I really don’t think this is part of some grander plan. I think he really thinks blanket tariffs are a good idea.

Tariff man is an idiot.

Retirees ‘idiots’ as they keep savings they need to live in volatile asset classes such as stocks.

Federal and local government are likely both involved. With the doge cuts, who knows how many boots they actually have on the ground for this these days?

They get hit in the pocketbook and suddenly now the Constitution matters.

Being born here is increasingly an albatross to bear your entire life.

Held in a flaming dumpster

They could implement this by just not charging the duties at the ports in California and see who blinks first.

Liberation (from your employment) day

Our representatives are the ones who are supposed to be acting. Again, what did this speech accomplish?

Dude, they are in the minority. The only thing they can hope to do is obstruct what Republicans are doing. Holding the floor is a good way to do this. They don’t have to hold the floor physically to obstruct most things, but it’s better IMO…because it gives them a bigger platform to scream from.

If I were a democratic senator, I’d be setting up to physically filibuster everything the whole session and use the time on the floor to have a parade of people continually shit talking Trump. It generates headlines and diverts attention, and gets people talking. All good things IMO.

I’m irritated with Democrats most often because they seem to not give a shit about fighting when they don’t have the votes. Booker’s actions are a step in the right direction.

One of the ways you sleep walk into a dictatorship is by “complying in advance”. We may be on our way to a dictatorship but there’s no need to roll out the carpet for it. Booker is doing a good thing by using his platform while he still has one.

There may be no way out of this without violence and bloodshed, but that doesn’t make non-violent, more conventional forms of resistance useless. They work as force multipliers. I support Booker and I also don’t think the Tesla takedown people are terrorists.

Yeah I mean there’s that but the reddit demo uses ad blockers frequently and ad-based content on reddit is already probably not that profitable. There’s a lot of people running astroturf campaigns for various things, but how are you seeing revenue out of that? Some schmuck buying the wrong type of portable speaker because of a crappy recommendation won’t add to reddit’s bottom line when it’s the speaker maker’s internal marketing intern. If anything, it’ll just further cause people to lose confidence in them.

The only path they had toward profitability was feeding all of their user data into AIs for revenue from AI companies, but chatbots are also unprofitable and that revenue probably won’t even cover the costs to run the servers, and besides how many companies are going to be dumb enough to pay for that privilege? We’re talking about folks that already stole every piece of artwork, literature, and news article they could get their grubby little mitts on. Why would they continue to pay reddit?

Ultimately the biggest conceit of the “attention economy” is the idea that attention automatically translates into dollars.

(And they’re bleeding attention too.)

This “company” has no real path to profitability to speak of.

Nah those fucking paddles or whatever at the fake of the union were the easiest type of protest.

These motherfuckers will still be chirping about “cancel culture” while hanging from chains in Trump’s gulag.

Exactly the point

A demonstration of the “soft power” that Vance was telling Ukraine to use.

His base is a bunch of cultist lunatics that would vote for him if he shot their mom on fifth avenue in front of them.

This country is full up with fucking idiots.

That’s true but buying a Tesla is honestly a pretty online move.

Seems like a bad art style to convey that message to anyone except the most hardened of fascists – which is almost a more succinct wording of my original point.