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C R
Veteran
The new director of the FBI told his employees to ignore the request to list their previous weeks achievements for the benefit of the South African illegal immigrant. It will be interesting to see if this turns into an actual stand off between the two or if it will be fudged over.
C R
Veteran
I agree with the first part. For the second part, I fear that it won't, in the sense that the destruction of public life is the target, and there's no mechanism to stop it. Now we know what living in Germany in the 1930s was like.
CXRAndy
Senior Member
multitool
Pharaoh
My God 
I've just looked up his current approval ratings in the US
They are atrocious! The worst for a 1st quarter for as long as I can see, apart from his first term. The average is 61% approval. His is 45%.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx
I've just looked up his current approval ratings in the US
They are atrocious! The worst for a 1st quarter for as long as I can see, apart from his first term. The average is 61% approval. His is 45%.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx
C R
Veteran
I'm not sure what the comparison is. I could understand if you had mentioned Germany 1933 or Argentina and Chile in the early 1970s.
the snail
Active Member
It's becoming clear that Tesla have succeeded despite Musk rather than because of him. It seems like the same management style at doge as tesla - fire lots of people at random, then have to re-hire them when you realise you need them. If this continues, the US will be zarked pretty quickly.
C R
Veteran
It is probably worse. In 1980 the Argentinaian dictators were only interested in massacring lefties, with the help of the US, not in destroying their world leading research institutions.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/23/get-ready-for-the-resistance/
TL;DR Trump tried to stop NIH grant funding, but there was a court injunction. Trump just stopped the funding revie committees from meeting. So funding has stopped regardless of injunction.
We are only seeing the beginning. It is only going to get worse.
And the stupid thing about that and something all business people know is that the capable ones fired will quickly get other jobs and won't want to come back and the less capable ones will be glad to return with net effect of less efficient, less capable Civil Service.
Same with voluntary redundancies, more capable know they'll quickly be snapped up by private sector so take the pay-off whilst the less capable stay in post 'cos they know they'll struggle to find another job.
Ian
ebikeerwidnes
Senior Member
All this " you have to tell me what you have been doing" is part of a targetted route to get rid of people
They work out who to target then look for their emails
They can use computers to find the emails
no email - find you resigned so your out - then they take to to the courts and it takes months if they are lucky
any email - and we can dig through it and find ground to "out" you to the public or just sack you
they are just asking people to set themselves up for future actions if they ever piss anyone important off
They work out who to target then look for their emails
They can use computers to find the emails
no email - find you resigned so your out - then they take to to the courts and it takes months if they are lucky
any email - and we can dig through it and find ground to "out" you to the public or just sack you
they are just asking people to set themselves up for future actions if they ever piss anyone important off
multitool
Pharaoh
Its already falling apart.
They made this freak Deputy Director of the FBI
View: https://x.com/Otto_English/status/1894301075672310226
They made this freak Deputy Director of the FBI
View: https://x.com/Otto_English/status/1894301075672310226
