Invading a country to create a democracy.

Many don't understand the irony. Some get it, but apparently not enough.

So, you're not special at all? You're a readily available commodity one can just grab off the shelf?

Same with all of you?

Fresh out of grad school, more or less. I was hired quick because I networked myself a job.

And as far as our education system, I'll agree we have problems. Now those problems will be compounded by superstition and revisionism. And cuts to lunch programs and education in general. It's more than worrying, it's corrupt.

Republicans are pretty good at making up a problem, and then creating it. Perhaps this was the plan all along; Americans have crap jobs while high-skilled positions are imported for crap pay.

I hate it when MAGA makes me put on my tinfoil hat. I feel like hrat.

Republicans are pretty good at making up a problem, and then creating it.
That is not directed specific to you, eb, but Republican leadership and policy. I guess you can agree, in part. Or no?

preparing for guerilla warfare

I'm no military strategy expert, but the geography of Venezuela looks favorable to guerilla warfare outside the cities. Lots of forests and mountains with passes the locals will be very familiar with.

We're still PO'd because Venezuela arrested our oil execs, held them for years in really bad conditions, and told the US to frig off. And Venezuela is still suffering for it. Mostly because of us.

But this is all too risky, most likely illegal, and makes us comparable to Russia. And we know what happens to generals who disagree with the administration, so we can bet any military options are limited by arrogance and yes men. Posturing (bullying) is a common tactic with Trump and also Kegsbreth. I hope it's that.

...we lack talent. We also lack work ethic.

Must be an insurance industry thing. All of my colleagues (we do hydrology and physical science) are hard working and fully competent at their job. And all from the good ole USA.

I've been selling stocks to accumulate cash in anticipation of the AI bubble pop. Then, I'll go shopping for stocks, particularly tech stocks that survive.

I might be early, but I don't care. I'm thinking 2026, but bubbles can go on for a long time. But they pop very fast.

AI will change the world and how business is done. So did the internet. AI is causing a huge bubble. So did the internet.

It won't be the end of America. This country has seen worse and persevered. I see an opportunity to benefit when greed turns to fear.

Schumer needs to go. He doesn't have the nerves his job requires. His messaging is weak. He's weak. Once again, he looks like a loser.

I agree with CS, why let the shutdown even happen if you can't whip the support to sustain it.

Diversity of opinion in the Democrat party is good. But from the beginning, they all knew the stakes of a prolonged shutdown would be high. They should have all agreed from the beginning to be totally unified until the end, or not even tried in the first place.

Chuck doesn't have the leadership or the political acumen for these types of battles. Heck, he didn't even try to whip a unified front near the end.

Also, we need to wise up about geriatrics in politics. FFS.

Whites aren't popular after they perpetrated hundreds of years of slavery, genocide, and apartheid.

This is totally understandable.

Definitely feel bad for the unpaid tower controllers and overworked airport/flight staff.

I wouldn't fly for nothing right now. I have been in travel quagmires, missed flights just to rent a car. It can be miserable.

Plus, I like people, in theory. But when cooped up with 1000s of a them, all pissed off as I am, I like them not so much.

I see nothing!!
~MAGA "Schultz" Johnson

I'm gonna miss following her stock portfolio.

McDonald's is good at lowering the prices of their crap food during harder economic times to the point that it's more affordable than real food from the grocery store. They've been doing so since August, and even more so recently.

In Trump's mind, McDonald's is groceries, and it is getting more affordable.

So take that, libs!

The runners are just people trying to make ends meet, so killing them does not result harm to the cartels in terms of "skilled" human resources.

It's easy to assume the cartels will recruit through coercion when cash doesn't work.

I've always doubted that the U.S. strikes are much of a deterrent at all. If anything, it hurts our side because we look terrible, which in turn helps the cartels and Maduro's regime. This story proves it, imo.

Ignoring the abhorrent moral implications, these strikes are just bad strategy.

#5

No kidding, especially considering the billions in taxpayer subsidies given to Musk's companies in conjunction with his complaints about his own tax dollars.

I have lots of opinions about stocks that I don't own, or no longer hold, or might hold in the future. All investors do, it's called due diligence.

tardSarge musta spent all his money on Pabst and doesn't invest. So his opinion doesn't matter.

Elon claims Tesla is an AI company, but he already has an AI company xAI. Tesla is going all in on Robotaxi and robots. Neither venture will be profitable enough to justify a multi-trillion valuation.

Waymo is worth around 50 billion and is years ahead of Tesla in the driverless transport market. Elon's taxis remain under human supervision.

Elon's robots also do not have the potential for such high valuations of Tesla. The idea that households will spend tens of thousands of dollars for a robot, plus presumably hundreds or thousands per year for the software updates, just so they don't have to fold their clothes is ridiculous. Even if they did, it's not enough to justify such high valuation. Factories and assembly lines are already using robotics and have been for decades, so no game changer there.

Tesla is already massively overvalued solely because of Musk's cult following. The current stock price has nothing to do with fundamentals.

*70,000 streamers

(Still not much)

Was that before, or after, the dog abuser showed up to the party and demanded a VIP seat because he had 7k streamers watching?

Which he was denied and promptly throttled (again) by the entire internet.

If your religion can't even help your own leaders with morality, why should we ever think it can help with the country's?

Well that's a misfortunate typo...

Comprised

So, the police officers seem to live...outside of the city they serve?

Police should be compromised of the community it serves.

What's yer issue with that statement?

His revisionist history and self-ordained but undeserved exceptionalism.

Anyway, your fake immigrant facade aside, NYC is as much my community as it is yours.

Only, I like our cities and you despise them, as you do with everything American that isn't your flavor of MAGA extremism.

Didn't you learn about NYC, the Statue of Liberty, or Ellis Island for your civics exam?

Some "immigrant" you are. LOL.

If Mamdani gets through his term without getting indicted or being outed as a pervert, it's a win for NYC.

It seems like the guy actually cares about his community, so I'm optimistic.

I heard he wants free public transportation. That's some hardcore commie extremism! (meanwhile, mainstream conservatives literally stomp our citizenry into the asphalt)

Putin is hoping we get bogged down in a war so he can point to us to justify his "special military operation' in Ukraine.

Well, there goes my plans for the weekend. Dang!