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Europe Surrenders to Trump In "Biggest Deal Ever Made" -- 15% Tariffs on European Goods, 0% Imports on American Imports, Over a Trillion Dollars in Purchases of US Goods
EU Newspapers Agree: Europe Got Rolled
The "experts" insisted that Trump's bid to reduce tariffs on US good while imposing a "baseline tariff" of 10% (or 15%) on the world was doomed to fail and would plunge us into a recession.
Trump (and Scott Bessent) calculated that the US market was far too lucrative for any country to write off and that this gave the US huge leverage in negotiating access to our market. The "experts" were, get this, wrong again.
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a landmark trade deal with the European Union, locking in $750 billion in U.S. energy exports and setting a 15% tariff on EU imports. The deal keeps steel and aluminum duties in place while opening EU markets to U.S. goods, military equipment, and investment. Key Details: Trump unveiled the agreement alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a joint press conference following a private meeting at Trump Turnberry in Scotland. The EU committed to $750 billion in U.S. energy purchases and an additional $600 billion in direct investment into the American economy. While the U.S. set a 15% baseline tariff on European imports, EU countries agreed to remove tariffs on American goods and ramp up military equipment purchases from the U.S., potentially reaching into the "hundreds of billions," Trump said. Diving Deeper: President Trump on Sunday announced a sweeping new trade agreement with the European Union that both sides say will reshape the economic relationship between the world's two largest markets. Speaking alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen from Trump Turnberry in Scotland, the president said the deal marks a turning point after years of imbalance. "The European countries were essentially closed to us," Trump said. "You weren't exactly taking our orders, you weren't exactly taking our agriculture... but now it's open." Under the deal, the EU agreed to purchase $750 billion in American energy products, a major win for the U.S. oil and gas sector. Von der Leyen also confirmed that Europe would inject another $600 billion into the U.S. economy through investments on top of existing commitments. The agreement also sets a baseline 15% tariff on European imports into the U.S., including automobiles, while maintaining existing 50% duties on steel and aluminum.When the tyrannical socialist Ursula von der Leyden, leader of the EU's parliament of traitors, was asked what concessions the US had made to Europe in exchange for Europe's generosity, she couldn't think of a single one:
🚨 WOW! Trump's deal with the European Union today is so insanely amazing for the US that the reporters in the room were shocked and asked - "WHAT are the US concessions? WHAT is the US giving up in the deal, if ANYTHING?" pic.twitter.com/CEb5kRtmj2
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 27, 2025
What a MASSIVE vindication for…
.@POTUS announces a landmark trade deal with the European Union: "I think it's the biggest deal ever made." pic.twitter.com/HqVK2yCTti
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 27, 2025
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Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 12:27 PM (NCpxA)
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st!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:27 PM (dPfyF)
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FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)
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Top o' the Noon to ya, Ace!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (dPfyF)
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When the tyrannical socialist Ursula von der Leyden, leader of the EU's parliament of traitors, was asked what concessions the US had made to Europe in exchange for Europe's generosity, she couldn't think of a single one:
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What if, stay with me on this, the US leadership has allowed Europe to take advantage of us for decades and there really was a deep imbalance of trade practices that has lingered to America's detriment?
Would I sound crazy?
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What if, stay with me on this, the US leadership has allowed Europe to take advantage of us for decades and there really was a deep imbalance of trade practices that has lingered to America's detriment?
Would I sound crazy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (dKEEs)
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Still not tired
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (JClut)
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What happened to TACO?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
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Experts are such ignorant assholes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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What if, stay with me on this, the US leadership has allowed Europe to take advantage of us for decades and there really was a deep imbalance of trade practices that has lingered to America's detriment?
Would I sound crazy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Yes, that is crazy talk. Clearly you watch too many conspiracy theory youtube videos. I think you need to subscribe to the Bulwark newsletter to get your head right, you anti-free trade conspiracy theory MAGAt.
Would I sound crazy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Yes, that is crazy talk. Clearly you watch too many conspiracy theory youtube videos. I think you need to subscribe to the Bulwark newsletter to get your head right, you anti-free trade conspiracy theory MAGAt.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)
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MAGA for the win
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (NCpxA)
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Our "concession" is that we will politely let slide several generations of getting fucked over by them.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (VoAdT)
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10 What happened to TACO?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
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"Trump's stated goal was to have 1,000,000% tariffs on every country in the world, so these 'deals' are just Trump backing down because he's a pussy."
-DU, 84.6% probability
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
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"Trump's stated goal was to have 1,000,000% tariffs on every country in the world, so these 'deals' are just Trump backing down because he's a pussy."
-DU, 84.6% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (tbFif)
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Thank you PDJT!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (nBmgE)
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12 Yes, that is crazy talk. Clearly you watch too many conspiracy theory youtube videos. I think you need to subscribe to the Bulwark newsletter to get your head right, you anti-free trade conspiracy theory MAGAt.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)
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You wound me, dear sir!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)
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You wound me, dear sir!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BIBLIO at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (xKiOq)
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"Ursula von der Leyden" is the perfect supervillainess name.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)
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Is Ursula Von Der Leyen blinking in morse code there? She looks like she is a hostage in a struggle session.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (D7oie)
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The people asking what the US gave up don't realize that the status quo was VASTLY favoring the EU.
The EU just gave up a lot of the unfair advantages they have put in their laws because they knew how bad it would be to be subject to them if the US turned them around on them.
So the "concession" the US made was not hitting them with what they deserved for the years of taking advantage of our stupid political leaders.
The EU just gave up a lot of the unfair advantages they have put in their laws because they knew how bad it would be to be subject to them if the US turned them around on them.
So the "concession" the US made was not hitting them with what they deserved for the years of taking advantage of our stupid political leaders.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (N1tpc)
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It’ll be interesting to see how MSNBC programming spins this deal as catastrophic….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (FNvF+)
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Europe is a net exporter of beef.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (TzkcV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (dPfyF)
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Don't mind the massive investment dollars by Europe, but I don't want any of that money going to ownership rights. Let them pay tribute instead of controlling our major companies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (0eaVi)
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Stage lights. Allergies. Booger sugar. Who knows. Probably all three.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (VoAdT)
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11 Experts are such ignorant assholes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
They're not. They're just lying.
Everyone knows these "free trade" deals had no economic justification for them, but were backroom deals used to advance the US Deep State's foreign policy goals.
"We'll let you sell in to the US market if you let us put a military base in your country."
"Yeah, but, we can't compete with California wine! We have our own domestic wine makers to protect!"
"No, no, don't worry. You can keep a 50% tariff on American wine, but we'll let you sell your wine in the US without a tariff. It's a win-win."
70+ years of these kinds of deals, and, well... here we are.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
They're not. They're just lying.
Everyone knows these "free trade" deals had no economic justification for them, but were backroom deals used to advance the US Deep State's foreign policy goals.
"We'll let you sell in to the US market if you let us put a military base in your country."
"Yeah, but, we can't compete with California wine! We have our own domestic wine makers to protect!"
"No, no, don't worry. You can keep a 50% tariff on American wine, but we'll let you sell your wine in the US without a tariff. It's a win-win."
70+ years of these kinds of deals, and, well... here we are.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (uCjyK)
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Tariffs, killing CAFE, EPA crap, oil leases.
I can barely stand all the winning.It's going to last way over 4 hours... should i go to the ER?
I can barely stand all the winning.It's going to last way over 4 hours... should i go to the ER?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (tv5Uu)
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Vini vidi vicci.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (TzkcV)
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Weekend was Ok. Helped my brother work on his daughter's vehicle.......now needs a radiator.
Did get to surprise The First Daughter with her 'new' car, so that was cool. She's very appreciative.
Did get to surprise The First Daughter with her 'new' car, so that was cool. She's very appreciative.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)
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Trump (and Scott Bessent) believed that the US market was far too lucrative for any country to write off and that this gave the US huge leverage in negotiating access to our market.
The "experts" were, get this, wrong again.
Europe will impose 0% tariffs on US imports and in return, America will tax all European imports at 15%.
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN.
P.S.: Best President Evar.
The "experts" were, get this, wrong again.
Europe will impose 0% tariffs on US imports and in return, America will tax all European imports at 15%.
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN.
P.S.: Best President Evar.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (9vYpt)
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Hey Ace.
Weekend sucked. For all that is unholy, a popup Taylor Swift-themed cafe opened up in Alexandria. Lines down the fucking block for crap food that they charge like sin for. Think $30 nachos.
Big wall with pictures of her boyfriends, with fans going up to them and writing "fuck you" across their faces.
There are no words.
Weekend sucked. For all that is unholy, a popup Taylor Swift-themed cafe opened up in Alexandria. Lines down the fucking block for crap food that they charge like sin for. Think $30 nachos.
Big wall with pictures of her boyfriends, with fans going up to them and writing "fuck you" across their faces.
There are no words.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (PzXaK)
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So the "concession" the US made was not hitting them with what they deserved for the years of taking advantage of our stupid political leaders.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (N1tpc)
(I see I'm not the only one with this line of reasoning.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (N1tpc)
(I see I'm not the only one with this line of reasoning.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (N1tpc)
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Big wheels keep on turnin'
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (Fi95G)
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Has Paul Krugman responded with a cardiac event yet?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (FNvF+)
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That's my president!
Posted by: Emmie at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (FMtrg)
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The nation equivalent of 'Fuck you. Pay me.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y)
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Not tired of winning.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (W2Pud)
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$$$$$
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (0ERwV)
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there really was a deep imbalance of trade practices that has lingered to America's detriment?"
Ah, staying for the cray-cray talk...
What's next, more employment?
Ah, staying for the cray-cray talk...
What's next, more employment?
Posted by: man at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (tubbA)
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I'm sure the Appointed Experts are feverishly crafting a response that details how terrible this is going to be for the US economy.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (RjOoY)
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"When the tyrannical socialist Ursula von der Leyden, leader of the EU's parliament of traitors, was asked what concessions the US had made to Europe in exchange for Europe's generosity, she couldn't think of a single one."
It's even better than that. If you listen to her answer, it's basically "thank you sir, may I have another?" She's claiming it's a great idea for EU to "rebalance" the trade terms so that EU goes from a yuge trade surplus to ... not a yuge surplus. Ok. Trump fucked her in the ass and she left him money on the nightstand.
It's even better than that. If you listen to her answer, it's basically "thank you sir, may I have another?" She's claiming it's a great idea for EU to "rebalance" the trade terms so that EU goes from a yuge trade surplus to ... not a yuge surplus. Ok. Trump fucked her in the ass and she left him money on the nightstand.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
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Bet Canada feels pretty stupid now.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (u73oe)
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Re: The Experts…
I mentioned this in an earlier thread but got Willowed.
This is a headline from NYT:
The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore.
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lol
Oh no what will we do without their “expert” opinions anymore?
Learn 2 Kode cucks.
I mentioned this in an earlier thread but got Willowed.
This is a headline from NYT:
The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore.
-
lol
Oh no what will we do without their “expert” opinions anymore?
Learn 2 Kode cucks.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (Vvm2m)
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That crazy judge up in Boston will no doubt order this deal to be set aside, until the EU starts paying Planned Parenthood
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (nBmgE)
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So the "concession" the US made was not hitting them with what they deserved for the years of taking advantage of our stupid political leaders.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (N1tpc)
(I see I'm not the only one with this line of reasoning.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (N1tpc)
And this has to be the absolute best unique ID I've ended up with. I do nitpick.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:31 PM (N1tpc)
(I see I'm not the only one with this line of reasoning.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (N1tpc)
And this has to be the absolute best unique ID I've ended up with. I do nitpick.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (N1tpc)
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Trump got a cease fire between Thailand and Cambodia ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (VE6XX)
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Rumor has it HEB Doritos are better than the genuine article.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (TzkcV)
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"Trump worked out exactly where our pain threshold is."
Fucking good.
I bet he can make you hurt more.
Now, let's see them balance increased war financing with keeping all their natives compliant with single payer medicine while their new imported class don't materially add to GDP.
Fucking good.
I bet he can make you hurt more.
Now, let's see them balance increased war financing with keeping all their natives compliant with single payer medicine while their new imported class don't materially add to GDP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)
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There are no words.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM
We used to be a proper country.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM
We used to be a proper country.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (dPfyF)
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Has Paul Krugman responded with a cardiac event yet?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (FNvF+)
Where's an out of control bus when you need one?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (FNvF+)
Where's an out of control bus when you need one?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
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Afternoon Ace. Bill Maher on his podcast admitted that he was wrong about Trump's tariffs. The Dems keep losing Maher. Trump should keep doing what he's doing, which will lead to economic success, all the while ignoring the leftist elite and their propaganda ministries. More non lunatic Dems will move right
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (hIY2p)
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Weekend sucked. For all that is unholy, a popup Taylor Swift-themed cafe opened up in Alexandria. Lines down the fucking block for crap food that they charge like sin for. Think $30 nachos.
Big wall with pictures of her boyfriends, with fans going up to them and writing "fuck you" across their faces.
There are no words.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (PzXaK)
Wow, she really has managed to monetize stupid/insanity.
Big wall with pictures of her boyfriends, with fans going up to them and writing "fuck you" across their faces.
There are no words.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 12:32 PM (PzXaK)
Wow, she really has managed to monetize stupid/insanity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (bss/y)
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No more dumping!
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (0ERwV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (Vvm2m)
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53 Afternoon Ace. Bill Maher on his podcast admitted that he was wrong about Trump's tariffs. The Dems keep losing Maher. Trump should keep doing what he's doing, which will lead to economic success, all the while ignoring the leftist elite and their propaganda ministries. More non lunatic Dems will move right
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (hIY2p)
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"I don't really care that Trump was right about the economy, trade, immigration, or trannies. Republicans are going to kill us by global warming."
-Bill Maher in 12 months
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (hIY2p)
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"I don't really care that Trump was right about the economy, trade, immigration, or trannies. Republicans are going to kill us by global warming."
-Bill Maher in 12 months
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Millions of European women and children will now die because of Trump's "victory"
Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (GUOwU)
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Rumor has it HEB Doritos are better than the genuine article.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (TzkcV)
Can confirm. The nacho cheese version is a bit salty and the jalapeno once are green, so don't eat too many at one sitting or you'll be surprised later when you take a dump.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (TzkcV)
Can confirm. The nacho cheese version is a bit salty and the jalapeno once are green, so don't eat too many at one sitting or you'll be surprised later when you take a dump.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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So why is the Market so lackluster ? Did the Fed chair say something to spook it ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
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Canada and Mexico chose poorly.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (TzkcV)
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I wonder what that "pain" threshold is...
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (0ERwV)
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Europe is a filthy backwater filled with sexual deviants of all shapes, sizes and colors.
Posted by: New York City at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (rdRXz)
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Rumor has it HEB Doritos are better than the genuine article.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM
So opines The Fat Electrician. Not being in TX, I can't compare.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM
So opines The Fat Electrician. Not being in TX, I can't compare.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (dPfyF)
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And, just so y’all know, I’m covering in colo rectal surgery today. Yay, BUTTS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
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Sorry, ace. I try not to comment after the NOOD, but hey, gas can vents. Who could leave that alone?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (vd6bO)
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Just to put a tiny damper on it… I see the French PM says he hates this deal. I don’t know the mechanics but I’d assume the EU member countries have to approve before it goes into effect? So can France derail or try to derail this deal?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (FNvF+)
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How was your weekend?
_______
My weekend was much better than Eva Braun der Leyden's was. Or John Brennan's.
_______
My weekend was much better than Eva Braun der Leyden's was. Or John Brennan's.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (od0dV)
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Europe is the sick man of Europe and they know it.
Lucky for them Trump didn't declare himself God-Emperor.
Europe is the sick man of Europe and they know it.
Lucky for them Trump didn't declare himself God-Emperor.
Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Y8DZL)
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SO MUCH WINNING!!!!
Posted by: Delilah at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (nAGrR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)
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66 More non lunatic Dems will move right
Both of them?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
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Most people end up being either single issue voters or so tribal that even when they admit their own tribe are crazy and wrong they find ways to support them anyway.
Both of them?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
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Most people end up being either single issue voters or so tribal that even when they admit their own tribe are crazy and wrong they find ways to support them anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
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Had to step away during the last thread, but came back to read that some of y’all have a problem with your eyes …
Sydney Sweeney is by any objective standard, beautiful from head to toe
We all have types, and Miss Sweeney checks all the boxes for this dog:
Love her sleepy /sloe eyes
Winning smile
Curves
Chesticles
Great pins … vastly underrated and ignored
Sydney Sweeney is by any objective standard, beautiful from head to toe
We all have types, and Miss Sweeney checks all the boxes for this dog:
Love her sleepy /sloe eyes
Winning smile
Curves
Chesticles
Great pins … vastly underrated and ignored
Posted by: browndog tracking the scent at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (TTAGa)
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"We looove Ursula!"
-DJT
-DJT
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (0ERwV)
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Fi95G)
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"I don't really care that Trump was right about the economy, trade, immigration, or trannies. Republicans are going to kill us by global warming."
-Bill Maher in 12 months
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)
More like I agree with almost everything Trump has done. But he led an insurrection on J6 so I can’t support him.
J6 is still a thing for him. He’s so close to seeing the light but J6 is the blindfold that he’ll never take off.
-Bill Maher in 12 months
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)
More like I agree with almost everything Trump has done. But he led an insurrection on J6 so I can’t support him.
J6 is still a thing for him. He’s so close to seeing the light but J6 is the blindfold that he’ll never take off.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (Vvm2m)
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It's even better than that. If you listen to her answer, it's basically "thank you sir, may I have another?" She's claiming it's a great idea for EU to "rebalance" the trade terms so that EU goes from a yuge trade surplus to ... not a yuge surplus. Ok. Trump fucked her in the ass and she left him money on the nightstand.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
Because we have had Europe by the balls since WWII. Our leaders knew it, their leaders knew it, but for some reason, it was verboten for the public on either side of the ocean to say it out loud.
If Trump (or any US president) said "okay, we're putting 200% tariffs on everything from the EU. But any European country who would like to work with us unilaterally can do so" the EU would collapse in about 2 weeks.
This was always an option, but for some reason, none of our leaders since WWII have felt that the American economy and the health of the US middle class was more important than their Great Game foreign policy bullshit (which they also suck at, but at least they can get rich on)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
Because we have had Europe by the balls since WWII. Our leaders knew it, their leaders knew it, but for some reason, it was verboten for the public on either side of the ocean to say it out loud.
If Trump (or any US president) said "okay, we're putting 200% tariffs on everything from the EU. But any European country who would like to work with us unilaterally can do so" the EU would collapse in about 2 weeks.
This was always an option, but for some reason, none of our leaders since WWII have felt that the American economy and the health of the US middle class was more important than their Great Game foreign policy bullshit (which they also suck at, but at least they can get rich on)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (uCjyK)
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"14 Our "concession" is that we will politely let slide several generations of getting fucked over by them.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (VoAdT) "
And there you have the nub or crux of the matter, right there in a nutshell.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (VoAdT) "
And there you have the nub or crux of the matter, right there in a nutshell.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (dKEEs)
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)
81
FWIW, I'm pleased that my MacAllan pipeline will not be destroyed.
Maybe we can work on other things too. When I was in Provence I had raw milk Picodon that, just wow. Ended up smuggling a bunch back because raw milk is apparently a Bad Thing on a par with old gas cans here.
Maybe we can work on other things too. When I was in Provence I had raw milk Picodon that, just wow. Ended up smuggling a bunch back because raw milk is apparently a Bad Thing on a par with old gas cans here.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (PzXaK)
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76 From the FT blurb:
'Trump worked out exactly what our pain threshold is'
Lol
Ya think??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Fi95G)
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The EU's pain threshold is shockingly low because it's a fake economy that actively undermines its own industry in favor of unicorn farts and rapists from the third world.
'Trump worked out exactly what our pain threshold is'
Lol
Ya think??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Fi95G)
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The EU's pain threshold is shockingly low because it's a fake economy that actively undermines its own industry in favor of unicorn farts and rapists from the third world.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
83
Good for you, Donald.
Now, please ass-rape that shitmaggot Carney in Ottawa. Make him give up "supply management" for eggs, dairy, and other ag products.
Now, please ass-rape that shitmaggot Carney in Ottawa. Make him give up "supply management" for eggs, dairy, and other ag products.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (LJIE1)
84
So you're telling me "The Art of the Deal" wasn't bullshit?
Posted by: mr tmz at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (rJ48h)
85
The "experts" were, get this, wrong again.
Market Analysts Making Assumptions
https://youtu.be/7_OoJEtB48w
Market Analysts Making Assumptions
https://youtu.be/7_OoJEtB48w
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (ExV1e)
86
I hope Elric has already locked in the price on his new Lambo ...
