February 8Feb 8 comment_1786618 13 hours ago, Homer_Rice said: Talk to TDub. You quoted him, not me. No thank you. Living far from town I'm often obliged to use public restrooms so I really don't need to hear from yet another asshole.
February 9Feb 9 comment_1786633 8 hours ago, T-Dub said: No thank you. Living far from town I'm often obliged to use public restrooms so I really don't need to hear from yet another asshole.
February 11Feb 11 comment_1786869 Gas here jumped about 50 cents a gallon over the last week or so, weird huh?
February 11Feb 11 comment_1786879 7 hours ago, T-Dub said: Gas here jumped about 50 cents a gallon over the last week or so, weird huh? Thanks, Obama!
February 11Feb 11 comment_1786889 11 hours ago, T-Dub said: Gas here jumped about 50 cents a gallon over the last week or so, weird huh? But, but, I thought the orange troll was going to bring gas prices down. Drill, baby, drill!
February 11Feb 11 comment_1786924 6 hours ago, Shebengal said: But, but, I thought the orange troll was going to bring gas prices down. Drill, baby, drill! I could live with paying an extra 50 cents if it meant Alaska was protected, South Texas got cleaned up & we never saw another Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead with this administration we get the worst of both worlds, but he renamed the Gulf because he's too fucking stupid to understand the concept of "Central America" or just that profoundly insecure about literally everything in general. So much winning!
February 13Feb 13 comment_1787106 Just look at them fight all that fraud https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas
February 20Feb 20 comment_1787555 Expect utility bills to be much higher this summer. A bunch of subsidies & incentives that providers were getting for investing in renewables or improving their infrastructure got cut. Probably going to see more blackouts, water outages (Flint, MI comes to mind), shit like that. But hey, without all the environmental & workplace safety "red tape" I'm sure it'll all even out, right? Those companies will keep passing their savings on to the consumer without being forced, right? Certainly won't result in more accidents like the East Palestine fire instead.
March 7Mar 7 comment_1788667 > declare tariffs > stock market dips > buy stocks > rescind tariffs > stock market rebounds > sell stocks > declare tariffs again > stock market tanks > buy more stocks > "change mind" on tariffs again > market keeps falling
March 10Mar 10 comment_1789092 Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. The handwriting is on the wall. This is a pretty concise explainer regarding China and it's foreign affairs: China is trying to reshape global supply chains
March 14Mar 14 comment_1789776 The price of power: Why rising markups hurt innovation and widen inequality
March 14Mar 14 comment_1789837 On 3/10/2025 at 10:20 AM, Homer_Rice said: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. The handwriting is on the wall. This is a pretty concise explainer regarding China and it's foreign affairs: China is trying to reshape global supply chains Enlightening Homer.. Tks
March 22Mar 22 comment_1790699 Why Republican Tax Cuts Always Cause A Financial Crash (updated March 2025)
April 10Apr 10 Author comment_1791876 16 hours ago, Homer_Rice said: America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back Really good read.
April 10Apr 10 comment_1791893 4 hours ago, Jamie_B said: Really good read. The "Chinese workers are better" stuff gave me pause. Aren't they still routinely using reeducation camp prisoners for their labor? Are the stories about suicide epidemics in iPhone factories just propaganda? Maybe we should ban for-profit prison labor in the US - it's hard to compete with that. Am I to feel guilty about not wanting to work 80hr weeks at a subsistence wage? Another pretty big factor they don't mention as far as outsourced labor & manufacturing: We have (had?) things like the EPA and OSHA. In the US you couldn't hire 9 year olds to work in your steel mill for $1 a day & dump all your waste products down the nearest storm drain. We had priorities beyond wringing the last penny out of everything, we wanted to be able to breathe the air outside. I guess we can do away with all that in order to compete with some child-labor sneaker factory in Bangladesh, but is that really what we want for ourselves? But you know what really puzzles me, behind all of this mess? What was so god damn horribly, terribly wrong that we need to burn it all down and start over? I'm not saying everything was perfect but this whole "Saving America" bit confuses the hell out of me. What was the problem exactly? A black man being President? Gay people being allowed to get married and live their lives? Someone couldn't afford their lifestyle of gross conspicuous consumption on credit? What was the dire emergency that requires a fascist despot to save us? I very much missed that part.
April 11Apr 11 comment_1791938 22 hours ago, T-Dub said: Another pretty big factor they don't mention as far as outsourced labor & manufacturing: We have (had?) things like the EPA and OSHA. In the US you couldn't hire 9 year olds to work in your steel mill for $1 a day & dump all your waste products down the nearest storm drain. We had priorities beyond wringing the last penny out of everything, we wanted to be able to breathe the air outside. I guess we can do away with all that in order to compete with some child-labor sneaker factory in Bangladesh, but is that really what we want for ourselves? The OT and his minions are doing everything they can to eliminate those pesky agencies and regulations that ensure stuff like clean air and water, and also ensure that children aren't working around meat slicers and table saws. 22 hours ago, T-Dub said: What was so god damn horribly, terribly wrong that we need to burn it all down and start over? I'm not saying everything was perfect but this whole "Saving America" bit confuses the hell out of me. What was the problem exactly? A black man being President? Gay people being allowed to get married and live their lives? Someone couldn't afford their lifestyle of gross conspicuous consumption on credit? What was the dire emergency that requires a fascist despot to save us? I very much missed that part. Beats hell out of me. I guess women, gays, and minorities were obtaining too much power and the status quo white males didn't like it.
April 11Apr 11 comment_1791943 28 minutes ago, Shebengal said: The OT and his minions are doing everything they can to eliminate those pesky agencies and regulations that ensure stuff like clean air and water, and also ensure that children aren't working around meat slicers and table saws. Beats hell out of me. I guess women, gays, and minorities were obtaining too much power and the status quo white males didn't like it. Decades of Fox News fear mongering convinced them they were under attack from people that just wanted to be left alone. "Ahhh!! We can't control their lives! I heard someone speaking Spanish (or maybe Portugese or Tagalog IDK because I'm barely literate in my own language, but they were definitely brown!) I saw a trans person on a beer ad! Ahhhhh! Someone save me from the Radical Left!" You can tell by their obsession with "toughness" that they're terrified of their own shadows. Spineless.
May 8May 8 comment_1795627 Martin Wolf’s “The old global economic order is dead” Smith's commentary: After the crisis, Wolf was also pumping for serious reforms, promoting the campaign by Mervyn King, Paul Tucker, and Andrew Haldane at the Bank of England. One of their big agenda items amounted to a modern version of Glass Steagall, of separating capital markets trading from traditional banking. They lost after a hard fight to Treasury, which ‘natch was all in for the banksters.
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