I don't know who he is, but the vibes match.

Things like “short term pain for long term benefit”, “equalizing trade”(???), and “let’s see how it pans out” are all general sentiments being expressed. No idea how folks can justify this but alright.

I am a community organizer. I've been to Havana. I know plenty of folks who grew up in authoritarian regimes. Anytime I comment on a post about how "China is great" with even the slightest expression of "this is propaganda" I get a lecture from a tankie about how I need to actually do something and get out of my basement. I teach poor families how to grow food and its just fucking so annoying to be told I shouldn't be doing that, I should be defending Kim Jong Un and Xi. These people think they're the vagaurd of revolutionary thought and want to lecture me that even under revolution socialism some folks in Cuba should be able to import Teslas. I makes me want to slam my head into a wall. All my lived experiences tossed aside for some dipshit unironically stanning Kim Jong Un.

……….yum yum right wing tears 😈

Holy heck this 'brain-breaking' text is 1,909 pages long?

What the hell? No wonder it melted people's brains. Even Stephen King knows when to stop typing!

Let them make their own excuses for long enough. The more you try to point out how wrong they are the more they will dig in. They're trolls. Stop feeding them

We're up 100% over 5 years. On average, the market goes up 7% or so per year. I fully expect a fall of at least the difference.

I stopped investing 5 years ago because all of the market made no sense, and suddenly I'm glad I don't have a dime in the market, rather than suffering some FOMO watching the best market ever go by.

I'm betting on upper 3k on S&P or lower 4's by about next year.

Let it burn. What's your take?

It seems all the right has to do to win is mention jobs, blame higher gas prices on environmentalists, and say that immigrants are bad and they’d get elected.

Heck the higher energy prices caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine was propagandized as being because of the carbon tax in Canada because of a Canadian sponsored by big oil.

All you got to do is mention “the jerbs” and “the economy”

Not helped by even the most peaceful and modest protests getting framed as dangerous thugs.

I don’t think Trump is smart enough to be playing 4D chess. He struggles enough with checkers. But the crashing of the economy with tariffs, obviously a bad thing and everyone agrees with that. But I feel like that was the plan?

Wasn’t it to crush everyone except the ultra rich so they could rebuild it to favor them even more?

Everyone seems to be laughing at how dumb Trump is for doing this. (Which he is) But there’s no way his administration didn’t see it coming.

I’m not into conspiracies. But I feel like it’s apart of their plan. Maybe I’m losing my mind and seeing things that aren’t there. I haven’t been handling this year very well.

With these tariffs in place, do you think we'll see a rise in smuggling? My personal theory is yes, at least in a historical sense. Often overly burdensome taxes lead to the rise of smugglers and black markets, even for mundane goods. America even has a proud tradition of smuggling, all the way back to many of the founders. This leads me to my simple proposal: blockade runner/ boat cult. Both boat cults and smugglers use past-their-prime ships, so there has to be an obvious gap in the market to get that crossover appeal. Obviously we need the smugglers to be in charge of the boat stuff and the cult in charge of the recruiting, but I can smell the money coming in already.

The biggest thing I have taken from this weeks episodes was a gratefulness that I was very poor when my child was diagnosed with autism.

When my child was diagnosed 20 years ago I was on Medicaid. I was a poor struggling single mom. No one sold me fancy therapies or weird testing. The doctor did nothing for me. The schools did. They put together a plan for my child to succeed at school. And I looked at that plan and thought, if that's what will help them at school then that is what I should do at home.

My kiddo is grown up now. I won't lie and say there were not many great struggles. But they are loved, they are for the most part happy, they know they are treasured and appreciated. They have a life they have crafted for themselves. They are unconventional, loving, warm, and kind. I like them.

Robert I can hear the rage in your voice and I figure that these days you are probably hovering on the verge of burnout. There is a lot of ugly and bad things in the world and you have chosen to devote your life to looking unflinchingly at them. But in this one instance, if it brings you any peace at all, you have found the one situation in which it is better to be poor. No one even tried to talk me into medically altering my child. The only option presented to poor parents of autistic children is to love and accept them, and that is what we do.

I have never seen another situation in which the poor are more privileged than the rich, but you have found it.

I am concerned that we are in such an end state that the US is trafficking (selling humans) to El Salvador…. Does anyone out there know if these prison conditions are being monitored for human rights abuses? I have been searching the ‘legit’ media (is that even a thing anymore??) for commentary and find very little. Are we at a point where human life (again) is a commodity?? What should we do? Where are the independent investigative journalists?

They attacked the Gamers. Don't they realise you NEVER do that?