vote for us and we will tax the evil rich and give you more free stuff and save you from bad weather
Poker?
Why play at all? Why not govern?
There is no upside to playing poker as an effectively powerless party and expecting to win.
A large part of poker is based on luck of the cards....not skill of the player.
“First and foremost, as I pointed out in my last column, hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted over the past 20 years paying for the costs of illegal immigration instead of upgrading and modernizing the California electric grid.”
This is an issue in many dying metro areas where Third Worlders are replacing working Americans; the areas start to look like former colonies, with all of the long-term structures (streets, sidewalks, buildings, etc.) crumbling as the Westerners no longer maintain them. The underclasses we traffick here have no intention of contributing towards any maintenance of anything; they are here not to give, but take.
When Amazon would looking at part of NYC for one of its headquarters buildings, the news showed interviews with people gesturing towards vacant lots and a generally run-down area. The resistance sprung from the fact that Amazon wasn’t going to just give “free money” to the area; the benefit to the city would be payroll taxes (the city has an income tax) and discretionary funds in the pockets of workers. Many of the otherized dreck opposing the move didn’t want jobs - they wanted white people to simply come in and fix everything for them (with nothing in return). For this same reason, any jobs created in the Trump economy are bad news for these people; they don’t want to work, and they lost an excuse (availability of jobs) when they become available.
I’ve described before a TV show “Life After People”, in which people visit areas abandoned long ago and obsrve the changes. Nowadays you could film “Life After White People” in growing areas of this country; you’d see the remnants of the WASP superpower (including the power grid) intermingled with the modern day detritus scattered by the current Third World inhabitants. For example, I’ve seen the old posts that used to hold payphones jutting out of sidewalks; the phones have been gone for years, but the reminders are left - not just of the old technology, but that nobody lives there anymore that would ask the phone company to remove them.