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Basically, who is the best mayor of an American city and why is she obviously Michelle Wu of Boston...
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Just looked at the new mayor of San Francisco.
He wants to use police to deal with drug addiction and campaigns on tough-on-crime policies.
But at least he wants to also build homeless shelters and increase housing...
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His values are abhorrent. His policies are hurting America and benefiting our allies.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t realize that Trump used our own playbook against us.
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As long as you don’t have most of the keys against you, this strategy will pan out. Convince voters that you will make their lives better. Downplay the accomplishments of your opponent. Stress their failures.
Then you win.
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His strategy, fighting in every state, reaching out to voters and expanding your margins in your base so your voters don’t stay home…
This isn’t a Republican strategy, Democrats have used it in the past.
This is historically the dominant strategy in American political campaigns.
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Trump should be in jail. For once he's right. He is the agitator.
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Once you piece it together it is all so blatant.
Trump is a danger to the country. He must be removed from office.
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The special deals giving government grants to private companies for private investment is impossible to compete against in an era when CPUs are more expensive and the tax cuts for R&D are essentially gone.
He goes through and has Elon Musk end what enforcement we have to root our white collar crime.
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Those two factors led to California becoming the most productive place on the planet in the latter half of the twentieth century. It created a vibrant and diverse tech sector unlike anywhere else on the planet.
Trump is undoing as much of it as he can.
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There are two main reasons why Silicon Valley is in California.
California invested heavily in education, so California has the labor.
Non-compete contracts are illegal, so you can easily leave your current company and start your own company.
Nowhere else on Earth is like this.
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Do not ever trust any politician who talks about bringing jobs back home through political favors while making the factor inputs more expensive.
It’s corruption, plain and simple, and it makes an unfair playing field.
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Why would you build a server farm in the United States with high tariffs on CPUs when you could just build it in Canada and not have to pay that 100% surcharge on the components? That doesn’t make sense.
This administration is extremely corrupt.
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He and other populists keep going on about how they want to bring chip manufacturing at home. They want America to be the global pioneer in “AI” giving large bonuses to specific companies with political connections.
But at the same time they make it very expensive to import CPUs.
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Free trade didn’t destroy your job.
Expensive factor inputs and increased taxes on businesses killed your job.
I’m not opposed to a careful approach to increasing taxes on highly profitable companies.
But eliminating deductions for wages is self-destructive.
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No foreign business is going to invest in such an environment. This is killing American jobs.
Immigrants didn’t steal your job.
Trump and the rest of the Republican Party destroyed your job.
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His policy of mass deportations without the constitutionally mandated checks and balances is going to cause a significant worker shortage, increasing inflation on everything made in America.
Rapidly changing and unpredictable high tariffs have massively shocked the economy.
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His tax policy is nothing more than a grift meant to increase his own wealth. R&D deductions are gone, tax rates are lower overall, yet still increasing taxes for our most productive companies. His tax policy is the main force killing jobs in the tech sector.
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His foreign policy has massively reduced American power abroad, both soft and hard. Our reluctance to support Ukraine combined with no restrictions in Gaza leads to a surge in anti-American sentiment.
The tariffs have led to Canadians boycotting the United States, for good reason.
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Lol
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Baron Harkonnen?
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Somehow, I missed this. I don't have Hedgecock in my tree, but my family moved from Greensboro, NC, to Wayne County, Indiana, in the early 1800s.