Right, of course they are. The problem is that this was always their strategy. Too many opportunities to make money and seize power, right? The chaos and lawlessness is good for that.
For example, SCOTUS threw out Chevron last year, so it’s harder to enforce environmental regulations. Easy money. The labor oversight committees, the pro-consumer committees, those have all been gutted. Easy money. Even if they’re rebuilt, that’s another chance to game the system.
And before that it was developed together with the military. It seems we’ve gone full circle.
There was a time when people were dependent on defined benefit pensions. Then the U.S. pivoted to defined contribution plans, 401Ks. This of course put retirees at risk of a situation like the present one.
Could they have diversified their portfolio better? Sure. Should you blame them for Trump being an evil asshole? Only if you are one, too. The system itself was redesigned to fuck over the elderly, my friend. Then it did.
Not really though. Starlinkn doesn’t scale up well. And it only makes sense in niche circumstances. And it is vulnerable. You could easily imagine a future president just taking it over for national safety reasons.
No way Musk goes back to self driving cars. Not enough power there. And he can’t make it happen because he never created anything amazing. And everyone hates him because he’s evil and also a Nazi.
The egg imports were not meant to reduce prices. That’s not how that works, my friends. They were there because imports are/were competitive when local chickens die and there’s a monopoly on the domestic industry that’s already price gouging.
I disagree. He was a great candidate and a shitty president. What was his crowning achievement? ACA? That failed in the medium run, as we all knew it would. Meh.
Yeah right lol
Reasons depend on the person. Of course it’s a giant mix of what everyone has written already.
Remember that the billionaires want more money and power. They love to use discrimination to get regular folk to fight against each other, while they get even richer. For example, the immigration prisons, those are privately run, right? Free money. Musk’s Starlink contracts with the feds? Free money.
The rich will always find shady ways to get richer. Usually it’s really obvious, if you stop and look for it. Many of them are also racist and sexist, and some are nazis.
In Minot? Good god, not likely.
No. Not really. That depends on the tax rates, my friend.
The judges need to get their act together. We all see the playbook, they all see the playbook. If the judicial branch wants to have any value in six months, it needs to issue Temporary Restraining Orders and lock up people who ignore them, and it needs to do this on the scale of days or weeks, not months.
Otherwise it’s the same bullshit outcome. The judges rule in favor of the fired employees but it’s too late to undo everything. As we always expected. Jesus fuck, sigh. What a legacy to leave behind.
Luigi will always be in our hearts.
Yes. They need to move quickly. Public opinion is already shifting against Trump and Musk, and right now they are vulnerable.
No no, we should be praising him. Clearly he needs a designated driver.
Let’s do some overly simplistic bad economics just for fun. Let’s suppose that the American car companies are not hurt by the tariffs because those only target foreign car companies. Now all the foreign cars are 25% more expensive. This raises the demand for domestic cars. If the domestic car companies are trying to make money, they will jack up their prices 24%. And what are we told? Something about how they have duty to their shareholders? … Donald is having fun living in his dream world.
“risking”? No no no. “promising”
Think about what you’re saying. The market value fluctuates over time. Right now US housing is artificially inflated because of monopolies and rampant real estate speculation. When it tanks, it could tank hard and fast, and it might never get back to current levels. Nobody knows. And that is the time when tens of millions of Americans would love to buy homes.
My friend, FOSS has been readily available for more than a decade. Whether it’s LibreOffice or the GIMP or VLC or whatever, these are very old pieces of software.
It’s not taking off now. It already did. But now you personally are noticing. :-)
AI should scare you. People will just dump everything on AI and then let it fuck over your life. What happens if AI flags you as a terrorist and your drivers license is suspended, or your health care is cancelled? What happens if AI says you’re fraudulently collecting social security? There’s nobody to blame, because they’ll just blame the computer.