ROK Drop Open Thread – January 31, 2025
It is hard to believe we are already through the first month of 2025. Please leave anything you want to discuss in the comments section.
It is hard to believe we are already through the first month of 2025. Please leave anything you want to discuss in the comments section.
Robert Kennedy,Jr thinking to himself: “wow, so this is what happens to you when you get 7 Covid shots…”
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1884682469892296922
The Panama Canal affects South Korean trade as well. Trump intends to put the balance back in place. China and her paid shills are really the only opposition.
https://x.com/Damianmerlo/status/1885169235782951278
DeepSeek is a DeepFake.
TofuAI…
Believe what you want, MAGA maggot.
But it’s gonna be really funny to see you without your Social Security checks after your cult hero Elon Musk is done with your money to pay himself.
Remember, this is the same orange dude who was behind signing the USMCA deal in 2018. Now he’s breaking the contract that he designed himself, pulling false trade figure lies out of his a$$ (not a big surprise), saying “Canada and Mexico have been very bad to us”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAlviXlR0W8
What a lunatic.
Good on Canada and Mexico who have strong leadership – something that South Korea with that Yoon idiot, don’t have.
Another airplane just crashed in Philadelphia, slamming into a residential neighborhood, killing everyone on board.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/video-captures-moment-small-plane-crashes-in-philadelphia-230829125969
The flight was on its way to Mexico, where a mother and a sick child were onboard. No doubt Trump and his people will blame this on the Mexicans.
“The flight was on its way to Mexico.”
Missouri. It was on it’s way to Missouri.
But that doesn’t mean it is not the fault of some Mexican.
They need to be checking every step for family names that end in a vowel or z/s so blame can be properly applied and we can focus attention away from Trump not personally inspecting this jet before takeoff.
New song about pandas released:
https://x.com/serpentza/status/1885497362698903720
I’m hoping chinabot manages to cut back on meth before he inevitably has degenerative bone disease in his facial structure.
Meanwhile, Trump is still winning in South America…
https://x.com/RichardGrenell/status/1885482064050610536
The pilot of the helicopter in the DC crash was…
…a woman.
The family doesn’t want her name released so we don’t know more than that.
Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff of the Army’s aviation directorate, made the not well thought out statement, “As for women in the military, flying a helicopter is like driving a car.”
Clearly.
Revlon calling!
Elon Musk an illegal immigrant from South Africa is your real President you dumb asses.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OujB43E-JeI
Everyone just kick back relax and watch how the dumb asses collapse themselves. Too funny.
It gets worse and worse.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
“Elon Musk an illegal immigrant from South Africa is your real President you dumb asses.”
Hahahaha!
You truly don’t understand.
Elon has excelled in so many different domains that he can probably excel in running America.
His influence is welcome!
Firing most of Twitter and making it… BETTER… is a pretty powerful resume.
Now do government, Elon… please.
Your impotent anger is funny, but trying to generate outrage with joyful things is hilarious.
It shows you truly just don’t understand.
Go Elon! Take the wrecking ball. lol. He’s the right colored illegal, and Trump’s version of the DEI.
This sounds to me, pretty much set up for abuse by one entity with self-interests in mind, with no checks and balances. He now has complete control over the National Security?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTe7mJ-uvLQ
Remember when they tried to sue Elon to force him to buy Twitter, after he considered not doing it? Then they screamed that he was ruining it. Now it’s far far better than ever.
Yes, thank you Elon run DOGE.
Then fix healthcare.
The world is healing.
(remember when ESG was a thing? Remember when TPTB wanted to force DEI on the NASDAQ? All just a bad dream now)
Im curious how the most accomplished man in the world can be associate with DEI and its structural lack of merit.
Illegal alien is a good catch-all term for the worthless people that flood America with their hands out or take jobs from those who the productive class must support…
But it is not a solid rule.
Practical Americans look at any alien, legal or not, evaluate their worth and their desire to join the team… and may welcome them as an American.
I am proud to have Musk as a fellow America. I am proud to have Einstein as a fellow American. Take a guess how I feel anout all those Nazi rocket scientists that got us to the moon?
In a sense, Diversity is Our Strength…
…but it is a very selective diversity.
The wrong way to save money in government is kind of analogous to a family budget.
Husband, “We need to save money. Every month you go over so we’ll look at your expenses…see there, what was that for?”
