Well, now I can not know or care who that lady is in a whole new light. Good for her for hating Elon Musk, even if it’s probably for some terrible reasons.
Seriously, how many conservative “influencers” can there even be? I don’t even know what Ben Shapiro is yet. It’s too many. Cut it down to like 5 good ones and I might be influenced once, maybe. I’m not checking out 40,000 podcasts in an effort to give a shit about fascism.
I don’t know about the court of public opinion but there is a Tesla “gigafactory” there and some sort of research lab. SpaceX has launched some military satellites for Germany and Starlink is valuable militarily with no viable competition yet (though plenty is apparently on the way). X is still valuable for propaganda and my guess is people aren’t as sick of his shit outside the U.S. yet.
I don’t know if Neuralink did any monkey torture there. But that probably isn’t valuable to Germany anyway. They can probably source monkeys without anyone’s help.
I came from your mom’s house but she seemed over 17.
The author bends over backwards to be even-handed and still can’t make an argument that across-the-board tariffs are good economic policy. She basically just switches to, “I guess they can be politically advantageous over taxes that are more obvious? Maybe? But there’s no real economic upside.”
I wish these articles would note that Congress gets a say. I know there’s a slim Republican majority in both houses but that’s not enough in the Senate.
Obviously, a lot can be done by executive order and that reconciliation exists. The tax credit would qualify for reconciliation bills and could easily be doomed. But half these articles act like Trump won’t face any resistance, even from within his own party.
This seems unambiguously up to Congress since a “post office and postal roads” are specifically mentioned as part of Article I of the constitution but who the fuck knows in the Calvinball judicial era?
Just to be clear, it says, “may” setup a post office not “shall” and some FedEx executive with a briefcase full of cash could probably convince at least 4 SCOTUS judges to vote for something. But Jeff Bezos and whoever owns the greeting card industry — Hallmark, I guess — might have larger briefcases of cash so we’ll see who wins. (Not us. We’re losing either way. But Amazon vs. FedEx and every company that has to mail records by law — health insurance and banks probably being the big ones — means nothing is guaranteed and it’ll take decades of court cases to sort out.)
Ah, someone who played a key role in the Venezuelan coup, the most slapdick of coup attempts. It was like they dusted off a plan from 1980. They setup these staged events for TV and people with phone cameras were filming it from afar and posting on social media like, “What are these clowns doing? Are they filming a commercial?”
You can love or hate Maduro. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the planning and execution of the coup. It was downright buffoonish.
The latter. I mean, America was founded by a tobacco company and people so weird in their religiosity, they were kicked out of 17th century Europe.
I do think we can solve the oligarch problem. So, part of me was like, “We’ve met this challenge before, motherfuckers.” It wasn’t meant to dismissive but I’m pretty sure I could open hand slap Elon Musk and 24 of his 38 kids would feel it.
Oh no, what will we do if billionaires control the U.S. government.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
And those are just J.P. Morgan.
I’d definitely fuck with another country. Good Britain. Or maybe Macedonia to fuck with Greece and North Macedonia. (Though bad Britain arguably has 3 countries.) Maybe The United State of America if it’s in the Americas.
Or maybe WaterParksylvania if I the water park budget is where I’d expect it to be.
Wait until they find out the SNAP program (aka food stamps) is run by the Department of Agriculture because it’s about increasing demand for agricultural products, not helping the poor. For comparison, TANF (aka welfare) is under the Department of Health and Human Services.