“Or unless they’re poor…

Or brown….

Or an immigrant….

Or a woman….

Or old….

You know what, let’s make this easier. Medicaid for you if you’re an able-bodied, working, white dude (or Russian).”

Last I checked, CA was fourth, BUT we do participate in our federal govt and both give and receive from that arrangement, so hard to say that if CA was completely independent of that what the numbers would actually show.

“I make a product that will never be used. FML.”

YOU CAN DO IT, BRUCEY!

How did you get permission from the elders to take a picture of it?

That’s the worst take ever.

“2 generations from now, it’s remotely possible that through reducing wokeness, kicking out brown people, shifting money from the poor and middle class up to the wealthy, and alienating all of our nation’s allies, that murica will be the best it’s ever been. Too bad all it costs us is literally our entire planet’s environment, basic human rights, and our very souls.”

Don’t think I’d be going out for a beer with your FIL

Anything would be tiresome if you had to eat it every day, but lentils can be pretty delicious. Unlimited options if you like Indian food too.

I think it’s this:

“I just hired the best person to do something”

Scenario A: this person did a bigly good job at it. Something was my idea and I get all the credit.

Scenario B: this person did a massively horrible job at the something. Something failed because of this person and I’m awesome so I’m asking them to leave.

In both cases, the something usually turns out to be a massively stupid idea to begin with, but Trump gets to claim a win either way. This is how one fails upwardly their entire life.

That was a beautiful, poetic sentence.

Correct - not direct drive, but seems like that’s not really a necessary goal for most of us. If you really need to be able to just drive non stop all day while the sun is out, I don’t think that’s been solved yet (would still have to stop for gas even).

Just gonna leave this here:

https://aptera.us/

Sorry - totally understand and didn’t mean to be dismissive of your situation.

Don’t lose hope because of the rantings of a lunatic. There are lots of us here that support you for who you are (provided you’re not an asshole or bigot) and don’t forget to be who you’re supposed to be. I’ve had some very unpleasant interactions with people that I had to realize just weren’t worth me thinking about. No need to let those assholes live rent free in your head.

How many times has he bragged about his attendance numbers? I believe by my count that would be zero.

Who says he actually goes to a real doctor? Probably sees some crystal therapy guru or something like that.

Brenter? Brundo? Brtl-Z? I know there’s a gem of a name for this out there somewhere…

Have seen a few of these and they are great (Michael Snyder for California and the PNW), but unfortunately they all get their data from the same place: NWS. They are the ones launching the balloons, collecting that data daily, and running weather models for everyone else to then interpret. Slashing the NWS is simply one of the most idiotic things to happen yet during this whole circus. Sorry - rant over (I fly paragliders so weather forecasts are important to my own self interests).

Speak for yourself, but there are a whole lot of us here that don’t want anything he’s selling. Not all of us have been “groomed to accept everything from their perceived leader.” Also a lot of us that are genuinely embarrassed about his actions and their impacts on the rest of the world and want it to stop nowish.

My personal guess (just a guess, since none of this makes any logical sense) is that he’s going to use the very high tariffs on those islands to help him with some creative accounting in showing overall wins when all of this is over - increasing the pittance that these islands are likely paying us already, let’s call it turning $100 into $150 - no meaningful benefit to the US, but looks amazing by the percentages.

“See, I tariff’d the whole world for a 5.5 gajillion percent increase in US revenue! I’m a big winner!”