What’s your problem now?

I’m guessing the Chinese diet doesn’t have as much corn syrup in it.

It’s mocking Trump and MAGA’s fantasy. For the workers it’s providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren’t going to be productive.

As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don’t benefit them in any meaningful way.

But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.

Gotta link to that?

https://xcancel.com/timeforainews/status/1910626825371365660#m <— another one. Check out the size of the CPU’s.

This seems like burning down your whole neighborhood to get back at the guy down the street.

Yeah. That’s what it is. That’s exactly why you’ve got Trump and I’m being entirely serious here.

Hurts the petit bourgeoisie, which is the only ones the working class see. Also, because Trump is a vengeful narcissist, you can bet that certain sections of the liberal elite are going to get a coating.

Edit: just finished writing this and happened across this meme which probably puts the case to you better than I could:

I can’t pretend that I know for a 100% sure that they will be. But the signs are not great. Also Tax Cuts for the Rich didn’t go all that well when Liz Truss tried it here in the UK.

I kind of think that we don’t have an argument here. Trump is obviously the worse of two choices. It’s just that the Democrat offering is not actually a good choice, just a less bad one. Unless you’re a member of the bourgeoisie.

I am going to have a moderate decline in living standards because I live in the UK. Where our supposedly centre-left government have just decided to cut benefit payments to the disabled rather than raise taxes.

I don’t understand the question.

If sane and competent gets you a decline in living standards year on year then it ain’t all that attractive.

The Democrats have constantly misread the situation very badly. For the typical voter, not the bourgeois liberals, not the MAGA brain-rotted dummies but the average poor working class voter the choice was:

• Vote Liberal Bourgeois and maybe things might tick along for another couple of years with the rich bourgeois liberals profiting off you and telling you how good you’ve got it

• Vote Trump, you’ll definitely be fucked but all the bourgeois liberals will be fucked as well.

I mean sanity suggests that the first offer meets the self-preservation criteria better but it’s not what you call an attractive offer, is it?

I also saw that while he was on his feet making himself visible, the committee that he normally chairs was digging into the same tech bros who put money in his pocket.

It’s no wonder that American voters didn’t want to vote for the Bourgeois Liberal Party, even though the alternative was literal Fascism.