Categories
Where do we even start with this? – politicalbetting.com
Where do we even start with this? – politicalbetting.com
This level of idiocy/economic illiteracy has the potential to give Starmer & Reeves a get out of jail card when it comes to the economy, this time around ‘It started America’ might actually have some credence.
0
Comments
Another reason why cash will become even more obsolete.
Decline of cash credited for drop in NHS surgery for children swallowing objects
Figures reveal 29% fall in operations in England to remove foreign bodies from children’s airways, noses and throats
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE), which obtained the figures, collated from hospital admission data, identified the rise of the cashless society as the main reason.
“Historically, coins accounted for over 75% of objects swallowed by children under six years old, and fewer coins in homes due to contactless payments have likely helped reduce the number of these procedures,” it said.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/28/decline-of-cash-credited-for-drop-in-nhs-surgery-for-children-swallowing-objects
But where will it end?
My FPT Is on topic ! He can tell them all he likes; I doubt it's sustainable. Reality won't listen to a deranged bigot in the White House listening to the voices in his head, which is stuck in 1970.
Even according to his own analysis in his Executive Order, half of the components in USA made cars are imported, which will have a 25% tariff on them. I doubt if that can be "absorbed". If it is, that's a chunk off the stock market value by loss of returns.
And it would take years to mitigate and bring production on-shore. And when it is on-shore, comparative advantage means that it will still be more expensive, or they would not have sourced it abroad.
Here's Trump's own analysis:
In 2024, Americans bought approximately 16 million cars, SUVs, and light trucks, and 50% of these vehicles were imports (8 million).
Of the other 8 million vehicles assembled in America and not imported, the average domestic content is conservatively estimated at only 50% and is likely closer to 40%.
Therefore, of the 16 million cars bought by Americans, only 25% of the vehicle content can be categorized as Made in America.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-adjusts-imports-of-automobiles-and-automobile-parts-into-the-united-states/
Here's a paper from 2007 lamenting that 25% of parts in US made cars were imported, and how far it had gone up since 1997:
https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/chicago-fed-letter/2007/october-243
Does he back down / invade Greenland as a distraction / get replaced by Vance / pretend it never happened ?
And USA made light trucks, which category covers pickups, have far lower safety standards in the USA even than USA made cars - through exemptions from safety rules for which the industry campaigns.
@Strandjunker
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
https://x.com/Strandjunker/status/1905379784978293203
Starmer and Reeves are unlikely to benefit if they fail to get a hoped for trade with the US, anti Trump voters will just go LD or Green
Link on previous thread
@IAmSophiaNelson
Why did the entire press corps attack #JoeBiden daily for gaffes, age, a bad debate, and misspeaking. But not a F’in word ever on 78 year old Trump’s daily bullshit of “I don’t know”—“I didn’t sign it”—“I have no idea”—on national security, dead soldiers, #SignalGate, etc.
The answer of course being "the press corp were not concerned about being lynched for accurately reporting Biden"
"Federal election 2025 live: PMcalls May 3 election, says 'not the time' for cuts as Dutton looks to curb 'wasteful' spending - ABC News" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/federal-election-live-blog-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton/104935922
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/5150497/#Comment_5150497
Surely something must be done to save the over-engineered Monaco tractor for the world?
What he probably really wants is the thrill of extorting what he sees as the weak kid's lunch money. Hence his insistence that the importer pays the tarrifs out of their own pocket, which isn't how anything ever works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF_hrD8va5Y
You and the other alt-right people make a lot of noise about social issues being “the shit” that bothers you. Trump is not the solution to those either.
It just wasn't very funny.
An under construction skyscraper in Bangkok has gone.
All in all, doesn't look rosy.
Its like saying things happening in Europe, like a war, dont matter for us, its just not true, the argument is over how much it matters.
Perhaps he'll declare victory next week and forget about them again.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/us-auto-tariffs-may-be-12-5-per-cent-ontario-government-officials-1.7494988
Would have been handy to have a correspondent on the scene.
Quick, I must write a paper and win a Nobel in Economics.
Former Trump advisor warns Europe, NATO not to overreact: Interview with John Bolton | DW News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU23-VXmJFU
(Personally I find him still too attached to the resilience of the US governance system. But he's right about not overreacting when we do not have a complete grasp.)
