So because they possibly made him look bad they’re going after the military leadership, apparently the democrat ones(?), for executing the trump administration’s maneuver to withdraw from Afghanistan?

They going to put Biden on the stand for treason?

Upward mobility with the help of family has generally been viewed as common or normal in any family that could afford to do so IMO. Doesn’t matter if it was a car, used or new, to get a young person on the way to independence, paying for some or all of college, or chipping in for a first house.

Must be a slow news day to attack that.

The problem is the rising costs making that family assistance more exclusive while the rest get loans from banks.

Keep the proles out.

Everyone here who stayed past their visa or crossed the border illegally is a criminal to the Republicans regardless of any attempts at asylum or other legal avenues to stay. (Yes, they have done something illegal, no need to be a pedant)

Especially if they’re brown.

If they’re white and have some money, they’ll be fine.

If they’re brown and working for a Republican illegally, they’ll just get paid less and worked harder while being threatened with deportation if they complain.

That’s the symptom, but the middle class isn’t the disease.

Why?

The internet at large is still a cesspool.

The only difference is who is in control of it.

Thank you.

Try listening to the Behind The Bastards podcast about this guy if you can spare the time.

He is messed up far more than you think.

Removing outside sources of information? There are a few countries that already do this, and they’re not great places to live.

“This bloated liberal socialist program is inefficient and doesn’t work. Because it’s liberal and socialist. So we’re going to get rid of it. We’re planing to plan a replacement plan, but we haven’t planned on when to plan it. But we’ll blame the libs for that too, even though we have essentially captured all branches of the government at this point.”

I deleted Threads five days ago.

It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …

All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…

It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.

But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.

And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.

Musk is probably more popular inside and outside the administration.

No way trump can handle being in anyone’s shadow.

He also bought 9% of it and didn’t disclose it, IIRC that had something to do with it as well.

In addition to the other answer - it isn’t about hurting consumers. They don’t think that far ahead. They’re toddlers who can’t think past their immediate feelings.

It’s been proven time and again that republicans don’t care about the reality of a situation, only the feels they get about it. So making tariffs is a retaliatory maneuver that has absolutely no follow through - IOW, if you make tariffs against Chinese electric car imports the wise thing to do would be to boost US manufacture of the same with tax incentives or similar increase US buyers and manufacturers’ uptake of home-grown EVs. But that’s not what trump does.

That’s not what the people who voted for him want. They don’t govern. They want to punish everyone that ever slighted them, perceived or real.

They just lash out without a plan in an act of spite and revenge, and when the consequences come home to roost, like price hikes and increasing inflation, in true narcissist fashion, they yet again blame others and lash out more.

Guess Walz’s ANG service wasn’t good enough.

Not quiet at all. Miller tweeted openly about it.

When you have a president that dgaf about anything saying otherwise.

Musk has enough money to change whatever rules he wants and tie up all the government lawyers for years fighting over all the rules he might want to break.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Slash government funding for everything except the socialism for the rich.

You’ll be dead before you see the full fallout of this disaster.