The US has always had an anti-immigrant streak. Whoever the last group are they are unhappy with the next group. The Irish were not welcome, except by Tammany Hall, then the Italians were suspect. The Chinese have always been seen as suspicious and we all know what happened to the Japanese in WW2. Interestingly those of German descent haven’t been suspect, probably because they formed a large chunk of the US (PA, OH) and Eisenhower had German ancestry.

I doubt any country has never had an issue with someone seen as outsiders.

“They made fun of my router settings!” sobs

My cat is good about no touchy but sits and gives me the eyes until I give him a bit of it, usually some chicken.

So close…almost touchy…

He said he’d get off the train in Harlem and people would look at this super pasty redheaded white guy like a leprechaun had shown up.

He married a black woman. You should hear his stand up talking about going to her place in Harlem. lol

And he did marry a black woman so he is far from conservative.

He’s from the Boston area. We are all needlessly aggressive.

Trying to roll back the renaissance too

Make America the dark ages again

The conditions for that to happen are quite rare. Not worth worrying about.

My wife does. I have a thing for using a kettle on the oven.

Too much clutter on my counters already. I can just leave the kettle on the oven.

Slapping on tariffs at a time with inflation, high consumer anxiety, and wage stagnation is going to be looked on as one of the worst moves a president has made.

I remember during the big housing bubble in the early 2000s people were telling me “Oh you better buy now” even though down payments were insanely high and I kept thinking “The cost of housing is totally out of whack with incomes. There is no way this can keep going up.” Surprise, surprise the whole thing blew up and lots of people were then left with mortgages that cost more than their homes so they were stuck. On top of that the prices were still out of whack with incomes and I still couldn’t afford a house unless it was a wreck. I eventually just moved out of the state.

I was just reading how the normal “escape cities”, like Miami, for people fleeing high cost areas like San Francisco and Boston/NYC are now almost as expensive. Guess people will have to go to St Louis and Des Moines.

It got hacked and now I’m really, really dry.

Dehydrate you

Oh, of course it is trivial, the issue is the political will to do it. As for tax havens I was thinking more along the lines of corporate tax evasion by companies like Apple.

Minimum tax that they can never go below. Start penalizing tax havens like Ireland.

There are already inheritance taxes but they should have caps on them since they hit intergenerational wealth and social mobility for lower and middle classes far more than the upper.

This drives me nuts with the news cycle. “The US won’t get involved in X”. The media shows how awful fighting/revolt/etc are in X. “Why won’t the US do something about the horror in X!?” The US gets involved and, of course, some civilians die. This is guaranteed in war. The media then goes “The US is awful for killing civilians in X!” The US pulls out of X. The media goes “Why has the US abandoned X!?”