Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Ungnome]

Apparently there is, though it's more for tourists than actual congress members. https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/visit/capitol-cafe

 

[Anonymous X]

Just saw something that we all already knew enough to put together, but I hadn't and maybe you hadn't either.

I have been interacting with Facebook memes about how tariffs are going to bring manufacturing back and I keep telling people that we don't manufacture in China because it is 10% cheaper, so a 10% tariff increase isn't going to make American manufacturing the smart money. They'll just pay the tariff and pass it on.

Oh FFS, that's exactly like Brexit – "vote to leave the EU and they'll bring back manufacturing jobs!" (Yes, and how's that working out now there are trade frictions and tariffs and reams of extra paperwork to trade with Britain's largest export market?) It's the same scam, different country.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Is there a House cafeteria?

Sadly; the bad chicken is the president, and not for supper.

 

[Dekafox]

Just saw something that we all already knew enough to put together, but I hadn't and maybe you hadn't either.

I have been interacting with Facebook memes about how tariffs are going to bring manufacturing back and I keep telling people that we don't manufacture in China because it is 10% cheaper, so a 10% tariff increase isn't going to make American manufacturing the smart money. They'll just pay the tariff and pass it on.

But Elon Musk has this nebulous presence in the 47 administration and I hadn't thought about it in a while, but he says he'll be able to make 1 million Telsa Optimus in 2027. You never know on timeline with Elon, but they estimate a price tag of $20-30,000 on those which is much cheaper than I would have thought. It isn't a good enough deal to get one to mow my lawn, but these guys are going to be stocking groceries...before much longer. They can definitely do jobs in a factory that a traditional robot cannot because of their versatility. It really could be that there will suddenly not be labor anywhere in the world that can be bought as cheap as Optimus.

Isn't that the "robot" where his demonstration was actually all people remotely operating them, and none of them were actually autonomous?

 

[Axaday]

Isn't that the "robot" where his demonstration was actually all people remotely operating them, and none of them were actually autonomous?

That is what a friend told me an hour or so ago. I didn't know. Musk is a poopyhead.

 

[Pocket]

The spirit of the Mechanical Turk lives on.

 

[Dekafox]

What the heck does this even mean?

Mel Gibson 'surprised' by Trump naming him 'special ambassador' to Hollywood

Gibson, the legendary Hollywood actor, said he was "just as surprised" that Trump named him one of three stars to serve as "ambassador" to Hollywood.

www.usatoday.com

Does he think Hollywood is a foreign country or something?

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

Probably, he wants to treat it as something foreign. All those "liberals" out there, and all....

 

[Pocket]

So what you're saying is that if the West Coast tried to secede, Trump wouldn't even object...

 

[wonko the sane?]

Oh no, he'd object like hell. He IS the united states, you see, and trump doesn't lose things.

 

[abates]

He continued: "These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears

so don't share anything with them you don't want Trump to hear about. Got it.

 

[Ungnome]

Don't really think that will be a problem, outside of Stallone, the rest aren't really highly regarded at all these days.

 

[Anonymous X]

Exclusive-German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech compan...

www.yahoo.com

"Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

 

[Pocket]

Who's he warning?

 

[Dekafox]

All the crappy parts of a cyberpunk dystopia, none of the cool aesthetics and cyberware...

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Maybe Neuralink will get us there once regulations are decimated.

 

[Axaday]

Who's he warning?

Everyone. Who could have seen this coming?

 

[wonko the sane?]

Everyone. Who could have seen this coming?

You gotta start slapping some emoticons on there so we can tell when you're being sarcastic. Experts were warning the world about trumps mental illness and autocratic leanings before he was out of office the first ******* time.

 

[Axaday]

You gotta start slapping some emoticons on there so we can tell when you're being sarcastic. Experts were warning the world about trumps mental illness and autocratic leanings before he was out of office the first ******* time.

I don't do the facial expression in person either.

 

[KidTDragon]

Good-bye, democracy. It was fun while it lasted. Sorry we failed you.