SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

@steele yeah, I don't follow any of these guys specifically.

My take is that posts that could have been published as hit pieces from one political party's attack wing against their political opponents lack both honesty and creativity and don't invite others in to the conversation or encourage any semblance of critical thinking.

I do wonder what's the purpose of messages with that tone. Screaming into the sky? Self affirmation? Building an echo chamber?

It's no way to change what needs to be changed.

And... Yes, I see this as a problem no matter which side it's coming from.

Maybe that's not how the post was intended to read. That's how it hit me

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114278493420601922

I get it now. Trump is bad because he's not raising tariffs enough, and tariffs punish other countries, not one's own.

@steele is the same true of anyone on the other side of the political spectrum?

I'm old enough to remember news networks declaring a constitutional crisis over the covfefe typo. Signalgate seems to be covfefe 2.0.

So... Those who won the electoral college vote and the popular vote are working to decrease the spending while increasing transparency of the federal government.

Those who supported the losing candidates say this shrinking of government and more visibility is... The end of democracy, fascism, and a reason to out themselves as terrorists, blowing things up, doxxing people who... drive electric cars?

CNN currently showing a special on a DOGE employee who posted to instagram during business hours. Wildly inappropriate, "insulting," "Are you kidding me!?"

I know this is an attack on DOGE, but... the reason is because... of government waste.

So CNN is sort of asking for DOGE to DOGE even harder.

Weird argument.

Oh, tariffs as foreign election interference. It's a bold strategy, let's see how that works out for them... No one show them the popular vote...

@threalist my favorite nonprofit has never accepted a dollar or government funds. A quick web search found The Salvation Army's annual report which shows they receive over $640,000 from the federal government.

Doesn't mean it's fraud and abuse. It's just a funding decision large nonprofits need to make.

Ottawa removing half of federal internal trade barriers in response to tariff threats from the US

"Removing all internal trade protections could lower prices by up to 15 per cent, boost productivity by up to seven per cent and add up to $200 billion to the domestic economy, according to Anand."

Comment: what an amazing move. Why has the Canadian government kept these anti Canadian regulations in place until now? I guess.... The Trump Effect is making Canada better.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anand-ottawa-removing-cfta-exceptions-1.7465125

Hahaha. The article says nothing has been banned, but I appreciate the outage in defense of JD Vance. The wild outage about rules being applied evenly, even to the VP is hilarious.

The narrative has shifted! What was "Trump will fire anyone who isnt loyal to him personally, which makes him Hitler" is now, "Trump is laying off people regardless of their loyalty, and that's...uh...worse...somehow"

The AP takes on the #Trump #doge claims about suicidal security improper payments, reporting that according to the Biden administration ONLY "$71.8 billion" in was fraudulent and that the agency "clawed back" a whopping $31 billion. Yep, they clawed back a huge 0.05% of the waste? (it's very early, is that decimal right?)

The article says most of those billions were sent to loving people, but the goes on to say the data is wildly inaccurate without dates of birth, so no one knows. And the Biden admin saw the $71.8 BILLION and assessed that it would take $9 million to fix the system to stop the waste so decided not to.

Way to teach Trump a lesson. Nothing to see here, only $71.8 billion in waste, hardly anything.

This is a story about how management found out about bad actions of an employee and proactively acted with urgency to fire the employee and correct the situation, even before the customer was aware of it. The response has been outage and a lawsuit against the company that did the right thing. Sad.

Would the Biden admin have been very upset had they found out about this happening on their watch?