Axelrod: There are a lot of people who would like you to run for president in 2028. And there are others who would like you to run for the senate.
AOC: In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat—it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line. What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.
It's been about a decade and still nobody has made a multiplayer shooter that's a fraction as electric or emphatic as Titanfall, where moments like this are a dime a dozen.
The plan: state of Illinois and city of Chicago launch a joint military campaign in northwest Indiana, annexing any possible stadium sites, extending our lakefront access and giving us a land border with Michigan
660 billion dollars of Capex this year on AI data centers.
To put a number like that in perspective this is more than what we spent on the U.S. interstate highway system (630 billion), more than what we spent on the Apollo Moon Program (257 billion), more than what we spent on the international space station (150 billion).
This is more money than Walmart’s revenue for last year ($648 billion), it’s about 25% of ALL Military spending globally, it’s equivalent to buying 50 Gerald R. ford class aircraft carriers.
It’s the equivalent of spending $1.8 billion dollars a day, $75 million dollars an hour, $1.2 million dollars a minute.
This year alone is without a DOUBT, THE BIGGEST PROJECT IN THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM. And we are spending all of it …. In on year.
God save us.
“Two billion autonomous cars would continue to sprawl around us, drain our wallets, pollute our cities and limit our freedoms. They distract from meaningful progress, making cities walkable and livable. In foregrounding them we continue our bondage to the car-industrial complex.”
This is genuinely how democracies fall into authoritarianism. This is an attempt to end democracy.
If you think it's an exaggeration, please ask yourself what you would have thought if Obama had thousands of masked agents killing people in red states, and promised to remove them only if he got control of the state's voting infrastructure.