It is simpler than all that. Elite parents send their children to elite schools and universities. Their children then learn how the world works and are equipped with the skills to engage with the people running things.

The lower classes do not value education in this fashion. Their children do not have parents at home who understand how the world works or how our society is organized. Even if those children are smart or gifted they have no idea how to learn the skills they need or how to properly use their gifted abilities.

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.

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

Then the rest of us get the “free market” treatment.

Yeah we need to start taxing these rich grifters.

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.

It is more about how policies were set at the national level. Those policies have benefited them throughout their lifetimes. Boomers going to college. College is affordable. Boomers buying house make family. House good and affordable on one wage. Boomers working hard providing for wife and 2.5 kiddos. Jobs pay good and has pension. Family affordable one wage. Boomers retiring???

Things don’t work that way. It is much easier to tear something down. This election was about the old neoliberals vs. populist MAGA. There was no one playing for the progressives or democratic socialism on that field.

Now Trump and his ilk might fuck their little coup up and end up losing power in the midterms, but it’ll probably be back in the direction of rule of law neoliberal politics. If you want to see your voice being heard first you need someone that will listen. If you believe in human rights and basic equality Trump and MAGA aren’t it. Elon Musk will not be listening to you and doesn’t give a shit about regular folks. Those tech bros are happy that opiates are available to occupy the unemployed useless masses.

I heard the DOGE crew threatened to call the US Marshals if they weren’t given access.

What we need is labor to group together and start buying their own courts and judges.

I’m not an expert, but stuff won’t change until the domesticated middle class start feeling the pain. So go out and raise the price of eggs and push up the cost of insurance.

Last time during the housing bubble a shit ton of people got kicked out of their houses and faced decades long financial setbacks. Well the good folks got together and bailed out the banks and institutions while fucking over the home owners. Just basic gamblers logic tells me one of these disasters will have to result in a bailout for the peasants.

This has been the Republican game since Reagan. Massive transfers of wealth from the public to the private. Then the little GOP voters scamper around and wonder why stuff is falling apart.

Or just give the farm to the workers and have them run it as a coop.

Trump needs to be scared of his supporters, he doesn’t realize how close they are to waking up to his shenanigans. If the price of eggs goes up just one more dollar the MAGAs will take to the streets!