And this, my friends, are why tariffs are dumb.

Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.

This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.

Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.

“Mistakenly”

You have to wonder which shipping mogul has Trumps ear on this.

“I’m already insanely rich! But I’d be even more insanely rich if it wasn’t for that stupid canal charging me to use it!”

And the rest comes from a hyper inflated Tesla stock price.

I’ll put this right here:

“If 50,000 Palestinians dead under the rubble isn’t enough to sway me from Democratic Party, I don’t know what is,” Afarajalla said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arab-american-voters-trump-dearborn-michigan-israel-biden-harris/

There’s a reason Egypt has their border with Palestine secured.

Trump wild should also read up about Black September and the Lebanese Civil War.

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4. Participate or organize boycotts of companies that are enabling the Trump regime, starting with Elon Musk’s X and Tesla, and any companies that advertise on X or on Fox News

Don’t underestimate the effectiveness of consumer boycotts. Corporations invest heavily in their brand names and the goodwill associated with them. Loud, boisterous, attention-getting boycotts can harm brand names and reduce the prices of corporations’ shares of stock.

I’d take the Fox News piece a bit further and start boycotting sites like YouTube TV unless they put it on a pay tier. There are hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of people subsidizing Fox News through their streaming/cable subscriptions who have no intention of ever watching it.

I’m not sure anybody would rally behind him. He had the lowest likability score of any VP pick since 2000 - even below Sarah “I Can See Russia From My House!” Palin.

Here’s the problem though.

Was it obvious the whole thing was staged? Yup. Just like the McDonald’s stunt from the summer and several others.

Do the people it’s targeting know this? Nope. Because Fox News and the right wing media aren’t reporting on how fake it was. They just show a few clips and talk about how the people of Greenland really really want to be part of the US.

And by the time the duplicity if fully reported on, the lemmings already believe it hook line and sinker.

They were the only ones that would attend …

“Faced strong GPS jamming”

Guess which fascist regime is responsible for that? Merry Christmas!

I have YouTube TV and only use it for sports.

I’ll go one step further and say I haven’t watched a new, regular network television show in at least a decade. Who has time to watch 20-something episodes each season - with much of that time spent on fluff story lines that only exist so the show can fill a time slot for 22/23 weeks a year?

Here’s a great example: Lost.

At the time it was amazing. But there was also a lot of unnecessary BS in there because, frankly, they needed to fill time. If you go and look, almost all of the top rated episodes for the series were the last handful of episodes at the end of the season.

Now imagine if they took that show and made 10/13 episode seasons out of it.

I think you could make the same case for most network TV shows. Even if they were amazing at 23 episodes, they’d be even better at 10 or 13.

A great example IMO is Friday Night Lights. Amazing show overall, but that first season was just too long. Then because of a variety of reasons, they moved to 13-15 episodes a season (instead of 23 in season one), and the show excelled.

If you’re looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.

It’s just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven’t changed that price since launching in 2009. So they’ve also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they’re based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don’t keep logs.

Maybe letting oil producing countries into the fold and allowing them to sabotage negotiations wasn’t a smart idea