Step 1: Remove EV Tax Credit Step 2: Spike Oil Prices Step 3: Put extra tax on EVs

Now you make people get EVs AND pay you for the pleasure. Extra points if you invest your stocks right to capitalize on both the spike in oil and the raised demand of EVs! So much winning! (But not for the Average American)

This is like the tips on a loading screen.

“If you are dying often, try using healing potions” “Try focusing on an enemy’s weak points”

Honestly the only phobia to passports I’ve heard is that they’re not cheap and require forms/work to obtain. I’ve got one, but if you’re just scraping by, you’re not going to want to drop what equates to like a week and a half of federal minimum wage earnings to get a document you might never use.

How so you get useful government issued ID cards there? The only argument that makes sense to me here is that making an government issued ID mandatory hurts the lower/working classes who can’t afford to take a day off work to get their photo taken and info recorded for the ID to be issued.

Not to mention they have expiration dates as people change over time (being issued one at birth won’t necessarily be accurate later if it has a photo or address or anything that, say, would be required for voting. I mean, we’ve got Birth Certificates. And we all get government issued Social Security numbers and cards. The latter isn’t supposed to be used for ID as it’s just a 9 digit number that will be reused. (but places use it anyway)

People also don’t really want everything tied to one 9 digit number. (Why Drivers licenses are better, IDK) tracking individuals is kinda anti-freedom. That said, all of our info has been leaked so many times by so many state sponsored, public and private businesses at this point that it’s all just theater anyway.

I think we can go farther… fights in tennis? Cricket? Cutting? Golf?

Actually that last one would be pretty good if we kept the same whispering announcers.

I was like “HTTP” has been around forever, sure it was out before I was ten…

Nope I was 12, ugh.

Just keep telling yourself you’re not old and soon you’ll be 45 and your back will hurt, ask me how I know…

I’d like to point out that even when this isn’t true, the “major public improvement” tends to border one, close enough that it gets cut off from the surroundings and goes into financial ruin causing others to look at the neighborhood a few years later and THEN decide its property that needs to be “improved” (gentrified)… To the point that the original inhabitants are priced out of their own family homes.

One of those “whew, they dodged a bullet… Of wait, they didn’t” times that happens quite a lot.

True, but I was talking about the bottom section of the screen shot that starts with “The company is valued at 2.5T”

60B over 9 months is about 80B over the year which is about 3% of 2.5T

Does anyone else think 3% return isn’t that spectacular? Reminder, Inflation alone in 2025 was 2.7%. They only slightly did better than breaking even.

Not going to comment on his riches, we all know Billionaires are bad for the world. Just thought those numbers were kinda bad.

Nature, uuh, finds a way.

Depends on how much money or oil changed hands.

Its such an insignificant amount of money to fund PBS. It’s mostly paid by donations and sponsors anyway. If they really wanted to save taxpayers money they should look elsewhere first… but thats a harder question that might rustle a few of their own feathers. Not only do they try to take the easiest route that doesn’t involve their side, but they want to make people think it’s a win. PBS isnt greasing their palms, so out it goes.

AM lasts longer but the quality just isn’t the same.

On one hand, I LOVE crossing things off my list.

But God Damn does this ice cream taste fucking awesome.

(Adds “finish quart of ice cream” to list and proceeds to cross it off)

Its been less and less useful over the last few years anyway. Time to just bust out that eyepatch.

The OP basically is saying: Monthly health insurance premiums == monthly subscription fees.

I hear chicks dig dudes with money… well, maybe not all chicks, but the kinds that’d double up on a dude like him, at least.

You had me until the last paragraph… The Orange man and MAGA in general don’t care about communism anymore. The government owns part of Intel now, his best friends are Putin and Xi, he’s pushing changes like the government controls all the means of production. Communism is hip now it seems.

Maybe if you call them socialists? But only because their base doesn’t really understand what it means, they just hate it but secretly want it when it benefits them.

They missed the picture of 200 people in the subway where the streets are completely empty.