OT: "A Deliberate Act of Sabotage"

The US fruit-picking and meat-packing industry will just replace their illegal immigrant labor with 12 year olds it's OK. Former illegal immigrant Musk has never had a problem with child labor in his EV supply chain so far

Excellent point, bitrex. Boycott EVs, everyone!

Or replace the labor with Ivy League liberal arts graduates. People need to eat so the market aways adjusts.

Or boycott 12 year olds.

That's the awkward years, between 4 and 48.

How many Ivy League liberal arts graduates at this point in history do you figure really need to work for a living in the first place? Or Ivy League graduates, period?

Remember Jean Harlow in "Suzy": "Don't you worry about me; blondes never go broke. Being a brunette, you wouldn't understand that."

Nobody goes to an Ivy to go broke. Not even the basket-weaving majors from the few destitute families that manage to make it there. Networking is the biggest advantage of schools like that and like Ivy graduate DJT must know well enough you're your own "too big to fail" brand once you have an Ivy degree in hand, probably why he likes bringing it up so much.

You sound like the New York Times. All Trump, all the time.

He's certainly a unique character.

At age 80 that should probably be something of a matter of concern for the Republican party, much less the NYT's bottom line.

There is a minimum age requirement for a President. There should be a max too. Either party!

Senate and House, ditto. And term limits.

A min age for any political position would help elect people who had a real job once in their lives.

Boycott everything! Cut all government spending for everything. Fill the streets with homeless and destitute. Call them lazy druggies and layabouts. Forment massive civil unrest and displacement. Tank the economy and blow inflation to the heavens. Drive around the rubble in a MuskCorp bullet-reinforced Cybertank and bemoan the fall of Western Civilization due to transgender activists.

Yes, the man has a "concept of a plan" indeed.

Brain development follows a fairly predictable path. Minimum age limits make sense. Brain degeneration is old age is a lot less predictable, if it happens at all, and an arbitrary maximum age limit wouldn't make a lot of sense. Some sort of intellectual competence test might make sense, but politicians aren't likely to set up a good one.

But then you have to define what you mean by a "real job". You seem to have a particular admiration for builder, plumbers and motor mechanics none of which offer a particularly good preparation for a political career. Trump had a real job as a real estate developer, and was responsible for a string of bankruptcies, which should have marked him as dangerously irresponsible from then on. Banks certainly stopped lending him money at that point.

No, open the borders and reduce the work week to 20 hours max and increase the minimum wage to $80 an hour. That will fix everything.

Oh, be still my heart. If only the Dems would actually do it instead of spending the next four years being Israel's official bomb supply store, a much more likely policy foundation.

Your Raytheon and Northrop Grumman stock is going to be just fine either way, don't fret.

Not that you have specified how. Satirising what you imagine to be the opposition's plan doesn't really work if you don't know much about it.

The biggest flaw in our current model of democracy is the concept of a 'career politician' which opens up all manner of opportunities for grifters to sell-out in return for any improper inducement made to them in regards to their future comforts when they're no longer electable. You get elected, do your four years or whatever it might be, then get the hell out of the game. Then join everyone else in the real world and live yourself under the laws you yourself helped to make.

This is a trifle unrealistic. When you are in power you have lots of contact with powerful people. When you re-join the real world, you still have those contacts. Even if you don't set out to exploit them, you will automatically be someone whom somebody powerful will think of when an interesting/demanding/well-paid job comes up.

It's not what you know, but who you know - and it works both ways. The powerful will have seen how you perform as a politician - perhaps competently, perhaps as somebody who is easy to influence, and they will exploit that knowledge.

Yes, this is Trump's plan.

Yeah, the Guardian: totally predictable and just *exactly* what I'd expect from a Left-wing, Globalist rag. The MSM in Europe are going completely nuts over this election. They're really pulling out all the stops to influence overseas US voters to back Harris and it's clear that nothing is off the table and even the most outrageous bare-faced lies have become common currency I'm sorry to say.

The Guardian isn't right-wing enough to appeal to Cursitor Doom, but it isn't wildly left-wing either, and - since Cursitor Doom's globalists exist only in his diseased imagination - it isn't "Globalist" either.

Not that Cursitor Doom can be bothered trying to identify any of these "bare-faced lies". Internationally, most foreign newspapers are finding it hard to understand why enough US voters prefer Trump to make him a viable candidate. After all, he is a convicted felon, and his inept management during the Covid-19 epidemic cost a lot of American lives.

More nonsense from the usual suspect. Even the BBC now admits the Covid vaccines ruined the lives of so many of the people who trusted what they were told by their governments and the drugs companies. Trump, as it turns out with the benefit of hindsight, was dead right and when you get a 100% Globalist organisation like the BBC admit it (through gritted teeth) even someone as obtuse as you has to accept it.