Companies will raise prices to account for what they’re losing on the tariffs.

I saw someone say it seems that the tariffs were calculated by dividing our trade deficit by their exports to us and cutting that number in half. Another person analyzed his charts and concluded they look a lot like they were generated by AI.

So, there is, literally no basis in logic. Either one of Trump’s minions calculated what it would take to recoup the difference in the trade deficit and just wrote it down and he announced that as the new basis for international trade, which has never, ever been done, for the reason that it is fucking idiotic, or he asked Gemini how to execute his already objectively stupid policy and wrote an Executive Order making it the law.

And the fact that we are forced to accept people on the Internet’s guesses about how he calculated these numbers may actually be worse than the fact that just about every product on the market more complex than a stapler just jumped about 30% in price.

First of all, if you consider Manchin and Sinema to be fascists, that’s your issue.

Second of all, they didn’t give them the boot because that would cost them control of the Senate, which, however, tenuous, still matters.

And yet they don’t vote for politicians who support these things. Hypothetical polling does not gauge the realities of voter behavior.

I started this by asking what people’s proposals for opposition were. You do have to provide one otherwise you’re not answering the question.

Your definition of sitting at the table is “being in the same building.”

Two thirds of Americans thought Kamala was too far left. The idea that we will see hundreds of socialists elected to Congress, which is more than have been elected to anything in this country, is ridiculous.

People support Bernie and AOC because they are willing to stand up and fight. Not because they’re socialists.

According to you, fascism has already won.

So you propose…what?

Because a party that is mostly against fascism is better than none that are at all? Which I should not to have to say.

Because Republicans vote in lockstep but Democrats don’t. It was not some commentary on the ontological natures of the two parties, it’s just the reality of the two. Republican voters punish their politicians for not abasing themselves before Trump, Democratic voters reward candidates for breaking ranks.

If you don’t see the difference, then you are the problem.

Hmmmm. One party will deport me for Tweeting about how much I hate Elon Musk.

The other is not doing things I refuse to specify and probably cannot actually identify to stop them from doing that.

These two options are the same.

No, I can’t. Because you’re factually incorrect. They’re not “doing nothing.” They’re doing what they can as the minority in a majoritarian legislature - which isn’t a whole goddamned lot, but blaming them for not being able to effectively stop a majority is not exactly their fault.

And in the 117th Congress, they poured billions into the public coffers to deal with the economic devastation during COVID, they enshrined marriage equality into law, they expanded hate crime law. They tried for more, but undivided opposition from the Republicans, the clear political motivation of the Supreme Court and the unreliability of their slime majority hindered them. Blaming the whole of the Democratic Party is just not warranted.

That doesn’t even make sense. Those ten went with the majority. What was there for the one hundred forty to do?

But we did.

Now. What. Do. You. Want?

I have asked this question at least five times in under an hour and I have not gotten one answer.

Still not saying what you want Democrats to do.

The Supreme Court said they couldn’t.

Okay then what is the difference between Communists and…Communists?

They did. There were campaign ads with footage from Jan 6th. They repeatedly called Trump a traitor on the campaign trail.

You clearly didn’t watch any of it, so did you just presume they never brought it up.

Not “supported” in the past tense. What should they be doing now?

Have you not been hearing about the calls for Schumer to resign? About the mounting support for primary efforts?