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

[gonetomorrow]

My money's on China in the long run. It's a long game.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Europe will begin to look like a green pasture if this keeps up. China too.

obviously there's the long term concern, but what about paychecks in the next few weeks for so many people?

 

[Rita_Poon]

obviously there's the long term concern, but what about paychecks in the next few weeks for so many people?

I wonder if musk will invent a bio company and hoover up the best suddenly recently redundant.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I wonder if musk will invent a bio company and hoover up the best suddenly recently redundant.

Actually, now that I've read the article and not just the headline, they're cutting "administrative costs" by up to $4B. Obviously still a concern, especially if your salary is paid through admin costs and not directly by the grant, but maybe not as dire as the headline sounds. Still, a lot of labs will probably be required to close up shop even with a temporary funding halt. And when labs close doors it probably costs more to reopen than if you'd just kept them open instead.

 

[Yarrgh]

The orange one.

I guessed that really but they all have a suspicious gross-out comedy look of xy interlopers into women sports.

 

[dylsexicbleu]

 

[Rita_Poon]

merit
ocracy

 

[Toffeepot]

To audit HIM and others like him
Nothing to dovwith the average American

 

[verreauxi]

Ignore the racist troll please.

 

[WA Toffee]

Ignore the racist troll please.

Could you narrow it down a bit please?

 

[dylsexicbleu]

To audit HIM and others like him
Nothing to dovwith the average American

Then these 80,000 new IRS agents would have it written in their working contracts they were strictly limited to audit only the top 1-2% of Americans. Of course no such wording would appear on contracts of these 80k new IRS agents. And of course had it somehow done so it would merely allow remaining agents more time to audit the average American taxpayer.

 

[BlueTX]

To audit HIM and others like him
Nothing to dovwith the average American

And it's a massive exaggeration that Sen. Kennedy knows all too well.

So says a Trump-appointee in this article:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/politics/republican-irs-funding-87000-agents/index.html

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Nor really hysterical

 

[Rita_Poon]

Gonna leave prince harry alone. Bless.

Not getting a royal welcome and tour on international duty with big charlie if you've deported his second son.

 

[Toffeepot]

Then these 80,000 new IRS agents would have it written in their working contracts they were strictly limited to audit only the top 1-2% of Americans. Of course no such wording would appear on contracts of these 80k new IRS agents. And of course had it somehow done so it would merely allow remaining agents more time to audit the average American taxpayer.

and open themselves up to never ending litigation claiming discrimination by people with the money to challenge everything. Sure