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Yep, boring Joe Biden who oversaw the best pandemic recovery in the G7 and handed trump back a robust economy. Boring, sleepy Joe, who shaped policy like a rational adult instead of destroying global markets with toddler tantrums and 2AM toilet tweets. You can bet those aging MAGA faithful who were in retirement and looking to retire are not going to be happy about extending or rebooting their careers through a likely recession. But hey, they can all go pick fruit once Trump has destroyed the agricultural labor pool. Other jobs will be hard to keep and hard to get.

The word is "drivel" you halfwit. And yes, the dismantling of democracy. The intended disempowerment of the judicial branch to a state where laws can no longer protect the people from the whims of a dictator. In a nation of laws, you appeal an unfavorable decision. In a budding dictatorship, you attack the judge personally, you call the judge biased, you call the judge corrupt, you attack the judge's authority to adjudicate the matter, you attack the judicial branches authority to adjudicate the matter and ultimately you refuse to abide by decisions no matter what level of court has rendered the decision. The fall of a nation of laws in a few easy steps. And that's what you're blindly cheering on, without knowing anything whatsoever about any of the judges in question. You cheer it just because your master said it.

@gatomontes99 I don't blame or judge you for ignorance (everyone has gaps in knowledge) but I certainly do blame you for for combining ignorance with being a smug, arrogant douche. And now also for being a gutless weasel. Since you don't have the integrity to admit that you were mistaken, rude and arrogant while being ass backward--I'll do your Google University homework for you. For the folks playing along at home: This is you "Diamonds have a very low price elasticity. Increased prices result in severe drops in demand because a diamond is not necessary." This is reality CFI The lower the price elasticity of demand, the less responsive the quantity demanded is given a change in price. When the price elasticity of demand is less than one, the good is considered to show inelastic demand. When the quantity demanded does not respond to a change in price, it is said that demand is perfectly inelastic. If an inelastic good has its price increased, it will lead to increased revenues because each unit will be sold at a higher price. This is reality - Investopedia "Usually, unique goods, such as diamonds, are inelastic because they have few if any substitutes."

Sure, we all know that despite his age, Biden was a top tier drone pilot. 🙄

There's no "unmasking" you weirdo. He's just a regular judge trying to administer the law. This is the executive trying to eliminate any check on his power by attacking the co-equal judicial branch. To end the rule of law and replace it with rule by executive fiat. Trump has done this consistently with the judiciary--and the media, for that matter. Every judge that inconveniences him is smeared and attacked and threatened to discourage the next one. The "dismantling" you're cheering about is the dismantling of democracy.

As predicted, you are not up to the challenge. Slink away!

I have a degree in economics, dummy. That's why it takes about a half second to recognize that you have no farking clue what you're taking about. This is you: "Diamonds have a very low price elasticity. Increased prices result in severe drops in demand because a diamond is not necessary." You literally have the definition of price elasticity backward. You googled it, but you didn't understand it. And even a basic course someone would have taught you about the Veblen effect, where paradoxically price increases to luxury goods can even increase demand. Diamonds are a classic example of an inelastic luxury. You Google some nonsense and then pop into this forum strutting around telling people to take a course while you are farking drowning while everyone watches. A Dunning Krueger case study right before our eyes. Tell you what. Why don't you re-enroll in Google University and go search up 1. The definition of price elasticity, and 2. The price elasticity of diamonds. Then come back here and post them in the thread. I expect we'll all see again that you're not man enough to own your mistakes, but will instead tuck your tail between your legs and slink off.

Why is China about to become the world's #1 economy? Because Trump is actively destroying the current #1.

Tell us without telling us? You just did! Lol A. You have it backward. Low price elasticity (as you described Diamonds) means that demand is not very responsive to changes in price. B. Diamonds and eggs are both famously inelastic. Again, meaning that demand stays relatively consistent even as prices increase--but obviously for very different reasons. You should probably request a refund from Google University. Meanwhile, cost, price and price elasticity are all different things. Don't conflate them. If costs go up, prices will go up not necessarily linearly, but with big tariffs on consumer goods it's both obvious and significant. The degree to which demand is affected or not affected by changes in price is the elasticity. -- Low elasticity doesn't mean the prices haven't gone up, it just means people are still paying the higher price. And high elasticity doesn't mean that prices don't go up, it just means potential consumers fall out of the market more quickly. High elasticity and falling demand can restrain cost-driven price increases by shifting pressure to margins instead of price, but even that flexibility is limited to the size of the margins. If the seller has to raise the price of blenders to remain profitable in the face of increased costs, the consumer can indeed choose not to pay the higher price. Demand goes down, creating downward pressure on price, but only within margins. Sellers can't sustainably sell below cost. The consumer who can't bear or chooses not to bear the increased prices and falls out of the market is also worse off, being denied the utility of the blender. Even though they didn't pay the higher price in dollars they indeed "pay the price" for artificial cost increases.

You certainly do buy a lot of bullshit. Raising the cost to import goods may or may not make the cost to consumers go up? Jeebus. That was a huge mystery.

Because if something challenging happens while a president is in office, he gets a Mulligan! Trump plays president with a very high handicap, you know, because he's not prepared for a tough hole. Only easy holes. He loves easy holes. When you're a celebrity you can do whatever you want.

