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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:30 pm

I am confused
Sounds like a you problem.
Yes, if I'm confused because you're not making sense, it's my problem and the solution is to stop paying attention to what you're saying.
A much-geekier-than-I coworker once had a joke: "Two plus two equals five for sufficiently large values of two.". Everyone knew it was a joke, and not to be taken literally.

Now Trump comes along and says things like imposing tariffs will reduce prices, and (some) people believe it. :roll:
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:04 pm

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Tariffs

Postby 3WE » Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:02 am

I support protecting certain key industries rather than being at the mercy of another country.

Yes, prices will be increased.

Of course politicians will politick so we will probably see Donnie’s friends benefit.

Not_unlike Joe or Kamala taking care of friends, unfortunately.
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Re: Tariffs

Postby Not_Karl » Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:49 am

...politicians will politick...
Indeed. If we (common citizens of the world) only had face-diapers and vaccines effective against politicians... Voting is only a placebo, a cheap face-diaper worn below the nose.
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:51 am

Which ones... cellphones or flatscreen TVs? :lol:

Prices will definitely be increased (by the guy who repeatedly lied and said the costs would be paid by others) and I don't think it will accomplish a thing. A CEO would have to have a serious case of marbles in his head (granted, some do), to spend a fortune to relocate manufacturing back to the US from a place where labor costs 1/10 of what it does here, knowing that in 4 years the tariffs will most likely go away.

Never mind that IMHO this would be closing the barn door after the horse has not only left, but hitchhiked into town, bought a ticket, and is now on a bus to Fort Lauderdale. Manufacturing leaving the US has been going on for decades, and would be very hard to bring back. A friend of mine owns a small electronics manufacturing company nearby and find it almost impossible to find electronic technicians because the jobs have literally been gone for a generation or more. You can't get work done if you have no workers.

On the other hand, that has not happened with DoD work and I don't think it ever will. And I've got "skin in the game" when I say that... about 3/4 of my employer's revenue comes from the DoD and a few other federal agencies. BTW that includes the SBIR program that Rand Paul almost shut down a couple of years ago. Side note: we have some pretty cool aviation-related SBIR projects going on like this: https://www.sbir.gov/awards/207215

Agriculture I'll admit I don't know so much about (though in prior life I was involved in designing a neat chlorophyll flurometer), but the sense I have is that most of the jobs that have been lost in that sector have been due to automation - a phenomenon that again has been going on for in this case centuries (when was the cotton gin invented?).

Bottom line in my opinion (of course), this measure is going to hurt a lot of people, as usual those with lower incomes more than those with higher incomes, and long-term isn't going to accomplish anything useful.
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Wed Jan 08, 2025 2:22 am

Okay I did a little more research and must admit that Trump is not the only one that's going tariff-happy as of late. Though with some of Biden's tariffs and other measures, clear beneficial results have already emerged: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/us ... facts/amp/

Meanwhile, the "invisible hand of the marketplace" is in the corner whimpering. :lol:
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Wed Jan 08, 2025 2:49 pm

https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden- ... a8941ede75

Why is it every time he says "Greenland" I hear "Poland"?
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Not_Karl » Wed Jan 08, 2025 4:29 pm

I'm looking forward to Señor Putin wanting Alaska back.
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby 3WE » Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:38 pm

https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden- ... a8941ede75

Why is it every time he says "Greenland" I hear "Poland"?
I don’t know, but it IS the Gulf of TEXAS.
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Gabriel » Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:08 pm

I don’t know, but it IS the Gulf of the REPUBLIC of TEXAS.
Fixed.

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I didn't know this until recently, but the flag of State Texas that we all know (and love?) was the flag of the Republic of Texas before it became a state.

I thought that the flag of the Republic of Texas was the one below, which it was, an earlier and "less official" flag than the one above.

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The real explanation has been discovered

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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Mon Jan 13, 2025 1:00 pm

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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Gabriel » Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:39 pm

And Argentina of course had to be present in these quotes.

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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Gabriel » Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:43 pm

And since we are at AI shenanigans...
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Artificial what, again?

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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:57 pm

Is that AI running for office?
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden 1/20/2025

Postby 3WE » Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:50 am

And here [not_italics*]we go.

Brianie, LHBie, Sickbag, Per, Pipe, Monchie and Not_Karl could use we.
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby 3WE » Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:18 pm

It's not_even official yet, but he saved Tic Toc.

The best of times are yet to come!
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Sickbag » Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:58 pm

Any Donkeys involved?
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Not_Karl » Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:08 pm

Any Donkeys involved?
Country break-up within 18 months?
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:26 pm

Heh... I was flipping through the TV channels at lunch and caught about 3 seconds of Drumpf's inaugural address: "We will...tax other countries to enrich our citizens." A lie, of course.

I pulled up the address on Youtube and watched about half of it... he seems to be lying at a rate of about one every 15 seconds. I guess that's impressive... though in a way I'd prefer not to be impressed.
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Gabriel » Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:49 pm

Heh... I was flipping through the TV channels at lunch and caught about 3 seconds of Drumpf's inaugural address: "We will...tax other countries to enrich our citizens." A lie, of course.

I pulled up the address on Youtube and watched about half of it... he seems to be lying at a rate of about one every 15 seconds. I guess that's impressive... though in a way I'd prefer not to be impressed.
It will be ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby elaw » Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:42 pm

Just so we're clear, that was 100% a music video and not an insider documentary on how SpaceX builds the Starship... right? :mrgreen:
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Gabriel » Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:33 pm

Just so we're clear, that was 100% a music video and not an insider documentary on how SpaceX builds the Starship... right? :mrgreen:
That was a music video.
Interestingly, this other one, of the same song, they consider it to be a not_music video because they are playing and singing live, not making a video for the album version or single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY

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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Not_Karl » Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:34 pm

he seems to be lying at a rate of about one every 15 seconds. I guess that's impressive... though in a way I'd prefer not to be impressed.
You call that impressive? Of every 5 words our local (Argie) politicians say, 6 are lies.
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Re: Donald Trump/Joe Biden

Postby Mr. Snappy » Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:39 pm

Takeover of America is complete

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