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 …

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill – Now You Can Better Sponsor a Billionaire 

Middle-class: work harder to make your favorite billionaire happier. It’s the new American Dream. Remember, the more they have, the more they need. “Greed is Good.” My fellow middle-class Americans: When you pay you taxes and billionaires don’t, which would you rather support? Science and education, or getting one guy a bigger yacht? You needn’t …

Trump’s ignorant tariffs won’t bring US manufacturing jobs back

Tariffs are a consumption tax on the middle calls and don’t bring jobs. Tariffs make the rich even richer at the expense of the middle class. As history in many countries, including the USA, Germany, and China teaches us, government funding of education and innovation bring jobs. In his address to Congress, Trump said the …

Slow Ending of USA Empire and Its Technology Now Takes Rapid Descent

Capitalism’s Golden Age was between 1945 to 1980 in the USA, started by FDR and ended by Reagan. The short period was an outlier for capitalism, when a socialist-capitalist hybrid structure brought prosperity to most, a huge middle class, and great technological innovations. Since 1980, the USA has been contracting gradually, but with Trump 1 …

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 …

DeepSeek Has Taught Educated AI Startup Leaders a Lesson Other Techs Learned Years Ago – Trump Needs to Learn Too

In the DeepSeek AI saga, some technologists but not Republicans are relearning the lessons of the previous Chinese tech booms. China’s government not only spends much money on R&D, but the education of its people at world-class universities that is like nothing like what we currently have in the US, and, unlike here in the …

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 …

If I keep Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils, Instead of the Best Person, All I Get is Evil.

As Biden and his Neocon cronies continue to commit war crimes in Gaza, the world is turning away from the US. A totally incompetent man who never learned from our mistakes in Iraq and other failed hegemonic actions (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc), the US debt spirals up to record levels where it now matches …