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৮১টি মন্তব্য:
https://apnews.com/article/florida-childhood-vaccines-mandate-eliminate-desantis-363323dcdd3811ca9ad7def5f9a30fb2
“Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates”
What could possibly go wrong? People are blaming migrants for bringing measles into the country, now we can just infect each other. Picture it, back to the days of epidemics of childhood diseases.
It's interesting to see Trump apologists saying that "Trump was already investigated and nothing was found" and "Epstein was arrested and now he is dead, so what more is there to investigate?" while, at the same time, insisting that the files don't need to be released. (Trump apologists are no different than Hillary or Biden apologists…nothing to see, it’s the past)
How can this be a Democrat hoax when for the past 3 years MAGA, Bondi, Patel, Bongino, and Trump were saying to release the documents but now it's a hoax?
Trump's own vice president JD Vance was theatrically pounding the lectern and angrily demanding the release of the files during the 2024 campaign, impugning the Biden administration for not doing so.
Today? He's ready to move on to something else without ever seeing the files. Not suspicious at all. Nope.
If there is nothing important or incriminating in the files, what's the harm in releasing them?
This stuff is bordering on trying to damage the blog.
Newsweek: "What's going on with The Howard Stern Show? What we know"
Stern reportedly emailed his 95 employees on Labor Day evening "out of the blue" about the news of the show's delay, calling the decision a result of "frustrations over the new contract" he's been negotiating with SiriusXM, according to the Daily Mail.
One industry insider told the U.S. Sun: "Sirius and Stern are never going to meet on the money he is going to want. It's no longer worth the investment."
Go Woke, Pay cut. Howard is not going broke, but he may have to take a pay cut. He bet big on the Left and, like all the other shows that did, ratings have probably faltered.
Mo in Chicago
Mohammad Ahmad, 27, of Burbank, was arrested Sunday after investigators connected him to a mid-July break-in at St. Bede & St. Denis Parish, 8200 South Kostner Avenue.
check link for photos and further information.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/09/man-charged-with-church-burglary-after-cpd-shares-video-with-public.html
“This stuff is bordering on trying to damage the blog.”
Your Russophilia and the many repetitive comments you make that quote Russian propaganda could be more damaging to the blog than discussing the Epstein scandal.
Inga is back because Trump's health rumors are the perennial but new "Walls Closing In" on Trump. Inga wants to be here when they wheel him out from the white house, to celebrate.
Omar @notomarfxf
speaking of churchil, what did he say about the jews back then?
refresh our memories…
Uri Kurlianchik @VerminousM
With pleasure!
Churchill described the Jews as a "higher grade race" compared to the "great hordes of Islam."
He wrote that "Some people like the Jews and some do not, but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race that has ever appeared in the world," adding that "We owe to the Jews a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together."
Kak the hack is WACK!!!
brain fog- first used according to google AI in 1850 or so. And became a much more popular diagnosis or condition in the 1990s, rather not coincidently, when Joe in Joe Versus the Volcano was diagnosed with it. That's when I first heard the term. As a running joke through the fllm, not as a real thing.
And after that I only heard it as a real thing starting during the covidiocy. AI (and papers) attribute it to a covid aftermath, but, curiously, in my experience, only in the vaccinated. Sort of like long covid- appears only in the vaccinated who have had covid.
Oh- and on that subject- if you got vaccinated for measles on 9/01 (or mumps or diphtheria, etc.) for example, and get the disease the day after- it's a vaccine failure- you were vaccinated as of 9/01. If you were vaccinated for covid on 9/01 and came down with it 9/10- you were unvaccinated according to the health establishment. Also on 9/11-9/14 IIRC- you're not vaccinated until 15 days later. That's the only way they could say vaccination was effective- by counting a huge number of vaccinated people as unvaccinated...
