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Disapproval in the government reaches its highest level since the election Approve: 16% (-4 from 18-20 Jan) Disapprove: 64% (+4) Net: -48 (-8) https://t.co/EDgUC075IB

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legorhin Jan 28, 2025 9:56 AM politics

the UK might not be as trapped by media BS as the US has been

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 28, 2025 10:24 AM politics

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1884019669830656088

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Trump announces he will be putting tariffs on semiconductors

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Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 28, 2025 10:24 AM politics

I sure do hope intel gets those factories up and running faster

Dialga Jan 28, 2025 10:29 AM politics

why

Dialga Jan 28, 2025 10:30 AM politics

this is one i dont think is agood idea

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 28, 2025 10:30 AM politics

I don't think any of them are particularly good ideas

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 28, 2025 10:30 AM politics

if they had the factories up and running, then this would be fine, since it would just encourage american companies to use their own chips

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 28, 2025 10:30 AM politics

but they do not, so this literally does nothing but raise prices lol

Dane Jan 28, 2025 10:34 AM politics

Are you saying Intel stocks might go up?

Dane Jan 28, 2025 10:35 AM politics

I sold all of it like a month ago

Dane Jan 28, 2025 10:35 AM politics

fml

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 28, 2025 10:35 AM politics

If they had their factories up and running, probably

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 11:19 AM politics

he’s trying to get rid of income tax entirely

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 11:19 AM politics

tartiffs on everything covers that

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 11:20 AM politics

but the order of this stuff is odd

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 12:57 PM politics

I think hell will freeze over before they fix the tax system

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 12:57 PM politics

but the idea of tariffs, as a sort of 'super sales tax' on imported electronics is probably a fair sector to target

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 12:58 PM politics

even as someone heavily affected (not to say I won't try to circumvent the fuck out of them)

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:00 PM politics

if sales taxes in general applied only to finished goods (excluding food, services, and digital products) and were non-uniform, similar to luxury/consumption taxes are now

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:03 PM politics

issue is its infeasible, income tax and tax withholding as PERFECTED obfiscating how much you pay in taxes

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:15 PM politics

speaking of i dont think this is a good idea

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:15 PM politics

supposedly they're freezing like

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:15 PM politics

90% of federal aid

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:15 PM politics

starting today in like four hours

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:16 PM politics

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:16 PM politics

yeah, all federal aid to states is being "reevaluated"

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:16 PM politics

goodie

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:16 PM politics

depending on how long it takes them to "reevaluate" it

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:16 PM politics

I might not be able to do my internship next fall

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:17 PM politics

the feeling is most will be turned back on in 90 days

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:17 PM politics

if states don't play ball with Trump, theirs in particular might take longer

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:17 PM politics

Replying to bob #b0b3365

I might not be able to do my internship next fall

wtf is your internship in, if it requires federal aid $$

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:17 PM politics

well college is expensive

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM politics

and mom isn't rich and already in a lot of debt

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM politics

I'm not following

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM politics

you know this doesn't affect student loans at all

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM politics

oh

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM politics

nevermind then

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM politics

okok, I was just checking lol

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:18 PM politics

didn't know if you had an internship in the DEI dept. or something

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 1:19 PM politics

because that probably wont exist

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:19 PM politics

no just the costs of applying to another semester

bob Jan 28, 2025 1:38 PM politics

is it like actually legal for them to do this though

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 2:04 PM politics

idk probably, it's federal money that's run through executive agencies congressional spending on states is different

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 3:48 PM politics

https://fxtwitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1884307337453986284

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Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 3:48 PM politics

imo this is subtly one of the biggest things he's changed

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 3:49 PM politics

press briefings are a shitshow where a bone gets thrown to legacy media for no reason

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 3:50 PM politics

fill the room with rando people interested in showing up and asking questions, have all the media retards watch in the overflow room

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 3:50 PM politics

did the biden whitehouse livestream the briefings?

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 3:50 PM politics

uh, probably

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 3:52 PM politics

then the youtube stuff is probably not much different other than trump being cognizant

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 3:53 PM politics

one thing I just realized is Biden took down the whitehouse petitions website and Trump hasn't put it back up yet if he even plans to

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 3:54 PM politics

Is the most voted on petition still having Obama build a deathstar?

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 3:59 PM politics

no the petition to get Trump to release his tax returns hit 1 million signatures

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 4:01 PM politics

the deathstar didn't even get a significant enough number for wikipedia to mention it

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 4:21 PM politics

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Spooky Phijkchu Jan 28, 2025 4:21 PM politics

but yeah, there's no leaderboard like I assumed there would be

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 4:23 PM politics

i meant mentioning the vote count

legorhin Jan 28, 2025 4:24 PM politics

it hit 25k and got mentioned by the whitehouse but it doesn't say the maximum

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