The article is not offering any real examples, except for one CEO’s reaction to their stock drop in real-time during an investor’s call.
Now don’t get me wrong. I really want this to be happening for real. It’s just that I would like to see more actual examples and less descriptions of hypothetical “CEOs with thousand-yard stares”.
who are the ones who always have to protect them every time they almost go extinct? Can’t they contribute to their own defense effort?
trying hard to see the glass half full: it’s good that he implies that there will still be elections
And this makes like… 10 of them now who changed their minds? Seriously, what the heck?
Trump’s polls are still pretty high: https://news.gallup.com/poll/658661/republicans-men-push-trump-approval-higher-second-term.aspx Better than his first term overall and 92% among Republicans. 92%!
At this point, it looks like Trump is trying really hard to mess with his voters and lose them. But unluckily he is failing hard even at that.
yes, so typical and yet so effective so far.
Phase 1: eat a baby in plain view at a crowded event
Phase 2: get really angry and personally attack anybody who mentions it and their employer
Phase 3: after a few days just roll your eyes and dismiss with “again with that baby thing?”
If nothing serious happens right after phase 1, holding onto this as future political ammo seems to be worthless. I really hope I’m wrong and that the accumulation of these things is enough to turn enough of Trump’s base against him but they accumulated a whole fricking lot by now and there is still room for more…
Birds… Migrations… Immigrants! There … blame deflection complete in two steps only.
Oh, another “Trump says [bullshit] but [yeah, it’s bullshit]”.
Look, I applaud that there are still heroic attempts to fact-check Trump but overloading our bs-detector is clearly his MO.
I think it’s safe to assume that everything he says is a lie or at least a huge exaggeration and save some energy to try and build up some resistance to what he’s freaking doing
so… Russia and China are looking at things like US infrastructure, Social Security and health care and are saying “we need to learn how they did this, at all costs”?
Edit: to be clear, this is not against the people who were laid off. They are the ones who took an underfunded system and kept it afloat thanks to their hard work. For that, I get why Russia or China would want them… But for the secrets? I’ll tell you the secret: it was them. And now they are being laid off by the Interplanetary Genius
For what it’s worth, I didn’t think they are stupid, just that they are doing blatantly stupid, over-the-top stuff.
On purpose? Yes it’s a really scary thought that this might be a coup in slo-mo. And I mean slo-mo just relative to the more common “army abruptly takes power” approach, but it’s still disturbingly fast.
It’s kind of funny (the sad kind of funny) that people with years of legal studies and experience have to meet and formally rule that something blatantly illegal to the point of stupidity is… well… illegal.
“If I have a made-up position that my own government admits is not an official one, can I go ahead and randomly fire thousands of people?”
“A ha! Good question, let’s see what my copy of The Legal System for Dummies says!”
“damn vaccines… All Fauci’s fault” - RFK Jr?
…except for the “hoping no one notices” part. They are way past caring about that. Some people will believe them and won’t be swayed by others calling bs
At this point writing “baselessly” after Trump’s claims is just redundant. We live in a post-facts world now where what’s true is decided based on how many people can be convinced of it. It’s Truth made Social… It’s… Wait… Oooh Truth Social… now I get it!
for those of you who live in the US: there must surely be Republican voters being appalled by this too, right? Right?
or from windows for even shorter periods. Very popular in Russia
Imagine one of your friends says “wanna bet I can beat you at arm wrestling?”.
Scenario 1: you look at them and they look more or less your size, so you bet $10. They win, but you say “wait, I wasn’t ready, let’s repeat”. They win again and you say “my elbow slipped, let’s go again”. They win for the third time, you say “you are cheating” and refuse to pay the bet. You couldn’t blame them if they concluded that you’re full of it and didn’t want to be friends with you any longer.
Scenario 2: you see that your friend has biceps the size of your head. You laugh and say “no way man, not going to arm wrestle with you!”. You share a laugh and go get a beer.
You can think of Insurance as a morbid type of betting, where you don’t really want to win the bet, because it’s something like “hey, wanna bet that I don’t get killed in a car accident this year?” and the Insurance can decide to take the bet or not depending on what they estimate your odds of dying in a car crash. If you want to bet on “wanna bet my house does not get destroyed by a fire this year” and no insurance company wants to take that bet, that’s a pretty bad sign, because they think the odds of a fire are way too high.
I don’t know how you feel about the ethical aspect of betting at all, but I think there’s a difference between them being unwilling to take your bet and them taking your bet but then refusing to pay you if you “win”.
I don’t want to be the one defending Insurance companies because seriously fuck them.
But… Please correct me if I got it wrong, but for the California fires they are accused of refusing to sell insurance policies or asking very high prizes for them, which is a very different thing than selling the policy and then denying and delaying payments after something has happened.
An insurance company saying they won’t insure you means that the risk is visibly and insanely high. Which it clearly was. If anything this should have been a pretty loud alarm bell that has been ignored.
Trump ignores a lot of things. The Country’s bigliest ignorant.
“Praise Trump” is the only basis for working with him. Not that I feel any sympathy for Bessent; if anything, praising Trump’s tariffs while not believing in them would make him a moron AND a hypocrite.