Exactly my point. Trump reacts to trolling, we've seen it a million times. It doesn't matter what a rational person would do and we need to stop pretending he's a normal professional person because he's not and neither are his followers. They respond to dumb shit because its what they understand. All this "rise above" shit does is help them. The whole fucking reason they love Trump so much is because he does a good job at bullying the people they don't like.
These are the kinds of things donors should be funding. We need to put more time, money, and effort into trolling, because it works. Trump has a massive ego and almost always responds to being picked on, which isn't done nearly enough. The "high road" shit is why Dems keep losing.
He's going to go work for ICE now, this is going to get him expedited through the process. He'll probably be running his own team by the end of 6 months.
Yeah, one thing the Trump admin has taught me is that our constitution actually doesn't mean shit. Not to us as American citizens and not to the government that swore to uphold it. We've all just been pretending to care about it until someone with a god complex decided to challenge us.
I was being hyperbolic and trying to think of the worst Democrat possible to put up, so I really highly doubt they would actually run her, but really, you just never fucking know these days, nothing would shock me. They could run Don Jr. at this point and I'd be like "yeah, sounds about fucking right" while bashing my head into my desk.
Do they ever learn from any fuck up? No. Our next nominee is probably going to be Nancy Pelosi because we all know how much everyone loves her, and she's the perfect age to run.
I feel like we have very different beliefs on what "grand scheme of things" means because I don't believe $5b will make an immediate difference right away for most people, but you can implement small things that will create ripple effects that greatly change the grand scheme of things for the future.
The money isn't for you, and you don't get any of the benefits of having it. The only reason I allowed for a stipen for a modest living in a cheap area is because I knew that half the comments would be "First I buy land build houses for me and all my friends and family, buy everyone cars, and fund all their colleges, then with the hundred million left over, I'll help some homeless people" OR if I would have said you get no money at all, everyone would have said they wouldn't have time to do anything good because they still had to work full time and half to afford their bills. So, the compromise is you get a modest lifestyle in an undesirable area fully funded, or no money at all and you can continue to work full time and a half to afford your basic ass lifestyle while not helping anyone.
Those courses have been free for a while. Here is an article from 2022 that names some of them as some of the best free courses offered by Harvard. It's still very cool, just not a response to Trump.
I wanted to do something similar to your apartment idea but for teens and young adults in poverty-stricken areas. Get them into a stable environment, teach them the necessary life skills like credit management, budgeting, cooking for yourself, etc. and give them job training. All of that would also go just as well for the homeless population. I grew up in an area that was riddled by the crack epidemic and had no resources for kids/teenagers to do anything other than crimes. The city didn't pay for anything to keep us out of trouble, and our drug addict parents sure weren't going to do it either. So I always felt like if I had a ton of money I would focus on program to help teens in those situations learn to be proper adults, because nobody else is teaching them. Schools won't, parents won't, we're defunding every program that helps outside of the home. It's a mess.
Thankfully chicken is still low for me (used to be .69 cents a lb on sale, now .99) but holy hell, ground beef is like unobtainable anymore. They want nearly $6 a lb for the 70% ground beef and I just can't ever justify it. We've mainly just been living on chicken, and pork when there are good sales, but yeah lots of meatless meals.
Electricity has been noticeably going up for me as well and its quite honestly insane. I live in a single-wide trailer with 1 other adult, we're not running heat or AC right now because its spring, we have been actively trying to conserve energy because of how high the bills are so we're making sure to turn stuff off, I unplugged my deep freezer and consolidated to just the fridge, I only do full loads of laundry, with cold water, etc. My electric bill is still over $300!
I feel like we're living like cavemen and we're still somehow using $3000+ of electric, I don't get it.
Who has openly called our troops suckers and made fun of a POW for being captured.
Exactly my point. Trump reacts to trolling, we've seen it a million times. It doesn't matter what a rational person would do and we need to stop pretending he's a normal professional person because he's not and neither are his followers. They respond to dumb shit because its what they understand. All this "rise above" shit does is help them. The whole fucking reason they love Trump so much is because he does a good job at bullying the people they don't like.
