They are "ideological qualified", which is what DEI was always about anyway.

Sounds like psychological projection to me.

I care, and I wasn't "slapped in the face". You care -- were you "slapped in the face"?

Your problem is with "tribal knowledge", not with "face slapping". And tribal knowledge is a universal problem -- at least, that's what the science says. As stupid as MAGA is -- AND IT IS STUPID -- every tribe is equally stupid. If your particular tribe is correct on some issue, it's mostly likely because of lady fortuna.

Alas, thus it is, has been, and always will be.

This is too black and white. Nobody wants the government wasting money. And maybe the government shouldn't be doing some of the things that it does. For example, every state has a dept of education, and the federal dept merely serves as a way to strong-arm states of political issues, like ruining the lives of college men on hearsay because politicized moral panic from epistemologically challenged feminists.

Thankfully the US government is relatively efficient -- as these things go.

And you're factually incorrect as well. Trump cannot "take it all away". Congress has to do that. Trump is an ineffectual blow hard would-be dictator. It seems his only true talents are as a cult leader, and a kleptocrat.

I don't think people wanted Trump to do "terrible things". The American public chose "getting into a car with a drunk driver" over reifying grievance politics. Trump1 was relatively benign compared to the sh*tshow of the last year. Turns out the American public see that they made a mistake.

Harris was a weak candidate. Trump is graded on a curve. The Dems were corrupt. MAGA has created a world where corruption doesn't exist. It's plausible that Hunter Biden got millions to gain access to his dad. Trump's crypto scheme allows billions in corrupt donations with no paper trail. The Dems ran ashore on the ship of grievance politics. And now we're being punished for our sins. The punishment is, of course, way out of proportion to the crime.

This is all true -- for some loose definition of "Nazi". Oh how I wish more people knew what National Socialism was about. For fscks sake.

The left is a rather large coalition. The centrist part of it is fine. That's where I am. The branding belongs to the grievance industry, which is why Trump won. Talk about throwing away a winning hand. Mind you, the GOP threw themselves under the bus by sticking with Trump. It'll just take them another 2-4 years for many to realize it.

The problem of racism in "America First" is real. It's woke politics applied to stupid white people. The woke right is a problem. Woke is a problem. Woke is racist. I don't know what the race hustlers expected to happen.

You make a good point; however, some people really do believe in state's rights.

Oh sure, we can also say that Israel "banana'd" in Gaza too, if we change the meaning of the word banana. So sure Israel committed genocide, for some definition of the word genocide.

Oh really, I thought it was the part where China annex part of India in a war that India tried hard to avoid.

Tibet, Sinkiang, Korea, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan. Literally every neighbour hates China except Pakistan and Myanmar. The latter is a crime state.

I've used ChatGPT to write code and Gemini to debug it. If you pass the feedback back and forth, it takes a couple iterations but they'll eventually agree that it's all good and I find that's about 90-95% of the way to where I need it to be. Earlier today I took a 6kb script that had been used as something fast and dirty for years - written by someone long gone from the company - and completely revamped it into something much more powerful, robust, and polished in both its code and its output. Script grew to about 20kb, but it's 10x better and I only had to make minor tweaks. Between the two, they found all sorts of hidden bugs and problems with it.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.