Jump to content

Captainant

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    16743
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    6

Everything posted by Captainant

  1. Ya know, I think I'm finally coming to understand why you tolerate so many trolls on surly. You think it's mutually exclusive to be either an idiot, or to be a cruel and awful person. There tends to be a lot of overlap in that venn diagram, home skillet
  2. Heh. Rudy Guliani was with Newsmax at the opening bell. I think the simulation is fucking with us
  3. Ok I take it back, THIS is a really funny opening bell for today
  4. Nevermind that the tariffs rates are based off of trade deficits, not tariffs levied. They're just making shit up, and it's not funny anymore to laugh at all the useful idiots dancing to try and justify it. Now it's just cruel and tragic
  5. Just circling back - it's almost certain that the administration conflated trade deficits and tariffs. I found a good breakdown, reposting the receipts here: These "tariff" numbers provided by the administration are just ludicrous. They don't reflect any version of reality where real tariffs are concerned. I was convinced they weren't just completely made up, though, and their talk about trade balances made me curious enough to dig in and try to find where they got these numbers. This guess paid off immediately. As far as I can tell with just a tiny bit of digging, almost all of these numbers are literally just the inverse of our trade balance as a ratio. Every value I have tried this calculation on, it has held true. I'll just use the 3 highest as examples: ***Cambodia: 97%*** US exports to Cambodia: $321.6 M Cambodia exports to US: 12.7 B Ratio: 321.6M / 12.7 B = ~3% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/Cambodia- ***Vietnam: 90%*** US exports to Vietnam: $13.1 B Vietnam exports to US: $136.6 B Ratio: 13.1B / 136.6B = ~10% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/vietnam ***Sri Lanka: 88%*** US exports to Sri Lanka: $368.2 M Sri Lanka exports to US: $3.0 B Ratio: ~12% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/south-central-asia/sri-lanka What the Administration appears to be calling a "97% tariff" by Cambodia is in reality the fact that we export 97% less stuff to Cambodia than they export to us.
  6. They're beautiful tariffs. Many people are saying they're the best ever. They've never seen anything like it. Other people, they have small tariffs, but we have big beautiful tariffs. We are going to win big with beautiful tariffs like this
  7. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. welllll ackshually..... https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-austin-area-teen-trump-disappeared-to-el-salvador/ Terán, despite being in the country lawfully, is terrified that he and his wife and their toddler son could be next. They’ve talked about returning to Venezuela, where life is dangerous but not as fickle as it is in the U.S., once their visas expire. Terán dreams of Daniel being freed and meeting them there. “I’m thinking like a father,” he said, “which is that my son needs me. He needs me to be present and be supporting him.” He told his son, when Daniel was still in detention, that he would make sure his bike was waiting for him.
  8. Why did $NMAX (Newsmax) go from $14/share to $130 share? Because fuck it, that's why. $150M in revenue with negative net income completely justifies a $30 billion market cap! Same memestock dynamics as TSLA
  9. Our country is being led by an abusive man. This behavior of threatening and then relenting and over and over is classic abusive controlling behavior. It's meant to make his targets keep their heads low for fear of worse reprisals.
  10. Not that I really care but apparently he refused to participate in sketches too, which is why Jonas made a random appearance https://pagesix.com/2025/04/01/entertainment/morgan-wallen-refused-to-do-snl-sketch-joe-jonas-stepped-in/ Doesn't seem like good business to show up and do the barest minimum, but who cares it was a pretty weak episode anyways
  11. Just wait till one of them has to make a healthcare claim
  12. This is just bullshit. An engineering degree is valuable specifically because of the high and uniform bar to be a professional engineer. And in tech, you REALLY don't need a degree unless you're going BigTech™. And even then, I've met senior folks with only an associates degree
  13. Extremely fucky to announce something like this on April fools day. I have no doubt that El presidente would rename Big E into the Musk.
  14. Not hyperbole: the feds are deporting now and asking questions later. Facts and evidence be damned. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/ This shit is actually happening. Please stop thread shitting and doing the baghdad bob, Rex.
  15. Holy shit Rex go day drink somewhere else. Please stop claiming that this thread is full of hyperbole and dismissing the actual real kidnappings our government is doing under the guise of immigration enforcement
  16. This sort of pearl clutching is more often than not a self-report by those people vocing their "concern"
  17. This isn't "the right" or "my team" or "your team". This is AMERICA. AMERICA is shipping people off to labor camps in El Salvador without due process, and oopsie poopsie they scooped up a few brown citizen too. Terrorizing your political enemies and threatening them with cruel and unusual punishments like labor camps or being sent into forced marriages is not what AMERICA should be doing. The fact that you're continually framing is as "my team" and "your team" is the whole fucking reason we're in this mess. It's not about teams. It's about what is fucking right and wrong. This is not right. Stop arguing in advance of and the benefit of your intellectual peers that this is all just overblown nonsense. It's not. You should read "They Thought They Were Free" sometime to have a better grasp of the context you're dismissing out of hand to see where that thinking can lead. The above is a snippet with a name genericized to better illustrate how history is rhyming.
  18. Ya know Rex, seeing how desperately you want to derail the thread and conversation to NOT be about these extrajudicial and illegal actions by ICE, one could easily support the conclusion that you're pleased with what's happening.
  19. dangerous bet, going against State media. They might be the only folks with a broadcast license before long
  20. Genuinely, with South and North Korea becoming closer to China I wonder if there's a chance they end up getting things patched up between North and South. We do live in interesting times
  21. Here's the actual Reuters link. Just post that instead of the reaxx from socials lol https://www.reuters.com/world/china-japan-south-korea-will-jointly-respond-us-tariffs-chinese-state-media-says-2025-03-31/
  22. throw in a few trade wars and retaliatory tariffs, and baby you got a stew goin' https://www.reuters.com/world/china-japan-south-korea-will-jointly-respond-us-tariffs-chinese-state-media-says-2025-03-31/
  23. Poor dude already had his Rolls redistributed a while back lol
  24. Some solid investigative journalism over Yotta and Juno, and those other FinTech products that nicely rugpulled their customers. Nearly $96,000,000 is gone, like teardrops in the rain.
×
×
  • Create New...