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Yikes… Did it wash out that section of road as well? Does not look like an area with many detours…

Me and Finley…

If Karla and I were Anime…

Did you catch the bit where he called the Tariffs unconstitutional? If you get enough of the more traditional Republican senators and Congressmen to hear Shapiro and some of the other more traditional commentators come out hard against the tariffs, and they might actually stand up to Trump.

Most of you’ns don’t really care for Shapiro, but the first 10 minutes or so are useful.

@Horace said in Trumpenomics:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Trumpenomics:

@Horace said in Trumpenomics:

You have to be hoping to someday land a manufacturing job to be the target audience for these tariffs.

How many people actually want that? And can we really go back to labour-intensive manufacturing, rather than a couple of blokes and a whole shit-ton of robots?

You know what they say about generals preparing to fight the last war....

Manufacturing jobs are nobody's American dream. If they are part of a story of an achieved American dream, they'll be the story of a successful person's parents, to illustrate how in touch the successful person is, with struggle.

I’ll disagree with you, there.

So… Does anybody think new American piano manufacturing will open up? Does European pianos going up so much allow Steinway to raise their prices? Digital pianos just got a lot more expensive, too.

@Horace said in Trumpenomics:

Tariff report cards will be coming in with every earnings report of every company. Whatever alleged benefits we'll be seeing as Americans will have a very steep hill to climb to overcome those report cards. They will be even worse if companies keep prices low. There is no wiggling out of these consequences, and there's no clear idea of how the benefits are going to be felt by 90%+ of Americans. You have to be hoping to someday land a manufacturing job to be the target audience for these tariffs.

Hey, I get a percentage of every sale I make. I’m sure I can twist that to come across as I just got a raise…

@Doctor-Phibes said in Trumpenomics:

@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

Someone once said that Maga analysis comes in two forms: ‘Trump is DESTROYING his enemies’ and ‘Mr Trump is being treated very unfairly’. Nothing in between.

I imagine the MAGA people are very disappointed in how disloyal Wall Street is currently being.

I think the best thing we can do at this point is to nationalize the stock market.

Think we will end the day below 39K?

@Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:

Yeah, that one’s easy to see. It’s because of the perspective with the angled lines.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Trumpenomics:

@LuFins-Dad said in Trumpenomics:

And yet, amazingly, still better than the other option.

After the ships sinks, as you are being raped by a dolphin, you find yourself thinking 'well, at least I didn't get electrocuted by the ship's battery or eaten by the shark'!

This is idiocy. The whole trans thing is a blend of insanity and evil. So yeah, still better than the alternative. I will say that I was counting on Congress to shelter us a little from his more self/destructive impulses.

And yet, amazingly, still better than the other option.

The truly troubling thing has been the threats against companies raising their prices…

Great sale on Wall Street, today. Might even reach BOGO level discounts!

So… Did anybody actually try the honey in the pyramids?

@jon-nyc said in So many tariffs:

By the way, I think there’s a reasonable chance that I’m the first human being to ever type ‘penguins are cunts’.

Then you’ve never been on Discord.

My guess is they need 9 R senators and 2 House Members to strip Trump of the tariff ability. (I assume this is a 60 vote thing for the senate? Not 50%?)

@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.