My fear is that Il Douche has sacked almost everybody who has a flipping clue how things actually work. MAD only works if both sides understand what is at stake. I have lost any hope that our side understands jack shit.
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In this scenario, Donnie-Two-Bibles is the one who shits his pants on purpose.
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As much as I donât want to see any Trump âwinsâ, the prospect of our economy tanking because of this fucking guy terrifies me. Just because he has the ability to get unlimited money any time he wants doesnât mean the rest of us do.
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Buy your shoes and boots before June 01 kids.
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I do not even follow baseball, but this makes me want to see the Red Sox fail miserably for the rest of the year. What an ass.
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God I hate making slide decks.
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Trump Just Told Americans Not to Buy American Products Because He Doesnât Understand How Tariffs Work
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Think Progress notes that Trump has insistedâthat the wall should be built exclusively with equipment manufactured by Caterpillar and John Deere.â
Whose products rely heavily on foreign labor. Manufactured in China, and their staff heavily subsidized by immigrant engineers. Even in Moline and Peoria.
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Snarky but accurate. I admit, I like the combo.
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âEating the seed cornâ comes to mind.
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âHow will we ever pay for healthcare for all or a universal income?â
I dunno, maybe by not funding boondoggle missions to the Moon or Mars?
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Did he already host Duterte or is that something still to look forward to?
Weâre going to have to fumigate the White House.
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Sure they know- not that theyâll do anything.
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Or alternatively, Trump just told US companies that theyâd better start manufacturing stuff in the US if they donât want to be next on the Enemies of the People list.
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I was thinking more huge defense budget cuts⌠we donât need more wars.
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Yeah, I find that article a little weird. As if Trump doesnât know exactly what heâs saying. He wants US companies to make things in the US by hiring US workers and sell them in the US. Maybe he doesnât realize that John Deere manufactures a lot of things in China, but if he did know that, he wouldnât say, âOh, you should buy from John Deere even if they manufacture abroad,â heâd say, âThey should move those factories to America.â
For me thereâs a big picture issue: What if US consumers actually developed a real penchant for buying American? What if they were willing to pay substantially higher prices to get things made in America by Americans?
Our entire economic model is based on the idea that consumers getting products cheaper is always better. I think thatâs wrong. My (serious?!?) idea is a âhuman taxâ much like the âcarbon taxâ where you a tax is charged based on the difference in the statistical value of human life between the two nations. Would that cost be passed on to the consumer, sure it would. But thatâs the point - to allow other businesses to compete without regarding dead foreigners as a free externality.
Iâm not supporting Trumpâs tariffs, but I donât like the argument being proposed against them either. Iâd say, âThis is a manifestation of nationalism and xenophobia.â The classic argument against tariffs - the insulated countries do poorly because trade benefits everyone - doesnât work for me.
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Yeah, even with massive new appropriations (or raiding the education departmentâs grant fund), NASAâs budget is basically a rounding error. They do an astonishing amount of work with something like .1% of the federal budget. The military spends more than NASA does just to run the air conditioners on its bases in Afghanistan.
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