Why does Mike Johnson always look so evil in every picture he’s in?
That’s kind of his thing.
Some books match their cover.
He looks that way because he is that way.
Yeah, fair. I think a lot of it has to do with the over-grooming. Gavin Newsom gives me the same vibes with his slicked back hair, and having fascists on his new podcast that he pals around with also doesn’t help matters.
Newsom has always been slimy neolib scum. He doesn’t even try to hide it.
probably because he looks like he’s one of these guys
damn elf union and their gumdrop benefits…
Damn, and my kid just asked for 30 dolls for Christmas.
Damn, and my kid just asked for 30 dolls for Christmas.
Is your last name Trump?
I still think trump is going after all manufacturing, tech and science, so he can control it. It’s a very mob thing to do and it’s kind of working. All of tech showed up at his inauguration and gave a shit ton of money. I’m willing to guess that manufacturing did too, they’re just not household names.
But muh 11 year old baby girl dosent need 30 dolls!!!11!1!!
Only 2 or 3 or 4!
And they might be more expensive than 30 dolls
It is cheaper for them to take the sales loss that comes with raising prices rather than it would be to take any other approach. Austerity and Tariffs make the perfect economic shit sandwich.
It doesn’t help that the tariffs are nonsensical. It’s not even like they’re doing austerity with correctly targeted tariffs. Incredible work, masterful gambit, art of the deal they’re saying.
Americans mostly don’t even want to do the manual labor jobs which have always been available in the US, like residential construction or picking crops. And the oligarchs want to both reduce immigration and re-industrialize? It’s going to be comically unpopular.
This is largely untrue. I have worked in manufacturing my entire adult life and in my experience people are very eager to do manual labor type jobs if those jobs pay well and provide stability. The problem is that most of them don’t. It would make everything more expensive to pay everyone doing these jobs better but it would be worth it longer term by making a society that doesn’t just rely on there being a constant supply of an artificial second class of people that can be underpaid and exploited with impunity. When people say “nobody wants to work manual jobs…” the implied rest of that sentence is “…to make the same amount of money as someone working retail.”
I hate Trump and his idiotic tariffs, but this argument that we need immigrants to do all the jobs Americans don’t want to do is based on the racist idea that Americans are too good to do these jobs- the reality is, they are simply not desperate enough to take them for the amount of pay that is being offered. It’s a blatantly false narrative and it only serves to harm anyone left of Mussolini.
The manual labor willingness drops off in the 40s as people’s health begin to deteriorates people who work in manufacturing tend to drink and smoke and be arthritic with failing discs and knees by 55. White collar jobs have a big advantage with aging, which is why your average age in a factory skews young.
Yeah, that’s a more nuanced take than mine. I sadly doubt this country will actually do anything to improve pay equality however, which I would agree lies at the root of the unpopularity of those jobs.
And the oligarchs want to both reduce immigration and re-industrialize?
No, the oligarchs want to bring in even more cheap labor from 3rd world countries to maximize profits.
Americans mostly don’t even want to do the manual labor jobs which have always been available in the US, like residential construction or picking crops.
Capitalism 101: When you don’t have enough workers, you need to raise wages. Not demand a government bailout via the immigration system.
Easy: just set up labor camps and put any ”undesirables” there.
Wellness farms and factories for all us antidepressant “addicts”. Out with the migrant workers and in with the new “mentally woke” caste. It’s a big, inclusive caste involving LGBTQ, black, Semitic, Italians, the Irish…
… autistic, atheists, disabled, DEI, environmentalists, Palestine supporters, feminists, women who’ve done abortions, doctors who’ve aided abortions, childless women, fake news journalists, academics, democrats, homeless, unemployed, anyone who doesn’t like Trump’s posts on Truth Social…
You mean like the White House and Congress?
The CEOs are too woke and won’t go along with donvict’s plans!
^ millions of howling magashitgibbons, probably.
Only doll ill buy is a Trump voodoo one.
you will probably needs to get one ifs dyed rat hair first.
2 dolls, how about no dolls, you don’t need dolls in the mines.
Here, play with this pixelated pickaxe.
To be honest they were super cheap. A Barbie doll or another name brand toy cost the same as the euro store crap this side of the pond. When I visited the states I brought Barbie’s and Levi’s jeans as souvenirs! Literally the same price as the shitty key rings I bought at the airport.
Christmas is going to be awesome.
Trump’s extortion through tarrif’s plan is working so well huh? What a fucking joke.
Can’t robots make toys for us in 2025? We shouldn’t need to use humans at slavery level wages.
The robots in China are cheaper, especially when there are tariffs to import them.
I imagine Felon Drink Bleach might not be happy with such bold mainstream media news headlines indicating that his key objectives aren’t being met.
He is going to tariff Mattel because that’s all he knows how to do.
I wonder if he has bothered to figure out what the word tariff means yet.
“Learning” implies he doesn’t already know everything there is to know about everything, so of course he hasn’t done it. Or will ever do it.
he has been obsessed recently with explaining how “beautiful little girls” can just live with fewer dolls :-/
