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Literally diving head first into a recession and this is their headline? What a joke... Not even sure if it accurately reflects reality either

Ukraine Derangement Syndrome

now down 15% on the day

Beginning to think that Leon Musk isn't all that great a businessman

Do we feel like we are more respected than we ever will be, @Tigeraholic1?

Unbelievable... Maybe JD owes his cousin a call

Steel and aluminum tariffs hit this Wednesday...

I'm more with you than ROMAD on this, but it gets harder with every passing day. The expectation that we all play by a sense of decency and decorum while this new administration just ruins everything that is good about the US isn't sustainable in the long run

I really don't care if Holic posts on the Tigers board or not, but the cheering on of federal employees firings, equivocation on past stances on the Russia-Ukraine based on Trump's views, change in views on inflation based on Trump being POTUS, punching down on trans people, it all speaks for itself.

Also the stereotyping of federal employees... There's a lot of them who aren't in Washington and who do jobs that make our lives more fulfilling. The story I highlighted a few weeks ago about the educators at the Midewin Tallgrass Prairie who this administration whacked is a good example. I really hate the callousness of it. It's like people feel extra license to be terrible on a human level right now.

The fact that Baghdad Bob here is delivering all this with a ****-eating grin on his face says it all, doesn't it?

Elon Musk has a way with pissing off his customers doesn't he?

The chances that Trump actually wrote that bleat seem low to me fwiw

That's just a daily occurrence at this point

Probably related to getting the tax bill through... If they don't pass a tax cut bill by the end of the year, his first term tax cuts expire and taxes will subsequently increase

Maybe when the rubber meets the road they'll have the votes.... but this sure doesn't sound like they have the votes.

It's not gotten the attention that it deserves IMO, mostly because of literally everything else happening, but the release of water that Trump ordered from Lake Success and Lake Kaweah in the Central Valley of California, ostensibly to help the LA wildfire effort, was some of the stupidest, Mad King Ludwig level **** I have ever seen. Maybe it's because I'm a civil engineer by trade, but anyone with a fully developed cerebral cortex should have been able to look at a map and notice that water from these two dammed up lakes flow have a bunch of mountains separating them from Los Angeles, no manmade structures (like an aqueduct) to convey the water across said mountains, and that the water from these lakes would (if the channels had enough flow anyway, which they generally do not because of agriculture usage) end up in the San Joaquin River, which flows north and dumps into the San Francisco Bay. The end result of this was the risk of 1.6 billion gallons of water wasted (latest reporting is that most was recaptured in groundwater recharge ponds), the very real risk of property owners ending up flooded, and farmers, in one of the largest agricultural output areas of the country, potentially being deprived of water that it will need during the time of year when water reserves are being built up prior to planting season. It's popped back up in the news due to more information coming out about a memo that was drafted at the time stating that it wouldn't help (https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-corps-knew-trumps-water-211325193.html), but still, I think it's an underrated event that shows how little intellectual curiosity that the President has and the consequences of not listening to experts who know WTF they are talking about.

Feels like it wasn't that long ago that Trump's administration was talking about kicking Canada out of Five Eyes... It appears they may not the ones kicking anything lol

This is a really good thread and something I've been thinking about a lot... Generally mainstream reporters go to great lengths to get both sides of a story, but on at least two occasions the past few months, I've read articles dealing with trans issues that didn't quote any trans people. And that's... just not good journalism

I actually agree with both G2 and TB13 here. Aspects of DEI itself are not popular and have fallen short of achieving the goals it set out to make. However, in the context of the campaign, speaking to Ed's Google search screenshot, it was all about creating a bogeyman to distract from other issues where Trump has liabilities. Some of which he is currently acting up on as POTUS. The bigger piece is, recalling an interaction with Holic a day before the inauguration, is the blurring of the lines between the "DEI" bogeyman and the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion in general. This administration in it's actions is overreaching, IMO, because it is acting like concepts like diversity and inclusion are unpopular... Even equity, which is probably the most problematic concept, isn't broadly unpopular. Polling since the election has continually showed it. The American people broadly are not akin to Stephen Miller but they are treating them like they are. I hope there are consequences going forward

Their arrogance is going to be our downfall...