Deadlines? What Deadlines?

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Gold is down?!? Jesus. DJIA is down four thousand points in the last month.

The Refooooooooooooooorm party…

Oh hay, ‘just thought of something… What’s this tariff hoo ha going to do for cross border trade? I’m thinking of a few specific scenarios: 1. Europeans love to travel to the United States; not just for vacation, but to shop. Specifically for high ticket items. Between the exchange rate and duty free quotas, they can easily pay for a chunk of their stay. Does that traffic now shift to Canada? 2. Americans. Between the exchange rate and reciprocal tariffs, products from a third country are going to be a helluva lot cheaper north of the border maybe. And if you can sneak that Xbox or laptop computer past customs…

‘Could be wor… heythatsasexycouch…

His supporters won’t care. If he says they’re great; they’re great.

… DJIA is down another fifteen hundred points right now. NASDAQ is down another 800 points… ‘Could be worse I suppose. People could be doing it in the street and frightening the horses.

Between MAGA and MAHA the Americans will be either too poor, too sick, or too dead to buy US beef. It’s gotta go somewhere. Over 90% of Japanese rice consumption is grown domestically. Much of what they import actually goes to foreign aid. The Japanese jealously protect their rice sector. It’s about food security, not the magic of the free market. I’m speculating, but at some point a US trade representative talked to the Japanese and said, “Hey, people at home are getting a bit excited about the balance of trade between us. How about you buy some rice?” They said, “Yeah, whatever”. They do import a lot of soybeans from the US. That might be more straightforward.

Yeah, “worse” is what’s going to happen when the market opens on Friday.

@Fragile Bird You mentioned golf trips before. What about rallies? I might be misremembering this, but wasn’t Trump holding rallies all the way through his first term? He doesn’t seem to be doing them anymore. He just hangs out in Washington 4 days a week and then fucks off to Mar a Lago.

Good segment. I like this bit at around 7:20 regarding defense spending. You want to know what that increased %age of GDP is about? That’s what it’s about. That’s what it’s always been about.

And there it is. You want to know why the dems have been cowed into apparent submission? The threat of petty revenge that hurts their constituents.

Not saying the two are connected. Just trying to Remeber the context. Not a good look for the republicans at the time and the media largely ignored it. Regarding Hastert v Gingrich, I wonder if part of it is that Hastert kind of disappeared after politics; as opposed to Gingrich still being a media personality all these years later.

It won’t be that long. I’ll bet on it. Then it’ll be Vance…

‘Round about the time Ted Cruz dropped out and Trump unofficially became the nominee.

Count the number of weekends since the inauguration. I guarantee you, every finance ministry and every OECD government in the world is frantically looking for the answer to two questions: 1. How do we re-align global trade and cooperation to minimize or exclude the United States? 2. How do we survive until 2028?

Wasn’t he sentenced like, a week before the election? Yeah yeah I know, “google”. I’m walking here.

I remember hearing about Dennis Hastert at the time and thinking, “How is this not massive news?” ‘Barely lasted a news cycle. ETA: and this was in an election year iirc.

Kim Jong Un and his cronies are laughing their fucking asses off right now.

That’s a lot. I’ll read it. But would it be possible to get a summary?

A disgusting Satyr who also supported every Republican position and talking point, no matter how extreme, from the Bush administration on. He’s old and dusty and pretty soon he’ll be in the ground and I’ll be happy. May he spend his final years not being able to fuck. And when he’s inevitably eulogized, feel free to remind people what a colossal sack of shit he was.

We’ll get through it.

https://www.threads.net/@bennjordan/post/DH_LcnMRlwv/in-one-hour-apple-has-lost-an-amount-of-capital-equal-to-the-entire-gdp-of-pakis The drop in Apple shares wiped out market capitalization equal to the GDP of Pakistan…

Or the paragon of family values. Spread that seed, son.