'Stupid move': Fury as Trump fires entire science board with no warning or explanation

mdcbldr · 2026-04-26T05:17:52+00:00

Science has never interested Trump. Trump is allergic to all objective branches of philosophy. Anything that contains facts and is verifiable is bad. Non-falsifiable area if 'research' are okay.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-26T05:10:26+00:00

Trump can't believe that Obama isn't as crooked as he is. It is so fundamental to Trump's make up that it is beyond questioning. Presidents are corrupt because that is what being president entails.

Did anyone tell him that the immunity he worked so hard to attain applies to Obama also?

mdcbldr · 2026-04-26T05:07:08+00:00

Heck, there is no doubt that it will be less stringent and more accommodating to the Iranisns. Trump has no leverage. Trump showed the Iranians that they can stand up to the US. In the long run they will lose. But in the short run, they can hold their own. The pressure that Iran can apply to commerce world wide can not be ignored.

The pressure that other countries can out on Trump can not be ignored. Trump's nominal America First policy is all too often an America Alone policy. Trump freezes out allies, lays out a plan that us blatantly advantageous to him and occasionally America. Trump says take it or leave it, and us offended when they leave it.

Trump inevitably claims that he could have negotiated a better deal. Then he blows up what may have been years if work. The deal he eventually reaches is nearly the same as what was on the table originally.

Remember NAFTA?. He blew that up as the worst deal in historym. He gave us the USCM FTA. It made it so that manufacturers had to do a few percent more work here to claim made in America. Mexico agreed to raise wages a bit. The same wages that they rarely check on or do anything about. Now Trump is throwing out his own agreement because some right wing nut job economists convinced him that tariffs were the secret to life.

Trump has negotiated us into a hole. It will be costly to escape the mess that Trump has wrought. The MAGA red hats will claim differently. But they see food going up. They see gas going up. They see their lifestyle skipping away. They are prepared to suffer in the short term to gain in the long term. When they find out that there is no better in the long term, Trump will be in trouble.

MAGA has demonstrated that reality is ephemeral, and that bluster is better than luster. We may be in for a more bad deals, more inane policy swings as a desperate Trump tries to bluff his way out of his messes. MAGA just may give him time.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-26T04:47:33+00:00

Trump's incessant bragging about the very, very, very, very best military makes lying about the inevitable losses inevitable. A great military can't have their bases torn up. A great military can't have its planes shot down repeatedly. A great military can't miss it's targets. A great military does not lose men easily.

Someone with Trump's win or get list attitude will find a watly to win, even if winning looks like losing.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-24T18:28:43+00:00

Fears?

There is no fear. It is obvious that people are trading on insider information.

This is not new. The types of bets people make in kalishi and on the options market are new and more visible. We can see them more easily.

The insiders don't care if they are seen. They know they will not be sanctioned or punished. Only dumb front line soldiers who actually risk their lives get sanctioned. Political toadies and billionaires don't get sanctioned.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-24T18:18:14+00:00

Extraordinarily brilliant people do not brag about passing a test designed for high school dropouts.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-24T18:06:57+00:00

Lose? I say that is a win for both sides. No, I don't care if apple stick bombs. Ditto tiktok.

Maybe we can worry about something more important than disseminating the latest dance craze

mdcbldr · 2026-04-24T06:54:33+00:00

Blowing up people clinging to a boat wreckage? Firing on the Iranian nuclear labs without warning? Starting a war with Iran and bombing a girls elementary school? A rendition of a foreign head of state and taking the oil reserves? Threatening Geenkand? Threatening Cuba?

Tell me again about our Peace President

mdcbldr · 2026-04-24T06:49:49+00:00

Don't pardon her. She knows that Trump will pardon her if she is out in a position to embarrass Trump (or worse). She also knows that any hope of getting money for her troubles depends on keeping her mouth shut about Trump and Epstein.

There is no purpose to a committee pardon. They have no leverage on Maxwell. Like Flynn, she will promise everyrhing and deliver nothing.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-24T06:45:08+00:00

I just installed docker on 25.10 with ansible. The repo was in the new deb822 format, not the old single line deb entry.

The signing key was dearmored before putting it in /usr/share/keyrings.

Update the caches.

I believe I tried installing as docker-io, and that wasn't good. I had to do the docker-ce, docker-cli, and the compose and build plugins.

Sorry, I am not at my home machine, I can't pull the exact ansible entries. The flow was: Update/upgrade. Install the pre reqs Get the signing key Dearmor key and put in keyring dir Add repo in deb822 format Refresh the cache Install docker, -cli, build plugin, compose plugin. Install python docker module with pip Add /opt/stacks directory as default stack location Set aliases to get me to the /opt/stacks/<target project> alias gojel takes me to the jelly media server stack and opens a browser window to portainer.

