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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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UNCatTech said:
Completely disagree.

Those who claim that nothing was necessary are not simply saying there was an overreaction, they claim, with hindsight, that we didn't need to do anything. Just treat it like we do the flu.
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I didn't say nothing was necessary or warranted, I just think there was an overreaction.
And I disagree that the actions that were taken didn't save many. How can you say definitively that people who are alive today would not have died had they not taken the precautions? You cannot. If you would like to, just call the families of those who refused the vaccine and then as they died, they made public statements that they wish they had taken it more seriously. Talk to those families about how "some lives were possibly saved".
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I'm sure there are post-mortem studies that try to quantify the impact of masks, lockdowns, closed schools, the vaccine etc on mortality rates. I haven't seen them, other than at least one about masks, so this is just my opinion based on mortality data. I do think that there was evidence, fairly early on, that Covid targeted specific demographics and was very much like the flu for anyone not in those demographics. Having had both only a couple months apart, I think the flu is worse than Covid. MUCH worse.
It's also interesting how your wording declares where you stand. Using definitive words like "overreaction" when talking about the government and "possibly saved" when talking about the measures taken.

We will never know the results of the other path. But I guarantee you had the government done nothing and 20 million had died, all of those who after the fact want to declare that nothing was necessary would have been the same people whining about the government not doing enough had this been the chosen path.
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I agree and governments are generally going to be overly cautious for that reason. Sometimes being overly cautious results in an overreaction.
 
Ramrouser said:
My success has never been determined by which Administration is in charge of the Federal government. That's LOSER mentality. I live in a deep blue neighborhood and City (with very often TERRIBLE Mayors); a Red(ish) State (with good Governors) and a Federal government that goes back and forth between Dem and R. You can make it work regardless who is in charge.
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I agree with this. As I've stated many times, it never bothered me if the candidate I voted for won or lost in the past.

I just hope that this next 4 years is the same. I just worry because of what trump said he would do and how those things would change the country like no other president before. I just hope that those here who keep telling us that he's just lying as normal and that he or musk are not going to do those things are right.

I guess we will see.
 
ZenMode said:
I didn't say nothing was necessary or warranted, I just think there was an overreaction.

I'm sure there are post-mortem studies that try to quantify the impact of masks, lockdowns, closed schools, the vaccine etc on mortality rates. I haven't seen them, other than at least one about masks, so this is just my opinion based on mortality data. I do think that there was evidence, fairly early on, that Covid targeted specific demographics and was very much like the flu for anyone not in those demographics. Having had both only a couple months apart, I think the flu is worse than Covid. MUCH worse.


I agree and governments are generally going to be overly cautious for that reason. Sometimes being overly cautious results in an overreaction.
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Overreactions tend to happen when people are…ya know…DYING.
 
ZenMode said:
I didn't say nothing was necessary or warranted, I just think there was an overreaction.

I'm sure there are post-mortem studies that try to quantify the impact of masks, lockdowns, closed schools, the vaccine etc on mortality rates. I haven't seen them, other than at least one about masks, so this is just my opinion based on mortality data. I do think that there was evidence, fairly early on, that Covid targeted specific demographics and was very much like the flu for anyone not in those demographics. Having had both only a couple months apart, I think the flu is worse than Covid. MUCH worse.


I agree and governments are generally going to be overly cautious for that reason. Sometimes being overly cautious results in an overreaction.
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Of course, in hindsight everything was an overreaction. It's easy to make that claim after the fact.

In the moment what would you have wanted our leaders to do? Should they have just told everyone to go about life while they figured it out. Just look at the hysteria in the beginning and multiply that if the average person felt that the government was doing nothing.
 
UNCatTech said:
How many common men have their dads give them a million dollars to start out with?

Trump is no common man. From what I've read of his interactions on construction sites, it wasn't the interactions that made the common man want to go get a beer with him after. That's part of what is so puzzling about the narrative that he's in touch with the average working class.

I'm sure the small business's that he didn't pay for their work on his grand cassino project really think of his as another common guy.

So by this statement you mean JD Vance: I'm referring to the modern, metropolitan elite whose education and associations have opened doors to affluence and power without actually working for a living and creating anything of value.?

Do you really think that Elon did everything on his own? That he didn't have many of those educated elite engineers supporting him and helping to develop those companies? I guess they never created anything of value.

It's very interesting how you look down on people while claiming that's what caused the democrats to lose the election.
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"How many common men have their dads give them a million dollars to start out with?"

He received 413 million dollars from his dad. If he had taken that largess and simply put in a S&P 500 index fund, his net worth would be more than twice what it is today
 
UNCatTech said:
I agree with this. As I've stated many times, it never bothered me if the candidate I voted for won or lost in the past.

