This is the final play of the segregationists. The real, hidden heart of the argument from a lot of people against the DoEd is "the schools aren't allowed to be segregated anymore and that's wrong."
Mark my words, you'll see schools rapidly segregated by race and gender soon enough. Fathers and mothers, I hope you're prepared to teach your daughters how to read and write, because all they'll likely be getting within the next 5 years is home-ec and how to be a submissive wife - and that's even if your state allows them to attend school.
Yeah, remember Trump telling those Christians "we'll fix it so you don't have to vote anymore". They don't need their voters when every position down to your city council is directly appointed by your local Lord (Governor).
There's also the fact that Canada is not nuclear-armed, but they sure as hell are nuclear-capable. They know how to build nukes, they have the infrastructure and manufacturing to do so, the country has simply chosen not to do so over the years.
Yup, same shit as Putin. The only measure of the Tsar is how much land they can add to the kingdom during their reign, and Trump is OBSESSED with this idea that he's a master negotiator. Negotiating the purchase of an entire sovereign nation would be the masterstroke.
I often think there should be one boardmember whose entire reason for being there is to say "hey that sounds like something a supervillain would do/say" when shit like this gets proposed.
Pretty much this. Like, the first part of "it's just a thing", I'll agree with that. It sucks, but it's an object. You can get another laptop.
What you really can't get back is the anxiety, the worry, the loss of feeling safe. I'm paranoid of keeping anything either in my vehicle or at work at all because I've had things stolen from both places, and this was YEARS ago. I barely keep things at home for similar reasons, and don't always feel safe THERE - I had a shitty landlord who just let her maintenance guys do whatever without proper notice, and I've woken up to strange guys in my apartment at 2AM as a result.
OSHA has been pretty toothless for a long time at the federal and state levels both. It takes months, years sometimes to take enforcement actions because a single regulator might have ten or more cases working at any one time, and the courts that are supposed to handle enforcement are deliberately understaffed and overworked.
I'm pretty sure this is also why they want to annex Canada, Greenland, and Panama (maybe Mexico if they think they can get away with it). It's the exact same strategy the Nazis used, and I'm not invoking that lightly: when their economy was absolute dogshit, the Nazis made it look WAY better by A) going to a war footing and B) invading other countries and stealing everything that wasn't nailed down (then stealing everything else, including the nails.)
He's already ordered the military to plan an invasion of Panama to seize the canal (likely because Panama is the weaker target between them and Canada).
Ahh, but you're missing the bigger part of the equation: one of Trump's first EOs this time was the requirement, by April 20, for the Pentagon to put together a recommendation on whether or not to utilize the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. I, and most others, are thinking this is purely a formality with the departmental purges - and once he's done that, it hardly matters whether you like them invading Canada or not.
Now, THAT BEING SAID, the military already has a manpower issue, has for a decent while. I do not think we could effectively lock down a country the size of the US, or even the major metros on both coasts, AND fight a war of invasion. Even unofficially deputizing all the various militia types, AND bringing local/state PDs and Nat Guard under federal control, I don't think they have enough.
The whole situation is absurd. She's officially the admin, but Trump keeps saying Musk is in charge, Musk keeps saying he's NOT in charge, and her appointment is likely a smokescreen so they have someone to throw under the bus when the lawsuits come rolling in.
That's why "may or may not". She's the admin until legally tested, because the administration can't actually even bother to lie well.
They do, though. Tons of flood insurers and fire insurance companies mysteriously pulled out over hurricane and fire season in Florida and across the West Coast last year. It was a huge thing.
Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don't have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.
Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You're about to find out.