And more recently short-term rentals, but I guess that’s kinda just repetition.

They said they want to run the government like a business,

In other words: terribly. They want to run the government terribly, exactly how business runs in this country.

Oh we’re well beyond “small government” at this point.

Pardon for being shouldacouldawoulda, but in that case vote accessiblilty should’ve been a top priority for the dems after all of the 2020 bs.

I think this really should be their goal, and they should trade things to get there. Like, who cares about needing an ID to vote, if you can use voter ID as leverage to get free national ID cards for everyone? (I’m not saying you can, but try?) Exchange president’s day as a holiday for election day…make voting access an actual priority.

I bought in early 2020 and it’s now worth about 50% more than it was.

I kinda lucked out, because I bought right before everyone realized that we were screwed with COVID and were going to be stuck in their houses because the government had no idea what they were doing. I say “kinda lucked out” because I watched Trump deliver a speech as the stocks tanked in the corner, and realized he had no idea how to handle it. After watching it I turned to my spouse and said, “I know it sounds crazy, but I think we should buy a place right now.” I also had been looking for some time and realized that mortgage rates were near all time lows.

All time low rates + stuck in small places = everyone that can buy a bigger place will buy a bigger place.

They left the name out of the headline for click baiting purposes IMO. Mary Trump has been talking shit about Uncle Donny for almost a decade now. Anybody paying attention would not be surprised at all about this.

Because theres gotta be some reason trump had basically the same turnout while dems lost significantly.

I made this point elsewhere but it was also far easier to vote in 2020 (in swing states especially).

To add to that, in 2020 we had almost universal mail voting that had been rolled back in most swing states by 2024. In addition, there were a lot of scary stories floating around about Trump supporters at the polls. Lastly, voter suppression efforts do suppress votes (e.g. removing people from voter rolls, closing polling places in blue districts, making voting worse).

You don’t have to pay the mortgage in thirty years and eat the entirety of the interest. I paid mine off in three.

There’s no way I’m not saving money over renting at this point. I pay less than $1000 a month to live in a place that would cost $4000 a month to rent.

One definition of a collapse is a sudden drastic reduction in the complexity of a thing.

I’m not sure whether we’re going to have a societal collapse or a slow decline, but either way the US is in a downward spiral. I think Trump increases the likelihood of us going into the collapse trajectory.

All that said, on the other side of a collapse, there is some room for hope. The incendiary portion of the collapse will definitely suck to live through (if you’re lucky enough to do so), but our country could probably use some simplification long-term because the people within it largely cannot navigate a country this byzantine. A lot of this country’s systems are too complex for an average person to understand let alone administer.

Most of these complexities were probably birthed via intentional decisions by the system creators, and others were a product of unintended consequences. I think the gap in education between our commoners and “the elite” – to borrow a tired trope – also played a part here.

No matter how we arrived at this point, I don’t think the current population can actually operate these systems anymore and long-term one way or another our people require a drastic reduction in the complexity of our society.

There is another path in which the United States invests more in education and scales up the average intelligence of its citizens so that they can handle the complexity of modern life, understand nuance, do research, and create better policy…but at this point I think we’re frankly too far fucked to ever go down that path.

How does your response answer my question?

What is this, 2024’s version of Trump’s tax returns? Nobody cares.

How exactly is Trump the “easiest possible opponent”?

The greens aren’t still working on the ground; they’ve already accomplished their goal of getting Trump elected.

They’re idiots

Hate to break it to you but “didn’t vote” isn’t a candidate.

The last president – Obama – that the DNC really wasn’t at all involved with was still somehow not very progressive.

Yeah these are things that “centrists” can oppose…talking to your neighbors, going to council meetings, joining a union, starting a poker game, or joining a social group. /s

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I mean hell start a podcast even. There’s literally no place I even know of in my town to build any of this so-called solidarity keyboard leftists talk about as if it’s ubiquitous. I live in a top ten city in one of the most left-leaning states and all I see is “let’s go Brandon” bumper stickers and maga stickers plastered on the backside of my street signs.

Maybe, just maybe, online leftists are full of it and America isn’t on the brink of some great socialist revolution. But who am I kidding, it’s inevitable, right guys? It springs up automatically out of the dirt like dandelions. /s

WTF is with people on this site and the DNC?

I think that’s partially why the well connected and famous billionaires are such miserable assholes. Their lives really aren’t that great because they’re all uninteresting losers surrounded by uninteresting losers who sold their souls for money and power and spend decades between having any moments of real joy.