Wife, “That expense was crucial to our wellbeing, the kids need that..”
Husband, “Okay, how about this charge?”
Wife, “That dog blanket is absolutely critical, we live up on a mountain the dog needs warmth”
Husband, “Okay. Hm…how about this one…”
(and so on)
Short story: there will never be an unnecessary charge, or superfluous position. The only thing to do is make cuts and allow them to figure it out. My sister in law was in charge of running driving on the runway safety operations. She has so much free time she made a couple of extra computer courses and said she would take away driving privileges to maintainers who didn’t pass their annual driving test, or couldn’t find the time to take it while working over 12 hours 6 days a week and deploying. If you asked her, her job was absolutely crucial and she had a lot of hours to noodle on justifying her own existence.
Now imagine the husband tells the spouse, “well, if you don’t spend all your money you won’t get as much next month”. Doesn’t take a soothsayer to predict a lot of “necessary” shopping on Amazon the last couple of days of the month.
This is hilarious. More of this, please! LOL
(reminds me a bit of the parody with the Dune worm)
https://x.com/smubpublius/status/1884783672899117260
I can see why KM is upset Elon is noticing and drawing attention to things like this.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885582076247712229
Elon has no experience running a huge country’s economy and its national security, Chickenhead. And he’s doing it by ignoring rule of law. Just fire them all through one emails.
Why not get rid of Social Security, Food Stamps, Medicare too?
I got no stake in this, I’m just watching a car wreck in front of my eyes.
It would be interesting to see what would happen when they get rid of Medicaid affecting 75 million poor Americans trying to get medical treatment. A judge stopped that from happening, but I am guessing it’s only going to be temporary until Trump/Musk duo consolidate their dictatorial power as they fire and arrest all political opponents (America’s pulling a Yoonie move).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-IE0_v3vcg
America is actually copying South Korea’s Yoon Suck’s attempt at power grab. Rule of law, independent law enforcement, all going out the window. Massive political purge in America going on tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ1HWDhLOoQ
Thank god South Korea still has a chance to avoid what’s happening in America. Yoon is still in process of impeachment. Koreans should not let the same thing happen to Korea.
Liz, I’m not upset at all. I think it’s pretty pathetic, the US status right now. Feeling contempt for your country, is not being angry.
I wouldn’t take everything what Musk says as the truth. He has to justify his moves. It would be interesting to see what happens when there’s no Social Security and Medicare soon.
The FAA’s Air Traffic Organization oversees more than 45,000 daily flights across the US, including commercial flights. Given this, for a yearly estimate, we can approximate ≈ 16,425,000 flights.
However, this number includes all flight types. For commercial flights specifically, there are over 10,000,000 passenger flights per year in the US.
The US aviation system moves about 2.9 million passengers daily. Annually, this translates to ≈ 1,058,500,000 passengers.
And that’s with 3,000 fewer ATC than required. Imagine what could be done with the right staff instead of DEI!
Oh, and Musk is actually a US Citizen.
“ It would be interesting to see what happens when there’s no Social Security and Medicare soon.”
More interesting will be how the leftists spin it when that doesn’t happen. Guessing they’ll just repeat, deflect, and amplify, like always.
“Elon has no experience running a huge country’s economy and its national security”
Elon has no experience banging sheet metal into rocket engine nozzles.
Elon has no experience soldiering individual batteries into packs.
Elon has no experience drilling a hole in a skull for a wire.
All he has is experience in recognizing large problems and organizing experts who can formulate solutions and act on them to succeed.
I hope that’s enough.
I mean….well… he isn’t Kamala… but at least he is African American.
“The flight was on its way to Mexico.”
“Missouri. It was on it’s way to Missouri.”
“But that doesn’t mean it is not the fault of some Mexican.”
Plane was from Mexico. (The registration number starts with X instead of N)
All six people were Mexican citizens.
It’s too early to tell… but… it is kinda starting to look like kinda maybe it is possibly the fault of…
(whispers)
…some Mexican.
Here is a screengrab showing the registration number on wreckage: XA-UCI
From that, I found it on:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/xa-uci
Lots of trips between Mexico and America. Final trip was Philadelphia to Springfield… status unknown (as opposed to landed).
No idea what caused this unusual crash but it might be due to an improper wing repair using sunstandard adobe.
“The pilot of the helicopter in the DC crash was…
…a woman.”
