Can’t blame this on trump…

This is 100% on the people Biden appointed to his admin just not having it in them to fight.

Not everyone has it, that’s fine, human variation is normal.

But we can’t afford to keep putting cowards in position of power. We need someone that will actually try to enforce the law.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to vote on a censure resolution against Iran for its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Correct me if I’m wrong…

But aren’t Israel’s nukes “open secrets” because they’re not legally allowed to have nuclear weapons either?

Everyone knows they have them, we just pretend they don’t

In this scenario malicious compliance is doing your job properly and efficiently.

That still covered the very top of departments, not entire agency workforces

If you want to see what resigning out of protest or fear from far right extremists leads to…

Look up the KKK’s role in ending reconstruction, and what happened to the American South when anyone who wasn’t racist was afraid to vote let alone hold position in government.

Giving up is rarely the right move, and federal employees have one of the strongest unions in America and it’s comically hard to be fired unless you’re a political appointee.

And that is entirely intentional and for this exact scenario.

Resigning just makes it easier for them for no reason. It concentrates the shitty employees who will go along with anything, and it shrinks the federal government when they don’t try to restaff

Lots of people will never buy a Tesla, but when you order an Uber and that shitshow appears, you can only cancel so many times before the app gets mad at you for it.

Human drivers was always a temporary thing for those apps, they’ll keep squeezing human drivers so they don’t have to pay maintenance on vehicles, but the second Muskmobiles becomes popular, there goes the closest thing to a job that’s been keeping a lot of people afloat.

There’s going to be a real negative effect when those disappear, even tho they’re barely jobs to begin with.

It’s profit margin

7.5k on a 30k EV is huge, and would lead to lots of sales.

No one stupid enough to pay 110k for a cyber shit will car about a 7.5k tax credit.

So Tesla might take a little hit, but it’s a huge disadvantage for affordable EVs

Not always.

Like, all the deportations, that would “break” our society, but to even attempt it would take huge amounts of money, planning, and competent people. Even to do it poorly.

Hell, even his threat to get rid of Department of Education, he can’t just say “you’re fired” and then everyone goes home. I mean, he could say that, he could order their pay stopped, he could even lock the doors and shut off all the networked IT.

But there would be a metric shitton of legal proceeding and resulting settlements for years.

It’s just crazy to me that everyone thinks turning (at least the remnants of) a democracy into a dictatorship is just fucking declaring it like Michal Scott declares bankruptcy.

He’s 100% going to try, I just don’t know why people suddenly expect trump and his sycophants magically became competent in the last four years.

It’s disappointing so many aren’t getting this…

It’s the same as “unpaid internships” being advantage to rich kids who can afford to work without pay.

Like, there is an inordinate amount of rich assholes that would love to spend 80 hours a week finding way to cut taxes, regulations, and the social safety net.

If you’re rich enough to begin with, this could pay a hell of a lot better than anything else you would spend your time on. Couple hundred million in the bank or stock market, and it would be more profitable than any actual job.

And let’s be honest, Musk and Trump aren’t judging IQ by the freaking Wechsler exam, when rich idiots talk about IQ, they mean zeros in a bank account.

Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.

I don’t know why all the people who defended Biden wasting two years of the House/Senate are so worried about trump having 2 years of the House/Senate.

According to them no one can get anything accomplished in 2 years, and historically trump won’t hold onto both the House and Senate for midterms.

The big difference seems to be Trump’s incoming admin isn’t waiting till 1/6 to start thinking about stuff, so they’ve got a big headstart on Biden’s admin.

It’s going to be real fucking embarrassing for moderates if trump pulls off something they just spent four years claiming was impossible.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but I’m not expecting you clarifying to help

Why that would be huge:

It would incentize the rich to hold stocks long term, this would lead to corporations thinking more than what profits are in 3 months.

Which translates to greater stability for other investors and job security for the people who work there.

But it’s never going to happen as long as Smaug Pelosi and people like her who’s main priority is personal wealth is running the Dem party. Because we all know Republicans will never support it.

But if we don’t purge the Dem party of neo liberals, and fast, we’re all fucked. We can’t keep walking down the path of “the rich always get richer” like nothing is wrong.

Wealth is finite. And without taxes and regulations the people who already have a lot will always accumulate more faster than they can spend it.

With them hoarding all that wealth, no one else has any.

I think it’s safe to say 1/3 will support the aliens, 1/3 will hate them, and 1/3 will just ignore the problem.

It feels like whatever the issue is, that’s the split.

I’d love to see countries mark “expat” as an option on forms…

Just as a trap to filter them all out.

Planet Fitness is a relatively large national chain…

Some lawyer is taking the case for a cut of it. They might not win, but they’ll sue and likely take a settlement.

There was a needle so likely OD.

But I saw a different article that said the gym continued to stay open even while the coroner was collecting the body and staff just pretended everything was normal.

I can’t imagine no one sues over this. Imagine going to the gym, it smelling especially gnarly, and then finding out days later you were breathing in a rotting corpse while doing your miles on a treadmill.

So?

What matters is winning elections.

Stomping our feet and saying they should do what we tell them isn’t fucking working.

So if you want them to vote D so together we can stop Rs…

Maybe we should try running a better candidate than we have been?

Maybe no matter how much the wealthy insist on it, just being slightly better than trump isn’t enough.

Maybe we should just run the best candidate we can, one that already agrees with Dem voters so we don’t have to ask millions of people to hold their nose?

The excuse for running candidates further to the right then Dem voters has always been that it would magically win an election.

It hasn’t, and it won’t.

It’s a bad strategy and we’ve stuck with it for about a decade longer than we should have already.

What logical reason can you give to stick with a plan that even when it works doesn’t get us as much as we need, and fails regularly?

As a bonus, the more Dems move right, the more Republicans do.

So every election Dem voters have their potential winnings reduced and potential loses increased…

And people are really surprised why turnout was low?!

Tradition…

It’s another one of those things where we’re not going to codify it because Republicans want it as a pocket ace, and moderates control party policy and they just have a phobia of admitting anything actually needs fixed, let alone fixing it.

But the electors in a lot of states can do what they want

32 states + DC are legally required to vote for the party that nominated them as electors tho.

So some are “locked in”, the rest can pretty much do what they want. I know some states are on an “interstate compact” where once they get enough states it triggers them having to vote for the national popular vote winner.

But I’m not sure what the overlap is with the ones who already have the requirement to vote for the party that appointed them or how that will shake out.

What about supplying weapons or even directly aiding a war effort negates pacifism?

You’re talking about the most extreme as far as determination not commitment, absolutionist pacifists is what they’re called.

They would have a problem with that.

But treating every member of a group like they’re the same as the most extreme…

I’m hesitant to ask but whatever groups do you apply that logic to? It’s rarely (if ever) a good idea.