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After 60 years I left Chicago to move to Wisconsin. Most Illinoisans moved south to Florida, Tennessee or Arizona. Some just moved over the border to Indiana. I assume NYC is the same. As the taxes went up to the highest they could, 11% sales tax and a million dollar home pays $30,000 every year in property taxes. Property values have not gone up in decades. And many major businesses have left the state. I’m guessing the poor will stay.

Can’t figure out why people still live in NYC. They don’t realize that most of the country has very little crime. And women often walk alone. New Yorkers are like the frog in gradually heating water. They can’t see what they are putting up with. They think because its so expensive it is somehow better. It’s not. Its a horrible trash and crime filled city. New Yorkers can never retire without a pension, because they pay too much to live day to day. And can never save. If they have a pension they can move to Florida.

It’s complicated in that the California democrats actually like the drought. They have lots of emergencies. And as long as they have them, the governor can do what he wants. But they also want to put their farmers out of business without saying so. They believe that the farmers are not green. So they are going to reduce the farmers until half of them are gone. They actually have a plan to do just that. And they admit it out loud.

They are trying to get all those who have an apartment. But whats really going to happen is that streamers are going to use out of state addresses. Then they are going to figure out where the IP is. And so they are going to start to use firewalls to hide IPs. And of course there are those who will simply move out of state. Most people have more than one streaming service. So those people may just limit the number of streaming services. And I wonder what they will do with Prime? They have free streaming with no delivery fee. Are they going to try and figure out how much is the streaming portion?

Chicago has a entertainment tax. They charge that on cable. So now nobody gets cable anymore. They just get internet.

Ok, looking at the Wisconsin and Illinois Walmarts closing. I would say that the Wisconsin closing is in a middle class neighborhood that is only two blocks from a major mall. Its likely that the sight is on land that is far more valuable for other uses. Its a super store that is land locked by single family homes. And of course the Milwaukee regulations that make it far more expensive to run than stores just outside the city. Wisconsin is growing and the state is fairly well run thanks to rules Walker put in a decade ago.

Illinois does have three stores in black neighborhoods. And I am guessing that closing stores in Illinois, and especially Chicago and its close in black suburbs is a reality for any store. Illinois is about to implode. So, leaving now is probably a good thing. The population is shrinking. The regulations are harsh. Crime is rampant. And the taxes are out of this world.

Those locations are being shoplifted out of business

Not sure how they are being “shop lifted out of existence. Indiana? Wisconsin? Florida?

All three are growing states that are basically red. If these stores are in down-towns like Miami Indianapolis and Milwaukee, I might be able to see it. But even those places are not nearly as bad as Seattle, LA or San Fran area.

Sorry, they moved it.

Unlike everyone else in the world. Trump has presidential protection. His bodyguards would literally follow him into prison. And his bodyguards are Treasury agents. So this arrest stuff is quite an issue.

High risk americans already have higher risk. LDL is part of high risk. But lowering LDL is not really the solution.

Hypersonic weapons are merely fast weapons. There is no moral issue with them like a nuclear weapon or a biological weapon that kills indiscriminately. So Putin can use them in war and the world should have no issue with it. But they are also expensive weapons. So if you have a stockpile of old slow weapons and new fast ones. You will use the cheapest oldest weapons that get the job done. And lest NATO thinks that is all you got and decides to enter the war further, it may be prudent for Putin to let everyone know he is fighting with one hand tied behind his back. And he has far better weapons if anyone wants to test him.

no need to use Hyper-sonic weapons when regular speed missiles hit the target just fine. If they were to be used it would be to hit London or New York. Or they might be used if Ukraine was able to knock down a conventional missile.

I assume Putin’s statement is meant to warn the west not to underestimate him.

I will continually vote for Trump whether he is on the ballot or not. The idea of Trump is too important. If the swamp gets to pick our nominees. We are no better than Russia or China. For me its Trump or nobody. I just don’t care anymore. Republicans can lose, I don’t care. A rino is not better than a democrat.

China has a GDP. Its estimated by things like the number of products received by other countries. Electricity usage. Food Imports, etc. The reality is that China is a first world nation tucked inside a third world nation. Part of their GDP is production for the rest of the world. And part of their GDP is feeding over a billion people. Its that second one that is harder to estimate. Especially when the population numbers are thought to be over 100 million too high. And massive amount of their homes and factories are half built and crumbling. Its not the same as a first world GDP. The term product is not the same.

Also, if Tina Fey did not own the name Mean Girls, she would have done the same thing under a different name that she did own and told a slightly different story. Mean Girls the musical exists because Fey owns the rights. Not because anyone read this ladies book.

That is a silly graph. Most of the populatio in those countries is far below the poverty level. Its a graph of population not real GDP. India is the only BRICS country that is not melting down now.

The “base” is Trump supporters. Trump supporters are far more loyal to him than the party. Trump is not a man. He is an idea. Can someone do the things conservatives want when elected. Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem. Many promised, no republican president did it. Put real anti-abortion judges on the Supreme Court. Every republican presidet said they were going to do it. Only Trump did it. Keep America out of war. Only Trump did it. Stand up to China, only Trump did it.

I don’t trust anyone else to actually do what they say. So we have to stand with Trump. Everyone else is a liar.

This is like the civil war. Taking the city is less important than how many enemy you kill while they defend it. Tie goes to the country with more soldiers. That’s Russia.

Never Trump republicans are being this arrest. If there weren’t republican neo-cons trying to take him down this would not be happening. This is Lyndsey Graham et al. who are doing this.

If DeSantis thinks that this criminal cabal going after Trump will not go after him after they kill Trump, he is crazy. DeSantis has one way to presidency, that is to use Trump as a blocker.

You see the pipelines and tell me our government has been straight with us. You see the pandemic and tell me our government has been straight with us. I have no idea what all is going on in Ukraine but they tried to bring down a sitting president because he asked about it. Our government has lost its moral authority. I don’t know what provoked the actions that lead to the downing of the drone. But I am not going to assume that our government was in the right. Putin and our government are moral equivalents. Neither should be trusted.

Ukraine does not only want US weapons, they want US money. They are now billionaires thanks to US weapons some of which have been sold and US money. The country is filled with Harry Limes.