> If a fraction of the lurid tales of corruption prove valid, then this is not a bad thing.
If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle.
> The SSA was never anything other than a Tenth Amendment violation to begin with, as shown by FDR's court packing threat[1], so a bit of external review seems in order.
I know about the plan. But how did you make the jump from that to SSA being unconstitutional?
> Some sort of sane transition plan off of these socialized programs would be of great interest to a super-majority of voters, one expects.
A plan to eliminate program that keeps 22 million Americans out of poverty most of whom are seniors is of great interest to a super-majority of voters?
Kids, this is what happens when you read far right conspiracy theory websites for news.
Tell me, how will the "Big Beautiful Bill", that adds multiple trillions to the debt while gutting essential social programs, will fix your "debt bomb"?
To me, it appears like straight up stealing, putting all the country's wealth in tax cuts to the rich and government contracts to military contractors. All the while placing the country on a sure path to financial and social ruin.
Prohibition, state-run eugenics programs, the end of freedom of contract, Wickard v. Fillburn, the Imperial Presidency, internationalist interventionism, etc. were all born from the original Progressivism movement.
> So here we sit, decades later, waiting for a debt bomb to 'splode.
Social Security has literally never missed a payment. It's arguably the most successful government program ever.
The reality is that all you armchair "ahhh deficit!!1" people have no answers to anything. We don't want granny dying in the street. I don't want that, you don't want that. Okay, so we need some social... security. It's not rocket science.
If you're not proposing real alternatives that actually at least have a chance of working, then you're just arguing in bad faith and nobody cares about you. And, to jump the gun here, no - private choice insurance IS NOT a replacement. That is explicitly not security and we run right back into "granny dying in street" problem.
What does the awkwardness of question has to do with whether Trump won the popular vote or not? Hitler was popular in Germany and there were plenty of awkward questions later.
Early in my career I had this naive starry eyed vision of tech industry being “one of the good people.” Google’s “don’t be evil” motto, companies building stuff to actually help people, solving interesting problems, good work/life balance, etc.
Then I grew up. But after post covid boom layoffs and the last election, I realized it’s no different than any other industry including tobacco and oil who actively harm the public for short term gains. I hate that upper strata with a passion.
I don't think it's you, or me, or us. Tech changed, not us.
The tech industry ethos of the 1960's and 1970's was exterminated by the same get-rich-quick crowd that ruined real estate, broadcasting, and a dozen other industries.
The fervor and excitement over developing AI to replace their employees, who they view with outright contempt, has been particularly eye opening as well.
> Hillsdale College is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025, a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from The Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power since Trump won the 2024 presidential election.
> One of those is the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA), which announced last month that it would relocate its 2026 meeting from New Jersey to St. Catharines, Canada, after a survey of its members suggested that many international researchers would not attend a US meeting.
> Organizers of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition have made a similar call. Its 33rd annual conference next year will take place outside the United States for the first time in the society’s history, in Montreal, Canada.
> The Northwest Cognition & Memory (NOWCAM) meeting relocated its meeting earlier this month from Western Washington University in Bellingham to Victoria, Canada.
> The International Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has cancelled its conference, originally planned for August 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, because cuts to federal funding meant it was “no longer financially viable”.
> The 2026 Cities on Volcanoes conference in Bend, Oregon, has been postponed to 2030 or 2032.
> The International X-ray Absorption Society cancelled its upcoming 19th conference in Chicago, Illinois
Your comment should be taken down for being a crock. This is further evidence that Trump's very existence causes some people to blindly worship him.
Why are you substituting words with random alphabet characters? Are you able to read the original post? Are you unable to grasp how it adds context and data point to the discussion?
My wifes company banned travel to the US. It is a few thousand people in British Columbia. She was planning to go to the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle and was told she could not go.
> Without fail, every one of them has a _visceral_ negative reaction to a hypothetical Trump 2028 term. It’s stunning. This is not a “I wouldn’t vote for a felon/rapist/whatever” type of red line that falls apart when you question it - they are universally against it.
What were their thoughts and reactions after Jan 6? Clearly it was not a red line for them, but just curious if you discussed it with them right after.
The status quo of the US society was largely overwritten by a single man back then. This included extraordinary (for the US) measures like expropriating gold[0] and The New Deal (which concentrated a lot of power in the hands of the state). But then everything went back to normal (he's the reason why there is a maximum of 2 presidential terms now).
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