Can’t blame this on trump…

This is 100% on the people Biden appointed to his admin just not having it in them to fight.

Not everyone has it, that’s fine, human variation is normal.

But we can’t afford to keep putting cowards in position of power. We need someone that will actually try to enforce the law.

As a hypothetical sure…

But we broke fossil fuel production records under trump, we broke them under Biden, and there’s no reason to think trump won’t break them again.

For fucks sake, they had both of the only two options be pro-fracking this time…

Billion dollar fossil fuel corporations don’t have to worry, they already bought both parties. And have been lobbying trump to leave Biden’s “signature climate change legislation” intact, because it makes them a bunch of money and comes with zero negatives.

So as a hypothetical you’re example would fit.

Except no one is doing this but currently:

the government is spending time and money on regulating (fossil fuels)

In this scenario malicious compliance is doing your job properly and efficiently.

That still covered the very top of departments, not entire agency workforces

If you want to see what resigning out of protest or fear from far right extremists leads to…

Look up the KKK’s role in ending reconstruction, and what happened to the American South when anyone who wasn’t racist was afraid to vote let alone hold position in government.

Giving up is rarely the right move, and federal employees have one of the strongest unions in America and it’s comically hard to be fired unless you’re a political appointee.

And that is entirely intentional and for this exact scenario.

Resigning just makes it easier for them for no reason. It concentrates the shitty employees who will go along with anything, and it shrinks the federal government when they don’t try to restaff

Lots of people will never buy a Tesla, but when you order an Uber and that shitshow appears, you can only cancel so many times before the app gets mad at you for it.

Human drivers was always a temporary thing for those apps, they’ll keep squeezing human drivers so they don’t have to pay maintenance on vehicles, but the second Muskmobiles becomes popular, there goes the closest thing to a job that’s been keeping a lot of people afloat.

There’s going to be a real negative effect when those disappear, even tho they’re barely jobs to begin with.

It’s profit margin

7.5k on a 30k EV is huge, and would lead to lots of sales.

No one stupid enough to pay 110k for a cyber shit will car about a 7.5k tax credit.

So Tesla might take a little hit, but it’s a huge disadvantage for affordable EVs

Not always.

Like, all the deportations, that would “break” our society, but to even attempt it would take huge amounts of money, planning, and competent people. Even to do it poorly.

Hell, even his threat to get rid of Department of Education, he can’t just say “you’re fired” and then everyone goes home. I mean, he could say that, he could order their pay stopped, he could even lock the doors and shut off all the networked IT.

But there would be a metric shitton of legal proceeding and resulting settlements for years.

It’s just crazy to me that everyone thinks turning (at least the remnants of) a democracy into a dictatorship is just fucking declaring it like Michal Scott declares bankruptcy.

He’s 100% going to try, I just don’t know why people suddenly expect trump and his sycophants magically became competent in the last four years.

It’s disappointing so many aren’t getting this…

It’s the same as “unpaid internships” being advantage to rich kids who can afford to work without pay.

Like, there is an inordinate amount of rich assholes that would love to spend 80 hours a week finding way to cut taxes, regulations, and the social safety net.

If you’re rich enough to begin with, this could pay a hell of a lot better than anything else you would spend your time on. Couple hundred million in the bank or stock market, and it would be more profitable than any actual job.

And let’s be honest, Musk and Trump aren’t judging IQ by the freaking Wechsler exam, when rich idiots talk about IQ, they mean zeros in a bank account.

Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.

I don’t know why all the people who defended Biden wasting two years of the House/Senate are so worried about trump having 2 years of the House/Senate.

According to them no one can get anything accomplished in 2 years, and historically trump won’t hold onto both the House and Senate for midterms.

The big difference seems to be Trump’s incoming admin isn’t waiting till 1/6 to start thinking about stuff, so they’ve got a big headstart on Biden’s admin.

It’s going to be real fucking embarrassing for moderates if trump pulls off something they just spent four years claiming was impossible.

Planet Fitness is a relatively large national chain…

Some lawyer is taking the case for a cut of it. They might not win, but they’ll sue and likely take a settlement.

There was a needle so likely OD.

But I saw a different article that said the gym continued to stay open even while the coroner was collecting the body and staff just pretended everything was normal.

I can’t imagine no one sues over this. Imagine going to the gym, it smelling especially gnarly, and then finding out days later you were breathing in a rotting corpse while doing your miles on a treadmill.

