Charlie Foxtrot

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@japan_nobunaga Foreign savages are willing to risk jail to rape and murder British children but British fathers aren’t willing to risk jail to stop or punish them

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@DAKKADAKKA1 *dysgenics

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@barakgila You sound like a touchy faggot

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@Noelelepen @ClownWorld >something doesn’t add up in this creative writing assignment a bored r*dditor posted

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@JacobL1994_ This is still an incomplete framing and one that should be avoided at all cost because regardless of intent it comes across as
“This is finally bad because now it impacts ME”
Mass migration ultimately isn’t good for a single actual American

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

When we have a spike in global temperatures, the left are able to trace it back with pinpoint precision to AC units.

But when we have a spike in national crime rates and rapes, all of a sudden the left are flummoxed and can’t figure it out.

[Negen Eleven @Negen_11]

A lifelong criminal in Minnesota tried to use a counterfeit bill at a 7/11 and then died of an overdose-induced heart attack when the police arrested him, so now half the cast of The Odyssey adaptation are black women or troons.

[Craft Lager Enjoyer @lost_histories]

This is what every Starbucks barista looked like before Obama ruined the country

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Trump should send a letter to John Roberts re birthright citizenship that says: ‘Thank you for your book report. I’ve given it to a 25 yr old staffer to read. In the meantime I have a country to run, and birth tourism is unacceptable. This is real life, not a verbal puzzle.’

[DarkLevic @Nintendo_NoLife]

It is July my dudes 🦅🇺🇸

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@derJamesJackson No one thought we needed a specific law against it because normal ppl didn’t do it in large enough numbers that it was a problem
In high trust societies, social convention & common sense replace top-down regulation
In immigrant flooded shit holes we need to spell out the obvious

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@GeorgeRoush @restoreorderusa 2% is impressive work

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@captive_dreamer @SeanMcCarthyCom He just doesn’t really care about gaza

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

Anyone who knows about this will recognize it as the hard-won historic achievement that it so clearly is
Well done

[Spike Brehm @spikebrehm]

they did it. the mad lads actually did it.

i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?)

early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem.

processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet.

each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago.

since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up.

to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it.

when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor.

the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned.

we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch.

it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it.

huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality.

while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together.

what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@BasilTheGreat Part and parcel

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

If America beats Bosnia and Herzegovina in tonight's World Cup game, tomorrow we will sell our jars of grass-fed or Wagyu cooking oil for 25 cents each — one per customer, while supplies last. This cooking oil can be used for eggs or steak, and it has a high smoke point.

Steak n Shake is a leading force behind all things beef tallow. Go USA! 🇺🇸

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@mattforney She looks like she makes content where she spits in your mouth if you vote for her

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@romanhelmetguy Great
You’ll have Gavin Newsom getting adopted by some family of Guatemalans so he can offer himself up as tribune to the plebs

[vo @vanillaopinions]

this you?

[Board of Peace @BoardOfPeace]

UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza. We are turning the page on the complex of perpetual aid dependency & conflict. The people of Gaza deserve better.

[Charlie Foxtrot @CharlieFox3427]

@MeesWijnants No one believed for a second that this deceitful arab built shit
Not even him
It’s all izzat fluffing