Never been one to let the carrier drop

I know in general being conservative means being unable to learn.

However, my hope is that as Donald Trump causes the next Great Depression, we will ALL learn that

1) Money in general is a bad idea
2) Conservative thoughts in general are a bad idea
3) the GOP’s “trickle down economics” don’t work
4) We should never again allow this particular type of non-fact-driven stupidity to drive our political decision making

No more religion
No more billionaires getting to be billionaires even though by becoming billionaires they have already proven they are morons.

(Look.. you’re reducing the amount of real tangible wealth EVERYONE INCLUDING YOU can have by deciding to use a trading token as a score counter)

So, most recently he has said ““Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have under invested in the people of Greenland, and you have under invested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. That has to change, and because it hasn’t changed, this is why President Trump’s policy in Greenland is what it is,””

But.. by any standard, being annexed by the USA would be a step *down*. They’d suddenly have

1) A healthcare system that is among the worst in the world AND robs the users blind
2) Very little social safety net

Trump, how about stopping being the worst human being in the world.. if indeed you aren’t actually Satan himself.. and try to improve the situation of Americans, who are in MUCH worse shape than Greenland. Among other things, your stupidity and incompetence is leading us into a great depression and you’ve also taken away our ability to walk without fear in our country. We never know when your brown shirt ICE thugs will smash our windows, beat us up, and demand our papers.

No one would want to live under your rule except your braindead, brainwashed GOP syncophants.

I just realized that ‘counterintelligence’ in the case of i.e. cointelpro is another word for lying.

Trump, of course, is the king of lying.. it’s probably the biggest part of how he’s destroying America.. I just realized how lying has been a GOP mainstay since the 50s..

So, the US government has declared that if you don’t have a job, you deserve to die.

There’s no other way to put it. That’s what republicans believe. You exist to work. If you don’t work, please go away as quickly as possible. Nothing matters more than GDP and the billionares having another billion.

This is extra stupid because the billionares aren’t *using* the money they have. It’s just a score counter to them. So, people should *die* so they can have a fatter score.

It’s really disturbing that we can’t see through how evil and wrong this is and take other, more appropriate action.

You’re being blinded by the news, by the mesage you’re being sold. In fact you are richer than a midevil king. You have access to *insane* amounts of resources. For a pittance a month you can have access to most of the music catalog of humanity. For *free*, you can check out more fiction and nonfiction from the library than *existed* in 1800. The Wikipedia and other similar resources offer almost unlimited access to collective knowledge. Youtube offers more video that you can imagine, and the ability to broadcast yourself. You can send a packet to anywhere on earth, almost, in a few milliseconds. You have access to a huge variety of food, both prepared and raw ingredients and even seeds.

Are you as rich as you could be if we had a perfectly designed resource allcoation system? No. But NONE of the politicans are talking about redesigning our resource allocation system. They talk about the three major families of systems that exist as if those are all there is, and they talk about capitalism as if it is the best by far and to be adhered to religiously. But we have not even begun to grok what a truly advanced resource allocation system might look like. Money is *pathetically* bad.. it repeatedly encourages us to destroy real value to make paper dollars – it throws away enormous amounts of metadata with every transaction. We can do so much better if we try.

Also, you are alive in one of the most exciting times to be alive in. We might for the first time see something smarter than a human on earth. We might also see fusion tapped for energy – and once you have energy aplenty, it’s a very low bar to talk about feeding and housing everyone. There is the real possibility of a much better world.. or a much worse one. The people selling you hate, the people encouraging you to feed the wrong wolf, the people selling the idea that being empathic is “the woke mind virus” and needs destroyed.. the people who are upset by transgenedered people have not even begun to use their imaginations. It’s likely that in the near future, if we can develop neurological software or man-computer interfaces, we can not only change your experiential gender at will, we can let you wear the body of a cat, dog, or dolphin in terms of your conscious experience.

So don’t let our leaders sell you the idea that you are downtrodden. Are there problems? You bet there are, but Donald Trump isn’t even talking about them because he has no idea how to solve the real problems in front of us. What he’s done is make up a bunch of problems, and also encourage a bunch of destructive behaviors that will make us all far less wealthy.

According to https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/kevin-hassett-stock-market-crash-not-part-of-trumps-strategy.html, Trump claims he is *not* trying to destroy the stock market. Now the one thing we know about trump is he *always lies*. So apparently.. he is.

I was present at the 50501 protests in Seattle. No one paid me to be there. I doubt if, aside from the musicians, there was *anyone* being paid to be there. I think it shows just how deeply addicted to Ketamine and out of touch with reality Elon is that he thinks there are paid protesters. No, Elon, the only people being paid are the people you pay to vote – in any sane world, what *you* are doing would be far more illegal than paying people to protest.

So, after repeatedly chanting “Lock her up” because Hillary ran her own email server, Trump’s team has been caught using Signal for their war planning – and including journalists in the distribution list. The easy thing to say here is “Lock him up”. Trump should start every rally from now on with “Lock me up! Lock me up!”. It would be the appropraite thing to do in any case.. we can clarly see from $TRUMP that he’s totally ignoring the emoluments clause.

It’s scary, living under a rapidly deteriorating fascist dictatorship. It’s even scarier because so many right wingers are convincing themselves that it’s not really what’s going on. Partisan loyalty apparently includes ignoring bullying, bad behavior, ignoring the rule of law, etc.

I worry about leaving the country- I have plans to visit Iceland this summer, but Robert Reich points out Trump has disappeared people on their way into the country. Part of the problem here is that apparently there are large number of people just as awful as Trump and quite willing – even eager – to do his bidding and participate in evil.

So, one thing you can safely say about DOGE, the cryptocurrency. It is headed for zero. It has a *unlimited supply*, with a fairly high mint rate. It was originally intended as a joke.

One thing you can say about DOGE, the government agency, is it is also a terrible idea. Musk is the poster child for Dunning-Kruger – we’re talking about the guy who thought you could have a 600 mile long evacuated above ground tunnel, among other things. He also doesn’t understand that the more people you make homeless and hungry, the less wealth we as a species have. DOGE is also likely to destroy many useful functions that the government performs.. protecting our bank accounts, protecting us against bad loans, protecting us from e coli, protecting us from predatory corporations who otherwise would destroy all the land and poison all the water to make a few bucks.

Musk himself has says there will be some hardship. I vote all Musk’s money be taken away and he be forced to live with the hardships he is causing.

I realize it’s going to take me some work to get my email all off of Google, not to mention all my drive documents and all the other things I’ve come to trust them for.

However, their choice to change the Gulf Of Mexico to the Gulf OF America indicates their willingness to kowtow to our current, obviously evil administration. The message is clear. They’ll probably give out information about you happily. They cannot be trusted.