mtutiger

Trump is the Chairman of the Board who works 5 hours a week. Musk is the CEO Probably the best way to look at our current predicament

This was in reference to a NYT piece interviewing someone in El Paso who said they regretted their vote (ie Leopards eating faces circumstances) We have to stop thinking in generalities, these types of people are inevitably going to exist. As easy it is to go to vindictiveness, people need to act with grace and save their ire for the candidate and now POTUS and his cronies who are inflicting the damage

This is 100% accurate. Focus attention on Trump and cronies, not the people who voted for him and saw the end result.

Meet the interns now running the government... Oh my

To this end, there were a few times during late 2023 I would talk about inflation subsiding (just going off BLS numbers) and people would dismiss it out of hand. People go off their lived experiences, not government statistics. For better or worse.

Also want to say that, despite the same guy saying we were all "hoping" for things like the tariffs, many of us weren't. Because we all have to live in this economy and with the results of these decisions. Whether we voted for them or not.

Motivated reasoning

Targeting and singling the LCMS is... Certainly a choice

Here's Nova Scotia's Premier and their response to Trump's tariffs If Ontario and Quebec do anything remotely like this, that's gonna bite really hard in New York and Michigan

Well deserved

I'm just amazed at how people lies to themselves over and over and over about this, that he wouldn't do it. Just an all-time own goal by Wall Street and non-tech corporate America

The compartmentalization among the non-mainstream outlets is actually very smart and a way to avoid getting overwhelmed. But yeah, in a better world, the Times, Post and WSJ would be dividing and conquering each front. Instead, they are largely MIA altogether

He... Literally said he was going to do this over and over and over again.

It's lost in the shuffle, but this was just an incredibly dumb thing to do...

There's also the possibility that Jim Bowden is speculating and doesn't have any special insight into any of it. Remember, just a month or two ago, Ken Rosenthal assured us that that the Tigers would never spend for someone like Bregman... now the story is that they have the best deal.

I love this country, I truly do... But we deserve everything we are about to get from everyone else in this moment

There's the obvious impacts internally to all of us, but I am very concerned that we are about to learn about the importance of the soft power we have, to date, weilded

Uhh

Amazing

Right wing talk radio listeners aren't the entire universe of Trump voters.

People may not have realized it at the time, but their vote for Donald Trump was a vote for Elon Musk....

Right now, it's an open question and there is speculation among the chatter class that this is a bluff and that they may be looking for some kind of outcome similar to Colombia that can be spun politically. But the accumulation of these events over time will damage this country and we will be seen a less than reliable partner. Which is a gift to countries like China.