Business school calls it Escalation of Commitment.

I can’t tell if you’re kidding, but the homonym you’re looking for is pear.

If the “policies” are to blame then the actual argument presented is, at its core: “I was just following orders.”

Which is a crime for members of the military, and nazi rhetoric for the rest of the world.

The IG should be under investigation for gross incompetence next.

Freeloader states always begging for Federal bailouts.

If they cannot govern and refuse to adapt they are not worthy of investiture without change.

They should be given options to rectify their situation, but ANY Federal funds come with those strings attached.

Genx is 1965 – 1980.

At 65, he’s 6 years too old to be Gen X.

Put that fuckin Boomer in prison for 3 years.

53% of white women voted for Trump in 2024.

I’m finding it very difficult to see why Texas should be allowed to remain independent. They can’t maintain their infrastructure, they can’t provide for their citizen constituents, and they frequently signal a willingness to demean America by association. They’re not good at governance and are constantly begging for Federal handouts.

So let’s just take over the state. Send in the Feds, remove the Executive branch and State supreme court justices, and disbar the legislative officers. They keep fuckin around and it is past time they started finding out.

Better be sure. They can run at 25-30mph (faster than Usain Bolt)

I agreed that they are the natural outcome, in the absence of effective regulation. Sans means without.

Capitalism inherently concentrates wealth, and as wealth concentrates, it builds upon itself while seeking out novel opportunities to deepen influence. We see this phenomenon in modern economic scenarios as individuals gain the ability to co-opt political forces, and create larger and larger wealth watersheds.

In other words, the existence of billionaires is a symptom of a broken system- one that has NOT effectively been regulated. They become monopolistic entities unto themselves. Billionaire brands then gain further leverage via network effects, creating a snowball that only government intervention can safely defuse. It doesn’t matter if one billionaire is “good,” nor one politician. As Edwards Deming famously said, “a bad system will beat a good person, every time.”

Sure, sans regulation. The point of govt regulations is to ensure that platforms that control two sided markets are not given complete largesse to fleece the participants. It’s ultimately a defeating strategy with diminishing returns, as both producers and consumers lack the necessary surplus required to participate AND to invest/reinvest resources toward long term growth. Another reason that stock buy-backs used to be illegal.

And obviously you can probably guess I believe they should be illegal again.

Idaho also ranks in the bottom half of states for primary care and physician availability. 39 of Idaho’s 44 counties are health professional shortage areas

They’ve already lost 1 of every 5 OBGYN since 2022.

A better functioning government would break up these conglomerates as they operate like cartels, price fixing and gouging and colluding with each other, all at consumer expense, while simultaneously watering down product offerings to their worst versions.

This is NOT the free market.

I’m not saying it’s right, but I’d understand it

Mmm. Yeah. Evolution. Human giraffe hybrid. Let’s see the branches of this tree.

Well kids, good luck getting into any non-Florida higher education program.

I wouldn’t mind having USPS offer cellular service and Internet, as a service. Bring back basic banking at the post office too. Solid revenue streams for the USPS and cuts out the cancer of ISPs and cell companies.

Yeah, why isn’t anyone clutching their pearls when I walk my dog twice a day? I’m in the street, on the sidewalk , I even cross medians. And I have a large dog, so I could theoretically be attacked by a large dog. “Anything” could happen.

The neolibs and neocons united in their zeal to funnel taxpayer dollars into private hands. They ONLY differ on whose hands.

Exactly like 2016.

White women gave Trump the Presidency because deep down, they know structural racism benefits them more than any other group besides white men.