matwood

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by matwood 2y ago
The EU actually executed some strategy. First they said they would love 0/0 tariffs, which sounds fair to pretty much anyone. And when that didn't fly they put on selective reciprocal 25% tariffs. What Trump did looks even more li
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by matwood 2y ago
> They care about inflation too though. Trump cares about inflation as a talking point to get elected and for no other reason.
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by matwood 2y ago
> But then something flipped. The bond market is always the adult in the room. The UK PM lasted like 44 days when the bond market pushed her out [1]. In this case, the flip was that all the chaos led to people leaving behind the USD comp
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by matwood 2y ago
I waited until Deep Research came to the normal paid plans, but it's been very useful the times I have thought to use it.
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by matwood 2y ago
This plus pausing enforcement of foreign bribery plus having is own meme coin, is anyone still questioning if Trump is absolutely being bribed by foreign agents? https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025&#x2F
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by matwood 2y ago
Like how they keep incorrectly characterizing VAT.
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by matwood 2y ago
If the goal was to really reshore there are a lot of ways to encourage companies to move in that direction. The CHIPS act is one but Trump wants to cancel it. And I'm sure there are others than can work, but broad based tariffs are not
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by matwood 2y ago
The problem when someone only hires sycophants is that competence is pretty far down the list of requirements. And, even if someone is competent they won't share dissenting ideas out of fear they'll end up replaced by another syco
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by matwood 2y ago
Even the government admitted it was an administrative error.
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by matwood 2y ago
Those jobs will be gone soon anyway due to automation. They are not coming back now or ever. The US also manufactures a lot right now, second only to China. The US failed by not using the huge prosperity it gained to put the social programs
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by matwood 2y ago
A rich person who had 10M and now has 8M is still rich. Raising prices on everything through tariffs also does little to impact the rich, but destroys the bottom 50%, along with the recession that's likely to follow. If the goal was re
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by matwood 2y ago
The rich will be fine. This is what the start of a recession looks like.
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by matwood 2y ago
There are doctors out there that take it seriously and there are a variety of treatments to try. There are no silver bullets, but anyone who suffers from this please look around for a doctor who understands this disease. I know someone who
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by matwood 2y ago
> which part of the above is wrong? Rust Belt isn't the entire US economy. Blaming where the US is today on globalization is probably 30 years too late. The US economy has created enormous wealth. Domestic policies on how to spread
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by matwood 2y ago
I agree that the Rust Belt has had it rough, but it is not the entire US economy. I won't argue that people saw the future in the 70s, but those jobs were/are going away to automation regardless (and they are certainly not coming
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by matwood 2y ago
> comment is unconstructive I understand. It's hard to be constructive when it was so blatantly clear a second term was going to be a disaster of epic proportions and here we are.
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by matwood 2y ago
> And admitting it would mean bursting the bubble of "I'm an intelligent person." (and even "a good person"). Or, "I do my own research".
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by matwood 2y ago
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by matwood 2y ago
I think the 2020 court cases, all of which Trump lost, show how little fraud occurs. There are also many articles of research at this point. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp...
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by matwood 2y ago
> but individuals carry a burden to for not trying to remake their bed In what way? I turn on Fox sometimes and it's not that it's slanted, but it's just a stream of lies and BS. I've watched a bunch of Trump's s
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by matwood 2y ago
Yeah, see the article about "RealID" yesterday. The first step is to require an ID, and the next step is to make it harder to get. For example, a married woman without a perfect paper trail of name changes? No Id.
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by matwood 2y ago
> People using others papers to vote Except every analysis has shown people are not doing this. Oddly, the few times there have been real cases, it's often GOP voting more than once or for their dead spouse or some such. Think of it
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by matwood 2y ago
You've fallen victim to GOP propaganda. They use 'Voter ID' as a reasonable sounding shorthand for a lot of policies that just make it harder to vote. The other responders highlighted many of them.
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by matwood 2y ago
A great example is Rubio. People may disagree with his politics, but he has been a competent government person for a long time. Even had a legit shot at POTUS at one point. And now, he's trying to shrink away while Trump and Vance make
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by matwood 2y ago
There's been some reporting that even die hard Trump supporters don't believe a lot of what he says. This gives them the ability to pick and choose what they believe and allowed him to appeal to a larger group. How someone would v
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by matwood 2y ago
> Claiming that the US government is insane while we, as random members of the public know better Not insane, incompetent. The problem with primarily hiring sycophants from his favorite cable news channel is that he's not getting th
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by matwood 2y ago
The problem with this line of reasoning is that Trump just pushed our allies in that part of the world closer to China. China stated the other day they are working on a joint response to tariffs with Japan and South Korea. Additionally, lea
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by matwood 2y ago
I think there is a bit more nuance. US manufacturing jobs are never coming back. If you look at the stats, US manufacturing output continues to set records. Yes, the US is second to China (has been since ~2010), but that was bound to happ
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by matwood 2y ago
Or any drug store.
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by matwood 2y ago
I liked this a lot. I'm in the process of moving to Italy and am deep in learning Italian. I loved the different speeds and accents from the speakers.

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