Did you know the deal with have with Canada and Mexico right now is the deal Trump personally negotiated and called the greatest trade agreement in history (Nov 30 2018).leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑Mar 12, 2025I just bumped my 401k contribution to MAX. Love it. It’s a little chaotic right now. Tariffs get implemented, then a new, better deal for the US gets worked out, then tariffs are paused or stopped. It's all just a quick and simple renegotiating of bad deals. I'm ok with DOGEing everything with a hatchet and starting over. It's been so corrupt for so long. The reset button always works. All good. Best thing to happen in years. I honestly thought nobody would ever actually do this. It's so great.
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Yeah but he tells the voters that they’re perfect and that all of their problems are caused by the evil boogeymen out there. And this works because the average American is the stupidest average person in the first world and most of the second world.
leeharveyawesome wrote:I just bumped my 401k contribution to MAX. Love it.
Lucky you! I’m focusing on cash hoarding so I can pay my mortgage whenever mass private sector layoffs start. I also canceled $30k in kitchen updates yesterday. I was sure to let the manufacturer and general contractor know that Russia Trump’s economic uncertainty were to blame. I was the GCs third cancellation this week for similar reasons.
leeharveyawesome wrote: It’s a little chaotic right now. Tariffs get implemented, then a new, better deal for the US gets worked out, then tariffs are paused or stopped. It's all just a quick and simple renegotiating of bad deals.
All at the small cost of our relationship with Canada, EU, and Mexico. The only people who think tariffs will work are those who believe we can manufacture things in this country. Labor and materials? Who needs them!
Average Americans are so naive to what it takes to maintain things. You take for granted America’s high quality of safety in transportation, pharmaceuticals, housing, education, land management. All possible thanks to bureaucrats. Why do things take so long? Because at some point Americans asked for transparency and new processes which ensure procurement and safety. Once those standards fall, maybe people will realize.leeharveyawesome wrote: I'm ok with DOGEing everything with a hatchet and starting over. It's been so corrupt for so long. The reset button always works. All good. Best thing to happen in years. I honestly thought nobody would ever actually do this. It's so great.
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I believe that all necessary government services will improve post DOGE. You are welcomed to have a different opinion.
People in India are making iPhones for $170 per month. How high would the (permanent) tariff have to be to coerce Apple to make them in the US?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-53 ... -take-hold
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-53 ... -take-hold
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quincunx wrote: ↑Mar 12, 2025People in India are making iPhones for $170 per month. How high would the (permanent) tariff have to be to coerce Apple to make them in the US?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-53 ... -take-hold
I have no idea but there's this.
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/ ... our-years/
I'm definitely not going down the rabbit hole with this all day. I gotta get back to work before I get DOGEd
$500 billion for a whopping 20,000 new jobs is not the win you seem to think it is.
That's server manufacturing and silicon engineering, and advanced manufacturing, things the US has been leading on already. That sort of investment was the point of the CHIPS Act.
The fantasy of the tariffs is that it will bring jobs that don't require a ton of education back to rural West Virginia and the like. That ain't it. And those servers are going to be more expensive with more expensive steel and aluminum.
The fantasy of the tariffs is that it will bring jobs that don't require a ton of education back to rural West Virginia and the like. That ain't it. And those servers are going to be more expensive with more expensive steel and aluminum.
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And tech analysts doubt that this announcement is bonafide
Have any of the tariffs actually led to new deals? So far I've only seen them stopped/paused to also stop reciprical tariffs which wouldn't have been there without the trade war in the first placeaddxb2 wrote: ↑Mar 12, 2025leeharveyawesome wrote:I just bumped my 401k contribution to MAX. Love it.
Lucky you! I’m focusing on cash hoarding so I can pay my mortgage whenever mass private sector layoffs start. I also canceled $30k in kitchen updates yesterday. I was sure to let the manufacturer and general contractor know that Russia Trump’s economic uncertainty were to blame. I was the GCs third cancellation this week for similar reasons.
leeharveyawesome wrote: It’s a little chaotic right now. Tariffs get implemented, then a new, better deal for the US gets worked out, then tariffs are paused or stopped. It's all just a quick and simple renegotiating of bad deals.
