I could go for this explanation except so many of the people going full on fascist, sadist, abandoning empathy are the people who are comfortable in their lives. At least this is true for the US. So many of the racists here are white middle class fuckers or the stupidly rich
Edit: no, auto incorrect. I meant fascist. They are racist too, but I meant fascist
That’s why I’m thinking of this more on a global level than from any specific corner. Observations of the described effects have been under crowded conditions, but I don’t see that as a global phenomenon even if it can be found locally. To be clear, I’m not excusing the people embracing fascism, nor am I willing to just sit around and let it happen, but mostly I’m just trying to make sense of its general world-wide rise.
I’m worried the medication on which my body depends to keep living will become either prohibitively expensive or so unregulated I die anyway from contamination or concentration issues somehow.
And I expect nothing to happen and no one to care beyond those who have to deal with my corpse.
Like probably even thousands of people like me could die and no one will care.
I gwt the sense that Tramp doesn’t care anymore whether he’s popular or not (which counters the impression i also have that he’s a raging narcissist). Maybe he’s so deluded or insulated by toadies at this point that he thinks he’s more popular than ever. Or maybe domination, and inspiring abject terror in most of us, matters to him even more than popularity.
I think it’s part of some specific jargon. I don’t think it is just his turn of phrase. The people he is serving see the United States as needing to be cleansed of tens of millions of people, literally all of them citizens currently, and most of them having been born here.
Interesting idea. I can’t find any other sources using the phrase that way, but it sounds plausible.
I did find uses of “homegrown terrorist” to describe domestic terrorism, meaning white supremacists, so maybe Tramp’s brain borrowed “homegrown” from that context (though he would of course never send Proud Boys and such to El Salvador’s gulag – he loves the kinds of crime they do).
I imagine with Luigi’s case and whatnot he hears such things regularly. There seems to be an unironic effort to make us all really scared about Tesla showrooms getting vandalized but also really chill about a known wife-beater and child-abuser setting the governors manor on fire (which somehow I doubt is perceived as terrorist).
I’m thinking of that old saying about ‘if I am to be hung for stealing a loaf of bread …’ If we are to die for lack of medication, then make those deaths cost dearly. Speaking purely speculatively, of course.
Well, that never happened before. /s
But you point out exactly why - whatever his motivation or competence - his cabal is no different to Germany’s 80+ years ago. They absolutely think their country needs to be cleansed of a certain type of person, precisely to deflect public opprobrium and blame for all evils to that group rather than those actually responsible, giving them the space and specious justification to go about the rest of their ‘business’.
I lifted this from TOP. A cogent and detailed review of why manufacturing cannot be brought back to America, and certainly not in the way Chump believes.
This passage caught my eye, particularly - point 3 resonated loudly:
The 3 reasons why we want to actually bring manufacturing back
It makes our country stronger. If a foreign country can cut off your supply of essentials such as food, semiconductors, or antibiotics you’re beholden to that country. The United States must have large flexible capacity in these areas.
It makes it easier to innovate. When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent. We need to have manufacturing of high value goods, like drones, robots, and military equipment that are necessary for our economic future and safety. It will be difficult for us to apply artificial intelligence to manufacturing if we’re not doing it here.
People can simplistically be divided into three buckets: those of verbal intelligence, those of mathematical intelligence, and those of spatial intelligence. Without a vibrant manufacturing industry, those with the latter type of intelligence cannot fulfill their potential. This is one reason why so many men drop out, smoke weed, and play video games; they aren’t built for office jobs and would excel at manufacturing, but those jobs either don’t exist or pay poorly.
And his later prescription for actually expanding manufacturing to the USA goes against everything Chump and his elitist fascist friends stand for.
“It’s better to be feared than loved” Who said that? Anyway, I think he’s enjoying the fear, more than he enjoys the love.
Yeah, seems likely that in addition to loving the bully role, seeing his power reflected back at him by cowering other is probably an effective distraction from his fading looks, virility, stamina, mental acuity, and all the other forms of decline that go along with getting close to 80 years old.
Funny stuff while still very sad.
It’s cute that the judge thinks this administration will comply with a court order.
A federal judge scolded the Trump administration on Tuesday for dragging its feet in complying with a Supreme Court order that directed the White House to “facilitate” the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador last month. “To date nothing has been done,” the judge, Paula Xinis, told a lawyer for the Justice Department. “Nothing.”
The stern words came during a hearing in Federal District Court in Maryland, where Judge Xinis said that she intended to force Trump officials to answer questions — both in writing and in depositions — about what they had done so far to get the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, out of the prison.
Noting that every passing day was another that Mr. Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old father of three, suffered harm in Salvadoran custody, the judge set up a fast schedule for officials to provide documents and sit for depositions.
“We’re going to move,” she said. “There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding.”
Jimmy pokes fun at his physical.
Jump to 5:15 where he shows a funny shot from the Masters and then he goes into the physical.
Where do they get these doctors?
Of note is Greenland’s climate.
All those crypto- and AI-server-farms as well as the massive data centers already in use have to get cooled somewhere, somehow.
Here’s how to not do it so well, in one of the more deregulated business environments: Texas.
Gotta do all that processin’ and petafloppin’ terafloppin’ etc. in a place that’s already cold, which helps cool the equipment, while keeping solar panels more efficient…
… and having an abundance of water (both coastal and glacial) is very handy:
But… but… he said they were PURE gold! /s
Not to mention all that raw earth they have.
(article from the last TFG administration, believe it or not)
