(11-26-2024, 05:56 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(11-26-2024, 05:40 PM)Jag149 Wrote: Amazing what one tweet at 2am in the morning woke up everyone. What is going to occur will be sorted out as the negotiations begin. What is the value to us? Well, how much do you value the lives of Americans that are robbed, raped and killed by these people that enter our country illegally? If this hasn't touched your life I am happy for you. Put yourself in some else's shoes that it has or go talk to someone that it has.

You said, "Mexico's New president announces caravan not coming to border. as reported by Fox and CNBC. WOW, not even president and Trump having an effect. Whether this is enough to avoid tariffs we will see."

But what she actually said was "caravans of migrants no longer reach the border."  

So her statement wasn't a result of Trump exercising American power.  She was simply saying, "We've already done that."   

I'm not saying we shouldn't make much more effort to get the border closed.  I'm just calling out bull [BLEEP].  This was not a case of Mexico bowing down to Trump's threats.  In fact, if you see what else she said, it was the opposite.  

The people who lecture to us on a regular basis about economics don't know what supply and demand is; they sure as hell aren't gonna know how tariffs work.

He actually thinks this mean that Trump's tariffs will lead Walmart and only Walmart to raise prices. And if you asked him, he probably also thinks that American-produced goods won't also go up in price simply because if everything imported goes up then sellers of American goods can get away with it too.

This is why they want to get rid of DOE, folks; why they want public monies to pay for private religious 'educations': gotta keep growing new generations of people who are proud not to understand how anything works.


It's like a rehash of grade school, where the way to prove you were cool was to make a show of being clueless (because only nerds know answers).

We're kinda being stupid in thinking that someone whose most complicated economic analysis is "Eggs cost more. Who is president?" could possibly understand tariffs, and worse, that someone who is actually proud of it might bring themselves to admit fault upon having the errors of their ways explained to them.

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