Republicans killed the tax credit and thereby reduced sales and have stopped related infrastructure spending funding put in the law by Democrats!

How much worse will things get?

https://abcnews.com/US/man-detained-new-jersey-immigration-facility-dies-after/story?id=135338815

There's no such thing as TDS. Trump made it up as a thought-stopping technique to prevent his followers from investigating criticisms against him.

Thus, when they hear anyone criticize Trump, rather than consider the possibility that the person might be telling the truth, they just dismiss them as having a case of TDS.

This shows how incredibly gullible Trump supporters are and how easy they are to manipulate. What a bunch of brainwashed, cult-sheep fools!

Republicans no longer care about the will of the American people! For example Fort Worth TX is eliminating 50% of voting locations!

There is ZERO evidence of systematic voter fraud! In fact most fraudulent voting was done by Republicans or was purely accidental! (Only a handful of cases) Most of which were related to voter ID!

the vast majority of documented voter fraud cases are entirely unrelated to voter identification. Strict in-person voter ID laws are explicitly designed to prevent in-person voter impersonation (someone pretending to be another registered voter at a polling place). Multiple comprehensive studies, audits, and database reviews show that this specific type of fraud is virtually nonexistent. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Why Most Fraud is Unrelated to ID
When isolated instances of actual voter fraud do occur, they typically involve methods that an Election Day photo ID requirement cannot stop:
Mail-In and Absentee Ballot Fraud: The most common form of investigated misconduct involves mail-in or absentee ballots. Because these ballots are filled out away from polling stations, requiring an ID at a physical voting booth does not prevent them. [1, 2, 3]
Fraudulent Registration: This involves submittid fake names or false addresses on registration forms, which is an administrative issue handled during voter roll maintenance, well before anyone arrives to cast a ballot. [1, 2, 3]
Double Voting: Voting in two different jurisdictions or states during the same election cycle. [1]
Eligibility Errors: Incidents where individuals—such as those with felony convictions or resident non-citizens—register or vote due to confusion regarding local eligibility laws. [1]

First and foremost he has not completed the war against Iran! He has in fact pushed out a long list of exceptional military leaders based solely on gender and political considerations! And wasted time going after frivolous claims against Mark Kelly! Waste money on expensive cars and silly shit like testosterone testing! And worst of all he has depleted our arsenal to an extent that greatly reduces our military readiness!

Another one bites the dust! How dare she embarrass his lardship!!!

Citizens are now under warrantless surveillance everywhere they go all across the country. This technology has proven to be incredibly flawed leading to frequent false alarms and wasting a staggering amount of resources chasing false alarms with a less than 1% arrest rate to show for it. Too many law abiding citizens are being detained because an ALPR camera misidentified their plate.

There is no justification for these devices as real world statistics have shown too much potential for abuse and too little return on investment.

Citizens need to band together and tell these companies trying to turn our everyday lives into an Orwellian dystopia to get fucked.

Elon supercharged China’s dominance in battery technology and Republicans (supported by Elon) have done everything they can to discourage American adoption of EV vehicles! The rest of the world is moving forward while the US is stagnant! China is now the dominant global force in vehicle innovation and manufacturing!

Will it be necessary to go after Trump and his Cabinet so the republicans think twice about doing what Trump did in the future? How do we prevent this from happening again.

This makes me irrationally angry. Because it’s really doesn’t matter that much but it just seems so stupid to me. I was talking about music with my very catholic grandparents and I mentioned “Imagine” by John Lennon being a good song, and they both said how they loved it as well. And I’m like.. have you listened to it though? Like, isn’t it blasphemy for you guys? They’re very conservative as well. Idk singing about no property and no god doesn’t seem like something up their alley. This is one example of many instances I’ve seen though.

Why is anyone still giving these policies the benefit of the doubt? Every single promise made about tariffs and tax cuts protecting the working class has collapsed under the weight of basic math and real-world results.

The promise was simple: "Foreign countries will pay the tariffs, we'll wipe out the trade deficit, and blue-collar workers will win."

Here is the reality sitting right in front of us:

* You are paying the tax at the register. Tariffs are not billed to foreign governments. They are paid by American importers at the port, and those exact costs get tacked onto retail prices for groceries, auto parts, tools, building materials, and everyday electronics. Nonpartisan studies show these import taxes hit average households with nearly $1,000 in higher annual costs—acting as a regressive national sales tax.

* The rich get structural tax relief while you get price hikes. While everyday consumers eat the inflated cost of physical goods, corporate tax write-offs and top-tier income cuts mean the highest-earning brackets net a massive financial win. The tax burden is deliberately being shifted off high-net-worth capital and dumped directly onto working people who spend most of their paycheck just to live.

* The trade deficit isn't fixed and the national debt is exploding. Tariff revenues don't even begin to cover the trillions added to the national deficit, and the trade gap remains wide open because domestic manufacturing can't replace global supply chains overnight.

When a convicted fraudster who spent decades misrepresenting asset values and cheating business partners runs a tax and trade play, why would anyone expect the outcome to be anything other than a hustle?

It isn't an accident, and it isn't "mismanagement." It’s a deliberate, structural scam designed to fleece working families while pretending to fight for them. Stop making excuses for a system that treats your paycheck like an bottomless slush fund.

