So what form does the resistance take?

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Is it still unclear?!
 
arthwollipot said:
What makes you think nobody criticises politicians for wasting money?

We just have different ideas on what constitutes "wasting".
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It is almost certain that anything that the Musk Administration does to "save" money will actually end up costing more money in both short and long term.
 
We are now seeing, and we will continue to see, that all the talk about Americans needing to be armed "against the tyranny of government" is not worth the breath it takes to say it, and is merely a feeble excuse to engage in their pathetic gun fetish. There will be no effective resistance and the tyranny of government will quickly become the norm in the USA.
 
Meanwhile, this is the response from the so-called Radical Left:
Elon gets what he DESERVES from Americans (Brian Tyler Cohen on YouTube, Feb 7, 2025 - 9:30. min)
AOC: What Donald Trump has done is that he has completely given up his power um and handed a lot of it over to Elon Musk. Elon Musk has appointed, uh, some teenagers um and some people in their early 20s into to essentially trying to raid federal government systems including sensitive and classified information at the US Department of Treasury.
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This is as idiotic as claiming that Hitler completely gave up power and handed it over to Goebbels when he had him take care of the propaganda apparatus of the Third Reich.
Musk, by the way, hasn't merely "appointed, uh, some teenagers um and some people in their early 20s." Those young men aren't just any young men. They are the same kind of Nazis Musk himself is. This is what one of them wrote:
Quote: "Just for the record I was racist before it was cool," the account posted in July.
Quote: "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," the account wrote on X in September.
Quote: "Normalize Indian hate."
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And yet, Brian Tyler Cohen, much like AOC, describe Musk's young helpers as "random teenagers."
There is nothing random about those little Nazis!
 
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Steve said:
We are now seeing, and we will continue to see, that all the talk about Americans needing to be armed "against the tyranny of government" is not worth the breath it takes to say it, and is merely a feeble excuse to engage in their pathetic gun fetish. There will be no effective resistance and the tyranny of government will quickly become the norm in the USA.
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The vast majority of people who talked about the necessity of being armed "against the tyranny of government" were the ones who are now supporting the tyrannical government and who helped helped establish it.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
The one thing Democrats can and should do is say out loud whenever they see the Trump team do anything they consider illegal to go to Court as well as declare that they plan to prosecute them once they are back in charge of the DOJ.
Making Trump underlings scared of prison will be the only way to make them think long enough to not break every law to serve their god.
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Going to court with what they consider to be illegal?!
Wake up! You're living in the past!
You can't be unaware of what happened to the people who already went to prison, can you?!
At this point, they have nothing to fear! Their god is on their side! He already pardoned them once for what they did when what they did was still illegal.
 
kookbreaker said:
It is almost certain that anything that the Musk Administration does to "save" money will actually end up costing more money in both short and long term.
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Oh, don't be so cynical. All of that money will end up exactly where it was intended to go.
 
Thermal said:
A casino is about as close as you get to owning a money printing press, and at the time, there was only one other gambling town in the US, and it was on the other side of the continent in the middle of a desert, so not much local competition. Yet still, he tanked them decisively.

Yes, it's a little more complicated than that, but still.
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If I recall correctly, Trump built his casinos in Atlantic City, which already had some successful casinos. He failed because he couldn't attract enough new people to Atlantic City nor draw people from the established casinos.
 
Blue Mountain said:
If I recall correctly, Trump built his casinos in Atlantic City, which already had some successful casinos. He failed because he couldn't attract enough new people to Atlantic City nor draw people from the established casinos.
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I was born in, and have lived near, Atlantic City my whole life. As with most things, the failures are way more complex than any one-issue. Local corruption played a huge part, as did the Casino Redevelopmant fund dragging its feet for decades to make the town beyond the casino area less of a dive.

But Trump's failures went beyond those of the competitors. While others struggled with the myriad economic factors, his bellied up decisively and drug things down faster.
 
Blue Mountain said:
If I recall correctly, Trump built his casinos in Atlantic City, which already had some successful casinos. He failed because he couldn't attract enough new people to Atlantic City nor draw people from the established casinos.
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There was room for more competition in AC, but his first casino was a rathole after a couple of years (deferred maintenance) and his second was overleveraged and competed with the first. Casinos *do* go bankrupt (usually in LV they just get old and less novel) but at the time his casinos were active the market in AC was making money hand over fist and he still failed.

Bankrupting a casino isn't impossible, but bankrupting a casino when Trump did took extra-special ineptitude.
 
cxkwz3374 said:
Because Trump has promoted himself as a competent successful businessman.
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When he just played one on Television.
Darat said:
But your "civil war" comments that you've made for years aren't ""We are doomed and nothing can stop it" rants"?
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No say a C ivil war might..I repeat might....be the only to stop a dictatorship.
War is not always the worst case scenario.
 
dudalb said:
When he just played one on Television.

No say a C ivil war might..I repeat might....be the only to stop a dictatorship.
War is not always the worst case scenario.
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It seems rather too late to stop a dictatorship. Your country just voted for one and it is proceeding unchecked. Won't be long before executive order royal decree is your only form of government.
 
Steve said:
It seems rather too late to stop a dictatorship. Your country just voted for one and it is proceeding unchecked. Won't be long before executive order royal decree is your only form of government.
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It'd be a revolution rather than a civil war, I think.
 
Steve said:
We are now seeing, and we will continue to see, that all the talk about Americans needing to be armed "against the tyranny of government" is not worth the breath it takes to say it, and is merely a feeble excuse to engage in their pathetic gun fetish. There will be no effective resistance and the tyranny of government will quickly become the norm in the USA.
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If the Democrats would have done this kind of illegal rushed takeover, there would be an actual resistance, probably already some civil unrest with firearms. I doubt that the other side would just stand by and be like 'oh well, what did we possibly do wrong? We need to get better at reaching the people, etc...'
 
Working in a government capacity while having serious conflicts of interest carries a 5 year Sentence.
Musk can be put in prison by the next administration if he doesn't get a blanket pardon from Trump.
 
Steve said:
We are now seeing, and we will continue to see, that all the talk about Americans needing to be armed "against the tyranny of government" is not worth the breath it takes to say it, and is merely a feeble excuse to engage in their pathetic gun fetish. There will be no effective resistance and the tyranny of government will quickly become the norm in the USA.
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It's kind of awkward, when the people who like owning guns are the ones you need to fight against.
 
Darat said:
Politicians are always being criticised for wasting money. Perhaps you need to widen your news gathering radius?
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If that were true, then any politician that wants to raise taxes would be run out of town. But, somehow, that doesn't really happen.
 
cxkwz3374 said:
Because Trump has promoted himself as a competent successful businessman.
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I dunno, he's got to be one of the first people who was famous for being famous. There's got to be hundreds or thousands of wealthy real estate moguls. Without searching, can you name any others? However he did it, he made himself a brand.
 
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