Luigi Mangione's lawyer lets loose on the federal government: "They are defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry that continues to terrorize the American people."
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I don't think this is good policy at all.
I have a fairly robust education in economics, but I'm certainly not an expert. I've tried to keep thinking, "There are some very smart people behind these moves," but this is all making me uneasy. And I think what bothers me the most is that I get the sense I'm not being told the truth. Not necessarily "lied to," not yet at least, but it's like they don't think the masses are smart enough to understand what their reasoning is. So they trot out bullshit stats to justify what they're doing, which people on the right side of the bell curve can easily see through.
Only reason the U.S. economy grew at all the past five years was because of trillions in new government spending and an associated growth in personal debt powered by new ways to get into debt.
It's all a mirage and I am as guilty as anyone of pretending it was real. But no more.
All the people angriest about Trump's policies are all the people who directly benefited the most from that spending boom that comes at a big cost to future generations.
/u/One_Fix5763 I hope you go broke, lose your trailer, and spend the rest of your life working for minimum wage in Dipschitz American-Made Widget factory.
Because I'm already stretched thin, and the promise of taxes going down doesn't mean shit until it's passed. As of right now, the company I work for just sent out an email to everyone in the company telling us that because we have a 46% tariff from Vietnam, if it doesn't get dropped that they are going to do even MORE layoffs after they laid off 200+ people not even 3 months ago. They explicitly said that paying the tariffs is STILL cheaper than moving everything back into the US, and I would really prefer not to lose my job when I'm about to get married, buy a house, and have kids.
I feel for you. Hopefully this isn't long term. I wonder if its all for bargaining agreement. Only time will tell.
Because apparently the only country that isn't allowed to use tarrifs is the United States.
makes an incredibly strong basis for fiscal policy
They're "unfair" because everyone else has gotten so utterly used to playing on an uneven field for so long that when it suddenly isn't that way anymore it feels unfair to them.
Their ideologies and the egos tied up therein simply won't allow them accept the idea that we've been competing with them with one hand tied behind our back this whole time.
This one calls himself a classical liberal. 
Trump critics (particularly the ones who, if he found a cure for cancer would just complain about him single handedly ruining the pharmaceutical industry) claim that tariffs will only alienate us from allies and cause them to seek other partners, and the cost will just get passed down to the consumer.
They don't get, or conveniently ignore, that the U.S. economy is not dependent upon other countries and that we can outlast them in a trade standoff. As for the "cost passed down" argument, they don't seem to understand that tariffs are temporary and are a means to end to get other countries to do what we want. Yes, it may require us to crack open our wallets a little bit wider for a time, but I think that's preferential to the decline we were on before. This is an attempt to fix things that have been long broken.
Yes, it may make allies mad, but turnabout is fair play. If they're doing it to us, we have every right to return the favor. We can't be subsidizing other countries at this rate while our own debt is already at such a high level.
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You idiots. The Trump team didn’t use a formula of (exports-imports)/exports. As Kush here points out, the formula was (exports-imports)/exports*4*.25 https://t.co/trOF3nGrLW
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) April 3, 2025
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🚨TRUMP: OPEN TO TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS IF SOMETHING 'PHENOMENAL'
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 3, 2025
The door beginning to crack already?
Lutnick said he wouldn't back down lol
🇺🇸 HOWARD LUTNICK: TRUMP WON’T BACK OFF TARIFFS—TIME TO REORDER TRADE
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 3, 2025
"The world should stop exploiting the United States of America.
Let our farmers sell their products. Let our ranchers sell their products.
Let’s let American workers succeed and prosper."
