I always try and take advantage of double sided printing when it is available. And my partner and I both drive reasonable vehicles and not oversized gas guzzlers.

As far as addressing the boomer problem, I've been just waiting for them to age out as the ones I know don't respond well to logical or rational arguments. The boomers I know that are supporting Trump lack critical thinking skills and struggle with abstract thinking. This has made them easy prey for conservative media that for one seeks to short circuit any higher order thinking by triggering fear responses in their viewers.

If I had three wishes, I'd use one to try and fix this problem by massively expanding our education system. We are saddled with an antiquated system designed for a time when factory workers were needed and scheduling had to be done around farm labor availability. So I live in a progressive city and our state is finally doing free school meals. How insane that in 2024 there's a need for free meals in a rather rich country and also a good chunk of our population are opposed to giving out free food.

I guess that is one way to present a nice picture for the people at the top. Here's the way I see it. This neo-liberal experiment has been a massive disaster. We've allowed the elites to dismantle so much of our social safety net, and all for what... cheap smart phones with facebook? The very same phones that help power the culture war. A war so devastating it has captured and rotted the brains of large segments of our population.

Meanwhile, we the general citizens have been getting fleeced in one of the greatest transfers of wealth from the public to the private. And what are these elites doing with all their new wealth? Buying up every available asset that can produce a dollar and writing the rules to benefit those with excessive wealth.

I'll leave with an example from the housing market, because it has been so popular lately and because it is a perfect example of this wealth transfer. This is broad and general. People and institutions over extended themselves and got drunk on paper asset inflation during the housing bubble. The gov't bailed out the big institutions and stuck the common people with the bill. This resulted in tighter lending for the regular home buyer and cheap available funds for institutions such as hedge funds. So tons of available housing stock sitting on bank's balance sheets were easy pickings for funds.

If I were in charge of any of their campaigning I'd also hammer reproductive rights, weed, and healthcare. Instead it looks like the Dems are going to keep getting cornered on the economy and Israel.

This reminded me of the hit 90s movie Super Mario Bros with John Leguizamo when the lead characters got the goomba guys dancing in the elevator.

Amazing a right winger taking advantage of the social safety net they spend all their time trying to destroy.

Absolutely. It is also never a bad idea to have at least 6 months in expenses saved up in cash for emergencies. And another 10 thousand to keep an attorney on retainer.

That's why you get AFLAC for the other stuff.

So your plan is to hand power to the minority of people? And you think we should agree to this minoritarianism, because the rural / conservative view holders would get resentful?

Why don't we just hand the country back to the indigenous people and let them, an even bigger minority than the rurals, run shit for a while?

Anyway "rural / conservative view"s are already represented in their communities, towns, cities, and states. By their local, city, and state governments.

And by your "logic" shouldn't all those conservative counties that vote red be forced to give greater weight to their liberal residents, yah know so their liberal voices aren't drowned out and they suddenly become resentful or something.

This seems like a wild misuse of government services. Aren't the police in the law enforcement game and not the drug abuse game? Why aren't the city bus drivers also teaching these programs and getting to drive around sweet ass cybertrucks?

Well Jesus is part of the Christian pantheon and those guys are just practicing Judaism with blood magic.

I'm just concerned that if we don't give them the money they'll make windows 11 worse.

Is it too late to return some of these spots to France?

What tiny bit of democracy that we are allowed is totes at stake. Trump's administration is talking about regressing us back centuries in this country. Like corporate towns and child labor back. And all because some brain rotted morons are mad eggs got more expensive. Well it just makes me sad, cause they have no idea how bad shit can get for the common citizen.

The one time we all could've used conservatives' hatred of minorities and they just let us down.

You sure you aren't driving poorly given that it is always someone mad right near you?

If it was ground up plastic it would probably just get carried off by the wind.

The state of things is the US dollar is still king. We export our inflation because the US dollar is the world reserve currency. Yes there are other states that would be interested in de-dollarizing, but what's the alternative? Flying planes of gold around the world like Russia?

This unlikely to change in the near future, because there are few other currencies large enough to fill the role and there are exactly zero other countries with anywhere near the military power to maintain reserve currency status.

We produce more light sweet crude from our oil fields while our refineries are set up to handle more heavy stuff from place like Mexico and Canada. Anyway I believe the bigger issue is refining not raw oil production? Why don't you mention that? Or do you just care about how much black stuff we pull out of the ground?

I think they are just authoritarians. They just want people to fall in line, follow orders, and shut up. Logical inconsistencies in their arguments or policies? Well fuck you logic is for nerds.

Don't want to play ball well too bad you're probably a witch anyway. Don't think the Earth is the center of everything? Do not pass go and straight to jail!

It is kind of impressive how wildly unsophisticated the Trump clan is with their scams. I guess if it works on their rube supporters. What I mean is like why bother investing in a real bearded lady when you can just show them a poorly drawn picture of one and charge the same admission.