All Billionaires got that way by lying, cheating, and outright stealing - that includes generous George Soros and Bill Gates as well as all of Trump's greedy ClownCar Cabinet members. So why should we be surprised when our oligarchic MAGA government lies, cheats, and steals from us?
Thom's post on how Musk protected both Tesla's China int…
All Billionaires got that way by lying, cheating, and outright stealing - that includes generous George Soros and Bill Gates as well as all of Trump's greedy ClownCar Cabinet members. So why should we be surprised when our oligarchic MAGA government lies, cheats, and steals from us?
Thom's post on how Musk protected both Tesla's China interests and kept Twitter porn legal (Ca-ching) foreshadows life under Trump. Because MAGAs stupidly assume that if you are rich you deserve to be in charge, they have enabled the biggest government-enabled rip-off in US history. Not even yet in power, the Muskgegarchs have snatched several hundred billion dollars from the US economy as rich investors buy into Musk's Mega-MAGA scam after the election.
It is hard not to notice that Musk has begun to behave in public like laughing-gas-bag Tucker Carlson, which helps project a harmless goofball persona to the public. Like the big bad wolf told Little Red Riding Hood, his disguise makes it "all the better to eat you with. "
i expect that once upon a time, one of the wealthiest areas in the country has been reduced to third world status. We once had the richest private banker in the US.
It is difficult to determine if decaying small towns are mostly reactionary holdouts or people who feel trapped due to fear of how to survive in an urban culture. I have never understood why, for example, well-educated native Americans, choose to live on reservations in remote hovels with outdoor plumbing rather than escape to a far higher standard of living. A reactionary mentality is the only hypothesis that makes sense to me.
By the time I turned 12, I was already plotting how to escape my tiny 800 sqft house in Whiteflightburbia (pop 12K) where we were constantly reminded by neighborhood adults how lucky we were not to be living in crime-infested Chicago with all the N--gers. I eventually seized the opportunity to exploit my religion to convince my parents to enroll me in a seminary prep school in downtown Chicago to which I commuted by rail, bus, and subway 40 miles RT daily. That was the wisest thing I ever did in 77 years.
Yes, my old hometown is run down and rotting today. I drove by my old house several years ago to show my spouse while attending a class reunion. The nearby country club is now acres of warehouses. My grammar school is an empty building today. Many stores are abandoned. Eventually, towns more rural than that will disappear entirely. It's evolution. What will holdouts do when Trump's Second Coming does not deliver the promised "Rapture?"
It's sad Lost virtually all industry, all middle class. We were a commuter town until the railroad went bellyup in 1962. Economically, physically resembles Appalachia.
All Billionaires got that way by lying, cheating, and outright stealing - that includes generous George Soros and Bill Gates as well as all of Trump's greedy ClownCar Cabinet members. So why should we be surprised when our oligarchic MAGA government lies, cheats, and steals from us?
Thom's post on how Musk protected both Tesla's China interests and kept Twitter porn legal (Ca-ching) foreshadows life under Trump. Because MAGAs stupidly assume that if you are rich you deserve to be in charge, they have enabled the biggest government-enabled rip-off in US history. Not even yet in power, the Muskgegarchs have snatched several hundred billion dollars from the US economy as rich investors buy into Musk's Mega-MAGA scam after the election.
It is hard not to notice that Musk has begun to behave in public like laughing-gas-bag Tucker Carlson, which helps project a harmless goofball persona to the public. Like the big bad wolf told Little Red Riding Hood, his disguise makes it "all the better to eat you with. "
Article in NYT and a discussion in Meidastouch about the MAGATs from my home town (salute)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbiVRnVumVA
i expect that once upon a time, one of the wealthiest areas in the country has been reduced to third world status. We once had the richest private banker in the US.
It is difficult to determine if decaying small towns are mostly reactionary holdouts or people who feel trapped due to fear of how to survive in an urban culture. I have never understood why, for example, well-educated native Americans, choose to live on reservations in remote hovels with outdoor plumbing rather than escape to a far higher standard of living. A reactionary mentality is the only hypothesis that makes sense to me.
By the time I turned 12, I was already plotting how to escape my tiny 800 sqft house in Whiteflightburbia (pop 12K) where we were constantly reminded by neighborhood adults how lucky we were not to be living in crime-infested Chicago with all the N--gers. I eventually seized the opportunity to exploit my religion to convince my parents to enroll me in a seminary prep school in downtown Chicago to which I commuted by rail, bus, and subway 40 miles RT daily. That was the wisest thing I ever did in 77 years.
Yes, my old hometown is run down and rotting today. I drove by my old house several years ago to show my spouse while attending a class reunion. The nearby country club is now acres of warehouses. My grammar school is an empty building today. Many stores are abandoned. Eventually, towns more rural than that will disappear entirely. It's evolution. What will holdouts do when Trump's Second Coming does not deliver the promised "Rapture?"
It's sad Lost virtually all industry, all middle class. We were a commuter town until the railroad went bellyup in 1962. Economically, physically resembles Appalachia.