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1 month ago | 
ericjscholl.medium.com | Eric J Scholl
Member-only storyThere’s a script that people are meant to follow when in the presence of Trump. He didn’t follow it. Eric J Scholl·Follow2 min read·--Sure Trump and Vance were looking for reasons to hate on Ukraine’s president.
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1 month ago | 
thechaosreport.com | Eric J Scholl
Sure Trump and Vance were looking for reasons to hate on Ukraine’s president.
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1 month ago | 
ericjscholl.medium.com | Eric J Scholl
Member-only storyWe need a strong coalition of old and young people to turn the tideEric J Scholl·Follow3 min read·--That’s the most effective fighting back configuration I can think of. I still care if I die and don’t want to. But I don’t care as much as I did when I was younger, because I know it’s coming for me sooner now anyway. This was driven home for me at a recent Green Day concert.
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2 months ago | 
thechaosreport.com | Eric J Scholl
The fallout of Trump taking everything into his own hands and facing and heeding no legal repurcussions because no one in federal law enforcement is going to come after him, is going to be ugly as hell. Add Elon Musk to that too. And maybe dozens, maybe hundreds, maybe thousands of others that we already know about, and may be impossible to do anything about if no one is going to investigate and prosecute them.
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2 months ago | 
ericjscholl.medium.com | Eric J Scholl
Member-only storyEric J Scholl·Follow3 min read·--Restructuring? None. Let’s agree for one moment that USAID spent some of its money wastefully. The opposite is not committing negligent homicide on poor people all over the world. Let’s agree for one moment that banks are overregulated. (Even though every time in over a century they’ve been under regulated, they’ve gotten greedy and crashed the economy!) The opposite is not no regulation.
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2 months ago | 
thechaosreport.com | Eric J Scholl
Let’s agree for one moment that USAID spent some of its money wastefully. The opposite is not committing negligent homicide on poor people all over the world. Let’s agree for one moment that banks are overregulated. (Even though every time in over a century they’ve been under regulated, they’ve gotten greedy and crashed the economy!) The opposite is not no regulation. To the point at which it instantly threatens the life savings of every middle-class American.
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2 months ago | 
ericjscholl.medium.com | Eric J Scholl
Member-only storyThe White House’s severence offer for virtually every federal employee boils down to an easy way for Trump’s folks to identify who likes Trump and who doesn’t. Eric J Scholl·Follow3 min read·--Don’t fall for it!Trump’s supposedly offering pretty much all federal employees a generous severance package if they indicate within the next week that they’re willing or want to leave. And to that end, the White House has sent them all an email offering a “deal”.
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2 months ago | 
thechaosreport.com | Eric J Scholl
Don’t fall for it!Trump’s supposedly offering pretty much all federal employees a generous severance package if they indicate within the next week that they’re willing or want to leave. And to that end, the White House has sent them all an email offering a “deal”. White House HR is calling it a “Fork in the Road.”But it’s not real.
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2 months ago | 
ericjscholl.medium.com | Eric J Scholl
The only way to maybe block Trump’s insane choice for FBI director is to go as superficial as possibleEric J Scholl·Follow3 min read·--Forget about pointing out his shortcomings and lack of qualifications! That gets you exactly nowhere! I mean Pete Hegseth is Defense Secretary. Mic drop. And you know if it was the other way around, Trump would be calling his proposed eyes and ears in the FBI “Crazy Eyes Kash” all day, every day. Until his nomination spun off the rails.
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2 months ago | 
ericjscholl.medium.com | Eric J Scholl
Stiff everybody; wait for the lawsuitsEric J Scholl·Follow3 min read·--So why does him cutting off all funding to virtually all research and aid programs surprise anybody? His supporters aren’t surprised. They say he’s kicking ass. And we don’t know if Trump not paying the US’ bills is going to be permanent, but let’s say for the most part it is, or brings with it huge risks for the managers and recipients of those funds in the future — be they American or not — that didn’t exist until now.
