Rottcodd

Trickle-down psychopathy.

Of course parts of it are secret.

It's a plan for controlling and in some cases dismantling the agencies that stand in the way of a relative few hard right, fake Christian, authoritarian shitstains being able to do whatever they want to whoever they want whenever they want.

We can be certain that the agencies they intend to use to impose and enforce what they fully intend to be effectively a dictatorship will remain entirely intact, and likely be expanded.

The swamp isn't going to be drained - it's simply going to be repositioned in a way that better serves the interests of those hard right, fake Christian, authoritarian shitstains.

Of course they want to keep the details of that secret. If the details of which agencies they intend to control or dismantle became known, then not only would more ideological opponents rouse themselves to active opposition, but it's even possible that, emotionally compromised and deliberately misinformed as they are, some significant number of right-wing voters could come to recognize the hard, cold fact that in the long run, they're going to suffer right alongside everyone else.

On brand.

Worth noting that when I looked at the new version of the page the way I normally experience the internet - with Firefox and uBlock Origin - it was fine. The only thing that had changed was the addition of the banner across the top, which was just links that I could and would ignore. So the site unnecessaily lost that little bit of real estate at the top, but aside from that, it was fine.

So to get the full effect, I opened Chrome for the first time in I-don't-know-how-long, and checked it out in that. And yes - it was godawful. And painfully stupid.

No surprise there - she's a crass opportunist with no principles and no empathy; what else is she going to do?

It's likely that she isn't even dissembling - that she's sincerely defending her actions because she's so psychologically crippled that she genuinely can't see how anyone could legitimately take exception to them.

Yep.

The goal is to be able to say something while evading responsibility for having said it.

Yes - he framed his statement with one of the stock phrases that people use when they want to be able to say something, then later, if necessary, claim that that's not really what they said

I don't think a news source has a responsibility to include that bit of transparent rhetorical trickery in a headline.

So... is he desperately dishonest or insane?

Because none of that hysterical gibberish made even the slightest bit of sense.

Exactly, and that's bizarre.

We actually live in a world in which politicians are expected to be dishonest, amoral and corrupt fuckwads and the few in Washington who aren't are outcasts even in their own party. And we just accept that. It's insane.

It's so bizarre to me that a politician saying that the grotesquely corrupt psychopath in charge of an apartheid nation that's carrying out a genocide on one front and an incremental land grab on another while they also try to provoke yet another nation into attacking so they can play the victim as they continue their egregious crimes "should resign" is a newsworthy event.

The world is in the hands of insane monsters.

...a revolt from the far right over the exclusion of restrictions they had sought to abortion access, transgender care, and racial diversity and inclusion policies at the Pentagon.

That's all just smoke and mirrors - emotive fodder to feed to the base to obscure their actual goal, which is simply to serve Russian interests by denying aid to Ukraine.

The strategy's simple and obvious - insist on tacking on (entirely irrelevant) things that the Democrats will never vote for, then self-righteously vote against the bill when those things are inevitably not included.

And the goal is simple and obvious too - to conjure up a justification for voting against the aid that they can sell to the base, since, Tucker Carlson's efforts notwithstanding, the base isn't yet ready to join the MAGA politicians in swearing fealty to Russia.

Best of luck to them.

It's true in essentially all industries, but it's especially obvious in rideshare that there's a layer of parasites who get paid far too much money for nothing beyond the fact that they won the fight for the position of "parasite who gets paid far too much money for doing nothing."

Anything that might even just decrease the number of overpaid parasites would be a benefit not just to the concerned industry, but to society as a whole.