Not any director. Her job is Director of Government Affairs. It's a clear conflict of interest for her to be launching her own political campaign while employed as a corporate lobbyist. Her frivolous lawsuit will get tossed.
It is a conflict of interest, sure. But it shouldn't disqualify her completely from her current job or elected office. She would cut ties if she won the election, which there are only slim chances of.
It isn't clear that the law in question makes exceptions like you're making. Did you read somewhere that it does?
Also, people who work in politics are allowed to run for office, and people who run for office are allowed to work in politics, so what specifically do you see as a conflict of interest? Remember, the company claims this wasn't about politics, so your answer can't involve politics.
o_o what's odd is it's usually the other way around. they start in government, do favors for the private sector (ie declare oxy safe and nonaddictive), and then get a sweet no-show/no-work gig with full bennies after you 'retire' from government.
Movement between government relations in private industry (in government relations/lobbying/consulting roles) and government, in either regulatory, policy staff, or elected roles, is very well known to work in both directions, the common saying being that is a “revolving door”.
These vpn believers don't understand how concentrating all of the traffic thru a single chokepoint (the vpn provider network), they're infinitely easier to network monitor.
The US is simply too polarized, and clearly has been intentionally made so, and it has spread over here, but thankfully not to the same extreme.
Of course it is bad for the international community that all nation's people aren't connected but since the US really wants to become isolationist may as well look on the bright side.
And personally I don't consider the world exluding the US as an echo chamber, even just the EU is far from an echo chamber, it is a continent of many unique countries, US concerns are heard over here in the EU a lot even if a whole lot of it doesn't matter over here and just causes polarization.
Trump was elected on deporting illegals, closing the Dept of Education, removing men from women's sports and to stop sending money overseas. The insular HN community doesn't understand this is what the majority of American voters want. Many of us are very happy with the direction things have been moving.
Deportations, I could understand. But extraction to a foreign concentration camp without a sentence or any legal recourse? That is just utterly cruel -- even monstrous. If the majority of American voters want that, then that's what they are, full stop.
> Many of us are very happy with the direction things have been moving.
No, you're not, and yes I am telling you how you feel.
This is, for lack of a better word, "cope".
Even if you think some of this stuff is cool, you can't be so stupid as to just ignore all the economic damage around you. That does affect you, whether you have the conviction to admit it or not. At the end of the day, you _will_ suffer. There is no pride in being both a loser and a coward.
As for "economic damage", this is where you really diverge from reality.
The S&P 500 has risen back to pre-Liberation Day tariff announcement levels.
Gasoline prices are down.
Egg prices are down.
April jobs report is out, beating projections by 44,000 jobs.
The media's economic fear-mongering never materialized.
So yes, the US economy effects me -- all in a good way right now. President Trump's agenda is working. The people wishing otherwise will be the ones who need to cope.
The only reason the economy is in any kind of "decent" shape is because Trump backtracked on the things he said. He's well aware his suggestions are economic catastrophe.
So, you should be thanking his opposition for forcing his hand in this. You're welcome. If we did not complain enough, then the tariffs would still be proposed and we'd be fucked. Luckily, he backtracked 99% of it.
And, nothing has actually went into effect yet. What you're missing is that the economic disaster we've seen is just from him threatening it. Yeah, nothing material has happened yet. So however bad it was, it can only get worse when his awful, awful economic policy comes to fruition.
Also, GDP is down Q1 2025. We're almost certainly going to enter a recession, it's mostly a question of how bad it's going to be. Have fun!
Citizenship status doesn't matter if you create a one-way jurisdictional valve people can be pushed through before there is time to assert status and rights.
It's funny you say science requires a lot of honesty and trust, then point at what happened in the past 5 years.
Very few people believe "safe and effective" was telling the truth when it neither stopped someone from getting sick or from passing the virus on to other people. Now the lack of trust is spilling over into other v's that have been effective in eradicating past ailments like polio and measles. The "scientists" have no one to blame but themselves.
It's not "spilling over" as some kind of inevitable process. The President nominated and the Senate confirmed a health secretary who works hard to cultivate mistrust of vaccines. The scientists didn't make them do that.
As a US citizen, revoking visas from criminals and people who espouse hate has been a huge net positive. We don't need visitors bringing their third world blood feuds to our homeland.
The primary technology we are lacking an implementation for is voter ID. After we ensure only eligible voters can cast a single vote, the next valuable technology is education.
Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method. These university could easily fund their projects out of their massive multi-billion dollar endowments. We should ask why they aren't.
> Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method.
Semantic nihilism. It’s a basic fact of political science that governments enact policies in order to achieve outcomes. Or if you prefer cybernetics, there’s always Stafford Beer: “The purpose of a system is what is does.”
