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[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But then again, I did hear illegal border crossings are now down 90%
https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-new...border-patrol/

Illegal border crossings?

My brother in Christ, 99% of the immigration issue is lawful asylum claims.

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yea that’s fine that’s a bit of fuck around and find out on USAID’s part about letting it get as bad as it was. I have no love for USAID

What I worry about is what sort of new precedent will this set? Sure do a few sweeps but maybe Doge also decides to set up little bots constantly studying your every correspondence and task. I mean why not? Who is it that checks and balances Doge?

(I had the same sort of issue with the unlimited power of the Mueller investigation btw)

And the whole “it’s read only” reminds me of cops who say if you surrender your phone to us for this investigation, we will ignore any other information other than what we need for the investigation” yea fuckin right….

It's not just USAID tho, they were only first on the chopping block. We can safely assume that this sort of financial trickery is occurring in many, many, many government agencies. Anytime any government hands out money, there are hundreds of layers of people skimming the cash.

This isn't setting a precedent so much as The POTUS is actually exercising the power granted to him by the constitution, every POTUS in like the past 60 years has been a swamp creature more interested in maintaining status quo, rather then running a federal government that works for The American People, but instead they have all been running an organization that greases palms and pays off whoever they need to in order to maintain this status quo

If the US Government wants your data, every detail of your digital life, they can buy it from Meta, Google, Telecoms, Banks etc. There is nothing in the US constitution that addresses personal digital data, nothing, not a whiff, if you type it into a text field or click on a link, Anybody can collect and sell that information

the system is so utterly broken and rotten that a new coat of paint can't even begin to address the problem, we have to tear down the structure and rebuilt it timber by timber

DOGE doesn't have any permanent status, and Elon can't operate in his position for more than 130 days in a 365 day period or he has to get another government employee definition.

I heard today from a reasonably reliable source that they are looking into at least 517 billion in funds appropriated by congress during fiscal year 2024 for programs that are expired, some over 40 years ago

congress didn't vote to re-approve the program's funding, they just kept on issuing checks

I once saw an interview with a DoD contractor like some dude from raytheon or lockheed, and he was saying it doesn't matter if their programs get cancelled or not, they always find the funding somewhere

now it all makes a heck of alot more sense

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What I worry about is what sort of new precedent will this set? Sure do a few sweeps but maybe Doge also decides to set up little bots constantly studying your every correspondence and task. I mean why not? Who is it that checks and balances Doge?

If that's what elon would do then you have far more terrifying things to worry about that he can already do with what he had at his disposal regardless of who won the election.

Like what prevents google from reading all our emails? Or apple from all our texts? Not much.

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Illegal border crossings?

My brother in Christ, 99% of the immigration issue is lawful asylum claims.

100% of border crossings are legal asylum at this point it's total bullshit.

That's the whole point of immigration reform, it's a total joke and asylum is being abused by anyone.

Right now you can literally seek asylum because you are afraid of racism online.

[Trexller]

Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

100% of border crossings are legal asylum at this point it's total bullshit.

That's the whole point of immigration reform, it's a total joke and asylum is being abused by anyone.

Right now you can literally seek asylum because you are afraid of racism online.

seeking asylum in the USA for anyone outside of mexico or canada has always been bullshit anyway

international agreements dictate that asylum seekers should apply for asylum in the first "safe" country that they come to. so anyone coming up from south america (including asians who fly into SA countries then travel north) should be stopping in a country like mexico and applying for asylum there.

Nobody except for the marxist globalists ever thought that everyone in the world should be entitled to asylum in the US or europe

Trump is only half right when he says, "they're not coming after me, they're coming after you and Im only standing in the way"

What is standing between marxist globalists and their twisted utopia is The United States and it's constitution

The sheer utter chaos of immigration is just another asymmetrical warfare tactic meant to clog the gears of government and destabilize the target nation, compassionate hyper-liberals are the avenue that makes this tactic possible.

