Has there ever been a person elected president who has so convincingly lost their home district/state? Besides Trump 2016 and Trump 2024, that is.

Given that most of the delay in building more/denser housing in California is due to NIMBYs fearing a drop in property values…

…what’s to stop them from calling the cops on people living out of their cars on the street in front of their house?

This entire proposal is beyond stupid, and is one of the underlying causes of the rise in right-wing populism all over the US.

What the Government should do is use the threat of Eminent Domain and buy out a ~dozen houses in a certain block, tear them down and build ~100 affordable apartments for families (i.e. 3+ bedroom, 2+ bathrooms) in their place - and make them available to lower-and middle income families on a rent-to-own basis.

If neighbouring plots complain, threaten them with Eminent Domain also, and continue on until the entirety of the unhoused population is accounted for.

First rule of tech disruption is to ignore patents/laws and get a big enough footprint to be able to fend off the eventual litigation. Given this is China, they can mandate implementing it on mainland devices for the initial wave, and roll out later revisions into adjacent regions over time once it’s taken a foothold.

Tech bros, libertarians, contrarians and people who don’t ’follow politics’.

Dude’s a billionaire, he very likely has a team of people whose sole responsibility is to keep him out of the news and/or media, unless explicitly allowed.

Only Elon Schmuck (and maybe Kanye West) are deranged enough to think they can manage their public presence positively.

Don’t even try to explain the numbers to conservatives, just make it clear that if it resulted in them getting more money somehow, it would be literal blood money.

One issue with this is, Conservatives don’t care about random people dying - they’ve been conditioned by right-wing media into believing those people who die deserved it, or that it’s just a deep-state conspiracy with crisis actors.

They will only ever change their stance (and even then, only temporarily) when it happens to a friend or family member.

Appealing to their better nature is a fool’s errand.

“Let me be very clear” is such a Bernie-ism… even unattributed, it’s so easy to tell that it’s him.

Truly a global loss that he was never given a fair chance to challenge for the Presidency.

The now I hear about GTA6, the more confident I get that my pessimism towards this franchise’s future is warranted.

No Dan Houser, no Lazlow Jones, hell - probably NONE of the same dev team at all from GTAV (let alone earlier).

This is likely going to end up some weird “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” style monster where some gatcha/shark card filled “live service” is going to go around masquerading as the next entry in this franchise.

A long time ago, I had a pair of Puma shoes that had a similar look to F1 driving shoes, and they were awesome due to their light weight and thin soles - ever since then I’ve a convert to that style of shoe.

Maybe consider the Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66? It’s a timeless design with plenty of colorways, so you should be able to get one that suits your tastes. They are also available in mid-runner form in case you want more of a boot fit (padded ankle).

In the (now seemingly unlikely) event that Trump and his ilk lose their grip on power, people need to move swiftly to curtail Musk’s power over the Oval Office; to the point that stripping him of his wealth and imprisoning him may honestly be the only way left to save the Union at this point.

Sure there are plenty other billionaires who may be eyeing up his current position, but they would surely think twice if the likelihood was they too would end up impoverished and incarcerated.

True, but it’s only a matter of time before it bites those people in the ass. Whether or not they’re smart enough to understand the cause (Trump/Musk chaos) or not - they’re going to suffer.

The best you can hope for this cohort is that they’re disenfranchised enough by the mid-terms to sit out the election and allow for a massive shift in the House and Senate… but given how spineless and feckless the Dems have acted over the past four years - I’m not holding out a”much hope.

He has implicit Congressional Approval as long as the GOP maintain a majority and sit back, doing nothing.

Twenty-something years from now, we’ll all be quoting “First they came for the migrants, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a migrant; then they came for the foreign aid workers, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a foreign aid worker…” when referring to the downfall of the United States of America.

True, but at least they’ll suffer for it?

At this point, I’ve largely embraced apathy:

Republicans care more about Trump’s feelings than they do about their constituents, let alone the homeless and unhoused.

After all - according to the gospel of prosperity, Jesus said “fuck them poors!”.

As long as the Dems keep glossing over the worsening K-shaped economy, and talking past the pain that the majority of middle-America is feeling - they’re going to continue to lose the working class to apathy and the GOP.

It doesn’t matter if wages nationally ‘went up” $1b, if it all went to like 3 people, and everyone else’s wages stagnated or went down.

Todd in particular deserves a lot more attention/subscribers/success given how long he’s been around, and just how much content he’s released.

Chart taken from Investopedia’s article on K-shaped Recovery; but the underlying principle is the same: Some parts of the economy are performing so well that it masks the other sectors which are struggling.

i.e. the rich are getting so much wealthier, that when looking at the overall average the number is trending positively and not showing that the rest of society is getting poorer. This is one of the reasons when using aggregate measures, the median value is significantly more valuable than the average.

It basically happens every cycle, easy to go back all the way to George Bush Sr -> Clinton ( if not earlier).

But the problem is, the current economic boom is even more K-shaped than any other in recent history; half of the population are struggling worse than before, but their plight is masked by an incredible boom for the other half.

I can’t blame the working class for thinking back to ~2016, and remembering things fondly.

Trump will only make the current situation worse, but I can at least understand how the US ended up in its current predicament.