[Lady Bliss]

Crooked Goldberg?

[QuickTidal]

Cause, on 26 March 2025 - 04:15 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Its only a matter of time before Trump starts calling Goldberg "Nasty" which is is favourite and usually ultimate slur....

Does he call men Nasty? Normally reserves that for women.

He called Canada Nasty.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 04:29 PM, said:

Cause, on 26 March 2025 - 04:15 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Its only a matter of time before Trump starts calling Goldberg "Nasty" which is is favourite and usually ultimate slur....

Does he call men Nasty? Normally reserves that for women.

He called Canada Nasty.

Dibs on Cana'sty as my name in my future hip hop artist career!

[HoosierDaddy]

Abyss, on 26 March 2025 - 04:48 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 04:29 PM, said:

Cause, on 26 March 2025 - 04:15 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Its only a matter of time before Trump starts calling Goldberg "Nasty" which is is favourite and usually ultimate slur....

Does he call men Nasty? Normally reserves that for women.

He called Canada Nasty.

Dibs on Cana'sty as my name in my future hip hop artist career!

I would think you had Canabyss locked down a long time ago.

[QuickTidal]

HoosierDaddy, on 26 March 2025 - 05:15 PM, said:

Abyss, on 26 March 2025 - 04:48 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 04:29 PM, said:

Cause, on 26 March 2025 - 04:15 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Its only a matter of time before Trump starts calling Goldberg "Nasty" which is is favourite and usually ultimate slur....

Does he call men Nasty? Normally reserves that for women.

He called Canada Nasty.

Dibs on Cana'sty as my name in my future hip hop artist career!

I would think you had Canabyss locked down a long time ago.

^^This one wins Abyss. Canasty is good, Canabyss is better.

[Lady Bliss]

Why did they even have Goldberg in their contacts for an allegedly secure app?

[QuickTidal]

Lady Bliss, on 26 March 2025 - 05:47 PM, said:

Why did they even have Goldberg in their contacts for an allegedly secure app?

Especially since he's a guy they all claim to hate and call a liar...like....these people are so unserious.

[HoosierDaddy]

QuickTidal, on 26 March 2025 - 06:06 PM, said:

Lady Bliss, on 26 March 2025 - 05:47 PM, said:

Why did they even have Goldberg in their contacts for an allegedly secure app?

Especially since he's a guy they all claim to hate and call a liar...like....these people are so unserious.

For when THEY want to leak information for their own goals.

It's a tool to be used when needed, not an actual person. That's how they can denigrate them as well.

[Cause]

Mike Waltz will be kicked from the cabinet soon, not because of the signal leak but because he had the journalists number in his contact list.

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Trump just fucked me. 25% tariffs on cars

[Macros]

Dude Trump fucked you probably with every action he has taken

[Cause]

Macros, on 26 March 2025 - 10:29 PM, said:

Dude Trump fucked you probably with every action he has taken

You’re not wrong but a 25% tariffs on cars in particular pisses me off and is also ridiculous. Why not just make it 100.

He has quite literally killed car sales in the country.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Trump fucking over even red states (even more than he already has):

Quote

[...] abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues.

The cuts are likely to further hamstring state health departments, which are already underfunded and struggling with competing demands from chronic diseases, resurgent infections like syphilis and emerging threats like bird flu.

Spoiler

[...] "We had the opportunity to update some of these things that desperately needed to be updated to have a more efficient public health response," said Dr. Anne Zink, who stepped down as Alaska's chief medical officer in August. [...]

Some states, like Kentucky and South Carolina, rely heavily on federal funding to run their health programs [...]

[...] "The reality is that, when we take funding away from public health systems, the systems just do not have the capacity, because they're chronically underfunded over the decades," [...]
"In so many cases, these are lifesaving programs and services, and we worry for the well-being of those who have come to count on this support," [...]

The abruptness of the decision left "no opportunities to transition people into other means, no opportunities even for a state government to say, 'In our next budget cycle, we're going to add X number of positions,'" [...] "There's millions of dollars that have been spent that essentially, the projects will never be able to be finished," the official said. "This is just like throwing money out the window; it's a total waste."'

Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services

But on the bright side for me the local economy---in Philadelphia generally, but most of all in my section of the city---is heavily based on "Meds and Eds"; and Trump's brutally and abruptly cutting funding for both, which may mean that the company that bought my apartment and has been kicking out current residents to extensively renovate the units into luxury apartments will reconsider when they realize how much lower the demand for luxury apartments is likely going to go. Plus I get the sense (based on their name, and the attire of some their employees) that they may be MAGA who naively assumed Trump would be great for the economy. They actually might have bought my apartment complex just after the election iirc. OTOH if that's the case they might have delusional faith in Trumponomics so who knows.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 26 March 2025 - 11:11 PM

[Chance]

Cause, on 26 March 2025 - 11:01 PM, said:

Macros, on 26 March 2025 - 10:29 PM, said:

Dude Trump fucked you probably with every action he has taken

You’re not wrong but a 25% tariffs on cars in particular pisses me off and is also ridiculous. Why not just make it 100.

He has quite literally killed car sales in the country.

Well he's basically fucking everyone right now...anyone with a pension based on the stockmarket should be going out with pitchforks.

