Save for a handful, politics is simply a career choice, mostly by inept and lazy lawyers.
Look at Hakeem Jeffries, whining that they are ineffective because they have no leverage, when he could be throwing sand in the gears, at the least, and Chuck Schumer who has sat on is ass for decades because he slops at …
Save for a handful, politics is simply a career choice, mostly by inept and lazy lawyers.
Look at Hakeem Jeffries, whining that they are ineffective because they have no leverage, when he could be throwing sand in the gears, at the least, and Chuck Schumer who has sat on is ass for decades because he slops at the same trough as the Republicans, And a day late and a dollar short stands up and makes a fool of himself screaming, ineffectually , into a microphone
The Republicans have always been the party or rich, racist, Christian nationalists, We who read substack, we in the know, have been aware of that.
The rich, racist, misogynistic, Christian nationalists now have complete control of the U.S. because the so called opposition, took the high road and have done nothing to stop the onslaught.
And unfortunately our open handed eqalitarian values have worked to enable, even pour gas on the fascists.
Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, said:
"It will always remain one of democracy's best jokes that it provided its deadly enemies with the means by which it was destroyed."
Quoted in Richard Evans, "The Coming of the Third Reich", p. 451.
We needed to be reasonable, thoughtful and examine, but no we were absolutist, ideological purists, our way or the hiway
The first inklings were the revolt against political correctness, then the cancel culture (now they are cancelling us).
The immigration problem in Europe is not the same and has different causes than immigration in the US, but we treat them the same, to our chagrin.
Americans have myopia, they see the world through their own eyes, and the American experience is unique, insular, and American chauvinism does not permit or encourage us to walk in some else's shoes, nor consider the culture, needs and fears of anyone else.
An Americans can travel in Europe without learning the language of the culture, and indeed in many countries, but if you want to visit America you better speak English.
And we are so arrogant, despite the fact that we lag, in all metrics, save imprisonment and death penalty, all advanced nations, save perhaps Russia which is not an advanced but a medieval nation, we think we are the best
Muskian Trump believes that it can uses its economic, financial and military might to terrorize and dominate the free world and our neighbors, but it contains the seeds of it's own destruction.
It will live, for awhile off the fat built up since 1945, but will quickly burn up that fat with it's bigotry,policies, ations and ideology.
The Federal agencies which kept the engine running have been dismantled.
There is no one to shovel coal into the boiler, no one to grease the gears, no one to fill the tinder box.
The Federal Government is the sum of its parts, a working Federal Government is what has kept America the preferred customer of the world and the preferred destination of people.
That America died on Jan 20, 2025. We are now living on borrowed time.as the full effect of the wreckage done is felt throughout the nation and the economy.
And that is just the start, the people, the groups, the factions that enabled and created this autocracy will be vying for recognition, primacy and power., and that is when the real battle starts.
The fascist Christians, libertarians, racists, patricians and patriarchs are having an orgasm, they finally have owned the hated libtards.
That euphoria will wear off, when they find that they are competing for attention, recognition and resources with other factions of the same ilk.
I do not understand the point of what Musk's programmers are doing to the softwsre they have hacked into. They have identified progrms funded by USAID that they do not approve of but no real fraud. What purpose does firing thousands of people accomplish? Are they sijmpoly burning the country down to rule over the ashes? Destroying 10s of millions of lives in USA and 100s of millions around the world accomplishes what? Once one person owns the entire board the game of Monopoly is over. I am cheering for the asteroid
They are disassembling the Federal Government, everything except the departments that benefit Musk., which also empowers Putin with whom Musk and Trump have a standing agreement
10th grade -- a little knowledge is a dangerous thing -- Alexander Pope. I know about 10 guys who went to Wharton, came home and took their family businesses into bankruptcy.
I've been aruing that Treasyry can arbitrage -- borrow from our "ally" Japan which owns more debt than anyone at Japanese rates -- 1% -- to retire some of our debt.
I've also been arguing we should endow our trust funds just like the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc. Deductions to charity do not go into the general funds of the US. I've been concentrating on SS, but it can ap;ply to all the trust funds.
Threats of “bankruptcy” of the two Social Security Trust funds abound in the media, and Trump Administration budgets have cut operational funding. There is reason to worry.
If Social Security is sliding toward a "default" it is because Congress and a succession of presidents would sell their families for a few votes. The default of Trust Funds is supposed to apex in 2034 due to the increase of birth rates of baby boomers. After 2034, birth rates of later generations flatten and the funds can be solvent.
Social Security protects workers, widow(er)s, orphans and disabled people and is a major investment for many of us.
Please donate to create an endowment to slow down the rate. If everyone who donates to say, universities, which aren't really charities, the trust funds would be secure.
My suspicion is that 'when the USA is completely ruined, it will be easy for BRICS to take charge, putting their own currency in place of the $ and running the global trade their way. China appears to be very technologically advanced with better, cheaper EVs already. Hope I live long enough to see how it will play out.
Right on both accounts Terry.
Save for a handful, politics is simply a career choice, mostly by inept and lazy lawyers.
Look at Hakeem Jeffries, whining that they are ineffective because they have no leverage, when he could be throwing sand in the gears, at the least, and Chuck Schumer who has sat on is ass for decades because he slops at the same trough as the Republicans, And a day late and a dollar short stands up and makes a fool of himself screaming, ineffectually , into a microphone
The Republicans have always been the party or rich, racist, Christian nationalists, We who read substack, we in the know, have been aware of that.
