American Politics

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2960978]Trump's Inflationary American Consumer Tax Increases and Price Hikes are already in the works and generating the usual unpleasant ripple effects.

[B]3 companies preparing to raise prices if Trump's trade plan is enacted.
Nov. 12, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-raising-prices-trump-tariffs-inflation-goods-getting-more-expensive-2024-11[/URL]

Some companies won't wait for Trump to officially raise those inflationary American Consumer Taxes before they raise their prices for American Consumers in order to, you know, "get ahead of the game" on a Trump Inflation and Increased Prices Surge.

For example:

Good Move, MAGAs. You put "smart budinessman" Donald Trump back into the White House to work his Historic Great Repub Economic Downturn magic. Again.

Elections have consequences.

Thank you for your vote.

Oh, and a special bonus attraction for any of you MAGAs who monger internationally; In order to get around any potential tariff slowdown in sales and imports into USA, targeted countries like China merely set up factories in other countries like Thailand, Mexico, maybe Columbia, Jakarta, the Philippines and so on and ship their products tariff-free to the USA from there. A real industrial revolution-style cultural change for some of the poorer regions of those countries. Nice.

Oh, and they aren't waiting for Trump to officially enact those Inflationary American Consumer Tax and Price Increases either:

[B]Southeast Asia prepares for factories fleeing Trump tariffs on China.
Nov. 9, 2024[/B]

[URL]https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2898713/southeast-asia-prepares-for-factories-fleeing-trump-tariffs-on-china[/URL]

Which also means all those cute young girls who used to leave their poor provinces for the red light districts to give great, low-cost P4 P service to "rich" foreigners no longer have to do any of those things as long as they, their mom, dad, brother, boyfriend or husband get a job in one of those nice, big, shiny new Chinese factories.

But don't worry, there will be no shortage of ladies showing up to work P4 P in those destinations, the ones who are too old and too untrainable to work in those new factories or too old and ugly to have a boyfriend or husband working in one.

I can assure you many, many disgruntled Thai punters saw that happening first hand in my part of the world since Trump's first go-around with his Trump's Tariff American Consumer Tax Increases.

Again, MAGAs, elections have consequences.

Thank you for your vote.[/QUOTE]Trump's proposed tariffs would indeed cause a stair step up in prices. The effect of the tariffs on the productivity and competitiveness of American businesses and the purchasing power of the consumer would be a bigger concern IMHO than inflation. The effect on GDP would be negative. Tariffs also have a negative effect on USA Exports. There are American manufacturers for example that won't be competitive in world markets if they have to pay 20% more for steel, because of the tariffs.

There are a couple of holes in your analysis. Total Thai exports actually went down while the tariffs on China were being imposed, then fell off a cliff during COVID. Now, thanks in no small part to Bidenflation (Biden Inflation, get it? Hahahaha), Thai exports in dollar terms are close to all time highs. At present only about 17% of Thai exports go to the USA though. So I question whether the Chinese tariffs were sufficient to affect the supply of prostitutes in Bangkok significantly.

But yeah, Thailand would see some benefit from higher USA tariffs on China, even though Trump's also proposing to impose 20% tariffs on all countries. The biggest beneficiary would be Vietnam. If Mexico somehow avoids the 20% tariff, it should do super well. Although it might not, as it has implemented some of the economic policies favored by Progressive Democrats.

As to the women, you might want to take a look around at a Thai factory. They're not exactly lookers. And they don't get paid very much, maybe around 400 to 1000 Baht per day. Attractive women, like who you and I would like to bang, can earn substantially more from prostitution. Admittedly though you've got a point here. IMHO it's great for women to have choices besides prostitution, and as an enlightened Democrat who wants to help the poor and downtrodden, you should agree.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2960826]Shhh. Don't tell [b]Larry Summers[/b] and Tiny about this.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2960897]The Religious Right MAGA Repubs are just fine and dandy with that Gaetz nomination from the litigated rapist.[/QUOTE]I disagree with my friend Elvis. I believe Gaetz was a terrible pick. However, Democrats make terrible picks too. For example, how about Biden's pick for Chairman of his Council of Economic Advisors, Jared Bernstein. The man's academic background is in social work, for goodness sake.

