Tariffs explained
Seems like a few people in the US administration could have done with a primer like this last week...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 7 Apr 2025, 15:37,
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Options:
1. This is some tremendous fuck-up by some over-promoted fucktards.
2. This is a deliberate strategy by some dangerous fuckheads.
3. Yes.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 7 Apr 2025, 22:05,
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It's basically a game of economic Chicken.
The tariffs aren't intended to be in place long (or even medium) term. The problem is that Trump is hedging his bets on China swerving out of the way first.
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I don't get what he's trying to achieve though.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 8 Apr 2025, 20:09,
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Well well wellity well well well
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrggqydxv5o
If only I'd known the timing of the announcement i could have made a killing. I wonder if anyone did and did.
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I bought a few grands' worth of Amazon and Google shares just before the announcement.
Figured they couldn't get much lower, and they're both reasonably safe investments.
Not going to retire early on the proceeds, but a nice little discount nonetheless.
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He probably thinks the world is still on the gold standard.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 8 Apr 2025, 20:41,
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Well, to play Devil's Advocate a little:
The previous US trade deals arguably weren't really favourable to the US (depending on who you ask). Their average external tariff worked out at something like 3.5% whilst some of their export partners were imposing 4-5 times that rate on their imports of North-American goods.
America's over reliance on imports has also been partially responsible for the substantial drop off in US domestic manufacturing which is sitting about 40% lower than it was at the beginning of the '80s.
I suspect that Trump genuinely believes that significantly increasing the cost of goods coming into America will force more companies to set up shop domestically and bolster production/employment rates in the USA. It won't. But he thinks it will.
I don't think for a second this is his brainchild, though. I'm fully convinced that this whole thing is a distraction/diversion for something far more sinister. Trump clearly isn't the brightest, and somebody whispering in his ear that these new tariffs will cement him in history as America's greatest economic hero is all he needs to hear to start throwing numbers around, confident that he's holding all the cards.
The firing of Timothy Haugh has all been swept under the rug by the last few days' economic hysteria and deserves far more scrutiny than the short-term disruption caused by completely unsustainable import taxes.
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Yes, something more sinister.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 9 Apr 2025, 16:36,
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there was a run on the bond market and he pussied out in less than three days.
He'll try and spin it, and blokes like you might buy their talking points, but he's now been exposed as weak sauce
it's not tariffs that were responsible for the decline in US manufacturing. Nobody believes that. Most of it was instigated by American companies themselves with republican law makers. Reagan and Bush created Nafta so the car industry could shift to cheap mexican labour, and Trumps usmca that replaced just accelerated that loss. It's because none of them give a fuck about american workers, just multinational profits, and that's still true (and mostly true of democrats as well with a few exceptions like Sanders). America is full of shitty poor towns full of mutants, and the only thing that makes life bearable is that you can go into walmart and buy dirt cheap chinese shit, and that's going to be taken away. Who the fuck would make a long term capital investment in plant on the basis of a tariffs that are gone in less than a week?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 15 Apr 2025, 0:20,
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Teeny Little Super Guy
From the file marked: Things I'd Completely Forgotten
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Mon 7 Apr 2025, 14:17,
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Fewer have seen my teeny little super guy.
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DerKommissar Look how much fun we're having!, Tue 8 Apr 2025, 22:38,
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Village Cooking Channel
Shouty enthusiastic chaps in India prepare turkey soup. Extra shouty grandad gives the recipe.
They end up by feeding the elderly/ unfortunates in the community.
I've been becoming addicted to their videos.
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MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Mon 7 Apr 2025, 10:47,
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That sound at 8m18s would be me going to the toilet immediately after eating this.
If I actually made it in time.
The shoutiness is the winning element of this vid, for certain.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Mon 7 Apr 2025, 11:43,
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Bet that tastes amazing
But yeah, the smiley shouting is what really sells it!
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LP, Mon 7 Apr 2025, 12:06,
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Eating soup with hands
fair play, must have fingers of asbestos!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 8 Apr 2025, 9:26,
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Let's not get too hasty
The feathery flappy one which opens up is sublime
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 23:03,
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They all open up*
if you operate them correctly
* some more than others
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 6 Apr 2025, 11:44,
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Lol
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A silly nautical adventure with horrible violins
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 18:35,
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I like Mr Hewes
unpretentious fucking about with big machines.
The video of him getting a centurion tank engine out of his living room to make space for his christmas tree was ace
youtube.com/watch?v=vEe28mMFXx8
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LP, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 21:06,
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I pity those who don't go through a Young One's phase.
For me it was motorcycles in the living room with car battery Christmas tree lights.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 22:39,
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Quote: "That is beyond hilarious!"
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 18:12,
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How does he do it?
24 years old with his own place, a girlfriend, a car and all the Lego he can eat.
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Jeffrey44 (User was banned for this post), Mon 7 Apr 2025, 14:09,
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If you ever wanted to see what welding and plasma cutting look like
here you go.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 14:33,
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trump's tariffs expleened. honestly, make a cup of tea and watch it.
liberation day wooooooooooooooooooooo!
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MiseryCunt no alarms and no sausages, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 10:49,
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I think/hope this might be what does Trump in.
