What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[viper37]

Dr Oz tells federal health workers AI could replace frontline doctors

Dr Mehmet Oz reportedly told federal staffers that artificial intelligence models may be better than frontline human physicians in his first all-staff meeting this week.

Oz told staffers that if a patient went to the doctor for a diabetes diagnosis it would cost roughly $100 an hour, compared with $2 an hour for an AI visit, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Wired magazine. He added that patients may prefer an AI avatar.

Oz also spent a portion of his first meeting with employees arguing they had a "patriotic duty" to remain healthy, with the goal of decreasing costs to the health insurance system. He made a similar argument at his confirmation hearing.

"I think it is our patriotic duty to be healthy," Oz said in response to a question from the Republican senator Todd Young of Indiana. "First of all, it feels a heck of a lot better ... But it also costs a lot of money to take care of sick people who are sick because of lifestyle choices."

I wonder if this patriotic duty applies to Trump too?

[grumbler]

Dunno whether anyone reported this here or not, but the Dily Show delivered a "win the entire internet" zinger the other day.

Desi Lydic played a clip about the teenage spat between Musk and Navarro, and then said, "that's our choice?  Musk or Navarro?  That's like the Trolley Car Dilemma, except that the dilemma is... not enough trolley cars."

[Valmy]

Dr Oz tells federal health workers AI could replace frontline doctors

Dr Mehmet Oz reportedly told federal staffers that artificial intelligence models may be better than frontline human physicians in his first all-staff meeting this week.

Oz told staffers that if a patient went to the doctor for a diabetes diagnosis it would cost roughly $100 an hour, compared with $2 an hour for an AI visit, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Wired magazine. He added that patients may prefer an AI avatar.

Oz also spent a portion of his first meeting with employees arguing they had a "patriotic duty" to remain healthy, with the goal of decreasing costs to the health insurance system. He made a similar argument at his confirmation hearing.

"I think it is our patriotic duty to be healthy," Oz said in response to a question from the Republican senator Todd Young of Indiana. "First of all, it feels a heck of a lot better ... But it also costs a lot of money to take care of sick people who are sick because of lifestyle choices."

I wonder if this patriotic duty applies to Trump too?

This is your fault Oprah.

[HVC]

Poor Donahue

[crazy canuck]

Dunno whether anyone reported this here or not, but the Dily Show delivered a "win the entire internet" zinger the other day.

Desi Lydic played a clip about the teenage spat between Musk and Navarro, and then said, "that's our choice?  Musk or Navarro?  That's like the Trolley Car Dilemma, except that the dilemma is... not enough trolley cars."

 

Brilliant!

Edit: found it

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIOcf1dMv4s/?igsh=bDZobWU2MGR0ZzZo

[Jacob]

Watch the news, what do I see?
Trump Suspends Nvidia H20 Export Ban Plan After $1 Million Dinner With Jensen


And my portfolio is down again.  Didn't even have time to make the slighest move to shelter anything.

Stocks are for the oligarchs. Guillotines too...

We got the guillotines

[Neil]

It seems like Trump is trying to get the authority to fire Powell.  If that happens, then Trump will have successfully destroyed every source of strength the US has.  Even if Democrats ever get back into power, it won't matter.  They'd have to purge vast numbers of Republicans and collaborators like the French did after Vichy and seize vast amounts of pilfered wealth.  And quite frankly, they can't be trusted not to use the emergency to remake the country in their own horrific image.  Normalcy will never return to the United States. 

[Valmy]

It seems like Trump is trying to get the authority to fire Powell.  If that happens, then Trump will have successfully destroyed every source of strength the US has.  Even if Democrats ever get back into power, it won't matter.  They'd have to purge vast numbers of Republicans and collaborators like the French did after Vichy and seize vast amounts of pilfered wealth.  And quite frankly, they can't be trusted not to use the emergency to remake the country in their own horrific image.  Normalcy will never return to the United States. 

They won't. They will leave most of what Trump did in place and just try to run it better. Biden took his sweet time in removing Trump appointees the last time, a few even survived until Trump 2. Most of Trump's first term policies stayed in place, only better administered.

Much like Obama didn't purge the Bush people or massively override his policies either despite us all hoping he would.

But I agree. It will take decades to repair the damage being done. And the American people are no longer the sort of people who would commit to that anyway.

[viper37]

So I am being told that the markets falling and Treasury yields spiking at the same time is bad, is happening now, and we are all doomed because of it.

Can anybody explain why this particular combination is particularly doomerish?

Explained in the linked I posted above, but I can offer a complementary to Minsk.

It means large investors have lost confidence in the US.

T-bills and bonds aren't being sold at the asking price for now.  That's bad for the US, that's bad for the stability of the financial markets everywhere.

Canada and Japan agreed to collaborate to stabilize the financial markets.

Trump admitted that he wanted to cause a recession and said he was backing down on tariffs because he didn't want to cause a depression.  But he hasn't really backed down on tariffs.  It's still chaos.

The US is quickly falling from its dominant position and the stock markets are reacting badly today.

[Valmy]

I got a little teary-eyed listening to this. An adult? Running a country? Being clear as to what its interests are?

Pity we have babies running ours.

[Syt]

We got the guillotines

[HisMajestyBOB]

I got a little teary-eyed listening to this. An adult? Running a country? Being clear as to what its interests are?

Pity we have babies running ours.

My son had a class trip to see the cherry blossoms in DC two weeks ago. We started at the Jefferson Memorial and made our way through the FDR memorial to the Lincoln Memorial. Been to these many times, and in the past I never really thought much of it.

This time, though, I found the memorials and inscriptions very moving, and profoundly sad. 
"I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Jefferson
"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." - FDR

Where are the great leaders we used to have? 

[The Brain]

At least you keep electing the same generation as the great leaders of yore.

[Zanza]

Tax cuts of four trillion for the richest continue. Debt limit raised by five trillion.

Printing press goes brrrr. Interesting experiment to see how much debt can be sustained.

One trillion per year is interest on the existing debt. But that is growing fast.

[HVC]

Trickle down baby