Her name has been released.
A quick look into it shows she was probably a high achiever in ROTC and there are no immediate DEI flags…
…except with DEI such a large part of every process from the beginning to the end, it is always possible her “high achievement” was systemically due to micro-DEI¹ rather than merit.
…like school systems who keep saying, “We can’t hold them back. They will learn to read next year.”
Somebody with more insight into the ROTC system and her career path will have a valid opinion, as opposed to my observations.
Sadly, in an age of DEI and quotas, only white males can be trusted to have earned their position through excellence.
¹micro-DEI and dog whistle DEI are terms I just made up… but I bet you all know exactly what it means.
Yes, and her name is Gulf of America, formerly of Gulf of Mexico. lol
Americans can call it whatever it wants, Gulf of Trash, but to the rest of the world, it’s Gulf of Mexico. lol.
So much for always making fun of East Sea / Sea of Japan. You people are not much better. lol.
The reason anybody makes fun of East Sea/Sea of Japan is not because Korea doesn’t like the Japan-centric word Japan.
That is understandable.
The reason is because Korea’s suggested replacement is the Korea-centric “East” Sea.
That is such a dumb suggestion on every level that it is a no-starter.
“Oh! But Gulf of America is same same!”
If you were American with any international experience, you would have heard years of Canadians and Mexicans whining, “Why do they say you are American? We are American, too! North America blah blah blah!”
Since the gulf borders North America and South America, the name change to Gulf of America makes complete sense and is a very positive development for all countries bordering it that aren’t Mexico.
Since Panama is in Central America, the American Canal is also a more inclusive improvement.
And the Greenland New Deal can make it Northest North America. (I will come up with something more clever after thinking about it).
The biggest bonus is Trump taking Greenland and the Canal will encourage China to take Taiwan. With their chip production moved to America, they become quite unnecessary… they become competition.
Korea needs to watch carefully with this in mind.
Canada boos US national anthem after the US backstabs Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oafS5DGEAIU&ab_channel=sensfan
I think not only Canada and Mexico will boo the US anthem. Many other countries will join in and do the same, since the US has no honor. It’s a terrible country. Go Canada! Viva Mexico!
I thought your impotent whining was about as good as it gets.
But Canada and Mexico’s impotent booing is even more satisfying.
If you are nice to these countries, they send you criminals, worthless immigrants, drugs¹, and unfair trade practices.
Wait until the American military goes into Mexico and starts wiping out the cartels and black sites the corrupt politicians. There will be some dumb Mexicans with 3rd world pride or globalist influence crying about sovereignty. But it will start Mexico on a path to success that is impossible on tjeir own.
¹the drug that can be overdosed on should be encouraged
Yes, Americans are not very good fighting in the jungles. It would be interesting to see what will happen when American soldiers start dying in the jungles. It would be also interesting to see poor dumb Americans at the bottom of the barrels, start dying from hunger.. with tariffs against the world, the dumbasses won’t be able to afford those high food prices. Oh well, not my problem.
The war on the cartels will be fought with bombs, drones, and occassional special forces.
The cartels are economic rather than ideological organizations.
When the fight comes to them and the economics are no longer there, the cartels dissolve.
Also, poor people at the bottom of the barrel don’t eat the food that is imported, from European cheese to tropical fruit.
They eat fast food and packaged food-like products.
The market will keep them fed through advances in making calories from things a human normally wouldn’t eat…
…which is how processed food has gotten this far.
You mean the Americans will be killing Mexican people, not the cartels.
Let’s see if the US low class people will even be able to afford the basic foods and necessities. Who’s going to harvest your fruits and vegetables?
You’re going to see skyrocketing prices soon, and you’ll be sitting in the cold dark room, as Canada cuts off oil and power to the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAIVAdRCiYI&t=333s
The world, Canada, Mexico, the EU, South Korea, Japan, Latin America, SE Asia, and China, should all get together and form a new free trading block and move away from the US dollar, which the US has abused for so long. We need a new global currency NOW. The world has had enough of the bullying from the US.
In this sermon, Paul Washer delivers a powerful and uncompromising message on the true meaning of faith and repentance. His words will challenge you to examine your life and deepen your commitment to Christ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvoETAeQFA
God only works mysteriously for the MAGA maggots.