The rich, racist, misogynistic, Christian nationalists now have complete control of the U.S. because the so called opposition, took the high road and have done nothing to stop the onslaught.
And unfortunately our open handed eqalitarian values have worked to enable, even pour gas on the fascists.
Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, said:
"It will always remain one of democracy's best jokes that it provided its deadly enemies with the means by which it was destroyed."
Quoted in Richard Evans, "The Coming of the Third Reich", p. 451.
We needed to be reasonable, thoughtful and examine, but no we were absolutist, ideological purists, our way or the hiway
The first inklings were the revolt against political correctness, then the cancel culture (now they are cancelling us).
The immigration problem in Europe is not the same and has different causes than immigration in the US, but we treat them the same, to our chagrin.
Americans have myopia, they see the world through their own eyes, and the American experience is unique, insular, and American chauvinism does not permit or encourage us to walk in some else's shoes, nor consider the culture, needs and fears of anyone else.
An Americans can travel in Europe without learning the language of the culture, and indeed in many countries, but if you want to visit America you better speak English.
And we are so arrogant, despite the fact that we lag, in all metrics, save imprisonment and death penalty, all advanced nations, save perhaps Russia which is not an advanced but a medieval nation, we think we are the best
Muskian Trump believes that it can uses its economic, financial and military might to terrorize and dominate the free world and our neighbors, but it contains the seeds of it's own destruction.
It will live, for awhile off the fat built up since 1945, but will quickly burn up that fat with it's bigotry,policies, ations and ideology.
The Federal agencies which kept the engine running have been dismantled.
There is no one to shovel coal into the boiler, no one to grease the gears, no one to fill the tinder box.
The Federal Government is the sum of its parts, a working Federal Government is what has kept America the preferred customer of the world and the preferred destination of people.
That America died on Jan 20, 2025. We are now living on borrowed time.as the full effect of the wreckage done is felt throughout the nation and the economy.
And that is just the start, the people, the groups, the factions that enabled and created this autocracy will be vying for recognition, primacy and power., and that is when the real battle starts.
The fascist Christians, libertarians, racists, patricians and patriarchs are having an orgasm, they finally have owned the hated libtards.
That euphoria will wear off, when they find that they are competing for attention, recognition and resources with other factions of the same ilk.
I do not understand the point of what Musk's programmers are doing to the softwsre they have hacked into. They have identified progrms funded by USAID that they do not approve of but no real fraud. What purpose does firing thousands of people accomplish? Are they sijmpoly burning the country down to rule over the ashes? Destroying 10s of millions of lives in USA and 100s of millions around the world accomplishes what? Once one person owns the entire board the game of Monopoly is over. I am cheering for the asteroid
They are disassembling the Federal Government, everything except the departments that benefit Musk., which also empowers Putin with whom Musk and Trump have a standing agreement
He wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain. A predicate to outright theft of the Treasury?
Sacred feces Daniel that is what I thought. I imagine that is the basis of Trumps American Sovereign Fund.
On no other good adjective or noun, Sacred Feces.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-orders-plan-for-a-united-states-sovereign-wealth-fund/
10th grade -- a little knowledge is a dangerous thing -- Alexander Pope. I know about 10 guys who went to Wharton, came home and took their family businesses into bankruptcy.
I've been aruing that Treasyry can arbitrage -- borrow from our "ally" Japan which owns more debt than anyone at Japanese rates -- 1% -- to retire some of our debt.
I've also been arguing we should endow our trust funds just like the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc. Deductions to charity do not go into the general funds of the US. I've been concentrating on SS, but it can ap;ply to all the trust funds.
Threats of “bankruptcy” of the two Social Security Trust funds abound in the media, and Trump Administration budgets have cut operational funding. There is reason to worry.
If Social Security is sliding toward a "default" it is because Congress and a succession of presidents would sell their families for a few votes. The default of Trust Funds is supposed to apex in 2034 due to the increase of birth rates of baby boomers. After 2034, birth rates of later generations flatten and the funds can be solvent.
Social Security protects workers, widow(er)s, orphans and disabled people and is a major investment for many of us.
Please donate to create an endowment to slow down the rate. If everyone who donates to say, universities, which aren't really charities, the trust funds would be secure.
https://www.ssa.gov/agency/donations.html
Why doesn't SSA advertise that donations can flatten the curve and extend the default date beyond 2034?
Apparently thie concept (and even the neme) is taken from the Saudi Wealth Fund, which in part, has been undermining our economy since 1973.
OPEC has been dictsting enegrgy prices, which is like a tax on all of us. I've been arguing thaty the USTreasury should sue and recoup lost profits. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/678/text
Nor=te that Grassely is the sponsor. This used to be a bipartisan issue.
Damages can fund our economy.
My suspicion is that 'when the USA is completely ruined, it will be easy for BRICS to take charge, putting their own currency in place of the $ and running the global trade their way. China appears to be very technologically advanced with better, cheaper EVs already. Hope I live long enough to see how it will play out.
You will Victoria, live long enough, I foresee the world reserve currency being the Yuan.
And if you gave me a choice of having to live under the Trumpianmusk version of a Christian taliban or under China. I choose China.
Yes, I was thinking of BRICS too. I see a new currency developing as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M13Q8FIHYDA