Jamie White was murdered outside his home in Austin.
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It's definitely a mistake to act like it's as deep red as most think it is, but I don't think I'd be willing to call it purple at the moment. It did vote for Trump by 14 points.
With any luck, the incoming engineered recession will force tech and finance bros to fuck off back to the coasts
I wouldn't even call it an engineered recession. As far as I'm concerned we've pretty much been in one for half a year or even a year. Government spending was the only thing keeping the illusion alive.
DOGE combined with the immediate shock of tariffs (whether they stay applied for long or not) is plenty enough to start the descent. Unfortunately, a correction is very much needed in some cases. Hopefully housing prices take a beating but I'm not holding my breath.
"Engineered" should've been in scare quotes. Trust me, I'm very well aware of how fake and gay the economy was under Biden and Bidenomics—how all the federal agencies like the Federal Reserve and the Bureau of Labor Statistics cooked the numbers just to not go into a technical recession. All the bureaucrats have to do now that Trump is in is just report honestly.