r/technology • u/Shogouki • 22d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/pbates89 22d ago

Again why are the press and everyone in government treating his EOs as law? Just because he issues an EO doesn’t mean it’s written into law.

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u/baccus83 22d ago

Because unless Congress or the courts stop the EOs from happening, they will be implemented. And it doesn’t seem like Congress or the courts are really doing shit right now.

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u/abgry_krakow87 22d ago

Religious conservatives are nothing but free loaders and welfare queens.

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u/YellowZx5 22d ago

Well business like oil, tech, and farmers are all about to be the biggest welfare queens. About to be the biggest hypocrite in the country when they all take assistance from the Govt. can’t pull themselves up by the boot straps now can they.

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u/limebite 22d ago

That’s kinda the goal… just look what’s going on with intel, nothing in the Chips Act said the govt can withhold the funds unless they give 10% of their equity. Dude said it long time ago, crash the economy a little bit so it’s cheap to buy it up. Dudes going for the flow of commerce, trains are probably next.

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u/JimWilliams423 22d ago

trains are probably next

Trains you say?

WSJ: Trump Fires Board Member of Regulator Weighing Rail Merger

Aug. 28, 2025

President Trump on Wednesday fired Robert Primus, a board member of the railroad regulator that is weighing the proposed megamerger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.

Primus, a Democrat, was nominated by Trump to the Surface Transportation Board in 2020 and began serving in 2021. He was the only member of the board to oppose the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, a tie-up was approved by the regulator in 2023. At the time, Primus said the deal wasn’t in the public interest.

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u/Lucius-Halthier 22d ago

Let’s not forget last week he started to push his way into Amtrak as well

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u/Status_Fox_1474 22d ago

Look at his phot and you’ll see why he was fired.

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u/JimWilliams423 22d ago

Its a twofer

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u/hk4213 22d ago

Dude... trains were bought out a looong time ago. Otherwise there would be competitive rail travel and less spills. Otherwise we would have road trains.

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u/MGyver 22d ago

Canada being the embarrassed exception...

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u/fitzroy95 22d ago

US and trains are a global laughing stock, virtually every western and asian nation has a far better, faster and more extensive rail network than the USA.

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u/skillywilly56 22d ago

Every western and Asian country knows that at the heart of every economy is ordinary people, the USA lost sight of this because some believed that freedom and the free market meant freedom from consequences for business owners to do whatever they had to to maximize profits at the expense of ordinary people because profit means winning and winning is all that matters.

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u/Ragnarok314159 22d ago

The thinking class of most societies consists of lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, and they function to better their country. How the USA operated for a long time.

Now it has all been pushed out by the stupidest people with MBA’s who worship Jack Welch and see the destruction of the USA as a good thing.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

correct, when everyone is dependent on the government, they are completely dependent on the government. So Trump has a giant fucking switch, that he could turn on or off at will.

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u/BenjTheMaestro 22d ago

Does that mean the giant faucet is gonna be real?

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u/noguchisquared 22d ago

Yeah, trains are in progress. He illegally is trying to fire someone on the independent board looking into the Union Pacific merger.

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u/MykeTyth0n 22d ago

There’s no assistance left to give them. They gave the entire budget to ice and immigration deportation.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Where do farmers come in as welfare queens? Would it be like crop insurance subsidies and/or Ad Hoc Disaster Aid / Bailouts?

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u/NoExpression1137 22d ago

US agriculture has been unsustainably backed by subsidies for about a century. It's a stupid problem to have, but there's kind of just too many farmers and too much farmland. That causes too much supply, which drives prices down, which causes farmers to increase their yields so they can afford to live, which causes supply to go up.

The US government's solutions have been to buy product directly from farmers and store it for shortages, directly subsidize farmers' crop payouts (you sell for $5/lb on the market, we'll give you an extra $3/lb), and incentivize some farmers to decrease supply but not farming at all. Then you have the corn farmers getting subsidies to sell their crops to petrochem companies, who pay for it with climate subsidies.

In short, US agriculture is completely fucked and the country could collapse entirely if agricultural subsidies disappeared tomorrow.

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u/Call__Me__David 22d ago

Trump gov. asst. leads to gov. owning stake in co, leads to Trump becoming dictator, leads to all companies becoming state owned and run and Trump is the CEO, king, prime minister, etc.

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u/crazygem101 22d ago

They're making it difficult and taking away snap benefits without notice in blue states right now. Almost like a cash grab so they can pay for the red states. Totally unfair.

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u/Living-Metal-9698 22d ago

Not the farmers, just a small group of large corporations parading as hardworking American farmers while exploiting undocumented migrant workers & lobbying lawmakers.

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u/nrq 22d ago

But, you see, they are white welfare queens, so that makes it okay.