Add “cause and effect” to the list of things he does not grasp. There wasn’t some time lord showing people the parade would be too festive. It’s a decision made by attendees in advance which reflects poorly on his ego so it needs to be blamed on anybody but him.

Give it to billionaires

Only one way to find out

It’s where the pee is stored

The confusing part to me is Google pushing AI summaries would logically reduce traffic to the sites where they have Google Ads and impact the majority of their revenue. Unless AI has figured out how to cheaply turn lead into gold this seems like a bubble that will need to pop, for Google at least.

I just assumed he was yelling it over the sound of a helicopter as usual

Usually when people are asked when America was Great™ they’ll point to the burgeoning middle class of the post-war economy of the 1950s. Sometimes they’ll point to separate drinking fountains however we’ll ignore racists for now. The economic nationalists won’t like it when you point out the thriving economy was partly the result of other economies still receiving from war, but more importantly for the middle class there was a 94% marginal tax rate for income over $200,000 in 1945, which meant dollars were circulating and demand was created for more jobs. As Nick Hanauer put itNick Hanauer put it:

We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics idea behind us; this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It’s not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the media wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff do I? I actually bought 2 pairs of these pants, what my partner Mike calls my manager pants. I could’ve bought 2,000 pairs, but what would I do with them? How many haircuts can I get? How often can I go out to dinner? No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that. —Nick Hanauer

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So you agree tax cuts for the rich are bad? In that case I would recommend supporting progressive candidates instead of simping for the people who enacted them. Pointing out corporate Democrats exist and vote with Republicans to protect their shared donors is valid, as long as you can recognize that Republicans cry about the deficit whenever they are not in power, and when in power spend like drunken sailors, increase military spending, and then continue to use the deficit they grew as a cudgel to dismantle only the parts of the administrative state they disagree with. I’m not that stupid, and I doubt you are either.