willarrr.bsky.social
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He can't believe Canada would do this to him.
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You should totally build your factory on this very large pile of dynamite because the cackling madman over there might not light the fuse.
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It's almost as if, and stay with me here, domestic and global financial markets don't have the attention span of a goldfish.
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Two weeks before the election. Trump was loudly announcing that he would "fix" the economy with mass tariffs two weeks before the election. Anyone who claims they couldn't see this coming is either lying or so breathtakingly stupid they probably shouldn't be out in public without a handler.
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A month ago these same people were all about crypto-bros and the stock market, despite those being the literal opposite of "working with your hands". It's just the latest iteration of their isolationist, nativist, "My opinion is whatever makes me right" worldview.
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I really don't know how to feel about this. Like, pulling a protection detail as punishment for disloyalty is unequivocally wrong, but also may be don't be an irredeemable warmonger who openly calls for the destruction of a foreign nation if you don't want people to want you dead.
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Trump gets all the headlines, but you're absolutely right in the GOP owning this. Trump is fairly limited in power if Congress simply told him 'no' and threatened targeted budget holds and legal action for noncompliance.
Republicans are destroying this country.
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Ironically, this tactic highlights something they really try to keep quiet: undocumented immigrants pay taxes, which go to services they themselves frequently do not qualify for. They contribute far more than they take.
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"He doesn't really mean it" has been the rallying cry of Trump supporters for a decade now. Which is a bizarre position to take with someone they claim should be in charge of everything.
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Even when they "figure it out" they still have to hang on to at least a little bit of brain-rot propaganda like it's absolutely foundational to their world view. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" was never a thing. It was an excuse to ignore criticism and warnings about a profoundly dangerous person.
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Elon Musk, well known for his grace and humility when being publically rejected. This will be gasoline on a dumpster fire.
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You forgot the part where coal industry bosses waited until Trump won to come out and admit that Hillary was right and coal couldn't compete with natural gas.
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Him existing in that group in the first place is likely the biggest story he was going to get out of it. Leaving when he did was the smart decision.
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So many great questions to be asked in the non-stop Congressional hearings that should be going on from now until 2029.
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If the US weathers this administration and still survives as a semi-functional democracy, there had better be Nuremberg-style trials for everyone who had a hand in these blatantly illegal and inhumane acts. "Just following orders" was found to be an inadequate defense a loooong time ago.
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Did Cheeto Jesus already pass a nationwide ban on mask requirements, or am I just assuming that's in the pipeline?
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Buying loyalty, plain and simple. The other guys followed orders by the chain of command, and that doesn't always go in the dictator's favor. The rebels he "personally" paid, on the other hand...
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Pretty sure that deciding you don't like someone anymore based on their actions and associations is a very obvious example of "thinking for yourself" there, Benjamin.
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What a weird timeline to live in where the best-case scenario is the incoming Presidential administration are a bunch of feckless idiots who can't accomplish anything.
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He knows exactly what he is and he revels in it.
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We are closer to that tipping point than we've likely ever been and Dem leadership is playing with fire if they think people won't realize that, politically, they don't really have anything left to lose at this point. They already lost to Trump twice. How does it get worse if the Left goes rogue?
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That's the truly ridiculous thing about this: more liberal urban areas will barely notice the change (since the major shipping carriers are all over those areas already), but the more conservative rural areas will see prices spike due to the extra time/fuel/mileage spent getting there.
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Pretty sure I saw that thing on episode 1 of The Walking Dead.
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If they stop the firehose of anger and fear even for a second, their audience loses interest and might start looking at what is actually going on.
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It feels equivalent to him declaring that he's going to lower consumer prices with his magical powers and half the country saying "awesome, that sounds so easy", voting for him, watching him win, and THEN deciding to ask if he actually has magical powers.
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Who could have possibly seen this coming? Personally I love shooting myself in the foot while preemptively begging for a bandaid.
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Now imagine how bad things will get if and when they repeal the ACA, along with sidelining the CDC in every way possible. There will 100% be another pandemic and it will ravage, in particular, poor areas in red states.
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Yeah, there's no 4D chess here. He wanted Gaetz because Gaetz is an attack dog who's loyalty can be guaranteed with the threat of the investigation results coming out. He settled for Bondi because she's already crossed lines for him in the past. Trump wants people he can control.
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I firmly believe that someone close to Phil Collins gave him a hard time about selling out to Disney, and he took that shit personally.
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Because, a couple sips in, you realize that you did not need, or even particularly want, this coffee, and are basically just chasing the hyperactive dragon at this point.
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I mean, they also seem to think tariffs are going to make groceries cheaper, so at some point we have to accept that they're just living in a fantasy world where everything works out the way they want it to.
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I don't know, man. I hope you're right, but I think most of them are as transactionally-minded as Trump, and will happily sit on scandalous info as long as they can wring personal benefit out of it.
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It's really alarming how comfortable they've become with blatantly inventing their own reality on the fly. Like, this isn't some historical event where the details have been lost. It started two years ago and is currently in progress, and has been exhaustively reported the entire time.
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I would bet a substantial amount of money a congressional Republican with significant pull told him that they'd keep his investigation results under wraps, but only if he turned down the AG offer.