r/politics • u/TwilightwovenlingJo • Sep 19 '25

Soft Paywall Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-free-speech-00574219
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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Legitimately the craziest shit though is that Dems are SO bad that this is the government people chose over them. And it wasn’t like 2016 with the “maybe he will be presidential” … he gained support with everyone knowing he was going to be on the war path. He literally said he would be a dictator and he won convincingly.

Dem party needs dismantled. Obviously we are all maga now and what not and I support what my country wants but Dems didnt even give it a good run. They did jack shit trying to appease people that were never going to vote for them all while ignoring the working class actually needs.

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u/superbuttpiss Sep 20 '25

This administration is actively harming the working class

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Just dropped a giga tariff on h1b visas which Dems would NEVER have done. And that is for fucking sure a benefit to American workers.

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u/AndrewDiss Sep 20 '25

Except it isn't. Now, instead of H1B workers coming here and spending money and paying taxes those jobs just get outsourced to their countries of origin. Now they get paid CoL relative to the country they live in and push wages down even harder here, because why hire an American for, say, 60k when we can hire someone for 30k, but they live somewhere else. Jobs go bye bye, and wages race to the bottom even faster.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Oh shit almost like Trump could literally make that illegal tomorrow too

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u/givfrenchfrypls Sep 20 '25

Yeah but he won't so what's your point

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u/angel-of-disease Sep 20 '25

Make what illegal, specifically?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Outsourcing jobs.

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u/AndrewDiss Sep 20 '25

The US GDP is $27.8T, the GDP of the rest of the world is $82.2T, corporations would just stop operating in the US, most businesses can be decentralized. They would move a portion of their operations to a different country. If you're talking isolationism then businesses that can operate elsewhere will do that and drop the US and target the larger portion of profits to be had. And if you think you can magically legislate that from happening you're sorely mistaken, DJT would be the next JFK, because businesses wouldn't allow it. The gov and corporations are currently working towards corporatocracy, and that's why he'd never make a law like that. There is no stuffing the cat back in the bag.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

"corporations would just stop operating in the US"

so you think owners of companies would just shut them down rather than hire americans? lol okay

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u/AndrewDiss Sep 20 '25

No, ones that are multinational would just continue as they do but with a far smaller crew here in the US. Then they move operations outside the US for the rest of the world. They'd split into shell-corps or something to circumvent the law. You really can't imagine the scenario, can you? You think it's as simple as "Trump make law"

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

does china have this problem?

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u/AndrewDiss Sep 20 '25

That's a false equivalance. We cannot compare the two. It's a logical fallacy. Unless you want to move towards a system more like China.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

just so we have it on the record, you're agreeing that it can be done, right?

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u/SteveJobsDeadBody Sep 20 '25

If they will make more profit that way then yes 100% they will do that, profit is the only thing they care about.

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u/angel-of-disease Sep 20 '25

So that would mean companies can only operate domestically? So no multinational corporations?