it’s kind of wild to incentivize Canadian and Mexican firms to move production intended for the US market to China because lower tariff rates.

i’m sure that’s lots of it! but lots of countries are too weak to fight back. he wants too weak to fight back + lots of revenue (naively at least, multiplying current imports times tariff rate). so our neighbors are the sweet spot!

it seems weird to pretextually tariff good friends and allies, Canada and Mexico, if the motivation is trade balance. why wld China be tariffed more lightly? but it makes perfect sense to tariff our biggest trading partners if the motivation is revenue, re-McKinley-izing, replacing the income tax.

try typing "dooming" in the BlueSky search bar. you'll find no shortage!

i find commenting about dooming (mostly to scold it) all over my feeds.

are we dooming doomly?

i am grateful to Trump and especially Musk for making so powerful and visceral a case that wealth taxes — at levels quite confiscatory for a while, to remedy past lassitude — are an absolute necessity, prerequisite to a sustainable democratic society.

whose idea was it to make doom a verb anyway?

these twenty-somethings pilfering records on behalf of Musk, how sure are they they are in Trump’s prayers and pardons? as things get hairy he might have other priorities.

just as a matter of risk management, you’d think these guys would be less enthusiastic about the Federal death penalty.

guy whose continued wealth depends on the beneficence of a foreign adversary seeks classified records of agency under cover of which US intelligence agents are rumored sometimes to risk their lives.

the based move would be for Donald Trump to declare his own presidency the national emergency upon which his authority to impose tariffs is, um, based.

“the whole reason i voted for him is i thought he was bullshitting. i feel betrayed.”

📌

call me old fashioned, call me naive. but i say impeach, convict, remove. rinse and repeat. no. they won’t do it tomorrow. but motherfucker may become pretty unpopular before very long.

pathetic.

indeed.

maybe it’s worth just saying, as an american to our remarkable neighbors, i’m really sorry. this is ultimately our responsibility and we’ve sure fucked it up.

“let’s break the world and see what happens.”