"You lobbied the wrong politicians and judges, motherfuckers!"

-DOJ, probably.

All time speed record for societal regression to feudalism.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out.

To me, all this evidence points to SBF being the patsy that was inflated by old billionaires and groomed since high school or college by financier top-tier assholes.

Yeah, SBF is gonna be on the hook for billions, but I'll bet his handlers pulled trillions from governments and private citizens with nothing but a very faint watermark on all the money transfers, coming and going.

The more I learn about SBF, his sultry wood nymphs, and the complete lack of ability to swim in the deep end of financial systems and their vernaculars has me believing that it's a lot more likely that the true players of global finances found in him a very useful idiot.

Like... I'll bet SBF couldn't even give state's evidence against his handlers, because he knows, understands, and reflects such simplistic thought processes through the whole thing.

The dude tried deleting tweets? Any competent public, social, financial figure knows there's no deleting shit off the internet. Somebody's always recording that shit.

I'm feeling that even if that event were to take place, there's no way that even a socialized, publicly-owned railroad could entice new workers to take on work at these railroads. (I'd read that new hires rates are dropping drastically, just because working conditions and compensations are soooo bad.)

So even if the profits are shared, and the employees are state or federal workers, with compensation packages in line with other govt workers, the work is grueling enough that recruitments have been drastically reducing since before COVID.

This is all hearsay, of course, but I'd bet with cost of living going through the ceiling, if the railroads tried to adjust salaries accordingly, just to get new hires, it'd cause all kinds of havoc with the already-employed, as they've been gutted for years.

I don't see any good solution for RR mgmt or the govt from this situation, which means good news for American workers, even if there's some hardship in buying things.

Hilarious that Biden and his Dems managed to put the strike on pause until after elections. Also hilarious that this strike is brewing (about to break out fully) over poor management decisions on how the workers get sick leave and pay increases.

I say hilarious because if magically the Dems win their election, and magically the RR workers win on all the issues needed, then all that's happened is...the current batch of workers will work just a little bit longer before everything stops anyway.

This is due to the fact that no new hires are coming onto the railroads. With the setup as is, my understanding is that many workers are hoping for a back-paid, retroactively-applied raise to cover cost of living increases from the past 5 years or so...and then they'll quit.

Already one of the more grueling blue collar jobs out there. Already doesn't pay enough to live above poverty. Already told by management that workers efforts don't contribute to actual company earnings.

Time for America's labor force, the true heart and soul of the country, to tell every fucking rich person that it's hard work that makes this country great, not grifting, politicking, managing, entrepreneuring, investing, banking, etc.

Working.

And every worker should have a home to live in, and enough pay to take care of his needs, along with a little bit of pocket money. And sick leave and vacations around 6 weeks per year.