china can literally just sell US Dollars for Yuan (chinese currency) and keep people afloat while US begs for talks because rare earth mineral processed materials are going dry and idiot US won’t bail out the thousands of industries affected by same

the whole thing is so stupid because zero manufacturers are going to invest in the US when policy inevitably switches back in 3 years

dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers and ground hole animals. and while this little peanut certainly isn’t big enough to do that, i imagine she survived off grubs/bugs and the like?

yah. it’s gene ludwig which was clinton’s 1990s comptroller… so take that what you will. but it’s still doing good work.

i read the methodology for its/his take on UE and it makes so so so much more sense that the BLS stats

all the official numbers are so cooked and fucked. every time i get a chance to share this site i do: https://www.lisep.org/

24% real unemployment v. 4.2% “unemployment”

9.4% true living cost v. 4.1% CPI (the CPI is heavily weighted in areas that do not affect your day-to-day living/life. if you strip down to the essentials of necessity/core living needs - inflation is so so so much worse)

$1,000 weekly earnings v. $1,194

edit: i really want to nerd rage about CPI some more. i fucking hate the CPI. i’m also a bit high rn but whatever

it does consumer-whore adjustments. so like. a faster computer = more for your dollar even though it costs more. but it doesn’t account for this because faster computer = less inflation or something another???

it also does the substitutions: if pork is expensive it doesn’t account for this because you go buy beef or whatever instead. but what if everything increases? oh you buy tofu suuure.

it looks at rental costs not buying homes. sure buying a home is impossible, but this isn’t factored in because “rent only went up whatever %” while down payment + interest rate + housing costs went WILD.

the CPI includes things people don’t buy or put in their budget. jet skis? cool it’s included even though who tf buys jet skis? (okay jet skis are cool… but you see my point?)

if the CPI was actually accurate, it would look at only/weight HEAVILY core living costs. things like: housing, utilities, internet, food, healthcare, transportation, childcare, and personal good like soap, detergent, basic clothing. fuck everything outside of this.

i’m not sure what your perspective is, might be true tbh, but paying Federal taxes pisses me off because i know i pay a shit ton more than assholes who make 5-30x my salary and it all goes to the war machine instead of social programs / welfare.

living in california making $65,000 pays ~$16,000 of income taxes. income is the bulk of tax, but additional taxes are: sales tax (~10%), 1.2% property tax, vehicle reg, gas tax, state disability insurance tax, parcel taxes, etc.

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mom said it’s my turn to negotiate with trump

no way he’s serious super serious :)

dude lol. i know. i knnnnow. go reread my comments <3

wdym Ryan Grimm literally just posted that he’s regularly talking to President Xi

Trump and Xi. They are not talking. Zero chance. Trump is clearly lying.

I too speak regularly with Chairman Xi. He says I am amazing and am the pride of the proletariat. … Do not attempt to confirm this with Xi, he said he would deny it.

there’s zero chance Trump and Xi are talking. neither of these two have any idea how any of this works to the degree/level required to come to a trade deal with one another.

when there are legit trade talks it’s going to be entire teams of people over the course of weeks/months with extreme technical understanding of commodities, manufacturing, currency, supply chains, etc.

there’s different camps, and party lines imo has nothing to do with it. the neoliberal types (more and more modern AI techbro fucks) want to privatize functions of the government for themselves. others just want to right-wing libertarian destroy everything that rich people don’t need.

they forgot about the “riot tax” but they’ll be reminded soon enough the more and more they squeeze people.

don’t ever forget too: the Clinton administration destroyed welfare more than any administration ever. hell, the senate democrats voted for the house republican’s spending bill just last month.

full blown fascism fuck the USA

FREE THIS QUEEN

i’d get you some sources but i really really don’t want to duckduckgo search “elon musk’s destroyed penis”

ofc not. the Trump admin doesn’t even know what it wants.

USA’s vassal state Japan, AS SOON AS TARIFFS were announced, put together an economy/negotiating team and got their ass straight to Washington.

they sat around, said over and over again “WHAT DO YOU WANT FFS???” with the Trump team making no demands or anything.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/politics/government/what-do-you-want-veteran-diplomat-says-trump-administration-could-not-explain-what-they-wanted-to-japan-during-trade-talks/ar-AA1Diz4f

from am prospect today:

“Trump chickened out” was the top trending topic on China’s Weibo social media website on Wednesday, with more than 150 million views.

“hey! you can’t do that!!!”

Asmongold knows how to play Path of Exile.

great post but lol no he doesn’t. <3

And then, somehow this unbelievable loser is a sex pest who pressures women to have his kids but doesn’t even get laid in the process.

isn’t that because his penile implant fucking exploded and destroyed his penis?

adding on to the IVF, i’ve read (articles citing unnamed sources, take what you will from that) that’s why he’s pissed at his trans daughter. because he “paid for” a male son.

i liked these because I could jump way way way higher than i ever could on my skateboard

just go to the park and sprint at a bench/table and grind the entire length of the thing. things were fun as all hell for awhile. this was like… god… 1997?

it got old after awhile because while doing sick ass grinds was fun as hell, that was all you could really do. went back to skateboarding pretty quick.