and TAX your arse. Just sit back and take it.

But will the dems actually have the guts to restructure taxes to balance the budget, ensure red areas don’t feed off of blue areas, dislodge corrupt SC justices from the court, fully prosecute all those who broke the law during this administration and truly dilute their power so it becomes harder for tyrants to repeat what the Heritage folks have done over the decades?

I have my doubts real change is ever going to come about from the current Democratc party’s establishment wing.

You need a 60-vote "super majority" in the Senate in order to do something like that.

If you look historically over FDR's 4 terms (his last term being abruptly impacted by his death), he had periods where the Senate had large supporting numbers of Democrats (and those who affiliated with them), and IIRC, the cloture number was actually 67 (vs the current 60). He was able to get SS through with those types of numbers.

(each of the below being the tally at the end of the particular Congressional session)

73rd (1933 - 1935) - 60/35
74th (1935 - 1937) - 72/22
75th (1937 - 1939) - 74/18 (and as high as 76)
76th (1939 - 1941) - 68/25
77th (19431- 1943) - 64/30
78th (1943 - 1945) - 56/39

And this was also why the ACA managed to squeak through under Obama as we had 60 Democrats in the Senate (although lost one at the end of 2009 due to the death of Ted Kennedy and his replacement being a GOP loon, forcing them to finish off the ACA through reconciliation in 2010).

How about a 100% embargo of essential products coming to the US? Maybe when Iowa and Kansas MAGAts can't get potash fertilizer for their farms, they will rethink the wisdom of the Trump Absurd Recessionary Inflationary Financial Fuckups (Tariffs).

Even better, perhaps all these countries under tariff should immediately cease future purchases of US Treasuries and then dump the ones currently held on the open market?

But with sovereign nations who don’t really have to put up with their shit?

Didn't hear much about him afterward.

-- Mal

candidate for Texas governor back in 1990.

They're gonna be freakin heroes for undoing this massive Trump/GOP calamity. What a mess!!

While I shove this saguaro cactus up your ass, Scotty. You snivel nose piece of shit. I don’t see how any of this is resolved peacefully.

Today a bloodbath will ensue. Futures down 1200?

They think this is their incel revenge.

there, i fixed it for you.

will make our economy healthy? Bessent is a fucking liar and like Lutnick wants all the pain going to those who are not billionaires. He and Lutnick are greedy, selfish, malevolent creeps.

is the undeniable fact that sadly too many people refuse to acknowledge as 👍 true!

"Old time republicans" see a recession as a medicinal act that provides a buy opportunity for the rich. MAGA (i.e. Nazi) republicans just want to burn it all down in nihilistic rage.

The clown show continues.

to hit back hard. How dare we act like we can tell other countries what to do.

This idiot has no ides how weak the US's position is. Felon Trump has pissed off about everybody but Putin, And the rest of the world is ganging up on the fat bully..
No one will bow to the Would be emperor.

like a large law firm.

No doubt all Trump voters but now have massive tariffs slapped on most of their cars. Get ready boys...going to be a ghost town at the car lot. Oh wait...Trump wants you to EAT those tariffs. ROFLOL!!

And...as usual the ones who feel the brunt of Trumps delusions are people who work there and consumers and never signed on for any of this shit.

“When McKinley, most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Rand Paul said. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”

RICO the GOP at the state level.

I always called him, Blatant Billions

Editing to add:

Todd Akin On Abortion: 'Legitimate Rape' Victims Have 'Ways To Try To Shut That Whole Thing Down'

US brands might become so toxic no one wants to import them.

laughable. Does that idiot think they aren’t going to retaliate.

trump inherited an economy that was in fine shape, and has worked steadily to destroy it.

Whatever BS the Chump administration says to other countries is meaningless. The tax/tariffs are being levied on us, not them. We only have one choice - don't buy anything. Nada. Zip.

Let the economy fall on its ass. It's the only way to be rid of Chump once and for all.

And they will say a big FU and do retaliatory tariffs back also. The EU, South America, Canada, Australia and other sane countries will not impose tariffs on each other as large the US will be imposing.