Is this the new Smooth Criminal video?

Just ground all planes until the stupid circus is resolved. That should out some pressure behind it.

The whole situation that federal employees don’t get paid money that has nothing to do with the budget fight in DC, because of the budget fight in DC, is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. I get it that they can’t fund new projects (so what about ICE?), but this is just stuff that’s going to have to be paid anyway.

Of the abundance of ridiculous nonsense rules in DC, this is by far the worst, and that bar was already very high.

I recently looked into this on another forum where someone shared some articles supposedly proving bias. One article was itself highly biased to the right, so not particularly credible.

The other article, from an organization that ranked the bias of news sources, was very neutral and objective, took accusations of bias seriously, went into detail, and removed the “unbiased” classification from Wikipedia, but didn’t conclude any provable bias, leaving it unranked. The best example of bias they had was the fact that articles on socialism and communism didn’t list Soviet atrocities, but those atrocities have their own pages and are also mentioned on pages of the countries involved, so that was not a great example.

All these accusations are just the result of a massive right-wing campaign against facts and reality-based reporting. Everything that doesn’t follow their propaganda is biased, according to them.

It’s much to early to talk about a coup. But when Trump really wants the US military to act against US citizens, I don’t think that’s an order the military can possibly obey. I think that will be coup time.

I can’t believe we’re seriously talking about this.

Sorry, but yearly height tests?

Currently the US needs an independent Taiwan because that’s where all their chips come from. Makes sense for the US to move production to the US where it’s less vulnerable to Chinese takeover, but that also means that the US won’t need Taiwan to be independent anymore.

He’s done it once before.

He’s like a gaudy king Midas; everything he touches turns to kitsch.

But what will the next president do with it? Tear it down? Turn it into low-cost housing?

Best comparison to that is still the million Covid deaths, at least half of which were completely unnecessary had Trump not intentionally sabotaged the US’s pandemic preparedness and then sabotages the Covid response with misinformation and withholding support.

But Trump did it out of malice, whereas I believe Mao at least thought he was doing something good. But both are narcissistic idiots.

But we’ll see if Trump manages to cause a real famine. It could still happen.

He’s definitely not ideologically a maoist (partially because he has no ideology beyond power and narcissism), but personality wise he shares a tendency to reject expertise, believe he knows best, and cause disasters out of stubborn narcissistic stupidity.

Although his death count is still 1/50 of that of Mao.

Does he personally own 10% of Intel now? Or does the US government? From my understanding it’s the government, which makes it a kind of partial nationalisation.

It was absolutely a dirty deal, and Trump and his flunkies are enriching themselves, but I don’t see how Intel is enriching them.

Even so, it smells more of the kind of incestuous business-government relationship you get in fascism than the nationalisation for the people you get in socialism/communism. The US govt now has a special interest in one particular corporation that can be counted upon to do its bidding without a legal framework, while Intel can count on special treatment from the government while still being mostly privately owned.

But that’s not going to stop me from throwing this nationalisation in the faces of anti-socialist Trump supporters. Let them figure out and explain it’s more like fascism than socialism.

Give him time. This is just the first year of this term.

He did nationalise 10% of Intel. Without paying for it, even, if I understand correctly.

It does, and it includes a browser, which is slightly annoying because I was already using Firefox. Not sure which one is better, actually.

I am baffled by sensible words coming out of this man’s mouth. Has the situation become so dire that Ted Cruz and I ended up on the same side?

But it’s also government officials not understanding what tools to use to ensure secure government communication. See also the journalist that git invited to a top secret Signal group.

This kind of communication shouldn’t happen on such public platforms. Too much can go wrong.

Yeah, there is no difference. This is the most blatant government censorship. FCC threatens to revoke ABS’s license while ABC wants approval for some merger, so they sacrifice the guy who upsets Trump.

Fox News says far what rse things on a daily basis. Republican politicians say worse things on a daily basis.

Yeah, primary this guy. Let him give his seat to a better representative.

Primary them.