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  1. DJT has already announced that he just wants to do recess appointments not confirmations, and Scott is on track to make that happen.
  2. You are more qualified. I am not even a fan of giving the role to former flag officers, especially with little separation from the uniformed services as it’s a fundamentally different role to run the bureaucracy and be a civilian advisor. But damn, a Fox News host who ran PACs and wrote a book about Woke.
  3. Rubio has been conspicuously absent from the official announcements and there is a MAGA revolt. They want Grenell.
  4. Hegseth has been running grifting PACs and on Fox News, his concern is keeping Woke out of the military. He achieved the rank of major, his service can in no way be impugned but he is no more qualified than any other former 04 to run the DoD. Things are going to get stupid so fast, usually the DoD is the last domino to get treated like this. Toonces look out! @Chad Fuck
  5. This dude typed out, apparently seriously, that Ukraine is a “political quagmire.” Does not merit engagement, not here for engagement.
  6. Housing is tight because all all over the country bougie NIMBY types join forces with decaying and selfish boomers to ensure nothing ever gets built so that their property values will go up. Then the olds whine that their kids won’t have grandkids while squatting in what should be a young family’s starter home via FaceTime from their vacation.
  7. DJT will huff and futz but the danger is not that he will use the military against ordinary citizens or turn it into some tool of repression. He will instead enshitten it and stock it with mediocrities and channel procurements to wasteful vanity projects, eroding its capabilities as a fighting force with global reach. This is what authoritarians the world over do with their militaries. Look at how Arab nations do with theirs.
  8. A day off and semi-autumn weather called for something to cook all day. Red sauce with sausage, pork, and short ribs; served with the basic salad and a side of crusty garlic bread.
  9. This is accurate. Side note, he’s demanding recess appointments already. Do people have any idea what kind of loons are in line if he’s worried about confirmation in 53-47 senate?
  10. “I never thought the leopards would eat the faces of MY favorite special interest group that loudly advocated for the leopards eating faces party.”
  11. These types of stories make me cringe because Trump will be paying attention and this type of stuff enraged him and his team. Every journalist in Washington is looking to do the “federal employees prepare to resist Trump” story and all that will do is serve to accelerate his assault and give ammo to GOP moderates to go along.
  12. https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-arab-americans-michigan-dearborn-aea96b9161a77de1fa47d668e23edb98
  13. Maybe wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen. It’s time to remind these rural communities why their great-grandparents all voted for FDR. If they want to vote for stupid ass culture warrior shit, let them have their shitty, underfunded schools. Filibustering ethanol subsidies or rural health programs would be a good place to start.
  14. Is this where we note the creation of an “Iron Dome” for the United States? A nearly impossible and unneeded boondoggle that will bloat the Pentagon budget while also divert badly needed funding to make the force more lethal and capable of fighting any likely future war? But there’s this: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-is-already-calling-in-favors-with-trump-1851693687
  15. Joe Rogan’s podcast is a psychological warfare engine, it is specifically designed to create the fact-free, confusing, frustrating miasma that defines the American information space especially for 18-29 males. It is popular with them not because it offers a productive way to grapple with disappointments or overcome them, but because it serves to validate their anger and confirm their lack of agency in a hostile and unnavigable world. In healthy information space, it is immediately apparent that the ravings of RFK Jr. are not worthy of the same consideration as the thoughts of a renowned astrophysicist, but the cumulative effect of being a Rogan listener is to come away with a very different feeling. Not that RFK Jr. is wrong and the physicist right, or even that they have equally valid claims, but instead that it is impossible and pointless to try to adjudicate. Rogan had clearly been driving the boat more often into the specifically right-wing fever swamp, although the common thread of his show is to elevate the dark and conspiratorial on par with rational and even interesting discourse. He’s been wildly successful, and his audience has been conditioned to do the opposite of critical thinking. It’s all just vibes and via a form of reflexive control they will adopt the vibes Rogan is feeling which was always going to be Trumpy this cycle. He has independently invented and created a medium that closely follows Soviet information warfare doctrine, which is really effective. At best a standard and mainstream actor like Kamala gains nothing tactically, and at worst it’s harmful among the target audience because they have all been conditioned to reject and distrust anything that appears mainstream. Strategically, any form of liberal democracy depends on educating future generations to reflexively reject media like Rogan’s.
  16. Our new VP-elect is approvingly quoting well known fictional sociopaths, so things are really accelerating quicker than I thought, I imagined we might get to Inauguration Day before the admin started openly channeling Cormac McCarthy’s personifications of nihilistic violence and hostility.
  17. Everything about this post, from the truly stupid belief that sending EDA Bradley IFVs affects your pocketbook to the astoundingly cruel “who gives AF if Ukrainian parents get shoveled into mass graves and their kids carted off to Magnitogorsk as long as I made it to Six Flags” is the perfect distillation of why you will never have the America you want. You don’t deserve it and you will never get it, because the things you say, believe, and do will never, ever create the conditions for it.
  18. I think we need to consider that maybe Biden’s biggest own goal was expanding rural broadband access.
  19. Sorry, I forgot what a great model of discourse I was interacting with; carry on with Socratic enlightenment.
  20. Anyway, I think there is a pattern from JFK through Biden on how the democrats can be president: have a gifted politician present an optimistic and inclusive outline of an America that works for everyone and steer clear of shrill and angry rhetoric which only works for the right wing. Worked for JFK, for Clinton, for Obama and once for Carter. And I do think to be fair to Kamala she tried to run that campaign but didn’t get to do it in a primary and was pushing against inertia. This is not unique to us, incumbents around the world got PUNISHED.
  21. I mean, what’s your deal? I don’t think Latin American style populism was a good solution and said so. You asked why I don’t want it and said I said why. You’ve said that “populism is Bernie Sanders and that’s the solution.” And fair enough, I don’t begrudge your fondness for the guy, although a twice-failed primary candidate maybe isn’t the model for winning elections.
  22. A blind commitment to ruinous economic policies that leave everyone worse and an open door for real fascists is the favored leftist populist end-point.
  23. Take a look at this chart, it breaks down economic perceptions over time along party lines. A couple things: 1. Clearly D and GOP voters view the economy partially through the prism of who is in the White House and believe it is better when their guy is in charge. 2. The effect is extreme among Republicans; absent a black swan event like Covid the economy can only be good when their guy is in charge and bad when the other one is. I think it’s accurate to say this election was about the economy ONLY for non-Republicans.
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