Re: Even I Will Admit Trump and DOGE May Have Overstepped Here

On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:26:53 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 2/16/2025 4:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Feb 16, 2025 at 12:08:53 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

 On 2/16/2025 1:32 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

   On Feb 16, 2025 at 10:29:53 AM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
  

   On 2/16/2025 10:18 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

     On Feb 15, 2025 at 8:59:53 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
   wrote:
    

     BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

     Some things are too important to play politics with.
 
 
 
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1890543137531072512/vid/avc1/576x1024/y7AqEwpmzSPibyMY.mp4?tag=16

 
     Oh, man, he broke character.

    
   Found another one. How can Trump be doing this? Doesn't he know the harm
   he's doing to the nation?
    
     @philllyfanatic:
    
     "I was fired from my job at USAID today. I worked in the Tootsie Pop
     department. After 20 years of research and $28.3 million later, we were
   *this* close to finding out exactly how many licks it takes to get to the
 Tootsie
     Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Now we will probably never know."
    

   I think the guy is having you on.

  
   What? You mean the Tootsie Pop Department isn't a real thing?!?
  
   My world view is shattered!

 
 A world view based on pseudo-examples was never whole.

 
 It was a joke. Sheesh. The stereotypes about leftists being dour,
 humor-impaired killjoys are alive and well.

 
It's a joke that purports to characterize and justify destruction of
USAID.  An actual example should be even funnier.

You're becoming FPP, who always claimed that if he didn't find a joke funny,
that made him unable to discern it as a joke at all.

Most normal people can detect jokes even if they don't personally find them
funny.