uncletiger

You're underselling it. We know it has to get wild enough for the military to be deployed in America so the arrests can begin of significant actors. Nobody knows how that's going to happen. We've only been told that the military will be deployed under the guise of "riot control". So yeah, it's obviously going to get much worse, with resulting huge opportunities to either make or lose a fortune depending on your bets. This is just the beginning.

It's time to be honest. The only reason this reinvention of the global economy is so painful, is because we allowed the tumor of globalism to grow for so long. If we had eliminated this pathogen 50 years ago when we saw the writing on the wall and businesses started to move overseas, nobody would be suffering today. But we didn't and now it's a punch to the gut and extremely painful for those who believed the globalist propaganda. All those US headquartered companies that moved production overseas now have no choice but to move back home. And yes, the pensioners who collaborated with them are going to get hit as well. With this being obvious, I am genuinely shocked by how many people still keep chanting the "free trade" mantra like it's a magic word that will make everything go away. It won't. We now have 50 years of real data showing Adam Smith was wrong. Sure, in aggregate his theories may make sense, but the average is not the metric that matters. The vast majority of ordinary Americans are substantially more impoverished than they were 50 years ago, and free trade just keeps making that worse every single year. Trump's punitive tariffs based on imbalance of trade is precisely the chemotherapy we need to eliminate the globalist tumor killing humanity. The sooner we free the world from globalism, the sooner we can all enjoy the golden age.

A bunch of people talking out of their asses. This article purposefully and intentionally spreads disinformation. The new tariffs are calculated from a number based on trade balance, not absolute rates charged. If you want to qualify for the minimum 10% rate, you must buy just as much from the US as you sell. It has zero to do with the specific rate applied to imports.

Yawn. The minimum possible tariff rate is 10%. That is given to countries that have net zero, perfectly balance trade with the US. Since the penguins don't export anything to the US, and don't buy anything from the US, it's a net zero country and therefore qualifies for the 10% tariff. Some people will look for anything to disparage the new post globalism economic order. Even making nonsensical threads like this.

While all the ruckus is going on about the tariffs Trump just implemented, nobody is discussing how this is going to play into the already struggling social security system. Because for decades, the government has struggled to remove most real factors in the cost of living, and replace the CPI with bundles of items like flat screen TV's. Because these were manufactured overseas, they could be used to artificially suppress the official inflation numbers, while prices of necessities like food were soaring and being removed. As a result, the CPI is very overweight in these foreign objects that are going to explode in price due to the tariffs. Is the government really going to increase social security by 20% - 30% next year to match inflation, or are they going to change the formula so they can pretend struggling Americans retirees really aren't struggling? Suddenly are we going to see steak added back into the CPI because that price was stable while plastic pumpkins rose by 60%?

An interesting analysis. Not completely wrong. But it fails to hit the truly relevant point. The US is completely rejecting globalism, and forging an economy where you either work to better your own country, or you work to subjugate it. Economists like to point out that free trade makes everyone better...on average. It's the on average part that is the problem. Because as Trump has told us, 50 years of data clearly show the vast, vast majority of Americans are worse off. Free trade works by pulling wealthy countries down to the same level as impoverished ones, while making a few who control the global supply lines very, very wealthy. In the process, those countries who were desperately poor might experience a slight increase in their standard of living, but again that came at the expense of the US which experienced a much more significant decrease. What Trump is truly doing is simple. He's ending globalism. Because the US is not responsible to support the standard of living in countries like Vietnam or Thailand. The goal of the US, and for every country, is to increase and protect their own standard of living. The very opposite of globalism, sovereigntism accepts that some countries will be worse off, but the wealth that is in the US, stays in the US. Even if that is less efficient on a global basis, it leaves the USA in a substantially better position. And that is the real war. The globalists want a one world government where everyone is the same. No borders. The US wants sovereignty and competitive nationalism, where everyone is responsible for themselves, with lots of diversity and competition. If the EU wants to continue to push globalism, they will henceforth have to do it without the USA. The US will work to become entirely self sufficient, with resilient domestic supply chains and trade existing on the margins. Countries that want to trade with the US can continue to do so, but there will be no trade war, because the US is quitting the game. Globalism and global supply chains are dead. You don't make your country dependent on goods and services from your enemy, and right now, the strongest supporter of globalism, the EU, is the enemy.

BTW, For anyone who isn't sure: Vaccines cause autism.

Thanks for the advice. We're getting someone to look at it, but my gut tells me it's not a serious problem. Eye opening though. Not sure how well Thai construction would survive in a real earthquake.

So after Mother Nature decided to play rock-a-bye baby with us yesterday, our house has some cracked plaster. Most of it is along the middle of the walls and just superficial, but one crack formed on the load bearing post. I don't see any rebar through the crack. It appears that the top few millimeters of concrete pulled away from the rest of the post. Is there any body here who is a structural engineer and can tell me what I should look for to determine if this is serious? Can I just plaster over it like the other superficial cracks in the walls? Thank you for any advice.

