No it is not. Tax rate is ~20-30%. Market has dropped 10% since November. What is this batshit advice?

It’s a 401k. I can’t move my money out of it without taking a tax penalty.

The question is how will CA circumvent the tariffs? Reimburse them? But then I’ll be on the hook for the reimbursement as a CA taxpayer…and I’m still expected to pay federal taxes.

Not exactly sure how one is supposed to transfer one’s 401k to government securities on such a short timescale…

Trump hates everything that is not Donald J. Trump.

Where do you think the McRib came from?

As usual for pretty much anything in the US: follow the money. The dollar rules everything else.

Or Luigi’s Guillotines LLC

You don’t think Europe wants our 19 year old whiz kids whose laptops overheat from processing excel files?

These companies will absolutely use these things as excuses to replace workers with AI chatbots.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Gay

Yes at Costco.

I think it’s fair to commit to reducing your purchasing from these large entities significantly. By design, these companies have made it basically impossible to get certain products except from them, so do what you need to do in those cases. But you can get a lot still from alternatives.

https://archive.is/eCzBo

Don’t kid yourself, Thiel and Musk founded PayPal together and despite prior friction they’ve always been on the same team. In fact Musk becoming a full blown fascist has been Musk’s “return to Jesus” moment as far as Thiel is concerned.

It’s not just recently, conservatives have been threatening social security for decades.

Does it serve pizza?

To be fair, the people didn’t vote for the right person last time and that was a completely free election. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms of government…

Government discretionary budget is like $2T. Wasting say a quarter of a day (2 hours) of the 250 or so working days in a year is about 1/1000th the total year wasted. So figure $2B wasted, approximately.

Half serious question: can Trump order state borders to be modified? He wouldn’t be creating/destroying a state…I really don’t know the practical limits of presidential power anymore.