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Or in the immortal words of The Stylistics: "Break up to make up, that's all we do, first you love me, then you hate me, that's a game for fools."
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He did fire all the GSA 18F people who were working on tech solutions.
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Toads for music, Old Heidelberg for the popcorn and Sally’s for pizza.
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100 percent
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Great photo.
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Underneath the surface there’s a lot of very nice people just fine with the MAGA agenda.
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Thanks very helpful
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In what way?
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Also isn’t this part of the approach the Rufo noted in his interview with Douthat? It feels like a lot of what’s going on these days is driven by Steven Miller and Rufo.
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They’ll get their pundits to say it’s the Democrats’ policies are at fault and distort cultural issues to ensure the truth is obscured.
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Most people are not very familiar with the rate of suicide in correctional facilities as well as the difficulties determining who is at risk for attempts and who is not. And how quickly one can go from thought to taking action.
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Well and also they're conveniently forgetting that everything possible has been done to make the options for insurance on the ACA sites as expensive as possible. So lots of people use Medicaid who work because either their employer doesn't offer insurance or they qualify because income limits.
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I think it's that feeling of elites playacting and killing time and clinging to the past when we could come together and look for a new way forward - just look, not necessarily even find one - that hurts so much.
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People not able to use insurance will forgo treatment or if end up needing emergency treatment go bankrupt. Either no doubt worse health outcomes and higher cost to Medicare if when those uninsured individuals make it to age 65.
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Yes most definitely
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When I was in grad school in the early 90’s was given several pieces of useful advice. Number one: be friendly to and kind to and considerate of the department’s administrative assistant. They can either make it or break it for you.
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And then encourage people to read your work and follow you.
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Every time I mention that you’ve stated we live in a scam culture people nod vigorously. It runs the gamut across service and insurance “providers.”
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The big tell was a recent interview he did (I forget which white supremacist he was platforming) that there were a lot of divorces in his family, hinted at adultery and was quite animated about how marriage is supposed to be a permanent relationship. His anxiety seems to infuse his belief system
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1950’s era suburbia is nirvana and everything else is subversive and bleak
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Scams on steroids
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They all sound like they’re in a cult. Waste and fraud, waste and fraud. Nothing else to offer the people they’re supposed to serving as government officials.
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They are recommending that the Trump administration does this stuff in order to prevent Communism? 🤷
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What’s the point of eliminating US being present all over the world?
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Where and when.
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It's appalling that Tolkien's themes/characters have been appropriated by some of the worst people on the planet to enrich themselves by treating everyday people as objects for their use and disposal. It's clear people like Thiel etc have no idea what the true message of Tolkien's work was.
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Does anyone know what will remain of the government when this “project” is completed? It’s hard to track what is being decimated
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And at some point most of them get a slot on Bill Maher’s show.
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Oren Cass? Christopher Rufo?
I appreciate you’re here but the Times is platforming and validating bad actors.
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I believe that in a recent election in New Hampshire several women were repeatedly turned away for not having the same last name as their birth certificate. One woman kept her married name after her divorce to have the same last name as her kids. This law will negatively impact women.
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I guess some people don’t know about bookstores and looking through a book to see if you want to buy it. Or even going to a library. It’s a lost art 🤷♀️
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At the moment, high-end trousers are mostly made in Italy, which typically retail for around $500. Why can't we have a US factory that tries to make something for less? The US should subsidize the training of these workers, even if they're immigrants. Help create education programs for tailoring.
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Still no movement on the budget screw up for DC and stuff like this costs the city a lot of money that the feds may or may not reimburse for.
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So tired of the ‘conservative voices are squelched’ at universities. Do they think liberals at conservative universities can say whatever they want without consequences? Do they know that it took years and litigation to get Georgetown to permit space/funding for the LGBT student group?
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Great interview, thank you. Explains the subtleties of what’s going on with DOGE.
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all of the talk of “reshoring (low end) manufacturing” and “bringing back the american worker” is a smokescreen for a plan to impoverish as many americans by forcing as many of them as possible into backbreaking, low wage labor. it’s discipline for an unruly populace.
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Let them eat cake moment
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Yes because the science behind polygraphs shows that it's junk but good to have people be very anxious and nervous so you can use that as "evidence" of wrongdoing.
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On top of the bull in a china shop approach to downsizing the federal government. People likely don’t realize how many things that they rely on (i.e. Meals on Wheels for elderly neighbor, school lunches) in their community come from federal funding. Some states only meet once a year to legislate.
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Makes sense even if it is horrible.