Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread
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i assure you they feel they same way.
you both are just a bunch of easily controlled overly sensitive sheep
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German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.“…
A day after Mr. Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference by telling German leaders to drop their so-called firewall and allow the hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to enter their federal government, Mr. Scholz accused Mr. Vance of effectively violating a commitment to never again allow Germany to be led by fascists who could repeat the horrors of the Holocaust.
“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD,” Mr. Scholz said at the conference on Saturday morning, in an address opening the gathering’s second day.
Mr. Scholz said the AfD had trivialized Nazi atrocities like the concentration camp at Dachau, which Mr. Vance visited on Friday. The chancellor said Germany “would not accept” directives from outsiders about how to run its democracy — and certainly not to work with such a party.
“That is not done, certainly not among friends and allies,” Mr. Scholz said. “Where our democracy goes from here is for us to decide.”
Mr. Scholz was joined in his criticism later Saturday by Friedrich Merz, his rival as the chancellor candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats, whom polls suggest is the favorite to be Germany’s next leader.
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No party in the German Parliament will join with the AfD to form a government. Parts of the AfD have been classified as extremist by German intelligence. Some of its members have been convicted of violating German law against the use of Nazi slogans. Others have been arrested for trying to overthrow the federal government.
That collective shunning of the AfD and other extremist parties is known as the firewall. Mr. Vance took aim at it on Friday, saying the AfD and other hard-right parties across Europe represented legitimate voter concerns about high levels of migration into European countries from the Middle East and elsewhere.
“There is no room for firewalls,” Mr. Vance said.
Attendees at Mr. Vance’s speech on Friday had been expecting to hear details of the Trump administration’s plans for Ukraine peace talks and NATO defense policies. Instead, they heard the vice president call restrictions on free speech a greater threat to Europe than military aggression from Russia or China. …”
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Do you think anything the current administration has done to this point has done anything at all to grow/expand our presence on the world stage?
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The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
“… The administration’s actions have also affected scientific pursuits in ways that go beyond those orders. The dismantling of USAID has halted clinical trials abroad, leaving participants with experimental drugs and devices still in their bodies. Last week, NIH announced that it would slash the amount its grants would pay for administrative costs—a move that has since been blocked by a federal judge but that would substantially hamper entire institutions from carrying out the day-to-day activities of research.
The administration is reportedly planning to cut the budget for the National Science Foundation.
Mass layoffs of federal workers have also begun, and two NIH scientists (who asked not to be identified for fear of professional repercussions) told me they participated in a meeting this morning in which it was announced that thousands of staff across the Department of Health and Human Services would be let go starting today. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now become the head of that department, after two confirmation hearings in which he showed a lack of basic understanding of the U.S. health system and a flagrant disregard for data that support the safety and effectiveness of various lifesaving vaccines. (The White House did not return repeated requests for comment.)
The mood among scientists is, naturally, grim.
… The new administration seems unlikely to abandon science in its entirety—research into space exploration or artificial intelligence may well continue without friction and even flourish under Trump’s leadership. In an executive order released yesterday, the White House reaffirmed its commitment to tackling chronic disease, a priority of Kennedy’s. But the new administration can pursue certain sectors of science, and talk up scientific values, while still diminishing the research enterprise as a whole. Science and government are now weeks into what will likely be a prolonged battle over how research can and will be done in the United States. …”
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“… Already, the administration has issued guidance limiting PEPFAR-funded pre-exposure prophylaxis to only “pregnant and breastfeeding women,” excluding by omission other populations extremely vulnerable to infection, including both men who have sex with men as well as transgender people. And several sexual-health researchers told me that the Trump administration recently issued a termination order for their large, CDC-funded study that focused on reducing health disparities among populations affected by multiple STIs. (A judge has since issued a temporary restraining order allowing the study to resume.)The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?www.theatlantic.com
“… The administration’s actions have also affected scientific pursuits in ways that go beyond those orders. The dismantling of USAID has halted clinical trials abroad, leaving participants with experimental drugs and devices still in their bodies. Last week, NIH announced that it would slash the amount its grants would pay for administrative costs—a move that has since been blocked by a federal judge but that would substantially hamper entire institutions from carrying out the day-to-day activities of research.
The administration is reportedly planning to cut the budget for the National Science Foundation.
Mass layoffs of federal workers have also begun, and two NIH scientists (who asked not to be identified for fear of professional repercussions) told me they participated in a meeting this morning in which it was announced that thousands of staff across the Department of Health and Human Services would be let go starting today. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now become the head of that department, after two confirmation hearings in which he showed a lack of basic understanding of the U.S. health system and a flagrant disregard for data that support the safety and effectiveness of various lifesaving vaccines. (The White House did not return repeated requests for comment.)
The mood among scientists is, naturally, grim.
… The new administration seems unlikely to abandon science in its entirety—research into space exploration or artificial intelligence may well continue without friction and even flourish under Trump’s leadership. In an executive order released yesterday, the White House reaffirmed its commitment to tackling chronic disease, a priority of Kennedy’s. But the new administration can pursue certain sectors of science, and talk up scientific values, while still diminishing the research enterprise as a whole. Science and government are now weeks into what will likely be a prolonged battle over how research can and will be done in the United States. …”
… But the new administration’s approach to science bleeds past the bounds of any single field.
One cancer researcher at George Washington University, for instance, had to halt a projectinvestigating the best ways to collect information about gender and sexual orientation from patients.
The terms the Trump administration has flagged as “gender ideology”—a list that includes pregnant people, transgender, binary, non-binary, assigned at birth, cisgender, and queer—have already been politicized. But by targeting gender as a category as well as the entire concept of DEI, the government has now granted itself a way to directly affect just about any scientific discipline in which human identity and behavior are relevant, or in which people of diverse backgrounds are involved in the work—which is to say, any scientific discipline.
