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Does anyone really give a **** about anything Stewart says?

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You, apparently.
 
In his rant Trump includes blaming the employment of people with 'dwarfism'. The bully is literally picking on people smaller than himself. This is sick, this is so dangerous. And you know what, his supporters will lap it up just like the German who lapped up the pillorying of the Jew. It happening in plain sight.....AGAIN!
 
Does anyone really give a **** about anything Stewart says?

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In a lot of ways it's great he's realised his and our mistake, one that we're still making in this country with Ed Milliband leading the lunacy, most sane individuals recognise that we need to move away from burning fossil fuels, and there is certainly some urgency to that, but doing it in a way that costs average people more money is not a sensible solution, all that does is turn people off the idea of going green. Energy, along with water and food are pretty basic necessities, it should be a governments job to make these as cheap as possible.

For all of Trumps faults, he is right to highlight the big increase in energy costs during the Biden tenure, and how this harms businesses and average people alike, hence the drill baby drill comments from him. A lot will criticise him on this type of rhetoric, but if you look at renewable generation during his first term, it still increased at startling pace.

All we're doing in this country by not pulling gas and oil out of the North Sea is buying it from countries like Norway that are, and at increased costs.
 
In his rant Trump includes blaming the employment of people with 'dwarfism'. The bully is literally picking on people smaller than himself. This is sick, this is so dangerous. And you know what, his supporters will lap it up just like the German who lapped up the pillorying of the Jew. It happening in plain sight.....AGAIN!
Imagine an ATC tower at an airport staffed entirely by small people. None of them able to see out the windows because they are too high off the floor. Emergency alarms going off all over the place.

Absolute pandemonium.
 
Imagine an ATC tower at an airport staffed entirely by small people. None of them able to see out the windows because they are too high off the floor. Emergency alarms going off all over the place.

Absolute pandemonium.
I like the idea of aircraft being brought into land by people looking out windows and guiding them in that way
 
He’s an appalling president, appalling politician and all round appalling person.

No arguments from me.

However the one in the middle is actually a good thing.

I don't know if it's come across in the UK, but it has been utter chaos here from a government policy perspective - executive orders flying out left and right, some being revoked when they belatedly realize that they have the opposite consequences from those intended, others being struck down by the courts because, legally, they are utter nonsense. Offers to every federal employee to take a pay-off to quit, which has instead just emboldened the majority to stay and fight. Republicans have a tiny majority in the House - which has to pass any legislation - and they are already bickering and finger pointing rather than coalescing around a way to move Trump's agenda forwards.

I don't work for the US federal government, but I interact a lot in my job with people that do, and they're mostly just shrugging and getting on with things at the moment, and doing their best to ignore all the background noise.

Not saying he can't do damage - he surely can - but he's going to do a lot less damage than if he and his team were actually good politicians who understood the system they are governing and could generate consensus and/or actually draft legal orders that made sense and were constitutional.
 
No arguments from me.

However the one in the middle is actually a good thing.

I don't know if it's come across in the UK, but it has been utter chaos here from a government policy perspective - executive orders flying out left and right, some being revoked when they belatedly realize that they have the opposite consequences from those intended, others being struck down by the courts because, legally, they are utter nonsense. Offers to every federal employee to take a pay-off to quit, which has instead just emboldened the majority to stay and fight. Republicans have a tiny majority in the House - which has to pass any legislation - and they are already bickering and finger pointing rather than coalescing around a way to move Trump's agenda forwards.

I don't work for the US federal government, but I interact a lot in my job with people that do, and they're mostly just shrugging and getting on with things at the moment, and doing their best to ignore all the background noise.

Not saying he can't do damage - he surely can - but he's going to do a lot less damage than if he and his team were actually good politicians who understood the system they are governing and could generate consensus and/or actually draft legal orders that made sense and were constitutional.
The concern is I suppose is that should Trump believe he is being stymied by the apparatus of government he will turn again to his supporters to 'fight, fight, fight'. He has form of course.
 
No arguments from me.

However the one in the middle is actually a good thing.

I don't know if it's come across in the UK, but it has been utter chaos here from a government policy perspective - executive orders flying out left and right, some being revoked when they belatedly realize that they have the opposite consequences from those intended, others being struck down by the courts because, legally, they are utter nonsense. Offers to every federal employee to take a pay-off to quit, which has instead just emboldened the majority to stay and fight. Republicans have a tiny majority in the House - which has to pass any legislation - and they are already bickering and finger pointing rather than coalescing around a way to move Trump's agenda forwards.