America is turning into a North Korea. This from Wall Street Journal:
The Dumbest Trade War in History
https://archive.ph/4a33u#selection-5925.0-5929.279
This is called “Autarky”? Why not call it “Juche”, American style. Lol.
“You mean the Americans will be killing Mexican people, not the cartels.”
Why not both?
“Let’s see if the US low class people will even be able to afford the basic foods and necessities.”
You are far too worried about low class people. But maybe i shouldn’t ridicule a guy for worring about his mother.
“Who’s going to harvest your fruits and vegetables?”
That’s the beauty! Remember all those Jobs Americans Won’t Do? It turns out they will, if they like eating. A more direct answer is: Those currently on welfare.
“You’re going to see skyrocketing prices soon, and you’ll be sitting in the cold dark room, as Canada cuts off oil and power to the US.”
Under Trump’s first administration, America started producing more oil than it consumed and became an energy exporter. That actually continued through the Biden administration. And it’s only going to get better.
“The world, Canada, Mexico, the EU, South Korea, Japan, Latin America, SE Asia, and China, should all get together and form a new free trading block and move away from the US dollar, which the US has abused for so long. We need a new global currency NOW. The world has had enough of the bullying from the US.”
Let me think who tried that before…
– Saddam Hussain (Euro for Oil)
– Muammar Gaddafi (gold-backed Dinar)
Let’s see where this goes.
I’m pretty sure your low class welfare people will rather starve to death than work in the fields, under a 40 degree sun. You’re going to have to get these people to work in the care homes to change diapers for old people like setnaffa. Will they do those demeaning work? Even Korea, with a much stricter immigration system, recognizes this fact and they allow foreign workers to work those jobs. But we will see!
You depend more on Canada than you realize. Your petro processing plants are maxed out, and it will take years and decades to refit/build new facilities to process your shale oil. Your consumers in the mid-west are going to have to deal with high costs for a long long time. But let’s wait and see what happens.
Those were different times when the US had a lot of friends and allies. Today, it’s much different. You have nobody because you made enemies out of everybody. You see, the fact is, your enemy who was also my enemy of yesterday, is now my friend, because you’re not my friend anymore. But let’s wait and see what happens.
“I’m pretty sure your low class welfare people will rather starve to death than work in the fields, under a 40 degree sun.”
I’m already sold on the idea of cutting off welfare.
“Who’s going to harvest your fruits and vegetables?”
-KH
Also “who will pick the cotton?”
and
“Who will cinch my corset for the Atlanta Grand Cotillion?”
– Scarlett O’Hara
(some yoga mom was recently on television lamenting the potential dearth of blueberries in her future smoothies. And somehow no liberal seemed to pick up, heh pun intended, the irony)
That’s already in the plans. Musk and company need more money for themselves. It will be interesting to see people starving and it will be interesting to see if they will riot on the streets to burn all the rich houses down.
“it will be interesting to see if they will riot on the streets to burn all the rich houses down.”
Rioters and arsonists get shot.
You are so good at making the case, you should be a lawyer.
Family did permit the release of the name of the female helicopter pilot. I think it was a good decision to wait (what is to be gained? People against DEI will say the same things they have been saying, and people for it will not change their minds). Overall, I’m a big fan of stopped DEI policies. Since they are in the process of ending anyway I don’t think it is wise to target individuals. Especially dead individuals. I’m familiar with other crashes and sometimes friendly fire incidences.
No one wants to crash. No one celebrates a crash.
The people who are flying currently don’t need to see a media rage fest it won’t help them, and could actually cause harm.
Just sayin.
I know a number of people probably won’t agree, but it is my spouse’s perspective too and he was first in his class in everything (aerospace engineering summa cum laude, DG pilot training, DG of OSS, DG of weapons school, ect…MBA program summa cum laude, initial cadre pilot for the F22, wrote the operations and tactics manual for the F22) If there were one pilot to fly you, he’s the guy you want to be the pilot.
So I think his opinion on the matter is valuable and he has nothing to gain or lose.
In case anybody is keeping up with the woman helicopter pilot that hit the airplane, here is the latest.
This is no smoking gun, but the facts are starting to add up in one direction.
– It was said she excelled in ROTC. It turns out she was somewhere in the top 20%. Anybody know if DEI assists in that ranking?
– She was an aide in the Biden White House. Could checking this box compensate for some competency boxes that were not checked?
