Orange stain second term results thread

[K1052]

Yes but they'd have to get over their hangups about immigrants.

If the UK wasn't especially fucked in the head about this they could easily scoop up enough skilled people to really help out their future which is rapidly dimming.

 

[Brainonska511]

Trump thinks the cops should just be able to kill people either intentionally or through gross negligence/indifference and get away with it.

That's not very far off from current supreme court logic.

Cop makes a mistake in the law or situation, that's just a little oopsies that we can overlook.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Yes but they'd have to get over their hangups about immigrants.

Americans (and those from other first world white countries) aren't immigrants, they're expats.

 

[gothuevos]

All hail our new tech overlords.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882042989184430332

 

[K1052]

The idea that billionaires are a huge policy mistake that demands rectification really growing on me a lot these days.

 

[Brainonska511]

Americans (and those from other first world white countries) aren't immigrants, they're expats.

I'm sure there is nothing Europeans will like more of in their cities that have housing crises of their own than Americans immigrating with lots of money (relative to locals) to afford those higher rents.

 

[K1052]

I'm sure there is nothing Europeans will like more of in their cities that have housing crises of their own than Americans immigrating with lots of money (relative to locals) to afford those higher rents.

I mean if I was the French I'd just build them a new town/research campus at the end of one of the RER lines northeast of the city. It'd be worth it.

 

[Brainonska511]

The idea that billionaires are a huge policy mistake that demands rectification really growing on me a lot these days.

From my reading this morning, it seems that there could be some easy solutions here, including just raising marginal rates on them (apparently, the very well off are more buy-save-die than buy-borrow-die). And then close all the random estate tax BS that allows things like stepped up basis.

Zach Liscow (@zliscow.bsky.social)

NEW PAPER! (w/ Ed Fox) We study 1) how much the wealthy borrow, quantifying “buy-borrow-die” for the first time, and 2) how much unrealized gains impact their taxes. The results changed (some of) our thinking on how to tax those at the top. 🧵 w/ findings ⬇️ Paper is here...

bsky.app

 

[pmv]

I'm sure there is nothing Europeans will like more of in their cities that have housing crises of their own than Americans immigrating with lots of money (relative to locals) to afford those higher rents.

Heh, that was pretty much _exactly_ my thought at this article ("goddam it, house prices are going to go even higher")

Meet the Americans moving to London to flee President Trump 2.0

After Trump’s re-election, Democrats are flocking to more liberal destinations — and London is high on the list

www.standard.co.uk

 

[K1052]

Heh, that was pretty much _exactly_ my thought at this article ("goddam it, house prices are going to go even higher")

Meet the Americans moving to London to flee President Trump 2.0

After Trump’s re-election, Democrats are flocking to more liberal destinations — and London is high on the list

www.standard.co.uk

The UK is unfortunately patient zero for the "can't ever build anything anywhere now if my little corner of the world changes one iota" disease that infects the US.

 

[eelw]

The UK is unfortunately patient zero for the "can't ever build anything anywhere now if my little corner of the world changes one iota" disease that infects the US.

Yeah with all the violent protests that UK and France get, imagine if the RWNJs in this side of the pond behaved the same way.

 

[Jaskalas]

MAGA is now determined to make nuclear fallout great again!
Apparently we need atmospheric tests to return.

https://bsky.app/profile/atomicanalyst.bsky.social/post/3lge7y5atb22s

 

[K1052]

MAGA is now determined to make nuclear fallout great again!
Apparently we need atmospheric tests to return.

https://bsky.app/profile/atomicanalyst.bsky.social/post/3lge7y5atb22s

We should open air test over Florida.

 

[Brainonska511]

We should open air test over Florida.

Maybe during the next hurricane per Trump administration #1

 

[MrSquished]

The idea that billionaires are a huge policy mistake that demands rectification really growing on me a lot these days.

Bernie was right.

He should have been the nominee in 2016 too.

 

[Brainonska511]

Bernie was right.

He should have been the nominee in 2016 too.

Well, he wasn't, and he didn't exactly improve on his popularity in the intervening years either, even with an initially fractured 2020 primary.

 

[MrSquished]

Yes but they'd have to get over their hangups about immigrants.

Most of the racist hangups are about poor and only minority immigrants, asylum seekers, etc...

We are talking doctors and scientists here. Sure some will be asian, but a ton will be white - totally different story.

 

[K1052]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lggdns5y322g

If he imposes tariffs the Canadians should shut off the crude and electricity exports for a week

 

[Indus]

I hope that all Trump voters have a really fucking shitty day today. And rest of their week. And rest of their year.

Don't most of them live off the land homesteading raising chickens for eggs unlike you and me?

 

[nakedfrog]

All hail our new tech overlords.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882042989184430332

Much easier to have a fascist surveillance state when you have AI to monitor for malcontents. We've already been told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.
But yes, to hear conservatives tell it, it's always liberals doing the ol' 1984 (projection, of course, just like the grooming claims against liberals and LGBTQ+ people).

 

[HomerJS]

Thanks a lot you stupid assed black people who voted for Trump or were too fucking lazy to get up off your asses and vote... How ya like it now?

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-equal-employment-executive-order

 

[gothuevos]

Much easier to have a fascist surveillance state when you have AI to monitor for malcontents. We've already been told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.
But yes, to hear conservatives tell it, it's always liberals doing the ol' 1984 (projection, of course, just like the grooming claims against liberals and LGBTQ+ people).

The $500B AI infrastructure investment makes a lot more sense now!

I'm curious if we will be given social demerits or if it's just straight to jail/camp/reeducation?

 

[repoman0]

Trump is going to fix the housing market by demanding that interest rates go down immediately 😂 the unchanged 10-year treasury yield suggests that just maybe the market is not taking him seriously. Funny clown president.

 

[K1052]

Trump is going to fix the housing market by demanding that interest rates go down immediately 😂 the unchanged 10-year treasury yield suggests that just maybe the market is not taking him seriously. Funny clown president.

Erratic economic moves will push the yields yet higher. People who do not like their 6-7% mortgages may end up considering themselves fortunate in a year or less.

 

[repoman0]

Erratic economic moves will push the yields yet higher. People who do not like their 6-7% mortgages may end up considering themselves fortunate in a year or less.

That’s my expectation too. Certainly doesn’t seem like mortgage rates are going under 6% for the foreseeable future. Have fun with that broke Trump voters who will never own a home.