We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)

[Steve of phpBB]

Way to go, Syb, for stating your case to the man! Good for you! God knows, our corporations need to quit preemptively complying.

This. Watching company after company roll over sickens me. I am so glad you're taking a stand, Syb.

[DaveInSeattle]

Nah, man. He's the Democrat House leader and is just shrugging his shoulders say "what can we do?" while going on a book tour. He sucks ass.

In fact, here's a thread of things he can do that's a whole four posts long, so he can read it between wringing his hands.

From Defector, here's the plaque that Kluwe was protesting when he was arrested:



How fucking ridiculous is that?

[The Sybian]

And they even used Obama's "Hope and Change"?

[The Sybian]

Way to go, Syb, for stating your case to the man! Good for you! God knows, our corporations need to quit preemptively complying.

This. Watching company after company roll over sickens me. I am so glad you're taking a stand, Syb.

Thanks guys. I gotta thank my therapist for this one. I talked about feeling helpless to fight Trump, but she pointed out that I have some power to make change at work. Literally walking from my appointment to the car, one minute later I get a call from an HR Director wanting to cancel Black History Month and a Women's Leadership Conference. Felt great talking her off the ledge and standing firm. Then I sat in on a bunch of webinars on how to maintain DEI programs in the face of Trump. Like I said, thrilled my company leadership is onboard.

[govmentchedda]

Nice, Syb!

[Jerloma]

Love that, Syb!

All DEI programs are pretty generic and ineffective, FWIW. Great intentions and perhaps a little progress but it's always been first and foremost a way for rich, whites to feel better about themselves. I work for a very left non-profit and our DEI program is basically the Equity & Justice committee (of which I'm the token, white, cis, hetero male) that meets once a month. Try to spread some awareness and a few culture-centered engagement events, but it's not like we have a say in hiring or pay equity or choppers flying into airplanes for fucks sake.

Our client-base is majority Hispanic/Latino and 80% on Medicare. 30% funded by fed grants. Good times.

Do you work for a law firm or are you a lawyer for a manufacturing company?

[Gunpowder]

Hell, my last firm has been offering a benefit for over 10 years where they will pay $75,000 towards a gender reassignment surgery!

Probably helped them hit their quota on women

[The Sybian]

Love that, Syb!

All DEI programs are pretty generic and ineffective, FWIW. Great intentions and perhaps a little progress but it's always been first and foremost a way for rich, whites to feel better about themselves. I work for a very left non-profit and our DEI program is basically the Equity & Justice committee (of which I'm the token, white, cis, hetero male) that meets once a month. Try to spread some awareness and a few culture-centered engagement events, but it's not like we have a say in hiring or pay equity or choppers flying into airplanes for fucks sake.

Our client-base is majority Hispanic/Latino and 80% on Medicare. 30% funded by fed grants. Good times.

Do you work for a law firm or are you a lawyer for a manufacturing company?

I'm Employee Relations at a medical diagnostics company. Combo of R&D and manufacture everything from home COVID home tests to $10 million diagnostic machines used in hospitals. Weird combo of scientists and life science environment, then manufacturing plants. Such completely different types of ER issues.

Most DEI is generic and ineffective, but I've seen some really incredible programs, mostly at the law firm I worked at prior to this current job. They put a ton of money and effort into it and hired a highly paid Director of DEI. I had a couple non-binary employees come to me to thank me for the incredible welcoming environment (I had nothing to do with the DEI initiatives, but it's always nice to hear positives). We even hired a DEI consultancy to help is review our policies. The level of details of miniscule shit they found, like removing "he or she" and replacing with "they," but gender non-conforming employees said it meant a lot to them that we took the effort to change it, so great! Firm was based in Silicon Valley with a large SF office, and that was very much the vibe, even in the NYC office. We had huge, high-end catered lunches and after work events for all sorts of cultural events and educational talks, and they got huge attendance. There was an Islamic attorney group that threw a great event for some holiday, Lunar New Year party, black history events, and people loved it. Again, they brought in top notch culturally authentic food for all of these things. Probably part of the reason they had to lay off 10% of their staff, including me... Not really, they were almost exclusively a technology industry firm and all of them took huge hits.

[P.D.X.]

doing your purges on a friday night is such a bitch move

[cerranoredux]

Good on you, Syb!

[Jerloma]

Fucking batshit times, man...

[The Sybian]

Can’t wait to see plans for Trump Donetsk once Putin clears out all the Ukrainians sullying the land.

[rass]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/health/n ... index.html

[Jerloma]

Lol. What could the explanation possibly be?

[The Sybian]

Lol. What could the explanation possibly be?

We put an anti-vaxxer in charge of HHS?

[Nonlinear FC]

I'm not going to get myself into trouble again by predicting anything. But from what I'm seeing from Town Halls and the overall vibe of "I didn't think they'd actually be THIS bad"...

