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[IdleRich]

Is it true that head of the FBI Kash Patel(!) just named Dan Bongino as deputy head?

That whole sentence is just completely insane.

 

[IdleRich]

In other news Keir Starmer has announced that Polly Toynbee is going to be the new head of MI5

 

[IdleRich]

 

[IdleRich]

I reckon it was Musk who did this



I dunno if the two left feet are a metaphor

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Trump is showing that the Democrats could have ended the two trending wars so clearly didn't want to.

 

[IdleRich]

In the same way that Churchill didn't want to end war with Germany.

You're just.... such a cunt aren't you?

 

[luka]

The democrats probably didnt want to end those wars.

 

[IdleRich]

The democrats probably didnt want to end those wars.

You're not engaging with the most important part of my post

 

[luka]

Yeah that goes without saying tho

 

[luka]

Im consuming so muxh more news these days

 

[luka]

its definitely interesting. i might even make a new twitter account get into the muskoverse.

 

[Murphy]

Penetrating the Muskoverse

 

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Inflation, looming trade war take a toll as confidence of the U.S. consumer tumbles

U.S. consumer confidence plummeted in February, the biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said Tuesday.

apnews.com

 

[IdleRich]

I wonder how important such things are... seems that the salient point is that some people treat it as serious if a bad level is immediately reflected in the stock market. Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy in a way perhaps.

I guess it's not really surprising as everyone knows that tariffs are uncontroversially antithetical to trade. Apart from gung-ho fools on social media crowing about how the US is guaranteed to win any trade war (probably the types who think China pay tariffs on Chinese goods) the majority of people see that when tariffs are in effect almost everyone loses.

ie if US introduces a tariffs on Chinese thingummies then the immediate effect is that Chinese companies that make thingummies will lose out as will US consumers of thingummies and also manufacturers that need to use thingummies and others in the chain who are indirect users of thingummies - the only winners will be companies that aren't Chinese but who also make thingummies.

Basically there are a lot more losers than winners and if you introduce a lot of tariffs you get a lot more losers lots of times. You could describe it as (loads of losers)squared which I think is often referred to as a mixture of biscuits.

 

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The White House are trying to claim this is from shaking hands all day.

 

[IdleRich]

Apple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them “Trump” when they said the word “racist”.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

In the same way that Churchill didn't want to end war with Germany.

You're just.... such a cunt aren't you?

You fell into my trap! Out of the frying pan into the fire. If they wanted to end the wars but didn't that means they're incompetent!

 

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I got a call from a random number today and an automated voice with an American accent started going on about "your immigration form" so I hung up. I assume it's scammers just calling up any number they can find online to take advantage of people in the US being worried about being deported.

 

[IdleRich]

You fell into my trap! Out of the frying pan into the fire. If they wanted to end the wars but didn't that means they're incompetent!

Brilliant trap. So Trump has definitively ended the war in Ukraine and all other wars as of now right? That's great to hear.