god_from_celegans
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god_from_celegans
14d ago
god_from_celegans
27d ago
Trump intends to appoint more than half his cabinet from tech-bros. So I'd say that the people doing the work for trump are naturally aligned with Elon.
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
Great point, and great way of wording it
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
It's in no ones interest to move to a worse revenue model in a field where almost noone pays anyway
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
This counts news about food recalls, not food recalls that are not reported in the news. Actual recalls are not going up.
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
Here's a great comment
https://www.themotte.org/post/930/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/201239?context=8#context
It is by now common knowledge that Russian intelligence very nearly took over Deutsche Bank without anyone in the German government even knowing (or caring), and while pressuring the German financial regulator into pursuing a criminal investigation into the Financial Times' journalists trying to figure out why it didn't make sense.
What is less commonly understood (and in part only now being revealed) is what a combination of hilarious disaster and glorious victory the Russian intelligence operation in question was. Having stumbled onto Jan Marsalek, the co-founder of Wirecard
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
it's not clear why this is happening
It seems clear to me. We need people to work. Naturally, they don't want to work. We arrange the economy so they are in position where they have to work. This is called economic growth and full employment.
It couched in language of, "pursue full employment", "worker shortage", "keep the median wage down", "increase the labour force".
He has announced the Pomeo and Haley won't be joining this time. https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1855399528909701537
I'm say this is the Deep state category, good to have it confirmed that they will not be joining.
With all the category listed, remove the ones he no longer needs and keep the ones he still needs for executing or passing bills.
Of course he will need his guy to get elected again in 4 years to make sure he doesn't get put in jail or his business or legacy destroyed.
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
He has very old interviews where he talks about loyalty and punishing disloyalty. It seems very important to him, and it always has been.
To answer my own question: not so easily, but they have a plan https://goodauthority.org/news/why-the-president-cant-just-fire-bureaucrats/
Project 2025 actually has a well thought out section on the levels Trump has https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-03.pdf
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
Can't Trump just utter his old catchphrase "you're fired" ?
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
What if political partisanship and DEI is banned, at risk of being fired and losing all funding or special legal status. It worked somewhat for De Santis with Disney and with the Supreme Court with Universities. This could work in a few ways: DEI for political views, or maybe making journalists be sued for lying, or maybe you can have courts audit internal chats of journalists.
Most organisations would bend the knee if funding/firing is at stake (and it should be). It should also apply to all grant, university, NGO, contracts, etc.
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
he did this in 2017, remember? -
Indeed but it was in 2020, so he delayed by N days
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-09-28/pdf/2020-21534.pdf
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
All I know is she could destroy me in combat or debate. That is enough.
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
They get paid to drag it on, meh
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
ChatGPTBox will summarize yt videos
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
I suppose that may be true. Or he could be situationally brave. Or he never planned to keep his campaign promises.
You are right, there are many other interpretations.
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
Well, one of his major campaign promises was to release the JRK files. But he unapologetically broke his promise because a deep state person said no.
His motto used to be "you are fired" and he was elected to fire people (drain the swamp), and given executive power to do it. It was literally a memo or tweet away. He should have fired at least one government employee every day via twitter but did not.
These just don't sound like someone who is very courageous?
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
Yeah, past performance is a better predictor than present promises
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
The Epstein stuff (having an organised operation creating and collecting blackmail, and kept under wraps) seems to support this.
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
This seems coherent. Politicians often tell people what they want to hear and make excuses for changing their mind. His excuse is "men in suits showed me a secret", which is convenient, not disprovable, and would suit conspiracy theorists.
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
Tzeentch
Agree on this part :p
It's mostly raw YouTube machine generated unfortunately, with few edits, and a couple of jokes :p
True his autobiography is likely lots of lies/spin. But it also sounds like a politician the CIA can hardly rein in, who is desperate for attention. Some of it is backed up by court documents, although this is spotty, and some of it second hand.
the GDP to debt ratio, is a function of debt. Not just GDP. People seem to forget. And government can in theory control our debt, the GDP is in large part out of government control.
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