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Written by SKC on 2025-01-21 at 01:50

I can only try to hold onto hope that this is just a period of momentary backpedaling and we will start making progress again. But this has gotta be the worst it’s ever been set back for so many people.

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-21 at 01:35

I’m not ready for all this hellscape and I’ve tried to be calm for months. But so much of this is not just bad but it’s wrong. Terrible folks doing terrible things and this is just the start. I need anxiety meds or something and I feel like those are about to be in short supply..

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-21 at 01:25

So we’re just letting them all out now? Reading the pardon this is everyone. A commutation for a very small portion of people, but what is the difference when the goal is to embolden these folks. #Trump

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-19 at 05:02

Trump signs ban on TikTok

Oh wait that was at the end of his first term. Luckily he’s been telling the young people he can save TikTok and they don’t remember this.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executive-order-that-will-effectively-ban-use-of-tiktok-in-the-u-s

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-09 at 23:26

I was going to post a playful video but I had no idea the thumbnail said that lol wow.

Deleted that real quick because that was not my message 😅

Here’s the video:

https://youtu.be/ennIgqGB0Ww

I thought it said Call Now but I was focusing at video titles instead to find this.

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-09 at 22:42

This is all regarding the post from Automattic: https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-09 at 22:39

We have all paid and will continue to pay for his choices. I just hope he finds his way back to balancing his opinions and choices with feedback taken in good faith from the community.

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-09 at 22:38

He’s either being petty about the situation and taking another dig at WPE’s contributions OR he’s legitimately in deep water and trying to grab anything that can float. It pains me to see Matt in that situation even if it was of his own making. He gambled heavily with his nuclear approach and 21 years of blood, sweat, and tears was his hubris. He underestimated the damage he was inflicting on the community and the businesses that rely on WP.

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-09 at 22:38

The fact that the very first thing we get from Matt in a very public scene at WCUS is the nuclear approach just undermines his entire position. There’s probably ways he could still (even now) make things better and right the situation but he’s damaged more than his own reputation through all of this.

I really really really wish that so many things would have been done better and differently by Matt.

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-09 at 22:38

Stepping back and looking at this whole situation from a great distance, it’s impossible not to see that Matt could have responsibly discussed the needs of WP, the .org costs, and all sorts of things the foundation has become entangled in doing and prevented from doing.

Instead, he panicked.

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-06 at 05:34

There’s basically no world in which the now over $200m is actually needed or can be used for inaugural reasons. This is now far and above anything we’ve ever seen and it’s further proof that Trump will continue just playing the system to his advantage as he did last time around.

Yet there will be people who believe even when presented facts that Trump couldn’t possibly intend to enrich himself from his position of power.

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Written by SKC on 2025-01-06 at 05:27

“Of the 63 federal contractors that donated […] more than half won multimillion-dollar bids […] Federal law forbids government contractors from making contributions to candidates and political action committees. However, there is no such rule against contributions to post-election activities like the presidential inauguration, a loophole that allows contractors to dole out unlimited donations”

And that’s from Jan 2018

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/01/companies-that-funded-trumps-inauguration/

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