Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[BlooVooDoo]

I know some of that hysteria is genuine fear and anxiety, and that’s part of my point: there is no point in us putting ourselves through it more than we have to. It will be bad enough if and when bad stuff happens. The time we spend worrying before it happens is just unnecessary pain and stress.

This is very much a do what I say, not what I do thing. I’m just as bad about this. But both for our own sakes and the sake of not burning out others with dire warnings about disaster that may or may not happen, I think we should try to chill over the next couple months.

In the real life conversations I’ve had since the election, I’ve presented my concerns as a range of possibilities between “not ideal, but not that far outside the norm for Republican admins” to “a monumental mistake that may take decades to repair.” I think the incessant doomsaying, understandable as I think it is from a worst case perspective and based in legitimate fear arising from a solid understanding of how government, economics, medicine, criminal justice, etc work, adds to the sense of detachment associated with “educated elites” when that worst case scenario doesn’t materialize. It also hastens the erosion of trust in the traditional (educated/professional) media, science, and other institutions.

 

[CFordUNC]

If the Sec of Education isn’t Lauren Boebert, I’m gonna be sorely disappointed. There’s no other option than to appoint someone who failed out of high school and only got a GED so that she could run for Congress.

 

[mpaer]

The presidency will humble him. You just wait.

The good news also is Being Sec of DOD, DHHS, or AG will also humble you -as you basically need at Least a year to understand what the hell they do if you are an outsider

 

[CFordUNC]

 

[aGDevil2k]

Burn it alllllll down

 

[rodoheel]

The good news also is Being Sec of DOD, DHHS, or AG will also humble you -as you basically need at Least a year to understand what the hell they do if you are an outsider

That would be true if the nominees were trying to legitimately do these jobs, but you don't need to know much to be able to break things.

 

[CFordUNC]

 

[nycfan]

Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social)

Awful: Senate investigations into Trump's solicitation of $1 billion from Big Oil and Jared Kushner's financial dealings with Saudis will now hit a wall with GOP control, Dems tell me. We're headed for unchecked elite corruption under Trump. New piece from me...

bsky.app

Article link since the Bluesky embed is a little different than X:

Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption

The elevation of Elon Musk to a key role suggests that right-wing elites are set to embark on a spree of sordid self-dealing.

newrepublic.com

 

[finesse]

20-30 years ago when I was doing a phase of reading about diseases and medicine, I ran across the statement several times about how much better off we would have been if vaccine development had outrun that of antibiotics. If antibiotics had been used to treat infections and vaccines to ward off disease, we'd have better results with both and a lot fewer antibiotic resistant germs, in their opinion.

 

[nycfan]

CNN (@cnn.com)

The $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles could be vanishing early in the new Trump administration, but that might actually be good news for Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent backers...

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/business/musk-tesla-trump-ev-tax-credit/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2024-11-15T14%3A52%3A09

 

[nycfan]

 

[korgguy1971]

 

[BlooVooDoo]

Not really medicine, but sanitary sewers and water treatment have also been pretty good for human health.

 

[UNCatTech]

“… Even some Senate Republicans expressed doubts.

“He’s got his work cut out for him,” Senator Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican who was believed to have been on Mr. Trump’s short list for the defense secretary job, said of Mr. Hegseth on Wednesday.

[Ernst won’t buck Trump]

… Senator Todd Young, Republican of Indiana, said he was excited about many of Mr. Trump’s nominees. But when it came to Mr. Hegseth, he said, “I don’t know much about his background or vision.”

[So that’s a yes]

…
During a recent podcast interview, Mr. Hegseth said that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the senior military adviser to the president, should be fired for being too “woke.” He has also said that “we should not have women in combat roles.”

Mr. Hegseth, one senior Pentagon official said on Thursday, has instead sought to project the image of the Jack Nicholson character in the film “A Few Good Men,” who dramatically proclaims: “You want me on that wall.” …”

The Daily show had a segment on him. He fits the weird maga mold.

On one show he claimed to have not washed his hands in 10 years.

He's got the grift going, they had an advertisement where he peddled soap that looked similar to grenades, based on the names, they all smelled like shit also. Guess a good alpha male has to smell like shit...

 

[UNCatTech]

She already serves as a warning against bad plastic surgery.

 

[mpaer]

I wonder how much Desantis feels he has to suck up to orangeturd I assumme he is considering this "person"

 

[UNCatTech]

Not really medicine, but sanitary sewers and water treatment have also been pretty good for human health.

Yes, water treatment is easily a top 10 for life expectancy. As is pasteurization. Therefore, I proclaim, let them drink raw milk...

 

[Paine]

Yes, water treatment is easily a top 10 for life expectancy. As is pasteurization. Therefore, I proclaim, let them drink raw milk...

I’d be fine letting the loonies drink raw milk to their heart’s desire if it didn’t have the potential to spawn a pandemic level bird flu outbreak.

 

[finesse]

The idea of antisepsis in medicine didn't generally take hold until the late nineteenth century. Semmelweis discovered the principle earlier but he was such an ass, people didn't much listen. Pasteur's work with germs and Lister finding a practical way and agent for the process paved the way. That alone might have given major cities a positive birthrate for the first time.

 

[farce©]

Medical freedom? The freedom to make uneducated decisions that can impact everyone around you based on your ignorant opinion, and not considering science or medical research. Hmmmm....

Medical freedom concerning vaccine mandates is akin to personal freedom concerning speed limits and other traffic laws. It impacts everyone around you, idiots!