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Should be a wild four years.

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I'll also be buying a cow share to cover my meat needs for the next six months. Great value and great quality.
I second this, 100%. I have no idea why more people don't do this. Even when I was broke af, I had no trouble getting in for a quarter share. Best way to get steak and a ton of fresh ground chuck.

My Ford just turned ten. Zero major repairs in that time. They don't make them like they used to, and that's a good thing.
I had two Rangers each last over 15 years, and aside from changing the batteries every 6 years, I had no issues with either. Resale value was still pretty good, too, helped by Ford discontinuing the line for awhile there. And F150s are everywhere around here (my neighbor has a hybrid F150 he just used to power his house during the tornados and floods last week, was nice enough to power my water pump for a while so I could get a shower). Ford has been consistently quality for at least 20+ years.

It's a reframing move, they've had to admit everybody does the bad tariff thing to us, and now they're on to claiming the calculations don't make sense. Now that everybody is clear "free trade" means "drain the US" it will be used as political pressure to get protectionist Legislation passed short of the EO.

This is an attack on both offshoring, and a strike to the Democrats, in their core rustbelt base. If Trump gets trade reform, expect major union campaign, and center-left Democrat support for Republicans in the mid-terms. They've been bitching about trade since the Japs in the '80's.
I miss when the democrats were running John Kerry, and crying about "Benedict Arnold CEOs" off-shoring jobs. Guess they just forgot about that, just like they forgot all their anti-war protesting and 20 solid years of voter fraud accusations.

Obama's all so weak and old and shaky already and starting with the ol 'let me be clear'. This is pretty sad.
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He's only 62 but looks a hard 75. What happened to this man?
Obama needs to get back in the sarcophagus before his Kenyan host wakes up again.

 
A small shop can make a car. When a small shop makes a car, amortizing the R&D cost means that car has a sticker price of $250,000. It actually does not cost Ferrari 10x more to actually manufacture a car than it costs Chevrolet, but it costs them every bit as much, if not more, to design the car and its fabrication process. Economies of scale allow you to dilute fixed costs across more units.
That's why I hate the EPA, NHTSA, and DOT. We have designs with decades of real world vetting in our portfolio right now that we can't make anymore because faggot ass regulators forced them into obsolescence. Meanwhile countries like Mexico* can make new cars for less than $10,000 burgerbux because they aren't forced to retool their factories for the next generation of RGB carslop every 5 years.

If I could have one wish from the Trump genie, it would be a whitelist of drivetrains/platforms that are exempt from regulations, similar to the 25-year rule for grey market imports--perhaps with a caveat that they must be made in America to qualify.

*After the US market moved on, Mexico continued to operate the factories making the VW Beetle until 1997 and the Nissan B13 until 2017.
 
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I know someone IRL who went to one of the protests today.

Had to do a double take with this picture because I thought it was him. It's not, but hoo boy that was a close one. :story:

Based on the pictures I've seen, there's no cohesive message with this protest whatsoever. It's just another fucking temper tantrum over the fact that the person they didn't vote for won. That's literally all this is.

I mean, it can't be over the tariffs, right? Because you'd be pretty fucking stupid to be screeching about that after cheering for the economy to shut down during Covid a mere 5 years ago. lol.
 
I hope they do one with the thing from B5
This was the song that played when the Narn beat Lord Refa's ass to death after his role in the Narn genocide was uncovered, wasn't it?

Guess it's time for my annual rewatch of the whole series. Good stuff, but Valen help me when I get to the dreadfully dull "Byron's telepaths" plotline in Season 5.
 
Have we even heard a peep from North Korea this trump term? They’ve completely faded into the background.

Also they got pretty paranoid about Covid and closed their border with China, like actually built out fencing and actively guard it. North Koreans are not having a good time escaping lately.

I think that relationship has been better. Also North Korea is off par from China in that they straight up sent troops to Russia to fight in Ukraine, while all China has done has been to turn a blind eye to people going for mercenary contracts.

When is the last time the Norks even launched a missile over Japan? They’ve been leaving all the threatening to China, who have been sailing around threatening everyone with unannounced live fire naval drills.

The quietness lends towards me feeling like the main confrontation is happening now

Didn't that fat leader kid end up being replaced by his sister a couple years ago? I think the started getting quiet around then.

