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The final step isnt buying on an equal footing as your competitors, its paying a bribe to be tariff exempt, then continuing to sell at tariff inclusive pricing.

The whole tariff scheme was designed as a way to price smaller competitors out of the market, allowing consolidation of market share by the wealthy, while providing cover for price hikes against consumers. Just like covid price hikes, If trump abandoned tariffs today, very few products would return to their prior pricings.

Where i live, people generally use bruh or brah to distinguish they mean the latter.

I thought kidnapping all those children was deemed to count.

‘Blue no matter who’ needed to mean it, and needed to mean the party actually pushing moderate dems into voting for candidates lefter than their own beliefs sometimes for it to work. My whole life ive been forced to vote almost exclusively for centrist candidates, and watched that definition, and the candidates I ‘had’ to vote for, slip further away from my ideals. Arguably 'blue no matter who needed to mean the party pushing overly liberal candidates on moderates more often than not, to combat the Republicans unwavering push of the Overton window ever right.

But they haven’t, and now here we are. Their ‘moderate’ candidates are now so far right, young lefties can’t tell the difference between them and republicans. And a lot of us are giving up. I haven’t voted for a politician who shared my ideals in 25 years. And now my choices are between a corporatist and a fascist. I’m no longer thinking about how I can push the window back, or hopefully for a candidate who will march my ideals next time. I didnt vote for KH, I voted against trump, in hopes I could buy myself an extea 4 years before the inevitable point I have to flee the country like my great grandparents fled theirs.

Imo, The democratic party and its elites are at a crossroads. The republican party’s buisness model of ‘we can push whatever policy and view our corporate donors desire and our constituents will accept it’ doesnt work for the DNC. The RNC has a monopoly on those voters. The DNC has to make a hard pivot if they want to survive. They can either start backing politicians like mamandi- who have constituent support, or they can give up and become a permanent minority party; a controlled opposition vote to a permanent right wing regime, with actual liberals unrepresented trying to form a 3rd party, or fleeing the fascist regime.

Was in boy scouts, we had several well preserved caches around the campgrounds with varying degrees of secrecy.

Did anyone check the bullet for polonium? They might have just been trying out a new delivery method

He pretty much says it, right? 'here’s a 24k gold bar… to hold the plaque we engraved your name on