But to go on... I've got a pretty good feel for the way things were 10 or more years ago and the way they are now. 2 days ago I watched someone making a left turn from the left turn lane on a green light- not a green ARROW- right in front of a pickup truck that slammed on it's brakes in time. And yesterday on a T intersection where there was a stop sign I was making a left and slammed on my brakes as a vehicle made a left turn without even slowing down, right through the stop sign. I'm much more careful on the road now because watching these things is now a one or two times a month thing, whereas 10 years ago it was rare. (2 days in a row is a first, didn't happen today.) My son who I've discussed this with attributes this to Covid Shot Syndrome- Brain Fog. He's in FL, and right after the shots became available, and older people were prioritized, and there's more older people there, there were an increasing and noticeable increase of older people drifting across lanes or taking their foot off the accelerator and slowing down to a stop... things like that. And coming out of a trance like state after the fact. Brain fog.
If you observe behavior at intersections, both light controlled an stop or yield sign controlled, other drivers are also aware of this. People are much more hesitant to pull out when they have a clear right of way now until they are absolutely certain the oncoming traffic without the right of way is actually going to stop. I know I'm doing that. As is my wife, both of us among the rare unvaccinated senior citizen class. Also on the major routes that aren't freeways an increasing number of people who can't quite get up to the speed limit, and slow down for all curves, however slight. I suspect that's related...
And in today's other news- once again Trump wasn't ended. For 3 days X commenters told me how the Epstein survivors were going to have a press conference today and end Trump. And once again, nothing happened. In fact, they didn't name anyone at all.
"My son who I've discussed this with attributes this to Covid Shot Syndrome- Brain Fog."
You might also consider there are a not insignificant number of people in the country these days who don't speak/read English and have minimal experience driving on US roads. Have you seen the video of the Indian (dot, not feather) trucker who made a U-turn on the interstate and killed three people?
Mason Guy
I am aware of that- and other similar incidents. This is not the same thing. This is a different problem. Mostly rural up here. The "migrants" contribute heavily to the DUI rate up here, but not much more then that. And that's mostly a weekend late night thing...
The two recent incidents I witnessed were both older Caucasian drivers, first one female, second one male.
Savor the Suck, Inga…
https://x.com/amuse/status/1963352587853341136
Trump's promise, and then failure to release the Epstein files is a "Democrat hoax".
There you have it, MAGA. Trump thinks you will buy that. That is how little he thinks of you
Florida is eliminating the mandate for vaccines. Not the vaccines themselves.
Because how DARE the parents of those children decide what's best for their health. It should be the almighty STATE instead.
Maybe those people who kneel at the power of the STATE could check on just how many vaccines are now being required as opposed to, say ... 50 years ago.
And please cite the source of your cut-n-paste.
“Florida is eliminating the mandate for vaccines. Not the vaccines themselves.”
Yes, that’s apparent, it is what the article says, who said differently?
“And please cite the source of your cut-n-paste.”
I linked to the article in my comment, did you not see it?or were you in such a hurry to make a dumb comment you read sloppily?
"This is not the same thing."
It was just a thought.
Second year in a row that I've had a student panic because I do not use the "Learning Management Software," but instead hand out a good old tried and true paper syllabus.* Both times the students have never seen such a thing and have never been allowed to figure out how best to manage their own time: they simply do whatever tasks the "Learning Management Software" queues up for them that day!
Last year's student turned out to be a huge success. He LOVED that he could decide whether to do the reading for Monday on Friday evening, Saturday, or Sunday, and the software wasn't constantly bugging him that he hadn't done the reading Friday evening. Keeping my fingers crossed that this year's panicked student will feel similarly--she seemed ok when she left my office.
It is educational malpractice to program each day of a COLLEGE student's life this way. Actually, it's malpractice to do it to high school students. If you wonder why so many students are struggling with depression and anxiety maybe, just maybe, it is because WE'VE TAKEN AWAY THEIR AUTONOMY in seemingly every aspect of their lives.
By the way, these kinds of changes were never debated widely or discussed either nationwide or within individual institutions. They were imposed during the remote and "hybrid" parts of covid and now no one questions them.
