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Comment Re:So here's what's actually happening (Score 1) 202

....Trump and the billionaires behind him will get the Americans and they get Greenland so that they can project Force in case they need to....

Without European bases, the US will lose its ability to project force beyond North America. I'm done arguing Greenland with Trumpists. You can't reason with a fool.

Comment Now Comes the Nation Building??? (Score 4, Insightful) 180

As a veteran of the last Regime Change/ Nation Building exercise that ended in failure, I can only think that capturing (kidnapping) Maduro was the easy part. Trump has publicly declared we're going to run Venezuela now. But removing Maduro doesn't remove his government. Marudo was just the top of the pyramid. All the other layers are still in place. So I don't know how Trump is supposed to run Venezuela, unless he proceeds with some sort of invasion. I highly doubt the rest of the Venezuelan government will simply surrender to American occupation. If anything, I think removing Maduro was a symbolic exercise for an ego-driven and insecure President, who disparately craves attention and demands respect and fear. Imho. Maduro was a marginal leader, and if anything his replacement will be far more competent and more resilient than Maduro was.

Comment It worked in the '80s (Score 3, Funny) 85

Sounds like just about every '80s action TV series. Get captured, guards leave, lock the door, turn around and have Murdock bite through the ropes until B.A. Baracus can just break free. Then free the other hostages, use tools and scrap materials that the kidnappers conveniently left behind, build some kind of armored vehicle with flame throwers, propane tanks for rockets, and use that to defeat the bad guys. Maybe if you get kidnapped for your crypto, if your hot 20-something daughter can find them, maybe you could hire the A-Team...

Comment Re:are we winning yet? (Score 5, Informative) 235

GOP is doing this because they hate people who aren't them. Full stop.

It was about tax breaks for billionaires. They needed to offset those tax breaks to make them revenue neutral. The GOP could have offset tax breaks against military spending and probably gotten some bipartisan support, but they chose to offset them against medical insurance for the poor, disabled, children, and the elderly. Then the GOP/Trump expected at least 7 Democrats in the Senate to be corrupt enough to go along with this, so they could call spending reductions on the poor bipartisan. When that didn't work, they lied, falsely claiming the Democrats want "healthcare for illegals". That is untrue, as illegal immigrants are not eligible for healthcare subsidies under the ACA. The GOP created this mess, and they put the Democrats in a no-win hostage situation.

Comment Re:Three different reasons this is bad (Score 5, Insightful) 180

It is not lost on me that during the Biden and Obama administrations the supreme court tended towards limiting Executive power, then during the trump administrations have leant towards a massive expansion of them.

Trump has been batting 1000 at the Supreme Court when it comes to executive power, or executive immunity. Either our Constitution was designed to have an elected King, and we only discovered that fact 230 years later, or our Supreme Court is supremely corrupt. I tend to believe the latter, as it seems there are only two rules at the Supreme Court: (1) There are no rules, and (2) Trump always wins.

Comment Re:How is this an EO? (Score 1) 149

Since when do financial regulations happen at the stroke of the president's pen? This is ridiculous. Is this some kind of shitcoin pump and dump attempt?

Growing up in Reagan's '80s America, I remember of being warned about central planning, and that economies are far too complex for any central committee or one person to plan. But that's exactly where we are 40 years later, with an elected dictator dictating what tariffs we pay on which goods and services, how we should invest our retirement savings, and how the Federal Reserve should conduct monetary policy.

Comment Made more than Eisenhower, Bradley, or Nimitz (Score 1) 54

According to the 1942-1946 pay chart, a general officer with over 30 years of service made an annual salary of $8000. This would include all the famous American Generals in WW2 who led major operations such as the D-Day landing. The lowest private in WW2 made $50 per month, or $600 per year, and he was often the one taking the greatest risk. This is only base pay, so they probably made slightly more on top for hazardous duty, flight pay, etc. But WW2 salaries were low across the board, because we had just exited The Great Depression, and the military was on a war-time footing.

Comment This is why we need public health insurance (Score 3, Interesting) 110

This is just yet another example of why we (USA) really do need a public, non-profit, health insurance system. Too many people cannot access proper medical treatment for life-threatening conditions, and in their desperation fall victim to quacks and other grifters and con-artists. But unfortunately our for-profit healthcare industry has brainwashed the American people into thinking that considering any alternatives to our corporate healthcare system is borderline treasonous, even though we only need to look north of the border to see a better alternative.

Comment Re:Not sure about the rest of the world (Score 1) 70

But in America that thing isn't worth $6 million dollars.....The reason for the silly prices for things that aren't really art was because of tax evasion.

So basically he can claim a 6 million loss on his taxes. It would be nice if regular working people could write off food consumed as capital losses, but our tax code favors the rich, so I already know the answer.

Comment Re:Fewer employees will help! (Score 1) 50

If there's one thing I've been thinking, it's that AMD make it too easy to use their hardware and I'm 100% sure that having fewer employees working on things like not making every card just work out of the box with the major tools will help them a great deal......

Yes, because they'll sell you subscription for extended support and make you think you're getting a great deal!!!

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