1 hour ago, mogandave said:

For every PhD in physics, there are twenty in ethic or gender studies, or “education”. 

 

Government money just drives the cost up. Way too many people getting useless degrees. 

 

Brilliant kids have not had any difficulty getting scholarships in my lifetime. 

 

I agree with you.

Most Social Science is ....

GARBAGE

 

Yes...WEED THEM OUT.....

 

Send them, instead, to a Country Club.

But make them pay.

 

 

“To use some of the words I hear from tour company members of the National Tour Association, the drop-off is ‘astronomical’ when speaking about Canadians booking group travel to the United States,” said Catherine Prather, president of the Kentucky-based organization, which specializes in group tours.

 

One National Tour Association member operator reported just two bookings for U.S. tours in the past two weeks compared to 39 bookings during the same period in 2024, she said. Another Canadian operator, with 85 per cent of their business focused on tours to the U.S., had to scrap every U.S. departure for March, April and May due to client cancellations.

2 hours ago, johng said:

 

Why don't you just shoot yourself in the foot ?

Even if you think the Trump tariffs are unjust  and they maybe in certain circumstances why the hell do you want to inflict more hardship by doing virtually the same thing to American companies ?  perhaps because there is no hardship to yourself ?  or is it just total hatred of anything Trump ?

 

The only way to deal with a bully is to hit back twice as hard.

 

TBH, I can't think of a single American product I either want or need.

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The only way to deal with a bully is to hit back twice as hard.

 

TBH, I can't think of a single American product I either want or need.

 

   Surely you would like this USA made car and would want one ?

But its USA made, so don't buy that car for that reason .

Be part of the boycott and do not buy this car

2 hours ago, johng said:

Even if you think the Trump tariffs are unjust  and they maybe in certain circumstances why the hell do you want to inflict more hardship by doing virtually the same thing to American companies ? 

 

Maybe because they are not sheeple?

Why would any country allow their economy be damaged, and just look on and let the orange idiot get away with it?

2 hours ago, johng said:

 

Why don't you just shoot yourself in the foot ?

Even if you think the Trump tariffs are unjust  and they maybe in certain circumstances why the hell do you want to inflict more hardship by doing virtually the same thing to American companies ?  perhaps because there is no hardship to yourself ?  or is it just total hatred of anything Trump ?

 

Always entertaining to see a Trump supporter recommend non-retaliation.

23 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Why would any country allow their economy be damaged, and just look on and let the orange idiot get away with it?

The orange idiot does not realise that the rest of the world is bigger than the USA and the more he p!sses them off the worse it is going to get for the orange idiot and the US.

As I repeatedly say I never make any comment about his internal US policies or whatever party he claims to support. 

My gripe is about him as an individual.

3 hours ago, johng said:

Even if you think the Trump tariffs are unjust  and they maybe in certain circumstances why the hell do you want to inflict more hardship by doing virtually the same thing to American companies ?

Tell Trump to ask that question to the US companies who will suffer because of his unknown on/off/on again what is it next policies!

Don't ask us, who do not live in the US,  if the Idiot wants to ruin the US economy.

That is the US's problem caused by Trump and nothing to do with the rest of the world.

The US is only a minor player relative to the size of the rest of the world.

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 Surely you would like this USA made car and would want one ?

It would not matter to me where it is made as there is no way I could/would drive that in Thailand unless I had a Billionaire father to provide the brown envelopes after my first accident.

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Surely you would like this USA made car and would want one ?

But its USA made, so don't buy that car for that reason .

Be part of the boycott and do not buy this car

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: Someday, non American enterprises are going to come up with their own versions of sports cars and racing cars. I'm even going to go out further on that limb and predict that they will be manufactures with names like McLaren, Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini Bugatti, etc

But until that happens, I guess the world will be stuck with what America has to offer.

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: Someday, non American enterprises are going to come up with their own versions of sports cars and racing cars. I'm even going to go out further on that limb and predict that they will be manufactures with names like McLaren, Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini Bugatti, etc

But until that happens, I guess the world will be stuck with what America has to offer.

 

    So, Will you be buying  an Italian made Ferrari instead of a US made car to be involved with the boycott ?

  Or would you be boycotting KFC and McDonalds ?

On 3/18/2025 at 3:14 PM, LiamB80 said:

Real Americans don’t care. I got your boycott right here. We’re focused on fixing America. If you don’t like us anymore thats fine. President Trump’s popularity is as high as it’s ever been and i’m happy with my vote for him and what he’s accomplished so far. He’s doing everything i voted for. He was given the biggest mandate in US history with a landslide election win over crooked Joe Biden. He also won in 2020 and that was a stolen election. It worked out better this way anyway. God deflected that bullet that was meant for his head too. 

