Tariffs always raise prices. Sometimes they do protect local industry, by raising prices so that local industries can compete against foreign competitors. At least for a time. Usually it leads to the eventual failure of the industry due to making less competitive products.

Harvard might be considering a lot of law suits right about now. Maybe a dozen for every holding Trump has anywhere.

I’m pretty sure the crack head living in the woods down the road is a better trading partner than Trump.

They already are, prison labor expansion would be at the expense of existing companies.

Right wingers have, or cause, trouble in open forums, so most social media that isn’t operated as a walled garden, tends to be more left leaning.

Honestly I hope Newsom takes this fight and loses, even though I applaud the effort. It’s an unconstitutional overreach for a state to step into international trade and relations. But having the fight over it will both remind the rabid right why we have a federal government, and what they could lose if they keep going down this path.

Are over 80% of them going in to ASRock boards in the first place?

AI that was trained by programmers that don’t understand the source code either.

As a coder, the majority of my job isn’t writing code. It’s translating the bullshit management says and the broken specs we’re given into what they both actually want, not what they said. There is never going to be an AI that fixes that

What other channels was he in? Was he directing from another channel while being directed by Putin?

Honestly it amazes me that no one has given some Houthis a few drones and set them loose in Palm Beach on the weekend. And that they haven’t done it themselves. Trump is out here setting up WW3 and playing golf on weekends, in an impossible to secure location.

I get why no one would do it directly, that’d be a nuclear fire death wish. But it surprises me no one has slipped in a few patsies to even attempt it.

I want him on the stage, doesn’t mean I want him to win. The main problem with Kamala being up there is that she would own the apparatus, the same way Joe and Hillary did. It’s a form of censorship that doesn’t help the debate, and leads to bad results. It leads to weighting them based on their influence, rather than ability, policy, and character.

I’ve give it a good 15 to 20% chance that the public, or a governor, would show up with enough force of arms to cause a civil war. Outside of that I’d give it a 50/50 chance of working out for the Nazi’s. The reality though is that the left isn’t organized around any kind of physical force. The worst thing the right could do is cause that to change. Because of course they would immediately try to stop it, causing a military Streisand effect. If your political opponents are organizing to physically protect themselves from you, attacking them for it, will make them organize and react with violence much faster. The only thing worse than organized violence, is quickly escalating organized violence.

Honestly I don’t think she should run in 28. Nothing against Kamala, but we really don’t need a moderate centrist insider to bring us back from the damage Trump is doing. The nation would be far better off having a real debate with Pete, Tim, and Alexandria up on stage. Kamala would have too much power over the process, and would use every bit of it. Which of course means that’s exactly what’s going to happen, probably handing us a narrow loss to fucking Don Jr. or some other moron puppet.

They’d be bragging about it on the news in order to promote the chilling effect. The question at that point would be if it caused an armed reaction. They want to start a civil war because they think they will win.

When there’s too much to scrutinize, there’s no reason to give the benefit of the doubt. Assume guilty until proven innocent, and just work from there. Any mistaken guilt is the fault of the guilty for creating the situation in the first place.

Putin is out of infrastructure targets, and is worried about his refineries getting drone strikes. This isn’t a cease fire, it’s just a protection agreement for Putin.

Pretty sure being stuck with a Tesla right now, doesn’t mean you need to be on a hit list.

Besides, we can already see them on the road, we don’t need any other sign they’re an asshole.

We don’t want to threaten him, we want to tell him to fuck off into retirement. Threats just make politicians go turtle.

Zelensky has by no means lost the war, short of the US actually attacking them, which is very unlikely. Especially since half the stalling speeches while the GoP lost the CR vote today were GoP senators talking about backing Ukraine against Russia.

The EU is giving Zelensky better weapons than Russia can field, but production is slow or still ramping up. Russia has a ton of production, for shit weapons. Every passing moment moves advantage more towards Ukraine as more weapon system and insulation against Trump/Starlink comes online. No matter how the cease fire ends up, Russia is on a path to defeat by the end of the year. By next year Putin will be leveraging his house to pay Xi back his loans. And no matter who wins, China wins.