Trump's Second Term

[welshdean]

Scott Bessent now says beef prices are high because immigrants are smuggling diseased cattle from South America across the border.

When you run out of economic arguments, you don’t fix policy, you invent barnyard fan fiction and call it analysis.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1999836777008287819

Good god! US Voters lap this ◊◊◊◊ up!

 

[bruto]

It's not the font that is woke, it's using it for the purposes of equity and inclusion that's woke.


Same. Equity and inclusion are woke.

If that first statement were true, wouldn't it be better just to allow other fonts rather than to ban that one? In any case, there's a fundamental difference between not doing something and reversing something that was already done. Changing a "woke" policy, whether you agree or disagree with it, might change the way a thing is done. Doing away with DEI in hiring and admissions likely changes who is hired and who is admitted. The excuse always made for such changes is that "woke" policies produce an advantage for some that disadvantages others. You might be able to say that a sans serif font produces an advantage for certain people in their ability to read documents, but I would contend that such a change confers no disadvantage to anyone. Nobody actually needs serifs. If your dyslexic neighbor can read a document, this does not mean you cannot! You can argue that some policies should be dropped when a certain finite number of positions is available. That argument is crazily irrelevant when deciding how readable a document will be.

 

[Aridas]

for non US readers why is it right to move US space command to Alabama? I am not aware that Alabama has a strong space base (cf Florida, Texas, California, or the UFO base in Nevada).

Off the top of my head, so please feel free to verify these things, a while ago (maybe near the end of the first Trump Administration or early Biden Administration?), Alabama won the contest to have the base there. After the Supreme Court removed Roe v Wade, Alabama instituted laws that conflicted with federal regulations and rather discouraged women/families/intelligent people/moral people from wanting to move to or be there. That severely harmed the talent pool that they would be able to draw upon. Thus, the Biden Administration changed the plans to the next contender in response to the conflict and problems that Alabama Republicans manufactured for no actually good reason. This just looks like the Trump Administration is arbitrarily moving it back to support Alabama Republicans. This development is honestly unsurprising, wasteful, and undermines the agency... which are all things that are entirely in line with the Republican Party's MO, really.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Stephen Miller
@StephenM
When foreigners invade our territory and violently rape defenseless women these are war crimes. Democrat judges give them aid, shelter not because they are “soft” but because they support the end game: the forced humiliation, dismantlement, domination and destruction of the West.

So no actual cases, just Nazi ranting, Temu Nosferatu?

 

[Norman Alexander]

If that first statement were true, wouldn't it be better just to allow other fonts rather than to ban that one? In any case, there's a fundamental difference between not doing something and reversing something that was already done. Changing a "woke" policy, whether you agree or disagree with it, might change the way a thing is done. Doing away with DEI in hiring and admissions likely changes who is hired and who is admitted. The excuse always made for such changes is that "woke" policies produce an advantage for some that disadvantages others. You might be able to say that a sans serif font produces an advantage for certain people in their ability to read documents, but I would contend that such a change confers no disadvantage to anyone. Nobody actually needs serifs. If your dyslexic neighbor can read a document, this does not mean you cannot! You can argue that some policies should be dropped when a certain finite number of positions is available. That argument is crazily irrelevant when deciding how readable a document will be.

Times Roman font was invented for the eponymous English newspaper. It was developed from ancient Roman fonts. So it is both non-American and woke DEI European. Poor choice for this administration, really.

 

[Mojo]

If your dyslexic neighbor can read a document, this does not mean you cannot!

But if you cannot, it gives them an unfair advantage over you!

 

[W.D.Clinger]

for non US readers why is it right to move US space command to Alabama? I am not aware that Alabama has a strong space base (cf Florida, Texas, California, or the UFO base in Nevada).

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has been in Huntsville, Alabama since 1960.

 

[Planigale]

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has been in Huntsville, Alabama since 1960.

thanks interesting

 

[Planigale]

Off the top of my head, so please feel free to verify these things, a while ago (maybe near the end of the first Trump Administration or early Biden Administration?), Alabama won the contest to have the base there. After the Supreme Court removed Roe v Wade, Alabama instituted laws that conflicted with federal regulations and rather discouraged women/families/intelligent people/moral people from wanting to move to or be there. That severely harmed the talent pool that they would be able to draw upon. Thus, the Biden Administration changed the plans to the next contender in response to the conflict and problems that Alabama Republicans manufactured for no actually good reason. This just looks like the Trump Administration is arbitrarily moving it back to support Alabama Republicans. This development is honestly unsurprising, wasteful, and undermines the agency... which are all things that are entirely in line with the Republican Party's MO, really.

Thanks for the background

 

[Helen]

It's not the font that is woke, it's using it for the purposes of equity and inclusion that's woke.


Same. Equity and inclusion are woke.

Yeah, why should all those disabled people be able to read, when Trump and many of his folliwers can't?

So no actual cases, just Nazi ranting, Temu Nosferatu?

Nos feratu? I'd really rather he was Su feratu.

 

[Mojo]

If your dyslexic neighbor can read a document, this does not mean you cannot!

Remember that one of the objections to gay marriage was that it would somehow devalue heterosexual marriage.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

What color is the sky on your planet?

Brown.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Brown.

Haven't been to Detroit in years.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Serif fonts are supposedly easier to read in the small sizes usually found in the "body text' of newspapers.

 

[SteveAitch]

Serif fonts are supposedly easier to read in the small sizes usually found in the "body text' of newspapers.

One of the 'rules' I remember from the days of DeskTop Publishing (remember that?) was "serif for body text, sans for headings".

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Times Roman font was invented for the eponymous English newspaper. It was developed from ancient Roman fonts. So it is both non-American and woke DEI European. Poor choice for this administration, really.

So what could it be about the font created for the newspaper of note of a global empire, and whose name links it back to a previous gigantic empire, that appeals to them?

 

[LDE1976]

Maybe MAGA types just like all things neo-classical.

Times New Roman
Architecture New Roman
Salute New Roman

 

[GlennB]

Serif fonts are supposedly easier to read in the small sizes usually found in the "body text' of newspapers.

Way back I worked with teenagers with 'special educational needs', including plenty with dyslexia. The recommended font for classroom work was Comic Sans.

 

[Helen]

Having spent much of my working life around people with visual impairments, I know that while different fonts work for different people, the ones that suited a majority were arial and calibri. So yeah, totally woke.

 

[bruto]

Remember that one of the objections to gay marriage was that it would somehow devalue heterosexual marriage.

Yes, the supposed sanctity of marriage was one of the major objections even back in the first debate here on civil unions. It is a particular irony that this objection was raised by the Catholic archbishop of Vermont, given that civil union was always a civil issue, and the Catholic Church has long disparaged civil marriage as lacking sanctity already.

In an adjuct to this whole affair, I note that Trump is now suing to get rid of sign language interpretation of his appearances because (and you couldn't make this up) it detracts from his ability to control his image!