On the bright side, you don’t have to wait to shit on him. His diaper is soiled more than half of the time already. POOTUS.

I think the cyber security prof might be different.

I assure you, the recent differences are more than just talk.

I heard someone defederated from Hexbear, but I didn’t think it was us.

You’re a fucking joke if you think the last two months is representative of the US over the past 75 years.

A couple issues.

The Signal chat didn’t show that anyone wanted Europe dead. Agree or not, it showed that the administration wants Europe to be responsible for their own military interests (As though the US received nothing from being the security for the West over the past 75 years.)

If they want to see Europe destroyed, those receipts have to come from elsewhere.

Secondly, helping Ukraine is in everyone’s interest except for Trump and the GOP. Stopping the stupid fucking tariffs is in America’s interests. Trump succumbing to his age is in America’s interests.

Don’t confuse America’s interests with those of the people who want to destroy and weaken America. Other than that, the point is correct. Europe needs to be much more active in Ukraine, even if the US administration may object.

Imagine that I googled for you and linked:

Articles about nationwide protests over the last few weeks

Articles about Teslas burning at dealerships

An article about a GOP headquarters building burning with ICE = KKK written.

Where have you been?

We can’t. It’d make it too easy to discover how arbitrary “9 to 5” is.

How is he not fired? Incompetence and ignorance is one thing, but when you combine it with effectively insubordination… well, you better be right. And he is not.

But is there a downside for the guy running our country?

I wouldn’t put it as terribly anti-Europe. They’re right in that we’ve provided security for Europe since WW2.

To think we got nothing out of that arrangement is a solid chunk of dumb.

It’s one of those few things where I can see the grain of truth, but you know they’re going to execute as though they’re watering our crops with Brawndo.

Tariffs can also be good. When used wisely and in moderation. Tariffs on the heavily subsidized Chinese green energy market makes sense. Tariffs to reduce reliance on cheap Chinese manufacturing makes sense. Blanket 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada do not.

They’re at least being performative with each other.

Absolutely. I was specifically referring to sanctions, which are unlikely anyway, but possible.

Europe needs to take real action. You want Ukraine to actually win? Go make it happen. You can do it.

Putin is not going to use nukes to win Ukraine. Kowtowing encourages nuclear proliferation.

America, even this America, does not want war with Europe. They may sabre rattle, but nothing outside of sanctions will come of it. And if all goes reasonably, the US should hopefully be an ally again in four years.

You need to work on your military. Ukraine is the place to do that.

The US is in this mess because none of the good guys would take bold action. EU, you’re the good guys now. Will you do anything?

No. As of 7 days ago, he has not been paid the $50 billion. The judge’s order is holding for now.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/elon_musk_appeals_voided_pay_package/

Did that actually get paid out? Last I heard the judge said no, multiple times.

As long as there’s a clear confirmation dialog.

They need to actually go into Ukraine before the US takes a more active Russian stance. He’ll talk a lot, but he doesn’t want a war with the EU. Europe needs to move first.

Should be fine with the way git works, just inconvenient.

Any maintainers (or someone here) should set up a regular job to git pull the repo every night.

Importantly Europe needs to step up before the US does.