"They slipped in a little clause letting them escape ever having to debate or vote on Trump's tariffs," said one Democratic critic. "Isn't that clever?"
I just don’t get it. They are literally giving away the power they have to someone who has demonstrated he is planning to destroy the county in which they live.
Professional politicians are looking forward to the day when they can come out from under the shadow of dark money and influence peddling and financial reports and openly live as lords of the corporate/kleptocratic new world order.
You do know that the elite Republicans can't stand their poorer base, don't you? They just used them to gain power, however they may employ some of the worst of the worst as personal thugs - hint, they already do this.
so far, said weaponry's main achievements are higher murder rates than anywhere in the west (interestingly, if you remove guns homicides, it evens out), and killing kids at a higher rate than cancer.
Now imagine the county collapsed and the US dollar no longer the reserve currency. All these tech bros with billions of nothing sitting in their bunkers will be ripe for the taking. Candy ass nerds and stock brokers are not hard asses no matter what MMA classes they walk through.
and most people who think they are hard asses aren't hard asses either. the country isn't collapsing either. it's just relinquishing its role of being the leading superpower and establishing techfeudalism.