Non Americans just can’t seem to grasp that their opinion of our president means nothing to us, not when we look around our country and see things need fixing everywhere. Fake friends and allies to begin with. 

 

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    So, Will you be buying  an Italian made Ferrari instead of a US made car to be involved with the boycott ?

  Or would you be boycotting KFC and McDonalds ?

 

Just for once, I decided to click on the show this post, and right away I recalled why I had you on ignore.

 

 

8 hours ago, johng said:

 

Why don't you just shoot yourself in the foot ?

Even if you think the Trump tariffs are unjust  and they maybe in certain circumstances why the hell do you want to inflict more hardship by doing virtually the same thing to American companies ?  perhaps because there is no hardship to yourself ?  or is it just total hatred of anything Trump ?

 

Maybe, so what? How about people working for American companies and voting for Trump?

18 hours ago, simple1 said:

 

Again read the forum rules, your repetition of uninformed views are tedious. What goes  on in USA, even domestically, can flow through to international policy decisions. I I am concerned US domestic policy decisions are setting very poor examples for Western democracies with the creeping authoritarian trends in the US.

Are they tossing people in jail for mean Tweets like in Europe? 

6 hours ago, Lacessit said:

The only way to deal with a bully is to hit back twice as hard.

 

TBH, I can't think of a single American product I either want or need.

This goes both ways buddy. 

On 3/18/2025 at 4:14 AM, proton said:

Buy American, boycott Chinese goods

 

If you buy a Ford, many are made in Mexico. If you buy a Honda, some are made in USA. If you buy a Chevy, most of the parts are Chinese!

There is no "Buy American" ... That's a catch phrase for the uninformed.

 

it's a Global economy and people who don't understand that virtually nothing is "all made in America" are the ones who got bamboozled into thinking Donald Trump is actually going to look out for the interests of the American people.

 

Even Donald Trumps swag is mostly made in China ... I mean Gyna!

 

His "Make America Great Again" guitar is NOT made in America! Most of it is made in China!!

 

 

58 minutes ago, StandardIssue said:

 

If you buy a Ford, many are made in Mexico. If you buy a Honda, some are made in USA. If you buy a Chevy, most of the parts are Chinese!

There is no "Buy American" ... That's a catch phrase for the uninformed.

 

it's a Global economy and people who don't understand that virtually nothing is "all made in America" are the ones who got bamboozled into thinking Donald Trump is actually going to look out for the interests of the American people.

 

Even Donald Trumps swag is mostly made in China ... I mean Gyna!

 

His "Make America Great Again" guitar is NOT made in America! Most of it is made in China!!

 

 

 

In general you are correct.  It is a global economy.  Because I despise the Chinese government (not it's people) I do try to buy made anywhere else.  Good luck buying any electronic that doesn't have some Chinese parts or labor.

 

However, my guitars would dispute your assertion.    While the wood might be imported (Indian rosewood, mahogany, etc) the work is 100% USA.  Mind you that is for higher end instruments.  And I also owned a Yamaha guitar in Thailand made in Japan that was a fine instrument so not a guitar bigot here.  😃

7 hours ago, Lacessit said:

The only way to deal with a bully is to hit back twice as hard.

 

TBH, I can't think of a single American product I either want or need.

No Apple or Android devices? Aside from that nothing that uses Nvidia, AMD, Marvell, Intel chips? 

 

33 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

No Apple or Android devices? Aside from that nothing that uses Nvidia, AMD, Marvell, Intel chips? 

 

I use free Linux OS.

11 hours ago, johng said:

 

Why don't you just shoot yourself in the foot ?

Even if you think the Trump tariffs are unjust  and they maybe in certain circumstances why the hell do you want to inflict more hardship by doing virtually the same thing to American companies ?  perhaps because there is no hardship to yourself ?  or is it just total hatred of anything Trump ?

 

 

I was surprised by your comment which seemed to suggest that you think the motive behind a boycott of American goods is retaliation for the tariffs trump has imposed on various countries, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to clarify this.

 

My motivation for advocating the boycott of American goods and services has little to do with retaliation for the tariffs Trump has imposed. In my view, the boycott is intended to:

 

(1) economically punish the corporations which are explicitly or tacitly supporting the Trump regime,

 

(2) economically punish the MAGA movement for supporting the Trump regime, and

 

(3) protest against a wide range of right-wing social policies which I disagree with: lack of support to Ukraine, lack of support for NATO, hostility towards racial minorities, hostility towards women's rights, hostility towards the LBGTQ community, hostility towards climate and environment related issues, the undermining of democratic institutions (freedom of the press, independence of the Judiciary, independence of separate branches of government, disrespect for the Constitution), his horribly unqualified cabinet choices, the disrespect he has shown towards America's traditional allies, the blatant corruption and self-dealing, the support of Israel's genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza, his regressive tax policies, etc. The list goes on and on...

