How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices | Donald Trump’s allies have pivoted from denying that his tariffs will hurt consumers to insisting that consumers should welcome the pain.
How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices | Donald Trump’s allies have pivoted from denying that his tariffs will hurt consumers to insisting that consumers should welcome the pain.
Donald Trump’s allies have pivoted from denying that his tariffs will hurt consumers to insisting that consumers should welcome the pain.
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- it’s not happening
- it’s not our fault
- it’s not that bad <--- WE ARE HERE...
- it’s too expensive to fix
- it’s too late
This but Climate Change
We're at the it's too late stage for that though :(
Oh yeah, I just meant that in terms of how conservatives talk about it. We finally passed the "it's not our fault" with them several years back and we're still on "it's not that bad" and walking right up to "it's too expensive to fix."
Once they finally admit it's too late, it will be because they've firmly turned to ecofascism with the argument "Only WE are so smart and clever as to know how to properly dole out what's left of dwindling resources effectively and efficiently!" which is code for "We want to party until the planet burns and nobody is going to stop us!"
It may be too late to prevent the fallout entirely, but it's never too late to mitigate at least some of the damage.
No, it'll still get even worse if we don't take action.
The next four years of dismantling the little progress we’ve made while actively making things worse, are really going to hurt
One bright spot of a big American economic crash would be the correlated plunge in carbon emissions. Those first few months of COVID were fantastic for emissions rates.
I think it was 7 steps I think it had a "is actually good" second and I'm pretty sure a "You deserved it" last or second to last but I thought the same.
I'm seeing quite a bit of "You deserved it" right now. Lots of "Actually, I just avoid buying things, so now the higher prices don't bother me" cope all over /r/conservative and like-minded reactionary media.
Poverty fetishism, cottage-core influencing, a proliferation of reactionaries in DIY spaces, and always a healthy supply of "we just didn't go far enough" revanchism has been trending for a while, but its seeing a new renaissance with the looming recession.