(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

(05-20-2025 10:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

Of course. lol I was just using an analogy I figured those who didn't get the logic behind what DOGE is doing would understand.

(05-20-2025 10:36 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

Of course. lol I was just using an analogy I figured those who didn't get the logic behind what DOGE is doing would understand.

I got it. I just wanted to brag about chopping down all those trees.

(05-20-2025 10:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

Were you able to make any money on the pine trees or was it haul them out of here and you can have what ever the Mills pays you ?

(05-20-2025 09:52 AM)TripleA Wrote:  ...they are trying to fix the entire beast at once.

You claiming to be some type of insider and thinking this statement is plausible is laughable at best.

You endorsing a chainsaw, but then admitting that yeah, they had to bring back people and programs they fired and removed just goes to show that no, that's not the right approach.

(05-20-2025 10:47 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

Were you able to make any money on the pine trees or was it haul them out of here and you can have what ever the Mills pays you ?

I don't know. My wife called and made the arrangements while I was out of town. We were paid something, but IDK what.

(05-20-2025 12:06 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 09:52 AM)TripleA Wrote:  ...they are trying to fix the entire beast at once.

You claiming to be some type of insider and thinking this statement is plausible is laughable at best.

You endorsing a chainsaw, but then admitting that yeah, they had to bring back people and programs they fired and removed just goes to show that no, that's not the right approach.

You calling me a liar? I'm not, douche bag. The rest of your post is idiotic.

They ARE trying to fix the whole thing. I don't think they can do it. Too much with too little time, perhaps.

But they ARE doing it the right way. No way to do it without some mistakes or do-overs. They also are having niccups due to court rulings. But that doesn't mean it's the wrong way. It isn't.

And they have the advantage of the president being behind it. We only had SecNav, and were only doing the industrial piece (shipyards).

But yeah, keep on thinking you know more about it than I do. Sort of like others thinking they know more about DHS immigration procedures than Three.

(05-20-2025 01:29 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:47 AM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

Were you able to make any money on the pine trees or was it haul them out of here and you can have what ever the Mills pays you ?

I don't know. My wife called and made the arrangements while I was out of town. We were paid something, but IDK what.

Thanks AAA, I was just wondering. I have about 50 to 60 that need to go. Probably just let the kids figure it out after I Pass one day.

you should have built a log cabin.

(05-20-2025 02:21 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  you should have built a log cabin.

Hell, that's what I should have done, too, but I don't think pine is the ideal wood for that, lol.

(05-20-2025 01:34 PM)TripleA Wrote:  They ARE trying to fix the whole thing. I don't think they can do it.

Then you and I agree. Apologies.

(05-20-2025 02:36 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 01:34 PM)TripleA Wrote:  They ARE trying to fix the whole thing. I don't think they can do it.

Then you and I agree. Apologies.

That doesn't mean they can't do a lot. I just think they either won't get to everything, or will lose a few battles. Inevitable.

Those thinking violence against Tesla ends DOGE will be disappointed.

Republicans just need to grow a spine. Fingers crossed…

DOGE Team Terminates 256 Wasteful Contracts Worth $14.3 Billion – Including $850k USAID Contract for “Resilience Adviser” in Somalia

(05-20-2025 10:38 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:36 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

Of course. lol I was just using an analogy I figured those who didn't get the logic behind what DOGE is doing would understand.

I got it. I just wanted to brag about chopping down all those trees.

dayum, Bunyan …. I’m calling common fuzzy core on that inventory … lol

#beastmode

(07-05-2025 01:05 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:38 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:36 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:31 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-20-2025 10:25 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  When you have several trees down in your yard, you don't use a scalpel to get rid of them. You use a chainsaw.

America has several trees down in our yard, and someone wants to use a scalpel to clean it up. Nope. We need a chainsaw. (Hell, give me the chainsaw. I'll be more than happy to cut the trees up and clean up the yard.)

I once cut down 44 really tall pine trees in my back yard with a chain saw. Alone. To make room for a swimming pool.

Then chopped them up into 5 foot logs and had a trucking company haul them off to a mill.

The fed gov is bigger than anybody's yard. It's more like the Rockies fell down on the Plains. That's why I said use strategically placed explosives, lol.

Of course. lol I was just using an analogy I figured those who didn't get the logic behind what DOGE is doing would understand.

I got it. I just wanted to brag about chopping down all those trees.

dayum, Bunyan …. I’m calling common fuzzy core on that inventory … lol

#beastmode

The most physical labor I ever did in my life.

They weren't skinny puppies either. Most of them, I could not get my arms around. A couple were giants.

Looking back on it, I was nuts. Of course, that's back when I was King of the World, lol.

Omigosh Triple, it seems you wanted a pool really bad. Heck, if I had to do that...I wouldn't. I'd tell them to go jump in the bathtub. LOL

(07-05-2025 07:51 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Omigosh Triple, it seems you wanted a pool really bad. Heck, if I had to do that...I wouldn't. I'd tell them to go jump in the bathtub. LOL

Well, I'm the one who wanted the pool. We had an old growth forest for a backyard. What a tree removal company wanted to do that work ($900 a tree) would have cost $39,600. That is 3 times what the pool cost back then, for a concrete heated large pool.

I did it with my already paid for chainsaw, and the lumber company paid me to haul them all away. Piece of cake.