TheTexan
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How hard is it to just like not hit a plane

DEI :cool:

NAGRs are good people :up:

I'm enjoying the liberal tears, from this and all the other stuff It's great

LOL we joke here about how we'd rather pay these tax ticks to just do nothing and here Trump is actually doing it :cool:

Morale at EPA is lowest its ever been, she says :cool::up:

Maybe this is just the start of his sovereign wealth fund :cool:

To the victor goes the spoils. It's just the way of the world

Honestly we could have gotten away with it.

That conflict isn't even between Russia and Ukraine. It's between Russia and the US. That conflict only ends when the US wants it to end. Maybe so, but that was then, this is now.

I've been in more strip clubs that I can count and never seen that. And I can count pretty high

I asked a couple strippers they both said I was weird. They weren't very helpful, at least not in answering that question.

It's gonna end when Israel makes a credible statement that Jerusalem will never be returned to the Arabs. Gaza has been a proxy for that conflict for a long time, and Israel's many half measures over the decades sends a message that they aren't serious about their claims. It's the half measures that are keeping this conflict going. Want this conflict to end? No more half measures. Don't take this as me siding with Israel because I'm not. That land was never theirs and they stole it. But at some point this conflict has to be resolved and the only way to resolve it, is to resolve it.

This "conflict" has been going on for too long. The only way this gets resolved is if one side gets what they want. This war was fought 55 years ago and Israel won. To the winner goes the spoils. It is what it is.

There is no scenario where Israel doesn't get what it wants. If Israel wants them out of Gaza they're gonna get them out of Gaza. Better just to rip that bandaid off now than let that shit fester.

90% of made up statistics are made up by black women :up:

Trump is just pretending to be willing to send money to Ukraine so that he can later trick them into taking our money and then the joke is gonna be on them because we're gonna have their rare earth minerals And then they are gonna be like what happened to our earth minerals And we're gonna be like :cool: #winning

Accurate :up:

This should be obvious but some people here continue to deny it. They're only lying to themselves.

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A SWF sounds good in theory. In practice it would probably be a disaster. And considering how much debt the country owes, how exactly is that SWF account supposed to grow? The only way I can imagine is massive taxes. The only path to a successful SWF that I see is if government was cut to a fraction of its size and was able to pay down the debt with some money left over. But of course the odds of that happening is zero.

It can be all 3. As long as tax revenue is a bonus, rather than the primary intention, it resolves your supposed contradictions. Which is one of the reasons why I'm in favor of trade bans vs tariffs. It removes any confusion on priorities. If tariffs become primarily a tax generation tool, there is a very high risk of them becoming ineffective at their intended goals of protecting industry.

Factories shutting down in the US and moving to China doesn't even really have much to do with labor cost these days. Or even regulations. Factories in the US cannot be competitive even if the price of labor was 0 and there weren't any regulations. This is because raw materials are cheaper in China. Everything from steel to plastics to nuts and bolts to those little twisty things that hold your bread bag closed. It's all cheaper in China. And its not because labor is cheaper.

Quite right :up:

He's adding friction and uncertainty to international supply chains? Good :cool:

Yes, ideally every factory would be in China, so that everything that is ever produced is made outside of America. This is obviously best for our long term security and economic health :up:

Their side would be easier to take seriously if they weren't pretending there wasn't a problem. They don't even pretend to offer solutions. They're like that dog in the meme, "this is fine". Well, this isn't fine. If they don't like tariffs, I'm open to alternative solutions, but any ideas that keep us on our current trajectory is a non-starter.

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I love the somberness of Trudeau's tone. It's like he's announcing his dog just died I love it

Oh no trade war with Canada whatever will we do Oh wait I don't care :cool: