dint he just do 50% tariffs on steel
The benefits from the trumpfus economy:
Less commuting traffic! Yey! More restrooms per unit worker! Yey
Thanks trump!
Now that’s how to be optimistic.
Have you noticed less trampling at Costco for eggs? People just don't have the money for food or gas. So the makes for nicer tramplement....excuse me sir, may I punch you for that last carton? Why certainly!
To coin what I think is a boxing phrase. " Make them miss. Make them pay."
He's probably just tanking the economy to keep interest rates low.
“I feel terrible for the American people because it’s not the American people, and it’s not even elected officials, it’s one person,”
Like hell. Congress is the one thing with the power to end this madness. The Republicans in control of both houses are absolutely responsible as they are doing literally nothing to rein in Trump's madness.
The vast majority of people either voted for Trump or didn't vote at all. Americans chose this madness either through action or inaction. They should feel accountable for the forthcoming consequences. Democracy in action.
they are enabling and complicit, the gop also dont want to feel TRUMPs wrath and they also want to grift from whats hes getting from billionaires and russia.
Idk how much of a threat it actually is, but wasn't musk threatening to primary anyone who went against him?
If a threat from an unelected foreign Nazi is all it takes to keep you from doing your job, you're not fit to hold public office.
Well thanks to campaign funding in the usa musk could pay for any member of House to loose reelection
*lose
I initially read this as if Musk said he’d have them killed, since in EVE Online “to primary” someone means for a fleet commander to call someone out as the primary target and have their fleet start shooting at them.
Fire the Ursus Claw!
Agreed. It’s 80% of the elected officials at this point. It’s unfortunate that foreign puppets are in power.
Something also not touched on in the article is the HUGE number of ukrainians we have in our country, particularly in the praries. We're ranked in the top 3 for ukrianians/Ukraine heritage, below Ukraine and Russia.
I'd argue most Canadians are pretty pro-Ukraine, and the US wiffle-waffling on that as well stings deep.
I get it's 'the US' because he was voted in but it's not the US it's one fucking moron. Our country bumkins are misinformed idiots that got him to power, yes, but population centers aka well educated folks are blue and we fucking hate every minute of this shit. Hence demonstrations at all state capitols multiple times over the last 2 months. Idk I'm probably making a moot point. I just can't stand being thrown in a pile with the current administration, him winning or not, none of this is okay.
most of the educated are blue, alot of them are also red, because they fell for the misinformation while growing up, and through the bitterness in lack of career advancement because the major they chose dint lead them to one. i followed some asian tubers once, and they were all college educated, but they turned pretty maga during pandemic and a defensive coping mechanism from being called out for mistreatment of a employment, turns out they were always right wingers and shitty people, when people digged up thier social media/and past how badly they treated thier employees.
the 2 channel owners were college educated, but they are so misinformed on things, and very low info they fell for joe roegan,and shapiro, or whatever right winger was on the time.
Bit tired of hearing this NGL, the problem is with your entire country and frankly that includes casting off the American rural poor as "idiotic country bumkins". Stuff like that is exactly what will turn them away from your ideals & into the hands of those pointing at the snobbish urban elites looking down at them.
as if telling them otherwise is going to make them suddenly turn them against the right wingers, lol they have been conditioned by propaganda, eg mainly through fox and rush limbaugh for a generations and from birth. there are other factors to consider like heavy voter suppression in the states, that prevent any Dems from winning many elections, nobody is going to hold the hands of REPUBLICANS to vote against thier own party
You're kinda proving my point...
You Americans being so dismissive of other people is exactly how this happened in the first place.
Remember when people were calling out how gender affirming care policies had gone too far and those people were written off as bigots? Then it turned out that a bunch of ideologues had hijacked the processes in several countries and were issuing puberty blockers and hormones with barely any consultation, then suppressed evidence that unchecked use of puberty blockers and hormones was actively harming people?
Remember when it turned out that droplet theory was bullshit and cloth masks don't actually block COVID but we kept trucking along like they did?
Remember when Democrats told people facing hard times that the economy was doing great, even as the number of homeless was shooting up and inflation was going wild?
These and others are the kinds of lies that make people lose trust in authorities. Doubling down on them only made it worse. And before someone chimes in with a list of Republican / right-wing versions of this: yes I know they do the same thing, but telling people that as if that makes what "your side" did any better is stupid. The idea is to tell them about the lies on both sides so that they realize you're not just another tribal moron. Tell the truth, gain some trust, and maybe you'll see you share more in common than you've been lead to believe.
you are arguing in bad faith, lol nothing what you said was true. who the fuck was giving out free hormones, and people with genetic conditions take hormones because thier bodies cant produce any,
the mask issue wasnt evena big deal lol.
you are arguing in bad faith,
they seem earnest.
Hell yeah - it'll be a looooong time, if ever, before we can trust the U.S. again as a neighbour and ally. Right now, they're nothing less than an enemy.
"I feel terrible for the American people because it's not the American people, and it's not even elected officials, it's one person,"
Americans elected Trump, and Americans are failing to do anything to reign Trump in.
These are the official policies for the COUNTRY! So unfortunately, this is not just one person, it is de facto USA as a whole.
If it was only Trump, it would just be Trump refusing to buy Canadian for himself. As it is, the whole apparatus is enforcing these decisions, and they impact all of USA.
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