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2 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:
Penny wise and pound foolish, the lot of you.
I'm taking this opportunity to sell my wife, kids, pets, the house, the cars, and any depreciable assets lying around. I'll then be grabbing a fly rod and tackle, a change of underwear, and a bottle or two of the good stuff and riding a Triumph Bonneville down Mexico way. No half measures.
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Remember, this absolute complete and total fucking dumbshit thinks that if we have a trade surplus instead of a trade deficit, WE WIN!
Of course, having read zero fucking history, and not able to realize that trade deficit/surplus has next to nothing to do with whether our economy is actually good or shitty, this dumbass would think that. Here's a good glimpse at a period when we were obviously SUPER-WINNING, because we had a trade surplus: THE FUCKING GREAT DEPRESSION.
Ben. Fucking. SHAPIRO. Is sharing shit like this. EVERYONE WITH A LICK OF SENSE KNOWS THIS. But not Mango Mussolini and his Band of Merry Dipshit Sycophants.
For the 100th time, what is amazing is NOT just that America's economy and world standing are in ruins....it's not that it's happened in mere DAYS....it's that it is ENTIRELY fucking self-inflicted. We pulled the cord on the suicide vest, so we could celebrate the shrapnel wounding people in fucking Cambodia and Lesotho.
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4 minutes ago, Superhero said:
Yes. It should be limited protect certain industries.
South Korea put tariffs (stopped imports?) on passenger vehicles while they were propping up Hyundai. Once Hyundai became profitable, they allowed more foreign cars to come into SK.
The US makes plenty of stuff. Just not what people will buy in volume. e.g.
15 million people in the US buying $500 TVs from China = $7,500M ($7.5 billion)
50 foreign companies buying high precision instruments at $10M = $500MSimilar to tax cuts... the "trickle down effect" is absolutely bullshit.
$100 tax cut to 99% of the population. They'll use the $100 to buy the shit they NEED like groceries.
$1M tax cut to the 1%, they may use it to buy a Porsche or 2, but will never spend as much as the 99%.Shhhhhh. Don't present the idiots with math, it only pisses them off.
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24 minutes ago, Dark Horse said:
I know it’s a good sound bite; but we have sanctions on Russia. North Korea and Cuba also aren’t on the list for the same reason.
We still have $3.5 billion in trade with Russia. ZERO tariffs put on that trade.
We import a mere $11 million in goods from Syria, on the other hand....and we just put a 41% tariff on trade with Syria.
When it comes to explaining why the Regime did not put any tariffs on trade with Russia, you have two choices: 1) pure corruption and malevolence, or 2) galactic stupidity. Option 3), "both," is also on the table.
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Counterpoint: I'm going to spend MORE. More experiences, dinners, trips, all of that shit. Because that's what you do when the fucking apocalypse is coming.
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17 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:
This is where the MAGA cult is at in defending Dear Leader: money doesn’t matter.
Yet, just a few months ago, ALL the Trumpkins told me the election was all about inflation, and the price of eggs, and gas prices, and "my 401k was better under Trump!" Literally all of those things, they stated as bedrock, foundational reasons for electing Trump.
Stupidest, most dishonest, fucking self-sodomizing timeline in history. And we have to go through it with them.
6 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:You were going to take Europeans to a Texas beach? I thought y’all were friends?
Man, I was gonna expose them to some CULTURE. They've never seen mexican-coonass redneckified beaching. Little bit of crabbing, fishing for specks in the surf, drinking cold beer out in the hot waves, grilling steaks for dinner on a fire smokey enough to drive away many of the skeeters. L-I-V-I-N, motherfucker. They won't know what hit 'em.
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16 minutes ago, Nivek said:
Yes. And basically that brings about the end of the constitution as we know it. No taxation without representation was a spark that started this nation. Extinguishing the representation (which has been smothered) over a fairly meaningless election is their trial run to end the experiment. Trump told them they would never need to vote again and he meant it.
All of these things coming together was always the end game. We are 100% in the end game now. We are getting what we asked for: a post-democracy, fascist authoritarian state in such (self-inflicted) economic collapse that it empowers the regime to seize unimaginable and irrevocable power and control.
We don't get out if this any way OTHER than something involving an Esso station. And of course, the incredible human cost to be incurred before/if we ever get there.
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1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Bring the textile mills back home! 🔥🇺🇸🤜🏻
I mean, we just need to get back to prosperity.
So, I invite you to invest in Brisketexan's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory II, who cares if they burn, they're just bitches Boogaloo.
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Just now, Gil Bang said:
The world cup ain't coming dude.
Fair. Seriously, it may well be on the table. Simply because it's tough to stage a tournament when there's a war going on in Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Iran, involving half the potential teams/countries.
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7 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:
Check out the Steel Shank thread for delicious, money saving recipes.
Yep. My mom had this in her "when we were young and poor" stash:
As I'm cleaning out their house, I hope to find it. Seems it'll come in handy these days.
Just now, Deej said:I will no longer pay for any OnlyFans content over $5.
That's just good thinking. Because when you look at the content that'll go for $5 or less, well, your price-per-pound is going to be FANTASTIC.
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Just now, Steel Shank said:That leaves a bunch of ones for me.
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15 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
We’ve fucked around and now we’re in the finding out stage.
