Alan Zweibel

Can you share with us the figures you are relying on to compare how packed it was this year compared to last year?

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession. Underscoring how common the practice is, ProPublica found that at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. We discovered the loans while examining financial disclosure forms, county real estate records and publicly available mortgage data provided by Hunterbrook Media. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud

While President Trump certainly has supporters who adore him and feel no need to justify that, he survives — and too often prospers — with the crucial help of voters who basically regard him as the lesser of evils. They tell themselves something like this: Trump has shortcomings, but those are merely mirrors of the corruption and craziness on the other side. Almost any accusation leveled at him is lodged as easily — and often more righteously — against his opponents. In a government of bad apples, he’s no mealier than the rest. https://archive.ph/UHKN8

Well, one of the problems China is facing, as the article points out, is a rapid reduction in its workforce thanks to China's low fertility rate. Also, now that Chinese young people are less likely to want to put in the long hours and grueling labor that characterized earlier generations. Still, AI does pose a threat to Chinese white collar workers as well. Like America, the Chinese work force is growing more bifurcated with a smaller percentage at the top doing well, but most increasingly not. So, in the short term, I'd reckon it's going to get a lot tougher for Chinese workers. As an article I posted her before notes, Xi is focused on making China much stronger on the international stage even if that leaves most Chinese poorer. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future. It could be that this becomes one of those brittle situations that doesn't seem to change until it suddenly and drastically does.

Making it personal instead of engaging with the topic is just a sad way of revealing how empty your native resources are. You've got nothing.

To blunt Trump’s push to reclaim global manufacturing, China’s factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster, cheaper and with fewer workers. China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, nearly nine times as many as the U.S. and more than the rest of the world combined, according to the International Federation of Robotics. China’s stock of operational robots surpassed two million in 2024, the most of any country. Of 131 factories and industrial sites recognized by the World Economic Forum globally for lifting productivity through cutting edge technologies such as AI, 45 are in mainland China, while three are in the U.S. https://archive.ph/ox7Fr In other words, as far as US tariffs on Chinese goods go, mostly they will just make Americans pay more without leveling manufacturing costs enough to make reshoring factories to America feasible.

More B.S. from Patel. Material support for terriorism has been a crime since 1994 and was further amended in 1996. The nature of the act and its motivation defines whether or not the crime is terrorism related, not whether a President designates an organization to be terrorist. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R41333

You mean these EAstern Europeans? From AI: Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrant anarchists who were convicted in 1921 of the 1920 armed robbery and murder of two men in Braintree, Massachusetts. They were executed in 1927, and the case has been considered a symbol of social and political injustice due to the extensive evidence of anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist bias during their trial. Worldwide protests, along with a lasting legacy in books, films, and other art, have focused on the alleged lack of evidence and unfair legal process. Ah, the good old days.

If you're conceding that you got it wrong, I'm pretty sure that's a violation of the forum's rules. If you do it again I'm going to have to report you to the Mods.

Another Greta Thunberg obsessive.

Greta Thunberg Obsession much?

Obsessed much?

You should reread the headline: Most Repubs & Dems oppose military action in Venezuela

I wasn't the one making the claim about Venezuela. What's moreI have no idea why you chose to insert an imaginary and irrelevant dialog about Trump and fascism into your comments. Still, it's nothing less than I would expect from you.

And your inability to follow a link is nothing less than I would expect from you.

Americans everywhere should feel so much safer now that members of a non-existent organization will be facing punishment for their crimes.

Spare me your conspiracy theories.

The dislike of the man might possibly have something to do with the lies and conspiracy theories he spreads via X and other media.

I got news for you. Something can be both a fact and be irrelevant.

You mean because it was founded by three Venezuelan engineers that makes it a Venezuelan company?

That's about 75 million people in the last election. Or maybe more. Where did all the Americans go?

I, for one, will salute that 5%. Or would but I suspect it would be too much of an effort to let go of the mouse.

Thanks for the mindreading.

Although with a lot more folks being glued to their seats, I predict a sharp rise in couchectomies. Probably performed by robots.

Now there's a happy thought!