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I mean the coherent portion of the plan was “let’s put what effectively are sales taxes on everything, so we can remove the tax burden completely and permanently from companies and billionaires!”

Democrats of America, sure, have your fun and do your “I told ya so” tour, but this is also the critical moment where you have to get progressive voices in the party, front and center.

People will quickly find out that tariffs are a terrible revenue substitute for taxes just like when they tried it with Smoot-Hawley. Time to hammer home the things that did work, what brought in prosperity after the New Deal and into the 70s is 95% taxes on the wealthiest people in the world and union rights.

I mean no surprises there, but if things go as I imagine it’s not going to mean that much any more. If people in the US are buying and travelling less, that will still sink the demand for oil, and if the glut from OPEC continues then it will be game over for many producers.

Happy Friday…

America had better get ready for the world calling Trump’s “negotiating tactic” bluff.

Excuse my patronization, but I’m getting exhausted at having to explain it over and over for defeatist Americans. You have to keep up the fight even if it’s not perfect. It brings people together. It motivates people to action and become stronger as a group rather than divided as individuals. You have a country to save from the destruction and occupation by the billionaire class. There’s so many more normal Americans than there are billionaires, you all need to be in a big group to begin to realize that. If you’ve given up, the 1%ers win by default. A movement is brewing, be part of the solution rather than throwing it away because it’s not completely coherent yet. Start peacefully, take precautions as necessary, let them put all Americans on a list and prosecute you unjustly. Pre-emptive capitulation is how you all got here.

Get out there, the minimum you can do is stand with your working class sibling. Being together rather than just sitting at home despairing IS doing something.

If WA OR CA governors wanted to start forming a bloc to negotiate deals internationally that would be interesting.

Country for sale! Buy now!

Words ending with -archy and -cracy are academic words that your average American doesn’t appear to truly understand. Even academics will use those words as if it is all talking about a history long ago or a faraway hypothetical land when the problems are directly in front of us, here and now.

This is Sanders using vocabulary that will get to the brains of your working class American.

(Further, Sanders has countless times made reference to America being an aw-ligaw-kic society in his speeches)

The most powerful part of Carney’s speech today imo, after talking about the need to renegotiate the US trading partnership while looking to the world to diversify:

If the United States no longer wants to lead… Canada will.

“President Trump is taking this economy in a different direction. He ran on that. He promised it. And now he’s delivering. And yes, this is a big change. I’m not going to shy away from it, but we needed a big change,” Vance told “Fox & Friends.”

Trump is changing the economy from “up” to “down”?

Possibly using ChatGPT or another LLM.

Who knew that hiring people based on how much they suck up to you would mean that everyone on your team (including yourself) is incompetent?

Not to worry, he just taxed all the world’s stuff on Americans.

Not really reciprocal levies but a blanket levy with a couple reciprocal actions…

… and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.

Will the real suckers and losers, please stand up?

Pesky truth getting in the way of the lies, damn it!

Vote Republican to allow Trump to raise the price of eggs, fire you from your job, take away your retirement and deport your spouse to El Salvador!

What the heck??? This is bizarre…

Lutnick was trying to competently play “good cop, bad cop” diplomacy for Trump, because of Trump’s personal fixations with tariffs, and was mildly successful as far as successes in this administration go. But I remembered we can’t have any semblance of independent thinking in the Trump administration, no siree. It all makes sense now.