*I put a pdf of the syllabus on the course website so that if they lose their copy they don't have to ask me for another, and I put up copies of assignments for the same reason. But that's all because that is sufficient. They're adults.
“This stuff is bordering on trying to damage the blog.”
When I think about the best days of this blog, I don't worry about the content re the two comments before you hyperventilated like a little bitch in this thread.
Palladian, Methadras, the typing bug, the gay person (with so-called rare Clumbers) that claimed to be rich though any rich person could see otherwise, Sundries, Sire Says, Bit Torrent, that NY dude that had a wife that sold Emani size clothes, the various highly literature-knowledgable folks that were way smarter than me (re that stuff) so I didn't always get what they were saying, and so on.
Jaq, if you pull your head out of your ass for a second, instead of tossing out your garbage comments claiming that you are the arbiter of what is good on this blog, can you name any commenters that you miss from these threads?
Budget for printing paper could be used better fpr other things.
In the Mamdani thread you have a commenter saying that he has never been to IHOP for seventeen years, but over that time every plate they serve is pancakes with U-235 laced syrup.
When I showed up here in early 2008, if I was that sloppy with a comment, Althouse herself would have shredded me in the threads for making such a shitty statement. In fact, she did rip me apart for far less.
Thanks to her I got better, I cover my flank now.
Hence, now I'm the ombudsman around here. So (until Althouse starts deleting all my comments, yet again) you slobs better get your shit together.
"If there is nothing important or incriminating in the files, what's the harm in releasing them?"
How many times do I have to explain this? The most important and incriminating possible evidence that might be found in the files would be explicit videos of adults having sex with children. It is a felony to possess or view such things unless you are an authorized law enforcement officer, and even then only under the strictest conditions. If any of the evidence falls into that category, it CANNOT be released.
I love your explanation, Dr Weevil.
The shit that Trump and his close friends did to those kids is so vile that it can never see the light of day.
The 'Epstein Files' are not what needs exposing, past revealing the criminal acts that need prosecuting. What does need exposing, desperately, are the people and the organizations that have successfully stymied investigation of these acts for over 10 years by protecting the criminals.
TikTok via Reddit: This guy is asking good questions.
It doesn’t jibe with Trump’s “I don’t want people to die” rhetoric, when asked why he feels so strongly about ending the war in Ukraine.
Yes, but.... were they shooting?
Newsweek: "Malcolm Gladwell revises stance on trans athletes in women's sports"
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is revising his take on transgender athletes, saying he's ashamed of his previous comments supporting trans women in sports.
Gladwell, 62, divulged his amended point of view on the hot-button issue during a podcast Tuesday, insisting "trans women have no place" competing with athletes assigned female at birth.
Conceived female sex. Observed feminine gender at birth, earlier with sensing (e.g. ultrasound). Transgender (e.g. homosexuals orientation) is assigned later in life by choice.
Non-sterilizing injections are jabs, not vaccines, and should not be administered through coercion: mandate or deception. Treatments have a context relevant application (e.g. AIDS and male trans/homosexuals in socially liberal association, COVID and individuals with comorbidities who are not eligible for other treatments or isolation, etc).
Given the cultural chasm between the west and Islamic societies vis-a-vis rape gangs (see U.K.), I can’t help but wonder if the burqa is a self defense mechanism as much as it is a denigrating one.
…I’m an immigration lawyer…
Well of course you are…
Considering Congress just released a bunch of Epstein files and Judges won’t, I think it is a hoax that Trump is blocking the release.
Gladwell is the perfect moneyball track star. Gangly, spastic, perhaps the most un-aerodynamic looking runner ever. Your track team could have picked him up for league minimum…
That lawyer holy cow-an argumentative style perfect for not winning an argument…
Bond investors count on Trump tariff revenues to rein in US debt ~ FT
'President’s levies now seen as a way to offset tax cuts and keep a lid on government borrowing'
It is also interesting that the bond markets, CBO, others are making decade-long projections of sharply higher government revenues in the face of significantly higher tariffs which materially raise the final price for US consumers.
