Idiocracy was the game plan all along.

It’s worse than that. Everyone has been brought up to be a narcissistic consumer and they approach public policy the same way.

You'd rather have uneducated strippers?

That's not the issue at all. It's the curriculum, the no child left behind act implementation, and the overall indoctrination and corruption of a system of government that rewards the rich.

Most schools get plenty of money and just blow it on things they don't need. Buildings way too fancy and overpriced educational subscriptions to crap, instead of spending it on more teachers and teacher salary. The money is plenty there. None of the rich fucks get a cut from cheaper buildings and teacher payrolls.

well trump like strippers.

You say that like some of the most educated people in the country don't consistently vote Republican.

This idea that earning a MBA or a JD or an MD makes your politics good is completely wrong. The idea that failing to earn a HS Diploma makes you unqualified to vote is equally dogshit.

Politics is a consequence of your social affinity and your material conditions. You don't just take a class and become a liberal Democrat if your grade is high enough.

For those of us watching this ramp up from the 90s into the 2000s and the Tea Party and the 2010s.... it… really wasn't a shock.

Just for the record: in the comments section of a post about a news article in a news community, you described a story about how you read what the lead says when you took a quick glance at the article.
We’re talking about an “article” that is shown as a “2 minute read”, and takes about 30 seconds to read.
Fun fact: the demographic in which Trump gained the most before the 2024 election was “people who don’t read news daily”.

What the fuck does that even mean...

He is having people executed in the street, and they are.

This is what he means. In fact, I think he is specifically referring to Canada. The first time Trump brought in tariffs, Carney initiated a little bond market run, causing him to back down. It was the first "CO" in TACO. Trump has been bristling since then.

I hate how the headline tries to trivialize the fact that America is threatening to attack its former allies on the basis of trade irritations. This guy is fucking mental.

Damn I didn't consider that but it makes some sense. What a fucking monster.

But wouldn't that essentially make US bonds untradable, thus worthless?

and here I was hoping he would sell some nice military surplus gear to buy them back

A lot of shit seems to have happened after Trump watched a movie over the weekend. What a stupid state of affairs we are in.

Let's hope you have another one period

don't worry, the next guy will make Trump look like Dubya

The poor are overworked and overwhelmed, extremely underserved or disserved, and floundering about as best they can for solutions.

They need to take a cue from what is supposedly taught in scuba lessons: if you forget which way is up, stop swimming and watch the bubbles.

Plesse stop with this nonsense narrative. The super-rich and corporations want that, regardless of who is in office, and they get that. They are ecstatic that it's hastening under the current mouthpiece, everyone spouting this nonsense are just mad it's so mask-off, and kidding themselves it wasn't still happening under the fake opposition.

Oh good point!