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Under Trump, the Department of Justice has been hiring lawyers with lower qualifications.
The Trump administration fired military officers for following lawful Biden orders. The military is required to follow lawful orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AvwsG-lPE&t=1257s
Trump’s aggressive rhetoric, threats of territorial conquest and ending countries’ existence, and trade wars, against allies, has led to US allies organizing more of their economies around the US, which weakens the US and makes Americans poorer. Trump’s actions have also limited his influence on allies. These actions put Trump’s misguided ideas first, and America last.
When you bully and act aggressively, other countries may not retaliate in the moment, but they do work to weaken you and become more robust to your attacks.
Such Trump aggression has increased China’s power, prestige, and popularity, while lowering those of the US. The CCP is an evil dictatorship, but at least they are predictable, unlike erratic Trump.
Democracies around the world have been weakened because foreigners trying to maintain democracy in their country relied on the US for pushback against the breaking of democratic rules.
https://youtu.be/pDZ7BaZDoe8?is=rp1FOg6E1iwamqCW
‘The cloud is an idiotic metaphor’. The cloud isn’t in the ether, it is cables, satellites, and data centers. All of these are vulnerable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMjDmYqykNI
The negative local impacts of these huge data centers. Water, electricity, environment destruction, crowding out other investment and construction, air pollution…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N__8ubegY1c
Reporting with multiple sources says Musk went to the Whitehouse with a plan to limit the connectivity of Ukrainian drones to satellites. The connections worked on the drones full speed when the drones flew into the EU, but didn’t work in Ukraine, making it seem that the connectivity was intentionally slowed for Ukraine. Musk said the Whitehouse had the say not him. The slowdown happened right as Trump was pressuring Ukraine publicly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVeGIZOqZCg
This violence in France is bad! The peaceful protests have been taken over by what appears to be organized violence against the state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEyAAGW2XJY
Europe isn’t doing nearly as bad as productivity statistics and GDP per capita imply. European productivity growth has been about equal to growth in most of the United States except California. European Lower GDP per capita is largely driven by more vacations.
https://www.youtube.com/live/yYITJnqWkz0?is=9jdlF4QJY9vUj_KJ
Trump wants to replace the new EMALS aircraft launch system on carriers with old steam systems even though steam systems are worse and would require rebuilding ships.
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration so focused on building more naval ships, that they let commercial shipbuilding move overseas, ending subsidies. Naval ship demand will go up and down and is not consistent; the base of a country’s ship building industry will need to be commercial. By allowing, and helping by ending the subsidies, US commercial shipbuilding to move overseas, the Reagen administration ultimately greatly weakened US shipbuilding capacity despite building a lot of naval ships. China has a strong industrial base for shipbuilding because they build commercial ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY58Y_OZmu8
At some point in the 1990s, the central Chinese government made it so that profitable things like factories didn’t benefit local government revenue as much because it started going to the central government instead. However, the local governments could still make money by leasing land, and they could make a lot more money leasing land if they built a bunch of cool and useful stuff, making the land more valuable.
https://youtu.be/axRhjqd-rus?is=2rlqM4pMyJ-lJF6R
In Ohio, data centers spiked electricity costs, provided few jobs other than temporary construction jobs, and thanks to tax deals given to the companies by the Ohio government, the data center companies pay little taxes. They do however, use local services like firefighting when the data centers have fires.
https://youtu.be/iI3tT6CCVH8?is=jz2kfRgVezlyhn42