Posted by: far cry at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (2j+23)
87
Ursula of the EU <<< Ursula from George of the Jungle
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (KRtlO)
88
In the comment sections the euro trolls are hating it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (TzkcV)
89
80 I added reactions from European papers.
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace
at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO
It sucks to be them LOL
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace
at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO
It sucks to be them LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)
90
Why am I the only one who thinks it's the chinese are shitting bricks?
The more new trade deals we make with countries other than china, the less dependent we are on their cheap-shit-junk goods.
Why am I the only one who thinks it's the chinese are shitting bricks?
The more new trade deals we make with countries other than china, the less dependent we are on their cheap-shit-junk goods.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (PpEwu)
91
80 I added reactions from European papers.
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)
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"Our chosen president would have helped us build coalitions of the willing against rogue states in need of military action by giving Europe even more of America's wealth!"
-Republicans in 2002 or Democrats in 2025?
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)
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"Our chosen president would have helped us build coalitions of the willing against rogue states in need of military action by giving Europe even more of America's wealth!"
-Republicans in 2002 or Democrats in 2025?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
92
You get nothing, and you will be happy.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (TzkcV)
93
From the FT blurb:
'Trump worked out exactly what our pain threshold is'
Lol
Ya think??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Fi95G)
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It is mind boggling that these so-called "experts" in international relations and trade don't seem to have clue about how to handle President Trump.
Maybe if he wrote a book or hosted a reality television show....
'Trump worked out exactly what our pain threshold is'
Lol
Ya think??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Fi95G)
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It is mind boggling that these so-called "experts" in international relations and trade don't seem to have clue about how to handle President Trump.
Maybe if he wrote a book or hosted a reality television show....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (7fElN)
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Hey Ace.
Donna, I think the market is not responding to this huge deal because this is such a big week of uncertainties. It's the biggest week for earnings reports, including some of the big tech firms that have come to dominate the S&P. Labor statistics coming in. Possibilities of interesting Fed stuff. It appears that the Euro deal is sort of lost in all this, from traders' points of view.
Either that, or they're just sulking because their next BMW is going to cost 15% more.
Donna, I think the market is not responding to this huge deal because this is such a big week of uncertainties. It's the biggest week for earnings reports, including some of the big tech firms that have come to dominate the S&P. Labor statistics coming in. Possibilities of interesting Fed stuff. It appears that the Euro deal is sort of lost in all this, from traders' points of view.
Either that, or they're just sulking because their next BMW is going to cost 15% more.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (7T/7v)
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65 And, just so y’all know, I’m covering in colo rectal surgery today. Yay, BUTTS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28
Here is a story for you to giggle about while looking at hind ends. I have a client who is a little out there, but she is a client so I humor her. She says she is an animal communicator. I am like okay, cool, cool. Today, she says “one of your cats is upset because the new dog keeps calling him “Bobby” and that isn’t his name.” She knows what animals I have, but not their names. One of my cats has been very growly toward the puppy- the one named Sabi. 😳
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28
Here is a story for you to giggle about while looking at hind ends. I have a client who is a little out there, but she is a client so I humor her. She says she is an animal communicator. I am like okay, cool, cool. Today, she says “one of your cats is upset because the new dog keeps calling him “Bobby” and that isn’t his name.” She knows what animals I have, but not their names. One of my cats has been very growly toward the puppy- the one named Sabi. 😳
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (r99m8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)
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Bet Canada feels pretty stupid now.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (u73oe)
No, they are busy focusing on besieging a Montreal church that has offered to host a Christian rock group that the Mayor doesn't like.
I expect the RCMP to burn it down tonight during a failed hostage negotiation
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (u73oe)
No, they are busy focusing on besieging a Montreal church that has offered to host a Christian rock group that the Mayor doesn't like.
I expect the RCMP to burn it down tonight during a failed hostage negotiation
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (D7oie)
98
Remember when the Euros paraded big blow up dolls of Trump in order to mock him??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (Fi95G)
99
68 Just to put a tiny damper on it… I see the French PM says he hates this deal. I don’t know the mechanics but I’d assume the EU member countries have to approve before it goes into effect? So can France derail or try to derail this deal?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (FNvF+)
I don't think so. As I understand it, the governing structure of the EU is sort of like the US. The "states" (sovereign countries) can't override the "federal" (EU government) on things like trade.
I'm not 100% on that, but that is what I remember from the Brexit-era end of the world catastrophe, when we all died because of Brexit.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM (FNvF+)
I don't think so. As I understand it, the governing structure of the EU is sort of like the US. The "states" (sovereign countries) can't override the "federal" (EU government) on things like trade.
I'm not 100% on that, but that is what I remember from the Brexit-era end of the world catastrophe, when we all died because of Brexit.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (uCjyK)
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The 15% tariff was deemed acceptable to the EU because (I suspect) it's high enough to give Trump his pound of flesh, but also low enough so that it can largely be absorbed. I have always believed the USA was prison-sexed by foreign goods made by foreign companies making insane profits. The 15% means their profits won't be as insane.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (iFTx/)
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I'd love to know what unannounced terms are in the deal concerning China.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (7T/7v)
102
America-last “free-traders”are despondent today. Jim Geraghty is pouting on Twitter about how Trump is lying, because even though there was a huge EU/USA trade imbalance, our exports to EU were greater than $0. It’s sad that Trump derangement in people like Geraghty and the rest of the National Review clown show has led them into a nasty anti-Americanism.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (iVv/b)
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Would I sound crazy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
In fairness, that's just been baked into the cake since you announced the Prometheus thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
In fairness, that's just been baked into the cake since you announced the Prometheus thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (ExV1e)
104
Not Tired of WINNING!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (NpAcC)
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99 I don't think so. As I understand it, the governing structure of the EU is sort of like the US. The "states" (sovereign countries) can't override the "federal" (EU government) on things like trade.
I'm not 100% on that, but that is what I remember from the Brexit-era end of the world catastrophe, when we all died because of Brexit.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (uCjyK)
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Essentially, the democratic side of the EU is completely fake because an appointed set of insiders can do whatever the fuck they want.
I'm not 100% on that, but that is what I remember from the Brexit-era end of the world catastrophe, when we all died because of Brexit.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (uCjyK)
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Essentially, the democratic side of the EU is completely fake because an appointed set of insiders can do whatever the fuck they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
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Posted by: browndog tracking the scent at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (TTAGa)
It's embarrassing that you even had to write that.
It's embarrassing that you even had to write that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (L5An7)
107
Weekend sucked. For all that is unholy, a popup Taylor Swift-themed cafe opened up in Alexandria. Lines down the fucking block for crap food that they charge like sin for. Think $30 nachos.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
I am continually shocked that so many Americans don't know when the civil war took place, don't know which countries we fought in either world war, and cannot find Chicago on a map, but they know every person every starlet slept with.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
I am continually shocked that so many Americans don't know when the civil war took place, don't know which countries we fought in either world war, and cannot find Chicago on a map, but they know every person every starlet slept with.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (Vfq+S)
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In the comment sections the euro trolls are hating it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM
Losing...they're soaking in it.
- Madge
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM
Losing...they're soaking in it.
- Madge
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (dPfyF)
109
Remember when the Euros paraded big blow up dolls of Trump in order to mock him??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (Fi95G)
Baby Trump was the cutest thing!
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (Fi95G)
Baby Trump was the cutest thing!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)
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I think I know what the threshold . You noticed that Europe, is slightly dependent on Russian fossils? ja? We are about to make them very less dependent on it. To the tune of 750B.
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (0ERwV)
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I expect some kind of deal on Greenland which he will announce for next July 4. If not that, then something else big - I would guess he has a very big birthday win planned for the U.S. to serve up on or around the 250th.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (7HpjT)
112
Arguably Europe already has 20% tariffs on US goods, they just call it VAT.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (7T/7v)
113
Oh shit my Peugeot will cost an extra 15%.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (Vvm2m)
114
It's all so obvious when thought about. America is where the money is. Want to sell you shit?
Posted by: Mongo at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (s9EN2)
115
Yeah, that Trup guy, he's a doodyheead that has no idea what he's doing.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 28, 2025 12:43 PM (89Sog)
116
Over at Twitchy there's a post about a newly released memo from Susan Rice, piss be upon her, where she directly targets Mike Flynn. She is one creature I want to see in prison
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 12:43 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ)
118
I’m covering in colo rectal surgery today. Yay, BUTTS!
Posted by: nurse ratched
Be careful that some asshole does steal your pen!
Posted by: nurse ratched
Be careful that some asshole does steal your pen!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2025 12:43 PM (tv5Uu)
119
lolololololololol!!
How long you reckon until cnn fake news will have to admit President Trump was right....again?
cnn fake news is saying it is "absurd" to believe the malaka harris campaign PAID for her celery endorsments.
Uh, yeah, she did.
lolololololololol!!
How long you reckon until cnn fake news will have to admit President Trump was right....again?
cnn fake news is saying it is "absurd" to believe the malaka harris campaign PAID for her celery endorsments.
Uh, yeah, she did.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 12:43 PM (PpEwu)
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As others have pointed out:
Time and time again each of these trade deals exposes just how much the rest of the world was/is f'ing over America.
They are all accepting massive increases in tariffs on their goods and massively dropping their tariffs on American goods.
They desperately need our markets; we don't need them.
And they were working hand-in-hand with the Democrats and their global corporatist lords to F over America and American workers.
PS:
Ha ha, Canada you frozen brain tards, how's your "screw you Trump, we're gonna make a deal with the EU!" going?
Time and time again each of these trade deals exposes just how much the rest of the world was/is f'ing over America.
They are all accepting massive increases in tariffs on their goods and massively dropping their tariffs on American goods.
They desperately need our markets; we don't need them.
And they were working hand-in-hand with the Democrats and their global corporatist lords to F over America and American workers.
PS:
Ha ha, Canada you frozen brain tards, how's your "screw you Trump, we're gonna make a deal with the EU!" going?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (lDIPK)
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80 I added reactions from European papers.
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)
Yeah, well, the US got "rolled" in the previous trade agreements.
Europe should be thankful they didn't get more "rolled" frankly, they've been robbing us blind since the 1940's.
But of course the European pols can't say that part out loud to the European public, because the European public seems to be laboring under some big misconceptions about their place in the world.
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)
Yeah, well, the US got "rolled" in the previous trade agreements.
Europe should be thankful they didn't get more "rolled" frankly, they've been robbing us blind since the 1940's.
But of course the European pols can't say that part out loud to the European public, because the European public seems to be laboring under some big misconceptions about their place in the world.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (uCjyK)
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Well Europe, looks like you'll have to improve labor costs to remain competitive. Put all those migrants to work.
Says in a thick Albanian accent: "Good luck."
Says in a thick Albanian accent: "Good luck."
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (wBaIH)
123
Celery is reformulated water.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (TzkcV)
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because raw milk is apparently a Bad Thing on a par with old gas cans here.
Yeah. The storm troopers raided the Amish for selling raw milk
Yeah. The storm troopers raided the Amish for selling raw milk
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (Fi95G)
125
"Ursula von der Leyden" is the perfect supervillainess name.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)
But they'd need to cast Eva Vlaardingerbroek for the film adaptation.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)
But they'd need to cast Eva Vlaardingerbroek for the film adaptation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (ExV1e)
126
NPR had an article yesterday asking how can the stock market be doing so well when Trump destroyed the economy with his tariffs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (Vvm2m)
127
It’s sad that Trump derangement in people like Geraghty and the rest of the National Review clown show has led them into a nasty anti-Americanism.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (iVv/b)
Or maybe it's the nasty anti-Americanism lead them into Trump derangement.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (iVv/b)
Or maybe it's the nasty anti-Americanism lead them into Trump derangement.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (7HpjT)
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And, just so y’all know, I’m covering in colo rectal surgery today. Yay, BUTTS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM
Heh heh....butt.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM
Heh heh....butt.
Posted by: A Minion at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (dPfyF)
129
Watching Trump terrorize Starmer just by honestly answering questions is so funny.
We will never see his like again.
We will never see his like again.
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (bVhJi)
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127 It’s sad that Trump derangement in people like Geraghty and the rest of the National Review clown show has led them into a nasty anti-Americanism.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (iVv/b)
Or maybe it's the nasty anti-Americanism lead them into Trump derangement.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (7HpjT)
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"You proles should be ruled by the best and the brightest from Harvard."
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (iVv/b)
Or maybe it's the nasty anti-Americanism lead them into Trump derangement.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (7HpjT)
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"You proles should be ruled by the best and the brightest from Harvard."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
131
So, we sell them fossio, we sell them our stuff, and we forced them to pay for weapons. Fkng brilliant. Good job econ team! Bessent, Lutnick and Hassett!
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (0ERwV)
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Essentially, the democratic side of the EU is completely fake because an appointed set of insiders can do whatever the fuck they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
If Macron is impotent to resist this then I’m feeling content.. in a petty sort of way
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
If Macron is impotent to resist this then I’m feeling content.. in a petty sort of way
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (FNvF+)
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (AOsQT)
134
HEButt.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (TzkcV)
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129 Watching Trump terrorize Starmer just by honestly answering questions is so funny.
We will never see his like again.
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (bVhJi)
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JD "I don't really care, Margaret," Vance is in the wings, and it sounds like the decks are being cleared for him. Rubio said this weekend that he expects Vance to be the nominee in 2028.
We will never see his like again.
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (bVhJi)
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JD "I don't really care, Margaret," Vance is in the wings, and it sounds like the decks are being cleared for him. Rubio said this weekend that he expects Vance to be the nominee in 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
136
I hope Elric has already locked in the price on his new Lambo ...
Posted by: far cry at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (2j+23)
______
I have the order in but not a build allocation yet. So not sure how that works. My understanding -- hopeium? -- is that the first round of orders is at the price list from October 2024. Lambo hasn't updated the prices. But if you saw the prices, and the yuge increase over the Huracan's price, you would think they already built in a lot of cushion.
Posted by: far cry at July 28, 2025 12:39 PM (2j+23)
______
I have the order in but not a build allocation yet. So not sure how that works. My understanding -- hopeium? -- is that the first round of orders is at the price list from October 2024. Lambo hasn't updated the prices. But if you saw the prices, and the yuge increase over the Huracan's price, you would think they already built in a lot of cushion.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
137
misconceptions about their place in the world.
They suffer from a collective case of Main Character Syndrome
They suffer from a collective case of Main Character Syndrome
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (Fi95G)
138
So cnn fake "fact checked" the President's claim and came up with this utter bullshit: beeyonsay didn't get $11M for an endorsement, only $165K was paid...to her "production company."
Oh, okay then.
So cnn fake "fact checked" the President's claim and came up with this utter bullshit: beeyonsay didn't get $11M for an endorsement, only $165K was paid...to her "production company."
Oh, okay then.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (PpEwu)
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cnn fake news is saying it is "absurd" to believe the malaka harris campaign PAID for her celery endorsments.
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What is the point of lying if you're gonna admit you're lying?
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What is the point of lying if you're gonna admit you're lying?
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (7HpjT)
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...years of taking advantage of our stupid political leaders.
Other countries didn't get those deal because our 'leaders' were stupid. After all, EU leaders are stupid also. They got the deals because our 'leaders' don't give a damn about the country as long as they get theirs.
Other countries didn't get those deal because our 'leaders' were stupid. After all, EU leaders are stupid also. They got the deals because our 'leaders' don't give a damn about the country as long as they get theirs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (ExV1e)
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I mean I understand why liberals made a big deal about the tariffs, mostly because they are stupid and have no understanding of the economy or money in general.
They screamed this was isolationism and pushing away our allies, while ignoring how European countries have long made it nearly impossible for most American manufacturers to enter their market, and then with the morning EU regulations, they made it even harder.
Trump needs to not just rest on this deal, there needs to be someone overseeing this and making sure the EU doesn't pull their normal shit and just write new laws that still make it impossible for US sales there.
They screamed this was isolationism and pushing away our allies, while ignoring how European countries have long made it nearly impossible for most American manufacturers to enter their market, and then with the morning EU regulations, they made it even harder.
Trump needs to not just rest on this deal, there needs to be someone overseeing this and making sure the EU doesn't pull their normal shit and just write new laws that still make it impossible for US sales there.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (rwZUy)
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I didn't realize until now that ass-raping was a legitimate negotiating tactic.
Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (pMi6S)
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The 15% tariff was deemed acceptable to the EU because (I suspect) it's high enough to give Trump his pound of flesh, but also low enough so that it can largely be absorbed. I have always believed the USA was prison-sexed by foreign goods made by foreign companies making insane profits. The 15% means their profits won't be as insane.
Posted by: Elric
That is correct. The EU had tariff barriers to the US for many years, and this corrects it to a certain extent.
Posted by: Elric
That is correct. The EU had tariff barriers to the US for many years, and this corrects it to a certain extent.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)
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I was in the free trade forever and always camp not that long ago. It’s what all my textbooks said. It’s what all the “experts” said.
Luckily I was red pilled and see it’s all lies and bullshit now.
Luckily I was red pilled and see it’s all lies and bullshit now.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (Vvm2m)
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It's embarrassing that you even had to write that.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (L5An7)
I do embarrassment really well
Majored in it
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (L5An7)
I do embarrassment really well
Majored in it
Posted by: browndog tracking the scent at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (TTAGa)
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They suffer from a collective case of Main Character Syndrome
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM
Delusions of adequacy.
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM
Delusions of adequacy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (dPfyF)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (tv5Uu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (63Dwl)
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Now, about that UK freedom of speech situation.
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (0ERwV)
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Over at Twitchy there's a post about a newly released memo from Susan Rice, piss be upon her, where she directly targets Mike Flynn. She is one creature I want to see in prison
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I want to hear from this Oleg Smolenkov guy about his hearsay statement that is apparently the sole basis for launching the Russia probe.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I want to hear from this Oleg Smolenkov guy about his hearsay statement that is apparently the sole basis for launching the Russia probe.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (XvL8K)
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My favorite scream? Canadians. They're big mad because they could have had the energy deal but Castro Jr. decided against it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (tT6L1)
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112 Arguably Europe already has 20% tariffs on US goods, they just call it VAT.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (7T/7v)
They also play a lot of games with things like crash safety ratings (making American cars look less safe), fuel efficiency (in Euro-land diesels are much more efficient than gas cars are in America), Agriculture rules (in the US, all eggs must be washed, in Europe it's illegal to wash the eggs), etc. etc.
And I'm not saying that Europe is wrong on their regulations, but they definitely craft them to protect domestic industries and keep American industries out.
I'm sure they'll still protect their domestic industries, regardless of what the tariff levels are.
This will, hopefully, protect our domestic industries a bit as well.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 12:42 PM (7T/7v)
They also play a lot of games with things like crash safety ratings (making American cars look less safe), fuel efficiency (in Euro-land diesels are much more efficient than gas cars are in America), Agriculture rules (in the US, all eggs must be washed, in Europe it's illegal to wash the eggs), etc. etc.
And I'm not saying that Europe is wrong on their regulations, but they definitely craft them to protect domestic industries and keep American industries out.
I'm sure they'll still protect their domestic industries, regardless of what the tariff levels are.
This will, hopefully, protect our domestic industries a bit as well.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (dPfyF)
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The EU is now subsidizing the rebuilding and restructuring of the US military machine so that we'll be in at least some kind of shape to do something other than swat at missiles and play 'splodey tag with some goatfuckers gambolling around in the hills. Because we will inevitably need to
That's what the EU gets out of this.
That's what the EU gets out of this.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (VoAdT)
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I had celery this morning for breakfast, with sour cream.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)
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142 I mean I understand why liberals made a big deal about the tariffs, mostly because they are stupid and have no understanding of the economy or money in general.
They screamed this was isolationism and pushing away our allies, while ignoring how European countries have long made it nearly impossible for most American manufacturers to enter their market, and then with the morning EU regulations, they made it even harder.
Trump needs to not just rest on this deal, there needs to be someone overseeing this and making sure the EU doesn't pull their normal shit and just write new laws that still make it impossible for US sales there.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (rwZUy)
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They pushed tariffs because "price increase = inflation and inflation is bad" was easy to understand.
The reality of tariffs is that most get absorbed by importers because just passing along the costs ends up being a market disadvantage, and many goods can be imported in other ways from other sources to avoid tariffs as well.
The other reality is that most day to day purchases are free from tariffs because they're mostly made in America, like food. 90% of our food is domestically produced.
They screamed this was isolationism and pushing away our allies, while ignoring how European countries have long made it nearly impossible for most American manufacturers to enter their market, and then with the morning EU regulations, they made it even harder.
Trump needs to not just rest on this deal, there needs to be someone overseeing this and making sure the EU doesn't pull their normal shit and just write new laws that still make it impossible for US sales there.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (rwZUy)
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They pushed tariffs because "price increase = inflation and inflation is bad" was easy to understand.
The reality of tariffs is that most get absorbed by importers because just passing along the costs ends up being a market disadvantage, and many goods can be imported in other ways from other sources to avoid tariffs as well.
