I truly wish that Rumpledshitstain could spin his tariffs into gold, but I still believe he's going to 'run the government like a business,' in his case that means suck out the value and run it into bankruptcy
#tariffs #economy

Luigi Mangione is no hero. He is a rich kid who got a small glimpse into how middle class America lives, and that was too much for him to handle.
The reason middle class America doesn't do the same is that our information is manicured to place blame on other people who suffer the same situation.

Who's lazier, me or my cat?

People like Darwin, Einstein, and Keynes observe the world and create a theory to explain it.
People like Ham, Terrance Howard, and Ayn Rand fantasize and make up theories to promote their dream.
Too many enjoy the fruits of the former and worship the latter.

The death of a Health care insurance executive is a tragedy, this crime deserves to be investigated and prosecuted with the same fervor as the deaths of an estimated over 60,000 people who died due to denial of services by their insurance carriers.

Just putting this out there:
The intel service that survives the next administration is the one that figures out how to give his daily brief as a news segment.
On a screen, attractive presenter, graphics, wipes, chyrons with hot points.
Give him what he pays attention to already.

We need to banish "There's no evidence"
Half of America thinks it means:
"There's a successful cover-up" or
"They won't investigate"
It either happened or it didn't, stop waffling.

I ask people if they have ever paid sales tax.
They say "yes."
Then I start commiserating about the paperwork and taxable, non-taxable, promotional...
It's a trick to explain-they don't pay sales tax, they pay a surcharge that amounts exactly to the tax imposed. This is how consumption taxes work.