Tuberville, for one

This is one of Trump’s humiliation rituals, this time for Senators. They’ll either accept and participate in the ritual, or Trump will run them out of the party.

Part of this will be tempered by the fact that a lot of these will go through the recess appointment process. The Senate won’t be able to prevent this even if they wanted to. It’s up to Johnson or whoever ends up being speaker of the House.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-cabinet-recess-appointment-senate/680697/

The red state police (like state troopers), red city police, county sheriffs, and any number of federal agencies under homeland security and DOJ.

There plenty of personnel available to make the lives of people here both legally and illegally miserable. And remember, the misery is the point.

Directly capturing and imprisoning / deporting only 5% of this population would make a huge impact on inflicting misery and fear.

As far as what people will and won’t do when given orders, almost nobody in this country who works full time has any safety net or nest egg. If you decide to quit your job on principle, many people are less than 6 months away from eviction. That makes it very difficult to stand your mortal ground without solidarity. Blue regions might develop that solidarity. In red regions, seems less likely.

But that’s not important right now.

They’re not going to cast votes. This will all be done with recess appointments, and all of these “concerned” senators will “express their concerns” with the exploitation of the recess appointment process and lament that there was nothing they could do about it.

They had really hoped that Mr. Trump would cooperate with the advice and consent process, but what can they do if he pursues the recess route? It really is too bad and all of that.

Meh, not really. Control 51 seats in the Senate and a majority of the supreme Court and you can do pretty much whatever the fuck you want to as president. We have not yet found the boundary where a president will be held accountable under those conditions.

I didn’t make an argument, I just provided primary source facts.

Starlink was definitely on track to receive significant subsidy, the FCC recently rescinded.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/

Petroleum creates demand for USD which absolves many of our sins. If OPEC starts demanding a different currency for oil payment, that will be a serious problem for the dollar. Right now, that arrangement puts a floor on the price of the dollar.

On the bright side, there will now be ample opportunity to discuss at a national level his unwillingness to protect vulnerable children in his care from sexual abuse. I’m sure plenty of challengers to Republican congresspeople can figure out a way to point out during the campaign the kind of leaders Republicans support.

Groping, fondling and vaping. Don’t forget the vaping.

That was Cawthorn, and he’s already gone.

Many people are saying there are no trees in Austria.

Don’t underestimate the ability of Saudi Arabia to give him money.

Tuberville lives in the panhandle. Sorry.

https://www.al.com/politics/2023/08/tommy-tuberville-no-longer-owns-property-in-alabama-senator-may-be-a-florida-man-report-suggests.html

So, are you allowed to call in to Hannity’s show from federal prison? What about state prison? Asking for someone who is definitely not a friend.

Amazon and several other companies hired like crazy during pandemic. Now they’re trying to shrink the workforce via a combination of outright layoffs and tight policies to make anyone on the verge of quitting go ahead and do it so they don’t have to pay severance.

Bonus points for shedding older, more experienced, more expensive employees vs. cheaper early in career employees.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1324557/quarterly-number-of-amazon-employees/

I’m wondering if his entire life just runs on lines of credit and he never really has any cash on hand. If that’s the case, he’s such a poor credit risk, he might be paying close to 10% interest on his credit anyway, so a bond that he only has to pay 10% on and might last more than a year may actually save him money if he would have had to draw on a line of credit for the $200K.

If Meadows is 240, I’m thinking Trump is probably over 280

Doesn’t the isotope in the detection chamber degrade and needs to be replaced in 10 years anyway?

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/americium-ionization-smoke-detectors

One example:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/maximum-tolerance-for-computer-clock-synchronization

Another use case: when you look at activities that flow across multiple devices and you’re correlating the sequence of events, having every device set to the exact same, ideally correct time makes correlation of events less confusing.