Face, meet leopard. Leopard, meet face.

Checks and balances are for the weak. They're inefficient. Musk will find anything that needs checking or balancing and remove it with his chainsaw.

Say, that reminds me, whatever happened to that guy? He went off on a quest to slash trillions of waste out of government expenditure and it's all gone a bit quiet. By now he should have saved enough that a grateful nation will want to reward him by funding his invasion of Mars.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
Hey, perhaps his Mars colony can be refuge for white South African farmers.

Tens-of-millions-of-miles-apartheit.
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My dream is still for Elonia, Dump, and their entourage of creeps and weirdoes to go found a fascist paradise on Mars or the Moon. Unlikely, I know, and I don't know if a rocket can even get Dump's bulk into orbit, but a dude can dream.
 
Norman Alexander said:
None of them in farming country! ;)
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And that is exactly why it is their fault!
Because if they would have been in the farming country, they could have taken the place of the immigrants on the fields.
But they weren't so that is the reason those farmers are in trouble now! All because of the Woke trans liberals!

Or something like this, I guess.
 
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erwinl said:
And that is exactly why it is their fault!
Because if they would have been in the farming country, they could have taken the place of the immigrants on the fields.
But they weren't so that is the reason those farmers are in trouble now! All because of the Woke trans liberals!

Or something like this, I guess.
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There's no woke trans liberals in farming country because the non-woke, non-trans, Trump voters would have shot them on sight. Employ them? Never!
 
Norman Alexander said:
There's no woke trans liberals in farming country because the non-woke, non-trans, Trump voters would have shot them on sight. Employ them? Never!
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Not even when paying them even less than what the illegal immigrants would have earned?
You're losing a serious opportunity for causing hurt tot the libruls here, you know!

This way you'd never become a true MAGA nut.
 
On the farmers/not farmers issue...The funny thing (sort of) is that a few years ago a very right wing Republican tried to primary for a senate position. He lost to a candidate who was essentially a gag, who then endorsed his opponent. A turning point was in a debate, when he could not answer how many teats a cow has.

If the conservative farmers around here thought a moment with their heads, I think they'd realize their leaders have little knowledge or respect for what they are doing. Farming, for one thing, is heavily indebted to the environment, even if certain things (like polluting lakes) don't count for you as important. It requires sustainability. For the current leadership farming, like everything else, is just business, and the business they like is big, impersonal and fungible.
 
bruto said:
On the farmers/not farmers issue...The funny thing (sort of) is that a few years ago a very right wing Republican tried to primary for a senate position. He lost to a candidate who was essentially a gag, who then endorsed his opponent. A turning point was in a debate, when he could not answer how many teats a cow has.

If the conservative farmers around here thought a moment with their heads, I think they'd realize their leaders have little knowledge or respect for what they are doing. Farming, for one thing, is heavily indebted to the environment, even if certain things (like polluting lakes)don't count for you as important. It requires sustainability. For the current leadership farming, like everything else, is just business, and the business they like is big, impersonal and fungible.
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There is a certain body of water near the vacation house whose trophic status has changed rapidly due to the effluents from a commercial cranberry bog. Fishing tourism used to be a large part of the local economy, but efforts to mitigate the pollution were never implemented because rural politics. Nowadays the economy is focused on draining the wallets of lake home owners and other visitors. Fishing, while still popular, isn't the cash cow it once was. Jet skiers and partiers are more the thing, and the lake in question, still crystal clear, is still dying while the oblivious party boaters raft up and drink until the sun sets, then go back to the cabin and drink some more.
 
In a county that backed Trump, people depend on Medicaid and are conflicted about cuts

GLOBE, Ariz. — Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty of people on Medicaid.

Cox, who is a property manager at a real estate company in Globe, has tenants who rely on the safety-net program. And at the domestic violence shelter where she volunteers as president of the board, Cox said, staff always look to enroll women and their children if possible.

But Cox, who is 65, has mixed feelings about Medicaid.

"It's not that I don't see the need for it. I see the need for it literally on a weekly basis," she said. "I also see a need for revamping it significantly because it's been taken advantage of for so long."

It wasn't hard to find people in Globe like Cox with complicated views about Medicaid.

Gila County, where Globe is located, is a conservative place — almost 70% of voters went for President Trump in November. And concerns about government waste run deep.

Like many rural communities, it's also a place where people have come to value government health insurance. The number of Gila County residents on Medicaid and the related Children's Health Insurance Program has nearly doubled over the past 15 years, according to data from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Today, almost 4 in 10 residents are on one of the health insurance plans for low- and moderate-income people or those with disabilities.

So, since House Republicans passed plans to cut roughly $716 billion from Medicaid, the national debate taking place over the program hits close to home for many Globe residents, even as some welcome the prospect of tighter rules and less government spending.
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It's OK to go after the people who really are gaming the system, but that's far fewer than the number of desperately poor people who need health insurance and healthcare. That's NOT what Herr Schitler and his cronies are doing. They're not only throwing out the baby with the bath water, they're slitting the baby's throat and setting it on fire too.

More than two-thirds of nearly 300 U.S. counties with the biggest growth in Medicaid and CHIP since 2008 backed Trump in the last election, according to a KFF Health News analysis of voting results and enrollment data from Georgetown. Many of these counties are in deep-red states such as Kentucky, Louisiana, and Montana.

Voters in places like these are more likely to be concerned about government waste, polls show. In one recent national survey, 75% of Republicans said they think waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid is a major problem.

The actual scale of that waste is hotly debated, though many analysts believe relatively few enrollees are abusing the program.
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And then there's those who just stick their heads in the sand and dive deep into denial:

Retiree Rick Uhl was stacking chairs and helping clean up after lunch at the senior center.

"There's a lot of waste, of money not being accounted for," Uhl said. "I think that's a shame."

Uhl said he's been saddened by the political rancor, but he said he's encouraged by the Trump administration's aggressive efforts to cut government spending.

Back at the street fair downtown, David Sander, who is also retired, said he doubted Medicaid would really be trimmed at all.

"I've heard that they really aren't cutting it," Sander said. "That's my understanding."
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Idiots.
 
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In a county that backed Trump, people depend on Medicaid and are conflicted about cuts



It's OK to go after the people who really are gaming the system, but that's far fewer than the number of desperately poor people who need health insurance and healthcare. That's NOT what Herr Schitler and his cronies are doing. They're not only throwing out the baby with the bath water, they're slitting the baby's throat and setting it on fire too.



And then there's those who just stick their heads in the sand and dive deep into denial:



Idiots.
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I know a gainfully employed young man of around 30 who is gaming SNAP. His mother and father are maga, and approve. He's an engineer but mostly does performance tunes for cash money. Maga doesn't care if you're on social services or even ripping them off, as long as you are white about it.
 
Resume said:
I know a gainfully employed young man of around 30 who is gaming SNAP. His mother and father are maga, and approve. He's an engineer but mostly does performance tunes for cash money. Maga doesn't care if you're on social services or even ripping them off, as long as you are white about it.
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He qualifies because his reported income is low. He's not gaming SNAP per se, he's committing tax fraud.
 
Norman Alexander said:
There's no woke trans liberals in farming country because the non-woke, non-trans, Trump voters would have shot them on sight. Employ them? Never!
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And the sign said
"Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why
He said, "You look like a fine upstandin' young man
I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that
Huh, me workin' for you"
- Five Man Electrical Band, "Signs"
 
Armitage72 said:
And the sign said
"Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why
He said, "You look like a fine upstandin' young man
I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that
Huh, me workin' for you"
- Five Man Electrical Band, "Signs"
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I was waiting for that. ;)
 
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