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  • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

    @jon-nyc said in HUD website right now:

    A former poster here uncritically regurgitated bizarre GOP talking points about the shut down. He seems to actually believe them.

    It’s guys like him who need the sanity check TNCR can provide.

    Sad.

    Come-on man, can we discuss the bizarre shit that current posters have posted elsewhere? Erika Kirk has not been kicked out of Romania for child trafficking…

    HoraceH Online
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    Horace
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    @LuFins-Dad said in HUD website right now:

    @jon-nyc said in HUD website right now:

    A former poster here uncritically regurgitated bizarre GOP talking points about the shut down. He seems to actually believe them.

    It’s guys like him who need the sanity check TNCR can provide.

    Sad.

    Come-on man, can we discuss the bizarre shit that current posters have posted elsewhere? Erika Kirk has not been kicked out of Romania for child trafficking…

    Smells like NS. I'm betting NS. I mean, who else could it be.

    Education is extremely important.

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    • 89th8 89th

      @LuFins-Dad said in HUD website right now:

      Yesterday, I saw a “Proud Federal Worker” and “Support Federal Worker” bumper magnets on a $95K Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. You’ll excuse me for not getting overly concerned about the poor federal workers.

      Meanwhile my friend (single mom living in not the best area) who works for the department of labor and doesn’t make the big bucks is negatively impacted. But your disdain for federal workers is consistent at least!

      LuFins DadL Offline
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      LuFins Dad
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      #13

      @89th said in HUD website right now:

      @LuFins-Dad said in HUD website right now:

      Yesterday, I saw a “Proud Federal Worker” and “Support Federal Worker” bumper magnets on a $95K Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. You’ll excuse me for not getting overly concerned about the poor federal workers.

      Meanwhile my friend (single mom living in not the best area) who works for the department of labor and doesn’t make the big bucks is negatively impacted. But your disdain for federal workers is consistent at least!

      Try asking me about it in a month where we didn’t just send in a pretty hefty quarterly tax payment for M&M’s business.

      The Brad

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      • 89th8 Online
        89th8 Online
        89th
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        #14

        You realize federal workers will get paid for no productivity during this period? It’s like a delayed paid leave. What a waste.

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        • jon-nycJ Online
          jon-nycJ Online
          jon-nyc
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          #15

          If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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          • LuFins DadL Offline
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            LuFins Dad
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            #16

            Oh no. It’s a government shutdown. So unprecedented. It will be the fall of the republic. A pox on both your houses. :yawn:

            The Brad

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            • jon-nycJ Online
              jon-nycJ Online
              jon-nyc
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              #17

              These always worked out badly for the party that was trying to use the threat of a shutdown to enact a preferred policy rather than support a ‘clean’ CR.

              For (I think) the first time, it’s the democrats in that role.

              We’ll see how it works out for them.

              If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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              • jon-nycJ Online
                jon-nycJ Online
                jon-nyc
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                #18

                They should have been more creative and said ‘the democrats want to kill all the nation’s puppies and kittens’.

                I mean, if you’re going to just make something up from whole cloth, why not swing for the fence?

                If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                • 89th8 Online
                  89th8 Online
                  89th
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                  #19

                  @LuFins-Dad time to set up a gofundme... as of 11am I cannot work (I'm a federal contractor), and do not get back--pay when the government re-opens. Time to tell the kids we're rationing the milk starting tonight.

                  On the plus side, I do have a garage slatwall project I've been meaning to get to!

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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    They should have been more creative and said ‘the democrats want to kill all the nation’s puppies and kittens’.

                    I mean, if you’re going to just make something up from whole cloth, why not swing for the fence?

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                    LuFins Dad
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                    #20

                    @jon-nyc said in HUD website right now:

                    They should have been more creative and said ‘the democrats want to kill all the nation’s puppies and kittens’.

                    Well that’s just ridiculous. We all know the Democrats love puppies and kittens. It’s babies that they want to kill.

                    The Brad

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                    • 89th8 89th

                      @LuFins-Dad time to set up a gofundme... as of 11am I cannot work (I'm a federal contractor), and do not get back--pay when the government re-opens. Time to tell the kids we're rationing the milk starting tonight.

