According to Merriam-Webster, a tariff is a tax or list of taxes imposed by a government on imported or exported goods. Harris lost for many reasons, not for calling a tariff a tax.
And now the president who railed against wars wants to annex Greenland and Canada. And his latest is get rid of every one in Gaza and let the US military (with help from Jared) turn it into a paradise. I really wish that was a bad joke. It's not. Hey, folks who wouldn't vote for Harris because of Gaza - enjoy what the Orange Snake will do to the people who live there and want to go home.
"Our choices" doesn't get to the bottom of things. Why did we make them? Peter Russell talks about the natural consequence of exponential growth. We're in trouble from how good we got and not from how evil we are. Here's Peter: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/can-we-come-up-with-an-ask-for-humanity
Read "Red Orchestra" about the Resistance against the Nazis by hundreds, if not thousands of normal little people - housewives, mothers, sisters, brothers, husbands, teacher, business people, etc., etc., etc. They did what they could with the little power they had. Most went to their deaths. God forbid none of us, few of us, will face their end.
Capitalism as we know it is compatible with democracy. The concentration of wealth and power it has produced makes that coexistence impossible.
Compromises and incremental improvements here and there are not enough. I think that most Democrats want universal health care and believe that the tax structure that permits the existence of billionaires is bad. Most of us who think about such matters believe that the concentration of industries into megacorporations is harmful. The great majority of Democrats believe that the climate crisis is real and that fossil fuels must be replaced. Most of us who read the GND proposal that AOC and Markey published think that the ideas it contains are just fine.
But the Democratic Party won't commit fully to policies that match our beliefs because our leaders think we dare not go too far, that we can't risk seeming extreme. A Green New Deal? Clutch your pearls!
Careful incrementalism and tacking to the center must be why that well-known moderate, Donald Trump, is sitting in the Oval Office.
Evidently, a lot of people wanted big change. Harris offered us Biden 2.0, a new and improved Biden, but with no differences in policy from Biden 1.0, Trump offered magic. Presto, Chango! Fascism.
No actually the crisis isn't the product of my choices thruout the 50+ years of my adult life.
It took me 12 hours to gather up the strength to read this after reading the ridiculous title. And the article is as stupid and vacuous as I expected it to be.
I expect way more from you guys. Truly. I mean hell, I've been an idealistic, intelligent, dare I say intellectual, Democrat my whole voting life. And I am proud of it. Glad y'all finally figured out that the Republican party has NEVER cared about anything besides $$$$ and power.
So now what, Oh great and mighty fallen-away Republicans? All you intellectual Never Trumpers? Why suddenly did we Dems who have been marching, funding,protesting, supporting "left wing radicals" like Bernie Sanders, get included in the We Did This To Ourselves? Pluleez.
BTW, I joined the Bulwark in part to get a better understanding of where you're coming from. Ha ha ha.
Collins-no surprise. Biggest windsock in the Senate. Cassidy-disappointing. He was the adult in the room. He was the one with the education and experience to be able to communicate reasons why RFK,Jr. stayed in committee. Every child who contracts measles is on him. Every child that gets measles pneumonia and is hospitalized is on him. Every case of preventable encephalopathy and blindness is his responsibility. Same with every measles death. And for what? So, Trump can emasculate him for voting for his impeachment.
Add polio - it's already showing up in places. Add bird flu that is now moving to human beings and other animals. It has the potential to make COVID look like a walk in the park.
Bill, Sam, Ben, Mona, George -- Please share & discuss with your Bulwark colleagues and inform us about this essay written by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith and distributed by Damon Linker. It's about the Russell Vought favored theory and pattern of "radical constitutionalism" apparent in Trump's EOs about Tik Tok, among others, to nullify our Constitution, Laws and intimidate SCOTUS. In combo with GOP Senators silent support for Elon Musk's deputized access to unilaterally withhold Congressional appropriated funding, access the Treasury Dept. payment system, withhold all foreign aid, attempted abolishment of US AID, and by voting to confirm Hegseth, Bond, RFK, Jr., Gabbard and Patel, I'm seriously worried about history repeating itself with Hitler's 53-day evisceration of Germany's democracy. What can we do as citizens if we don't have a GOP Rep. or Senator to beg to save our democracy? I'm feeling that depressed.
A lot will ride on the Supreme Court. Are they up to the task? And if they are, will Trump listen or ignore them. That is the advice being given him by his legal teams. That was the gist of this paper, which also appeared on the webpage for the American Enterprise Institute. You can regard the Institute as not exactly paying fealty to Trump.
The theory of "radical constitutionalism" looks like a bad-faith effort to dress up an unbounded imperial presidency as strict adherence to the Constitution.
The traditional conservative complaint was that 1) the permanent bureaucracy was making decisions that should be made by Congress - in part because legislators didn't want to bother, and also because they lacked subject-matter knowledge (which conservative critics of the "administrative state" seem to consider unimportant); and 2) courts were letting them do it, instead of adjudicating whether agency decisions conformed to statutory law. In short, the executive branch was usurping legislative and judicial functions.
