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> reasonable If your net worth is high enough that anti-consumer policy pumps your assets harder than it dumps your consumption, it's rational. A huge jerk mov

> reasonable If your net worth is high enough that anti-consumer policy pumps your assets harder than it dumps your consumption, it's rational. A huge jerk move, sure, and arguably unreasonable on those grounds, but it's rational. Unfortunately the $600B sponsor and $6B president are faaaar on the other side of the invisible net worth boundary where that starts to be the case, so I wouldn't expect RtR to get much traction, but who knows. There is enough chaos to make it worth a try even if it "ought" to fail on grounds of "government by the rich, for the rich."

gosub100 2y ago
You don't expect laws that are already passed to get much traction because the president is rich and has rich friends?
- smallmancontrov 2y ago
  There's a gigantic map in TFA that shows what has and hasn't passed, did you even so much as glance at the article?
  - gosub100 2y ago
    It's irrelevant. The president doesn't do the passing. He's not a dictator. This isn't a tribalism partisan issue, as much as you seem to want to make it. I could point to the blue state of Massachusetts which, immediately after passing RTR through popular support, immediately had its democratic government strip all the teeth out of the bill, at the request of several big corporations. What do you have to say about that? Is that Trump's fault too? Even though it happened when Biden was in office?
    - 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
      Maybe the Supreme Court stacked with his allies will declare RtR is unconstitutional. We lost abortion and gay marriage is on the chopping block. The system is being gamed very hard right now, and they've been lying to you for years.
    - phs318u 2y ago
      > He's not a dictator. Not quite yet. An admirer of dictators. He's a wannabe dictator. Stacking the decks with loyalists and purging those that don't roll over. Never failing to take an opportunity to divide, to tear down, to fabricate, to create chaos for the 99%. Constantly crossing lines that would've been unthinkable for any other president - including previous Republican candidates. Offtopic: I often think of the alternate universe in which John McCain won the Republican nomination over Donald Trump. What a different world we'd be in! Good chance Biden wouldn't have won in 2020. Good chance Russia wouldn't have had an opportunity to invade Ukraine a second time.
      - gosub100 2y ago
        I think if Bernie had been on the ticket in '16 we would be living in a different world.
barbazoo 2y ago
> If your net worth is high enough that anti-consumer policy pumps your assets harder than it dumps your consumption, it's rational. A huge jerk move, sure, and arguably unreasonable on those grounds, but it's rational. Sounds like narcissistic personality disorder to me. Why are some of us worshipping these people again?

gosub100 2y ago

You don't expect laws that are already passed to get much traction because the president is rich and has rich friends?

smallmancontrov 2y ago
There's a gigantic map in TFA that shows what has and hasn't passed, did you even so much as glance at the article?
- gosub100 2y ago
  It's irrelevant. The president doesn't do the passing. He's not a dictator. This isn't a tribalism partisan issue, as much as you seem to want to make it. I could point to the blue state of Massachusetts which, immediately after passing RTR through popular support, immediately had its democratic government strip all the teeth out of the bill, at the request of several big corporations. What do you have to say about that? Is that Trump's fault too? Even though it happened when Biden was in office?
  - 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
    Maybe the Supreme Court stacked with his allies will declare RtR is unconstitutional. We lost abortion and gay marriage is on the chopping block. The system is being gamed very hard right now, and they've been lying to you for years.
  - phs318u 2y ago
    > He's not a dictator. Not quite yet. An admirer of dictators. He's a wannabe dictator. Stacking the decks with loyalists and purging those that don't roll over. Never failing to take an opportunity to divide, to tear down, to fabricate, to create chaos for the 99%. Constantly crossing lines that would've been unthinkable for any other president - including previous Republican candidates. Offtopic: I often think of the alternate universe in which John McCain won the Republican nomination over Donald Trump. What a different world we'd be in! Good chance Biden wouldn't have won in 2020. Good chance Russia wouldn't have had an opportunity to invade Ukraine a second time.
    - gosub100 2y ago
      I think if Bernie had been on the ticket in '16 we would be living in a different world.

barbazoo 2y ago

> If your net worth is high enough that anti-consumer policy pumps your assets harder than it dumps your consumption, it's rational. A huge jerk move, sure, and arguably unreasonable on those grounds, but it's rational. Sounds like narcissistic personality disorder to me. Why are some of us worshipping these people again?