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1 minute ago, Foosters said:

its time to train people do do the jobs of the future, not the past. 

Jobs like *checks notes* working in assembly lines or sewing garments

Nutlick, in the video, is talking about jobs maintaining the robots that perform the manufacturing tasks.

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Just now, Willfully Horn said:

Nutlick, in the video, is talking about jobs maintaining the robots that perform the manufacturing tasks.

So a robot can do the work of multiple people. I imagine that’s correct. Maybe takes a couple maintenance people to keep it running. Sounds like there are still a whole lot of people out of jobs

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So this economic isolationism is like doing everything yourself:  growing your own food, making your own clothes, buying locally and if it isn't local you don't buy it/can't have it.

So, yeah, you don't let any non-locals make any money, but your life sucks and you can't do anything more productive, like innovate.

No one really wants that.

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5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

So this economic isolationism is like doing everything yourself:  growing your own food, making your own clothes, buying locally and if it isn't local you don't buy it/can't have it.

So, yeah, you don't let any non-locals make any money, but your life sucks and you can't do anything more productive, like innovate.

No one really wants that.

Its an idiots dream! 

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22 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

So this economic isolationism is like doing everything yourself:  growing your own food, making your own clothes, buying locally and if it isn't local you don't buy it/can't have it.

So, yeah, you don't let any non-locals make any money, but your life sucks and you can't do anything more productive, like innovate.

No one really wants that.

If only it was just that. 

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

So this economic isolationism is like doing everything yourself:  growing your own food, making your own clothes, buying locally and if it isn't local you don't buy it/can't have it.

So, yeah, you don't let any non-locals make any money, but your life sucks and you can't do anything more productive, like innovate.

No one really wants that.

Basically the USSR pre-89 where people were fighting over a pair of Jordache.

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So, after months of negotiation, Trump has told the GOP he wants more in any taxation and budget talks.  I'm sure this is going to go well.

I was told they were not going to increase the deficit.

 

 

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/30/trump-corporate-tax-cuts-expensing-factories

 

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The Trump administration is pressing Congress to dramatically expand the number of business-friendly tax cuts in a budget bill that's already complicated and costly.

Why it matters: New additions, such as full expensing to build new factories in the U.S., are leading to confusion among senators and staffers on what President Trump absolutely must have in his tax bill, and how much it will ultimately cost.

 

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"Everything here comes down to, how do you pay for it and how does it fit into our other priorities?" Sen. Tom Tillis (R-N.C.) told Axios. 

"When we're having such a difficult time getting 'pay fors' for the other policies in the bill. We've got to have that discussion about timing and priority."

"Members are concerned about the price tag for new items," said a Senate official.

 

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett explained to House and Senate leaders — the Big Six — on Monday that Trump wanted the tax portions of the bill to focus on bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.

The administration wants "deductibility for auto loans for American-made cars, and immediate expensing, 100% expensing for equipment," Bessent told reporters afterward.

On Tuesday morning at the White House, Bessent doubled down. "Bring your factory back, you can fully expense the equipment and the building," he said.

 

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Some of the provisions Bessent mentioned to senators — like auto loan deductions — have been raised by Trump before, but many senators didn't think they were part of his core goals.

They assumed Trump's priority was on extending his 2017 bill and then making good on core campaign promises, like ending taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security benefits.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told Axios he hasn't heard of the factory proposal, but said, "All this has a dollar impact. … Ultimately, we've got to get the president's signature. So we're going to have to accommodate what he wants."

"It's one of the administration's best tax proposals," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said about the expensing proposal.

Between the lines: Bessent also told senators the administration wants to lower the corporate tax rate for U.S. manufacturers from 21% to 15%.

Trump mentioned lowering the top rate during the campaign, but it wasn't a staple of his rallies. 

Most recently, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president had not made a decision on whether he wanted to raise it.

Many senators assumed it would stay at 21%. 

Zoom out: In the House, the focus is on finding enough programs to cut $1.5 trillion in spending, with some House moderates drawing redlines on Medicaid cuts.

 

 

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Per Maria, this is verus a projection of an increase of 3/10th of a percent?   Who the fuck was projecting an increase, at least recently?  

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1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

Per Maria, this is verus a projection of an increase of 3/10th of a percent?   Who the fuck was projecting an increase, at least recently?  

The court sycophants gushing over Trump’s new suits. 

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Everything about that is either a lie, wrong, or both.

"The economy may suck now, but just wait until the monster tax hike kicks in and all the stores are empty." 

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6 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

580 "ReTruths". Jesus Christ

It’s so much easier for the rubes to blame Biden than it is for them to confront the fact that they’re idiots who voted for a convicted felon conman.

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So when Biden was president and the stock market was booming, Trump took credit for it. Now after he's been president for three plus months, and has single-handedly wrecked the market and our economy, it's Biden's fault. 

