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Oh no fucking way

good news. it's definitely not AI. you can check out more of their stuff on their tiktok

the older I get the more I relate to Bert

NO photo taken by me

im gods weakest faggot

i’m gods strongest tranny let’s team up. what if we called ourselves team rocket

you can hit it raw, i’ve got an IED

you have a wha

today i found out that my favorite vine has an extended version and i couldnt be happier

(source)

this is what friendship looks like

@generalhuxisgay

this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

Friends, Musk is trying to downplay the chaos he’s creating by saying it’s much the same as the cost-cutting efforts of the Clinton administration. “What DOGE is doing is similar to Clinton/Gore Dem policies of the 1990s,” he posted on his X platform. Rubbish. I cut costs in the Clinton administration. The contrast with what Musk is doing couldn’t be sharper. As secretary of labor, I took the Department of Labor down from 18,500 employees to 16,600 — but did it without any layoffs. No chainsaws. No meat-axes. And we were careful to improve the services we were providing the public. For example, when people lost jobs in an industry that was shrinking, we devised a way to get them job-training and job-search assistance in addition to unemployment insurance. This helped move them into new jobs faster — which also saved the government over $1 billion a year in unemployment payments. We plowed that $1 billion back into job-training and job-search assistance, making the whole economy work better. In Musk’s attack on the federal workforce, thousands of federal workers have been fired without warning. Or they’ve been offered fake “deferred resignation” buyouts that were never authorized by Congress and may not be legal. Entire agencies have been gutted without legislative authorization, forcing judges to intervene. Our “Reinventing Government” effort was authorized by bipartisan congressional legislation. We worked carefully over several years to identify areas where government could be more efficient, notifying Congress of what we were doing. But the Republicans who control Congress today have allowed Musk to race ahead without them, even though the Constitution states that the legislative branch approves spending and federal law prohibits the president from cutting programs Congress has authorized without its permission. Clinton sought that permission, and Congress accepted $3.6 billion in cuts he proposed. We also involved federal workers, because they knew better than anyone what could be improved and how best to do it. We introduced performance standards, we encouraged our workers to embrace the internet, and we gave out awards to employees who came up with ways to cut red tape and improve service. “There was a tremendous effort put into understanding what should happen and what should change,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, which seeks to improve the federal workforce. “What is happening now is actually taking us backwards.” We were deliberative and careful. Musk is the opposite. Musk sees government workers as the enemy — as costs to be cut. We saw government workers as assets to be developed, our partners in getting better services to the public more efficiently. Musk also calls people who benefit from government programs the “parasite class.” Presumably that’s why he’s eager to cut back Medicaid. But Medicaid’s beneficiaries aren’t parasites. Half of them are children. Oh, but if we’re talking about people who depend on government, Musk is the biggest “parasite” of all. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the richest person in the world. That he views public servants as his enemy and the people who benefit from public programs as “parasites” tells you all you need to know about Elon Musk. When you hear Musk say his effort is similar to what I and others did in the 1990s, know he’s lying. When you see him call people who benefit from public programs “parasites,” know he’s a hypocrite. Thoughts?

There IS no plan.

There IS no "orderly transition."

There IS no "command structure."

And there IS no "commander's intent."

Its a freaking con job, its a heist, and anyone who stands in their way is getting fired & doxxed. There were orderly RIFs during previous admins INCLUDING OBAMA! This is not that! I almost WISH there was an actual cohrent political goal that all this is in service of but this isnt even following project 2025 - its just rapacious crime of opportunity after vengeful fascist policy after insult after injury to fed workers.

I know that some (many) people look down on federal workers, and assume that we're too like dumb or unskilled to compete or "keep up" in the private sector. And maybe for some people it really IS that unimaginable to like. Want to serve a mission that isn't the bottom line. We'll all find out together just how useless and wasteful fed workers are in the coming years.

this could be the snart of something big

this could be the snort of something pig

highly influential piece of Web media that relied heavily on Adobe flash, stars a character who's skin is pure #ffffff white, who walks around without any arms. title starts with "homest"

margaritaville, the song, and margaritaville, the restaurant and resort empire, fascinate me because the former seems to warn against the lifestyle that the latter perpetuates

sources? a little birdie, et al. (2024)

The onion mama mia 2 video was such a good reality check to teenage me. It was a right of passage to me.

for those who haven't seen it.

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

my fetish is people reassuring me that i’m not annoying

just kidding it’s ***********

can i buy a vowel

*a*********

can I buy a consonant?

no

That so says cannibalism

you don’t know that