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People on the right say I am hateful, people on the left call my posts fantasy gibberish, that is all well and good. I am not hateful, I am not a racist, and I am not insane. I am angry, VERY ANGRY with what the republicans have done to this country. I am angry that they continue to deepthroat Trump and allow him to lie, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage. Trump is a traitor, a liar, a thief, a child-rapist, a mobster, and a serial adulterer. He is married to a rent-a-piece from easter Europe. He has violated every law this country has to offer. People on the right do not care that he breaks the law and they do not care that has ties to Epstein. The republicans had the ability to stop Trump from doing what he’s doing, and they were to...

Let’s look at some different forms of labor and how they affect the millions of Americans who buy food every day. Best: Full automation. GPS guided tractors and similar tech bring labor costs per unit close to zero. That drives food prices down, making it affordable hundreds of millions of Americans. Good: Cheap migrant labor. Labor costs are higher than automation but still relatively low. When automation isn’t feasible, cheap migrant labor helps keep food prices reasonable. Bad: Domestic labor at high wages. While Americans can do farm work, most aren’t willing to do it for low wages. When employers must pay significantly more, the cost per unit rises sharply. This can raise food prices to the point where many low-income...

It's the same pattern, over and over again: 1) Government identifies some “problem” in a functioning market (e.g., healthcare, housing, education). 2) It intervenes with regulations or controls to “fix” the perceived problem: price caps, mandates, subsidies, zoning laws, rent control, etc. 3) Unintended consequences follow: reduced supply, rising prices, and declining quality. 4) Instead of reversing the intervention, the idiot government piles on more regulation and subsidizes demand, worsening the problem. 5) Prices keep climbing, driven by inflated demand (via subsidies) and restricted supply (via regulation). 6) Politicians then declare: "Capitalism has failed."

Trump's imaginary Golden Dome is nothing like Israel's Iron Dome. Apples and Oranges. Don't even go there. This would be more like Reagan's Star Wars concept, although the problem has become significantly more difficult with improvements in missile technology including hypersonic weapons. At this point the Golden Dome is an initiative in its early stages and details are unclear. The Trump administration projects it can be built for $175 billion, with an initial system up and running for $25 billion. They believe the system will be operational before the end of this administration. This is craziness. According to Axios: "I think the way most people are starting to use 'Golden Dome' is synonymous with space-based missile defense. But...

The profit motive benefits society because it aligns self-interest with value creation. When individuals or businesses seek profit, they must produce something others are willing to pay for - whether it’s a product, a service, or a life-changing innovation - like the smartphone or AI. It’s why you have clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a smartphone in your pocket - instead of waiting in a breadline with a ration book. In a profit-driven system, people get rich by solving other people’s problems. The better they solve them, the richer they get. When the possibility of financial gain exists, it encourages investment and risk-taking. That’s how society gets medical breakthroughs, streaming services, cleaner energy, faster...

I was listening to a podcast (Ezra Klein) and the guest was Margaret Atwood. She's the author of "A Handmaid's Tale". I was really impressed by her. She's very thoughtful and she views the world differently than I do, which I appreciate. As a story teller, she's attuned to the importance of stories from a common story that binds a nation together to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. She had also spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain and a lot of how living in an authoritarian society is based on those experiences. When she wrote A Handmaid's Tale, she incorporated this information and tried to imagine what an authoritarian America would look like. I highly recommend you check it out, it's great, but something she...

Mid day Monday became the historical cusp of nazi rule and the willful arrests, incarcerations, camps (and ALL they represent) by the most EVIL individual in the history of this nation. The walking talking orange cesspool has signed an executive order to find methods and means to use the US Military to go against American CITIZENS to carry out the tRUMP'S whims and murderous fantasies! This is a deja vu repeat of AHII! This one order demonstrates the intention of the giant tangerine asshole to make a violent, dangerous and criminal country of fear and horror! This one signature loudly shouts out the absolute treason by tRUMP the TRAITOR! GET IT OUT!

Shri Thanedar has filed a house resolution to IMPEACH the fascist criminal tRUMP! This is not the end, but hopefully it is the BEGINNING of the end for the narcissistic AH! wannabe! The USA may be able to recover at least SOME of its honor and high standard with the rest of the world, but LIES will fly from the tRump camp, the nazi magas and the really stupid to confuse, shade and corrupt ANY efforts to GET IT OUT! WAKE UP sleeping giant and take this nation back to walking the path of high standards of the rule of Constitutional Law, constant and ruthless weeding out of traitors and corruption and creating the installation of laws that are fail safe against even the slightest hint of oligarchy, dictatorship and scams to debilitate our...

Many posts in DP lament the current state of affairs: Trump’s destructive actions, the breakdown of politics, the seemingly endless corruption. And yes, all of that is true. However, I get the feeling many people cling to the notion that we can "fix" things and defeat the "bad guys" if Trump were to somehow magically disappear. The fact is, even if Trump were to magically disappear tomorrow, it would do nothing to address fundamental systemic problems! When a society lacks the necessary skills, knowledge, integrity, and vision, its collective poor decisions and actions can and will erode its foundations, leading to instability, decline, and ultimately, collapse. It's tough when we need to discuss something uncomfortable like the...