There are some workable solutions inside the nation as well, as the federal system is dismantled. If WA, OR, CA, HI, the tribal counsels, and maybe AZ and NM (if they can play nice) got together, we could do a number of things to shore up the left part of the US.

First, states are not subject to patent. Each could choose a critical, expensive medication and produce it, sharing supply around the compact. Tribes could easily make epi-pens for their share.

Second, tie this into a compact equivalent of a multi-state healthcare that creates a floor healthcare for all citizens. Hawaii could lead this effort, they essentially already have it in their state. Get to the point you can cover people with income up to $70,000/yr california equivalent (based on living expenses) and let healthcare companies create supplemental plans like for medicare.

Third, as trump wrecks FEMA, form compacts for emergency response with mexico and canada and among these states. This is not currently legal but if FEMA is gone, why not just do it and who cares.

Fourth, create cooperative food sharing among states for excess crops. Federal programs just got destroyed, and california has a lot of excess supply. Let the compact members have a market where they can, as states, buy excess for their food programs. Let the program deal as an entity with non-compact states, which isn’t controlling interstate commerce, feds, it’s just the free market at work using the power of liberty to make red states either meet the price or we look outside the US.

A lot of this just recreates existing structures that are being destroyed, but leaves the red states that destroyed them to fend for themselves.

Boomers gonna love how this turns out.

Well that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

The nsfw content, mostly.

Oh, did an airline stewardess walk by?

Got caught using the wrong glue is more accurate.

Stop dicking around and fight the dark one, Rand. What do you think this is, books 8-13?

To clarify, that’s if you own SPY or SPX

By code a bathroom is a sink and any combination of a bidet, shower, tub, or toilet.

You jest, but futures can actually go negative. At one point during covid a tanker shortage meant you could be paid a few $100 to accept delivery of a barrel of crude. Some people were joking about filling their swimming pools.

Let them cook, an apathetic base won’t turn out in shame and tell themselves they’re not needed.

“The number you have called, FEMA, has been disconnected, or is no longer as dialed. Please check the number and dial again.”

Maybe they’re concerned they’d find out the information she killed herself over.

Bring them here!

I’m giving you an angry upvote for this, because this comment is on one of two ends of the bell curve.

Clearly you don’t frequent the NSFW forums

In trading we refer to tesla as a meme stock, or better, as shit beta. I have a theory a number of big interday players moved into memes when they started getting bigger, because the poor liquidity of the plays cause the market…. Because the people who sell the stock had to keep buying more stock to make the options they sold safer.

Tesla is up and down because it makes people money.

Sounds like you’ve achieved goatse post-nut clarity.

What do you mean by “go against?”

Assassination is right out. Too much to risk.

Cast shade on his politics? Easy. You can rent a large enough number of billboards around the country to start an influence campaign on the cheap, getting republicans to start asking if they’ve been betrayed. We’re talking a few million a year. Much as the republicans chipped at the dem base in the election, you just need to get enough of them angry to start the fighting and finger pointing in their own house.

Rent a few republican legislators and get them to start throwing a wrench in things? Doable, but you have to steer them a bit. Probably 2 to 3 times the cost of the billboards. You also need to make them feel they come out on top for the noise they make. Probably call them “the loyal trump faction” and have them go overboard demanding things faster than the american people will take.

Start a competitor to twitter? Probably lose 100mm a year to start, but it can be done.

There are lots of things you can do.

I personally discovered 50 dependents when the cuts were announced.