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I'm rooting for the Polio. Those cute hats and little sticks and you get to ride around at a full gallop and then drink gin & tonics afterward.

No no that's just her husband.

Paul Pelosi is a venture capital and stock investor well known in the Bay area.

No sheetski Sherlockski.

It's a match made in heaven! Or at least on a comfortable 16 acre estate in Napa Valley. Or the Pacific Heights mansion. Or while staying at the Auberge du Soleil.

Are you new?

https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197

She’s still sharp mentally.

Yeah, seems so. I can tell by her stock trades. Always on point.

Everything.

Broadly speaking, I agree with you. You make a valid point.

But... I just am cynical enough to believe that Trump will in fact start wars in order to cling to power and their cost has nothing to do with it - my only real point here is that that's not a concern for Republicans, generally. It's worth noting that that is a key pillar in Putin's domestic strategy. It's how authoritarians operate. Even Bush started his wars mainly to boost domestic support and appeal to the instincts for "revenge" people had after 9/11. They weren't wars that made any kind of sense, financially or otherwise. Not that they ever do.

Seriously, read 1984 and then criticize what I’m talking about.

Why would you assume I haven't read it? But it's a work of fiction and warning, not a prediction.

How many wars started during Trump’s last Presidency?

You will need to specify what precisely you mean when you say "war". As you may be aware, Vietnam was at the time not called a "war" but a police action. Same with Korea. So when Trump did things like bomb the shit out of various places, those were not "wars" but "hurburudsusuerrrdur" or similar hand-waving.

Here's a rundown: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/reckless-endangerment-president-trump-use-military-force/

"During his first 100 days in office, it has become clear that President Donald Trump views military force as his primary—if not only—foreign policy tool. From a botched special operations raid in Yemen to a cruise missile strike against an Assad-regime airfield in Syria, Trump has proven more than willing to order America’s armed forces into action. Moreover, his administration’s proposed “hard-power budget” cuts U.S. State Department funding by more than one-quarter to help pay for a $54 billion increase in military spending."

Ooooh... sample size of ONE!

Dude... starting a costly war when you don't need to and then blaming the Democrats when they clean up the mess is what Republicans do.

I mean, you clearly are aware of which party just got elected to the presidency....

When was the last time anyone under about 65 read Time magazine?

Also, what is a "magazine"?

Why not both?

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Um. VAX cluster?

Well I'm certainly disappointed in his "criminal sophistication".

I hear that if you huff gas enough it all makes sense.

... there will always be a segment of the population that will only act when incentivized

I'd argue that this is true of all the population but with the stipulation that "incentives" do not need to be monetary. I completely agree that capitalism is not human nature and feel that we've essentially brain-washed people to believe that money and material possessions are the reward when in fact it's all the other things in life that actually matter. I believe that this thinking, which had lots of good reasons for existing during times of scarcity and paucity of resources, can be undone eventually. I think in a post-scarcity world (I'd argue we're there) where it is normal for people to live fulfilled lives in significant comfort free from financial and work stress those few people who can't shake the need to competitively accumulate will be rare indeed.

Until then we have a huge problem: we have too much highly efficient prosperity for capitalist models to make any sense at all.

Yes, I'm thinking of fully automated luxury communism.

And thank you for your thoughtful comment. I enjoyed reading and thinking about your perspective.

Synonym!

Well yeah, taxes. But...

The US government’s priorities simply lie elsewhere.

No, the American people's priorities. And until that changes, we're dead in the water