A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.

It is absolutely incredible that the only thing that outweighs their malice is their gross incompetence, which for better or worse may be our saving grace in undoing this mess

Automakers had to lobby for this to happen, he’s either a moron or he’s running a racket… oh wait it’s both!

I respect your optimism, I truly hope you’re right. I don’t think we’re locked in for human extinction just yet, but we have a lot of work to do as a society to avoid that.

Spoiler alert, we’re fucked. That’s what the assessment would have said at least.

Just like Gen Z fucked up by being in elementary school or even diapers instead of buying property in 2008. You’ve goofed by not building factories instead of eating, where’s your grind mentality?

I could hear a handful of podcasts out there saying this unironically. Society is cooked

But, but… I thought we were bringing industry back! I thought we were STRONG and POWERFUL and everyone was going to be riding on bald eagles with gold bars in their pockets under Trump 🙄

This timeline is ass.

A recent study performed by actuaries, not environmental scientists, predicted a possible 50% global drop in GDP by 2070-2090. 50%! Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades, but you know it’s bad when actuaries are doing the same thing. When the alternative is certain collapse, the alternatives become priceless. No matter what happens at this point, global society cannot exist in its current form in the future.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/we-dont-have-time/2025/02/28/50-gdp-collapse-ahead-actuaries-sound-the-alarm-whos-listening/

You know what they say about broken clocks

It is very important to remain sharp and swift in a time like this

No. Unless you had a ton of money in the account and you were already very close to retirement it just wouldn’t make sense. There are a lot of penalties when you pull an account early. I made a hardship withdrawal back in 2023 to make the down payment on my first home and that made sense for me, but even that type of thing isn’t right for everyone.

Your 401k will rebound eventually, retirement investment requires you to play the long game. If things get bad enough that your 401k is wiped out entirely then it really won’t matter whether or not you pulled the money out because it would likely be worthless in that situation.

It may be wise to change your elections so that the investments are less aggressive/volatile if you have that option, but otherwise try not to think about the total dollar amount as the economy shits the bed. It’s not like a bank account where the dollars equal dollars directly, the value of the investments can change quickly.

I knew it was bad when the general consensus on the sycophantic subreddit r/conservative also held the opinion that these people should be held accountable. How terrible do you have to be to piss off your own loyalists? This timeline does not even feel real sometimes

What’s that in Scaramuccis?

We gotta fight fire with fire. Avoiding potentially “dangerous rhetoric” is part of what got us here, we need to tell it like it is and start referring to things as “common sense” because that will reach the majority of Americans.

For some reason Gary Peters aligned with Schumer on the spending bill, but also signed this

I’ll stop calling and emailing when they start doing their damn job. The status quo bullshit has to end, now.

No shit, someone just pulled that number out of their ass because it sounded good. Regardless of how much bullshit and nonsense this is, I would rather have a functional government keep the money and use it effectively than whatever the fuck this administration is currently doing.

Reliability is paramount to me lol

There’s a YouTube channel called “City Prepping” that has a lot of good content on the subject. Climate Change will not care about politics when it burns/ floods/ blows down our homes, everyone should be a minimum of two week ready, if possible. 72 hour ready is a necessity at this point with how unstable things have become with infrastructure and supply chains.

I was about to suggest ready.gov for the US, but it appears to have already been compromised