What incentive does a rich billionaire have for starting a business? Money? They have billions.

The only business they start are for themselves / the benefit of other businesses they own. Their wealth accumulates, and it is spent only to perpetuate its growth. It does not find its way into new businesses. It does not create new sector growth.

However, the people that want billions and don’t have it have a hell of an incentive to start a business and run it well.

So idiots failing to take responsibility and arguing about it is now news? Can’t wait for the coming articles about the “debate” over who caused the next great American depression.

Agreed. This strategy works best in a two party system. Much easier to divide and conquer only 2 choices. Not so much with ranked choice voting and multiple parties. The US was a time bomb of corruption wating to be purchased from either political party. Putin just paid the most for GOP access and got it.

My dude, we are being sacked repeatedly by Trump right the fuck now. Usually to the benefit of foreign governments or his stateless billionaire friends.

2 Billy to kill Kashogi. Multiple Trump businesses getting government contracts. USAID and soft power sold for parts. A fucking gilded 747 from Jordan. A supreme court that takes “gifts”. Ukraine weapons going to Russia and Israel instead. And Medicaid just got dismantled for billionaire tax breaks.

Higher Education is unaffordable. Minimum wage hasn’t increased in two decades. Housing is unaffordable. Healthcare is unaffordable. And inflation and unemployment have been growing all year.

These things were exponentially less fucked just 20 years ago. Now abortion is illegal, and spending money is more protected as free speech than protesting. I’ve watched as we keep losing our rights to stateless hostile billionaires sacking them for profit.

Canada and Mexico won’t have anything left to sack at the rate we’re converting what remains of our freedoms into profitable suffering.

As someone who ghost wrote the hottest garbage imaginable for Sony pictures, I can confirm you are 💯% correct. The secret is studios just need to hire someone that gives a shit about the IP they’re writing for. Watts gave a shit about Spiderman, and changed the story to improve his movie (after some good fan insight). Most writer hired guns do NOT give a shit about the IP they are writing for at all. cough Madam Web cough

Yes. We are heading towards a crash. We are very much already in one, and have absolutley no way out.

Trump killed all US international commerce with his TACO tariffs and is currently propping up a failing stock market by converting medicaid dollars into ICE / TECH BRO MILITARY funding. The stock market keeps doing great because our tax dollars are propping up companies like Google, Plantir, and Amazon through government grants instead of providing us a safety net. That money will run out eventually, but likely not before more CEOs are killed over it.

Literally we are living through the gilded 1920’s again but with an American Hitler.

We now have years of uncontrolled inflation well above target rates, a corrupt government, wealth inequality worse than the French revolution, and rampant unintelligent Tariffs hurting all international trade at the cost of every small business in America. These are the same factors that caused the great depression, and if you think it’s not going to happen again, you are wrong.

We are a country being lead into disaster by the least competent people imaginable.

I mean, he did the same with COVID. And despite the fact that it killed more Americans than in all the wars we’ve ever fought in combined, here he is doing it again. People are just going to keep dying, and the media will continue to normalize it.

Simple:

People with money used it to convince our government that money is the same as people, but more important. So it’s now “We the people (with the most money).”

Oh I agree completely. Just to clarify: The DNC absolutely will not get it or care. This is what I was describing as more “apparant” now.

Don’t forget Bernie.

DNC had the same exact response. With the same exact Trump.

Took the DNC ten fucking years to pull their head out of their ass long enough to complain about young men populism being the key to victory, despite literally pissing away all the young men populism voters they had with Bernie Sanders.

Thank fuck it’s now blatantly obvious with Zohran.

meteotsunamis… are much smaller.

Democrats may not be complicit, but the DNC sure as shit is.

They take money from all the same donors as the GOP and are using to it fight their own popular candidates. Which isn’t new, considering Bernie Sanders and the DNC torpedoing his organically grown young male audience so hard they voted for Trump.

The DNC told you to blame those who didn’t vote Hillary instead of admitting she was by far the least popular candidate among the young men that keep voting for Trump.

The DNC is unquestionably liable for favoring their money-interest candidates over popular ones, so the GOP just said, fuck it, run the popular TV idiot and have been winning since.

Literally, in the last decade the DNC fought in court for their right to pick their own candidates over the results of their own primary (& charter), then just fucking stopped having primaries all together.

To believe, unquestionably, that the DNC isn’t at least partially responsible for how fucked things are is admitting you do not understand the problem that’s fucking us.

While traditional tsunamis are caused by seafloor movement like earthquakes, meteotsunamis are linked to fast-moving weather conditions such as thunderstorms and are much smaller.

