Less oil in the market means less of it is available to burn and convert into CO2.

Not suspicious, serendipitous!

Trying to get as many war crimes committed as possible ahead of the midterms?

Nah, I put that argument in the same camp as “if you tax them, they will move” in New York; pure bluster and ultimately an empty threat of Mutually Assured Destruction.

If a billionaire takes out a loan against their stock portfolio (as they so often do); force that to be treated as a Capital Gains taxable event. L

The US military is also arguably not at it’s prime now either - but I’d say Iran is much better equipped now than it was a decade ago (when Trump nixed Obama’s nuclear agreement).

0.1% still equates to 8.1m people; instead, if we we’re to focus focus on the Top 1%, of the Top 1% of the Top 1% - that is only ~8,100 people.

Holding their feet to the fire, and getting them to co tribute their fair share - despite their dragon’s hoard of wealth - would quickly bring those below them with less wealth in line.

e.g. Make an example out of Elon Musk, and the Ellison’s would quickly fall in line.

It is, indeed.

FFS, even saying a “dozen dozens“ would be underselling the actual death toll of that particular war crime.

The world honestly would be a (slightly) better place if that stroke was just a smidge more fatal…

Came to reply this exact same thing; this looks some alternative dimension shit where Jimmy chose abusing children instead of tax evasion as his crime of choice…

Gropey Old Pedophiles; its right there in the name.

Again not the original person you asked, but I found Bazzite a tad too restrictive - I couldn’t for the life of me get PIA’s VPN client installed (for all of those Linux ISOs on my home server).

Ended up switching to CachyOS, which is also very gaming-focused (and Arch-based, if that matters at all!). It’s a bit more open, allowing you to fiddle (or not) with everything a bit more than Bazzite.

As an aside, my only hang-up is that it sometimes hangs while trying to boot up the GUI (not sure why, hasn’t bothered me too much), and it can’t wake from Sleep - but I’m pretty sure that’s just something misconfigured in the BIOS.

Based on the most recent special-election results, we should* see the Dems leave the 2026 mid-terms with 250+ house seats and a slight majority (50-55 range) in the senate.

Enough to impeach the orange turd - but not enough to convict, without some of the more moderate reps growing a spine.

* rough estimates based on a ~25 point swing in urban and suburban districts, and a ~15 point swing in rural seats towards the Dems from the 2024 result.

Again, this is also based on the idea that Trump won’t somehow rat-fuck the US to the point of declaring martial law due to a perceived insurrectionist uprising, and trying to cancel the mid-terms altogether.

Dr. Tran

…will fuck you up!

I won’t feel relieved until we get confirmation what the substance was.

There have been too many mentions of a potentially deadly mercury compound, to be used against political enemies floating around in social media comments for my killing.

I would, as an under-educated Australian, expect a lot of these migrants being from the Middle East - due in no small part to all of the US-led fuckery over the past 25 years (in particular).

So not colonialism, but something altogether worse?

Honestly - in the event that this nature fails, California should just unleash a barrage of similar legislation like this, year after year. Eventually it would end up cheaper to just pay the taxes than continually fight against it.

They do round up, so in the very unlikely event of this ever passing - it would be given one congressman and two senators. All three would be Dems, so this will never happen.

It’s just pure rage bait, intended to distract away from the Epstein Files, Venezuela, and Renee Goode.

The American Experiment is well and truly coming to an end, and I think we can mostly agree that it is ending an abject failure.

The big question is: what comes next? Will it be the age of the American Empire, or the start of America’s Century of Humiliation?

Mind you, neither answer is a particularly good one - seeing as how the rest of the world has basically built itself up based off the foundation of a unipolar world.

We are cursed to live in interesting times.

…meanwhile Steven Miller is hiding in the nearby storm drains with clown make-up on like:

Reduce the US population by almost 2/3rds?

Press X to Doubt.

Criminally under-funding, and undermining the public schooling system for at least two decades (Bush Jr.), or longer if you consider Reagan’s ‘81 Omnibus as the start of the current downward spiral.

It’s not hard to figure out why Republicans are so anti-education; you have to be an idiot to think that their policies would be good for the working class.