Politics Thread!

[F-ZeroOne]

Okay, fair enough. I imagine Hollywood is still absolutely over the Moon with him though.

[Kelloggs]

Is he trying to destroy California's economy?

I've heard the opinion before that (paraphrased) "people voted him in because he promised to hurt the people they wanted to hurt".

At this point in time, I think, if his actions disproportionately hurt a Blue state, the Project 2025 people will consider it a feature, not a bug. (No, I don't believe he has the mental wherewithall to arrange all this himself - there aren't enough days in the First !00 Days for one man, even such a One Man as His Trumpness, to break so much on his own.)

[F-ZeroOne]

Kennedy now wants funding to find a "cure" for measles. Leaving aside the fact that we had been on our (as in, humanity) way to achieving that, if there was an easy "cure" for measles it likely would already have been found. If its possible to get a "cure" in the first place, then it will almost certainly involve some degree of genetic engineering, and if theres one thing anti-vaxxers adore more than vaccines its treatments with the word "gene" in them. We'll leave aside the irony that the very people who rail against "Big Pharma" would much prefer having some hypothetical treatment that would have to be taken (and therefore, paid for) in all likelihood on a regular basis...

[F-ZeroOne]

Blast, too late to edit - "treatment" is more accurate than "cure", but the points still stands.

[KlaxonCow]

The White House posted this AI image for Star Wars day:



Please note, the lightsaber is red. He openly admits it. He's a Sith Lord.

[zip accident]

The White House posted this AI image for Star Wars day:



Please note, the lightsaber is red. He openly admits it. He's a Sith Lord.

That is the first time I noticed the anagram.

[PFVA]

He's going after PBS, public broadcasting.

He issued an executive order Thursday instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt all funding for PBS and NPR, saying the broadcasters fail to present “a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/t ... bs-and-npr

[F-ZeroOne]

The White House posted this AI image for Star Wars day:



Please note, the lightsaber is red. He openly admits it. He's a Sith Lord.

He really, really would not like the current series of “Andor”…

[tufty]

He's going after PBS, public broadcasting.

Of course he is. He's already banned AP from white house press briefings. Can't be having a free press, and you can't be having broadcasters who try to show the truth.

[PFVA]

He's going after PBS, public broadcasting.

Of course he is. He's already banned AP from white house press briefings. Can't be having a free press, and you can't be having broadcasters who try to show the truth.

... or that try to make people think like PBS does. Thinking is no good for people.

[PFVA]

We have election, again, on the 18th.
Don't ask why, somehow they managed to bring the government down.
In anyway, the "noisy right" is campaigning thru the center North and the North of the country.
The gipsy community is showing up where he goes. They are not using violence, they are just in large numbers shouting "racist", "racist" over and over again. And most of the protesters are women, gypsy women. It's practically impossible to hear the speeches.
The Iberian clans went thru hell in neighbour Spain during Franco and they are not about having to go thru it again. Besides that, they have been here for several centuries.
Note: So far the noisy right has up to 16.5% of the intention of voting in the polls.

[Harlequin]

This is a maxed-out deal that we’re going to make bigger.

Is that even supposed to mean anything?

[zip accident]

A wild thought: is it possible to tax dividends before they reach shareholders, especially in the case of companies behaving badly, or maybe even otherwise?

[Dio]

That's what corporation tax does.

[KlaxonCow]

This is a maxed-out deal that we’re going to make bigger.

Is that even supposed to mean anything?

It means that Trump doesn't know what "maxed out" means.

If you can make it bigger, then it's not "maxed out". If it's maxed out, then you can't make it bigger.

Is this, like, one of those "one door always tells the truth, the other one lies" puzzles?