Especially Math.

Would be great if that was the joke. But it wasn’t.

I see what you’re saying about this whole hero thing but how about instead like a few months just feeling like I belong in this world and enjoy existence?

Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’ Shipping data shows container traffic from China to the US is collapsing A shopper looks at nearly empty egg shelves in a grocery store. Apollo Global Management said there “will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks”, similar to those of the pandemic, and warned of “significant layoffs” next month

President Trump claimed he has already struck “200 deals” on tariffs with foreign leaders — even as one of America’s biggest asset managers warned that a fall in trade between the US and China will lead to Covid-like shortages within weeks.

Apollo Global Management, which manages about $700 billion of assets, said analysis of China shipping data showed container traffic from there to the US is collapsing.

The consequence “will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods”, Torsten Slok, Apollo’s chief economist, said.

• Trump: I’ve made 200 tariff deals and spoken to President Xi

The White House claims that scores of trade deals are close to completion but has yet to release details of any. In an interview with Time magazine, Trump said that trade negotiations with foreign powers could be “finished” within “three to four weeks”.

“Ultimately, I’ve made all the deals,” Trump said in the interview to mark his first 100 days in office. “I’ve made 200 deals.”

Trump said that China’s President Xi had called him, despite China denying any contact between the two governments over the trade war between the economic superpowers. The president did not say when he and Xi spoke or what the two leaders discussed. “He’s called. And I don’t think that’s a sign of weakness on his behalf,” Trump said.

Trump has placed punitive 145 per cent tariffs on imports from China, while Beijing has retaliated with 125 per cent levies on US goods. “There’s a number at which they will feel comfortable,” Trump said, referring to China. “But you can’t let them make a trillion dollars on us.”

Explaining his approach to the tariff policy that has triggered weeks of ­turmoil on global markets, the ­president compared the US to the world’s department store.

“I am this giant store. It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there,” he said. “And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I’ll say, ‘If you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.’ ”

The White House suspended tariffs on other countries for 90 days this month as foreign leaders vowed to negotiate with the Trump administration, but it has not spared China.

Vowing to “fight to the end”, Beijing has restricted exports of rare earth minerals that are vital for manufacturing batteries and high-tech devices.

Apollo warned that a collapse in trade between the US and China would lead to “significant lay-offs in trucking, logistics and retail” next month.

The White House has softened its posture towards China in recent days, claiming that trade talks with Beijing were moving the right direction. China dismissed the claim as “fake news”.

Markets were subdued on Friday. US equities rallied earlier in the week, with the S&P 500 on Thursday posting its third straight gain of more than 1 per cent and the Nasdaq its own third straight gain of more than 2 per cent

The cultists, yes… but they’re not the ones keeping him on his throne. If enough rich people lose enough money he will be impeached.

They will, but that is nowhere near a majority, look at the numbers… they are cataclysmic for Trump.

The point is that it doesn’t matter to Trump, and his cronies are going to try hard to make it not matter that these things are massively unpopular to the general public.

Can we stop focusing on the fact the 20% of most crazy Trump fascists won’t change? We know they won’t change… but there are a LOT of people who voted Republican or who didn’t vote who are rethinking their choices hard right now.

Maybe it is too late, that isn’t a point I necessarily disagree with… but your thesis that things can continue to get worse and it won’t matter for Trump’s core popularity has already been proven stunningly false by every single damn poll out there of the U.S. (try watching some Republican town halls too, they are a madhouse of people screaming DO SOMETHING TO HELP US).

I hate that you are right about that.

The cultists at jonestown were perfectly fine to die. The magas will die for him at well without complaint.

After the great divide and maga has central USA, you guys can get back to work, but unfortunately the civil war is gonna suck

There’s a lot of folks who are either.:

Vote republican by default, but a shock could change them.

People who vote for or against the status quo based on how the feel things are going. Trump lost in 2020 in part due to people voting against whoever was in office. Hilary Clinton probably would have lost in 2020 had she won in 2016. Trump won in 2024 in part due to similar sentiment to vote out the current party after the inflation that was likely unavoidable consequence of not collapsing from COVID.

Yes the MAGA cult is unwavering, and they are a huge factor in the GOP primaries and certainly an asset in the general election, but they are not enough to assure an election.

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IMO it’s not really the MAGA idiots you need to worry about. It’s the influential people in the republican party who are supporting Trump.

You’re right that the stereotypical trump supporter can’t be dissuaded by economic hardship.

However, the people that thought Trump was going to deliver them never before seen profits through de-regulation can very easily be dissuaded be economic hardship.

An economic hole is forming, and if it’s deep enough and wide enough Trump will be unseated.

