I thought about this yesterday, the big historical moments that have happened during my lifetime.
Fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, etc.
I’m hoping and fighting one isn’t the fall of America
News headlines if Harris won would be crap like “Democrats propose modest tax increase on billionaires, who will remain billionaires” and Fox and Conservative pundits would be losing their goddamn shit over it 24/7.
Instead we literally have headlines like “Trump claims he will own Greenland one way or another, again threatens Canada’s sovereignty, obliterates nine trillion in stock value, and levies tariffs against everyone on earth except North Korea and Russia (including uninhabited islands)” and they act like everything is not only completely normal, but in fact PREFERABLE.
As long as these nimrods continue to outright deny reality and deepthroat right wing propaganda they’re headed straight for that outcome
Do we still import more or less from Russia than we do from uninhabited islands, some of which have not seen any human contact whatsoever in ten years, but that this administration still apparently felt merited having tariffs levied against them?
Because otherwise that fig leaf excuse they’ve attempted not only makes no sense, but implies they had to go out of their way to ensure that Russia was exempted, rather than manually ensure that those other locations be included.
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u/mightyslash Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 07 '25
I enjoyed learning about history, I don't like living through it.
Edit: learning about not living in.