Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon said he plans to introduce a companion bill to the bipartisan Senate legislation aimed at reclaiming Congress’ authority over tariffs, becoming the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers President Donald Trump is using to launch a massive global trade war.
This was from the first time around. More relevant than ever…
i agree with the sentiment but a white supremecist would never use the southern “alls” in this context. “alls” is “everyone’s groups.” they didn’t vote like this with any idea in mind this would help anyone but themselves. they voted from the desperation mindset that they couldn’t get by under the neoliberal policies we’ve been under. they wouldn’t put it like that. but that’s the motivation. they’ve heard trump will harm other groups. they know. they’ve accepted that. they think the only way for them to survive is to win the zero sum game set up by the tug of war between neoliberal fascism and christo/corpofascism. they don’t think we alls gon be rich. they think there will be a mass die off, and from that thinning of the heard, their survival will become secure.
nevermind that the rest of us have been trying to build a world where all survive. one where fairness and peace are the orders of the day. they can’t see that. they’re isolated. their connections to the outside world come from their tv and on their smartphones. their understanding of what is going on in the cities comes from the oligarchs we all want dispensed of. they think the people in the cities are frothed up against who’s out of the city just like they are.
the urban/rural divide is just as real to maintaining centralized power as race, class, gender, or sexual orientation. anything the rulers can use to divide us they will do.
They seem to have REALLY amped up the division between age groups in the past 15 years or so. I mean there was always low-grade simmering resentment between Gen X and what we thought of the boomers - and to a much larger degree: their parents’ generation - if you want to be honest.
But I don’t think the mainstream media ever gave a flying fuck what Gen X ever thought - most of the focus switched from the 60s generation forever and always, and then nearly immediately flipped to focusing on Gen Y and craving their approval (and dollars). Gen X didn’t have as many people in it, so it’s really just a financial decision…not because any one generation is really more important or magically different or anything.
I think the mainstream outlets have really dialed it up between Gen Y and boomers and now we have this stupid intra-generational warfare as if every experience between one set of people born between a certain set of years is exactly the same thing, which is about one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard, but here we are…it goes back to at least the boomers as far as how people took the lazy way out in thinking about a diverse set of people, but I think it’s just about market segmentation and a weapon of the elites.
agreed 100%. tons of ways to divide a people