It's not that the policies are demonstrably better, as supported by evidence. It's just that they've been getting lucky, consistently, for the last 45 years.🙄 They will shut out this information immediately. No room for it in their religion.

What's happening to people like @gatomontes99 right now is rather sad. Campaign: Trump's policies as described and their effects described sound great! In office: Trump's policies weren't as described and the the effects are the opposite of what was promised, still great! Because they have no grounding in reality. It's simple cultish devotion. Like the notion of papal infallibility, no matter what kind of mess is being made or the harm being done, if Trump did it, it's right. Hail Melania, full of grace. Don't look at the news, don't listen to all those economists (heretics!) and whatever you do, don't look at your 401K. Just have faith. He moves in mysterious ways.

The intent is to replace low paying service and gig jobs with higher paying manufacturing work. It's not an unreasonable desire, but there are much smarter ways build up manufacturing. Perhaps without strangling the economy and crushing consumers with this thoughtless, regressive trade war.

Lol. You live in an echo chamber fantasy land. Trump inherited a strong Obama economy, enacted tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy), enacted tariffs and STILL performed worse on jobs than the economy he inherited. This bullshit about tariffs bringing jobs back to the US during Trump 1 is pure wishful thinking. Obama created 1.6 million more jobs than Trump over a three-year period "Trump’s boasts about how many jobs he has added don’t include that he has generated 6.5 million jobs under his Presidency vs. the 8.1 million, or 1.6 million fewer than Obama did under the same timeframe. On average Obama created 43,000 more jobs per month than Trump." ^^and that's before we even get to the COVID mismanagement. You don't have a clue.

Everything you say here is correct. However talking in isolation about tariffs (rather than inclusively about tax cuts for the wealthy) as Gatomontes was doing simply means making working class people pay more for goods so that (hypothetically) other working class people can have jobs. Jobs are great, but the approach is wildly ignorant and haphazard.

If you'd like to see an actual conservative intellectual (like hunting for an endangered species) you might give this a watch. The partisan defense is still there, but there is thinking behind it. Oren Cass - Understanding Trump Tariffs Through the Lens of “The New Conservatives”

Lol. So, some sort of wealth transfer through taxation is now good? 🤪 Did someone hit you on the head with a mallet recently? The problem in this case is that it's taking from the working class to give to the working class rather than the CEOs making 500x as much as their employees.

Rand Paul is right that conservatives did used to understand that tariffs are taxes on the people, and that, yes, they gave up all the things they used to believe in. But still an ldiot, because these taxes came specifically through representation. The fools voted for this. They brought it upon us. You can't support an agent of chaos and then complains when it bites you.

The irony of importing twitter videos while claiming to "ignore the noise" is hard to miss. Meanwhile, that guy is a partisan hack and shameless liar, BTW. Is that why you're a fan? The US government does NOT control oil production. Oil companies produce as much oil as they think will be strategic and profitable. The Biden administration did not cut oil production--nor could they. Oil companies cut production because it was farking COVID times and people weren't driving nearly as much. Supply and demand. Nor did Biden solicit criminal immigrants with malicious intent. Nor is Musk discovering vast fraud. Rather he crows about "discovering" some crazy thing and it bounces around the conservative echo chamber for a day before someone who actually knows what they are doing explains how these systems actually work. If, if, if. If Trump can ride a unicorn into space it will be the most substantial presidency! He's living in a fantasy land as Trump strangles the life out of the economy and the liberty out of the citizenry.

Exactly. Trump's erratic nature means this isn't a change in direction, but a passing storm. Like a hurricane, it comes, it wreaks destruction, and then it goes. Businesses may do a few easy things, but are not going to significantly reorganize their strategies or make massive investments to align to his passing fancy. They will hunker down and wait out the chaos. Common people will get hurt. A few cronies will make some fast cash, and the economy will stagnate. It's Florida hurricane season come to the national economy. For Trump voters, this is a self inflicted wound.

Yes, I'm sure they will make a lot of noise and you chimps will jump around hooting for a while. But if they plan to do anything meaningful they better have something serious. What's actually posted up there is just standard operating procedure: no comment on investigations.

FBI for forever: No comment on ongoing investigations. Conservatives: Okay. FBI on Hunter laptop: No comment on ongoing investigations. Conservatives: Conspiracy and cover up! Acknowledging that they, the FBI, have a laptop, is an entirely different matter than fact checking every claim that Giuliani and his media pals make about an unvetted, alleged copy of the data. Of course they shouldn't be doing that. Sorry that long-standing, common sense policy wasn't politically convenient for people who wanted to smear Joe Biden with unsubstantiated accusations weeks before an election. But you people have to understand that the FBI isn't a political agency. It's an investigative agency.

Again? Sigh. We are both. They are not exclusive. As long as we the people are electing our leaders, it's democracy in action.

These are the same people for whom George Soros was the boogeyman for decades because he supported liberal organizations financially. Too much influence! And now we have Musk nakedly offering cash for signatures, support and realistically for votes. Everyone knows that this is not how democracy is supposed to work, but his ideological allies are willing to overlook it because they believe in the MAGA dogma far more than they believe in democratic values. We're just a quick jump away from auctioning off political positions to the highest bidder. Extreme income inequality bleeding into electoral inequality.