Or you can talk to a downtown restaurant owner who is on a hook for $50,000 a year and more in expenses due to tariffs with China. He buys paper/plastic cups
Reuters - UPS to cut 20,000 jobs on reduced Amazon deliveries, as US tariffs weigh
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ups- ... 025-04-29/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ups- ... 025-04-29/
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^^^ Nah, we're cooked. The ports are emptying and the knock-on effects to shipping and logistics/supply-chain jobs are going to be real bad. Stock up now.
Recession already started. Best first 100 days ever!
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. economy shrinks by 0.3% in first quarter of 2025, first drop in three years as Trump trade wars disrupt businesses.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. economy shrinks by 0.3% in first quarter of 2025, first drop in three years as Trump trade wars disrupt businesses.
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Is this first time a US economic contraction was caused by a president flapping his stupid gums?
Big defense spending increase. I thought Europe spending more on defense was supposed to relieve us.
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It shouldn’t cost $300MM+ to secure the southern border. Invading Mexico on the other hand…
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Mexico? Trump says he ‘doesn’t rule out’ using military force to control Greenland https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/greenland-invasion-trump-jd-vance-rcna199132
This budget is DOA in Congress, per the usual.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tiful-bill
Possibly the worst bill in American history. Easily the worst in modern American history.
Possibly the worst bill in American history. Easily the worst in modern American history.
Let's hope the fiscally responsible branding fades. The law and order too for that matter. Probably won't sadly.
Expect more population loss around our universities. Between the assault on foreign students and the tornado, DeBaliviere Place will be hit hard
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That’s devastating. Some of those new builds in DP might be 75% Chinese students.quincunx wrote:Expect more population loss around our universities. Between the assault on foreign students and the tornado, DeBaliviere Place will be hit hard
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They built up that area and, in my opinion, overbuilt it
Possibly rents will come down
Thats been a problem strip after the old Garavellis closed. In the 80's it was a strip mall with a pizza place Than a new strip with a grocery store and a Starbucks . All that is gone
Best to come of it, a calming down of the traffic
Possibly rents will come down
Thats been a problem strip after the old Garavellis closed. In the 80's it was a strip mall with a pizza place Than a new strip with a grocery store and a Starbucks . All that is gone
Best to come of it, a calming down of the traffic
Fascism go brrr. Obviously, this is going to be horrible for St. Louis and the entire country more broadly. I just have to wonder how much longer this country is just going to sit back and allow itself to be destroyed and pillaged. These types of things can't just be undone down the line, there won't be a country to even think about rebuilding in the not-too-distant future at the rate things are being destroyed. There will be no reason for foreigners or other countries to have any trust in America in the future unless this ideology is eradicated.quincunx wrote: ↑May 28, 2025Expect more population loss around our universities. Between the assault on foreign students and the tornado, DeBaliviere Place will be hit hard
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Americans don't care. By and large, they're too dumb and too selfish to see the wider effects of voting how they did (or not voting at all) and don't care unless it effects them personally. Even then, they only care insofar as to how they personally are effected. This country is cooked; assuming we even have free and fair elections going forward and even if a Democrat wins the presidency and at least one chamber of Congress, it'll take longer than 4 years (generations, really) to fix or even mitigate the damages. Republicans will again blame "the libs" and "the left" for all of the country's ills and the voters will lap it up and vote Republican yet again.
Fixing the mess would take a lot of changes to the Constitution and quite frankly a lot of harsh consequences for people in positions of power and influence that most people wouldn't be comfortable with.
Fixing the mess would take a lot of changes to the Constitution and quite frankly a lot of harsh consequences for people in positions of power and influence that most people wouldn't be comfortable with.
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I tend to agree. I have been reading on social media and I am in shock of those that praise this person and genuinely believe his rhetoric. The lies are becoming truth in their eyes. So very sad.
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Is it really that hard to believe though?
The US is a Christian fundamentalist apartheid state, founded as a slave republic, that eradicated its indigenous population. This is what we deserve.
The US is a Christian fundamentalist apartheid state, founded as a slave republic, that eradicated its indigenous population. This is what we deserve.
I think the only way we are able to come anywhere close to restoring our "former glory" or surpassing it is an era of reconstruction, even harsher than the post-Civil War era. But the Democrats nationally are just totally inept and useless and beholden to Wall Street, so they won't do that or even dream of doing it even though it's going to be necessary. The country may very well be dead until some movement starts to start clawing back this government.Trololzilla wrote: ↑May 29, 2025Americans don't care. By and large, they're too dumb and too selfish to see the wider effects of voting how they did (or not voting at all) and don't care unless it effects them personally. Even then, they only care insofar as to how they personally are effected. This country is cooked; assuming we even have free and fair elections going forward and even if a Democrat wins the presidency and at least one chamber of Congress, it'll take longer than 4 years (generations, really) to fix or even mitigate the damages. Republicans will again blame "the libs" and "the left" for all of the country's ills and the voters will lap it up and vote Republican yet again.
Fixing the mess would take a lot of changes to the Constitution and quite frankly a lot of harsh consequences for people in positions of power and influence that most people wouldn't be comfortable with.
So I feel that we are trapped in this death spiral for the better part of the rest of our lives, and a city like St. Louis really has no hope to thrive or succeed in it.
Unfortunately, I think what would be best right now is for the economy to crash and people to feel real pain that this country hasn't felt since the Great Depression. That may be the only thing to generate the opposition to this fascist takeover that would be needed to oust it in a non-violent way.
StlToday - Feds’ crackdown on Chinese student visas could hit WashU the hardest in Missouri
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/edu ... 7b65a.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/edu ... 7b65a.html
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The impact on Champaign Illinois will be devastating
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Agreed on the country essentially needing a full reset at this point.Auggie wrote: ↑May 29, 2025
I think the only way we are able to come anywhere close to restoring our "former glory" or surpassing it is an era of reconstruction, even harsher than the post-Civil War era. But the Democrats nationally are just totally inept and useless and beholden to Wall Street, so they won't do that or even dream of doing it even though it's going to be necessary. The country may very well be dead until some movement starts to start clawing back this government.
So I feel that we are trapped in this death spiral for the better part of the rest of our lives, and a city like St. Louis really has no hope to thrive or succeed in it.
Unfortunately, I think what would be best right now is for the economy to crash and people to feel real pain that this country hasn't felt since the Great Depression. That may be the only thing to generate the opposition to this fascist takeover that would be needed to oust it in a non-violent way.
God, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant did some irreparable damage to this country in terms of how softly Reconstruction was handled. Quite frankly, every single Confederate politician and military officer should have been executed, all slave owners should have had every asset seized and redistributed, voting laws should have been enforced by military force for far longer than they were, and every Confederate state should have been ruled by a northern occupational government for as long as it took to root out all traces of Confederate ideology. I mean hell, slavery was technically never even abolished in the US, just redefined.