When you take a shot at the most powerful person in the world (hyperbole to make a point), you better not miss.

I’ve decided not to apply for a promotion I was likely to get partially because it would have meant managing a person I dated 18 years ago. She is a lawyer. I shouldn’t be smarter than her about what could represent a workplace ethical violation.

But of course he did.

I mean, I get that he wouldn’t be able to get it to trial until Trump is already dead. But it just sets a bad precedent to let a President try to steal an election.

Show me where he is setting military policy. I’ll wait.

Oh, hang on, he isn’t. He is making a public statement about what he thinks politicians should do based on what he observes in his daily work on the job. It’s literally the Chairman’s job to make public statements about what is best for the industry they work in and what is best for their company.

You’re right. He’s the Chairman, who in most corporations leads the hiring of the CEO. He’s actually higher up. Congrats on being technically correct.

The Chairman or CEO or whatever of a major defense corporation has a vested stake in what things might affect the defense industry and very likely has a team of people informing him of what is going on geopolitically. This person is someone who probably knows more than you on things like this, so maybe listening to him is worthwhile. We don’t have to follow what he says, but hearing what he says is probably a good idea.

Who said anything about stock price? I sure didn’t.

Who cares what the CEO of a major Defense contractor thinks about the defense of the continent that company is located in? I’d say a lot of people.

Dmitry Peskov said: “Why is he involved in nuclear weapons?”

“Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov expressed surprise that a representative of the civil aviation industry would make such statements.”

I have to think that Peskov knows Airbus is not just a civil aviation company… He does know that Airbus is a major defense contractor, right? The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) just rebranded itself as Airbus 10 years ago. The literally make missiles. Why wouldn’t the CEO of a company that makes weapons talk about making weapons?

When I first saw signs about fly-tipping in London, my head went to cow tipping and thought, “someone would need really fast reactions to tip over a fly.”

The interesting thing about this case is that the investigation began during the Biden admin in 2024. It didn’t find enough conclusive evidence either way, but the current admin decided to charge her anyway.

Nobody agrees with me! It must be them that is wrong, not me.

“missteps”

You have no evidence and just made shit up.

It isn’t a con at all. It’s the result of the unbelievably arcane and complex defense acquisition rules. It’s nearly impossible to move fast and save money with smaller companies due to all the hoops they have to jump through to get on contract, so only large corporations can handle all the paperwork making anything at all cost way too much money to pay for all the overhead.

The con, if there is one, is large defense contractors convincing non-technical officers that highly technical things will be super duper hard and needs to be on a cost-plus contract to take into account any unforeseen issues. I sat in a meeting where one of those mega-corps said with a straight face that they needed a cost-plus contract to cover any losses from the additional inflation… on a one year contract.

OK, do it. Everyone complicit with what that fucker did should be in prison, including Trump and Clinton and Gates. Hell, throw the corpse of Stephen Hawking in prison while you’re at it.

“Where did they say anything incorrect?”

The bill makes it harder to get drugs. The person said one asshole republican was holding out until some drugs are less easy to get. The asshole republican wants drugs to be easier to get, so he is voting against it. That is what they said that was incorrect.

No, many people are aware of that. It isn’t some obscure secret.

Can you do edibles?

The lack of racial diversity in Europe is what makes it look like there isn’t as much racism as in the US. There just isn’t as much opportunity for the racists to be racist.

Side question for a black person in Germany: is “black music” a common term in Germany? I was on a bus going from Freiburg to Strasburg and saw a poster for a bar playing “Black Music” on Friday nights. I didn’t know if that was supposed to mean rap or jazz or blues or what.

6 Democrats, 1 turncoat, and 1 Independent.

And when the police actively avoid enforcing laws unless they get to hurt black males, what do you do? When it comes to stalking/harassment, the police will do nothing but ask you to fill out a form that gets put in a pile with nothing done to it. ICE will be able to do more than just warn her to stop.

Calling ICE on a person who is just living their life trying to work hard and get ahead is what racist shit stains jump to. Calling ICE on a person who is acting criminally and SHOULD have their visa revoked is a viable option.

Now, I haven’t read the texts or heard the phone calls and have no idea if this woman was stalking him or if he is a racist jackass who is sexually harassing her. Threatening to call ICE on her might have been a real shitstain thing to do. But Immigration enforcement against non-citizens actively committing crimes is what every other country in the world does. It’s not racist just because it happens in America.