It makes sense. The damage Trump does to the the economy will be felt by everyone, and even right wing media struggles to defend the tariffs.

In contrast, immigration as a political issue has always been about hype and narratives more than reality. The anti-immigration argument is mostly fighting an imaginary problem. As such, the effectiveness of the policies are irrelevant, they need only to claim that things are getting better and their supporters will believe them.

I would be much more interested in knowing what people think about the specifics of Trump’s immigration policies. How many people support deporting us citizens, suppressing free speech, violating due process, etc. I would bet that those numbers would look very different.

Getting closer to what I want, which is a reasonably sized and priced EV truck built for actual utility. I’m ok with it leaving out all the extras that I don’t need, and hopefully that means it isn’t also going to be tracking people and harvesting their data.

My biggest objection to the truck itself is that it’s still trying to look like an ICE truck. There’s no engine in front, you could easily slide the cab forward a bit to make room for a larger bed. I would much rather have a tiny frunk and an 8 foot bed, even if it means making the whole thing slightly longer. It’s shorter than a corrolla, so it’s not like they couldn’t add a little length to the design if necessary.

Bezos being involved is also a massive turn off, but than I’m not sure who is going to go into mass manufacturing EVs without some rich asshole funding it.

In the op-ed, McMahon says, “Why? Not because we want to be unkind to student borrowers. Borrowing money and failing to pay it back isn’t a victimless offense. Debt doesn’t go away; it gets transferred to others. If borrowers don’t pay their debts to the government, taxpayers do.”

But when businesses need a bailout…

Also, hilarious coming from this administration. How many bankruptcies has Trump been involved in?

Not like they were going to get any help from this administration anyway.

And let’s not forget Elon and his Doge bro minions. They’re destroying the security around every system they touch, firing the people responsible for that security, moving sensitive data out through starlink to God knows where, and apparently just giving logins to Russia.

Almost makes storing nuclear secrets in a bathroom seem quaint and wholesome by comparison.

That’s not true. It’s led by the finest collection of imbeciles the modern world has ever seen.

Also, according to many big game hunters, they are the tastiest animal. Apparently giraffe meat has a delightful sweetness to it.

Sadly, giraffe ranching hasn’t caught on. But maybe once lab grown meat is widely available someone will finally bring it to the masses.

I’m glad I’m not one if the people who has to defend this administration in court. They can’t go one fucking day without publicly contradicting their own court filings. The amount of contortions their lawyers have to do to try to avoid getting trapped in a no win scenario is hilarious.

If it were me, I’d probably be the first member of the administration to get sent to El Salvador after losing it and blurting out “why can’t you shut your goddamn dick holster for one fucking day you stupid asshole‽” in a meeting.

The way the article describes it, they seem to mean infertile rather than simply not prepared. Since I am (as far as I know) entirely capable of having kids, it would mean I am in either the not yet parents or childfree category, depending on whether I still plan to have kids.

When I was younger I always figured I would be ready for kids some day. At the current rate of progress, that some day will be when I’m about 170, which is still a few decades before I’ll be able to retire.

Meanwhile, wind and solar are getting all the support pulled. You know, because we can’t risk bring dependent on imported wind or sunlight.

Brain damage is something of a family tradition isn’t it?

And yet, they are even more incompetent than that. Because even if we go along with the idea that all trade deficits are bad, that still wouldn’t explain why they would put tariffs on the countries where we already have a trade surplus.

The real question is what they should have done with the blue ranger. All I can think of is David Carradine.

If only he’d sent war plans, he could have just shrugged and moved on like nothing happened.

I’d rather they arrest him, but I’ll still take it.

Ah, but you see, someone in the administration said the phrase “national security” which makes everything legal. Plus, who the hell does congress think it is telling the executive branch that it can’t do something?

He was the one who fired the people responsible for preparing for that exact scenario.

More than that, he’s the one who thought that the existence of the pandemic made him look bad. He simply did not understand the concept of leadership and how he could have ended up looking better if he had tried to unite the country to make it through the crisis.

Because of this, the administration and campaign focused on downplaying the whole thing. They turned humans vs a plague into a partisan issue. And because the right wing propaganda machine exists to amplify these kinds of talking points, all the pro-Trump media followed suit and told millions of Americans whatever would get them to stop listening to public health officials.

The sad fact is that Trump is responsible for more than just the massive number of unnecessary covid deaths. He’s personally responsible for convincing a large portion of the population that vaccines and public health must opposed, and that will keep the body count rising for decades.

The MAGA platform is inherently hateful, bigoted, selfish and shortsighted. It is lead by greedy amoral narcissists and sociopaths and preaches contempt for law, ethics and personal integrity. All issues are a matter of us vs them, so when one of us does something that gets called out by them, the problem is with them calling one of us out.

Anyone who is still a MAGA supporter has already excused the inexcusable more times than they can count. Those with a moral compass left a long time ago. Sure, there will be people who barely pay attention and who are genuinely ignorant of what the party they support is actually doing. But those people aren’t the ones running for office or actively participating in political organizations.

I forget if it’s Yojimbo or Sanjuro where one of the bad guys is basically just a guy with a revolver who looks down everyone else for using swords.