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Old 04-03-2025, 02:55 PM   #9061
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Bangladesh makes a lot of clothing as well if I recall correctly. Another 37% tariff.
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Old 04-03-2025, 02:57 PM   #9062
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This 100%!! Too expensive to build the manufacturing facility then good luck staffing them
Ironically it would cost 30%+ more to build a manufacturing facility in the states than it did 2 days ago haha. Too bad there's no under the table labor left to take advantage of to lower construction costs.
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Old 04-03-2025, 03:51 PM   #9064
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Didn't see Wakanda on the list...

Will there be a sequel ?
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Carlin was the best, he was bang on about a lot of things a long time ago.

If he thought Dan Quayle was bad he would be losing his mind today.
If you listen to any of his material right now you would swear he's still alive and taking it all in.

The man is timeless.
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If you listen to any of his material right now you would swear he's still alive and taking it all in.

The man is timeless.
I just found Brain Droppings (book) in an old storage bin and I’m enjoying getting back into Carlin.
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After huge job cuts at Health and Human Services, Kennedy is saying this...

"was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes"

What a great plan, its not like those are actual people you have to be concerned about.
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Old 04-03-2025, 07:15 PM   #9068
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After huge job cuts at Health and Human Services, Kennedy is saying this...

"was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes"

What a great plan, its not like those are actual people you have to be concerned about.
That's just a master class in efficiency. They will be teaching that in business schools for decades. Fire TOO many people then efficiently double up some work and re-hire those same people.
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Old 04-04-2025, 07:24 AM   #9070
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China 34% tariffs on all US imports and significant limits on rare mineral exports to the US. No targeted tariffs this time (and it shouldn't)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/busin...ntl/index.html

Trump's response

TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!

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Old 04-04-2025, 08:56 AM   #9071
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Right, crashing oil prices are bad for Alberta, but they'll devastate the US oil patch if they stay low for awhile. Not that they need it with their economy imploding.
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Ironically it will be the 50% on Vietnam that will really screw Trump, vast amounts of cheap clothes that the red states rely on, all the 3XXL t shirts and sweat pants in Costco are made in Vietnam, clothing in the trailer parks of Missouri are about to increase 50% overnight, that's stuff his voters buy every week unlike new cars, they will see that price go up next week by a huge amount
You vastly overestimate the impact. $10 sweats to $15 sweats. Simple, only buy a new pair in years that end in a zero instead of a zero and a 5. Done.
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Old 04-04-2025, 09:56 AM   #9073
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You vastly overestimate the impact. $10 sweats to $15 sweats. Simple, only buy a new pair in years that end in a zero instead of a zero and a 5. Done.
Titan2 knows a thing or 2 about sweat pant wearing
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That's just a master class in efficiency. They will be teaching that in business schools for decades. Fire TOO many people then efficiently double up some work and re-hire those same people.
Thing is, I suspect his off the cuff 20% error rate is not only stupid, but reversed. I suspect that at least at 80% of the people being fired are actually necessary for their departments to function.
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Thing is, I suspect his off the cuff 20% error rate is not only stupid, but reversed. I suspect that at least at 80% of the people being fired are actually necessary for their departments to function.
They (the GOP) don't want the government to function.

Dotard needs chaos flooding the pipe so that nobody can pay attention to the 2 "real" things going on.

1) He's a Russian agent. How much time was spent even in this thread commenting on the fact there were no tariffs for Russia.

2) He's an autocrat, and wants personal fidelity from the nation's richest, industry leaders, and foreign heads of state. Look no further than his endorsement of Crypto, and his "givith and taketh away" approach to tariffs.

The govt shutting down gives him lots of little problems to "solve" (that he created).
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Right, crashing oil prices are bad for Alberta, but they'll devastate the US oil patch if they stay low for awhile. Not that they need it with their economy imploding.
Is shale still a thing in the US? I thought they sucked it dry already.
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Is shale still a thing in the US? I thought they sucked it dry already.
It's still over half their production:
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This seems not great.

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pfff, he didn't even make the top 3. Loser.
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