HAY USA, it’s all downhill from here.
Weekly Carney flex before he grovels for Trump again
Ok Carney, less words more real actions then.
cuts taxes
shreds environmental standards
sucks up to Big Oil and Finance
defunds public services
Done, done, done, and done.
If you object to any of these, you aren’t a serious policymaker.
I wouldn’t necessarily have issues with tax cuts to the low and middle class, assuming we tax the shit out of mega businesses and the upper class
“Sorry. Best I can do is cut taxes and regulations for companies and billionaires as they are job creators. Your taxes are going to have to continue at the same rate. In fact, taxes for you may have to go up. Social spending will have to be cut.”
I also think raising taxes on people who aren’t me is a great idea.
But from a macro-econ perspective, I do question why we’re paying private businesses to do government work and then taxing them on what we paid them. Seems like we could just insource the work to government agencies and save everyone a bureaucratic headache.
I also think raising taxes on people who aren’t me is a great idea.
I mean, that’s not what I said.
But from a macro-econ perspective, I do question why we’re paying private businesses to do government work and then taxing them on what we paid them. Seems like we could just insource the work to government agencies and save everyone a bureaucratic headache.
I hate private public partnerships. So I agree with you there :)
I’m gonna end up showing up in Vancouver later this year for a big riichi mahjong tournament, and I’m ashamed to be American while I’m there. We fucked up as a country.
I don’t know who this “we” is. I did everything I was supposed to for the last 30+ years. So I accept no blame for the current situation.
Exactly. I’m happy to fight to get this country back, even if I have to leave it first. I’m on the side of the world here, and will never accept any blame for the Nazis who are in charge or who support him.
I’m making a general observation, directed to no one and everyone in the USA at the same time, including myself, that the concept of collective guilt does apply to aggressor countries.
There is always something that was not done. Even if the lack of action for the individual was trivial, minor, laughable even. If the reader thinks they are exempt, I invite them to read more history.
My particular crime was staying silent about votes not being accurately counted in my state (Texas).
My background as a computer programmer, who contributed to large systems similar to the software used, rang alarm bells inside me for years.
Particularly after exit polls were diverging worse from the norm. And I had questions and insights that were helpful.But I understood the issue as an impossible conversation to have except among friends and fellow believers, so I simply stopped participating in the Democratic Party because of it 10 years ago, well before it became unfashionable to critique the voting systems.
I had little influence, so anything I could have said would have little, if any, impact. But when one thinks how many other people who have a background in large systems also were silent … one gets the picture, I hope.
It’s a damn shame that this is true. We used to have such a good relationship with Canada, and my sicko brothers and sisters voted for a maniac.
Nah fuck the american empire
I wonder if things go back to the way it was in the next administration
Doubtful. After one Trump term, sure, we could have chalked that up to a one off aberration. After them re-election him, I’m guessing it would take more than a few terms of them electing normal people.
It’s a pendulum swing for a lot of nations. I see authoritarian conservative parties are winning elections across the globe. May be it takes a major event to turn the tide.
I hope that the Orban loss is the start of reversing that pendulum swing.
it would take more than a few terms of them electing normal people.
Who qualifies as Normal People in modern politics?
No chance. There has been irreparable harm. Even if we move to better relations this administration has shown we cannot depend on that continuous support in the future. We’d be stupid to relapse.
Build a wall
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History tells us that there are steps that a country takes that can’t be reversed.
Weaponizing the judiciary, cult of personality, paramilitary force that terrorize parts of the population, extreme politucal polarization,…
Trump will go eventually, but his reign is an example for many ambitious men who will have or gain the power to impose their will on their fellow citizen and the world. Some will draw their power from anti-Trumpism, others are already building their career in his wake.
The last 20 years have been a roller coaster of fear, resentment, political violence and pure hatred. Anyone who brings a sense of hope and security will grab the country like a ripe fruit and bring one form of the other of fascism.
There is no coming back.
The Vance administration or Trump’s third term? You get those choices.
