I suspect what we’ll see if Trump continues his belligerent ways is that China just says screw it, cuts us off completely, and leaves the whole nation hanging. There will be the crowd who are fine with it because they somehow imagine China is hurting even worse, but eventually the reports will filter in from other countries about how China is doing just peachy, taking away even that imagined victory from MAGA.

I saw another post earlier this week where Walmart’s policy was being discussed on Twitter. People were absolutely insistent that Walmart’s price increases wouldn’t affect the things they buy because they (cough) only buy American made products. These folks actually think all of their food is locally grown, or that all of their gasoline is produced in the US. (Yes, a large portion is, but never all of it.)

And of course there’s still the continuing discussions about how tariffs will somehow force more products to get made in the US. Yeah that’s not happening either, companies are just moving manufacturing to other countries that will be less affected by the tariffs. I haven’t seen a single corporation yet publicly announce that “hey you know what, we’ll just give up our profit margins and pay a ton of money for entitled Americans to pick their noses instead of building your cheap 500-inch TV.” But gee, you know who would have built those products cheaply and locally? All those immigrants y’all are so desperate to kick out of the country. Why it’s almost as if MAGA can’t find enough ways to screw themselves.

Ah thank you, that DOES make more sense.

I’m having a hard time understanding this article. They say the Teslas have the highest rating of deadly accidents, but then go on to say Tesla ranked #6 on the list of fatalities, then once again stated Tesla was the worst. So what happened to the other five vehicles that had a higher fatality rating?

Sounds rather like a 3rd-world country. Of course the same will probably be said for most of America by the end of next year.

From what I understand, most of the jobs are in the big cities where nobody but top management can afford to live, and everyone else has to drive or bus for hours to get to work. How does anyone think that’s sustainable at $16/hour? And why do low-wage workers even stay there?

If they switched to linux the ice cream would be colder and even smoother.

Sounds like a great sales pitch… “PoS machines, but unlike Windows-based devices ours continue to work after the first six months!”

Funny, when I think of Windows, reliability and stability are the last things on my mind. I mean, if they could build a reliable release then why isn’t that shipped with all computers? You know, like with linux, the stable version is also the current release. Basically your description makes it sound like what’s really making Windows so unreliable is all the crapware that Microsoft forces down your throat.

Didn’t everyone know that Trump’s plans for massive tariffs will make the economy even worse, and most local prices go even higher? Or are we going back to Trump waving his magical minuscule tax break to make everyone forget about why the prices went up in the first place?

Hard to say for sure. He’s on Facebook so I don’t have a way to see what he posts, but my wife still has an account there and said he’s in some of the same groups as her. She’s pretty aware of what he’s posting and they’ve actually had conversations in person about the whole immigration thing. The rest… yeah I just don’t know.

This started on Wednesday, almost immediately after Trump’s victory was announced. By Friday it was already being reported in grade schools because asshole parents enjoy raising asshole sons, and Trump tells people that it’s ok to be the absolute worst human being they can be.

I have a friend who is a hard Republican. We generally don’t talk politics, but after this started last week he was posting things online being offensive towards women and POC (and the whole “illegals took my job and healthcare”) so I finally had to call him out. His response was basically that he wasn’t aware of any increased discrimination happening against women, therefore he didn’t believe it was happening. I’ve known the guy for 40 years but this may be the thing that breaks our friendship. He claims to be an advocate for people’s rights yet he is painfully unaware of the world around him.

So let me get this straight… Your position is that instead of being a pawn of the Democrats who are at least pushing back against Israel, I should instead be a pawn of the Republicans who have now placed a lunatic in charge that has no objections to wiping out an entire country as long as it gets the conflict out of the news cycle and he can claim he was responsible for ending the conflict? Israel knows if they just cut loose, they would face repercussions from the rest of the world, but if they had the US (Trump) providing full support to such an action then they would have some leverage. What do you think will happen to Palestine as a country if Trump succeeds in removing all the guardrails and gets to fulfill his wet dream of being a dictator?

Trump wants the conflict “ended in a week” and Israel obviously isn’t willing to negotiate in good faith. The only alternative is pulling out the stops and just bombing the whole country, and Palestine ceases to exist. That is Trump’s solution to everything he doesn’t like, but fortunately this week it seems like our Senators are finally growing a spine and pushing back against him so we’ll see what happens there.

I’m just waiting for all the people who abstained from voting against him to appease their conscience to start realizing how much worse things are going to get for Palestine. I really hope I’m wrong, but Trump is already on record about his expectations.

Quite interesting advocating from 1st Amendment rights, while also also deleting content that he personally doesn’t like.