A better equivalency would be the insulin industry and a Diamond industry unrestricted by region.

Those are two nonequivalent industries with wildly different variables of influence. Did AI write this?

They can’t change the birthrate decline fast enough to make that a go for a good long while. Look at the enlistment numbers, they’re at a low. It would be a draft. And our current society isn’t draft material. Most of us wouldn’t work well as soldiers, and those that would probably wouldn’t comply. In addition, going to prison would be free housing, meals, and medical. The food would be crappy, but even so, it may serve as motivation to NOT comply.

Trump is one of those fantastical idiots who isn’t an idiot. He’s not going to annex Canada. It’s part of the brute force strength show to make the executive branch the only branch. Shock and Awe among all the details we are actually being made aware of. For everything we know, there’s at least 3 things we don’t know. What you need to ask is, why is this a headline?

Interest in Greenland and Yukon is something we’ve all explored over on Reddit. A mad rush to gather and exploit what’s under the ice when it melts. Many of you guys proposed it would be the spark of WW3. (They simply have to ignore the acknowledgement of global warming in this, because it may mess up their political agenda.) If anything, this ends with an annex of part of what’s under that ice.

Remember, Trump has never been interested in the United States or the US Constitution, only in how to be king. This is part of why prior 2016-2020 staff call him a fascist.

What I do think was more of a gaffe that probably had his people gesticulating wildly off camera was letting people know pre 2024 election this would be the last time they’d ever have to vote.

What’s killer about all of this is we don’t have all the info. Most of the non-rag publications have been booted from the press rooms. What we hear is mostly what they choose to talk about in measured doses. And as the purge continues, that will become increasingly more narrow.

I love ProPublica, they have solid, honest reporting, but I wonder at their level of access.

I think so.

For all his showmanship, Trump intimidates. Plus, it’s hard to believe Musk didn’t rig/influence the election. That would be a hell of a power chip. Who, on the “winning” side, would risk that coming out? And on the left it’s highly taboo to even nudge the idea after the way Trump acted in 2020. Musk gets a complete pass from Congress and keys to the entire 6 trillion treasury of the country AND all SS# and other data of Americans. ALL 3 branches of government are rolling over and playing dead on it, for an immigrant (which the GOP dislikes), for a manufacturer of electric cars and solar (which the GOP dislikes), who is entirely unelected by anyone, and does not qualify to be President in name by virtue of our founding documents.

Why? What’s the Occam’s razor on this question?

Back to Trump being intimidated. There’s a vid clip of Trump I cannot seem to dig up again, that shows him exiting from something onto safe ground post N Korea visit. He looks like a man who is shitting himself and not in the standard 80yo loss of bowel control due to “metal fatigue” of the anal sphincter and such over time way, which he apparently does have, but out of fear. The man looks terrified. I’m surprised we got our President, such as he was and is, back that day. I think he was too, judging by his face.

My read of Trump is he only respects people who intimidate him. Putin. Jong Un. Musk.

All the echo chambering reaction rags that help fuck perception and elections. Great.

If this is true, then another non-Putin style election is off the table.

The redundant, awful writing of AI is hard to take. I’m trying to decide if my neurons feel more strain and numbness by reading this type of writing or by watching an advertisement.

So have more babies or lose funding. I’m sure a more cohesive network of ideas like these will be forthcoming.

Congress could shut this down, but not for much longer.

Of course.

You mean the chemicals in the toothpaste and 1/3 of mouthwashes? (90% of kids mouthwashes).

Really? Now it’s not just vaccines but fluoride too?

Amazing.

It’s more likely the microplastic and other garbage embedded in our innards from an environment saturated with bad for us items, but, you can say no to fluoride and vaccines which is why they are chosen. If you have no control over it at base, then it won’t be chosen as the culprit behind autism.

One piece of data that is compelling: old eggs. I don’t like it either, but there it is. The older our eggs sit in transition, from birth to old age, the worse they get. They do have a shelf life. Sure, you can play the odds and win, but the odds of a perfectly health pregnancy and child go down with age. It’s an unpalatable fact of life.

Old sperm is an even more robust bit of data, linked to autism. But that’s an unpalatable idea, and we can’t fix aging.

Vaccines are easier to pick on so they are.

It’s a billionaire trough. None of us can afford to buy the education system, as one example.

Put it in the water with the fluoride. Cheap, effortless dental care.

This is the focus right now? Say you don’t care about the USA louder please.

This would be the time to revolutionize the party. Trump did a hostile takeover from within, so it’s been done.

It’s part of the con. It’s a loud and glittering display of force that is meant to make even the non believers in Trump, Believe. Muzzle velocity. Shock and Awe. Whatever you want to call it.

There’s a reason congress is quiet. There’s also a reason none of the orders are congressional bills (good odds he would lose). There’s a reason he’s punching out at other countries like Canada, Denmark, and Panama. It’s to display the executive branch as THE unequivocal authority. The only authority within our federal government that matters. King George III would be impressed, because it’s working, at least, it is if more mainstream social media is to be believed.

But belief is all that’s needed to make it so.

Checks and balances only work if the other branches are willing to check or balance and they’re not. The US Constitution may as well be in flames right now. And no one else is doing anything. My partner went to a “protest” in a fit of frustrated angst after the treasury news. Roughly 1,000 people stood around with signs, or simply stood around, and didn’t talk to one another. If that’s all we’ve got, then this is the end of the USA.

Well. $40k in eggs were just stolen out of the back of a truck so, technically, yes.