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

seeking asylum in the USA for anyone outside of mexico or canada has always been bullshit anyway

international agreements dictate that asylum seekers should apply for asylum in the first "safe" country that they come to. so anyone coming up from south america (including asians who fly into SA countries then travel north) should be stopping in a country like mexico and applying for asylum there.

Nobody except for the marxist globalists ever thought that everyone in the world should be entitled to asylum in the US or europe

Trump is only half right when he says, "they're not coming after me, they're coming after you and Im only standing in the way"

What is standing between marxist globalists and their twisted utopia is The United States and it's constitution

The sheer utter chaos of immigration is just another asymmetrical warfare tactic meant to clog the gears of government and destabilize the target nation, compassionate hyper-liberals are the avenue that makes this tactic possible.

Palestinians, now those guys are seeking asylum.

Ukrainians.

Hell even russians!

I could argue that mexicans are, but only if we admit we should let trump drone strike cartel all day.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I’ll use my job as a microcosm for this issue:

So we bill the state for clinical hours. We can only bill for time we spend with clients, obviously we can’t bill the state for our time charting afterwards

There also isn’t nearby enough of us to handle the demand of a neverending slew of clients. So rushing through or not taking one’s time accomplishes nothing. We get no “productivity bonus” that other positions like outpatient counselors can get, no nothing

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So just about every “veteran” of the agency has learned to “time manage” and stretch as much as possible your time spent with clients. Not in the interest of billing for more money but to prevent from having seen 10 clients in a day and now having 10 charts to do, for which you are given no free time, and each can take up to an hour

Everyone who wants to Be All They Can Be, and be a hero who doesn’t somewhat stretch client time, burns out and quits. The system is simply not set up to support them

The idea of having the state micromanaging every minute of time spent with clients to force us into a burn out situation pisses me off. And I AM a hard worker with a good work ethic

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I’ll use my job as a microcosm for this issue:

So we bill the state for clinical hours. We can only bill for time we spend with clients, obviously we can’t bill the state for our time charting afterwards

There also isn’t nearby enough of us to handle the demand of a neverending slew of clients. So rushing through or not taking one’s time accomplishes nothing. We get no “productivity bonus” that other positions like outpatient counselors can get, no nothing

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So just about every “veteran” of the agency has learned to “time manage” and stretch as much as possible your time spent with clients. Not in the interest of billing for more money but to prevent from having seen 10 clients in a day and now having 10 charts to do, for which you are given no free time, and each can take up to an hour

Everyone who wants to Be All They Can Be, and be a hero who doesn’t somewhat stretch client time, burns out and quits. The system is simply not set up to support them

The idea of having the state micromanaging every minute of time spent with clients to force us into a burn out situation pisses me off. And I AM a hard worker with a good work ethic

yeah even in private business this is how it works.

The difference is one guy is like, wait what the fuck I can have a yact if I fire half these people and we still do the same work? Ok they're fired.

Then next year they hire that many people because you have to be hiring to get all your taxes and company status etc. And the cycle continues, waste is cleaned, and the company value goes up.

Mass firings are like day to day in the real world, but not in the goverment for some reason.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yeah even in private business this is how it works.

The difference is one guy is like, wait what the fuck I can have a yact if I fire half these people and we still do the same work? Ok they're fired.

Then next year they hire that many people because you have to be hiring to get all your taxes and company status etc. And the cycle continues, waste is cleaned, and the company value goes up.

Mass firings are like day to day in the real world, but not in the goverment for some reason.

In an ideal situation, in the utopia scenario, we would be able to come to the state and say look we need like double the amount of counselors to handle the millions of people in our jurisdiction

And it would be nice to have hard work rewarded in some way, but that would also involve you paying us more

But here in the real world the state would be nah how about you just do it or get fired. And then my counter-argument would be yknow that constant turnover means less competent counselors and also possibly a money loss for you in terms of having to constant hire and train?

And the state would be like “/shrug, as long as it’s less than the cost of doubling your staff or paying you bonuses then it’s worth it”


Weee

[Reiwa]

Is there a process for deratifying treaties?

https://www.congress.gov/treaty-docu...th-congress/27

Although 59 is not the supermajority of 100?