Y'all are missing the big lead: this stops ANY regulation that costs over $100m. Which is...a good chunk of them. Just monitoring can cost a huge chunk of cash.
What this is, is the GOP attempting to rip the heart out of specifically OSHA and the FDA.
See, this is part of why I agree with things like the corporate death penalty. A company will not care how much it is fined, unless that fine forces it to close. Our justice structure when it comes to actually dealing with corporate entities is WOEFULLY behind the times, and has been artificially kept so for decades. Besides, fining a company that was scheming to keep rents artificially high brings no benefits, nor relief to the actual tenants who were forced out because of high rents.
He had been diagnosed with rectal cancer of some form in 2021. Presumably, it was a case of "well it's not responding to chemo that well, so I either take myself out quickly or die slowly in a prison hospital." I don't like the idea, but I understand it.
Not to mention his following, however shallow, is MASSIVE in the tech sphere, especially among leadership roles. A lot of less informed people automatically lend him at least some amount of credence because he's wealthy, and we've been told that wealth is success.
Especially with land prices trending upwards. You don't want to be the exec who has to explain that yes, productivity is up 15%, but you're sitting on a skyscraper that nobody wants to buy because it's worth $60mil or whatever.
Even domestically, you'll always find some dumbasses willing to sell their entire lives to make ends meet. I know after my layoff from an environmental monitoring company, all the work my region was doing got shifted to a single team down in Kentucky who was already doing 12hr days. They're now doing 16-18hrs last I heard, 6 days a week because they're covering 3 separate states with 4 people, for 2/3 of the hourly pay I was making.
This is a worker exploitation problem compounded by a short-term vs long-term thought process.
Not even just that, H1-Bs are about two steps shy of importing slave labor. Once you're here in the US, you have to stay continually employed. If you don't become a citizen or gain another type of visa, you get deported if you're not working for a sponsoring company for more than 30 days. Companies continually use this to ensure compliance from workers who might otherwise complain about things like working conditions or pay or long hours.
I was about to say, you know what happened at every workplace I've ever been at when I did excellent work? I got more work piled onto me. I didn't get a raise, I didn't get a promotion or any recognition other than that excellent work being recognized as my new baseline.
Eventually, you just decide to stop caring too much and settle for mediocrity because it's a hell of a lot easier than busting your ass for forty hours a week, so why bother doing that if you aren't getting anything for actually doing good work?
Actually yes, this is something a lot of GOP hardliners have been crowing about for decades. I remember a decent amount of people who wanted a public hanging for the 9/11 guys.
I'm wondering which shipping magnate he talked to about this before sending it out. Trump famously only latches onto the politics of anyone he's spoken to in the last hour, after all.
I don't see that. If he had just nutted up to SCOTUS, pulled a Jackson and just said "well shit, here's the thing. MY copy of the law says nothing about large-scale forgiveness or loan modification being the purview of Congress, so I'm just gonna have the DoEd go ahead and discharge all those loans. If YOU want to tell them that they still owe that cash, go right on ahead", I think that would've created a HELL of a lot bigger headache had Trump won - now instead of simply having to tell people "well too bad you have to start paying again", you have to do a LOT more work to notify people that "hey your loans that were forgiven two years ago, we want that money back" and generate a LOT more political ill will in the process.
Atypical kids being left behind is a feature, not a bug. There's a shocking amount of parents even in the year of our Lord 2024 who think we're "too much" of a drain on schooling.
Trump has already been spitballing military intervention in Mexico "to fight the cartels", like we don't already provide Mexico with a ton of anti-insurgent trainers and totally-not-special-ops guys who totally do not do violence in-country.
Y'all are missing the big lead: this stops ANY regulation that costs over $100m. Which is...a good chunk of them. Just monitoring can cost a huge chunk of cash.
What this is, is the GOP attempting to rip the heart out of specifically OSHA and the FDA.