So is US demand for all these vast imports so perfectly inelastic, that US consumers will pay $ 4 trillion extra over the next decade, without any dent in the corresponding demand ? Has the Demand Curve been abolished ?
Or perhaps there is a serious belief that it is the exporters and sellers to the US who will eat the huge new tariffs and keep final consumer prices in the US mostly unchanged ?
It sounds almost magical, the neat trend-line thinking that is hoping for the best possible outcome and mostly dismissing any risk of alternate outcomes.
My son who I've discussed this with attributes this to Covid Shot Syndrome- Brain Fog.
well, NO.
let me explain What is causing it..
Google Maps.
Google Maps TOLD them to turn left.. So they did.
You're upset because they turned left into oncoming traffic
(even blowing through a stop sign to do so)
The fact is: Google Maps TOLD them to turn left..
What ELSE could they do? You HAVE TO OBEY
If GOOGLE Maps wanted you to stop, or yield, it would tell you.
NO ONE looks where they are going now..
NO NEED to! GOOGLE Maps TELLS them what to do
" can you name any commenters that you miss from these threads?"
I miss a lot of commenters, definitely the nature of this blog commentariat has changed, and maybe not for the better. My comment had to do with the fact that those two commenters had just filled the previous thread with their baseless smears and unsupported innuendo, and then started out this thread on the same topic. It seems like a campaign.
Here come the Judge!
https://x.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1963291091542712769
Hammer time - on 1300 barrels from Shanghai.
Damn that Trump!
Or perhaps there is a serious belief that it is the exporters and sellers to the US who will eat the huge new tariffs and keep final consumer prices in the US mostly unchanged
I don’t usually feed the trolls but there is plenty of recent evidence for many goods the supply chain is sharing the burden in exactly this way- not to the extent the consumer won’t see price increases for some goods but neither the other extreme where he bears the entire burden of the tariff. Tariffs don’t negate market forces after all so producers still have to deal with demand curves….and good you talk about elasticity- what’s surprising to me and given Bessent’s comments about tariff revenue him as well is the level of inelasticity. Markets are totalities so while the burden on tariffed goods rise somewhat there’s price relief in other areas, most importantly ENERGY, the price of which infects the cost of everything.
In conclusion: you people who think you have a good wedge issue are going to be disappointed. Also- don’t make big bets on tariffs crushing the consumer, either…
Inga said...
“This stuff is bordering on trying to damage the blog.”
Your Russophilia and the many repetitive comments you make that quote Russian propaganda could be more damaging to the blog than discussing the Epstein scandal.
You are thinking about this wrong.
Every time Inga posts something stupid because she found a new toy that fixes her misspellings and tricks her into using words she doesn’t understand another person gets embarrassed and leaves the idiot hive mind.
Every time Rich posts his stupid Epstein wish casts you just point out that Biden would have charged Trump with 34 counts of statutory rape if Trump was in the same zip code as one of these girls and more people with a higher I than Rich figure it out.
Or perhaps there is a serious belief that it is the exporters and sellers to the US who will eat the huge new tariffs and keep final consumer prices in the US mostly unchanged ?
Most Americans are glad that the multinational corporations are finally paying taxes for once.
You know what's deadly to this (or any other) blog? Commenters who have one and only one topic they comment on regardless of what the thread topic happens to be.
And in particular, those of you clinically obsessed with "Trump bad" or ""Here's the 349th version of the walls are closing in on him" should get professional help with your condition. Althouse provides an incredible variety of topics to discuss, so try breaking free of your obsession and start contributing other insightful or interesting observations. If you have any.
“Schools already dealing with declining childhood vaccination rates are watching with alarm Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent moves on public health.
Leaders are putting plans in place to handle outbreaks in classrooms…
The states of Oregon, Washington and California announced on Wednesday that they are creating a public health partnership in an effort to spread the word about the safety and importance of vaccines.
