Is this going to be like Squid Game, Pentagon Edition?

If Intel has to give the US government 5%, Starlink should have to give back 25%.

This along with the elimination of USAID should disqualify the orange gorilla from any peace prize .

In the NE we have a better semblance of a safety net. We are working on a solution to the defunding of medicaid and other federal subsidies we use to bolster it and much involves taxing the ultra rich/wealthy citizens. There are other nascent agencies/organizations being built to administer to our people.

I recently met a guy who wants to join his family down in Georgia. He is an amputee, lives in a nursing home, requires dialysis three days a week. He says there is a 30 day wait period in Georgia in order for him to access the medical benefits he needs to live. But he is hoyer dependent. His family can’t afford one or probably have even trained to operate it or care for him while he waits. So he remains here, only getting to see his daughters and grandchildren 1-2 times a year. It was so sad.

He makes the best of his situation and was constantly making upbeat conversation. Young to be so disabled- just in his 50s. I doubt he will make 65.

Big Wheels is convinced of the role of the unitary state executive like Trump in DC. No checks, no balances.

How many children died d/t cowards with guns and idiots in charge of floodplains?

I happen to be equipped with a uterus and would prefer to have control over its contents without being hunted down like a deer in doe season.

Florida and Tennessee have entered the chat.

Californian retirees move all over the country. You hear people in Florida and Nashville, NC and Virginia, and Seattle, Portland, etc. all complain about the house wealthy Californians moving in and increasing the property prices. These people in Cali that won the house lottery are mostly retirement age and had paid off mortgages. They bitch about us in NY too. NY public employees who have retired and moved to low tax states. You would think they would value these people who are spending money in their communities.

Texas is a very large state; quite larger than not only many states but also many nations. The regular working people there do have high overhead… the property taxes in TX, the home insurance, sales tax, energy costs, water fees and other fees that have been off loaded to municipalities and residents very much makes up for the income taxes one sees in Blue states. So it is not surprising that the average Texan is somewhat a sheltered child who is fed RW news like Fox etc. and believes them. It is not easy to leave the state unless one has the funds to pay for airline tickets for their family. Driving is a commitment that requires adequate paid time off there and back.

Wow. I didn’t know that dial up was still a thing in the US

Oh man, you just unlocked memories of my Mom’s 8086 back in the late 80s… her first pc was an Apple but the software… there was more for the Intel. I remember so much disk inserting and printer interface issues and the DOS. We had like boxes and binders of those huge discs…

Intel can go anywhere. To the highest bidder and the lowest cost.

or they will just move overseas.

Right? Good Luck America. FAFO.

there is no real rationale. Trump is all impulse, no long range thinking/planning.

That is what the tariffs are for and Apple has promised to invest a shit ton of money into manufacturing those phones here… so they can raise the prices to the ceiling of the tariffs imposed on China, India, Thailand, Indonesia … etc. There are no other smart phones manufactured in the US so they will effectively… have a monopoly.

the problem is that those people actually exist and post. so it is hard to see the difference btw the monopoly/technocratic feudalists and the average sarcastic poster. being naive about that group is probably your first mistake. sorry for the heavy eyeroll and expression of disgust. Maybe find another way to have “fun?”

It is not like I did not have access to that information before. I don’t need to be trapped in some closed browser environment labeled as “search”

I doubt that “gang of 15 year olds” were homeless. Maybe it was a couple of girls who BB thought he could assault and he FAFO.