A tariff primer: Tariffs aren’t free money or moral posturing. They’re leverage. Other countries already tariff U.S. exports heavily. Cheap Chinese imports lowered prices at Walmart and McDonald’s, masking stagnant wages. Tariffs raise costs, but they also push back against dumping and force a choice between cheap goods and domestic jobs.

America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy

Chris Abraham

America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy

I wrote this on February 14, 2005, but it’s as true now as it’s ever been.

I promised my best friend and my little twin sister I’d be less bombastic this year, so here’s a mundane bliss: a frozen chicken pressure-cooked into rich broth, white rice rinsed properly and cooked in a small Toshiba fuzzy logic cooker, beans and vegetables folded in with simple spices. Deeply comforting, unfussy, and exactly right for a cold January morning.

This is extralegal and extrajudicial: no declaration of war, no clear congressional or UN authorization, no due process. Unilateral seizure of a foreign head of state shreds sovereignty and international law. "Maduro and wife captured by Delta https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/03/us-venezuela-strikes-trump-maduro/"

True but I also think he looks like Asmongold

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@chris@abraham.su he resembles Hunter Biden. I always do a double take.

This won’t resonate with most people. The Kennedy Center is widely seen as an elite space for wealthy locals and tourists. In an eat-the-rich, populist moment, choosing this as a political hill to die on is unlikely to spark broad sympathy or momentum. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/g-s1-104070/kennedy-center-renaming-prompts-a-new-round-of-cancellations

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In that case, don’t you think we should take all our toys and go home? Gladly. It’s this snotty behavior that will result in the USA pulling fully out of NATO and the UN. Fighting spite with spite. Good times. "Why would Greenland or any European nation wish to be part of that neoliberal shithole? https://www.europesays.com/2660167/"

A ’90s liberal opposed Bush, cheered Clinton, distrusted authority, defended free speech, and believed tolerance meant letting people live differently without enforcement. In 2025, that same outlook gets flagged as reactionary. The values didn’t change. The movement did, trading pluralism for compliance.