I just hope that this next 4 years is the same. I just worry because of what trump said he would do and how those things would change the country like no other president before. I just hope that those here who keep telling us that he's just lying as normal and that he or musk are not going to do those things are right.

I guess we will see.
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Have you ever had the rainmaker partner in your law firm indicted for felonious attempts to fraudulently push Georgia’s 2020 electoral votes to Trump, and being assured those indictments would disappear if Trump were elected in 2024? If not, you don’t have much in common with Ramrouser.
 
Ramrouser said:
Vivek is the living and breathing embodiment of the immigrant experience in the US. He's elite now but he worked for it.
Elon is a unicorn with an unbelievable work ethic who's the modern day Thomas Edison/Henry Ford. He doesn't even have a house as he routinely sleeps at his factories and businesses.
Trump is the billionaire common man who's spent time on construction sites his entire career and KNOWS HOW to talk and interact with working men and women.

As for Liberal Elites think of the way Kamala, John Kerry, and Trudeau speak and relate to ordinary "folks." I'm referring to the modern, metropolitan elite whose education and associations have opened doors to affluence and power without actually working for a living and creating anything of value. These are the individuals who have been running the governments and bureaucracies of the US, Canada and Europe.
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How much of this do you actually believe?
 
The complete absence of certain folks posting on this thread noq is VERY telling of the realization that is just beginning in their brains.

The game is over. Folks like Musk and Vivek now own the Presidency and our entire government. Trump has neither the power nor the will to push back against them now.
 
It is very interesting how people react to government.

Can you imagine had the government done nothing and let some of the big banks collapse or let GM go under? People would have been up in arms that the government didn't do its job. Yet, when the government did step in and help, it's an overreaction.

Same with COVID. Had the government did nothing, the masses would have revolted. The hospital system may have shutdown. Many more would have probably died. But after it's over, because some mistakes were made and people had to stay home for a while, it was an overreaction.

I don't see many of those who were protected from foreclosure bitching about it, or those who received the stimulus sending it back, but they sure like to bitch that the government overreacted, after the fact. I'll even give trump some credit there in working to make the vaccine available quicker through funding and helping with red tape. He probably would have been looked at much more positively had he just shut up and not told people of his alternative options.
 
UNCatTech said:
Of course, in hindsight everything was an overreaction. It's easy to make that claim after the fact.

In the moment what would you have wanted our leaders to do? Should they have just told everyone to go about life while they figured it out. Just look at the hysteria in the beginning and multiply that if the average person felt that the government was doing nothing.
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His analysis is the same in the thread about Jan 6. Find some component, often an ancillary one, of a complex action that he disagrees with and paint the entire exercise as a failure. It's the recreational contrarian's stock in trade.
 
Wait, what?


"The message appears to include a reference to Musk’s son, X Æ A-Xii, whom Musk colloquially refers to as X. The post comes as Musk, whom Trump named as co-leader of his government efficiency initiative, has drawn fresh criticism from loyal Trump supporters over his support of the visa program that allows highly skilled foreign workers to immigrate to the US."

Hey, Pubs! I know you hate it enough when Michael changes his name to Michaela to vote for a fascist for president, so I wanted to see what you think about his primary supporter naming his "son" X Æ A-Xii. You sure you're still on this train?
 
heelinhell said:
"How many common men have their dads give them a million dollars to start out with?"

He received 413 million dollars from his dad. If he had taken that largess and simply put in a S&P 500 index fund, his net worth would be more than twice what it is today
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Wow, I stand corrected.

This reminds me of an interview I heard with one of Warren Buffett's sons. The interviewer asked about the story that his father only gave him a small amount of money because he wanted them to go out and earn their money, not be spoiled. He sort of laughed and said yes, his dad had given him some stocks and other investments, that his dad did want him to work and be successful, but he gave him enough that he didn't have to worry. The interviewer asked how much, the son replied: "In today's market it's around $190M".

I just laughed because I had heard the story of Buffett not giving his kids a lot of money several times. I guess it's like Buffett's story of his secretary's tax liability being greater than his, it's often repeated in a less accurate way.
 
Enigma94 said:
His analysis is the same in the thread about Jan 6. Find some component, often an ancillary one, of a complex action that he disagrees with and paint the entire exercise as a failure. It's the recreational contrarian's stock in trade.
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Yes, I recognize his style and I am working to avoid responding...

I really should know better after how narrowly he defined normal, so it would fit his position that anyone who isn't Cisgender is abnormal.
 
Lol did not expect to see Dasha tweets on the ZZL today.

I hope that this is the catalyst to remove Elon from the inner circle… H1Bs are not popular with anyone outside the C-suite. But the whole thing will probably be forgotten in a day or two.
 
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