OldWoodFrame

joined 2 years ago
[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait is there a federated podcast app? In what way would that be different than any other?

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

The default if Congress can't pass legislation should be that legislation doesn't happen.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I was fine with like 80% of Obama and like 60% of Clinton's actual policies while enjoying the economy that I don't credit him for. But then W Bush was like a 10% and Trump 1 maybe 15% (Warp Speed, passing the vast majority of Covid stimulus, ironically all the stuff he's against now) and I'm batting zero so far on Trump 2 but I assume at some point he'll do something I agree with.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I try to keep a sense of perspective, every president I disagree with seems to be the worst president ever at the time.

I really want to say Bush's useless Trillion dollar wars are worse than this.

But it's close and we have 3.5 more years of this.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't have a ton of "the court is wrong" opinions, but Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution flatly gives Congress the responsibility of regulating trade and imposing tariffs. The President just doesn't (shouldn't) have the authority to change rates. The executive needs to execute the will of the Legislative branch.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don't care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haha OK op thinking it was a scam is not racist, calling it "a core value in their society" is a bit racist.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Market cap of Twitter was $41B, Musk overpaid at $44B,

Fidelity valued it at $9.4B late last year.

xAI paid $33B for it this year.

So this is a significantly worse overpay.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Reagan was a lot of things but he sure wasn't a Russian asset.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

South Africa, so well known for being racist against white South African emerald mine heirs.