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@KamVTV Agree. Don’t condone storming a place and endangering cops. What was the other one? Right. J6. If you hate this and those people then you hate J6 and those people too. You also hate the one who let all of those criminals run free. We calling balls and strikes or staying partisan?

Democrats stormed an ICE facility yesterday. Let that sink in. They didn’t protest, they trespassed, disrupted federal operations, and endangered officers. That’s not activism. That’s criminal. They should be arrested. No one is above the law.

@patriothq @MAGAVoice Every conservative needs a one on one with President Obama It really just goes to show you that conservatives just hate him because they’re told to by other conservatives without actually knowing him. Cuts both ways my guy.

@MAGAVoice Every liberal needs a one on one with President Trump. It really just goes to you show that liberals just hate him because they’re told to by other liberals without actually knowing him.

BREAKING 🚨 Bill Maher’s “mind was blown” after he interviewed Donald Trump. Realizing how smart Trump is while talking to him 🔥 EVERYBODY LOVES TRUMP ❤️

@ahvuletich @MsSaiFox @d_josefczyk @OurRevolution I gotta say man, they didn’t do a good job communicating it, and you could certainly argue that implementation was bad, but the Biden administration passed major legislation aimed at the middle class. Specifically thinking about the infrastructure bill, CHIPS act and IRA.

I never said I wasn’t a Trump supporter but the question I asked was not meant to piss anyone off. I simply haven’t seen anything on the Florida protest they told me about. I disagree with a lot of shit Trump does. He’s an asshole, the entire government, left or right are in there for themselves. Neither have looked out for the working middle class in decades. This is the first time that I feel a president has done something crazy enough to make a change for manufacturing to come back to the states. It may not work but it definitely wasn’t working before.

MASSIVE Anti-Trump uprising in NYC!! #HandsOff

@CellularMedici2 @OurRevolution Or just regular citizens concerned about our shared country and democracy.

Where else are these blue-haired, alphabet-pronoun social justice warriors with "face art" going to find work? Starbucks can only hire so many shift leads with a master's in Non-Binary Interpretive Dance & Decolonized Conflict Resolution. Enter their spiritual benefactor—Herr Soros, the America-loathing Grand Wizard of Perpetual Outrage™—funding feelings-based roadway stoppages from his bunker of benevolence on the upper East side and bond yields. These rallies aren’t just activism. They’re job fairs for the unemployable—safe-space-sanctioned, outrage-affirming, résumé-padding events for the perpetually under-fulfilled who paid $120,000 to get a degree in Queer Theoretical Cartography from places like Brown, Yale, Harvard, Wellesley, Oberlin, and Woke Tech Online School of Vibes. And when the grown-ups ask, “Hey, is chanting ‘death to the Jews’ a problem on your campus?”—as they did in that infamous Congressional hearing—Harvard’s (now-former) Dean of Feelings calmly replied: “It depends on the context.” Context! As if there’s a nuance to genocidal slogans that just didn’t make it into the student handbook between safe space guidelines and trigger warning protocol for uncomfortable truths. No wonder their top career aspiration is how to make the perfect nazi symbol and carry the title, "activist" at the end of their ci-affirming name, Beetroot. It’s the only job title that allows unlimited Slack messages, no deliverables, and a starting salary of emotional validation.

@bretas_erick @BradRTorgersen Hell of an answer and extremely well laid out. Don’t spend much time on the socials at all but one of the more thoughtful responses I’ve ever seen.

Since you asked an honest question here’s my attempt to honestly answer it: America’s wealth is driven primarily by high-value service industries such as banking, technology, and entertainment. Just think of companies like JPMorgan Chase, Netflix, or Amazon. These sectors not only dominate the domestic economy but also play a key role in U.S. exports. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, in 2023 the services sector accounted for over 77% of the U.S. GDP, while manufacturing contributed approximately 11%. The U.S. is also the world’s largest exporter of services, with exports totaling more than $970 billion in 2023—covering financial services, software, cloud computing, intellectual property, and consulting. These are areas largely not subject to tariffs. In a sense, manufacturing is a game the U.S. has already outgrown, shifting its focus to more sophisticated and less labor-intensive sectors. This evolution allows the U.S. to leverage its comparative advantage in innovation and productivity, rather than competing on low-cost labor. Meanwhile, many other countries impose tariffs on U.S. agricultural and consumer goods because they lack competitiveness in fields like finance, technology, and professional services. By protecting these less efficient sectors, they attempt to shelter local jobs, but at the cost of higher consumer prices and economic inefficiencies. Americans are major consumers of agricultural and manufactured goods, not because these sectors dominate the economy, but because of the purchasing power generated by a highly productive, service-oriented economy. Imposing tariffs on imports may create the illusion of protecting domestic jobs, but in reality, it often leads to higher prices for consumers and little to no job creation, especially in a country operating near full employment (the U.S. unemployment rate was just 3.7% in early 2024). In short, tariffs are a blunt instrument that may be politically appealing but are economically inefficient in a modern, dynamic, service-led economy like the United States.

If tariffs are a terrible idea and no sane politician would use them, why do 90% of America's "partner" nations use tariffs against America? I'm really trying to understand why an economic tool that's been used by other countries for a long time, is suddenly bad. 🫤

@avengethetruth @MatthewGunnin @badhombre Sure, some companies do operate on revenue losses. Amazon did it for much of its existence. Amazon also had investors foot that bill for a long time in hopes of a big payoff, which they of course got. Don’t see that for Nike at all. Do American workers really want to make shoes??

@markE_brisson @MatthewGunnin @badhombre They're gonna pay the livable wages at the expense of their profits. Even if their profit is $1, they're gonna do it. You may be surprised that some companies actually operate on revenue losses in hopes for a brighter future. If Nike takes that route, they'll move back to US.

If only there was something they could do, like make their product here.

@xrchy1834 @DCjusticeseeker Probably not going to be as bad as Democrats think or as good as Republicans think. Latest CPI data from BLS if interested. bls.gov/news.release/p…. UBS bank (believe that was the one) now predicting 4.1% inflation through at least 2026. We’ll see.

@DCjusticeseeker im buying american products since i was born! when will the price of gas, eggs and basic commodities will go down???!!

Buy American, there are no Tariffs and then your 401k increases. It’s simple math that libtards don’t get.

@avengethetruth @MatthewGunnin @badhombre Which means they can’t pay livable wages to their employees because they don’t have the profits to pay what the American labor market would demand. Part of the reason companies have moved overseas. Nothing wrong with that. Gives the American economy more room to innovate.

@MatthewGunnin @badhombre And nobody will buy them. If Nike loses money when they product in Vietnam, they're gonna bring it back to the US. If their profit margin is slashed by 66%, they'll triple their price. But no one will buy at that price, so they'll be forced to sell at same price for less profit.

@ChatillonsGhost @IcyVert Like all other advanced economies around the globe we’re now a service based economy. Real value add in products is the design, not manufacturing. Plus what’s really killed manufacturing is automation, not globalization. There’s a reason the world has moved toward free trade.

@IcyVert It's not about your life it is about the future of this country. Bringing manufacturing back to the United States. I know it's hard to think of something other than yourself.

Someone explain to me how these tariffs will make my life better

@RitchieTorres @A_tothe_Z_Amber It’s been reported everywhere that Biden would have to voluntarily step down. We certainly wouldn’t be discarding democracy.

A question for those calling for the replacement of President Biden. Can you undemocratically replace a candidate chosen by the people and then credibly claim to be a champion of democracy? The notion that we must discard democracy in the name of defending democracy strikes me as cognitive dissonance at best and hypocrisy at worst.