It's bad and 100% caused by tariffs but a quirk in the way GDP is measured needs to be considered when interpreting this number- imports essentially as negative GDP, so when everyone scrambled to import everything before the tariffs went into effect it made GDP go really low. The idea is that when you sell the imported item that is counted as positive GDP so selling an imported item is basically GDP neutral, but a lot of this stuff hasn't been sold yet. That said, it's still a bad sign and still 100% caused by tariffs. It's just not immediately what it looks like.
It's just common sense that taxes make costs go up. Any other belief is magical thinking and anyone dumb enough ti fall for it deserves to be fooled
Can't argue with that. It's not like he hid anything. He is doing exactly what he said he was going to do. It's not like these morons couldn't have googled "what is a tariff" before election day and that's not Trump's fault that they didn't. This is something I actually agree with Trump on. Imagine having so many loyal fans and then suddenly they're acting surprised and angry that you're doing exactly what you promised to do. It's kind of absurd.
Bruh they weigh like 15 lbs and their neck is long and poorly protected. If you can't beat a goose in a fight there's something wrong with you lol. Sure it might be hard to catch but it's not like a single goose is going to take you down Shadow of Colossus style by skillfully dodging all your attacks while it goes after your weak points and once you get ahold of a goose it's dead.
Idk I've definitely been in meetings that had "war room" vibes like you get like 20 people in a room to solve an urgent problem otherwise there will be a safety or environmental incident, or the company will lose millions of dollars. Then again most people's jobs don't have problems that can kill people or release toxic chemicals into the environment if something goes wrong.
he sat out this election
No sympathy. Dumbass got what he voted for, that he didn't care if Trump won and did exactly what he said he was going to do. So why the sudden change of heart? Selfish fuck only cares when it impacts him personally.
I'm pretty sure "Spice Melange" is trolling. Idk how someone would understand and enjoy the plot of Dune (assuming the book because IDK if they even used that term in the movies) with this poor of an understanding of how trade works.
I don't think you understand how stupid the average person is. There is a decent chance this will all be biden inflation in their minds and not tariffs if there isn't literally a thing that says "tariff charge" on it. Even then they will probably see that and think it's just there to lie and hurt Trump
There's a gag in Futurama about ads being displayed in your dreams. If that were possible they'd be doing that, but right now they're settling for just the waking hours.
It's happening with pretty much all professions. I'm a chemical engineer and it's pretty much every role at my plant, the plan is just make everyone work so much they hate their lives, and then those people quit and make things worse for everyone else that's left and it's all fueled by an endless supply of fresh college grads who are just thrown into the deep end with the understanding that over half of them will get fed up and quit within a few years and those who stay will train the new ones coming in. It's not just engineers, it's operators, mechanics, maintenance coordinators, safety reps, anything you can think of. While technology technically allows fewer people to do the same work, that same work is just getting worse and worse because each employee has to do so many different types of things and have so much riding on them personally that they feel like they can't leave or take any time off without messing up the whole operation - there is no redundancy.
Everyone I know in the chemical industry is saying the same thing. Everyone is overworked and wages for chemical engineers have been stagnant for the past 20 years in spite of inflation and each employee delivering much more productivity than they used to. I have started to envy the production line staff who at least get overtime pay and don't have to think about this shit once they clock out. They just leave and it's the next shift's problem.
A lot of pitties had their ears clipped and tails dockedbefore their current owners got ahold of them. If you get a dog from the shelter that had its ears clipped are you supposed to just hide them under a sheet every time you go outside? Should shelters just kill these dogs to avoid the shame of showing them? This is an absolutely braindead take.
Lmao you saw what they got done in a hundred days, you really think there will be enough rule of law for voting to matter in 2026 if we don't do something sooner?
Yes but you, like everyone I seem to talk to these days, is under the false impression that Trump isn't a complete idiot who literally thinks tariffs are the solution to all problems. It's more comforting to think there's some massive conspiracy by Russia or that it's a ploy to make money off the stock market, but I truly believe that Trump actually thinks tariffs will magically fix the economy and his reactions to the backlash are legitimate shock that so many people and the markets don't agree. Yes Russia does stand to gain from this, but they don't need to pull the strings when the guy in charge is innovating economic policy so stupid that a smart person would have trouble even imagining it.
Trump decisions make more sense when you realize he is actually stupid as fuck and there's no hidden chess moves or anyone pulling the strings from the shadows. There is nobody at the wheel who is actually competent even if they're evil. This is all just the whims of a complete moron who is probably also going a bit senile as well.
Legitimately- what's the difference, in your mind?
Dude it still does. Try that shit man a big shitty sandwich and chips fucking goes hard
It completely baffles me that there are apparently a decent number of people who voted for this jackass who are somehow surprised he's doing everything he said he spent months telling everyone he was going to do. Dumb fucks deserve all the pain and heartache they're going to get. I never really understood what people get out of apocalyptic religious stories where the wicked are punished with divine torment for defying God but now that I am faced with so many people who, despite having access to all of the information required to make a better decision, willingly chose to do the wrong thing because of their willful ignorance and greed, I understand these texts so much better. It is maddening to have a way of morality and justice that you believe in and see people who you feel should do better completely disregard all you believe in. It's no wonder people wrote stories about how there is a day of reckoning coming, where the first shall be last and the last shall be first, the wicked will be punished for knowingly defying the rules, and the good will be rewarded for staying the course. I don't wish eternal damnation on those who voted for Trump and I don't think there's a God who would even do that to them but I don't feel bad for them at all and I refuse to listen to them cry about losing their jobs or not being able to afford groceries if those things result directly from their decisions. Their Day of Judgement is coming, and it's entirely self created. Fitting for a group of people who worship a man as a god- their god king is the source of their judgement.
I'm just saying the whole premise of the meme is extremely flawed. It's made to imply that modern life is in any way as bad as medieval serfdom and that is just not true. For example, did you know that most medieval peasants didn't own their own ovens and were forced to take the food they produced to someone else to cook it if they weren't eating something that could be cooked on a simple hearth? Or that they literally weren't allowed to leave the land they were assigned to without permission from their lord? Yeah things are bad today but they were way worse back then.