It’s simply because they are not paying attention. And I don’t mean that as a put-down, I simply mean that Trump has their attention, not the broader GOP, nor anything about the government. They don’t care about the GOP Agenda, beyond a few of Trump’s sound bites. Many of them have an inherent distrust of politicians yet trust Donald Trump completely.
The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.
And I bet one of the qualifications for being nominated is buying a portfolio of Trump NFTs…
There is nothing wrong with making a profit. People have to be paid, after all, and that includes the ownership who put the money at risk in the operation to begin with. The problem is when making a profit becomes the only motive.
Every company is established with the purpose of offering a product or performing a service that makes their customers’ better or simpler. If is successful, it grows from nothing to something in a relatively short period of time. Then it gets the attention of the Investor Class, who shovels money into it with the expectation that it will sustain that growth. Now, the focus is on Building Shareholder Value, and the customer is seen as a necessary evil toward that goal.
The worst thing that ever happened was when we decided that public corporations had a duty to maximize shareholder value above everything else. It renders all those mission and vision statements irrelevant. No matter how much the CEO says the firm’s goal is to make the world a better place through selling stuff, we all know it’s a lie. Their goal is to enrich tthemselves, at our expense.
It’s not a bribe, it’s a gratuity. No wonder Trump wants to eliminate tax on tips, it’s how GOP politicians make money.
Actually, all the street signs read “Avenue of the Americas”, but only tourists call it that.
I found an estimate of when the wave will hit the shore. Looks like it will hit the Bay Area in just a few minutes
https://oaklandside.org/2024/12/05/tsunami-warning-earthquake-oakland-coast-alert/
This was on Sixth, though. Totally different.
It truly is SOL
Socket, a security firm that helps detect supply-chain attacks, said the back door is “believed to be the result of a social engineering/phishing attack targeting maintainers of the official Web3.js open source library maintained by Solana.”
That’s super interesting. From the sound of it, the Maintainers must have been targeted to force a malicious Pull Request to be accepted. That article showed some of the code from the commit. I am not a Solana developer but understood enough to know what it was doing and that no maintainer should have approved it willingly.
I wonder if those maintainers will end up having any liability for the hack.
Um ackshually, NYC is doing better than many other places, at least as far as per-capita homicide statistics go, according to this list I pulled out of Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
Sort by “murder and nonnegligent manslaughter” and you find NYC way down on the list. St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit is on the top. NYC is not even the worst in the state anymore, Buffalo is worse.
That’s why Biden’s pardon of his son is so interesting. He’s not the first President to pardon a family member, but Hunter Biden is such a central character in the Conservative Cinematic Universe that I’m sure that there are a lot of MAGAts in Congress itching to impeach him over it…
… and I bet a bunch of Democrats get on board, too! Because whether or not Hunter Biden goes to jail ultimately doesn’t matter in the long run. But establishing some bounds for the pardon power is essential, and the SCOTUS has effectively ruled that he can exercise his official powers however he wants, and only Congress can hold him to account.
It would be hilarious if someone like MTG introduced an impeachment resolution over it, only to have to walk it back when many Democrats support it, and Senate Democrats back it, too, and the impeachment ends up having more to do with putting bounds on the next President than punishing the current one.
Wtf, talking shit about other subs is brigading now? What is this, middle school?
It is my God-given right as a Bills fan to talk shit about the Jets and their fans. It’s a good thing I left there, because if they tried to pull this shit on me I would point out that they are impinging on my religious freedom.
whos the new VP.
Isn’t it obvious? It’s gonna be Gaetz. He has nothing better to do, after all.
Such wow. Much efficiency!
It did happen, it was just irrelevant. No serious competition was allowed (Sorry, Dean Phillips).
I prefer “Broligarchy”
The genius part is now that Republicans are in charge of the government here, deficits no longer matter, and they will push through huge tax cuts on the rich. These massive tax cuts will only trickle down to working folks in the form of direct rebate checks, just to give Trump an excuse to have his signature all over them. Trump will convince these people that the additional money is to help offset rising prices, and his voters will believe it.
Deficits will no longer matter until after the midterms, and then if Democrats can gain back control of either house of Congress, the deficit will become a big problem again, that can only be solved by slashing more programs. The checks will stop, and Trump will blame Democrats.
So, politics is his next move, then?