You see, geopolitics is like jazz...
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
joined 2 years ago
It's mental illness, grotesque mental disfigurement all the way down in this administration.
I'm sure you are not one of the problem hosts, but his will harm the renters more because they're the ones already subject to the bigger power imbalance - by definition not near their home and relying on Airbnb to ensure a safe place to stay - and Airbnb is reputed to be pro-host against renters.
For example, there was a trip to Europe where a host physically threatened us in writing, Airbnb kept transferring us around rather than offer any solutions, we left for our safety, the host claimed we didn't cancel and owed the full stay, Airbnb took the host's side without evidence despite our evidence of their threat in writing, we did a chargeback, and Airbnb disputed it for 4 months in apparent bad faith.
Anecdotal, but a case study why black-holing renters' contacts seems more damaging.
Trump-speak translation: "You gonna make me?"
Oh, I agree completely.
But I remember seeing her in 2023 and thinking, "Trump is scraping the bottom of the barrel now that nobody competent will work with him. This is truly clown-level, the bottom 1% of attorneys." In a fair timeline she wouldn't even be an attorney - she would work for 20 years to peak as a manager of the McDonald's that Trump is a lifer janitor at.
I should have known - I had similar thoughts about Sarah Huckabee Sanders when she was press secretary, and now she's [checks notes]... Governor of Arkansas.
Recently, the U.S. attorney in New Jersey (Trump’s former personal attorney Alina Habba) launched an investigation into the state of New Jersey for its alleged “obstruction” of Trump’s deportation agenda.
Alina Habba is a federal prosecutor now?
Alina Habba who said, “Somebody said to me ‘Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty?’ and I said ‘Oh easy, pretty… I can fake being smart’."?
Alina Habba, who has never been a prosecutor before? That Alina Habba is now the chief federal prosecutor and law enforcement official in New Jersey?
The one in Trump's losing $500 million civil fraud case who didn't even seem to know the federal rules of evidence, and whose only skill at the trial seemed to be completely undermining herself and her case?
Jesus christ.
Yes, sorry for the shadow edit - I was having trouble getting my app to copy the text.
From the article, it's probably going to be actively harmful:
The Trump administration plans to impose a new testing requirement for new vaccines — a demand that could delay the availability of the next round of COVID-19 vaccines and complicate the approval of other vaccines.
Additionally, this all but insures people will catch diseases - potentially fatal diseases like COVID - when they don't need to because they'll be given a placebo:
In addition, experts say that giving someone a placebo to protect them against a potentially deadly disease when an effective vaccine already exists would be unethical.
"Are they really planning on doing a placebo-controlled trial where a certain group of people are not given that vaccine, knowing that the virus can cause infection and disease, including serious disease in anyone? Anyone can be felled by this virus," Offit says. "So it's not an ethical trial."
What's worse than defunding education, forcing teachers to live on poverty wages and to buy class materials out of pocket? Making them train a generation of kids to be crackpot conspiracy theorists.
I think people think you're trivializing her opposition, but honestly, derisive comedy is one of the only ways to truly undermine fascism. Fearing them may be wise after they are established, but it does only make them stronger.
Also, anyone not watching the new Beavis & Butthead series is missing out, it's really good.
What's more, Pam Bondi is probably the one orchestrating and advising on political prosecutions that are almost certainly implied by "what's coming."
But I really hope my other intuition is correct and they have not yet fully staffed the DOJ with fascist sycophants. I am hoping there are enough decent people that they have been and will derail the worst of it, at least in the short term.
Also, there's absolutely no indication that Americans want to be working at poverty wages in an assembly plant. None of this makes sense even if it "worked."