theneverfox

Orders of magnitude more competent. He could've come in there with his own accounting system and used bugs as an excuse for why the money wasn't going where it was meant to. He could just deny and delay until people stop caring

Or if he was really competent, he could've gotten a list of all funding and put together his own teams to take over the contracts. Trump could've awarded contracts to musk left and right in the name of savings, and if he failed to deliver, oops.

The public wouldn't even know he's skimming off the top of government spending until it's too late - he could build a business empire like that, even force through the payment platform he wants so bad by making everyone submit taxes through it

The game is rigged, and right now he's sitting at the controls... He could've slowly entrenched himself while manufacturing problems to sell the solution, he could've created opportunities to stealthily invade every corner of our lives for power... Instead he's basically just smashing the panel for the copper

Nope. The rest of the world will have to play defensive for this - it's not just air traffic control causing these problems

It's manufacturing and maintenance too - they're going to continue to slash regulations and the inspectors enforcing them

Got an international flight coming in? Hopefully they're meeting your standards before they take off. Our standards were more strict than most places outside Europe, and now if airlines don't have to meet that bar to do business...

I read that as "Lab grown dog hits the shelves"

That's what a competent person would do to achieve their goal... Solid chance they just try to force it through anyways

10% should probably go into a slush fund for the emergencies this is going to cause

What do we do with the remaining 25%?

Oh, he's everywhere... He's been giving almost daily speeches or interviews. This week he went to the Daytona 500, gave an unhinged speech full of Russian talking points about Ukraine, grimaced through a very weird pair interview with president Musk where he kissed Musk's ass through gritted teeth, went golfing, and did a press event about how only he can interpret the law now. Today he said he's going to fort Knox to "make sure the gold is there"

He's on the camera so much so that it's obvious he's a puppet at this point - he doesn't have the unaccounted for time to be getting briefs and making day to day decisions. They put him at the kiddie table and are keeping him occupied with events

If you're not seeing it, it's probably censorship. They're having trouble editing together coherent sound bites, it seems like he's regressing. He keeps talking about real estate - he's going to make Gaza a resort, he's talking about what they can rebuild in Ukraine, he's talking about how he needs Musk because contractors give him a mock up and then get caught up in securing financing or something...

He's on a world tour, convincing our allies they need to band together against the US

This is why I don't contribute. Kudos to you for doing so, but I literally couldn't handle that on a passion project. I get enough of that in my day job

If I could make a living off my passion projects I would love that and deal with what it entails, but dealing with that in my free time sounds like a nightmare.

There's got to be a better way... But I appreciate you and hope you all the best from the bottom of my heart

In the US, we have fair use laws. They basically don't. You can put McDonald's in your game because you're parodying it, or because it's part of the real world your work is based in.... They can't without expressed permission

It's more nuanced than that, but that's it in a nutshell

True. They will pick and choose quotes out of context that so clearly violate the spirit of the document

I don't think that's fair in this case, she's been killing it. She's been drawing hard lines and meeting Trump blow for blow...

As for what's important, she got concessions so far. Trump got to claim a win, but she let Trump use a previously negotiated deal while getting the US to commit to cracking down on the flow of guns into Mexico

And now she's fighting on the bullshit culture war stuff... But you know Mexico speaks a different language and isn't changing the name on their side, right?

The threats against Google are a threat to crack down on a massive US tech company, which is probably (undoubtedly) related to the threat of delayed tarrifs

She's playing the game. If only the liberals would wake up and realize the game has changed too

I'm cautiously optimistic they they won't... Not because I have delusions about them growing some integrity suddenly, but because it means giving up all of their power. Their job would literally be to legally justify Trump's actions post hock if they give up their authority

They've spent years stacking the courts to legislate from the bench, they've pushed their own power to the limits. They're (mostly) not doing it for Trump, they're doing it for power and their backers. Plus there's still some neo liberals on the court who will put the process above all else

There's still the question of what happens if the executive branch just continues to ignore them, but i imagine their common backers want some kind of rudder on the Trump/Elon missile