Sean Mooney

To answer your questions in order: 1.) I'm not pushing anything and I don't have a side- knock that stupid sh!t off. 2.) I don't have an opinion one way or another on bathrooms and locker rooms. I also don't think men are pretending to be women just to get access to a women's locker room. 3.) I am not for surgery and chemicals for kids. I've said I don't think it should happen until 18 at the earliest. I've also said though that if a parent signs off on it for a kid so be it. Are you not for parental choice now? 4.) I don't push any propaganda in my classroom and have said numerous times I'm against the videos of those goofy teachers saying they talk about this stuff with elementary school students. It's a little more complicated at like high school and maybe middle school level but you can't just do it unilaterally. 5.) It is a small minority of the population. But it is more than .01%. 6.) I push back because it is insane how much head space this issue takes up for like 3 posters on here. And I push back when I see people trying to shame someone who is transgender. Look I don't get it, you clearly don't get it....but I'm not an azzhole telling these people they are mentally ill or that they don't matter in the grand scheme of things. To be very clear- I genuinely do not give a flying FOOK if someone chooses to be transgender, or anything else they do in their personal life that affects them and doesn't outwardly affect me. I think the world would be a better place if people would just mind their own god damned business.

I was told we just need to incentivize them more and they will work better

It's a very pollyanna view you have. Incentives have a shelf life if anything. This will be like every other idea- less people to do more work. That never succeeds.

I'm sure

Let me guess- you are some bug business/corporation expert.

I can count on one hand the number of conversations I've heard in my lifetime about transgender people. Here on the GC a new thread gets posted everyday. Touch grass people.

They extended employee pricing on cars but said that will change by the end of the summer. They are also basically saying expect prices for certain vehicles to get higher. Most estimates are that it would take- conservatively- 2 years to get a new plant up and running or to reopen a shuttered plant. By that time we are talking almost summer of 2027 when we are into the early stages of campaign season for the 2028 presidential election and perhaps the landscape of politics is different after the 2026 mid terms. Why would any company be rushing to sink billions of dollars into a facility if they think things could change in the future? Instead they can just say "Oh well we have 3,000 in tariff charges- we will just raise the price of the vehicle 5,000 dollars."

Maybe you just have a "reading compression" problem?

There won't be incentives. It will just be- keep doing your job the same way as before. You've never worked for big business clearly.

India just did a tariff deal... with Britain.. I guess that "Winning" will have to wait longer...

Ok Jan

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The DMV moves slow because there are never enough lines open and the computer systems are antiquated and slow. So let's cut people across all departments meaning now you have even less lines open and less people to work on the antiquated computer systems. Again- all they are doing is creating more work for less people which leads to burnout and a constant turnover of training people and people less inclined to do their job well because of being overworked.

No the difference between me and someone else (I won't presume you, but it could be you) is I don't root for them to fail. I don't root for any Presidents to fail because it would hurt the US regardless of whether I voted for them or not. Treating political parties like teams one roots for is childish. And yes I do know that- again- they took agencies specifically for certain things, cut those agencies down and/or rolled what they do into other agencies that they were also cutting down. So you have half the people doing twice the work. That never works. But yeah- maybe this will be the time it does.

They will be run inefficiently. If they didn't run efficiently with 100 employees, it isn't going to run better with 50.

No it really shouldn't. Also, the government is accountable to tax payers who pay into the system and need things like SSI, and food welfare programs, and many other various resources that are being either shuttered or dumped into other departments to be run inefficiently. We should've kept departments, and found ways to cut inside of them without chainsawing everything to the ground and figuring out afterwards how to rebuild it.

Government has bloat- nobody disputes that. The main objection is how these cuts and everything went down where it seems like there was lack of a plan and in DOGE's case it was more about "Oh man- look at the numbers." There is a lot of speculation about those numbers and what is actually being cut and by moving things under different groupings you are just creating more waste. To be more exact they are doing what a business does- consolidate departments and give more work to people who are still there because "##### you, do more work." That doesn't lead to efficiencies that leads to overworked people doing half ass jobs which cause different and/or more issues.

On its surface a good deal. There are some unknown things yet but this should work out overall

Can I say "looks currently as if it is on pace to not do near the good it was promised it would do overall?"

Elon musk can be both a successful businessmen who has started multiple companies and a person who headed DOGE that did not do near the good it was promised it would do overall.

No- posters can make projections. I'm all for it. The genesis of the thread comes from some dopes in the Sanders thread bashing scouting places and projections for QB's and everything. So I thought it would be interesting to monitor how the incoming top 10 shifts over the next year. Individual posters ideas may shift over that time as well. Good catch. I'll fix it

They are on here under multiple accounts 24/7.....they've never been married. Or seen a woman naked in the real world.

As always with Trump it is just vendettas that guide him. Been that way forever, won't change

The police have said they don't believe it was a targeted attack. If it ultimately is found it was- just execute that person. They serve no purpose

We are getting closer to summer so expect the sock market to really decline as people switch to sandals and beach trips go up like 400%