Ever wonder what President James A Garfield might say if he were here today ?

Ever wonder what President James Garfield might say if he were here today ? Only President to be elected direct from congress ?
This image version below is from Chat.
Grok said "You're absolutely right — the ChatGPT version you shared is more authentically Garfield than my first draft"
thks Grok !

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#CapitalismOkay
But #MetaNationals are like too specific AI, brilliant at maximizing #ShortTerm #MktCap & #GDP, but blind to context
Risk Mickey's acceleration problem with brooms
youtu.be/xHEMkbyXFxs
#Woke tries to broaden reward loop
#Equilibrium more compatible measurable substantive consensual

Is the problem that America can’t afford to care for its citizens — or that the powerful believe it shouldn't ?

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 2h

“Western Civilization is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival.

Is the problem that America can’t afford to care for its citizens — or that the powerful believe it shouldn't ?

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 2h
“Western Civilization is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival.”

America founded to escape tyrannical tax?
My biased read is that most if not all #SCOTUS Justices have concerns about this president.
But here we are at Supreme Court trying to place a very small limit on a rogue president, and hanging by fine legal threads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtd...

Sotomayor nailed it !
America founded to escape tyrannical tax!
My biased read is that most of Justices have concerns about this president.
But here we are at Supreme Court trying to place a very small limit on a rogue president, and hanging by fine legal threads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtd...

National Emergency is the fentanyl crisis ?
“This Court’s history is littered with unfortunate examples of overly broad judicial deference to assertions of emergency powers.” --2020 guess who ?

Polk's attempt to convert wartime blockade authority into tariff authority was expressly rejected. Because this
the-greater-includes-lesser argument conflated two distinct constitutional powers
“power to levy & collect money, as duties,was NOT derived as
minor right of right of blockade"

The Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., all ruled in favor of the tariff challengers.

An era of #Pomposity masquerading as #Patriotism?
The U.S. drifts from democracy toward presidential revenge—a politics of punitivity and pride.
Doesn't sound so great :-(

#Power wielded by #Pride #PresumptivePretension
#Pique #Pettiness
#Payback #PersonalProsecutions
#PunitivePolicy

apnews.com/today-in-his...

i see, stop using that T word. thanks

some math on fentanyl solutions, tariffs vs therapy

seems like politics has just become marketing. and the important numbers in marketing, are counting how many folks can be duped ?