Not to mention many of those Chinese products are designed by and built for American companies or nonamerican companies that sell in the US, which complicates things even further. This is much more complicated and much messier than simply looking at how many US goods there are in a typical Chinese household. Everybody loses thanks to Trump’s idiocy.

You know that isn’t good for China either, right? It’s the same twisted trade deficit logic that Trump is using. China’s economy depends on selling those goods.

McKinley is actually Trump’s idol. On his very first day back in office one of his first EOs was to rename Mount Denali to Mount McKinley. it isn’t a coincidence that Trump also loves tariffs.

She has the surname “Gather” and looks exactly like the kind of person I’d imagine picks mushrooms. Nominative Determinism strikes again!

Mischief is essentially a charge for property damage but there are special categories of it, one of which covers monuments/memorials specifically. Churches are another one.

Of course he does, but why would he say it out loud during the election? It’s an incomprehensibly stupid move.

There’s no way those numbers are real: https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sales-recall-trump-byd-b6f5da15be491d16e3020598e3ddf861

Canadian sales are fabricated and they are down in China too as BYD eat their lunch. Where else would the shortfall come from?

Of course they did. The odds of them using Signal for only one group chat were zero.

The Canadian “sales” where three Tesla dealerships each averaged one car sold for every single minute during a three-day weekend? No, that was totally legit.

Can’t wait to see this have no measurable effect whatsoever on Trump’s approval ratings.

I assume that’s in the US only. The sames drop in Europe is far worse (40 to 80% depending on country) because they are less receptive to fascists than the US.

Concerning

Americans never change, huh? It’s 1774 all over again (in which Americans got so salty about people speaking French that it contributed to them choosing revolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Act

I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t even know we had reserves…

I feel very strongly against us being the 51st state – I’ll literally lay down my life before I let it happen – but I don’t think this should be illegal or banned. If this bothers you, vote with your wallet.

We’re already starting to see astroturfing on Reddit, and I’m sure there’s more on other platforms I don’t use. Facebook must be even more of a cesspool than usual right now.

The american elite managed to convince ordinary americans that evil foreigners are to blame for all their problems.

No they didn’t. Millions of Americans already believed this and were waiting only for permission to externalize it.

The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”

Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel.

It’s appalling to see how quickly American higher ed bent over for the fascists. Why would anybody study there? Come to Canada or the EU instead.

If anything, they haven’t condemned our fascist government enough. I think they’re still largely in shock.

There’s no sense in pointless bluster. Much is happening behind the scenes.

Also great in crepes.