“The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences. California, Oregon, and Washington will not allow the people of our states to be put at risk,” the states’ governors said in a joint statement.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5484348-rfk-jr-school-vaccine-rates-hhs-cdc-measles-covid-19/
Measles is even more contagious than Covid and far more dangerous to children. When RFK Jr. tried to meddle with Samoa’s measles protocols by spreading anti-vax misinformation, there was a measles outbreak that killed 83 people. Is this what we want to see happen to our children here in the US?
You can't use the same tariff twice, once to reduce the deficit and again to bring manufacturing into US. If the tariff is set correctly to bring back manufacturing, the value added in US has to be lower than the tariff.
The question then becomes what is the marginal tax collected on that value added. As and when economists and bond investors know the answer to that question they will actually have a sound basis for decisions.
As a crude test if 75% of the autos imported into the US were made in the USA the direct job creation would be in 80K to 100K extra jobs range. That is based on needing the productivity levels of the Nissan Tennessee plant to be competitive. It can make 600K autos a year with under 8,000 total employees. So ten such plants would be needed to move 75% of the 8 million imports to US. Hence less than 100K direct jobs. I don't know the extra tax income on those jobs but I suspect it is not as high as the $27B or so on likely tariff income on the 6M transferred imports. Of course that excludes extra indirect job creation but that just illustrates how hard it is to do the estimates.
"So is US demand for all these vast imports so perfectly inelastic, that US consumers will pay $ 4 trillion extra over the next decade, without any dent in the corresponding demand ? Has the Demand Curve been abolished ?"
I don't think it is reasonable to expect exporters in other countries, or middle-men domestic companies here to pay 100% of the cost of the tariffs from their share. However I also don't think it is reasonable to expect consumers to pay 100% of the tariff costs either. In the end, and it will vary by industry and even product, some portion will be paid by each group. For what it is worth I suspect we are at or near the peak of what exporters and domestic middle-men companies will pay and going forward more of the cost will be pushed off onto the end consumer.
rehajm, you make a solid point about the short-term dynamics. No doubt, exporters and supply chains are absorbing some of the tariff burden, and consumers won’t feel it all at once. Energy easing takes some sting out, and the market is complex enough that there’s never a clean “100% on the consumer” outcome.
But where I’d urge some caution is in assuming this trendline holds steady over time. When you start layering the longer-term effects—supply chain reconfiguration, immigration pressures tightening labor markets, tariff revenues being treated as permanent, and then domestic program cuts that reduce consumer demand (healthcare, SNAP, etc.)—that’s when the gears start grinding against each other.
The short run may look manageable, even deceptively so, but the long run risks are more like a perfect storm: higher input costs, weaker safety nets, slower growth, and ultimately consumers squeezed from both ends. The demand curve isn’t abolished—it just bends later than people expect. Buckle up.
You folks whom are claiming to know what is deadly to this blog in terms of commentators you don't like are insecure impotent peons. Perhaps you pathetic vermin believe that the blog will die without you spewing your ignorance and hatred.
Maybe you believe in solipsism and if you divas leave, the blog dies with you.
Ronald J: yeah, the supply chain has ~6-months of slack before major inputs have meaningful and measurable effects. One economist I heard on Bloomberg radio the other day said that the tariff increases, if relatively stable will produce an upward step change in prices rather than continuous inflation.
Howard said...
"You folks whom are claiming............."
Hey, hey now. You've done it too.
Mostly I just skip over the morons who show up every season with a name change.
I am, however, grateful that TeaBagHag could tear himself away from his very demanding job at the gloryhole to give his insights on the human condition. I look forward to his all to brief comments.
Remember when our house stopped allowing comments for a while? Good times...
I mean, not really. I'm here at least as much for the comments as for the posts. Just - not ALL of them.
Our *HOST, dang it
Just curious, did Trump and the US military commit murder in international waters yesterday?
