I’m wondering if this can’t be done without being in gross violation of a whole raft of domestic and international laws.
Most Americans don’t support wanton criminality, which could be why Trump’s approval rating is 33% and continues to plunge.
Apparently, there is a shopping mall in Chicago with a 28% vacancy rate. I’m not an expert in commercial real estate, but that doesn’t sound terrible, given what I’ve seen the few times I’ve had the misfortune to be in such a facility. They seem like ghost towns (see pic below).
The popularity of shopping malls has been falling over the last couple of decades, exacerbated by e-commerce and finally COVID-19, which had a crippling effect on top of America’s falling affinity for this type of shopping experience.
Making Trump’s claim even less supportable is the fact that the crime rate in Chicago is not rising. An AI overview:
Chicago’s overall crime rate is higher than the U.S. average, with a total crime rate of 4,012.2 per 100,000 people and a violent crime rate of 539.8 per 100,000 people. However, recent data from November 2025 show significant decreases in violent crime, including a 24% drop in homicides and shootings, and a 41% drop in robberies compared to the same period in 2024. The city’s violent crime rate has increased over the past decade, largely driven by increases in vehicle thefts and assaults, although some reports show an overall decrease in violent crime for 2023 and 2024.
Even through the barrage of nonstop lies, Trump somehow manages to maintain the support of 33% of American voters. It’s hard to imagine how this is possible.
There is so much we don’t know about all the moving parts that affect regulating our planet’s climate.
Are greenhouse gas emissions making it harder to reflect the energy from incoming solar radiation back into space? Yes. There are crackpots who claim otherwise, but this theory, called “anthropogenic global warming (AGW)”, is as universally accepted among climate scientists as the theory of evolution is among biologists.
That said, we’re constantly learning more about the pace with which all this is happening. As an example, we keep improving our capacity to look inside massive glaciers to assess their “health.”
Moving on with the subject above, here’s an AI summary of “thermohaline circulation” of which the Gulf Stream is a major part:
Thermohaline circulation is a global, slow-moving current system in the ocean driven by differences in water temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline), which affect density. It functions as a large-scale “ocean conveyor belt” that redistributes heat from the equator to the poles, delivers oxygen to the deep ocean, and plays a vital role in regulating global climate.
How far are we from disrupting this entire system? I don’t think anybody really knows.
Re: the “one simple question” posed at left, it’s not that easy.
About one-third of American voters continues to approve of the way Trump is running the country. Most of them come from solid red states, where defying Trump would be political suicide.
Congressional Republicans appear to be people of near-zero integrity, desperate to stay in office. Until they believe that they can get re-elected even after withdrawing their support from Trump, we have the quagmire exemplified by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) after her special election win, so as to block a crucial vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
These people are spineless.
Regardless of what Jeffrey Epstein said about Trump, most of his supporters believe he’s a saint.
Some, however, would put it like this, “Trump is a bad person with good ideas.”
Whatever.
This country will be a better place to live in dozens of different ways when Trump is gone.
The meme here is from the “Daily Patriot Report,” and undoubtedly this idea will appeal to some folks.
A competitive viewpoint, however, is that these three cities rank (NYC) #1, (LA) #2, and (CHICAGO) #3 in the United States in terms of gross domestic product. The New York City metropolitan area ranks #2 in the world, just behind Tokyo, and ahead of London.
Making major changes to these areas, especially if they’re made by those who have no idea what they’re talking about, could make the entire U.S. look like one big West Virginia (see pic below).
What makes life here in the United States so interesting is the vast amount of horsecrap we’re fed on a daily basis.
Here, we’re being asked to believe both that impoverished illegal aliens are eating up government services and that they’re qualifying for mortgages and buying our homes out from under our children.
It’s interesting to watch the slow but steady fall of the president’s approval rating, as folks “jump ship.”
Certainly, a good portion of the MAGA base will remain loyal, regardless of what comes forward about Trump’s history of sexually abusing young girls, or his committing an array of other crimes, but the woman here illustrates what a great number of Americans are thinking.
I found this (at left) interesting. But how does one “develop creative skills, create value, and learn how to solve problems?” If the author has answers here, please provide them.
In truth, none exist.
Yet there are ways to prepare oneself for a great career: learning to write clearly, applying logic and intelligence, and figuring out how to function as an adult.
Education can help you with that.
The “Chris” referred to here is Chris Pappas, a person I know nothing about, other than that he’s a Democrat trying to prevent his state from voting in a Republican senator.
Isn’t New Hampshire a mystery to us all? It’s home to Dartmouth College and dozens of other top learning institutions, and it’s adjacent to Massachusetts, where it’s hard to find a Trump supporter. Yes, the state extends far enough north that some of these voters are from some far-flung districts, but is the entire state going in the direction of Alabama and Mississippi?
