Trumpenomics

[jon-nyc]

I’m old enough to remember when degrowth was a fringe movement on the left. But at least we’re at three or four dolls, up from 2.

[Doctor Phibes]

[jon-nyc]

We are already winning.

[Doctor Phibes]

I honestly don't understand how so many people seem to get taken in by his unbelievable bullshit.

[jon-nyc]

In fairness I agree 250 pencils is excessive. The silver lining of his tariff policies is that we should be able to put the scourge of little girls hoarding pencils behind us once and for all.

[Horace]

I was walking my dog yesterday through the park and I saw a young girl with an armload of pencils, frolicking and whatnot. I was disgusted. I walked up to the mother and gave her a very stern talking to about the manner in which she is raising her daughter.

[jon-nyc]

You’re doing the lord’s work, Horace.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

In fairness I agree 250 pencils is excessive. The silver lining of his tariff policies is that we should be able to put the scourge of little girls hoarding pencils behind us once and for all.

I foresee a huge black market opening up in middle schools across the land, and unwitting mules crossing the Mexican border unexpectedly dying of lead poisoning when their internalized pencil cases spring a leak.

This. THIS is Donald Trump's America.

[Renauda]

@Horace said in Trumpenomics:

I was walking my dog yesterday through the park and I saw a young girl with an armload of pencils, frolicking and whatnot. I was disgusted. I walked up to the mother and gave her a very stern talking to about the manner in which she is raising her daughter.

The world needs more consumption activists like you. Austerity now, austerity forever!

[Renauda]

Tariffs on foreign made movies?

He’s completely off his cracker. More crackers than Berlioz!

[jon-nyc]

I haven’t seen that. Foreign made movies usually end up in art house theaters where hundreds of people see them. Man we’ll be raking in the bucks.

[Renauda]

BBC reports 100% tariffs on foreign made movies- as per National Security concerns.

USA, you have a big problem.

[jon-nyc]

God help us if another Studio Ghibli hit sweeps the nation. To say nothing about the next Wallace and Gromit feature film.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Greg Lukianoff, CEO of FIRE:

Protectionism in the name of poor, little helpless...Hollywood!?
And that's before we even get into the morass of first amendment issues ths presents.
It's as if every day we @thefireorg get a pop quiz on First Amendment law from the weirdest Con Law 2 class ever offered.

[89th]

Again, as a husband of someone who loves to buy yet another toy or box of crayons when we have more than a surplus already... I very much welcome Trump's perspective on over consumption and border line hoarding. That being said, clearing out clutter isn't exactly my recommendation for economic policy.

[Renauda]

@89th

At the level given, it does smack of statist micromanagement.

[jon-nyc]

This is so obvious. What are the magats thinking.

WSJ: “If other countries imposed reciprocal tariffs, it could devastate Hollywood studios…The U.S. movie industry had a $15.3 billion trade surplus in 2023 and generated a positive balance of trade with every major foreign market.

[89th]

As Trump said in the interview yesterday (seriously) when asked if he takes responsibility for the economy, "The bad parts are Biden's economy, the good parts are Trump's economy." Not a surprise, but wow.