ironically, much of the domestic industrial policy Biden signed into law was intended to do exactly this but Trump reversed course because corrupt reasons

they were too busy courting "moderates" by sprinting to the right and capitulating to Republicans' framing of the issues, a tried and true losing strategy

!remindme in 1 year when the effects of mass deporting low income agriculture workers and slapping tariffs across the board kick in and people are hurting even worse. our big beefy boy will have done dick about it and people will revert back to hating him yet again.

the average American voter doesn't have the attention span to even remember covid or how Trump botched the response and helped kill a million Americans, much less the awareness to understand how badly the pandemic broke supply chains and thus the global economy, nor how the Biden admin still helped us fare better than the rest of the developed world in recovering from it.

not that that's the voters' fault. Dems did absolutely fuck all to raise awareness of that for the every man. instead, they barked at people saying the economy has recovered to all time highs (for CEOs), ignoring the actual plight of the working class.

Watch the video in the article. What a fucking nightmare...

I use Qwant sometimes but it's sourced from Bing. Searx is better if you can self-host. Kagi is better if you can afford to pay (but you asked for free).

What a senseless waste of life. And I bet all of these completely avoidable and totally unnecessary tragedies make excellent recruitment propaganda for the likes of Hamas.

“Everyone’s saying it.”

Agreed, if not for the presumption of innocence.

That’s the part I was alluding to as being worse

cool tip, i didn't know about this either but it's awesome!

And that baby should have been aborted

A lot of firefighters are volunteers. I have no idea about this case but maybe they would try to use that as a defense, if so.

Side note, it's utterly baffling that such an essential function basically runs off of charity. What a joke.