Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

In regard to Tesla, the boycotts actually appear to be having some effect.

Well the bulk of Tesla owners were liberals weren't they? That makes for an easy boycott. All my Maga FB friends had been dogging electric cars for years.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Well the bulk of Tesla owners were liberals weren't they? That makes for an easy boycott. All my Maga FB friends had been dogging electric cars for years.

Musk has had a positive impact on electric car use in that regard. Trump fans are now buying electric to own the libs. And I suspect because that truck (which is actually a really comfortable and pretty sweet vehicle) comes in a "Beast" package which includes giant gnarly tires that make it look like something out of Mad Max.

Alternatively, one can view this as I do - further proof most humans are emotionally driven idiots comprised of equal parts pettiness and irrationality. Trump is a perfect pied piper for a perfectly imbecilic public.

And I don't merely mean the right, or the poors. The Big Dumb Cloud permeating everywhere in the country touches everything. If you doubt this, ask a "Resistance" person what they would do in lieu of DOGE to curb govt overexpansion and debt. Four out of five times they'll say "Tax billionaires." At which point, all one can do is exit the conversation.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I was under the impression that the Trump Organization is not actually operating any hotels, and that various others are, so that one's experience at one such property would not necessarily correlate to that at another.

Which is separate from the question of whether one wants make that statement. I was in Chicago and when I saw the large Trump name on the property over the river, I felt a little ill. Though that could have been the norovirus at work.

I have a friend who will ask to change rooms in Vegas if his has a view of the TRUMP building.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

I have a friend who will ask to change rooms in Vegas if his has a view of the TRUMP building.

I have a friend who will stay at a Trump hotel and steal the towels!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

It's not a difficult task to look at a list of grants and sift the necessary from the frivolous. Simply strip out everything with a political bent or trafficking in pseudoscience (like most anthropological and gender studies) and leave the hard science and medical research.

It would be a difficult task, because the question of what is necessary and what is frivolous does not have objective answer. Different people have different priorities, which is why Congress appropriates money for things that seem frivolous to some people.

What is frivolous is the idea that what DOGE is doing is constitutional. The Executive Branch is trying to grab the power to block spending approved by the Legislative Branch, a core enumerated power in the Constitution.