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OT: American Politics


Even the ones that are right are wrong.

We have high tariffs on supply managed products outside of a quota. So the US gets duty free access for a certain amount of butter, eggs, cheese, chicken, etc, and then once they’ve filled that quota, the rates go up.

Most of those tariff lines are just lies.
 


Remember kids, it requires an order of magnitude more effort to rebut bullshit than it does to come up with it. We're in an era where most people will just believe complete magical bullshit.

When I said in the past that I don't think we're going to make it, I didn't think "it" meant "to the end of 2025".
 
The president signed a seemingly narrow order to ban paper straw procurement by the federal government, but what consumers are internalizing is that paper straws are bad, period,” said John Mayo, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. “Not only does that distort buying decisions, but it has a ripple effect: Job losses, business closings. There’s a multiplier effect throughout the economy.”

 
The president signed a seemingly narrow order to ban paper straw procurement by the federal government, but what consumers are internalizing is that paper straws are bad, period,” said John Mayo, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. “Not only does that distort buying decisions, but it has a ripple effect: Job losses, business closings. There’s a multiplier effect throughout the economy.”

These lazy, entitled MAGA's can't bring themselves to drink their breakfast big gulp mountain dew without a plastic straw. But they're all going to raise backyard chickens.
 
Paper straws are awful... if you bet your life savings on a terrible product that might more of a you problem.

I just don't use a straw anymore.
Ya I agree they're bad. Just don't use a straw. Or if you love them, buy yourself a metal one or whatever.

The straw thing kills me, even here in Canada, because people who complain about it are the same ones who go on like

"Pull yourself up by your boot straps. The younger generations are so soft. We didn't have conveniences like you do when we were your age. We worked for everything. The 50's were the golden age. Nobody owes you anything."

"Ok cool, we've all got plastic floating around in our bodies and there's beaches in the middle of the ocean where the sand is like 60% plastics. We're just going to get rid of plastic straws. They didn't have them in the 50's anyway and a big tough old school man like you won't even notice this minor inconvenience and..."

"FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS COMMIE LIBRUL"
 
Ya I agree they're bad. Just don't use a straw. Or if you love them, buy yourself a metal one or whatever.

The straw thing kills me, even here in Canada, because people who complain about it are the same ones who go on like

"Pull yourself up by your boot straps. The younger generations are so soft. We didn't have conveniences like you do when we were your age. We worked for everything. The 50's were the golden age. Nobody owes you anything."

"Ok cool, we've all got plastic floating around in our bodies and there's beaches in the middle of the ocean where the sand is like 60% plastics. We're just going to get rid of plastic straws. They didn't have them in the 50's anyway and a big tough old school man like you won't even notice this minor inconvenience and..."

"FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS COMMIE LIBRUL"
My mom tells me that the switch from a paper straws to plastic was for the environment. Now we have switched back but it's a fucking straw. Who fucking cares.
 
No design changes notes, timeline. . . Protecting transpo funding?

 
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