The inflation expectation graph shows pretty clearly who doesn’t understand what a tariff is or who pays it.
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Yeah - you’re right.
I only said ‘at times like these’ because of all the illegal deportation/ICE kidnapping shit going on right now.
Good fix.
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Is the Supreme Court trying to apply the law fairly or just trying to prevent Trumpy from more self-inflicted errors?
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Because keeping America safe and the interests of Pete Hegseth are two different things.
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I’ve seen this a lot now, but I don’t understand the point. Obviously this image shows an “explainer” where the letters MS 13 are superimposed on the symbols they are allegedly (and I’m sure falsely) represented by. It’s not like whoever made the image wanted to pretend the actual letters were part of the tattoo. Or are people saying the tattoos themselves are photoshopped?
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This translation key will make a great rainy-day activity out of all your Grateful Dead album covers!
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I think the problem is that connecting those images to the alphanumeric MS13 is such a stretch that most people didn’t initially realize that’s what it was meant to show and instead assumed the administration was trying to say he actually had “MS13” tattooed on his fingers.
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(excerpt from MSN) In its own statement to NYT, Harvard shut down Mailman’s assertion [that the letter was sent by mistake], noting that the letter "was signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official and was sent on April 11 as promised. Recipients of such correspondence from the U.S. government – even when it contains sweeping demands that are astonishing in their overreach – do not question its authenticity or seriousness."
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On a number of issues, this administration seems to be eager to make the argument that it’s in complete chaos and portions of it are acting without proper authorization, and that they shouldn’t be held accountable for that reason. (To be fair, there’s evidence that first part is true, e.g. the news that the interim head of the IRS was appointed by Musk, without Trump even being aware of it, and those insecure chats where the national security officials were arguing about what Trump might want, on an issue that required his explicit orders. This administration seems to be encouraging everyone, from the cabinet to the lowest-level CBS agents to just do whatever the fuck they want, if they think it’s the sort of thing Trump would approve of.)
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That’s a total lack of leadership from the top down.
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I can see now what the intention is, but the administration expecting their cultists to believe those characters were actually tattooed on the fingers (and being so hilariously inept at attempting to manipulate the photo that anyone above the age of three could see they’re fake) is absolutely believable as a thing Trump and his ilk would do. If that had been what actually happened, it’d be fairly tame and plausible compared to many other lies they’ve told.
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And that still might be giving them too much credit. I mean, we’re talking about people who think that tariffs are charged to the exporting country not to the importer, and that a Signal group chat is appropriate for discussing imminent attack plans.
There is really zero reason to give them the benefit of the doubt here.
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Yeah, in fact I see it as a sort of… anti-leadership, where permission is given for everyone to indulge their worst instincts, not officially, but with a wink.
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MS-13 tattoos are a thing, and they literally say MS-13, usually in gothic script. There’s no clever symbolism here. No hidden codes. It just says it.
Tren de Aragua on the other hand doesn’t have any gang specific tattoos, which makes the whole “we’re deporting Venezuelans members of Tren de Aragua based on their gang tattoos” argument so nonsensical.
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