JoeWeber

It’s also where policy starts. Are you thinking a small apartment, a room off a common area, or a dorm bed? What is basic food? Three meals prepared in a cafeteria or food vouchers. I’m not picking at you. I truly want to know what is being considered when I hear about a basic income being a solution.

I need to better understand what level of living this "Basic Income" provides before I can answer.

Absolutely not, especially the .1T to upgrade his new flying whorehouse to Presidential standards.

And people pass sand bags to stop the rising waters, too, but I don't think it's comparable to what will motivate someone to work when pay is a given. Now might they help out organizing queues if they weren't obligated to stay for their daily pay? I don't doubt that at all.

Reported that Trump posted on Truth Social: "What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD," Trump wrote. "He’s playing with fire!" A plain admission that he's been helping our greatest enemy all along.

I'm going to need a bit of reprogramming before I'll be willing to believe that people who are given all they need to survive will work out of the goodness of their hearts or to benefit the greater good.

And who can even guess how many under the table spiffs Trump will get for himself or his princeling buddies.

One possibility is finding away to negate any tax advantage, if there is a visible deduction on their US returns. Maybe simply have a tax schedule that heavily estimates what the cost would be in the US and add the difference to their returns as gross income to be taxed. I think using our own tax system to incentivize companies selling into the US market might be better than clumsy tariffs.

Poor tongue in cheek, I guess.

First, so there is never any confusion, please imagine that I am starting every sentence with Trump is an asshole. Now we all, except the Orange Skidmark, know that on shoring giganzo factories to be staffed by old DZO's turning tiny screws is not happening anytime soon. Labor costs and rules, supply chains, and yada yada make excellent excuses for why it simply cannot be done all too easy. But you have to wonder if it is absolutely necessary for companies like Apple and Best Buy to off shore every possible job to survive. Today I made an appointment with Best Buy to replace the battery in my iPhone. The agent was in South Africa. 15 Minutes later when I called to cancel I was routed to an agent in the Philippines. Apparently operating a call center in the US isn't possible or is inordinately expensive, or won't justify company executives writing off international travel or something; it's better to pay the long distance phone charges I guess. Currently Best Buy operates internationally only in Canada where they have a solid presence but nowhere else internationally since 2010-2012 more or less. I don't know if in addition to the labor cost savings they are also able to tax expense that sort of thing but I do know that on first blush it seems a bit smarmy.

Apparently, Senator Ron Johnson is now saying the BBB is a no go until Trump gets serious about reducing the deficit and that there are enough votes to kill the bill. In the same article Rand Paul was reported to have said: "Somebody has to stand up and yell, the emperor has no clothes, and everybody's falling in lockstep on this, passed the big, beautiful bill, don't question anything." From memory, I think section 60094 of the ridiculous bill, Trump was given a $300,000,000 carve out from the FEMA budget for protection for each and every one of his properties. Can anyone consider that not serious?

I thought that but then thought that his protective bubble of sycophantic bullshit peddlers, who all know the penalty for telling Trump what he doesn't want to hear, would likely keep the negative polls separate from his daily feed. Now afterwards........

In his mind we're being invaded from the south by gangs and drug runners, by anti-american college students, by the deep state, by Blacks at home and who knows who else. With his level of paranoia, executive powers, and his firm belief that he and he alone can save the nation it's easy to imagine him deciding there is no other choice.

Okay, I have important news regarding bring manufacturing to the US. I have just now disassembled my MacAir to replace the screen. I can assure everyone that these new US based Apple factories will not be staffed with old DZO's unless they start using much larger screws.

And more sadness. Ahh..., poor babies. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/22/metro/trump-deportations-sow-fear-among-vermont-migrants-farmers/ Excerpt: SHELDON, Vt. — Dustin Machia was excited to vote for Donald Trump for president last year, in part because he pledged to crack down on illegal immigration. “We had a border problem,” Machia said. “We don’t want bad people in here. We don’t need the drugs and the gangbangers.” But following high-profile deportations of migrant farmworkers in northern Vermont, Machia, a fifth-generation dairy farmer, said he feels misled. “All the dairy farmers who voted for Trump were under the impression they weren’t going to come on farms and take our guys,” said Machia, 37. “It’s happening more than we’d like. It’s scaring the farming community and we’re like, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen.’”

That's such a sad story. Maybe we could help them out and set-up a go fund me.

Some deals are more complicated than others.

richravizza?

You reckon those yo's who dumped Kim Jong Un's new destroyer on it's side will get 86'd?

I'd say there are a lot of impenetrable simpletons. No one with a scintilla of intellectual honesty or ability would buy into that crap.

Did you catch his spokes cobra lashing out at the black female reporter for having the temerity to point out Trumps lies about the crosses lining the road? We are an embarrassment and I don't see it getting better.

So? Austin is as Blue as San Francisco, they brought it on themselves.

If you are simply plain sick and tired of our clumsy system of checks and balances this is great news! With all of our extra time we can start work on our "All Areas of Endeavors Meritocracy" handbook so no more scrawny yo's like me are NFL centers to the detriment of everyone everywhere in all countries past, present, and future. I'll tell you what, you fools can plan for the future or moan or whatever makes you happy but I'm locating abandoned Castles and buying up the surrounding farm land.

I don't see the problem. Why waste a perfectly good chemical engineer in a management position?

I take it you meant to say divisiveness. Given that we are naturally biased, tribal, and generally keen to associate of a kind, in a pluralistic society, short of everyone wearing burkas and speaking through voice scramblers how do we make sure the black guy with a P.E. license doesn't lose out to known idiot billy bob white guy?