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Ken Macko's avatar

So happy Shenanigans made the scroll and was well received by the Shenanigators 😊

Thanks Demi !

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Thank you, Ken!! ☺️🙏🏻💜💫

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Angela Morris's avatar

Lot of goodness packed here.....If we could have mass office space technology destruction event, I'd participate, just beat up all the technology and start over...why wait for another steampunk era when we can start now?

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

LOL! I'm down! Let's do it!! 🤣🤣🤣

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Angela Morris's avatar

"There is a field, I'll meet you there"...with a sledgehammer and the wifi router 😂😂😂

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

That's genius!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Switter’s World's avatar

Moreover, as any career bureaucrat will tell you, never do anything for the first time.

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Lin's avatar

You are funny! Love content.

Thank you and appreciate your creative genius. Thank you for mention 🙏🏽💜💜💜

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Sending my love, Lin!! Thank you!! 🙏🏻🥰

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Lin's avatar

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰

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Goddess Renell's avatar

Girl, I love you. 😘 I dub thee my R. L. S. G. (Real-life spirit guide), Always ensuring we get those lessons in 🤣 but I have a question. 🙋🏻‍♀️ When is the homework due? (Click) 🤣 😜

I am grateful for you and your pings, which are always divinely received. 🫶🐦‍🔥🌹💖

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

I love you too!!! 💖💖💖

We have homework?!?!? Shit. I'd better get on that!! 🤣🤣🤣

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Goddess Renell's avatar

Well maybe just me. 😂 That’s a big list to follow and the amount of time to hover and click. Ughhh. 🤣 😜

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Apollo's Lyre's avatar

Donkey's, Inc. for life!

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Gina and Tommy represent!!!

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Jim Davidson's avatar

What Brandon Richey wrote is very important. There is a concept called "egregore" which is also discussed in other terms. In his important book _Bureaucracy_ Ludwig von Mises identifies this same feature. Bureau rats know how to solve the problems their organisation was created to address. So why don't they? If they did so, the organisation would cease to exist.

Bureau rats improve their situation with more salary, more benefits, and more budget authority if they hire more people to work on the problems. They do not get any of these incentives if they solve the underlying problems that cause their bureaucracy to exist. So they don't.

It's actually a lot worse than that, as well. The organisation is unable to function at a level beyond its existence, so everyone in the organisation is geared against solving the problems that the group exists to address. The people in the organisation who can solve the problems cannot be promoted to the place where they would be able to solve the problems because doing so is dysfunctional to the organisation itself. The concept of an egregore is an entity that seems to exist within the bounds of cooperation and controversy of group dynamics which defends its own existence. It is quite perfidious. People in the group can even mean well and be sincerely eager to solve the problems and end the group and will find themselves thwarted. Only someone outside of the group having real or imagined power is able to overcome this "feature" of bureaucracies. The organisation will promote people who will actually spill blood in defence of the continued existence of the organisation, it is such a strong set of inducements.

But, we don't really have that problem very often. It's also worse in other ways. Most of the people who are appointed to bureaucracies are not sincere and are not well meaning. They are the nieces, nephews, and cousins of people who have power and want to provide for them. They obviously have the ethical character suited to digging ditches and cleaning toilets, based on even cursory examination of their actual behaviours and choices. But their powerful relative doesn't want them to toil in physical labour. No no. Not for their family members such menial tasks. Instead they provide offices with desks, sometimes even secretaries, indoors, with heating and air conditioning to fight back the elements, with budget authority to spend on travel, per diem, benefits, salaries.

Which is how, friends, neighbours, and countrymen, we come to have a budget for fiscal year 2024 just ended which was recently audited and shows $6.75 trillion was spent by on the order of 2.2 million civilian and 2.1 million military personnel, all over the world. The grift works out to *average* over $1.5 million per person. Every. Year. That's a powerful grift.

"The grift is strong with this one," you can almost hear James Earl Jones say in the Darth Vader voice from the first film.

What to do? Well, begin by withdrawing your consent. They have abdicated government and make war on us. So you may as well acknowledge that they are not government but something else. I call it gooferment because it is goofy stuff, as you see from the foregoing. It was Etienne de la Boetie who wrote it about 500 years ago and published it a little later because he wanted to be firmly in his grave before the word got out. You don't have to put your hands on the tyrants to see them topple. Just stop holding them up. They will fall. There's too much corruption and expedience, no solid foundation. Withdraw your consent. Stop voting. Stop filing annual paperwork. Stop having funds withheld from your pay. Move and leave no forwarding address. Honey move out to the country. God provides. Praise God. Amen.

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An K.'s avatar

Thanks Demi!! Love it!

There are 5 roosters in my neighborhood... 5am ....

There was no option to add a meme here ..

🌸

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Jacqueline Rendell's avatar

That alarm clock though, aka, torture machine!! Perfect for those who want to start the day off with rage. 😂🐓🎸

Here's a coffee so you don't want cut a bitch. ☕️😂

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Wow.... Yeah.... Hey baby, wake up.... Come and dance with me.... Wow.... Yeah.... Hey baby, wake up.... Come and dance with me.... Wow.... Yeah.... Hey baby, wake up.... Come and dance with me.... Wow.... Yeah.... Hey baby, wake up.... Come and dance with me.... 🤪🤪🤪

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Jacqueline Rendell's avatar

Hahaha!! 😂

As opposed to:

{{{pop!!}}} 👀

"Oh, I'm awake and it's a new day! I'll get up now and make my bed and some coffee."

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

I tried to break it. Every single morning. My mother became a chicken torture device repair expert.

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Jacqueline Rendell's avatar

Such a valuable skill-set! hahahaha!! 😘

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

That's certainly a way to put it. 🤣

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Rosemary B's avatar

love that game show. How adorable

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

🤣🙏🏻❤️

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MRT’s Haircut's avatar

Never disappoints! Too funny! Thanks for the mention and always happy to contribute!

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Thank you so much!! Happy Saturday!! 🙏🏻💜💫

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Switter’s World's avatar

Did you send my user’s manual via a .pdf file or USPS?

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

I keep telling you it’s unnecessary. It’s in the Posting Schedule on the main page. What questions do you have specifically?

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Switter’s World's avatar

Well, for many years, I’ve purchased and used Dr. Bronner’s Pure 8 in 1 Hemp-Peppermint Castile Soap from the Family Soapmakers since 1858, and I have spent endless hours trying to read the label so I know I am doing it right, spiritually speaking, but I still feel so unsure of myself in the face of something so much bigger than me, a mere ant.

And Starfire Codes is even greater than Dr. Bronner’s Hemp-Peppermint Castile soap.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Awwwwww!!! I'm honored!!! ❤️

If you have questions about it, I'm more than happy to answer them. But I need some framework here so that I know what's confusing and where to focus. Feedback, please? :)

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Switter’s World's avatar

Some claim I am humorless. Some think I’m thick headed, which doesn’t offend me. I only ask for a users manual so that I won’t read it and do it wrong anyway.

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Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻❤️

It's like Jerry Springer meets IHOP. Just go to IHOP and thank your lucky stars you don't have to deal with the Springer part. ;) 🤣

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Hahahaha!! You're a brave soul!! 🤣

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I think the people have finally lost their damn minds. 🤣🤣🤣

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

This is a quick one minute run down of the story. I hadn't heard about it either. I just remember being super confused when "Waffle House Wendy" was mentioned and LoC told me the whole story. 🤣🤣🤣

https://youtube.com/shorts/PA9OWGiyCng

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IKR?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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