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Burnt Effigy said:
Something I just can't get out of my head since I saw this picture:

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Doesn't RFK Jr look a bit... Off ? Like his face is just a bit too dark? Like an early/mild case of Argyria?

Knowing he's a bit of an alt-medicine sperg, I wouldn't be surprised if he poisoned himself with colloidal silver.
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He takes testosterone supplements that turn him red. Like Alex Jones did that one time.
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Mark Goldbridge said:
Why are democrats even talking about who runs next? I thought Trump is a fascist that will suspend elections and round up all the democrats on day one.
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At some point in the Obama years, probably almost from the beginning, the DNC & media shifted into semi-permanent campaign mode to keep the donations flowing. Only 364 shopping days left until Christmas!
 
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Sekirodiealot said:
Again with the fuckin arm chair economic expertise
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The same people who were foremost experts on the justice system, viral pathology, childcare (of YOUR kid), elder abuse, late stage dementia, gender relations, the racial makeup of 13th century Poland (it was apparently as diverse as a New York starbucks), manufacturing, global just in time supply chain management, drug overdoses (particularly fentanyl), racial relations in Appalachia, new york self defense law, Wisconson firearm laws pertaining to underage kids, the culture of 17th century japan (which apparently was full of secret black samurais), the history of the forgotten African nation state of Wakanda, Mexican-American cultural exchange, American federal election law, and AAA video game development...

Are now experts in

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Tariffs.

And wouldn't you know it, the experts all just happen to agree, again, that the left is correct in every batshit talking point they've heard and the right are doody head hitler facists that want to kill people and tricked the poor ignorant retarded coons and pickme whores and wetbacks into voting for them against their own enlightened self interests. Again.
 
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Sekirodiealot said:
Because it's something little kids do and they associate it with the idea of Trump being childish.
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spiritofamermaid said:
Reinforces tiny hands I think
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Nah, it was 100% to deflect from biden being demented. Biden was falling randomly every other week and to deflect from it they kept saying "see, DonOLD has trouble lifting a glass of water".

They admitted defeat after the debate, since no amount of media bullshit could cover for Biden anymore
 
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Magnitude2717 said:
Why is drinking water with two hands such a massive character flaw for these people?
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Trump comes from old money, and is widely associated with high society, seeing Trump handle glasses of water with two hands is unexpectedly "rude", and forces people to speculate. Is it the hands? An illness? Something else?

How small are Trump's hands? (A)
The scientifically objective results: Trump does indeed have hands just below average size, particularly for a man standing 6-foot-2. According to various human anatomy websites, the average-height American adult male (5-foot-10) has an average hand size (measured from the tip of the middle finger to the wrist) of 7.44 inches. Trump’s measures 7.25 inches. (His shoe size, incidentally, is reportedly 12, but THR editors have so far been unable to locate a Trump footprint).
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Means and standard deviation of hand length and width in males and females of the study population. (A)
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The lower bound of male hand size's first standard deviation is 7.05in (which is the female average), lower female bound is 6.57in.
Trump's hands are slightly smaller than perfectly average, but unremarkable otherwise, certainly far from an entire standard deviation.
He can hold a glass normally with hands that size, and he's proven so:



This video also tells us he doesn't have tremors while holding objects, and he's perfectly capable of doing it, but in his words, he sucks at drinking water and spills it onto his tie sometimes, it's really just him not giving a fuck about high society convention to ensure his tie looks good.
 
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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Supports Social Media Digital ID, Praised Facebook’s Censorship of Vaccine “Misinformation”
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By Didi Rankovic
2024-11-29 18:28:00GMT
As President Trump’s second administration is taking shape, his picks for various key positions are expectedly coming under scrutiny, with the choice of the surgeon general nominee causing particular interest.

The nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, has in the past defended issues like digital ID, and online age verification, but also even Big Tech’s – specifically Facebook’s – censorship around Covid topics.

None of this is sitting well with some Trump supporters, who are now outright calling Nesheiwat “a bad choice.”

As recently as in March and July of this year, Nesheiwat appeared on Fox News to call for teens and young children to be banned from social platforms (the contentious question here is rarely the intent, but rather the method, namely using digital ID for age verification).

In March, she defended Florida House Bill (HB 3), mentioning the usual accusations that the internet represents a serious threat to young people’s mental health, but also life, in a plethora of ways.

Other than endorsing HB 3, which bans minors younger than 14 and seeks parental consent for those under 16 to be able to use social networks, Nesheiwat also called for more “awareness” and involvement by parents – as a way to help manage the “challenges” of enforcing this, and other laws, such as the federal COPPA rule.

In July, the doctor linked the issues of mass shootings, what she referred to as “just lunatics,” mental disorders, caused or fueled by substance abuse, and “obsession with violence” among the youth – and managed to wrap the argument up by bringing in social media.

“I think social media should be banned to all teenagers, to all young children, because it’s done nothing but harm,” she told Fox News at the time.

