WatDabney

As well they should be.

Trump has already made it clear that his opinion of the accuracy of economic statistics depends solely on whether they reflect well or poorly on him.

So it’s pretty well guaranteed that the primary requirement of any future statistics will be that they reflect well on him, and accuracy and veracity will be somewhere further down the list.

Boycott Amazon.

It’s starting to feel a bit Pol Pot in here…

They can’t win unless they cheat.

The Art of the Thing That Sort of Vaguely Looks Like a Deal Unless You Look Closer.

You mean Alligator Auschwitz.

Just her way of saying, “Hey everybody, pay attention to me!”

Oh absolutely. Minorities will disproportionately suffer and die, but nothing close to exclusively.

More broadly, disadvantaged people will suffer and die. Minorities are already overrepresented among the disadvantaged and under the overtly bigoted policies of the Trump regime, they will be even more overrepresented, but that’s just something of a bonus to the would-br oligarchs. They’re excited at the prospect of culling poor people, pretty much regardless of the details.

But not clearly defining DEI is key.

The actual goal is to effectively not only legalize but actively encourage discrimination, and that’s done specifically by not clearly defining DEI so companies will tend to generally avoid hiring monorities at all, for fear that they’ll be punished by the Trump regime.

Turns out that like so many other things, all of the noise about “replacement theory” was just conservative projection. They claimed that there was some sort of determined effort to eliminate whites because they were right in the middle of a determined effort to eliminate non-whites (and non-cis, non-het, non-christian, etc.) and as they do, they assumed/pretended that everyone else is as evil as they are.

This is the way it’s going to work, by design:

1. Companies will not only avoid DEI hires, but will avoid hiring minorities broadly, for fear that they’ll be accused of following DEI policies and punished by the Trump regime. So minorities are going to end up even more discriminated against.
2. Without sufficient Medicaid funding, employer health insurance will be the only way that most in the US will be able to get healthcare.
3. Denied employment and denied Medicaid, people - and disproportionately minorities - will die.

No wonder the Republicans are giddy.

After reading through the other answers, I’m not sure of what to make of the fact that my first thought was coffee.

What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.

It could’ve been the case that I would’ve had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I’m actually one ahead in the long run.

And that’s it.

One of the very few things that virtually all federal politicians - Democrats and Republicans alike - agree on is that Ted Cruz is an asshole.

Really.

Not to necessarily shift blame away from that scumbag sex abuser Cuomo , but I’m betting that the Democratic party leaders are behind this.

The Toddler-in-chief throwing a tantrum because he got caught in a lie.

That’s just so 2025.

Sorry, but no. That’s just the paper-thin excuse.

Pirating, like pretty much anything else that’s sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.

Pronoun trouble…

Xenophobic white Christian nationalism, ignorance, fear, anger and hatred.

Oh no - of course not. They want late 19th century levels of robber baron wealth built on worker oppression, sickness, ignorance and death.

Valid point well made - thanks for that.

I’ll be folding that into future screeds. ;)