POG Politics Thread Version 3
Come on in! Since Dustin is taking his ball and going home, it's time to start a new politics thread.
Mark, I'm going to need a ruling based on your handy chart there -- how many fascists do we have here?
This is pretty dishonest and stupid. A simple look at the videos of where these are from would show a drastic difference to the obvious and intentional nazi salute that the muskrat did.
Hate when that happens
Canada's version of pissing into a fan:
Trump fires the head of national aviation agency, and within a week three planes crash.
Must be all of the coloreds and cripples...
for which Trump is responsible?
During Trump's first term, the FAA actually announced a pilot program "to help prepare people with disabilities for careers in air traffic operations," which was to enroll up to 20 people for training (archived here). The agency emphasized as it rolled out the initiative that candidates would receive "the same rigorous consideration in terms of aptitude, medical and security qualifications as those individuals considered for a standard public opening."
The FAA under Trump continued to promote the so-called Aviation Development Program in 2020, shortly before he lost his reelection bid to Biden (archived here).
Is it Trump's fault if the ATC was understaffed and lacking oversight?
The Associated Press reported on Jan. 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration, that members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee were told that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would eliminate the membership of all advisory committees as part of a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.” The committee was formed by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing to advise the DHS on aviation safety. Many of the group’s recommendations were adopted. While the committee technically remains in existence, it has no members to carry out its work of reviewing safety concerns and offering recommendations to improve airport and airline security.
“I hope somebody asks President Trump why he scrapped, why he decided on January 22 to scrap the aviation safety board, an advisory board at the Department of Homeland Security," Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, said on CNN on Jan. 30. "The order scrapping that advisory board said that it was not consistent with the agency’s mission toward national security. What an odd thing to say, that air safety is not connected to national security.”
The aviation safety board didn't seem to foresee helicopters and airplanes routinely crossing routes could be a problem.
I feel like there are stories that air traffic control is perpetually understaffed. Like how people know there is an infrastructure problem but nothing really gets done.
Inflation Reduction Act page for the US ... has been taken down
Wayback machine has info as of Jan 21 2025
today it resolves to :
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they don't gotta burn the books they just remove em
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs A... (IIJA) (Public Law 117-58, also known as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”) is a once-in-a-generation investment in our infrastructure that will help grow the economy, enhance U.S. competitiveness, create good jobs, and build our safe, resilient, and equitable transportation future.
The FHWA is here to educate our stakeholders and the public on key information on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s highway provisions.
Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems (ADCMS) (PDF 146 kb)
Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovation (ATTAIN) (PDF 145 kb)
Apportionment (PDF 172 kb)
Bridge Investment Program (BIP) (PDF 172 kb)
Bridge Formula Program (BFP) (PDF 132 kb)
Carbon Reduction Program (CRP) (PDF 210 kb)
Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (PDF 206 kb)
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program (PDF 139 kb)
Congestion Relief Program (PDF 116 kb)
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Supportive Services Program (DBE-SS) (PDF 78 kb)
Emergency Relief Program (ER) (PDF 172 kb)
Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) (PDF 141 kb)
Federal Lands Transportation Program (FLTP) (PDF 150 kb)
Federal Share Fact Sheet (PDF 185 kb)
Ferry Boat Program (FBP) (PDF 162 kb)
Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) (PDF 190 kb)
Highway Use Tax Evasion Projects (PDF 115 kb)
Metropolitan Planning Program (MPP) (PDF 170 kb)
National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grants (Culvert AOP Program) (PDF 143 kb)
National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program (PDF 150 kb)
National Highway Freight Program (NHFP) (PDF 140 kb)
National Highway Performance Program (NHPP) (PDF 136 kb)
Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects Program (NSFLTP) (PDF 36 kb)
Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects (INFRA) (PDF 180 kb)
On-the-Job Training Supportive Services (OJT/SS) (PDF 141 kb)
Pollinator-Friendly Practices on Roadsides and Highway Rights-of-Way Grant Program (Roadside Pollinator Program) (PDF 158 kb)
Prioritization Process Pilot Program (PPPP) (PDF 188 kb)
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Formula Program (PDF 155 kb)
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost- Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Discretionary Grant Program (PDF 182 kb)
Railway-Highway Crossings Program (RHCP) (PDF 157 kb)
Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program (RCP) (PDF 162 kb)
Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities (PDF 107 kb)
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program (PDF 84 kb)
Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) (PDF 260 kb)
Strategic Innovation for Revenue Collection (SIRC) (PDF 135 kb)
Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) (PDF 170 kb)
Territorial and Puerto Rico Highway Program (PDF 127 kb)
Training and Education (PDF 172 kb)
Transportation Alternatives (TA) (PDF 142 kb)
Tribal Transportation Program (TTP) (PDF 181 kb)
Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program (PDF 166 kb)
can't let the former admin appear to be helping people, ldo
what is "Bidenflation"? is that when you beat both global and european inflationary fallout of a grossly mismanaged pandemic?
How to destroy one's own hegemony:
(1) alienate your closest allies and trading partners with absurd tariffs and threats of military invasion
(2) drive your client states into the arms of your adversaries
(3) undermine your own social support structures
(4) seed your populace with intentionally divisive rhetoric
(5) declare your commitment to chaotic upheaval as your preferred course of conduct
If there's a bustle in your hegemony
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
Culture is not your friend.
-Terence McKenna
My idea of civilization is the Tang Dynasty, everything since has been downhill. There was a real life to be had then. Study calliagraphy, pass the big government exam, write official documents for thirty years, retire to a picturesque plot of land in the country, write poetry, and grow a long white beard.
Like Wang Wei. He said lotus blossoms adrift out across treetops flaunt crimson calyces among mountains. You don't write that sitting in a bodega in Queens.
LFG!
I am trying not to pay attention to this stuff because my god but this is like good cop bad cop but the good cop drops bombs on hospitals.
Free Luigi
see amp there's a lot we have in common
Class solidarity above all.
If there's a bustle in your hegemony
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light, and wants it shown
How everything still turns to gold
When all are one, and one is all
To be a rock, and not to roll
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Culture is not your friend.
-Terence McKenna
My idea of civilization is the Tang Dynasty, everything since has been downhill. There was a real life to be had then. Study calliagraphy, pass the big government exam, write official documents for thirty years, retire to a picturesque plot of land in the country, write poetry, and grow a long white beard.
Like Wang Wei. He said lotus blossoms adrift out across treetops flaunt crimson calyces among mountains. You don't write that sitting in a bodega in
what did terrence mckenna have against yogurt?
sorry. im struggling to contribute.
love the bodega in queens point.
Lol, Netanyahu gave Trump a golden pager...
