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And you could build something like 3000 overpriced White House ballrooms instead of one Musk. That is, we could build a White House ballroom in every city with population above something like 10k and still probably have money to spare.

Another way to think about it is that the cost of California's high speed rail (with all the cost overruns) is estimated at 135 billion. It is considered way overpriced. But instead of one Musk, one can build 7.5 high speed rail systems like California's.

BTW, 25 billion a year is the GDP of Guyana. Or slightly less than the GDP of Malta. Or a bit more than the GDP of Jamaica.

Fortunately, the only way he gets the trillion is if this bubble that is about to pop never pops. This might be the event that convinces investors that "oh shit, we're in a bubble, I'm selling all my TSLA stock". BTW, NASDAQ just had the worst week in months.

College has gotten cheaper in real terms and much more affordable relative to incomes, but good luck trying to convince anyone to ignore the nominal price ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Though it is possible that this way it may backfire. The president having a lot of unchecked power sounds good if you have a reasonable president. It sounds dangerous to people if they have the experience of seeing that scenario with an unreasonable president.

If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS

This is his part-time job

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Winsome apparently lost some today...

Today I’m voting for school board. Keep the local MAGA out. Keep the ABA teacher with no real information about her out too (IYKYK).

Your local election for boards and judges and funding and so forth really do matter. Go vote!

If it's not clear from that, I'm not at all a fan of twice yearly changing our schedules by pretending it is a different time than it is.

What I find funny is that people seem to think that by moving a clock the sun actually rises or sets at a different time. :)

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

"Don't thread on me. Unless you're Trump. Then thread away"

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Given that the undocumented can't get these benefits, they are far more prepared for this crisis than the poor American citizens who do rely on these benefits. So relatively speaking, Republicans are putting their thumb on the scale for the benefit of the "illegal aliens" over the citizens here.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

He'd probably insist that the Irish are all ethnically English. Or that Americans are mostly ethnically English (except for those 20% of American citizens whose first language is not English).

I like that what's coming out of Noem's hair is LICE.

And those who need to see the evidence to make up their own minds can just watch the full statement - youtu.be/Foggkeiwlp0?...

It's pretty clear to me. Reagan was NOT a fan of tariffs at all.

Trump is a giant orange man-baby who throws his toys out of the cot when he gets challenged in any way.

BTW, you won't believe who carried out the deadliest terrorist bombing in Mandatory Palestine (still the deadliest terrorist bombing in what is now Israel in fact). Hint: It was a hotel named after a king and it was in 1946.

You know a president was terrible if he scored below William Henry Harrison.

Well, if you're doing a poll, you are trying to figure out how many people think it is murder and how many think it is all perfectly fine. If they asked what you suggest, the data wouldn't be useful. They're trying to find out what people think, not tell them what to think.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

It's very telling that they think that "white Americans" should like Trump.

On a percent basis, we probably had the same number of people out here in Stillwater, OK as New York did.

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills