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War at the Expense of, Well, Everything
Joe is Wypoxic
March 03, 2026
So, the markets are finally realizing how the Trump Admin is following the arc of the Trump Organization - fail at every actual business they’ve run except for a fake reality TV show and just being corrupt:
This feels like the Covid wakeup call in March 2020. Everyone is getting he's the maniac that he seems to be, and this mess will last YEARS.
— 🗽LOLGOP🗽 (@thefarce.org)2026-03-03T15:25:41.007Z
On a related note, let’s remember all the way back to the ancient history of the Iraq War when the Bush Admin cut taxes in a time of war for the first time ever in the history of our country. We are going to debt finance this war as well while billionaires coast on the tax cuts of the OBBBA.
Also, let’s not take our eye of the ball on the state of jobs/employment:
The report states that roughly 25% of workers are unable to find full-time jobs that pay above poverty wages. This is a major weak point for Trump and gang and should be heavily repeated. This jives well with the message that the Epstein Class of billionaires are sucking the economy dry at the expense of hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Americans.
I’ll write about this in more detail soon, but some of the key culprits in this massive upwards redistribution of wealth are not just lower tax rates on the wealthy, but also the lowering of the estate tax and the creation of perpetual Generation Skipping Trusts (that allow wealthy people to transfer their wealth to grandkids with minimal taxation).
From a tactical perspective, I think Greg Sargent gets it right this morning. Sargent is essentially arguing that the opposition should make everything Trump and his minions do/say a political argument instead of a “process” argument. That Trump is acting as an unconstitutional despot at the expense of people’s lives, our economy, our rule of law and our standing in the world.
“But that can’t be the end of the story. This can’t simply be about Trump’s procedural failures. It also has to be linked to a larger argument that he’s functioning as a maliciously unhinged, out-of-control despot, and thus is wrecking our system of self-rule at a foundational level. As David French argues, one can view Iran as a serious long-term problem while insisting that Trump operate within his constitutional powers, and that fundamental principles are at stake:
Perhaps the most important aspect of this constitutional structure is that it creates a presumption of peace. Our nation cannot go to war until its leaders persuade a majority of Congress that war is in our national interest.
It’s precisely because Trump has no meaningfully articulated objectives for this war—and because American officials privately admit his Iran claims are false—that he’s launching it illegally without congressional authorization. The same Republicans who insist Trump needn’t seek congressional approval are doing so precisely because this liberates them from having to vote on the underlying proposition that this war is in our country’s interests.
Hegseth’s absurdities illustrate how big an opening Democrats really have here. It’s not enough to demand that officials be forthcoming and transparent. Democrats should argue that Trump has launched what is essentially a vanity war and nothing more—and that, as Smith put it to me, he’s “ruling like a king instead of the elected president of a constitutional republic.”'“
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Finally, somewhat unrelated but connected by the love affair this Admin has with billionaire AI tech bros, this guy may be the worst person in the world:
“But he pointed out that comparing AI’s power needs to humans isn’t exactly apples to apples.
“It also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” he said, prompting some in the crowd to laugh. “It takes, like, 20 years of life, and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
Altman expanded even further by noting that today’s humans wouldn’t even be here were it not for their ancestors dating back hundreds of thousands of years to when modern humans first emerged.
“Not only that, it took, like, the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to, like, figure out science or whatever to produce you,” he added.
When comparing humans to ChatGPT’s potential, you have to take this context into account, he argued. A fair comparison would be to pit the energy a human uses to answer a query with an AI after it is trained. On that measure “probably, AI has already caught up on an energy efficiency basis measured that way.””
We are now looking at people as merely “entities that consume energy”. These tech “visionaries” will lead us to our doom as they enrich themselves while jockeying to take over the world.
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