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Should be a wild four years.

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ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
Can anyone confirm Jim Cramer and @Fatpacks aren't the same person?
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I don't care. I don't give a rats fucking anus if the DOW and NASDAQ plummet to fucking zero. I don't care if Bitcoin, plummets to fucking zero. I don't care if by the end of all of this, the US stares down WW4 against the entire planet (which they have a non-zero chance of winning, btw). I hate these faggots and I'm perfectly fine with burning their gay little WEF founded shitstain of a planet to the fucking ground and building it anew. Anyone with the slightest bit of economic 101 and current events knowledge could tell you that the Fed has fucked over the planet by faking reports and faking statistics and raising rates without any regard for the consequences. They don't give a rats flying fuck about the bubble they made and the death spiral they caused. It's all fake. It's all artificial. If they want to pin it in on Trump, so be it.

The reality is, if your name isn't China, you aren't winning a trade war with Trump.
 
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lion of panjshir said:
Still 0 concessions from Russia.
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What exactly are you expecting them to give up?

That's the problem with going scorched earth out of the gate with the economic sanctions, if the sanctions don't have the desired effect, your only remaining options are diplomacy and force, while Russia retooled their economy and industry to mitigate the pain points of the sanctions.

Sabotage didn't work, infinity money and authorizing deployment of long range weapons (weapons likely targeted and operated by US personnel) on targets inside Russia didn't work.

Short of US troop deployments (lol) what remaining mechanism can be used to get Russia to make concessions?
 
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Jace on ice said:
The United States literally produces nothing we have zero manufacturing. Two thirds of our economy is selling Metadata to advertisers and marketing debt to consumers.

That fact that we have a stock market in the red at all is nothing short of a miracle.
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Wrong. The US manufactures bombs. And we manufacture A LOT of bombs. At the end of the day, if a trade war crashes both your economies and your only choice is to go to war, you stop operating on fiat currency. You operate on the Bomb Dollar. And Nobody. Nobody. NOBODY on the planet can best the US in the Bomb Dollar.
 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
Wrong. The US manufactures bombs. And we manufacture A LOT of bombs. At the end of the day, if a trade war crashes both your economies and your only choice is to go to war, you stop operating on fiat currency. You operate on the Bomb Dollar. And Nobody. Nobody. NOBODY on the planet can best the US in the Bomb Dollar.
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Patriotic Hollywood brings us bomb after bomb.
 
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NSA Intern said:
Unfortunately burger corporate culture encourages bean-counters and middle management to slowly enshittify things at a 0.5c cost saving per sale in the search for maximal shareholder value.
Its a race to the bottom and mostly private companies are the only ones to withstand it.
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I want the goddamn cherry on top of my shake back, damn it.
Betonhaus said:
Nobody has time. You basically need someone with an extra four hours a day to plan and cook anything that's not super basic and nobody can afford that.
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What's wrong with super-basic? Most families only did fancy meals on Sundays, and incorporated the leftovers into basic meals for the rest of the week. The most basic meal is still fresher and more nutritious than fast food slop.

I can whack out a ribeye, baked potato, and corn on the cob in half an hour. The only prep is preheating the oven.
 
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Wrong. The US manufactures bombs. And we manufacture A LOT of bombs. At the end of the day, if a trade war crashes both your economies and your only choice is to go to war, you stop operating on fiat currency. You operate on the Bomb Dollar. And Nobody. Nobody. NOBODY on the planet can best the US in the Bomb Dollar.
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Tangentially, can anyone explain to me precisely how the US itself being at war is a net gain for the US economy? Not saying it isn't, I just don't understand the mechanics.

Like, I get the iron triangle military-industrial-congressional complex, but that seems like a mostly closed system -- US tax dollars paying US military personnel, funding US companies development and manufacturing products used by the US military, and bribing US legislators.

I also understand the dynamic of US covert intelligencia orchestrating proxy wars to create buyers for US arms and equipment, but that doesn't seem like it should necessitate any involvement from the US military itself -- except as an excuse to create newer armaments so the old shit can be sold off.

I also understand the resource acquisition element, e.g. oil. I also assume there's some sort of geopolitical reciprocity for the US acting as a rent-a-cop for NATO/UN, though I admittedly don't know what that looks like. But I just can't imagine any of these things generating enough of a profit to offset what's getting skimmed off the top in order to perpetuate the cycle.

Where does the profit come from? Is it really just selling bombs?
 
The Ugly One said:
No, see, I don't like Jews, so I reflexively side with every barbarian who also doesn't like them.
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Pygmy Giraffe said:
This, but with slightly less irony.
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I don't much care for jews. If they left it at that it'd be the end of it. I am however a free speech absolutist. I value free speech over the life of every jew that ever was or ever will be. That's not racist I feel the same about any opponent of free speech.

Imho they should stop making their elimination a requirement for people to state their dislike of them openly. When forced to choose it's always healthier to choose the option that's not making you choose.

I just want to grill. The pedofiles from epstiens list but then mostly burgers after that.
 
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