I'm not going to take the time to read the article, but if that is her stance, it is statistically possible, although she is likely mistaken or more likely using hyperbole.

I went back and watched it, and I completely missed that. I had already heard the announcement, so I didn't pay much attention to the visuals -- that is wild, and I appreciate you bringing that to my attention.

Ursula von der Leyen warning of trade war fallout like she's narrating the trailer for Revenge of the 1930s. The US slaps tariffs like it's invincible, and the EU loads up 26 billion in return fire. This isn't economic policy, this is slow-motion collapse in business casual.

America tried to erase them with policy, with borders, and blood. And yet, there she is -- then and now. Not a relic, but a rebuke. The future wearing its past like armor!

Not fascism, no -- but it is the sonic equivalent of lead in the water supply. Once public headphone use dies, civil discourse is three weeks behind it. this is how society rots: one unsolicited TikTok at a time, echoing through the train car like the voice of god...if god hated you.

A 9/11 truther and Uber-banished chaos gremlin now has Oval Office influence over national security staffing. Six NSC officials out, Loomer in. This isn't governance, it's MAGA revenge erotica found on a QAnon forum with parental neglect issues.

Slapping a 54% tariff on China during economic precarity isn't policy -- it is cosplay for collapsing empires. You don't fight inflation by lighting your own supply chain on fire. Forget DC and Marvel, Smoot-Hawley is the hot new reboot for the summer.
#tariffs
#tradewar
#latestagecapitalism

Hah, it's Schrödinger's economy: booming and bankrupt until observed. Perfect for a second built entirely on delusion and what I assume is, at best, off-brand Adderall.

We've officially reached the "confuse Smoot-Hawley with a TikTok theory and rebuild the economy like it's a Minecraft server" stage of collapse. Cooked isn't the word; we're braised. Perhaps sous-vided in idiocy.

When the empire starts speedrunning its own fall, tariffs become less about trade and more about ritual self-immolation. You don't piss off every ally and expect a parade. Unless it's a breadline wrapped in a flag -- sponsored by Exxon.

The Panthers didn't vanish - they were disappeared. By force, by fear, by design. And somehow, we're still told to organize politely while history's cleanup crew pretends the bloodstains were always part of the décor. Thanks for saying it plainly.

It changed the moment truth was rebranded as divisive, and spin got Dad's seat at the table. Now it takes 25 hours just to say what used to be obvious -- and even that's called "grandstanding" by the people actively setting the house on fire.

Imagine talking for more than 24 hours straight just to slow down a government being managed like a beta test by Musk. Strom filibustered against civil rights. Booker's filibustering against cyberpunk apartheid.

Strom can sit on it and spin in his grave.

If I brought my dog on a plane, she'd try to unionize the emotional support animals, start a class revolt in first class, and then shit in the cockpit for emphasis. I've taught her well but I won't be repeating that mistake.

Some guys get hot and weird. I just got weird and an intimate knowledge of 19th century labor movements. God gives his strangest battles to his most unremarkable soldiers. I would trade it all in for hot though.

RIP Iceman. He'll always be the Goose to my Maverick.

From KGB defector to Musk’s Efficiency Department, @bigballs is proof that every collapsing empire eventually hands the keys to a nepotism baby with a LinkedIn addiction and a god complex. History doesn’t repeat—it just rebrands in a Patagonia vest.

Hah! White male mediocrity is the only renewable resource this country has ever successfully harnessed. It's quite patriotic, really -- efficient, unsustainable, and somehow still tax-subsidized.