Due to China's poor economy they are subsidizing almost everything including TVs. I just picked up a top of the line 100" Hisense tv for around $2k. Also grabbed a 49" curved 5k gaming monitor for $350. Hooray for rough economies I guess.
How many Americans even know what’s happening? How many will never know because of their media diet? Forty percent?We’re going to need a second Revolution eventually. This isn’t it, but it may help lead us there…”The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power, believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening”.
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.www.theatlantic.com
House Republicans worked through the night to advance a massive piece of legislation that might, if enacted, carry out the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.
That is not a side effect of the legislation, but its central purpose. The “big, beautiful bill” would pair huge cuts to food assistance and health insurance for low-income Americans with even larger tax cuts for affluent ones.
Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, warned that the bill’s passage, by a 215–214 margin, would mark the moment the Republicans ensured the loss of their majority in the midterm elections. That may be so. But the Republicans have not pursued this bill for political reasons. They are employing a majority that they suspect is temporary to enact deep changes to the social compact.
The minority party always complains that the majority is “jamming through” major legislation, however deliberate the process may be. (During the year-long debate over the Affordable Care Act, Republicans farcically bemoaned the “rushed” process that consumed months of public hearings.) In this case, however, the indictment is undeniable. The House cemented the bill’s majority support with a series of last-minute changes whose effects have not been digested. The Congressional Budget Office has not even had time to calculate how many millions of Americans would lose health insurance, nor by how many trillions of dollars the deficit would increase.
The heedlessness of the process is an indication of its underlying fanaticism. The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power, believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening.
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That Chrisley family, if that's how you spell that, are just gross.Some people are using this Trump economy to buy pardons.
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This court just saved our economy. But yeah, this upends he and Bessent's entire economic strategy.So now what….
Trump wins temporary reprieve as he fights against court block on tariffs
US president rails against judges who ruled against him as appeals court grants pause until challenge is heard
Financial markets welcomed a U.S. court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
U.S. futures jumped early Thursday and oil prices rose more than $1. The U.S. dollar rose against the yen and euro.
The court found the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which Trump has cited as his basis for ordering massive increases in import duties, does not authorize the use of tariffs.
The White House immediately appealed and it was unclear if Trump would abide by the ruling in the interim. The long term outcome of legal disputes over tariffs remains uncertain. But investors appeared to take heart after the months of turmoil brought on by Trump's trade war.
Now he just ignores them and the anemic Congress does nothing to stop him. Mind-blowing how inept it turns out our government actually is when faced with someone truly new and dangerous. Deer in the headlights when he is just doing exactly what they told us he would be doing. And everyone seems content to sit there and say "see we told you he would do this ****" as if that moral victory is all we need. I'm really afraid it will take a full-on uprising to unseat the fascists. The rest of the government is powerless to stop it, or won't make the effort. It's disgraceful. But maybe it's just time for Rome to fall. Every major country on the planet has gone through full-on and violent political upheaval to get them where they are today, except us really. We are the only one still operating from the same set of rules we have had for 250+ years. Maybe it's just our time.So now what….
Trump wins temporary reprieve as he fights against court block on tariffs
US president rails against judges who ruled against him as appeals court grants pause until challenge is heard
Financial markets welcomed a U.S. court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
U.S. futures jumped early Thursday and oil prices rose more than $1. The U.S. dollar rose against the yen and euro.
The court found the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which Trump has cited as his basis for ordering massive increases in import duties, does not authorize the use of tariffs.
The White House immediately appealed and it was unclear if Trump would abide by the ruling in the interim. The long term outcome of legal disputes over tariffs remains uncertain. But investors appeared to take heart after the months of turmoil brought on by Trump's trade war.
The bloody four year civil war that killed more Americans than all of the wars we’ve fought combined doesn’t count as a violent political upheaval? The passing of 3 amendments doesn’t count as a second founding? Couldn’t one make an argument that we’ve had a few bloody political upheavals before? And what would a bloody political upheaval look like now? January 6? Oklahoma City bombing? Waco or Ruby Ridge? Could one make an argument that we’re in the middle of one right now with our institutions under attack, experts and expertise being forced out in favor of loyalists, and unfavorable people to this regime being disappeared to El Salvador?
How does that compare realistically to the French revolution and the beheadings of all the heads of state in the country, or Stalin and his death camps as precursors to the subsequent world wars, or nuclear bombs in Japan, or the complete rewriting of the government and hundreds of thousands of deaths under chairman Mao? No, our civil war counts as, at most, a correction and adjustment. It did not represent the complete overhaul of our entire political system, something that damn near every other developed nation experienced in the course of the same 250 years. Yes it was horrifying, but realistically paled in comparison to the others and represented nowhere near the same level of change overall. Maybe we are due for something more dramatic, but if we are lucky maybe we get by with something just on par with the changes made during the civil war, maybe this gets put down and corrected through further amendments. But maybe it will take a full-on upheaval to eradicate the fascists so pervasive in our society today.
Funny thing is that if he follows the court orders then the economy will improve and he will take credit for the improvement lol.
