I don’t trust any of these “giving pledges” upon death. In name, their fortunes will pass on to nonprofits. Nonprofits controlled by their family members, which comes down to letting them keep their inheritances tax-free. This even happens in Europe.
I’m fully banking on it. They’ll argue the office of the president is “special” and not beholden to the same rules and regulations that are supposed to bind public servants. And the SC will grant them that.
I hope it works, but I wouldn’t count on it. Hypocrisy has become a valued skill rather than a character flaw in this administration.
"On hearing the news that Rome had “perished”, Honorius was initially shocked, thinking the news was in reference to a favourite chicken he had named “Roma”.
It was absolutely every bit as stupid as today. People really haven’t changed much in 2000 years.
Ah, there it goes. Was waiting for this one. Next up, porn ban. Small government indeed; small enough to fit into your bedroom…
Still makes me giddy every time though.
It killed Digg. It’s slowly killing Reddit now.
Trump may be incompetent but the architects of project 2025 are, unfortunately, not. Trump is merely their most useful idiot.
Well… you’ll find out eventually, one way or the other.
Wrong. There was one thing truly exceptional about the USA: the best propaganda the world had ever seen. Certainly the most effective.
Give it some time. I’m sure they could be a whole lot worse still.
That thing will be around long after she’s gone, and, I hope, will show up on the first page of search results every time.
“Yes, we did promise them the money, but we never agreed on a timescale. In fact, I’m moving the disbursment to next decade because, well, I can. Toodles!”.
Damn, Elon’s company town is barely a week old and others are already introducing scrip. I knew it was going to be inevitable but this is way faster than even I anticipated.
At this rate climate disasters will get us long before that cancer has time to fully develop.
This is real journalism, which has become increasingly rare these days. Everything else is just PR.
If there’s any justice left in this world Tesla will become the millstone around Musk’s neck as he drowns in a shallow lake.
There are already big brands offering laptops with linux in lieu of windows.
allowing people impacted by chronic pain to re-enter the work force
You mean they’re just going to force utterly crippled and suffering people to work instead of taking some time to heal in a hospital…
The biggest problem with Google’s offerings is their total lack of support.