Meanwhile in Washington state I can’t give fresh eggs laid by my chickens to a food bank because I don’t have an egg dealer license even though I’m donating them.

I feel like all proposals that change how social benefits work should be benchmarked against why taxing the rich wouldn’t be a better option, laid out plainly, so everyone can see the lies.

It should be illegal to propose anything that doesn’t include taxes for those who can pay them the easiest.

They want to get products in the hands of very young children to create customers for life.

This is the happy meal strategy on steroids.

Don’t give cold callers any ideas

Man I can’t love Talarico enough, he’s the manliest politician I can think of right now.

Do they like riots and open rebellion, because letting people starve is how you get riots and open rebellions…

You’re right about this, they are making a lot of money, you can’t argue they’re just doing it to eat.

Help me understand again how there isn’t enough wealth in this world to give everyone healthcare, shelter, and enough food not to starve?

We are providing housing camps for AI infrastructure, and AI is nothing more than an idea. Meanwhile the suffering of all life on the planet just goes on because a few monkeys just decided this is the way?

No kidding, my entire life all I’ve seen is republican presidents take us into stupid ass wars.

Why does anybody believe any of these people when they say they want to keep us out of wars?

So the USPS doesn’t have to do this, they don’t report to the president, and I don’t think this is in any way legal.

If the postmaster general follows this order I would hope anyone in Congress could haul him in and have him arrested.

States run elections, period, and this is blatant election tampering.

Is anyone else as tired as I am of hearing how GOP anyone is upset about something obviously awful IN PRIVATE?

Like who tf cares if it’s in private? Do they want brownie points for that or something? Is this some form of sanewashing because we can’t utter the dark one’s name out loud?

Politicians don’t get to have private opinions, they either say it publicly or it doesn’t matter or count for shit.

All at a time where I think I’m actually going to switch to Linux.

I just tried out an install on my laptop and boy does it work well even for gaming.

Windows has, nothing I actually need any more?

It feels really big to really leave Windows for good, but, I think it’s going to happen after a bit more testing of my Linux setup.

If everyone in the US donated 100,000 that would raise 34.2 Trillion.

That’s a nice dent.

If we took all of the wealth from the top 10 billionaires it would equal about 2.5 Trillion.

The combined wealth of the 1%, however, is about 52 trillion.

So, we could pay off most of the national debt by instantly burdening everyone with a one time $100,000 tax bill. If you can’t afford it you have to make loan payments on it.

OR we could confiscate all of the wealth of the top 1%, pay off the debt, and have plenty left over to let the 1% keep some wealth and maybe fund some other things.

None of these options are practical obviously, but it does imply that the top 1% could easily afford wealth taxes of some kind and it would help pay down the national debt and that the non 1% could not do anything other than take on fractional ownership of the debt directly.

This shows one group can afford it, another group definitely cannot.

We probably need to start electing people exclusively from the bottom 99% of wealth holders, or better yet the bottom 50%. Ideally it should be illegal to be allowed to run the government if your net worth or the net worth of your family puts you at all in the top percentiles of wealth.

They are probably people that were already looking or anbout to start looking for a new car and pivoted to EV based on current conditions.

Never seen any tax returns either, is he even a contributing member of society?

For deer camo is irrelevant because most cases you have to wear hunter orange (or pink) because you don’t want to die by being shot by another hunter. Also the deer don’t really notice the orange so it works out. If you strictly hunt deer you should focus on staying warm and wear hunter orange, camo doesn’t matter.

For waterfowl and Turkey especially though camo is necessary. Birds are really good at seeing danger so if you don’t blend in you have almost no chance of getting one.

The reason a deer hunter would likely be wearing camo is they also hunt turkey/waterfowl and gear isn’t free so they use a lot of the same gear for both seasons.

At least this is why I wear camo while hunting, I do both, but I’m fully aware it doesn’t matter for the deer. The gear is just good for long duration outdoor activity in all weather.

How many global crises is it going to take to make the world just stop forcing in office work?

It’s clearly less energy efficient to drive all these people everywhere, and business seems to do just fine when it’s remote.

Why don’t we just restructure society around this and move on?

We’d all be so much more resilient without fossil fuels and work commuting.

You know what’s going to happen here? China is going to come in and offer to rebuild Iran into a hyper modern techno state in exchange for whatever it wants and favorable partnership on oil.

Iran is going to end up stronger, China will lead the new world order, and America will just be another random country that needs austerity because we can’t afford to keep printing money the way we could before this all started.

Thanks DJT!

So this is obviously stupid. I use the other gender bathroom when one bathroom is in use and I really have to go. Is that really something that should cause jail time? Really?

It’s fun being part of that number.