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@xenon said in Trumpenomics:

We've already seen this movie in the 60's and 70's in the US auto market. The US auto industry got protections, and got bloated. Japanese outcompeted them. Then when trade was eventually liberalized the Japanese dominated.

Trump probably holding on to the losing side of that argument since the 70s.

Don’t forget electronics… Oh, those halcyon days of Pioneer and Magnavox… Sony? Nobody would buy that piece of shit….

Of course, instead of coming out behind Japan and eventually South Korea, this time it will be China and India.

@Jolly said in Trumpenomics:

When was the first time Trump proposed tariffs?

Forty years ago.

Yeah, and Reagan smacked him around over it pretty damn good. It’s okay to criticize him, Jolly.

@xenon said in Trumpenomics:

I don’t understand how you let one idiot take down a country like this. There is no national emergency.

Name a single executive order by previous Presidents that’s even in the same galaxy as impactful as this.

It’s not 1 idiot. It’s also idiots in Congress that won’t put together enough votes to strip him of the tariff power.

And can somebody explain to me why the countries have been the most restrictive only get 50% reciprocal (Laos has a 90% barrier, and we are reciprocating at 45%, but allies at 10% are getting exactly the same?

So how accurate is the chart as far as the barriers/Tariffs that the other countries are putting on US goods?

For instance, the EU at 39%… What are the tariffs or barriers they are referring to? Is it strictly customs? Are they referring to the VAT, which is on all goods sold in the EU, domestic or imported? Are these universal fees that are placed on all goods? I would appreciate more info.

It’s established. I doubt a 65 year old dies of pneumonia without the throat cancer…

And this is a consequence of HPV…

Wow… I liked his Doc Holiday in Tombstone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html

@Mik said in Funny Pics:

Snort

Turns out he’s actually a 70’s-80’s era Democrat.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/us-news/white-house-weighing-tax-hikes-for-the-rich-to-pay-for-trumps-no-tax-on-tips-promise-report/

Still, better than the alternative we were given.

George normally takes a little time off following a new presidential term starting off. The vitriol levels are a little excessive during that time. I had a quick conversation with him last week. He’ll be back.

@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

Thanks! I want to share that. I wonder if I can find the non-X video?

We see you!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trans-student-assaults-conservative-activist-bike-lock-unsettling-video-wanted-kill-me

Maybe tomorrow he’ll announce this has all been a big April Fool’s Prank?

@Horace said in Did they go woke?:

Just last week Ben Shapiro was telling everybody how their balance sheet was awesome and the Boering thing was unrelated to finances.

Yeah, Klavan had a weird segment where he addressed the audience about Boering stepping down that was meant to sound like it was no big deal, but made it sound like it was a big deal…

@Mik said in Snow White and the Seven … Whatever They Identify As:

@Horace said in Snow White and the Seven … Whatever They Identify As:

Disney is now getting sued by 'little people' for excluding them from appearing as the dwarves.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14527443/snow-white-movie-dwarfs-lawsuit.html

The chain of events went something like "Peter Dinklage decided to call it bigotry to use real little people -> Disney relents and removes real little people -> real little people sue for being excluded".

I suspect they’ll come up short.

That was small of you.

@Axtremus said in Your idea for a polymarket topic here.:

@LuFins-Dad said in Your idea for a polymarket topic here.:

It is remarkable to consider the fact that this guy is this incompetent and damaging, but was still better than the alternative?

It's been quite clear to me that the alternative was better.

Then you should have been spreading the good word on larger mediums than this. You failed us all, Ax.