snabbkassa.bsky.social
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("neo-") liberal. Not socialist. Not MAGA. Not socially conservative. But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me just how I should feel today!
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Europe was starting to peel away when one of your main parties decided that Sarah Palin was White House material. Since then GOP primary candidates have become progressively crazier.
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He has a smaller one, and he is even worse on foreign policy.
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that's just silly. All conservatism says is that everything is a tradeoff. There are no perfect solutions to social problems. The truth of that won't change even if there are no conservatives in the world. Trump is not a conservative at all. He's a radical.
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it's crazy to think that Satya Nadella only needs to open a Microsoft branded diner that also "employs" his staff, and he can tip them millions tax free.
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and poor people in red states will suffer a lot more if federal transfers from rich states fall. A rich liberal in Mass. can just live in Canada or Europe until it blows over.
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money and social wellbeing are not zero sum, but status is. I've seen so many articles talling about USA's RELATIVE "decline" vs China when all that was happening was that both were still growing in wealth and power.
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if the question is "will voters hate it if nominal prices double in 5 years instead of in the normal period", then I'm going with yes.
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the administration's only end is itself. None of the agendas Trump said, well, IMPLIED he would pursue or that his voters assumed he would pursue are going to be bothered with. There is no guiding philosophy or vision for the country, except that it becomes an absolute monarchy and kleptocracy.
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If CocaCola marries you, does it come with free Berkshire H stock?
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how is it funny? or do you just not believe me?
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Why shouldn't the replacements be just as scared as she is?
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I don't think they are just scared of losing their jobs.
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You wouldn't be scared of a man with 1000s of people who will do whatever he says?
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They are receiving pizzas instead of direct threats.
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People are sending them pizzas to scare them. It's disgusting.
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libertarians hate having central banks. they want free banking, where anyone can issue their own currency.
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The point is valid, tho *I* don't lose, since I live in Japan
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I think a lot of them would like to quit, but they might as well take him down with them, and hope that losing their career is the only cost of doing it.
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But the others are MORE scared because they aren't even saying they are scared.
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if trade deficits are reduced because manufacturing comes back, then very little revenue will be raised. It's one or the other. He can't have both.
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This is what people don't get. They think the universe is malleable and that if he says something, that makes it true, not because he was correct, but because the universe responded to him as if to the voice of god.
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Everyone making and floating tariff policy on cable news TV wants something different from tariffs, so they'll just keep going in circles.
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but they want to give him enough rope so that he becomes very unpopular. only then are they safe to remove him.
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Rescind the declaration of independence and you'll have one who isn't mad. He's eccentric, but not mad.
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Thing is that Republicans regret saving the banking system last time, and it was doing that that created the Tea Party. The only thing they really like about TARP was that voters wrongly pinned it on Obama instead of W
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Most of Congress is far too old to be "fiery".
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What is she going to do with a huge papertrail? Send it to the compromised FBI?
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It's not jail they are scared of. It's violence.
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I think she has bigger, valid concerns than that. It's not just about her job and income.
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They all need to move against him on the same day, so that no one person stands out. But I've no idea how they can co-ordinate that in secret.
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but then that's a load of new elections and primaries that MAGA and Elon will fix
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They have the body language of hostages because they are. Some have already "achieved" Stockholm syndrome.
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if they were to follow that advice, 2/3 of Congress would have to retire tomorrow.
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Would you? The only people I would tell to run now are brave people with no spouse, living parents or children. It's basically like joining the untouchables. Capone will come after you.
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They all just want to protect their families first, which is understandable
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that the prez has a violent mob at his beck and call, who can all be pardoned. The framers really fucked up with Article II, Section 2
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Can any of them afford the security detail they actually need? Every Congressperson will need a private army.
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They are all scared, justifiably.
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They won't impeach until it will actually work because they'll only get one shot.