Like half of congress is 70+ at this point. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
How long until most of congress is required to go around in wheelchairs, accompanied by nurses, because the house and senate majorities are so thin that it just takes one or two dinosaurs falling over to reshuffle US politics.
Tesla spent 2 billion dollars to develop an $80,000 car that can't function in anything but perfect summer weather, and even then has a chance of locking itself for reasons that no one can figure out.
Meanwhile, a high end electric car in China has all the same features at less than half the price, and with the bonus of everything working properly.
Will Trump actually be allowed to destroy NAFTA?
I know the people around him just want to do a smash and grab for themselves, but that's a small circle of people, and the USA is a very large country.
I'm starting to wonder why the US ever thought it could it hold an edge in all these fields without ever investing real money into education.
China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent. They were always going to be able to catch up and then move ahead.
I will never forget how the Trump campaign did political ads just showing clips of Democrats talking about how great the Biden economy is.
The only reason it wasn't the biggest self own of the campaign is because Kamala then went on to flip off her entire base so she could spend her campaign running around with the Cheneys to talk about shit that literally no one in either party wanted.
It's driven by the massive spike in the cost of living, especially the cost of food / housing / energy, which no party is interested in addressing, so yeah, it's a fucking problem that isn't going away.
Did Kamala's crowd sizes really put the fear in Trump or what? His only rally this week is in fucking Montana tomorrow, with none scheduled for the rest of the month. He's just doing unhinged press conferences.
Imagine if the Democrats had brought this kind of competence and energy to 2016 by running LITERALLY ANY OTHER CANDIDATE!
It's not like anyone is actually voting for him. No one is Biden or bust. People are just voting against Trump, same as last time. Nothing is actually gained by keeping the 81 year dementia patient on the ballot.
Yeah, people did start to figure this out two years ago, once Russia pulled back and settled in for a long war. NATO governments spent billions more to procure shells and artillery pieces, and on incentives to get the arms industry to build more factory lines and supply lines.
But decades of neoliberalism have gutted the states ability to do anything itself, or to compel a corporation to do anything, even something as simple as build an artillery shell that was designed in the 1870s. The end result is that the incentive money was used to streamline and automate the existing, privately owned, factories, allowing them to fire workers and run more cheaply , but not to actually expand production. And with billions more dollars chasing the same supply of shells, the cost of an artillery shell has now skyrocketed to ~$9,000 a shell.
They must be getting spooked by all the public admiration and sympathy for the assassin, which doesn't seem to be fading away at all.
Yeah, vehicular homicide is basically legal in the US, so long as you don't flee the scene.
China really is living in the future. Building new space stations, high speed rail and ever cheaper, cleaner energy.
Meanwhile , a single US state is approaching its third decade of trying to build a single line of high speed rail, and our federal politics consist of watching our most ancient boomers build a Gestapo while they are actively dying of old age.