Trump Presidency Round 2

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Old Man Mike said:
I suppose that I shouldn't hope for more, but I "hope eternal", so:

on the food program cancellations mentioned earlier -- these programs don't directly have anything to do with McDonalds nor greasy pizzas nor products of restuarants of any kind, but aimed purely at local farms and ranches, which might therefore be able to sell their produce directly to the school systems (there is also a portion of this cancellation aimed at local food banks for the poor.)

My understanding is that these programs came into existence during the time when COVID had disrupted distribution lines significantly so that sufficient food delivery by large corporations did not always happen on time. The thinking was that it was a good idea to increase local food production security (i.e. encourage local farmers) by helping them with these direct sales. (Encouraging local food production by local farms and ranches is considered pretty universally to be a good thing for everyone, and I've read a great deal about the issues of food security in my prof's time and afterwards, so I have done "homework" on this.)

Secondarily, such programs MIGHT be opportunities not only for small community economic stability, but also teaching the students vital facts about how things really happen in the most basic system upon which civilized life depends. Though I doubt that was in the intention of the legislation, it is still a fact as an opportunity.

Now these programs are cancelled (and apparently more to come.) I still have not seen any rationale given for doing this except "we don't want to spend this money." If that's it, then it's pretty simple decision-making. Just one I don't at all agree with.
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...... that agriculture secretary's response on cancelling the local food sourcing programs for schools was cringingly bizarre. She brings in utterly irrelevant things far from the precise issue needing focus. To a knowledgeable person, she then seems almost stupid, and ignorant. That person cannot be IGNORANT about this, though, so what explains the patently unfocussed "stupid" flow of her chaotic comments?

....... this is characteristic of a response made by a nervous individual (I'd almost say "afraid") who knows that she does not have lee-way to simply present a focussed knowledge-based answer. So she blurts out a mess of chaos, some of which contains spectacular defocussing words. I can't tell you how much the teacher (and citizen of a democracy) in me hates that.

....... it has been pointed out to me that this is the same person who recommended that more of us raise our own chickens at home if we want cheaper eggs. This is stupid beyond description. I know two of my family members who raise small numbers of chickens. It is a MAJOR time consumer and NOT cheap and they do it like a hobby-of-love NOT profit.

....... this person acts/talks like a dork, but reveals herself as some kind of embarrassing lacky. Were all the actually competent people unwilling to whore themselves out to this kind of "service?" And how can these sorts of presentations of public views "fly?" No matter how emotionally biased the "base listener" is, you'd think that more and more of them would at least cringe in private too. Frankly stunned.
 
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Meh. US company is at the center of terror activity and threats, and Tesla’s are consistently the most-US produced by% of manufacturing in the market. I think standing by any US company undergoing something like that would be reasonable. I think the concern you guys have is valid
 
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Can’t trust liberals. Will go wherever the wind or their overlords tell them to. No war, I want war! Women’s rights, let them lose to men with a wig! Whatever NBC tells you.
 
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That’s a speculative article. Who cares? That’s sweet of you though
 
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Has it happened dumbos? That’s what actually “new”s is. Real things. That’s a quote
 
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I think the intent of the CHIPS act is really good but some of the DEI bullshit in it defeats the purpose of building a rapid domestic semiconductor industry. If you really want to build semi conductors to counter the threat of losing Taiwan, then you really shouldn’t give a fuck (not that you should ever really anyways) what percentage of the workers in your factory are from minority and underrepresented communities, which the CHIPS act does
 
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NDVirginia19 said:
I think the intent of the CHIPS act is really good but some of the DEI bullshit in it defeats the purpose of building a rapid domestic semiconductor industry. If you really want to build semi conductors to counter the threat of losing Taiwan, then you really shouldn’t give a fuck (not that you should ever really anyways) what percentage of the workers in your factory are from minority and underrepresented communities, which the CHIPS act does
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DEI or not it's something that needs to happen, they can take the DEI junk out of it but to call it a horrible law is silly. Plus it's one of the things the dems and repubs actually agreed on.
 
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