For me I’ve got to put live recording away toward the end. If I’m doing a recording, I’ve got way too much opportunity to second guess myself in editing and zero indications whether I’m going a useful direction in my talk.

You mean the guy who came to this land without any sort of legal immigration status?

Maybe they hope they can tuck him away and go back to “managing” him. Maybe they can patch his image a bit if they can keep him away from anything important enough to piss people off.

Even my work has better OPSEC on a random stupid meeting with nothing interesting. They review every attendee to make sure no one unexpected is in the chat.

There is fog and rain, which it also failed at.

Also, their cameras have missed light colored trailers, mistaking them for sky. So it doesn’t take much to be like the fake painted wall.

True, though if we are talking about tax bracket going over 30 percent, that would be at nearly 200k, so well above those thresholds too. Of course the numbers aren’t 28 and 33, but that is the closest threshold to the example.

If getting specific, there’s no 28 percent or 33 percent bracket, so these are all examples rather than real figures. I did make a comment using real numbers, same general magnitude but just more specific about the brackets.

The whole notion of “kicked up a tax bracket” is also a misleading thing. Only a piece of your income goes into the “new bracket”, all pay under the new bracket is taxed as they would have been used to.

This all boils down to a common misconception about ‘tax brackets’.

To simplify, pretend there’s a 28% tax bracket up to 100,000 dollars, and a 33% tax bracket when you hit 100k. The first 100k is always taxed at 28%, no matter what you make, and it’s only the incremental amount that gets taxed heavier. So here in this example, that would mean tax burden would be 28,000.33 instead of 28,000.28. These are not the exact brackets or percentages, but it’s at least showing the right magnitude of increase versus total amount.

However, many people are “afraid” of bumping a higher tax bracket. They think the tax bill would go from 28,000.28 to 33,000.33. That the tax bracket bumps up all your liability. I remember growing up people saying “I have to watch out and not hit the bigger tax bracket, if I’m close then I need a big raise to make it worth it, or else the raise is going to cost me more than it would make me”. This a big driver of antipathy toward democrat tax policies, a belief that mild success will punish them, despite it only increasing on the incremental amount.

We also have the budget to fund ethnic cleaning of Gaza and reconstruction enough to hand it over to luxury real estate developera.

Also the budget to have a sovereign wealth fund that suspiciously looks like it is set up to let Elon use it to buy TikTok using taxpayer dollars.

We can find quite a bit of money by doing away with pesky things like social security. Think how much money are could have if we just euthanized people at retirement age.

Broadly speaking it’s nearly impossible for a US president to directly fix the economy, but they can easily break it.

Replace Elon’s rhetoric/lies/dumb joke non-responses with incoherent babbling and the right-wing will still say he “owned that lib”.

I’d expect either escalating levels of demanding ways to absolutely guarantee it couldn’t be edited in hopes of unreasonable.

Ultimately it could be like the Zuckerberg fight, where Musk just ghosted the conversation when he couldn’t figure a way to nope out of it gracefully.

Remember when he challenged Zuckerberg to a fight? There are limits.

This administration is run by business folks, who are as a rule short sighted. Thinking beyond the next 3 months is simply not done Set up sovereign wealth fund as a mechanism to embezzle “savings” and then commence the plundering and fraud.

Can compete without government interference

The “ranchers” know that the second the lab-grown meat becomes economically viable, they can pivot and dramatically reduce their operating costs.

We aren’t talking about down-home simple folks, we are talking about wealthy businessmen that would not want to lose an option that could improve their wealth more.

This is one of those situations where the greed could work toward some good outcomes, given adequate regulation to keep them from just cutting some important corners.

I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so

Yeah, five months passed without anyone in the media caring about her or this baby. She got impatient and wanted to yell it from the rooftops whole blaming the media for the attention seeking behavior.

This administration is “Oops! All trust fund babies”

To a point. If they are cut out of the loop, how are they supposed to reap the benefits of their position? They only want the capitalism to rule the country so long as they get to reap the benefits. If bypassing legislature and going straight to executive works, then the legislature will still get pissed, if only for their own self interest.

In fact, that was the whole design. That the branches would be eager to undermine each other to the extent they are allowed. The concept of a branch just surrendering their authority was insane.

This creates a generational disconnect. Like when my phone rings unexpectedly at work, it’s 95% this one colleague in his 70s who is nice enough, but it instinctively feels rude because I feel like I need to answer. From his perspective, if I just don’t answer that’s fine and that’s the etiquette he was used to, try to call and no biggie if it doesn’t connect.

Going the other way, I know someone dealing with a person in their 80s over urgent important stuff and that person just will be utterly unreachable so much of the time. For them, there’s no such thing as “urgent enough to need immediate attention” because that was just not possible for them and society developed around the norm of folks just not being available as much.