Americans will never do the right thing out of principle. I am convinced of that.

If it was really "my good friends across the aisle promised" they should be fired out of a cannon. But this is at least realpolitik. Also they should still all be primaried, absolutely.

Someone did the math and apparently tariffs would only shake out to $300 per person so they'd have to get the money from somewhere else. Also with the inflationary pressures of the tariffs, a large stimulus would only cause an inflationary death spiral.

this is an extremely common and well understood surgery, obviously this was not a real number, but what the fuck

healthcare costs are an absurd kabuki theater between insurance and providers and no human being can possibly be expected to manage this shit

anyone who says otherwise is lying to you

look man. im the US-born son of an immigrant too. ill never understand how so many brown immigrants and children of immigrants are this delusional about who they are throwing in with. THEY HATE YOU TOO