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Living in small town Indiana sure does throw off one's sense of perspective, doesn't it?

I don't understand what this graph is trying to tell us. Can you elaborate?

The conclusion is clear: Russia needs a bigger hand in our economy. You're going to get your wish.

Solid word play! My man!

I'm extreme left? Man, you need to meet more people.

Permission to speak freely, sir? The premise of this post is horse**** and you know it. We just had a black woman running whom we could trust to do right by the economy—if she gets the blame for working with the Biden economy you don't like, then she gets credit for working with the Biden economy that got inflation under control with record employment—and it's becoming very clear that millions of people wouldn't vote for her simply because she was black and a woman. A gay person, even a gay white man, would also lose millions of votes simply because he is gay. You know you'll never be in the position of having to choose whether you would vote for an openly gay man because you (and I) will be long dead before an openly gay man runs as a Republican. So you're safe from having to put your money where your mouth is. Sir.

We have reached the point where more schools and better schools are "goodies" that should be starved of tax revenue. Well, looks like you're gonna get your wish. Congratulations.

Teri Garr was actually in the Monkees Head!

I’m with Schwab, and they let you designate which shares you want to sell in order to maximize advantages for yourself. For instance, if you have 100 shares of XYZ and the first block of 50 you bought is above water and the second block is below water, you could designate the second, more recent block of 50 shares for sale so you can take the loss for tax purposes, if you so choose. I would bet Fidelity lets you do the same?

I think allowing all parents to raise their children only as they see fit is overrated. Some parents are not fit in the first place and need to have their children rescued from them.

https://x.com/axios/status/1854167037586595937

I figure a thread dealing with the transition in the next few months from the Biden administration to whatever is looming on the other side would be appropriate, and let’s start it off with this.

I wish this could do anything like horrify MAGAs, but unfortunately, this is language used only to inflame the left, so all this will do is elicit an apathetic shrug from the red hats. Seems to me the red hats all believe they’re hurting at the behest of snotty, stuck-up Democrat voters like you and me—you know, the kind of people who use ”behest” in a sentence—so their solution is not everyone working together to raise everyone’s standards, which they don’t believe is even a thing, but instead making it so we hurt as much as they themselves hurt, which they absolutely know is a thing.

This got me wondering about how they treat water here, which i have never thought much about, what’s the process and all, and I came across this article from earlier this year explaining it: https://abc7chicago.com/stickney-water-reclamation-plant-wastewater-chicago-microbes/14388431/ And it reads like one of the wonders of the modern civilized world. That said, I’m sure czar RFK will develop or spread some rumors about how water is treated in general so they can take responsibility for the process away from local governments and give it to private business who they can then drive down costs by cutting corners and reduce quality just below current minimum standards in order to turn a healthy profit. The Trump administration can help things along by removing clean water regulations from the books, requiring local and state government to comply with new federal government standards on water, and allowing any resulting externalities such as poisonings and deaths to play out in court. I look forward to this brave new world.

Counterpoint: he and his circle are gonna get good and rich along the way, so their personal economies will be swell along the way.

Maybe six or seven years ago, I got one of those large Zerowater carafes that filters out dissolved solids to a 99+% rate (and also, funnily, it reduces Chlorine and Fluoride). A few years later, the city of Chicago then sent all us taxpayers a smaller Zerowater carafe and six filters gratis. (Well, actually, paid by our property taxes.) Chicago has one of the best water systems around, but sometimes, I can really smell the chlorine in the shower and coming out of the kitchen tap. ZW also provides you a meter that measures dissolved solids. Depending on where you are, tap water usually has around 100 to 200 PPM; ZW reduce that to zero, and you’re supposed to periodically test the water so you know when it’s time to change the filter. I’m telling you all this because I also used the meter to measure the water being filtered out of the fridge dispenser, and it had the exact same dissolved solids levels as the tap water, and when i changed the fridge filter to new and ran five quarts through the dispenser as instructed, it still had the same readings as water out of the tap. So, I’ve started to think the whole fridge filter thing is a sham.

You may remember from the late 2010s that all Trump has to do is name Kennedy acting secretary indefinitely, which will avoid the whole confirmation process.

I can attest that Aquafina and Dasani are great, and Ice Mountain is garbage.

Move to Europe, then, you commie.

Except once people have to drop any part of their medical insurance because they can no longer afford Obamacare, dental is the first to go, even before vision.

That guy is a CNN pundit, not a CNN news anchor. There’s a difference. You may now laugh.

Or at least against willful women.

What do you think are the chances they legislate over it, at least to water them all down, or get their state Supreme Court to declare them all unconstitutional?

They tell themselves they don’t think trump is actually going to do all the awful things he’s promising to do, because after all, he was in office for four years already and he didn’t do any of that back then, did he? Of course, that means they’re active supporting a man who they acknowledge is being dishonest when he talks about what he’s going to do once he’s back in office, which, I’m sure there’s a bible verse somewhere that gives them all cover on that. Probably somewhere in the Old Testament near the Cyrus thing.

See, I think they might actually regard this part in a completely different way: they don’t like entrepreneurs, because they represent a threat to the established billionaires who support Trump. So, to reduce the entrepreneur class, they make it as hard as possible to become one, and one way to do that is to tie healthcare insurance to employment, and make it too expensive to get it on your own. That forces people, especially those with families, to keep working for The Man instead of striking out to work for themselves. Threat mitigated.