The other reality is that most day to day purchases are free from tariffs because they're mostly made in America, like food. 90% of our food is domestically produced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Helped my brother work on his daughter's vehicle.......now needs a radiator.
Did it need a radiator before you helped?
Did it need a radiator before you helped?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (ExV1e)
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The National Review bunch and other never Trumpers are just upset that no one in the Republican leadership listens to them anymore. Their grift has dried up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (hIY2p)
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117 Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (r99m
Hey, Piper. How's your pup doing?
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025
He is so good. It’s really, really hot so we can’t go on an adventure, which he doesn’t understand. He keeps going to my car when we take him outside. I wish he would swim!
Hey, Piper. How's your pup doing?
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025
He is so good. It’s really, really hot so we can’t go on an adventure, which he doesn’t understand. He keeps going to my car when we take him outside. I wish he would swim!
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (r99m8)
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Other countries didn't get those deal because our 'leaders' were stupid. After all, EU leaders are stupid also. They got the deals because our 'leaders' don't give a damn about the country as long as they get theirs.
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Bingo. Any of the previous administrations could have done what Trump has, but none had any interest in doing so because making life great for Americans wasn't why they ran for office.
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Bingo. Any of the previous administrations could have done what Trump has, but none had any interest in doing so because making life great for Americans wasn't why they ran for office.
Posted by: Crusader at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (TN0g+)
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Now that Japan and the EU have come to terms, the countries who have so far refused to buckle are in worse shape. Those coming late will get worse deals.
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Oh yeah.
Remember how the left howled and mocked conservatives after April 2, when Xi threatened any country that made a deal with the US would face his pudgy wrath?
Oh, how they laughed--"the world is going to stand strong together and crush the Tangerine Tyrant!!"
America wins.
They lose.
Ha, ha, LOLGF
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Oh yeah.
Remember how the left howled and mocked conservatives after April 2, when Xi threatened any country that made a deal with the US would face his pudgy wrath?
Oh, how they laughed--"the world is going to stand strong together and crush the Tangerine Tyrant!!"
America wins.
They lose.
Ha, ha, LOLGF
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (lDIPK)
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Oh, btw:
Reef jumped into the car for the first time without any help yesterday. He waited to the point he can almost step up onto the seat without jumping, but this is a big step.
He's a good boy.
Reef jumped into the car for the first time without any help yesterday. He waited to the point he can almost step up onto the seat without jumping, but this is a big step.
He's a good boy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (bss/y)
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JD "I don't really care, Margaret," Vance is in the wings, and it sounds like the decks are being cleared for him. Rubio said this weekend that he expects Vance to be the nominee in 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
I guess I’m a glutton for punishment because I watched Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation yesterday. God she’s insufferable…. The ultimate resting bitch face. Well non-resting too. Just overall bitch face
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
I guess I’m a glutton for punishment because I watched Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation yesterday. God she’s insufferable…. The ultimate resting bitch face. Well non-resting too. Just overall bitch face
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (FNvF+)
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At least the troll acknowledges he is a shit eater.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (ach5+)
Posted by: Pendulating Richard at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (AWnPj)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (7HpjT)
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I assume the trade deal also reigns in the drug price abuse we've been experiencing in the US.
Jackasses got us to subsidize their socialized medicine through insane drug pricing in America.
Jackasses got us to subsidize their socialized medicine through insane drug pricing in America.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (tT6L1)
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167 At least the troll acknowledges he is a shit eater.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (ach5+)
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It's his one positive trait: honesty of self.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (ach5+)
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It's his one positive trait: honesty of self.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)
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60 So why is the Market so lackluster ? Did the Fed chair say something to spook it ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
This is earnings announcement week for a huge swatch of bell weather stocks.
Basically this week is the economy's report card. Trade deal or no trade deal, the "smart money" is sitting still waiting for the cards to drop.
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
This is earnings announcement week for a huge swatch of bell weather stocks.
Basically this week is the economy's report card. Trade deal or no trade deal, the "smart money" is sitting still waiting for the cards to drop.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (WYStd)
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Now, about that UK freedom of speech situation.
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (0ERwV)
I think the UK is done. I see no recourse but violence, and the British people no longer have that in them.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: runner at July 28, 2025 12:47 PM (0ERwV)
I think the UK is done. I see no recourse but violence, and the British people no longer have that in them.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
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The individual EU countries would have been much better off if they negotiated individually with the USA. But they couldn't do that, because they surrendered their sovereignty to a bunch of scumbags in Brussels. So sad.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (iFTx/)
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Rumor has it HEB Doritos are better than the genuine article.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (TzkcV)
The Fat Electrician made that point in his "FEMA of Texas" video.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (TzkcV)
The Fat Electrician made that point in his "FEMA of Texas" video.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (ExV1e)
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169 It's another Trumpmas miracle!
That lucky bastard.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)
Yeah, it really is amazing how he blunders into all this fucking good luck. It's really almost not fair.
Anyway.
That lucky bastard.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)
Yeah, it really is amazing how he blunders into all this fucking good luck. It's really almost not fair.
Anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (bss/y)
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Europe and Japan play all sorts of games to keep American cars out. They come up with regulations that only apply to say pickup trucks or SUVs. Regulations that make it prohibitively expansive for anyone to buy them.
Then they go we’ll look nobody here wants your trucks or SUVs. It’s not our fault you make profits nobody wants. When in fact people do want them just not at 2X the price of a Toyota or VW.
Then they go we’ll look nobody here wants your trucks or SUVs. It’s not our fault you make profits nobody wants. When in fact people do want them just not at 2X the price of a Toyota or VW.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (Vvm2m)
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They screamed this was isolationism and pushing away our allies, while ignoring how European countries have long made it nearly impossible for most American manufacturers to enter their market, and then with the morning EU regulations, they made it even harder.
Trump needs to not just rest on this deal, there needs to be someone overseeing this and making sure the EU doesn't pull their normal shit and just write new laws that still make it impossible for US sales there.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (rwZUy)
The "experts" are looking at this differently than you are I are.
They know these "trade deals" are huge fucking leverage for them to get what they want. And what they want has nothing to do with is best for the shlubs in fly over country. They want what is best for them personally.
So trading away Johnny from Iowa's future earnings so that they can get drilling rights in Kazakhstan is a no brainer if you don't give a fuck about Johnny from Iowa. And anyone against these "trade deals" is an isolationist who doesn't want DC insiders to get rich.
Trump needs to not just rest on this deal, there needs to be someone overseeing this and making sure the EU doesn't pull their normal shit and just write new laws that still make it impossible for US sales there.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 28, 2025 12:46 PM (rwZUy)
The "experts" are looking at this differently than you are I are.
They know these "trade deals" are huge fucking leverage for them to get what they want. And what they want has nothing to do with is best for the shlubs in fly over country. They want what is best for them personally.
So trading away Johnny from Iowa's future earnings so that they can get drilling rights in Kazakhstan is a no brainer if you don't give a fuck about Johnny from Iowa. And anyone against these "trade deals" is an isolationist who doesn't want DC insiders to get rich.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (uCjyK)
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174 I think the UK is done. I see no recourse but violence, and the British people no longer have that in them.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
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The next general election will be interesting.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
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The next general election will be interesting.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)
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because raw milk is apparently a Bad Thing on a par with old gas cans here.
Yeah. The storm troopers raided the Amish for selling raw milk
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (Fi95G)
Raw milk is the vector on untold number of diseases that the regulators never name, just that they are bad.
In reality, the main concern USED to be that milk was considered a vector for TB. But since they ship illegals in without any testing, there is a greater risk of TB from illegal aliens.
I used to insist on TB testing because I dealt with migrant workers for about a decade. My insurance did not like me.
Yeah. The storm troopers raided the Amish for selling raw milk
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (Fi95G)
Raw milk is the vector on untold number of diseases that the regulators never name, just that they are bad.
In reality, the main concern USED to be that milk was considered a vector for TB. But since they ship illegals in without any testing, there is a greater risk of TB from illegal aliens.
I used to insist on TB testing because I dealt with migrant workers for about a decade. My insurance did not like me.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (D7oie)
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Did it need a radiator before you helped?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (ExV1e)
Yes. Unknown at the time, but filling it after replacing the water pump and hoses revealed it was cracked.
Did it need a radiator before you helped?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 12:48 PM (ExV1e)
Yes. Unknown at the time, but filling it after replacing the water pump and hoses revealed it was cracked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)
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I was assured by "our betters" that Trump's Tariffs and Trade Deals Were Gonna Tank The World's Economies and Terminate Trillions of Lives -- With Trannies, Minorities, Illegal Aliens, Terrorists, Women, Children, and Pedophiles hardest hit!
I was assured by "our betters" that Trump's Tariffs and Trade Deals Were Gonna Tank The World's Economies and Terminate Trillions of Lives -- With Trannies, Minorities, Illegal Aliens, Terrorists, Women, Children, and Pedophiles hardest hit!
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (gRinF)
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Now get us diesel Toyota hiluxes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
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Stocks have been setting records every day for the past couple of weeks. Can’t go up forever like that. It’s good to have a little pause, maybe even a little pullback.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (Vvm2m)
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Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
I call it Self-Burkization. Coming soon to a country near you.
I call it Self-Burkization. Coming soon to a country near you.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (7HpjT)
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Jackasses got us to subsidize their socialized medicine through insane drug pricing in America.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (tT6L1)
Yes. I work in pharma and that is exactly how it works. When I ask our clients' reps why they even participate in a market where they can't sell a drug at the market rate - they tell me "we either make a penny or we make nothing, so we make a penny then charge Americans a dollar."
The solution put forth is to basically tell the pharmas to charge us what they charge the other price-controlled markets. This will work in the short term however it will directly impact capital investiture in research pipelines.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (tT6L1)
Yes. I work in pharma and that is exactly how it works. When I ask our clients' reps why they even participate in a market where they can't sell a drug at the market rate - they tell me "we either make a penny or we make nothing, so we make a penny then charge Americans a dollar."
The solution put forth is to basically tell the pharmas to charge us what they charge the other price-controlled markets. This will work in the short term however it will directly impact capital investiture in research pipelines.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (WYStd)
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That lucky bastard.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)
Yeah, it really is amazing how he blunders into all this fucking good luck. It's really almost not fair.
Anyway.
_-_-_
Yeah, so long as he's blundering on our behalf, I'll take it. I had been describing him as a bull in a china shop, but he keeps backing into and breaking all the right stuff. Works way better than those characters we usually get who promise all of this and deliver nothing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)
Yeah, it really is amazing how he blunders into all this fucking good luck. It's really almost not fair.
Anyway.
_-_-_
Yeah, so long as he's blundering on our behalf, I'll take it. I had been describing him as a bull in a china shop, but he keeps backing into and breaking all the right stuff. Works way better than those characters we usually get who promise all of this and deliver nothing.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (vd6bO)
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Watching Trump terrorize Starmer just by honestly answering questions is so funny.
We will never see his like again.
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (bVhJi)
Starmer is scared green about riots. It appears that the entire UK law enforcement apparatus is focused on putting down any potential of white riots in the cities. I have heard clips about Brits telling the cops they will need to call out the Army by the end of the Summer
We will never see his like again.
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 12:45 PM (bVhJi)
Starmer is scared green about riots. It appears that the entire UK law enforcement apparatus is focused on putting down any potential of white riots in the cities. I have heard clips about Brits telling the cops they will need to call out the Army by the end of the Summer
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (8n3RU)
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151 Now, about that UK freedom of speech situation.
Posted by: runner
There is none. Not only does the UK not have freedom of speech any more, they don't even have a "freedom of speech situation." It doesn't exist, it's not a topic, stop mentioning it, do you understand?
Posted by: runner
There is none. Not only does the UK not have freedom of speech any more, they don't even have a "freedom of speech situation." It doesn't exist, it's not a topic, stop mentioning it, do you understand?
Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (pMi6S)
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182 Now get us diesel Toyota hiluxes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
I'm talking to my contacts at AM General to put the humvee out there for general purchase. Won't be like the civilian H1 but now that CAFE standards are boofed there's little reason for them not to do it. They already sell all of the components to assemble your own, they just won't sell the thing 100% assembled. So dumb.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
I'm talking to my contacts at AM General to put the humvee out there for general purchase. Won't be like the civilian H1 but now that CAFE standards are boofed there's little reason for them not to do it. They already sell all of the components to assemble your own, they just won't sell the thing 100% assembled. So dumb.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (WYStd)
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Yeah, so long as he's blundering on our behalf, I'll take it. I had been describing him as a bull in a china shop, but he keeps backing into and breaking all the right stuff. Works way better than those characters we usually get who promise all of this and deliver nothing.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (vd6bO)
Uh
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (vd6bO)
Uh
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (7HpjT)
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Kings Landing. Bend the Knee.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (TzkcV)
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>>> How was your weekend?
Last of the summer baseball tournaments, thank the maker.
Regionally, we did extremely well for a small town. On a larger geographical region, we finished middle of the pack. We'll take it, and lots of good baseball and baseball learning was had.
Well done, boys.
Last of the summer baseball tournaments, thank the maker.
Regionally, we did extremely well for a small town. On a larger geographical region, we finished middle of the pack. We'll take it, and lots of good baseball and baseball learning was had.
Well done, boys.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (i24o9)
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187 Starmer is scared green about riots. It appears that the entire UK law enforcement apparatus is focused on putting down any potential of white riots in the cities. I have heard clips about Brits telling the cops they will need to call out the Army by the end of the Summer
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (D7oie)
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What's funny about all of this is that Labour is actually the more moderate of the two major British parties on immigration.
The Conservative Party was more explicitly pro-immigration than Labour.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (D7oie)
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What's funny about all of this is that Labour is actually the more moderate of the two major British parties on immigration.
The Conservative Party was more explicitly pro-immigration than Labour.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)
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I will never get rolled. Even in the toughest of pants.
Posted by: Ursulas Perfectly Coiffed Muff at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (QsgVg)
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23 It’ll be interesting to see how MSNBC programming spins this deal as catastrophic….
Well, it does distract from Epstein...
Well, it does distract from Epstein...
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (PQOq3)
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lol, an "indignant" al sharpton goes on msdnc and admits his non-profits, a.k.a. his employers, were paid by the harris campaign
lol, an "indignant" al sharpton goes on msdnc and admits his non-profits, a.k.a. his employers, were paid by the harris campaign
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (PpEwu)
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however it will directly impact capital investiture
Posted by: Defenestratus
That's controversial.
Posted by: Defenestratus
That's controversial.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (77rzZ)
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Completely unrelated to this topic, but it just occurred to me that the track meet stabber's apologists have gone very quiet.
Posted by: Random synaptic discharge at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (TbWk/)
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Yeah, so long as he's blundering on our behalf, I'll take it. I had been describing him as a bull in a china shop, but he keeps backing into and breaking all the right stuff. Works way better than those characters we usually get who promise all of this and deliver nothing.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (vd6bO)
Mythbusters proved the bull will not break any dishes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 12:53 PM (vd6bO)
Mythbusters proved the bull will not break any dishes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (xG4kz)
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121 80 I added reactions from European papers.
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)
Yeah, well, the US got "rolled" in the previous trade agreements.
Europe should be thankful they didn't get more "rolled" frankly, they've been robbing us blind since the 1940's.
But of course the European pols can't say that part out loud to the European public, because the European public seems to be laboring under some big misconceptions about their place in the world.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (uCjyK)
My favorite part of the last half century or so is being called "barbarians" for not having socialized this and socialized that by countries that have been able to afford socialism because we have been underwriting their defense and taking it in the neck in unfavorable trade deals.
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)
Yeah, well, the US got "rolled" in the previous trade agreements.
Europe should be thankful they didn't get more "rolled" frankly, they've been robbing us blind since the 1940's.
But of course the European pols can't say that part out loud to the European public, because the European public seems to be laboring under some big misconceptions about their place in the world.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:44 PM (uCjyK)
My favorite part of the last half century or so is being called "barbarians" for not having socialized this and socialized that by countries that have been able to afford socialism because we have been underwriting their defense and taking it in the neck in unfavorable trade deals.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (y+qgR)
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I added reactions from European papers.
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace
at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO
It sucks to be them LOL
Posted by: It's me donna
At least their News tell the truth!
They say Europe got rolled.
Posted by: ace
at July 28, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO
It sucks to be them LOL
Posted by: It's me donna
At least their News tell the truth!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (tv5Uu)
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I think the UK is done. I see no recourse but violence, and the British people no longer have that in them.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
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The next general election will be interesting.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)
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I tend to agree with CBD and don't think it will even take 50 years. The goatfuckers are breeding the native Brits out to such an extent that even without open borders the goatfuckers will be the dominant religion in 50 years.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
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The next general election will be interesting.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)
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I tend to agree with CBD and don't think it will even take 50 years. The goatfuckers are breeding the native Brits out to such an extent that even without open borders the goatfuckers will be the dominant religion in 50 years.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
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UK cops should be forbidden to enter the US.
Posted by: mr tmz at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (rJ48h)
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Now get us diesel Toyota hiluxes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
With pintle-mounted M2s!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
With pintle-mounted M2s!
Posted by: Getting technical at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (TbWk/)
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10 What happened to TACO?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
Elric, you're too funny!
To answer your question, TACO ended the day we bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. That was important for the purposes of this post because it showed the world that Trump means what he says. Getting the OBBB passed *before the 4 July deadline* was important, because that showed the world that the nattering nabobs of negativism in Congress weren't going to slow him down either. That showed the EU that Trump has the mojo, and that it wouldn't do them any good to stall. When Japan signed their agreement, Ursula realized that she needed to deal with Trump before the 1 Aug (Friday) deadline.
TACO was always stupid. I have no idea why the MFM decided to make that a 'thing', like 'fetch'. It wasn't going to happen.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
Elric, you're too funny!
To answer your question, TACO ended the day we bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. That was important for the purposes of this post because it showed the world that Trump means what he says. Getting the OBBB passed *before the 4 July deadline* was important, because that showed the world that the nattering nabobs of negativism in Congress weren't going to slow him down either. That showed the EU that Trump has the mojo, and that it wouldn't do them any good to stall. When Japan signed their agreement, Ursula realized that she needed to deal with Trump before the 1 Aug (Friday) deadline.
TACO was always stupid. I have no idea why the MFM decided to make that a 'thing', like 'fetch'. It wasn't going to happen.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (0CU3H)
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Where are the soccer hooligans when you need them?
And I hope the royal family has a bug-out plan. It may come to that.
And I hope the royal family has a bug-out plan. It may come to that.
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (AOsQT)
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"Man, whatever's is those Epstein files must really be something if he's working this hard to make killer deals like this!"
- The Left, hoping, coping, seething
- The Left, hoping, coping, seething
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (KbCG3)
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*Trump worked out exactly where our pain threshold is."
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I didn't know that parasites were capable of feeling pain.
/Trump, you magnificent bastard!
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I didn't know that parasites were capable of feeling pain.
/Trump, you magnificent bastard!
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (XiUhd)
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The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore.
Break time is over -- get back to shovelling, college boy.
The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore.
Break time is over -- get back to shovelling, college boy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (xG4kz)
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176 Europe and Japan play all sorts of games to keep American cars out. They come up with regulations that only apply to say pickup trucks or SUVs. Regulations that make it prohibitively expansive for anyone to buy them.
In France, if you want to buy a Mustang Dark Horse, you have to pay a ....
70,000 Euro "Polluter Tax".
In France, if you want to buy a Mustang Dark Horse, you have to pay a ....
70,000 Euro "Polluter Tax".
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (WYStd)
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205 I tend to agree with CBD and don't think it will even take 50 years. The goatfuckers are breeding the native Brits out to such an extent that even without open borders the goatfuckers will be the dominant religion in 50 years.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
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I think they're still only about 8% of the population, mostly concentrated in the cities.
Stopping immigration and deporting everyone possible could stop the trend and maybe even reverse it in time.
I dunno.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
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I think they're still only about 8% of the population, mostly concentrated in the cities.
Stopping immigration and deporting everyone possible could stop the trend and maybe even reverse it in time.
I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
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The Conservative Party was more explicitly pro-immigration than Labour.
________
The leader of the Conservative Party is a Nigerian Immigrant.
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The leader of the Conservative Party is a Nigerian Immigrant.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (7sA9x)
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And let's not lose sight of the other, multi-billion dollar parts of these deals:
All these other countries, the ones making deals, their people are going to see their costs of goods go down dramatically.
Especially food.
Increasing their spending power.
Under the Old Regime:
1) Every country fucks over America and American workers by massively taxing American goods
2) Every other country stagnates and impoverishes their own industry by propping them up via tariffs and subsidies.
3) the US taxpayer then sends aid and/or provides defense so every other country can continue #1 and #2.
The only losers in these deals are the globalists who have been stealing from the people and exploiting their power to write laws for their benefit.
