"Woke" of course referring to no actual liberal policy or mindset, but rather to a weaponized conglomeration of everything right wing reactionaries hate.
2 weeks ago | 34
Crazy to see such easy rage-bait comments under a post from The Atlantic. Keep up the great journalism guys, and ignore the shit-kicking morons cluttering your space. Some of us who still know how to read really like your stuff.
3 weeks ago | 26
Is anyone even counting Trump's lies anymore? Or is it just accepted that the president lies everyday about easily verifiable facts. No reporter pushed back, "Mr President where did you learn Portland was burning? No major news outlet on either side including oan or local Portland stations or newspapers or even blogs have reported fires? Or the war zone you describe? ". Them he'd yell at the reporter and threaten the network ... So no one asks him why he thinks the up is down. It is lunacy and why they keep winning. He us bullying the press and they are crying in the corner. His billionaire buddies are giving him high fives.
2 weeks ago (edited) | 2
Why isn’t there a link to the shutter stock? I like it when press articles and have good sources. Sources and access to them are everything.
2 weeks ago | 0
Speaking of tariffs ... Trump mentioned he's taken in somewhere in the neighborhood of two to three trillion dollars in tariffs. Where exactly is that money? Because it could pay down our debt and pay for everyone's health insurance.... Wait what the hell am I thinking, we're talking the narcissistic psychopathic slimeball. He'd rather build a ballroom with that money and put the rest in his pocket. We are doomed!
2 weeks ago | 0
Did you go to college for yeaes to tell us this in a longform article. Everyone with any sense knew the culture war was bullsh!t.
2 weeks ago | 0
Mr. Serwer says that tariffs have cost manufacturing jobs - very interesting.
3 weeks ago | 1
Woke got out of control, pendulum is now swinging hard the other way.
2 weeks ago | 2
Let’s be real, we’re all enslaved to the same people. You’re all still dreaming and living in the matrix. Time to wake up
2 weeks ago | 0
lol. Trying to blame republicans for your runaway inflation. Keep at it. It’s fun to watch. Cry harder.
2 weeks ago | 0
I see The Atlantic has made the talking point bot list with ABC and CBS. Expect no substantive refutations or counter points
3 weeks ago | 3
The Atlantic
Toward the end of the Biden administration, conservatives, fed up with the supposed imposition of liberal ideas by “woke capital,” tried to create a “parallel economy” in which one could buy “anti-woke” versions of goods such as beer and razors. Now, in Donald Trump’s second administration, “that parallel economy is just the economy,” Adam Serwer argues. “Trumpist culture wars have made almost everything more expensive, effectively forcing all Americans to pay an anti-woke tax.” theatln.tc/b2LB3hgY
Tariffs are the most obvious example, Serwer writes: “Trump has an economic argument for his tariffs, if a rather unconvincing one. But the tariffs make more sense if you look at them as a kind of anti-woke tax.” The administration has presented them as a “a promise—one impossible to fulfill—that America can return to some golden age of plentiful manufacturing jobs, the kind of manly work that soft-handed libs with email jobs took from you.”
But tariffs have actually cost the United States manufacturing jobs, Serwer continues, and hit the trucking industry particularly hard; tariffs on lumber and furniture means construction jobs will hardly fill the gap. “And, of course, the tariffs have driven up the price of food, because some food simply can’t be grown in the United States and must be imported,” Serwer writes. “Maybe bananas and coffee are woke?”
“There was nothing wrong with the idea of an anti-woke economy in which people could, if they chose to, shell out for Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right ‘100% woke-free’ beer. People are allowed to vote with their wallets,” Serwer continues. “The problem is that Trump-era conservatives don’t seem to believe in that kind of freedom. Instead, they are imposing their anti-woke tax on all of America, raising the cost of living for everyone.”
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