capital_sniff

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[–] capital_sniff 5 points 5 days ago

The perjury he was doing while testifying to Congress was also enough in my book as well as his beer outburst trying to respond to Klobuchar.

[–] capital_sniff 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In principle yeah, but we are currently speed running the dystopian surveillance state so much early sci-fi warned us about.

[–] capital_sniff 3 points 6 days ago

We got one. We are just watching one party testing the limits of the social contract that keeps this place going. I'm talking about how long people will abide their federal courts and Congress being shat upon.

[–] capital_sniff 3 points 1 week ago

I'll take your word for it and now expect an epic ending.

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Is Severance the new Lost? (self.nostupidquestions)
 

I'm not talking about the people going underground part or them not knowing why they are there, but the parts were lots of things are hinted at or plot bits dangled and then it just turns out there aren't any answers.

[–] capital_sniff 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is just the continued pushing of the tax burden onto the middle class. Which really got started good under Reagan. I think this is just the result of the uneducated GOP supporters winning this election. Now it is just a constant flood of them having no idea how government functions while ruining stuff for the rest of society,

[–] capital_sniff 8 points 1 week ago

They could, but building other trading partners in a generally capitalist economy might take a bit of helping. By making American goods more expensive to import maybe Canadian importers will look to other non tariff ridden sources.

Like super simply the $100 item from American with a tariff is now $125 so the non tariff item from not America that costs say $110 is now competitive. All this is going to do is wreck up long established supply chains and cost end consumers more.

The reason Trump is using tariffs is because Congress has delegated that power over to the executive. He isn't protecting any crucial industry or national security or anything just hand waving nonsense about tariffs lowering taxes that his barely literate base is eating up. And of course the Republicans working in gov't are also eating it up, because their goal has been to destroy what little social safety net exists in this country and generally show that the gov't doesn't work by breaking it.

[–] capital_sniff 68 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm not a lawyer but if I was on the defense team I'd have Luigi bulking up the entire time up until the trial. Then when it is time to try on the jacket it won't fit and the jury will have an easy acquittal.

[–] capital_sniff 3 points 1 week ago

So these monsters are screwing us on the price of eggs and the math on the price of eggs!

[–] capital_sniff 9 points 2 weeks ago

I always thought Air Force One needed security to prevent terrorists from taking the president hostage and forcing them to release more terrorists. But, our current president already lets a bunch of terrorists go like the Taliban and Jan Sixers.

[–] capital_sniff 6 points 3 weeks ago

Then the rest of us get the "free market" treatment.

[–] capital_sniff 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah we need to start taxing these rich grifters.

[–] capital_sniff 5 points 4 weeks ago

For sure. I found it impressive they learned nothing from Vietnam and went right ahead with Afghanistan and Iraq. I guess at least with the next war we'll get Gaza Resort by Trump.

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Would Trump win? (self.nostupidquestions)
 

If there was a game show like are you smarter than a fifth grader, but instead it is are you smarter than previous President George Bush Jr. and twice impeached previous President Trump is the first contestant would Trump win? So basically who is smarter the 43rd or 45th?

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