I would gladly compare income statements and balance sheets any time.
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“By way of contrast, I'm not the one who feels the need to respond to every post someone else makes”
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Not really defending MICH here but that sounds like something an Evil Rich Person would say.
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True.
Dammit
Anyway, I feel my money is much better invested about as far as it can get from a 401k
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Translated: aw, man, we were just figuring out how to make money on this stuff.
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Trump appoints Elon and Vivek to run the "Department of Government Efficiency"
if that department sounds like completely made up bullshit, then realize it's abbreviated, "D.O.G.E."
if that department sounds like completely made up bullshit, then realize it's abbreviated, "D.O.G.E."
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Trump cannot legally create a department out of whole cloth. Nor can he unilaterally appoint cabinet-level people (like Secretary of Defense, etc) - he can only nominate them.
It’s important to get the language right, because the whole program on their side is to make people miss how abnormal and wrong it is for a President (or -elect) to grab the sort of power he (and Musk) are attempting to grab.
This is exactly how autocrats seize power. It is not in all caps, HELLO FRIENDS I AM YOUR DICTATOR.
It’s important to get the language right, because the whole program on their side is to make people miss how abnormal and wrong it is for a President (or -elect) to grab the sort of power he (and Musk) are attempting to grab.
This is exactly how autocrats seize power. It is not in all caps, HELLO FRIENDS I AM YOUR DICTATOR.
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I believe he can create an "outside" department. Or can't he? I guess I don't really know.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:38 am Trump cannot legally create a department out of whole cloth. Nor can he unilaterally appoint cabinet-level people (like Secretary of Defense, etc) - he can only nominate them.
It’s important to get the language right, because the whole program on their side is to make people miss how abnormal and wrong it is for a President (or -elect) to grab the sort of power he (and Musk) are attempting to grab.
This is exactly how autocrats seize power. It is not in all caps, HELLO FRIENDS I AM YOUR DICTATOR.
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Gutter wrote: Fri Nov 8th 2:16pm
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
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if it’s outside the government, then what is it a department of?
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Good question!KUTradition wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:25 am if it’s outside the government, then what is it a department of?
Would it be wrong if I referred to it as the the Department of Jagoffs instead of D.O.G.E.?
Gutter wrote: Fri Nov 8th 2:16pm
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
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The issue isn’t really what he can and can’t do. It’s that he thinks he CAN do anything.RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:23 amI believe he can create an "outside" department. Or can't he? I guess I don't really know.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:38 am Trump cannot legally create a department out of whole cloth. Nor can he unilaterally appoint cabinet-level people (like Secretary of Defense, etc) - he can only nominate them.
It’s important to get the language right, because the whole program on their side is to make people miss how abnormal and wrong it is for a President (or -elect) to grab the sort of power he (and Musk) are attempting to grab.
This is exactly how autocrats seize power. It is not in all caps, HELLO FRIENDS I AM YOUR DICTATOR.
My optimism that we will be anywhere recognizable in a few years is dependent now on people - Rs, mostly - killing bad and illegal ideas off in the womb.
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with Musk at least, it's kind of amazing he even has the time to run a whole new department, considering he's already the CEO of like 5 other companies too.
and we all know how hard CEOs work!
and we all know how hard CEOs work!
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Your first two sentences - very well put!jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:44 amThe issue isn’t really what he can and can’t do. It’s that he thinks he CAN do anything.RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:23 amI believe he can create an "outside" department. Or can't he? I guess I don't really know.jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:38 am Trump cannot legally create a department out of whole cloth. Nor can he unilaterally appoint cabinet-level people (like Secretary of Defense, etc) - he can only nominate them.
It’s important to get the language right, because the whole program on their side is to make people miss how abnormal and wrong it is for a President (or -elect) to grab the sort of power he (and Musk) are attempting to grab.
This is exactly how autocrats seize power. It is not in all caps, HELLO FRIENDS I AM YOUR DICTATOR.
My optimism that we will be anywhere recognizable in a few years is dependent now on people - Rs, mostly - killing bad and illegal ideas off in the womb.
The problem I foresee in the not too distant future is that I feel that there are too few "moderates" in the Pub party and way too many "extremists". Trump brainwashes them - we may be (probably be?) significantly fucked.
Gutter wrote: Fri Nov 8th 2:16pm
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
New President - New Gutter. I am going to pledge my allegiance to Donald J. Trump and for the next 4 years I am going to be an even bigger asshole than I already am.
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Which again comes back to the importance of framing.RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:48 amYour first two sentences - very well put!jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:44 amThe issue isn’t really what he can and can’t do. It’s that he thinks he CAN do anything.RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:23 am
I believe he can create an "outside" department. Or can't he? I guess I don't really know.
My optimism that we will be anywhere recognizable in a few years is dependent now on people - Rs, mostly - killing bad and illegal ideas off in the womb.
The problem I foresee in the not too distant future is that I feel that there are too few "moderates" in the Pub party and way too many "extremists". Trump brainwashes them - we may be (probably be?) significantly fucked.
In these hours last week, it appeared that Trump had won in a landslide. That the American people had overwhelmingly and decisively chosen Trumpism over liberalism.
As the picture becomes clearer, though, that conclusion doesn't hold up.
Trump will win by about the same Electoral College margin as Biden won by in 2020. However, instead of winning by 7 million votes, he'll win by about 1 million.
Downballot, voters were (relatively speaking) kinder to other D candidates than they were to Harris. Voters were significantly kinder to D policies than D candidates.
All of us expected Trump to declare victory even if he lost. What is happening now is not so different, it's just shifted over to the right: Trump and MAGA are declaring possession of a mandate that comes from a landslide victory, even though that is not what happened.
It is vital that people with the power of influence do NOT simply accede to authoritarian rhetoric and processes on the basis of claims that Trump won overwhelmingly. He did not. He won by a margin of, essentially, two people in one hundred. And within those same hundred people, liberal policies won.
This isn't hopium-fueled wishcasting - it's urgently important that liberal-thinking people do not conclude that their positions and policy preferences are minority ones. The country is no more homogenous today than it was two weeks or two years ago.