What are the thoughts in our heads made of? I’d imagine any god to be made of much the same.

Because they haven’t called his boarding group yet.

It has absolutely gotten worse under this administration. I watched friends lose their jobs when USAID was shuttered. Many were recalled to Washington on short notice and had no home to go to. Local staff, some with decades of tenure, were out of a job. Aid recipients have, and continue to, starve and die because food and medical aid (that American taxpayers already paid for!) was destroyed instead of distributed. Visas are harder to obtain, whether for tourism or residency.

Policies have changed, and not for the better. While policy changes are typical when changing administrations, the changes are usually much more subtle. Our foreign policy stance has become significantly more antagonistic.

And then we had that shutdown at the beginning of October. I was put in a terrible position of having to decide whether to have people come to work without pay or furlough them. I ultimately kept them working because Trump had threatened not to pay furloughed workers. Shortly before the shutdown ended, I was having to find creative solutions for some of my team to continue to afford to come to work and feed their families. Anyone who says things have improved under Trump in the foreign service is either lying or oblivious.

Agreed. Although it’s a tight competition between her, Leavitt, and Noem over who is the worst MAGAt woman.

The real cancer is the MAGA mindset that’s infected a third of the US. He’s just a nasty orange tumor.

Sink. Brushing with warm water is disgusting.

The fucking gall to cite historic preservation laws after tearing down half of the fucking White House is obscene.

The beauty of it is, no matter how stupid your idea seems, they are even stupider.

Right? Can you imagine being one of the most powerful men in history and still being a petty, whiny little bitch? It’s pathetic.

Sorry for your loss friend. I lost my boy earlier this year too. Still miss him every day, but it gets a little easier over time.

Not if the minutes are off.

Is that why placebos work? I could swear they had done studies that show that placebos can be as effective as medication under certain conditions, all other things being equal. Maybe not as effective as medication, but more effective than non-treatment.

I prefer the real Kirk.

Meh, I’ll take it.

It’s not really a discussion. They know damn well they are full of shit. But for the most part, they got away with it because we have a history of being soft when it comes to consequences for traitorous behavior.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. See the US for reference.

I figured they would rip off the front bumper trying to stick the landing.

Fuck all that. People who reject empathy don’t deserve empathetic treatment. He was a giant turd and I’m glad he got flushed.

All good, friend. Keep hating those Nazis.

I appreciate the sentiment, but for the record, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a civilian award, so it’s unlikely that anyone was awarded one for killing Nazis (although I’d be happy to be proven otherwise!). With it being the highest civilian award available, the military equivalent should be the Medal of Honor, which requires gallantry at the risk of one’s own life above and beyond the call of duty.