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As they should. They also have to deal with the outcome if they don't put boots on the ground as well. I don't want this war and have been critical of the west, especially when I believe there was a really good chance this war could have been over early and an entire generation of Ukraine men could still be alive strengthening the remaining parts of Ukraine. But we're here today and Russia is dug in while at the same time the US is stating to the world we're not going to advocate for democracy or simply what is right anymore. If Europe wants do to that, in their own backyard which Trump always likes to point out as a reason they should be dealing with this and not us, then he can shut his mouth about it.

It's not that DEI is bad, but many on the right feel the left took it too far. Unfortunately the response is taking it too far as well. Someone close to me is part of an executive team for a large company. They recently merged with another company and it wasn't a merge and consolidate situation, they intended on having this other company continue to operate as they always have, just under their umbrella. They had a large town hall and during it, while another executive is speaking, a DEI director who was not involved happened to walk past. This executive invited him in, promoted him and his role, and invited folks to reach out to him...then this is where it went sideways. He decided to share a story that a previous DEI director encouraged him to share (and stated that as he started it). When DEI was first introduced at their place, he wanted to be an ally, but as a white male wasn't sure how to do that. He went to that director and asked if he could start a group for white people. The person telling me this said they had never heard this story before and admitted he squirmed a little in his chair in front of everyone. The executive speaking went on to say he was told that was not an option, but when asked why he would want a white group, he stated he wanted to be supportive and felt he could get together with other folks that want to be supportive to try and assist. He was assured that if he wanted to be supportive, he can join any group and he would be welcomed. He didn't realize that was even an option. Over the next few years he went to meetings for every DEI organization they had, learning and assisting with all, becoming a valuable asset for that previous DEI director. She asked him to share that story as she felt it was exactly why people freaked out about DEI and showed there is room for everyone, including white males. Well, 12 people went to HR after the townhall, demanding he is fired and everyone on the stage be disciplined for not shutting it down immediately. Even after an initial investigation where it was discovered that it was 1 manager and his 11 employees and several of those employees stated that they were afraid of being laid off and were told doing this would help protect their jobs, HR chose to pursue. The president of the org was aware of the story and privately said they didn't think anyone did anything wrong after hearing about it, but made it clear they would not step in. Additionally it was later learned that HR immediately determined there was no issue but admitted they felt that had to pursue because of the DEI tie in, despite the current DEI director defending what was said on stage. Eventually he was able to stay, but he had to get on a call with that entire team and issue an apology. No explanation, no context, nothing, just admit fault and apologize. The CEO knew it was wrong, the DEI director knew it was wrong, but no one dared get in the way because of the fear that it would look bad if they refused to punish a DEI complaint.

So Europe should take a bigger role, but if they do what you ask, they are still wrong?

Crazy that Patel is basically caught lying to congress and republicans (law and order??!?!) are going to push him through. Dems should push impeachment immediately after the vote.

Wow, she sounds like a real piece of work, spending so much energy on other countries instead of helping her own. This judge probably hates that his wife is always spending time helping people in Africa instead of in his kitchen making him a sandwich. Hopefully we don't help any other countries, plus that helps us down the road too, because dumb countries like Russia and China will step in to 'help' them, while also working out trading to take valuable minerals from them. If only we get out of the way so these other countries can waste money on important minerals that can help their economy exponentially. MAGA!!!!

I wouldn't have believed this if you told me, but Pepe's grandma, she's 100% legit. You're going to persuade me if you keep posting all these fully vetted facts.

Crap, hate hitting my quota of 1 well articulated post so early in the year.

This is why we can't have nice things with you around. Biden was told how he was handling student debt forgiveness was unconstitutional, so he stopped doing that way and tried another means to achieve his goal that he felt was constitutional. If it isn't, parties have a right to challenge that too. His tweet above is that despite being stopped, he continued to fight for his goal. Nothing is legally wrong with that. Trump has every right to try and enact any changes he wants to do, but if what he does is determined to be out of his legal rights, he needs to find another way to do it.

I like politcians that don't get caught.

