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VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

black people can't steal your farm profits if you go broke in a trade war
*taps forehead*

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shirts and skins
Jun 25, 2007

Good morning!

Kitfox88 posted:

totally unrelated i just wanna say 'comptroller' is a sickass title that i thought was like a made up fantasy thing until a year or two ago

It's literally just a misspelling of controller that got used enough to become a word. English: no rules!

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

shirts and skins posted:

It's literally just a misspelling of controller that got used enough to become a word. English: no rules!

Sounds nominal.

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

shirts and skins posted:

It's literally just a misspelling of controller that got used enough to become a word. English: no rules!

tbf that makes it even cooler because it's a rulebreaking loner who gets the job done

via comptrolling.

shirts and skins
Jun 25, 2007

Good morning!

Kitfox88 posted:

tbf that makes it even cooler because it's a rulebreaking loner who gets the job done

via comptrolling.

Oh that wasn't meant as criticism, English does poo poo like that all the time

Like, a bunch of Old English words changed because the Vikings successfully invaded and started pronouncing English words wrong, and what, are YOU gonna correct them?

BAE OF PIGS
Nov 28, 2016

Tup
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1095104168132526085

https://twitter.com/C0INCELPR0/status/1094941367799869441

:thunk:

BAE OF PIGS
Nov 28, 2016

Tup
wtf this is the bad trump thread

BAE OF PIGS has issued a correction as of 02:01 on Feb 12, 2019

BAE OF PIGS
Nov 28, 2016

Tup
wtf

BAE OF PIGS has issued a correction as of 02:01 on Feb 12, 2019

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Kitfox88 posted:

tbf that makes it even cooler because it's a rulebreaking loner who gets the job done

via comptrolling.

Literally the opposite of what a comptroller does.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

comptroll my balls

Telsa Cola
Aug 19, 2011

No... this is all wrong... this whole operation has just gone completely sidewaysface

bird with big dick posted:

comptroll my balls

That costs extra

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

pseudanonymous posted:

Literally the opposite of what a comptroller does.

fake news

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
I spotted this summary

quote:

Donald Trump’s trade wars are making things worse for U.S. farmers—the Wall Street Journal reports, for instance, that “Tariffs on U.S. pork have helped contribute to a record buildup in U.S. meat supplies, leading to lower prices for beef and chicken”—a blow that comes during a worldwide glut of commodities like corn and soybeans. “We thought 2019 would be the year things turned around,” a banker told the newspaper. “Then the trade dispute happened and that really put a damper on things.”
Which led to this article

quote:

2.5 Billion Pounds of Meat Piles Up in U.S. as Production Grows, Exports Slow

Profits, prices are threatened as record amounts of red meat and poultry fill U.S. warehouses
The rest is behind the WSJ paywall, but I think the headline says it all.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
That's not a problem. As supply increases, the price will surely drop until all that meat is consumed!

Randalor
Sep 4, 2011



"Hmmmm... we can't export our product, and we can't sell it fast enough to get rid of it. I know! Let's produce it even faster!"

So what'll happen to all the rotting meat when it can't be sold fast enough?

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?
it'll be thrown in a landfill and not used to solve hunger issues

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

I’ll eat it

HobbitGrease
Jul 24, 2001

Young Orc
giant rotting barbecue fundraiser to pay for the wall

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
40 years later, colon cancer deaths are going to explode, and people will forget about the time we ate nothing but brisket for 2 years

mr Scoop
Feb 13, 2006

Help! Someone! Cut my head off, it's trying to murder the rest of me!


Grimey Drawer

HobbitGrease posted:

giant rotting barbecue fundraiser to pay for the wall

skip the middleman and just build the wall with giant piles of rotting meat

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

mr Scoop posted:

skip the middleman and just build the wall with giant piles of rotting meat

The irony is that if we had lots of Mexicans here, they'd make enough tacos, menudo, and carnitas to solve our problems

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003

FMguru posted:


The rest is behind the WSJ paywall, but I think the headline says it all.

outline.com son!

https://outline.com/HsqFHu

gently caress all paywalls and ads

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/tentative-border-deal-in-congress-leaves-shutdown-up-to-trump

quote:

Car dealer Jim Smail in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because he wanted a businessman in the White House. The U.S. president’s trade wars have changed his mind.

“I’ve learned my lesson,’’ says the president of Smail Auto Group, which sells U.S.- and foreign-made vehicles. “I thought that’s what we needed and I got what I didn’t expect, that’s for sure.’’

Well I didn't think he would enact tariffs on the products that *I* sell, says man who voted for the tariffs on products party.

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003

Throatwarbler posted:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/tentative-border-deal-in-congress-leaves-shutdown-up-to-trump


Well I didn't think he would enact tariffs on the products that *I* sell, says man who voted for the tariffs on products party.

When people go on about "buying American" cars are literally the first thing I think of that they're referring to.

What the gently caress else did this dunce think it was going to be?

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
We need a businessman in the White House I say, as I cast my vote for a guy who went bankrupt five times running casinos and developing Manhattan real estate.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

Throatwarbler posted:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/tentative-border-deal-in-congress-leaves-shutdown-up-to-trump


Well I didn't think he would enact tariffs on the products that *I* sell, says man who voted for the tariffs on products party.

i think you linked the wrong thing dawg

https://www.autonews.com/dealers/trump-faces-tough-sell-dealers-bracing-auto-tariffs

also

quote:

"I look at tariffs as a cost to the consumer," Smail says. "I don't understand how anybody with economic advisers around him is so uninformed" about the effects of this plan, he says of Trump.

lmao. leopards eating faces etc etc

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
Whoops v:downs:v

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost
I, too, think of tarriffs as something completely different than what they actually are. How can the smart rich business president be so uninformed?

Al !
Jan 5, 2019

by Hand Knit
i thought a tariff was a kind of sales tax says moronic petite bourgeoisie

Al !
Jan 5, 2019

by Hand Knit
these are the small business owners that dems want to go after by the way

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

FMguru posted:

We need a businessman in the White House I say, as I cast my vote for a guy who went bankrupt five times running casinos and developing Manhattan real estate.

I've never even been in a casino and I'm sure I if I ran one I could manage not to bankrupt the money-o-matic machines that they are.

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

Al ! posted:

i thought a tariff was a kind of sales tax says moronic petite bourgeoisie

Economists with PhDs could go to this dude's house and explain to him that tariffs are not what he thinks they are and he would tell them all that they don't know what they're talking about.

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?
well he's richer than them and that means he's smarter than them

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

FMguru posted:

I spotted this summary

Which led to this article

The rest is behind the WSJ paywall, but I think the headline says it all.

*jordan peterson voice* I'll eat it all!

red19fire
May 26, 2010

Elephant Ambush posted:

I, too, think of tarriffs as something completely different than what they actually are. How can the smart rich business president be so uninformed?

Periodic reminder that The Wealth Of Nations, the foundational text for economics, was written by a Scottish guy specifically to convince the king of England that protectionist tariffs are bad. In 1776 :v:

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
Does it count as buying American if it's a Extremely Japanese company but the car is assembled in Greensburg, Indiana?

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Wasn't Smith also against the privatization of the commons

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/BestoftheMail/status/1095624216605614080

Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes

Fuckers should be forced to swim home.

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Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

Volcott posted:

Does it count as buying American if it's a Extremely Japanese company but the car is assembled in Greensburg, Indiana?

No.

You’ll buy your made-in-Mexico Ford and you’ll like it because ‘merica!

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