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100k is the number usually cited for this. Not sure how that calculation is done, though.

Having read the memo--which is basically meeting minutes between the DoD and DHS-- it's seems to be missing an understanding of how much Trump is disliked up and down the ranks. They ultimately did almost nothing in LA. The birthday military parade had clear signs of everyone phoning it in on purpose. Signalgate convinced all but the most diehard MAGA soldiers (not as big a group as you might think) that this leadership is a bunch of clowns.

What this means is that the White House still overestimates how much the military is in their pocket. Good.

From Ur-fascism:

Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

What's missing from the analysis is that they can't objectively evaluate their own forces, either. As much as they go on about strength and fighting and war, they're actually really bad at it.

This and the ballroom are Trump trying to leave a permanent mark on the White House behind. If nothing else, he'll die of natural causes within the next decade, and he knows his name will be cursed from then on. If you have to call it "The Donald J Trump Ballroom", then he still has something.

I seem to recall that the White House is considered a historic building, and renovations need to be approved by Congress. It's actually been a problem, because there's a lot of wiring and plumbing issues that need to be addressed. Was this somewhere in the Big Murder Bill?

Oh, right, I forgot about what Administration we're dealing with. Of course he's going ahead with it.

Our industry has no idea how to hire people. Our interview processes are almost designed to filter out obviously bad candidates while accepting that some good candidates will fail, too. Getting a specifically good candidate is almost luck.

Remember this if you're bummed about a string of rejections.

Does PVPP come from animal products? Everything I could find about it suggests petrochemicals. Which is technically vegan. *ahem* "Vegan leather" *ahem*.

Which only leads to more questions, like "are 40k Orcs vegan?"

I don't think I've met #1 in real life, besides knowing more than a few of #2. The first one just gets really loud on the Internet.

Chicago is already a reasonable place to be car free. Much more so than most of the US.

Oh, no, we'll have to build trains in Chicago.

Have you ever drove in Chicago? It's the worst thing about Chicago.

You're doing Glados' work. For science. You monster.

For a good 25 years now, the Republican party has treated reality as a messaging problem, not something to grapple with and use in planning. The only surprise is that it took this long to fire people in the federal government who didn't give the "right" message.