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The Thriller said:
Anyone else miss this calm lead by tweet leadership? Remember when he was telling Paris firefighters how to put out the Notee Dame fire or when he told Americans to down hydroxy and ivermectin?

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Well, I mean it was God's plan so what can you do?
 
fishonjazz said:
Holy crap people. What the hell is wrong with RFK Jr? I was just watching Bernie Sanders questioning him at the Senate confirmation hearing.
I'm not kidding when I say this. I thought he might be dying. Not soon. Right then as the confirmation was happening.
His whole body is shaking non stop. He has a hard time formulating words. His voice is ****ed.
I know little of his history. Did he have some strokes or something? Did he have some big time medical issues?

Not sure if I want to take health advice or have someone in charge of the health of the country who seems old the unhealthiest person in the country.
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This isn’t the most concerning thing to me about RFK. Obviously, I don’t want measles or polio to come back, so I want leaders who believe in vaccines and science. But this is just really really weird. Picking up a roadkill bear, keeping it in your car trunk all day, and then changing your mind and leaving it in Central Park is just ridiculously weird and gross to me. Is this really the guy we should leave in charge of health in this country?

The clip is only 1:30 long:

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The midair collision of a military helicopter and an American Airlines regional jetliner on Wednesday night brings to an end a streak of commercial air travel safety that was unknown to previous generations.

It is the worst air disaster on U.S. soil in more than 15 years.

The accident presents a challenge to President Donald Trump days into his new term. He has not yet named a candidate to become a permanent head for the Federal Aviation Administration after Biden-appointed Mike Whitaker stepped down on Jan. 20, when Trump's term began.

trump probably gonna get rid of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration, and American Airlines now or some dumb ****.
 

The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

The instructions were published Tuesday in a Defense Intelligence Agency memo obtained by The Associated Press and affect 11 annual events, including Black History Month, which begins Saturday, and National Hispanic Heritage Month.

The other annual events listed in the DIA memo are Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Women's Equality Day and Women's History Month.
 

The next time you buy a new Ford Mustang or Toyota 4Runner, be sure to read the fine print very carefully. The Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) rule, a 2023 Federal Trade Commission policy that would have required dealers to eliminate junk fees and increase price transparency with consumers, has been thrown out by a US appeals court. The Biden-era rule designed to protect car buyers was criticized by – who else – the National Auto Dealers Association and (NADA) and a Texas dealership group for adding extra complication to the car buying process.

NADA, which represents a consortium of privately owned dealerships in the US and Canada, praised the court's decision to repeal CARS. Organization President Mike Stanton called the ruling a victory for US consumers, not just the dealers he represents. He also claimed that the rule would have added hours to the car-buying process – possibly by giving consumers the opportunity to turn down dealer add-ons rather than pre-installing them before the cars even hit the showroom floor. The FTC said the exact opposite when it issued the CARS ruling, saying that it would save shoppers a total of $3.4 billion and 72 million hours annually by simplifying the negotiation process.
 
fishonjazz said:

The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

The instructions were published Tuesday in a Defense Intelligence Agency memo obtained by The Associated Press and affect 11 annual events, including Black History Month, which begins Saturday, and National Hispanic Heritage Month.

The other annual events listed in the DIA memo are Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Women's Equality Day and Women's History Month.
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Gee, I wonder why they’d do that? Why would they cancel Martin Luther King Jr day? Why would they stop recognizing black pilots?

And why would Musk do a Nazi salute and then a few days later speak at a far right political rally in Germany telling them to stop feeling guilty about the Holocaust?

Why did Trump say during the campaign that immigrants are poisoning our nation’s blood, a literal accusation made by Hitler in his book? Why did Trump call countries in Africa **** hole countries? Why did he ask why we couldn’t have more immigrants from Scandinavian countries? And why did he accuse Haitian immigrants of eating dogs and cats?

All of these things seem like strange coincidences. But I’ve been assured many many many times on this website that republicans aren’t racist, Trump isn’t racist, and DEI isn’t code for “colored people i don’t like and LGBT people I find to be icky.”

Alas, I guess this is all part of being the working class party. Getting rid of MLK jr day will definitely make America better.
 

Billionaire Elon Musk’s influence over a traditionally nonpartisan agency that oversees the federal workforce culminated in the government’s stunning proposal Tuesday offering employees an inducement to resign, according to four people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal talks.

The proposal, emailed late in the day to many of the nation’s 2.3 million federal workers, blindsided some advisers to President Donald Trump, including officials in the budget office and agencies that typically would be consulted in advance of such monumental changes to personnel and spending policies, the people said.

Since Trump took office, Musk has moved quickly to exert control over the Office of Personnel Management, the small independent agency that acts as a kind of human resources department for the federal government, issuing policy for agencies to implement. Musk personally visited the OPM’s offices Friday, and several of his longtime surrogates — including Anthony Armstrong, who helped Musk buy Twitter; Brian Bjelde, who ran human resources for Musk’s firm SpaceX; and Amanda Scales, who worked at Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, xAI — have been installed in senior leadership roles at its offices in downtown Washington, the people said.

