Scared little boys.
I wish the Dems would pick up on this and play the politics of these guys all being a bunch of cowards and little babies that need to be protected by mommy. Nobody wants to vote for a coward, and the MAGA movement has moved beyond grievance as a motivator and into the territory of them as a bunch of children scared of their own shadow.
Follow up to a post from @emptywheel announcing the forthcoming sentencing:
Solomon Peña, the failed New Mexico candidate who was convicted of shooting up the homes of four Democratic officeholders in 2022-23, was sentenced to 80 years in prison. (Todays’s Morning Memo)
Children can’t vote.
Good to lay down markers even though we know SCOTUS will run roughshod over due process. Hopefully, they’re making their own beds.
…process.
And all for the sake of letting Salesforce – which is a cloud-centric company and just maybe that’s not the right answer for sensitive HR information about DoD – and super creepy Palantir get their snouts in the trough.
“Corrupt” hardly seems adequate to describe it.
How long does it take to crash a plane versus build one from scratch?
Entropy is easy. Negentropy is hard.
Republicans, in response, say “hold my beer”.
“Donald Trump’s Navy and Air Force are poised to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to develop, …”
And why has the development run on for over a decade? My guess is, not only are the systems increasingly complicated; they’re also being kludged and extended and patched as time goes by. The systems to be “replaced” are a moving target.
Also, kudos on the New Mexico courts for putting away Solomon Peña! He lost his election and decided to visit a variety of former Democratic office holders to threaten them about it, and when that failed, hired pettier thugs (than himself, he being a formerly convicted criminal who could not legally own a gun) to shoot up their houses.
Better make sure Trump doesn’t hear about Peña’s case – he’ll make him a Hero of the MAGAverse or something, like “Blue Balls” Corristein.
We hear she likes mushroom tips.
** NBC News reported that E.J. Antoni, President Trump’s egregiously unqualified nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, can be seen in multiple videos on the grounds of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, before leaving the area. The White House says Antoni was merely a curious “bystander” who wandered over to the Capitol after seeing news reports and did not cross any barricades or demonstrate**
I think we need a new term, ‘icurious’ for ‘insurrection-curious’.
Well, restore is a bit of an exaggeration. They’re “mentioned”.
But here it is:
The arguments against SAP in the public sector has always included the factor that SAP is a German-based company. Why are we using German software to manage the US Military and other public sector activities? No one ever answered that question, but Salesforce started in 1999 and SAP was a more mature product by then (I started consulting for them in 1995). This is going to be an interesting effort.
And before anyone gets crazy on this: when SAP started the various implementations, the Army, for example, was still doing card readers.
“Russia, if you’re listening…”
There has been a persistent meme here about Russia’s inept army, and I’m guilty of promoting that myself. But here’s a discouraging update on how Putin is managing to turn that around with big money incentives for enlistment and performance, and revamping the Russian arms industry for drone production. This is why he’s smiling going into the talks tomorrow. Free gifted link:
Be sure to use an anonymized account, but look for a solid name like MAGA_PATRIOT_1776, only totally legit folks claim to be patriots.
need to focus on the big cities in America now."
Where in the world were our troops walking the streets reducing crime. I’m curious about this. Indulge me.
Oh, I can answer that one from first-hand experience. There was an awful lot of ‘protect the fiefdom’ resistance from the folks on the ground that were delegated to help us consultants understand the business processes. I had more than one person in St. Louis say to us when we were initially gathering requirements, ‘oh, I don’t care what you do; I’ll be retired before this ever gets off the ground’. We had people lying to us; we had people leaving details out. It was one of the worst projects I’d been on in my now 30 years in the business.
The implementation partner of the first phase of the Army Project (inaptly named the Logistics Modernization Project) was sued and lost in court and had to do a Phase 1-A at their cost to fix all the issues that didn’t work in Phase 1. On top of that, the First Gulf War forced the suspension of the project because no one wanted a new Logistics system put in place during war-time.
The stories I could tell…
The answer is in:
“A republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin
Might as well sell him arms at that point. Or give him a great deal on nvidia chips.
