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I’ve experienced something similar. I bike around Seattle often - if I see someone in knee high socks, plaid shirts and a crop top from afar it’s more often than not a trans person when they get close.

There's no internet, the city is getting bombed and Trump warned everyone to evacuate. It's hard to agitate under those conditions.

@jon-nyc said in What’s your over/under on Trump/Musk?:

I've always thought this was a really possibility. Just need someone to champion it.

The party infrastructure is outdated anyways... elections are less correlated with traditional fundraising than they used to be.

Stuff like this has such a chilling effect on tourism. I know a bunch of Canadians who just don't want to bother with the border any more.

I think it's 30% of rental single family homes, but the point still stands. It's a lot, and they distort the market for regular home sales since they're always in the mix.

@Copper said in Emir Force One:

The Statue of Liberty was the same thing.

The USA paid for the pedestal, in this case the taxpayers will buy the fuel, just like the statue.

Don't worry about it.

Didn’t realize you had such a high opinion of Qatar and Hamas. Same thing as France.

New levels of winning. Not only have we stopped giving foreign aid, we’re now the recipients.

Great questions - I think about something like 2 and 3 often, but have never considered 1 and 4.

I really don't understand this - did he shorten VE Day to Victory Day for some reason? And so what's the actual end of the war called?

I really can't think of a more meaningful gift you could give to another person.

@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

Transparency is a hostile act.

The irony is that the government's response to this private business's actions is a hostile and political act.

@89th said in Why we need due process:

The modern day head on pike. It shows their priority are headlines "arrested!" and not due process where the person is found guilty by a jury of their peers.

Are those really on the white house lawn?

He has audience of one that he needs to solve for before others.

@Horace said in Make America Globalist Again:

I think the main pro-isolationism messaging boils down to empathy for people who would have died of a fentanyl overdose, but were saved by a factory job. As a country, we're really, really prioritizing that story. It's a strange thing to put at the top of the economic priority list.

Agreed. I don't think it was the factory job by itself. It was the factory job along with the cultural norm of people able to get married and have a regular life if you were willing to buckle down and do an honest day's work.

The culture part of the equation is completely ignored.

The Pakistan line was drawn through Punjab. Punjab was the location of the last independent Indian empire that fell to the British.

About 12-20 million people were displaced and some estimate up to 2 million deaths from resulting violence and deprivation.

The line was so ineptly drawn that the founding temple of the Sikh faith ended up in Pakistan. (Sikhism comes from Punjab).

The apocryphal story is that Lord Mountbatten couldn't take the Indian summer heat and just drew a line through villages and cities as fast as he could.

Doubly frustrating considering that the world economy was headed in the right direction. World stock markets were trending up, and the US usually beats them.

So, we're down when we should have been up.

Even more frustrating - it'll take months for this to really percolate through to "Main Street", at which point it might take even more months to unwind it.

It’s not even particularly desirable. An iPhone sells for $1000, costs about $400 to make and about $100 of that value is driven by China.

Would we rather have Huawei in America with $100 going to American manufacturing (just assume that’s possible) - or the current state of an American company (Apple) with $100 going to China?

The way Trump talks, he’d take the former.

Alright - so step 1, stock market down. Step 2 - destroy a large portion of all other major countries. Step 3 - profit.

On to step 2, I guess?

Can they "ask"? The government admits they made a mistake.

@Jolly said in Really trying not to dunk:

Trump is Trump.

He is a chaos agent that brings change.

I knew that when I voted for him.

Interesting. Doesn't that make you some sort of ultra-progressive. We don't just want to burn this thing down and change - we want completely unpredictable random change! Anything is better than this hellhole.