Another complaint, greatly amplified in the Trump era, was that career bureaucrats, aka the "deep state," were sabotaging the president's agenda. To whatever extent that was happening, MAGAs turned this complaint into the narrative that any impediments to the will of a sociopathic madman - even if it came in the former of actually adhering to the law or following a constitutional process to hold him to the law - was part of an outrageous conspiracy against the "duly elected president." MAGA ideologues basically adopted Trump's belief that he should be free to do whatever he wants, and they packaged it as "the will of the American people."
So they've tossed out any concern about the executive branch infringing on legislative and judicial territory, and they're concocting a "constitutional" justification for a presidency with unlimited power. IMO, Trump's obvious disdain for rules was perhaps the main reason they embraced him so enthusiastically in the first place.
It's hard to overstate the damage Trump has done in two weeks. From the perspective of an American in Canada, the US brand is now toxic. We've watched television pundits laugh over "51st state" remarks and listened to not just Trudeau but the entire country being insulted openly by the president of the US. And then we were threatened with economic recession for no reason whatsoever. The tariffs might be on pause, but Canadian anger is still boiling. Even the most pro-American Canadians I know are saying they don't want to go to the US anymore, and they're happy to keep boycotting US goods.
The president represents the country. If reporters stand around listening to Trump trash talk allies without pushing back--or even expressing mild dismay--that sends a message.
It's beyond comprehension that anyone could seriously have believed that Trump's bullying idiocy and sociopathic amorality were the keys to making America "great again." The Kremlin and its mouthpieces have long been calling him their "wrecking ball" against America, and the like. But MAGA ideologues have been laser-focused on punishing the Americans they hate, thus completely missing how destructive their god-king is to our standing in the world. They also seem to favor the Russian model, in which trying to be the world's biggest bully is better than having friends and allies.
According to Merriam-Webster, a tariff is a tax or list of taxes imposed by a government on imported or exported goods. Harris lost for many reasons, not for calling a tariff a tax.
This is a quote from Lincoln's Lyceum Address, (1838 at age 29). I cannot too strongly recommend reading this speech. https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
And now the president who railed against wars wants to annex Greenland and Canada. And his latest is get rid of every one in Gaza and let the US military (with help from Jared) turn it into a paradise. I really wish that was a bad joke. It's not. Hey, folks who wouldn't vote for Harris because of Gaza - enjoy what the Orange Snake will do to the people who live there and want to go home.
'We'? I've been warning & fighting him since before he was first elected. 'You & yours' just blew him off in 2016. Now, the terror holds the codes.
"Our choices" doesn't get to the bottom of things. Why did we make them? Peter Russell talks about the natural consequence of exponential growth. We're in trouble from how good we got and not from how evil we are. Here's Peter: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/can-we-come-up-with-an-ask-for-humanity
Ways to resist.. *Place homemade "Stop Trump" stickers every where.
*Invert postage stamps
*Write on Canadian, Mexican social media pages messages of supporting them regarding trump's tariffs,
*Call FCC and complain about maga media,
*Remove maga media from supermarket newsstands,
*Get involved in fox maga media surveys, distorts the numbers,
*Order free items from mags, i.e., The Heritage Society - then return to sender. Cross out you return address.
*Read about the White Rose
*Shopping is voting, shop morally.
* Call maga advertisers
PLEASE add to the list
ACT
Read "Red Orchestra" about the Resistance against the Nazis by hundreds, if not thousands of normal little people - housewives, mothers, sisters, brothers, husbands, teacher, business people, etc., etc., etc. They did what they could with the little power they had. Most went to their deaths. God forbid none of us, few of us, will face their end.
The states trump won. Reason why.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-educated-states
Why trump won certain states.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-educated-states
Capitalism as we know it is compatible with democracy. The concentration of wealth and power it has produced makes that coexistence impossible.
Compromises and incremental improvements here and there are not enough. I think that most Democrats want universal health care and believe that the tax structure that permits the existence of billionaires is bad. Most of us who think about such matters believe that the concentration of industries into megacorporations is harmful. The great majority of Democrats believe that the climate crisis is real and that fossil fuels must be replaced. Most of us who read the GND proposal that AOC and Markey published think that the ideas it contains are just fine.
But the Democratic Party won't commit fully to policies that match our beliefs because our leaders think we dare not go too far, that we can't risk seeming extreme. A Green New Deal? Clutch your pearls!
Careful incrementalism and tacking to the center must be why that well-known moderate, Donald Trump, is sitting in the Oval Office.
Evidently, a lot of people wanted big change. Harris offered us Biden 2.0, a new and improved Biden, but with no differences in policy from Biden 1.0, Trump offered magic. Presto, Chango! Fascism.
Rev dietrich bonhoeffer on maga.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=xvJoWoEWDjIA0atk
https://youtu.be/KA5vytp9JPU?si=h0bxrK4GqnUiuLfz
No actually the crisis isn't the product of my choices thruout the 50+ years of my adult life.
It took me 12 hours to gather up the strength to read this after reading the ridiculous title. And the article is as stupid and vacuous as I expected it to be.
