I keep hearing this, yet his constituents keep electing him. So maybe they do like him, but they lie about that because they're ashamed of that fact.

Citizens knowing more about the bills that reps vote on than the reps that vote on those bills defeats the purpose of those reps in the first place. They were supposed to know this shit for us. He's inexcusably unqualified if his constituents are educating him about the bill he voted for.

They're so bad at it that they wind up liking media that is directly mocking them. They legit say things like "I liked Stephen Colbert better before he went woke. The Colbert Report was good back in the day." They completely missed that Larry the Cable Guy is a character. They like Fight Club and The Wolf of Wall Street for exactly the wrong reasons.

You have to be an extremely clueless dumbass to miss the very clear message behind RATM music, and yet they somehow still manage. They must have been sniffing glue while the teacher was going over analysis and annotations.

And they're gonna pivot from "no it isn't" to "and what's wrong with that" within a few weeks.

Great idea if your goal is brain drain and total collapse.

1. Drastically reduce immigration.
2. Skyrocket the cost of imported goods, even things we can't produce here (tropical fruit) and things we can't quickly scale up manufacturing for.
3. Attack education centers which results in the people who are here not getting the education needed to be valuable, skilled labor (doctors, engineers, programmers, etc).
4. ???
5. America is grate aggin.

You mean they'll shoot the ICE agents armed gangsters first and ask questions later, right?

Right?

Well, he thinks that Mattel is a country and that Abrego Garcia literally has "MS13" tattooed onto his knuckles, so yeah, probably.

When he dies, I hope there's a full autopsy because I really wanna know wtf is going on with his brain. Frontal cortex must have been chewed up and spit out or something.

False. Pigs get qualified immunity.

She just heard her mermaid singing this and thought she'd help out:

I wanna be where the people are
I wanna see, wanna see 'em dancin'
Walking around on those, what do you call 'em?
Oh, feet

That depends. For pizza and Asian cuisine, Sriracha. Special shout-out to Underwood Ranch specifically, because that shit is top tier. For everything else, chipotle Tabasco. When that goes on sale, I buy a few bottles because I know I'll go through it lol.

If you're decent at math and physics and are even remotely handy, you can probably get into a data center or power plant. Both industries are growing like crazy while boomers and older Gen x are retiring.

It took a long while as a contractor, but I eventually got a job as an operator in a power plant. The rotating shift work can be rough, and some days are really demanding, but it's overall not too bad usually and it pays well. Outside operators here start at like $40/hour. My water treatment specialty has gotten me a promotion and raises so now I'm at like $53.50/hour. If I can continue training and pass the test and board for it, I could make over $60/hour as a control room operator. With built-in OT and scheduled maintenance outages demanding even more OT, it's impossible to not break $100k/year here. With bonus, I might break $150k this year.

Brush up on chiller loops, chemistry 101, physics 101, NATO phonetic alphabet, get 15k steps in a day, and change the oil in your car. If that's pretty easy for you, there's a career waiting for you lol.

But at least he isn't using autopen! /s

That dumb motherfucker is the autopen.

You're right, I guess it's the entire story itself, and not just the source, that is trash. Great point.

Yep. "Now that you don't pay taxes, your boss can pay you less and you'll still have higher net pay."

It's all for the oligarchs. They don't give a shit about the people.

Mask off moment. Their purpose is to protect capital. The only crimes that cops prevent are through deterrence because they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

Not OP, but probably price gouging? Especially regarding things where you aren't afforded the reasonable opportunity to make an informed decision (healthcare, baby formula plus necessary clean water). Also maybe regional monopolies (internet service) or pretty much anything involving an event or venue (ticket pricing or cost of a slice of pizza or a can of beer at a festival).

In all of these examples, you likely don't have a heads-up or the chance to choose something else. Admittedly, most of the examples off the top of my head were unnecessary luxury spending, but how in the blue fuck is it okay that any of them are literally a situation of "pay me whatever price I decide or else a person will die"?

Pretty fucked up if you ask me.

Okay, but now do housing and groceries and you'll see why people don't have extra money laying around for another Nintendo and its Mario kart.

Economics is significantly more complicated than a bar graph of inflation-adjusted video game price tags lol. Hell, even just value of each game in their respective release time period is more complicated than that. I doubt there's anything unique to this new game (other racing games have done the open world thing several times starting like 15 years ago), but the kart racer genre itself was new back in the 90s.

Because people continue to accept that price by agreeing to pay it. The price of a product is dictated by what people are willing to pay for it. If the price is so low that the seller isn't happy with it, they don't sell it and stop making it.

In other words, if you think Nintendo prices are bullshit price gouging, then vote with your wallet. With enough votes, the prices come down or the company goes under. You don't have that luxury of choice when it comes to groceries or shelter, but you absolutely do when it comes to luxury entertainment expenses. Make them earn your money.

1. They're loud, but not necessarily many.
2. They are passionate, and therefore will turn out to vote.
3. American voter turnout is generally pretty low. The best year in over 100 years was 2020 with still only about 2/3 of eligible voters showing up to vote.

These things combined make it seem impossible for Democrats or progressive independents to win almost anywhere. All it takes is candidates impressive enough to break through to the people who aren't showing up to vote. Milquetoast weiners aren't exciting enough for this, and neither is the strategy of trying to court the right.