Ronald makes a good point about the timing — in the short run, supply chains and exporters eat some of the costs, so demand looks less elastic. But elasticity doesn’t vanish, it just shows up later once inventories clear, contracts reset, and consumers adjust, especially in high-elasticity sectors like clothing or electronics.
That’s why the policy goal matters. If the goal is revenue, you lean on inelastic goods to keep money flowing. If the goal is protection, you target higher-elasticity sectors. And if it’s strategic autarky, you actually carve the most inelastic goods out of the tariff base entirely — things like energy, chips, or pharma that you want secured domestically, not taxed at the border.
And underlying all of this, demand curves bend differently depending on elasticity — with tariff rates as one of the inputs that decides how far along that curve consumers will move. And really it isn’t just one curve but thousands: every good and trade partner has its own shape, so a tariff schedule doesn’t move a single lever, it tugs on an entire web at once.
Global economics feels like it was built to give you a headache the moment you try to understand it.
The ISM Manufacturing report wasn't dreadful. It picked up a little. But a lot of categories are contracting. And the comments -- read the comments.
https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-pmi-reports/pmi/august/
"Garner" turnsd out to be one of the words that suggests it was written by AI. https://x.com/DrSamuelBHume/status/1941497524088602989
Still no Drago?
Where is Owen? Where is Kate? And Farmgirl long gone, I guess.
"Still no Drago?"
I thought I saw a post recently, but just a short (one sentence?) comment.
Apparently the tariff-fueled economic disasters in the economy and the financial markets that Kak and the economic geniuses at the Financial Times have been screeching about since March have been inexplicably delayed (even though those markets price in likely future developments as well as uncertainty about the future). What a surprise.
Tariffs were always a sales tax in drag.
Tariff’s are just a combined corporate & sales tax as long as companies are eating a lot of tariffs in their margins. But if they stick around, more of the tariffs will get passed on to consumers (especially if the dollar weakens), and that may lead consumers to either choose domestic alternatives or forego consumption rather than pay a sales tax. And then less revenue.
Kakistocracy, exactly—tariffs function as a disguised consumption tax. What strikes me is that this isn’t just about trade mechanics; it’s about tax philosophy. The GOP has long wanted to replace or reduce the income tax with some form of consumption tax, but they’ve never had the votes to legislate it openly.
Tariffs become a backdoor way to achieve that shift. And the math is clear: consumption taxes hit lower- and middle-income households disproportionately, because they spend a greater share of their income on taxed goods. The wealthy, who save and invest a higher share, feel it less.
So the real debate isn’t whether tariffs can raise revenue—it’s whether we’re comfortable with the burden shifting downward, away from those who can most afford it. Every serious study of consumption taxes has reached the same conclusion: they’re regressive by design.
Tariffs are not new. They can be used to compensate and discourage labor and environmental arbitrage. The price of domestic supply and processing under equitable and inclusive conditions should be less than similar transported and imported. They should mitigate the progress and sustainability of outsourcing, insourcing, human rites, etc.
Tariffs are income to the government and resolved for taxpayers through capital refunds. This will benefit those companies and individuals who were excluded from equitable participation in the market through redistributive change and regulatory schemes made viable through labor and environmental arbitrage.
Ronald J. Ward said...
"Just curious, did Trump and the US military commit murder in international waters yesterday?"
No.
"So the real debate isn’t whether tariffs can raise revenue—"
Yes.
Oh. And I like the top one. Brooding. Autumnal.
Kak and Chuck have always been opposed to taxing corporations, because it's the same thing as taxing consumers, and is accordingly regressive in nature. Right?
And we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Raising revenue/lowering debt by burdening offshore corporate operations rather than US-based operations, with the explicit purpose of shifting investment and development to the to the US, is a real and sensible policy goal. With real and tangible benefits to US citizens (albeit at the cost of some higher prices to consumers), Aren't these sort of consumer-borne costs and benefits precisely what progressives support for the cost of things they favor? (i.e., environmental and labor reforms?)
