Current Affairs The Would Be Emperor Has No Clothes (aka POTUS 47)

[Noisy noise annoys]

Isn't it going to kick off? Mass (any) protests? Surely there has to be some sort of reprisal?!?!

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Randomly rewatched the robert carlyle Hitler biopic the other day. The rhetoric in the early days is rather uncanny

As are the voters claiming "he doesn't mean what he says"

I'm reading Rees on the Holocaust again, well worth a look.

 

[Drico]

Not a shock, but the cruelty is sad to watch.

I'm quite enjoying it. Democracy in action. The people get what the people want. This is what they - collectively - voted for.

Of course, it's horrific. But the only way to get rid of these gangsters is to let them put into action all of their promises and hope people who thought they'd be shielded from this nasty vindictiveness suffer enough to finally come to their senses. There will be terrible collateral damage in the meantime, however.

 

[Walken]

I'm quite enjoying it. Democracy in action. The people get what the people want. This is what they - collectively - voted for.

Of course, it's horrific. But the only way to get rid of these gangsters is to let them put into action all of their promises and hope people who thought they'd be shielded from this nasty vindictiveness suffer enough to finally come to their senses. There will be terrible collateral damage in the meantime, however.

The planet can't afford to sit back and see the largest polluter per person pull out of the Paris agreement. I don't see the far right populist ship being seen through being irreparable damage is done.

 

[kenada_blue]

Imagine being a blue and supporting the Republicans and their uber tory thatcher on steds policies-hard to wrap your head around, isn’t it?

Outsider looking in but...are they basically pulling the plug on things to "save money" that long term don't have much fiscal impact

But then look to be pumping billions into tech that the Chinese have just done for a fraction of the price?

 

[Groucho]

Eighteenth century France had a tool for this sort of thing.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Imagine being a blue and supporting the Republicans and their uber tory thatcher on steds policies-hard to wrap your head around, isn’t it?

Ah, I see, so that's where the cheap labour is coming from to replace all the low paid immigrants that harvest crops, and do their gardening.

Eradicate education (schools) for the poor and get em in the fields working for nothing. That'll play well with southern states...

 

[Rita_Poon]

It's liz truss this. Feck the people suffering with cancer off to save a few quid for the wealthiest to have another tax cut.

Reprehensible isn't strong enough word.

 

[Kurt.]

Didn’t take long for the Turkeys to get their Christmas did it.

 

[RAFUH]

I've not spoken with my son yet and, perhaps, @RAFUH could chime in but I believe this "temporary" stop to federal grants also directly affects most medical residency programs, which could seriously mess up care at loads of hospital systems.

CMS (Medicare and Medicaid) is the major direct funding source for residency programs. So cuts to Medicaid could hurt. Medicare was supposedly spared.
The double whammy: if funding is cut to CMS, in addition to losing the more direct funding, reimbursement for care provided to patients with Medicare/Medicaid will decrease.

Major hospitals may be able to carry on for a bit, but small, rural hospitals will struggle even short term.
FQHCs would be gone if it’s long term.

University based health systems will be massively hurt if they lose research grants. That is what was blowing up my work email today.

The two combined could certainly see me lose my job due to lack of funding.

 

[WA Toffee]

Outsider looking in but...are they basically pulling the plug on things to "save money" that long term don't have much fiscal impact

But then look to be pumping billions into tech that the Chinese have just done for a fraction of the price?

You mean taking from the poor and giving to the rich? Yes, that is what he is doing

 

[SerenityNigh]

1938 Germany - How could people sit back and let this happen
2025 America - The whole world sits back and lets it happen

Time is a flat circle.

It would help if some international leaders have a spine, but I suspect most will do whatever he says just like our local elected officials

 

[SerenityNigh]

You mean taking from the poor and giving to the rich? Yes, that is what he is doing

Oh right, there were also "tax cut proposals" reported, the sort that raise taxes on 99% of Americans to pay for cuts for the 1%

 

[T Bone]

Wish we could just skip straight to the Nuremburg trials for this lot.

They were litterally talking about bombing the international criminal court for Benjamins arrest warrant.

Good luck with Nuremburg trials.

 

[kenada_blue]

You mean taking from the poor and giving to the rich? Yes, that is what he is doing

Standard corporate restructure. Anyone on the low end pay scale we'll massively reduce, mids a little, top...not so much.

Also... bonuses won't be reduced to the top end.