icowden
Pharaoh
I really really hate that.
Lesson 1 in powerpoint is don't just read out the slide. The slide is to list key information and talking points. That's all.
Less information is more.
Donald I, emperor of the world.
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I really really hate that.
Lesson 1 in powerpoint is don't just read out the slide. The slide is to list key information and talking points. That's all.
Less information is more.
briantrumpet
Timewaster
People get trained (aka have all the statutory stuff shoved in front of their faces... in se[rvice] t[training]). Used to be known as Baker Days in schools.
FWIW, most of it is now delivered via online training modules, and though I've retired from my school, I still get them for Exeter University, including diversity training, obvs. Not that I get to appoint professors...
briantrumpet
Timewaster
Yup. If it weren't for cakes (and contracts), they'd be sparsely attended.
Most of it them are box ticking to say that safeguarding and safety stuff has been delivered. Things like epi pens, various protocols reminded. A bit like doing First Aid for the umpteenth time, but it needs to be done, even if most of it is boring and you won't need to use any of the info (if you're lucky).
The one exception, which I did every year for about 20 years is the safeguarding one, if done well. It didn't need to be long, mostly drawing attention to anything substantial that had changed in the regulations & protocols. But the one bit that needed to be done is the "If you think it doesn't happen here, it does. I know it does, because I see every case." One particular year, he had a slide of the safeguarding team up behind him, including one of the senior safeguarding people, who had suddenly resigned in the summer for what he'd done with a Y13 pupil at the end of the summer term. Family man, with children at the school. As they always remind you, "Whoever it is, however well you think you know your colleagues and friends, if you have *any* suspicion or doubt, you *must* report it, by law." Deeply sad. The safeguarding lead who was presenting it was devastated about not spotting the slide, but I told him it was pretty much the most powerful illiustration about why we are under a legal duty to report *any* suspicion.
Pblakeney
Shaman
In normal times that accumulation would be an automatic rejection, if not a legal suit. In normal times.
This is not normal times, the is D.J.Trump's USA.
briantrumpet
Timewaster
I think part of the thing about videos of US politics is the gulf between the theatricality of all the stuff coming out of Congress – despicable people being grilled by angry Senators and Congress members, and it all means nothing, as Trump and his cronies just shout, or stonewall, and carry on what they were going to do anyway. I really can't see the point of replaying and analysing how brilliant some Democrat's questions were when it'll end up making absolutely no difference.
Contrast that to, say, Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech, and the difference that that one quiet speech made to the history of British politics, and that probably encapsulates why I've pretty much tuned out from the 'analysis' of US politics, or at least the repetitive and (currently) pointless theatre of it.
Contrast that to, say, Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech, and the difference that that one quiet speech made to the history of British politics, and that probably encapsulates why I've pretty much tuned out from the 'analysis' of US politics, or at least the repetitive and (currently) pointless theatre of it.
Pinno718
Squire
Then there's no point in anything. May as well sign up for Knitting World.
The fact is, the senate still has the vote on Blanche as AG.
...and, at some point in the future, some of these cronies - including Blanch (there is sufficient material on him to prosecute), will be held accountable.
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Pblakeney
Shaman
In basic terms, what goes around may well come around.
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C R
Squire
Your trust in the system and history holding these guys to account is endearing.
Pinno718
Squire
Precisely.
Pinno718
Squire
Amongst the noise, let's not forget:
Trumps original tariffs were deemed unconstitutional by a judge
The Kennedy centre is... still the Kennedy Centre
The senate voted against the Save America act
Senate Republicans vote against the war powers resolution
There are other things that point to a constitution, though under enormous pressure, is holding up in certain quarters.
The tide is turning. Trump is deeply unpopular. The effects of his idiocy is biting hard and the Republicans are facing a mid-term wipe out https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6003165-senate-republicans-trump-political-liability-midterms/ Because the Republicans are now seeing Trump as a liability, then they are not backing added unpopularity.
...and before 'if there are mid-term elections' in the usual vein of pessimism that also seems to creep into the War with Russia thread, Trump has failed to make changes to the voting system to the extent where it could materially effect the results.
November last year https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/us-elections-democrats-mamdani-trump-cuomo-government-shutdown/ - that was before the current polling.
Do not underestimate the backlash when it happens.
Beebo
Legendary Member
Last time the Dems tried to prosecute, but were too slow, everything got delayed until it’s too late and the cases are just dropped or worse, people get pardoned.
It’s a nonsensical system, where the legislature and judiciary are too closely aligned.
Pblakeney
Shaman
I'll optimistically think that while Donnie II learned from his experience as Donnie I on how to work the system that the Democrats will also have learned from the last time round. My usual Eeyore doesn't see much evidence of this to date though.
I think the best accountability there is, is that they actually change the f*cking system if they are in power again so that someone like Trump can't do what he does now, whilst said that he in turn is being used by some/all/many of his government as he is a very usefull idiots for some people who wouldn't be in te position they are in now otherwise.
But the longer story is also there is a reason Trump won twice partly is the thing we see worldwide the short attention span politics win from longer but more thought-out points, but that not all. if you look at the stats Trump gets people to vote who would otherwise not vote or just vote whatever their family/neighbour/painting on the wall etc. tells them, not because they didn't have an opinion but because they simply didn't care. and that is the biggest challenge for every new Us president who actually want to change something and then not in Trumps way, getting poeple to care and getting people to see and accept serious change.
But the longer story is also there is a reason Trump won twice partly is the thing we see worldwide the short attention span politics win from longer but more thought-out points, but that not all. if you look at the stats Trump gets people to vote who would otherwise not vote or just vote whatever their family/neighbour/painting on the wall etc. tells them, not because they didn't have an opinion but because they simply didn't care. and that is the biggest challenge for every new Us president who actually want to change something and then not in Trumps way, getting poeple to care and getting people to see and accept serious change.
