George Carlin led the way here: just curse and talk about sensitive subjects a lot, marketers are desperately afraid of anything that might challenge their consumers.
What? I had a nap and Trump decided he liked tariffs and all but that he wasn't tariffing hard enough so now he's gonna double the price of all Chinese goods. Oh lawd. Guess I'm waiting a few years to build my next PC.
I saw a post yesterday that your comment reminds me of. Someone asked if Pinky & The Brain were still trying to take over the world because they were ready to hear Brain's plan, and someone else replied, 'shit, at this point I'm ready to hear Pinky's plan.' 😛
None, since the constitution we have already does that and more and they seem to have no problem ignoring what's already in there, why would any changes be any more effective?
What we have seen before are small, narrowly focused tariffs. This is about as not- that as it's possible to be and still be tariffs. So if Trump is somehow right the response will be to question everything we know about economics because we are now living in an alternate time line where taking a hammer to a complex issue that needs a scalpel will have somehow worked for literally the first time in human history. But, ya know, ask silly questions, get silly answers.
He's on Musk's payroll, conflicts of interest that benefit Musk do benefit Trump, so I think it's rather that he only cares when they make him look bad.
Because he said that he wouldn't be in order to establish that he was in control, so when it comes out that he's not (which we all knew anyway) he looks weak and stupid. So he's issuing excuses, only he's a moron so the excuses make him look even less in control. But it's okay, he'll have nappy time in 5 minutes and forget about this and the American media will conveniently forget along with him.
I hope this is not news to anyone, but Trump does not give a fuck about conflicts of interest as was made abundantly clear by his first term. What he cares about is looking good; specifically in making sure that everyone remembers he is king dick of the universe and Musk is subordinate.
He said he wouldn't include Musk in the briefing to establish that impression.
Obviously he was lying and was going to include him anyway; oligarchs don't spend that kind of money without making sure they're getting value for it.
Now he's making excuses for having done what he always intended to do so he can maintain the illusion that he is in control.
But also he's a moron, so this excuse makes it look like he's not keeping his house in order, and any remotely media-literate adult can see through this shit clear as day.
You'd think we'd know by know that that's just how technology works - it makes us 'dumb' because we don't need to spend the effort to do things we've automated away with technology and thus can focus on shit that is more important to us. If I don't have to sit around thinking about math because someone invented a calculator, that's more time that I can spend doing the thing I want to use the math for. The math is a tool, not the point itself.
But he had a journalist's number in his phone, so he was talking to him before this. What's more likely: he accidentally saved it under someone else's name and then never called them to find out it was the wrong person, or he put it under another name to hide the fact that he was talking to a journalist? I'm putting my money on door #2.
And you're saying the lessons from one thing aren't directly applicable to the other when they are. It's like saying no one who was ever physically abused as a child can ever talk about why hitting a child is bad because they're just giving survivorship bias for two completely different situations. The lack of belief still hurts whether it's an isolated incident or a pattern, and OP needs to know that.
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Huh, that looks interesting. The art style especially for the thumbnail gives me strong Evil Genius vibes.