I expect way more from you guys. Truly. I mean hell, I've been an idealistic, intelligent, dare I say intellectual, Democrat my whole voting life. And I am proud of it. Glad y'all finally figured out that the Republican party has NEVER cared about anything besides $$$$ and power.
So now what, Oh great and mighty fallen-away Republicans? All you intellectual Never Trumpers? Why suddenly did we Dems who have been marching, funding,protesting, supporting "left wing radicals" like Bernie Sanders, get included in the We Did This To Ourselves? Pluleez.
BTW, I joined the Bulwark in part to get a better understanding of where you're coming from. Ha ha ha.
We did this to ourselves. Not quite right. 49%, and now aided and abetted by a totally vile GOP did it for all of us.
Collins-no surprise. Biggest windsock in the Senate. Cassidy-disappointing. He was the adult in the room. He was the one with the education and experience to be able to communicate reasons why RFK,Jr. stayed in committee. Every child who contracts measles is on him. Every child that gets measles pneumonia and is hospitalized is on him. Every case of preventable encephalopathy and blindness is his responsibility. Same with every measles death. And for what? So, Trump can emasculate him for voting for his impeachment.
Add polio - it's already showing up in places. Add bird flu that is now moving to human beings and other animals. It has the potential to make COVID look like a walk in the park.
Meanwhile, Collins is on the Tulsi Gabbard train and Cassidy is onboard with RFK Jr. Abandon all hope, my fellow Americans, because there is none.
Bill, Sam, Ben, Mona, George -- Please share & discuss with your Bulwark colleagues and inform us about this essay written by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith and distributed by Damon Linker. It's about the Russell Vought favored theory and pattern of "radical constitutionalism" apparent in Trump's EOs about Tik Tok, among others, to nullify our Constitution, Laws and intimidate SCOTUS. In combo with GOP Senators silent support for Elon Musk's deputized access to unilaterally withhold Congressional appropriated funding, access the Treasury Dept. payment system, withhold all foreign aid, attempted abolishment of US AID, and by voting to confirm Hegseth, Bond, RFK, Jr., Gabbard and Patel, I'm seriously worried about history repeating itself with Hitler's 53-day evisceration of Germany's democracy. What can we do as citizens if we don't have a GOP Rep. or Senator to beg to save our democracy? I'm feeling that depressed.
https://executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-executive-orders-as-radical
A lot will ride on the Supreme Court. Are they up to the task? And if they are, will Trump listen or ignore them. That is the advice being given him by his legal teams. That was the gist of this paper, which also appeared on the webpage for the American Enterprise Institute. You can regard the Institute as not exactly paying fealty to Trump.
If history isn't repeating itself, it's rhyming.
The theory of "radical constitutionalism" looks like a bad-faith effort to dress up an unbounded imperial presidency as strict adherence to the Constitution.
The traditional conservative complaint was that 1) the permanent bureaucracy was making decisions that should be made by Congress - in part because legislators didn't want to bother, and also because they lacked subject-matter knowledge (which conservative critics of the "administrative state" seem to consider unimportant); and 2) courts were letting them do it, instead of adjudicating whether agency decisions conformed to statutory law. In short, the executive branch was usurping legislative and judicial functions.
Another complaint, greatly amplified in the Trump era, was that career bureaucrats, aka the "deep state," were sabotaging the president's agenda. To whatever extent that was happening, MAGAs turned this complaint into the narrative that any impediments to the will of a sociopathic madman - even if it came in the former of actually adhering to the law or following a constitutional process to hold him to the law - was part of an outrageous conspiracy against the "duly elected president." MAGA ideologues basically adopted Trump's belief that he should be free to do whatever he wants, and they packaged it as "the will of the American people."
So they've tossed out any concern about the executive branch infringing on legislative and judicial territory, and they're concocting a "constitutional" justification for a presidency with unlimited power. IMO, Trump's obvious disdain for rules was perhaps the main reason they embraced him so enthusiastically in the first place.
It's hard to overstate the damage Trump has done in two weeks. From the perspective of an American in Canada, the US brand is now toxic. We've watched television pundits laugh over "51st state" remarks and listened to not just Trudeau but the entire country being insulted openly by the president of the US. And then we were threatened with economic recession for no reason whatsoever. The tariffs might be on pause, but Canadian anger is still boiling. Even the most pro-American Canadians I know are saying they don't want to go to the US anymore, and they're happy to keep boycotting US goods.
The president represents the country. If reporters stand around listening to Trump trash talk allies without pushing back--or even expressing mild dismay--that sends a message.
It's beyond comprehension that anyone could seriously have believed that Trump's bullying idiocy and sociopathic amorality were the keys to making America "great again." The Kremlin and its mouthpieces have long been calling him their "wrecking ball" against America, and the like. But MAGA ideologues have been laser-focused on punishing the Americans they hate, thus completely missing how destructive their god-king is to our standing in the world. They also seem to favor the Russian model, in which trying to be the world's biggest bully is better than having friends and allies.