jakee

It’s a plan that’s better than most. The only problem with a hard cutoff is it can’t take into account company towns that simply do not have any jobs or customer base for entrepreneurs when their company moves away or shuts down. It’s a story repeated across a hundred coal mining towns in Appalachia. It’s happening to a traditional steel making town an hour away from me right now. These places where private companies have extracted profits for decade after decade without investing a dime into the future take longer than 2 years to fix, and people have genuine ties to where they live which mean they may not want or be able to simply move somewhere else for the chance of work. Ironically that’s an area where the rise of remote working could start to help, but I’ll leave you to guess who is irrationally opposed to expanding working from home because they don’t bellyfeel that it’s industrious enough.

Which has absolutey nothing to do with how Trump's tariffs have been worked out. But hey, Trump calls them reciprocal and that's good enough for you - no need to check anything below the surface. Being associated with a global economic catastrophe might end up being the thing that springs to mind.

It’s how they justify all the anti-democratic power grabs of the Republican party. They’ve always been the majority but those sneaky minority Democrats kept getting elected instead - so whatever they do in retaliation is fair and proper.

“One of Goebbel's favorite tactics was "accusation in a mirror" - accuse your opponents of doing exactly what you are doing.” See there you go - immediately proving Bill’s point. Time and time again we saw the most vocal Republicans on here harp on about how they really do hate Trump but are going to vote for him anyway because he’ll be better than the fascist Democrats. Literally any Red (ok orange) head will do. You know I was thinking yesterday what it must be like for people who now have to face up to being gullible and ignorant enough to have voted for Trump because of the economy. I never even considered I’d need to imagine what things are like for people who still think he’s the messiah. I mean… how is that even possible?

How long until the shareholders decide that maybe the court was right and they shouldn’t pay Musk $50Bn for work done as CEO?

'Overcoming' is a strong word. Attempting to reduce, maybe.

It's often the case that minorities have to continue to work harder to gain and maintain respect once in post than those who can just look the part and skate on with the minimum of effort and an assumption of competence. Like Karin Jean-Pierre being characterised as the White House DEI hire despite being significantly more experienced than any of Trump's ever increasingly Aryan Barbie looking press secretaries yet Fox never complains about them being hired for reasons other than merit. Obviously, to people like Fox hosts and Winsor, many forms of racism are still acceptable.

True, but they're also quite fond of the many billions of dollars they make each year and would prefer not to see that fall. So they may still be some knock on effect.

I’ll listen to anything that politician has to say.

Thu US markets just had their worst day since the Covid outbreak because Trump and his economics team are just so much dumber than anyone even realised yet. The supposed tariff percentage they are retaliating against is actually a figure of trade deficit divided by total imports, which they're describing as the US losing out. This means when there are generally poor countries mining and selling a bunch of rare minerals that US industry needs but who can't afford to import much of what the US makes with those minerals, they get smacked with a huge reciprocal tariff. Which means that it is now much more expensive for US industry to get the materials it needs. What an amazing win! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trumps-idiotic-and-flawed-tariff-calculations-stun-economists

The only reason I wouldn't say the same about you is that I don't think your intentions in voting for Trump were good. You wanted him to bring the pain and the racism.

Because you voted in explicitly racist people. Jesus man it ain’t rocket surgery, just cause and effect.

He was quoting Goebbels to illustrate what he is accusing Biden of having done, not what he says the Republicans are doing. Of course, as with literally every single fucking thing they ever say, Biden didn’t actually do it and Trump is trying to do it, so there is that.

It's not as if the 'not joking' talk of a third term is new. He talked about it plenty during the campaign and oh yeah - he already genuinely tried to unlawfully seize power and end democracy in the USA. I guess every Trump voter should be looking for a new country.

And yet you absolutely do know that you're lying. You know there is no 'help' you could have provided that would have prompted Chauvin to let go, since all the other help provided by the police officers and paramedics in attendence did not prompt him to let go until long past when Floyd was uncoscious, dead and gone. Embracing the lie because it's what your tribe expects is the only principle that MAGA always follows.