This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why are elected Republicans now saying that tariffs previously led to the worst depression our country has ever seen after supporting them just recently?”
Instead of asking why they “are now saying,” you should ask, “Why didn’t they say so before?”
The answer to your question is easy to figure out through simple “pocketbook logic.” It can be endured if something affects someone, be it health, mood, or anything.
The moment something affects their pocketbook, however, it becomes a serious matter.
Up until now, they believed their pocketbooks were safe. Now, they no longer believe that.
They now believe that their pocketbooks are being severely damaged. Now they think their long-term economic future is in jeopardy. They now fear losing their jobs and being forced into the poverty they have been creating for their constituents for decades.
In many ways, sadly, this harsh dose of life-threatening reality might be the kick in the butt of the complacency of a nation.
Nothing can motivate 350 million people into united action more effectively than all fearing for their lives.
The longer the public and the authorities allow this economic destruction to continue, the more likely the entire world will experience a severe depression. If that happens, there will be no placating the massive chaos that will ensue without taking dramatic steps to reign it in, such as by instituting Martial Law.
If Trump can maintain his power while instituting Martial Law, the odds are excellent that democracy will be set back one hundred years. We can then expect a return to an almost primitive social existence with gated communities for the elites and the rest of humanity living like herd animals.
If Martial Law is instituted through a military coup where Trump is hauled off to prison or shot for treason, then it will take the rest of this century for the world to restabilize. We will experience a dramatic restructuring of government processes, such as through a modern version of a “grand new deal.”
On the back end, for those lucky enough to survive the nightmare, humanity will earnestly face the environmental challenges we’ve been postponing.
The sooner we can reassert sanity, the sooner we can adjust our behaviours and restructure our collapsing societies as we transition into a fully automated system for human civilization to thrive.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Will Trump’s enemies change direction and become his worshippers if he really can stop the war in Ukraine within the first 24 hours of his presidency?”
People who view themselves as his enemies don’t hate him for what will be his betrayal of Ukraine. They hate him for the damage he’s deliberately done to them. Handing the Ukraine over to Putin will only make them hate him that much more.
Everyone else who is disgusted by him doesn’t hate him because they hate YOU for allowing that monster a second attempt at doing a more thorough job of destroying the nation than he did the first time.
Most people understand and acknowledge what kind of demented egomaniac Trump is, and they understand that he doesn’t care in the least about policy or that he doesn’t have any vision for the nation beyond whoring himself out for attention while bilking the American people out of every penny he can for himself. Most people understand from the first time around that he’s going to sell national secrets for personal profit and that he will put the lives of American agents in jeopardy by doing so. Most people know who he is, what he’s done, and what he can do.
No one knows better than a New Yorker who’s had to deal with his rapacious stupidity for decades and up until they finally ran him out of the state.
People are not unclear about the consequences of another Trump presidency.
People are angry at the utterly contemptible stupidity that has put the entire nation at risk and will forever change American standing in the global community.
You have crossed a threshold, and you still haven’t a clue what kind of nightmare you have invited into your lives and that you have imposed upon the people you think you care about. You still don’t understand how your wives and daughters will hate you for the rest of your lives. Your grandchildren will hate you. Hell, your great-grandchildren will want to piss on your graves because you have fucked up on such a biblical level.
What’s worse is that you’re going to continue blaming anything and anyone before you understand how the nightmare you have imposed upon your nation is YOUR fault… not Trump’s fault, not the Democrats’ fault, not the fault of “librulz,” but entirely YOUR fault.
You have already lost your right to overtime pay, and I’m sure you’ve glossed that over as unimportant in your mind until you have found yourself working without sleep for a few days while expecting a huge bonus in your pay and getting peanuts in return for all your hard work. Sure, you’ll complain about how unfair that is. You’ll still drag your ass to work another three days straight, though or get fired. You will have no coverage because the budget for unemployment will have been cut back while your qualification requirements have become so restricted that most everyone is rejected.
Meanwhile, the medical health plan you counted on to keep your kid on insulin alive no longer covers them and the price of insulin skyrockets. To keep your kid alive, you’ll have to sell your car and walk to work for a 36-hour shift. Then, when you fall asleep at work because you’re too tired, you’ll get fired and lose the health coverage you need to keep your kid alive. Oh well, you can always make another… amirite?
Meanwhile, your daughter gets pregnant and then gets hauled off into jail because she tried crossing state lines for an abortion that you set up for her because you can’t afford another mouth to feed.
Then you’ll start protesting, and hope will return when “the Don” himself shows up to grace you with his presence. Then he throws you a roll of paper towel and tells you to suck it up.
