Member@Luman, I do not correspond with you on this thread, so I will not comment on your perception of this photo.
Good luck. Post to your heart's content.
I will see you on a different thread if our paths cross again.
Take care.
2024 US Presidential Election
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Good luck. Post to your heart's content.
I will see you on a different thread if our paths cross again.
Take care.
Ah, the leader giving direction to private industry leaders to further his political goals.
There's a type of political structure that utilized this sort of organizing principle, but I just can't seem to remember what it was. All I can say it was kind of in vogue in Europe in the first part of the 20th century.
President Orange and his significant other:
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- Loud noise - clubs, stereos, cycles, headphones, engines,etc
Trump said he couldn't care less if we have to pay higher prices for new cars:
Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if auto prices rise because of tariffs
Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if auto prices rise because of tariffs
Remember: Banks are people too!
Then they'll say you should just keep a 'buffer' in your checking so that doesn't happen and blame you again. Americans love to think they're so smart and wise for avoiding getting fucked in the ass that they don't see why the ass fucking should be prevented in the first place.
Then they'll say you should just keep a 'buffer' in your checking so that doesn't happen and blame you again. Americans love to think they're so smart and wise for avoiding getting fucked in the ass that they don't see why the ass fucking should be prevented in the first place.
- Jan 25, 2013
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- 2008
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- TMJ disorder, airplane barotrauma, noise exposure.
Do you mean our tinnitus? Or my personality? I've been really struggling with my left ear static noise. I'm worried about having this noise until I expire which is depressing. It's not that I'm not trying to fix it. I've had left jaw replacement and recently had CT scans of my temporal bone and TMJ.
That's what the Norwegians think is so damn natural. I always thought Adam & Eve was a man and a woman.
The UAW supports Trump's auto tariffs.
In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of the End of NAFTA and the “Free Trade” Disaster - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Days after Volkswagen, the #2 automaker in the world, announced making $20.6 billion in profit in 2024, a new UAW survey of VW workers in Chattanooga reveals the devastating financial toll of VW’s substandard U.S. health care offerings.
uaw.org
I read on Apple News two days ago that the medical device section will not be affected. Make of that what you will.
IT ALREADY HAS been affected.
Reuters: FDA staff struggle to meet product review deadlines after DOGE layoffs.
If you have any information to the contrary, please provide a link.
- Jan 25, 2013
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- TMJ disorder, airplane barotrauma, noise exposure.
- Jan 25, 2013
- 3,672
- Tinnitus Since
- 2008
- Cause of Tinnitus
- TMJ disorder, airplane barotrauma, noise exposure.
Elon Musk:
IRS refund fraud payments are one of several means used by the Democratic Party to attract and retain illegal immigrants in the USA. That's why they are so opposed to @DOGE stopping this!
The Democratic Party is aiding and abetting fraudulent government payments to illegals in order to establish a permanent one-party majority nationally, just like they did in California.
The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.
IRS refund fraud payments are one of several means used by the Democratic Party to attract and retain illegal immigrants in the USA. That's why they are so opposed to @DOGE stopping this!
The Democratic Party is aiding and abetting fraudulent government payments to illegals in order to establish a permanent one-party majority nationally, just like they did in California.
The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.
- May 7, 2015
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- 29.09/2014
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- Acoustic trauma using headphones
Demagogue!
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
Senator Cory Booker just taught me a new word I've been looking for for a while.
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
Senator Cory Booker just taught me a new word I've been looking for for a while.
Briefly. Other than Musk attempting to buy votes for the Wisconsin Supreme Court special election (which ultimately failed), I didn't glean any particularly interesting information from it.
What else was said?
I'm sorry to hear about your struggles; a jaw replacement is a major surgery. Are you recovering well? Wishing you a speedy recovery.
I share your worries. Advancements in tinnitus research move at a glacial pace, and relief doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon. Regenerative medicine currently seems like a pipe dream, but I feel that bioelectronics (such as Neurosoft) still offer a small glimmer of hope.
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- Ototoxicity (2012) Unknown-likely noise induce (2021)
Ah yes, the classic fake outrage over the national debt from you guys, which is funny when you consider the fact it has been Republican administrations (yes, even your beloved Trump) who have skyrocketed the national debt to record-breaking levels. Funny how that part always gets left out.
