Just a few infuriating stories:
* The Murder of ‘60 Minutes’. The time is ticking out for news at CBS. Note that 60 Minutes made lots of money for CBS.
* Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC. The beatings will continue until Jimmy Kimmel's jokes improve.
* Trump Wants a Gag Order for Every Single Government Worker. Everyone gets a new NDA to stop the leaks -- finally, our government workers will stop talking to Americans!
* The White House is ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones. Sure it's only a month old, and the first version sent metrics to Russia, but now it's ready for prime time. I'm reminded of how the Nazis bought everyone radios.
* Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time. Includes transferring responsibility for all grants from scientist boards to political officials.
* Very Low-IQ Trump Too Stoopid to Win War. I've had these moments playing grand strategy video games where smaller armies keep beating me, and I realize I'm far behind in military technology. Ukraine and Iran are ahead in miltech, Russia and the U.S. are behind in miltech, because the drone doctrine is so effective.
* Hegseth torches identity politics in West Point speech: ‘Can’t throw your pronouns at the enemy’. Our Secretary of War goes on a tirade against DEI and the woke, then points out that West Point is above politics. Hmm.
* US envoy: Greenland ‘was not on a map’ until Trump ‘put it on a map’. Yep, you heard that right. Even though Greenland was on a paper map long before any portion of the United States. (Though maybe the Marshall Islands made it onto a Polynesian stick map first?)
* Barron Trump is not a time traveller – but there’s a reason the idea has gone viral. It turns out, there is evidence.
The "too stoopid to win wars" story is the most consequential, since it means that the U.S. is no longer an indispensable nation, and other nations are free to change geopolitical alignment to reflect that. The pronoun story is nearly as consequential, since it means that the U.S. military is not focused on drone supremacy so much as kicking out beardos from the ranks.
* The Murder of ‘60 Minutes’. The time is ticking out for news at CBS. Note that 60 Minutes made lots of money for CBS.
* Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC. The beatings will continue until Jimmy Kimmel's jokes improve.
* Trump Wants a Gag Order for Every Single Government Worker. Everyone gets a new NDA to stop the leaks -- finally, our government workers will stop talking to Americans!
* The White House is ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones. Sure it's only a month old, and the first version sent metrics to Russia, but now it's ready for prime time. I'm reminded of how the Nazis bought everyone radios.
* Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time. Includes transferring responsibility for all grants from scientist boards to political officials.
* Very Low-IQ Trump Too Stoopid to Win War. I've had these moments playing grand strategy video games where smaller armies keep beating me, and I realize I'm far behind in military technology. Ukraine and Iran are ahead in miltech, Russia and the U.S. are behind in miltech, because the drone doctrine is so effective.
* Hegseth torches identity politics in West Point speech: ‘Can’t throw your pronouns at the enemy’. Our Secretary of War goes on a tirade against DEI and the woke, then points out that West Point is above politics. Hmm.
* US envoy: Greenland ‘was not on a map’ until Trump ‘put it on a map’. Yep, you heard that right. Even though Greenland was on a paper map long before any portion of the United States. (Though maybe the Marshall Islands made it onto a Polynesian stick map first?)
* Barron Trump is not a time traveller – but there’s a reason the idea has gone viral. It turns out, there is evidence.
The "too stoopid to win wars" story is the most consequential, since it means that the U.S. is no longer an indispensable nation, and other nations are free to change geopolitical alignment to reflect that. The pronoun story is nearly as consequential, since it means that the U.S. military is not focused on drone supremacy so much as kicking out beardos from the ranks.
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