Australia’s chances of escaping America’s global steel and aluminium tariffs appear all but extinguished, with the US president reconfirming his commitment to a comprehensive tariff regime he argues will be “the greatest thing we’ve ever done as a country”.
“We’re going to take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we’re going to become so rich, you’re not going to know where to spend all that money,” Donald Trump told reporters on board Air Force One flying from Florida to Washington DC.
“We’re basically going to take back the money – a lot of the money that we’ve given away over many decades.”
So the US recession is not coming fast enough then.
Civil war when? When will people take to the streets to get rid of this guy who is making their country even worse than it was before?
americans are still to content and complacent and coddled to even go through a civil war right now.
Maybe at the higher end of things, in the nice neighborhoods.
Lots of us are wondering by now when that whole “… Against enemies foreign and domestic.” clause will kick in for the supposed defenders of the Constitution, seeing as we’ve got plenty of both in the Casa Blanca right now. Still waiting…
As for the working class: A majority of folks are just constantly bombarded socially and civically by a thousand little dictators. Their bosses, the landlords, the grocery chains, the media, their utility companies, whatever. They keep having to scramble to find the next thing to keep themselves above water. There’s so much noise.
They don’t know who to trust, or where to start.
And it’s structured in such a way that it’s so individualized, and difficult to create a rallying banner to do anything meaningful under. When most people are a single missed paycheck from abject poverty, how can you convince them to take up arms, much less go protest, or whatever?
Also the democratic party has poured tons of money into making liberals (not leftists) terrified of gun-like objects, so you’d have to train them on how this whole use of force thing works before arming them. They’d probably still refuse and decide buying matching outfits was solidarity enough for one day. ✊ Lol
That’s the real struggle we have right now: Nobody knows each other, and the “radicals” who would organize are sometimes more focused on maintaining absolute ideological purity rather than rallying various viewpoints under the same cause.
Then you gotta figure out what moves would actually hurt the bottom line of the oppressors. And we’re back to “Why didn’t they just do this to their bosses ages ago then?”
Because it’s the same people. Orange Menace / Krasnov / and his puppetmasters want to “run the country like a business.” Like (y)our bosses. They want to be petty, and isolate workers, and cut incomes, and demand more than ever. It’s just suddenly really bad because the moderately privileged realize “Just get a better job then lol.” is even less practical than it was, when you’re talking an entire country’s economy sliding down the hole.
This is all by design, it’s the same tactics that shitty retail work might use to keep employees feeling powerless and miserable, with the stakes and scale multiplied.
We saw some movement with the AntiWork crowd, because they would educate each other on unions, and share their stories of standing up to their bosses, and quitting defiantly. We need that kind of ideological action x20.
If you could defy the fascists in some meaningful way, and know that you’d have people backing you up, that could be powerful. Powerful enough that we wouldn’t have to fire a shot. But I don’t think we’ll be THAT lucky.