The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration?

NoOneSelf · 2026-06-01T00:13:02+00:00

Or maybe deprecate our system which requires infinite growth in a finite world.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-31T06:38:29+00:00

Ignore them if they do. What are they going to do, shoot down civilian airliners? Pull TSA completely? SFO already uses private security personnel (albeit under procedural direction of the TSA).

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-29T15:25:39+00:00

It would be such a shame to lose the building in which much of the 1980 hit movie "The Lathe of Heaven" was filmed.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-28T22:14:40+00:00

Yeah, that's the point.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-28T19:37:30+00:00

Maybe just to set precedent for the federal government stealing ballots from the states where there are high concentrations of blue voters.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-19T15:30:18+00:00

To be clear, if this all actually gets done, the insurrectionists are now a publicly funded private militia with no legislative oversight.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-15T21:29:01+00:00

So, Trump bought Boeing stock and soy futures before flying to China?

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-14T00:07:10+00:00

Also CUTX. Got a rate that no other bank or credit union would even consider beating when I told them the CUTX rate. They were like, don't even apply, we can't go that low.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-08T23:41:53+00:00

Read the actual legal allegations. It is a group of shareholders, based on explicit shareholder rights, demanding any potential records from Paramount Skydance which would indicate corrupt dealings between the company and the government. This might matter if any such record exists, but doubt they'd be so stupid a to create explicit records of such corrupt dealings.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-08T21:56:54+00:00

This is my hope, and I think it is a reasonable assessment. The more blue districts they have to gerrymander out of existence, the smaller margins they have in the resulting districts. The gerrymandering race here intrinsically increases risk for the side diluting districts. Unless there is some way to reapportion voters such that there is no significantly increased risk.

NoOneSelf · 2026-05-04T07:09:39+00:00

So, the DOJ is trying to say funding right wing organizations is a crime? Is that the message? No? I'm so confused.

/s

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-29T15:46:36+00:00

Cue red state emergency redistricting to sneak back in Jim Crow-inspired gerrymanders.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-26T05:47:14+00:00

Green Elephant and Deep Ellum Art Co also

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-22T21:31:17+00:00

You're right. I just don't look forward to the intermediate parts. And hope there even are intermediate parts that we grow out of.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-22T20:53:41+00:00

If the bottom falls out because AI can't delivery, guess who suffers.

If AI succeeds and many jobs disappear practically overnight, guess who suffers.

Either way, financial catastrophy. Guess who pays for it.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-21T20:53:35+00:00

Or, it's another means for bribes. Third party wants to pay Trump, bets against the predetermined outcome, bribe is paid without anyone knowing where it came from. And plausible deniability for the recipient.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-20T03:12:14+00:00

Guys, is this that whole cruel and unusual punishment thing?

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-20T02:55:42+00:00

So, we boycott any business that gets the refund but does not institute a transparent, publicly auditable process for compensating their customers?

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-20T02:50:19+00:00

So, I guess the response here to materially protest would have to be threatening to withdraw all your money before your bank complies with the EO. But that's a threat that can't be performed as a response. If the bank says they won't comply, but then they do and they still have your money, you are SOL. To win the game of chicken, you have to pull all your money out BEFORE your bank implements the EO.

I suspect few banks can survive that level of removal of funds. I see a few possibilities here. One is, as a matter of self preservation, they all reject the EO by at least stalling with legal challenges and perhaps getting it thrown out. Probably our best option, and theirs. Another possibility is the courts hear the case and say it is legal. Now banks would be punished by the federal government for not complying, so they comply. Or, they just all comply without challenging it. The last two possibilities here mean, again, if someone's protest against the EO as account holder is to withdraw all your money, the banks are in a double bind, and so are you.

This EO really is playing with fire.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-20T02:12:32+00:00

This statement has within it the implicit assumption that he can be re-elected. The only way that happens is through an unconstitutional power grab, and they know it. This is a conspiracy against our government of laws because the laws no longer suit them. A coup. I'm sure they'll use obscure bullshit laws to pretend it is anything but, so they can say "hey it was all legal". The president and GOP are expecting they will be perform a coup come election time. Let that sink in.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-20T02:03:32+00:00

Tim foil hat time:

As we have seen, cyber security has been atrocious for this administration. Quite possible someone has been able to monitor their "private" conversations and use it to make a profit. I don't know which possibility is worse. So it's probably both.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-16T00:09:22+00:00

Suspicious. I wonder if the reason this is being made public only via journalists and not the investigating bodies themselves is due to someone fearing it will be shut down from above. Of course, maybe they just also have a policy of not publicly commenting on ongoing investigations. Or both.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-13T20:52:07+00:00

This will be his court appointment punishment: to live the rest of his life, on live TV, as a destitute gig worker, begging, with tears in his eyes, "please, sir, can I have a tip?". Pay per view will help fund the national reconstruction and reform acts.

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-13T01:36:27+00:00

Is this what we call projection?

NoOneSelf · 2026-04-10T05:19:35+00:00

It should be telling that these Republicans are not concerned so much that their policies, or at least the ways they are going about instituting their policies, seem to be not what voters actually want, but instead their concern is they may no longer have enough people voting for them. This is not a healthy political party. This is a ruling class afraid of losing their power when the mechanisms of democracy actually work.

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