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[StCicatriz]

straight-up madness. that country is so damn cooked. they know what they are doing.

if the government really is that corrupt from the bottom to the top, is she conceding the GOP are corrupt given they were in control of the house and senate for lengthy periods. there's also a bunch of republican controlled cities.

 

[StCicatriz]

 

[StCicatriz]

12 of november this tool said this:


like if he jumps in front of a whiteboard with a pen it makes him seem more authentic. utterly embarrassing this is going on and continues to go on.

 

[StCicatriz]

GOP should be renamed the Post-Truth Party

 

[Joffaboy]

FFS

 

[StCicatriz]

Chris Krebs, the Trump administration election official fired last week over the comments about the security of 2020, tweeted: "That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest."

 

[flyingmagic]

I guess this republican is also just biased and jealous of Trumps success/wins...

It's also funny looking back at when "binders full of women" was the worst thing said in human history.

 

[gringo2011]

America is weird most of the conservative christian politicians want 1950s values but somehow forget that in the 50's America had some very high taxes and strong infrastructure being built.

Eisenhauer would be a "far left commie" with his policies on Taxes, Education, Infastrucutre and general health and well being.

I've been a bit of a fan of Thomas Picketty but after he suggested returning to 90% tax rates for the mega rich I did some research. It was probably not quite true. It looks as if the real difference is that we've created a class of executives who are paid like company owners now. There was a very stable and strong middle class in the US once. That has changed to the working to survive class and an executive class.

CEOs and other company executives were once paid multiples of the lowest paid workers, now they are tied to ridiculous bonuses that are easily manipulated and often mean that long term performance is ignored on their watch for reporting period success. Lawyers, Doctors etc are now exceedingly well paid too. If the economy is a pie and into much gets taken in any area someone else has to go without. We really need to redesign wage structures in a way that spreads the money around. Top wage earners don't tend to spread dollars through the economy either so you have a double drain.

Did the Rich Really Pay Much Higher Taxes in the 1950s? The Answer Is a Little Complicated.

American progressives like to remember the mid–20th century as a time when the only thing higher than a Cadillac’s tail fin was the top marginal tax rate.

slate.com

 

[Stewart66]

Definitely but like Hanson, the media were happy to report him as a clownish fool who no reasonable person would ever vote for. Their smug disapproval had the opposite effect.

I give you Malcolm Roberts

Malcolm Roberts Is Extremely Confused About His Citizenship

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts could be challenged in the High Court over his potential dual citizenship.

junkee.com

By the way keep paying your taxes Mathias needs it for his private jet payed for by you.

Please Explain podcast: Will Mathias Cormann lead OECD and why does it matter?

In this episode, national editor Tory Maguire and Europe correspondent Bevan Shields discuss why the government is backing former finance minister Mathias Cormann's bid to become the secretary-general of the OECD.

www.smh.com.au

 

[gringo2011]

Well good, now they can just stop offering to remember my passwords for me all the time.
Seriously -- keeping my passwords for everything in the cloud, what could possibly go wrong.

This guy is probably a genius though, if you wanted anyone keeping your crap safe you'd back him in. He's like rain man, we ask him trivia or science stuff and he's quicker than a search engine. They spend all day every day working out how people have tried to hack them and reverse engineering security patches, it would be as dull as **** IMO. He gets off on it I think.

 

[gringo2011]

I give you Malcolm Roberts

Malcolm Roberts Is Extremely Confused About His Citizenship

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts could be challenged in the High Court over his potential dual citizenship.

junkee.com

By the way keep paying your taxes Mathias needs it for his private jet payed for by you.

Please Explain podcast: Will Mathias Cormann lead OECD and why does it matter?

In this episode, national editor Tory Maguire and Europe correspondent Bevan Shields discuss why the government is backing former finance minister Mathias Cormann's bid to become the secretary-general of the OECD.

www.smh.com.au

Jesus.

 

[StCicatriz]

Hahahahaha

 

[StCicatriz]

Lol

 

[StCicatriz]

I'm convinced this is a new borat film. This can't be real.

 

[Verdun]

I'm convinced this is a new borat film. This can't be real.

It is beyond parody.

Even Sacha Cohen wouldn't make this up.

the scary thing is the institutions of democracy are being attacked. ie separation of powers etc

 

[gringo2011]

I'm convinced this is a new borat film. This can't be real.

