I don’t even disagree with his answer, but what actually counts is your voting record, you smug motherfucker

I strongly doubt most people are aware of anything about this

Yes, but also all of these local movements organize on Facebook 🙄

He’s on Medicare, not Medicaid, but I agree. Trump doesn’t need their votes anymore, and Musk never did.

He watches a lot of Fox News, so he thinks he’s informed, but he’s really just full of propaganda. At least at this point he knows better than to debate politics with me, so it’s pretty civil when I visit or call. But also on the rare occasion he decides to press a matter, he knows he can never win. I will bring receipts.

I mean, there’s a reason baby boomers were labeled the Me Generation in the 1980s, when they were in their 20s-40s.

But before they became so reviled we fought wars to kill as many of them as we could.

1860s 1940s 2020s

On schedule?

My father is the quintessential baby boomer: he’s retired and lives off of a federal pension and Social Security, and he’s a three-time Trump voter. When I said in a recent call that I wondered if they would go after his pension or Social Security, his response was basically that his income is safe because he’s already collecting on it.

He didn’t have to say that he didn’t care about anyone else: it was implied. I doubt he cares if anyone younger (including me) can ever can draw on the system we’re paying into, because he got his.

Trying to install loyalists to ensure the military won’t go against him when the time comes

All these right wingers talk big about a civil war because they think liberals and leftists in places like Oregon and Washington State don’t own guns.

Uh, they’re wrong.

The board is planning to fight Trump’s order, three of those people told The Washington Post. In an emergency meeting Thursday, the board retained outside counsel and gave instructions to sue the White House if the president were to remove members of the board or attempt to alter the agency’s independent status.

I’m kind of amazed that they’re fighting to retain independence.

When people say the rich aren’t paying their fair share, they’re saying taxes should go up on the richest 1% and 0.1%, who are often paying effective tax rates in the single digits most years because of their various tax schemes and shelters.

The people who are actually paying the highest effective income tax rates are the upper middle class, who between federal, state, and local taxes are being soaked for very little in return (European tax rates without free health care or university, for example). But they’re not rich, and they don’t have the same options actual rich people do.

If tax rates were flatter, I’m still confident the first group would carve out loopholes so they could keep hoarding wealth. Does the author think Donald Trump, of all people, would actually increase taxes on himself and his rich friends?

They’re in the middle of an invasion by an expansionist world power. How are they going to hold a free and fair election throughout the country?

This could all play out in a few ways. I wonder if blue states will finally reach a point where they instruct their citizens and registered corporations to stop payment of federal income tax, sparking a civil war.

Dude, I don’t give a shit about your crusade or Al Sharpton. Your links were weak and now you’re mad that one of the few people who actually took the time to read and comment on them wasn’t cornered into sharing your opinion. Sorry. It’s like the 10,000th most important priority right now. Maybe take a look around.

When we finally claw our way out of this mess it’s going to take so long to rebuild

First of all, that’s within the margin of error, so the headline is pure clickbait copium.

Second, it’ll take some time for the effects to be reflected in the economy, even with tariffs. Give it time; it will drop further once it impacts people directly.

You messed up your links, but I went and looked up the URLs anyway. It was pretty weak sauce. Undated descriptions of events and some short, undated, out of context quotes.

I’m going to go ahead and assume most of the quotes were from a long time ago. People evolve, and we should let them. Malcolm X did too, before he was assassinated. I’ve seen a lot of evidence that Sharpton isn’t racist based on his recent appearances, but not much evidence to indicate he is, and of what I’ve seen here, it was probably from a long time ago since all the references are devoid of context.

Have you seen him in swim trunks

You need to push back hard. If they come at you to arrest you (as a sitting representative), maybe it’ll wake people up. You just have to hope they aren’t going to barge in at 6 am with machine guns, because historically that doesn’t end well for anyone.

Cobol is heavily used in the financial industry for a reason. It’s actually excellent for processing financial data at scale and it’s well supported. Many of these institutions attempt to swap out parts of these systems with modern languages or runtimes; these projects often fail because they’re simply too slow or the new systems crash too often.

I’m not saying it’s impossible to do so, just that it’s not worth it.