Trump Redux: The Death of Democracy, or Overblown Hyperbole?

[DJChameleon]

Propaganda be propagandizing.

I would love to quit my job but get paid through September... but what are the implications here?

It's an easy way to get people to quit without following through on it. Those people that quit are suckers that won't get paid.

"This 'fork' thing is not a buyout," said Jim Eisenmann, a partner with Alden Law Group who represents federal employees, referring to the "Fork in the Road" subject line that accompanied an email sent to federal workers Tuesday. "It's not based on any law or regulation or anything really other than an idea they cooked up to get federal employees out of the government."

Sauce

[Lexi Darling]

So the latest EO by President Rapist aims to (among many other deeply idiotic and hateful things) cut funding from schools whose staff agree to "modify the names" of students to desired names that "differ from a person's sex". I wonder if President Child Genital Inspector would have threatened my high school because the staff referred to me as "Alex", which is a gender neutral name that I was going by both pre- and post-coming out, rather than the proper god honoring biologically sexed name "Alexander".

It adds insult to injury that the atrocity that is fascist persecution of marginalized groups is also just... deeply cosmically stupid.

[Lucem Ferre]

They usually are fairly stupid in many ways.

I wonder how many schools will refuse to follow and how exactly they plan to monitor schools to enforce it.

[Psy-Fi]

Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle lawsuit with President Donald Trump

[Trollheart]

Only someone like Trump would use a tragedy like a mid-air collision, with the loss of over 60 souls, to push his "down with diversity" agenda, and harp on a point. Jesus in the polling booth! Has the man no shame? Don't bother to answer, I already know. RIP a whole bunch of people who should never have died.

[degrassiknoll]

Quick question - why would there be military aircraft in the flight path of passenger planes? Black Hawks don't usually frequent airports. 

[Weekender]

So the latest EO by President Rapist aims to (among many other deeply idiotic and hateful things) cut funding from schools whose staff agree to "modify the names" of students to desired names that "differ from a person's sex". I wonder if President Child Genital Inspector would have threatened my high school because the staff referred to me as "Alex", which is a gender neutral name that I was going by both pre- and post-coming out, rather than the proper god honoring biologically sexed name "Alexander".

It adds insult to injury that the atrocity that is fascist persecution of marginalized groups is also just... deeply cosmically stupid.

Who knows, maybe a teacher gets in trouble for ignoring this rule, but I doubt it.

The ban on trans in the military is wrong and stupid, but also fuck working for the US military?

Obviously it makes 100% more sense to evaluate on a case by case basis. There are certainly excellent trans soldiers that officers will be sad to lose, but anything that makes the US military less efficient is almost a positive?

[degrassiknoll]

The military exploits the young and impoverished. A less efficient military just means more people die.

[SGR]

Quick question - why would there be military aircraft in the flight path of passenger planes? Black Hawks don't usually frequent airports. 

From what I've read, the Black Hawk was on an annual proficiency training flight with an experienced crew - and this kind of air traffic over DC is not unusual. Why the Black Hawk remained in the flight path of the commercial jet long enough for the collision to occur seems to be currently unknown - I'm sure we'll get more info, so not much use to speculate.

The helicopter that was on a training flight when the collision took place shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. Both the jet and the helicopter were taking a "standard flight pattern," Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Thursday.

"This was not unusual, with a military aircraft flying the river and aircraft landing at DCA," Duffy said.

[degrassiknoll]

I am not sure we'll get more info, but it's cute to have hope

[Trollheart]

Ah you know Biden, Obama, Harris and the rest of the Democrat Deep State cabal were responsible. Trying to sabotage Trump's first week in office. 

[SGR]

Ah you know Biden, Obama, Harris and the rest of the Democrat Deep State cabal were responsible. Trying to sabotage Trump's first week in office. 

[Auroras In Ice]

Turns out that Musk pushed the FAA director out on Jan 20 and in the days following they froze hiring of air traffic controllers and gutted the aviation safety committee. But, yeah, like everything else that ever goes wrong now this is actually the fault of woke DEI commie trans people or whatever bullshit buzzword slurry is being puked around.

Personally, in terms of bullshit scapegoats, I would have ran with blaming Hamas.

[Weekender]

Downright sinister.

This attack on affirmative action will lead to greater levels of inequality between whites and blacks that the next generation of Republicans will blame on black culture.

[Trollheart]

Does anyone seriously doubt the possibilty of slavery returning? If black people and minorities can't get jobs as the Trump administration closes off avenues, and assuming there's no "black/trans/insert minority or oppressed group as appropriate holocaust", then surely those people are going to have to take whatever they can get, leading to the old white master/black servant class that was prevalent in the 19th century and before? I mean, it may not officially be slavery, but won't it be so in everything but name?