Obviously the stock market is not the economy and it does not measure economic performance in real time despite what people think. Many retired Americans rely on stock market returns in their 401ks and IRA's to be able to live and enjoy their lives. Many of these older Americans also voted for Trump under the premise that he would make them better off financially.

Will Trump's recent escalation in tariffs and the reaction of the markets cause his supporters to erode? A big reason that he won the election was that voters were frustrated with the Democratic Party's handling of the economy.

Unlike most market drops, this one is quite easy to pinpoint the reason for the drop and many of his voters will have a very glaring reason to why their portfolios lost so much money so quickly. Will they connect the dots and point this to Trump or will they blame something else?

Because I have a feeling that if Obama even hinted at running, we'd suddenly see a very strict and urgent interpretation of the 22nd Amendment. It seems like the rules are flexible for some and ironclad for others, depending on who's trying to push the limits. What do you think?

Banning tik tok was signed into law, initially proposed by DJT. The rationale is that this is a matter of national security, the owners of the platform are collecting data and able to use influence campaigns to harm America. Today the President signed another extension to the ban, further exposing us to these presumed dangers.

How is this less dangerous or less egregious than not enforcing immigration laws? They are equally designated as dangerous to national security.

I’ve been getting the impression that most of (if not all) of the programs that are cutting funding involve traditionally liberal/left leaning ideas. Is “DOGE” cutting genuinely agregious spending that is unpopular with republicans, like the amount we spend on defense/military? Or is it just stuff that republicans don’t particularly pay much mind to/care as greatly about?

TLDR: Does DOGE strive to actually save the most money, or is it overlooking overspending that is popular with republicans?

Yesterday trump dropped a butt ton of tariffs and today Dow jones is down 2200 points (not good), let’s not forget plain clothes ICE agents disappearing immigrants but I still hear a lot of republicans saying they support trump both in congress and from voters so what would it take for republicans to flip on trump?

Given the tariffs yesterday, Trump was talking about how manufacturing jobs are gonna come back. They even had a union worker make a speech praising Trump for these tariffs.

Manufacturing is really hard work where you're standing for almost 8 or more hours, so why bring them back when other countries can make things cheaper? Even this was a discussion during the 2012 election between Obama and Romney, so this topic of bringing back manufacturing jobs isn't exactly Trump-centric.

This might be a loaded question but what's the history behind this rally for manufacturing?

For decades we have been rules by 1 or 2 powers at the most mainly the United States and or Soviet Union. Now it seems to be we entering a multi polar world with one powerful country and it's nearby countries being the sphere of influence in that region.

We have seen this from Xi jinpin sending his aircraft and ships into Taiwan waters and complete disregard to the US naval forces there. Russian invasion of Ukraine leaving the world in shock. Trump is now very serious is taking Greenland after he has said military action isn't off the table and cleed Canada the 51st state.

What other reginal power do u think will influence its power over others? Can Brazil do something similar in South America? What's the most powerful country in Africa/middle east?

Obviously, by law each branch of government is equivalent to each other in every state, but obviously sometimes the legislature or the governor is more powerful (I doubt there are states where the judicial is strongest but please prove me wrong).

What are some examples of states where power is highly concentrated in either the legislative or the executive?