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Weaker currency and lower stock prices. We are going to beat those shit-hole countries at their own game!

2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

So when Biden was president and the stock market was booming, Trump took credit for it. Now after he's been president for three plus months, and has single-handedly wrecked the market and our economy, it's Biden's fault

Except the 94% lower egg prices 

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14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

So this economic isolationism is like doing everything yourself:  growing your own food, making your own clothes, buying locally and if it isn't local you don't buy it/can't have it.

So, yeah, you don't let any non-locals make any money, but your life sucks and you can't do anything more productive, like innovate.

No one really wants that.

Can’t wait till the free states overturn the socialist states right to grow legalized weed, based on state rights and less government intrusion.  

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I was happy to see the White House complained about Amazon attaching the cost of the price increases to the tariffs in billing paperwork.  Even though Amazon crawfished - his followers do not watch real news and never would’ve known of the Amazon policy if they hadn’t overreacted in such a childish way.    His followers do watch news from the White House and his social media vomiting, and now a lot of them learned for the first time that the tariff costs were going to be passed on to them.  

I swear to God, half of those smooth brains still think China is paying the tariff

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8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

So when Biden was president and the stock market was booming, Trump took credit for it. Now after he's been president for three plus months, and has single-handedly wrecked the market and our economy, it's Biden's fault. 

I don't know how many times I heard about the "Trump Bump" when the stock market went up after the election/prior to the inauguration. So, that was all from the coming economic wizardry of Dear Leader, but now that he's been in office for 100 days we are still "suffering" from Bidenomics?

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Any of y'all ever had a brutal case of the flu?  You know that feeling when you've had your first really crappy day, and realize this may be more than a mere cold, you test and yep...you've got the flu.  And now you know that as crappy as you feel today....you've got at least another 5-7 days of feeling shitty, and actually, the shittiest days are yet to come?

Yeah.  That's where we are.  We just had our first shitty night's sleep, realizing we have a fever and feel crappy.....and know that we're going to have many more days like this.  We're just at the beginning of this shitshow.

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This would be like if we fired Sark and hired Hulk Hogan or Carrot Top as head coach. And he immediately fired a ton of people and ran off a bunch of our best players. Season ticket sales crash, and the season opens with us starting off 0-3, losing each game by at least 40 points. "This is Sark's fault, not mine! Also, we're going to keep being shitty for a long time." 

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44 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

I don't know how many times I heard about the "Trump Bump" when the stock market went up after the election/prior to the inauguration. So, that was all from the coming economic wizardry of Dear Leader, but now that he's been in office for 100 days we are still "suffering" from Bidenomics?

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That was such a predictable reaction.  I thought it would take longer for him to wreck the economy, but here we are.

 

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On 4/27/2025 at 8:58 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

 

Farmers are mostly rich families and big ag now. Small farmers have been run into the ground. This strikes me as another poor to rich wealth transfer.

Plus, just the failed policy record of "wreck industry, bail them out". Um if this is a trade war then commodity export prices are going to tank in the long term, how is a bail out supposed to do anything? If we need farmers to shift to different crops that they can sell and we do need then finance that, don't just hand out bailouts.

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17 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Exactly. As of right now any price increases are falsely blamed on Biden's economy.

 

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Right on schedule!! Lol

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7 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

That was such a predictable reaction.  I thought it would take longer for him to wreck the economy, but here we are.

 

He tried over and over again last time only for his handlers to pull him back from the brink each time. It was such a damn miracle we made it out with a disaster.

Still cannot believe we decided to try this again.

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Everything about that is either a lie, wrong, or both.

"The economy may suck now, but just wait until the monster tax hike kicks in and all the stores are empty." 

Think how much money you will save by having nothing available to buy!  MOAR MONEY IN YER POCKET!!!

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

A year from now when everything is really in shambles. "This is still Biden's fault! The damage he did was worse than we thought!" 

Definitely.

And if the pattern is anything like in the past, the economic disaster will put the Democrats back in office who will then be blamed for the economic disaster that the Republicans caused. But that presumes we still get elections and shit.

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I am actually kind of surprised he took this long to claim this.

So when he paused the tariffs because the markets tanked it was because....of Biden?

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24 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

 

Right on schedule!! Lol

The more only thing more predictable than that was the market rallying after throughout the day. 

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8 minutes ago, Dr. Teeth said:

The more only thing more predictable than that was the market rallying after throughout the day. 

True.  Everyone knows ...

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Trump sure appreciated the whole red carpet roll out he got from Biden for two months. I'm pretty sure he motherfucks him on a daily basis to anyone who will listen. Even blaming all of his self-inflicted gunshot wounds on him. Who could have guessed it would turn out this way.

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