Musk’s role in orchestrating what is intended to be the biggest reorganization of federal workers in decades highlights the broad influence he now enjoys across several federal agencies and the White House as his role transcends that of presidential adviser to an executor of Trump’s vision for the federal government.

When Trump tapped Musk to lead the “Department of Government Efficiency” alongside entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy after the election, it was pitched as a panel outside the government that would give nonbinding recommendations to the White House and Congress. Since then, however, Musk has burrowed inside the federal government, a shift that already has brought a striking overhaul of the workforce, and more measures apparently are underway.

In addition to the personnel office, Musk allies are now running the U.S. Digital Service, a White House office that a Trump executive order renamed the U.S. DOGE Service. Musk’s lieutenants have been interviewing the existing staff of that agency, gauging workers’ views on DOGE, questions that have raised concerns of a loyalty test.

Legal experts inside and outside the government strongly criticized the approach, arguing it almost certainly violates federal law and offers few protections for workers.

The email, for instance, says workers who accept the offer will be paid through Sept. 30, the end of the federal fiscal year. But the OPM’s authority to make that offer is unclear, the experts said: Federal employees’ salaries are funded by federal agencies, not by the OPM. The administration has some limited tools to offer early retirements, but they are minimal and involve only small sums of money.


In addition, the agencies are funded only through March 14, when the government will shut down unless Congress acts to approve new spending. Promising workers payment through September is a “flat-out violation” of a 19th-century law that prevents the administration from agreeing to spend money it does not have, said David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown University.

These questions have fueled a sense of unease among federal employees weighing the offer. On one hand, many are exhausted by the chaos of Trump’s first week back in office and the criticism directed their way. But, in interviews with The Washington Post, more than a dozen federal workers who received the email also expressed skepticism about the terms, fearing that the Trump administration could not be trusted to pay any wages or benefits promised to those who agree to depart. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution at a time when Trump has moved to make it easier to fire federal employees.

“What guarantee does an employee who might take this offer have of actually receiving payment? When there is government immunity, no budget, and Congress can declare this illegal?” said Sheria Smith, head of the union that represents Education Department employees.

Those fears may have merit: Musk’s companies have reneged on commitments to workers in the past. During the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Tesla gave employees permission to remain at home if they did not feel comfortable reporting to its factory but later sent termination notices to some of them alleging “failure to return to work.”


In 2022, Musk denied that he aimed to lay off 75 percent of the Twitter staff — plans first reported by The Post — but later proceeded to gut the company’s workforce by 80 percent. After he took over the company, Twitter also was sued over its alleged failure to pay millions in rent.
 
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“The New York Times describes Trump as leading “a global wave of hard-line conservative populism.”

Rubbish.

What Trump is undertaking has nothing whatever to do with conservatism, which is about conserving institutions and shrinking the size of government. And it has nothing to do with populism, which is about confronting elites.

Trump is leading a move to replace democracy with oligarchy.

He’s implementing a plan to make the wealthiest people in America far wealthier and more powerful, including Trump himself, and to turn American democracy into a giant corporation run by a handful of absurdly rich men.

He thinks he can accomplish this by getting the rest of us so angry at one another — over immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, diversity, and the like — that we don’t look upward and see where most of the wealth and power have gone.

Trump’s divisive policies will cause great harm, to be sure, and we must do everything we can to protect those who are vulnerable to them. But his cruel divisiveness is deflecting attention from the main event.

The media reported on all the hot buttons Trump pushed: The government now recognizes only two “immutable” genders, male and female. Migrants (now referred to as “aliens”) are being turned away at the border. Immigration agents are freed to target hospitals, schools, and churches in search of people to deport. Diversity efforts in the federal government have been dismantled and employees turned into snitches. Federal money will be barred from paying for many abortions.

All awful to be sure, but the bigger story is Trump’s consolidation of power — substituting loyalists for experts across the government, using retribution to intimidate others, purging the government’s independent inspectors general, giving the Defense Department more authority over civilian life (and putting a raving loyalist in charge), giving Elon Musk authority to cut spending and roll back regulations, and readying a massive tax cut for the wealthy and big corporations”.
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Red said:
What Trump is undertaking has nothing whatever to do with conservatism, which is about conserving institutions and shrinking the size of government.
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The funny thing about your post is that you posted right after Fish's post complaining about Trump's actions to shrink the size of government.

I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one who reads / watches all the stuff everyone posts here.
 
The Thriller said:
Gee, I wonder why they’d do that? Why would they cancel Martin Luther King Jr day? Why would they stop recognizing black pilots?
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They won't. The memo was put out by someone set to be fired. In their last act they drafted a memo intended to embarrass and released it to the press. The same thing happened with recognition of the Tuskegee Airmen a day or so ago, and the press wrote their articles, and the one responsible was fired, and the Tuskegee Airmen are being recognized. The dance is called "malicious compliance" and there is about to be a lot of it as a lot of deep state partisan hacks are being purged. Rest assured, MLK Jr. day will be honored.
 