All these other countries, the ones making deals, their people are going to see their costs of goods go down dramatically.
Especially food.
Increasing their spending power.
Under the Old Regime:
1) Every country fucks over America and American workers by massively taxing American goods
2) Every other country stagnates and impoverishes their own industry by propping them up via tariffs and subsidies.
3) the US taxpayer then sends aid and/or provides defense so every other country can continue #1 and #2.
The only losers in these deals are the globalists who have been stealing from the people and exploiting their power to write laws for their benefit.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (lDIPK)
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Hey Chuck: "Trump Always Commands Obedience", right?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (PQOq3)
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The UK needs their own Trump.
Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (AOsQT)
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How much were 'leaders' here getting paid under the table while being 'rolled'.
Posted by: davidt at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (i0F8b)
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My favorite part of the last half century or so is being called "barbarians" for not having socialized this and socialized that by countries that have been able to afford socialism because we have been underwriting their defense and taking it in the neck in unfavorable trade deals.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (y+qgR)
Yes, and being called racist and uncivilized when they live in homogenous societies that, oh by the way, have been at constant war with their neighbors for all of recorded history up until the US basically decided to militarily occupy Europe after WWII.
Then they get their own taste of diversity by importing millions of Muslims, and all of a sudden -- well, it's not so easy now, is it?
Kind of hard to have a generous welfare state when the recipients don't give a shit about cultural norms, and you can't tell your cousin Sven to get off the couch and get a job and stop being a mooch. Because Mohammed will just call you a racist and tell you to go get fucked if you try to argue with him about taking bennies.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (y+qgR)
Yes, and being called racist and uncivilized when they live in homogenous societies that, oh by the way, have been at constant war with their neighbors for all of recorded history up until the US basically decided to militarily occupy Europe after WWII.
Then they get their own taste of diversity by importing millions of Muslims, and all of a sudden -- well, it's not so easy now, is it?
Kind of hard to have a generous welfare state when the recipients don't give a shit about cultural norms, and you can't tell your cousin Sven to get off the couch and get a job and stop being a mooch. Because Mohammed will just call you a racist and tell you to go get fucked if you try to argue with him about taking bennies.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (uCjyK)
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Yoga pants couldn’t roll me, peasants.
Posted by: Ursulas Perfectly Coiffed Muff at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (QsgVg)
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What happened to TACO?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
No idea. He had that one hit covering "Puttin' on the Ritz" back in the 80s, then he just kinda disappeared.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
No idea. He had that one hit covering "Puttin' on the Ritz" back in the 80s, then he just kinda disappeared.
Posted by: Entertainment business ate him alive at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)
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When the tyrannical socialist Ursula von der Leyden, leader of the EU's parliament of traitors, was asked what concessions the US had made to Europe in exchange for Europe's generosity, she couldn't think of a single one:
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That's simple. Our concession is a gift. It is a gift of learning to stand on your own two feet without the US acting as a general subsidy provider with no discretion.
PS: Fix the by-line, Ace. "Imports" should be "tariffs"
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That's simple. Our concession is a gift. It is a gift of learning to stand on your own two feet without the US acting as a general subsidy provider with no discretion.
PS: Fix the by-line, Ace. "Imports" should be "tariffs"
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (dIske)
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"I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice, I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview.
Nope. I shudder at the thought of the catastrophes she would have unleashed. Felonious D dodged a literal bullet and the Nation a metaphorical one.
Nope. I shudder at the thought of the catastrophes she would have unleashed. Felonious D dodged a literal bullet and the Nation a metaphorical one.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (9vYpt)
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@174:
"I see no recourse but violence, and the British people no longer have that in them. "
I dunno, you really never know ...
"I see no recourse but violence, and the British people no longer have that in them. "
I dunno, you really never know ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (dKEEs)
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Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
50? Chuckles will give it to them before the end of his reign.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
50? Chuckles will give it to them before the end of his reign.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (0eaVi)
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A giant lesbian with a sandpaper tongue couldn’t roll me.
Posted by: Ursulas Perfectly Coiffed Muff at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (QsgVg)
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BTW, coming up on Aug Oneth, and still waiting for the "high unemployment", "high gas prices", and "empty shelves" that were all promised me by the best people (including a few here that kinda/sorta agreed that such might happen).
Y'all got empty shelves yet?
Y'all got empty shelves yet?
Posted by: man at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (tubbA)
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#WINNING-FATIGUE STATUZZZZ: 404 -- Not Found.
Schadenboner Statuzzzz: 404-hours without calling a doctor.
#WINNING-FATIGUE STATUZZZZ: 404 -- Not Found.
Schadenboner Statuzzzz: 404-hours without calling a doctor.
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (XiUhd)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (wBaIH)
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I tend to agree with CBD and don't think it will even take 50 years. The goatfuckers are breeding the native Brits out to such an extent that even without open borders the goatfuckers will be the dominant religion in 50 years.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
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I think they're still only about 8% of the population, mostly concentrated in the cities.
Stopping immigration and deporting everyone possible could stop the trend and maybe even reverse it in time.
I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
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I think the actual numbers are higher. But regardless, the goatfuckers are already wielding political and social power WAY beyond whatever their numbers are. If they can do this with 8% or 10%, imagine what they can do with 25%?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
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I think they're still only about 8% of the population, mostly concentrated in the cities.
Stopping immigration and deporting everyone possible could stop the trend and maybe even reverse it in time.
I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
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I think the actual numbers are higher. But regardless, the goatfuckers are already wielding political and social power WAY beyond whatever their numbers are. If they can do this with 8% or 10%, imagine what they can do with 25%?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (iFTx/)
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Now that Japan and the EU have come to terms, the countries who have so far refused to buckle are in worse shape.
Sob!
It's not fair!
Sob!
It's not fair!
Posted by: Canada, Elbows Up! at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (xTIDn)
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An interesting experiment for Britain. Have a major radio station play the song "White Riot" by The Clash in regular rotation. See how long until Starmer sends the jackboots to the station
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (hIY2p)
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219 White people are at about 30% in Britain
they are the minority now
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (AOsQT)
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Where did you get that number?
It's about 76% white with another 6% called "White/Other".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Demographics_of_the_United_Kingdom#Ethnicity
they are the minority now
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (AOsQT)
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Where did you get that number?
It's about 76% white with another 6% called "White/Other".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Demographics_of_the_United_Kingdom#Ethnicity
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
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219 White people are at about 30% in Britain
they are the minority now
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (AOsQT)
Maybe in London proper, but Britain is still 80% white.
And we're not really in a position to judge them, if you haven't noticed our massively shifting demographics in the last 20+ years.
they are the minority now
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (AOsQT)
Maybe in London proper, but Britain is still 80% white.
And we're not really in a position to judge them, if you haven't noticed our massively shifting demographics in the last 20+ years.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (uCjyK)
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217, LOL, yes, this!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (dKEEs)
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>>White people are at about 30% in Britain
You might be thinking of London Proper?
...and even then, I believe you are way off.
You might be thinking of London Proper?
...and even then, I believe you are way off.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (oSEaw)
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Now get us diesel Toyota hiluxes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
Land Rover Pickups. Hilux are pretty much the Tacoma, I want something small and 4-wheel I can carry a saw, and tow a trailer with.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
Land Rover Pickups. Hilux are pretty much the Tacoma, I want something small and 4-wheel I can carry a saw, and tow a trailer with.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (D7oie)
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These tariffs are illegal. The courts will overturn them all. These "deals" are just political performance art. They mean nothing.
this will amount to an additional 15% Turd Tax increase above and beyond the already existing pricing increases from Turd's inflation/stagflation. Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
Stupid bastard - he starts a problem and then calls less of a problem a deal. Washington needs an enema
the operative question is what have we been paying on EU imports before this "deal"? According the this NBC News article, But last year, the average U.S. tariff on imports from the European Union was just 1.2%, according to Capital Economics’ chief Europe economist. Americans will pay an average of 13.8% more for their EU goods! Thanks Trump!
There had been articles last week where the EU had been debating retaliatory tariffs. So since this is a "framework" of a deal, I would think (hope) they do put those in place and not capitulate completely.
this will amount to an additional 15% Turd Tax increase above and beyond the already existing pricing increases from Turd's inflation/stagflation. Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
Stupid bastard - he starts a problem and then calls less of a problem a deal. Washington needs an enema
the operative question is what have we been paying on EU imports before this "deal"? According the this NBC News article, But last year, the average U.S. tariff on imports from the European Union was just 1.2%, according to Capital Economics’ chief Europe economist. Americans will pay an average of 13.8% more for their EU goods! Thanks Trump!
There had been articles last week where the EU had been debating retaliatory tariffs. So since this is a "framework" of a deal, I would think (hope) they do put those in place and not capitulate completely.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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Stupid Trump defies "experts'" predictions and wins again!
Why it is almost like the "experts" are always wrong. Not right a single fucking time... ever.
Why it is almost like the "experts" are always wrong. Not right a single fucking time... ever.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (17s+e)
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231 The Taylor Swift restaurant will last six months. That's the business model.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (wBaIH)
Do they serve food there ? Swift doesn't look like she eats
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (wBaIH)
Do they serve food there ? Swift doesn't look like she eats
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (VE6XX)
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240 These tariffs are illegal. The courts will overturn them all. These "deals" are just political performance art. They mean nothing.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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WAY behind the times on that one.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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WAY behind the times on that one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Trump pretty much eliminated a major reason for the existence of the EU.
You can bet that some member companies are fuming over what they see as the EU selling them out.
Britain stands to benefit by being out right now.
We may see huge cracks forming between the Eastern and Western members.
I think the EU is pretty much past it's use by date.
Anybody care to clarify what good it has done? What goals it has reached?
You can bet that some member companies are fuming over what they see as the EU selling them out.
Britain stands to benefit by being out right now.
We may see huge cracks forming between the Eastern and Western members.
I think the EU is pretty much past it's use by date.
Anybody care to clarify what good it has done? What goals it has reached?
Posted by: pawn at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (QB+5g)
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I assume the trade deal also reigns in the drug price abuse we've been experiencing in the US.
They are required to include red dye #40 in all foods produced in the EU.
They are required to include red dye #40 in all foods produced in the EU.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (ExV1e)
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182 Now get us diesel Toyota hiluxes.
I would settle for a diesel B1000 with roll up windows and a 5speed.
I would settle for a diesel B1000 with roll up windows and a 5speed.
Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (is93d)
247
Now get us diesel Toyota hiluxes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
Land Rover Pickups. Hilux are pretty much the Tacoma, I want something small and 4-wheel I can carry a saw, and tow a trailer with.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (D7oie)
This is America. Let's have both.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
Land Rover Pickups. Hilux are pretty much the Tacoma, I want something small and 4-wheel I can carry a saw, and tow a trailer with.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (D7oie)
This is America. Let's have both.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (i24o9)
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The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore.
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lol
Oh no what will we do without their “expert” opinions anymore?
Learn 2 Kode cucks.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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One of my favorite cartoons shows a hospital room with a trio of lab-jacketed docs in the forground, and in the background is an obviously sick guy in a hospital bed. One of the docs is saying, 'We have to be careful with this one, he's an economist, so he is familiar with guesswork'.
The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore.
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lol
Oh no what will we do without their “expert” opinions anymore?
Learn 2 Kode cucks.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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One of my favorite cartoons shows a hospital room with a trio of lab-jacketed docs in the forground, and in the background is an obviously sick guy in a hospital bed. One of the docs is saying, 'We have to be careful with this one, he's an economist, so he is familiar with guesswork'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (XeU6L)
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Ethnicity doesn't matter when they are surrendering their culture.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (fkDTO)
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What happened to TACO?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
Elric, you're too funny!
To answer your question, TACO ended the day we bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. That was important for the purposes of this post because it showed the world that Trump means what he says. Getting the OBBB passed *before the 4 July deadline* was important, because that showed the world that the nattering nabobs of negativism in Congress weren't going to slow him down either. That showed the EU that Trump has the mojo, and that it wouldn't do them any good to stall. When Japan signed their agreement, Ursula realized that she needed to deal with Trump before the 1 Aug (Friday) deadline.
TACO was always stupid. I have no idea why the MFM decided to make that a 'thing', like 'fetch'. It wasn't going to happen.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (0CU3H)
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I was kinda hoping the EU would ignore the obvious handwriting on the wall and blow the Aug 1 deadline. I wanted to see Trump go ballistic.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
Elric, you're too funny!
To answer your question, TACO ended the day we bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. That was important for the purposes of this post because it showed the world that Trump means what he says. Getting the OBBB passed *before the 4 July deadline* was important, because that showed the world that the nattering nabobs of negativism in Congress weren't going to slow him down either. That showed the EU that Trump has the mojo, and that it wouldn't do them any good to stall. When Japan signed their agreement, Ursula realized that she needed to deal with Trump before the 1 Aug (Friday) deadline.
TACO was always stupid. I have no idea why the MFM decided to make that a 'thing', like 'fetch'. It wasn't going to happen.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2025 12:56 PM (0CU3H)
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I was kinda hoping the EU would ignore the obvious handwriting on the wall and blow the Aug 1 deadline. I wanted to see Trump go ballistic.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
These people really are impervious to facts and reason aren't they? It's honestly quite troubling.
These people really are impervious to facts and reason aren't they? It's honestly quite troubling.
Posted by: Mindless drones reciting talking points at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (TbWk/)
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What serendipity.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)
Egregious, outrageous, preposterous serendipity.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)
Egregious, outrageous, preposterous serendipity.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (7HpjT)
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A giant lesbian with a sandpaper tongue couldn’t roll me.
So much for my appetite. Eeww
Meanwhile Trump keeps winning and the Socialists keep losing.
Now please President Trump goad Congress into doing something useful for once, pass the bill that will squash VISA and Mastercard from being Internet censors who decide what a person can buy.
So much for my appetite. Eeww
Meanwhile Trump keeps winning and the Socialists keep losing.
Now please President Trump goad Congress into doing something useful for once, pass the bill that will squash VISA and Mastercard from being Internet censors who decide what a person can buy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (7s8nE)
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The European "leaders" don't want to piss off the Americans because they know in a few years they will need to relocate here in order to save their necks (literally) with the coming European caliphate(s).
Posted by: El Yahoo Akbar at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (qUkBO)
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There had been articles last week where the EU had been debating retaliatory tariffs. So since this is a "framework" of a deal, I would think (hope) they do put those in place and not capitulate completely.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
Wishing for higher prices ? Seriously ?
There had been articles last week where the EU had been debating retaliatory tariffs. So since this is a "framework" of a deal, I would think (hope) they do put those in place and not capitulate completely.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
Wishing for higher prices ? Seriously ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (VE6XX)
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What's funny about all of this is that Labour is actually the more moderate of the two major British parties on immigration.
The Conservative Party was more explicitly pro-immigration than Labour.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)\
It's why the Conservative Party / Tories are dead, Reform Party took the great majority of their voters in the last by-election. They're not coming back, they shit the bed too completely.
The Conservative Party was more explicitly pro-immigration than Labour.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)\
It's why the Conservative Party / Tories are dead, Reform Party took the great majority of their voters in the last by-election. They're not coming back, they shit the bed too completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (uWKK8)
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He IS the Kwisatz Haderach.
Posted by: toby928 at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (jc0TO)
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Here is my offer. Nothing. Not even the money for my hotel stay here, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.
Posted by: Don Trumplione at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (g/KP8)
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Is that $10,000 Toyota Pickup coming?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (TzkcV)
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178 174 I think the UK is done. I see no recourse but violence, and the British people no longer have that in them.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
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The next general election will be interesting.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
The problem s that the next general election is FOUR YEARS away. If were held now, Fasrage would be Prime Minister with 70% of the vote, and would close the borders. But no, Labor has no plans to announce an election any time in the foreseeable future, and plan to reign over the UK at a minimum until nearly the 2030s, and spend the next four years silencing all dissenting voices, jailing anyone who speaks out, opening the floodgates to immigration, and (ad they did yesterday) lowering the voting age to 16 so that brainwashed high-school students can all vote and sway elections leftward, etc. All of this, even though the current government and Prime Minister have a 9% approval.
Look forward to Westminster Mosque in 50 years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2025 12:50 PM (L5An7)
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The next general election will be interesting.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
The problem s that the next general election is FOUR YEARS away. If were held now, Fasrage would be Prime Minister with 70% of the vote, and would close the borders. But no, Labor has no plans to announce an election any time in the foreseeable future, and plan to reign over the UK at a minimum until nearly the 2030s, and spend the next four years silencing all dissenting voices, jailing anyone who speaks out, opening the floodgates to immigration, and (ad they did yesterday) lowering the voting age to 16 so that brainwashed high-school students can all vote and sway elections leftward, etc. All of this, even though the current government and Prime Minister have a 9% approval.
Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)
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I think the actual numbers are higher. But regardless, the goatfuckers are already wielding political and social power WAY beyond whatever their numbers are. If they can do this with 8% or 10%, imagine what they can do with 25%?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (iFTx/)
As Mark Steyn pointed out in America Alone 20 or so years ago, the number that matters isn't the total population. It's the demographics of women of child bearing age that really matters in the medium and long term.
Europe, like America, still has a lot of white people. But unfortunately for all of us, the average age of white people skews much higher (ie: the number of Muslims in UK of child bearing age is almost certainly much higher than 8% to 10% of all women of child bearing age).
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (iFTx/)
As Mark Steyn pointed out in America Alone 20 or so years ago, the number that matters isn't the total population. It's the demographics of women of child bearing age that really matters in the medium and long term.
Europe, like America, still has a lot of white people. But unfortunately for all of us, the average age of white people skews much higher (ie: the number of Muslims in UK of child bearing age is almost certainly much higher than 8% to 10% of all women of child bearing age).
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (uCjyK)
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Why it's unconstitutional to cut Planned Parenthood's funding.
Bonchie@bonchieredstate
This may be the most baseless, insane ruling I've ever seen.
This Biden-appointed judge ruled *Congress* can't defund Planned Parenthood because it might lead to "unintended pregnancies" and less access to contraceptives.
Holy crap.
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It's in the E Pluribus Boinkem clause. After all, you can't spell fun without funding!
Bonchie@bonchieredstate
This may be the most baseless, insane ruling I've ever seen.
This Biden-appointed judge ruled *Congress* can't defund Planned Parenthood because it might lead to "unintended pregnancies" and less access to contraceptives.
Holy crap.
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It's in the E Pluribus Boinkem clause. After all, you can't spell fun without funding!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (HWqJT)
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There had been articles last week where the EU had been debating retaliatory tariffs. So since this is a "framework" of a deal, I would think (hope) they do put those in place and not capitulate completely.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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Yeah, that so-called "Framework" was just acknowledged as fact by the head of the EU.
Cope harder.
There had been articles last week where the EU had been debating retaliatory tariffs. So since this is a "framework" of a deal, I would think (hope) they do put those in place and not capitulate completely.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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Yeah, that so-called "Framework" was just acknowledged as fact by the head of the EU.
Cope harder.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (tT6L1)
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When the tyrannical socialist Ursula von der Leyden, leader of the EU's parliament of traitors, was asked what concessions the US had made to Europe in exchange for Europe's generosity, she couldn't think of a single one:
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That's simple. Our concession is a gift. It is a gift of learning to stand on your own two feet without the US acting as a general subsidy provider with no discretion.
PS: Fix the by-line, Ace. "Imports" should be "tariffs"
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (dIske)
AND he made her say that he was being FAIR.
LMAO!
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That's simple. Our concession is a gift. It is a gift of learning to stand on your own two feet without the US acting as a general subsidy provider with no discretion.
PS: Fix the by-line, Ace. "Imports" should be "tariffs"
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 12:58 PM (dIske)
AND he made her say that he was being FAIR.
LMAO!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (i24o9)
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Now get us diesel Toyota hiluxes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
Land Rover Pickups. Hilux are pretty much the Tacoma, I want something small and 4-wheel I can carry a saw, and tow a trailer with.
Posted by: Kindltot
I want one with a fully automatic .50 cal mounted in the bed for hunting hogs in Texas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 12:52 PM (i24o9)
Land Rover Pickups. Hilux are pretty much the Tacoma, I want something small and 4-wheel I can carry a saw, and tow a trailer with.
Posted by: Kindltot
I want one with a fully automatic .50 cal mounted in the bed for hunting hogs in Texas.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (9vYpt)
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256 It's why the Conservative Party / Tories are dead, Reform Party took the great majority of their voters in the last by-election. They're not coming back, they shit the bed too completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (uWKK
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Go read Reform's platform.
It barely mentions immigration, and it's mostly about managing the system better.
If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2025 01:02 PM (uWKK
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Go read Reform's platform.
It barely mentions immigration, and it's mostly about managing the system better.
If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
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I only post about once a month, but I don't know what I would do without Ace of Spades.
Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
Posted by: Wenda at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (GUmFs)
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Pulled it out of thin air. X I think.
