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He's stuck owning a depreciating rust bucket, and that's qualifier enough in my opinion

if you think birds don't have good memories and aren't intelligent look at corvids(such as crows)

Would not recommend having a staring contest with any one of them, even if it started it. If one looks at you, for the love of all that is self-preservation, look away. They don't seem to like eye contact, and they hold grudges... for a very, very long time.

The Democrats, they don't like my tariffs. They think it's too big. "Too much Mr. President, we can't handle it." The only thing they can't handle is America winning. My huge tariffs, they're going to make America great again. Strong tariffs, strong America. Democrats don't like it, Canada doesn't like it, too bad for them. They're don't want it because they're scared of how big and successful my tariffs are. They say it will break them and tear them apart, but we all know better. We know better. They took advantage of us. Biden let it happen. Obama let it happen. And I won against Obama, you know. Numbers never seen before that, except last time, of course. They're asking us to stop. We don't stop. You don't get where I am by being bad at business. We're making the greatest deal in all of American history today. It's time we took back what we deserve and "say no to no." No paying the tariffs? No more military support. No keeping drugs from getting into our borders? No more handouts. We won't accept no for an answer!

Make sure to let the door hit you on the way out, asshat.

Ew, capitalism. That diaper could have been put to good use as fertilizer instead.

In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country without there being a war?

We are talking about a country that demands regulatory concessions in foreign countries, beyond those of which are afforded to said countries' domestic businesses.

I was curious about that whole "Canada doesn't want US banks" thing that started in the beginning of our deranged trade war, and it's really stupid. Opening a bank there is oh so hard for our poor widdle conglomerate banks because... stricter regulations and an unwillingness to make 35% of their Canadian subsidiary publicly owned.

That's it. Their banks have to follow the same rules, and Trump thinks that's unfair for us.

School in a red state... isn't that just home"school"ing? Picture still applies, though.

Considering past policies, probably something about not leaving a negative comment until you've truly listened to the "victim" and empathize with them

the lobby group for JM Smucker and other big food manufacturers warned against "overly broad and sweeping tariffs" that might end up making it more expensive to import ingredients like cocoa, which are not made in the US.

"I don't necessarily want the current administration to say, well, we'll impose a tariff," Tom Madrecki, the group's vice president of supply chain resiliency, said at a recent forum about tariffs, hosted by Farmers for Free Trade.

"It's this careful balance between yes, I want you to take an America First trade policy and action to counter unfair trade policies abroad... but maybe not quite in that way."

If you're going to demand tariffs that increase prices to harm competition but not yourself, go fuck yourselves. The only thing that benefits is the company's profit margins, while consumers are forced to pay more because you raise your own prices to match.

In general, I agree with your conclusion. In this specific case with DOGE, I would argue otherwise.

Elon is overconfident about things he shouldn't be (which is everything) and not cautious about anything. With a LLM being dumb as hell and confidently wrong, that's actually not any worse than what we have now. If it somehow manages to be cautious about anything at all, it's an honest to goodness improvement.

otherwise, I'm out of the question.

You say that like there will be a choice to opt out. If the US goes to WW3, the draft and mandatory service are coming back with it.

I fully expect them to celebrate launch day by taking a sledgehammer to the old machine like that scene from Office Space. All I can say is that I really hope the SSA has been virtualizing their old COBOL applications and not running them on an ancient mainframe.