– The delay in releasing her name may have been to morn or something… but her social media was scrubbed… and her family all scrubbed their own social media. One could speculate something currently unpopular was being hidden.
– She didn’t have a husband or a boyfriend. She had a “partner”. That’s a red flag for a DEI quota filled.
– She was flying too high. Unless there was equipment error, the guy evaluating her performance should have noticed.
So none of this says she was incompetent on its own, or even together. But there are several ways where DEI priorities could have made overlooked her incompetence.
No judgement yet… but certainly worthy of further attention.
MAGA Donald Trump goes off the deep end, threatening war against Canada, saying America must pay a big price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvSodcPlMk
USA is now a threat to the world, same as Russia and North Korea.
It’s now run by a crazy lunatic strong man (something Yoon wanted to become himself before he was stopped dead in his track).
World needs to boycott and sanction America.
Poor, pathetic chinabot. Got his arse kicked on one topic, so forced to pivot and resort to fantasy world politics…
Must really suck to be forced to keep pushing such gormless, feckless, and pusillanimous nonsense.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is lining up to kiss Trump’s ring.
No one will be happy at the outset; but they know Trump won’t suddenly change and backstab them like Clinton, Obama, and Biden did.
They know Trump likes win/win situations, as long as America is one of the winners.
@Chickenhead, her being a distinguished military graduate at University of North Carolina has nothing to do wiht DEI. Likewise her becoming a helicopter pilot has nothing to do wiht DEI. There has been picture going around the Internet of her being a Biden aide and at pride marches, but none of this has anything to do with DEI. From everything I have seen she earned being a helicopter pilot and appears to have made a tragic error. Remember she had a much more experienced instructor pilot with her, how come he did not do anything to help fix her error of flying at the wrong altitude?
Then there is the larger question of why are Army helicopters doing night vision flights through a notoriously busy airport and airspace? Why doesn’t Regean Airport not have its full complement of ATCs when it has such dangerous airspace to manage? I think there is a lot of blame to go around for this accident.
It really doesn’t matter if the female pilot was DEI or not. The fact is they were 200 feet too high. Equipment failure and / or pilot error. Hopefully, the Army can stop whatever caused it. Those aircraft are too darn expensive to treat as disposable.
I mean, we’re not funded by Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong slave labor like the CCP…
Dirty old maggot. Yuck.
@GI
I will trust your judgement on this.
Understand my skepticism, as there have been a number of verified stories where women were allowed to graduate various military training when they clearly did not meet the requirements to do so.
And understand that being (appearantly) a lesbian Biden aide would be the exact profile one would expect to be pushed into a position that filled quotas rather than requirements.
The more qualified instructor absolutely has some responsibility. There is likely some responsibility at ATC.
In the past, I would not trust the investigation. Now, I expect an honest evaluation simply because the new administration will not get any blame for the findings and it is in their best interest to be open and honest.
Let’s see where this goes.
The people around here will back her up or feel empowered to tell the truth.
Bonus: The Wikipedia page for Revlon has been rewritten. All the references to her classmates claiming she was unqualified have been removed and replaced by someone saying she was great and everybody was wrong and it would have happened to anybody.
Who knows the truth anymore.
Liz, GI, I realize you guys are more thoughtful and reserved.
I simply run where the evidence and my feelings take me… forming strong opinions that can easily change with new evidence… but aren’t often wrong.
At what point am I supposed to stop suspecting this woman was not a DEI pilot?
There is no direct evidence she is… but there is far more (and growing) circumstantial evidence she is than isn’t.
And they are asking her friends to share the right opinion about how great she was.
But oddly nothing yet on record from fellow pilots… or nothing they want to print.
And the DEI checkboxes just keep coming:
“Lobach’s family noted that she served as a certified sexual harassment/assault response and prevention victim advocate and hoped to become a physician when she got out of the Army.”
Perhaps to aviation insiders it is different, but from the outside, I am seeing the same profile I have seen many, many times before of somebody who is inferior at their primary task but gets a pass because they have some other characteristic that is a political necessity… woman, lesbian, advocate for the catcalled, etc.
In every situation we have seen before, where circumstantial evidence keeps building in only one direction, early suspicions match the evential truth.
I have no firm opinion yet, but it seems pretty clear she has a very high potential to have obtained her position based off of characteristics other than flying skill.
Let’s keep looking.