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (AOsQT)
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Isn't is amazing what you can accomplish when you just fcking do the shit that needs doing.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (7HpjT)
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260 The problem s that the next general election is FOUR YEARS away. If were held now, Fasrage would be Prime Minister with 70% of the vote, and would close the borders. But no, Labor has no plans to announce an election any time in the foreseeable future, and plan to reign over the UK at a minimum until nearly the 2030s, and spend the next four years silencing all dissenting voices, jailing anyone who speaks out, opening the floodgates to immigration, and (ad they did yesterday) lowering the voting age to 16 so that brainwashed high-school students can all vote and sway elections leftward, etc. All of this, even though the current government and Prime Minister have a 9% approval.
Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)
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And Labour is showing no signs of slowing down.
As I said, the general election will be...interesting.
Making show of reversing some stuff without actually doing anything in the final six months could work (voters are stupid), but we'll see.
Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)
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And Labour is showing no signs of slowing down.
As I said, the general election will be...interesting.
Making show of reversing some stuff without actually doing anything in the final six months could work (voters are stupid), but we'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)
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231 The Taylor Swift restaurant will last six months. That's the business model.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (wBaIH)
Do they serve food there ? Swift doesn't look like she eats
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (VE6XX)
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Referencing my earlier post about a pop-upTaylor Swift themed cafe that opened up here in Alexandria.
Crazy lines to get in, and prices that would make a Carnegie blush.
Talking $20 baskets of chicken tenders blush.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (wBaIH)
Do they serve food there ? Swift doesn't look like she eats
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (VE6XX)
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Referencing my earlier post about a pop-upTaylor Swift themed cafe that opened up here in Alexandria.
Crazy lines to get in, and prices that would make a Carnegie blush.
Talking $20 baskets of chicken tenders blush.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (fkDTO)
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Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
Lemme see a show of raised pinkies from those of you who agree with this.
Anyone?
Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
Lemme see a show of raised pinkies from those of you who agree with this.
Anyone?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (xG4kz)
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>>> 268 Pulled it out of thin air. X I think.
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (AOsQT)
I suspect the 30% white / British may be close for the city of Londonistan.
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (AOsQT)
I suspect the 30% white / British may be close for the city of Londonistan.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (ULPxl)
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"I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice, I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview.
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How do you free willing slaves on the Democrat Welfare State Plantation?
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How do you free willing slaves on the Democrat Welfare State Plantation?
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (XiUhd)
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These tariffs are illegal. The courts will overturn them all. These "deals" are just political performance art. They mean nothing.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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WAY behind the times on that one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Cut the dude some slack. He's been in a drug-induced stupor and only now wandered, bleary-eyed and smelling like a dung heap, out of his mom's basement.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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WAY behind the times on that one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Cut the dude some slack. He's been in a drug-induced stupor and only now wandered, bleary-eyed and smelling like a dung heap, out of his mom's basement.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
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>> I only post about once a month, but I don't know what I would do without Ace of Spades.
>Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
This is going to do wonders for his ego.
>Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
This is going to do wonders for his ego.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (oSEaw)
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"I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice, I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview.
Nope. I shudder at the thought of the catastrophes she would have unleashed. Felonious D dodged a literal bullet and the Nation a metaphorical one.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (9vYpt)
So Jeff Daniels really is dumb and dumber in real life…
Nope. I shudder at the thought of the catastrophes she would have unleashed. Felonious D dodged a literal bullet and the Nation a metaphorical one.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 12:59 PM (9vYpt)
So Jeff Daniels really is dumb and dumber in real life…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (nrfI8)
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This was always an option, but for some reason, none of our leaders since WWII have felt that the American economy and the health of the US middle class was more important than their Great Game foreign policy bullshit (which they also suck at, but at least they can get rich on)
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We're seeing the death of the Post War Order, the part that leftists convinced millions of Americans that it was unfair that the US became the richest, most powerful country in history after WWII.
That we must sacrifice and suffer for the betterment a and uplift of the world.
Like we didn't spend trillions of dollars and send hundreds of thousands to their death for 2 fucking wars we didn't start?!
Yeah.
We were owed that.
Are owed that.
Forever.
Fuck you.
PS: we put a man on the Moon; you put "don't rape girls signs" around your pools. Get on our level if you want to talk.
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We're seeing the death of the Post War Order, the part that leftists convinced millions of Americans that it was unfair that the US became the richest, most powerful country in history after WWII.
That we must sacrifice and suffer for the betterment a and uplift of the world.
Like we didn't spend trillions of dollars and send hundreds of thousands to their death for 2 fucking wars we didn't start?!
Yeah.
We were owed that.
Are owed that.
Forever.
Fuck you.
PS: we put a man on the Moon; you put "don't rape girls signs" around your pools. Get on our level if you want to talk.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (lDIPK)
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Hey, Wenda. How art thou?
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (77rzZ)
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Quaid... start the reactor!
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (If0rG)
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Go read Reform's platform.
It barely mentions immigration, and it's mostly about managing the system better.
If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO
Eh the platform doesn't mean anything. Does the Democrat platform mention starvation and death camps? No.
It barely mentions immigration, and it's mostly about managing the system better.
If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO
Eh the platform doesn't mean anything. Does the Democrat platform mention starvation and death camps? No.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (7HpjT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (RIvkX)
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Fasrage would be Prime Minister with 70% of the vote, and would close the borders
Maybe. Nigel is pretty squishy on the subject. The best he was offering was Zero Net immigration. Lowe's Restore Britain movement pushed Reform to go small negative immigration. Very small.
Nigel is the equivalent to a sane Democrat here at best.
Maybe. Nigel is pretty squishy on the subject. The best he was offering was Zero Net immigration. Lowe's Restore Britain movement pushed Reform to go small negative immigration. Very small.
Nigel is the equivalent to a sane Democrat here at best.
Posted by: toby928 at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (jc0TO)
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I only post about once a month, but I don't know what I would do without Ace of Spades.
Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
Posted by: Wenda at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (GUmFs)
Ignore the shelving advice for your own safety.
Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
Posted by: Wenda at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (GUmFs)
Ignore the shelving advice for your own safety.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (i24o9)
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Things are not looking good for Carney in Canada. He thought the EU was going to cover his rear.
And the western provinces are tired of sending money to Quebec.
And the western provinces are tired of sending money to Quebec.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (w3u3d)
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269 Isn't is amazing what you can accomplish when you just fcking do the shit that needs doing.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (ULPxl)
Trump gets things done by not taking a piece of the action(graft).
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:04 PM (ULPxl)
Trump gets things done by not taking a piece of the action(graft).
Posted by: davidt at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (i0F8b)
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This is going to do wonders for his ego.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (oSEaw)
Ace doesn't have an ego. He's 100% id.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (oSEaw)
Ace doesn't have an ego. He's 100% id.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (7HpjT)
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I lied one headline I saw " Trump Says He has made a Deal...." Yeah he is just saying it LOL
Posted by: steevy at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (YwEeS)
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225 "I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice, I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview.
She'd get shot in the head while watching a play?
Why is Jeff Daniels so hateful?
She'd get shot in the head while watching a play?
Why is Jeff Daniels so hateful?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (y+qgR)
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Nigel is sort of the deep state's maximal fallback position.
Posted by: toby928 at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (jc0TO)
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Early 90s Nissan stripped down fleet model pickups. Worked for a friend with a courier outfit and he was getting 400K miles with regular LOF and look at the brakes.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (gm9Sb)
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>>> 276 These tariffs are illegal. The courts will overturn them all. These "deals" are just political performance art. They mean nothing.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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WAY behind the times on that one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Cut the dude some slack. He's been in a drug-induced stupor and only now wandered, bleary-eyed and smelling like a dung heap, out of his mom's basement.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
"NO KINGS!!!" -- that same drug-addled DUmmy
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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WAY behind the times on that one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Cut the dude some slack. He's been in a drug-induced stupor and only now wandered, bleary-eyed and smelling like a dung heap, out of his mom's basement.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
"NO KINGS!!!" -- that same drug-addled DUmmy
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (ULPxl)
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277 >> I only post about once a month, but I don't know what I would do without Ace of Spades.
>Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
This is going to do wonders for his ego.
_-_-_
I'll have to second that - the Thank you part. Egos? As long as ego/ability <= 1.0, we're good.
>Thank you for your take on, well, everything, Ace.
This is going to do wonders for his ego.
_-_-_
I'll have to second that - the Thank you part. Egos? As long as ego/ability <= 1.0, we're good.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (vd6bO)
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I hope he took the EU to task over the CAP..
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (Pce4l)
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American made, robot built pickups with no superfluous electronics selling for $10,000.
Why not ask for the impossible any more?
American made, robot built pickups with no superfluous electronics selling for $10,000.
Why not ask for the impossible any more?
Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (Y8DZL)
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this will amount to an additional 15% Turd Tax increase above and beyond the already existing pricing increases from Turd's inflation/stagflation. Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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Maybe they are worried about war coming.
Now that their eyes are open.
If you have been a Marxist all your life and when you instantly become it is frightening.
Now that their eyes are open.
If you have been a Marxist all your life and when you instantly become it is frightening.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (oSEaw)
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Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
Lemme see a show of raised pinkies from those of you who agree with this.
Anyone?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (xG4kz)
It will affect the effete, hipster retards on the coasts. For most people, it will matter not a damn bit.
Aside from maybe beer and alcohol.
Lemme see a show of raised pinkies from those of you who agree with this.
Anyone?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (xG4kz)
It will affect the effete, hipster retards on the coasts. For most people, it will matter not a damn bit.
Aside from maybe beer and alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (bss/y)
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And the western provinces are tired of sending money to Quebec.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat
Wasn't Alberta gonna have some kind of referendum on secession? Is that still on?
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat
Wasn't Alberta gonna have some kind of referendum on secession? Is that still on?
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (77rzZ)
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Please don't assign any importance to what Jeff Daniels says.
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (AOsQT)
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297 the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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Trump keeps mentioning it whenever he talks tariffs, but one thing companies can do to avoid tariffs if they're so terrible is to invest in production in America.
Which some are doing.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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Trump keeps mentioning it whenever he talks tariffs, but one thing companies can do to avoid tariffs if they're so terrible is to invest in production in America.
Which some are doing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Good Lord are leftists dumb and delusional.
Posted by: steevy at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (YwEeS)
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Wikipedia says England is 81% white , 9.6% Asian and 4%black . That was 2021, so the numbers of non-whites has probably increased
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (hIY2p)
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299 >>Ace doesn't have an ego. He's 100% id.
I read that as 'Yid'.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (oSEaw)
I just had a mental image of ace having run this blog for the past 20 years from his room while his mother yelled at him to go outside and meet a nice jewish girl.
I read that as 'Yid'.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (oSEaw)
I just had a mental image of ace having run this blog for the past 20 years from his room while his mother yelled at him to go outside and meet a nice jewish girl.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (bss/y)
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Trump got a cease fire between Thailand and Cambodia ?
"Girls, girls, you're both pretty. Uh, you are girls, right? Never mind, I don't want to know."
-- DJT
"Girls, girls, you're both pretty. Uh, you are girls, right? Never mind, I don't want to know."
-- DJT
Posted by: Oddbob at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (/y8xj)
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Land Rover Pickups. Hilux are pretty much the Tacoma, I want something small and 4-wheel I can carry a saw, and tow a trailer with.
Posted by: Kindltot
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A friend of mine has one of these... he likes it a lot.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Kindltot
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A friend of mine has one of these... he likes it a lot.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
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From the FT blurb:
'Trump worked out exactly what our pain threshold is'
Lol
Ya think??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Fi95G)
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It is mind boggling that these so-called "experts" in international relations and trade don't seem to have clue about how to handle President Trump.
Maybe if he wrote a book or hosted a reality television show....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (7fElN)
Their problem is that they believe the silly propaganda that Trump is a big old dummy who got lucky on Daddy's money and bullying.
The simple truth is that Trump blinded them withscience! mathematics!
That's why Urkel van der Lame looked so beat up. I'm sure she went at him some variation of "but but but we're all friends here and this is the way we've always done things! This will kill us"
And Trump basically Trump said to her "Sorry Petunia, this is what the numbers say. So, this is how it's going to be. You'll do fine. We'll do better."
Trump is a builder. He definitely knows how money works and how to use it. His business was math savvy for decades, and so is his administration now.
'Trump worked out exactly what our pain threshold is'
Lol
Ya think??
Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2025 12:37 PM (Fi95G)
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It is mind boggling that these so-called "experts" in international relations and trade don't seem to have clue about how to handle President Trump.
Maybe if he wrote a book or hosted a reality television show....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2025 12:40 PM (7fElN)
Their problem is that they believe the silly propaganda that Trump is a big old dummy who got lucky on Daddy's money and bullying.
The simple truth is that Trump blinded them with
That's why Urkel van der Lame looked so beat up. I'm sure she went at him some variation of "but but but we're all friends here and this is the way we've always done things! This will kill us"
And Trump basically Trump said to her "Sorry Petunia, this is what the numbers say. So, this is how it's going to be. You'll do fine. We'll do better."
Trump is a builder. He definitely knows how money works and how to use it. His business was math savvy for decades, and so is his administration now.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (iJfKG)
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I don't know if we can trust WaPo anymore. Their fact checker is leaving.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn@JosephWulfsohn
NEW: Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement.
His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn@JosephWulfsohn
NEW: Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement.
His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (HWqJT)
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>> Early 90s Nissan stripped down fleet model pickups. Worked for a friend with a courier outfit and he was getting 400K miles with regular LOF and look at the brakes.
You hit anything in one of those and all of the body panels fell off. Happened to my friend on the way to a Mt Bike ride. 10-15 MPH rear end and it dropped all of the fenders.
You hit anything in one of those and all of the body panels fell off. Happened to my friend on the way to a Mt Bike ride. 10-15 MPH rear end and it dropped all of the fenders.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (oSEaw)
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>>Like we didn't spend trillions of dollars and send hundreds of thousands to their death for 2 fucking wars we didn't start?!
I do think that perhaps the lopsided trade deals with the EU were leftovers from the mentality that "we have to support these economies or else they'll fall to the commies in the USSR!"
But that has since become a moot point now for what... 30 years now?
I do think that perhaps the lopsided trade deals with the EU were leftovers from the mentality that "we have to support these economies or else they'll fall to the commies in the USSR!"
But that has since become a moot point now for what... 30 years now?
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (WYStd)
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Wow. Go, President Trump! Proof that if people wait patiently they will see results. Hint, hint...
Our weekend was made extra special by a concert. If any of you have the desire or time to see Alison Krauss and Union Station I highly recommend! Her voice is as pure and ethereal as ever...unchanged for decades.Their tour ends in late September.
No frills, gimmicks or autotune. It is laid bare and one of the best concerts I have had the good fortune to attend in over a decade...not that I see many anymore.
I don't "do" cover bands. And I saw some of the greats in my prime (as well as theirs) starting with Mountain and the original Allman Brothers in HS. I may end with bluegrass...and she's the only one I have listened to. American genre as is jazz. Ballads. She jokes that their music is sad and tragic, but you do not leave unhappy. She is also very witty. Their performance is like breathing to them, and they obviously love and respect each other and the audience.
This concert ranks high on my list. What you hear on their albums you hear live. Jerry Douglas, as my husband said, was on fire!
Our weekend was made extra special by a concert. If any of you have the desire or time to see Alison Krauss and Union Station I highly recommend! Her voice is as pure and ethereal as ever...unchanged for decades.Their tour ends in late September.
No frills, gimmicks or autotune. It is laid bare and one of the best concerts I have had the good fortune to attend in over a decade...not that I see many anymore.
I don't "do" cover bands. And I saw some of the greats in my prime (as well as theirs) starting with Mountain and the original Allman Brothers in HS. I may end with bluegrass...and she's the only one I have listened to. American genre as is jazz. Ballads. She jokes that their music is sad and tragic, but you do not leave unhappy. She is also very witty. Their performance is like breathing to them, and they obviously love and respect each other and the audience.
This concert ranks high on my list. What you hear on their albums you hear live. Jerry Douglas, as my husband said, was on fire!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (6PCLE)
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So Jeff Daniels really is dumb and dumber in real life
Yup! He's a pretty good guitar player, though, so I'll cut him a little slack.
Yup! He's a pretty good guitar player, though, so I'll cut him a little slack.
Posted by: Jetto at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (NI09e)
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lied one headline I saw " Trump Says He has made a Deal...." Yeah he is just saying it LOL
Posted by: steevy at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (YwEeS)
Journalisming is all done to control and manipulate emotions.
So if it's a positive feeling they DON'T want you to have, they put a breaker word in between. Same if it's negative (like an illegal murdering someone) and they don't want their readers to feel it. They use breaker words.
"Trump makes deal" would sound positive. "Trump says" is non-positive if not outright negative. But either way they can claim they reported the story.
Posted by: steevy at July 28, 2025 01:06 PM (YwEeS)
Journalisming is all done to control and manipulate emotions.
So if it's a positive feeling they DON'T want you to have, they put a breaker word in between. Same if it's negative (like an illegal murdering someone) and they don't want their readers to feel it. They use breaker words.
"Trump makes deal" would sound positive. "Trump says" is non-positive if not outright negative. But either way they can claim they reported the story.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (7HpjT)
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Completely unrelated to this topic, but it just occurred to me that the track meet stabber's apologists have gone very quiet.
Posted by: Random synaptic discharge at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (TbWk/)
It's been said that there's video of the incident. And that the video is not favorable for the defense.
Time will tell.
Posted by: Random synaptic discharge at July 28, 2025 12:55 PM (TbWk/)
It's been said that there's video of the incident. And that the video is not favorable for the defense.
Time will tell.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (ExV1e)
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The closest Jeff Daniels ever comes to sounding intelligent is when he reads lines prepared for him by screen writers.
Note that I said 'closest" -- he is still a colossal dumb ass.
The closest Jeff Daniels ever comes to sounding intelligent is when he reads lines prepared for him by screen writers.
Note that I said 'closest" -- he is still a colossal dumb ass.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (xG4kz)
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297 the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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Trump keeps mentioning it whenever he talks tariffs, but one thing companies can do to avoid tariffs if they're so terrible is to invest in production in America.
Which some are doing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
The good stuff would lose Appellation d'origine contrôlée cert though.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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Trump keeps mentioning it whenever he talks tariffs, but one thing companies can do to avoid tariffs if they're so terrible is to invest in production in America.
Which some are doing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
The good stuff would lose Appellation d'origine contrôlée cert though.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (fkDTO)
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I just had a mental image of ace having run this blog for the past 20 years from his room while his mother yelled at him to go outside and meet a nice jewish girl.
"And why can't you be a doctor like that nice Muldoon boy?"
-- Ace's mum
"And why can't you be a doctor like that nice Muldoon boy?"
-- Ace's mum
Posted by: Oddbob at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (/y8xj)
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The first thing that comes to my mind on a deal like this is "what am I poking." Will the party I'm poking have a similar leverage against the US in the future and reverse the scenario. As far as the EU goes...nothing to worry about there. They're so wrapped up in climate change and identity politics that they will never return as an economic power house holding all the cards.
China is another party we're poking with a stick. And, if you take everything China tells you as gospel, they not only believe they can put themselves in a position to levy deep economic hurt on the US, they are working towards that goal. The problem is that China's economy is falling apart. Their numbers can't be trusted. And, my personal opinion is that they put on a theater performance to appear much stronger and more stable than they actually are. Just watch the news to see how many new riot police the government is hiring. Last one was 300,000. That should tell you a little something about how the various provinces are operating at present.
China is another party we're poking with a stick. And, if you take everything China tells you as gospel, they not only believe they can put themselves in a position to levy deep economic hurt on the US, they are working towards that goal. The problem is that China's economy is falling apart. Their numbers can't be trusted. And, my personal opinion is that they put on a theater performance to appear much stronger and more stable than they actually are. Just watch the news to see how many new riot police the government is hiring. Last one was 300,000. That should tell you a little something about how the various provinces are operating at present.
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (dIske)
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A friend of mine has one of these... he likes it a lot.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
So it's like an actual jeep.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
So it's like an actual jeep.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (bss/y)
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I want one with a fully automatic .50 cal mounted in the bed for hunting hogs in Texas.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (9vYpt)
Go with a .30, like an MG-3
Cheaper on ammo if you don't hose it
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (9vYpt)
Go with a .30, like an MG-3
Cheaper on ammo if you don't hose it
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (D7oie)
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the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
And even if they do go up, I'll happily eat the 15% increase in my already overpriced italian olive oil, if it helps my fellow citizens lead more meaningful lives.
I don't know where this "durr, we need to maximize GDP and get everything as cheap as possible, even if it means hollowing out our middle class and outsourcing all jobs to immigrants and/or foreign countries, and creating generational poverty with millions on welfare and hundreds of thousands of people dying deaths of despair every year" mindset comes from.