Gaetz will probably never be confirmed. Bernstein however did go to work for Biden, and he did the selling for the Democrats' $1. 9 trillion blowout American Rescue Plan. Too bad Biden didn't appoint a mainstream Democrat economist with common sense like LARRY SUMMERS or Jason Furman, to be Chairman of the CEA. Like Republicans, both of them were shouting from the rooftops that the economy didn't need more inflation-igniting stimulus. And thanks for the compliment, putting me in the same sentence with Larry Summers. Yes, I would have done a better job than Jared Bernstein too.

[QUOTE=Tiny12;2961194]I disagree with my friend Elvis. I believe Gaetz was a terrible pick. However, Democrats make terrible picks too.[/QUOTE]I get why you say that Gaetz is a narcissist who has engaged in less than ideal behavior. Thing is the last 2 "respectable" Trump AG picks IMO were horrible. They were not loyal to Trump and seemed more interested in kowtowing to Democrats. That bird brain Sessions let the Dems have the Russiagate issue for 2+ years. Instead of Barr saying we do not know if there was cheating in 2020, he mouthed that there was none.

If there were no Merrick Garland and no lawfare campaign, I might agree with you, but we saw one of the first act Sessions pulled was to punt on Hiliary.

One thing I never want to see in my lifetime is the DOJ launch a machine gun laden SWAT team at a presidential contender with a warrant under seal. Fuck that banana Republic shit! I am not in the mood for some "respectable nominee" willing to sweep that under the rug. I think Gaetz is not going to let that happen. I think he is also get to the bottom of how much the DOJ was involved in the other bullshit lawfare campaigns and clean house with all the partisan hacks in the DOJ.

Unlike the Democrats who reveled in a clearly biased DOJ, I will be sounding the alarm if Gaetz tries to turn the DOJ Republican. If Biden and Garland did not engage in this disgusting lawfare campaign, Tiny, I would agree with you but IMO the Attorney General pick was Trump's most important pick, and he had to pick someone with some huge balls, and Gaetz has them.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2961093][URL]https://copestake.info/workingpaper/cryptofinance/CryptoFinance.pdf[/URL]

Here is a rigorous analysis of the actualreason the crypto markets are moving worldwide. It has nothing to do with the retail sector of the crypto space. Google searches for Bitcoin is still no where close to the highs of the last cycle. Either retail investors with that funny money counterfeited by the FED and distributed by the last administration is being held onto (I doubt it) or the citizens of the United States of America are collectively broke.

[I]Household Saving Rate in the United States decreased to 4.80 percent in August from 4.90 percent in July of 2024. Personal Savings in the United States averaged 8.44 percent from 1959 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 32.00 percent in April of 2020 and a record low of 1.40 percent in July of 2005[/I]

[URL]https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savings[/URL]#text=Household%20 Saving%20 Rate%20 in%20 the, percent%20 in%20 July%20 of%202005.[/QUOTE]You seem to have managed to talk yourself into the bizarre conclusion that campaigning as Pro Crypto is all Upside and no Downside, as in speaking out in favor of Mom and Apple Pie. If any internal study or survey showed pols that an "I am pro Crypto. I love that everyone around the world is plowing so much of their Bidenomics Worldwide Economic Rescue and Recovery Money into it" stance was as much 100% Upside and 0% Downside as you appear to think then every pol would be taking that stance.

There is a huge difference between Trump flipping his stance on Crypto to "I am pro Crypto" on the campaign trail merely because a crypto campaign donor paid him to flip and say so and Kamala Harris declaring such a thing.

Trump was a Clown candidate for a Clown Party whose 74 million voters love and voted for him for his 40,000+ significant lies just since 2015, his wiping out of millions upon millions of jobs, his nation-wide business and school closures, his global supply-chain collapse, his hyper-inflation, skyrocketing costs of rent, food and gas, his stock market crashes, his record high increase in the deficit, his mass murder of at least a million Americans, his leading his violent, cop-killing mob of "Trump patriots" into battle on American Soil in his War Against America to overturn a free and fair election and overthrow American democracy, his Worst President in History with the Worst Results of All Time standing. They love him for those things. They VOTE for him to produce those results.

