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@dangillmor People don't have an instinctual understanding for large numbers, and often they are easier to understand if we divide by the population. So a billion dollars is about $3 per American, a trillion is $3,000 per American, 6 trillion is $18,000 per American. That is a huge number. What time period are they talking about? Something in that range is believable if the price of everything suddenly jumps.
The right wing influencer machine is telling everyone that Trump is going to announce the “External Revenue Service” and abolish the IRS today.
What’s actually going to happen if he establishes the ERS is that you get taxed twice.
Westminster patting itself on the back for the 'Special Relationship' when we get the same deal as the Dominican Republic, UAE, Honduras and Egypt.
Do they all have a 'Special Relationship' too?
alt text: A doughy man, JD Vance, in a suit with eyeliner sharp enough to cut food stamps extends his hand like he just personally delivered freedom, and he’s about to bless you with capitalism.
The caption says, “Have you said thank you?”, like you owe him rent for existing in America. His expression radiates a smug but cherub like glow. This is the face of a man who thinks bootstrap sermons count as economic policy and that Jesus personally endorses venture capital.
Americans' taxes just went up by $6 trillion. That is a million dollars multiplied by 6 million.
Don't tell me Trump is trying to save anything. This guy is a economy destroyer -- and not just ours.
Glad to see CNN telling the simple truth in this headline:
You get the feeling that Trump is doing Elon a favor tonight with the tariffs. The news was solid wall to wall "Elon Fails", and then Trump stumps with the Tariffs. This is all performative nation-destroying. They are doing this to us because they can. And John Thune and John Roberts and the Wizard of Oz are being found out all at once. See you on the other side, and good luck
If you think these tarrifs are bad, wait until 10,000 nuclear war heads are launched because #REPUBLICANS
As any historian will remind you
ECONOMIC INSTABILITY STARTS GLOBAL WARS
It's after midnight, we're all living on borrowed time now
Start digging
This is what you GET when you don't VOTE
I have to say, eagerness to bend at the first sign of pressure is exactly the opposite of what I'd look for when hiring a law firm.
The mistake people are making here is assuming that Trump and his team have any competence in trade matters.
