Trump: Let’s Have the Middle-Class Give the Ultra-Wealthy a Free Double-Dip

Lower taxes on the ultra-wealthy, leading to a greater budget deficit, that then leads to the ultra-wealthy to buying government treasuries wherere the wealthy are guaranteed a percentage profit on the money they no longer pay in taxes. You can’t make this stuff up, it’s stranger than fiction how dumb middle-class Republicans support the very …

Government Is More Efficient and Effective Than Private Enterprise

Many people in the private enterprise system of the USA make lots of money by doing nothing productive, just by shuffling money around. It’s called financialization, and these wealthy financiers (egregious examples: Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz, Steven Hoffenberg (with Jeffrey Epstein), Scott W. Rothstein, Gilbert Chikli,Simon Leviev, Moshe Leichner, David Gentile and Jeffry Schneider, Carl Ruderman, …

Deport Elon Musk, A Stupid, Bullshitting and Dangerous Illegal Alien

Elon Musk entered the USA illegally, is a known Russian and Chinese asset and is a threat to the American People. He has never created any technologies, and is not an elected leader and is engaging in criminal, self-aggrandizing activities. Elon Musk – Long-term ketamine use is associated with lower gray matter volume and less …

Bigger and More Expensive is Not Necessarily Better -DeepSeek Takes Over the “Frontier”

The US now lives in the era of short-term monetization research led by billionaires, instead of the long-term innovation paradigm led by our non-profit academic research institutions. VC-backed AI startups reflect this shift as the US loses its lead in almost all aspects of science and engineering to China. Typical in empires that have reached …

The Politics of Natural Disasters in the USA – Texas is #1 in More Ways Than One

Considering the three largest states in the USA, California, Texas, and Florida, it is California that has the least number of disasters with the lowest cost burden, by far, of the three. Texas, of course, is the number one disaster state. Yet, when the state of California faces a disaster, Republican politicians, especially those from …

Elon Tries to Kill “President Musk” Allegations After Another of His Total Disasters

Like his Cybertruck, Robotaxi, Tesla Semi, Tesla Roadster, Solar Panels, Hyperloop, Exploding Starships, Boring Company, Musk’s genius spending bill idea crashed and burned. Now he’s doing a media blitz so as not to be blamed, including by Trump. Elon Musk, who didn’t found Tesla, but stole it from the founders, and co-founded SpaceX but didn’t …

Republicans Love Bureaucracy, as Long as it is Privatized, Deregulated, Inefficent, and Profitable for the Wealthy

A bureaucracy is a system of organization that uses rules and procedures to coordinate the work of many people to accomplish large-scale tasks. Bureaucracies are often characterized by:  When oversight of the bureaucracy by the people is in place, the system works well. But put the wealthy in charge of the bureaucracy, then only the wealthy benefit. …

The Billionaires Won Again

Witnessing the end of empire. The USA had a good ride from the 1930s until the 1980s, while the last 40 years has seen the beginnings of the end of empire. We are now in the acute phase of decline, and becoming what Britain became, a beligerent plutocracy that is a hollowed-out shell of its …

SpaceX Starship Will Never go to the Moon or Mars

The cofounder of SpaceX, aerospace engineer Tom Mueller (BS and MS in engineering), and his team, who developed the now successful SpaceX technologies, have left the company. What’s left is an insel with a speech impediment pretending to be an engineer and who thinks he’s an engineer because he takes credit for other people’s engineering …

Florida, It’s Not a Tech Scene, It’s a Crime Scene

Florida has an economy built on rebuilding from hurricances and floods, fraud of all kinds, retirees, and tourism. Led by a corrupt governor, it’s a deregulated mess and falling down, fast. Conservative media that ballyhooed Miami as “Silicon Valley South” is media hype as the one and only large VC firm with offices in Miami …