4.9% per month is 78% per annum.
Here is a deal I’m sure you’ll accept.
I’ll send you $100K tomorrow morning, and you put $178K in escrow, payable to me at the end of 12 months.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
As suggested at left, if you want us to believe that traditional country music artists singers are predominantly Trump supporters, we’ll accept that. If I were selling — whatever — to largely uneducated white people, I myself might succumb to the temptation to pretend that Trump is OK with me.
And yes, there are a few Hollywood actors that love Trump too. But outside of Nashville and a few meanspirited crackpots out here in California, there is essentially zero support for the president in the entertainment industry.
Why?
First of all, America still dominates the world in terms of music and film, and the people outside the U.S. have a general loathing for Trump and his criminality.
On top of that, about two-thirds of U.S. voters, right here at home, despise the president, as they realized long ago that he’s essentially a conman.
Expecting people who love music, movies, dogs, science, children, and compassion for other people to accept Trump is a pipedream.
I looked through a few of the many thousands of responses to the question above on social media and have concluded:
If you ask uneducated people who know essentially nothing about global warming, you’ll find that nothing can stop it, because it’s been going on since the origin of the planet. Others say that God controls the planet’s temperature.
If you ask climate scientists who work in laboratories around the globe who have been studying this subject for decades, you’ll find that there are two key answers: a) decarbonization of our transportation and energy sectors and b) halting the destruction of our rain forests.
As always, we have a choice to make: ignorance or science.
In mathematics, a “point of inflection” is the point at which a function stops falling and starts growing or stops growing and starts falling. In the language of calculus, we say that a point of inflection is where the second derivative of the function transitions from positive to negative or vice versa.
The well-being of the common American hit an inflection point with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan as president of the United States. After decades in growth following WW2, instantaneously, we had huge tax breaks for billionaires on the basis of “trickle-down economics,” i.e., the idea that rich people, if they were made even richer, would hire more people.
For some reason, this idea was widely accepted, certainly not by economists, but by the working class, who couldn’t put together the notion that no one hires people except when they’re hit by market forces.
Where do you get pizza? Do you think for a second that the owner of a pizzeria wants more employees to make and deliver your pizza than is absolutely required to keep his customers happy? No, and guess what. That applies to everyone, from the local mom-and-pop shop to the Fortune 500.
The content of the meme here is partially true. Trump still has about 35% support, but that’s down from 51% when he was elected. So, more than 12 million American voters who put him in office have realized that he’s nothing more than a criminal conman.
If I were to make a guess about the near-term future of the United States, I would say that it will take a great many years before the people of the world stop harboring deep concerns to the effect the U.S. can be trusted again, because this nation:
– Could, at any time, have another would-be dictator who may be even worse than Trump. The current president is a monster, but thank God, he’s also inept. What if we get another monster who’s actually talented?
– Has become incredibly corrupt and has a congress that is essentially owned by heartless billionaires and corporations.
– Has a voter base that is composed of many tens of millions of hateful morons who will believe anything if it translates to punishing everyone but straight white Christian males.
What an idiotic statement we see here at left.
No one is hoping to see the United States complete the process of self-immolation.
About two-thirds of Americans want to see Trump held accountable for a variety of crimes, including treason. We want him impeached, convicted, and imprisoned.
Perhaps we’ve identified the central problem in the U.S. government.
There is no such thing as “Trump’s Supreme Court”; it doesn’t belong to him. We have, or at least had, three co-equal branches of government.
Well, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional provision that it’s our Congress that sets tariffs.
In true character, Trump has told the federal government to f*** off, asserting that he has the right to do anything he wants.
Yesterday, he told our nation that he has the power to destroy any nation he chooses.
We’re at a crossroads. Either Trump emerges as king and turns American democracy into a relic, or we bring a stop to this criminal insanity.
What do progressives hope for, given the runaway criminality of the U.S. president?
The woman at left is what is properly called a “radical,” from the Latin for “root.” Pull it out by its roots, or in this case, burn it to the ground. I’ve heard this viewpoint expressed dozens of times, most recently by the wife of an old school chum.
I’m as disgusted by the downward spiral that Trump is inflicting upon the United States as the next guy, but I can’t get on board with this.
My message here: every decent U.S. citizen wants this turned around, but we can do this without ruining the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. Trump is suffering a plummeting decline in voter supporter. We’re more than halfway home back to reason, compassion for others, and most of all, rule of law.
I appreciate how upset you are, but I beg you to reconsider.
