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by bigbadfeline 422 days ago
> "I’m pretty sure"

That's an interesting thing to say after tariff-on / tariff-off high intensity workouts almost every day. Not to mention the great desire to fire everyone standing in the way of the glorious inflation... did you take that into account while calculating the "little less cheap" thing?

Just read the executive order linked in presto8's comment (above yours) and tell me you are sure what it means. Spaghetti legislation is nothing new but this is worse than a noodle trash container in the back yard of a Chinese restaurant. In the age of AI... presumably.
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Yeul 422 days ago
Its interesting how America is basically run by an elected king.

In Europe these kind of decisions take months of meetings and consultations.

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krapp 422 days ago
He's not a king, he's CEO In Chief. This is the inevitable result of a society which pathologically mistrusts government on principle, but which worships celebrity and free market capitalism. It's surprising the pretense of being a Republic lasted as long as it did.
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int_19h 422 days ago
If we actually had pathological mistrust of government, Trump simply wouldn't have the power to do all the crazy shit he's doing.

But we don't. What we do have is pathological mistrust of our political opponents in the government. More so on the right, but it's fairly pervasive. So "small government" gets used as a way to trip up your opposition when it's in power, but as soon as you get the reins, it's full steam ahead.

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sagarm 421 days ago
He only has that power because Congress is allowing him to abuse "emergency" powers. Authority to set taxes lies with Congress.
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Tadpole9181 421 days ago
Prior to 2016 I had no such thing, nor did pretty much anyone I know on the left. I disagreed with, for example, Romney, but I didn't pathologically fear or mistrust him. Bush was a war criminal, but what president hasn't been since WW2?

This started with Obama. The audacity of a black man to be president had so many people I thought were reasonable saying, with no hint of Jest, that he was the Antichrist. Suddenly mustard flavors and suit colors were signs of the apocalypse. And ever since then the left have been "the enemy within" meant to be rooted out.

Trump, of course, spent his time amplifying this message. And his campaign and presidency is what drove the left into pathological fear.

Conservative racism poisoned the blood of our nation yet again.

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