Dr. Gonzo

Lol making death threats over PM while also simultaneously including every single member of staff on the PM was a truly bizarre decision.

Yeah, I don't think any of those are happening soon. If house prices did suddenly drop nearly 40% anytime soon, we've probably got a global massive financial crisis too.

I think Venezuela is just doing this for propaganda. Otherwise they’re just inviting the US to bomb them, put a puppet in, and take control of their oil fields.

Before 2016, I don’t think people wearing their politics on their sleeves was all that common. The rise of populism and the way the media has pushed partisan divisions has really changed the political landscape of America. The media’s really fucked up national politics in the US and I’m not sure there’s any way for them to unfuck it. I also don’t think Illinois, or at least Chicago, is too bad to live in. It has problems, but everywhere does. In my experience it’s one of the best cities in America despite its problems. It’s probably worse if you live in some border town with Illinois or something.

Drug problems and homelessness generally seem to be way up. When I was in Charlotte it was a little jarring because the downtown area was like a ghost town compared to every other downtown of any US city I’ve ever been to. And the route from my hotel downtown to the airport took me through some areas demonstrating the worst poverty I’ve seen in the US. And I live in California, I’ve seen homeless encampments grow… I’ve seen LA’s skid row. I’ve never seen anything like the run down poor areas of Charlotte. And I’ve never seen a city with such a dead city centre - I assume many businesses left and nobody’s taken their places. Interestingly I took a look and CA doesn’t even have a top 5 highest tax rate in the US. Poor @Spikein Illinois is experiencing the highest effective tax rate in the US. Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York and Kansas round out the top 5. The worst thing I can say about California is it’s very expensive. But while cost of living is also very high, quality of living is also very high. But California gets way too much shit from certain people and media outlets because they don’t like the politics of the state (while ignoring that it’s the state with the most republicans and the most democrats). Most of the issues that are genuine issues for California are issues that plague all states… and many countries around the world tbh. There’s just a hell of a lot more people. And imo that’s more a failing of federal legislators than any state politics.

Texas has a higher effective tax rate than California. Their property taxes are actually insane. Most of those other problems exist in literally every other state, California just has more people.

I like how idiots who’ve never been to California think it’s not a well run state, despite it being the economic engine of the US. And in my opinion, by far and away the best state in the US. But somehow Florida, with the worst inflation in the US & that’s spent the last couple of years attacking one of the largest employers in the state is well run.

It’s them and the people who owned Collins Airspace. Raytheon still makes bombs, missiles, and satellites. Now there’s separation between them and aviation.

the modern day Raytheon is the subsidiary, it’s on their website and it’s on the RTX wiki lol

Click on the link it says Raytheon an RTX company… it’s a subsidiary now.

Honestly I think Cuba is just being punished (honestly like Iran) for kicking a US puppet out. I’m not sure having a strong medical field necessarily means a massive capacity for good. Medical tourism to Iran is pretty huge and it’s one of the stronger medical fields in Asia. But I just checked the number of political prisoners in each country, and it’s clear Cuba is a less horrible dictatorship to live in though.

The Florida governor at that debate is also just trying to out Trump Trump because his presidential campaign is floundering. I’m pretty sure Hannity & Newsom actually get on really well (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-11-26/fox-news-host-sean-hannity-newsom-desantis-debate) - so even while hosting a debate where Newsom had a moderator appearing hostile (after all, it’s all really just theatre for Fox viewers)… I think that was a hit job on DeSantis. And for Newsom, it’s twofold campaigning - he made the case for Biden in 2024 to Fox viewers who typically wouldn’t give him any time of day. And he’s setting himself up for 2028 - and going onto Fox, handling a moderator appearing against him, and making a case to Fox viewers without belittling their personalities or feelings (which Hilary failed miserably at). Whereas DeSantis came off looking worse than I could imagine. I’m surprised he’s won any political office tbh. Aside from his awful politics, he’s got the charisma of a fart with shit in it.

Cuba and Iran don’t have nuclear weapons and the US is now producing and exporting more oil than it brings in. The thing is with oil prices, they’re set globally. Cutting off Venezuelan and Iranian oil at this point in time where Russian oil’s cut off from its biggest buyers would raise petrol prices worldwide by a significant amount. The US just removed sanctions on Venezuelan oil to lower petrol prices - they’re not going to suddenly change their minds.

It also doesn’t have the mechanisms for internal change, so the US is stuck with hostile nations of its creation that will look to destabilise the world and support enemies of US allies.

https://www.rtx.com/raytheon?gclid=Cj0KCQiAyKurBhD5ARIsALamXaE-3iK9rbbsN4dqLRqGkFUyPiXIz4e94ktvocl9Jj6S2EdXvjW3fM8aAqAmEALw_wcB It literally says Raytheon though. RTX has been their stock ticker for… as long as I’ve been investing. Looks like they just had a corporate restructure and created a holding company called RTX, but Raytheon the company still exists and they openly call themselves Raytheon.

It’s tough to say. Didn’t they just remove the oil embargo because of Russia’s war though? Embargo’s and sanctions imo are not that effective. Look at Cuba and Iran. Both are still miserable dictatorships.

He was actually expelled for violating campaign finance laws after an ethics committee investigation into him & 23 felony charges against him: 9 counts of wire fraud, 3 counts of money laundering, 2 counts of theft of public funds, 2 counts of making materially false statements to the house of representatives, 1 count of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, 1 count of making false statements to the FEC, 2 counts of falsifying a record or document, 2 counts of aggravated identity theft, and 1 count of unlawful monetary transactions over $10,000. It's beyond a politician lying - there's some careers that aren't even public servant jobs (like my own) where a single charge alleging fraud would mean I lose their job and depending on how damning the charges are (and the likelihood of conviction) probably their careers.. For public servants, especially, there should be a higher standard of scrutiny. That democratic senator from NY who's been indicted for bribery also should be removed with a vote across party lines. It is the common sense thing to do - even before conviction. If they are found to be innocent they should be allowed back in, but having legislators who have been charged for financial crimes and/or fraud is simply unacceptable. Regardless of political affiliation, every elected official in any democratic society should be under strict public scrutiny. And protecting taxpayers from being legislated by criminals who steal their money that should be spent to their benefit is of paramount importance.

If that’s even his real name lol, who knows with the shit this guy’s said.

The congressman that simply could not stop lying about everything was expelled from the house of representatives - has only happened 6 times before.

Raytheon are still called Raytheon. Have you tried Google yet?

“A’s for Gonzo throwing left wing tropes about LGBT around.” Nah I’m not throwing tropes around I’m mocking you calling “wokeness” a Nazi ideology. Imo “woke” or “wokenes” or “woke-ism” etc is just a meaningless term that’s now what people like you use to criticise anything that makes you uncomfortable.

the translation subtitles aren't the best lol but it's a good song

12 days after releasing one of Iran's most popular musicians (after holding him for over a year and torturing him), they've decided they don't want him freely out in the world demanding human rights for Iran. And with the world distracted by the war their proxy is engaged in with Israel, they've snatched him back up.

And that the mass murdering fuckhead got to die peacefully in his home.

THOSE BLOODY WOKE NAZIS. WITH THEIR IDEAS OF TOLERANCE TOWARDS PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES AND SEXUAL PREFERENCES. BLOODY FASCISTS. While ignoring the Nazis weren't tolerant of different ethnicities or gays/lgbt+