It's gross.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
And even if they do go up, I'll happily eat the 15% increase in my already overpriced italian olive oil, if it helps my fellow citizens lead more meaningful lives.
I don't know where this "durr, we need to maximize GDP and get everything as cheap as possible, even if it means hollowing out our middle class and outsourcing all jobs to immigrants and/or foreign countries, and creating generational poverty with millions on welfare and hundreds of thousands of people dying deaths of despair every year" mindset comes from.
It's gross.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (uCjyK)
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The closest Jeff Daniels ever comes to sounding intelligent is when he reads lines prepared for him by screen writers.
Note that I said 'closest" -- he is still a colossal dumb ass.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (xG4kz)
Do Dumb and Dumber was Biographical ...
The closest Jeff Daniels ever comes to sounding intelligent is when he reads lines prepared for him by screen writers.
Note that I said 'closest" -- he is still a colossal dumb ass.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (xG4kz)
Do Dumb and Dumber was Biographical ...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (VE6XX)
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As Mark Steyn pointed out in America Alone 20 or so years ago, the number that matters isn't the total population. It's the demographics of women of child bearing age that really matters in the medium and long term.
Europe, like America, still has a lot of white people. But unfortunately for all of us, the average age of white people skews much higher (ie: the number of Muslims in UK of child bearing age is almost certainly much higher than 8% to 10% of all women of child bearing age).
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (uCjyK)
And here in the good old US of A women are killing off new generations before they can even be born, society punishes men for seeking and obtaining stable family life, and females are spending their healthiest, most fertile years whoring around and girlbossing, then crying that they can't find a good man to wife them up at 44 along with their 215 body count, desiccated fibroid ridden womb and 7 remaining ova of lowest quality.
Europe, like America, still has a lot of white people. But unfortunately for all of us, the average age of white people skews much higher (ie: the number of Muslims in UK of child bearing age is almost certainly much higher than 8% to 10% of all women of child bearing age).
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:03 PM (uCjyK)
And here in the good old US of A women are killing off new generations before they can even be born, society punishes men for seeking and obtaining stable family life, and females are spending their healthiest, most fertile years whoring around and girlbossing, then crying that they can't find a good man to wife them up at 44 along with their 215 body count, desiccated fibroid ridden womb and 7 remaining ova of lowest quality.
Posted by: We need a 180 and fast at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (TbWk/)
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the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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Trump keeps mentioning it whenever he talks tariffs, but one thing companies can do to avoid tariffs if they're so terrible is to invest in production in America.
Which some are doing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
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That, and the foreign companies will eat a lot of the tariffs and make only good profits rather than obscene. Some luxury items have no price pressure and can be priced at almost anything. But a lot of normal products don't have that ... err, luxury.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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Trump keeps mentioning it whenever he talks tariffs, but one thing companies can do to avoid tariffs if they're so terrible is to invest in production in America.
Which some are doing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
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That, and the foreign companies will eat a lot of the tariffs and make only good profits rather than obscene. Some luxury items have no price pressure and can be priced at almost anything. But a lot of normal products don't have that ... err, luxury.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Jetto at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (NI09e)
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318 The good stuff would lose Appellation d'origine contrôlée cert though.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (fkDTO)
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I don't think people spending $10,000 on a belt from Gucci are going to be turned off by it going up however much Gucci decides to increase things to "protect" their margins.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (fkDTO)
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I don't think people spending $10,000 on a belt from Gucci are going to be turned off by it going up however much Gucci decides to increase things to "protect" their margins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
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China is another party we're poking with a stick. And, if you take everything China tells you as gospel, they not only believe they can put themselves in a position to levy deep economic hurt on the US, they are working towards that goal. The problem is that China's economy is falling apart. Their numbers can't be trusted. And, my personal opinion is that they put on a theater performance to appear much stronger and more stable than they actually are. Just watch the news to see how many new riot police the government is hiring. Last one was 300,000. That should tell you a little something about how the various provinces are operating at present.
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (dIske)
It is also like saying 'I can destroy you by slicing open my own gut and spreading my intestines on the ground. Then you will feel the pain!'
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (dIske)
It is also like saying 'I can destroy you by slicing open my own gut and spreading my intestines on the ground. Then you will feel the pain!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (bss/y)
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So it's like an actual jeep.
Posted by: Aetius451
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Pretty much. They have 2wd, 4wd, diesel turbo, gasoline models. Worth looking through the sundry models/styles.
Posted by: Aetius451
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Pretty much. They have 2wd, 4wd, diesel turbo, gasoline models. Worth looking through the sundry models/styles.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (XeU6L)
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A friend of mine has one of these... he likes it a lot.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
I thought they go sued for that thing because it's a straight rip off of a Jeep.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
I thought they go sued for that thing because it's a straight rip off of a Jeep.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
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How do you free willing slaves on the Democrat Welfare State Plantation?
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (XiUhd)
"You make a man a slave by forcing him to work for nothing, or pay him for doing nothing"
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 01:05 PM (XiUhd)
"You make a man a slave by forcing him to work for nothing, or pay him for doing nothing"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (D7oie)
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who is Jeff Daniels? was he in dumb and dumber??
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (AOsQT)
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Do Dumb and Dumber was Biographical ...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (VE6XX)
Don't you love when autocorrect tries to help you call someone else dumb?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (VE6XX)
Don't you love when autocorrect tries to help you call someone else dumb?
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (7HpjT)
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A friend of mine has one of these... he likes it a lot.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
Blurb doesn't say if it has air conditioning.
https://tin.al/HHRen8
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
Blurb doesn't say if it has air conditioning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (kx8gd)
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20 "Ursula von der Leyden" is the perfect supervillainess name.
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)
Ursula von der Leydenhoser
Posted by: Bulg at July 28, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)
Ursula von der Leydenhoser
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (EtNJx)
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326 That, and the foreign companies will eat a lot of the tariffs and make only good profits rather than obscene. Some luxury items have no price pressure and can be priced at almost anything. But a lot of normal products don't have that ... err, luxury.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)
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Trump is forcing a re-order of manufacturing across the planet. Chinese tariffs are still over 30%.
Want to avoid it?
Move production to Indonesia, or someplace.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)
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Trump is forcing a re-order of manufacturing across the planet. Chinese tariffs are still over 30%.
Want to avoid it?
Move production to Indonesia, or someplace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
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The leader of the Conservative Party is a Nigerian Immigrant.
Sadly, I believe that she was more pro-Britain than all the white men in the Conservative Party although, looking in from the outside, I could have that wrong.
Sadly, I believe that she was more pro-Britain than all the white men in the Conservative Party although, looking in from the outside, I could have that wrong.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (ExV1e)
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I just had a mental image of ace having run this blog for the past 20 years from his room while his mother yelled at him to go outside and meet a nice jewish girl.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (bss/y)
But only after he has some cake. Moin gawd, you getting so skinny!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2025 01:09 PM (bss/y)
But only after he has some cake. Moin gawd, you getting so skinny!
Posted by: Shoulda been a docta at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (TbWk/)
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Still not tired of winning. This guy is a dynamo.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (2sMLA)
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this will amount to an additional 15% Turd Tax increase above and beyond the already existing pricing increases from Turd's inflation/stagflation. Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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It's amazing how DU -- who I strongly believe are a gaggle of old stoner boomers and not big consumers of luxury items -- are still shilling for leftwing elites who are big consumers of luxury items.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:00 PM (J7RgB)
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the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
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It's amazing how DU -- who I strongly believe are a gaggle of old stoner boomers and not big consumers of luxury items -- are still shilling for leftwing elites who are big consumers of luxury items.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (iFTx/)
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I don't know where this "durr, we need to maximize GDP and get everything as cheap as possible, even if it means hollowing out our middle class and outsourcing all jobs to immigrants and/or foreign countries, and creating generational poverty with millions on welfare and hundreds of thousands of people dying deaths of despair every year" mindset comes from.
It's gross.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (uCjyK)
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That's just it, people such as yourself, and, to a limited extent, my wife and I, can afford luxury items now and again. We acknowledge they're luxury and pay the price.
It's gross.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (uCjyK)
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That's just it, people such as yourself, and, to a limited extent, my wife and I, can afford luxury items now and again. We acknowledge they're luxury and pay the price.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (tT6L1)
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328 318 The good stuff would lose Appellation d'origine contrôlée cert though.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (fkDTO)
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I don't think people spending $10,000 on a belt from Gucci are going to be turned off by it going up however much Gucci decides to increase things to "protect" their margins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM
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The cert isn't for those goods.
A bottle of domestic Bordeaux isn't Bordeaux if it's made somewhere else.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:11 PM (fkDTO)
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I don't think people spending $10,000 on a belt from Gucci are going to be turned off by it going up however much Gucci decides to increase things to "protect" their margins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM
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The cert isn't for those goods.
A bottle of domestic Bordeaux isn't Bordeaux if it's made somewhere else.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (fkDTO)
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102 America-last “free-traders”are despondent today. Jim Geraghty is pouting on Twitter about how Trump is lying, because even though there was a huge EU/USA trade imbalance, our exports to EU were greater than $0. It’s sad that Trump derangement in people like Geraghty and the rest of the National Review clown show has led them into a nasty anti-Americanism.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton
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Geraghty and others at NR like Kevin Williamson or Jay Nordlinger are simply globalists--not Americans .
So they look down upon those who are Americans with the imported upper class Brit sneer about those that actually have to hustle and work for a living instead of being the wretched playthings of wealthy oligarchs.
They have as much honor as the paid concubines of those oligarchs and should do the walk of shame every day after writing their bilge for bucks.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton
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Geraghty and others at NR like Kevin Williamson or Jay Nordlinger are simply globalists--not Americans .
So they look down upon those who are Americans with the imported upper class Brit sneer about those that actually have to hustle and work for a living instead of being the wretched playthings of wealthy oligarchs.
They have as much honor as the paid concubines of those oligarchs and should do the walk of shame every day after writing their bilge for bucks.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (ctrM5)
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The good stuff would lose Appellation d'origine contrôlée cert though.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Hey! You watch your mouth or it'll be a bar of soap for dinner for you tonight!
The good stuff would lose Appellation d'origine contrôlée cert though.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Hey! You watch your mouth or it'll be a bar of soap for dinner for you tonight!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (xG4kz)
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Just imagine how this is going to hurt the American consumer for ordinary items like European beer, wine, cheese and other food products
So you're saying that I'll have to pay an extra $2.00 for that one six-pack of Spaten that I buy each Oktober? Outrageous. Trump will never survive this.
So you're saying that I'll have to pay an extra $2.00 for that one six-pack of Spaten that I buy each Oktober? Outrageous. Trump will never survive this.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (/y8xj)
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323 the price of imported luxury items may go up? Okay, what part of "import luxury items" don't they understand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
The people in my Land Rover forums have been bitching and moaning about the tariffs now for months. I keep telling them that complaining about a tariff related price increase on your $100k vanity vehicle isn't a good look.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 28, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)
The people in my Land Rover forums have been bitching and moaning about the tariffs now for months. I keep telling them that complaining about a tariff related price increase on your $100k vanity vehicle isn't a good look.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (WYStd)
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NEW: Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement.
His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (HWqJT)
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Auf Wiedersehen Herr Gruppenfuhrer!
His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (HWqJT)
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Auf Wiedersehen Herr Gruppenfuhrer!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (RIvkX)
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I was led to believe that this Gorilla Channel watching retard was going to slide us into another Great Depression.
If this sort of thing keeps up, I may finally, sort of, almost, just start thinking we have been getting fibbed at, old bean.
If this sort of thing keeps up, I may finally, sort of, almost, just start thinking we have been getting fibbed at, old bean.
Posted by: Lauraw at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (SZfjz)
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And here in the good old US of A women are killing off new generations before they can even be born, society punishes men for seeking and obtaining stable family life, and females are spending their healthiest, most fertile years whoring around and girlbossing, then crying that they can't find a good man to wife them up at 44 along with their 215 body count, desiccated fibroid ridden womb and 7 remaining ova of lowest quality.
Posted by: We need a 180 and fast at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (TbWk/)
Er, I'd probably phrase it differently, but yes, there is a strong cultural component to all of this.
Posted by: We need a 180 and fast at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (TbWk/)
Er, I'd probably phrase it differently, but yes, there is a strong cultural component to all of this.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (uCjyK)
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Go read Reform's platform.
It barely mentions immigration, and it's mostly about managing the system better.
If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
That's unfortunate, but acceptable. The party leaders know what their voters want. The Tories are being destroyed for not listening, and that's an important lesson for others. If Reform wants to fail as well, another (more extreme) party will come and take their place (until Labour outlaws them, like Germany and AfD).
It barely mentions immigration, and it's mostly about managing the system better.
If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
That's unfortunate, but acceptable. The party leaders know what their voters want. The Tories are being destroyed for not listening, and that's an important lesson for others. If Reform wants to fail as well, another (more extreme) party will come and take their place (until Labour outlaws them, like Germany and AfD).
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (J7RgB)
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the number that matters isn't the total population. It's the demographics of women of child bearing age that really matters in the medium and long term.
Europe, like America, still has a lot of white people. But unfortunately for all of us, the average age of white people skews much higher (ie: the number of Muslims in UK of child bearing age is almost certainly much higher than 8% to 10% of all women of child bearing age).
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
It's true, and very distressing. Walk around any neighborhood in any big city in the UK, and you will see an endless parade of burka'd women pushing baby carriages with three or four toddlers in tow. It's like they're baby factories.
Europe, like America, still has a lot of white people. But unfortunately for all of us, the average age of white people skews much higher (ie: the number of Muslims in UK of child bearing age is almost certainly much higher than 8% to 10% of all women of child bearing age).
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
It's true, and very distressing. Walk around any neighborhood in any big city in the UK, and you will see an endless parade of burka'd women pushing baby carriages with three or four toddlers in tow. It's like they're baby factories.
Posted by: zombie at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (pMi6S)
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Kevin Williamson ...
... would be fully behind all housing worldwide be mobile homes.
That way he'd never feel out of place.
Kevin Williamson ...
... would be fully behind all housing worldwide be mobile homes.
That way he'd never feel out of place.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (xG4kz)
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JD "I don't really care, Margaret," Vance is in the wings, and it sounds like the decks are being cleared for him. Rubio said this weekend that he expects Vance to be the nominee in 2028.
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The left is passing around a EV projection for 2028:
Vance/Rubio vs. Basher/Whitmer.
314+ for ... Basher.
I had to watch is twice it was so delicious.
Because it prove the left has not one fucking clue, not even a map to where the first clue is, as to why they lost in 2024.
And why they are going to get smashed in 2028.
It's not just the laws from 2020 that have changed, not just the huge shift in voting coalitions from 2020 that have changed, and not just the huge wins Trump is delivering on, but also the way there are bitterly clinging to "we just need a better messenger--with all the right checkboxes--to sell our shit sandwich!"
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The left is passing around a EV projection for 2028:
Vance/Rubio vs. Basher/Whitmer.
314+ for ... Basher.
I had to watch is twice it was so delicious.
Because it prove the left has not one fucking clue, not even a map to where the first clue is, as to why they lost in 2024.
And why they are going to get smashed in 2028.
It's not just the laws from 2020 that have changed, not just the huge shift in voting coalitions from 2020 that have changed, and not just the huge wins Trump is delivering on, but also the way there are bitterly clinging to "we just need a better messenger--with all the right checkboxes--to sell our shit sandwich!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (lDIPK)
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Er, I'd probably phrase it differently, but yes, there is a strong cultural component to all of this.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (uCjyK)
I was never good at subtlety.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (uCjyK)
I was never good at subtlety.
Posted by: Sledgehammers aren't subtle? at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (TbWk/)
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The good stuff would lose Appellation d'origine contrôlée cert though.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Hey! You watch your mouth or it'll be a bar of soap for dinner for you tonight!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (xG4kz)
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Je suis desole
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Hey! You watch your mouth or it'll be a bar of soap for dinner for you tonight!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (xG4kz)
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Je suis desole
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (64qRd)
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Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement
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Have they tried looking in the nearest dumpster
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Have they tried looking in the nearest dumpster
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (7HpjT)
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352 That's unfortunate, but acceptable. The party leaders know what their voters want. The Tories are being destroyed for not listening, and that's an important lesson for others. If Reform wants to fail as well, another (more extreme) party will come and take their place (until Labour outlaws them, like Germany and AfD).
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (J7RgB)
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4 more years could change things, and with Farage going nutso on the Sharia job listing, maybe there are signs that they will.
But in the last election Reform promised nothing but to keep the immigration system as it was.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2025 01:15 PM (J7RgB)
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4 more years could change things, and with Farage going nutso on the Sharia job listing, maybe there are signs that they will.
But in the last election Reform promised nothing but to keep the immigration system as it was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)
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Europe, like America, still has a lot of white people. But unfortunately for all of us, the average age of white people skews much higher (ie: the number of Muslims in UK of child bearing age is almost certainly much higher than 8% to 10% of all women of child bearing age).
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:03
why the intense, passionate focus on race? And Muslims can’t be white? (Go to southeastern Europe, you will be in for a shock.). Could it be your own racism? What, if you are non-white in America, you cannot be inculcated with values like appreciating freedom, the Constitution, and being a citizen?
Please, enlighten me. Because, white on non white, you can be made into a self governing citizen of a republic, if brought up in such a system. Especially here. You can also be brought up in such a way where you are prone to support tyranny. That likewise does not give a damn what color you are.
Demographic shifts happen VERY fast for that reason. A country can go from 80% white to 50% white in 10-15 years if all of the people dying are white and most of the people being born are non-white.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:03
why the intense, passionate focus on race? And Muslims can’t be white? (Go to southeastern Europe, you will be in for a shock.). Could it be your own racism? What, if you are non-white in America, you cannot be inculcated with values like appreciating freedom, the Constitution, and being a citizen?
Please, enlighten me. Because, white on non white, you can be made into a self governing citizen of a republic, if brought up in such a system. Especially here. You can also be brought up in such a way where you are prone to support tyranny. That likewise does not give a damn what color you are.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (Pce4l)
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It's amazing how DU -- who I strongly believe are a gaggle of old stoner boomers and not big consumers of luxury items -- are still shilling for leftwing elites who are big consumers of luxury items.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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Most of them are probably the senior folks in gubmint, ngos, and the Democrat party itself. White, aging, and desperate to distinguish themselves by conspicuous consumption of the 'right' products extolled by their class minders.
All part of their credentials as being part of the upper middle class.
Gimmedat Dems don't give a shit about the DU nor tariffs--they simply want to get paid.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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Most of them are probably the senior folks in gubmint, ngos, and the Democrat party itself. White, aging, and desperate to distinguish themselves by conspicuous consumption of the 'right' products extolled by their class minders.
All part of their credentials as being part of the upper middle class.
Gimmedat Dems don't give a shit about the DU nor tariffs--they simply want to get paid.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2025 01:17 PM (ctrM5)
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278 "I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice, I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview.
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She would have governed like Lincoln after he met Booth.
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She would have governed like Lincoln after he met Booth.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at July 28, 2025 01:17 PM (9CBNQ)
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355 It's not just the laws from 2020 that have changed, not just the huge shift in voting coalitions from 2020 that have changed, and not just the huge wins Trump is delivering on, but also the way there are bitterly clinging to "we just need a better messenger--with all the right checkboxes--to sell our shit sandwich!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (lDIPK)
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Beshear would be lucky to finish top 10 in the South Carolina primary.
Gotta get past those black ladies in South Carolina before you can be the nominee at all.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (lDIPK)
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Beshear would be lucky to finish top 10 in the South Carolina primary.
Gotta get past those black ladies in South Carolina before you can be the nominee at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
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That, and the foreign companies will eat a lot of the tariffs and make only good profits rather than obscene. Some luxury items have no price pressure and can be priced at almost anything. But a lot of normal products don't have that ... err, luxury.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)
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Trump is forcing a re-order of manufacturing across the planet. Chinese tariffs are still over 30%.
Want to avoid it?
Move production to Indonesia, or someplace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, but moving production is a major event and not always possible. Some yuge companies can do it, but the way I see 90% of this working out -- at least in the short term -- is just eating the tariffs. If European Shitfuck Company X is making 40% profits on sales to Americans, it can eat the 15% and still make a nice profit. I've been saying for a long time now Trump's tariffs are mostly an attack on obscene profits foreign producers are making selling goods to America.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)
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Trump is forcing a re-order of manufacturing across the planet. Chinese tariffs are still over 30%.
Want to avoid it?
