On Trump

[Trell]

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic

So this is what the Republicans means when they call someone a "DEI hire"?

 

[GO-NAD!]

So this is what the Republicans means when they call someone a "DEI hire"?

Of course. They want to demonstrate what can happen when you have DEI hires.

 

[GO-NAD!]

Heather Cox Richardson

March 24, 2025 (Monday) Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped the story that senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15 U.S. attack on the Houthis...

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Zachary B. Wolf of CNN noted that “Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder.” Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Brian Tyler Cohen: “My first reaction... was 'what absolute clowns.' Total amateur hour, reckless, dangerous…. [T]his is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.” Foreign policy scholar Timothy Snyder posted: “These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.”

 

[Trell]

Of course. They want to demonstrate what can happen when you have DEI hires.

So many DEI hires at the very top national security positions with none of them questioning the use of Signal for this.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, I gather.

 

[Steve81]

Needs to be better, in many ways.

Mental health needs to be addressed in meaningful ways, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

Mental health is an enormous problem in this country, and even health care professionals are largely incompetent in regards to it.

My life was destroyed because VHC released me completely psychotic. They knew I broke down repeatedly in their care; they knew I was malnourished to the point of losing 20 pounds in 2 weeks, not sleeping, and badly hypokalemic (among other issues with a bowel perforation). Did they run even the most basic mental health screening? Nah. When my wife reported I thought I was communicating with the government via Wordle, did they do anything? Nope.

It took years to come back from the aftermath. And of course the statute of limitations is 2 years for such malpractice.

 

[dlaloum]

and just think, with all that 'baggage' the Dems still couldn't defeat him last November. Sad , truly sad......

There is a reason the USA is considered a "Flawed Democracy" rather than a "Full Democracy"

The Economist Democracy Index - Wikipedia

I think it likely that in the next review of the Democracy Index the USA rating will drop further. Depending on how successful the Project 2025 attempts are, the USA may well drop to a "Hybrid Regime"

Definition of "Hybrid Regime":

Hybrid regimes are countries with regular electoral frauds, preventing them from being fair and free democracies. These countries commonly have governments that apply pressure on political opposition, non-independent judiciaries, widespread corruption, harassment and pressure placed on the media, anaemic rule of law, and more pronounced faults than flawed democracies in the realms of underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance.

 

[dlaloum]

The first few weeks of the fascist Trump administration has been boring, don't you think?

Always keep the chinese curse in mind: "May you live in interesting times"

 

[highfigh]

Mental health is an enormous problem in this country, and even health care professionals are largely incompetent in regards to it.

My life was destroyed because VHC released me completely psychotic. They knew I broke down repeatedly in their care; they knew I was malnourished to the point of losing 20 pounds in 2 weeks, not sleeping, and badly hypokalemic (among other issues with a bowel perforation). Did they run even the most basic mental health screening? Nah. When my wife reported I thought I was communicating with the government via Wordle, did they do anything? Nope.

It took years to come back from the aftermath. And of course the statute of limitations is 2 years for such malpractice.

I don't know what's happening all over, but Milwaukee is trying to make some changes and that's a good thing because this city has a lot of problems, mental health being one of the largest and most difficult to handle. We have several places for people to go, but when someone calls 911 or a non-emergency number and askes to be taken somewhere, it's not uncommon for the beds to be filled.