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Yeah....I mean....we literally have our national leadership willing to go to economic war with the entire fucking planet for the privilege of getting sweatshops back here. They fucking SAID SO.
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Problem: America's cancer isn't the leadership. It's the electorate. We elected the worst president in history. Then said Then...fucking did it. And we're still saying A country full of....American voters....is not a reliable or trustworthy ally, trading partner, or even a casual acquaintance you have drinks with.
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Markets still falling like whoa
Brisketexan replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
And these. "I really wanted a blowjob last night. So I pulled a gun on my wife and she caved and gave me one." Wulaw: "WINNING!" Sane people: "Holy fucking shit, that explains why she immediately filed for divorce, is going to take you to the cleaners, and has filed criminal charges that will see you put away for 10 years. And also, she told everyone in your professional and social circles about it, and now nobody wants anything to do with you." Wulaw: "But don't forget -- HE GOT A BJ!" -
Markets still falling like whoa
Brisketexan replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
This. The "problem," as repeatedly stated by the administration and its mouthpieces, is that we have trade deficits (for goods....note how they are silent on services, for which we run a trade SURPLUS) with many countries. That's it. That's the problem. Now, they attribute that to "cheating" and such, but "cheating" is just the mechanism they blame for creating the "problem" - that problem being "we buy more goods from Vietnam than Vietnam buys from us." The "problem" is fucking dumb, stupid, and idiotic. A trade deficit per se is not a problem. It is a state of relationship between two trading partners who have differing needs and resources. I will always run a deficit with HEB. That deficit is not only not a problem, it is a mutually beneficial arrangement. This whole conversation, using only the words of the administration itself, is dumb layered on stupid layered on moronic topped with insanity icing. -
And you're at risk of losing a crapton of it the more business you do with a madman. Strategic, long-term disentanglement is the play.
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I mean, are there any words in the English language sweeter than "meat added?"
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Give it up? Of course not. Dramatically lessen their dependence on it? They'd be crazy not to.
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"Arsonist takes credit for putting out fire he started."
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Clone that. Then have her washed and bring her to my tent.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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These. We just demonstrated that we are unreliable, pointlessly vindictive, indiscriminate psychopath. So, who out there wants to HELP that counterparty and do MORE business with them? Yeah, even fucking Kyrgyzstan is looking at us and doing this:
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God. The billionaires just can't get enough of the orange cum-guzzling. I hate every fucking single one of them, and pray for a world full of Luigis.
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What does that even mean?
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Bingo again. Anyone with any life experience knows that the #1 way to do business with an unreliable and erratic trading partner is....don't do business with them. And don't think that Europe hasn't learned the FUCK out of that lesson. First, they marched blissfully into being energy dependent on Russia, which then used that dependence to exert violent pressure and extortion against Europe. Follow that just a few years later with Trump, following the Russia script for all the trad we have with the EU and other trading partners. The most important first step in doing business is "if at all possible, choose wisely when choosing who to do business with." Would you put your billions in capital investment in a new factory at risk, depending on the whims of an unreliable and erratic POTUS? You'd be batshit insane to do so. There is no business case to be made for "based on tariffs/protectionist US policies, spend the money to build a factory there." And this. 100%. Remember, no matter what ELSE it is, it is ALWAYS about the grift.
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To some extent. Geography and transport creates difficulty. Central America is ripe for the picking -- actual ports, very close to American ports. Rail lines that already exist. Internal infrastructure (e.g., reliable power) is lacking....but that's part of the win-win. Guatemala gets better power supply and more and better jobs - both raising their living standards and removing the incentive to flee north for opportunity. We get goods assembled/manufactured 1500 miles away, in a country that is small and dependent enough that it CAN'T overly flex its trading partner hand. There are SMART ways to handle trade. Declaring "all trade deficits are evil, and we're willing to wreck our economy and the global economy to prove it" is the dumbest thing ever. We have a $30 trillion GDP. We have a $1 trillion goods trade deficit (I'm using round numbers....and if I wanted to be ACCURATE, I'd say we only have around a $700 billion deficit, as we run a $278 billion SERVICES SURPLUS, but let's just stick with goods for easy numbers). That's a 30-1 ratio. If we were a household with a $90k income, the equivalent would be a $3k "trade deficit" (more spent on goods than our trading partners, like HEB and Lowes, spend on us). Nevermind the absurdity of saying trade deficits are bad, period. The amount of destruction we're undertaking for something worth 1/30th of our GDP is insane. If you looked at any $90k household, and said "so, you spend $3k on goods that you don't get spending back on, leaving you with $87k in income".....the sane answer would be "cool....so what? And remember, I GET something for the $3k I spend -- groceries, hardware, what have you." There's not a single part of this approach that isn't utterly stupid, built on a foundation of stupid, and creating an eternal historical monument to stupid.