What about supplying weapons or even directly aiding a war effort negates pacifism?

You’re talking about the most extreme as far as determination not commitment, absolutionist pacifists is what they’re called.

They would have a problem with that.

But treating every member of a group like they’re the same as the most extreme…

I’m hesitant to ask but whatever groups do you apply that logic to? It’s rarely (if ever) a good idea.

Semantics…

But no.

We can’t tie it to a person, and Bernie is far to old to be the candidate.

Tying it to a person is what happened with Obama in 08, so when he left in 2016 there was a vacuum in the party. Hillary and the neoliberal rank and file filled that vacuum, and they were rooting for trump because they needed the worst possible opponent for Hilary to have a chance.

Bernie has been saying for decades he’s not the answer, the answer is a movement. Not loyalty to a single person who can never last a decade in office.

As much as I love Bernie, he shouldn’t even run for his own Senate seat again. He doesn’t have to retire, there’s a lot of good work he could do growing the movement. But he’s too old for office and has been for a while.

I would, he’s an extreme pacifist to the point where figuratively if he saw a grown man beating a six year old to death in an alley he wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it.

He’d admonish it, tell them to stop, maybe even call them corncob.

But he wouldn’t use violence to save that childs life.

And obviously in this analogy Gaza is the child that can’t defend itself.

. The closest I’ve ever seen is Sanders or AOC and they’re hardly mass appeal popular.

What?

Bernie could actually get republican voters and people who think the current Dem party is too far right.

Withe division along party lines being so deep, progressives are probably the most popular politicians in America right now, everyone else just most of their own party likes them. They’re capped at 1/3 approval because of that

People continuingly act like 1/3 of the country just doesn’t vote.

We saw in 08 with Obama they’ll show up for a Dem running a populist campaign, and for whatever reason that’s the last time we’ve tried it in 16 years.

Neoliberalism isn’t popular enough to win elections. And all it’s ever accomplished was driving Republicans to ever increasing extremes.

Obviously not.

But populists fucking win elections.

No one is saying the Dems need to run an evil populist. Or someone that lies about being a populist, like trump.

AOC is the best bet.

But whoever it is, the focus needs to be on increasing turnout from the left and not attempting to steal Republican voters by moving the whole party right.

Republican voters will always say if Dems agree with them they’ll vote D, but it’s always a lie and they’ll always vote R.

Just this way they still get what they want if they lose and they know it’ll help the Republican win.

Either the people running the DNC are so stupid they still haven’t noticed, or they’re in on the grift. Considering the same billionaires/corps donate to both parties, I’m not really it out.

But regardless of why they’re so bad at their job, we can’t afford to keep letting them run the literal only other option to fascism.

As John Oliver just said (paraphrased, but around 10:30 of latest episode):

If you wanted a centrist campaign that’s quiet on trans issues, tough on border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot law and order and reaches out to Republicans…

…

That candidate existed, and she just lost.

She can’t have gone any further “center” and she performed horribly. Anyone saying we went to far left isn’t paying attention to reality, they’ll listening to billionaire’s talking heads on the TV.

Always have and always will.

It’s common sense that voters want someone who they think can and will help them.

Republicans lie about it and win elections. Dem politicians try to convince us populism is bad because it’s not what their donors want.

A little bit of me dies everytime a “moderate” conflates populism with evil.

Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the common people and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite group.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

They hate populism because they’re the political elite. They’re the ones already not helping the common American and instead helping the other wealthy people.

If the Dem party pivots to populism, it means replacing both the elected and non elected leaders of the Dem party. And they’re not going to do what’s best for the country but worst for them personally voluntarily, or they’d be populists already.

We need to either force them out or start a new party, and four years isn’t as much time as it seems.

I’ll never understand why anyone thought the guy to clean up after Trump’s first term was an over 80 year old moderate who’s views on presidential powers boils down to:

I believe the president should be powerless, which apparently means as president I can’t limit the next presidents power

We need someone to fight fascism and we got a geriatric pacifist who spent his whole campaign lying about what he was prepared to do…

And then when he dropped out last minute we ran his VP who kept saying she agreed with him 100% and wouldnt have changed anything over the last four years, despite most of what he “tried” never making it I to the planning stages or getting struck down before implementation.

Biden failed and Kamala told voters she was fine with that and then acted shocked when that’s not what voters wanted.

Voters want someone who will fight for them, not “aww shucks, vote for me again and we’ll try the same shit”.