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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP
« on: April 30, 2025, 01:45:06 PM »
there should be a meme of each symbol tying to the letter:

Marijuana = M: OK, I can see that
Smiley face = S: sure
Cross = 1: uh, maybe?
Skull = 3: ???

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dax why does the canadian PM not care about the youth? is there a link summarizing what you've learned?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tariff caused shortages
« on: April 30, 2025, 10:10:23 AM »
the biggest furniture chain in NYC is advertising "pre-tariff" sales



https://www.raymourflanigan.com

they will raise prices and won't lower them if tariffs go down.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tariff caused shortages
« on: April 30, 2025, 10:01:32 AM »
I've been on the fence about new couches, tariffheads should I grab one before they jump in price or is furniture not expected to be a big deal?

you should hurry if it isn't too late. I would guess Memorial Day sales will be the lower than they ever will be again.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: April 30, 2025, 07:38:21 AM »
Markets are creeping back up, looks like S&P 500 is back to where it was on so called Liberation Day.

Imagine how good it would be if liberation day never happened

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tariff caused shortages
« on: April 30, 2025, 07:22:02 AM »
I have felt some urgency to buy new running shoes

Those probably won't be too bad as long as Vietnam stays at 10% or lower. I'd expect higher prices and shortages in select styles but not sure it will be disrupted too much.

Now if Vietnam goes back to 46%???

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tariff caused shortages
« on: April 30, 2025, 07:08:41 AM »
This is interesting, at the bottom you can get an idea of impact by HTS code:

https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/what-does-us-import-from-china/746291/

I'd consider buying an umbrella!!!

That's a great list!

This one looks like a major red flag. Based on what I've read, products with low margins like these are especially vulnerable to shortages.

Quote
Toys, Games And Sports Equipment; Parts And Accessories Thereof

China's market share of US imports*     73.3%

Yeah toys are a big one. I'm pretty sure just about every tennis racket except Yonex is made in China too.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tariff caused shortages
« on: April 29, 2025, 10:40:28 PM »
This is interesting, at the bottom you can get an idea of impact by HTS code:

https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/what-does-us-import-from-china/746291/

I'd consider buying an umbrella!!!

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Official NBA Thread
« on: April 29, 2025, 09:31:11 PM »
Ending of that Pacers game was fantastic
Why the fighting? I only saw the end of OT

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP
« on: April 29, 2025, 09:27:19 PM »
Dr Jill, do you have room to keep another deranged old man in your basement?

https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1917399145213747491

That is really rough ridin' wild.

The photo in question for reference:

https://x.com/yashar/status/1917382927882805455

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: April 29, 2025, 06:07:32 PM »
lmao

https://x.com/deitaone/status/1917312376946241729?s=46


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Hopefully!

90 days is gonna come quick

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: April 29, 2025, 01:20:25 PM »
Scott Bessent sure is a breath of fresh air . . . not at all shy to take on the #blueanon drama queens on the Sunday morning circuit.  Of which, like most of #blueanon, utterly clueless on everything.

lmao at him in this clip

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1917203122121839050

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tariff caused shortages
« on: April 29, 2025, 12:39:28 PM »
I want to hear about fireworks

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: April 27, 2025, 02:04:32 PM »
With my parents retired, they are pretty much open to going anywhere, anytime. I’m curious if there is a good place that shows the cheapest business/first class flight deals? Just opened end date/destination, here are cheap business/first class flights.
I'm not sure how many destinations ita matrix lets you put in but it might be a good start

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA
« on: April 27, 2025, 05:37:08 AM »
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1914843116953362502?s=46

I may have found the most maga thing

Anyone who refers to it as X is the biggest loser I've seen since the last time someone called it X in front of me.
I went to a comedy show last night and a comedian had a pretty good bit going about social media and needing likes and she said "renaming Twitter is one of the best things Elon has done because I sound like way less of a loser when I tell people I'm addicted to X".

I laughed!

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MAHA
« on: April 23, 2025, 10:46:17 PM »


Spencer Hall only posts on bluesky which is what got me to sign up. Twitter is still way better but obviously way worse than it used to be

Damn, is that due to hating Elon? Or Nazis on Twitter in general? Or do you know?

I don't know for sure why Spencer left Twitter but the whole platforming and amplifying and encouraging Nazis thing is a problem for a lot of people. I don't think Elon would be as hated as much (pre-DOGE) if he hasn't made it a priority to amplify the voices of Nazis.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MAHA
« on: April 23, 2025, 08:47:37 PM »
Spencer Hall only posts on bluesky which is what got me to sign up. Twitter is still way better but obviously way worse than it used to be

Not familiar with this individual? What's their handle?

https://bsky.app/profile/edsbs.bsky.social

A couple others that post less and less on Twitter (if at all)

https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol

https://bsky.app/profile/dirtbagqueer.rocks

https://bsky.app/profile/lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

There's probably a few others

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MAHA
« on: April 23, 2025, 08:28:42 PM »
Spencer Hall only posts on bluesky which is what got me to sign up. Twitter is still way better but obviously way worse than it used to be

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: April 23, 2025, 01:23:49 PM »
it's gonna be a mess (much bigger) if Trump doesn't fold soon

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The point still remains . . . Lick.

Why does Liz think she's allowed to criticize The Fed (prior to an election no less - how #onbrand), but the POTUS is not allowed to criticize The Fed and the Fed Chair?

She was talking about Trump wanting to fire Powell, which seems like a new bridge, not about criticizing the Fed which he has been doing for years.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 23, 2025, 07:07:57 AM »
Was "President RoboPen" a thing when Biden was actually president? I only noticed it (and only from dax) when Trump started signing dumb executive orders.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Mainstream Economics Thread
« on: April 22, 2025, 10:16:30 PM »


"making life worse for everyone"

First of all - we are still a nation that collectively lives at the pinnacle of first world problems. So this drama queening on that is positively fascinating to follow.

If (one example) "making life worse for everyone" means stopping USAID money laundering to connected #blueanon apparatchiks, then by all means, please continue.

If (second example) "making life worse for everyone" means stopping USAID money laundering to human trafficking NGO's  - purposely done to circumvent oversight and facilitate slight of hand illegal immigration.  Then by all means, please continue.

If (third example) "making life worse for everyone" mean stopping USAID funded domestic censorship campaigns - then by all means, please continue.

Whose life is improving from tariffs and DOGE?
cRusty - that’s TBD. FFS, you are pinnacle short attention span theater.

Let me ask you this (one example) why do you think a government agency where everybody made $150k plus a year, they had their own outside non governmental accounting firm (cus they were corrupt AF), and they worked out of offices that would make a Fortune 250 company jealous, and nobody showed up for work and they spent all their time wining  and dining themselves . . . should exist??

Is that helping anybody?


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What does that have to do with tariffs and whose life was improved by eliminating these made up jobs? Certainly not their families or the companies they bought from

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: April 22, 2025, 09:13:42 PM »
I don't think Obama should have droned that guy


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