I don't understand. This was quite possibly the most predictable thing that could have happened. Trump has a 40 year history of stiffing creditors and vendors. There has never been anything transactional about him, he just does this same thing over and over. Like there's a reason that people have been saying, "a Trump never pays his debts" since like 2015.
I kept seeing people saying that this is all performative and that they're both in on it, but idk, I was raised by narcissists and this is basically the exact same fight playing out on the global stage that played out weekly in my childhood living room.
America's obesity epidemic is a function of our car culture. This is the only country on God's green Earth that feels putting in sidewalks is a moral failure.
Then keep it going. Have California, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan all pass state laws that require EnergyStar compliance.
There is no international market anymore; if an American manufacturer wants to sell their products, they'll match the requirements and regulations of the biggest markets for them. Nobody will be able to afford undercutting anymore, which means nobody will be able to afford to lose any market share.
All of Trump's beliefs are malleable and for sale. Hell, he used to call Elon Musk a bootlicker. All it took to gain his unending respect was a sack with a dollar sign on it.
I am a natural citizen of Usonia and I fucking gasp every time I hear through the grapevine that someone from a(n) (formerly) allied nation took the risk to travel here. I understand that most don't have much choice, but my home is unrecognizable to me now.
Don't come here, and I am saying this as someone who benefits from Canadian tourism. I have a deep, long-time love and appreciation for the Canadian people and their First Nations — it breaks my heart to even say so, but please, for your own safety, do not come here!
I am struggling to get my fellow Americans to understand that in WW2, we built concentration camps for Japanese people and were detaining them in these numbers. Everyone just wistfully calls them "internment camps."
I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this culture but we are just perennially unable to recognize things for what they are. It's like we have this built-in need to be lied to. If the government doesn't do it, we brew up our own homemade lies.
The one thing about a low replacement rate that brings me comfort is knowing that the very material realities of our world agonize white supremacists every second of every day.
It honestly shocked me so much that I had to do some research before bed just to make sure that number was right. Seems like it was. But I also was there in Pittsburgh during the riots that happened during the 2009 G20 summit, and that also saw similar numbers of people arrested and charged.
No city has resources, especially right now, to find charges that stick on all those people, so they put everyone in front of a judge on a rapid fire basis, and that judge basically triages the ones with charges that would actually matter. I saw something like 80% of the cases get dropped entirely, though, many months later, which is still plenty of time to ruin a worker's life.
I think this meme might be 25 years old.