the american Century of Humiliation has begun
Except it’s just gonna be us humiliating ourselves
Self-humiliation
And China has entered its Century of Gooning.
I wonder if Xi has heard the term “gooning” and knows what it is
I am literally praying not
Someone needs to send him the video with Norman Finkelstein contemplating how gooning leads to fascism
I been saying this
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You all laugh but now I have to shut down my woke gender ideology factory, and cold starting that equipment is slow and expensive. We are headed for a nationwide woke shortage.
the document says programs affected are “including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”
Dear lord. Forget drinking it, these people drowned in the koolaid.
Accelerationists are gonna be so smug when the USA becomes a smoking heap of shit by the end of the year with this pace
When you’re so obsessed with your brainwormed culture wars that it leads you to your own destruction.
you recognise the bodies in the coolaid
Conservatives went from understanding how to manipulate public perception of issues and their causes in order to alter the structure of the country however they wanted, to having their chairs filled by those they hoodwinked decades ago
I hope Nixon and Kissinger are watching this from Hell while screaming
including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal
what green new deal?! who the fuck is doing the green new deal right now? “hello please direct me to your green new deal adherence offices”
in a similar vein, Trump’s gotta reimburse all police forces for the massive budget cuts (that never actually happened)
the green new deal is when I go to Home Depot and they have battery powered mowers on the shelves instead of God-fearing, gas powered gas mowers like Briggs & Stratton!
they still have gas mowers, but, as a red-blooded and wife-breeding Christian man, I should not even have to see these woke electrical gizmos that my stolen taxes paid for.
I’m not trying to scare you, but all of you need to understand that no matter where you live right now, your job/career is literally hanging on whether Elon Musk gets to cut two trillion from the US federal budget or not.
If Elon gets his way, the US goes into recession. Millions will lose their jobs, and this will spiral to all the other sectors and send shockwaves across the world. Think 2009 GFC - there is not a country that will not be affected by it. Many more will lose their jobs, homes, savings as the economic prospect trends down, especially the export countries.
Crazy that whether I get to keep my job over the next few years or not is literally going to be decided by what Elon Musk gets to do. If you told me this even a year ago I would have laughed at you so hard.
And people still have an undying devotion to this system
Musk is not smart enough to make some of these decisions on his own, and I mean that very seriously. He has the emotional immaturity of a teenager and repeatedly proves it time and time again which puts everyone in danger (goes without saying).
To make matters worse, he’s the richest person in the world so there is no one to hold him accountable. Still has too many people thinking he’s Tony stark, inventing cars and rockets himself and believing he’s self-made. It’s hard to believe this is reality sometimes.
this will spiral to all the other sectors and send shockwaves across the world. Think 2009 GFC - there is not a country that will not be affected by it.
As bad as all this is, I’m still getting out the popcorn if Trump goes through with allowing Musk to cut all of that
“I’m not trying to scare you” Yeah but
Proceeds to say what they have to say in the most dramatic way possible
The XHS special
people have been saying Milei is Argentina’s Trump but I think we forget that Trump is America’s Milei
So he’s gonna destroy the economy, but still have a 50% approval rating a year later
We probably should be looking closer at Argentina’s fallout to glean what we can actually expect. Starting to feel like Argentina was the beta-test for this similar to Chile with western neoliberal projects.
Neoliberalism may be going the way of Keynesian economics.
With the added fun of … this will cause a global economic depression on par with the Great Depression, as US consumption drives a huge amount of other country’s exports, and US financial capital is so intertwined with everything.
Thats all gonna go up in smoke, so… contagion!
Hooray!
I didn’t realize shock therapy would be done in the dumbest way possible
I’m not in the US but one of my fav comments over this on another app said well if they’re going to freeze our tax money like this and stop distributing it to social programs and so on, why are we paying our taxes?
It’s a good point. A widespread tax strike would fuck this administration up.
If you are a worker, income taxes are deducted already, right? You don’t have a choice. And you don’t have the choice to not be paid in Dollars, all the corps only accept dollars.
And in the US there is a ton of private debt (mortgage, healthcare, student loan debt) all help with demand for Dollars.
For the Sovereign (US Federal Government), taxes are one way to create demand for Dollars which they make (first) and allow banks to make.
While the dollar hegemony remains, unfortunately the US government can literally just print more money and be fine for a while.
Granted that’s probably going to implode too if this kind of shit keeps up.
That would be absolutely hilarious if all this results in Trump implicitly arguing that MMT is real.
I think they’re pissing off enough international heads of state that all it would take is a bunch of the largest to recall their debts and it would sink that strat pretty fucking quick. Tariff wars won’t be kind to the US. I don’t know what they think they have of value in this case. Moviefilms? The tech companies?
They still make cars I guess? Do tariffs apply to financial services 😂
Money only really works if people want what you’re selling
Not likely with regards to individuals, but I could see state and local governments withholding tax dollars taken out of public employees’ checks from going to the feds.
That would be sick
For sure, regional departments could do it. It would take a lot for individuals to get on board but it has happened before. Also I read from a fairly credible source that the *UAW is already working to organize a general strike for 2028 (wish it was sooner) as a way to push OrangeMeng out of office if it comes to that. I haven’t verified but fuck I hope so.
I think it was Sean Fain of the UAW that initially proposed that
Thank you, I believe you’re right. I read about it in a Robert Evans piece last week.
So this is what being trapped in the machine as the machine bleeds to death feels like.
If it bleeds, we can kill it
Where’s piety when we need her
Please engrave “ha ha hee hee” on my gravestone but make it look like the dates so it reads “born: ha ha, died: hee hee”
Born to ha, forced to hee
“born: ha ha, died: hee hee”
That joke should have been made in a movie or a tv show a long time ago. I’m imagining some obscure 1980s zombie movie and two of the leads are in a graveyard.
"Look! ‘Born: ha ha. Died: hee hee.’ "
“What?”
“On the tombstone.”
“I’m not in the mood for—”
“Look!”
He looks. “I’ll be fucking damned.”
“I don’t think you should have said that in a graveyard.”
“I’ll be fucking damned. It’s gonna be dark soon. We gotta find shelter.” Five minutes of screen time later - he’s killed by a pack of zombies ripping him to shreds.
There was an announcement in our morning meeting today, since the company’s entire business model depends on government grants. Company president is an ardent Trump supporter.
Leopards… Faces…
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Yes, I know - I belong in the Hexbear penalty box for a few minutes. It’s a lib joke. But I had to make it anyway. I had to.
I hear ya. At least you’re not jacking off over the thought of genocide+.
When this piece of shit and apartheid clyde aren’t whining about race mixing they’re fucking things up for everyone. And this isn’t even gonna be the worst part. People really voted him twice
Country of over 300 mill and this is the best admin you can come up with 
I’m at a loss of words. I seriously wonder what this is supposed to achieve. Death to Amerikkka. 
inflicting grave wounds on the us economy to root out woke research
The privatization of institutions at rock bottom prices.
My take - https://hexbear.net/comment/5861939
I’m imagining this is largely Elons idea. He did the same with twitter after all. Doofuses like him are obsessed with making things “more efficient” which somehow always translates to cutting funding
Gonna be an interesting day at work…
Same here.
Update from above: Continue working and pretend everything is ok.
