.
So when this is all over. These enablers will go to jail right?
Depends on timing. We’re in a small window between them showing their intent, and a first-for-humanity inability to organize against them. Once ORNL gets their nuke-powered AI up and running, and fed all the Palantir data and the decades of mass surveillance data the NSA has but hasn’t been able to use at scale, the regime will be able to have a constantly-updated list of the people most likely to instigate an uprising, and can just MLK them or blackmail them before their movement gets off the ground. All that will remain are easily-dealt-with and easily-discredited lone wolves.
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I would like someone to create a website where we can list the enablers. All of them. Make a list. Start with Trump. Add everyone in his cabinet. Add all of his enablers, down to the people that voted for him.
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Let me know when y’all want to march on Washington and physically remove these asshats from power. I can fit 4 other people in my truck.
The thing is, we don't need you to march on Washington. We need you to march against your neighbor who's so full of OAN that they still support the asshat in chief.
That's just it though. These folks seem IMPOSSIBLE to get through to. Though admittedly my experience may draw from some of the lead-alzheimer's cadre of boomers. I mean they spent fuckin decades making sure they had a poorly educated group that would VOTE, with the added bonus that so many of them were surreptitiously ending up brain damaged as well.
I really wish I knew how to help these people. I've been compassionate, patient, understanding; and I've also brow beat the shit out of em, gotten in screaming matches (not too often, but they tend to respect a level of violence). And it tends to have little effect. It's the part of this that vexes and hurts me the most, and why I can't help but feel this will only be rectified with chilling violence that none of us want and are ill-suited to execute. Ugh.
Their belief in MAGA is filling some deep psychological need. Logical reasoning around the belief is irrelevant because logic can't activate whatever social buttons are being satisfied by their engagement with the MAGA movement.
Research trying to figure out what makes humans susceptible to this kind of stuff and how to protect each other was a hot topic, but then Congressional Republicans launched harassing investigations into everyone in the field and the institutions that supported their work, and of course the current executive branch has entrenched that fear. Gotta keep the victims coming to the grifter trough.
So far we've been screaming that the meteors are coming. They haven't really hit yet. When they start landing next to them and on them, then most of them will start to believe it.
But one, how close the meteor needs to hit varies. And two, a few won't even get it when their wife gets deported.
We can do both. Why not both?
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Makes sense - if you don't like the numbers just fire the messenger.
Foxtrot Delta Taco.
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We're fucked. It's all over but the fighting.
Until a few months ago, I was a statistician for the US government. 25 years. I'm so fucking glad I'm out, though I'm making far less than I used to, honestly not enough yet. But I'm glad I'm not under his thumb.
I cut my salary in half to get out. Wtf is money worth if you can't even afford anything?
Any second now they'll announce the new government branch: the Ministry of Truth.
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Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him.
Plutarch, ~ 100 A.D.
History rhymes.
The administration equivalent of putting a piece of tape on your dash to cover a blinking check engine light.
Thanks for including blinking, as this means severe engine damage, not a pesky code to clear. And it's exactly what's going on here.
This is satire right? Jesus H. Christ. We are so far into clown world that you couldn't even make fun of it. No matter how ridiculous you make it sound- they will outdo you with reality.
How is this any different from admitting that whoever Trump replaces them with is going to report inaccurate numbers to make Trump look good?
In the era of global fascism, satire is dead. These aren't bad ideas when you don't care about anything passed your self image, and no one that matters will stand up to you.
Release the full Epstein files, you asshat
Because this is going to solve the problem
to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances
Will everyone that needed CNBC to clarify which Kamala he was talking about, please raise your hand.
This guy is gonna be the end of all of us. I feel sorry for Americans with an IQ above.. 70 for having to watch this in real-time and live through the age of stupidity
How do I short the entire US economy?
Normally I’d say this is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard, but I don’t even know if it makes the top 10 this week.
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The firings will continue until the job numbers improve.
We knows the same practice from the Soviet era. Also Putin does same. Good luck #usa
China has been providing false numbers, so here is a move to leveling the playing field by making USA numbers untrustworthy as well. One step closer to beat China.
This carries similar vibes to altering the weather map with a sharpie
Conservative media was working overtime to spin those jobs numbers as positive😂😂
Dude shot the messenger instead of facing the issue at hand.
He wants to replace them with someone who will fudge numbers to whatever is useful for Trump.
For a good 25 years now, the Republican party has treated reality as a messaging problem, not something to grapple with and use in planning. The only surprise is that it took this long to fire people in the federal government who didn't give the "right" message.
I know they'll just put in a yes man, but it would be hilarious to have the new appointee say, "yeah, she was right on point."
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