“Oh, dude, you gotta stop using TJ’s Action Rune of Changed Files. That runebook has a backdoor to one of the hells now. Didn’t you see the patch notes?”

You’re very kind, thank you.

They will if the conservative media machine falls apart and they start actually seeing reality.

It’s possible…someday…maybe…

“Trust in” him? What kind of cult nonsense are you trying to pull? (hint: I already know what kind, it’s the flavor-aid kind)

Ok. The bottom line is, either it “won’t do all that much”-- meaning it won’t affect prices, it won’t affect the economy, it’ll be basically useless–or it will be disastrously expensive for ordinary people. There is no other option. The “disastrously expensive for ordinary people” is the only thing that will cause any amount of the change Trump promises: it’s the mechanism by which the plan operates.

There is no option where companies just eat the tariff costs, or countries pay them. Maybe a few scattered companies and countries do, but by and large, not a chance.

Every country in the world needs all the other countries more than all of the other countries need it. There’s just no real leverage, because we’re all interconnected; you can snip one country out, and it’ll slightly hurt everyone, but it’ll wreck the country that was snipped out.

Prompt: “How do I completely tank the global economy? fastest route, avoid freeways”

They’re trying to make a violent example of him because they’re running scared. They’re terrified of copycats. They think that projecting an image of fearless anger will distract from the fact that they’re always looking over their shoulders.

Oh, good for them. I missed that.

Whoops, my apologies. I got it from this article, but only because I read too quickly and didn’t catch the “not.”

Good thing they waited until they got down to say this, or their return would’ve been “deprioritized.”

Oligarchs be runnin scared

Well, he entered a guilty plea, so that part is fairly open-and-shut. Of course jury nullification isn’t out of the question, but really this case is most likely to come down to a question of sentencing.

Edit: He didn’t plead guilty.

Pebbleyeet on Lemmy?

It’s time we take seditionists out of the Sheriff’s Departments.