The mid-terms are going to be "interesting" for the GOP.

[Jerloma]

Assuming there are mid-terms.

[sancarlos]

Assuming their is legal, proper voting and counting in the mid-terms.

[Steve of phpBB]

Assuming there are mid-terms.

There will be mid-terms. The GOP will use all the fuckery they can, and suppress the vote, but there will be elections.

Thankfully, one huge difference between the US and the countries we think about as "going fascist" is that we have a long proud history of elections. Even the comfortable white people won't be okay with giving them up.

[mister d]

That assumes we're the empire that can't fall.

[The Sybian]

Assuming there are mid-terms.

There will be mid-terms. The GOP will use all the fuckery they can, and suppress the vote, but there will be elections.

Thankfully, one huge difference between the US and the countries we think about as "going fascist" is that we have a long proud history of elections. Even the comfortable white people won't be okay with giving them up.

My concern is the GOP are controlling the formerly apolitical oversite of elections. I'm sure we will have elections, I don't trust that they'll be fair.

[mister d]

I mean ... just look at gerrymandering to see how much people will tolerate in terms of invalidating their votes. Until there's equal or greater opposition, I don't think there's a floor here.

[Steve of phpBB]

I'm sure we will have elections, I don't trust that they'll be fair.

Absolutely.

[Jerloma]

Well, I'm glad that's settled...

[Steve of phpBB]

Well, I'm glad that's settled...

The eternal question - is he lying or is he really that stupid?

I go with lying on this one.

[Nonlinear FC]

My wife sent this to me a few minutes ago...

U.S. Department of Education Launches “End DEI” Portal

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education launched EndDEI.Ed.Gov, a public portal for parents, students, teachers, and the broader community to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools.

The secure portal allows parents to provide an email address, the name of the student’s school or school district, and details of the concerning practices. The Department of Education will use submissions as a guide to identify potential areas for investigation.

“For years, parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies—but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely,” said Tiffany Justice, Co-Founder of Moms for Liberty. “Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools. This webpage demonstrates that President Trump’s Department of Education is putting power back in the hands of parents.”

[duff]

My wife sent this to me a few minutes ago...

U.S. Department of Education Launches “End DEI” Portal

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education launched EndDEI.Ed.Gov, a public portal for parents, students, teachers, and the broader community to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools.

The secure portal allows parents to provide an email address, the name of the student’s school or school district, and details of the concerning practices. The Department of Education will use submissions as a guide to identify potential areas for investigation.

“For years, parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies—but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely,” said Tiffany Justice, Co-Founder of Moms for Liberty. “Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools. This webpage demonstrates that President Trump’s Department of Education is putting power back in the hands of parents.”

people should flood that portal with all the allegations against Linda McMahon and her family in regards to their coverup of the Ringboy Scandal and all of the shit Vince did.

[sancarlos]

[sancarlos]

[Jerloma]

These fucking twats...

[L-Jam3]

Vance sold out his mother, wife, and kids for power. Ukraine is nothing to him. Fucking despicable.

[Jerloma]

The reporter that asked him if he owns a suit and told him he's disrespecting Americans by not wearing a suit is MTG's boyfriend who was given that press spot in place of the banned AP.

Also...

[Steve of phpBB]

The reporter that asked him if he owns a suit and told him he's disrespecting Americans by not wearing a suit is MTG's boyfriend who was given that press spot in place of the banned AP.

Also...

The people on my Bluesky feed just referred to him as "Glenn." I'm so happy I don't know who that is.

[mister d]

https://bsky.app/profile/weeder.bsky.so ... b5ayi4vc23

[Steve of phpBB]

https://bsky.app/profile/weeder.bsky.so ... b5ayi4vc23

No shit.

[Giff]

I was wondering how long it would take for a fracture in my friend group from high school, but today, I did it with one of the guys. It was the liberal after the not-very-vocal conservative criticized what Zelensky was wearing. I'm not there yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if it happened soon.

[sancarlos]

Such hypocrites…

[EnochRoot]

I was wondering how long it would take for a fracture in my friend group from high school, but today, I did it with one of the guys. It was the liberal after the not-very-vocal conservative criticized what Zelensky was wearing. I'm not there yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if it happened soon.

I don’t see the point in maintaining friendships with people who have flown the coop to MAGA. The only way it might be difficult is if I still lived where i grew up.

[TankFarm2023]

So, yeah, I'll just assume that when he starts his day, he imagines the ways in which he can be an even worse person than the day before. Right?

Seeing that spectacle, their disrespect for a guy fighting for his life, the contempt for an ally, kinda broke me today.


What's worse is that I'm absolutely certain things will get even more unhinged, more dangerous, more hurtful to anyone not in their circle of wealthy sadists.


I dunno, man- today just ruined any shred of hope that I was clinging to.

[degenerasian]

Life is better being an enemy of the US than an ally these days.