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I agree and disagree in part. There are definitely some strategic items on which we should disentangle and reshore (not just re China: see chips, and the CHIPS Act to do so). But when it comes to stitching shoes, and screwing iPhones together and such, that can and should happen elsewhere. Personally, I’d love it if we incentivized more of that happening in Central America, which would help on MANY fronts (easier shipping, less strategic vulnerability, and better employment there reduces immigrant outflow). But we are doing the opposite of strategic thing here. Everything is as dumb as possible. FFS, admin mouthpieces are saying BOTH that this approach will bring back manufacturing jobs…and that those factories will be fully automated, with almost no jobs….just so. Fucking. Stupid.
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It both is and isn’t. Take the slavery and over-the-top repression out of the mix, and China would have similar market power to what it has now. But that ship has sailed. The power to use commerce to disentangle from China or get China to alter its way is no longer really available to the rest of the world. We pissed away everything. Everything.
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Yet the US is providing ironclad proof that continuing to depend on the US will be even more painful, maybe fatal. The objectively interesting and ironic thing is that our idiot leadership is talking about how the US public has to "take its medicine and suffer to get us where we need to be." They are WRONG with respect to the US, but their actions are making that lesson RIGHT with respect to everyone else. In 10 years, the entire non-Chinese/Russian aligned world should be flying Eurofighters and Saab aircraft instead of F-35s and such, as just one example. It's going to take time for European development and production to get there.....but get there they will. Because it's the only rational choice. If a choice is painful....but it is the ONLY rational path....then people can and will endure pain. Our choice, inflicting great pain and much more to come, is completely IRrational. So nobody is going to join us on that path. And this: We have handed China a gift, and unprecedented opportunity. They can and will exploit it.
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H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
Brisketexan replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
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China will do two things: 1) Pivot away from the US as a trading partner. 2) Pivot TO the EU and others as a trading partner. All China has to do in that respect is "not be as shitty and batshit as the US." And that's a low fucking bar. Sure, there's some short-term pain for China. China can bear it, they are much tougher than we (Americans) are, and they play a long game. And China will have to be friendlier/more favorable than they would like in building new/enhanced trading relationships with others. So be it, that's short term. Once they get their hooks in, then they can start playing more hard ball . . . 10-20 years from now. We are squandering everything. And I don't use the term "everything" hyperbolically. I mean, literally everything.
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H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
Brisketexan replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
As a male, the primary item I use for emotional support is my penis. Because I am a shallow thinker and a simple man. So, I think we should all start shopping at HEB with our dicks out, and if anyone says anything, bristle and claim discrimination against our emotional support dong. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Yes to all of this. Also, I still want to see her RATs. -
China is not erratic and insane. China is asshole. Strategic asshole, but not insane and unpredictable asshole. China is Houston drivers: homicidal, assholish, but with a purpose -- hauling ass from point A to point B at all times. The US under Trump is Austin drivers: will stop in the middle lane of the freeway because they just now decided their exit is the one three lanes over. I much prefer dealing with Houston drivers, because "strategic homicidal asshole" is predictable, and that allows ME to drive strategically. This also offers opportunity. If everyone knows that "deals" with Trump are just words you say to make his ego feel good, then fuck it, make a "deal" with him, and don't keep it. What's that, Donnie, you'll drop tariffs on me if I promise to move my shoe factories to the US? Sure thing. I am commissioning a blue-ribbon panel to study the proper formation and composition of the committee to evaluate how to make that happen, with a plan to be developed in the next 4 years. Walla. Trump proclaims victory, and he brought manufacturing back. And I go about my business as usual, except maybe I set up some pointless panel to issue periodic reports with pretty pictures and graphs to make Trump happy, and those reports mention the "Donald J. Trump Shoe Factory of American Victory" a few times.
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All China has to do is "not be an erratic and insane fucking asshole." Seriously. That's the play. They don't have to be trustworthy. They just have to be "the most trustworthy large economy that others can deal with." And they do that by simply....not being the US. China has a massive opportunity right now. Helping us destroy ourselves even more is a great long-term play for China, which actually CAN weather some short term pain for long-term gain (market share, relative credibility, reliability, etc.).
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There is a 100% chance that he will threaten to do that, repeatedly. There's a 90% chance he does so within the next week. He is -- quite literally -- a fucking insane madman with a 100 or lower IQ. He's an insane moron. And we've given him full and unchecked control of.....the planet.
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