As someone in the car industry it will be interesting to see what happens, the market seems to predict 15-25% drops in volume for us. Which seems a bit too extreme but panic is high right now.

The interesting times continue and I frequently wonder where the boring times went and how to get them back.

This post has been edited by Chance: 27 March 2025 - 03:08 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Chance, on 27 March 2025 - 03:01 PM, said:

Cause, on 26 March 2025 - 11:01 PM, said:

Macros, on 26 March 2025 - 10:29 PM, said:

Dude Trump fucked you probably with every action he has taken

You’re not wrong but a 25% tariffs on cars in particular pisses me off and is also ridiculous. Why not just make it 100.

He has quite literally killed car sales in the country.

Well he's basically fucking everyone right now...anyone with a pension based on the stockmarket should be going out with pitchforks.

As someone in the car industry it will be interesting to see what happens, the market seems to predict 15-25% drops in volume for us. Which seems a bit too extreme but panic is high right now.

The interesting times continue and I frequently wonder where the boring times went and how to get them back.

I'm surprised by the hits to some online used car stocks like ACV Auctions... Carvana was also down substantially after the announcement, continuing into this morning after market open, but it's now up substantially, along with Carmax and some other used car stocks. Carguru down but they also list new cars. A week ago a Piper Sandler analyst argued that ACV and Carvana would be "tariff-proof plays"... we'll see what happens in the longer term. Cars are treated as "necessities" in most parts of the United States and most people will probably keep buying them, but they'll buy fewer "extra" cars. It ultimately depends on the numbers and they're hard to predict, but intuitively I'd expect the increase in used car sales would substantially outweigh the decrease in purchases of extra cars. OTOH some households may cut back to one car per household, particularly for retirees or households with only one adult who works away from home.

[Chance]

Azath Vitr (D, on 27 March 2025 - 03:38 PM, said:

I'm surprised by the hits to some online used car stocks like ACV Auctions... Carvana was also down substantially after the announcement, continuing into this morning after market open, but it's now up substantially, along with Carmax and some other used car stocks. Carguru down but they also list new cars. A week ago a Piper Sandler analyst argued that ACV and Carvana would be "tariff-proof plays"... we'll see what happens in the longer term. Cars are treated as "necessities" in most parts of the United States and most people will probably keep buying them, but they'll buy fewer "extra" cars. It ultimately depends on the numbers and they're hard to predict, but intuitively I'd expect the increase in used car sales would substantially outweigh the decrease in purchases of extra cars. OTOH some households may cut back to one car per household, particularly for retirees or households with only one adult who works away from home.

For me it seems like it's most likely effects are fewer sold cars at a higher price with some movement from imported vehicles to domestically made vehicles. But since domestic car manufacturers have moved their less profitable production outside the US, while foreign car manufacturers have moved their most profitable production into the US. The changes will probably not be as drastic as some might imagine.

This post has been edited by Chance: 27 March 2025 - 04:09 PM

[Lady Bliss]

And there we’re always the Teslas being exchanged to three off the government.

[QuickTidal]

From what I understand from people I know in the car manufacturing industry every major make of US car/part crosses the border like at LEAST 6 times...the transmission alone crosses the Can/US/Mexico border 7 times before it's actually a finished piece.


This man is DEEPLY unaware of how badly this is going to fuck the US car industry. Michigan alone will want heads to roll for this.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 27 March 2025 - 04:24 PM

[Garak]

https://www.theguard...eysa-ozturk-ice

What the hell?

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Garak, on 27 March 2025 - 05:22 PM, said:

https://www.theguard...eysa-ozturk-ice

What the hell?

And preparation for doing the same (or worse) to many of the rest of us, perhaps, if Trump's goons keep ignoring court orders and the law in general, as they did in this case... though IDK if doing this (illegally) to US citizens would cause anyone in the military or the CIA to consider some sort of counter-autocoup. Or whether it would even be enough to inspire mass protests, especially after this becomes normalized for noncitizens. But again, mass protests without a general strike that cripples the economy of red states as well probably won't be very effective (except at giving Trump an excuse to seize even more power, and be even more openly brutal...).

Meanwhile, for foreign students...

Quote

The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are "pro-Hamas," senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios.

[...] More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks "Catch and Revoke" has been in operation, the official said. [...] "Everyone is fair game," the official said.

[...] Columbia University and UCLA — both of which had controversial, disruptive pro-Palestinian protests last year — are among the schools mentioned the most often by administration officials.

https://www.axios.co...lleges-protests

Of course just a few widely reported horrifying examples (like what was done to the Turkish doctoral student) are enough to have a chilling effect on foreign student enrollment.

Which might be "good" for me in the short term, since a large percentage of people who live in my area are foreign students, which will make it harder for my apartment's new owners to find people willing to pay their higher rates for renovated apartments.
But it's terrible for the United States, because obviously a large part of our scientific, technological, and overall economic advantage has come from attracting top foreign students (and also just plain rich foreign students) to our universities who then often go on to live in the United States. Even though most of our secondary schools and the education level of most of our population are pretty much crap compared with much of the rest of the world.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 27 March 2025 - 06:54 PM

[Mentalist]

"how to reverse Brain Drain in 3 easy steps" by D. J. Trump.