[USPol] I've complained about Trump to people in the past and gotten the response that they don't want to hear about it unless I can say one good thing too (or something to that effect). so here is that one objectively good thing to bring up if you're trying to get someone to listen yo you:
America is currently supporting a very large population of invasive and very destructive wild horses. They are protected because they're symbols of the American West but, again, invasive and destructive. If we want to remove them then they have to be captured and cared for in facilities rather than killed. which costs tax dollars.
Trump tried to put a system in place where we export the horses to other countries with the implication the other countries were allowed to put them to work or eat them or whatever. but animal rights groups stopped this.
(and yes I love horses too and I'm sad because it's not the horses fault but when it comes to the environment invasive species are often horrible and need to be removed or controlled.)
From what I've read Amazon was paying the USPS just fine and Trump was at least partially making shit up to attack Bezos for not being on his side like Musk.
supposedly the parcel delivery branch of USPS was at the time doing great business and growing hugely, helping to cover institutional costs, but idk the details of what happened since then
so it sounds more to me like it was an attack on both of them to try and divide them and destroy them both (since we must remember that he was trying to do that for a little while)
yeah, it's... not impossible that Trump could incidentally do a thing that is good, but it's also not for nothing that I'm instantly skeptical and would like evidence, because it's frankly out of character
I'm sure he's done some things that are good that he either didn't really have a choice, or that literally anyone else with the authority also would have done
I love you to pieces but if someone is going to make me up come up with good things about Trump they don't care about logic and reason and also just because a species is "destructive and invasive" doesn't make it dangerous. So I now like shield bugs because while both invasive and destructive - they are destructive to the things that will kill me and I would
like more actually. Wild horses have a deep deep deep cultural meaning to the indigenous tribes f North America, especially in the Navajo and west, and were emblematic of the tribes' capacity to connect spiritually with any/all animals (animism) even if it's not even a species they're intimately familiar with.
"He really fought hard to get us a COVID vaccine, and he shut down the country at the height of COVID, something the democrats wouldn't do." Because it reminds them that those were Trump and he did those. It makes them so mad.
I'd have to go digging, but I feel like it's not really something Democrats wouldn't do, but something they didn't have the ability to do because none of them were in a position to issue executive orders, and they had to urge him to do it.
He did eventually say that he rejected David Duke's support back in 2016! It took him a day or two to get around to it, probably how long it took his staff to convince him that openly embracing the KKK would be a PR disaster, but he did eventually say that!
Yeah, I'm definitely at the point of telling people that respond with "Can't you say anything good" to fuck off entirely. No I cannot say anything good about the fascist that is giddy to try and do genocides of people who don't agree with him.
Sounds to me like a good prompt to urge them to examine why they think that's a good investment of anyone's time. ...at least if they're someone you care about.
it's a shame certain people think that's a problem when it's just. you know. a societal issue that comes from wanting people to be able to send shit to each other without paying through the nose
now, questioning whether companies are taking advantage of public works for their own benefit at the cost is the public, that's always valid, but Amazon paying a normal price for shipping is so far from the biggest abuse case
One major reason why the USPS was losing money is that they were required to fund pensions for employees 75 years in advance. Before that, they were making money.
the news has always been bad about actually digging into these details because they're not exciting, but they've gotten progressively worse about it over the last 50 years
Wild horses have a deep deep deep cultural meaning to the indigenous tribes f North America, especially in the Navajo and west, and were emblematic of the tribes' capacity to connect spiritually with any/all animals (animism) even if it's not even a species they're intimately familiar with.