So, correct me if I’m wrong. Normally Congress gives money to the executive with oversight provisions. Checks and balances. If the executive doesn’t follow the rules - no more money.

But the “Big beautiful bill” doesn’t have a lot oversight provisions, so Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants with no oversight from congress. The GOP Congress basically wants a dictator, so they gave all their power to the executive with no checks. No?

RT is straight up trying to stoke the fire with even more disinformation.

Vlad should keynote a marketing conference, because he’s still reaping the rewards from that 2015 Facebook campaign. Homie’s breaking up NATO and western democracies by bidding on shitty social media ads.

Because the president literally couldn’t pronounce acetaminophen, and Porky Pigged “ass eeto… Tylenol”

For those in the US or Japan, acetaminophen = paracetamol

Seagal Goatees are $5 for an 8 pack

Homie banned me the other day for saying Venezuela’s Chavez-Maduro era was full of weird Trump-like authoritarian demagoguery and for referencing Chavez’s weird weekly state media talk show.

My money is on Putin trying to bait Trump into bigger conflict with Canada. Trump is a useful idiot that’s helping Putin destabilize the bonds holding NATO nations together.

Top of the morn’n, motherfucker.

Mmm macro plastics in my body

If you look at eligible voters, it’s about 1/3 for Trump, 1/3 for Harris, and 1/3 not showing up… but with single digit percents moving those thirds up and down a hair to give Trump an edge.

I feel ya, but the Trump administration expects that the global, local, and market response will be gradual. As soon as they start seeing quick responsive volatility that impacts Trump or his cronies, they TACO.

Given what’s happening with Venezuela, Greenland and the Fed Chair, I don’t know we’re not aggressively talking pulling out of US bonds and setting investment policy around that. That doesn’t have to be a gradual thing, it can happen swiftly.

People naturally started backing out of US bonds when Trump’s crazy tariffs started rolling out, and the Trump admin totally wussed out on a lot of that stuff.

Also, if the world is going to stop pegging their currencies to the dollar, they need to stop buying US bonds first. They need to diversify.

Don’t forget utter incompetence.

The global community has agency, and it should really start to create plans for things like getting currencies off of the US dollar.

I’m only on Lemmy for the fresh dressage content.

But competition IS good for me.

If people start migrating to better experience and better communities, they’re going to have to step up to stop the bleeding.

Reddit can get away with making terrible user experiences and killing 3rd party solutions because no alternative has lured enough of their base away.

Chromebooks and cloud gaming come to mind.

Anything that takes users away from Reddit, and forces Reddit to compete, is a plus for me.

Every 5 years someone invests a bunch of money into thin clients, and then we’re right back where we started.

I’ll believe it’s possible when America’s networking infrastructure isn’t covered in holes.

The ads are shit, but I’m inclined to let the ads run because the entire app is built by one Ukrainian dude who basically cloned the creative suite himself.