The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[detrius]

Anti-MAGA hat in Greenland goes viral: 'Make America Go Away'

A red cap made in Greenland which says "Make America Go Away" has gone viral days before Usha Vance's visit to the autonomous territory.

www.newsweek.com

I want one. I just don't know where I can wear one.

Honestly?

These are a bad idea because at a distance, you'd look like a Trumper.

Trump and his minions would gladly use you as a backdrop character and pretend that you're on their side.

 

[Free]

Honestly?

These are a bad idea because at a distance, you'd look like a Trumper.

Hence:

I just don't know where I can wear one.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Link to Guardian article

On this subject, they've also forbidden any research into "trauma." A lot of that research helps soldiers. It's not just about the women and children victims they obviously don't care about. ...of course.... we know they don't care about soldiers either.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote Link to FT article

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Open link to Slate article

 

[Noodles]

The "Mandate" isn't even a thing is it? It's just some buzzword bull shit he has been saying.

 

[Free]

The "Mandate" isn't even a thing is it? It's just some buzzword bull shit he has been saying.

They make it a thing.

But Trump did win the popular vote - at less than 77.3 million votes (against Kamala Harris' 75 million). It's a win but a small one, and he didn't even crack the 50% mark for total votes cast (he got 49.8%). Quite a "mandate of the electorate," huh?

 

[Spirits Rising]

Speaking of MAGA hats, Tumblr was advertising Dark MAGA hats to me this morning.

I reported every single one as offensive.

Also, PS Tumblr, know your audience.

... It is Tumblr. If they knew their audience they'd never have ended up banning, then allowing (to a degree) and hiding more Adult content.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A significant defeat for the Trump government in the federal court of appeal

The US presidency is not getting its own way - even with Republican-nominated appeals judges

emptycity.substack.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

Again, time to stock up on toilet paper.

MSN

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Why tariffs don't work the way Trump seems to think they do

Trump's hopeless tariffs confusion, explained by a historian

"The president seems to believe he can impose prohibitively high tariffs *and* collect revenue, which you can’t do."

www.publicnotice.co

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If you set a tariff at three percent, you collect three percent on all of your imports. That’s great. If you set a tariff at 300 percent, then nobody buys imports, so there’s no revenue collection. The president seems to believe he can impose prohibitively high tariffs and collect revenue, which you can’t do.

Here’s the theory of protective tariffs: Let’s say, for example, we’re talking about hats, and the British make hats way better than Americans do. The American consumer, given the choice in an open market, will buy the British hat. American hatmakers suffer. You put a protective tariff on British hats to make it prohibitively expensive to buy a British hat, so people don’t buy British hats.

The federal government gets no money because there are no transactions on British hats. What there is, though, is room for American hatmakers to raise prices on their hats to just under the prohibitively high British price. They can now profit, because people will buy their hats at higher prices. Then, theoretically, they're supposed to plow that money into research and development, so you are protecting, and therefore promoting, the American hat industry.

But what the United States actually did in the McKinley era is afford “protection” to companies that didn’t need it, like steel, where the United States was already highly competitive. All it allowed companies to do is have artificial room to raise their prices and increase profits. It gave an advantage to these firms to get bigger and bigger.

They were able to buy out the firms that supplied them with raw materials. They vertically integrated and became trusts. Tariffs aid monopolies. They’re to the advantage of people who own capital, who own factories, who employ factory workers. They’re intended to be pro-capital, and they are. That’s what gave rise to the great antitrust movement and the populist movement and ultimately the progressive movement.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Again, time to stock up on toilet paper.

MSN

We need a reaction.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Actions of our current government brings this to mind. Specifically what they have done to Rumeysa Ozturk!
In fact, I cannot stop thinking about this quote.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller

Watch the video. Men in masks with ICE snatch her right off the street.

 

[Free]

Link to Guardian article

"May?" Honey, we've crept over that line already. They're just holding onto some of the vestiges of our democracy to aid in the transition.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

"May?" Honey, we've crept over that line already. They're just holding onto some of the vestiges of our democracy to aid in the transition.

I'm waiting to see how much voter suppression they cook up for 2026 before I totally give up.... but it's not looking good.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I'm waiting to see how much voter suppression they cook up for 2026 before I totally give up.... but it's not looking good.

Even if we make it that far the democrats are so spineless it won't matter.

The Democrats have Disappeared | The Nation

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Even if we make it that far the democrats are so spineless it won't matter.

The Democrats have Disappeared | The Nation

It's clear some of the established leaders are useless, yes. Schumer in particular.

 

[Essence Lumin]

In south Jersey news:

Jersey Kebab To Reopen After NJ Restaurant Owners Are Freed From ICE Custody

The eatery's owners, who are husband and wife, will soon return to doing what they love: feeding their community.

patch.com