@shannonhood Other people have different preferences. That shouldn't be depressing, unless you think you're the ideal human being and everyone else should be just like you.
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Kaiser Milo
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What a depressing view of humanity.
I *love* having neighbors; my kids enjoy delivering baked goods to them, and we were blessed with a neighbor in our last house that meticulously mowed and edged our lawn for us anytime we left for an extended summer trip. He was a treasure.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
@AbuYahyaCA I'm sure it was very cool in an era where people weren't completely atomized, peeping-in-the-window, Facebook-creeping, cop-calling types
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@StewGlobal Electing Trump was a gamble that hasn't paid off. But it's silly to pretend it was done out of spite. The right and the center spent years articulating the problems in the progressive left, but the left doubled down and told the rest of the country their concerns didn't matter.
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'Something fundamental has changed in American society ... it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half.' theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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@AmeshiaCross I deal with these young adults, and believe me, they're drinking. The kids are drinking, too.
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Or they could just ya know...stop drinking alcohol. An entire generation of young adults isn't drinking at all
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Grownups are dusting off their college pregaming tactics, drinking at home before going out to stretch their dollars—and their buzz. on.wsj.com/4u0N91R
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@just_mindy The government does things the private sector doesn't. That's why it's the government and not the private sector. So of course someone whose job history is mostly government work won't have a skill set tailored for the private sector.
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I have no idea what the TVA guy does in those 4 days. Maybe it's something others can't do so he earns that salary.
This woman is currently unemployed, which suggests the private sector places little to no value on her existing skill set. If her abilities were in genuine demand, she'd likely be working. The lack of market demand for what she offers is the clearest evidence of her limited economic value
ShadyBoots@AndyKing191
@just_mindy She helped oversee the expenditure of over 20 billion annually, so what should her salary be? The head of TVA gets 1.2 million a year in salary and 5 million a year in bonuses and he only shows up to work about 4 days a month.
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@ChrisExpTheNews No, she's starting over. Her industry was put into the wood chipper by Elon Musk. China's the only major player in international development now, and she's probably too moral to switch sides.
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She is not starting over she is between work, a thing that happens to tons of people, but she has the privilege of having made a lot of money that was only possible because of public funding that she benefited from at the expense of others who weren't so fortunate to reap it
Billy Binion@billybinion
I didn’t like USAID. But watching people gleefully mock a woman for having to start over at ~60 is bleak. You can disagree with someone’s politics without losing basic empathy. The internet has broken a lot of brains.
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@VitoComedy People always ask questions. That's what cover, backstopping, and aliases are for. Not that James Bond is big on aliases.
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Look man, this isn't a racist thing.
You can't have a black James Bond because he would stick out like a sore thumb in most foreign countries.
White guys can easily pass as rich tourists, black guys - people ask questions.
𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫@Matt_Pinner
Who would you pick to play the next James Bond?
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@barrycunningham If you're working 40 hours a week you're providing value to an employer, otherwise they wouldn't let you work for them.
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Notice not one word about providing value to an employer.
Rushi@rushicrypto
I don’t care if someone works in an office, a warehouse, a restaurant, or cleans floors. If you give 40 hours of your life every week, you should be able to pay rent, buy groceries, cover your bills, and still have enough left to breathe a little. That shouldn’t be some dream. It should be normal. The fact that so many people work full-time and still live stressed, behind, and one emergency away from disaster tells you this system is failing the people who keep it running.
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@Timodc Nicene Never Trumper? Does the grift proceed from the father alone or the father and the son?
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I would argue that a fundamentally bad person who tried to overthrow our democratic system and is running the biggest corruption racket in the history of the presidency should be opposed on all counts not just “when appropriate.” So call me a Nicene Creed Never Trumper i guess.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
@charlescwcooke The difference between the Bulwark and the Dispatch I think is this: The Dispatch treats Trump as a bad president who should be opposed when appropriate. The Bulwark treats him as the Satan of a Catholic Baptism, where you're morally bound to reject all his works and promises.
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@cruadin Then you would complain that the government is too large and there are too many deep state bureaucrats.
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Nonprofits should never receive a penny of taxpayer money in the first place. The entire concept of NGOs was created to sidestep the transparency, oversight, and accountability that would be expected of an actual governmental agency.
The working assumption should be that every NGO is a corrupt fraud machine designed to undermine the interests of taxpayers.
