capitalism and corporate greed says that the cost of domestic goods will go up, too, to be just less than the now higher-priced imports.

penguins like cheetos. i remember that uh… ‘documentary’. we should send 'em a big giant fat one. no charge. just to say ‘sorry’ for imposing the unfair tariffs on their trade.

ok, then…

i have a huge trade deficit with walmart.

i buy way more from them than they do from me ($1200-1500 a year vs $0); just like the u.s. buys more from many countries than those countries buy from the u.s.

like the leaky diaper’s new tariffsimport tax, i should charge myself a ridiculously high extra tax on purchases from walmart until they buy $1200-1500 a year of some mythical product from me to even out the ‘unfair’ imbalance?

yea. that’ll work.

ain’t gonna cost me $5k more a year…

i don’t have that $5k extra to spend, so i’ll just keep on ‘making do’ with less and less each year. i’m already near the absolute minimum and close to scoping out a spot under a bridge by the river.

the giant hemorrhoid-in-chief has already cultivated a whole new generation of american-hating terrorists… that was last time. this time around, it’s just reinforcement for them to expand their numbers and sustain that hate for generations-yet-to-come.

the cops wanted this, because it will remove new local accountability and oversight. the state won’t give a shit what they (the cops) do.

meanwhile, the city is forced to increase the police department budget and maintain funding at a high level, based on percent of budget. this effectively jacks the costs up on any local initiative or project or service the city wants to or needs to do: want to direct $5 million of city funds to a literacy campaign? gotta give the cops another $1m+, too

the exporter need not be based in the origin (‘tariffed’) country to have their goods taxed on import.

funneling profits to overseas subsidiaries to lower a corporation’s overall tax burden is a different issue.

maximum extent consistent with applicable law

so, not at all, then? because this shit has to get through congress first?

how about not buying russian oil in the first place.

this but much, much worse.

‘I Expected Better’

this is what you voted for.

if you want ‘better’, make better choices–inside and outside the voting booth.

as long as some of ‘those people’ get hurt along the way, the magats don’t care.

mickey is gonna take on both muskrat and the diaper, but it won’t be to fight–it will be capitulation sealed with a three-way and a shower of money from the disney vault.

it’s probably gonna be plasma6 by a hair over cinnamon on a rolling distribution. as much as people shit on manjaro here and on that other site, it has never broke on me–whether i update constantly or let it go 2-3 months between them.

but if the de and the underlying os are magically compatible, and those and programs kept up to date, never obsolete, and new ones appear for it as needed or desired… then sorry, it won’t be linux… i’m going back to something like 95osr2, 98se or w2k.

preserve evidence?

this administration?

bummer. i was kinda hoping to see them actually denied entry.

i think it’s entirely possible that the pardon for ‘everything’ is already waiting for a sharpie scribble and that the SEC charges were not only expected–but planned in advance by muskrat.

it’s the direction the figure is no-doubt going. in six weeks, that estimate will be a lot higher.

‘half a trillion’ now is a very fair choice of wording.

oh, they’ll still have to raise taxes on the lower half of earners, strip essential services bare–if they continue to exist at all, and pile on trillions to the national debt for that.

adding debt is ‘free money’ to them. not like they gotta pay it back…

odds on muskrat taking the government down with him?

imagine the backdoors and other goodies planted by the interns during the blitzkrieg through government systems, and all the data that’s been uploaded to xitter-controlled servers.