Then nowhere has ever had a golden age.

Large segments. There’s never a perfect golden age anywhere if we only look at poverty.

And yet houses were affordable. The rate of home ownership was 65.6% in 1980 and was 65.6% in 2024 as well. The Volker shock started under Carter and continued under Reagan was much more impactful in the strong growth economy to follow than the Reagan tax cuts.

You’re not wrong but it allowed a few generations to be quite comfortable. Stole our future for their comfort at the time but that the comfort existed and could have continued without such greed is just another nail in the laissez faire capitalist coffin.

Fall of the republic, rise of the empire. Rome. We had some good decades with an actual middle class. Always room for improvement but the 80s-early 10s were overall pretty good for most Americans.

Oh we’ll get there soon enough in Greenland, Panama, and probably Ukraine on the Russian side

It’s been about 40-60y since our last go at it, they’ve forgotten and should be reminded. Kindly first, then with a bottle of chianti if necessary.

To Republicans that’s a women problem. They’re trying to make no fault divorce illegal. And they’ll keep pushing beyond that as well, martial rape will be relagalized, women won’t have bank accounts, etc.

There’s elections every year so 7 months not 19 before we may start to see effects. Heck Florida has special elections June 10.

We’re also talking about a state election not nationwide. This should be an apples to oranges thing in terms of spending.

Think the point is that so much money shouldn’t be available to spend on politics like this. This was more money than the 2000 presidential campaign by either side (and even then people were talking about how campaign finance was broken).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqjq11202ro

Other shit has been bigger news.

*facade

Think that mask dropped a while ago. He used to have a PR/management team that would stop the stupid shit he’d say from becoming public or affecting the actual businesses. He fired them around the Twitter takeover iirc and that’s when we’ve all been able to easily see how stupid and bigoted he actually is.

Elon just sold Twitter to xAI for 33B, Reddit bastards can probably do similar. Some dumbfuck at Google or Microsoft will probably buy it.

That’s true too. There will be suffering, electing facists idiots kinda does that. Protecting yourself and your community of non-idiots is the best you can do. Find those vulnerable people and set up a group that can care for them vaccinated people delivering/making food and the like.

Oh yeah, Republicans want to add medical debt back to credit reports.

That’s the point. Show up deportation. Don’t show up anything that points them to you=deportation.

Paid themselves to “look into it” then expanded to one more house than before.

Fuck the partisan aspect, RFK jr’s stance on vaccines is opposite scientific consensus that has been established for centuries. Even Trump’s first term didn’t accept such fringe idiocy in an HHS director.

Considering the admin, I’m currently assuming it isn’t true.