Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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I'll reserve my judgement and see how it plays out.
There is zero reason or ROI for me to do anything otherwise, and the same goes for you.
There's not a goddamned thing you can do about it now. You had your chance, and your party became so fucking toxic that you couldn't even steal the last election.
If anything breaks and we're all fucked, sleep tight knowing that you're just as culpable as any of the rest of us are for it.
Good luck. 
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Quote:6ix, you Trumptards have perverted the meaning of responsibility to mean Trump is not responsible for what he did this week because the Democrats are truly responsible since Biden didn't assassinate Trump before Trump could do something irresponsible, stupid and, perhaps, irreversible.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll reserve my judgement and see how it plays out.
There is zero reason or ROI for me to do anything otherwise, and the same goes for you.
There's not a goddamned thing you can do about it now. You had your chance, and your party became so fucking toxic that you couldn't even steal the last election.
If anything breaks and we're all fucked, sleep tight knowing that you're just as culpable as any of the rest of us are for it.
Good luck.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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“He’s at the peak of just not giving a f— anymore,” said a White House official with knowledge of Trump’s thinking. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a f—. He’s going to do what he’s going to do.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-reaso
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“Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?” -- 6ixStringJack
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you Trumptards have perverted the meaning of responsibility to mean Trump is not responsible for what he did this week because the Democrats are truly responsible since Biden didn't assassinate Trump before Trump could do something irresponsible, stupid and, perhaps, irreversible.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll reserve my judgement and see how it plays out.
There is zero reason or ROI for me to do anything otherwise, and the same goes for you.
There's not a goddamned thing you can do about it now. You had your chance, and your party became so fucking toxic that you couldn't even steal the last election.
If anything breaks and we're all fucked, sleep tight knowing that you're just as culpable as any of the rest of us are for it.
Good luck.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Your party has been cancer for a long time.
You were warned about demanding better and not going with every line of bullshit your media masters told you.
Now they're all losing their jobs, Democrats can't even get 30% approval on CNN and you get to watch the world you thought you were living in disappear without a trace, never to return again.
You have nobody to blame but yourself and the likes of Kevin Drum and Paul Krugman.
Too bad Kevin didn't get to see Snow White.
Woke is dead now, but it outlived Kevin by a few months.
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Quote:Jonathan Chait is another name to add to your list of journalists who see how incompetent Trumptards and Trump are at making and executing plans for their own lives and even for all of America.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Now they're all losing their jobs, Democrats can't even get 30% approval on CNN and you get to watch the world you thought you were living in disappear without a trace, never to return again.
You have nobody to blame but yourself and the likes of Kevin Drum and Paul Krugman.
Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff Plan
By Jonathan Chait | April 4, 2025, 12:51 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-negotiation
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Once you’ve said you might negotiate, nobody is going to believe you when you change your mind and say you’ll never negotiate.
Donald Trump had a plan. It was not a good plan, or even a plausible one. But it was, at least, a coherent plan: By imposing large trade barriers on the entire world, he would create an incentive for American business to manufacture and grow all the goods the country previously imported.
Whatever chance this plan had to succeed is already over.
The key to making it work was to convince businesses that the new arrangement is durable. Nobody is going to invest in building new factories in the United States to create goods that until last week could be imported more cheaply unless they’re certain that the tariffs making the domestic version more competitive will stay in place. (They’re probably not going to do it anyway, in part because they don’t know who will be president in four years, but the point is that confidence in durable tariffs is a necessary condition.)
Trump’s aides grasped this dynamic. “This is the great onshoring, the great reshoring of American jobs and wealth,” Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, declared on “Liberation Day.” The White House accordingly circulated talking points instructing its surrogates not to call the tariffs a leverage play to make deals, but to instead describe them as a permanent new feature of the global economy.
But not everybody got the idea. Eric Trump tweeted, “I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump. The first to negotiate will win - the last will absolutely lose.”
Eric’s father apparently didn’t get the memo either. Asked by reporters whether he planned to negotiate the tariff rates, the president said, “The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have.”
Someone seems to have then told Trump that this stance would paralyze business investment, because he reversed course immediately, writing on Truth Social, “TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.”
