Our intelligence agencies are going to be leaking like a sieve. The last time Trump was President the number of captured and killed intelligence assets skyrocketed. I haven't been monitoring at this time but I'm sure it's shot up again. Never mind the fact that we found out Trump was taking classified documents related to his businesses.

What pisses me off is the Democrats kept putting Republicans in charge of prosecuting Trump because they were so desperate to appear unbiased. Fuck that shit look where it got us. Tons of dead soldiers and we are probably going to put boots on the ground and do a draft soon. Because Iran isn't Iraq. We do not have the troops to occupy Iran. That's based on the pentagon's own math and that math is well tested and well understood.

Not that it matters to any of the old farts around here. None of us are going to get drafted and we know it.

That's a violation of international law. And yeah we are the baddies. If we weren't the Republican party poll numbers would be so low that they would remove Trump from office immediately just like they did with Richard Nixon.

Robots are coming no matter what. There's no accelerating it anymore than it can be. The ruling class, the Epstein class is tired of being dependent on employees and they don't give a rats buttered behind what it costs. The only thing stopping them from automating everything is they haven't quite worked out how to do it yet. Cost is not a factor anymore. They don't want you. They don't want you as a consumer and they especially don't want you as an employee.

The Old Kings had a Divine right. The Epstein class wants that back.

Ai and robots are coming no matter what because the ruling class doesn't like being dependent on us filthy filthy consumers and employees.

They will spend any amount of money to eliminate you from the economy. And we gave them all the money because of sentiments like yours.

I get that you are trolling because it's fun but the thing is they are coming for you and all of us. The sooner you come to terms with that the better.

Assuming you're not ancient Boomer trash. In which case you get to die leaving everybody else to deal with the mess you made. I'm not exactly happy with older Gen x either. They gave us war in Iran along with the help of the boomers...

I have known several people that got upset when minimum wage went up because it made it feel like they were earning less money...

People are dumb. Really dumb.

That's why they call it operation Epstein Fury. Also if we can finagle a second 9/11 out of this then I think we can get Trump a third term

Municipalities will just pass laws or constitutional amendments to get around the robot problem. If they have to they will sneak it past voters during a special election or a midterm with a bunch of scary propaganda. If all else really fails and they can't ram it through with the current legislative framework they will just change the laws and/or pack the courts.

America is a borderline lawless country where might makes right and money is all that matters. We are one bad election away from just straight up Soviet style government. We let the top have too much money. The last election Elon Musk didn't like the way it was going and he just casually dropped a quarter billion dollars on his preferred candidate. You just can't deal with that.

If you pay attention to where they put these it's always in poor neighborhoods. You never see them in the rich neighborhoods because if they put them there well to do people have the time to lobby and get them removed or made illegal.

But rich people also don't like paying taxes. But they do like having services. So they find ways, like speeding cameras, to make sure that poor people pay through the nose so they don't have to.

It's the same way for the suburbs. Seriously Google it. The suburbs are completely unsustainable without the high population density inner City even though the inner cities are typically full of poor people. Middle class and well to do people leave the inner cities to poverty but they extract money from them. Because of the much higher population density they can get away with that.

It's going to be fun in a few years because we're gradually collapsing the entire economy and the suburbs are going to go with it. They cannot without subsidies afford their roads and police and fire departments and schools and whatnot. Even with the higher incomes they just don't have the population density for it.

And it's going to get real as the tax base collapses and we can't afford police anymore. You are already seeing some of the smaller towns and cities having to shut down their police and sheriffs because they're just isn't enough money and the smaller towns full of poor rural folk don't get to pick the pockets of the inner city the same way.

But what I think is really going on is dodgy attorneys have been putting fake citations in their briefings for centuries and we are hearing about it because they're using AI to generate the fake citations instead of just making them up on the spot like they used to. I suspect judges and defense attorneys are scrutinizing citations more too because they've seen the stories about AI.

But I do think it would be naive to believe that given how skeezy attorneys can be that they haven't been feeling their portfilings with bullshit long before AI slop was a thing

To what are you alluding?

Hmm....over the years, I've had several girlfriends report loss of appetite after trying to watch a lot of Monty Python with me......

It is something to do with 2 X chromosomes...?

That's not just a problem for his administration. The plastic lobby is incredibly powerful and wealthy and it's just not politically practical to go after it directly.

Also I'd be worried about the knockout effects of widespread banning single use plastics. It creates an enormous amount of inconvenience for a already overworked population. That kind of frustration can be exploited politically by bad actors to get elected and do even worse things.

Basically in politics you have to pick your battles. You can't just pretend that your opposition doesn't exist just because it would make a lot more sense to live in a world where we didn't waste all these materials and all this energy doing things that don't really make us happy...

Basically everyone who lives in the area or studies the climate or hydrology would tell you that you're insane.

More like a once-in-a-millennium event. Though I suspect it's going to be considerably more common going forward.

Deserts have some amount of normal precipitation, too. And when you get a lot less than normal, that's called a drought. Yes, even in a desert.

We do have pretty good data from tree rings. Unless you think the trees came from somewhere else?

Well no more than usual. The problem is that he couldn't even stick to a simple message. About half the speech was about how the war is ending and they're bringing peace and the other half the speech was about killing every single person in Iran.

I found out that the reason Joe Biden looked so rough is because he stutters and when you saw him doing those long pauses that was him having to pause to get his stutter under control before he spoke. In his old age it came back after he had gotten it under control for a long time.

So all that crap about sleepy Joe was literally just a man with a mild speech impediment struggling with it. Of course none of that was reported by the news media...

Meanwhile Trump was talking about a bill he wanted to pass and mid sentence started to talk about a imaginary person named Bill. This is a real thing that happened. Never mind the bizarre post he just made about Jasmine Crockett being related to Davy Crockett.