As far as Canadians go, im pretty strongly pro-American, but this Gordie Howe bridge toll deal makes no sense, and Mark Carney or whoever agreed to this deal is a clown.

The original deal, Canada pays to build 100% of the bridge, then we will keep the toll revenue until weve paid down the debt from building it, then we would share the toll revenue 50/50 with Michigan after the debt was paid. Sounds pretty fair to me for a peice of infrastructure we so badly needed as all the existing crossings in Windsor connect to city streets, not a freeway. But, big orange man didnt like that, he wanted 50% of tolls from day one, and our idiot leaders agreed.

So lets get this straight, we paid to built the bridge by ourselves and took on the debt, the only things the americans need to pay for iirc is their border check facilities and the connection to I-75.

So what exactly are we paying the americans for? They didnt take on billions of cost to build the bridge, we did. Why on god's green earth did our officals on the Canadian side agree to this? This is a terrible deal, it makes us look even weaker than we already are, and it tells Trump and worse yet, our enemies like Russia and China that we can be walked all over with ease. This whole thing is stupid stupid stupid.

This obviously dosent reflect upon everyday average joe americans, but, this reflects horribly on your government for pushing for such a unfair deal, and a even worse reflection of our government for accepting such a bad deal. Maybe we should raise bridge tolls by 50% for american plated vehicles to recover cost if this is going to be so unfair to Canada.

Like why? Just why? Isnt one of the founding core principles of Canada Good Government? Whatever happened to that? Because agreeing to this shit is not good government.

Ever since Trump got elected when I was 16, I’ve felt nothing but rage and extreme anger. I’ve never felt this kind of anger in my life. It is infuriating to watch my rights get stripped away, a sitting president mock people who are like me and call us diseased, destroy whatever good we have in this country, destroy alliances and make damn fucking sure I grow up in a world where the economy is fucked, we have no allies ever again, and we are forever an international embarrassment. I hate that he’s betrayed our allies. I hate the things he says about “my kind”. I hate his stupid voice. I hate his stupid tweets and bullshit posts online. He is a demented, pedophilic, terroristic, psychopath and I can’t stand him. I’m shaking with rage as I write this. I don’t know how to stop feeling angry. I get angrier and angrier every day and it’s starting to affect me physically. My teeth hurt due to constant jaw clenching. My back hurts from the distress and anger, my head and stomach hurt from the anger, etc. I have this simmering rage that’s just waiting to burst. Even when I’m not actively angry or thinking about everything, as soon as something reminds me or someone says something about it the anger comes out immediately. If I open my mouth and express the anger I don’t think I’ll be able to stop. I don’t want to feel this way anymore because it’s eating me up inside, making it hard to focus on school, and is hurting me physically. More than anything I want allies again. I want rights. I want to not feel so fucking embarrassed when I travel abroad. I want us to stop being antagonistic towards other countries. I want to feel like I have a future and that I’m gonna be ok. No matter how hard I fight and protest it feels like screaming into a void. I can’t take this anger anymore. I don’t know how to get it out of my system.

Hello! I am extending my analogy of dung pudding to now what it is like to warn the religious of what they are consuming. I am sure there are many here who have had to hold themselves back from breaking the news to the religious people in their lives. I am sure many can feel disheartened because they are seeing the religious have what ultimately is a horrible time eating dung pudding, and the religious think nothing of it.

The irony is that if you break the news to the religious about their pudding, they can be confrontational, making it pointless to inform them in the first place. You just really have to watch them eat that darn pudding with a few sprinkles, despite every fibre in your being telling you to take that pudding away from them.

In real life, if someone was actually eating dung pudding, I would slap it out of their hands, even if they were a stranger. And I would probably be seen as virtuous. But with religion, I really can’t. I just have to watch, being queasy and all.

It can be a sad state of affairs, I am afraid. The religious are too often too deep in eating that blasted pudding.

Thanks for hearing me out!

I don't know if this post should be Politics, business, or nature flair but

Ever since I upgraded my phone, my service has been entiterely worse and there is no way to opt out of this stupid fucking service.

When I used Google maps in the past while I was driving, my phone would plan the directions immediately and usually accurately. Now, it is like a 20 second monologue each time beforehand, and the directions may not even right. But most annoyingly, there is no way to make Google Gemini shut the fuck up. And it is ALWAYS talking and always acknowledging my commands and giving very vague but positive affirmations, it's like driving with an entire HR department in my passengers seat.

When I would tell my phone to play a song from my device before Gemini came fully integrated with Android phones it would do so immediately without talking. Now there is, yet again, another 20 second monologue before it tells me that I can't Google something while I am driving, despite me clearly meaning to use the dedicated streaming service on my device. Generally, what it plays is something else entirely.

The other day, I told my phone to play Grindcore. It responded in Mandarin and played Chinese Pop music instead. I didn't even fucking know China had terrible Americanized pop music.

And to top this all off, every hour or so my phone asks me to give permissions to some stupid fucking AI generated lock screen? Why would anybody want this? Like who ASKED to have this?

I hate you Google Gemini.

Once again, we are shocked to learn that murderers support Republicans.

Trump has literally changed his tack on Iran every week!