Tax cuts for the wealthy and unchecked military spending are all you're going to get from the so-called "party of fiscal responsibility."
Eghhh, I was told corps are gonna absorb these tariffs so we are all just overreacting.
Wait, then I was told the plan is to crater the economy quickly so we will bounce back first. V style baby!!!
Shit, then there I saw something about a "Mar-A-Lago Acord" where the best deal maker to ever grace gods green earth was gong to renegotiate all of the countries debt somehow on his own! Wheeew, that's a relief.
I'm sure none of this confusion and uncertainty I'm experiencing will do anything to the notoriously unflappable and calm markets our late stage.
BREAKING NEWS: US President Trump announces a 10% tariff on the Norwegian territory of Jan Mayen, a volcanic island in the Arctic ocean and home to absolutely no one.
- Dec 7, 2018
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Ah yes, the classic: You know nothing about me, but you are so polarized that you lump me in with anyone that I defend. Not that it's any of your business, but I am registered unaffiliated and consider myself a deficit hawk who also considers the national debt the primary concern of the United States.
Joe Biden was running 2 trillion dollar deficits per annum, and not a peep was being said about it by Democrats. Yes, both parties have driven us to the brink of fiscal ruin. That said, the Trump tax cuts actually ended up EXCEEDED projecting revenues scored by the CBO (Definition = largely paid for themselves). Most of the debt related to his first term were existing deficits (which were gradually coming down under Obama) and COVID emergency spending. If you scored the increased revenues that came in at the end and after his term, the tax cuts did not impact that deficit all that much.
Unchecked military spending? Our national debt interest has eclipsed military spending, and again, where are the Democrats who constantly fail to even broach the topic?
Tax cuts for the "wealthy" are a cop-out, cliche term. Trump's initial tax cuts included doubling the standard deduction and child tax credit. The fact is, the "wealthy" pay most of the taxes, so any cut at all for them ends up being quite large in nominal terms. Those on the other side never fail to omit the cuts for the middle class.
This is my one response: I don't engage in back-and-forths with people who haven't demonstrated intellectual honesty; it's a waste of my time.
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He is just being thorough. Even nothingness needs tariffs. That is real power. That is common sense.
What a complete mess this is!
The good thing is, we will never see @Luman or @just1morething in this thread again. They will probably feel too embarrassed now.
Reciprocal tariffs are long overdue and, in the long run, will pay off. America lost five million manufacturing jobs over the past twenty-seven years, which is one of the largest manufacturing job losses in U.S. history. Trump is going to bring jobs and manufacturing back to America. In Vietnam, at 130 NIKE factories, there are half a million workers. These factories are sweatshops. They make shoes for seven dollars, and sell them here for one to two hundred dollars. Products produced by slave labor have no place in today's world. These foreign plants pay workers eight cents an hour. Many other American companies do this. GM has announced that they're going to bring back factories to the United States.
You do realize that the column in the chart titled "Tariffs Charged to the U.S.A. Including Currency Manipulation and Trade Barriers" is in fact just the ratio between the trade deficit and imports from each country?
For example, U.S. exports to China were $143.5 billion and imports were $438.9 billion in 2024. (438.9 - 143.5)/438.9 = 67%.
Second example: U.S. exports to the European Union were $370.2 billion and imports were $605.8 billion in 2024. (605.8 - 370.2)/605.8 = 39%.
If the ratio between the trade deficit and imports is less than 10% (even when there is a trade surplus), the ratio is graciously rounded up to 10%. This is the case with the UK, Colombia, Turkey and Singapore.
That is how they obtained all those numbers in that column. It is only based on U.S. exports and imports and has nothing to do with tariffs imposed on the U.S. by other countries, which are generally much lower than 10%.
I personally cannot wait for you to rediscover why isolationism is such a bad idea. It famously worked very well for the Soviet Union, not to mention North Korea. Have fun sewing your own clothes, I guess.
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I've been managing to survive by cashing out portions of my 401k. I'm completely fucked.
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