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Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 3:32 am
by Gramsci
This tech podcast from the FT is incredibly interesting.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f ... 0684796564
If you want a look behind the curtain of the opinions of “people that count”, it pretty shocking. The blasé way they discuss Musk’s influence without referring to buying power or corruption is jarring.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:34 am
by DaveA
I don't foresee much of anything LOL/popcorn-worthy about this administration's policies and their execution. Other than this "Gulf of America"-type nonsense, most of it will be the opposite of "entertaining."
What will be amusing is when some of these malignant clowns start having falling-outs.
Four years is a long time for people like this to not turn on each other.
Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?
Time will tell.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:39 am
by jfv
DaveA wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:34 am
Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?
My guess would be Elon and/or Vivek. The rich will eat the rich.
Probably won't be regular commentators though.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:45 am
by DaveA
Another cringe dramady miniseries. Waiting to happen.
Time will tell.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:08 am
by Gramsci
DaveA wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:34 am
I don't foresee much of anything LOL/popcorn-worthy about this administration's policies and their execution. Other than this "Gulf of America"-type nonsense, most of it will be the opposite of "entertaining."
What
will be amusing is when some of these malignant clowns start having falling-outs.
Four years is
a long time for people like this to not turn on each other.
Who will be the first guest-pundit on CNN criticizing their former boss and colleagues? And will they become a regular commentator?
Time will tell.
I think this explains the flourish of executive orders. Trump is a lot of things but he does have a sly intelligence. I think he knows it will quickly devolve into four years of bickering and ineptitude so rammed through a massive shopping list of loud and shiny executive orders to offset the grind that’s coming. It’s the theatrics of doing. It gives the appearance of strength but it actually belies the weakness of the “rats in a sack” nature of the Maga “coalition”.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:21 am
by penningtron
The letter that went out to gov't employees yesterday about snitching on DEI sympathizers is equal parts
and "pack up a car and head to the Canadian border". The high school level threats are hard to take seriously, but the intent behind it is serious,1930s-ish weed-out-the-intellectuals stuff. I'm not sure there's legal grounding behind any of it, but right now they're just trying to intimidate and exhaust people into quitting or retiring.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... rcna188871
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:44 am
by Krev
This is the precursor to red-staters rounding up intellectuals and burying them alive in pits. The Holiday in Cambodia is coming.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:59 am
by enframed
penningtron wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:21 am
The letter that went out to gov't employees yesterday about snitching on DEI sympathizers is equal parts
and "pack up a car and head to the Canadian border". The high school level threats are hard to take seriously, but the intent behind it is serious,1930s-ish weed-out-the-intellectuals stuff. I'm not sure there's legal grounding behind any of it, but right now they're just trying to intimidate and exhaust people into quitting or retiring.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... rcna188871
How can it be proven in any single case that someone was a "DEI" hire? Serious question. Seems near impossible. I doubt it says that anywhere in anyone's personnel file. Talk about wasteful...
I'm not suggesting people should not be worried, but it just seems soooo ridiculous.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:00 am
by DaveA
The "theatrics of doing." A lot of damage could be done. A lot of damage has already been done. Who knows what's to follow? But these orders and policies are indeed a way of deflecting from the inevitable roadblocks ahead, the stagnation/malaise to follow when it turns out the quality of most people's lives hasn't improved under Trumpism 2.0.
Re: Politics
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:05 am
by penningtron
enframed wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:59 am
How can it be proven in any single case that someone was a "DEI" hire? Serious question. Seems near impossible. I doubt it says that anywhere in anyone's personnel file. Talk about wasteful...
I think it's more they're going after departments that enforce DEI regulations, which there were a few. It's possible, knowing that this was coming 2 months ago, that these people moved around to avoid this purge, and now the clueless shitheads in charge are asking for snitches to rat them out.
"There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information," the email said.
I'm not a poker person but isn't this a tell? If they had any clue of what agencies did and how they were structured they wouldn't need this snitch bitch hotline.