https://www.trumpwall.construction/

Miles Built: 110
Miles to be Built: 509+

lmao, yeah and about 90% of that was rebuilding already existing border.

bear in mind congressional obstruction

@Jokerfaic ah, here is another place where they talk about "free trade economics"
they say stuff like "these people haded any government intervention in the market, in other words they 'wanted the govenrment to protect their local market'" (the half quote part is my reading of what they say in the 2nd vid at around 4min)

3 years of office increases border by 10 miles

XD

Logically one assumes given the location of a vehicle barrier/pre-existing fence that it has been marked as an important location by Border Patrol. Thus it makes sense to start with ineffective fencing and move on from there.

yes, the tories were trade protectionists, and the whigs were hardliners on not artificially altering prices. this was outlining the difficulty the prime minister would have in pitching a solution that both parties would cede to that would get what he wanted done in Ireland

still not anti-capitalist

my point here is this is not "free trade" or "free market" in the slightest by any understanding of the terms, there is piles and piles of other stuff going on that is very much government intervention.

by today's standards, no, its not what we concern ourselves with regarding market intervention. still waiting to hear the 'subtle' blaming of markets for the famine

I'm pretty sure the fungal rot has been mentioned by now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Dc0ltgf3I&list=PLYy6-QUJ2ZyjWXpOdgxvIY_K5fSLkyX8C&index=2

at about 3:40 they start talking about this part i'm pointing out

yes?

tories are trade protectionists, so he can't undercut grain prices.
wigs were "similerly hardcore when it came to free trade economics"

ah, i think i found one of the places I may have made a mistake, my mind put the comma in the wrong place on my first viewing.

well alright then

god damn it, all this griping about food has actually gotten me hungry

still not enough to change my stance on the Extra Credits people.

and i still got more then half of this set to go.

I like most of what EC does

I like their history and sci fi

The board game they made is actually really fun, I played it at my library

they have a board game?

I used to like them, until a point where i stopped agreeing with them on their newer stuff.

Yeah, it's a political style game where you fight people over influence by sabotaging and compromising in equal measure

Victory is measured not only in how you were able to spin policy but by how well off your party is at the end of the game

wow

You can even intentionally fail certain aspects to hurt other players that have an overlapping victory condition, it's got a lot of depth with very simple mechanics

Sounds like a good way to freeze friendships

So like if you and bob both want global warming related projects to be defunded, you can hurt bob by aligning yourself with a party that wants to fund global warming related projects, thereby denying him the points for success while possibly also getting yourself a boost in, say, criminal justice reform.

so its a game geared toward the ambiguous and multi-agenda nature of modern legislation

that's brilliant

It really is

so, I have found another point where extra credits points to "alongside a commitment to non intervention in the free market" as part of the reason things got so bad.
this time it is in number 3 at about 4:15 or so.

oh, and he is still talking about how this policy is about "protecting the free market"

yes, market obsession exaserbated the problem. that's not a partisan comment, that's fact

the markets only go bad when messed up by the government in the first place

and the british government in general made the whole fucking thing worse, not just economically, yes

sectarian tensions were more prevalent than economic concerns