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The presidential vote is not a complete picture. Kansas regularly votes in Democratic governors and they voted in favor of abortion protections. The eastern side of the state is less conservative than you might think.

Upper management works remotely more than anyone else

Some degenerate from what seems like provincial Washington state is making calls about the leadership of Ukraine?

Washington State is where Seattle is, a city that's bigger than Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Boston, Atlanta...

The problem is that the eastern part of the state (where this guy is from) is basically western Idaho.

He doesn't care. He's a sociopath, who knew?

I'm not really sure why you feel like it's OK to attack me for responding to you, but it's not. People quit jobs for all kinds of reasons, like money or growth opportunities that are limited based on the needs of the company or moving because of family. Not everyone who quits a job is unhappy with it. I could go on, but I don't think you're interested in listening to other points of view, so I'll spare us both.

The manager is never the one setting those policies, except at very small companies

And as the 2026 cycle inches closer, [Democratic strategist Jamal] Simmons said he expects donors to rally again.

Oh my god, they will never learn. They're getting a clear signal from constituents and donors and they say, it's OK, they'll come back in 2026. The same tired playbook for the last decade: "Who are you going to vote for, a Republican?" Meanwhile their presidential nominee runs as a Mitt Romney cosplay.

Get these people out of here right now!

My job has reviews every six months and we write a statement of our own accomplishments as part of it. These are taken into account as part of the review. That kind of accountability is fine.

Requiring federal workers to send weekly emails that won't be read by anyone for the express purpose of making them feel unsafe in their jobs and demoralizing them into quitting, especially when you're completely outside of their reporting chain, is basically bureaucratic terrorism.

How much time have you spent in these countries?

Nota bene

Yeah, I've cut back my spending dramatically. Reminds me of how it was in 2020 when I bought next to nothing except food and essentials for like 12-18 months. Once you break the habit, you stop thinking about it and it just becomes easy.

I think he overstates his premise, but he hits on some interesting points.

The thing about populism is you have to be popular. The moment you lose touch with the public mood, you lose the ability to set your agenda without friction.

We should absolutely be paying attention to public sentiment. Yeah, yeah, term limited, no more elections, etc. Regardless of your opinion about elections in 2026, Republicans are definitely thinking about them, and right now I'd say many are wary. Republicans have hitched their wagons to Trump (not Musk, not Vance), and now their electoral fate is tied inexorably to him.

Trump's going to keep the MAGA core, but he's starting to shed independents and moderates on the economy and the question of if the country is heading in the wrong direction, and he's doing it in a way that's impossible to ignore, unlike his supposed approval rating decline, which is still within the margin of error. The more unpopular he becomes, the more some legislators will want to distance themselves from his more extreme impulses, particularly in the Senate. Their margin is still relatively tight in both chambers.

Last time you saw defections and retirements. Others clung even more closely to Trump. But Trump isn't running again, and the man is nearly 80. Musk is unpopular and barred from running, and Vance will never fill that gap (and also, I think Vance is the most popular he'll ever be right now at around 40%).

The biggest example of the change in mood in the country may be happening at Paramount (which owns CBS). It looked almost certain a month ago that the studio would follow what Disney, Facebook, and X have done by settling frivolous lawsuits with Trump. [...] But that settlement appears far away now, and Paramount has fought back, including by pursuing a trial where it could obtain Trump’s personal financial information in discovery.

I don't think this is any grand show of courage on the part of Paramount (they missed that boat), but it is worth remarking on how their stance has changed so dramatically.

Anyway, this could still go either way, but my main point is it's winnable. If we keep the pressure on, we can stop the coup and limit the havoc they'll be able to wreak.

OK Rambo, I agree with your basic point about everyone in the fight against fascism knowing how to use a firearm, but anyone who draws in this meeting is gonna get gunned down by one of the 40 other people who are carrying. It's Idaho. She got roughed up but at least everyone is still alive.

And as Musk wreaks irreparable damage to his personal brand, Tesla sales are tanking, especially in Europe: In Germany, sales plunged by 59% in January, following Musk’s endorsement of the country’s far-right AfD party. They were also down 63% in France year-over-year, in January.

The EV-maker’s net income in the fourth quarter of 2024 fell 71% from the same time in the previous year [...]

You love to see it.

"Just the disregard for the impact that this has, on not only the employee but his whole family, is astounding," says Lara Macans, his wife.

This is how it is for every non-governmental worker in the US. I'm not saying it's acceptable. I'm saying the entire system is built around callous disregard and cruelty.

This is a pretty deliberate falsification of what this idiot is saying using out-of-context quotes. He's saying that by cutting fraud they'll be able to raise $1 trillion. He said specifically that they wouldn't touch Social Security except for fraud.

Of course the claim that there's $1 trillion of fraud is false, but we don't need to promote misleading clickbait headlines like this when there's so much awful news coming out of this administration as it is.

Edit: Look. Social Security and Medicare are about $1 trillion each. To save $2 trillion they would have to eliminate these programs entirely. People would lose their homes. People would starve. If they wanted to start an actual revolution against the government, this is exactly how they would do it. No one is saying to trust any of these people; I'm saying doing this and remaining in power are at odds.

This is a wild take. He just thinks his policies will be so popular that even urban areas might go red in the mid-terms. It's delusional, but I can't see Democrats gaining much ground unless they stop flopping around on the ground like fish.

Even if Trump did say something like this, it wouldn't have any practical effect. States have their own constitutions.

Thanks for posting this, since it also didn't get much attention in the media.

Even though these actions are almost certainly illegal, I'm at least somewhat relieved that Trump is (mostly?) following injunctions and not brazenly defying the judicial branch. Defying the Supreme Court would be crossing the Rubicon, IMO.

It's interesting that Musk is sending this, probably personally and likely without getting specific approval from Trump before sending it, and the agencies are responding to ignore it in what is clearly a direct response to Musk.

Musk acts. Many cabinet departments act in response. Meanwhile, Trump is a passive non-participant in his own administration.

(To say nothing of Congress thus far.)