No, he was sick and people were speculating that he was dying, then the internet saw his sister and started grooning over her because she was a relatively young Asian woman. He’s fine and in fact just today he test fired a sniper rifle for a photo op


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Maybe nintendo shouldn't have waited so long on the switch 2 if they didn't want tarrifs :^)

Could they have done a thing where they sold millions of them to NoA pre-tarrif, and then had NoA sell them post-tarrif without having to pay tarrifs?
What would happen if the American subsidary of a company had purchased in advanced two years of unmade stock before the tarrifs kicked in?
 
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All these retards out here crying about how every company is supposedly tanking because of these tariffs, as if that itself isn't a sign that we have become too dependent on other countries and need to get back some self suffiency.
Anyone who doesn't like a self sufficiency like these people protesting are remarkably lazy.
 
Have we even heard a peep from North Korea this trump term? They’ve completely faded into the background.

Also they got pretty paranoid about Covid and closed their border with China, like actually built out fencing and actively guard it. North Koreans are not having a good time escaping lately.

I think that relationship has been better. Also North Korea is off par from China in that they straight up sent troops to Russia to fight in Ukraine, while all China has done has been to turn a blind eye to people going for mercenary contracts.

When is the last time the Norks even launched a missile over Japan? They’ve been leaving all the threatening to China, who have been sailing around threatening everyone with unannounced live fire naval drills.

The quietness lends towards me feeling like the main confrontation is happening now
Supposedly they’re building their own UAVs and are trying to make a nuclear submarine.
They probably either don’t work or are fucking shit.
 
Trip Report: I was at a Trump protest yesterday

I wandered in quite by accident, hadn't heard about it beforehand. It was a lot of Boomers giving one last gasp of reliving the glory days of the 1960s. Same energy as those photos of Civil War vets meeting in the 1930s. Very different from the number of Boomers at the George Floyd protests.

The balance of the crowd were Gen YZ hipsters. No Black Bloc in evidence.

I saw a Handmaid, some creative costumes made of cardboard. I will say there were a lot of varied signs, didn't seem to be a lot of USAID/Soros distributed preprinted ones, so it was fairly organic. Lots of dangerhairs, not a lot of troons. Only one Ukran flag but more Canadian and Mexican ones. Surprisingly US flags here and there and lulzy stuff about democracy because they suddenly love the US. Half the hate was against Elon. Vance got a little rep tho. Lots of anti-ICE pro illegal stuff.

Heard some chants, even a classic "No TRUMP! No Peace! No Racist Po-LICE!" which gave me nostalgic feels :feels: of watching riots live in 2020. At first I suspected the chant instigators were plants, but I did witness what appeared to be rando normies (judging from their conversations among themselves before and after) starting chants.

There were a lot of people there to be fair, but it was, like all large cities, in a highly leftist place, so no shock. I survived unscathed, nobody knew I was a  lesbian Deplorable chud Trump voter.
 
So protest bad because backed by usaid but also bad because organic and scuffed, which one is it?
Bad because both ways they won’t get any protestors who are normal with “organic” complaints, you get frankenstien brain radio slaves parroting John Oliver burns even with the usaid the centre of the protests are boomers unable to explain themselves
 
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Isn't what Trump doing the opposite of Orwellean?

I hate all the people who say punch fascists because wouldn't that kinda make them fascists
You expect retard faggots who use Transformer logos and little anime girls on political protest signs to actually know what’s Orwellian or not? Those faggots still don’t know what a actual fascist is lol.
 
You know I keep seeing signs and hearing these fuckers talk about how bad things are now and this and fucking that. But I don’t see it at all, almost nothing has actually changed for the normal person and these faggots acting like it has is just plain lies. Also fuck the parents, I hope only the worst things for anyone who involves children in shit like this. That kid didn’t care and didn’t want to spend his fucking weekend around the smelliest losers in this country. He wanted to play games with his friends and shit but no he has to make sure his parents and the Dems get some internet ass pats.
 
You expect retard faggots who use Transformer logos and little anime girls on political protest signs to actually know what’s Orwellian or not? Those faggots still don’t know what a actual fascist is lol.
I've always wanted to sneak into a modern day book-burning (I just need to pay attention for the next one) and offer people copies of Fahrenheit 451 just to see if anybody appreciates dramatic irony like I do. :story:
 
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