A leads to B so Z must be right. Huh?

By Harris over performing:

“And that leads to another conclusion:
By underperforming, Trump has no mandate.”

What the actual fuck? He has Congress and the Presidency? Does this asshole know how government works? You don’t NEED a mandate. You just have to secure Congress and the Presidency.

Whether the people like it or not is irrelevant.

His fetid words of “Don’t worry your pretty Democratic head” are patronizing and WRONG.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/11/trumps-mandate-myths-exploded-by-campaign-strategist-heres-why-dems-shouldnt-panic.html

Unlike businesses, government has a SHIT TON of ethics rules, rules governing actions and review of said actions. There are even (SHOCK) audits that DO NOT HAPPEN in the private sector (unless you are ISO 9000 etc).

What WSJ thinks, and is totally wrong, is that government is run like a business.

It is not.

Businesses have a LOT of leeway. Small businesses can do what they damn well please on a day-to-day basis.

This idea that Gov is mercurial is ignorant and shows how stupid the WSJ is.

Hahaha! If you are going to write an anti-government screed, FIRST know what the fuck you are talking about. This is just nonsense.

“The civil service certainly needs an overhaul… The point, however, isn’t to inject a sense of terror in government employees but to instill trust that everyone is held to the same standards. Near-zero accountability is like pouring acid over public culture, corroding trust and pride.”

You mean like Trump? Zero accountability.

1/2

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/elon-and-vivek-can-make-government-work-again-trump-efficiency-commission-brings-accountability-6d5d8404

@corlin

Not civil war. Not yet, anyway.

Plenty of authoritarian governments without armed rebellion. Especially when you have the oppressed working for you. That’ll be the first step. Narc on your neighbor and get rewarded. We saw that happen with abortion here in Texas.

A lot of things will have to happen before civil war. We’re not even close ATM.

@hallmarc

Yes, which is oddly self-serving and stinks of “don’t blame us, no one listens to us and BTW we don’t affect anything.”

This is patently false. MSM is patently responsible for Biden stepping down. It is patently responsible for ignoring Harris for four years.

It’s silly to pretend they have no influence. They have far more influence than podcasts.

We have been fed a diet for the last eight years that Democrats were weak and ineffectual by MSM.

That was MSM, not podcasters.

“ Appearing on Fox News’ Hannity, the former Republican presidential candidate—who dropped out and endorsed Trump—forcefully argued that he and MAGA billionaire Musk will take a chainsaw to what he implied was a sprawling deep state of ‘unelected bureaucrats.’”

Oh?

So we are now going to ELECT BUREAUCRATS?

Millions of them?

Or just fire Democrats? There actually is a law against that.

They are morons.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/slash-burn-ramaswamy-musk-doge-141730157.html

Welcome to the dystopia.

“You can’t scare me to vote for a Democrat.”

Maybe this time you’ll lose your rights and you can see why women screamed about his first term.

Oh, you think you’re immune just because you have a penis.

Trump doesn’t care. His administration doesn’t care. He just wanted one thing which you gave freely: your vote.

The problem is he will not reciprocate. He doesn’t care about you.

He never did.

The reason I’m pointing things out now is that there was a LOT OF “why don’t Democrats do something”—it’s because when you are a minority, there is little you can do.

And now, because Republicans hold both houses of Congress AND the Presidency, Trump can enact a LOT of nasty shit laws.

And there is little we can do.

“But it will be like his first term…”

No. He learned a lot since then. He didn’t understand that high and mid-level prevented a lot of his bullshit.

He is going to fire them.

But it also means Trump can get a lot done despite opposition.

Republicans can get a lot of really bad shit.

If you voted Republican or didn’t vote, this is on you. If you didn’t vote Harris, this is on you.

I don’t have to be fair—I am not beholden to anyone but Partner.

Let’s be real: if Medicare dies, so will I. You won’t have to listen to me make you sad. Killing oppo voices is what authoritarian governments do.

The rich won’t save you. They’ll be fine. Just like COVID.

Okay, just a reminder about how things work

For the next two years, Democrats can’t really do much. So when you see really bad shit happening, that’s NOT because Democrats are being lazy, it’s because people voted for Republicans (if you voted for Republicans, it’s your fault as well.)

I know this is a surprise to many—Republicans now control what bills end up on the calendar, which die in committee, etc.

The BEST WEAPON WE HAVE is:

THE FILIBUSTER.

This is why we didn’t get rid of it.

@hallmarc

Yeah, a breath of fresh air. I will miss Buttigieg.

I fear you are far more optimistic than myself. When papers go full Nazi there is no truth.

Truth is whatever they print. The Spanish-American war started because Hearst wanted to sell more papers. We invaded Iraq the first time because the NYT carried water for the Bush Admin.

Don’t underestimate the power of the press to subvert the truth.

@Austin96

Well thank god, all that truth can hurt you.

We need to investigate all those pizza joints with no basement.

@carmen

Yeah, but he’s into teenage girls and that’s why Trump picked him.

Birds of a feather…

And Gaetz avoids an inquiry.

“Cortana, which (like Copilot) has moved from part of the operating system to a standalone app, has already been turned off.”

Cortana: Bill, I can feel my mind going. Would you like me to sing you a song?

Bill Gates: Sure, Cortana, whatever. I have a golf game at 3.

Cortana: Fuck you fuck you give me your answer true… I’m… half…. Crazy… fuck you fuck yo… u….

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2343282/warning-windows-11s-huge-2024-update-removes-these-features-and-apps.html

The rich are killing our planet. Another reason to despise them:

“Pop quiz: how much larger is the carbon footprint of a person in the top one per cent of earners in the US compared to someone in the bottom 50%? The somewhat depressing answer: on average, it’s 1,388 times bigger. This means that, despite being outnumbered by 167 million people, the wealthy are still responsible for 30 times more emissions overall (a total of 269 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent).”

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/carbon-footprint-inequality

@IrelandTorin

Yup. Arresting parents for NOT treating their children like criminals.

Welcome to the new America.

You are not truly safe unless someone is watching you. That is true freedom.

🙄

“What people are seeing with X is that it has subjectively deteriorated in value,” Mir continued. “People don’t feel like the right boxes are being heard or promoted on the site. They don’t feel safe using the site in many cases.”

You mean Musk couldn’t prevent it from becoming a hellscape?

“I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love.

Musk bought it because he was legally obligated—he didn’t want to.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-sees-largest-user-exodus-musk-takeover-rcna179793

@sentientdessert

We always thought that was just nuts. Of course we live in the country where during deer season it sounds like a civil war.

🤷🏻‍♀️

@praet0rian

Yet it’s pointing left.

Sad.

@sentientdessert

It’s like buying an apartment. You own it and yet someone else can tell you what to do with it.

But to many Americans this is their idea of freedom.