And if Demoocrats won’t, then the general population will need to do it.

So at least there will be a silver lining to living through the collapse?

Well the solution to that one 10 year old is pretty clear. Actions have consequences, if he wants to be a little shit he can repeat the grade next year after hard failing this one.

Just about the only people who are surprised are also people who don’t object.

It’s almost like cutting spending was never the actual plan, and they were more likely using that as a smokescreen for ideologically guided attacks on institutions they disagreed with.

Well he’s alive enough to continue actively fucking up our country, so that right there deserves a national day of mourning.

Yeah, that’s the problem here, that they didn’t give proper attribution. Spot on.

Maybe that claim would hold water if there was any evidence at all that Trump wasn’t a brain damaged idiot spiraling into senility. It stops being pretending when every single appearance, every interview, every second of contact, every policy enacted, every opinion presented, and every decision made are all exactly what a complete idiot would do. He’s not playing 4D Chess, he doesn’t have some secret master plan, he’s a pants shitting moron who’s hateful rhetoric and willingness to punch down appealed to the low end of the bell curve and got them excited enough to vote.

On message for the goons who want to completely eradicate the Department of Education.

With all of the absolutely blatant market manipulation he’s done just since he took office, one more charge isn’t going to mean shit when there haven’t been any consequences yet, and probably won’t be any time soon if ever. Anyone else breaking the law this openly and this often would in the very least be in jail without bail awaiting trial, if not already firmly in prison.

But remember guys, both sides! ^/s

I also think that whoever Nicole is, or at least the person in the picture and who’s work address if given, probably isn’t in on whatever’s going on here. I certainly don’t think she’s the mastermind behind it all. It all feels more like some nebulous revenge scheme or in the very least a red herring to divert attention off of the crypto-scheme and whoever’s behind it.

Right, you and I get that, my point is that the people who are confused why their tariff-impacted goods cost more don’t get that. They think the other country pays it, full stop.

The catch is that the ones who don’t understand always, ALWAYS think it’s the other country that pays the tariff. Every time.

This will be fine. Everyone knows that cutting costs and corners to make a buck works, and airplane repair is a hugely expensive and time consuming process! There HAVE to be corners to cut! Why are you replacing that part? Just give it a spit shine and stick it back on, good as new! Does that thing move when it’s not supposed to? Slap some duct tape on there, it’ll be fine. Was it supposed to move and it doesn’t? An overhaul is so expensive, just hit it with WD-40 and you’re clear for takeoff! And hey, next time a plane crashes, get a couple of flatbeds out there ASAP and grab up all those free replacement parts scattered among the bodies!

Maybe see what player counts look like in a few months before making great and grand plans? People want a fresh take on The Sims, but maybe without the backlog of a hundred DLCs and other EA shittery. But, inZOI may not be it. Apart from the pervasive and distasteful use of generative AI, it may just not have that special something.

So give it a while, lads. Maybe it really will be a hit, but sales in the first week mostly just say that people wanted a fresh swing at The Sims, not that they really want what inZOI is.

We thought that would happen after the first Trump term, but here we are.

They’ve been inflation proof because consumers lose their shit so hard with every price increase. The price of games is just much more visible and much more conceptually ingrained than with most other products, so every increase hits consumer awareness that much harder.

Prices instead increased in other more indirect ways. Micro-transactions in their many forms are the most obvious case. The price of your “full game” may not have gone up, but then there’s a nearly limitless trickle of smaller supplementary purchases adding to the cost.

Good. Since that’s the only feedback he notices, then good.

Pretty basic really. People keep calling him a Russian asset, compromise, a puppet of the Kremlin. So, he’ll scream and shout and rattle his plastic saber about how he’s totally going to fight Russia for real in an effort to placate the claims that Russia owns him. He won’t actually do anything of substance against Russia’s interests.