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This is why I don’t really pay attention to “NATO like guarantees“ or whatever. There is no reason to think any country would ever help Ukraine more than it already is. Pursuing a EU like economic partnership is much more realistic.
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Not sure if “whiskey rebellion” is the citation you want to make considering VC bros are currently squealing over a tax plan in California.
January 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Abolish all of DHS.
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
What are they even talking about 2014? They kind of pulled it off back then by saving Yanuk.
January 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
This aged well…
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I mean, yes. A good chunk of people at the time thought it was kind of stupid.
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Salaries, job titles, and department assignments are public information already. It’s also possible to do FOIA requests to find out detailed agency actions. Not sure what more you expect.
October 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
$450 million is the operations cost, not the building cost.

Which kind of makes sense, theyre probably outsourcing to like Maro Lago or something who is chagring them like $200 a meal for a sandwich.
July 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Reminds me of when a large chunk of the legal field was aghast that SCOTUS carved a special exemption for the fed when they ruled that the president can fire political appointees, meanwhile finance bros were basically calling it for months.
June 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I actually don’t hate the idea. Department of Defence for an agency that mostly does offensive operations is kind of Orwellian anyway.
June 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There hasn’t been a draft in over 50 years. The US fought multiple major wars in that time, some requiring significant manpower that needed a large deployment of reserve troops, yet no one ever even thought of a draft.

How is this even a thing people worry about?
June 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It will definitely hurt the US since India and China will now have to compete for oil from Saudi Arabia, Canada, Nigeria, etc driving prices up for everyone.

There are realistic questions about their capability, but the Houthis have been hitting tankers and they’re even worse off.
June 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I know this isnt the issue here, but I’m honestly kind of offended by the “field director” looking like he ate the previous field director.
June 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I kind of hate Newsom but if he pisses off the Russians that much it’s a pill I might need to swallow.
June 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I don’t disagree, particularly since republican sheriffs have a history of doing just that.

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Court dismisses criminal charges against federal firefighter arrested while conducting official duties
The arrest and subsequent indictment of a federal supervisor doing his job had caused panic within the workforce and has some concerned the damage will be difficult to reverse.
www.govexec.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
By that logic inflation alone devalued 20-50% of people’s student loan debt, essentially functioning as a forgiveness mechanism. Funny you ignore that.
June 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
You’d have to compete against all the PhDs laid off by federal agencies looking for industry work. Frankly, just a terrible time to be a scientist in the US.
June 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It was cursed to come out a few months after Pirates of Caribbean.
June 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I think he is a good VC and has an eye for niche things that will make money (bought into Tesla, saw the opportunity in NASA privatisation that was initiated by Obama). But, things would run so much better if he was more hands off, like Buffet style management.
May 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Kind of the opposite of my experience. Visited for the NBA All Star game and basically every sidewalk was closed for repair and your choices were to either walk into 4 lane traffic or walk through the construction zone.
May 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM