Politics, Everyday, All day... morning, noon and night....II

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And then, once the public lost trust in government, the tech elite could present the solution: a new, AI-driven, algorithmically optimized form of governance. One that wouldn’t be subject to human irrationality, democratic inefficiency, or the unpredictability of elections. Just like social media companies replaced traditional news with algorithmic feeds, these technocrats sought to replace democratic governance with automated decision-making.

What’s happening inside the Department of Government Efficiency is the final phase of this plan. The old democratic institutions, weakened by years of deliberate destabilization, are being replaced in real-time by proprietary AI systems controlled not by elected officials, but by the same network of Silicon Valley operatives who engineered the crisis in the first place.

We are not heading toward this future—we are already living in it.

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Post by FIGJAM » Sat Mar 22, 2025 10:07 am

The current administrations policy seems to be "Throw the baby out with the bath water, then burn down the house cause of dirty baby.

Cordon off the block cause there MAY be dirty babies in there and shut off the water as a cost saving measure for the utility.

What's this...MORE DIRTY BABIES THAN EVER!!!

Better burn down the town just to be safe???
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Post by some seeing eye » Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:12 am

Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System into Turmoil
A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/p ... =url-share

Eldon's work experience has been in tech companies with disposable workers motivated by stock options. You can just fire a few percent every quarter, and there will always be an infinite supply of replacements. So he thinks what he is doing is normal. The rest of the world does not work that way.
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National security journalists and officials are aghast. Former commanding general of United States Army Europe and the Seventh Army Mark Hertling called the story "staggering." Former CIA officer Matt Castelli posted: "This is more than
'loose lips sink ships', this is a criminally negligent breach of classified information and war planning involving VP, SecDef, D[irector of thel CIA, National Security Advisor-all putting troops at risk. America is not safe." Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who spent seven years as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve, posted: "From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f**kup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe."

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The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins—a grotesque smirk stretched across his face—as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance.
Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves—all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it.
And there he is—the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils—watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.

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Post by DoctorIknow » Wed May 07, 2025 8:50 pm

Trump news today is that public land in Nevada to be sold. Again, we hope some government entity(s) will say no way.

It's well known that there is lithium already mapped out and I can't find an exact map, but there are places mapped out in the BLM area above Gerlach.

Has BMORG already determined that Fly Ranch will never house BurningMan? We've seen maps where it will fit, but mountains surround on two sides.

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