I don't even see how the word "refuse" would fit correctly in that sentence.

Well, duh,
I just reread your post and see that the word "refuse" in this context is not the same as the word pronounced as "re fuze".

I don't think I've ever heard of sanitation workers being called "refuse workers" though.

Must be a British journalist. Their version of English is weird.

It’s “garbage men”.   And “trash can”, not “bin”.  And “trunk”, not “boot”.  It never ends.

Haha!  I overslept and just woke up and the first thing I did was look to see if Styx did a video on this which I knew he would.  Have to finish my coffee and put in my Bluetooth hearing aids before I can listen to it.

Can the US ever go bankrupt?  The government can just print more money.  Of course that will cause massive inflation and bankrupt the population, but the government will be just fine.  For a while.

Yep.  The government will continue as a going concern, to help Ukraine and all the other irresponsible shoveling of Monopoly money around the world while sucking blood out of the people to prop it all up.

The horror is you can never detransition from surgery.  Even some of the hormonal effects are permanent.  But surgery permanently mutilates you.  Oh there is such a thing as detransition surgery to “restore” you to your original gender, but it’s not the same as the original at all.

I'm old enough to remember when Trump was a Democrat. And then in the Independence party.

In 2012 Trump said the following:
“Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman,” he told Greta Van Susteren. “I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she’s given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her."

I see Trump as a pragmatist that does whatever is best for Trump. He's hardly unique in that - we all do that to some extent, depending on our own code of ethics. I see it as partially a coincidence that some of the policies he adheres to are also good for Americans.

Trump will be a candidate in 2024, either as a Republican or as a third party spoiler. Trump will threaten to be a third party spoiler and even though it is very hard to do that late in the season, he can scuttle Republicans and insure another four years of Biden. Why? Because he does what is best for Trump and history shows his code of ethics is highly variable.

All in my humble opinion of course.

I’ve always said Trump is a self serving narcissist but it happens that the narcissistic legacy he wants to build for himself aligns with what is good for the forgotten man, mostly, certainly better than any candidate of the Uniparty.  Imagine the ego it takes to think you can single-handedly take down the hydra monster that is the DC swamp today. That is the job Trump took on. If not him which of us has a snowball’s chance?

There is no politician that isn’t a self serving narcissist. You have to be, to think you know how to run other people’s lives and rule over them.  That’s why our highest law is a piece of paper, not a personhood.

Unfortunately I think it’s going to backlash bad.  It already has.  Things like the MGTOW movement.  The more women take over the world and fuck it up the more men will hate them and eventually take power back and like all oppressed people who rise to empowerment will overcompensate and become the new oppressors. 

In 100 years women in America will be like women in Afghanistan right now, banned from school and jobs except they will have no one to blame but themselves.

You see this with the LBGTetc movement.  Acceptance of gays and trans was coming along fine until they got overly pushy about it, started trying to make everyone including little kids un-straight and now you have constant legal and verbal attacks from the right that just was not happening ten years ago.

Oppressed people never learn, they don’t stop at equality. They want revenge and to reverse the power imbalance so they’re on top.  So their targets naturally fight back and start hating them and trying to oppress them again.

There’s no hope for mankind, I guess it’s the way we are.  We subdivide by random markers (skin color, religion, gender, sexual preference, and if nothing visible applies, ancestry or language or simply “class”).  We are hierarchical by nature and will always climb over others to get to the top justifying it by proclaiming past victimhood.

There is no greater myth and lie than female victimhood.  What they claim was “patriarchy” was in fact men supplying the energy and technology to support women who were busy reproducing.  Birth control took away woman’s role so women filled the void by intruding on men’s occupations:  You will note it was rarely the dangerous unpleasant ones.  No, they focused on positions of influence and political power, becoming the new oppressors and in this case were never actually oppressed by anything other than their own biology. 

Who is JP?

Jordan Peterson.