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Yes, the government should obviously not be sharing tax data. Ask Trump how he feels about sharing tax data. And it's another example of cutting one's nose off to spite one's face. Brought to you by the exact same boneheads who can't understand sanctuary cities. It's a fact that people are here without legal status. It's a fact that they work and earn money to survive because we have done almost NOTHING to stop employers from hiring (and often exploiting) them. Now that their presence in the country is jeopardized by paying taxes and other examples of legal compliance, what happens? They're not leaving the country. Rather, the Trump administration has simply incentivized non compliance with other laws. They won't pay taxes. They won't get drivers licenses. They won't get auto insurance. And on and on. --- The other thing they won't do? Leave. This kind of shortsighted action doesn't solve any core problem. It just causes a snarl of cascading issues, for which ordinary citizens pay the price.

Maybe A1 could teach you basic math. Crack open a bottle and see where it goes. You could get lucky.

Another example of a Trump appointee who we all knew was wildly unqualified for the job proving that she's wildly unqualified for the job. I mean, she didn't text classified combat plans to a journalist and she didn't crash the stock market, so she's doing relatively well for this clown car administration, but still pretty alarming. News anywhere McMahon, 76, is the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment. She has been placed in charge of the Department of Education, which President Donald Trump has stated publicly he wants to disband. Speaking on a panel discussion about AI, she repeatedly referred to the technology as “A1.” “I heard, think it was in a letter or report that I heard this morning, I wish I could remember the source, but that there’s a school system that’s going to start making sure that first-graders, and even pre-K have A1 teaching in every year,” McMahon told the panel. “Kids are sponges,” she continued. “They just absorb everything. It wasn’t all that long ago that it was, ‘We’re going to have internet in our schools!’ Now let’s see A1 and how that can be helpful.” At least social media marketers can have some fun at our expense.

True. This isn't something plausible that kinda didn't go as well as people hoped. It's epic, historic mismanagement. It's total malpractice. It's the economic equivalent of putting disinfectant in your body to fight COVID.

There aren't many companies more deserving of bankruptcy. They deliberately told lies in service of overturning democracy. Common people went to jail because they believed those lies. Accountability for all.

Jeebus, these MAGA guys are wildly insecure. Can you imagine being such a loser that you sit around all day wondering whether your every activity is "manly" enough?

It will almost certainly be down, but just a tiny preview of what would happen with the tariffs in place. You understand that this is prior to any tariffs, all of it already planned WAY before Trump was even elected right? And much of it due to the IRA and CHIPS incentives. Ah, who am I kidding, of course you don't. It's hilarious that you think Trump said the T word and suddenly companies started breaking ground.

Sorry dumbshit, people like you are learning the lesson as they bury their children. Hope your idiocy doesn't cost anyone else their lives.

Exactly. Business might make some easy changes, but they certainly aren't going to make massive strategic decisions based on a mercurial lame duck president with a 2-year minimum shelf life and a 4 year maximum. (Assuming we still have elections.) They will wait out the chaos.

Sadly, people who bought into the anti-vaccine hype are now burying their children in Texas. It seems almost unthinkable that in 21st century America children are dying of easily preventable diseases again, but that's the reality. The internet has given dumb (and malicious) people a powerful platform for misinformation and other dumb people are paying the price--well, their children are paying the price.

That's pure crap. Any of those countries would have negotiated tariffs--and tried to. And the Trump tariff formulas were not based on tariffs, so clearly that was not the sticking point. You're trying to fanboy retcon maybe the biggest economic blunder in history as 4D chess. It's nonsense.

Yeah, just memory hole everything he's been saying for the past month and pretend this is intentional.

Ah, this must be what they are talking about when they say, "The adults are in charge again."

That's a wild oversimplification, but even if it were plainly true, you would have to agree that we're doing that to ourselves. None of that nonsense you spouted earlier about other countries "invading our markets to steal jobs from us." Republicans spend DECADES thumping the Chicago bible and spouting the dogma of an all-seeing, all-knowing market as the One True Way to efficiently allocate resources. Laissez fair was tres chic and other countries had favorable manufacturing circumstances. Then Trump gave them a new god, so they just converted -- 180 degrees at the drop of a hat.

Clown in Chief just lost his game of chicken with the world. With the price of eggs, it seems so wasteful to wear them on his face. Imagine if someone with a three-digit IQ had been elected. We could have avoid losing trillions of dollars of value to unnecessary economic chaos and kept a shred of our national dignity. Ah, the road not taken.

I never claimed to be an economist, let alone a master economist. Nor would I. A bachelor's degree is fairly introductory in terms of real expertise. I have other degrees and chose a different profession. But the education comes in handy for understanding the world a little better. And, you know, understanding basic concepts like demand elasticity, you weasel. But the proposition that the rest of the world stole our manufacturing base is pure nonsense. We chose to outsource and automate to get more stuff for less money. For good or ill, we did this to ourselves, and we've certainly exploited them far more than they've exploited us.

Years into this nonsense and you still can't figure out that raw numbers are entirely irrelevant. Again, to illustrate how flawed your "math" is, a higher number of people have died in car crashes every single year since seat belts became mandatory. Every year, more people dead. Using the same head-up-the-ass thinking, you would have to conclude that seat belts don't save lives. You have the goddamn internet. You don't have to fumble around wondering how to calculate the effectiveness of an intervention. Yet still you persist.

It's not rational. Not remotely. As populations approach 100% participation OF COURSE any negative outcome will be primarily among those who have engaged in any mitigating activity. Has been explained at least 50 times now, but saying that x% of deaths were among the vaccinated is wholly irrelevant. To measure the efficacy of an intervention you must compare the outcomes of those with intervention and those without on an incident basis. If you want to know if vaccines are effective, you compare the outcomes of those who contracted COVID while vaccinated to those who contracted COVID without being vaccinated. It's not hard to understand, and the difference in outcomes is stark. The unvaccinated were many times more likely to be hospitalized and many times more likely to die. This is true in every study, in every population. If there is a god guiding Trump, it's clearly one who is very bad at economics.

Whoever she is, looks like she and Trump seem to have the same sense of "humor."

That is a really fascinating victimhood spin on economic colonialism.

Yes, as an exact replica of WCM's vaccine criticism, it is indeed a very thin argument and does not reflect rational thought. Good job catching on. Maybe satire is your mode of learning?

Conservatives fought tooth and nail to the bitter end against ending: Segregated housing Segregated schools Segregated public facilities Jim Crow Laws Redlining Racial Purity Laws (Anti-Miscegenation Laws) Women's Suffrage Gender-Based Employment Discrimination Criminalization of Homosexuality Discrimination in Marriage (Same-Sex Marriage Ban) LGBTQ+ Employment Discrimination: Transgender Rights Decades later you dumb-fark conservatives are pretending that, "Liberals are the ones trying to divide people, hyuk." News flash, it's just you and your brethren who feel "divided." Whenever some marginalized out group who has been exclude from the power structure makes an inch of progress you feel the erosion of your unearned privilege. You feel that it's you versus them. That feeling of division is yours alone. Everyone else just wants a level playing field.

The vaccines definitely helped--and tremendously so. Your math tutor, not so much. 99% of Canadians who died in car accidents last year were in cars with airbags. Guess in your world airbags don't help.

North Korea is doing great!

You mean the bill that Kennedy sent to Congress and LBJ whipped through? Meanwhile, Strom Thurmond and the hardcore racist Dixiecrats had to find a new, more comfortable home in the Republican party. Which brings us to today, with white supremacists dining with the President and Harriet Tubman being scrubbed from the underground railroad site.