You don’t even need to look further than the guy’s username to get the sense that he’s an obnoxious little prick.

Oh, yay! I can’t wait for my coverage to include dietary supplements. If I’m lucky, maybe I’ll even get to keep coverage for something I actually need to live.

Going for the record of most total downvotes on Lemmy?

Make sure to let the door hit you on the way out, asshat.

School in a red state… isn’t that just home"school"ing? Picture still applies, though.

Considering past policies, probably something about not leaving a negative comment until you’ve truly listened to the “victim” and empathize with them

the lobby group for JM Smucker and other big food manufacturers warned against “overly broad and sweeping tariffs” that might end up making it more expensive to import ingredients like cocoa, which are not made in the US.

“I don’t necessarily want the current administration to say, well, we’ll impose a tariff,” Tom Madrecki, the group’s vice president of supply chain resiliency, said at a recent forum about tariffs, hosted by Farmers for Free Trade.

“It’s this careful balance between yes, I want you to take an America First trade policy and action to counter unfair trade policies abroad… but maybe not quite in that way.”

If you’re going to demand tariffs that increase prices to harm competition but not yourself, go fuck yourselves. The only thing that benefits is the company’s profit margins, while consumers are forced to pay more because you raise your own prices to match.

Wait, there’s a difference between those two things?

Not at all surprizing. Spez thinks he’s an upcoming Elon-like genius and wants to surround himself with like-minded techbros, but he’s actually a massive Musk bootlicker.

I think you are wrong, but only in the you’re not thinking about the big picture.

Elon “I traced the DDOS to Ukrainian terrorists” Musk is in charge of this. Someone on Twitter (probably his alt) is going to post a conspiracy on Twitter about Ukrainian or Canadian hackers being behind it, and he’s going to retweet it with some plausibly deniable bullshit like “not far off,” and rally up his cult of reactionary prokaryots to demand a economic or military response. It’s yet another golden opportunity for the crony collective to sweep their own incompetence under the rug while simultaneously scapegoating another country to push their unspoken-but-obvious agenda.

I also wish it didn’t say that, but for entirely different reasons.

It’s an ad. Paid for by a foreign government. MAGA morons aren’t going to do much other than interpret it as Canada being scared and spreading lies, which obviously means it’s working and Trump is doing a tremendous bigly job making Canada “pay” the tariffs.

It might get some Republican Trump voters to actually attempt to understand the consequences of tariffs, but it’s going to empower the vocal cultists that live in disinformation la-la land.

To anyone with critical thinking skills, sure. Try convincing the morons who believe he’s not a disinformation superspreader about that, though.

now he’s just a step removed from screaming about gay frogs.

He wouldn’t. He’ll bring on an “expert” on “gay frogs” and start Just Asking Questions-ing off while pretending to disagree. Once Gay Frogs Gary is platformed and given some time to spout off shit, then he’ll start subtly agreeing and posing conspiratorial questions under the guise of continuing his JAQing off session.

I heard that Canadians are paying for billboards saying “tariffs are taxes on your groceries” in Republican states. It’s funny as hell, but it won’t work—people are either too uneducated to understand how higher import costs lead to higher downstream costs, or they’re too MAGA to even consider it.

The only thing cleaner is his conscience /s

Oh, are we “shredding” instead of “slamming” now? An even better idea: acting on it

It’s always the emoji that rile up the reactionaries…

It shows they didn’t even watch the video.

Of course they didn’t. Musk fanboys are an echo chamber of morons worshipping a Nazi oligarch. They’re quick to react, and they dismiss evidence and facts if it doesn’t suit their narrative.

It also has remote access capabilities used exclusively by Putin, but people seem totally fine with that part because the jet was promised to only be used to hurt the right people.

That’s the point. Educated voters don’t vote for Republicans.