The article says you can set boundaries, withdraw from painful conversations, and protect your peace. If you care about them, the tethers, even thin and fragile strands of connection, can be vital in their finding their way out of the cult. This year especially, a whole lot of people are figuring out that they helped put a pedofile baby murderer into the White House.

Most won’t believe it, but some will reconnect with cut off friends and family.

You can’t change minds over Christmas. You plant seeds of doubt, and then the Epstein files get released and the doubt sprouts. You never know what breaks the camels. Back.

Laws that are unenforced are not laws, they are traditions.

Laws that are enforced are laws, even if they aren’t written down. Trump got push back in his first term, from all three branches of government. Now? If everyone just agrees he can speak laws into existence, then he can.

Yawn “could” is doing so much heavy lifting it’s probably doing steroids. This isn’t even news. I’ll believe in consequences when we fucking see some.

Get back to me when they are saying “will”

This is a lie. FDR tried to pack the court and Congress didn’t go with it.

AI. Is huge capital investments. Just tax the wealth. Any fortune over 10 million has to pay 4% of the gross total per year.

No country has increased birth rates sustainably without major coersion. China is still using soft coercion and offering incentives.

That’s definitely where my mind goes.

I thought it was native to wealthy families from Jersey/Virginia/Maryland. People that grew up in Martha’s vineyard.

“Heads are usually rolling at this point of ruling class oppression.”

Looks around the world and back in history I beg to differ. Heads rolling is far and away the outlier. People can tolerate way worse than the average American lifestyle.

Actionable by who? Against who? Summers? Clinton? Congress decides when to impeach and for what reason. That’s the only mechanism of enforcement against the president. They don’t need to wait for the files to be released they could impeachment today for any reason.

Nothing in the files will be acted upon, in all likelihood. The action the files prompted was Epstein and Maxwell’s prosecutions. This is all about public image.

They are also scum for what they are doing.

If my wife and I both made 70k I think we could comfortably raise 2 kids.

As is? We would need some serious help.

No jobs will mean no people eventually. That will solve poverty.

I have no insider knowledge, that’s just my bullshit take.

Yeah I didn’t know most of that. I’m not a veteran so I can’t be a. Member even though I bank with them. Or couldn’t last I checked. I probably can now because my MiL is a vet.

Health insurance companies are lobbying the shit out of both parties. Car insurance companies would love universal healthcare. It would drop their outlays which would increase their profits.

One car insurance company where I live operates kinda like this. USAA.

Every subscriber is a member. Every year, after they pay operating costs, they take the money left over from premiums and put it into accounts distributed across all the members. When you reach a certain age you can withdraw the money accumulated in your account.

Then vote in the fucking primary. I. The general you sit up and back the better candidate no matter how shit.

Yep, Biden, frail as he was, would have been better than trump, Hillary would have been better than trump, Biden was better than trump in 2020, Kamala would have been better than trump. If American refused to elect a Republican there would be room for a debate between a leftist and a liberal.