However, there is a principle at work here called “No backsies.” Once you’ve said you might negotiate the tariffs, nobody is going to believe you when you change your mind and say you’ll never negotiate.
Indeed, precisely two hours and 17 minutes after insisting that his policies would never change, Trump returned to Truth Social to announce excitedly that the policies were going to change: “Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future.”
The possibility remains that Trump will revert to insisting that the tariffs are permanent and irrevocable. The day is still young.
To be sure, signaling openness to negotiation on tariffs is also a plan. But it’s a very different plan than attracting massive investment into domestic production. The idea behind this other plan is a game of chicken: We think
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Quote:I knew and admired Elizabeth Warren’s work long before she became a senator. Back in the day she was a law professor with a special interest in rising rates of personal bankrupcty. Her book The Two-Income Trap, about how the stresses of families trying to get their children into decent schools pushed many over the brink, was a revelation. So was her dissection of the role of consumer fraud in the financial crisis.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your party has been cancer for a long time.
You were warned about demanding better and not going with every line of bullshit your media masters told you.
Now they're all losing their jobs . . .
She has been remarkably effective since transitioning into a political and policy-making role, too. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, her brainchild, has been a huge success story — which is why Trump and Musk are trying to kill it.
More at "Hoping for a better future"
By Paul Krugman | Apr 05, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-elizabeth-warre
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-elizabeth-warre
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Paul Krugman - It's been a much more exciting week in Washington than I would have liked it to be for this interview, because I'd like to talk about issues that are close to your heart. But first, reactions to Wednesday’s Rose Garden speech, the Trump tariff announcements.
Elizabeth Warren - So let me set the table just a little bit. I think that tariffs can be a useful tool in the economic toolbox. Right now in the United States, if you have a prescription filled, there’s a 9 out of 10 chance that it was manufactured overseas, probably in Asia, and that even if it was manufactured in India, most of the ingredients came from China.
You know, that's a pretty dangerous place for us to be. We get into some back and forth with China and all of a sudden there are no antibiotics for little kids with ear infections. So that can be a place where you put tariffs in place because you want to build a supply chain here in America. You're targeted about it, you know what you're trying to do, and you do it. You follow through and you make it stick.
Donald Trump's attempt at tariffs is just dumb. It's broad. It makes no sense. What do we gain by putting a big tariff on lumber from Canada, except that the cost of building a new house goes up?
Paul Krugman - Yeah.
Elizabeth Warren - And for me, it's more than the individual pieces, it's the chaos around it. First time you announce tariffs and then the market drops, so whoa, he rolls them back and it's like, they're playing red light, green light. And I think even now, a big chunk of the world doesn't know, is he serious about all of those tariffs? Some of those tariffs? None of those tariffs? And I don't know anybody who invests in an economy who says, “yeah, I'm definitely going to build a factory here in this town in Ohio, or I'm definitely going to start another branch of my business over here in Scottsdale, Arizona,” if you don't know what the environment looks like on what the cost of your materials may be or whether or not you'll have buyers overseas. So I think the tariffs themselves, I just don't think there's enough rhyme or reason to say that there's any coherence here, but I think the even scarier part and worst part for the economy is this uncertainty that it injects and there'll be a price for that for a long, long time to come.
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Canada to Europe: US relationship will ‘never be the same again’ after Trump’s trade war
By Antoaneta Roussi | April 4, 2025 10:47 am CET
https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-foreign-minister-melanie-joly-e
urope-us-relationship-never-same-again/
BRUSSELS — Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly issued a stark warning Friday to her European counterparts after U.S. President Donald Trump hit allies with huge tariffs.
“We know that the relationship will never be the same again,” Joly said at NATO headquarters, where she was attending a meeting of allied foreign ministers. “That's my message to Europeans, the relationship with the U.S. will never be the same.”
Trump dumped the EU in the worst category of America’s trade partners this week, hitting the bloc with a 20 percent tariff on all imports.
Trump’s announcement puts the 27-nation bloc on the trade naughty step along with major economies such as China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. His move threw up U.S. trade barriers unseen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Joly said Trump's goal was to do "a global reset on trade," which had started with Canada.
