Look, I hear you and this is awful. Unfortunately permitting extinction lands pretty far down the list after sending innocents to concentration camps, intentionally crashing the global economy, destroying the rule of law, creating a system of bribes to the President and the President’s family, and laying the groundwork to start a war with Iran. Things are bleak
The same US Marshalls that escorted DOGE kids into Congressional nonprofit buildings the executive didn’t control in order to hack computer systems and lock out employees? The ones that didn’t bother to get a warrant or legal authorization?
Agree. They are openly defying all courts on countless issues and whenever something actually gets before the Supreme Court, the SC goes out of its way to help the administration avoid any consequences. We’re cooked
Yeah weird. Maybe tariffs weren’t “paused” or “walked back” and what’s been implemented amounts to a global trade war with no discernible off ramp, and the details change daily.
The thing that chaps my ass is how so many negative stories about the economy and inflation were laid at Biden’s feet in the run up to the election but here we actually have the President as the sole and single cause for the economic downturn and there aren’t universal voices screaming that he’s crashing the god damned plane into the mountain.
All economic policies pick winners and losers. Certain industries get subsidies or bailouts in every administration. I know this is likely phrased here just to use GOP criticism of Obama policies against the current admin but 1) it’s a bad criticism and 2) they’re incapable of shame or caring about hypocrisy
Or rather they initially reacted to headlines from legit news that repeated White House spin that there was a “pause” on tariffs. The current sell off reflects actual conditions - perhaps if media reported facts instead, people would be better informed
They didn’t avoid the fucking tree! They still are declaring 10% tariffs on everyone, 124% or something stupid on all imports from China and all tariffs on materials like lumber, steel and aluminum. The way the markets and people are talking about this minor pause like it’s a total reversal is driving me fucking nuts. We. Aren’t. Out. Of. The. Woods. I don’t care what the Dow did. Businesses are still fucked.
This combined with breaking the SSA will absolutely result in people dying. We’ve been telling them they were in a death cult and now they get to live it out. Probably like those who were surprised to die of covid, by the time they have any regrets it will be too late
That tweet says we are flirting with a true crisis. Oh the crisis is here. We’re flirting with collapsing of the most stable currency in the world bc our President is a fucking moron who doesn’t understand economics
A follow up here. We actually have a trade surplus with Australia and yet are going to tariff all imports from Australia at 10%. If it’s not about tariff rates or even trade deficits- then the Answer is what Trump says: he thinks tariff revenues can replace the need to have an income tax and also that the tariffs are never going away
You don’t have it right. Vietnam purportedly offered to go zero out tariffs and Navarro claimed the administration rejected the offer because it didn’t address “non-tariff” ways in which it was “cheating”. By which he means that we have a trade deficit
There is no off ramp
I mean we can laugh about it but the Nazis were fucking clowns too. Hell, the Supreme Court just gave Trump the legal grounds for “if we deport you to a foreign slave labor prison before you can get a lawyer, you’re fucked”
They decide who “enemies” are and you have no realistic chance for judicial review. That’s where we are now.
Given that the IRS will now share data with DHS - mass deportations to concentration camps ran by private prisons is next.
Things are very very dark
DOGE is the deep state. They are imbedded throughout government, ran by a foreign billionaire, and they alone control who the government pays, or what services get rendered- laws and Congress be damned.
They created a deep state