No shit.

They’re gladly letting it all burn because they lazily expect it to mean easy wins in 2026. Then they’ll manage to barely take the House and maaaaybe Senate, and literally do nothing with it.

And we do. Only people unaware of the problem aren’t worked about it.

But these people seem unable to parse tough choices and bad choices.

Ask your dad why the GOP needs to raise the Debt Ceiling by $4 Trillion in their budget bill, and how many of the now dozens of lawsuits Trump might win based on his performance in 2020 when he lost almost every single court case, even when Trump appointed the judges himself.

Not shocked at all.

Source: Check list of ransomware attacks daily.

As much as I hate to say Elon might be right… The problem is that critical parts of the US government run on systems older than his goon squad. There’s actual COBOL in use, right now today, by the US government.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/outdated-and-old-it-systems-slow-government-and-put-taxpayers-risk

If Elon could fix the actual problem without being a dick about it all, no one would have a problem with any of this.

So, this was pushed for a while and was later discovered to be Chinese propaganda. But it holds water is the thing.

Breaking into smaller counties isn’t the solution because you lose economies of scale and inefficient trade. Which was why China pushed it, to leave themselves and the EU as the largest single economies in the world.

The real solution is to regionalize block of states and instead of having one head of state as President, a council of state like Switzerland with a rotating chair that functions as the ceremonial head of state.

But that would take a new constitution…