“We buy more from the U.S. than the U.K., France, China and Japan combined," Joly told reporters. "When you treat your best client, the way we've been treated ... it means that you want fundamentally to change the way you're operating.”
She added that tariffs would ultimately be a tax on the American people and urged Europeans to “take that message” to U.S. citizens in order to influence the U.S. administration.
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What this disastrous week taught us about the Trump presidency
By Zack Beauchamp / Apr 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
https://www.vox.com/politics/407222/trump-tariff-loomer-kennedy
Donald Trump’s tariffs were at once predictable and shocking.
Predictable, in the sense that Trump had been crystal-clear about wanting across-the-board tariffs during the campaign. Shocking, because they have been implemented in a manner that appears extreme and incompetent even by previous Trump standards. As a result, the world is historically unsettled: One metric of global economic uncertainty shows higher levels of concern than at any point in the 21st century, worse than the 2008 financial crisis and even the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
It turns out that this combination, both predictable and shocking, has become a bit of a theme for the Trump team lately. Consider two other news stories, both of which would be headline-grabbing scandals if it weren’t for the tariffs.
First, Trump has empowered Laura Loomer, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe,” to purge top government officials. The head of the National Security Agency, his top deputy, and six staffers on the National Security Council have all been fired this week — seemingly at Loomer’s behest.
Second, the Department of Health and Human Services started layoffs on Tuesday that are expected to hit about 10,000 workers. By the end of it, about a quarter of the department’s staff will have been cut amid a worrying measles outbreak and the real risk of a bird flu pandemic.
Trump telegraphed these moves during the campaign — promising to root out the “the deep state” and vowing to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” at HHS. But they are shocking, nonetheless. Putting Laura Loomer, of all people, in charge of sensitive national security decisions is nothing short of astonishing. And the sheer scope of the HHS cuts, given the current public health challenges, led my colleague Dylan Scott to describe the situation as an “unfolding catastrophe.”
This, it seems, is the week where we saw the Trump administration’s true and unvarnished face. It’s not that what happened this week was necessarily worse than what came before it, though the tariffs might well prove to be. Rather, it’s that the week revealed the true scope and nature of our Trump problem — with even some of his supporters starting to openly worry that things have gone badly wrong.
Put differently, the last week has shown, in no uncertain terms, that Trump is acting like a mad king.
What we just learned
Trump had done shocking and surprising things pretty much since he entered office on January 20. His blatantly political assault on universities, his decision to send innocent Venezuelans to a Salvadoran gulag, his bizarre crusade to make Canada “the 51st state,” his unlawful efforts to shut down entire federal agencies like USAID — all of this made clear that we were in for an unhinged approach to governance.
But even after all that, some people thought there still might be constraints.
Previous rounds of tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada did not lead Wall Street to panic — partly because they were moderated or walked back after implementation. Many conservatives alarmed by Trump’s policies reassured themselves that his national security team, like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz, hailed from the GOP’s more traditional internationalist wing.
Now, there is panic even in these quarters.
Wall Street is horrified; the S&P 500 lost more value this week in absolute terms than it did during the entire 2008 financial crisis. Republican stalwarts like Ben Shapiro and Erick Erickson are warning of dire economic and political consequences if Trump stays the course on tariffs. And the notion that the GOP national security “professionals” might check any of this is no longer credible: This week, Waltz was made to sit in an Oval Office meeting during which Loomer listed off staff members of his to be fired. Even Sen. Ted
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And the sheer scope of the HHS cuts, given the current public health challenges, led my colleague Dylan Scott to describe the situation as an “unfolding catastrophe.”
What do people die of, mostly?
Heart attacks, cancer, accidents (including drug overdose), stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases (like COPD), Alzheimers, diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease
For a brief while Covid-19 made it to 3rd place, but is now just out of the top 10, along with influenza and pnuemonia, and suicide.
What is HHS doing about the top 10?
I know we'll all die of something some day, but these diseases can be prevented or delayed with healthy eating and lifestyle. HHS seems conflicted by allowing too many food additives and isolates to be GRAS.
Seems we would do better with a junk food tax, starting with fried foods.
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