StJohnMcCrae

Wow sounds scary, but I'm having trouble picturing it. Perhaps you could provide a visual aide? Perhaps something like... an Israeli in the form of an octopus with its tentacles spreading out and swallowing the entire world? Give the octopus a large nose, and some puppet strings for extra effect - that way people know exactly who were talking about.

Oh yeah that's the stuff. Real scary. Wow.

Huh, for some reason chat gpt won't let me generate an image like that - it says it's racist?? How deep does this conspiracy go???!

But on a serious note, are the Israeli plans for world dominanation in the room with us now? Are we supposed to take your claims that they want to annex the Gulf states seriously, or are you fully aware that you're gish galloping antisemitic conspiracy theories?

Edit: the mods have deleted my photos of Pepe Silvia. Apparently antisemitic conspiracy theories are ok, but pointing out their absurdity is a step too far.

Same. I'm about two days ahead of anyone else I know. If it's even slightly off, I'll start retching. I'm a cook, so it isn't actually completely useless.

Minor correction; trump won't buy them, the American taxpayer will buy them.

Lmao got his ass

The taxes will continue until manufacturing improves.

Depends how you phrase the question. If you ask people "do you think the nation of Israel has a right to exist" (are you a Zionist) it probably would be closer to 60%.

Plenty of "Zionists" (in the non-slur sense) are sympathetic to both parties. It's just that internet discourse on the subject has become so radicalized and binary that it gets lost in the conversation.

Written English should widely adopt accented letters. Our spelling would make a lot more sense if words were written the way they actually sounded. Half the words I'm talking about are rooted in Old Norse anyway.

Just more evidence that trump doesn't understand his own plan and doesn't have what it takes to effect it. His desire to have foreign dignitaries come and kiss the ring outweighs his political conviction that tariffs are the correct way forward.

The only possible way that tariffs work is if investors are confident that the trade barriers will stay in place - not just for the 4 years of this administration, but for the time that you would need to generate a return-on-investment from the factory that they're being incentivized to re-shore in the USA.

By signaling that the tariffs are open to negotiation, he disincentivized those investors from investing in American manufacturing when overseas manufacturing could become re-advantaged depending on the mood and disposition of a tyrant.

For example, nobody is going to build and staff an entire textile mill in Arkansas if it's cheaper (both long and short term) to just buy the product from overseas.

Even if tariffs were sound economic policy (they are not), they require a steady and predictable hand at the wheel to give confidence to the market, which is something that this president (and country seemingly) is incapable of.

If my city had maintained (or possibly even upgraded?!) the electric streetcar system we had in place over 100 years ago, there would be around 1 million less cars on the road today, and another couple million less going through the scrap yards.

Anyone who's ever taken Trimet: Look at this map and see what was stolen from you.