She does realize she has a majority government and is fully responsible for the current status (whatever that may be)? If she is so incapable in doing her job that the relative quality of life has dropped to such a degree, perhaps she should deport herself into the sun.

‘nice watch!’ then move in and quietly say “oh, hey, it looks like your barber missed a spot back there”

You just need to understand how to talk to them:

We bring the foreigners in, give them a first class AMERICAN education and then send them back into the world. They now are effectively a double-agent, preferring to deal with Americans in business, promote American superiority in the world by telling everyone what a badass they are for getting into Harvard, and have been indoctrinated on American values which they then seed into whatever population they are returning to. This is one of America’s effective long term methods of world domination in action and it would be stupid to halt it.

And then make up some fake examples of it paying off big time.

For just $1 billion down payment, I will build it in 2 years for half of that. I pinky promise.

Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.

I don’t know, but I started realizing that nearly all of the holiday traditions I’d ever participated in originated by way of some well received piece of advertising. It’s all a mess. It’s all people lying to each other for power, influence, and resources back to the very beginning. The internet certainly allows for messages to travel and build to critical mass faster, but humanity and this behavior originated together, only the tools change.

My terrible idea is that the world move to an 8 day week. Everyone works (at most) 4 days on, 4 days off. School is 4 on, 4 off. Two alternating shifts. Its always the weekend for half of everyone and everything is always open. I guarantee a roomful of smart people will be able to tear this idea to shreds. We could invent cool new names for all the days of the week though.

True, being homeless looks exhausting.

Someone more eloquent and knowledgeable then me made an argument about how the ‘no taxes on tips’ was going to be step one and then ‘no limits’ on tips would be step two which would lead to some unholy abomination of tax evasion for the already insanely rich. I don’t remember where I saw that, though.