cisle.bsky.social
@cisle.bsky.social
“America is now a country where proximity to the king matters above any other business strategy.”
NEW: There's no reason to act like Trump is pursuing a trade policy or an industrial revitalization strategy.
These are just sanctions, imposed to intimidate countries and companies into submission like they're universities or law firms. They're what a mob boss would do.
prospect.org/economy/2025...
They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions
Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.
prospect.org
April 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
#Emails2DOGE
5 things I did:

1. shook out debris from my keyboard (keyboards are disgusting btw)

2. used ChatGPT to create new policy for absenteeism

3. developed feelings for a coworker

4. drank my weight in water (I weigh 93kg)

5. finally updated my out of office message from 2022
February 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM