Republican Leadership Is A Threat To America

[dmallord]

I have all the heavy duty steel shelves I need, but I could still upgrade if there are more store closings.

So, in a hundred days we have massive numbers of new jobs because of the tariffs? Massive new factories being built already? Trump must be on crack to believe his lies with such gusto.

 

[Politruk]

Rebuilding the economy could take as long as the decades spent outsourcing it, but starting the process is a big step up from denying we can do anything about that. We won't get back to a 1950s level of growth and wealth, but recovering enough that blue collar parents with high school education can provide for their kids is an achievable goal.

There might be ways to achieve that, but not through tariffs. Short of full socialism, the only thing that will do it is vigorous dirigisme.

Dirigisme or dirigism (from French diriger 'to direct') is an economic doctrine in which the state plays a strong directive (policies) role, contrary to a merely regulatory or non-interventionist role, over a market economy.[1] As an economic doctrine, dirigisme is the opposite of laissez-faire, stressing a positive role for state intervention in curbing productive inefficiencies and market failures. Dirigiste policies often include indicative planning, state-directed investment, and the use of market instruments (taxes and subsidies) to incentivize market entities to fulfill state economic objectives.

The term emerged in the post–World War II era to describe the economic policies of France which included substantial state-directed investment, the use of indicative economic planning to supplement the market mechanism and the establishment of state enterprises in strategic domestic sectors. It coincided with both the period of substantial economic and demographic growth, known as the Trente Glorieuses which followed the war, and the slowdown beginning with the 1973 oil crisis.

The term has subsequently been used to classify other economies that pursued similar policies, such as Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, the East Asian tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan; and more recently the economy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its economic reforms,[2] Malaysia, Indonesia[3][4] and India before the opening of its economy in 1991.[5][6][7]

Most modern economies can be characterized as dirigiste to some degree as the state may exercise directive action by performing or subsidizing research and development of new technologies through government procurement (especially military) or through state-run research institutes.[8]

 

[DeluxAuto]

THIS fucking twat.

"We're gonna fight communism with fascism!"

 

[Politruk]

THIS fucking twat.

"We're gonna fight communism with fascism!"

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Why does any RW even speak in terms of "communist ideology" any more?

 

[butters]

so, the government (under President Biden) had dossiers on several top-jobbees under trump, about spreading dangerous disinformation etc...

rubio announces that he has these and will be handing them TO the very people they are about so they can decide what to do with them at their own pleasure.
that's like a new teacher saying "your last teacher left me information about who had been spiteful, cruel and nasty but I'm gonna give those reports to the same kids who can decide whether or not to share it with their parents/other teachers or chuck it in a trash can and set light to it"

why oh why am i still surprised by anything this administration does???

 

[DeluxAuto]

Even the MAGATs don't believe the felon's bullshit anymore.

Trump Insists He Hasn't 'Made Any Mistakes' So Far as Town Hall Audience Cracks Up Laughing
"That's the toughest question I can have," he said

 

[jomar]

The real reason 60 Minutes lost their boss. It's nuts.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916666407015915824

He’s weaponizing the executive branch against perceived enemies (and by that I mean anyone who doesn’t bend the knee publicly and repeatedly)

 

[ll74]

(Not directed at any one person here)
I want to be clear on my position here because the hyperbole continues to be real.

Trump
Is
Not
Hitler

He never will be. Comparing him to that asshole is NOT effective.....EVER.

Stop.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Stop.

Or else!

 

[ll74]

Or else!

Or else nothing.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Or else nothing.

That sounds like You.

Lol

 

[ll74]

That sounds like You.

Lol

Tell me more about butters.

 

[ll74]

 

[butters]

dodgy cuts leave some 30 weather forecast offices without their most important top meteorologists, placing residents in danger from tornado, hurricane, flood and fire events.