Forced Jabs and massive illegal immigrants many with unknown diseases = vaccine shyness.
Leftists built that.
Not RFK jr.
boatbuilder said...
Kak and Chuck have always been opposed to taxing corporations, because it's the same thing as taxing consumers, and is accordingly regressive in nature. Right?
I have no idea who Chuck is and was wondering the connection (thought it might be a Cuck insult or something). To be clear, I’ve never posted anything here other than Ronald J. Ward. But it does explain why so many here keep telling me what I think or don’t think.
“Forced Jabs and massive illegal immigrants many with unknown diseases = vaccine shyness.”
If one migrant child with measles sat in a classroom of 30 vaccinated children, how many of them would get infected with measles? If one vaccinated person walked into a roomful of migrant with measles would the vaccinated person get measles? Measles is passed from one unvaccinated person with measles to another unvaccinated person.
In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
Inga said...
“Forced Jabs and massive illegal immigrants many with unknown diseases = vaccine shyness.”
"If one migrant child with measles sat in a classroom of 30 vaccinated children, how many of them would get infected with measles? "
The term you want is "illegal immigrant" and you don't know what diseases they've brought with them because they were never vetted. So you don't know whether they have measles or something more virulent.
If it were just an "immigrant" we would have vetted them.
Joe had Brain Cloud, not Brain Fog.
The big difference between the two is that Brain Cloud is terminal, and you're going to die soon, and it doesn't actually exist.
Fun movie. Joe finds God. Take your luggage with you, always.
Fun fact of the day:
China does not allow immigrants from Muslim countries.
RJW said…
So the real debate isn’t whether tariffs can raise revenue—it’s whether we’re comfortable with the burden shifting downward, away from those who can most afford it. Every serious study of consumption taxes has reached the same conclusion: they’re regressive by design.
Another Democrat mad that multinational corporations have to pay taxes so he is lying about it.
If the multinational corporations that build things in other countries want to pass the taxes on to consumers they totally can.
We are going to lower taxes on corporations and people who make things in the US so they don’t have to pass as much of their tax burden on to consumers.
You people will never deal with the fact that this is a shift in the tax burden and that there is no difference between 1$ in taxes on your globalist corporations and 1$ in taxes on American income.
Keep arguing for tax breaks for multinational corporations. Everyone can see who you are.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Just curious, did Trump and the US military commit murder in international waters yesterday?
Define murder.
Is it like firing a hellfire into a wedding?
In my last 2 deployments we started picking up missions where we cleaned up after Barrack’s drone strikes. My previous deployments we usually did vehicle interdiction in those cases where we landed and had everyone get out of the vehicle. Barrack decided we should just blow them up and have us go count the dead people.
Most of them were dead when we got there. About half were more than 4 feet tall.
I really don’t give a shit when douchebags like you want to talk about war crimes or murder. We know you couldn’t care less and are only interested in scoring political points.
I have no idea who Chuck is and was wondering the connection (thought it might be a Cuck insult or something). To be clear, I’ve never posted anything here other than Ronald J. Ward. But it does explain why so many here keep telling me what I think or don’t think.
That's hilarious, Chuck. The last 3 times you responded to my comments I had referred to you explicitly as "Chuck," and I have been pointing out that you are another version of "Chuck" since you started posting using your serial killer handle. And everyone who follows this blog knows who "Chuck" is.
You are not fooling anyone. Either that or you are doing a bang up job of imitating "Chuck," which is not something to be proud of.
Kaka said:
So is US demand for all these vast imports so perfectly inelastic, that US consumers will pay $ 4 trillion extra over the next decade, without any dent in the corresponding demand ? Has the Demand Curve been abolished ?
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Have you considered that using the tariff money to pay down the national debt will benefit future generations, as opposed (arguably) to affecting current consumers, who will still get value for what they buy?
IOW current consumers get products, future generations will be saddled with less debt. Partial Win-WIN.
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