One of things we are missing is a 21st Century Alistair Cooke.
Email a copy of the bill to people after being in hospital.
Better yet, a portal where they can see what they paid in, what they’ve taken out.
TLDR: "Literally" has been used as an intensifier for a long time. It's probably best not to use it in that way, but there's little point in railing aginst people who do.
I can follow MSNBC which tells me 100% of what is wrong with Trump; I can (but don't much) follow Fox News etc that promote and whitewash Trumpism.
What is lacking, SFAICS, are sources which comment from the point of view of understanding both why Trumpism is clearly 100% opposeable but also why and how it is that Trumpian authoritarianism, lies, threats, illegalities, silencing and Hobbesian approaches can be and are supported and sustained knowingly by millions.
* I am being impish. Nigel "free school meals" Farage.
"The problem really only occurs when it is not clear which sense is being used"
And the point about the "misuse" of "literally" sometimes conjuring up absurd or humorous images is (or can be) a feature not a bug, as it can make us notice the literal meaning of metaphors that have died from overuse:
"It was literally pissing it down" is way more colourful than "It was pissing it down"
“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot.’’
“Gareth Bale’s literally got three Lungs.’’
“The ball literally gave him a haircut.”
“These balls now – they literally explode off your feet.’’
“In his youth, Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.”
“He literally chopped him in half in that challenge.’’
“He’s literally just eaten the fourth official.’’
“Arsenal have literally passed the ball to death.’’
“He’s literally sold the defender a dummy there.’’
“Scholes has such a great footballing brain. He’ll see a picture in his head and literally paint it in front of you.’’
https://thefootballfaithful.com/jaime-redknapp-top-10-stupid-quotes/
Cooke set the style for BBC US correspondents ever since.
They don't have his facility with words, but they report a similar mythical America.
A system of government has become perceived to be indifferent to interests of a large chunk of the population.
While in a social system that claims not to be an autocracy.
Along comes a man on a white horse proclaiming that he will fix everything.
See Alcibiades, Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Boulanger etc etc. History is full to bursting with them.
Counter example - Switzerland. Where economic and political power is devolved to levels where the people *perceive* that they are in control. They *feel* that they control the bin collection and the fixing of pot holes. And the pyramid of government above that.
Secondly, there is a literally (!) never ending issue about whether the meanings of words are fixed to their long term history and philology or whether the meaning is properly discerned by their current use.
(This is also a significant and complex element of how the class system works).
Decimate is a good example. The cause of sticking to its historical roots is, surely, lost and it would be crass(us) to try to revive it. And 'prevent' meaning 'go ahead' is a cause only for students of the 1662 prayer book.
He wasn't even a tenth as good a driver as Verstappen.
https://x.com/electionmapsuk/status/1905413580368851061
Mayfield (Redbridge) Council By-Election Result:
🏘️ ILI: 42.5% (New)
🌹 LAB: 26.1% (-44.7)
🌳 CON: 19.4% (+3.6)
➡️ RFM: 4.8% (New)
🔶 LDM: 3.9% (-3.0)
🌍 GRN: 3.3% (New)
Ilford Independents GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2022.
edit: also not even his seat
What I despise is, the faux non-partisanship by, for example the BBC, politically balancing a case by using non - equivalence. The example often used is Andrea Leadsom being given (economic expertise) parity with Pascal Lamy, the Head of the World Bank on Newsnight.
It's why conspiacist thinking- that's what They want you to think- is so potent, and hence so dangerous. Even more so given the technology of social media, which is incredibly fine-tuned to be addictive.
But how do relatively honest people out-argue liars? Nobody has really found an answer to that one.
I’m sure Eli Lilly would be euphoric should that happen, although worth pointing out Novo Nordisk do produce in America too.
- the general election result in his constituency;
- that this is a local by-election without national implications;
- the drop in Labour support since July 2024.
He's otherwise been on a losing streak since 1/20/2025
I've picked him up on it in a not-serious way - he's interested in language and word meanings, so was actually interested in learning what it really means - and we're now at the stage of using it playfully to try to annoy each other.
I'm not too bothered by the misuse. It was the excessive use that was mildly vexing. The Americanisms of 'could care less' and 'me either' grate a lot more, somehow.