Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Adder

I do not understand why this is a surprise to so many people. We have been saying this about him for a decade.

He is mentally ill. Something is wrong with his medulla oblongata.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

He is mentally ill. Something is wrong with his medulla oblongata.

The "groceries is an old-fashioned word" thing is telling to me. He's just a series of catch phrases with zero substance behind them.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

I do not understand why this is a surprise to so many people. We have been saying this about him for a decade.

People don't believe things they don't want to believe.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

I do not understand why this is a surprise to so many people. We have been saying this about him for a decade.

If you believe the view that he is transactional and self-interested, the tariffs make no sense. They actually harm his own businesses and piss off the donor class.

The consensus on him for most of those ten years has been that he is self-interested and driven by desire for personal wealth.

It appears that was wrong, or he has changed. It appears now that he really thinks one can materially revive manufacturing here. This may be senility.

Trump has an ideological core of a sort. It seems to be a mix of McKinley, Hoover, and Teddy Roosevelt. It's Trump's Early 1900s, and we're just living in it.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

People don't believe things they don't want to believe.

Necessarily, this also means people believe what they want to believe. On both points, this is well done: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...g-tariffs.html

You might think a large swath of the world has critical thinking skills. If you're smart enough to acquire a graduate degree, you're exposed to people with them most of the time. But even among the "smart," one must notice, this skill is becoming less ubiquitous. It's been declining for years, for a number of reasons.

Imagine the deficit among the hoi polloi. It's horrifying.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Does anyone know anything about the law of contempt? Is there any reason that a federal judge could not impose a fine on a government official who is in contempt, and structure the fine so that it increases over time with noncompliance?

eta: ChatGPT thinks this possible, but I'm not sure whether to trust it with this kind of question.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Does anyone know anything about the law of contempt? Is there any reason that a federal judge could not impose a fine on a government official who is in contempt, and structure the fine so that it increases over time with noncompliance?

eta: ChatGPT thinks this possible, but I'm not sure whether to trust it with this kind of question.

I think we're going to find out very soon.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I think we're going to find out very soon.

The Executive can ignore a court order to, e.g., admit a reporter to a press pool, but if a court orders monetary sanctions, I wonder if those become self-executing in a way that causes problems for the individuals involved. E.g., a court hits an administration official with a $25K fine. The administration surely will not devote resources to collecting on that obligation, but if the court creates a financial obligation that is cognizable in the way that judgment or lien would be, it's not clear to me that the administration can do anything to make it go away, leaving to officials to worry about future governments that would collect the debts.