 

Against this litany of concerns, the tariffs, while I disagree with them as well, aren't high on my list of motivating issues.

 

The boycott is intended to throw a monkey wrench into the economic machinery in order to thwart the direction which the government is headed, and to economically undermine Trump's base of support.

32 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I use free Linux OS.

LOL okay How many phones run on that?

2 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

LOL okay How many phones run on that?

only phones have chips these days lol

13 hours ago, johng said:

 

Why don't you just shoot yourself in the foot ?

Even if you think the Trump tariffs are unjust  and they maybe in certain circumstances why the hell do you want to inflict more hardship by doing virtually the same thing to American companies ?  perhaps because there is no hardship to yourself ?  or is it just total hatred of anything Trump ?

 

 

BTW, I am an American. I view resisting the Trump administration as an act of patriotism, much like the Indian boycotts against British colonial rule were acts of patriotism. I like the description of this grassroots movement as "shadowy," a movement without a figurehead which can be targeted, something you can't put a finger on. Amorphousness seems to be adding to the fear factor. Just ask Elon if you don't think that's true.

4 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

In general you are correct.  It is a global economy.  Because I despise the Chinese government (not it's people) I do try to buy made anywhere else.  Good luck buying any electronic that doesn't have some Chinese parts or labor.

 

However, my guitars would dispute your assertion.    While the wood might be imported (Indian rosewood, mahogany, etc) the work is 100% USA.  Mind you that is for higher end instruments.  And I also owned a Yamaha guitar in Thailand made in Japan that was a fine instrument so not a guitar bigot here.  😃

 

Check this out. He was selling a Donald Trump signature model guitar .. NOT made in USA! LOL. This is a short video but there are some long video reviews of this cheapazz Donald Trump guitar. For the slow thinking picker!!

 

 

I get your point though. I'm not a big fan of Chinese politics or the people there in general because of a lot of the bad apples I see around Thailand. I've met some fine Chinese people who immigrated to the USA and have done well for themselves and contribute a lot to the economy and US based businesses. Quite a few in Silicon Valley where I worked for a number of years.

8 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

Just for once, I decided to click on the show this post, and right away I recalled why I had you on ignore.

 

 

 

  Well stop looking then , stop cheating and peeking .

You wouldn't be very good  at a boycott, would you .

You just don't have the discipline .

You now going to have to pretend that you didn't read this post as well 

On 3/18/2025 at 6:14 PM, proton said:

Buy American, boycott Chinese goods

Overpriced and dated.

4 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

LOL okay How many phones run on that?

What do you think Android is? It's a ported version of Linux, based on the Linux kernel

10 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    So, Will you be buying  an Italian made Ferrari instead of a US made car to be involved with the boycott ?

  Or would you be boycotting KFC and McDonalds ?

 

KFC, McDonalds typically source their ingredients locally.  They use local labour. The retail outlets in Thailand are franchises. For example, Minor corp which owns Sizzler, Wine Connection, Dairy Queen  and others  is the  jv licensee for Burger King.  Aside from the license fees paid back to the master license holder, much of the profit stays with the local  operators.

 

The real driver of the US economy is services. A boycott of US financial services, especially banks would  destroy Wall Street and reduce US influence. No more JP Morgan, Bank of America etc., and  the USA would think the sky is falling.

 

However, the reality is very different. Everyone talks a good game, but no one really does anything. It's like the sanctions on Russia, Everyone was  ignoring the intent of sanctions. The USA was still importing Russian minderals, the EU oil and gas through ghost  transfers, China and India readily devouring the Russian oil, and thereby financing a war.

 

It's nice that Canadians say they will boycott, but the reality is that the aircraft are still flying from Canada to Florida filled with holiday goers. The gays are still planning to go to NYC for Pride, the  US agricultural products are still flowing unimpeded into Canada, and 800,000+ Canadians are still living and working in the USA. 

 

15 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

A boycott of US financial services, especially banks would  destroy Wall Street and reduce US influence. No more JP Morgan, Bank of America etc., and  the USA would think the sky is falling.

 

The problem the boycotters have is that it is OTHER banks using jP Morgan, etc, like when German Landesbanken bought securitised US products. These bank clients would never boycott US banks.

 

First of all they need the US banks for their expertise. If you want to do a listing on the Frankfurt stock exchange you don't call Postbank, you call JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs, if you want the best. If a German bank wants to create financial products they NEED JP Morgan et al. It cannot be done without them. They have the expertise.

 

However, it is not all bad news, Canada has just fought back. They have renamed the "Americano" to "Canadiano". Boycotters can now enjoy Canadiano, not the hated Americano. More likely the boycott will be limited to useless caca de toro like this.