This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?
He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
Every day, Trump wakes up and thinks “what product should I make arbitrarily more expensive today?”
Truck tariffs means drivers pay billions more for vehicles, companies/consumers pay more for shipping, & the benefits to truckmakers get outweighed by costs to other manufacturers
I'll say it again:
In my opinion, when companies or institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law; they are making educated guesses that the U.S. is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won't matter.
It seems to me that Christian Nationalism—when combined w/reformed patriarchy—shares quite a few structural & ideological similarities w/Islam:
• A desire to shape national laws around their version of Christianity—enshrining biblical (or their interpretation of biblical) morality into law—so that everyone, believer or not, would be forced to live under it
• Male-only leadership across religious, political, & social spheres—asserted as a biblical mandate
• Wives commanded to submit to their husbands
• Strict modesty rules for women
• Punitive attitude toward dissent—framing disagreement as rebellion against God
• Endorsement of “biblical justice” systems—often meaning harsh penalties for moral “sins,” coupled w/aggressive moral policing
Even if a theocracy built on CN & reformed patriarchy is pursued thru elections rather than violence, the resulting system—based on the elements above—would, in many key ways, resemble an Islamic theocracy.
i still remember when i was about 9 years old the worship leader at my church praised the war in iraq because it meant that “jesus would come back soon” and i don’t think enough people realize that is the foreign policy of many republicans
Cruz: Those who bless Israel will be blessed.. That’s in the Bible.
Tucker: Where is that?
Cruz: I don’t have the scripture…
Tucker: So you’re quoting a Bible phrase—you don’t know where in the Bible it is but that’s your theology?
It’s such a harmful Christian theology that looks at wars and famine and says, “this might be the fulfillment of End Times prophecies!” and “Jesus might be retuning soon!” instead of “look at how much people are suffering!” and “how can we stop this injustice?”