Tariffs are essentially a shitty sales tax. I’ve read it described as a way to switch the US federal funding from I come tax to a hidden sales tax.

The revenues will also be much much lower, which is why they need to eliminate every federal bureau.

I think the idea is to let trump continually be the one who escalates, with the hope that the American public notice it’s him and not those evil Canadians who are stealing America’s trade deficit.

Infinite % tariffs?

Err, DOD is buying into OpenAI to manage the nuclear weapons.

This bill is likely sponsored by Sam Altman himself

So if I get a new computer in a few months it will no loner work. Maybe we can VPN into Sweden?

3 casinos. Trump bankrupted 3 casinos.

Do you think every US born citizen is going to suddenly carry around a photocopy of their birth certificate everytime they leave their house?

Are any of these actually good?

I mean, aside from Lemmy. I tried Mastadon and no one was actually on it, seems like everyone is jumping to Bluesky.