Sidenote: In the early days of the internet it was easy to find that after Tailhook, the navy would do anything to get a female fighter pilot. You could also find people who had been around her say that she got special consideration. An example was 4 writeups for bad flying while pilots normally were dismissed for two. (I don’t understand the culture and specifics so i am just repeating the words of people (claiming to be) around her.
Now, all you find are what a great person she was and how hard she worked and the accident would have happened to anybody followed by emotional calls not to speak badly of the dead.
Which is the exact pattern I am seeing now.
Soooooo… you can see why my mind wanders in this direction.
Bonus: A pilot could be flying with one hand and guzzling a bottle of Jack with the other while livestreaming kiddy pr0n… but when he kills himself and all his passangers, other pilots get the blank look and say things like, “It is too soon to draw any conclusions,” and “We don’t know what decisions were made because we weren’t there.” So I don’t trust pilots on this. They lie to themselves at such a deep level becasue the also don’t want to be analyzed and second guessed.
Mexico agrees to police their border, leading to a potential reduction or elimination of tariffs.
Will Canuckistan be far behind?
It isn’t a surprise that countries are caving into Trump’s demands.
It is surprising that they talk so much third world shìt for a few hours before they do it.
Columbia should have just said, “Our citizens are valuable to us and we will do everythig possible to ensure they are returned with dignity.”
Panama should have just said, “The canal is important to everyone involved and we want to keep it as a neutral territory so we will not be renewing the MOU with China.”
Mexico should have just said, “Border security is an important part of Mexican sovereignty so we will be sending the millitary to reduce the flow of high-powered Amrican weapons.”
Canada should just say, “Bad actors take advantage of the friendship between America and Canada which allows the world’s longest unguarded border. Canada is pleased to help America defend against those who would destroy this rare and valuble trusting relationship.”
China should just say, “Ahhhh. Round eye devil no like the Fentynl. We no send precursor to Mexico. And we no send filthy refugee to Canada and South America. We no want big tariffs. So sorry sorry. *90 degree bow*.”
Europe should just say, “Yes Mr. Trump, sir. We are happy to keep buying your expensive energy and relocating our industry to you big, beautiful country. And, please, sir, may we buy more weapons?”
BlackRock should just say, “Thanks for the half TRILLION dollar deal to ‘rebuild’ Ukraine.”
Oh. Wait. They already said that.
Trump just gave in. He’s “pausing” the tariffs for one month (we know it’s not going to be that short, lol) in return for “10,000 Mexican national guards to secure the Mexican border. However, that’s exactly the same plan that Biden agreed with Mexico in 2021. So nothing has changed, other than Trump blowing black smoke up his cracks, and then folding like cheap suit case, while declaring victory.
Well… Trump just “paused” the tariffs against Canada, for one month, in return for Canada promising to better secure the Canada border. Trump going red faced, whining and whining that Canada has been terrible to the US.. boo hoo.. whine…. and then he decides to pack it in with a whimper.. but decides to declare victory again. The problem for him is that Canada had already planning to spend more money to secure its borders against US smuggling of illegal guns and drugs that are killing many Canadians – back in December 2024. So nothing has changed.
Why would China do that when Trump is just a weak-a$$ed bully using the powerful position of the US presidency? China doesn’t have to do anything other than slapping same tariffs on US farm goods, and just kick back and enjoy the shit-show when Trump’s voting base (the mid-west farmers) whine and cry to Trump. Trump will back down again, because he’s all bully talk and no real substance of being able to hurt his own constituency. In other words, he’s a coward, that wants to look like he’s really strong when he’s not. He’s just a class bully using his size. But if someone stands up and punch him out, he’ll go whimpering back into the corner until he decides to pick on someone else who is smaller whom he thinks he can bully.
The best way to deal with people like this is to fight back hard and give him what he deserves.
Korea (minus Yoon) should take a big note. If Trump demands $10 billion, Korea should demand USFK pay Korea $10 billion or get the F-out of the country.
I was wondering how the leftists would spin this. And there goes KM with his interpretation. LOL Thank you, that was hilarious.
Liz, he lost. And he looked like an ass while he was losing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbw-Azkk-0M
All huffing and puffing and angry whining on X……. I knew he is a paper tiger.
Sore Loserman, aka the chinabot is apparently under 5 years old… emotionally…
Oh the false evangelical “Christian” has spoken.
