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What Drivetrain Failures Reveal, w/ Oskefer Consulting

Derek Gong from Oskefer Consulting, joins to discuss drivetrain failures, OEM handoff gaps, and missed SCADA warnings. Reach out to Derek on LinkedIn.

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What Drivetrain Failures Reveal, w/ Oskefer Consulting

An authoritarian’s using his power to suppress his political opponents is at the very top of his to-do list.  This has been proven to be true not just by the fascists of the 20th Century, but for at least the last 2500 years, as Plato observed.

If this weren’t the case, i.e., if what Trump is doing were something that was at least somewhat novel and could have possibly come as a surprise, we could have more sympathy for America’s throwing its democracy into the toilet.

But we’ve seen this movie before, and we all know how it ends.

We have precious little time left to remove him.

Trump Orders His Justice Department to Investigate a Political Opponent — Zzzzzzz . . . .

The point that Fetterman made here had a certain play in U.S. politics–that is, until the midterms that flipped states like Texas and Kansas blue.

Now he’s simply out-of-touch and completely irrelevant.

The Grand Irrelevance of John Fetterman