Is there a version of our immediate future where these tariffs are actually imposed tomorrow (today now I guess) and prices of the majority of goods do not really increase all that much for most Americans? And if that happens, Trump’s political mandate actually grows and he gets more belligerent?

I just see this idea of a “25% tariff resulting in a 25% price hike” as one of those things that makes sense economically when you put it on paper, that domestic companies importing products who will be paying these tariffs at customs will increase the cost they sell them for to recuperate the tariff, resulting in that cost being passed to the consumer. But I just cannot shake that it also feels like one of those nothing-ever-happens hype situations where we are all looking at a US car racing towards a wall, predicting the US car will crash, and by the grace of the US-backed Anti-God, the car goes straight through the wall unscathed

Didn’t like Doge coin I guess

Damn this is legitimately evil

It really sucks you in lol they have it nailed

No lol but didn’t know that! Interesting

“Blow up like the world trade”

Some twin towers Biggie level shit

Watch peak slop — UK Traitors

Followed by Democrat: “Ok approved”

Botched operation to assassinate Eric Swalwell lol

I thought it was around 50%

Yeah this theory would make more sense of it. I’ve been stuck on the markets not reacting to the chip tariffs, just doesn’t add up. Insider trading does seem more likely

Man it’s so unclear, why ever would this happen

The Doomsday Clock seems like it has evolved into a weird, arbitrary floating reference for The Ambiguous Anxiety, lost of the context it was born from, resurfacing every now and again completely without influence, yet speaking with the authority of a deliberately unnamed global majority regardless, and each time as more of an estranged artifact in purpose, ritual, and name than before. A fabric from a totally different social weave, but presenting itself as the eternal binding thread at the heart of our fruitless society

You fuckin love to see it

Judge blocks Trump federal funding freeze on all public loans, grants and more aid

Well that was fast. I’m sure they saw this coming, what’s the play here? Get this to go up to the Supreme Court for them to validate executive dominion over legislative power for the future? Flood the system with over-the-top distractions for some percentage of that to be successful? Shooting the moon and intentionally failing in order to appease his base? Build a political mandate (illegal as it would be) for purging federal judges? Something else?

Seems like Trump knows that reaching the farthest he yet has and immediately getting shot down wouldn’t look good for him. But this is the obvious response, and yet it kind of feels like a trap. So what’s he thinking here

With Trump threatening to tariff TSMC chips (if he actually ends up doing that), pausing federal grants and loans, fucking with a fellow NATO member, etc, it honestly seems like he’s just really leaning into the mad man negotiating tactic, which only works if you show you’re genuinely willing and able to take things into new territory. It’s all so outlandishly against the interests of stabilizing US hegemony that it’s the only angle I can think of that he’s working here. Building up MadMan Capital™️ to spend later on his coming hallmark ground war with China

Only to go straight out the window to moment he leaves again

I too saw my fortune disappear this week buying one carton of eggs

The only thing I use AI for is for like trivial specific information that I would otherwise need to hunt down information about on ad filled blogs or videos. Like I was trying to fix something with my toilet and it was way faster to describe it to a bot and have it give me info on likely what’s causing it. Or I’ve also used it for things like figuring out what the best ranked seasons are for some dumb show, with context on each. I feel like it assembles that super low-level information really well. But it does feel like a slippery slope sometimes, I could see it bleeding into other parts of your life unintentionally