Petty Noble

I used to live in CT. There is a ton of open corruption in New England Dem parties. The combination of corruption, high taxes, high cost of living, and shit canditates born of machine politics makes it plausible Repubs might win even in the face of Trump's unpopularity.

YouTube video by NPR Music Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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One of the great performances on this fantastic little show.

Fucking did a chef's kiss at that one. The number of outright dunces occupying positions and wealth are staggering. I'm looking at you Bill Ackman.

Brother you are one of the great thinkers and writers of my generation.

I love how this type of logic always rests on don't worry about pissing off or not motivating your base, and instead focus on that mythical conservative voter that's waiting for a reason to finally stop hating liberals. Yes let's appease the arsonist with more gasoline.

This court will make it clear that those types of powers only belong to a president they approve of.

I think the SC is hell bent on giving the presidency dictatorial powers. I think he has a good chance of winning.

"I had never seen anyone virtue-signal so gracefully, so effortlessly. I was like, 'I have to work with this guy.'"

😂😂😂😂

Meet Cory Booker's (fake) political consultant, played by Zeteo's very own @heycapello.

"No one does it like Cory."

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I hate to say it but em Mel Gibson is talented.

Great way to start the day.

The speed with which the political and legal systems here are converging towards the Nigerian one is terrifying. Same with the income inequality and its attendant corruption.

I was so incensed by how this went down. It's very depressing that Islamophobia is so casually accepted in the US.

I hope you are right. But I wonder if the size and influence of the far right parties have gotten to such a scale that you couldn't build a coalition of any kind without their participation.

Israelis Unsure Current Military Operation Will Bring the Hostages Home or Topple Hamas 48% of Jews do not think that the operation will lead to the return of the hostages, and 50% of Arab Israelis share this assessment. 50% of Jews also do not think that the operation will lead to an en...

Around two-thirds of the public think that when planning military operations, Israel should not take into account, or should only take into account to a small extent, the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza.

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People keep acting like Netanyahu is the only problem. Whatever comes after him will be just as bad or worse for Palestinians. If there is one thing Israelis have a general consesus on, it is, the more dead Palestinians, the better, and absolutely no 2 state solution.

He was literally a prisoner of war.

They are all friends and all insider trade.

The vibe that Dems are poll-tested cowards with no underlying principles will persist at least as long as they insist on maintaining that image themselves bsky.app/profile/murs...

I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing

This is high art

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

So kind of them

This assumes that business leaders will make long term supply chain investments based on tariffs through executive orders that can be withdrawn over night. This whole nightmare is stupid.

None of these stupidly implemented tarrifs work. US manufacture will be inferior because tariffs will make bringing in highly quality inputs too expensive. We will end up building cheap shit only a captive consumer base will be forced to buy, since these products won't be competitive abroad.

China's economy took off by them bending over backwards for such investments. As their economy grew, similar to America they are shedding low margin manufacturing to cheaper countries. It will be incredibly stupid for China next year to be like "hey, remember when we used to make all the t-shirts"

You can create strategic manufacturing capacity through government incentives like the CHIPS Act. You can even use targeted tarrifs to combat dumping and protect sensitive sectors. None of this calls for the idiocy and national suicide that took place this week.

If the Jones act hasn't brought back commercial ship building, tarrifs sure as shit won't. And America already manufactures its own millitary ships at exorbitant costs. Increase in housing costs can be attributed more to low supply than cheap capital.

All countries bend over backwards to get Foreign Direct Investment. We have it so easy. Does that increase asset prices? sure, but it also makes us wealthier. USD is accepted anywhere in the world. We are net beneficiaries of the global trade system because we have large influence over it.

2) The stupid tarrif formula did not include American services (our largest export). No other country has 30 yr mortgages outside of the US. We can do that because we are the world reserve currency. We also benefit in many other ways by our global standing which we are undoing by the minute.

1) Taxing ourselves into national suicide in no way addresses the points you raised. Automation has taken away way more factory jobs than offshoring. This administration has no infrastructure plan to boost manufacturing capability that will ultimately be mostly filled by robots.