This won’t hurt him. At all. His supporters by and large are what you’d expect from full on Stockholm syndrome victims.

This is such a tired narrative.

Yes, yes it will.

It is hurting Trump, Trump has historically low approval ratings, people all across the political spectrum are literally shocked in realtime right now at how fast his approval ratings are tanking. Bernie Sanders and AOC are getting bigger crowds than Bernie even got during his presidential campaign. If the Republican party, Democratic party and the entire system of checks and balances were functioning in the U.S. this would be catastrophic for Trump and for Republicans in general. It still might be if we can manage to survive this.

The one issue voters who sat out last time, the middle of the ground twats who thought their vote didn’t matter, the Palestinians who thought Kamala’s stance on Israel wasn’t strong enough… Those are the people who have to suffer enough to motivate them to not be so fucking indifferent to things they don’t fully understand.

Go spit your venom somewhere else and stop condescending people for seeing genocide as a redline.

Leftists voted for Kamala, the people who didn’t vote were meaningfully connected to Palestinians or were Arab… in other words this wasn’t political for them this was just a basic litmus test for whether centrist democrats can be trusted not to turn a blind eye to blatant horrific genocide against arab people while at the same time lecturing other countries about human rights.

You just directly chastised people who decided not to vote for a presidential candidate that was the previous vice president under the president that directly facilitated and provided political backing for a genocide of their people and homeland, do you understand how pathetic you sound? This isn’t about Trump being worse, of course Trump is worse, what is pathetic is that you would in this moment of utter strategic failure on every level by the entrenched corporate leadership of the democratic party to resist against an openly fascist candidate… choose to pick on people adjacent to one of the most horrific genocides in modern history…

Let me re-emphasize to everyone who upvoted this fool, the person I am replying is admitting that they think their best strategy for appealing to more people with their viewpoint is picking on victims of a genocide. Do you really want to throw your lot in with people like this who are so bereft of strategies and visions that can appeal to everyone?.

By October 2024, Israel said it bombed 40,000 locations[4] in the Gaza Strip (which is 360 km2). By one estimate, as of April 2024 the bomb tonnage dropped on Gaza was more than 70,000 tonnes,[5] surpassing the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_Strip

the Gaza strip is only 360 square kilometers, the other bombed places being compared here are far larger areas, and yet there still has been more bombs dropped, almost every single one gleefully handed over by the U.S., on the Gaza strip than these other places.

When will you suffer enough to realize that you were on a tiny, cynical island of people who thought we could ignore the plight of the Palestinian people as if it were an unconnected issue to the U.S. and as though the U.S. public could be calmed down by the likes of Chuck Shumer uselessly waving his hands around as the democratic party turned around and did whatever the hell AIPAC wanted… and the world watched on as Israel committed genocide full tilt and unabated?

Why are you still talking like you represent any kind of majority coalition? …like you represent the nexus of any kind of ideological or political consensus?

You are an irrelevant cynical voice yelling ineffectually into the void.

Rice and Sriracha for dinner again!

I grew up poor as hell. I broke the cycle in my family just in time to have to deal with this shit. My garden is looking like it’s going to do well this year and if meat starts getting scarce I can go hunting from time to time or get some yard birds from the friends I get my eggs from, but god damn (or maybe I’ll go vegetarian, wouldn’t be the first time), I just wanted a little more time not having to live hand to mouth.

But I’ll make it as long as flour doesn’t get to be the price of beef. And I’ll complain the whole fucking time.

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I think the “too much winning” is the best

Tbf, a lot of Dem voters sat it out, allowing him in. Don’t forget that special class of virtue signalling moron.

Having just spent 2 weeks in japan, I’m not looking forward to my first poop at home. Am going to be looking at cost of upgrading.

I want one so bad, but I can’t get the husband on board. I have considered just buying it and installing it myself via the “do it anyways and ask for forgiveness” method, but dunno if butt spray is a battle I’m willing to choose yet. I just want to convince him it’s a good idea.

I wonder where most bidets are manufactured

I also have a box of sandpaper

Is that the stuff that needs 3ft per tear before it resembles some sort of protection against stinky finger?

You’re so aggressive for no reason. I didn’t even remotely suggest I actually bought the TP I was just commenting on my silly thoughts. Lighten up. It has to be miserable being so miserable.

Which is why I didn’t say I was going to do it. I just said I had the urge to do it, and admitted it was silly and weird, we’re saying the same thing.

I’ve been seeing a lot of tiktoks about raising meat rabbits lately

Faster than you think. I’ve lived off zero a few long stretches, it get really irritating when you realize you’re out of fat to lose.

Strategic… They stopped paying for wegovy first to get people desperate.