Under Trump, US foreign policy involves helping the businesses of Trump and his friends rather than just a focus on what’s best for the United States and its people as a whole. This allows countries to indirectly bribe Trump to change the foreign policy of the United States.
US democracy is declining, and democracies often slowly shift into something that is not really democracy, rather than suddenly becoming autocratic in one dramatic moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XkJRVTS4Dw
Trump tariffed India for buying Russian oil, and now Trump is buying Russian diesel, which is a form of refined oil. He has turned the United States into a hypocritical country with no principles, who no one should trust because no words, no deal, means anything. The country has always had to look out for itself, but the repeated backing out of deals, including ones made by Trump, the repeated economic and military aggression, and the naked unprincipled hypocrisy has turned the United States into an asshole country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xr1750x7tU
Some say the Pope doesn’t know the Bible because the Bible supports the death penalty. But, the Bible has all sorts of dos and do nots that almost all Christians ignore. The Pope is going deeper than hypocritically and inconsistently following something just because it is in the Bible. He is using reason and theological principles combined with the Bible to determine what is right and wrong.
For those who think the Bible started the seeds of human dignity that later led to the abolition of slavery even though God is clearly cool with slavery in the Bible, then you don’t have a consistent argument saying that because God commanded, or was cool with, the death penalty in Biblical times, we must be for the death penalty now.
The Pope is using the same Christian argument for overriding the Bible’s pro-slavery passages to override its pro-death penalty passages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-2h273d-Ak
Statistics and econometrics alone are not science! They are tools that are a part of science. We need to do more than just find correlations, but also understand how things works. We should understand the cause and effect story, including the mechanisms that create the correlations.
An economist who has studied traits like executive functioning thinks it’s too late for Trump to have good executive functioning. He deeply criticized Trump, but also feared a left-wing socialist response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56GkjzZkh-w
The US military may be in deep shit if a new drone war starts. Inertia, bureaucracy, and fear of making the wrong choice are limiting the American military’s adaption, and this could lead to many many more dead Americans if the US gets into a modern drone war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vh722jvM58
The strikes and war on Iran have delayed Iran’s nuclear program for up to two years. The Iranian nuclear deal that Trump abandoned in his first term delayed Iran’s nuclear program by ten to fifteen years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40H0YDq0Mvk
Russia is playing aggressive games with NATO while also currently invading its neighbor.
For example, a Russian helicopter flew into Poland and then returned home. If Poland had shot it down, it’s likely that the helicopter could have flown into Russian territory before the missile hit, meaning Russia would misleadingly claim that it was an attack on Russian soil even though the helicopter was fired upon while in Poland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLvWYBITn8M
Property taxes incentivize people to sit on land and not use it because if they develop it, they will have to pay higher taxes. Land value taxes incentivize people to actually use the land because the tax is the same either way, and, they can better make up the cost of the land value tax if they use it productively or sell it to someone who will.
Land is hard to value, but it should be doable with modern techniques.
This should lower taxes on single family residential homes, while greatly increasing it on vacant land.
BOMBSHELL: Leaked Kimberly Guilfoyle Texts Reveal Brazen Corruption
Constant shit like this in the Trump administration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwn7_wSJt9I
Lethality is important, but the goal at the strategic level should be to end the opponent’s will and capability to fight. Destruction and death aren’t always the best way to do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkD-cbAVDa4