It's very much like the lines between reality and fiction have blurred considerably in the Trump years. It's like This is Spinal Tapp or some long running Truman Show cross over merged with politics. Maybe they have realised dumb arses like reality TV more than dry politics so give the sheep the shit they want to gorge on while they gouge us.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

This guy is probably a genius though, if you wanted anyone keeping your crap safe you'd back him in. He's like rain man, we ask him trivia or science stuff and he's quicker than a search engine. They spend all day every day working out how people have tried to hack them and reverse engineering security patches, it would be as dull as fu** IMO. He gets off on it I think.

Well that's a poor reflection as well, given that he works for one.
In the old days Google was the best search engine , now its a crappy search engine trying to do lots of other stuff.

You put in several search terms to try to find something specific. Google only finds a dozen hits , and then leaves one of the term off so it can find more. NEWSFLASH GOOGLE. There is actually no use in finding 67486 hits. In an ideal world i would only find 1. The 1 i'm looking for.
Yeah i know there are options to make it do what i want, but i want it to just do what i want without forcing it.

Sometimes half the first page is taken up with paid advertisements.

They also own the advertising on Bigfooty, which features scam adds with Dick Smith selling bitcoin.

Call me grumpy if you like

My son did a course in cyber security. First he wanted to do computer programming but we managed to convince him that Australia doesn't do a lot of home grown programming ( its there but oversubscribed ) especially in the field of computer games, and that computer games would be boring if you spent the last year working on it.
He met someone who had done a degree in computer science and was now employed by one of the Banks, flying round Australia getting paid way too much for a 24 year old .
There are a lot of boring jobs, but a good load of cash can make your non-work life a lot less boring.
Anyway he completed his 1 year course , ( which was never going to get him a job like the other guy's Computer Science Degree ) took 2000 off, and now he's looking at school teaching. Hope he sticks with it.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

It is beyond parody.

Even Sacha Cohen wouldn't make this up.

the scary thing is the institutions of democracy are being attacked. ie separation of powers etc

He should make himself a US Politician , and see how far he gets before they realize he isn't real.

 

[bergholt]

First he wanted to do computer programming but we managed to convince him that Australia doesn't do a lot of home grown programming

Completely wrong, sorry. I've been hiring people in this space for 15 years. Market rate goes up 5% - 10% a year. I'm hiring people in their mid 20s now and paying them $140k, people in their mid 30s approaching $200k. Huge amount of work around and not enough people to do it.

 

[gringo2011]

Well that's a poor reflection as well, given that he works for one.
In the old days Google was the best search engine , now its a crappy search engine trying to do lots of other stuff.

You put in several search terms to try to find something specific. Google only finds a dozen hits , and then leaves one of the term off so it can find more. NEWSFLASH GOOGLE. There is actually no use in finding 67486 hits. In an ideal world i would only find 1. The 1 i'm looking for.
Yeah i know there are options to make it do what i want, but i want it to just do what i want without forcing it.

Sometimes half the first page is taken up with paid advertisements.

They also own the advertising on Bigfooty, which features scam adds with Dick Smith selling bitcoin.

Call me grumpy if you like

My son did a course in cyber security. First he wanted to do computer programming but we managed to convince him that Australia doesn't do a lot of home grown programming ( its there but oversubscribed ) especially in the field of computer games, and that computer games would be boring if you spent the last year working on it.
He met someone who had done a degree in computer science and was now employed by one of the Banks, flying round Australia getting paid way too much for a 24 year old .
There are a lot of boring jobs, but a good load of cash can make your non-work life a lot less boring.
Anyway he completed his 1 year course , ( which was never going to get him a job like the other guy's Computer Science Degree ) took 2000 off, and now he's looking at school teaching. Hope he sticks with it.

Yeah, a family friend's son inspired did the same thing and got a job with IBM in Melbourne which was pretty lucky. He's buying a house already and he's be lucky to be 25. India and other countries have so many kids learning coding so will be a massive glut. Teaching is a good job, you'll always have work.

 

[StCicatriz]

Seriously worrying. This should be talked about more.

 

[StCicatriz]

 

[StCicatriz]

Widow, 94, who Trump said was 'dead voter' says she voted for Biden

Two of the four 'dead people' the Trump campaign accused of having voted have been found alive and well, having voted entirely legally. One was a widow using her husband's name.

trib.al

 

[pebblesofsand]

“When Will Daniel Andrews Take Responsibility For Hiring Private Security Guards In South Australia?”: By Peta Credlin — The Shovel

"As premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews must take responsibility".

www.theshovel.com.au

 

[gringo2011]

“When Will Daniel Andrews Take Responsibility For Hiring Private Security Guards In South Australia?”: By Peta Credlin — The Shovel

"As premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews must take responsibility".

www.theshovel.com.au

The problem with the Shovel and the Onion, Chaser etc, is that you have to actually check that they aren't real.