When’s the last time you heard about Holly smoot? That was dumb as fuck too about 100 years ago.
We’re doing the exact same thing and nobody is bringing it up. Sure they say it’s stupid to tariff but nobody is saying we’ve actually been down those road like 4 times in 250 years
Obviously it’s two different lawmakers who introduced the bill. Jesus don’t they teach anything other than clip of a movie with Ben Stein. Most bills are named after lawmakers.
Edit: Another famous example of this is Sarbox - Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D–MD) and Rep. Michael G. Oxley (R–OH-4), the co-sponsors of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act
I think we're talking about different levels of stupid. A failed tariff is not on the same level as an antivax as health secretary. This is like instead of arguing tariffs and taxes, they go back to bartering and abolished the dollar.
That’s a round about straw man to the actual point. Getting carpetbagged into a tariff war is what kicked the whole country off in the first place.
It goes like this in like 50-75 year cycles you have a massive boom of growth either by technology advances or the sudden influx of free labor via slaves or offshoring. Which is the same thing. So about once a century and almost like clockwork there is a massive influx of capital towards something resourceful and that leads to Dutch disease.
So the order of operations is exploit labor for growth to boom economy to exploit to frenzy as growth grinds to a haul to people stealing the bag via tarrifs and consolidating to massive labor uprising and concentration camps as you need 3 things for capitalism to work.
An exploitable but somehow educated enough to be competent workforce.
Stolen resources and/or labor.
A scapegoat for the educated labor to be mad at.
Regardless of who is in power, a king a pharaoh a warlord a president a pope.
Only one thing in the history of man that defeated and will always defeat these powerful is knowledge passed to communities. The people have the power united against tyranny.
Usually the messenger of that is publicly murdered but not in America.
Almost every culture on earth has been the receiving end of these three things by the same lizard fucks for thousands of years.
America when it was formed after the resurfacing of Greek senate ideas in France was to be the end of all that. The end of the 10,000 years of being under a boot.
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u/baumpop Jan 31 '25
When’s the last time you heard about Holly smoot? That was dumb as fuck too about 100 years ago.
We’re doing the exact same thing and nobody is bringing it up. Sure they say it’s stupid to tariff but nobody is saying we’ve actually been down those road like 4 times in 250 years