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There was an article about how interest rates raise to 3%. Seeing the comment section was wild. It was all Biden's fault because Trump was only in office for three weeks. Don't mind that he's been spouting off tariff talks since last year.
However, anything good that happened, even prior to Trump taking office, was his doing.
I hope Canada applies a massive export tax to oil & gas.. and redistributes the revenue to steel and aluminum workers here to ease the effect of the tariffs on same.
Make the US people feel higher gas prices and they'll turn against him. History has shown this is the best way to sink a president and his party's support.
If the past month has been any indication of the next 47 of them, Canada might want to start negotiating long-term trade deals with Europe and China while also significantly cutting back on trade with the United States.
Trump has suggested he wants to use economic pressure against Canada.
Trump has "joked" about Canada becoming the 51st state.
Like with blackmailers, once you give into the first demand of someone using threats as a bargaining chip, they come back asking for even more.
Canada seems to have something we need (oil, natural resources). They're well within their rights to treat us as a hostile nation and show the assholes in power that they need to play nicely in global politics more than they think they do. With the way things are going, the average US citizen is probably fucked either way, so it's not like it's going to harm anybody but the oligarchs in the long run.
Thank you for being open to the possibilities of that. I wish none of this were happening and feel for those in the US who are going to have to endure what is to come. I can only count myself fortunate I'm not actually there, and only adjacent.
The sheer instability of the past month had already driven gad prices up about 30c/gal where I am, even as oil prices have dropped overall since jan20th. Oh it's coming for sure.
Danielle Smith would probably throw at fit if the federal government proposed that plan. Her sucking up to Trump got her a lower tariff rate on oil and she absolutely will not accept anything that would make the oil industry feel the same pain as the other industries affected by tariffs.
Yeah, well fuck her IMHO. And the oil companies too. They're rich enough to endure a few months of economic leverage applied where it counts. If they squeal (and we know they will), well then they need to be called out and forced to publicly take a side in this whole situation.
EDIT: uncensored :P
I grant you permission to say fuck uncensored.
Yeah well I revoke your permission to grant permission.
Fortunately the permission was already granted so I don't need permission anymore.
Make the US people feel higher gas price
It's why I spent four years saying rather than tax incentives for electric vehicles, we need to just level the playing field and take away gas subsidizes. But good luck getting either party here to hurt fossil fuel profits. Both our options this election were pro-fracking.
It's fucking insane that we can't socialize healthcare, but everyone needs to pitch in so Bill can drive his giant truck an hour to sit at a desk for 8 hours twice a day.
There is literally zero reason for gas subsidizes when we're trying to get people to move on from gas.
the per capita health care expenditure for the american for-profit capitalist system, that doesn't even cover everyone--or everything, is at least 2x that of other 'western' nations that have national health care systems.
single payer, tax funded health care for all would literally pay for itself just from taking what's already being spent on health care and putting it into the new program.
subsidies for oil or any other industry are not taking money away from that non-existent health care system. it doesn't need any.
Then the Republicans are going to propose building public transportation to ignore that problem.
Reliable, ubiquitous, affordable public transportation is an impediment to segregation via gentrification and suburbs. So Republicans won't promote that.
This is america.
We are going to build hellhole dormitories for workers to live on site at the kroger LONG before we acknowledge that investing in public transportation would have benefits.
Oh, and we'll probably buy a shit ton of teslas so that every county is required to have a fleet for "special" employees.
This is america.
Don't catch you slippin' now
Hah! That's a good one. Public transportation is SOCIALISM remember? And it would help poor and/or brown people so they'd never seriously do that.
I hear those things are awful loud
Please ignore that the president is ruining any government organization that could help get bird flu under control
How completely unrealistic, a MAGA head reading a high school level book‽
I have it on good authority that the reason why egg prices are so high is because joe biden killed a hundred bazillion birds in order to drive egg prices up just before trump took office.
I saw joel bidens himself killin chickens left and right... he must have been tired after that
inflation is capitalist code switch for price gouge
If the government slaps a 25% increase on the price of your imports then you expect a 25% increase on the price (assuming you're selling imports directly - like PC parts).
It's not rocket surgery.
then you expect a ~~25~~ 35% increase
ftfy
Not necessarily. But I'm curious what's the equivalent on the utopian alternative to capitalism. Is there currency at all, and if there is, does the government set prices and the exchange rate like in the former Soviet Union?
But I’m curious what’s the equivalent on the utopian alternative to capitalism. Is there currency at all, and if there is, does the government set prices and the exchange rate like in the former Soviet Union?
In all definitions of a utopian society I think we're talking about a post scarcity world. If you're casting far enough into the future, we have infinite supplies of clean energy and technology to take that energy and directly turn it into any kind of matter we desire (like Star Trek replicators). At that point, why would your society need money?
Obviously there are lesser versions of that of post-scarcity where at least anyone's basic needs are met (food, shelter, clothing, healthcare), and anything you want beyond the basics would require extra effort on the part of the person. This version would have something like UBI (Universal Basic Income) and, yes it would have money. There wouldn't really be a need for any kind of price fixing because anything you'd want to buy would not be required for life or health. There would also be no requirement to work if you are satisified in life with just food, clothing, shelter and healthcare.
Country elects an idiot to fix their economy ... idiot makes economy worse ... country wonders why
But Brawndo's got what plants crave...
Stop giving Trump too much credit. President Camacho from Idiocracy was an idiot. Trump is worse than that: he's malicious and deliberately causing crises in order to excuse further consolidating his dictatorial power.
To call Trump an idiot is, paradoxically, to carry water for him.
President Camacho pardoned Joe Bauers who then became president. He showed that, even though he's an idiot, he's capable of making the right decision for the country.
Not wondering why over here. Wondering what can be done to stop it.
I guarantee the CPI will stop being published very soon. Can’t have high inflation if you don’t measure it!
In similar news, water continues to be wet.
🎼🎵To say that something is wet, means that the water on the surface of that something can be removed.🎶
🎼🎵Is he a dot? Or is he a speck? When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead? Nobody knows. Particle man.🎶
Who came up with Person Man..?
@GeeDubHayduke Certainly not Triangle Man.
Could it be Universe Man? I hear that guy gets around.
@GeeDubHayduke And he's usually kind to smaller man. And has a badass watch!
I've heard that watch has mystical powers that only occur during The Alignment.
Fork found in kitchen. More at 9.
Why doesn't he blame President Musk?
The narcissist’s prayer:
That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
They have no clear timeline because they don't intend to address it, duh.
TRUMPFLATION PART II: The End of America
Xitter fuckaroo!
Dude, stop lying.