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Posted: **Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:23 pm**

GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:13 pmNukes incoming.

Not sure how a nuke pays a tariff, but it better.

Posted: **Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:46 pm**

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:23 pm
GORDON wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:13 pmNukes incoming.
Not sure how a nuke pays a tariff, but it better.

If their economy crashes hard enough over this, they'll realize they have nothing to gain any longer by letting us exist. Nukes incoming.

Posted: **Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:51 pm**

Nah, they'd just use all the backdoor access they already have to shutdown electricity grids, water networks, and comms.

Posted: **Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:27 pm**

I'm sure everything is appropriately air-gapped by now, he said with a straight face.

Posted: **Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:15 am**

Dude wrecking the US dollar.

Posted: **Fri Apr 11, 2025 7:43 pm**

GORDON wrote: ↑Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:50 am I was wondering if any of you were down a million yet in your retirement and investments.

No. In general I only look at the end of the month, but wanted to see how things have been so far this month. From our peak earlier this year, we are down $600k.

Posted: **Fri Apr 11, 2025 7:46 pm**

Americans are rarely this pessimistic about the economy.

Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the University of Michigan said in its latest survey released Friday, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/economy/ ... index.html

Posted: **Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:11 pm**

Posted: **Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:17 pm**

What is liberation day

Posted: **Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:49 pm**

GORDON wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:17 pm What is liberation day

Trump declared the tariff Announcement as Liberation Day (April 2nd). Americans were liberated from their wealth and economic growth.

Posted: **Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:59 pm**

Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:39 pm**

Smartphones, laptops and other electronics will be exempt from Trump’s sweeping tariffs on China.

Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:40 pm**

Would love to get a short story about what happened behind the scenes with that. Specifically, who paid who, what.

Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2025 1:08 pm**

GORDON wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:40 pm Would love to get a short story about what happened behind the scenes with that. Specifically, who paid who, what.

Apple paid $$$$$$$

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:08 pm**

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:11 pm**

People for whom a factory job would be an improvement are not taking these polls.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:52 pm**

GORDON wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:11 pm People for whom a factory job would be an improvement are not taking these polls.

That does seem pretty obvious.

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2025 7:52 am**

Leisher wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:52 pm
GORDON wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:11 pm People for whom a factory job would be an improvement are not taking these polls.
That does seem pretty obvious.

People for whom a factory job would be an improvement aren't going to work (in a factory or otherwise).

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:43 am**

I suspect there are a lot of rust belt cities that used to be heavy manufacturing.... they would welcome a couple thousand factory jobs because gig work is ridiculous.

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:59 am**

GORDON wrote: ↑Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:43 am I suspect there are a lot of rust belt cities that used to be heavy manufacturing.... they would welcome a couple thousand factory jobs because gig work is ridiculous.

Yeah, people love hard labor for $12-16 / hour.

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