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Thanks to the US having weaker relationships with our allies due to Trump’s bullying, and Trump’s, so far, failed war in Iran, and Trump’s failure to contain Russia or China…US military spending is going to be much higher. Trump’s attempts at saving money by getting allies to pay more has backfired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuS_cA6lus
Trump’s pressure on Mexico to fight the drug cartels, including threatening American military strikes, have been convincing Mexico to fight harder against the cartels. Whether this produces any long term success is yet to be known.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPI6iu1BlfI
“Attorneys representing immigrants held at the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site alleged Friday in federal court that guards beat and pepper-sprayed detainees after a protest over lost phone access — allegations they argue show state and federal officials defying a recent court order protecting detainees’ civil rights.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/alligator-alcatraz-phones-were-cut-171614361.html
The real Dracula was pretty fucked up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly3cSt5WbSE
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