Court Jester

They're trying to run the deficit up so far and so fast, that we'll panic and take their first solution.

We're not going to let that happen, are we?

Homeless shelters, like the one I work at, are producing "profit" by way of the betterment of individual lives.

We all share in that profit.

Now apply that concept to the economy as a whole.

There are products and services which are also human necessities. Please provide more clarity.

Some services are the result of economic externalities which the free market does not want to take up.

Why is the political right having problems understanding that basic economic reality?

The citizens of Trumpistan will eventually see why government-subsidized healthcare is crucial.

Sure, you can use economic libertarianism, or what you perceive to be economic libertarianism, as a framework for the distribution of goods and services.

But the semantic structures are different.

Nobody will hear me complain if someone wants to take my idea of a global news network with a reporter representing every single square kilometer on the planet. You see, we just need to decrease the pixel size to get a better view.

Oh, wait a minute.

There's nothing Trump could do if we did put our wealth into the Canadian dollar, is there?

Millions of individuals making the decision to put their wealth into the Canadian dollar or ANY other currency.

City-states composed of former blue counties.

So, he can talk about antifa and we can talk about antichrist.

An affront to humanity itself.

Deportation
Regulated immigration
Open borders

I'm with the open borders philosophy. That is the default we went by for hundreds of thousands of years. We've only recently decided, as a species, to have gates. It's an experiment, relatively speaking.

Eventually, we will leverage technology.

If we can do a "good fences make good neighbors" kind of approach to others, that would be phenomenal.

But no, they have this need to proselytize or "overtake" us with their religious ideas.

Mainstream Democrats want national unity, which is "overtaking" to progressives like myself.

Such on site amateur reporting may very well become the norm as media gets concentrated more and more into the hands of a few and an administration is trying to suppress news that doesn't bode well for him or his party

Trump is antichrist.

Southern Brazil is pretty active too. Thank you for this.

I was not aware of this. Thank you, Frank.

This has been going on since the divisive politics of 1984, which, unfortunately, was also the last time a president received more than 55% of the vote. That's the longest period of instability we have ever had.

If America were all white, health care would have been a long time ago. Sad.

I'm not saying that the ONLY way we're going to do this is by having millions connect their bank accounts to the online currency exchange of their choice.

But the collective memory of the REAL Civil War is still there telling us that ANY separatism is always bad.

That is a misperception.

Caroline Leavitt may be opening up a channel when she describes the troops in TRANSACTIONAL terms. Like they're doing us a favor.

But we didn't ask for it.

Then, all the White House needs to do is say, "If you're not going to give us the money, we're not providing the service."

If they're going to say that they are not fascist, that indicates that they KNOW that being a fascist is a bad thing.

Therefore, our job is easy. All we need to do is get THEM to tell US what fascism IS.

YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast Federal Officers are detaining local DC residents trying to get home!! #tonymichaelspodcast

From our District of Columbia....

youtube.com/shorts/HGfWU...

I don't know how MAGA folk seem to have so little knowledge about Puerto Rico.

We got it under William McKinley, a Republican's Republican. Father of Modern Republicanism. His effect has been lasting. Except, apparently, simple history about Puerto Rico. How did they lose track of that?

Forex

Let's get real here. Do we REALLY want to see the long and agonizing cognitive decline of a president? Isn't there a better use of our time?

I'm sooooo ready for Vance. He's around my age, you see.

I feel guilty about picking on an elder. Give me someone I can scrap with.

I'm trying to look at it like a MAGA strategist, just to figure out why there's a deafening silence when we ask...

Wouldn't it be better to set him aside on a shelf but still given a microphone? He's trying to argue with us AND run the country at the same time.

Just retire his jersey. Talk show.

Look at it like how ISIS wants its own country.

The evangelical Christians of this country WANT their own and as much of the work involved in that process is, they might be looking for someone to pay for the fence.

To them, it is OUR fault for walking away from the America we all once knew.

How to create a progressive nation in 2025:

1. Develop an alternative currency
2. Use that currency.
3. Outline, on a map, the general location of the currency's use.

Presto! You now have a country.

Then, you make sure that the policies of the new country are, in fact, progressive.

It never will be the same again. MAGA wants their own country. The shutdown is an expression of that desire to have their own country.

They have certain cultural differences and they want the space to express those differences.

Let's give them Trumpistan.

Perfect metaphor for it all when we see the Portland protesters wear gas masks and giving the soldiers the bird.

Let's try to think about how cozy a theocratic autocracy would be. Maybe that might make a mass currency exodus seem more appealing?

National curfew
A requirement that you officially state your religious faith in public records
A much bigger tax break to families
Criminalization of porn

The electorate was male at the time of the Civil War.

But it has become more feminine since.

So, we should expect that the female version of a civil war WOULD BE something like a mass currency exodus. It's peaceful and it's more effective.

Well come on, MAGA!

Start putting up a fence all around the land that you declare as Trumpistan.

I have bad feeling of queasiness and instability in my gut just thinking about all this.

Just get it over with, will you?

We define an alternative country by taking note of where an alternative currency is used as a medium of exchange.

Everything else is consequential.