I mean the REAL REAL best case scenario is he chokes on some KFC right about now but I guess I'll take no stupid plans.
repoman0
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They obviously have it too easy if they’re willing to vote against their own interests in such an obvious and egregious way.
To some degree, the
Knowing Trump's views on race and his first term actions at the southern border, nobody should doubt his admin's motivations against migrants and undocumented immigrants.
repoman0
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Budget deficit is starting to get into the scary and unsustainable level too. 40% higher this year than last year. Tax cuts should help along with rising interest payments 🙄
Pens1566
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I'm a huge fan of the "magic cheeseburger theory".
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These draconian pieces of shit are going to start considering even legal immigrants subject to unlawful detention/deportation without even being charged with a crime. Democrats have no spine and are congratulating the right for even considering this unconstitutional act:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/laken-riley-act-immigration-bill-trojan-horse.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/laken-riley-act-immigration-bill-trojan-horse.html
K1052
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They’ll use this to argue for Medicare/SS cuts.
repoman0
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This will be good, grandma can go pick fruit in the fields to take the place of the workers Trump wants to deport.
Synergy!
repoman0
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It’s perfect. I love for them that they get to take part in the job market they helped create.
Nah, they'll be picked by the now-burgeoning Penal Corps of America with a labor cost of $0/hr.
KMFJD
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in really strange news, trump seems to have managed a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal and the israeli right are seething(while occupying more land on the west bank)
https://archive.is/iR4sB (Haaretz article)
lmao donald the dove
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https://archive.is/iR4sB (Haaretz article)
lmao donald the dove
Jaskalas
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I would assume this is also the reason Biden dragged his feet on MAGA / Trump.
There's no one home. Biden is no longer a cogent person who can receive new info and act accordingly. To make critical and informed decisions. And none of his staff had the balls to seize the Presidency from him, in fact or in function. The Democrats want to hold Israel to account, but Democrats have no leader. Biden needed to be removed more than a year ago. For both Israeli policy... and American Democracy.
Trump wants to reinstate Title 42 when he takes office, but there’s no raging pandemic anymore so he’s ordered his goon squad to supply him with one.
www.nytimes.com
So that’s why he wants RFKjr in charge of HHS.
Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.
So that’s why he wants RFKjr in charge of HHS.
Fenixgoon
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I doubt Donald is doing this out of his desire to see the violence stop and do something good in the world. But a broken clock can be right. So I will skeptically wait to see if there's some other benefactor to this course of action.
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nakedfrog
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This could be an interesting experiment/learning experience..
I mean, my instinctive thought is that those tariffs are going to be a disaster - driving both inflation and unemployment. Objectively I should be hoping they don't happen, because the chances are they will be bad for everybody.
But it could be instructive to learn just how far one can go down that road before the costs exceed any benefits. In some ways there might be some upsides to such a regime - allowing the growth of domestic industries that need a lot of capital investment, and reducing the complexity of the tax system. Maybe. It probably depends on the level of development a nation is at, and the state of the global system. It will just be interesting to see what happens.
Sounds as if Trump is proposing 'testing to destruction' though (because he's nuts), so probably won't be fun for us test subjects. It seems consistent with his entire agenda, of rolling everything backwards, and trying to use brute-force to force things to return to the early, pre-WW1, pre-WW2, pre-Great-Depression, days of capitalism.
Seems to me there's an interesting question there, as to whether such hankering for a golden age is in any way sensible. Most leftists I know see the changing nature of the capitalist system as being part of an inevitable, inexorable process of decline, the working-out of its inherent contradictions, that will end in either socialism or barbarism. Whereas Trump seems to represent a strand of the reactionary right who think the system can be rolled back to that golden age, by sheer force of will - a belief that seems to conflict with technocratic capitalists just as much as it does with Marxists.
It's intriguing that the US first rose to dominance under a highly-protectionist regime. It only embraced 'free trade' once it was in a position to benefit from it. But can one simply _force_ the system to return to its earlier condition, even while everything else in the world has changed? Will it also require a rolling back of everything else to pre-early-20th-century conditions (e.g. bringing back slavery, a return to 19th century living standards, a return to old-style imperialism, etc)?
I'll be a little disappointed if Trump simply fudges the whole thing and doesn't actually put his ideas to the test, even if, in reality, that's probably the best outcome one can hope for.
I mean, my instinctive thought is that those tariffs are going to be a disaster - driving both inflation and unemployment. Objectively I should be hoping they don't happen, because the chances are they will be bad for everybody.
But it could be instructive to learn just how far one can go down that road before the costs exceed any benefits. In some ways there might be some upsides to such a regime - allowing the growth of domestic industries that need a lot of capital investment, and reducing the complexity of the tax system. Maybe. It probably depends on the level of development a nation is at, and the state of the global system. It will just be interesting to see what happens.
Sounds as if Trump is proposing 'testing to destruction' though (because he's nuts), so probably won't be fun for us test subjects. It seems consistent with his entire agenda, of rolling everything backwards, and trying to use brute-force to force things to return to the early, pre-WW1, pre-WW2, pre-Great-Depression, days of capitalism.
Seems to me there's an interesting question there, as to whether such hankering for a golden age is in any way sensible. Most leftists I know see the changing nature of the capitalist system as being part of an inevitable, inexorable process of decline, the working-out of its inherent contradictions, that will end in either socialism or barbarism. Whereas Trump seems to represent a strand of the reactionary right who think the system can be rolled back to that golden age, by sheer force of will - a belief that seems to conflict with technocratic capitalists just as much as it does with Marxists.
It's intriguing that the US first rose to dominance under a highly-protectionist regime. It only embraced 'free trade' once it was in a position to benefit from it. But can one simply _force_ the system to return to its earlier condition, even while everything else in the world has changed? Will it also require a rolling back of everything else to pre-early-20th-century conditions (e.g. bringing back slavery, a return to 19th century living standards, a return to old-style imperialism, etc)?
I'll be a little disappointed if Trump simply fudges the whole thing and doesn't actually put his ideas to the test, even if, in reality, that's probably the best outcome one can hope for.
Same as their old message.The simple messaging form the GOP will be it’s your fault and fuck off.
GOP Senator Blames Americans for Most of Their Health Problems
"Look, about 70 percent of your health outcomes are determined by you," said Sen. Roger Marshall as his party looks to roll back health care coverage and protectionswww.yahoo.com
Watching the slow, real time epiphany of some of you despite all the warning signs the past few years...is something.
There is no cost unless Trump's supporter rebel. The honest truth is that if tariffs are applied as Trump has stated they will be cost of goods will go up and Trump et all will blame the Democrats. It is likely his supporters being super dense will believe him but who knows what will happen.
Like wise if he executes his immigration policy as stated farmers will be royally pissed. He will throw them a bone at an enhanced deficit but exactly how they will respond who knows.
K1052
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I think if prices shoot up most people are probably gonna be pretty pissed.
Indus
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Trump will take the oath using a special edition Trump bible and have ads running immediately afterwards selling one just like it for $200.
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