Exactly zero chance that is happening for me or any of my children. They know better. There is nobody I trust other than God to put something in my brain. And billions agree with my position. Nueralink ain't happening. Ever.

I read a lot outside the echo chamber. Intentionally. Which is how I know you are stuck *IN* the echo chamber. MAGA isn't a cult. But supporting the deep state/globalist criminal syndicate against humanity definitely is. It takes a lot to break a cult member out of the brainwashing from the globalist cabal.

Well, 1913 actually, but the late 20's is close. The 1913 treason is what caused the late 20's.

Given that most of everything produced since the 1960's is globalist propaganda, I would say that limiting brainwashing is a huge win.

And another one. Tariffs will restore America.

Hyundai is investing $21 billion into a massive steel mill and manufacturing plant in Louisiana and Georgia, plus another commitment to buy $3 billion of LNG from the US to support their global operations. Tariffs are working. Jobs are returning to America.

The nature of being a leftist today means you are collaborating with organized crime. The globalist criminal syndicate is a mafia like organization that controls national governments just like mafias controlled municipal governments back in the late 19th and early 20th century. They are the driving force behind all the leftist moves towards a totalitarian, one world government. Being a leftist in a Western culture means you must support crime, because all the politicians who represent socialist values are owned by the criminal syndicate. There are no independent, socialist leftists politicians. They are all completely controlled by the deep state/globalist cabal. It's not a problem exclusive to the political left. Many on the political right are also controlled. But it is possible to be on the right, espouse extreme, limited government, and therefore have morals and ethics that prevent being captured by organized crime. These people are tolerated by the globalists as they are extremely few in number. Most officials can be bought or blackmailed into submission. So no. You can't be a leftist without supporting terrorists and criminals, because the nature of the entirety of the political left movement (and much of the right) is criminal.

Because the fraud has yet to be officially acknowledged and resolved. But don't worry. Paper ballots and single day voting is coming soon. And after that, it will be clear to all except the most myopic Democrat sycophant exactly how bad the fraud really was. All any of us need to do is wait. The truth is being revealed, even if none of us understand why Trump is taking the slow road to expose it.

No. Canada is going to be a territory of the US. Just wait.

I personally think this is a wonderful development. This will rapidly accelerate the movement away from globalism and back towards national resiliency and sovereigntism. Everyone should concentrate on buying and manufacturing local. This is a trend that is long overdue, and will make the re-establishment of tariffs that much easier. If everyone is voluntarily not buying American, then nobody will have cause to complain when tariffs result in the eventuality that they can no longer sell their own products to the American market. And as those overseas companies reduce scale due to the loss of the American market, they will have less ability to negotiate for raw materials, making it easier for startup American manufacturers to compete. This is a win-win, and will push manufacturing back to American shores even faster. So please, join the trend to stop buying American and selling to America. Embrace sovereigntism. Let's all work together to end the scourge of free trade and globalism. The more people that climb on board with this, the better.

No. Because I can physically verify gravity exists. I just dropped a rock out my window and it fell down. I verified that the rock falls at approximately 9.8 m/s^2, consistent with both Newton and Einstein in non relativistic frames. Now, knowing that, I can apply simple physical laws to verify that a mass of sufficient size can not remain flat and stable. It would either break up, or it would collapse into a ball. And even if you tell me my models of gravity (i.e. that it is an emergent property of curved spacetime) are incorrect, any model you come up with must still behave according to the rules which we can determine from basic observation and math. So if you are going to argue the Earth is flat, you might as well argue that 2+2=5. Any sufficient mass will form into a ball or break apart. It has no other choice.

No. The globalists use multiple countries that aren't really countries to host their illegal bioweapons labs. Did you forget that Ukraine never registered their borders with the UN?

It's very simple. China is a member of the globalist criminal syndicate, and Russia isn't. The globalists aren't going to demonize one of their own, when they can blame their enemy. The only real question is whether Xi is willing to continue allowing the CCP to be subservient to the evil that emanates from Switzerland, or whether he's going to join with the US and Russia to destroy them. I guess we'll know for sure if/when he invades Taiwan. Taiwan is a globalist stronghold with all kinds of illegal bioweapons labs. If that falls and the labs get exposed, we'll know Xi switched sides. Interesting times.

That's not the truth either. Except for the northern coast, many of those blue counties in CA are actually red. The fraud in CA was massive. We won't know what the real map looks like until we get paper ballots verified by picture id. It's truly sad Thailand can run a more honest election than the US.

I wouldn't worry about the Democrats at all. When they finally decide to release the Epstein files, the Democrats will be finished as a party. The Republican party will only be spared because Trump took it over and was never associated with any of Epstein's CIA operations.

Does anyone honestly believe fake polls anymore? Seriously. Who makes up this stuff?