Gregmal

It’s not really a covid analogy as much as just using an example of people posting “duh” charts and extrapolating. Like obviously with 145% tariffs there’s going to be no trade with China. Same as obviously GDP will be awful if most of the country locks people in their houses.

The other more pertinent long term observation is how it relates to the question of “why do 152M Americans feel the NEED to buy made in China crap on Temu?” Or substitute the numbers and add in Frito Lay and Coca Cola products…. The answer probably also plays into why so many need Wegovy now.

Supply and demand exercise in real time. All you academic economists should be excited to see how the experiment unfolds

I don’t see a “wow” or a “gotcha” here but kind of a “duh”? Reminds me of when…eh certain folks here were posting Q2 GDP figures in 2020…don’t we already know this! Isn’t it obvious and self evident?

Yea I mean I think the way Sanjeev has it now is fine. A designated politics thread is fair warning. Nobody posting in this thread is really attempting to be objective and as long as it stays here, that’s fine. The worst offenders actually being the ones whom don’t think their shit stinks.

Haha it’s hard to get a place where one thinks for themselves, independent of the appeals to authority and urge to “pick sides” or even see “who’s side” you’re on. One day Blake. One day.

Imagine this? 6 dimensional level gaslighting https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/60-minutes-host-scott-pelley-calls-out-paramount-in-shocking-on-air-attack-on-cbs-parent-company/ The audience he assumes is so brainwashed they will eat up the narrative that the editor resigned because “fair and accurate independent coverage” was no longer possible? When what happened is a supervisor basically told him “hey, the show should have a little more content diversity than simply being your pissy anti Trump obsession outlet”…so no shows were blocked and nothing was altered(except Kamala content) but this career hack was told to stop obsessing over Trump and making it the networks problem(which by the way, his 60 minutes piece was the reason the network is in the pickle it currently is in!) and this asshole tries to tell the American people that journalistic “integrity”(HAH!) is under attack!

Everyone here apparently…they’re certain.

Exactly. This is a purely academic/textbook type theory. Nothing more

True. It will be a neat tell on the bullshitometer. After all, if we claim Chinese EVs are a national security threat, surely planes would be a total no no for pretty much the entire world no?

Think the tipping point really is we live in an age where insurance coverage and income are super highly valued. And enough folks have become privy to the fact that these government jobs, while on the surface mediocre pay wise, offer tremendous insurance and benefits, and carry a fat pension that kicks in after minimal service and that’s something private sector isn’t offering.

Sure, but to the original point that Blake was aghast at the firing of a 36 year treasury employee…that’s exactly the type of person they should be firing.

More generally speaking, government jobs used to largely be reserved for older people or people towards the end of their careers where you wanted a competent person but low stress, highly reliable 9-5. If you were young and inspired there were law enforcement or military options if you sought the “public” employment route. What it seems is that government jobs have now become careers versus just transitory stops on the way to private sector or retirement.

Most government jobs don’t require the highest level services. They’re basically public utilities. Anyone in an administrative role just goes through the motions. Look at local stuff…outside of police officers, who in the municipality building needs to be high level? The people pestering home owners about bs permits? The sewer and trash people? DPW doing 9-4 with two breaks and an hour lunch? The tax collectors who just open envelopes? Parks and rec? BoE? That’s literally the entire local office. What about at State? Education? Please it’s a disaster. Environmental? Treasury? These are mostly rubber stamping jobs.

Nah that’s preposterous. Government exists solely to serve the people. It should not be a mechanism for enrichment. For all the hollow whining about Trump basically just managing the family real estate portfolio into a billion dollar business…I hear virtually no pushback or outrage that folks like Biden have waterfront mansions because of “public service”, or guys like McConnell or Paul Ryan are millionaires many times over despite doing nothing but exploit politics.

There really should be like 10 year max limits to any person collecting a check from taxpayers. It’s so dishonest how they label it a “civil servant” position….its basically a super safe, cruise controlled journey through life. Or if they really want to be “servants” cap total compensation, including all those great benefits and insurance plans at $75k annually.

Agreed. Totally insane. Imagine freeloading to a presumably upper middle class or better lifestyle off the taxpayer rather than getting a real job your whole career? Good riddance!

Oh. That! Totally missed that part of the story. I thought @Mephistopheleswas just marveling at how far America’s come seeing as now we have movie star looking Indian dudes rounding up fat suburban white chicks…

Bro they refuse to even agree to a simple license/ID check for voting…no chance they do that Basically anything that requires any thought or effort is scoffed at.

Meanwhile you see how absolutely enraged so many of the privileged are, because it’s worked for them…that is indeed quite gloomy to consider

Well it works for us. But a lot of the country ain’t cash and asset hoarding snobs trading vol lol

So weird.... people posting podcasts that conform to almost exactly what they wanna believe...oh so shocking!

Well the litmus test should be a bit more expansive...say asking somebody if they own any sort of large company, but my favorites are stuff like Brookfield or BX or shit, anything that uses subsidiaries or LLCs for risk mitigation strategies...just basic, common sense business...and then hearing them moan really loudly about Trump entity bankruptcies...either youre not exactly familiar with how businesses are operated in a basic 101 sense, or ya got a little mush in the middle of la cabeza.

It’s a much needed tool in the arsenal, especially lately.

Yea I just can’t imagine going through daily life with everything being so influenced by the TDS kaleidoscope. The emotion, the rage, the OCD need to scratch personal itches with fabricated gotchas to a guy who doesn’t even know or care if you exist lol.