Politics

Promoting Incompetence

Wannabee authoritarians can “take over” institutions by corrupting them first, then claim it’s proof that they need to eliminate or rebuild them. It’s a wrecking ball approach.

E.g. usurping the authority of well trained and dedicated experts in the field of medicine. Obviously there are a lot more examples of this in…[Read more]

I rarely pay attention to up-to-the-minute news. But living in Trumpian times is unlike other times in US history. I heard news that Vance visited one of the Murdochs a few days ago, so the 25th amendment may become relevant? To be honest, I’ve lost sleep in some recent days.

Nine minutes long, if you don’t count the last two minutes of the video…[Read more]

Daily Beast interview with Michael Wolff, about Trump and a couple of his female staff. Eleven minutes:

Cluster B people are known for being thin-skinned: “emotionally unstable”, “impulsive”, and “intolerant of perceived slights or insults”.  If you’re a narcissist, you’re perpetually at odds with and competing with everybody; and human beings are not competition machines, we’re not built to cope with that, so it hurts personally when someone…[Read more]

I thought of this months ago but didn’t express it, but Kinzinger does it better anyway. Trump, et al, is the new cancel culture. Trump himself, is the thin skinned King Snowflake now.

4 minutes:

PopeBeanie wrote:
(Hmm, now I wonder if there were any connections to religion in McCarthyism.)

I finally answered my own stupid question. I say stupid, I should have remembered history, e.g. the term “Red Scare”. Here’s part of what I got from Gemini AI:

“Godless Communism” vs. “Christian America”: A central rhetorical strategy was to portray…

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_Robert_ wrote:
Nothing interesting about it, Pope.

I really hope that view prevails, someday after Trump/MAGAism.

In my head I’ve started trying to compare Trumpism with McCarthyism. They’re both historically dark eras for USA, with some kind of group human nature built in that I want to learn about. Comparable to cults, in fact. (Hmm, now I…[Read more]

Nothing interesting about it, Pope. We have seen this all before, every time democracy fails from within.

I wonder what ICE will do with all the money they’re about to get? We’re living in “interesting times”.
18 minutes:

Setting aside how we feel about what they want, asking the United Nations for help…really? They might as well ask the Tooth Fairy. The U.N. is about as relevant as a screen door on a submarine nowadays. Whenever the General Assembly wants to do something nowadays, it goes to the Security Council to die.

They’re just pissing into the wind.

Fellow Unbelievers,

They just couldn’t get together under any other circumstances or for any other reason 🙄

Trump has warned people to evacuate Tehran… maybe an hour or two ago? I saw pictures of bumper-to-bumper traffic there, from a quick-response news source I’m currently getting a trustworthy vibe from. But tbh, I’ve normally ignored up-to-the-minute attempts online to provide reliable news scoops.

Unseen, I’ll remove this comment if you don’t…[Read more]

@Enco

The horse is dead. No point in beating it.

Unseen,

So you just burned 10 times more dinosaur bones than me to get to the same thing I was saying earlier. Why???

If your AI is like DuckAI, it cites it’s sources and has the disclaimer acknowledging that it is subject to error. Just like my regular Web searches. Why not just do a regular Web search without the AI falderal?

Reuters as I…[Read more]

@Enco

Your source doesn’t look like it’s reliable on an AP or Reuters level.

I did check an AI (Gemini) asking

During the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, are there any indications which way the general Iranian public is leaning regarding supporting their government?

And got this response:

Based on recent reports, there are strong…[Read more]

Coinbase.

Robert,

No, it’s your libertarian bitcoin pricks burning all the coal for their idiotic power sucking, slow as molasses “blockchain technology”.

It can be both AI and Bitcoin that suck massive amounts of power, but Eco-Wackos are the hypocrites for using either while virtue signalling over straws and EVs. Me, I say find a way for these to us…[Read more]

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