Both the Dow & S&P are down around 8% from this time last month. Dow’s down 7 YTD, and S&pis down 10. Green today, red for the year so far.

And it’s not like we don’t know what caused it.

You can actually see the future take on Hegseth in this op-ed. One third of the article is how great a leader Trump is, and Hegseth could’ve been. One third is stale Biden-bashing talking points, and the last third is how fucked up things are at the Pentagon. In it he says Trump demands results (unlike “some other administrations”), and then lists a number of former secretaries he’s fired for “not meeting his expectations.” Completely overlooking that many of them resigned over some scandal, at least one left because he said Trump was an “fucking idiot,” and the rest were fired for telling him what he didn’t want to hear. This is the history the party has decided on, and Hegseth will become another name on that list.

Fair point. I feel like RFK can do more damage. At least with the military, generals and admirals can refuse unlawful orders.

Never assume Trump can’t go lower.

There is a wonderful schadenfreude to NPR breaking this! We should all go donate money in Pete’s name!

Was just gonna say if yer Russian, yer a shoe-in!

That’s a fair point, but if he messes up enough, and more importantly embarrassingly enough, the loyalty won’t matter. Can’t make the King(s) look bad.

… so 60000 families are going to be unhoused.

TBH, of all the unqualified and under qualified members of this cabinet, Hegseth has the be the most unqualified. I don’t know if Vegas has odds on which cabinet member goes first, but Drunk Pete has to have something close to 1:1.

I would imagine they have some beautiful, world class couches in the Vatican. I can only imagine what the Pope walked in on!

Normally that’s hyperbole, but yeah. Next he’ll say it was a joke, because suuuure it was.

I still get triggered when I hear people say they figured he would be better for the economy “since he was a business man.” Way too many people buy into the “rich therefore smart” myth.

Oh sites like that are absolutely still useful! Especially for older distros or when you need a specific version that you can’t find for whatever reason.

Wait, sabotaging AI is a Bad Thing!?

Remember when packages like RPM were first introduced, and it was like, “cool, I don’t have to compile everything!” Then you were introduced to Red Hat’s version of DLL-Hell when the RPM couldn’t find some obsure library! Before YUM, rpmfind.net was sooo useful!

Right! You see, this will increase global manufacturing’s need for oil for all that extra shipping, thus raising the price of oil, so US oil makes us all* rich!

• “All” meaning all the people already rich from making/selling oil including, and mostly, non-American countries/oil barons. The average person will almost certainly see their overall wealth decrease greatly.

“Trump team reveals lack of expertise”

NO

SHIT

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You know, I miss the days when one’s enemies’ heads were placed on pikes on the roadway(s) into the city.

Agreed. Came here to say this.