April 10, 2025Apr 10 1 hour ago, Tnt4philly said: Oh no, a use of the word that doesn’t mean literally. It’s almost like it has more than one meaning. Listen here, bucko. I'm taking that word back from you linguistic terrorists. If you want to act like a Kardashian then inject your buttocks with Country Crock and start making your way through every black guy on the west coast.
April 10, 2025Apr 10 1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said: Beat me to it. You must some sort of notification set up anytime someone makes a post with that word in it.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 25 minutes ago, Dave Moss said: Ketchup instead of Szechuan? Help me out here. Is this a ketchup on steak reference or throwing ketchup on the wall reference? Yes is also a perfectly acceptable answer.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 10 hours ago, vikas83 said: Just so we are all clear, the US and China basically had the same tariff rate on each other before this clown show began. We put an average 19.3% on Chinese goods, and they put an average of 21.1%. Now, there are obviously other issues with China like IP theft and state sponsored entities (the currency manipulation talking point is stale and hasn't been true for a while). But the actual tariff rates were basically equal. https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2019/us-china-trade-war-tariffs-date-chart But Trump's big board said something else i.e. called goods deficits tariffs, so none of the MAGA idiots will believe you on this
April 11, 2025Apr 11 8 hours ago, paco said: Help me out here. Is this a ketchup on steak reference or throwing ketchup on the wall reference? Yes is also a perfectly acceptable answer. Just about General Don’s love for ketchup
April 11, 2025Apr 11 16 hours ago, Tnt4philly said: There is nothing to refute. It would be like arguing with a flat earther. My bad for thinking you were economically conservative. I didn’t realize you agreed with Bernie in regards to tariffs. You forgot the part about my epic walk being 2 weeks after a TKR. Don't care, you're old and enfeebled. And yeah, again nothing refuted because there was nothing that's really disputable about it. Countries have tariffs for tax revenue and to bolster domestic businesses. You can argue if they're good or if unfettered "free" trade is better, but there's nothing remotely controversial about that opinion. And, yes, the analogy that it's OK to run a trade deficit because "reee, I run a trade deficit with my local grocery store" remains probably one of the dumbest things I've read in here.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 28 minutes ago, Kz! said: Don't care, you're old and enfeebled. And yeah, again nothing refuted because there was nothing that's really disputable about it. Countries have tariffs for tax revenue and to bolster domestic businesses. You can argue if they're good or if unfettered "free" trade is better, but there's nothing remotely controversial about that opinion. And, yes, the analogy that it's OK to run a trade deficit because "reee, I run a trade deficit with my local grocery store" remains probably one of the dumbest things I've read in here. But tariffs don't "bolster domestic business". They bolster SOME domestic businesses at the expense of other domestic businesses. That's what people who argue for tariffs don't understand as they apparently are only looking at things in a very small isolated vacuum. But hey if you're cool with government interference in the market to help determine winners and losers, more power to ya comrad.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 9 minutes ago, Phillyterp85 said: But tariffs don't "bolster domestic business". They bolster SOME domestic businesses at the expense of other domestic businesses. That's what people who argue for tariffs don't understand as they apparently are only looking at things in a very small isolated vacuum. But hey if you're cool with government interference in the market to help determine winners and losers, more power to ya comrad. That's true. More accurate to say domestic manufacturing. I think we can all agree that offshoring all manufacturing to countries who essentially allow slave labor shouldn't be the goal of any nation and there's nothing communist about that. Oh, and I should mention that you're a libtard.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 50 minutes ago, Kz! said: Don't care, you're old and enfeebled. And yeah, again nothing refuted because there was nothing that's really disputable about it. Countries have tariffs for tax revenue and to bolster domestic businesses. You can argue if they're good or if unfettered "free" trade is better, but there's nothing remotely controversial about that opinion. And, yes, the analogy that it's OK to run a trade deficit because "reee, I run a trade deficit with my local grocery store" remains probably one of the dumbest things I've read in here. Dear God you're all so hopelessly retarded.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 18 minutes ago, Kz! said: That's true. More accurate to say domestic manufacturing. I think we can all agree that offshoring all manufacturing to countries who essentially allow slave labor shouldn't be the goal of any nation and there's nothing communist about that. Oh, and I should mention that you're a libtard. Well even saying domestic manufacturing is not necessarily true. A domestic manufacturing company that imports raw materials from another country that is now subject to tariffs would also be negatively affected. If you want to make an argument from a human rights standpoint that we shouldn't allow a company to import goods/products from another country that allows its people to be subject to slave labor type conditions, and so even though the price we pay for goods increases, it's for the greater good so that people on the other side of the globe aren't subject to slave labor conditions to assemble products or us for our consumption. Then sure, that's certainly a valid argument. It's just not an argument that anyone in the Trump administration is actually making.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 1 minute ago, Phillyterp85 said: Well even saying domestic manufacturing is not necessarily true. A domestic manufacturing company that imports raw materials from another country that is now subject to tariffs would also be negatively affected. this one of the many details trump didn't care to go over.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 2 minutes ago, barho said: Hey, Trump, the 10-year is now higher. Now what you F’ing dope?! Has a trade war ever been lost in less than a week?
April 11, 2025Apr 11 11 minutes ago, Mike030270 said: Good. Make the consequences of this stupid trade war blatantly obvious for these idiots. Circle it in red. Maybe it'll finally sink in.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 1 minute ago, DEagle7 said: Good. Make the consequences of this stupid trade war blatantly obvious for these idiots. Circle it in red. Maybe it'll finally sink in. That's the funny thing in all of this. This hasn't even started to impact the people who truly deserve it. Well, here it comes.
April 11, 2025Apr 11 2 minutes ago, Paul852 said: That's the funny thing in all of this. This hasn't even started to impact the people who truly deserve it. Well, here it comes. I just don't trust them to acknowledge the consequences of their actions even if (when) crap hits the fan. I want the price increases from tariffs listed as a separate line item on every bill. On every Amazon order. On every ad for a product. Make it as difficult as possible to let these idiots live in willful ignorance.
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