By the way, Chinese GDP growth has shrunk by 1% over the last five years, so surely they’re about to collapse.

https://investors.affirm.com/shareholder-services/investor-faqs

2. What is Affirm’s revenue model and how does it make money?

4. We sell a portion of the assets originated in our platform to third-party investors and recognize a gain or loss on the sale of these loans.

5. How does Affirm fund the loans it underwrites?

We have forward-flow agreements that facilitate the sale of whole loans to counterparties.

Can anybody figure out who is buying these from Affirm? I bet that’s the next Lehman Brothers.

Bold of them to assume Trump knows what the word “unilateral” means.

Well that sucks.

But it’s also like the least scary thing NASA could announce we’re on the brink of. So when you phrase it that way, it comes as a relief.

It’s the 90s and you’re a business ghoul trying to claw your way up to entrench yourself further and claw your way up above your peers. You shop around for fringe ideologues whose ideas would end up advancing your position, and invest some money to get them into into think tanks, advertising firms, talk shows, and the like. The reach of broadcast media explodes, the industry expands and everyone who got in early rises to the top, including your useful idiots. The propaganda industry gets better at its job, and you’re still listening to the TV. You bought these messages because they were convenient to you, but they’re so good at their job now that they’ve convinced you too. You’re now a true believer in whatever nonsense was tactically convenient to you 30 years ago.

(As fun as this narrative is, I’d like to point out that adding more details makes a story less likely to be true while making it sound more likely to be true.)

don’t look that up on e621

I think it would be neat if horses did have feathers, though.

As funny as this is, it’s also wrong. China’s top imports from the US are fossil fuels and turbines. Then agricultural products. Optical and medical equipment, airplane parts, and circuits are also high up there.

Brand new horizons for paid product placement.

Both Easter and bunnies are real, making the Easter Bunny more real than most religious and mythical figures.

I think they just say bringing factories onshore would be good because the news said they should say that. 12 years of shitty education that trains them to say back what the teacher said last week, a lifetime of people on TV telling them what to think, of course that’s what they say.

Distract them with a robot squirrel.

I haven’t run the numbers or anything, but fake grass is probably better for the environment than a constantly watered, fertilized, herbicized, pesticized grass lawn.

Obviously both are worse than, like, some rocks.

He’s getting more attention from this than anything he’s ever done. He’ll keep cancelling and uncancelling tariffs until the news doesn’t cover it.

Hell yeah. All you naysayers go on and keep saying nay, but 20 years from now, on those orange sky days where the wildfire smoke makes the heat bearable, and you leave your climate bunker to scavenge for scrap, the dire wolves stalking you are really going to add to the ambiance.

What if USican diets are so starved for fruit that they’re craving a flavor they only know how to get from the horse paste?

It’s best known as horse dewormer, but it’s actually a widely effective anti-parasitic that works on dogs, cats, and probably humans (but clinical tests are lacking).

Covid is not caused by a parasite and parasitic illnesses are extremely rare in humans in the US.

Is that short for polyamorous girl, or is she actually, like, several different kinds of girl?

more like Golf Of Trump

lmao gottem airhorn airhorn airhorn etc