I mean he’s essentially just following project 2025. They clearly didn’t want him to think too much this time around.

They can, they’ll just go out of business. Puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage relative to asian and European car makers.

The idea behind tariffs is you take the money earned by sale of foreign goods and invest it in domestic production.

Except Trump leaves the second part out completely. He should be announcing large subsidies for American auto companies to bring those jobs back to thr US but he’s not.

He’s going to find a way to siphon the money to himself and his magnificent 7 buddies.

Tariff then invest the proceeds into domestic production. Why is he leaving the second part out?

You can’t JD. The rest of us absolutely can.

And is malleable enough to allow for coinage.

The difference is gold has carried high monetary value among human societies for nearly 3000 years while Bitcoin is a non tangible digital asset that’s existed for less than two decades and remains incredibly volatile.

This comes across as another Trump scam. He’s going to bankrupt the American government by siphoning public money to himself and other private entities and the American people are going to be stuck hodling the bag.

Yeah Hamas is kind of irrelevant here. Palestinians were living on that land and then some folk showed up and said “sorry our book says we’re supposed to be here, please leave”

Its the equivalent of someone trying to claim your seat at the theatre halfway into the movie and the proof they show you is something they’ve scribbled on a napkin. It would not fly for most people.

I understand it’s essentially settler-colonialism in practice, which is foundational to modern western civilization. But that doesn’t make it right.

Sure but even Obama, who did not have to deal with gender based prejudice and was generally a well liked populist, could not pull a majority of the white vote. A lot of white voters just could not bring themselves to trust him because he looked different and had a different name. It’s incredible he ever got elected.

Identity politics are baked into American culture unfortunately and I wonder if a female PoC has a real shot with where things are now. If they do, other PoC would really have to show up for them, like they did for Obama.

If this chucklefuck showed up to your door and said that your home is now part of the Jewish state because the Torah said so, I think we know how most people would respond.

I guarantee you they are too stupid to realize as long as he didn’t type anything.

Have you seen boomers and gen x operate anything on a smartphone? If it doesn’t ‘just work’ then all bets are off. It’s as bad as gen z only understanding smartphone UIs.

Only one of those has any basis in reality though.

Declaring a national emergency on Fentanyl allowed him to impose tariffs without needing congresses approval.

It’s hard to imagine a majority of white voters supporting AOC. Obama managed win two elections despite 43% and 39% of the white vote due to strong PoC voter turnout but I doubt that would play out well in the current political climate. AOC would be even more divisive, in a way, by being a woman.

Immigrants did still vote for Kamala as a majority (55%).

I wasn’t aware of the massive jump Trump had achieved with young men. Looks like it was especially true with young white men, with nearly two thirds voting for Trump. Less than 30% of young men from other racial demographics voted for Trump with the exception of Latinos (45%).

Overall the biggest jumps were with Latinos and young white men but he saw an increase in nearly of every demographic except older white people with whom he has historically had majority support.

Sometimes we need to move beyond reductive outcomes based thinking and put some energy into how we get there. This is, at the very least, how we start.

The 9/11 firefighters bill is evidence that Jon doesn’t have the stomach for day to day politics. He handled it well but he has spoken repeatedly on how frustrating the experience was. I doubt that, at this stage in his career, he’d want to do that everyday.

I don’t think Jon would make a good politician. He’s an exceptional communicator and has all the ideas that progressives want to see get attention but the day to day of politics is soul sucking and doesn’t seem like it’s his cup of tea.

Trump is a vibe. Most elections are determined on vibes. Less educated white folk feel he’s their guy. It doesn’t matter that his stated policies will fuck them. They feel like he’ll look out for their interests and that’s really all it takes. Galvanizing this demogtaphic is how he won both the 2016 and 2024 elections.

People romanticize farming because it was the basis of society and its economy 100 years ago. Agriculture was key to human survival for millenia before that.

In our increasingly tech driven lives, there’s something pure about your work being dedicated to cultivating the earth and bringing sustenance to people.

But there are modern US farm owners that harken the image of plantation owners during America’s chattel slavery era. Exploiting undocumented workers with undignified working conditions and paying them insufficiently in exchange for irreversibly wearing down their bodies.

Lol

She’s a young, outspoken woman of color. Old white people would never let it happen, even if half are in a nursing home mainlining Fox News straight into their frontal cortex and can barely walk on their own.

A lot of folk are still recovering from Obama being elected twice.

At least Bernie looks familiar to them, so the hatred will be tampered.