Like one that isn't expecting to have elections anymore. It's clearly expect one more round in the midterms but it's also clear that after the midterms they don't think that they need to care what any of us think.

I think the Trump voter is know they fucked up but they're in too deep. A lot of them have lost family and friends for trump. It's classic cult like behavior where the cult leader is trying to cut you off from the outside world. And it's working.

So midterms will still go maga and then Trump gets a third term in 2028. After that yeah, no more elections. We will go through the motions like Russia and North Korea do but those are really be a census used to keep track of dissidents and people fleeing the country.

But hey, how about those trans girls in sports?

When Trump was President last time he couldn't do a lot of the really bad shit because he had hired competent people out of habit and they just wouldn't let him do all the crazy shit like try to end birthright citizenship or do a fuck ton of illegal tariffs using fake emergencies or firing everybody in the government so you can replace them with cronies that will let you crown yourself King

So in order to be able to do all the crazy crap in project 2025 that is just going to wreck the economy like it did in the 1800s where the policies came from he hired yes men the worst kind.

So you have lunatics like Robert f Kennedy Jr and completely incompetent buffoons like Christi Noem.

These people are evil. But they're also staggeringly incompetent. This means that no matter how much money corporations and lobbyists have the people they are lobbying are going to be so dumb that they can't even do the things they're being bribed to do.

I don't think anyone especially Trump voters have come to terms with just how badly we fucked up letting him get a second term.

People are calling him Taco because Trump always chickens out. But they're misunderstanding something.

First, Trump is a senile old man. He isn't doing anything it's a bunch of heritage foundation goons running the show.

and second they're not chickening out they are testing the limits of what they can get away with.

And all the while they're doing that they are completely fucking incompetent because they're a bunch of psychopathic nepo babies.

In 4 years about half the people reading this will have lost their houses like 2008 on steroids. Only this time they're on to cheap apartments for you guys to move into so you're going to be living down by the river. And I guarantee you anyone reading this has already convinced themselves they aren't going to be in that half. And I'll be voting for Trump in 2028.

Not just EVs, but self driving tech. BYD taking responsibility for it, while Tesla has gone to lengths to ensure it disengages milliseconds before you die, so they can blame the driver.

BYD is installing 1000kW chargers in the UK this year. For comparison the fastest Tesla chargers are less than 1/3rd of that power, and aren't even the fastest in Europe. 1000kW is to support their 5 minute recharge times.

no but don't great minds think alike? ;-)

The only problem I see there is a darn mediatek chipset. I had nothing but trouble with my Motorola based on a Media tek chip and ended up switching to a OnePlus 13r so that I could get a modern Qualcomm chip. Mostly for the modem. Much as I hate to admit it, $500 later it did solve my connectivity problems.

The head of FEMA, Christie Noem as appointed by Donald trump, fired the contractors in charge of the call centers that take people's phone calls regarding the flood and assistance.

As a result they went from answering 99% of all calls to answering 15% of all calls.

This is on top of the roughly 12 to 15 million people we are going to allow to die in 2027 by taking away their health care.

So yeah we do not give a fuck about people. Administration is now governing like one that does not expect there to be elections.

All I'm saying is the signs are a little bit stronger than just AI chatbots.

People talk about making a 401k for everybody instead of SS, which amounts to what you are saying. I am pretty sure the market has some limit to how much capital it can absorb and still give a good return. A company's stock doesn't go up unless they find a useful way to make even more money out of it. I think there must be a saturation point where companies cannot find additional useful ways to expand their business with more money, especially if everybody else is too. There is only so much passive investment gains (free lunch) to go around - not that the size of the pie has a hard limit, but diminishing returns.

Right, i.e. in a Waymo, not a Tesla.

It shows a real lack of empathy. For one thing you could and should Google the rate of working homelessness. You should also understand that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and that definition is literally just having $1,000 in your bank account. Only about 28% of Americans have these 6 months cushion of savings that any financial advisor is going to tell you to get.

The part that I find is disturbing about your post is where you just say it's an excuse. That's a word used in English to dismiss people outrigh.

If you're not a native English speaker though I apologize. But if you aren't understand that when you use the word excuse in english, at least in American english, it's basically an insult.

Anyway as far as transportation system it's got nothing to do with appearing homeless. The problem is that we don't have public transportation. If you try to commute to work using public transit you can expect a 20 minute car drive to be a 2-hour bus ride. Now do that twice a day. And continue to work 60 to 80 hours a week because remember, Americans work more hours to the Japanese now. Look it up.

That might not be a lack of empathy on your part it could just be you don't live in America so you might not understand how bad our transportation system is. Our car companies completely dominated the transportation system and shut down any attempt to build out public transit in order to force people into cars. They also work with the airplane industry for any long-distance travel. That's why Elon Musk came up with the hyperloop, it was a scam to shut down high speed rail in California.

Finally ask for the abuse of parents you're describing that's called generational trauma. Is a difficult cycle to break. That one's kind of global so you really should regardless of the country you live in stop to think about that.

Again though these might be things you don't know if you're not American and might not make sense to you if you're not a native English speaker.

I think you have fallen into a lot of really bad thought patterns but that's not necessarily your fault, there is a lot of propaganda out there that is designed to put you into those thought patterns. You're probably pretty pissed off with me right now for pointing this out especially because I am fairly tactless what would being a nerd.

But you should try to unpack and deconstruct some of the crap you picked up over the years, especially anything from your 4 to 14 age. Google the phrase 4 to 14 if you don't understand what that means... Good luck.

The companies in question should just pass on the fees to their users. Want to use your Chase account with a third-party payment provider? That's a $15 service fee. When Chase starts bleeding customers, they'll rethink their strategy.

And now needs to be quoted for the censor troll mods.

Fair point. But whatever corrections we have done are far, far short of backing out what can be done with the resources we have. I.e. making a budget and sticking to it. (I remember when Al Gore campaigned on his SS "Lock Box"... and of course lost.)

I guess isolating these two markets with tariffs was a pretty disastrous move for US electric car-makers then. Tesla's market share in China is about 1/3 of what it was in 2021.

It's a funny name, I wonder if that's just a direct translation from Chinese, which might have a different idiomatic usage of the term, and not what it will be called in other markets.