Sardines said:
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It's been gone a while. You can get it back though. Find honest news sources. See: https://jazzfanz.com/threads/conservative-news-sites.222237/
 
Red said:
“The New York Times describes Trump as leading “a global wave of hard-line conservative populism.”

Rubbish.

What Trump is undertaking has nothing whatever to do with conservatism, which is about conserving institutions and shrinking the size of government. And it has nothing to do with populism, which is about confronting elites.

Trump is leading a move to replace democracy with oligarchy.

He’s implementing a plan to make the wealthiest people in America far wealthier and more powerful, including Trump himself, and to turn American democracy into a giant corporation run by a handful of absurdly rich men.

He thinks he can accomplish this by getting the rest of us so angry at one another — over immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, diversity, and the like — that we don’t look upward and see where most of the wealth and power have gone.

Trump’s divisive policies will cause great harm, to be sure, and we must do everything we can to protect those who are vulnerable to them. But his cruel divisiveness is deflecting attention from the main event.

The media reported on all the hot buttons Trump pushed: The government now recognizes only two “immutable” genders, male and female. Migrants (now referred to as “aliens”) are being turned away at the border. Immigration agents are freed to target hospitals, schools, and churches in search of people to deport. Diversity efforts in the federal government have been dismantled and employees turned into snitches. Federal money will be barred from paying for many abortions.

All awful to be sure, but the bigger story is Trump’s consolidation of power — substituting loyalists for experts across the government, using retribution to intimidate others, purging the government’s independent inspectors general, giving the Defense Department more authority over civilian life (and putting a raving loyalist in charge), giving Elon Musk authority to cut spending and roll back regulations, and readying a massive tax cut for the wealthy and big corporations”.
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Yep. Project 2025 in full swing.
 
Red said:
“The New York Times describes Trump as leading “a global wave of hard-line conservative populism.”

Rubbish.

What Trump is undertaking has nothing whatever to do with conservatism, which is about conserving institutions and shrinking the size of government. And it has nothing to do with populism, which is about confronting elites.

Trump is leading a move to replace democracy with oligarchy.

He’s implementing a plan to make the wealthiest people in America far wealthier and more powerful, including Trump himself, and to turn American democracy into a giant corporation run by a handful of absurdly rich men.

He thinks he can accomplish this by getting the rest of us so angry at one another — over immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, diversity, and the like — that we don’t look upward and see where most of the wealth and power have gone.

Trump’s divisive policies will cause great harm, to be sure, and we must do everything we can to protect those who are vulnerable to them. But his cruel divisiveness is deflecting attention from the main event.

The media reported on all the hot buttons Trump pushed: The government now recognizes only two “immutable” genders, male and female. Migrants (now referred to as “aliens”) are being turned away at the border. Immigration agents are freed to target hospitals, schools, and churches in search of people to deport. Diversity efforts in the federal government have been dismantled and employees turned into snitches. Federal money will be barred from paying for many abortions.

All awful to be sure, but the bigger story is Trump’s consolidation of power — substituting loyalists for experts across the government, using retribution to intimidate others, purging the government’s independent inspectors general, giving the Defense Department more authority over civilian life (and putting a raving loyalist in charge), giving Elon Musk authority to cut spending and roll back regulations, and readying a massive tax cut for the wealthy and big corporations”.
robertreich.substack.com

Trump's first week: The Real Story

Let it be known
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Nailed it. The part in bold is much worse than all the culture war BS.
 
Bucknutz said:
Do I care about Biden’s daughters journal, Clinton’s affair, Trumps past, Al Franklins boob squeeze or any other persons sex life. Their sex life doesn't change their ability to do their job.
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Right, so if we ignore morals I guess you think education and expertise in the field would be important right? What kind of medical, health science or nutritional education Kennedy has to be qualified for the job? Please, I am waiting for your argument.
 
Bucknutz said:
At least RFK could have a conversation in depth with many topics; he has a history of health and environmental beliefs and has stood up for his beliefs
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So beliefs in antivaxx conspiracies and other quackeries with zero backing from science are something to stand behind?
If somebody truly believes in flat earth or unicorns and can spend hours debating with you about it it makes him/her somehow qualified for the job??? I am sorry but you are completely nuts, same like Kennedy.
 
So we already have a terrible disaster in our country and of course it comes right after the gutting of ‘useless’ jobs and not caring about safety. Will Mr. Orange face any backlash? Will his supporters ask for answers and demand better?

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MVP said:
So beliefs in antivaxx conspiracies and other quackeries with zero backing from science are something to stand behind?
If somebody truly believes in flat earth or unicorns and can spend hours debating with you about it it makes him/her somehow qualified for the job??? I am sorry but you are completely nuts, same like Kennedy.
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RFK supports Orange god king. Therefore, he is part of my tribe. Tribe is good. Orange god king good. Everyone else bad
 
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