Then you’ll start crying to anyone and everyone who will listen about how unfair it all is, and the “librulz” who tried to prevent all of this will flip you the same bird you flipped them when you strutted around like the cock on the block, enjoying your “librul” tears.
You won’t have anywhere to turn or anyone to turn to besides your brothers in stupidity. All you idiots that brought this nightmare to the nation will have nothing but each other to console yourselves while concocting excuses for why this isn’t your fault.
You will then realize you have only one of two choices: end it all or sacrifice yourselves to make things right.
I suspect many more of you will choose the coward’s route rather than try to make things right.
By then, the nation will be in tatters as the price of eggs will have skyrocketed to more than ten times what they were when you were complaining about Biden.
And after all that, you’ll still try to sell the notion that Ukraine should have just surrendered to Putin because you are all cowards and hypocrites at heart.
Out of curiosity, do you not find it odd that Donald Trump is focused on this issue?
He is someone who has become well-known for breaking records for lying about so many things, ranging from relatively benign self-aggrandizement to malignant acts of manslaughter during a pandemic while encouraging people to dismiss the severity of a virus that killed millions worldwide.
His lies while in office killed hundreds of thousands of people, while his continued lies threaten even more lives.
Stack all of this up with one statement Kamala Harris has made about her experience as a teenager — a widespread experience for teenagers everywhere. A LOT of teenagers enter the world of work through the fast food industry. (Full disclosure — I worked for two years in a McDonalds restaurant from 15–16.)
It’s beyond a common experience and is the kind of experience that contributes absolutely nothing political toward one’s future beyond whatever one learns from the experience and money one earns. It may open some doors to other employment as a youth or young adult, but it contributes almost nothing tangible toward a long-term professional career — much less to politics.
Her claim is a one-off comment that shows how she can connect with average people living average lives. That’s about the extent of the impact that claim has.
“I’m normal. I’m like almost everyone else. I’m not weird like some people are.”
That’s the extent of the impact of her statement.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump tries to capitalize on his doubt that she had a “normal upbringing” without the privilege he’s benefited from his birth lottery. Nothing about her somewhat average background is a mystery to the public. Still, somehow, she’s being challenged, not only by Trump on this claim but also by his army of supporters who somehow believe this invalidates her candidacy.
Meanwhile, he tries to pass off a lie that he cares about ordinary, working-class people while selling cheap running shoes at horribly inflated prices or $100,000.00 watches that his contract says he has no obligation to deliver on. How exactly does that serve ordinary, working-class people? It doesn’t. It’s a money laundering scheme in which his buddy Vladimir can dump millions into his campaign war chest without tracing his collusion back to an enemy nation.
How exactly does the claim by Kamala Harris, even if it were a lie, stack up with lies told by a lifelong grifter hated by so many people worldwide for his destructive behaviour that he has stacked up a record number of lawsuits against him?
He brags about ripping people off, and somehow, people want to believe that Kamala Harris’ claim of working at McDonald’s as a teenager is enough to disqualify her as a candidate for a job in which the current administration she has been a part of has shown itself beyond capable of fixing the mess that Donald Trump left behind that will take decades to repair.
Ask yourself why people would care even if she did lie. It isn’t because such a lie is something they can’t tolerate because they tolerate life-destroying lies, so why would a benign lie like this matter in the least to people?
The problem here has nothing to do with Kamala Harris and everything to do with people who pretend to be patriots while behaving in the most treasonously hateful manner toward their fellow citizens every day.
Kamala Harris does not need to “prove” anything because she has already proven herself well beyond more capable than a lying grifter who has been deemed the worst president in American history.
What should be happening right now, if Americans have any self-respect and pride in their history and their status on the world stage, is for Donald Trump to be laughed off every stage he stands on instead of being entertained like drunk, old Uncle Fogarty. This embarrassing idiot decides, at a town hall, to play multiple versions of Ava Maria for 40 minutes instead of answering questions.
After all of this, how can whatever job Kamala Harris did or did not do as a kid matter to anyone in the least?
The truth is that it doesn’t matter to anyone. They have to make a stink about something because the corrupt nature of politics today is that although it’s supposed to be about solving common problems, a significant proportion of the population treats politics as a war game against one’s fellow citizens.
Until (some) people learn to work together with their fellow citizens (as diverse and different from themselves as they may be) instead of demonizing their “honourable opposition,” the only direction the nation will head toward is another civil war.
I’m sure even these guys don’t want to be in a literal war with their fellow citizens.
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