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Federal headcount by department. It is kind of crazy how small the non-defense workforce is.

Suffered through Hegseth's speech

Directives: physical tests 2x/yr, eliminate DEI policies, and controversially, no beards

All framed by a total betrayal of what the Continental Army was about. "Warrior ethos" wasn't discussed. The army reporting to its citizenry and not an Oliver Cromwell was

Senator, please don't give in without defining the recission process better.

Any agreement without that seems meaningless as the President just arbitrarily decides what programs he wantsto fund.

Please please please fight for our Republic!

There are usually like 10 more ppl. But it's Saturday morning so they're probably hung over.

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

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Just now realizing I've been raised from childhood to oppose everything this administration stands for.

It's historic but then you realize it's 4% of their 2024 profit and 0.4% of last year's revenue.

There's an argument to not break up big tech. If u buy that, the punitive damages should be much larger when they misbehave.

Getting Jimmy back on air was step 1.

Finding some way to oppose further mergers of media companies seems to be step 2.

Enshittification was a given. Never thought free speech would be on the line.

Real life trolling is a lot harder than Internet trolling. Rly respect the effort.

Portland has been the most surprising

Done

Which is why they already pay capital gains. At above the European median I would add.

What do capital gains have to do with corporations? Those are for investors.

And what is wrong with employees being investors? And all investors still pay capital gains when they sell.

You can debate how much more they should be taxed but don't pretend like it's zero.

Politicians play their games. Racists on the right and the left demonize normal hard working ppl.

Nvidia owes nothing except the taxes every American corporation is obligated to pay. They pay them, take no federal subsidies, don't force politics on us, and created good American jobs.

A sweeping generalization that ignores the reality of Asia.

The US established bases on the Western Pacific for its Communism containment strategy & to prevent a 2nd Pearl Harbor.

It abandoned its treaty with Taiwan in 1980 and is out there for its own military interests. Trade is secondary

That is a military doctrine that preceded the chip industry that the US employed for its own interests. Lets not pretend this is altruism or even necessary.

So would Apple, AMD, Qualcomm, AWS, and Broadcomm. You should protest by getting off your phone.

How misinformed are you? Nvidia doesn't own any factories.

When did liberals become a bunch of whiners virtue signalling on their phones to mask their own jealousies and insecurities?

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Great, thoughtful interview.

I feel sorry for China sometimes. Even though they are our frenemy, it's like we are playing team sports and they got stuck with all the reject players. Russia, North Korea...

Feels like John Galliano discovered Final Fantasy 7 that year. Vincent, Sephiroth

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I had never thought of the executive branch spending less than the money it was allocated by Congress. Following private sector practices, that seems reasonable but I guess Nixon had tried to weaponize this before in politics and a law was passed to stop it.

Trying to understand theory of operation. Congress approves budget, exec branch executes. Sounds legal to not use all of budget. But also wonder why other presidents haven't done this before?

Hamster moms will eat their own babies. Pretty sure there is a human out there what only flaw is watching tentacle porn on xhamster.

It's insane. Escape a pseudo oligarchy that that encroaches on political freedoms for an actual one.

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