immutable

Project 2025 architects after handing over the fascist paint by numbers guide book to trump only to watch him destroy capitalism anyways

Shocked pikachu

trump literally doesn’t understand anything.

Take trade imbalances for a minute. As an contrived example, we buy $1m worth of steel from Canada, they buy $100k worth of steel from us.

There’s a $900k trade imbalance, and you can tell how trump talks about it, he thinks that means we just gave $900k to Canada for fun.

He completely ignores the part where we traded $1m for $1m worth of steel. We get the fucking steel, it has value, we know it has value because we were willing to pay for it.

But just listen to him talk about trade, he doesn’t understand that basic component of trade. He thinks a $X trade imbalance means we just give that country $X for nothing. He is the dumbest motherfucking idiot on the planet.

We will all get to be that strange old person who won’t discard an orange peel because we lived through the second Great Depression.

There is a death penalty you can actually execute against a corporation, you can dissolve their charter. For some reason this is seen as more extreme than putting a human being to death.

I mean I remember back in 2008 when dailykos would frequently say “elect more democrats and better democrats”

The idea being that we could fix the dnc from within. Progressives just needed to vote for better Dems.

The dnc realized that they had a real hard time beating republicans in the general but boy oh boy could they whoop the progressives in the primary.

Blue dog dem, here’s the dnc gold card and the PIN code.

Progressive dem, we will spend any amount of money to keep you off the ballot.

And we see where it’s led us, the dnc is now good at one thing and one thing only, raising money for the dnc. Oodles and oodles and oodles of money and losing the nation to autocracy

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, yes and also even if they weren’t it wouldn’t really matter.

One thing Americans are waking up to is how much of this system was based off of good actors obeying the constitution. The judicial branch is used to being respected, they are a coequal branch of the government theoretically.

We are experiencing a harsh lesson in real politics though. The Republican Party has decided that their party should win not the constitution. They are more than happy to go “some guy in a robe somewhere said we can’t do something? Fuck him”

The executive branch has the military and is just doing things. If those things are legal no longer matter.

We are currently existing in an autocracy, so rule #3 of autocracies applies

Rule #3: Institutions will not save you. It took Putin a year to take over the Russian media and four years to dismantle its electoral system; the judiciary collapsed unnoticed. The capture of institutions in Turkey has been carried out even faster, by a man once celebrated as the democrat to lead Turkey into the EU. Poland has in less than a year undone half of a quarter century’s accomplishments in building a constitutional democracy.

There’s no way this government would ever declare American citizens to be a part of this gang and sent to El Salvador. No sir. No need for Americans to be worried one bit.

Dude is this you too Mr UAW President?

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2025/03/28/united-auto-workers-supports-donald-trump-auto-tariffs/82686652007/

Maybe you shouldn’t support someone when their policies just happen to accidentally line up with you on occasion.

What’s weird is he’s the ceo of replit.

Replit’s product is a website where you can write a snippet of code and run it without having to install anything. An activity that human developers would do to test out something.

So if his prediction comes true, his product will lose all value.

This is why putting money hoarders in charge doesn’t make sense.

They fetishize just building a gigantic pile of money. Governments should be using the taxes they raise to do things.

Yea, one of the items says that local bakeries don’t exist anymore? What? There are plenty of local bakeries.

Yea the part I’m talking about is when instead of just passing a bill to fix the problem they spent time negotiating with the GOP.

Instead of striking while the iron was hot, you know, passing a bill when they had a super majority. They waited until they lost their super majority, then decided that the filibuster was so sacrosanct that they had to pass a watered down bill that entrenches the power of the insurance companies.

Let not forget that at the time when the Dems were fucking around negotiating with the gop they had said publicly that their primary goal was to obstruct the Obama presidency. That’s also what literally happened.

This is the constant Democratic Party refrain. We sure wish we could have done {insert good thing} but when the iron was hot, by golly, we just couldn’t find our hammer.

Then the iron got cold so we had to, shucks, pass a version of the bill that was much more attractive to our donors and screw over the voters.

Golly gee willickers, what rotten luck.

Meanwhile the GOP with the slimmest majority and 3 turncoat Dems. “Time to rewrite the tax code, no need to type it up frank just scribble it in the margin, we will figure out how many billions to give the wealthy once it’s passed”