So, after tarrifs were declared an illegal tax and the money now needing to be refunded, I guess they’ll just give it to the businesses who will have a nice boon in revenue, won’t reduce the prices, and we all can just eat shit?
It was obviously Trump’s idea to begin with, and the GOP haaaates the idea of giving away even twenty cents to a starving orphan so they have been grinding their teeth on this idea for a while now.
Trump is not republican. He’s not anything. He’s a colossal, spiteful, angry, narcissistic old man who just wants people to love him. He’s been very consistent that way. He would break whatever rules and regulations there and do whatever he’s told will help to get that outcome of being loved by people, it just so happens that his hatefulness aligned better with the republicans this round.
In some alternate timeline, Trump is our greatest president ever as he became a useful tool for an upstanding, socialist-majority congress and senate who use his willingness to trample tradition and regulation to pass sweeping reforms of our entire country’s oppressive financial systems. Just doing whatever he’s told so people can cheer his name.
He may not be a Republican in ideology but his actions absolutely align with Republican policies. That’s why they keep him as their puppet figurehead.
In the weirdest timeline, his meeting yesterday with Mamdani has turned him progressive
My son worked with a young guy whose parents were legal immigrants, and they LOVE Trump unconditionally.
During his first term, when he sent out Covid checks, he insisted the checks have his signature on them. My son’s friend’s parents literally thought that Trump sent them that money out of his own bank account. They were so grateful that he was sacrificing his own fortune to save America. I would have thought that was ridiculous, but Trump knew that many people would respond that way to his signature on that check. Mine was direct deposited so I never fell for it (yeah, that’s why).
So now that his approvals are plunging by the week, he is is desperate to bribe people into loving him again. I’ll gladly take his money, laugh in his face, and continue to despise him as much as ever.
I’ll gladly take his money, laugh in his face, and continue to despise him as much as ever.
This is the way.
If I was rich, I’d give the money to my favorite Socialist candidates, but I can always use a couple grand to remain alive.
but I can always use a couple grand to remain alive.
That’s why our wages have been so stagnant for so long.
The employers take the money they would have given you in wage increases, keep a big chunk of it for the shareholders, but use some of it to bribe politicians into keeping wages low. Do that a few times and you have a “strong” ecconomy to attract foreign investors, which will drive up your share peices even more. On top of that, there is no counter force that can afford to counter-bribe the politicians. That ultimately becomes a feedback loop, which is how and why we’re in this position now.
The politicians don’t work for us, they work for the donors.
It was always your money my friend. The disposition that you are “taking” something from someone, when it belongs to you in the first place is… baffling to me.
“Take the money” should have been the phrase.
MTG announced that she’s retiring from Congress.
My guess is that she sees the shitstorm coming and wants to be able to run as an “outsider” in 2028.
MTG announced that she’s retiring from Congress.
Good riddance. Hopefully now I’ll be less confused when reading news about Magic: The Gathering
Took me a second.
There’s a very real chance she believed all the shit she said about “the far left” being just as bad, until she pissed off the far right
Think of how they bitch and moan about peaceful protestors, and then the whiplash of pissing off the right and getting legitimate death threats.
She’s still a piece of shit, but that’s a hell of a wake up call.
If you think her retirement has any more to do with the fact that she just passed the threshold for a congressional pension, I have several bridges on sale you’re going to want to see.
Imagining that this leathery leopard has changed her spots only suggests that she is developing an effective crypsis strategy, and cloaking her predatory nature to you.
Imagining that this leathery leopard has changed her spots
You’re imagining people imagining that though…
No is saying she’s a better person, I explicitly said the opposite:
She’s still a piece of shit
How did you read my comment and reach the conclusion you did?
Sorry, wasn’t meant to be specific to you at all!
“If any hypothetical person thinks her retirement…” Is probably the wording I should have used.
Another classic case of Republican fuck everyone until it happens to me!!!
The Republican mascot should be a stick figure pulling up a ladder.
Pretty much. Suck up as much wealth as possible.
Does this political party have ANY idea what it’s doing anymore?
Yes. It’s funneling more money from the working poor up to tge party’s donors. Seems to be working as intended.
That was always how it was going to go down.
