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Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don't have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.

The job market isn't really geared to handle hundreds of thousands of people needing new work all at once. Even without any other resultant cuts, a huge amount of unemployed people is going to be incredibly bad for the economy, and for social stability as a whole.

There's many that do, yes. My mother and stepfather are two such people. They're willing to burn their own country down around them if it means that a few of "them" die first.

No no, it'll make AMERICA (Trump's America, the billionaire and multimillionaire class) wealthier. That's what they want. The entire idea is to effectively crush whatever little middle class is left, and make the lower class dependent upon the whims of the aristocrats like him.

Basically, we're rapidly sliding back towards feudalism, with us as the serfs.

He also stopped wearing most of his gold after being down in New Orleans helping clean up from Katrina. Said he felt it was wrong to be displaying such wealth when he was staring at people who had just lost literally everything.

Trump's admin has already shown that you can't really sue the federal government into compliance if there isn't anyone to enforce it. Sure, those countries and companies and people can sue the US for breach of contract. The government will laugh in their face and not pay, simple as that. Trump literally made his millions doing exactly this.

And then their server center burns down from the enormous influx of traffic, Musk pockets the money, and the entire world sweeps into something worse than the Depression because a good chunk of the entire world economy simply doesn't exist now.

Pretty much every federal agency, at some level, hits some form of classified information.

There's another episode in VOY where the Hirogen force Harry to build basically 3/4 of the ship into a massive set of holodecks. It's mentioned multiple times that this is a MASSIVE power drain (this may be due to the smaller warp core of the ship, though).

It's not just the recognizable smell they add it for, it's the fact that it's an odorant that's detectable at an INCREDIBLY small concentration (humans can smell it at 1 part per BILLION).

C'mon, they're just gonna feed these into Elon's stupid Grok and tell it to summarize a list of people who should be fired.

Nah, what he promised him is exactly what we see: $500B in rare earths, every year. Trump's always been a terrible dealer, and this is no exception: he doesn't do back-and-forth, he just tosses his entire hand on the table and says "here's what I want", then bullies you into accepting. If you don't, he'll either harass you, or back out saying YOU sabotaged the deal because you didn't give him what he wanted immediately.

Preferably, they won't. At all. "Non-male person" at best.

I love how none of them ever had grandparents that got "divorced" before no-fault. You know what you did a lot of the time before no-fault if you wanted out? Killed your husband. Wives, when they were forced with a situation where they couldn't simply leave the state/country, would just poison their spouse. In the early 1900s, when your wife was often the one who was at home all the time, preparing all your meals, it was INCREDIBLY easy to do in a way that looked like "oh well he just kept getting sicker and sicker".

The POINT is to break the government. It's a lot easier to convince people to privatize things that way.

Technically, ending the world DOES end world hunger.

They'll just bribe the jurors. The DOJ won't care, because where are you gonna appeal? The SC that only gives a shit about lining their own pockets?

I'm reminded of that one time the entire Polish government was killed in a plane crash in Smolensk.

Arguably occupying a BIGGER position of power than the fucking president. Musk has been on a tear ripping up agencies left, right, and center, and Trump doesn't seem to get how anemic he looks when he claims "oh well Musk doesn't actually have any authority to do anything" AFTER ALL THAT.

$20 says they're going to try to make it so hospitals can refuse care.