That and labor organizing, environmental awareness, and many other things where the absence helps the rich get wealthier .

It’s also just a blatant theft; there is a lot of money to be made here however it goes down , and that money goes to connected arseholes

They really need a SD who will not say no

Very unpopular opinion: it’s good that mainstream media is self censoring because this undermines their usefulness and authority, eventually allowing better media to gain more followers.

A good way to tell the long term future of a state is to see how ballots are counted, and if the published stats pass United Nations tests for fair elections.

Most states flunk, some pass, it’s been a few years since I last checked, so I’m not going to give potentially bad info. But it falls down to what one might suspect, more blue states pass than red states

It’s still much much much better to be in some states than others. It’s also far easier to move now while there is still freedom of interstate movement. It may not get so bad, but why make any assumptions?

Even if that is true, if this is going to happen, the number of people victimized will be far more than the capacity of this new detention.

I think this currently is more about standard government corruption than anything else, it’s not liberal or conservative: just money changing hands.

Improving health coverage is theoretically possible, and later on they may get better, but the only things that will improve are a few blue states and even then it’s just small changes.

So dreams of large non violent change are as futile as the murderous rage. Best one can do is make more money or move to a better area or immigrate.

Most probably it was internal, for money only?

Yea, but he going to be really enthusiastic while he is shoveling money to both musk and perhaps himself. And he believes the moon landings are real.

It could have been a moon landing denier or even a flat earther.

There is a non zero chance he may actually be good for the space program in general? In the meantime the bar is lowered enough that this may be the best in a bad lot, even if this nomination redefines the term “industry capture”

Not great, not terrible

Nothing wrong with the government having an official health drink, that all stores carry, or else!

Enforced by fines or can’t use new, yet to be introduced tax break.

Sure the above seems ridiculous, but is it really never going to happen, for sure?

I think we have all seen this sort of thing play out in the last few years. Republicans are shocked and worried , or at least some token ones are. Then they all magically fall into line and vote as a block

Maybe the convention lost them more voters than gained ? Widely circulated videos of democrat delegates making fun of the protest that was naming the dead kids might have lost Michigan all by itself .

Maybe a network of volunteers can foster care for some, a few have sweet temperaments ?

I can volunteer some pet food

Sometimes history shows oligarchs breaking stuff to make more money for themselves: trade patterns, movement of people, social safety nets, previous methods of doing business.

I think we all got so used to the modern times that it’s hard to image this still happening, but on a bigger scale.

Or, it could be mostly empty threats now, designed to manipulate the markets. We saw Trump scares during his last term in office, particularly near the end, that would deliberately scare enough people to make bank in stocks and bonds. Scaring a nation is very profitable.

Probably both types of things.

He is right about the Palestinian humanitarian orgs, been doing that for a year. I don’t know about the military, unless he means Biden is probably not doing all he can to prevent them from being misused domestically. Don’t know anything there

Biden is not sharpening the knife: he simply placed a knife sharpener on the counter and is a good sport about letting others use it .

It always was a caretaker presidency, that’s what I thought when he first got into office.

I expect thoughtful words from his speeches as he gently leaves office

I see what you did wrong there, you assume we have a working, strong, beautiful , lively and critical, independent ( one of these adjectives) media whose owners have a moral compulsion to help.

Where in fact all we got going for truth is a handful of perpetually near broke, small and weak outlets who are run on coffee fumes and dreams, not necessarily in that order

If Trump really does remove large parts of government and raises the tariffs that way, things are going to get interesting in the Houston area. A

I’m wondering if the people behind him really do want to do all this or if he is full of hot air. I doubt, for all his bluster he that independent. If they want to do this, then it must be a deliberate decision to paralyze the country for some reason. Why, I have no clue.

I guess we find out in January and February what so many of our futures will be

I wonder if some states will try to work with each other to restore some of this later