Yep. That crowd never changes until they are directly impacted somehow.

A persecution fetish is a hard drug for gun owners, among other idiots.

Remember everyone. View tariffs as kind of a federal sales tax. Sales tax typically affect lower classes more than upper classes. It will also compete with other sales taxes at other government levels. Those smaller governments rely on it more than the federal government.

Meaning, to grossly oversimplify, this will ultimately cost more for people with less wealth, and it will degrade your local governments ability to provide services due to less income.

To answer OP’s question. They already have plans to pass more tax cuts for the rich (federally). That money has to come from elsewhere. This is one form of the elsewhere.

• Mercenaries
• MGS2 & 3
• Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
• Just Cause
• Socom 3 (1 & 2 are also good)
• Spartan Total Warrior
• Super Trucks Racing
• Tom & Jerry War of the Whiskers

Midnight Club 3

I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970.

This also includes a RIF of around 450k people in the 1990s, and I’m not sure about what in the 1980s as I recall reading Reagan was very anti-fed. As a proportion of the population, the amount of people working for the country as civil servants has shrunk.

I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970. It has always been around that amount, despite the population and complexity of the country growing in the 55 years since.

It is a lie that the government is larger at least in terms of employees, and any citizen saying they feel the government has “gotten too big” is generally a fucking moron. Especially when those types typically support the abusively bloated and heavily unchecked defense spending.

The federal government is literally the same size it was in the early 1970s.

Idiots voting red: “the gubments gotten too big!”

I have gotten really fucking tired of:

Blah blah blah. HERES WHY…

DC can’t just pick a damn batman actor, or be consistent with their movie stories. They just keep rebooting. They keep shooting themselves in the foot.

I think they’re focused on when you import more than you export, that’s a net loss, or a trade deficit.

One way to view it is that you are propping up someone else’s economy, or you are funneling your money outside.

So I think nationalistic morons just hate that at face value without any critical thinking.

In some formulas this is included in GDP, and growing up in rural America, I always heard whining about how America needed to stay on top and not be beaten by China or whoever else, and a lot of that rhetoric sometimes simply stems from made up crap like who has the bigger number, such as GDP. I can tell you how often I’ve heard idiotic ideas like how some other country like China will just invade and take us over if we aren’t #1 in everything. Like being #2 or 3 somehow means death.

I usually waste my time trying to point out the sun now sets on the British flag every damn day, and yet they still have their country and they still live pretty decent lives. The British didn’t just disappear once their empire was basically over.

Conservatism and nationalism is toxic.

This is why I hate almost all turn based games and these pokemon/final fantasy style random encounter games. Just obnoxious to play.

“Political appointee”

Humans continue to exist. It’s part of a troubling trend.

This the same pos who gave the crappy rebuttal to the DNC?

Elder Scrolls Online

Fuck negotiating and debate. That’s what has allowed the rich to erode or steal everything we could have had. That’s what allows wimpy politicians to get walked all over as the bullies take over again and again.

Posts comment about it.

I’ve been replaying it a bit on Steam Deck and it plays and looks good.