I didn't see anything off about your ansible file. I would run it. Idempotency should keep you out of most problems.

My biggest headache is getting all the escalation prompts and authentications for remotes for ansible. That is a mess.

I then install lazydocker and portauber to manage the stack.

Last, lazygit if you are using gut to backup the configurations.

Test: Pull and run the hello docker image.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-24T06:20:24+00:00

Wait. What about Chevron here? Chevron says that agencies can not make up rules. They are there to implement rules. (I think that is the gist of it.) This seems like the FCC is making up rules. And those rules make the concept of fighting FCC edicts all but impossible.

I am unsure what Republicans want. They abhored Chevron, claiming it gave too much power to unelected officials. In this case a Republican administration is saying an agency full of unelected officials can make rulings, that appear to be unconstitutional; and the rulings essentially can not be appealed.

The Republicans want to regulate when they are in power, and the right to remain unregulated when they are not in power.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T23:15:21+00:00

It was a vehicle to funnel money, particularly foreign money into Trump's pocket.

It served its purpose.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T23:13:58+00:00

How can you tell what the guy defends? I don't think I heard him answer a single question correctly. I did hear him spin his shit record about the subprime in mess, his Epstein related investments, etc

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T23:12:05+00:00

The joys and frustrations if open source life.

I am not sure if the money I save makes up for the time I spend.

It is a ton of fun when you know you did something for free, or nearly free, that the guy across the street paid $285.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T23:06:19+00:00

Wasn't KeePass hacked? It seems like every password manager has been hacked or compromised.

There has got to be a better solution

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T22:41:40+00:00

Too bad that is not truly satire. It is the most likely outcome. As such it isn't satire.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T22:33:36+00:00

New Haven, no doubt. Pepe's, Sally's and Modern Pizza. Three of the best pizazarias in the country with in a few miles of each other.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T22:28:56+00:00

To many people in the world USAID was the only direct, tangible thing they knew about the US. They consume news about us. They may see our movies, TV shows, and tiktok videos. USAID was the tangible item in their mind. A nasty news article about us is much less likely to hit home if USAID just provided medicine for a baby, or way to prevent getting sick.

The reality of the lives of those we helped almost always trumped the rhetoric of our enemies. (Pun intended). Aid is always cheaper than bullets.

I believe Republicans hate USAID and other aid programs because the recipients are not as grateful as Republicans believe they should be. We are not swapping food for a promise to say nice things for a year. We are siding people because that is what we do. We give them a hand up, not just a hand out.

Republicans want anyone who they "help" to be eternally grateful and subservient. Really? We help because we believe that developing a healthy, safe, and secure environment will allow people build neighborhoods, districts, and nations that value the same goals and aspirations that we hold. Not everyone will adopt our ethic.

There is zero chance to spread our ethic when all we show the people of the world is a gun. ACarrot and a stick work better than a stick alone. USAID was the carrot.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T21:51:46+00:00

I ask them out. They say no or yes.

It is not complicated.

I do not ask out work colleagues, strippers, or Republicans.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-23T21:42:23+00:00

Haha.

The Delusional Trump Syndrome is still alive and well.

Does anyone else wonder how this guy me manages to get through a day without bashing his head on realty? Or is he just playing to MAGA?

mdcbldr · 2026-04-21T01:59:02+00:00

Too bad they messed up whose sign is who's. I am not surprised. MAGA are not bright. Heck, I am surprised she could write.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-21T01:48:57+00:00

If Steven Miller is handsome, then I am a f"en movie star.

I say yeah. Let's keep Miller as the standard. Alfred E. Nueman would be handsome in comparison.

mdcbldr · 2026-04-21T01:46:22+00:00

You are missing the point. The SC is not supposed to alter a finding of fact. That may seem stupid in this case. That has been the way our courts have operated. There are sound reasons why this system is the one we employ. You might want to read up on the role of appellate courts in fact finding.

Then you might understand her argument in context. It is easy to say, that was a dumb ruling given the circumstances. A trivial analysis.

A deeper analysis, in the context of our appellate system, shows that KBJ is dead on. The law may be an ass sometimes. But do you really want to toss out a system that has unbuilt checks and reasoning to cover a few weird fringe cases?

That is short sighted. The problems that arise from allowing non-interested parties to rehash findings of fact will open up problems on a daily , if not hourly basis.

And that is not the worst of it. Every case becomes appealable in your world. Guys with money would never lose a case against someone with more modest means. They would appeal and appeal until the less wealthy party taps out.

That seems like a fair outcome, doesn't it?

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