We'll show them. Team Trump is already moving forward with their plan to make America the leader in alternative, ummm, "simplified" automobile manufacturing:
...and video technology....
We'll show those dirty Chicoms we don't need their "rare earths!"
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11 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
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3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
You fuckwads voted for this, and you knew it!
Y'all voted for lies quaintly called "false claims" by the lily-livered mass media. Trump constantly lies. Trump constantly touted tariffs as trade policy. You hate negroes and are terrified of "falsely claimed" caravans racing to your beloved Eisenhower America from parts south. You need to believe that drag shows and homosexual teachers are after your kids. You have to believe these things because those people are all better than you. They're humans and not pathetic things.
Y'all lie all the time, too, to yourselves about who you are and why you do things. You're rotten to the core just like the greatness you want for this nation. Only bad things should happen to you. I'd say get measles, but you'd walk around infecting everybody while you denied you were sick.
Believe me, you're sick.
Roma, you're coming over to the hate side. Good. That's where shit will get done.
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Just now, Guadaloopy said:
He's fucking around, and I hope he finds out.
He won't. He is protected by the regime. That's a hallmark of fascism: the favored enterprises are always protected by the regime.
Remember when conservatives used to yell that the government "shouldn't pick winners and losers?" Yeah.....every accusation is a confession, exhibit number infinity.
Elon will be fine. He is backed, literally, by the full faith and credit of the US government.
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1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Fiddling while Rome burns. Except - PLOT TWIST! - he's ALSO the arsonist!
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1 minute ago, Macanudo said:
Of course I remember. You won't let me forget...
Signed,
Macanudo
Ledge T-Shirt Manager
About that....I presume you are working with our, uhhh...."transportation broker" to ensure that we get our t-shirts from Bangladesh into the country and on the rack without paying the tariff because we get a "special exemption." Capiche?
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Just now, Firemans4Horn said:
#winning
Sure. We are going to functionally burn down the Library at Alexandria while we're at it. If you think a purge of the Library of Congress getting rid of all materials that "do not align with the administration's priorities" isn't coming, you haven't been paying attention.
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So, the past 70 days or so reminded me of the phone call I got in November of 2016 from @Macanudo, asking me "seriously, do you really think this is that bad? How bad could it be?" And....I told him how bad I actually thought it was (I was wrong, though....it was and is even worse than that). Remember that conversation, Mac? I do. Seriously, I remember where I was standing when we had it.
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6 minutes ago, kevwun said:
I'd say this tariff stupidity is probably the top non-war unforced error a US President has ever committed. Just no reason for any of it and so incredibly stupid. This really is Trump's masterpiece. He decided to cut the legs off the US and World economy for absolutely no reason. This benefits no one, well there's one country that's probably pretty happy.
What's really important to understand is that this blunder is far from just being an economic one. It is across-the-board. Remember, trade wars are wars. And the US just declared war on.....this:
We are now the enemy of....literally every person and country on the planet. Via an insane, unprovoked, and self-destructive war. It's just so. Fucking. Stupid.
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4 minutes ago, Pancho said:
So.....let's say that all of that is true (I have no way of knowing whether it is or not). The part that is left out is that Karmelo was at the track meet....with a knife. That fact alone speaks of bad intentions. And I note that fact is omitted from the recitation above.
Is it reasonably likely that this event is the result of the intersection of two dudes who had shit intentions and shit behavior? Sure is possible. And in light of that, the efforts to paint either one of them as an innocent angel are distasteful as hell.
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18 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:Oh I realize it. And frankly it is entirely justified. I don't know why anybody would ever trust us again. And I certainly would not visit here as a foreigner.
Yeah.....the layers of impact here are staggering, truly. Just some fascinating ones on a personal level:
1) My son is the only American in a class on Transatlantic Foreign Relations at a university in Germany right now. He relates that damned near every class, as they are discussing the latest globally devastating misstep by the US, the class turns to him and says "so....what do you think?" He tries to explain the American perspective, but so many times, he just ends with "I've got nothing. It's just so stupid." At least his classmates seem kind and sympathetic.
2) And yes, both kids have had multiple conversations where they have to explain that half of America is victims in this whole deal, as big or bigger victims than folks in the rest of the world.
3) On a selfish personal level, I'm kind of pissed about what this is likely to do with our plans for summer 2026, when the World Cup is coming to Texas (Dallas and Houston). We were already talking with various groups of friends overseas about coming in for that. We'd all get together, barbecues, the beach, attend matches, just have a great gathering. Now....I'm more and more convinced that they aren't interested in supporting the US economy in any way, they aren't interested in the risks of being randomly abused/detained by our CBP/immigration system...they are just bunkering, and reaching the "yeah, we love y'all, Brisket family....but we're not willing to travel to the US right now" point. And I can't fucking blame them.
We are becoming a pariah state, and we fucking deserve it. All of it. And more.
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Just now, Rex Kramer said:
What on earth are you even speaking about? You might wanna stay on topic. And and Captain Dipshit veer off topic constantly in unyielding effort to bash Trump.
In fairness, that takes no effort at all. He's pretty much self-bashing. Which works out well for me, as I'm pretty lazy.
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I mean....I'm pretty sure that just tossing your used coffee grounds outside isn't really "planting a coffee tree," but you do you, man.