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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • After thinking about it i began to wonder if the whole on/off tariff stuff isn’t a ploy to boost economic numbers temporarily to look good. Imagine if you are a business such as a car rental company that could heavily be affected by a tariffs on cars. Buying a new fleet now could save millions if not hundreds of millions versus waiting until tariffs are enacted. This is the long held basis for target 2% inflation. We saw something like this during Trump’s first term with the Carrier deal in Indiana and Foxconn in Wisconsin. Great news is promoted when the deal is made but not much is said after it fails to pay off. To be fair stuff like this happens and it’s not limited to one party or the other. Another example is the GDP hitting 3% after the 2017 tax cuts, it quickly went back down to 2% the following quarter. The 3% got lots of attention on Fox News, the drop back to 2% and the trillion dollar deficit did not












  • Also Trump was wrong as usual. US support for Ukraine was pretty minimal at the start of the war. Nobody expected them to last long, why supply them with heavy weaponry if it would fall into Russia’s hands in a few weeks? Lesson learned from US support of Afghanistan in the 80’s and why the Afghanistan army didn’t receive them in the 2000s. Only after Ukraine proved themselves did the West ramp up support.







  • Imagery is everything in the US. I know people who claim to hate socialism despite living off of a monthly Social Security check. They claim to hate communism but can’t tell me what they think the word means, same goes for capitalism. The folks that tell you they don’t trust the media will repeat word for word what the guy on television/podcast told them without bothering to verify it’s accuracy.