Insisting on such “solutions” is often a way for governments to pander to the constituents that they at the same time fail to inform about the consequences of online age verification, and those are invasive methods that seriously undermine everyone’s privacy – and security.

As for the Covid lockdowns-era, the likely new US surgeon general was once again on Fox, where she is a contributor, to not only laud Facebook’s approach to censorship of “anti-vaccine disinformation” (that targeted RFK Jr., among many others) but to encourage other platforms to act the same way.

 
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Sekirodiealot said:
Again with the fuckin arm chair economic expertise
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Google's results are filled with articles by economically illiterate journos, so that's not a bad thing.

If you want a low effort understanding of tariffs, Wikipedia (archive), unlike the MSM articles polluting Google's search results, is fairly balanced:

Protection against dumping​

States resorting to protectionism invoke unfair competition or dumping practices:
  • Monetary manipulation: a currency undergoes a devaluation when monetary authorities decide to intervene in the foreign exchange market to lower the value of the currency against other currencies. This makes local products more competitive and imported products more expensive (Marshall Lerner Condition), increasing exports and decreasing imports, and thus improving the trade balance. Countries with a weak currency cause trade imbalances: they have large external surpluses while their competitors have large deficits. For example, in 2010, Paul Krugman wrote that China pursues a mercantilist and predatory policy, i.e., it keeps its currency undervalued to accumulate trade surpluses by using capital flow controls. The Chinese government sells renminbi and buys foreign currency to keep the renminbi low, giving the Chinese manufacturing sector a cost advantage over its competitors. China's surpluses drain US demand and slow economic recovery in other countries with which China trades. Krugman writes: “This is the most distorted exchange rate policy any great nation has ever followed”. He notes that an undervalued renminbi is tantamount to imposing high tariffs or providing export subsidies. A cheaper currency improves employment and competitiveness because it makes imports more expensive while making domestic products more attractive.
  • Tax dumping: some tax haven states have lower corporate and personal tax rates.
  • Social dumping: when a state reduces social contributions or maintains very low social standards (for example, in China, labour regulations are less restrictive for employers than elsewhere).
  • Environmental dumping: when environmental regulations are less stringent than elsewhere. For example, the European Union starts its carbon border-adjustment mechanism in 2026 to even the playing field with firms not subject to European carbon pricing.

Protection of infant industry​

According to the economists in favour of protecting industries, free trade would condemn developing countries to being nothing more than exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. The application of the theory of comparative advantage would lead them to specialise in the production of raw materials and extractive products and prevent them from acquiring an industrial base. Protection of infant industries (e.g., through tariffs on imported products) may be needed for some developing countries to industrialise and escape their dependence on the production of raw materials.

Economist Ha-Joon Chang argued in 2001 that most of today's developed countries have developed through policies that are the opposite of free trade and laissez-faire such as interventionist trade and industrial policies to promote and protect infant industries. In his view, Britain and the United States have not reached the top of the global economic hierarchy by adopting free trade. As for the East Asian countries, he argues that the longest periods of rapid growth in these countries do not coincide with extended phases of free trade, but rather with phases of industrial protection and promotion. He believes infant industry protection policy has generated much better growth performance in the developing world than free trade policies since the 1980s.
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Even in the "Arguments against tariffs" section, they mention that tariffs are good in certain situations:

Optimal tariff​

For economic efficiency, free trade is often the best policy, however levying a tariff is sometimes second best.

A tariff is called an optimal tariff if it is set to maximise the welfare of the country imposing the tariff. It is a tariff derived by the intersection between the trade indifference curve of that country and the offer curve of another country. In this case, the welfare of the other country grows worse simultaneously, thus the policy is a kind of beggar thy neighbor policy. If the offer curve of the other country is a line through the origin point, the original country is in the condition of a small country, so any tariff worsens the welfare of the original country.

It is possible to levy a tariff as a political policy choice, and to consider a theoretical optimum tariff rate. However, imposing an optimal tariff will often lead to the foreign country increasing their tariffs as well, leading to a loss of welfare in both countries. When countries impose tariffs on each other, they will reach a position off the contract curve, meaning that both countries' welfare could be increased by reducing tariffs.
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Anyone blindly saying "tariffs bad" is a hack that real economists would laugh at.
 
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Bland Crumbs said:
Assuming the 70% number is accurate: Is the assumption that the cartels would not just buy from another country? Also it sounds like this person wants Obama to be held accountable for his admin's actions.
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Either way, it sounds like we need better border security and to murder all the cartel members and their pet politicians.
 
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Sekirodiealot said:
Again with the fuckin arm chair economic expertise
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Any damages from the tariffs are easily negated by opening up our pipelines, and not draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve like Biden's handlers are. Speaking of oil, politicians have been kowtowing to OPEC since before I was even born, and no one has ever asked them how doing that benefits the American people. Because it doesn't. At least tariffs actually protect domestic business.
 
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