God it fucking burns him so bad that Obama got one and he didn’t.
Obama didn’t even deserve a peace prize, the guy did more drone strikes than Bush, but just for the fact that it upsets Trump so much I say they should give him another one.
Will everyone here please read the article and learn that they’re using a completely different definition of “populism” to the one you’re imagining, before you start commenting?
Still one of the greatest burns I have ever seen in my life.
Trump is dead serious about the tariffs. He’s been dead serious about tariffs for pretty much his entire adult life. This obsession goes back decades. Yes, people are opportunisticly using the chaos to profit, but the chaos is not the plan, just a side effect of Trump’s total inability to plan.
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I actually think that in Israel’s case, threats are the only option left. The world has been trying far too much subtle diplomacy with them.
This is what Biden could have done. Threaten to cut off all aid until the genocide stops. The option was always there.
It’s very much a stopped clock scenario of course. Trump is being the same bull headed idiot he always is, this just happens to be the one time that’s appropriate.
And it won’t matter because he’ll fold like a cheap suit. He’s all bark, no bite.
And the sad irony is that if he actually asked the Dems to help him get this through Congress, they’d probably agree. But he’s such an unbelievably terrible deal maker that he can’t actually do that.
What made those jobs great for the middle class wasn’t the fact that they were blue collar manufacturing jobs, it was the fact that they were unionized.
Unions and high top tax brackets built the American middle middle class between the fourties and the eighties. Yes, offshoring allows companies to seek lower wages elsewhere, but the solution to that is not sweatshops at home. You need to start by building up strong labour rights and investing in education and infrastructure, which drive investment in job growth. Stop trying to regain all the jobs you lost and work and improving the jobs you have.
Yes, leftists have been warning about globalisation for decades, and they’re right, but lets not pretend that what Trump is doing is even in the same continent as a solution.
“Corrupt reasons” is actually giving him too much credit. He’s tearing up everything Biden did because Biden did it. He did the same thing with as much of Obama’s legislative agenda as he could.
It’s pure pettiness. He can’t allow his predecessors to have a legacy. His ego cannot afford it.
It’s not just that people on the left tend to be more interested in EVs, it’s that people on the far right have made hating them a fundamental tenet of their insane belief system. We’re talking about people who go out of their way to sabotage charging stations, who modify their trucks to intentionally produce more pollution. Even if you were a MAGA type and thought “Hey, that new Model S sounds pretty sweet” there is no way you’d put up with the abject hatred it would draw from your community.
And what’s more, because of this outright hostility to their vehicles in conservative areas, Tesla has almost no infrastructure in those places. No dealerships, no charging stations. And Tesla operate their own dealerships, so they can’t just sell through existing dealers. They literally don’t have the ability to sell cars to MAGA, even if MAGA suddenly develops the inclination to buy them after all of Trump’s shilling.
You can see this in the numbers. The most MAGA friendly Tesla vehicle, the Cybertruck, is piling up on lots. No one is buying it. Despite Tesla originally struggling to hit their production targets, they’ve actually ended up shutting down lines and retasking workers because the trickle of vehicles they produced is well in excess of demand.
Amazing how quickly they pivoted from “Trump will bring down the price of groceries” to “It’s better if things get more expensive,” and his cultists just ate it up.
Oh, don’t worry… This data is from January to March, so it doesn’t really reflect the actions of the current president. We’ve not even begun to see the impact of Trump’s bold economic agenda.
It’s going to get so, so much worse.
I decide to start a business. I borrow a million dollars from the bank at 2% interest.
I now have a million dollars cash, and a million dollars of debt. Logically, rather than investing my million dollars of cash in building and growing a business, I should use it to pay off my debt. That’s clearly the the best use for that money.
Do you see how what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense?
Approval always matters, even in a dictatorship. If it didn’t, the most autocratic governments would produce the least amounts of propaganda, and have the freest of free presses
Every leader ultimately rules by consent. Democracy just codifies a much simpler, much less violent process for granting or withholding that consent.
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Remember, none of this is restricted to actual gang members.
If they can deport anyone who is a member of a Venezuelan gang to a prison camp without trial then, oops, turns out everyone they don’t like is a member of a Venezuelan gang.
You can prove you’re not? Too bad. That would require a trial. You don’t get one of those, because we say you’re a member of a Venezuelan gang.
See how this works?
ICE are Trump’s sturmabteilung. If he’s allowed to get away with any of this, it will not be long before he starts turning them on anyone who openly disagrees with him.
America, this is your five alarm fire. If everything else wasn’t enough to get you moving, dear God please let this be it.
Get out and protest. Get talking to the other people at those protests. Build your network. You’re going to need it for what is coming.
So her war plan is to “be strong” but also “cave to the far right and throw minorities and women under the bus to avoid hurting their few-fees”?
Yeah, what happened here is those senators did the math that the house were too lazy to do and realized that, proportionally, this would hit red states harder.