I’d be okay with going back to a concept of a plan.

Well now I feel bad for laughing at the leashed children.

Putin is operating like it is last century. Trump is operating like it is two centuries ago.

We’re gonna get a shit ton of austerity here and then future children will learn about the Trump tariffs in school.

I just find it a little ironic that the genius voters that ushered in Reagan and neo-liberalism are the same voters that support Trump and his destruction of said neo-liberalism.

Eggs are easier to hide, candy bars not so much. Plus the Easter Bunny doesn’t lay candy bars so your idea wouldn’t really make sense with the lore and all.

Tariffs at least historically have been used to mess up the economy and prepare the population for a new deal.

One faith healer gets a blind man to stand on their own and take a step and they’re set for life with followers.

How do you define a free market? Why do dollars have value?

Not ground breaking just an accounting of the erosion of basic human rights specifically of the female nature. Soon women will be restricted from voting, owning property, and only allowed outside while in the company of a suitable male.

I like my mail service. They did take the mailbox on the block during Trumps first term though, but people complained and we got it back.

Are they an engineer?

Let us know when they panic sell this next time around.

What’s Left of Philosophy? - Good for elevating your philosophy game.

It is simpler than all that. Elite parents send their children to elite schools and universities. Their children then learn how the world works and are equipped with the skills to engage with the people running things.

The lower classes do not value education in this fashion. Their children do not have parents at home who understand how the world works or how our society is organized. Even if those children are smart or gifted they have no idea how to learn the skills they need or how to properly use their gifted abilities.

The perjury he was doing while testifying to Congress was also enough in my book as well as his beer outburst trying to respond to Klobuchar.

In principle yeah, but we are currently speed running the dystopian surveillance state so much early sci-fi warned us about.

We got one. We are just watching one party testing the limits of the social contract that keeps this place going. I’m talking about how long people will abide their federal courts and Congress being shat upon.

I’ll take your word for it and now expect an epic ending.

This is just the continued pushing of the tax burden onto the middle class. Which really got started good under Reagan. I think this is just the result of the uneducated GOP supporters winning this election. Now it is just a constant flood of them having no idea how government functions while ruining stuff for the rest of society,

They could, but building other trading partners in a generally capitalist economy might take a bit of helping. By making American goods more expensive to import maybe Canadian importers will look to other non tariff ridden sources.

Like super simply the $100 item from American with a tariff is now $125 so the non tariff item from not America that costs say $110 is now competitive. All this is going to do is wreck up long established supply chains and cost end consumers more.

The reason Trump is using tariffs is because Congress has delegated that power over to the executive. He isn’t protecting any crucial industry or national security or anything just hand waving nonsense about tariffs lowering taxes that his barely literate base is eating up. And of course the Republicans working in gov’t are also eating it up, because their goal has been to destroy what little social safety net exists in this country and generally show that the gov’t doesn’t work by breaking it.