Source: CNN,… https://t.co/dMrYt93Mg6 pic.twitter.com/YLg0Ies37M
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Mario Kart World First Look
— Bear (@BearUNLV) April 3, 2025
84 playable characters
24 vehicles (no more part combos)
28 tracks (at minimum) pic.twitter.com/OfKt2dVkQG
Ngl, kinda want a switch 2 to flex on normies, they're pulling me in
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OnlyFans creator who joined NDP campaign trail dropped over disrespectful Holocaust video https://t.co/IZLWSP9b8T pic.twitter.com/BTzeUpofBA
— National Post (@nationalpost) April 3, 2025
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— Secular Talk ([email protected]) (@KyleKulinski) April 3, 2025
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Trump doing what Occupy Wall Street and WTO 1999 protests could not
— Joel Gombiner (@joelgombiner) April 2, 2025
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will soon be stepping back from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.
— POLITICO (@politico) April 2, 2025
Read @rachaelmbade's full scoop: https://t.co/olM5jKUKAX pic.twitter.com/8TAcfU0SiV
Who could have guessed making an incredibly unlikeable sperg a very prominent public-facing part of your team wouldn't be a great strategy?
Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man.
The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship.
Musk's looming retreat comes as some Trump administration insiders and many outside allies have become frustrated with his unpredictability and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.
It also represents a stark shift in the Trump-Musk relationship from a month ago, when White House officials and allies were predicting Musk was "here to stay" and that Trump would find a way to blow past the 130-day time limit.
One senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser and continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump's orbit is "fooling themselves."
The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk's time as a "special government employee," a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.
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If I told you that a young man stabbed another young man to death for telling him that he was in the wrong seat, and then I told you that one young man in this altercation was white and the other black, and then I asked you to guess the race of the assailant, every single person…
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Almost every single person on a major nba discord got banned because this got flagged lol https://t.co/G4im7TIDXo pic.twitter.com/XPPdDeJEG7
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This one too
Games are sorted as:
Yes: literally unplayable without the net
Yes*: missing like half the game or legit unbeatable due to bugs
No*: beatable but too many bugs or missing stuff
No: everything but dlc packs, almost no bugs
If you check global stats on the front page about 25% of games need internet to be enjoyable because bugs or missing free updates.
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https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
the reason the US has a huge trade deficit with CAMBODIA is 100% because they're leveraging unfair tariffs on American goods and that is why they're not buying stuff made in the US.
cannot be because the textile industry is huge in Cambodia due to very cheap labour, which means Americans buy a ton of clothes made there, while Cambodians cannot fricking afford Ford F150's in the first place!
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These policies are in place because of cases like Clayton Lonetree. In the 1980s he was having a pretty miserable time as a Marine guard at the embassy in Moscow. (This may shock zoomers, but Moscow under communism was one of the bleakest, most boring and depressing places on Earth.) He was honeytrapped by a Russian working there. It's a pretty tragic story. As far as spies go, he's one who's relatively easy to sympathize with. He wasn't going out trying to get rich or frick over his country, he just made a mistake banging this "Violetta" and then dug himself in deeper by continuing to make bad choices after that. Eventually he did the right thing and confessed, ending up spending 9 years in Leavenworth.
This came out in 1986, just after the infamous "Year of the Spy" when many high-profile traitors were caught. It was known that there had to be more because everyone in the Soviet Union working for us was getting caught and executed. At first it seemed like Lonetree's espionage explained it. But the investigation found that he really hadn't done that much damage. It was only in the 1990s when Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen were finally caught that the CIA finally understood what had really happened.
Speaking of getting cockblocked...
One time I heard Scaramucci on a podcast and the guy is legit really smart. I can't remember what it was, but he was saying something about American history in the 1800s and I was like "darn, that's really insightful". I have no idea how the heck the guy got mixed up with Trump, but I make sure to pay close attention to what he says now. 
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What makes this all extra funny is that orthonormalist is just a Texas dad who eyeballed the math on his phone while on a grocery errand based on his memory of what Vietnamese trade data looks like.
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) April 3, 2025
It's not his job to know this calculation or anything.
@Redactor0 he's just like you: a grillpilled boomer with a suspiciously keen interest in southeast asian economies!
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