Here’s an investment opportunity for people who a) believe the future of air travel is electric (which it is), but b) have no idea what they’re talking about.
What concerns me most is that it moves so slowly. Your shortish commute to work is now measured in hours. LAX to New York should be, I’m guessing, a week or so. A bit better than a stagecoach.
I think we all know this, at some level. The problem is that making personal sacrifices for the good of all humankind is something that very few people will do.
Seriously, the avalanche of utter disgrace that is raining down on her and her family must be very difficult to accept, not that I sympathize.
From the ad at left:
You generally don’t see criminal defendants in court say, “Sure I did it. So what?”
Trump doesn’t seem to understand that the criminal justice system is based on a set of laws that have sharp teeth.
Explaining that he brought classified documents to his home because he had declassified them in his mind, or whatever the excuse of the day is today, is extremely unusual behavior for someone facing hundreds of years in prison for stealing documents and dozens of other even more serious crimes.
Most Americans want to see Trump held accountable for his crimes, and we’re not happy that all this is dragging along, month after month. Having said that, the legal expert interviewed here makes the point that this is an enormous RICO case.
The graphic below provides a sense as to how complicated all this is and, as a consequence, why it’s taking so long for indictments to be unsealed. (more…)
One of the many aspects that made life in 20th Century America pleasant was the fact that most business dealings, as well as most other interpersonal exchanges, were built on a bedrock of honesty.
My business partner and I had clients all over the world, and there were very few moments in all those interchanges in which anyone’s integrity was questioned.
I simply cannot imagine how all this would have gone down in an era where hundreds of Volkswagen’s top people are conspiring to rig a good portion of their 11 million customers’ cars’ emissions, or the brass at Wells Fargo decides it would be a good idea to defraud 2 million of their credit card customers.
Both of these scandals were several years ago; I hate to think how much worse it’s gotten.
Hell, we elected a common criminal to be President of the Effing United States, and the people who voted for him (most of them twice) still support him, even as the justice system is closing in on him with a litany of criminal charges and a $250 million civil suit.
The defense used by the 800+ insurrectionists in defense of their actions on January 6th: the commander-in-chief of the U.S. military ordered me to do that.
It seems like we’ve forgotten what makes life pleasant for the common American.
Between the end of World War II and the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, taxes on corporations and the ultra rich were very high, and those funds were invested in programs that benefited the average citizen, principally infrastructure and education.
Since that time, the top marginal tax rates on those entities have fallen from about 90% to about 30%, public education standards have fallen through the floor, and the middle class is rapidly evaporating. 40% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck, with many people holding down two or three jobs.
All we really need to do is repeat what made this country the strongest and most powerful nation on Earth.
With all the commotion swirling around Trump himself, it’s easy to lose track of people like U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, the latter of whom clearly participated in the attempt to overthrow the U.S. government following the 2020 presidential election.
I would argue that “shipping vulnerable migrants across the country” actually is “a campaign tactic.”
Almost half of American voters regard these desperate immigrants as vermin, and find that tormenting them for fun is a real turn-on.
