Just ignore the virtual (and actual) slave labor, skipping R&D costs by stealing IP hand over fist, strip mining for materials with no regard to environmental concerns, disregard of consumer safety, and massive subsidies from the authoritarian single-party government.
Are you sure you're talking about China there? That sounds like the MAGA party to-do list, especially if you add on corporate extortion and mandatory bribes to the leader of said one party state.
Elon is planning a Musk-only commune
I'm fine with sending Musk to Mars. He can take DOGE and the rest of MAGA with him. Few of them are smart enough to realize there is no return trip, even if the trip there is a success. Musk and Trump can spend the trip trying to convince each other who is the most important person in the history of the universe while those of us here on earth rebuild from the destruction they left behind here.
Just stand back and watch 'em take each other out.
There is a long list of times during this - and the previous - Trump Administration when it seemed clear that would happen. We thought they finally got to the point where they wouldn't be able to stand each other and they would annihilate their own. Never before did it happen; indeed they only rallied harder each time and came out stronger.
Now they have a new martyr. Any time anyone doesn't toe the MAGA line they will be accused of leading towards "another Charlie Kirk". In fact they could have hardly asked for a better event, as they can use it to also brush any other gun violence crime under the rug as well.
Say goodbye to democracy. Charlie Kirk managed to do exactly what he wanted - he killed it. He wasn't wise enough to realize it would take his own blood to take it down, but it is dead and buried now. The new Single Party State rises up now, and by the end of next month it will be illegal to be a democrat.
Right now is a good time to invest in your exit strategy if you don't align yourself 110% with the MAGA party.
And stop with pushing/encouraging violence.
Where did I encourage violence? You must have me mistaken with someone else. I have multiple times very plainly advocated against violence in all forms. I don't approve killing anyone by anyone else. Not by or for politics, not by or for the state. Murder is wrong, period.
Look at the 1960s.
In the 1960s the assassinations were of people who wanted to improve our country and bring about progress. This decade we're seeing assassinations of people of all stripes. There is no rhyme or reason to the violence any more. The only difference is that one party advocates exclusively for "thoughts and prayers" after any killing, because they are afraid their owners will drive them out of their cushy jobs if they ever propose any kind of legislative reform.
Finally, SCOTUS doesn't have the power to stop a constitutional amendment nor does Trump have the ability to create one.
I didn't say anyone would make a new amendment. I said that the MAGA party would ignore the 22nd Amendment, and that the SCOTUS would not stop them from doing so. That's a big difference. Indeed a constitutional amendment is only passed by congress; the SCOTUS cannot make one. Up until now, the POTUS has been expected to follow the constitution, but that is no longer the case. Nobody is willing to apply any laws to Trump.
Only with a significant majority (2/3) of both houses of Congress or 2/3 of the state legislatures passing combined with 3/4 of the states ratifying can pass a new constitutional amendment. There is no judicial review for a constitutional amendment
Again, nobody is looking to pass a new amendment, nor are they looking to repeal one on the books. They have license to simply ignore the constitution, and they will do exactly that. The constitution is no longer worth the paper it was written on.
With that said, standby for the likely canonization of him by the right, with him morphing into a saint who loved everyone and who never did anything wrong.
He's already getting a complimentary ride on Air Force Two. I'm trying to think of other non-politicians who were not war heroes whose corpses got Presidential or VP escorts and not thinking of any...
The truth, however, is that in a year no one will be talking about him or his ideas. The performative rage machine will move on to another 'personality' spewing the same shit.
Except each time the rage machine gets louder and more profane. At some point if it doesn't come back down to earth we're going to have a real problem. Time to get more supplies for the bug-out bags.
As for POTUS, it looks like he's busy having a stroke (there are pics all over the net) so I doubt he has the wherewithal to plan anything beyond what he wants for lunch.
You're probably right on that. However there are plenty in Trump's orbit who would be willing to enable something like this to happen to draw their base away from the Epstein saga. I probably gave him way too much credit to suggest he could have dreamed this up on his own. He wasn't even of above-average intelligence when he hosted The Apprentice, and he's shown just how little one can learn in 4 years when they really try hard.
That's why the more expensive brands of water come in glass bottles...
As a chemist I can tell you that glass bottles leach out ions into water constantly. It's not microplastics, but it's plenty of ions. Most glass on the market - even high quality lab glass - is made with sodiated glass, so the best water you can put in it will end up carrying a substantial about of sodium ions over a short amount of time. Other trace elements will get pulled out by the water as well.
People are always available for work in the past tense.
