jakee

For the US, reducing global reliance on dollar dominated system sounds like a not positive thing...

It’s just what anyone else does when faced with irrational directives from a capricious, volatile, tiny brained and tinier dicked boss - go into full on CYA mode.

A lot less than the worst year in 3 decades? Must be fine then, let’s all knock off early and go to the pub. Of course the Mennonites in west Texas are mostly confined to Mennonite communities in west Texas. RFK has a somewhat wider influence now.

So if Trump doesn't personally sign the pink slip it's nothing to do with him? Don't be that guy.

""We're doing very well with Russia, but right now they're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I think he's doing what anyone else would do – he's hitting them harder than he's been hitting them, and anyone in that position would be doing right now," Trump said. "He wants to get it ended." " Cunt.

Then you didn’t look very hard. Judge Beryl Howell issued an order saying the Trump administration cannot fire NLRB board member Gwynne Wilcox—which is a final ruling that will remain in place unless a higher court overturns it—ruling Trump firing her is a “blatant violation” of federal law

Don't be that guy. When Trump ordered all probationary employees in every agency to be fired, why do you think they all received messages saying they were being let go because their performance had been assessed as substandard? If everything was above board, why do you think the Trump admin was trying to cover its ass?

I don't think you need to be an expert in economics to figure that out, do you?

Why do you think the courts are already blocking many of the attempted firings? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-mass-firings-federal-government-bill https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/06/judge-blocks-trump-from-firing-labor-board-member-heres-where-trump-and-musk-are-winning-and-losing-in-court/

Why do you think the courts are already blocking many of the attempted firings? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-mass-firings-federal-government-bill https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/06/judge-blocks-trump-from-firing-labor-board-member-heres-where-trump-and-musk-are-winning-and-losing-in-court/

Not guidelines - laws. He’s breaking the law. And damn if the lawsuits and payouts aren’t going to put more than a dent in any ‘efficiency’ gains.

So again, exactly what Trump and Musk are not doing.

And of course one of the best ways to do that is to cripple the revenue generating arm of the organisation. Yeah, it's for sure all about that balance. Totally.

So tell me when GM employees voted to be laid off? Which circles back nicely to the point of the thread, which is that Trump and Musk lied to their voters about what they were planning to do, and now a lot of people are regretting believing them.

Yeah, what's that about? Like, literally why is vegemite? Just sits there on the shelf making the world around it a slightly worse place. From a European and particularly UK perspective there is a growing silver lining. Joe was right that Europe needs to get it's head around generating the ability to stand completely alone when needed, and I think that the positive moves in that direction will take some of the wind out of the far right sails across europe. Most of the far right parties and politicians in Europe have disappeared entirely up Trump's arse, while Trump himself is very successfully alienating all but the most hardcore right wing voters, so suddenly the traditional middle ground looks a lot stronger. Starmer is growing into a leadership role with Europe, and given that the biggest pro-Brexit voice Farage is the most pathetically obsequious Trump sycophant you could imagine I think the terror that liberal politicians in the UK have felt about doing anything that might lead to closer ties with Europe will rapidly start to receed and we can get some common sense cross border cooperation back. Meanwhile Emmanuel Macron is damn near having a Churchill moment (which is ironic given France's rather lackluster material support for Ukraine in contrast to their status as Europe's largest arms manfuacturer) and that again is very welcome in staving off the growing threat of National Rally and Marine Le Pen. (Leader of National Rally and daughter of founder, 40 year leader and holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen. Why is it all these 'power to the people' right wing populist movements are actually completely closed shops? Almost as if they're not really representing anyone's interests but their own. Anyway, I digress...)

I have never taken a course in economics but even I know we’re not talking about business.

You are far too generous to him because you want to make excuses for your support. Remember in this same speech he said the US would take possession of Greenland ‘one way or the other’. Territory of an allied sovereign state. He’s not cosying up to Russia because he doesn’t understand what they’re doing. He knows exactly what they’re doing and thinks it’s a brilliant idea worth copying. He sees Putin as far more of a kindred spirit than any democratically elected western leader because he himself hates having to operate within the constraints of a democracy.

Why are you using a different name, Winsor?

I certainly agree it is fascinating… so why are you still doing it? You know for an absolute fact that the source articles do not back up your position, so why do you keep insisting that it’s dishonest for people to disagree with you? Why are you so vehemently opposed to the idea that someone else can possess a different opinion to you about what may or may not have happened inside a secret meeting?

It was a beautiful deal, a perfect deal! Everybody says so.

He is at least a knob. JD accused Zelensky of disrespecting the USA by lecturing then about conditions in Ukraine. A couple of weeks ago JD came to Munich and disrespected the entire European community by lecturing us on how to run our own internal political systems. A guy who has spoken extensively about the need to replace US democracy with a single far right leader accused Europe of betraying democracy if they we don’t invite the far right into government. The shallowest of hypocrites. As for Trump - dis anyone ever think we’d see an American President display such weakness on the world stage? It is now blanket administration policy to not even acknowledge that Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place in case the Kremlin takes offence at the truth. Alongside dismantling protections against Russian cyber warfare, halting aid to Ukraine and proposing the lifting of all sanctions on Russia and the Russians it seems that the White House believes it’s only ploy in these ‘negotiations’ is to give Putin absolutely every single thing he could ever want and hope he decides to throw them a bone in return.

Ironic that this thread started with you being incredibly angry that other people didn’t automatically believe every single word of what Burchett said happened behind closed doors. Now you’re incredibly angry because you refuse to believe any of what Bill said happened behind closed doors

Or maybe there's a single line of code that wasn't working quite the same as it used to in this resurrected site and Bill didn't realise that at the time? Either that or the conspiracy against you goes just as deep as the one against your friend with the supersonic underwater alien bases.

You can't get more compliant than dead. Chauvin refused to let go even when Floyd was already dead. But sure, any act of non-compliance with an officer is an irrevocable death sentence, no matter how quickly you change your mind. As I said, you don't care that Chauvin murdered him, you're just sad you didn't get to help do it.

Interesting. I did think you sounded an awful lot like a Winsor sock puppet for some reason. Thing is, apart from the stuff about making it harder for black people to get an even break, he’s not really doing any of the stuff you want - least of all fiscal responsibility. The damage they’re doing to the government is going to be hugely expensive to repair. As for running it like a business - the 28 year old programmer overseeing the IRS told the staff he’d run it like a tech startup… despite presumably never having worked, much less managed, a tech startup. Still, most startups fail so there’s probably more than a grain of truth to it. His first act? Axing the department in charge of making it easier for people to pay tax because rando on X told Elon it was a hotbed of leftists. I guess tech startups hate revenue?