He can say anything with no Downside in an election campaign. None of his 74 million voters expect him to tell the truth or actually keep any promise he makes, same as his first term. Mainstream Media will not challenge him on any statement he makes nor expect him to respond coherently to any question about it. I am sure if they asked him why he is or was pro Crypto, what is it he likes about it, he would not have the slightest clue what crypto is. The same as I suspect 9,999 out of 10,000 American voters.

By stark contrast, Kamala Harris was a serious candidate for a serious and genuine Political Party. She was a duly-elected and respected State Attorney General and USA Senator for the most important State in the Union. She was Vice President in the most successful and accomplished Presidential Administration in at least 80 years. Her voters expect her to tell the truth, keep her promises and produce Great Results.

If she were to say, "I am pro Crypto", by noon the next day Mainstream Media would have parsed and spun every syllable and letter of that statement such that every voter in America would harbor the notion that Kamala Harris wants to devalue or destroy the USD in exchange for a plastic souvenir token with a skull and crossbones image on one side and a coffin on the other. And she would have to spend 60% of every interview and debate defending her stance on it, which would absolutely convince every voter in America that she wants to flush all of their USD down the shitter.

And you know it.

Yeah, yeah, I know you are one of those 1 in 10,000 American voters who gives a shit about Crypto and knows all about it and it doesn't work that way.

But all that foreign, Worldwide Bidenomics Economic Rescue and Recovery Money going into it now does not come from USA election voters.

It is far, far more likely that the net effect of an "I am pro Crypto" stance by Kamala Harris would have resulted in a 3 point shift difference between a win and a loss for the Presidency in those three swing states rather than LESS than a single (1) percentage point shift.

I just don't see the crypto issue being nearly the contribution to Harris losing by that razor-thin of a margin as 4 years of weekly anti Biden / Dem, pro Trump / Repub campaigning by the likes of MAGA darling Bill Maher or dozens if not hundreds of other pro Repub pretend "Bothsiders / Neithersiders" lying about your son being dropped off at school and getting picked up at 3:30 pm as a daughter, that Joe Biden can't talk, walk, doesn't know where he is or who he is, that nobody has been able to afford or eaten an egg since January 21,2021 and so on.

Here we go, here we go, here we go! Three ring, incompetent circus. Just like we said! And he hasn't even sat his fat oval ass back in the Oval Office yet! Of course, why would the Chump administration think it would be a good idea to vet anybody. Hegseth and Gaetz. What a disgusting joke! If that report comes out on Gaetz look out!

[URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pete-hegseth-alleged-sexual-assault-2017-monterey/[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2960754]Even if Trump gets slapped back by horrified Senate Repubs and drops this nomination, the damage has been done!

[B]Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/trump-taps-rep-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

Lololol. The Clown Trump-Musk Administration has now defined itself as such for all the world to see. No backing up and out of it now.

LOL. For one hot minute Little Marco and his supporters basked in the illusion that, hey, his nomination for Trump's Secretary of State could have been worse, it's kinda' sorta' plausible. Lolol.

Then the Tulsi Gabbard and that Fux News Weekend Host nominations came in.

And now THIS! LOL.

So now even poor Little Marco can only count himself among the Clown Trump Administration's Gallery of Freaks.[/QUOTE]It was common knowledge there were hookers on every corner in CCP land, I read either on ISG or another site that pre Bubba WTO days, there were decent hookers practically working under every bridge in CCP land.

To be had for $1 or $2, Xi has put an end to all that he wants them in factories making landfill fodder, for the likes of Walmart and Bozo.

But just think Our Lord and Savior is going to usher in changes to bring back the glory days for you, you can re-locate to your dream locale.

[URL]https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/982835.shtml[/URL]

I've had my share of Thai putas and then some, if you shut down the land of putas today, I would never miss it, I've found much greener pastures elsewhere!!

[URL]https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/15/the-coming-era-of-maga-dominance/[/URL]

So last week on SNF (Nov 10th, 2024) in game with Detroit Lions vs. Houston Texans, where the Lion's QB, Jared Goff was having a bad game and had thrown 4-INTS before half-time. When the following, Sunday night tweet went viral.
[i][LIST]Civ@MisterCiv

INTERESTING**

This is now Jared Goff's 7th career game with at least 4 interceptions.
His record in those games?

