For general consumers? Probably complete industry collapse and regression. Specialized industries and national security use will continue to develop, but broad market access is going to likely stagnate for a decade at least if not more.
I wouldn’t let my family get within a mile of the US these days. Not fit for human habitation.
Judicial priorities are largely set by statute. We’d have to do a lot of revision to a legal framework that nerfs judicial discretion for "efficiency and then provides for too few judges to exercise what discretion is left.
If you want the real answer, it’s probably more that the underfunded justice system didn’t have space to hold him. When it comes right down to it, we deeply underfund our legal system which creates choke points that result in violent offenders being back on the street, while low level, non-violent offenders sit in cells for months waiting to have their case heard. Having a properly funded system that does its job efficiently costs money though, and we have acquired the American allergy to taxes, even when they objectively benefit our health and safety.
The unspoken “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when it comes to those things makes that hard to screen for.
You have way more faith in humanity than I think we deserve at this point.
Technically speaking, Tariffs only exist on imports. Export taxes are an entirely separate category of tax. You are correct though, the logical thing for China to do is to run at a state-subsidized loss with CXMT until everyone else has left the market before raising prices. You know, basically pulling a Walmart with state help.
It’s always the soldiers isn’t it. Police and soldiers. I wonder if it’s more that a fascist type of person is just naturally attracted to such jobs, or if it’s more a part of the enculturation those institutions condition people with that breeds fascism.
I mean, the US, for all its big guns have never won a war without Britain and/or France riding along to do the hard work. All the US knows how to do is make big explosions real good. That’s not war, that’s just state terrorism.
You get that they’ll just de-professionalize those roles and let untrained, unskilled hacks and quacks loose on the general populace, right? I mean you want to have your kids taught by some goof quoting Grok, and your grandma getting her life saving treatment from Bobby Kennedy approved witch-doctors that’s where you end up if the professionals all decide to quit En Masse.
Telus Health, so yes, but at least it was a Canadian Data vampire?
No one is saying that the provinces don’t have the final say, but the fed has tools to encourage provinces to come to a mutually beneficial decision. The whole point of being a country is we work together on solutions that work for all of us, not for provinces to scream bloody murder every time someone tries to improve things. We’re not all Alberta.
This is the correct take. Dems keep acting like the US is still a nation and they’re all ultimately playing for the same team. The US is not a nation. There are no common values with the “other side” to build on. This is the country being held hostage by an organized crime ring.
No one is saying that there aren’t dissenters, but when the vast majority of Americans are either supporting or indifferent to what’s happening, it’s really hard to say “Americans” don’t want it. A minority, regardless of how vocal, is still a minority.
A lot of people voted for their own oppression, not believing that it would ever come around to them. It takes a lot of willful ignorance of history to get to where we are.
Out of sight, out of mind. Same as it ever was. Catering to agri-corps costs a lot less political capital than trying to restructure the system.
Knowing what you’re talking about is considered elitist by most Americans. Under-funding education is effectively a DEI program for idiots.
Hell, I used to lose my glasses on my face when I was 20.
We need to organize a proper rebellion before we get to guillotines and starting with unions is a place to work from.
Translation: “We’ve had our fill of screwing you around for today and invite you to cordially go screw yourself.”
When it comes to HP, just say no.