[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

The news is a barrage of horrors (and idiocy)...

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Trump Stops Distribution of Life-Saving HIV Drugs [for developing nations]

Google Maps Bows to Trump With 'Gulf of America' Name Change

CNN Anchor Rages 'Don't Give Into the Lies' in Fiery Signoff

Trump's most hated reporter said his decision to "move on" from the network came after it offered him an "alternative" time slot.

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[Progressive economist Paul Krugman on why he resigned from the New York Times:] "I've always been very, very lightly edited on the column," he said. "And that stopped being the case. The editing became extremely intrusive. It was very much toning down of my voice, toning down of the feel, and a lot of pressure for what I considered false equivalence." And, increasingly, attempts "to dictate the subject." [...] "I approached Mondays and Thursdays with dread," Krugman continued, "and often spent the afternoon in a rage. Patrick often—not always—rewrote crucial passages [...] the back-and-forth[...] made my life hell" [And t]he paper [AKA his bosses] wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently
https://www.cjr.org/...-newsletter.php

And the one glimmer of hope is from an evil shit:

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Rupert Murdoch Joins the Resistance as Papers Torch RFK Jr.

"the only straitjacket suitable for RFK Jr. is a real one." [Can you fit Trump in there too?...]

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 28 January 2025 - 05:50 PM

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Azath Vitr (D, on 28 January 2025 - 05:50 PM, said:

[/b]Google Maps Bows to Trump With 'Gulf of America' Name Change

This one makes me laugh as the small print is that they will rename it for U.S. residents only. It's Freedom Fries all over again. Only some American's will ever call it that, and most will refuse. It will eventually revert for them, and it will make a quaint story.

Take it from someone who still calls the Skydome the Skydome even though it's been the Rogers Center for 20 years now.

[Cause]

For a man who wants to save money he seems to be spending it like water:

7 months pay to federal workers who agree to resign by February 6th. I would take it. 2 months vacation, 5 months to find a job and not a penny of income lost. I also suspect it will shatter effectiveness of goverment agencies

Soldiers who were discahrged for refusing to get the covid vaccine will be reinstated with back pay. Thats years of salary, not to mention is a solider who has been off duty really going to just slot back into his regiment?

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 Cause, on 29 January 2025 - 12:09 AM, said:

For a man who wants to save money he seems to be spending it like water:

7 months pay to federal workers who agree to resign by February 6th. I would take it. 2 months vacation, 5 months to find a job and not a penny of income lost. I also suspect it will shatter effectiveness of goverment agencies

Soldiers who were discahrged for refusing to get the covid vaccine will be reinstated with back pay. Thats years of salary, not to mention is a solider who has been off duty really going to just slot back into his regiment?

There is no money appropriated for this deal. There is no deal on the horizon for this money. It is a mirage. It is a threat wrapped in a deal backed by a man famous for not paying people.

Taking the deal is foolish.

All of this is so dumbly illegal and cruel. This should result in an impeachment and removal, but I fear we will not see that with this Congress.

[Tsundoku]

Now Alphabet asks all the other techpreneurs to make a bit of room between Trumps arse cheeks for them to have a turn fitting their noses and tongues in.

Google caves to controversial Trump move
Google was under no obligation but its decided to fall in line with a contentious Donald Trump call all the same.

https://www.news.com...3402711ef3b295f

For me, the "Gulf of America" is the yawning gap between how smart MAGAts think they are and how smart they actually are.
Later it will also come to represent the vast distance between Trump's promises and reality (except for the desire to be an autocrat - that will be right on the money).
How much damage is done in the meantime is anyone's guess.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: Yesterday, 11:59 AM