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  1. The authors of the research the White House cited note that the White House did the math wrong.
  2. Lets do a little more math with the authors of the the research the White House cited.
  3. In diplomacy this is the equivalent of hitting someone with a folding chair.
  4. https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-host-stephanie-ruhle-alleges-trumps-treasury-sec-looking-for-an-exit-door/
  5. The only thing on Diego Garcia is an airbase we operate.
  6. This is “Hitler ranting in the bunker” type stuff.
  7. Well the answer to your first question is that its explicitly unconstitutional.
  8. Just divide our trade deficit by our exports to each country. That’s the ratio. Wait…..then….go ahead and multiply that by 1.
  9. Remember when (maybe) Joe Biden looked at the time at Dover AFB?
  10. It can’t be said enough: if you take a secondment or political job on this NSC you absolutely deserve to get fired by Laura Loomer in the most embarrassing way possible.
  11. Depression: On track. Germany: Rearming. Third term President: Maybe. Gentlemen I take back all I have said, my Ags are on track to bring it all home in 2029.
  12. Hell. We are all living in hell. We died of COVID and didn’t realize it.
  13. Mnuchin chimes in and he says: Don’t ask questions. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5230772-how-the-white-house-calculated-reciprocal-tariffs/
  14. Last week four American soldiers in a NATO enhanced forward presence brigade accidentally drove an M-88 recovery vehicle into a deceptively deep Lithuanian marsh and drowned. They went missing for days; the Lithuanians and Poles spared no expense or effort to find their bodies. When asked about them, Trump was not aware it hd happened. Today their remains left Lithuania and this is how the Lithuanian people sent them on their final journey. These are the people who Hesgeth and Vance called pathetic. This is a nation who Trump invited Russia to “do whatever they want with.” They treat us very unfairly, looting, pillaging, raping our economy. We are liberated at last from Lithuanians. America is great nation. America earned leadership, loyalty, admiration, even love. But Americans— except for maybe these soldiers— are not worthy of this. We are not equal in generosity or bravery or kindness to Lithuanians. Or Poles. Or Ukrainians. We have squandered our inheritance and can only hope to be one day re-welcomed, undeservedly, to the table.
  15. The amazing thing here is that for elasticity they basically wrote “this would ordinarily be 2, maybe 3, but we are just gonna go with 4.”
  16. The Communist Party used to tell people in the Eastern Bloc they didn’t really need bananas.
  17. Usually a 9/11 truther dictating the NSC’s staffing over the actual National Security Advisor would be a bigger deal. We are doing good everyone. To be clear on those staffers: Fuck ‘em. You have to fight for that detail as a career staffer or beg for it as a political. You thought you could get in the cage and your face got ate by a 9/11 truther.
  18. Usually a 9/11 truther dictating the NSC’s staffing over the actual National Security Advisor would be a bigger deal. We are doing good everyone. To be clear on those staffers: Fuck ‘em. You have to fight for that detail as a career staffer or beg for it as a political. You thought you could get in the cage and your face got ate by a 9/11 truther.
  19. This could also explain how they ended up with the desolate Antarctic islands on the list.
  20. We also levied a flat ten percent tariff on countries we have a trade surplus with. The USTR has not even bothered to make a joke explanation for that.
  21. Cross posting this from DT for clarity on how fucking stupid the admin thinks (knows) America is. The USTR formulas had nothing to do with VATS or tariffs at all, just a simple ratio reflecting a bilat trade deficit. Its Exports to US- Imports from US/Imports from US. They added some smart-sounding Econ terms and expressed them with Greek symbols to make this look complex and smart. They fixed the value of epsilon at 4 and the value of psi at .25, ensuring that they will cancel each other out. A laughable and transparent attempt to just make this simple formula look informed and analytical because they trust Americans won’t check and if they do, they’ll be too innumerate to replace the Greek symbols and do the simple task of multiplying an integer with its reciprocal and see that they just added some fucking chrome hubcaps onto their clapped out Altima equation. They are absolutely right.
  22. @ChickenSandwich , the USTR released the formula. It is Exports to US- Imports from US/Imports from US. Nothing to to do with VATS or tariffs at all, just a simple ratio reflecting a bilat trade deficit. They added some smart-sounding Econ terms and expressed them with Greek symbols to make this look complex and smart. They fixed the value of epsilon at 4 and the value of psi at .25, ensuring that they will cancel each other out. A laughable and transparent attempt to just make this simple formula look informed and analytical because they trust Americans won’t check and if they do, they’ll be too innumerate to replace the Greek symbols and do the simple task of multiplying an integer with its reciprocal and see that they just added some fucking chrome hubcaps onto their clapped out Altima equation. They are absolutely right.
  23. From the USTR calculation methodology exec sum. It really is this stupid. As the head of a boutique financial advisor firm, I note that Jose the weekly landscaper does not purchase any financial advising services from me and I am running a complete deficit with him. I decide to begin charging a property access fee to him until he agrees to stop the unfair practice of packing subsidized lonches and tacos made by his wife and instead purchase them from me (I’ve redirected my junior associate from working on finance stuff into the taco stand sector that our firm has been missing out on but I still pay him a finance salary).
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