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Bitter Little Pill
Right-wingers like Elon Musk are fond of a Matrix analogy for the world: You've got a choice between two pills, one's blue and one's red. If you take the red one, you'll be suddenly awake to the dark reality behind the fiction that is the Western neoliberal lived experience.
If you're determined to use movie analogies, and you like the red/blue binary choice motif, it's probably more accurate to think of the right's efforts to dismantle the post-War, US-led global economic and security architec
If you can’t have bread, eat cake!
It is starting, just starting to dawn on johny and Jane lunchpail what is in store for them. Unfortunately they will have to learn a hard lesson and it is going to hurt 90% of america, lunchpail or not. WTch the show Deadwood. Nothing has changed.
Surprised Bessent didn’t indulge Lutnick’s gentleman farmer’s solution by suggesting we all start adorning our new hen houses with a few dozen grape vines. It’s DIY, not DEI.
They’re not really tariffs unless they come from the tariff region of Queens.
Nicely done. ??????
Those were clapping emojis…not sure why they showed up as question marks. Anyway, fantastic joke.
Teetotaler Trump.
Also, Trump owns (a mediocre, at best) winery. I know, I know, he divested. And I’d like to show you a bridge that I can get for you, cheap!
As your friendly neighborhood wine merchant reader, I’ll also point out that draconian tariffs on European wine and spirits is NOT all good and rosy for US producers. A lot of them rely on distributors in the three-tier system, and those distributors are heavily invested in European wines, too. If they go under, it will be bad for US producers, consumer choice, and, let me see….. small wine shop owners like me!