I say it more than I should..."sometimes things need to get worse before they'll get better".

I wouldn't imagine saying that about social security because it's such a massive part of our culture and shouldn't be threatened like this....but here we are.

Is it possible that trump represents an easier image to display?

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Everyone else seeks efficiency......they shouldn't be any different.

Either cut the expenses or increase the fines....probably a little of both but if I were in charge, I would compel them to close that shortfall. It's ridiculous that shortfall is so large.

we could speed it up. Stop hammering Musk in the press and conduct polling that says Musk's favorability rating is significantly higher than Trump and leak it to the white house. CNN, Rasmussen, Gallup, etc....if they all managed to leak polling that said Musk was more popular (or less hated)...that would piss Trump off.

This is kind of a cousin to Florida and their expenditures to drug test welfare recipients exceeding the reduction in welfare payments. That's been met with fair scrutiny.

But I appreciate what Censored is saying in 2. You can't allow fire hydrants to be blocked and infrastructure to be impeded even if it costs more to collect the fines there has to be some kind of deterrence.

sooner or later, Musk will come between Trump and something he wants. And Trump doesn't value friendship.

My prediction is that Musk's position won't last until the end of Trump's term. He'll be gone before then.

To provide a more robust estimate of the average life evaluation in each country, we combine the responses from the last three years. For example, our 2025 rankings are based on combined data from 2022 to 2024. Using a sample size of at least 3,000 provides a more precise estimate and reduces random sampling error.

-People are unhappy in America today, specifically, because that vicious and spitful monster Trump is threatening EVERYONE'S Social Security.

Without checking, I'm sure the data that goes into this has little or nothing to do with Donald Trump's presidency, especially the social security thing.

It's about timing and when the data was collected. I'll research this more but I have to believe it's data collected almost entirely when Joe Biden was president.....not that I'm blaming Joe for anything. Just sayin....

This is so crazy.....forever, when a politician comes near SS, they get attacked so badly they are scared to death to be attacked to any kind of SS cut.

Now we have a guy threatening to shut it off......LOL.

crazy times.......

"Who was their employer, go after them,"

And their local chamber of commerce ... ... LOL

59 and 55. If they can still work then keep them here.

If you're gonna deport them then wait until they are closer to retirement and eligible to draw SS. Not before.

"and we really do need all hands on deck."

to do what?

-So you'd rather have us Chinese manufacture your EVs?

well, yes. the marketplace is a global marketplace. The Chinese competing with American companies is way the American consumer gets the best value for their money.

I don't care if Tesla dies. Wherever the opportunity for the EV market goes, that's fine and there are companies to go there. With or without Tesla.

-grow the fcck up!

Did Yav actually say that to me?

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Then you've been beheaded about 10,000 times based on the way you attack others here.

You're the roadrunner of the retort, next to -------- and ---------------.

"for pretending to be rational and then dropping strawmen everywhere."

Is that what you call getting your ass kicked into oblivion?

From every direction, on every point, and in every way?

"What in the world did Alexandrite post or do to earn that from you, Eberly?"

- Yav

"He is scum."

any more questions?

-What in the world did Alexandrite post or do to earn that from you, Eberly?

it's not obvious?

You just knee jerking at anyone that isn't supporting WuMao?

I haven't suggested for a second that Musk deserves to be supported in any way.

The issue (if any of you read the article) is about the financial stability of Tesla.

-The article goes into deets like Tesla's P/E ratio and the (known and probable) collateralized debt of both Musk and Tesla.

The article makes a good argument. My point is that almost nobody really cares.

They stop at the headline.

-does he strike you as a guy that actually reads the articles ?

oh for FFS...look in the mirror, cuck.

"Nazi run company"

everyone on the left was sucking that nazi off until he told the State of California off.....what..just 3 years ago?

-Really strange how Lumpers now root not only against an American company but one fighting climate change.

Partisans are partisans first. Americans and environmentalists....well maybe not at all but certainly further down the list.

someone writes an article with a headline that gives you an -------- and POOF!! It's fact.

I swear I hadn't seen #3 when I posted that.

Right on cue....