This is like how teachers are convinced that 90% of students are using AI, because they used AI to tell them that the students paper was AI.
He's not a president, he is a dictator. This is the shit that dictators pull.
These are the kinds of things donors should be funding. We need to put more time, money, and effort into trolling, because it works. Trump has a massive ego and almost always responds to being picked on, which isn't done nearly enough. The "high road" shit is why Dems keep losing.
He's going to go work for ICE now, this is going to get him expedited through the process. He'll probably be running his own team by the end of 6 months.
Yeah, one thing the Trump admin has taught me is that our constitution actually doesn't mean shit. Not to us as American citizens and not to the government that swore to uphold it. We've all just been pretending to care about it until someone with a god complex decided to challenge us.
I was being hyperbolic and trying to think of the worst Democrat possible to put up, so I really highly doubt they would actually run her, but really, you just never fucking know these days, nothing would shock me. They could run Don Jr. at this point and I'd be like "yeah, sounds about fucking right" while bashing my head into my desk.
That's what ours was too, the kind that goes into water coolers but it was plastic, not glass. It still exploded when I dropped it though LOL
It's almost like we've been through this all before.
That is very fair.
Well color me shocked as shit!
Do they ever learn from any fuck up? No. Our next nominee is probably going to be Nancy Pelosi because we all know how much everyone loves her, and she's the perfect age to run.
I feel like we have very different beliefs on what "grand scheme of things" means because I don't believe $5b will make an immediate difference right away for most people, but you can implement small things that will create ripple effects that greatly change the grand scheme of things for the future.
I truly don't believe $5b is anywhere close to being enough to do that.
Thats the point.
The money isn't for you, and you don't get any of the benefits of having it. The only reason I allowed for a stipen for a modest living in a cheap area is because I knew that half the comments would be "First I buy land build houses for me and all my friends and family, buy everyone cars, and fund all their colleges, then with the hundred million left over, I'll help some homeless people" OR if I would have said you get no money at all, everyone would have said they wouldn't have time to do anything good because they still had to work full time and half to afford their bills. So, the compromise is you get a modest lifestyle in an undesirable area fully funded, or no money at all and you can continue to work full time and a half to afford your basic ass lifestyle while not helping anyone.
Those courses have been free for a while. Here is an article from 2022 that names some of them as some of the best free courses offered by Harvard. It's still very cool, just not a response to Trump.
https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/learning/harvard-free-online-courses#us-political-institutions-congress-presidency-courts-and-bureaucracy-35
I wanted to do something similar to your apartment idea but for teens and young adults in poverty-stricken areas. Get them into a stable environment, teach them the necessary life skills like credit management, budgeting, cooking for yourself, etc. and give them job training. All of that would also go just as well for the homeless population. I grew up in an area that was riddled by the crack epidemic and had no resources for kids/teenagers to do anything other than crimes. The city didn't pay for anything to keep us out of trouble, and our drug addict parents sure weren't going to do it either. So I always felt like if I had a ton of money I would focus on program to help teens in those situations learn to be proper adults, because nobody else is teaching them. Schools won't, parents won't, we're defunding every program that helps outside of the home. It's a mess.
Thankfully chicken is still low for me (used to be .69 cents a lb on sale, now .99) but holy hell, ground beef is like unobtainable anymore. They want nearly $6 a lb for the 70% ground beef and I just can't ever justify it. We've mainly just been living on chicken, and pork when there are good sales, but yeah lots of meatless meals.
Electricity has been noticeably going up for me as well and its quite honestly insane. I live in a single-wide trailer with 1 other adult, we're not running heat or AC right now because its spring, we have been actively trying to conserve energy because of how high the bills are so we're making sure to turn stuff off, I unplugged my deep freezer and consolidated to just the fridge, I only do full loads of laundry, with cold water, etc. My electric bill is still over $300!
I feel like we're living like cavemen and we're still somehow using $3000+ of electric, I don't get it.