He called it, the “Fake Deal”: 10:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcRddol2xMg
ha ha ha.
The Trump Fold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xjo6t4hgaM
So, Korea Man’s strategy would be to keep punishing people who give you what you want.
Never tried it. Explain how that would work.
Trump’s strategy of:
– threats of concequences if they don’t comply
– following through with immediate concequences when they don’t comply
– removing the concequences as soon as they comply
– reminding them the concequences can be reapplied if they stop complying
…seems to work quite well.
So what just happened?
– Trump got what he wanted from Canada and Mexico. If it turns out they were bullshítting, he will simply reapply sanctions.
– Americans didn’t see all the increased prices the left was crying about/hoping for¹.
So the end result was good for America and good for Americans.
I’m starting to like this Trump guy more and more.
¹As we see in Korea, leftists/globalists would rather see the country and its citizens hurt than let the right/nationalists get even a small win.
Imagine the good that could be done if the leftist/globalist media in both countries would support things that help the country and its citizens.
ha ha ha.. the MAGAs are mad because their cult leader is a fake Wizard of Oz god.
That was fast! Flailing Trump ‘folds’ immediately in failed tariff clash (Economist Krugman x MSNBC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBKUz3S0hyw
No wonder Trump hates MSNBC and wants to ban them.
Things are becoming clear.
USAID gives a little money to starving Africans and other problems that are better off letting burn out than perpetuate indefinitely¹.
But USAID is also one way America shapes the world. An example is five billion dollars spent toward to 2014 coup in Ukraine that moved it from pro-Russian to pro-Western.
Similar color revolutions were tried in Kazakhstan and Georgia. The Kazakhstan one never really got off the ground. The Georgia one is somewhat ongoing with globalist tactics you see being used in America against patriotism, nationalism, and Trump.
It is unclear how much USAID is engaged in creating all this disorder for the benefit of America and Americans. Many times, the seem to be working for globalist and corporatist interests at the expense of America.
Well, it turns out USAID’s current priorities are an anti-Trump color revolution in America.
And this is in writing.
And that is why DOGE showed up and had the computer system offline in minutes and the building is now locked down.
There might be a lesson for Yoon here on how to deal with systemic corruption and globalist influence (or Chinese, in Korea’s case).
Let’s see where this goes.
¹If you look at all governemnt programs, from welfare to Ukraine aid, you will see strategic timing and quantity of resources to ensure the problem does not go away on its own but is also never solved.
During Trump’s first term, every day had amazing news. Some of it was good, such as Trump’s accomplishments. Some was bad, such as BLM looting another Asian nail store over injustice to some black criminal going down in the line of duty.
This term, the news is even MORE amazing, and almost all good.
In today’s news, federal workers are worried they will lose their jobs.
Good.
I don’t worry I will lose my job.
Why?
I am productive and I let that be seen. I ensure I am needed so when I am not around, people miss relying on me. I do things outside my official duties that need to be done. I do things nobody wants to do (that I don’t want to do either but need to be done). I am constantly studying to be better at my duties. I am constantly studying other necessary jobs so, if needed, I can move into another position. I am constantly studying topics that are weaknesses in the company because there is nobody else who has any idea.
I create dependency.
So my pity level for some fat retarded lazy DEI hire that is worried they will lose their bloated unnecessaryfederal job because they know they are a worthless slug is…
…zero.
DOGE for the win!
Thought this sums it up pretty well.
https://x.com/monsterhunter45/status/1887241013850415461
“I’m seeing lots of people asking for empathy for the decent, hard working, honest government employees who might be losing their jobs. I’m seeing lots of people say we need a scalpel, not an axe…
Unfortunately the time for a scalpel was decades ago. It is now axe and TQ time before the gangrenous limb kills us all.
I respect the honest government employees who do necessary work. I’m not being flippant when I say that. However, you and I both know that guy does 90% of the work while his three coworkers do 10%, and the biggest bum among them will be the one who gets promoted.
People have been trying to cut the government forever. They always fail. It always grows. It is an insatiable leviathan. We have individual departments today bigger than LBJ’s entire federal government. This is the first time anybody has been even sorta effective at curbing it.
If you give malignant actors access to rivers of free unaccountable money, they’re going to use that resource to fortify their position, drive out their opponents, and reward their friends. We’ve known this forever, but even the most jaded among us are still getting surprised daily for the last couple weeks by the sheer fucking audacity of these clowns.
