Champion of Truth
ICE whistleblower claims that the massive wave of ICE recruits are not being trained properly, and Homeland Security is lying about the extent of their training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8oY89CiDQ
Considering all that’s going on in the world, the stock market is doing quite well. Investors expect world troubles to pass. Corporations are reporting higher earnings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNLXroJmC4
Private equity owned dental offices are pushed by the owners/investors to give expensive dental care whether or not it is needed.
They hide the ownership of their offices by naming them like they are independent offices.
Dental insurance is not insurance. It’s a coupon. If you have a heavy dental bills, dental “insurance” will only pay a small minority of that. Calling something insurance that is not insurance should be considered fraud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwN-fxm-Atc
More empty oil tankers are coming to the US due to the Iran war, but the US can’t produce, refine, and load oil fast enough to fill them. At least not in a timely manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQVhnP0POE
The two-state solution seems dead. After the second intifada, Israel gave up on it, and has resolved on a one-state solution where Israel dominates the entire territory and Palestinians not living in Israel proper are second-class citizens.
The October 7th terrorist attacks accelerated this. They don’t see the Islamist terrorists as deterrable, so the only option is to dominate them. They can’t make peace because a small group of terrorists can always explode any peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPCvEHtBSp0
“Quality of services in many cases declined. It’s clear, for example, that there was a shift in fire protection away from professional fire departments and toward volunteer fire departments in some parts of the state.
It hurt the schools. School finance has continued to, of course, increase in California as it has elsewhere in the US, but California used to be at the top in terms of quality of education in primary and secondary education and in terms of school spending. And now it’s definitely not.
It has hurt the quality of infrastructure — potholes in the roads, response times of first responders. It has shifted the state tax structure onto income taxes, which means that the tax system in California is really swingy — in a boom, a lot of money might flow into the state’s coffers, and in a recession, the state budget really suffers. During the financial crisis, this meant that local governments that could no longer rely on a lot of property tax revenue were especially vulnerable to bankruptcy.
It has also created all kinds of unfairness — new unfairness, rather unlike the old system. Now you might actually pay a lot more tax than somebody else in your neighborhood who has an identical home worth the same amount of money, just because they bought their home earlier than you did. And they might agree that that’s unfair, but they might not vote to change it because it’s an unfairness that allows them to stay in their home.”
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/485716/tax-cuts-history-california-prop-13-property-tax?utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=%3Cmedia_url%3E&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawRMbrNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEenSnmg0Uqf6qGxDIVlnpo3E6LM94egO9GzsntxcHxzIWtcz-9HVePNYBgPRE_aem_dbXl8hV9j1M29lc4E8Pqpg
Small modular nuclear reactors may not have a large enough market to gain from the advantages of mass production, especially when there are multiple companies trying to do it around the world, splitting the market further.
Renewables combined with storage may be getting cheaper faster than progress on making small modular reactors profitable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TeAE7rW_6s
The ships and crews that Trump is blockading are not just Iranian ships and crews. Is the US going to steal or sink foreign ships? What if Pakistani or Chinese military vessels escort their ships? Will the US start a war with these countries to enforce the blockade? Ships’ crews can lock themselves in the bridge and engine rooms, which will stop boarders from controlling the ship, what will the US do then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHpmTN86-Q
Trump installs people based on sycophancy rather than ability or ethics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4kuJgxvETU
Democrats have a difficult media arena because Republicans have a synergistic bullshit ecosystem that globs onto the same messages and is naturally integrated from biased news to biased think tanks to biased pundits and influencers. It even ropes in people whose content isn’t focused on politics, but they fall for the bullshit, and then become bullshit spreaders themselves, like Joe Rogan.
People say don’t clickbait, but they only click the clickbait, so they are voting with their clicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNTseFey68