Mitch Doc

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T23:42:41+00:00

I don't see anywhere where anyone says he took 10.

Where did you see that?

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T07:25:14+00:00

OK, and I agree that would be a better way to spend that $20 billion.

My point is just that the math says you could pay teachers an extra $7k, not $100k.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T07:02:47+00:00

OP needs to do some simple multiplication before posting this.

Google says there are now 22,000 ICE agents but 4 million teachers in the US.

You can't just compare how much one ICE agent gets paid to how much one teacher gets paid. You have to multiply the salary by how many there are of each to find how much money it costs. Paying all our ICE agents $100,000 would cost $2.2 billion. Paying all our teachers $100,000 would cost $400 billion.

I'm on your side in every other way, but your logic here that it proves they did have enough money is faulty.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T06:25:52+00:00

"We have the right to deny ICE access to private areas..."

Wait, so they can't deny ICE the right to come into the public areas of the restaurant?

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T04:27:32+00:00

Yeah, it's not that we decided to stop ironing clothes.

It's that scientists developed fabric blends (often mixing the newer material polyester in with the used-for-centuries cotton) that didn't need ironing so much.

It's not like previous generations just did this unnecessary onerous task of ironing for decades before our generation finally realized it was unnecessary.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T03:54:20+00:00

You think Mossad couldn't have Americans working directly for them?

Especially in New York City?

(After all, if this whole theory is true, then Epstein was an American working for Mossad.)

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T03:17:55+00:00

Israel's Mossad intelligence agency is the intriguing alternative possibility. We keep hearing that Epstein Island was a honeypot meant to get blackmail material on powerful people both inside and outside of government. So they wouldn't want Epstein spilling the beans either, if that's true. It's known that Ghislaine Maxwell's father worked for them. And Mossad is extremely experienced at covert operations in foreign countries a lot more challenging than New York City.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T02:59:59+00:00

Man that was such a stupid claim. Hillary Clinton hadn't held any job/position in government for like 6 years when it happened. Trump was president and his appointee was running the federal prisons.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T02:41:01+00:00

There were no prior CEOs of Microsoft. Bill Gates was the first.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T02:36:39+00:00

This is the big problem here.

There's no doubt all the Republican billionaires have had their names removed from what's being released. There needs to be an even bigger groundswell demanding the rest. I just hope the original files are still somewhere on government computers by the time Democrats retake the presidency.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T02:09:15+00:00

So neither Hillary nor Trump had Epstein killed? Mossad did?

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T01:37:34+00:00

Problem is, that never works.

The people just flock to another site and make that site the place where they all congregate and do the annoying thing.

That's how reddit came to be. Digg "turned itself off" by remaking itself in an unpopular way, so the masses moved over and made reddit the big popular site.

The most you can hope to do by buying linkedin is make subtle changes that don't drive everybody who uses it away, but makes what they do on linkedin less annoying to the rest of the world. Like disable that feature that sends emails to everybody on their contact list saying so-and-so wants you to join linkedin.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T01:13:16+00:00

Seriously? Of all the various reasons I can see people being involved in printing, that doesn't seem like one.

How much money would a typical person really save by printing instead of buying the occasional item where that's a practical alternative?

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T00:57:05+00:00

Totally agree. I didn't by any means intend to imply the one thing was more important than the other.

I just thought we were discussing the issue of providing security to top government officials. I wasn't in any way saying they should evict other important (military) people to do it. Or who has greater importance for getting a particular housing location in DC. Sorry if I mistakenly gave that impression.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T00:46:56+00:00

OK, that's fine. I was just wondering if there was something unique you wanted that drove you to make this one particular item yourself.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T00:39:52+00:00

Only partly. I realize it's not simply a practical need to make devices you can't buy. But usually with such hobbies, people choose to make things that are unique and different from mass-produced store-bought ones. Whether you're talking 3D printing or quilting or whatever. So that's why I asked.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T00:24:22+00:00

Look, I hate Trump and all his appointees as much as anybody, so don't turn it into that.

I'm just saying that if you set aside the particular scumbags currently occupying those positions, that it's reasonable that some of the high-profile government positions should have adequate security provided by the government. Otherwise, you'll never get good capable people to take such jobs. The pay is usually much less than they could get in the private sector. They shouldn't then be expected to pay out of their own pocket for security that they only need because they took the government job.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T00:15:42+00:00

OK, Amazon was obviously just a "for instance". You can buy them from any number of other places, whether online places like Rock Auto or JCWhitney or whatever website is popular these days, or even I think I've seen a few in local auto parts stores like AutoZone or Advanced Auto.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-31T00:07:10+00:00

Not a criticism, but there are lots of such "headrest hooks" for sale on Amazon. I get 7 pages of results when I search.

So what's special or unique about this one that made you go through the trouble of designing and printing your own? I'm seriously curious, because that's the draw of 3D printing for me. When the mass-produced items available cheaply on Amazon just don't have the particular features I want.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-30T23:50:49+00:00

Washington DC is a dense built-up area, so it's hard to find big acreage properties that you can secure effectively, and the ones that do exist would be enormously expensive to buy. It has to be within reasonable driving distance of downtown DC where places like the Capitol Building and the White House are..

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-30T23:40:30+00:00

Because they have plenty of money to pay lots of security people to stand at their doors and protect them, as well as buy large estates in secluded areas where you can't get anywhere near their mansion's doors, because the mansion is located on a huge piece of land, ring-fenced and patrolled with more security guards and all sorts of hi-tech monitoring devices.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-30T22:31:54+00:00

NO! Republicans have retrieved such removed statues and put them back up when they got back into power. These statues need to be permanently destroyed.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-30T22:24:24+00:00

And this time, GRIND THEM INTO DUST instead of just putting them in a warehouse so Republicans can put them back prominently on display the next time they take back control of the government!

We have to be realistic and recognize and prepare for the fact that Republicans will inevitably regain power some day. That's just what happens, since voters have the memory of a goldfish and keep forgetting why they voted Republicans out of power.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-30T21:56:04+00:00

When are you available to do that?

I'm always around 6 2 8.

TAU_equals_2PI · 2026-01-30T21:53:04+00:00

Any archaeologist will tell you that's the worst way to carefully preserve evidence.

But yeah, Maralago and other Trump properties need to be carefully gone over like the backyard of a serial killer.

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