Johnny Photon

I can tell you what the moderates are going to say. They're going to say they will go along with the idea of income security as long as we consolidate all existing anti-poverty efforts and offer freedom of initiative (FOI). FOI is exemplified when we can HAVE ACCESS OF UP TO $2000 under 55.

People are going to Costco to buy lots and lots of bottled water.

If you want to talk about a volatile issue, student loan debt in a collapsing economy is the way to go. I voted blue all the way down. If we don't see some blanket student loan forgiveness out of our next Democratic president, pitchfork time?

Speaking of catchy tunes... youtube.com/watch?v=Dmx2...

Of course there's that catchy tune at the beginning and end. But Dave's soul emerges in the second part of his piano solo. youtube.com/watch?v=tT9E...

Many in the right will tell us that we can't have nice things because of cultural differences. But they're the only ones in our society saying that. The ethnic minorities are not saying that. Who is saying that?

It seems like we're the quiet siblings. Soaking in the entire dialogue that the Boomers were having with the Silent Generation. They made us read it in school. Then, watched the Boomers have a conversation with themselves and the generation after us. They had to listen to the Silent Generation.

We, in Generation X, do not speak until it matters...generally.

That's the ticket. Follow the money and you'll see why he wants what he wants the way he wants it. This generation shall not pass until my lone voice in the wilderness feels like a pebble on a pond. Heather Cox Richardson has a much bigger microphone than I.

The title encapsulates it all very nicely. youtube.com/watch?v=zIRt...

Build a fund that's there when you need it and growing when you don't. That's a completely different concept and it's the one the moderates can't say no to so easily.

That's what a sovereign wealth fund would do. You see? And not everyone is going to be withdrawing it the very second it drops into their account. Many will let it accrue. As opposed to a UBI, which would be like everybody, everywhere and all at once.

I'm so glad Brazil didn't elect that Bolsonaro asshole again! 👍 He's like the Brazilian Trump.

Lentils are a cheap protein source.

Texas is such a mix of ethnic identity. Where East meets West. Really.

And there is no way in hell that the polls are saying that the vote for Talarico is anything below 55%. It's in the cities, red state or blue state...the cities. For example, what would Illinois be without Chicago? Growing sense across America that a redesign of society is needed

In 1935, Gilbert Wilson painted the "Liberation" murals at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Terre Haute, IN, my birth city. It depicted corporate greed, war, and squeezed families. Nearly a century later, top-vs-bottom inequality & war anxieties mean we’re looking at the exact same story.

Hawk is talking about the government programs we have come to depend on. What will we do when the federal government forfeits on its responsibilities? youtube.com/shorts/41_sA...

Blue State governors will tell Trump and his emergency powers to fuck off. We'll take care of our own elections, thank you. Red States will comply and Blue States will not and that's the end of the United States of America.

A Blue State currency issued by regional authority.

In order to distribute citizen benefits, blue states will start first with traditional debit cards.

A sea of candles at any given point along the history of the United States = the American Collective Mind (ACM)

But what I like about my cyclical approach to American history is that it helps teach American history. Then, once their eyes are opened, they can see how they're one candle in a sea of candles. Fire can be used as a universal icon for consciousness.

"Ask your AI this question and then let's talk about it."

For example, If you're a citizen, 18 or older and under 55, you have access for up to $2000 a month. If you're 55 or older, you get more and more as you get older. As if to say that we value the wisdom of your experience. We must keep our collective memory alive.

Take the funds in US Treasuries and combine it with the funds in Social Security and all other anti+poverty programs. Restructure the tax code to reflect this. Give more access to everyone over age 55.

A sovereign wealth fund. Because Americans take care of one another.

What would you do if much of your basic needs were met? How would you spend your free time? Income security would get us to that point. I hear a lot about Living Wage. But what if automation, AI and AGI, made work obsolete. Are they going to produce robot customers?

dawn's early light New Deal philosophical consistency Maslow shift in consciousness progressive political philosophy basic needs first a default economy

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The solution seems radical to us now, but so did the ideas behind the New Deal to some random citizen in the Roaring Twenties.

Once the shift in consciousness happens, you'll wonder how you could have thought it to be any other way. It's gotta happen somewhere between Election Day, 2026 and Election Day, 2028. Like, after Election Day, 2026, the dawn's early light will guide us through the darkness. The rats will scurry.

Got a little help going through the propositions with Gemini.

I just mailed my ballot to the Pima County Recorder's Office. Straight down the line blue.

I want to help make it easy for anyone to be a progressive. People are starving for philosophical consistency.

Bringing someone's mother into some national discussion. Rama-slimey!

Wipe the whole slate clean with a different currency. The issue of currency has come up before twice...at the moments I like to call, "periods of non-consecutivity" (PON). Lincoln wanted a national currency based on market value. McKinley wanted it backed by gold. 2028 will offer an alternative

It just seems Shopify could offer an alternative shipping address to a storage unit. For people who want to store value in something tangible.

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youtube.com/watch?v=QjKW... Morality for sale?

A sovereign wealth fund giving each citizen access for up to$2000 a month is cheaper and more politically doable than giving everyone $2000 a month.

Housing markets need the ability to do global arbitrage. You don't militarily take land that does not belong to you. That's when you put on big people pants That's when you go to the markets like everybody else. You don't use taxes to militarily protect a particular market.

And that's really the best we can hope for in many instances. If we educate everyone then everything becomes accessible to... everyone. And what's wrong with that? Take care of the background needs and people will give themselves their own blessings. Only use taxes to pay for any inflation.

Imagine what we could have, do and be if we had our needs covered. That's part of the view we find among even some libertarians. If we take the pimp out of the picture, then workers become investors, like respectable traveling business people.

Lay the foundation. Give history and the world a model to go by. A default economy consisting of big ticket investments. Health care Education Income security World-class infrastructure Things which are needs. If we are ever given the chance to go for wants, we should always do it.

Bring on technocracy! We've been through more than that and everything always turns into something else. We can take it. We are not children.

What would EYE like to see in my advertising stream if EYE were in one of those groups? I think I'm looking for security and comfort. Some nice places to rest throughout the day where you're not escaping reality but also not neglecting the fact that you're in a meat jacket with its own rules.

Gemini tells me that there are four basic groups buying swivel chairs right now: The "Resimercial" Route Professional Open-Concept Homeowners and Entertainers New Parents and Nursery Designers Small-space and Studio Apartment Dwellers This is now a free course in effective AI business marketing.

Our data should be considered a protected natural resource.

I'm including our data as a natural resource. Unless they pay us for our data. Then it's called labor.