They were happy that the Russians helped a fabric swatch inspector subvert our democracy, I am sure they will be happy to work for them as well.
A thought on this though. An aluminum plant isn’t really all that expensive to make. A couple hundred million is chump change. The real cost to making aluminum is the electricity needed to run it. As electric utilities are govt regulated monopolies, they can be pressured into giving a favored company a lower rate.
This would mean that other electric rate payers would be subsidizing profits of a Russian company, a fine thank you to the oligarchs who made it all possible.
When you cross the state line into that hole, there’s a sign that says “Welcome to the Three States of Tennessee”. Now we know what those three states are:
[ul][li]Stupid[/li][li]Irrational[/li][li]Bigoted[/ul][/li]I guess there is one positive out of Trump becoming president: the jackasses now feel no compunction whatsoever of showing their true colors in public. Now we know exactly who they are.
It’s realism. The EC count is gonna be really close unless a whole bunch of southern states flip and that’s pretty unlikely, despite Forrest’s dismal polling numbers is some really important states. I consider it a healthy fear that should motivate us all to get out there and vote against him.
Their multi-billions of welfare checks should be showing up fairly soon. The term “welfare queen”, made famous by Reagan, is now being used to refer to farmers wearing MAGA hats and driving F250’s.
But this isn’t just a Trump thing, or a Republican thing.
The Omnibus Farm Bill has, for years—actually, decades—provided the majority of its subsidies to wealthy farmers and large commercial agribusiness enterprises. While agricultural subsidies are often touted as a measure designed to help preserve the farming way of life for American families, that’s not really what the Farm Bill is all about.
And Democrats have been just as guilty as Republicans of handing out the pork to big agribusiness.
Mike Huckabee, probably being a bit put out that his daughter Sarah is catching all the scorn these days, did his bit by posting this on twitter:
Folks did point that that Ms. Merkle was born 10 years after the end of WWII and is the leader of one of our strongest Allies (at least, I think they still are) and is probably just as glad as anyone else that Schicklegruber got what he deserved.
No word on apology by the Huckster for being governor once of a state that traitorously left the United States…
I guess what I would like to point out is that the aid, while having the best of intentions, isn’t necessarily going to alleviate the pain that Trump has inflicted upon them.