I don't work for the US federal government, but I interact a lot in my job with people that do, and they're mostly just shrugging and getting on with things at the moment, and doing their best to ignore all the background noise.

Not saying he can't do damage - he surely can - but he's going to do a lot less damage than if he and his team were actually good politicians who understood the system they are governing and could generate consensus and/or actually draft legal orders that made sense and were constitutional.

The other thing to consider is how that chaos projects to the world and it may well emboldened others such as China.
 
The concern is I suppose is that should Trump believe he is being stymied by the apparatus of government he will turn again to his supporters to 'fight, fight, fight'. He has form of course.

I mean, yeah, I think the possibility of more disorder and violence in the US over the coming years is very real. Don't think that will affect you guys overly much though.


The other thing to consider is how that chaos projects to the world and it may well emboldened others such as China.

Though this might.....

.....my own two cents - I don't think China or other players will be emboldened towards military action. Because doing so with a narcissistic maniac in the White House is like playing Russian roulette. But in terms of soft power, yes absolutely. Trump is likely to be increasingly insular and America-centric in his policy-making (the threats aimed at Colombia the other day were likely just the first example of this) and it's going to leave a power vacuum on the world stage that I would expect China to sidle into.
 
Whilst DT might have said what he said "bluntly" it seems there is some element of reality behind it.

"In 2019, a legal firm filed a lawsuit against the FAA because of this questionnaire on behalf of more than 2,500 aspiring air traffic controllers.
According to the firm, the questionnaire awarded higher points to candidates for selecting certain answers to multiple choice questions about their socio-economic background."

You know that thing about getting the best person for the job? If the shortlisting scores more for EDI than ability you might not get them. 🤷‍♂️

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyeg61pnl5o
 
Whilst DT might have said what he said "bluntly" it seems there is some element of reality behind it.

It's nothing to do with being blunt or not.

The problem with Trump's statement is that at a time when 67 people are being mourned by their families, he's decided to go off on one and rail against his own personal targets despite not knowing a) The identity of the FAA controller was on duty that night, and b) whether or not they were at fault (the current evidence seems to imply that they gave appropriate instructions to the helicopter, which was flying on the wrong flight path anyway, but those instructions were ignored).

Anyone with a shred of human decency knows there's a time and a place to go after political issues, and the aftermath of an air disaster when you still don't know what the hell has happened is not one of them.

But Trump has, and will never let ignorance or common decency get in the way of his ranting.
 
You know that thing about getting the best person for the job? If the shortlisting scores more for EDI than ability you might not get them. 🤷‍♂️
We’ve been round this road before. Google “merit trap” and “meritocracy trap”. There are many reasons why humans are s**t at picking “the best person for the job” yet it is such an easy thing to say.
 
Tariffs imposed on Canada Mexico & China... tariffs imposed on EU coming soon too- Although we, the UK, brexited the EU 5 years ago, will that fact occour to Trump?
 
Tariffs imposed on Canada Mexico & China... tariffs imposed on EU coming soon too- Although we, the UK, brexited the EU 5 years ago, will that fact occour to Trump?

I doubt it. If people think Brexit will mean Trump looks more favourably on us, then they are mistaken. Trump's whole schtick has been about America first (in reality I think it's more Trump first), but it's America First. Not UK first, not Great Britain first - but America, and he will stomp over every little nation in his way to achieve that, no matter how good they were to America in the past. Just ask Canada and Denmark.
 
We’ve been round this road before. Google “merit trap” and “meritocracy trap”. There are many reasons why humans are s**t at picking “the best person for the job” yet it is such an easy thing to say.

It`s made MORE difficult if the shortlisting process has weighted in favour of someone with less ability/experience/knowledge purely because they score well on EDI.
 
I don't get this obsession with Diversity appointments. I have been involved in numerous local, regional and national recruitment campaigns for various grades in the Prison Service. All applicants are blind sifted with no personal information identifiable. Then on interview, I've never once appointed anyone that hasn't met the required standards, regardless of any demographics, and I don't know anyone else who has done so.

I'm not saying that there isn't examples of positive discrimination or companies that haven't manipulated recruitment in favour of one group or another, just that I don't think it is as wide spread as some are suggesting.
 
Tariffs imposed on Canada Mexico & China... tariffs imposed on EU coming soon too- Although we, the UK, brexited the EU 5 years ago, will that fact occour to Trump?

And showing his moronic tendencies by saying that any tariffed countries that put tariffs on US goods as a result will get more tariffs imposed. Yes, those countries are going to be fine with you putting tariffs on their products.....
 
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