Could it be ... gut the federal government like it was a leveraged buyout and then steal everyone's money?

Certainly seems to be.

I wonder if this is a media bubble thing, because basically all I see online is the opposite. The difference between the screaming outrage there and the complete absence of news reporting it tends to get pretty freaky.

I mean, we've got 20 point swings in special elections and mass protests ranging from large to huge all over the place and you'd barely know if you were looking at the evening news.

Yeah, the Reddit front page (not logged in) is always 50% full of politics and raging about how much this admin sucks. Yet in real life for 99% of people it's business as usual, no observable change, you'd have no idea anything was going on.

I wonder if the raging about it online has a cooling effect that makes people less likely to take irl action. Even if you do enter the left media bubble, you can't help but think that they've accomplished absolutely nothing. The "protests" (more like "100 people had a picnic in front of the capital") were pretty pathetic.

That's part of what I mean, actually. You go downtown here on the last big weekend they organized, and its 10 blocks of shouting people in a small/mid sized city, media representation at the local level was good - there is still a newspaper here - on the evening news it was a 10 second clip, and outside of that - "personalities" talking about the whole event nationally and a 30 second spot on Seattle and New York?

Like, compare some pictures of these protests to the 4 guys with a sign locally during Iraq?

The signal attenuates fast.

Well, at least it wasn't Larry Ellison.

People were okay with it when they assumed, I think naively, that only guilty people had anything to hide.

Now that we've got someone willing to throw all rules and morals to the wayside in charge, they've understandably begun to reassess.

Sure wish Americans could understand the issues before they happen. Not after it's too late.

Stupidity is not exclusive to Americans. It's something that unites all of mankind.

Or perhaps we shouldn't have killed off the concept of pensions in the United States so we weren't all beholden to godforsaken 401Ks?

To be fair, the pensions also exploded in a lot of cases.

We really just need a more centralized and reliable method of holding money for retirement. Which we have, but we need to expand - SS.

Of course, lots of people think SS will explode, too. But it hasn't! Yet!

Eh, I'm not holding out much hope, Israel was doing more bombing runs a couple hours ago according to the news.

Do you have a source? Israel says the ceasefire started this morning, and they've already been withdrawing troops.

Reading through it, it looks like they were just using all of their 24 hours until ceasefire. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gaza-city-residents-set-...

Ceasefire went into effect ~5AM Eastern, they were still bombing when I went to bed.

I will admit I've had some fun pointing the Fox News crowd to live Oregon traffic cams.

You know, it's fun how Ellison's been selling this same dystopian hellscape since Bush II. What is life that we're back here again?

They are planning on de-orbiting weather satellites because the administration doesn't believe in climate change. Nature was maybe on to something.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01537-5. One study says the endorsement had little effect on voting intention but damaged credibility and perception of scientists.

Then why is it that YOU are working so hard to damage the credibility and perception of scientists?

According to the radio this morning, they're currently working to close all the FDA branches that do food safety testing, so, good guess?