Colin Wright@SwipeWright
Nonprofits that receive government funding should also be subject to FOIA requests.
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@Nessakins_ The government and the private sector do different jobs.
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I think if you’re making over a quarter milli a year in a govt funded job and you can’t find a normie/private sector job that pays the same after you leave that govt funded job, then maybe your skill set isn’t actually worth that level of compensation.
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
"Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va." nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/…
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A lot of folks give @PeteHegseth grief for being a TV personality who has been on @FoxNews a lot, but in his job, it is a CRITICAL piece of background that makes him so successful. He has cultivated a look (just look at his suit, hair, facial expressions, etc - hell, even the tattoos) that convey confidence and competence over many years in adversarial discussions in front of a camera.
You can say what you want about this skill, but it is absolutely critical for leaders who are going to lead from in front of a camera - as the @secwar must do much more frequently than many others do - to convey that competence and capability in a hostile room (as any press conference is).
Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson
There honestly has never been a Secretary of War (Defense) in our nation’s history. He gives the perfect answer to a ridiculous media question. Pete is a warrior and this warrior approves! @PeteHegseth
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@supersmashio @HabCorpLinguist I seem to remember there was an advance estimate that would've produced two consecutive negative quarters, but it was revised up.
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@HabCorpLinguist Where's the two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth under Biden? I only see one quarter of negative growth. Maybe you should stop lying. Better repent for this or you'll be burning in hell, lying sinner.
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There was a recession under Biden (two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth), and Dems responded by changing the definition of a recession.
Micah Erfan@micah_erfan
Fun Fact: Every recession since Reagan has happened under a Republican President.
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@marktmaxwell @KurtSchlichter She wasn't a federal employee. If she was, she'd have been better off not taking it.
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@KurtSchlichter Bet she wishes she took the Deferred Resignation Program last year.
Or even DRP II.
What a Chef's Kiss that was.
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Why was that woman worth $275K when the govt was picking up the tab but $19 and hour when it wasn't?
Mustache Bob@MustacheBob2
USAID was less than one percent of the federal budget and was the greatest humanitarian organization on earth in terms of delivery and efficiency. It was also our best soft power projection and provided thousands of jobs in the private sector. Schmitt is just a failure.
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@KurtSchlichter Because she was doing executive-level international development work for the government, now she's not.
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@MELANIAJTRUMP @WhiteHouse How long until her husband knocks them down to build some dumb thing covered in Temu gold applique?
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First Lady Melania Trump announced the expansion of the @WhiteHouse honey program with the addition of a newly installed and fully functioning beehive on the South Lawn.
Hand-crafted by a local artisan in the image of the White House, the beautiful, new hive will add two new bee colonies to the existing two colonies that already produce the signature White House honey. 🍯🐝
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@missus_wormy You're not paying money to break the rules. You're paying money for someone to ID you because you were too lazy to get an ID yourself.
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@readthenews22 @missus_wormy No one has ever demanded everyone have a passport to vote.
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@missus_wormy From the same party running this government who demand everyone have a passport ID to vote. Turk’s radical republican regime is incompetent, chaotic, unqualified, fascist, and making America less safe every passing hour.
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@SecretaryBurgum @POTUS (sigh)
At least he didn't build a ballroom or an octagon over it.
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Renovations are underway!
Thank you @POTUS for investing in our capital. The Reflecting Pool is about to look better than ever!
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@micah_erfan A simple check of SSA records will also keep deceased persons off the rolls. Someone should write a law to make that automatic.
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Keeping deceased voters marked as inactive/deceased on the rolls — as Minnesota does — actually prevents fraud.
An inactive record blocks someone from re-registering under the deceased person's identity and voting.
Michael Holmstrom@MichaelH_MN
☠️ MN Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to OPPOSE removing dead people from the MN voter rolls. It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act.
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@wacky_doodle @FoxNews Who do you think funded the bill for the pool's last restoration?
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@FoxNews Democrats really dont know now to fix anything because they never build anything.
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NOW: President Trump reveals the Reflecting Pool renovations will be done in time for July 4th and America 250 celebrations:
"It'll stay clean. We even have robots that go in it... they clean it like a swimming pool."
"You can have a beautiful pool, and you'll have it for July 4th, long before July 4th, instead of taking three, three and a half years, we're taking a week."
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