I hope it's the Final Depression, that it kills billions & leaves the survivors wishing they, too, were among the dead.There is also Trump’s apparent fascination with President William McKinley, who held office from 1897 to 1901, at a time when high tariffs concentrated wealth in the hands of industrialists while workers and farmers, as well as their families, faced injury, hunger, and homelessness from dangerous working conditions, low wages and commodity prices, and seasonal factory closings.Trump has frequently claimed those years were the nation’s wealthiest, and today he helped to explain his focus on that era when he referred to the 1913 Revenue Act, a law that has angered the right wing for decades. That act began the process of replacing the high tariffs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with an income tax, thus shifting the burden of funding the treasury from ordinary Americans through tariffs to wealthier Americans through the income tax. At least some of Trump’s tariff plans seem tied to his enthusiasm for tax cuts on wealthy individuals and corporations.
But in trying to reestablish the financial patterns of the late nineteenth century—patterns that led to profound economic instability in the U.S., including economic crashes—Trump is undermining the system of global trade that has fostered international cooperation since World War II. CNN global economic analyst Rana Foroohar told CNN’s John Vause: “This is Trump saying … I am going to overturn globalization as we’ve known it.” She added: “I’m hoping it doesn’t push the U.S. and the world into recession.”
Thursday, April 3, 2025
A Letter To Americans
(From An American)
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Hidden Sun
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
It's All A Bad Joke, & We Are Not Amused
Fuck you, slumlords. You're dead, every last one of you.Might as well kill the upstairs neighbors while I'm on my spree, & why stop before everyone else on the planet is rotting meat? Is there any point to your continued existence? Any reason whatsoever? Not in this reporter's book.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Death To The Fascist Insect
That Preys Upon The People
You live in people's crotches, & you want to eat their brains, but all I do is pull the plug & your ass goes down the drain!
Sunday, March 30, 2025
"Values"? Is There No Second Amendment?
"Direct assault on our building" would be a more accurate description. The actual values of the right should be attacked.Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Republican Party of New Mexico says headquarters was targeted in “deliberate act of arson” — The Republican Party of New Mexico said its Albuquerque headquarters was targeted Sunday in what it called a “deliberate act of arson.” — The entryway to the party's headquarters …
Ugly World, Stupid People
Saturday, March 29, 2025
More Of The Same
Never has "I have suffered for my art, now it's your turn" been more thoroughly expressed.
Musk To America's Retirees:
I Want A Tax Cut, So Please Die
I've a sneaking suspicion that most older wretches will not do a damned thing to stop any of this, but will just bend over & take it, the same way they bent over & took it from their bosses for the yrs. it took to pay into Social Security. Apparently it's no longer our money & we can go fuck ourselves.Makena Kelly / Wired:
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse — Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Pink Smoke
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