The cowardice of it being an unsigned letter is almost the most galling part. Sniveling authoritarian cowards

Do you have relevant advice for the former one?

Amen! Glad to see people appreciating and sharing “tax wealth, not work”!

Why does posse comitatus not apply here? Genuinely confused

Disgusting. CISA is absolutely critical to our national security. So much so that the first explanation of downsizing it has to be suspected intentional sabotage and treason. These experts aren’t coming back

Sadly, we could. We, as usaians are choosing not to impeach him for flagrant emoluments violations. Greedy narcissists are gonna greedily narcissist, this is on us and his supporters (even if it’s mostly on the supporters)

I do? I’m saying that there’s no reason for the world to band together and implement tariffs on us. Low volume would be another reason not to, but we do export a non-negligible amount worldwide. Most to NA, but over 300B to EU last year

Because, as we’re experiencing, tariffs are a regressive tax on your own populace and hurt the most vulnerable. Also, they don’t have to. We’re pissing off enough regular people that they’re voluntarily buying made-anywhere-but-USA. Lastly, why provoke an idiot with a huge military?

They can and will dismantle American power just by not buying our debt and then supporting a chamge in the world’s reserve currency. Trump is screwing us for generations

What I want to know is how many bonds we bought ourselves with our magic money printer in order to backstop rates at “only a little” above 5%

Jackboots back in fashion

100%. Also a hatchet man. He’s brought in, wrecks shit on purpose, gets “kicked out”, profits immensely. Now admin can roll things back 5-10% to placate the plebes and blame Musk who everyone already hates for their life being worse. That said, a lot of people would nonperformatively tell him to go fuck himself. Just don’t mistake it as anyone being on your side

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My money (while I have it) is that this is going to be the most lasting damage of Trump’s presidency. Piss off the world and demonstrate we’re unreliable economic partners. They don’t want our debt anymore and dump their holdings/new purchases at auction. Servicing debt is already around 15% of All federal spending. DOGE targets are nothing in comparison.

Debt can get very expensive, and we’ve gotten used to paying very little for it. Most people aren’t considering how bad this can get - I hope someone with power has been

There are a few podcasts like that I think. Notably Hello from the Magic tavern. A sitcom, even animated, would be pretty cool!