                      On the plus side, I do have a garage slatwall project I've been meaning to get to!

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                      LuFins Dad
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                      #21

                      @89th said in HUD website right now:

                      @LuFins-Dad time to set up a gofundme... as of 11am I cannot work (I'm a federal contractor), and do not get back--pay when the government re-opens. Time to tell the kids we're rationing the milk starting tonight.

                      On the plus side, I do have a garage slatwall project I've been meaning to get to!

                      Sorry to hear that. If worse comes to worse, I understand that we’re short on agricultural workers… That might help tide you over.

                      The Brad

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                      • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                        They should have been more creative and said ‘the democrats want to kill all the nation’s puppies and kittens’.

                        I mean, if you’re going to just make something up from whole cloth, why not swing for the fence?

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                        @jon-nyc said in HUD website right now:

                        They should have been more creative and said ‘the democrats want to kill all the nation’s puppies and kittens’.

                        I mean, if you’re going to just make something up from whole cloth, why not swing for the fence?

                        What, no “community notes” for that JD tweet?

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                        • jon-nycJ Online
                          jon-nycJ Online
                          jon-nyc
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                          #23

                          My guess is Elon turned them off for his people.

                          He complained about them a while back and said he’d ‘fix’ it.

                          If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                          • jon-nycJ Online
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                            jon-nyc
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                            #24

                            Grok’s take:

                            As we discussed before, notes on high-profile conservative accounts (Vance, Musk, etc.) often underperform or vanish, per studies and user reports—potentially due to algorithmic tweaks, rater demographics, or manual intervention.

                            If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                            • jon-nycJ Online
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                              #25

                              Weird that the people blame the GOP for shutting down the government.

                              I think that’s just brand image at work.

                              Every shutdown in the last two decades followed this pattern:

                              One party wants a ‘clean’ CR to fund the government until normal appropriations bills can be passed

                              The other party senses their leverage and tries to use it to get a policy change done.

                              In every other case the GOP has been in the latter role and the Dems in the former. This time though it’s the Dems.

                              I think blaming the party attaching the new policy condition is reasonable, insofar as you want to pick a party to blame at all.

                              But people don’t seem to be taking that view this time. But I think that’s just motor memory at work.

                              If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                LuFins Dad
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                                #26

                                There’s also the weird dynamic that a significant number of Conservatives hear “non-essential government shutdown” and say “Yes, please!”.

                                The Brad

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                                • jon-nycJ Online
                                  jon-nycJ Online
                                  jon-nyc
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                                  #27

                                  Yeah so some people aren’t so much blaming them as crediting them.

                                  If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                  • jon-nycJ Online
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                                    jon-nyc
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                                    #28

                                    I’m starting to think that eventually caving would be the best route to a political win for the dems.

                                    Most people haven’t paid attention to the cuts in healthcare that the GOP has signed into law. If they are reversed, they’ll never know they were there and Trump supporters who rely on them won’t realize how close they were to taking a big financial hit courtesy of their man in the white house.

                                    The shutdown has put more of a spotlight on the cuts, especially the ACA subsidies, than we had before. Now if they come into effect the democrats can say ‘they did this to you we tried to stop them but they really really really wanted to increase your healthcare costs, so much so that they were willing to shutdown the government in order to get it done’.

                                    Having said all that it’s not clear to me that schumer’s interests align with his party’s. He has a primary to avoid.

                                    If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                    • 89th8 Online
                                      89th8 Online
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                                      I'm enjoying the shutdown so far. Took the kids to the zoo today.

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                                      • LuFins DadL Offline
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                                        LuFins Dad
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                                        Believe me, I get that the shutdowns have very serious effects and very real effects on good people. It still doesn’t change my opinion that the bloated monstrosity that is the US Bureaucracy needs a chainsaw taken to it.

                                        The Brad

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                                        • 89th8 Online
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                                          My coworker works for the Dept of Education. He said his out of office message that he wrote was later changed to this.

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