Donald J. Trump (For everyone else)
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
So.... does it start to make more sense now, or are we going to defend what is obvious corruption?
The Federal Aviation Administration is reportedly planning to ditch a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon in favor of a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
The move would be a blatant favor to the tech mogul, as it would result in overhauling a communications system underpinning America’s air traffic control system and further increase the wealth and power of the world’s richest man, The Washington Post reports.
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative has been granted unprecedented power and access in the federal government by President Trump, which has proven quite beneficial to Musk’s personal interests. The billionaire owes much of his fortune to government contracts, subsidies, and loans to his various companies.
The FAA’s contract with Verizon dates back to 2023, and was meant to upgrade a communications platform used by air traffic controllers and FAA offices. Switching to Starlink would give Musk a larger foothold at the FAA, which Musk has frequently clashed with over safety and regulatory violations. The agency is responsible for the safety and stability of America’s air travel.
Musk himself attacked Verizon on his X account Monday, claiming that “the Verizon system is not working and so is putting air travelers at serious risk.” Several employees from his SpaceX company have been working inside the FAA, ostensibly to upgrade old technology, and despite no decisions having been made, the agency said in a statement Monday that it was already testing Starlink systems in New Jersey and Alaska.
Ayo cyptonuts
So Eth is now down 25% since the day trump won the election
And Btc is racing to breakeven
Still glad?
Ayo cyptonuts
So Eth is now down 25% since the day trump won the election
And Btc is racing to breakeven
Still glad
who cares about eth and other shitcoins. bitcoin is 81k now. you can do the math on % increase since election.
as coordi said, there's massive amounts of uncertainty and unrest right now. prices are volatile. don't really care about short term. long term, we should be in a better place. we'll get a stablecoin bill, market structure bill, sab-121 removed, FASB rules updated, lots of good things happening.
touch grass, have fun and it will all work out.
I mean if you’re referring to Eth as a shitcoin you’re saying nothing matters but btc?
Big if true
Sad if true
What about my apes if true
At least hes knocking on the door
Spoiler
Lol, id argue that TSLA would have to at least drop below what Tesla was when trump came into office before Elon went to work.
Bitcoin would also have to drop below what it was when trump came prez.
...but I wouldn't argue against both of those things happening.
Lol, id argue that TSLA would have to at least drop below what Tesla was when trump came into office before Elon went to work.
Bitcoin would also have to drop below what it was when trump came prez.
...but I wouldn't argue against both of those things happening.
TSLA was at 427 on Jan 20 and it's at 282 now.
Elon does not give one **** about the massive unrest facing his company internationally. What an utterly deplorable sack of ****.
Or that pollution doesn't understand borders.
Luci lives in a country that spends a high % of it's GDP on government, and doesn't provide great outcomes respective to the rest of the industrialized world. It is rife with real fraud and waste and could use some serious reform.
But he applies that understanding of the world to American politics, which he really doesn't know much of anything about. He talks in hyperbole, as anyone who wants some form of government and rules, is a communist. America
From my limited understanding given by reading about American government and listening to friends who have their lives in your country, I would describe American government as "small and invasive".
Team MAGA is certainly doing something to the size of your government, the outcome of of which is anybody's guess. However, they also seem to exponentially increase the invasiveness of your government.
It's bad enough here, in a foreign country far away, how much your government is in the news. I can't even imagine how it is like over there to have your elected leader(s) and unelected bureaucrats in your face 24-7 in a constant barrage of whining and screeching.
From my limited understanding given by reading about American government and listening to friends who have their lives in your country, I would describe American government as "small and invasive".
Team MAGA is certainly doing something to the size of your government, the outcome of of which is anybody's guess. However, they also seem to exponentially increase the invasiveness of your government.
It's bad enough here, in a foreign country far away, how much your government is in the news. I can
Bold is just insanely , factually wrong but who cares at this point.
I don't know where you are from in europe but the USA spends right now more public money for healthcare per person than any european country (in some cases, by a very large margin). That is "small" only as a % of gdp but it's absurd to think in % of gdp terms when the state functions are absolute not relative.
Say you think government should guarantee food to everyone. That woulnd't require a constant % of gdp, the richer a country the smaller the needed intervention in gdp terms. It wouldn't be a "small government" if it guaranteed food to the totality of the people even if that costs very little.
Same with healthcare, the richer you are the less as a % of gdp you should need to guarantee basic healthcare EVEN IF some costs are higher in richer countries.
The american government isn't small in actual size at all, it's huge, the biggest ever in history in absolute terms (resources spent per person by the government).
The american government spends , per person in welfare / mandated insurances, approx the mexican per capita gdp. How much is "enough" to move from small to other words?
The percentage of the population that works in the public sector in the United States is smaller than average, and certainly smaller than most of Western Europe. I would not be surprised if per capita health care expense in the United States is higher than any country in Western Europe, but the sheer size of the public workforce isn't the main driver.
So Trump says Tariffs are coming to Canada Monday .
