Trump fucked up so bad wirh Iran and he is hoping China oil can lower prices. If he can lower gas prices before midterms, maybe he can the epstein files secret a little longer.

Pointing out the GOPs constant hypocrisy doesn't even seem to matter anymore

yeah but obama wore a tan suit so it’s all square /s

Flattery gets you everywhere with Trump, so it makes sense they’d be told that. If they kiss his ass enough he’ll just give them Taiwan.

A national strike would probably be more palatable if there were trusted community organizations that could help the most vulnerable who can't go without pay, even for short periods. It doesn't just have to be cash they distribute, in-kind goods or services would be useful too.

This is what people mean when they say voting isn't enough to make meaningful change. Get to know your neighbors and take care of each other. The state is less scary when you have solidarity.

The largest strike in the history of the USA was 70K people.

Why are you dreaming of magical solutions?

There have been national strikes in the world, like India, but the USA's standard of living is much too high for that. Nobody else has managed a national strike under similar conditions, it's unheard of. It's never been done.

Besides, your country is probably still using US dollars and accepting US aid, you can't even stop enabling the international beast yourselves. But you have to work and feed your family, we get it.

We don't like each other enough. We see the government as a way to make other people angry.

We will deal with the problem when the water around us starts boiling I promise. In the meantime has anyone noticed it's feeling a bit warm in here?

yeah.. that's nuts

Just pitch it as an indefinitely long tailgating party.

One assumes the mice are heading there to pay for the wall

I’m not usually a fan of such ideas, but it does seem very, very suspicious to me, given that the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries are apparently doing everything in their power to undo the civilizational progress of the last hundred years—and are clearly doing so in a fairly well-coordinated manner.

Have you ever been close to the top of of a large organization? While conventional wisdom is that the higher you go, the more informed, skilled, coordinated, wise, and even Machiavellian it is. My experience is that its usually the opposite. Sure, there are pockets of those things in individual people, but the people at the top are usually really good at a few things only. If they're truly wise, they surround themselves with other people that cover their own gaps in knowledge, skill, temperament, etc. However the larger and more complicated the organization, the more outer rings of people are required with those other pockets of skills.

In short, complex organizations (this includes governments) are the opposite of " fairly well-coordinated manner". There are just too many moving parts and the environment changes so quickly that the rules that worked a second ago changed. Most successful organizations I've seen make "okay" decisions most of the time "good" decisions every now and then, and the best orgs do everything they can to limit their internal fuck ups.

The best vaccine against conspiracy theories about high groups of coordinated humans in leadership working against you is actually seeing humans in leadership trying to coordinate.

The global feudal regime is called the WEF. It is ran by the West.