Read somewhere that it boosted Russian owned us steel mills somehow.

Given the degree of US sanctioning on Russia, I’m not clear what a “Russian owned US Steel Mill” is even supposed to look like.

I remember Japanese Manufacturer Nippon Steel is moving towards full acquisition of US Steel, the largest steel maker in the country. That has, at least in part, been driven by the threat of US tariffs. But this only further illustrates the problem. Foreign mega-corps gobbling up domestic industry do nothing to improve the US economy.

I think any tariff that passes will have a swiss cheese of exemptions, because that’s just how the game is played in Congress.

Lobby hard enough and you’ll get your country excused one way or another.

Canada being the biggest trade partner would be prime for these.

It would be prime for Canadian ports, and for a host of middle men who get to launder trade goods through a legal loophole.

But that’s the real end game. Not domesticating manufacturing, but monopolizing channels for import/export.

Huge uptick in folks drinking 4 Loco.

Black Rifle Koffee

But (assuming a tarrif is something that can even pass) I imagine you’re going to see a swiss cheese of exemptions for favored countries. And these countries will become a back door for imports.

Expect all of your coffee to be mysteriously harvested from Canada.

Smart

Leftists did show up. That’s the real rub in all this.

The folks who stayed home were centrists without any strong allegiance, who never got their student loans forgiven or their energy bills reduced or their wages kept up with inflation.

While Harris was hobnobbing with Liz Cheney, they were door knocking for legalized abortion. While she was begging for money from Silicon Valley, they were trying to get weed decriminalized in a few more states.

And it’s not even like Dems didn’t win. Harris ran behind other statewide candidates in Arizona and North Carolina. In House districts it was even worse. Rashida Talib got twice the Harris vote count and won her district in a landslide, while Harris pandered to Israel to no avail.

Friendsgiving is the better holiday anyway

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I spend so much money on Patreon and I never regret a penny of it

Why would you pay for YouTube and then get an ad blocker? Seems redundant.

Also, YouTube has begun integrating ads server side, making them more difficult to parse out.

Was it someone other than you who said this?

I linked you to Chase’s activist history.

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Gallego won Arizona against Trump-favorite Kari Lake. He took 90k more votes than Harris.

Josh Stein picked up nearly 400k more votes than Harris in NC, to clinch the governor’s race.

House races were even more tilted. Probably the most glaring case was Rashida Tlalib, who won twice as many votes as Harris in her Deerborn Michigan district

Making it worse by feeding the homeless. Liberalism in a nutshell.

Libertarians have never been in power and yet government authority keeps getting privatized.

There’s been a real shift in Silicon Valley, from Squish Neoliberal International Markets And Raytheon Branded Pride Flags to Based Trad Horny Catholic Gymrat Nationalism.

A lot of it follows the Zuck/Bezos/Musk arc. Tim Poole is getting dragged along on the undertow.

But the Russia shit is mostly because Russia has followed along with American Conservativism while Ukraine has been painted as Neoliberal. So much of this isn’t Trump following Putin but Putin following the Kochs and the Mellons and Murdochs.

The election results seem to suggest otherwise

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Reminds me of those AI centers that drain the grid and suck up all the municipal water, only to run a fortune in PR about being Green.

As though using a Three Mile Island’s worth of electricity is doing the rest of the world a favor.

You think that people should vote for a person who was to the right of Trump

This guy?

He’s to the left of Obama.