Coolidge-ism cannot fail. It can only be failed.

Gutting the federal budget takes us several big steps closer to the Thiel/Yarvin/Srinivasan envisioned Network State. Tiny autocratic techno-feudal cities that rule the surrounding territory in the same way Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula, and east Iraq are controlled from Tel Aviv. We’re going to balkinize America, folks.

I don’t disagree with you – I believe their line of reasoning was along the lines of getting all the operating funds needed for the ‘government’ from revenue generated from tariffs. One reason for aggressively slashing social support systems could be that they want to shift people’s dependency for those programs more directly to corporate interests such as Google and Apple – many tech companies have ‘interests’ in the medical field after all. The one area they would likely still want to maintain govt functions in, are military in nature – the theory is that they want what are essentially geo-distant corporate city states that are connected via the internet, and protected by orbital weaponry / nuclear arms. Setting up a few blocs of this nature, and having them constantly feign conflicts with each other, will help to keep people placated as well, in a sort of horribly Orwellian sense. That sort of concern isn’t really something for the ultra wealthy to be bothered by though, which’s one reason oligarchies are so dangerous.

Still looks like the USA is sorta heading in that direction a bit, though obviously any of my musings are just guesses based on conspiracy theories I find plausible – so I doubt it’d play out that way any time soon or anything. If there were ‘real’ flags of that sort of thing being imminent, I imagine some people in the govt would be making even more noise to us commoners, hah.

And loss of trust / stability of the government makes the tech industry’s push for corporate controlled ‘freedom cities’ much easier to get agreement on, allowing America’s rich oligarchs to quite literally establish their own baronies ;P

I don’t even understand everyone’s obsession over eggs. When prices go up, I simply stop buying them. Not having eggs isn’t the end of the world. There’s plenty of other foods available to eat.

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I was just at the grocery store; normal eggs are $10/dozen in Central California, where we have a lot of egg operations.

So you’re saying the destruction of the whole US Government is just fine because egg prices eventually came back down somewhere?

Cool.

Egg prices are almost back to normal

It’s so funny that someone named “Critical Thinker” never stopped to ask why eggs got expensive to begin with or what has been happening in the poultry industry over the last six months.

You just come off the bat with “Um, aktuly, its fixed now!” without questioning changes to supply or demand.

FFS, Trump’s own Department of Agriculture released an updated food price outlook report for the year predicting that egg prices would increase 41.1% in 2025 as they continue to experience “volatile month-to-month changes” because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak—up from the 20.3% increase the USDA predicted in January.

But why think critically about any of this?

I still haven’t found a single action that will make things better for citizens after it’s net impact is considered.

My man’s brain overheats at the prospect of getting out of bed in the morning.

Fiscally Responsible George, who does 86400 fiscally responsibles a day, is an outlier and should not have been included in the data set.

This is the right way to go unless you’re totally incompetent with money or a gambling addict.

So what’s the point of this dance we do every year where the govt is coyly asking us to guess how much we owe or are owed?

You know you can tell your workplace not to do that, right?

Yea, my wife wants to wait and I’m like, why? We’re just screwing ourselves. Assuming the IRS even processes refunds at this point.

That’s fine. I’d rather pay a recovered government than the current one…if that happens.