Of course, but to be fair, I read an article months ago that stated Biden officials wanted to be more aggressive in combatting this (in birds, but with the idea that it would help decrease the chance or at least the impact once it jumped to humans) but ultimately it was decided that politically it wouldn't help Kamala, so it was downplayed. Trump isn't the only one that likes to hide stuff that doesn't fit his narrative.

I saw a video of Trump signing something over the Gulf of America, effectively making history, as he went to the Superbowl yesterday. That's it, i'm on board now. He's out there doing historical first, ain't no way that won't have a positive outcome on inflation.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ezra-klein-the-resistance-back-from First Bulwark podcast that had a glimmer of hope in awhile. Not sure I agree with Ezra, but he makes some points on why it might be good that Trump doesn't have guardrails like he did in his first team. Essentially the argument is Trump's stupid decisions could sink him quick in the public, whereas he had folks to save him from that last time.

I still think it was constitutional, just not desirable. Congress has had years to find a more desirable solution while still remaining constitutional. Never really understood why that's SCOTUS' fault.

Appears to be to simply look at a description on any spending. Does it indicate another country? If yes, cut it. Could a person on X construe it to be DEI related? If yes, cut it. Does it sound boring? If yes, IDK, maybe flip a coin.

He's already called for another vote. I personally think he's one of the more standup guys in congress, despite having political differences with him. He's a progressive left wing guy that represents Silicon Valley, so of course he's going to have ties with them. He's generally very open to explaining his views on a subject/vote. Has reminded me of Amash in that sense. Weird world we live in, 4 years ago having ties with the large tech companies probably was a plus for his base, now it means he's part of the swamp.

Per Twitter, the vote was put up without notice and per Khanna, several folks missed it. He claims he would have voted yes and on Twitter urged Elon to discuss with him.

Well, the DNC just doubled down on identity politics, so even if we survive this, may still be awhile before we get one.

Still needs his money, but I'm hopeful his ego and lack of self control ends it quick.

This might be the best summary of what we've experienced in the last week or so. Wow, this hits hard.

Trump's CIA announced the findings that Biden's CIA made and chose not to report. Low confidence is as Pfife describes it, but it also means they find it more likely to be correct than not correct as many other investigations from other Biden agencies determined. Call me a conspiracy theorists, but if we could flip a switch and automatically have the full truth of what led to Covid, I'm putting some money on a parlay that includes: 1) It was a lab leak. 2) It was gain of function research, as defined as gain of function research under Obama. 3) Fauci knew about it and worked to redefine gain of function. Never with any ill intention, in fact nothing but good intentions, but it still led to a tragedy that killed millions of people.

Sounds like he's already floating the idea that it would be used to purchase TikTok. So state run media....that's awesome.

Well, that's another option. We saw the tech bros line up to endorse him in the last few weeks and while they are influential, CEO's of all sizes of companies are going to fall in line until his decisions start hurting them. And this little stunt, even if it ends up being just a stunt, is going to effect them down the road. Canada and Mexico will, without a doubt, begin looking to strengthen trade ties with other countries over favor with us. In fact anyone that trades with us is going to wonder if they are next. CEO's hate instability and they want to make decisions based on how the countries they operate in deal with them. They are now lost on what their own country will deal with them and now realize the other countries they operate with are questioning how to deal with US companies too.

Let me make this very clear, I am not calling for this, but at some point and I can't believe it's too far from now at this rate, he's going to create a whole lot of "Luigi's".

Trump had two things going for him (us) in his first term, people that said no and an insight to follow a populist take, especially if the right (literally) person led a call for that take. He doesn't have anyone to say no. Sadly, I still hope he'll take populist views from guys like Bannon as I hope thats our only chance against Musk.

I've been avoiding this forum on purpose, as well as limiting my news intake, simply to help ensure my own well being. This ****upery from Trump is next level. Roughly 10 days in and it's shaping up to be such a monumental disaster. The only thing I wonder is if the economy begins to tank, does he back out of everything and kick out Elon, or does he see this through.