There’s a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.

A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.

And that’s the real reason for the tariffs - creating the illusion that we can afford to cut taxes for billionaires.

It was never going to work to increase domestic production for the reason in OP’s meme.

Tariffs can be a component of a plan, but not the full plan itself. Direct subsidies and grants to businesses willing to take a risk on expanding will get new factories built in the States - pay them to build the factories.

Reliable, stable, predictable and ongoing tariffs would then keep those factories open sustainably even when they’re competing against factories in countries with worse labor laws, less regulation and concomitantly poorer citizens.

The Republican voter base has been conditioned to listen for the dog whistles used by the Southern Aristocrats - the owners of the Republican party - for so long now that some are genuinely surprised that “small government” means something other than thinly veiled racism. Now they’re getting exactly what they asked for, but what they’ve asked for isn’t what they actually want. Cutting government programs hurts rural communities more than cities. The Republican base has become the dog that’s caught the car.

According to the 53rd Chair of the Republican National Committee, Lee Atwater:

Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”

small government is when white people get food stamps

big government is when black people get food stamps

I think this story may be told by an unreliable narrator.

We have no evidence that the email actually came from their job - that misidentification by Ki might be the problem that IT hopes training will solve.

“other” gets two zeros and your name on all of the lists