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[nanana]

On 11/14/2025 at 7:23 PM, tobetrained said:

What flummoxes me about our politics today, if the Left had got their way previously, Trump would be in charge of so much more! And yet, no seems to stop and think about that. Or the problems a different despot-in-training could create.

Huzzah huzzah @tobetrained, after less than a year of Trumpery, I’m surprised that not all Democrats have become Libertarians, seeing the agencies they created to solve some out-of-context pain-point surprise-surprise repurposed when the inevitable transfer of power happens 4 to 8 years later, leaving us with increasingly irrelevant, worked-around NPC missions that contradict each other as some new program is overlain to counteract the unintended consequences of the last program. The result is a labyrinthine regulatory environment that favors special interests. We lost the virtue of our democracy when 51% figured out how to shift their costs to the 49%, and when businesses figured out how to fool the majority of voters into guaranteeing their profits by pretending to care about have-nots while legislating programs that create massive markets from government largesse.  (Breathe NaNaNa breathe.) It is unfortunate that so many Americans do not have the ability to see beyond the happy words of politicians to the longer-terms consequences of tax-theft.