I’ve been planning for Social Security not to exist when I retire and looks like DOGE might make that happen. Glad I started planning for that more than 20 years ago.
Poverty rate is gonna jump and elderly are gonna be dying in the streets. But we all knew it was coming. Well, the smart ones did. The rich absolutely despise Social Security and covet that money. It was only a matter of time before they stole it all.
Coworkers inappropriate question.
It’s funny how often we’re told women never do anything like this when they do it very frequently but just usually aren’t called out for it as men are. Because they are “not a threat.”
Double standards like this are another (stupid) reason a lot of people voted for Trump.
One of AOC’s major blind spots is she doesn’t understand how many blue collar workers look down on workers like waitresses. They don’t see them as brothers and sisters to stand with, but as servants who exist to get them coffee and afford them to experience being superior to… https://t.co/aDLcSps0xF
— Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30) March 20, 2025
That’s right. She doesn’t understand it because it makes no sense. But people always want to feel that they’re better than someone else, even if the average contractor or construction worker should have more solidarity with the waitress in the café than the billionaire being a clown on TV.
But everyone in America sees themselves as a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire so class solidarity isn’t much of a thing.
The world is so ridiculous now, it almost makes me long for George W. Bush.
Almost.
Recession chance is 90%. Great Recession II chance is 85%. Depression chance is now an also-depressing 80%.
Given the above 80% chance of depression, the further likelihood it’ll be Great Depression-like is 60%, Long Depression-like is 40%.
Great question https://t.co/ae5gq8WuNE
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 14, 2025
I thought the idea absurd in 2015-2016 that Trump might be a Russian agent, or least on their payroll. Now I think it’s probably substantially true.
Has a country so large ever destroyed itself so quickly? Maybe Germany in the lead-up to WWII, but even that was slower if I’ve read my history correctly.
I stole this from someone else (can’t remember who), but they said, “They think they are in a Wes Anderson movie. But they’re actually in a Tarantino movie.”
And that about sums it up I think. The Dems are useless. As ever.
A lot of you don't realize how many privileges you enjoy on the back of the liberal global order and you will very much regret it when it collapses.
Although, frankly it looks like it was a lot more fragile than I thought. Maybe this was always inevitable.
— Glinert
(@StevenGlinert) March 9, 2025
He is right. Even all the liberals chanting “Death to America” who firmly side with Hamas terrorists will miss Pax Americana and the liberal global order that rode on its back when that stability and peace is gone.
It’s going to be a wild few decades. That said, all orders collapse eventually. All systems have built-in frailties and weaknesses. The post-WWII arrangement is no different. It lasted longer than it likely should have after the end of the Cold War.
Rarely, though, has a system imploded in such a preventable and ludicrously tragicomic manner.
History has returned, as it always does. Alas and such. But it was inevitable; human nature has not changed. And only the dead have seen the end of war, as George Santayana observed.
We needed new minds for new times. And we did not get and do not have those. So it’ll be like old times again soon.
Elon Musk buying Twitter and bending it to favor Trump isn’t rigging the election, you fuckin’ numpties.
That’s called “strategy” and the Democrats should try it sometime. Creating a favorable information environment for themselves is something Dems are uniquely terrible at, so I can understand why when another person or entity does it they see it as cheating.
But it’s how you win. So of course they won’t do that.
Might be right, might be wrong — but we have heard this before. Read documents and commentary from the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was chaos. There were riots, the Weather Underground bombed the US Capitol building and people believed society was about to dissolve into anarchy and mass death.
But it didn’t. And that’s mostly forgotten now, even in some cases by people who lived through it.
My personal guess is that we experience a pretty bad WWIII against China, Russia and North Korea, the US pulls together and we and Europe emerge stronger with China diminished and reclusive once again.
But Trump is doing the US much damage that will not be easy to repair. I agree that it is not looking good.
I can’t believe we went and elected one of the most greedy, crooked and unqualified people of all time to the presidency.
Of course I am talking about Obama. But then we went and did the same thing with Trump.
We are not smart.
What I thought (and continue to think) about Obama:
— He made a huge mistake in understimulating the economy leading to an excessively slow recovery
— He was right about almost all the rest
— Dems post-Obama efforts to be further left on everything haven’t worked pic.twitter.com/x1RubAnW2l
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 9, 2025
And this is why I thought then and continue to think that Matt Yglesias is a fucking idiot.
Obama made the choice that millions of Americans would lose their homes. And yes, that was a choice — it all could’ve been prevented. That was done to save the banks and specifically the banksters who wrote all that fraudulent paper. This decision ruined many Americans economically for the rest of their lives as well as making the Great Recession worse and last much longer than it otherwise would have.
Obama also oversaw the largest loss of black wealth in history. He was and is just an evil, venal person.
As president, he had one of the greatest opportunities for real reform since the 1930s. And instead he forked over the country and its wealth the rich all so he could be a billionaire later himself. No Obama, no Trump it’s also important to remember.
The US is going to be a much more hardscrabble, much worse place after this four years. Biden did a little (far too little) to forestall the looting, while his Democratic predecessor Obama allowed the plunderers free rein.
Trump is worse — he doesn’t even really know what he’s doing; he’s just a chaos agent swinging from outlandish position to absurd action, making the pillaging unpredictable and even more dangerous.
And we’re all going to pay for our not holding Obama to account back when we could’ve forestalled most of what’s to come.
Remember how so many clowns came out of the woodwork (or the clown car) to insist that Obama had no power, that he was just a little tiny helpless baby, that there was nothing at all he could do — even with both houses of Congress and a favorably-inclined Supreme Court?
Well I fucking remember even if you do not.
Now compare and contrast with all that Trump has done. Even if you omit the items that are plainly illegal, a president can do a whole hell of a lot. Whether this surfeit of power vested in one individual should be the case is not what I am debating. And I’m not even debating if Obama was a giant useless coward or not.
All I am stating is what the evidence 100% confirms: Obama could have done a lot more and chose not to, no matter what his idiot supporters claim.