Sean CastenChoosing cowardice, stupidity and lies just to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces will ALWAYS come back to bite you in the ass. A play in 3 acts:
Act 1: Scott Bessent, prior to being named Trump’s Treasury Secretary says, unambiguously, “tariffs are inflationary”. https://assets.realclear.com/files/2024/02/2353_keysquare.pdf
Act 2: Scott Bessent, fully ensconced in his role as Toady for Trump at Treasury says: “I was mistaken when I said that tariffs could be inflationary” https://youtube.com/shorts/2-TFvYKmUEU?si=VczZVphtCRLKIWw5
I Was Also Mistaken When I Said The Tariffs Could Be Inflationary: Scott Bessent | US Tariffs | N18G
Act 3: Cato Institute with the receipts. https://www.cato.org/blog/one-year-after-liberation-day-heres-what-we-know-what-we-dont
Point is, the lesson of Bessent, and Giuliani, and Bondi, and Noem, and Scaramuci and so many others is that he didn’t respect you before you debased yourself and he won’t respect you after. He only hired you because he knew you’d whore yourself out for him.
Once you’ve proven to the rest of the world what he already knew, you’ve lost your value to him. He will drop you and leave you with the mess. Vance, Rubio and so many others in the GOP haven’t figured this out yet. But they will. /fin
Some Guy@SeanCasten This has been #DirtbagDon's M.O. for decades. If people don't understand it by now, honestly there is no hope for them.
Kevin@someguy @SeanCasten After reading Salon's article on the tradwife-loathing men who want tradwives, this all just feels like part of the same hierarchy.
Earthling@SeanCasten @someguy They might be in it for the grift they can collect before they’re canned. Then the book royalties and tv gigs. It’s not like they have proper consequences.
Flaming Cheeto@SeanCasten Well, Vance is just hoping he'll die in office right after Jan 21 , 2027 so he can run as an incumbent twice.
Thad@PizzaDemon But that's the same mistake. The mistake of thinking kissing Trump's ass will advance your career instead of torching it.
ferricoxide@PizzaDemon @SeanCasten
Even more, Vance's sponsors are hoping that (especially since the mainline Democrats seem bound and determined to fumble the opportunities to win in 2028, let alone to establish FDS-style generational control over the federal government).
Even more, Vance's sponsors are hoping that (especially since the mainline Democrats seem bound and determined to fumble the opportunities to win in 2028, let alone to establish FDS-style generational control over the federal government).
@SeanCasten
Even as a casual observer, it's hard to process how people that should be relatively cluefull could have such glaring gaps in their understanding. Best I can assume is that the desire for title/position/power is so great that it overrides a more-judicious and more self-preserving approach.
Even as a casual observer, it's hard to process how people that should be relatively cluefull could have such glaring gaps in their understanding. Best I can assume is that the desire for title/position/power is so great that it overrides a more-judicious and more self-preserving approach.
The Janx Devil@SeanCasten I’m starting to think maybe acquiring the ephemeral appearance of his capricious and fake respect is not actually something that motivates them. I think it might a calculation around some other and entirely different consideration.
AnnieBuddyThe loyalty goes one way. He thinks it is a privilege for you to serve him.
If someone offers him enough money, he will sell you.
a wandering happenstance@SeanCasten I don’t understand this graph, I guess. It’s saying that indexed to January 2024, price trends were deflationary? And that their projected trend is, uh, 3% year-over-year deflation?
I agree that there seems to be a change at the introduction of tariffs, but it seems to me that 3% year-over-year deflation is not realistic and it certainly shouldn’t be expected to continue linearly.