| second: 2) Economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson wrote “Why Nations Fail,” positing that countries with a strong rule of law and a widespread distribution of benefits, succeeded, while “extractive economies” typified by a ruler at the top who is above the law who, along with his cronies, siphons off as much created wealth as possible, fail.
Not only does that fit the Trump Administration to a “T,” but once again in the past week the GOP majority on the Supreme Court has opined that at least a Republican President can simply ignore laws passed by Congress and proceed however he chooses. Let’s see how far the US has slid towards banana republic status in economic terms in the past 40 years since the Reagan Administration: [go to link] |
| second: 1) 6ixStringJack wrote, "I'm pretty sure . . ." I know you are full of bullshit, 6ix. Trump is a thief, as are his multi-billionaire friends. |
| 6ixStringJack: I'm pretty sure the Somalians and Tim Waltz stole over $90 Billion taxpayer dollars in Minnesota alone, so try again. |
| 6ixStringJack: Loser. |
| second: While tax-cheating Trump and unemployed 6ix pay no income tax, Immigrants in the U.S. pay hundreds of billions of dollars in federal state, and local taxes each year.
• Overall Immigrant Payments: Immigrants contribute over $600 billion annually in combined federal, state, and local taxes.
• Undocumented Immigrants: Households led by undocumented immigrants paid nearly $90 billion in taxes in recent tracked years (such as $89.8 billion in 2023), averaging about $8,889 per person. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: And Joe Biden and unchecked illegal immigration cost us a whole lot more. You have nothing to stand on, loser. |
| second: The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices. Higher gasoline and diesel prices have cost the average U.S. household more than $760 since the war began Feb. 28. On Friday, diesel hit an all-time record high, and it’s continued to rise every day since. As of Monday morning it’s at $5.90 a gallon, per AAA, up about 60% from a year ago. [go to link] and [go to link] Fuel refineries can thank Donald Trump and his war for the windfall profits. |
| second: The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices. Higher gasoline and diesel prices have cost the average U.S. household more than $760 since the war began Feb. 28. On Friday, diesel hit an all-time record high, and it’s continued to rise every day since. As of Monday morning it’s at $5.90 a gallon, per AAA, up about 60% from a year ago. [go to link] and [go to link] Fuel refineries can thank Donald Trump and his war for the windfall profits. |
| second: President Donald Trump said on Monday that Canadian private jet maker Bombardier would no longer be allowed to sell its planes in the United States unless it started manufacturing in the country.
“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough!” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank,’” he said. [go to link] Is there nobody in the White House who will tell Trump to put on clothes rather than walk around in the nude, shouting nonsense, looking foolish? Or are they all naked fools, too? |
| 6ixStringJack: Either women are instinctual animals that can't be trusted with anything, or they're not. You can't have both. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yes. If women are slaves to their hormones and will methodically take their children down into the basement one at a time to strangle them to death and can't be held accountable for the most EVIL act a person can commit, there is zero reason why any woman should ever hold a position of power in the public or private sector again. The days of you faggots having your cake and gorging on it too are long gone, bitch. |
| THG: According to Jack; Well then maybe women shouldn't ever hold any position of power in the public or private market.
Maybe women should not be allowed to run for or hold office.
Maybe women shouldn't ever be allowed to have a job where they hold a firearm. |
| THG: According to Jack; Well then maybe women shouldn't ever hold any position of power in the public or private market.
Maybe women should not be allowed to run for or hold office.
Maybe women shouldn't ever be allowed to have a job where they hold a firearm. |
| THG: According to Jack; Well then maybe women shouldn't ever hold any position of power in the public or private market.
Maybe women should not be allowed to run for or hold office.
Maybe women shouldn't ever be allowed to have a job where they hold a firearm. |
| THG: Well then maybe women shouldn't ever hold any position of power in the public or private market.
Maybe women should not be allowed to run for or hold office.
Maybe women shouldn't ever be allowed to have a job where they hold a firearm. |
| 6ixStringJack: |
| THG: |
6ixStringJack: Look at you crashing out today.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Nobody knows or cares who Nick Wilson is, and nobody cares what anybody at the HuffPo thinks about any topic they've ever written about. |
| second: Wilson proposed a strategy he said would make the White House “more fearful,” “put them through more pain” and “weaken Trump more effectively” than impeachment — describing it as “a better way to torture Donald Trump’s White House.”
[go to link] |