I am trump favorite staff, me and Elon, we're big boys in President jobs
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That was super difficult to watch.
This full grown man grins like he ate a turd after each condescending derailment attempt. Then he curls his bottom lip in a snarl to show his teeth.
He always appeared weak and frightened, but holy crap does this amplify that weakness.
He's "not an employee"
Stephen Miller is really one of the worst, idiotic, evil, scared, white supremacist, KKK quoting goblins
Yeah he looks evil. I think it's something to do with the tense-frightened-smirk-but-trying-to-look-menacing look.
Why not celebrate government cuts? Because all the countries in the world where the standard of living is the best have a strong public service managing social programs!
Like I just argued with some brain rot over:
If these cuts are saving so much money, why not use it to fund UBI? If you actually believe their numbers they could have just made a $25k yearly UBI with cash left over.
So why are they floating the idea of a $5k one time payment instead?
Id love some cuts to the surveillance state. I bet if we cut their money we could put it into feeding our hungry and helping our disabled live their best lives.
Perhaps he's too emotional to be placed into a position of power. We don't want him making decisions while in a hysterical outburst.
I really feel that its best to put him somewhere he can have a real rest, and maybe we can give him a little cut to help with those overactive hormones.
give him a little cut to help with those overactive hormones.
Blood letting? Why not give this leech some leech friends?
It sounds like they mean a certain procedure that’s done to animals that cuts them off from the influence of hormones.
In case that’s too vague:
I think they’re referring to castration
Holy moly, this Stephen Miller guy is an idiot! Feels like an overexcited toddler with too much juice trying to tell his mom about the last episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Still gives off vibes of a Siberian serial pedophile
Bald Goebbels.
Don’t need the Siberian part of that…
It's really not that interesting. I was hoping for saliva to be flying, but that just his tone all the time. He always sounds like the least interesting Housewife, hoping that being bitchy enough will keep her on the next season.
Thank you for the primary source!
This is Miller's go-to when he doesn't want to talk about what's being discussed. He goes on a hyperbolic rant tangential to the topic to get the other party to ask him to calm down then address his rant.
hyperbolic rant tangential to the topic to get the other party to ask him to calm down then address his rant
That’s the long way of saying he turns into a little bitch.
If it were me, and my show, I would mute him immediately when he started that. I would say, "This is an interview, not a pulpit, not an editorial. I will not allow any guest to take over my show to force their unfiltered messaging over my questions. If anyone gets to editorialize on my show, it is me. And here are the facts as I see them."
And then I would list all of the questions he failed to answer, fact check the ones he did, and then draw my own conclusions based on those lies and evasion, and I would do it all while his stupid face screams ineffectually into the camera, completely silently, until he stormed off in anger. Then I would plaster the stupidest, maddest face he had made in the frame instead for the remainder of my monologue.
Then the billionaires would fire you immediately
Ah, but what a ride
He's also just so transparent and bad at it.
“I would say that it’s pretty standard when you’re downsizing government, you make cuts, you assess those cuts. You see who needs to be rehired, you see who needs to be kept, who needs to be reevaluated.”
Um... It's standard to fire them and then decide if you should have fired them? That is truly moronic. I just don't understand how I can think less of these people every time I hear them speak. Is there no bottom? Will they always be able to disappoint me no matter how little I think of them?
This is standard practice for Musk and literally no one else.
Yep. Delete requirements. If you didnt have to put any requirements back, you didnt delete enough.
This works well when designing a rocket but not very well when youre talking about human resources.
Even with rockets the sane approach would be to model the outcome in a simulation or at a small scale, not "remove the outer hull and put her in orbit".
It's the tried and tested Elon Musk method of performance evaluation. Fire all the workers, then be shocked when they don't want their old job back for a lower wage and worse contract terms
All the CEO’s and consulting firms know that it’s standard practice to fire your highly experienced and highly paid workforce and hire undergrads at 1/3rd the cost to save money. That is this lunatic’s mind set of how to run this country. It surely couldn’t backfire could it? /s
Unfortunately no, fascism has no bottom because its existence relies on digging. If they stop radically altering things then their populist facade would collapse. This is why they need new enemies every month and their rhetoric has to get more extreme every time they talk. Miller has always been the most extreme person in both admins though, so you can safely assume that he's where they will be in about a month.