Interesting piece from CBC on how it will effect the auto industry
Broken YouTube LinkThe percentage of the population that works in the public sector in the United States is smaller than average, and certainly smaller than most of Western Europe. I would not be surprised if per capita health care expense in the United States is higher than any country in Western Europe, but the sheer size of the public workforce isn't the main driver.
sure, but a lot of that is just shuffling around stuff.
everytime some "private" employee serves a medicaid or medicare patient, while in say France he would have been served by a public employee, that's not as big as a difference as it might be implied by the private/public divide. especially if the patient isn't going to shop around for providers for the best price/quality (which instead is what happens with food stamps at least).
these are 2019 data, USA a tad lower than OECE average
now do the healthcare (just the portion paid by the public) correction and the USA are already above OECD average.
but anyway how is a government that deals with everything in life "small"? ofc I am including all levels of government.
how can most education by either public or publicly financed at all levels and the government be called "small", it's nonsense.
a majority of mortgages are insured by government (!!!!!). how is that "small"
a "small" government would be an entity (including all levels) you aren't supposed to deal with regularly at all, that normal people would interact with in normal years of their life a few times per year. that's small
Team MAGA is certainly doing something to the size of your government, the outcome of of which is anybody's guess. However, they also seem to exponentially increase the invasiveness of your government.
Reducing the size of gov't brings short term pain and long-term gains.
I can't even imagine how it is like over there to have your elected leader(s) and unelected bureaucrats in your face 24-7 in a constant barrage of whining and screeching.
The switch from a president who reads from a teleprompter once every 5 or 6 months to someone who answers questions from the press, gives speeches and makes himself as available as possible has been pretty wild.
The good news is that the power of unelected bureaucrats, as well as elected leaders, is falling drastically.
No, 30-something is precisely what I had figured before, but then you're sitting here talking about meeting a now 38 year old man when he was little and having some unspecified relationship with his father who died a decade ago.
That, plus the Archer reference and posting history/style seemed largely incompatible with being the same person.
AI account? Igor, is that you?
I was in high school when I knew Emory. Andrew and Tristan were perhaps in middle school.
H. Jon Benjamin (voice of Archer) is a pretty legit leftist, like, not in the Hollywood lib way, but an actual left-winger, although I liked the show before I learned that.
It's pretty funny to see you adopt the language of the #RESISTANCE and call me a Russian bot 😆 I get it's tongue-in-cheek, but still.
Edit: Emory Tate was an absolute LEGEND in the small world of American chess. Household name in this arena. People would constantly invoke his name on chess sites. Many wins against Grandmasters. He would have been one himself had he had the means to jump through the hoops to get the title. This is why I can't help myself from bringing him up whenever Andrew does something evil. Emory was an actual genius who actually accomplished something and was 1/10000th as known as his shithead son. It offends me. Anyway, back to the thread:
who cares about eth and other shitcoins. bitcoin is 81k now. you can do the math on % increase since election.
touch grass, have fun and it will all work out.
Isn't ETH the second most-popular coin? LOL. Sure, literally every other coin is a "shitcoin", but Bitcoin will be legit forever. Wonderful industry you got here! (being nice by calling it an industry, as it produces no goods or services to anybody)
The "touch grass" thing is hilarious coming from a crypto creep, a group of people famous for watching graphs on the computer go up and down all day. At least when you people were huge on daily fantasy sports you could watch a game or two...
Dave Portnoy being appalled by the Tate bros is so great. I cracked up. Talk about a "let them fight" situation!
a "small" government would be an entity (including all levels) you aren't supposed to deal with regularly at all, that normal people would interact with in normal years of their life a few times per year. that's small
Do you understand how comparatives work? When you add an "er", you are a making a relative comparison. If I said rhinos were smaller than elephants, would your immediate reaction be, "WTF! Rhinos aren't small."
Do you understand how comparatives work? When you add an "er", you are a making a relative comparison. If I said rhinos were smaller than elephants, would your immediate reaction be, "WTF! Rhinos aren't small."
I think a better comparison (instead of rhinos vs elephants) when someone says the US gov't is small compared to Europe is saying a serial rapist is a good person compared to others on death row because the others killed their victims.
Reducing the size of gov't brings short term pain and long-term gains.
The switch from a president who reads from a teleprompter once every 5 or 6 months to someone who answers questions from the press, gives speeches and makes himself as available as possible has been pretty wild.
The good news is that the power of unelected bureaucrats, as well as elected leaders, is falling drastically.
Except he's kicked out the press that might actually ask him questions instead of kissing his ass.
Reducing the size of gov't brings short term pain and long-term gains.
The switch from a president who reads from a teleprompter once every 5 or 6 months to someone who answers questions from the press, gives speeches and makes himself as available as possible has been pretty wild.
The good news is that the power of unelected bureaucrats, as well as elected leaders, is falling drastically.
And we're shifting that power to a single grifting lying moron felon.
I like the incoming confusion from all the clowns who were going around putting "Brandon Did This!" stickers on gas tanks, as though OPEC and other entities don't exist and the President has two buttons on his desk labeled "gas prices up" and "gas prices down", after the economy doesn't massively and quickly improve after putting Mr. Cheeto back in there.
I mean, it's not THAT cool, they'll all come up with ways to somehow blame woke college kids or one of their other boogeymen and nothing will change whatsoever, but in these times, you take what you can get.