The National Science Foundation, for instance, has been hunting for hundreds of DEI-related terms in grants, leaving researchers fearful that merely attempting to include diverse populations in their work will tank their chances of success.
Many scientists told me that they expect the list of terms the government is flagging or excising to expand.
The National Institutes of Health is reportedly scouring existing grants that mention COVID, and the Commerce Department has asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to scan grants for climate-related words, though the upshot of those searches isn’t yet clear.
Kate Brown, a science historian at MIT, told me that some of her colleagues have been passing around lists of words that they think “should not appear in grant applications,” including environment, climate, and race. David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, told me that a dean at his school recommended removing even the term biodiversity from public-facing documents, out of concern that it would be flagged by searches for DEI-related terminology. (A spokesperson at the university told me that they couldn’t find any official message from the school or the university.)
Navigating these new restrictions isn’t as simple as “find and replace.” Deshira Wallace, a health-behavior researcher at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been modifying her grant proposals to, for instance, describe the impacts of heat exposure on certain groups overrepresented among farmworkers, rather than referring directly to climate change or Black and Latino people. But she cannot hide that diversity and health equity are core to her work.
Other researchers are concluding that the simpler solution may be to step away from projects that, for instance, examine the impacts of air pollution on racially segregated communities (impossible to study without acknowledging diversity) or firearm deaths among American kids (which vary by gender and other demographics). …”
We look like bigger assholes to the world at large than ever, even exceeding the late 40s when we were the only nuclear power. Trump is the bomb.
BlooVooDoo
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How bad does a deal have to be for Ukraine for you to think it qualifies as being thrown under the bus?
Silence Dogood
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Silence Dogood
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Its about time we expose the bureaucracy for waste and abuse. Its been a long time coming. This is definitely a bi partisan issue. Who could possibly be against reviewing govt records potentially exposing their inefficiency?
heelslegup
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Great, so now more classified info can be published and PII for student loan borrowers and other US citizens can be scraped for future use. All this so we can enter a bitcoin-fueled era of anarcho-capitalism where Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and other billionaires don't pay taxes and we have a medieval lord serf system again. No wonder Thiel has bought land and bunkers in NZ to escape to when the fettucine hits the fan with massive social unrest and protests
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Dems need to GTFO Washington, DC and show the consequences of DOGE, Trump's Idiocracy. Start telling the story! Be an opposition party.
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DOGE’s latest chaotic funding cut will kill more kids with cancer
President Donald Trump and DOGE bro Elon Musk's drastic cuts to National Institutes of Health grants will lead to more children dying of cancer, the director of the nation’s leading childhood ...
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Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance
The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.
Trump's tariff plan would raise inflation and cost U.S. jobs, economist Mark Zandi says
President Trump ramped up his trade battles with countries around the world today after he announced a plan for new reciprocal tariffs that could take effect this spring. The tariffs would match the tax rates that other countries charge on American-made imports. Amna Nawaz discussed the concerns...
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Which industries are most vulnerable to Trump's immigration crackdown?
Mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. could hurt a range of U.S. industries, experts warn.
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How Trump, Musk, and DOGE are undermining US intelligence and national security
The unfettered access that Elon Musk and DOGE have been given to computer systems across the federal government threatens to undermine US intelligence efforts in manifold ways. So do the offer of buyouts to all Central Intelligence Agency employees and other efforts to drastically reduce...
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Warner: Trump Administration weakening nation’s security
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — It’s not every day that a Chinese spy balloon floats to the East Coast, but that was the case two years ago when Air Force F-22 raptors from Langley Air Force Base in Hampton shot down the intelligence mission. The day after President Donald Trump offered buyouts to the...
Trump passes the baton of technological leadership to China — Jeffrey D. Sachs
At the core of a country’s global competitiveness is its ability to innovate. As economist Joseph Schumpeter observed in his classic “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy,’’ capitalism is characterized by waves of “creative destruction,” in which advances in technology create new industries while de
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The US is weaker. Chyna and Russia are stronger.
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This shows how fucking disingenuous you people are.
Definitely a bipartisan issue, yet only Donald Trump's personal unelected campaign donor oligarch and a bunch of 18 year old tech bros are the ones making the determination? Where is the bipartisanship?
Exposing inefficiency, yet the "department" responsible for pulling back that veil is not subject to the same transparency? We're just supposed to take Elon Musk's word for it, despite the fact that he's already been exposed as a liar, and even admitted that not everything he says is true? This is Gestapo-level shit, only using misinformation instead of violence.
USAID, Department of Education, Department of Labor...etc. The Project 2025 playbook come to life. Except for human shit stains like yourself, that's a feature, not a bug.
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The other day CNBC had on the head of a private defense firm which has just assumed Microsoft's $21.8 billion contract to provide Augmented Reality headsets to the Pentagon. The person, irony amd conflict of interest meters disabled, effusively complimented Musk for going after govt waste and excessive govt contracts.
Silence Dogood
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You sound like Maxine Waters etc. What are you hiding?
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Personally I think Putin expected Biden to behave like Obama did in 2014. No way he expected Biden and the euros to support Ukraine as strongly as they did. And I think in now way did he imagine for the war in Ukraine to become a quagmire.
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Flippant response about our country turning into a 3rd World cesspool.
You braindead cucks let Trump and Musk bukkake all over your faces, and you wipe your chin and ask for seconds.
You're fucking pathetic.
I agree. Putin committed the most egregious error someone launching a war can commit. He overestimated his country’s abilities and underestimated his enemy’s. That is why he’s in the mess he’s in now.