[b]6-0[/b]

Does Goff have the Texans right where he wants them?[/LIST][/i]
So after Detroit had beaten the Texans, and Goff's [b]so called stat[/b] now being 7-0 with 4-INTS, by Monday morning, the viral post was circulating like wild fire and being parroted as an legendary "NFL all-time historical QB stat", by the likes of Pat McAfee (ESPN) and [i][b]"do your own research"[/b][/i] and part-time conspiracist, Aaron Rodgers, QB for NY Jets and once possible candidate running mate, for the guy with the worm in his head, about to be head of HHS.

For those that don't follow NFL football, this was indeed a truly ridiculous claim and highly improbably stat to have won 7 times with 4-INTS per game.

But for the "doubters and skeptics", on Monday morning, to truly solidify the unfounded and unchallenged ridiculous claim, the poster (Civ) then ginned-up, a fake claim from Statmuse (a sports statistics website), to make his fake claim look real (...See pic below...), for all the useful idiots that love getting their facts, information and news on X, from some random dude.

Soon after, at 11:25 AM, Civ (of X), posts this:
[i][LIST]Civ@MisterCiv

If you've [u][b]ever wondered how easy it is to spread fake information[/b][/u]

I made this up while laying in bed at the half time of the game 😆

[URL]https://twitter.com/i/status/1856459809182171360[/URL][/LIST][/i]While this harmless viral prank, only embarrassed and punk'd the likes of Pat McAfee, Aaron Rodgers and the useful idiots on X, it severed as a perfect example, that exemplifies the kind of lies, slander, anti-crap and mis/disinformation that MAGA Nation, just loves to spew, parrot, eat-up and promote as gospel, because they read it on Twitter (X).

[b]Aaron Rodgers, Pat McAfee Got Hilariously Duped by Fake NFL Stat About Jared Goff[/b]
[URL]https://www.si.com/nfl/aaron-rodgers-pat-mcafee-duped-by-fake-jared-goff-stat[/URL]

[QUOTE=Tiny12;2961194]I disagree with my friend Elvis. I believe Gaetz was a terrible pick. However, Democrats make terrible picks too. For example, how about Biden's pick for Chairman of his Council of Economic Advisors, Jared Bernstein. The man's academic background is in social work, for goodness sake.

Gaetz will probably never be confirmed. Bernstein however did go to work for Biden, and he did the selling for the Democrats' $1. 9 trillion blowout American Rescue Plan. Too bad Biden didn't appoint a mainstream Democrat economist with common sense like LARRY SUMMERS or Jason Furman, to be Chairman of the CEA. Like Republicans, both of them were shouting from the rooftops that the economy didn't need more inflation-igniting stimulus. And thanks for the compliment, putting me in the same sentence with Larry Summers. Yes, I would have done a better job than Jared Bernstein too.[/QUOTE]But lets be fair and point out that after Scumbag Joe everything looks amazing.

[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/19/rachel-levine-transgender-biden-hhs-pick/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/new-biden-dept-energy-appointee-part-time-drag-queen-queer-activists-145352610.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEbBmanuOZs4VNYaR4PJF7i9plMsojWE_kQJEnMeCyEo3A23UjUZaPBdX4OFNXG2zkgjX6YY9Bqus1plFCymKuEjBWuL00bjvIUJazHI8rR76EbAcvNvACFYUg0zE2pGSRIcydw0-iIKg2e-koWtv0gpqQy3DF1QuUlr9EkhQUxo[/URL]

[QUOTE=Spidy;2961236]While this harmless viral prank, only embarrassed and punk'd the likes of Pat McAfee, Aaron Rodgers and the useful idiots on X, it severed as a perfect example, that exemplifies the kind of lies, slander, anti-crap and mis/disinformation that MAGA Nation, just loves to spew, parrot, eat-up and promote as gospel, because they read it on Twitter (X).