After he and his mates have finished buying up temporarily depressed stocks he’s going to start on selling tariff exceptions. He just can’t stop himself from grifting.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 16:32,
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yep, a smash and grab is the only way it makes sense
some people are suggesting it's some ploy to force the big corporations to march in step in exchange for concessions, but it wont help them. When prices go up they'll get fucking smashed in the mid-terms. So it's a firesale, disaster capitalism
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 22:51,
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That's assuming there'll be free fair mid-term elections.
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DerKommissar Look how much fun we're having!, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 23:52,
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Yes.
There are not a lot of people here, who have actually opened a book in 10 years, who are happy with Trump's tarrifs.
Here is Devin Stone (Legal Eagle on Youtube), and associate Liz Dye, explaining tariffs and the laws in the US around them.
youtu.be/_V8mE3xmtLw?si=VutXHVAKHZtE4rNH
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CapnChkn I would rather be flying elephants., Sat 5 Apr 2025, 23:46,
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When I was a kid, we had to forage for our water.
Kids these days are just spoiled.
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CapnChkn I would rather be flying elephants., Sat 5 Apr 2025, 1:37,
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When I were a lad you had to wait for your data to download, none of this ultrafast broadband nonsense.
It fostered patience, anticipation and a tolerance for a low-level of frustration.
For miles around all you could hear were the sound of dial-up connections going Eeeee Eeeee Eeeee Bidung Bidung Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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When I was a kid, modems hadn't been invented yet and we had to make the boop boop boop boop eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee krcshhhhhhhhhhh noises into tin cans connected by string.
And images loaded from the bottom.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 12:04,
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Stop it folks
- ever since my early internet porn use, those dial up sounds give me the right horn.
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 18:14,
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you have a natural talent for modem impressions
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simbosan is too tired, Mon 7 Apr 2025, 12:20,
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A Million Memes
I made this!
Finally got around to making this parody song about memes which has been in my head for about 3 years. NB. It's called A Million Memes because it's a parody of A Million Dreams. There are not actually a million memes in it. That would take ages.
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Chairman L'Mao Wasp Whisperer, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 23:31,
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An unpleasant blend of inharmonious sounds
...but somehow I watched the whole thing.
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notoolsovernight you're all luvvly an' 'orrible, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 18:30,
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Some of you might be interested to see how I made a Star Wars fan film (what I posted the other week)
I made this!
So I put on a boring voice and talked about it
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Awesome, but annoying as the dancing moves lag a fraction behind the beat.
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A few of them are bang on the beat
Which makes it even more annoying!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 5 Apr 2025, 9:35,
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When your random ADHD stream of consciousness becomes your act
I liked that, gets a click from me
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 13:53,
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Absolutely fucking mental that this news is being buried by the tariff hysteria.
Trump administration fires National Security Agency chief
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Scary what's happening over there
They are going full-blown fascist state.
"You are disloyal to the leader, you will be replaced by someone more... pliable"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 13:44,
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Pliable
yet, also shit. Like.... shit.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 14:04,
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Particularly disturbing that it appears to be Laura Loomer whispering in his ear that led to the dismissal.
Everyone hyper-focused on Musk making an idiotic gesture, when she's a considerably nastier piece of work.
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He does seem to surround himself with the cream of the cream of the very worst
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 14:41,
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What the fuck is with that Robert Z'Dar looking motherfucker?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 14:23,
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It's in the most read stories on BBC news, not sure that counts as 'buried' but ok.
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Currently in 6th, behind Tunnock's Tea Cakes and Queue in Birmingham.
bUt OkAy.
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New Wet Leg
In case that's what float your particular boat
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 8:47,
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"You're not new any more, take off that dress and put on these hotpants"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 4 Apr 2025, 13:42,
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Centuries of Sound - 1950 Part One
I made this!
Hi again! Here's three hours of music and other sounds from the dawn of the nuclear age.
There's no longer a full download for reasons you can probably guess, but the whole thing is still streamable to all, not just patreons, via the mixcloud player.
I've also just put my "preview mixes" for 1972, 1989 and 2024 up on the main page at centuriesofsound.com because fuck it why hide them? Working on a similar one for 2000 right now, but 1950 part two is next up of course.
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Zuowan, Thu 3 Apr 2025, 10:49,
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Wanting to hear what
Jesus Is God’s Atomic Bomb sounds like got me clicking that play button.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 3 Apr 2025, 14:43,
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I don't buy it
How on earth could that little drone carry a package heavy enough to damage a car like a brick dropped off a motorway bridge?
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Who fancies a shag?
No sumos involved
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 2 Apr 2025, 1:54,
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black throated dickcissel
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 2 Apr 2025, 12:10,
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Macronus Ptilosus
*drops mic*
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 2 Apr 2025, 13:41,
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ha!
I think Kestrels were called Windfuckers well until late medieval times
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 3 Apr 2025, 1:41,
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I'm glad Lennon & McCartney re-wrote Eleanor Rigby once the acid wore off
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Are we talking about the Common Cormorant?
or Shag?
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Rapscallion is it fashion or disease?, Thu 3 Apr 2025, 6:23,
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