Whoever wins … the country will fight about the result for the next four years and completely obscure any reasonable debate or conversation about anything of importance like inflation, wealth inequality, war, the military industrial complex or creeping fascism.

If America doesn’t get its act together during this election … it’s just taking another step towards becoming a failed state and will break apart within the next decade or two. But it won’t be a war or anything too dramatic … it will just look and sound like a never slapfest between shouting children and crying babies who threaten each other but never actually do anything except leave the room with all their toys.

Well this planet is definitely a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

The current one we are poisoning ourselves with is … disinformation and delusion

Asbestos generation laughing at the Romans and their use of lead

I had to reinsulate my attic a few years ago and I found about five different types of insulation up there (I have an old house) … I had to do a bunch of research on this stuff and figure out what I had … thankfully I was ok but I found this in my search online

Israel was responsible for all this a few months ago

Now the whole world is because we’re all just standing aside, watching all of it happen and do absolutely nothing … we are all complicit now.

About 20 years I went on a vacation to southern Spain … during the point when Spain was just fully transitioning into the European Union.

I remember trying to watch some TV programs (there wasn’t much to watch) … but the funny thing that struck me was the commercials. They’d play an hour and half long movie for about an hour … then stop and play non stop commercials for about 15 minutes. It was normal for everyone because they used the time to just get up, bathroom break, kitchen duty, clean the house, go grab some groceries, etc … then return to the living room in time to watch the rest of the movie. No one watched commercials because they all hated them as much as anyone else.

I don’t think they do that any more but I thought I wouldn’t mind that myself … instead of breaking my show every ten / fifteen minutes with a minute of commercials … just show them all to me in ten minutes at the end of an hour.

The Vatican … and just let it become part of Italy again. Nothing would change except for a bunch of wealthy idiots trying to hide their money.

It’s got to be a money thing … this guy only acts if it means he loses money or gains money.

It was probably a contractual obligation … stay on stage for XX number of minutes and we’ll pay you … or we’ll pull funding away from you … whatever it was, it was enough to force him to stay on that stage, even if it meant he just stood there doing nothing.

Probably works better if you are Caucasian with a long line of ancestors from Europe.

I’m indigenous in Canada and I find that these tests don’t seem to work too well for minorities or indigenous groups that don’t have a lot of recorded history or a large percentage of individuals of the same ethnic background who take the same tests.

Mine said indigenous which I already know … it just didn’t specify who what where or region other than North America.

Same here

The insanity is not that it is Republicans or Democrats

The insane part is that America is just sleep walking straight into a war that will probably escalate into something much bigger and no one wants to do anything about it.

God help us all

Vandalize? … the entire machine would be stolen. Either by thieves wanting to steal the merchandise or money or both. Or a bunch of teens that would tie a chain to it and drag it to the end of town for fun.

UN mission says Russian tanks forcibly entered base in southern Ukraine

… the world would start WWIII if this happened … Israel does it and its treated as just another useless headline from the Middle East.

Exactly … I have wealthy friends and non-wealthy friends who are dirt poor … you know what the difference is between the two groups?

The wealthy people are the stingiest people you’ll ever meet and they’ll fight to save a dollar or two, even though you know they have tons of money in the bank.

The poor people will spend $100 on something they could buy for $20 and never think twice about the money they lost, even though they have nothing saved in their bank.

I have a theory that every company/service/corporation has dozens of loopholes like this everywhere that people could take advantage of. But no one ever does because most people are too honest and proud to ever ask for a discount or to take advantage of an opportunity like this. Most people are too nice and gullible.

Corporations bet on people being too nice all the time.

People are too embarrassed or self conscious to go after a deal or even to ask for one … when in reality corporations are complete greedy whores and will sell your grandmother if it meant they could save a penny.

No one should ever feel embarrassed or shy to ask for a discount or go after saving themselves a few dollars. Corporations do it all the time and they never shy away from skimming off a few pennies from you if they can.

BTW - beautiful work on getting that regular discount for yourself

State? by then it will be a country governed by a Christian monarchy

Florida is like an old used car: cheap up front costs for a dangerous vehicle that you know will eventually fall apart but you act surprised when you lose a ball joint in your front suspension on the highway while doing 120 kph because you ignored your mechanic for the fourth time this year. The look on your face as your car crosses the median and you’re about to impact a cement truck.

For every service you sign up to … phone company, subscription, gas company, water service, electricity, whatever …

… always ask if you can get a discount or a better price.

Don’t be embarrassed to ask. No one cares. We just build a culture around the hope that no one will ever ask for a better price and negotiate. The rep your talking to doesn’t care about you and doesn’t care about the company … they might be having a bad day and won’t care about helping you … or they might be having a good day and they know an inside method or option to save you something … or they might be facing losing their job so they figure out a way to save you a ton of money.

I got a banking service a few weeks ago and they gave me a price for a subscription … I knew it was a sham but it was a service I needed … I asked for a discount from the Filipino rep who spoke bag English … she went off for five minutes and came back with a 60% discount.

Sometimes these businesses set their prices high and just hope that no one will ask for a different price … because most people never ask.

This is the collective stupidity of America

It isn’t about Turnip making dumb comments like this or suggesting making fascist government

No

It’s about how America just sits around and listens to all this stupidity and accepts it all as a regular normal part of the political conversation.