According to a Friday report from CNN, 30 of the nation's 122 weather forecast offices now lack a meteorologist-in-charge - the top position at NWS offices that traditionally has a prominent role in emergency management. The offices currently lacking a head meteorologist include Houston-Galveston - which frequently experiences the effects of hurricane season - New York City; Tampa, Florida; and Cleveland, Ohio. The regions covered by those offices include large swaths of the Louisiana and Florida coasts.

"The MICs are the critical linchpin in the operation of our weather forecast offices," former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) administrator Rick Spinrad told CNN. "They ensure the forecasters have all they need to be most effective, and they are the direct link to NWS HQ for safe and timely communications during weather events."

The Tampa office that now lacks a chief administrator oversaw the region of Florida battered by Hurricane Milton in October of last year. The storm killed at least 45 people and caused over $34 billion in damages. Meteorologists were inundated with death threats as the storm hit land, as viral conspiracy theories spread claiming the government could control the weather, and that evacuations were unnecessary.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...1&cvid=89f25be7ba9d447280f58e954f7f45a0&ei=58

 

[Lazaran]

dodgy cuts leave some 30 weather forecast offices without their most important top meteorologists, placing residents in danger from tornado, hurricane, flood and fire events.







https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...1&cvid=89f25be7ba9d447280f58e954f7f45a0&ei=58

One can only hope that the unnecessary deaths, injuries, and misery that result from these cuts will exclusively befall the MAGAts who voted for the rapey, racist, misogynistic, imbecilic, corrupt orange traitor.

We. Told. Them. So.

 

[ll74]

should I wait until you get your sock?

You have plenty of your own for her.

 

[MajorRewrite]

dodgy cuts leave some 30 weather forecast offices without their most important top meteorologists, placing residents in danger from tornado, hurricane, flood and fire events.

I didn’t know that meteorologists got death threats because gullible MAGA conspiracy sheep think the government can steer hurricanes.

JFC, MAGAs are so dumb.

 

[Rotadom]

By all accounts, yes, it did feel stupid for the sane people in Germany. That's the problem.

Fascists are inherently ridiculous. They tell outrageous lies that only idiots believe, so the intelligent discounted it as a real threat and just saw it as something to be mocked.

Then the fascists got enough idiots to believe the outrageous lies, and then they got in power.

Fascism never stops being stupid and ridiculous, but left unchecked it quickly becomes dangerous.

 

[nowisthetime]

They reach a new low every single day.

 

[Rotadom]

 

[Politruk]

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Vance should just stick close to Trump.

Really close.

 

[Lazaran]

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Did DonOld give J.D. “The Gift”???

 

[butters]

Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee

so the body that hospitals and doctors rely upon for safety guidance, especially during mass infection outbreaks, has been shut down by trump & his cohorts

Some members now say they fear that its guidelines will be frozen in time, unable to evolve with new scientific research or the spread of drug-resistant organisms, which are a particular threat to hospitals.

“At some point, when things need to change, the guidelines likely won’t change, and then people will be sort of flying by the seat of their pants,” said Connie Steed, a HICPAC member since 2023 and former president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

Dr. Anurag Malani, a fellow at the Infectious Diseases Society of America who joined HICPAC in January, said the committee was close to finalizing new guidelines for airborne pathogens before the termination. The guidelines, which had not been updated since 2007, included a controversial recommendation that would allow surgical masks in lieu of N95 respirators to prevent the spread of certain pathogens.

“There was really a lot of important material in there, and I think a lot of lessons learned from Covid that helped shape those guidelines to put us in a better place than we were pre-pandemic,” Malani said.

sounds like that timing wasn't accidental

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

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info links to the actual above Twitter posts can be accessed here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1648332153904680961

More appropriately, ask, what republican leadership?

 

[DeluxAuto]

(Not directed at any one person here)
I want to be clear on my position here because the hyperbole continues to be real.

Trump
Is
Not
Hitler

He never will be. Comparing him to that asshole is NOT effective.....EVER.

Stop.

There's a real potential of Trump killing more Americans than Hitler killed Jews.