Move production to Indonesia, or someplace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, but moving production is a major event and not always possible. Some yuge companies can do it, but the way I see 90% of this working out -- at least in the short term -- is just eating the tariffs. If European Shitfuck Company X is making 40% profits on sales to Americans, it can eat the 15% and still make a nice profit. I've been saying for a long time now Trump's tariffs are mostly an attack on obscene profits foreign producers are making selling goods to America.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:18 PM (iFTx/)
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Oh my, what is going to happen to the availability of France's Mallie Dijon Mustard? And don't even start thinking about getting the good stuff that isn't sold here in the USA. I am crushed.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 01:18 PM (9vYpt)
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When the tyrannical socialist Ursula von der Leyden, leader of the EU's parliament of traitors, was asked what concessions the US had made to Europe in exchange for Europe's generosity, she couldn't think of a single one:
She should have mentioned the US Military presence still in place in parts of Europe, will remain (I'm guessing). Ramstein, RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, and many other bases are still used by our military. Not as big a presence as it once was, post-Cold War, but a presence.
She should have mentioned the US Military presence still in place in parts of Europe, will remain (I'm guessing). Ramstein, RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, and many other bases are still used by our military. Not as big a presence as it once was, post-Cold War, but a presence.
Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at July 28, 2025 01:18 PM (sAmhv)
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Have they tried looking in the nearest dumpster
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Funny idea for a remake of My Man Godfrey. WaPo finds a bum that happens to have a PhD to write at WaPo and be shown off at Bezos fetes to astonish the globalists with his wisdom.
Posted by: ...
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Funny idea for a remake of My Man Godfrey. WaPo finds a bum that happens to have a PhD to write at WaPo and be shown off at Bezos fetes to astonish the globalists with his wisdom.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (ctrM5)
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4 more years could change things, and with Farage going nutso on the Sharia job listing, maybe there are signs that they will.
But in the last election Reform promised nothing but to keep the immigration system as it was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO
There is a new, non-partisan organization (I forget its name) that exists to bring pressure to bear on parties like Reform and the Tories. They may force one or both parties to change their tune on immigration. Time will tell.
4 more years could change things, and with Farage going nutso on the Sharia job listing, maybe there are signs that they will.
But in the last election Reform promised nothing but to keep the immigration system as it was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO
There is a new, non-partisan organization (I forget its name) that exists to bring pressure to bear on parties like Reform and the Tories. They may force one or both parties to change their tune on immigration. Time will tell.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (Pce4l)
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Geraghty and others at NR like Kevin Williamson or Jay Nordlinger are simply globalists--not Americans .
they also get money from Chy-NAH
they also get money from Chy-NAH
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (Pv3Rg)
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NEW: Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement.
His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Going out as "still a virgin" -- nary a single fact checked and validated in all those 27 years!
NEW: Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement.
His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Going out as "still a virgin" -- nary a single fact checked and validated in all those 27 years!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (xG4kz)
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Posted by: whig at July 28, 2025 01:17 PM (ctrM5)
Sadly, and I know this for a fact because I've seen it on her browser tabs - my sister in law and her "wife" are regulars at DU.
Sadly, and I know this for a fact because I've seen it on her browser tabs - my sister in law and her "wife" are regulars at DU.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (WYStd)
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"The "experts" were, get this, wrong again."
Happening with astounding regularity since November 5, 2024.
I'm simply gobsmacked.
Happening with astounding regularity since November 5, 2024.
I'm simply gobsmacked.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (wVcYX)
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>>> 330 So it's like an actual jeep.
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Pretty much. They have 2wd, 4wd, diesel turbo, gasoline models. Worth looking through the sundry models/styles.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (XeU6L)
Might be something nice to have for putzing around with critters. I really like that it has a diesel option.
>>> 331
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I thought they go sued for that thing because it's a straight rip off of a Jeep.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
It sure looks like a Jeep. Maybe during the OrangeManBad admin they can "sue and settle" with the EPA so they can sell minimal-feature versions for a more competitive price?
Posted by: Aetius451
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Pretty much. They have 2wd, 4wd, diesel turbo, gasoline models. Worth looking through the sundry models/styles.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (XeU6L)
Might be something nice to have for putzing around with critters. I really like that it has a diesel option.
>>> 331
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I thought they go sued for that thing because it's a straight rip off of a Jeep.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
It sure looks like a Jeep. Maybe during the OrangeManBad admin they can "sue and settle" with the EPA so they can sell minimal-feature versions for a more competitive price?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (ULPxl)
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do think that perhaps the lopsided trade deals with the EU were leftovers from the mentality that "we have to support these economies or else they'll fall to the commies in the USSR!"
But that has since become a moot point now for what... 30 years now?
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (WYStd)
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WESTERN EUROPE DID FALL TO COMMUNISM JUST EU COMMUNISM.
But that has since become a moot point now for what... 30 years now?
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (WYStd)
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WESTERN EUROPE DID FALL TO COMMUNISM JUST EU COMMUNISM.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (17s+e)
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Blurb doesn't say if it has air conditioning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The faster you go, the cooler you get.
Seems a moot point for an Alberta resident...oh, wait...there's Arizona.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The faster you go, the cooler you get.
Seems a moot point for an Alberta resident...oh, wait...there's Arizona.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, misspelling at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (XeU6L)
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I thought they go sued for that thing because it's a straight rip off of a Jeep.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Mahindra used to build actual Jeeps under license in India. When that contract ran its course, they continued to build a similar vehicle, and when those were imported to America, they got sued for a "trademark infringement" over the vertical slat grille, which has long been a Jeep hallmark. So they adopted a horizontal slat grille, and carried on selling them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Mahindra used to build actual Jeeps under license in India. When that contract ran its course, they continued to build a similar vehicle, and when those were imported to America, they got sued for a "trademark infringement" over the vertical slat grille, which has long been a Jeep hallmark. So they adopted a horizontal slat grille, and carried on selling them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (kx8gd)
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She should have mentioned the US Military presence still in place in parts of Europe, will remain (I'm guessing). Ramstein, RAF Croughton, RAF Mildenhall, and many other bases are still used by our military. Not as big a presence as it once was, post-Cold War, but a presence.
Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at July 28, 2025 01:18 PM (sAmhv)
And should be kept, for no other reason than power projection. This is something Americans take for granted, but power projection is why the military is as powerful as it is.
Peace through strength
Power projection
DIME
Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at July 28, 2025 01:18 PM (sAmhv)
And should be kept, for no other reason than power projection. This is something Americans take for granted, but power projection is why the military is as powerful as it is.
Peace through strength
Power projection
DIME
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:21 PM (Pce4l)
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I am an idiot, I meant Land CRUISER pickups.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:21 PM (D7oie)
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Kevin Williamson ...
... would be fully behind all housing worldwide be mobile homes.
That way he'd never feel out of place.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Many of the striving class hate those they left behind and credit it to their superiority over the masses. See it often about small town types that move to the big cities to make it and then trash the places they came from.
Kevin Williamson ...
... would be fully behind all housing worldwide be mobile homes.
That way he'd never feel out of place.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Many of the striving class hate those they left behind and credit it to their superiority over the masses. See it often about small town types that move to the big cities to make it and then trash the places they came from.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2025 01:21 PM (ctrM5)
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Ok, here's one of those Expert Economist things that IGTD thinks is stupid...
Price sensitivity tends to decrease as wealth increases.
Someone making $20/hour isn't the prime market for luxury goods. A person worth $5 mill on the other hand generally couldn't care less, esp if that's 2nd gen wealth.
There might be slight kvetching, but the fuck-off rich don't even pay attention to prices, and the sub tier are usually barely aware of them.
Price sensitivity tends to decrease as wealth increases.
Someone making $20/hour isn't the prime market for luxury goods. A person worth $5 mill on the other hand generally couldn't care less, esp if that's 2nd gen wealth.
There might be slight kvetching, but the fuck-off rich don't even pay attention to prices, and the sub tier are usually barely aware of them.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:21 PM (64qRd)
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Mahindra used to build actual Jeeps under license in India. When that contract ran its course, they continued to build a similar vehicle, and when those were imported to America, they got sued for a "trademark infringement" over the vertical slat grille, which has long been a Jeep hallmark. So they adopted a horizontal slat grille, and carried on selling them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (kx8gd)
That explains it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (kx8gd)
That explains it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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I thought they go sued for that thing because it's a straight rip off of a Jeep.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
They did, but they changed the grill to stay in US markets.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
They did, but they changed the grill to stay in US markets.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (i24o9)
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I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview
Multiple choice, right?
a} freed the slaves
b} suspended habeas corpus
c} imprisoned or deported his political enemies
d} birthed the deep state
I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview
Multiple choice, right?
a} freed the slaves
b} suspended habeas corpus
c} imprisoned or deported his political enemies
d} birthed the deep state
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (xG4kz)
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they got sued for a "trademark infringement" over the vertical slat grille, which has long been a Jeep hallmark. So they adopted a horizontal slat grille, and carried on selling them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (kx8gd)
The asshats at Jeep also sued AM General for having the vertical 7 slot grille in the humvee. But the asshats forgot that AM General was the company who was part of the original company that made the Willys Jeep so the suit got tossed. Which is how the H1 became the absolute best offroad vehicle with a 7 slot grille.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (kx8gd)
The asshats at Jeep also sued AM General for having the vertical 7 slot grille in the humvee. But the asshats forgot that AM General was the company who was part of the original company that made the Willys Jeep so the suit got tossed. Which is how the H1 became the absolute best offroad vehicle with a 7 slot grille.
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (WYStd)
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4 more years could change things, and with Farage going nutso on the Sharia job listing, maybe there are signs that they will.
But in the last election Reform promised nothing but to keep the immigration system as it was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)
Calling for the end of immigration in the UK is a sure fire way to wind up in jail now. Their censorship laws are so cranked up, that is the sort of thing, especially an oppostion party, that is being focused on.
But in the last election Reform promised nothing but to keep the immigration system as it was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)
Calling for the end of immigration in the UK is a sure fire way to wind up in jail now. Their censorship laws are so cranked up, that is the sort of thing, especially an oppostion party, that is being focused on.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (D7oie)
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k, here's one of those Expert Economist things that IGTD thinks is stupid...
Price sensitivity tends to decrease as wealth increases.
Someone making $20/hour isn't the prime market for luxury goods. A person worth $5 mill on the other hand generally couldn't care less, esp if that's 2nd gen wealth.
There might be slight kvetching, but the fuck-off rich don't even pay attention to prices, and the sub tier are usually barely aware of them.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:21 PM (64qRd)
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Veblen says that the rich do pay attention to prices, but in the reverse of what average people do (at least for certain goods). He is almost certainly correct.
Price sensitivity tends to decrease as wealth increases.
Someone making $20/hour isn't the prime market for luxury goods. A person worth $5 mill on the other hand generally couldn't care less, esp if that's 2nd gen wealth.
There might be slight kvetching, but the fuck-off rich don't even pay attention to prices, and the sub tier are usually barely aware of them.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:21 PM (64qRd)
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Veblen says that the rich do pay attention to prices, but in the reverse of what average people do (at least for certain goods). He is almost certainly correct.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (GsIhi)
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Above commenter noted that Europe does not need to add tariffs, it just puts impossible restrictions on items that make our goods too expensive (or impossible to conform) which f's their citizens but the EU leaders don't care.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (A0ECY)
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Regarding luxury goods, there has been remarkably little follow-up about those videos that Chinese companies posted about how those fancy "European" purses were basically made in China and then shipped to Italy or wherever for enough finishing touches to call them European. Do fancy purse buyers not really care?
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (7T/7v)
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Never thought I'd see the day that the EU would implement Milton Friedman's sound, free market prescription vis-a-vis tariffs while the US adopted Latin American economic policies from the 1960's and 70s.
Huzzah?
Huzzah?
Posted by: Doug at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (FFudC)
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>>> 365 Oh my, what is going to happen to the availability of France's Mallie Dijon Mustard? And don't even start thinking about getting the good stuff that isn't sold here in the USA. I am crushed.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 01:18 PM (9vYpt)
We'll have to chip in to CBD's suitcase fund.
If you saw the latest Food Thread, you know we Muricans have stolen their hoity-toity French chickens and are raising them here now, on Murican grass and boogz.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 28, 2025 01:18 PM (9vYpt)
We'll have to chip in to CBD's suitcase fund.
If you saw the latest Food Thread, you know we Muricans have stolen their hoity-toity French chickens and are raising them here now, on Murican grass and boogz.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (ULPxl)
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Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement
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Have they tried looking in the nearest dumpster
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (7HpjT)
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His new Podcast will be called "Kessler and The Four Pinocchios."
Or maybe "Dumper-Diving with Glenn" ...
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Have they tried looking in the nearest dumpster
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (7HpjT)
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His new Podcast will be called "Kessler and The Four Pinocchios."
Or maybe "Dumper-Diving with Glenn" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (F6/Gl)
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Our Man Godfrey.
Which was nominated for everything and won nothing. Hollywood was dumb then too.
Which was nominated for everything and won nothing. Hollywood was dumb then too.
Posted by: eleven at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (fV+MH)
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Sadly, and I know this for a fact because I've seen it on her browser tabs - my sister in law and her "wife" are regulars at DU.
Posted by: Defenestratus
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Ah yes, DU where independent thinking goes to die and is replaced by the Borg mind.
Posted by: Defenestratus
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Ah yes, DU where independent thinking goes to die and is replaced by the Borg mind.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (ctrM5)
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385 Calling for the end of immigration in the UK is a sure fire way to wind up in jail now. Their censorship laws are so cranked up, that is the sort of thing, especially an oppostion party, that is being focused on.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (D7oie)
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Rowling had real balls around the free speech issue.
When Scotland imposed hate speech rules, she didn't back down and dare Scottish police to arrest her for saying a man is a man and a woman is a woman. It never happened.
Farage should take on the English/British idiocy the same way. "Come at me, bruh. Make me a martyr."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (D7oie)
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Rowling had real balls around the free speech issue.
When Scotland imposed hate speech rules, she didn't back down and dare Scottish police to arrest her for saying a man is a man and a woman is a woman. It never happened.
Farage should take on the English/British idiocy the same way. "Come at me, bruh. Make me a martyr."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
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He is so good. It’s really, really hot so we can’t go on an adventure, which he doesn’t understand. He keeps going to my car when we take him outside. I wish he would swim!
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (r99m
Try a sprinkler or a hose.
Posted by: Piper at July 28, 2025 12:49 PM (r99m
Try a sprinkler or a hose.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (8avO+)
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why the intense, passionate focus on race? And Muslims can’t be white? (Go to southeastern Europe, you will be in for a shock.). Could it be your own racism? What, if you are non-white in America, you cannot be inculcated with values like appreciating freedom, the Constitution, and being a citizen?
Please, enlighten me. Because, white on non white, you can be made into a self governing citizen of a republic, if brought up in such a system. Especially here. You can also be brought up in such a way where you are prone to support tyranny. That likewise does not give a damn what color you are.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (Pce4l)
I am using "white" as a proxy for "heritage Americans," and calling any white person "racist" who discusses race is so 2021.
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Please, enlighten me. Because, white on non white, you can be made into a self governing citizen of a republic, if brought up in such a system. Especially here. You can also be brought up in such a way where you are prone to support tyranny. That likewise does not give a damn what color you are.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:16 PM (Pce4l)
I am using "white" as a proxy for "heritage Americans," and calling any white person "racist" who discusses race is so 2021.
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
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I thought they go sued for that thing because it's a straight rip off of a Jeep.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Mahindra used to build actual Jeeps under license in India. When that contract ran its course, they continued to build a similar vehicle, and when those were imported to America, they got sued for a "trademark infringement" over the vertical slat grille, which has long been a Jeep hallmark. So they adopted a horizontal slat grille, and carried on selling them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (kx8gd)
Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 28, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Mahindra used to build actual Jeeps under license in India. When that contract ran its course, they continued to build a similar vehicle, and when those were imported to America, they got sued for a "trademark infringement" over the vertical slat grille, which has long been a Jeep hallmark. So they adopted a horizontal slat grille, and carried on selling them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:20 PM (kx8gd)
Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
Posted by: Cleo McDowell at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (Pce4l)
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Which was nominated for everything and won nothing. Hollywood was dumb then too.
Posted by: eleven
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Even back then, Oscars snubbed comedy.
Posted by: eleven
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Even back then, Oscars snubbed comedy.
Posted by: whig at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (ctrM5)
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Regarding luxury goods, there has been remarkably little follow-up about those videos that Chinese companies posted about how those fancy "European" purses were basically made in China and then shipped to Italy or wherever for enough finishing touches to call them European. Do fancy purse buyers not really care?
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (7T/7v)
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They do not. They only care about being seen with the fancy items. They don't care where or how the items are made, or even really whether they are authentic.
Posted by: Splunge at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (7T/7v)
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They do not. They only care about being seen with the fancy items. They don't care where or how the items are made, or even really whether they are authentic.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
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If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
__________
The Lotus Eaters make that point repeatedly. Both of the old parties are horrible, Reform benefits from being slightly less horrible.
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The Lotus Eaters make that point repeatedly. Both of the old parties are horrible, Reform benefits from being slightly less horrible.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 28, 2025 01:26 PM (7sA9x)
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"Ursula von der Leyden" is the perfect supervillainess name.
Posted by: Bulg
Ursula von der Leyden is Viktor von Doom's side piece.
Posted by: Bulg
Ursula von der Leyden is Viktor von Doom's side piece.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 28, 2025 01:26 PM (HWqJT)
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I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview.
Sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom? Awesome. He must be one of those experts we hear so much about.
Sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom? Awesome. He must be one of those experts we hear so much about.
Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (GsIhi)
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Veblen says that the rich do pay attention to prices, but in the reverse of what average people do (at least for certain goods). He is almost certainly correct.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm leaning more on Paul Fussell and what he found when he was researching Class.
He saw aspirants who want to get the expensive things the Really Rich have, but yeah they tend to be inverse price conscious. The trend is that spending more on something is desirable.
For them they say "The Mercedes in my driveway," not "the car in the driveway."
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm leaning more on Paul Fussell and what he found when he was researching Class.
He saw aspirants who want to get the expensive things the Really Rich have, but yeah they tend to be inverse price conscious. The trend is that spending more on something is desirable.
For them they say "The Mercedes in my driveway," not "the car in the driveway."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (64qRd)
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404 I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did." - Jeff Daniels from the Nicolle Wallace interview.
Sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom? Awesome. He must be one of those experts we hear so much about.
Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (GsIhi)
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He mentions making a "cabinet of rivals" with Liz Cheney as the token Republican for Secretary of Defense while acting like RFK Jr and Tulsi are lifelong Republicans.
Sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom? Awesome. He must be one of those experts we hear so much about.
Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (GsIhi)
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He mentions making a "cabinet of rivals" with Liz Cheney as the token Republican for Secretary of Defense while acting like RFK Jr and Tulsi are lifelong Republicans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
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We need to shut down S.1748. That's the "Limeys Are Doing It AWESOME Act", modeled on their "online safety [for Labour] act".
Starmer is running a Cuba-tier island jail and we shouldn't let Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) do the same here.
Starmer is running a Cuba-tier island jail and we shouldn't let Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) do the same here.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (5C538)
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I am using "white" as a proxy for "heritage Americans," and calling any white person "racist" who discusses race is so 2021.
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
Stop being such a klansman, Harold.
Sure, we couldn't bring democracy to Iraq. But if we import Iraq's population to here, it'll totally work!
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
Stop being such a klansman, Harold.
Sure, we couldn't bring democracy to Iraq. But if we import Iraq's population to here, it'll totally work!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (y+qgR)
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Farage should take on the English/British idiocy the same way. "Come at me, bruh. Make me a martyr."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
Solzhenitsyn was a brave man, but I think it was because he had endured so much the only thing he had remaining to lose was his soul, and he had hopes of not losing the soul of Russia too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
Solzhenitsyn was a brave man, but I think it was because he had endured so much the only thing he had remaining to lose was his soul, and he had hopes of not losing the soul of Russia too.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (D7oie)
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I'm leaning more on Paul Fussell and what he found when he was researching Class.
great book; great thinker
great book; great thinker
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Watched a couple of vids of white leftist , mostly women , Brits showing up in a rural area which was like objecting to migrants being houses in a local hotel. Suicidally stupid people protesting
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (hIY2p)
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do think that perhaps the lopsided trade deals with the EU were leftovers from the mentality that "we have to support these economies or else they'll fall to the commies in the USSR!"
But that has since become a moot point now for what... 30 years now?
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (WYStd)
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WESTERN EUROPE DID FALL TO COMMUNISM JUST EU COMMUNISM.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (17s+e)
In the 80s several EU states had respectable armies in quality and in quantity as well. Now they have nothing to contribute at all.
But that has since become a moot point now for what... 30 years now?
Posted by: Defenestratus at July 28, 2025 01:10 PM (WYStd)
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WESTERN EUROPE DID FALL TO COMMUNISM JUST EU COMMUNISM.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 28, 2025 01:19 PM (17s+e)
In the 80s several EU states had respectable armies in quality and in quantity as well. Now they have nothing to contribute at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (8avO+)
413
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
414
Rumor has it HEB Doritos are better than the genuine article.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (TzkcV)
HEB ice cream is better than Bluebell. No question.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 28, 2025 12:34 PM (TzkcV)
HEB ice cream is better than Bluebell. No question.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (k9OZB)
415
I bet Ursula has a nice cooter.