All at the small cost of our relationship with Canada, EU, and Mexico. The only people who think tariffs will work are those who believe we can manufacture things in this country. Labor and materials? Who needs them!
Average Americans are so naive to what it takes to maintain things. You take for granted America’s high quality of safety in transportation, pharmaceuticals, housing, education, land management. All possible thanks to bureaucrats. Why do things take so long? Because at some point Americans asked for transparency and new processes which ensure procurement and safety. Once those standards fall, maybe people will realize.leeharveyawesome wrote: I'm ok with DOGEing everything with a hatchet and starting over. It's been so corrupt for so long. The reset button always works. All good. Best thing to happen in years. I honestly thought nobody would ever actually do this. It's so great.
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The chip conductor projects that were announced by Trump had already been made by Biden. Trump is trying claim whatever he’s trying to claim cause that’s what pure con men do take credit for something good they actually aren’t responsible for.
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About to hit a very dark time in terms of bike, pedestrian, and transit. Brickline, Green Line, and many others could be impacted.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/12/ ... ture-bikes
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/12/ ... ture-bikes
I am unironically worried that the Green Line has a higher chance of losing funding because of the "Green" in its name. I can see DOGE Crtrl-F + Delete for anything with "green" in its name. Time to change back to the Yellow Line before it's too late...
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Well, yes. It would be ironic (or is it unironic) that all things "green" would get DOGEd by the guy who just a few years years ago was apparently going to save the planet with electric vehicles.J S wrote: ↑Mar 13, 2025I am unironically worried that the Green Line has a higher chance of losing funding because of the "Green" in its name. I can see DOGE Crtrl-F + Delete for anything with "green" in its name. Time to change back to the Yellow Line before it's too late...
Along the same lines, I'm increasingly convinced that the "workhouse" was shut down because the it's called the "workhouse". I wonder if some simple upgrades would have been made of it were known as the "yellowhouse".
Democrats just helped Republicans fund the government through September 30 in what will go down as one of the worst votes in American history. Neoliberalism at its finest!
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Well, the Trump admin has become a dictatorship.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/16/us/trump-news
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/16/us/trump-news
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and that Lufthansa flight from Germany to St. Louis may not have many German nationals
German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they tried to enter the United States legally.
https://archive.ph/9vW1X
German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they tried to enter the United States legally.
https://archive.ph/9vW1X
Propaganda channels that have outlived their purpose by decades.JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑Mar 16, 2025Well, the Trump admin has become a dictatorship.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/16/us/trump-news
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Yeah we know you prefer to get your news straight from the Kremlin.
You don't know anything.JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑Mar 17, 2025Yeah we know you prefer to get your news straight from the Kremlin.
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I know my wife learned English in part by listening to VOA. I know she gained a deep love of our country and our culture from it. You, sir, apparently don't know terribly much about VOA. It was (and hopefully will again be) a great program. It was cheap advertising. It was an asset. I'm inclined to guess that anyone who says otherwise has one heck of an anti-American agenda.
It was literally set up to fight their propaganda with our propaganda. That mission is over and the program is a relic. There are a million better ways to spend the money. That is a lovely story though.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Mar 19, 2025I know my wife learned English in part by listening to VOA. I know she gained a deep love of our country and our culture from it. You, sir, apparently don't know terribly much about VOA. It was (and hopefully will again be) a great program. It was cheap advertising. It was an asset. I'm inclined to guess that anyone who says otherwise has one heck of an anti-American agenda.
Heard it here first! Chinese and Russian propaganda is over and no longer a threat and not something we should be combating!!flipz wrote: ↑Mar 19, 2025It was literally set up to fight their propaganda with our propaganda. That mission is over and the program is a relic. There are a million better ways to spend the money. That is a lovely story though.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Mar 19, 2025I know my wife learned English in part by listening to VOA. I know she gained a deep love of our country and our culture from it. You, sir, apparently don't know terribly much about VOA. It was (and hopefully will again be) a great program. It was cheap advertising. It was an asset. I'm inclined to guess that anyone who says otherwise has one heck of an anti-American agenda.flipz wrote: ↑Mar 17, 2025You don't know anything.