[b]Aaron Rodgers, Pat McAfee Got Hilariously Duped by Fake NFL Stat About Jared Goff[/b]
[URL]https://www.si.com/nfl/aaron-rodgers-pat-mcafee-duped-by-fake-jared-goff-stat[/URL][/QUOTE]Why jack with X? You have to sign up for an account, login, do a search to find something that gets your juices flowing, and so on. Instead you could just flop down in an easy chair, turn on your TV, and watch MSNBC! You'll find lots of lies, slander, anti-crap and mis / disinformation! And Rachel, Lawrence, Joy and Chris will do a much better job of spewing, parroting, eating up and promoting than any two bit amateurs on X!

But yes, if you're willing to go to all that trouble, you too can find lies, slander, anti-crap and mis / disinformation from your side on X too! I threw out this for your viewing pleasure just the other day. And she's a hell of a lot more attractive than Rachel or Joy! Who whacks off to them, besides Lesbians, anyway?

[URL]https://x.com/AesPolitics1/status/1855473656547209370[/URL]

And yes dear Spidy, X is much more consistent with American principles of free speech than other platforms like Facebook! It doesn't censor as much since Musk took over.

For our 7/8 billions people world, when US are only 5%, when Xhina + India are 40%, problem is not Republicans or Democrats, but crazy Trump and his mafia who are dangerous for safety. Same like Israel, not Jews, become a problem because of criminal Netanyahou who should be happy with Trump election. 2 crazy dangerous. Trump is not able to understand what he read, when fortunately, never thousands deaths between Russia and Ukraine on 3 last days, same like nobody ate pets in Springfield, but his few neurons are too old to be still able to understand, but geriatric level.

[QUOTE=Tiny12;2960933]I've always maintained Biden won the 2020 election fair and square. [/QUOTE]Hear ye! Hear ye! MAGA ISG Nation!

MAGA ISG nation, pay attention and take notes. As [U]your MAGA adjacent[/U], Tiny 12, "Republican Libertarian", has declared and is telling you [I][b]"...Biden won the 2020 election fair and square"[/b][/I].

So in other words, STOP "the BIG LIE" and...

...STOP being [B]SORE LOSERS!!![/B].

[QUOTE=Tiny12;2960933]I've always maintained Biden won the 2020 election fair and square. You believe the Republicans cheated in 2024, the bold text in my Spidy quote.

There are a lot of Coke advertisements on MSNBC and other MSM, which is probably why you prefer it. Also when you were a kid that Socialist advertising campaign, I'd like to buy the world a Coke, most likely had a profound influence on you. Only Coke has been replaced by tanks, planes and whatever else we buy for Israel and Ukraine.[/QUOTE]Pence confirmed on 6 January 2021, when Trump asked him to lie. Then, Capitol and democracy were attacked, when Trump doesn't know constitution and doesn't respect law. He should have been prosecuted for several affairs. Bad image for US, like if Al Capone was elected.

[QUOTE=Tiny12;2960933]I've always maintained Biden won the 2020 election fair and square.[/QUOTE]So there was no conspiracy among former intelligence officers, the media, and the FBI to spike the Hunter Biden laptop story? That was not a conspiracy defraud an election?

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2961224][B] Well, before Bubba was paid handsomely to put the CCP into the WTO[/b]
It was common knowledge there were hookers on every corner in CCP land, I read either on ISG or another site that pre Bubba WTO days, there were decent hookers practically working under every bridge in CCP land.

To be had for $1 or $2, Xi has put an end to all that he wants them in factories making landfill fodder, for the likes of Walmart and Bozo.

But just think Our Lord and Savior is going to usher in changes to bring back the glory days for you, you can re-locate to your dream locale.

[URL]https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/982835.shtml[/URL]

I've had my share of Thai putas and then some, if you shut down the land of putas today, I would never miss it, I've found much greener pastures elsewhere!![/QUOTE][B]China and the World Trade Organization.[/B]

[URL]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_World_Trade_Organization[/URL]

[QUOTE]China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on [b]11 December 2001[/b], after the agreement of the Ministerial Conference.[/QUOTE]And who among us will ever forget where we were the day President GW Bush signed and passed The Affordable Care Act / Obamacare?

Lolol.