Posted by: No Pants Man at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (vB6UG)
416
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (zyZZ9)
417
I am using "white" as a proxy for "heritage Americans," and calling any white person "racist" who discusses race is so 2021.
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
Then why not say “heritage American”? Or, first and second generation American?
My grandmother was a citizen of Germany when it was in the throes of a vile dictatorship. Applying your logic, I should be pro-NSDAP, no? But somehow, I am not.
Yes, if you are brought up within the culture, if you are from India, or elsewhere, you can be a free market/rule of law absolutist. (You aren’t, and past comments have made that plain.). It is idle to suggest otherwise, and plain idiotic to focus on race in that regard.
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
Then why not say “heritage American”? Or, first and second generation American?
My grandmother was a citizen of Germany when it was in the throes of a vile dictatorship. Applying your logic, I should be pro-NSDAP, no? But somehow, I am not.
Yes, if you are brought up within the culture, if you are from India, or elsewhere, you can be a free market/rule of law absolutist. (You aren’t, and past comments have made that plain.). It is idle to suggest otherwise, and plain idiotic to focus on race in that regard.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (Pce4l)
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And even if they do go up, I'll happily eat the 15% increase in my already overpriced italian olive oil, if it helps my fellow citizens lead more meaningful lives.
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HEB, IIRC, sells an olive oil made in Texas.
Texas Olive Ranch. Can also be bought online.
Their mesquite infused olive oil is fantastic for steaks.
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HEB, IIRC, sells an olive oil made in Texas.
Texas Olive Ranch. Can also be bought online.
Their mesquite infused olive oil is fantastic for steaks.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (lDIPK)
419
Veblen says that the rich do pay attention to prices, but in the reverse of what average people do (at least for certain goods). He is almost certainly correct.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm leaning more on Paul Fussell and what he found when he was researching Class.
He saw aspirants who want to get the expensive things the Really Rich have, but yeah they tend to be inverse price conscious. The trend is that spending more on something is desirable.
For them they say "The Mercedes in my driveway," not "the car in the driveway."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (64qRd)
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Exotic car buyers spent almost as much on "personalization" as they do on the car itself. It's not uncommon for a Rolls or Ferrari to have $300k in personalization options. After all, you don't want your Ferrari to be like the Ferrari in your neighbor's yard.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)
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I'm leaning more on Paul Fussell and what he found when he was researching Class.
He saw aspirants who want to get the expensive things the Really Rich have, but yeah they tend to be inverse price conscious. The trend is that spending more on something is desirable.
For them they say "The Mercedes in my driveway," not "the car in the driveway."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (64qRd)
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Exotic car buyers spent almost as much on "personalization" as they do on the car itself. It's not uncommon for a Rolls or Ferrari to have $300k in personalization options. After all, you don't want your Ferrari to be like the Ferrari in your neighbor's yard.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
420
That, and the foreign companies will eat a lot of the tariffs and make only good profits rather than obscene"
Hmm. IIRC, the max US import tariff p/t (pre Trump) was something like 350 percent... to protect something or other...
Hmm. IIRC, the max US import tariff p/t (pre Trump) was something like 350 percent... to protect something or other...
Posted by: man at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (tubbA)
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Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country.
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Demographics is destiny. The culture of the people who are having children WILL dominate.
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Demographics is destiny. The culture of the people who are having children WILL dominate.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (5hfjS)
423
THE BOSS HAZ ANOTHER NOOD
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (+qU29)
424
409 Farage should take on the English/British idiocy the same way. "Come at me, bruh. Make me a martyr."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
Solzhenitsyn was a brave man, but I think it was because he had endured so much the only thing he had remaining to lose was his soul, and he had hopes of not losing the soul of Russia too.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (D7oie)
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I just don't think the British government has the balls to make a big-name martyr out of Farage. If the Scottish weren't willing to do it with Rowling, essentially just a rich lady with a Twitter account, I doubt they'd be willing to do something similar with the head of the party set to make the next majority.
I'm gambling with someone else's freedom, I understand, but British government just strikes me as shockingly gutless with high-profile cases.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
Solzhenitsyn was a brave man, but I think it was because he had endured so much the only thing he had remaining to lose was his soul, and he had hopes of not losing the soul of Russia too.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (D7oie)
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I just don't think the British government has the balls to make a big-name martyr out of Farage. If the Scottish weren't willing to do it with Rowling, essentially just a rich lady with a Twitter account, I doubt they'd be willing to do something similar with the head of the party set to make the next majority.
I'm gambling with someone else's freedom, I understand, but British government just strikes me as shockingly gutless with high-profile cases.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)
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The next general election will be interesting.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)
I'll believe Farage when he embraces Tommy Robinson, who actually went to jail for his stands on immigration. Up until now he's done nothing but denigrate and distance Reform from him.
Farage is going full-on anti-immigrant now, which is different from the current Reform platform.
We'll see.
I don't really have hope, but I am curious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 28, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)
I'll believe Farage when he embraces Tommy Robinson, who actually went to jail for his stands on immigration. Up until now he's done nothing but denigrate and distance Reform from him.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2025 01:31 PM (0CU3H)
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That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
EXACTLY, and assimilation into a culture does not care about what color you are. Or in my case, ethnicity.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
EXACTLY, and assimilation into a culture does not care about what color you are. Or in my case, ethnicity.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:31 PM (Pce4l)
427
For them they say "The Mercedes in my driveway," not "the car in the driveway."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (64qRd)
The aspiring say "The Mercedes in my driveway".
The rich say "The car in the driveway".
The really rich say "Which driveway? I don't know, you called me, I'm dangling off a fraying sling on a busted cam halfway to low earth orbit in Nepal right now. Call Svetlana, she deals with that shit. Bye."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:27 PM (64qRd)
The aspiring say "The Mercedes in my driveway".
The rich say "The car in the driveway".
The really rich say "Which driveway? I don't know, you called me, I'm dangling off a fraying sling on a busted cam halfway to low earth orbit in Nepal right now. Call Svetlana, she deals with that shit. Bye."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 01:31 PM (VoAdT)
428
I'll believe Farage when he embraces Tommy Robinson, who actually went to jail for his stands on immigration. Up until now he's done nothing but denigrate and distance Reform from him.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2025 01:31 PM (0CU3H)
I'll cut him a little slack since he can be jailed just like Tommy in Britistan. But class snobbery is the bane of England and the moment the elites lose their ethical center the nation is lost.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 28, 2025 01:31 PM (0CU3H)
I'll cut him a little slack since he can be jailed just like Tommy in Britistan. But class snobbery is the bane of England and the moment the elites lose their ethical center the nation is lost.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 01:33 PM (8avO+)
429
Exotic car buyers spent almost as much on "personalization" as they do on the car itself. It's not uncommon for a Rolls or Ferrari to have $300k in personalization options. After all, you don't want your Ferrari to be like the Ferrari in your neighbor's yard.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Certainly! The question is if they even know what they spent, let alone if they even care about it. That tends to be the class identifier.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Certainly! The question is if they even know what they spent, let alone if they even care about it. That tends to be the class identifier.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:33 PM (64qRd)
430
I am using "white" as a proxy for "heritage Americans," and calling any white person "racist" who discusses race is so 2021.
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
Stop being such a klansman, Harold.
Sure, we couldn't bring democracy to Iraq. But if we import Iraq's population to here, it'll totally work!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (y+qgR)
The kids are alright.
Remember Black Lives Matter? That was all about race, if you recall.
And no, I don't think American soil is some kind of sacred ground that changes someone from a caste-worshiping Indian in to a free markets / rule of law absolutist.
I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
Stop being such a klansman, Harold.
Sure, we couldn't bring democracy to Iraq. But if we import Iraq's population to here, it'll totally work!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 01:28 PM (y+qgR)
The kids are alright.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (i24o9)
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>>> 413 I think that's an insulting and stupid argument. Culture matters MUCH more than political propaganda / systems / anything else when it comes to the success of a country..
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
*ding ding ding*
It's not that any particular individual is predestined to be unable to do a thing. It's that they have to *want* to do a thing, and when that thing is moving to an entirely new culture and assimilating, it is *very* difficult even if an individual is internally or externally motivated or both.
Our feralgov has been deliberately importing people who have ZERO interest in assimilating and our three letter agencies appear to be quite happy paying big tax bucks to asshoes who look a lot like invaders.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
*ding ding ding*
It's not that any particular individual is predestined to be unable to do a thing. It's that they have to *want* to do a thing, and when that thing is moving to an entirely new culture and assimilating, it is *very* difficult even if an individual is internally or externally motivated or both.
Our feralgov has been deliberately importing people who have ZERO interest in assimilating and our three letter agencies appear to be quite happy paying big tax bucks to asshoes who look a lot like invaders.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (ULPxl)
432
Monsters from the Yid!
Posted by: Dr. Morbius at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (63Dwl)
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Then why not say “heritage American”? Or, first and second generation American?
My grandmother was a citizen of Germany when it was in the throes of a vile dictatorship. Applying your logic, I should be pro-NSDAP, no? But somehow, I am not.
Yes, if you are brought up within the culture, if you are from India, or elsewhere, you can be a free market/rule of law absolutist. (You aren’t, and past comments have made that plain.). It is idle to suggest otherwise, and plain idiotic to focus on race in that regard.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (Pce4l)
Because I see no reasons to speak in euphemisms on such an important subject.
And anyone who thinks bringing millions of people from alien cultures in to the US is going to magically turn those people in New England WASPs is delusional.
Also, NOOD.
My grandmother was a citizen of Germany when it was in the throes of a vile dictatorship. Applying your logic, I should be pro-NSDAP, no? But somehow, I am not.
Yes, if you are brought up within the culture, if you are from India, or elsewhere, you can be a free market/rule of law absolutist. (You aren’t, and past comments have made that plain.). It is idle to suggest otherwise, and plain idiotic to focus on race in that regard.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (Pce4l)
Because I see no reasons to speak in euphemisms on such an important subject.
And anyone who thinks bringing millions of people from alien cultures in to the US is going to magically turn those people in New England WASPs is delusional.
Also, NOOD.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (uCjyK)
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I'm pretty sure there's still a "Speaker's Corner" at Hyde Park in London that they haven't closed down yet.
I'm pretty sure there's still a "Speaker's Corner" at Hyde Park in London that they haven't closed down yet.
Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (Y8DZL)
435
Anyone who has a paved driveway and drives a Jeep is a poser.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (wBaIH)
436
426 That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
EXACTLY, and assimilation into a culture does not care about what color you are. Or in my case, ethnicity.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:31 PM (Pce4l)
Oh, bullshit. We haven't even managed to successfully assimilate significant portions of the black population into the mainstream of American culture. The idea that a current day America, roughly half of which doesn't even believe in America, is going to assimilate massive influxes of foreigners is nuts.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
EXACTLY, and assimilation into a culture does not care about what color you are. Or in my case, ethnicity.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 28, 2025 01:31 PM (Pce4l)
Oh, bullshit. We haven't even managed to successfully assimilate significant portions of the black population into the mainstream of American culture. The idea that a current day America, roughly half of which doesn't even believe in America, is going to assimilate massive influxes of foreigners is nuts.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 01:35 PM (y+qgR)
437
Demographics is destiny. The culture of the people who are having children WILL dominate.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (vd6bO)
It didn't in Rome because the local leaders could assimilate and become part of the system.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 01:30 PM (vd6bO)
It didn't in Rome because the local leaders could assimilate and become part of the system.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 01:35 PM (8avO+)
438
Good afternoon, Ace
Thanks for asking about our weekends. Mine was busy but nice. Had a worship service with communion at the assisted living center for Seniors. They are dear people and enjoy singing old time hymns. We have some new residents there with dementia and it is kind of heartbreaking but understandable to see the tears coming down the faces of their daughters who are there with them and love them. This isn't the weekend , but today I had a lovely morning walk with spouse and we saw beautiful flowers and a fox!
Thanks for the time and effort you put in here, and I hope you are feeling well.
Thanks for asking about our weekends. Mine was busy but nice. Had a worship service with communion at the assisted living center for Seniors. They are dear people and enjoy singing old time hymns. We have some new residents there with dementia and it is kind of heartbreaking but understandable to see the tears coming down the faces of their daughters who are there with them and love them. This isn't the weekend , but today I had a lovely morning walk with spouse and we saw beautiful flowers and a fox!
Thanks for the time and effort you put in here, and I hope you are feeling well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 01:36 PM (2GCMq)
439
I should also point out that Veblen was absolutely NOT an idiot.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 28, 2025 01:36 PM (64qRd)
440
Our feralgov has been deliberately importing people who have ZERO interest in assimilating and our three letter agencies appear to be quite happy paying big tax bucks to asshoes who look a lot like invaders.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (ULPxl)
The Feds have also spent billions of dollars fighting assimilation tooth and nail, and constructing new groups with alien culture to further undermine things. Is trans culture any better than Islamic?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (ULPxl)
The Feds have also spent billions of dollars fighting assimilation tooth and nail, and constructing new groups with alien culture to further undermine things. Is trans culture any better than Islamic?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 01:37 PM (8avO+)
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That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
Check out the residency/ citizen requirements for the EU's very own Liechtenstein sometime. For example, you need to show 30 years of residency to qualify for citizenship. You have to demonstrate integration into Liechtenstein society (so an assimilation requirement). You have to have a documented annual salary of 100,000 Euros. AND, you have to demonstrate a handle on the German language.
That's why assimilation is critical, and why it's been smeared as racist and xenophobic by those who want America to cease to exist.
Posted by: Bring back the melting pot at July 28, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
Check out the residency/ citizen requirements for the EU's very own Liechtenstein sometime. For example, you need to show 30 years of residency to qualify for citizenship. You have to demonstrate integration into Liechtenstein society (so an assimilation requirement). You have to have a documented annual salary of 100,000 Euros. AND, you have to demonstrate a handle on the German language.
Posted by: Orson at July 28, 2025 01:38 PM (dIske)
442
I'm pretty sure there's still a "Speaker's Corner" at Hyde Park in London that they haven't closed down yet.
Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (Y8DZL)
Muslim gangs occupied it years ago. No Briton can use it.
Posted by: Auspex at July 28, 2025 01:34 PM (Y8DZL)
Muslim gangs occupied it years ago. No Briton can use it.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 28, 2025 01:38 PM (8avO+)
443
Saturday a couple was stabbed to death in Arkansas. Same day and method as Traverse City. Random stabbings in benign places hasn't been a thing. How strange.
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at July 28, 2025 01:39 PM (19Jrv)
444
Oh, bullshit. We haven't even managed to successfully assimilate significant portions of the black population into the mainstream of American culture. The idea that a current day America, roughly half of which doesn't even believe in America, is going to assimilate massive influxes of foreigners is nuts.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 01:35 PM (y+qgR)
100% true. There is absolutely zero proof that this would work, and all common sense says it doesn't work and has never really worked.
Until the immigration reforms in 1965, only people from specific countries could emigrate to the US. And that was determined based on the cultural and demographic make up of the US.
So that was what immigration used to look like. And even then -- mixed results at best.
People from Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Ireland were able to mostly co-exist and form somewhat of a common culture. Our two major counter examples (blacks and Chinese) did not assimilate well at all.
So we decided "fuck it, let's see what happens if we invite the entire third world here? Surely people from dysfunctional societies, backwards religions and extreme poverty will fit right in."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 01:35 PM (y+qgR)
100% true. There is absolutely zero proof that this would work, and all common sense says it doesn't work and has never really worked.
Until the immigration reforms in 1965, only people from specific countries could emigrate to the US. And that was determined based on the cultural and demographic make up of the US.
So that was what immigration used to look like. And even then -- mixed results at best.
People from Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Ireland were able to mostly co-exist and form somewhat of a common culture. Our two major counter examples (blacks and Chinese) did not assimilate well at all.
So we decided "fuck it, let's see what happens if we invite the entire third world here? Surely people from dysfunctional societies, backwards religions and extreme poverty will fit right in."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 28, 2025 01:40 PM (uCjyK)
445
Consider we have military forces in all these countries, that is money they don't have to spend on defense.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 28, 2025 01:41 PM (kUZOt)
446
Bet Canada feels pretty stupid now.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (u73oe)
I'm pretty sure that's the default feeling in Canada.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 28, 2025 12:33 PM (u73oe)
I'm pretty sure that's the default feeling in Canada.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 28, 2025 01:42 PM (g8Ew8)
447
But sometimes it all seems the same.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:48 PM (E7bCG)
448
If people are voting Reform because they think Reform will be harder on immigration, it's something they've created in their own minds.
__________
The Lotus Eaters make that point repeatedly. Both of the old parties are horrible, Reform benefits from being slightly less horrible.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 28, 2025 01:26 PM
We have to accept that a conservative British politician is a 1990s liberal Democrat from our POV, with a much much stronger homo bent.
__________
The Lotus Eaters make that point repeatedly. Both of the old parties are horrible, Reform benefits from being slightly less horrible.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 28, 2025 01:26 PM
We have to accept that a conservative British politician is a 1990s liberal Democrat from our POV, with a much much stronger homo bent.
Posted by: toby928 at July 28, 2025 01:52 PM (jc0TO)
449
128 And, just so y’all know, I’m covering in colo rectal surgery today. Yay, BUTTS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM
I'm sure it will be a gas. . .
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 28, 2025 12:36 PM
I'm sure it will be a gas. . .
Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 28, 2025 01:56 PM (JNTt1)
450
That's just it - our consumer market is $23 trillion. Europe is $9 trillion. China is $7 trillion. Japan is $2.3 trillion. India $2 trillion. Mexico + Canada = $2 trillion.
Europe + China + Japan + India + Mexico + Canada
You can't make goods for export and NOT have access to the U.S. market. Period.
Europe + China + Japan + India + Mexico + Canada
You can't make goods for export and NOT have access to the U.S. market. Period.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 28, 2025 01:59 PM (gDhA9)
451
I read "Intercepted DU Transmissions" in a female-consumer- of-NPR voice.
Maybe the posters are male, but in my mind they are all these 60+ year old femininoes.
Maybe the posters are male, but in my mind they are all these 60+ year old femininoes.
Posted by: Texican ette at July 28, 2025 02:05 PM (SNf74)
452
I don't know where this "durr, we need to maximize GDP and get everything as cheap as possible, even if it means hollowing out our middle class and outsourcing all jobs to immigrants and/or foreign countries, and creating generational poverty with millions on welfare and hundreds of thousands of people dying deaths of despair every year" mindset comes from.
It's gross.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
Correct, and we are paying for it in our income taxes. Essentially, US taxpayers are subsidizing the Fortune 500.
It's gross.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
Correct, and we are paying for it in our income taxes. Essentially, US taxpayers are subsidizing the Fortune 500.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at July 28, 2025 02:05 PM (Vfq+S)
453
Well, Europe still has a complete ban on agricultural imports from the US so this doesn't help me out at all.
Posted by: callister raine at July 28, 2025 02:38 PM (PZZkv)
454
Europe got nothing ? actually its the US that got nothing for decades of the Europeans taxing our goods ... The Europeans ALREADY got their benefit ... maybe 30 years of a 15% payback will balance the scales ...
Posted by: The Dark Lord at July 28, 2025 02:52 PM (DBAaD)
455
HAHAHAHAHA
To those worried about an uneven deal? LOL. We've been paying their defense bills for generations while they've been tariffing and taxing our goods. They have to start paying their own way?!?! OMG!?!?! LMAO
https://tiny.cc/#
To those worried about an uneven deal? LOL. We've been paying their defense bills for generations while they've been tariffing and taxing our goods. They have to start paying their own way?!?! OMG!?!?! LMAO
https://tiny.cc/#
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at July 28, 2025 03:58 PM (029Oi)
456
"So it's like an actual jeep."
A cis jeep. To which Jeep replied
"GFY Fen, I'm not a type of Jeep,
I AM Jeep. Meep! Meep!"
Pro-tip: If you find yourself ..slowly losing your mind, roll with it. In most cases you can lean in to choose your preferred insanity. I'm going with OCD and a slice of Dementia. A bit like dividing by zero.
A cis jeep. To which Jeep replied
"GFY Fen, I'm not a type of Jeep,
I AM Jeep. Meep! Meep!"
Pro-tip: If you find yourself ..slowly losing your mind, roll with it. In most cases you can lean in to choose your preferred insanity. I'm going with OCD and a slice of Dementia. A bit like dividing by zero.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 28, 2025 11:05 PM (ciYHQ)
457
Europe ...uh-huh. I remember everything they said about America. A few of them even compared their daughters to Aphrodite.
Gandalf said it best:
"So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion."
Gandalf said it best:
"So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion."
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 28, 2025 11:22 PM (ciYHQ)
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