Thanks for the explanation. That is what I was thinking. His failure to use quotes is possibly no different than someone failing to capitalize the first letter of their uncle named jack.

Imo, this was far more likley a grammar error than an intentional alteration of the original Jefferson quote.

Like Abraham Lincoln said, those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Of course that God being Jake Paul, Ohio rizz phantom tax.

Did the removed quote use quotation marks to indicate where the quote ended and the personal thoughts of OP began?

Because there is a considerable difference in intent depending on where quotation marks are used.

Similarly, it’s the difference capitalization makes between “helping your uncle Jack off a horse” and bestiality.

No offense, but it feels like OPs comment was removed because you considered it bestiality / a call to violence, when it very likely was just a poor usage of grammar.

I made the indie game INK INSIDE, which is based on a lost cartoon pilot I pitched to Nickelodeon in 2015.

Instead, I turned it into a cartoon show action RPG staring Brian David Gilbert.

It has a completely unique combat mechanic that’s a combination of beat-em-ups and bust-a-move. It’s big on narrative, loot, and world building and even has live action segments.

We’re on sale at 50% for only $10.

Would love for you to check it out, as it seems like you might really enjoy it based on the other games in your cart!

PS - Game works great on Steam Deck! (We just don’t have the green check yet because it takes Valve forever to provide them)

I certainly hope you’re right about it actually being a “third rail” as the OBBB aims to reverse that expansion far beyond where it started. Seeing the elderly in wheelchairs protest this at the capital only to get arrested and their hands zip tied does not give me hope.

Let me start by saying: Fuck Trump.

But it would be nice to have a single policy from Democrats that is forward thinking enough to make it unalterable in the near future.

Republicans, for decades, have been dismantling every progressive policy put forth by the DNC at a rate much faster than they can create them. This has now gotten so bad that it includes undoing law settled decades ago like Roe vs Wade.

ALL of this damage could have been avoided if Democrats put ANY effort into making their policies permanant instead of easily altered in the near future.

They had the chance to codify Roe. And now it’s gone, and likely never coming back. They had the chance for the universal health option in ACA. And because of a single complaint from Lieberman, it’s now gone and never coming back.

Bidens Inflation reduction act is now no different.

I find it incredibly frustrating to hear you say “this policy would have remained in effect no matter what happened to him if Congress and a future President left it alone” when there is decades of evidence to suggest that it would not be left alone.

Democrats have had their policies easily removed for going on 20 years simply because they continually lack the foresight and humility to consider their efforts can be so easily undone by a loud idiot with access to social media.

They learned nothing from Bush W. And doubled down on it not happening with Trump.

It has been decades of blatant negligence on their part to create policies with any foresight built into them.

The GOP is about to ban AI legislation for 10 years, so it is unquestionably feasible for the DNC to do the same.

Joe Bidens legacy is much more likely to be related to this lack of foresight as it clearly effected the very election itself (no primaries) in addition to his policies.

Agreed. And if it wasn’t clear, I think Trump is an idiot. He sees everyone but himself as an enemy, including a vast majority of the country he is President over. He’s not saving the economy in our country - he’s working exclusively for himself and dismantling it for his favor.

The defense money discussed in this meeting is very likely going to Trumps family or friends (like the literal 2 Billion his son recieved from Saudi Royalty) As our economy is very much on its way to another great depression, including the corruption and needless Tariffs that caused it last time.

Everyone that works with Trump gets ass fucked, because the only thing he wants is fealty and self enrichment. There is no benefit towards our country or citizens in his actions, just himself.

At the very least, the leaders of NATO understand this, and sucked his dick over this deal just to make sure the US didn’t leave NATO as Trump has made very clear he gives no fucks about. Without the US’s military backing, NATO is at immediate threat of hostilities, certainly by Russia who wouldn’t hesitate to push past Ukraine and into Europe as Putin has made clear is his goal. The leaders of NATO are simply making a deal with the devil to avoid literal hell.

It sucks you have to deal with those consequences, but at least you have a government that isn’t banning abortion to kill more of your people through sheer ignorance.

Yep. But the point is Donald doesn’t realize his dick is getting sucked by someone trying to get a favor out of him rather than just because he’s such a swell guy.

He’s a narcissist. All he sees is compliments, not the clear manipulation behind them.

Give Trump praise, he’ll do exactly what you say. Which is why he thinks Putin is his best friend. Putin is just using Trump as a convenient idiot that’ll do anything asked as long as Trump feels he’ll be complimented by it.

All he has to say is something like:

“Oh Donny, at this time your big hands and strong will are our only hope. Won’t you please bomb Iran to protect the world and become it’s hero?”

And that’s all it takes to start WW3. And Trump would post the message thinking it’s a compliment.