On Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 10:23:07 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
Actually, yes he is* bombastic*, and puts that in the process with negotiations. Sometimes it even works! At the end of the day, its not personality that we serfs live and die upon, but rather public policies. I hold that the Starmer-Soros-Schwab-WEF-Macon-Obama- policies have worked very, aggressively badly. In real life, planet earth. Just as Britons tend to think differently than yanks, Comrade Xi, Putin, and the Ayatollahs think differently than both of us. For pragmatic reasons, I'd have sided with the previous boys IF these were good for the middle class. Sadly they weren't. So, for most of us, its substance over style. One can be extremely charming as all UK PM's ever is, but either accomplish zero (not the worst option) or force things to go sideways. For me, to quote the late, humor writer PJ O'Rourke, "I'm an American, I want to solve problems with technology, not politics." An imaginary example of this might be 3D printing. If we could print all we needed via 3D printing (Or nanotech), then the disparities supposedly provided by socialislm, would never be needed. Because, if we print all we need, cheap, who needs a government? All you do is quote other fringe ideas when questioned. Nothing of that benefits or feeds people now. Irrelevant. Calling Trump “substance over style” misses the point entirely. His style—cruelty without wit, mockery without humor—isn’t some negotiating tactic, it’s how he consolidates power. He silences critics, not with arguments, but with smears and jeers. That’s not leadership, that’s bullying. As for substance: there is no serious plan to help the middle class. Tariffs and tax cuts are not a strategy—they're a smokescreen. Tariffs raise prices on everyday goods, hurting working families, not billionaires. Meanwhile, tax cuts—like those he passed in 2017—disproportionately benefit the ultra-wealthy. Cutting government jobs and “draining the swamp” sounds tough, but it’s just a way to slash services while funneling more money upward. If you're in the middle class and supporting this, you'd better hope it doesn’t work—because you're the one paying for it. There’s no plan for sustainable jobs, no serious industrial policy, and no honest accounting of how gutting agencies while ballooning defense spending to $1 trillion will do anything but shift more burden onto you. Also, because I never miss an opportunity to promote technology as useful to us primates, I will end this convo with today's vid by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder regarding a somewhat improved hypothesis on why black holes are suitable for quantum computing. Older idea, new take. Technology is useful for robbing you and is out-of-topic. But the idiot here is yours truly, as the expectation for you to focus on one thing and discuss it, is more ludicrous than answering where the money for those tax breaks and military spending will come from. You want to speak physics of quantum computers? Then do the list a favor and have a single thought of your own, an equation, a contribution, without quoting some woke expert. Otherwise it's your usual camo of dressing up your "posts" with woke work to fake a sophistication and/or depth that doesn't exist. Nobody cares about our opinions, Mitch. There are billions of us and I haven't seen you make a single point/contribution for years on this list that fits the topic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0990c75c-4964-4939-b958-db9b81e7642bn%40googlegroups.com.