For the first time in our lives we’re seeing actual push back against this cancerous growth. We have a narrow window of opportunity here to obliterate the entrenched power structures and endless money river of the permanent bureaucrat class and their allies in media, culture, and academia.
Time is of the essence. Democrats are struggling to figure out how to throw up road blocks to protect their slush funds, cushy jobs for their pals, and bribery scams. They’re evil, but they’re not stupid. They’ll start finding ways to effectively fight back soon.
Precise cuts take time we do not have. It is time to hack away the necrotic flesh. That’s gonna suck for a lot of decent government workers. But life has sucked for a lot of regular folks because of our big stupid corrupt government fucking them over too, only they finally got sick of it, and ultimately you work for those regular people.
My biggest problem with Trump’s last term was that final Covid year, where he got rolled by the bureaucrat class and democrat media. My biggest worry about running him this time was that they were going to manipulate him again, but holy moly, was I wrong. And this has been an absolute wrecking ball.”
@Chickenhead “…DOGE for the win!”
I’ve been following some threads regarding the potential downsizing of the federal workforce. I thought the comments would be overwhelmingly against any cuts, but surprisingly (to me at least) I’d say maybe 30-40% of the comments are similar to Chickenhead’s. It appears that those who carry the weight in their offices are tired of the significant number of freeloaders in their midst.
I should add, despite tooting my own horn, there is not a single person at my job who isn’t a hard worker.
They don’t always work smart and there are some process-oriented scolds¹ who are sometimes in the way of goal-oriented people like me.
But everybody is productive in a meaningful.
¹Process-oriented people are very valuable in small and focused numbers. They keep real-world results meshed with the artificial world of requirements. But if you give them too much power, the procedure will go on and on and on and on… and the problem will never be solved or the goal will never be accomplished.
This is government. At that needs to change.
I scoff at the procedure scolds and do what needs to be done and let them retcon the paperwork to make it match reality. This displeases them but Results is King. As long as I keep being productive, make good decisions, and don’t bring about disaster that is greater than the results, nobody questions my methods.
I can make 1.5x income but never with the freedom to get things done, freedom to explore what I want to do, and the soft influence over everything above me.
That’s because all you watch is FOX TV or their digitized version of it.
I’ve always been taught that when news is all good everday, it’s because you’re living in an authoritarian state with state media in control.
“I’ve always been taught that when news is all good everday, it’s because you’re living in an authoritarian state with state
media in control.”
Do you really believe the media is state (Trump) controlled? Do you really believe the media suddenly has anything good to say about Trump or what he is doing?
Wake up, my good man.
The news is good because all of the people and organizations which bring evil and disruption into the world are making loud incoherent noises at the sky, eyes filled with glassy tears, red in the face and fists clenched, and utterly without hope.
And it is goddám glorious.
Kind of telling there’s more worry now over Elon getting access to some OPM data than when China stole all of it.
Trump is not yet in control of the media, but he’s doing a pretty good job cowing them through financial lawsuits and threats of prosecution with “trumped” up charges. How come FOX never agrees with Trump’s policies? They’re 99.99% in agreement with his policies. That’s only normal in North Korea, China, Russia. You must be proud.
Musk is pretty cozy with China and Xi Jin Ping. He has all your data, so you’re not worried?
Giving total control of all the highly private classified data on American citizens and government agencies, to a bunch of just out of high school teens who have no idea about how government agencies are run, who are not even vetted for security clearance, who are given total control as to who to fire and get rid of….. wow what can go wrong here?
Those kids are being used by Musk, who is the real mastermind of everything. He alone has the power to shut down the government, with no checks and balances. So one guy can siphon off the Medicare and Social Security money to his newly created “Sovereign Wealth Fund” to fund his own company (conflict of interest?) to supposedly send rockets and men to Mars (lol.. yea right), and fire government inspectors who were investigating his company for animal abuse (head of the USDA inspectors) and anyone that he doesn’t like… what can go wrong here?
It’s not my country, but I hate the thought of the US, world’s most powerful economic and military superpower… going to the pits as a third world banana republic joke… that’s really scary for the rest of humanity who have to deal with possible global economic collapse and worse, even military nightmare.
You maggot cultists are so dumb, so I know it’s no use.