The Answer

I guess we've settled on what to do with the "non-winners" of society. They will claim mental illness to cope and cheer on socialism to feel a sense of accomplishment.

Racist

If you criticized Nvidia and Jensen for selling chips to China last year, you'd be considered racist. 

Thieves

The folks who took on massive student loan debt and then elected Joe Biden to forgive it, have come up with their next scheme: the 3% mortgage. Now, they can buy their first home with 3% down. Will they be able to pay for this mortgage? Of course not! No matter! They can elect someone else down the line, named Nithya or Mandami to forgive their mortgage debt and blame the lender.

The plan will work until it doesn't.

American Politics as Cosplay

All true. 

Stephen A and Skip

Not sure what happened between these two, but Skip's the only one who ever matched well with Stephen A's energy. 

In the clip I just watched, he looked like a neutered dog. Sad.

75% Blue

Every Democrat in CA wins with 75% of the vote. Legit question: do our votes matter at all? The answer is no. The only thing that matters is getting the Democratic machine to support you. So, in essence, we are governed by a party, not elections. This is one reason why our state is so poorly run.   

Counterfactual Possibility

What if attacking Iran was, in essence, the right thing to do? That they were close to making a nuke, and our subsequent actions set them back several years and reestablished deterrence. My question: how would we know?

Down-Ballot

The unpopular Iran war now means Socialists win down-ballot races like our city council. At least two years of dumb rent control and a lot of symbolic and pointless discussion about Israel coming to our small town. Great job, American Democracy.

Pathetic

Trump is truly the most pathetic fascist ever if he can't even rig one damn election. 

Election

Fascist in the White House, Communists taking over the rest of the country. Stock market up 2%. Make it make sense.

Weird

I know they say they're anti-Israel and not anti-semitic, so why are they honoring a Nazi event?

Are they dumb or what?

Quote

There came boom and bust, bankruptcy, depression. 

Great public thieves came along and picked the pockets of everyone who had a pocket.

And even childhood was no good any more -- not the way it was.

Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost -- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies any more, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

These quotes, you'll note, are from East of Eden p. 129-130 and he is of course referring to the end of the 1800s and turn into 1900.