Joshjrn
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Registered on: | 12/24/2008 |
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re: How EU tariffs could backfire on Trump
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 6:16 pm
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Werent there separate deals done with Italy and Poland? or were those just talks.
Unless I’m misremembering, members of the eurozone aren’t allowed to enter into individual trade agreements. I think it’s a condition of being part of the trade bloc.
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re: Oblivion Remake could shadow drop as early as tomorrow
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 5:44 pm
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shame on me for waiting until I was level 15 before starting the Siege of Kvatch quest lol. Opened the castle gates and got completely overwhelmed by big hulking beasts. Complete shitshow
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 2:54 pm
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HagaDaga
The Bidenistas have the opposite problem deriving from the same cause: instead of their vocabularies shrinking, it’s ever expanding further into vapid uselessness.
re: TD Etiquette
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 1:01 pm
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There's a reason every post has a reply button.
It’s obviously minor, but it’s a mild inconvenience to read a few pages worth of posts, want to reply to the OP, and have to navigate back to the start of the thread to “reply” to their post. I’ve never been on another forum that didn’t let you do a generic post on a thread from wherever you were within that thread.
re: TD Etiquette
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 12:57 pm
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Should responses be addressed to the OP or to the last poster? I reply to the OP because they are the one asking the question.
One of my longest standing complaints about TD is the lack of a generic box to type a generic post into, that everything is a “reply” to someone. This is the only forum I’ve ever posted on that is structured that way.
With that said, to compensate for that deficiency, I always try to reply to the post I’m addressing, and to get rid of any confusion, I endeavor to also quote the content of that post.
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 11:39 am
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Your avatar suggests i am wasting my time discussing this with you.
That fact that you addressed my last paragraph but not the four substantive ones before it tells me all I need to know :cheers:
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 11:17 am
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He is not trying to pretend that outsourcing and people losing jobs is good "disruption" for economic purity reasons. He wants people here, in the USA, to have some kind of financial stability in the long term.
The reason I ask about goals is that many of them are mutually exclusive.
If your goal is onshoring jobs, you levy high tariffs in the hopes no one pays them. You also don’t care what your trade partners do.
If your goal is raising revenue, you levy high tariffs but hope people continue buying foreign goods over domestic goods. You also don’t care what your trade partners do.
If your goal is to balance the “trade deficit”, then the tariffs are a short term, transient means to an end. You do care what your trade partners do, but you don’t actually need them to agree to anything in the short term, because it’s not really a “negotiation” in the more traditional sense.
My issue with the Trump sycophants is that they are wishcasting their goal onto Trump, who is promising all things to all people, which is bullshite. That would only affect the sycophants, except that he’s going about things in the most asinine, disruptive way imaginable, because he doesn’t actually know what he wants to accomplish, beyond being revered.
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 10:50 am
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So you are admitting that you do not understand what the goals are? You should probably try to do that before you criticize. "Because I am ignorant, what is happening is bad." This is your position, just to clarify. Do you think the goals might be obscure for a reason? What is negotiation strategy? Some things to think about as your professed ignorance guides you to make sweeping criticisms.
For the dozenth time, obscuring your goals is only relevant when you need the other side to reach an agreement. The US can unilaterally do whatever it wants re: trade policy. We can simply say “we’re doing ABC until you do XYZ” and tell the rest of the world to sit and twirl.
Pretending as this is all “art of the deal” is bullshite obfuscation by Trump who simply chases whatever has most recently been whispered into his ear, and his sycophants swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
But thank you for tacitly admitting that you don’t have the faintest fricking idea what Dear Leader is doing, but you have full faith in him, regardless :cheers:
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 10:31 am
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Since when has disruption to the status quo ever been comfortable? I understand that EU countries will experience some discomfort. That's the goal. You are also feeling some discomfort too it seems. The good news is you will eventually get over it.
Being it appears that reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit: I’m not feeling any discomfort at all.
Speaking of goals, what’s the goal of these negotiations? To reduce the trade deficit? To increase tariff revenue? Please be specific.
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 10:08 am
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I am not sure if i can handle another temporary dip in the market to make more cash off of.
Sure, and I’m going to be absolutely ruined having to spend a bit more on nice bottles of French wine.
Or we can both acknowledge that there are good people whose lives and livelihoods keep getting jerked around with no clear goal in mind, which kinda sucks.
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 9:55 am
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What a melt
It’s been so long since Trumpists have thought for themselves that their vocabularies are shrinking to match Dear Leader :lol:
re: Trump suggests further EU Tariffs. Says AAPL must pay 25% Tariff on IPhones not made in US
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 8:11 am
These days, I have much more empathy for people who live under tin pot dictators and wake up each morning to figure out which of Dear Leader’s whims are going to impact their lives that day :lol:
re: For all of the Debbie Downers on this website
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 7:01 am
This is going to be the new “kraken”, isn’t it?
re: Lawyers of the OT. Real estate question…
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 6:58 am
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I'm still at a loss at trying to understand what you thought this written piece of paper would accomplish.
It created a duty, which they breached. OP’s problem is that, without a stipulated damages clause, he’s going to have to show damage, which is going to be functionally impossible.
re: White Claws at a wedding?
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/23/25 at 6:52 am
It’s signaling that there won’t be wine but the women will be drunk, nonetheless.
re: The Penny is Dead...new pennies will no longer be created after current stock is exhausted
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/22/25 at 2:29 pm
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Everything just went up $.04.
When the half-penny was discontinued, it was worth the modern equivalent of about 18 cents. Which means that, when it was phased out, everything “went up $.18”, as the next smallest denomination, a penny, was worth the modern equivalent of about $0.36. It’s going to be ok.
re: The Penny is Dead...new pennies will no longer be created after current stock is exhausted
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/22/25 at 2:24 pm
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That is terrible logic. What can we buy for a dime? Point is, taxes and prices make prices random as frick and pennies are needed to pay in cash and get appropriate change.
Which is why most other rational places include taxes in the listed price. It’s frequently a shock to people visiting the US for the first time that, once they agree to buy something for a set price, that price magically gets bigger when they go to pay.
Businesses can feel free to include the tax on the receipt, but I really wish we would move to posting “full” prices.
re: Need good offline games mobile or steam
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/21/25 at 9:23 pm
When you say Steam is an option, what device are we playing on?
re: The 72 different gender identities
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/21/25 at 7:34 pm
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Once again, a lot of words with little clarity or meaningful substance to your actual stance. Well done AutistDawg
Oh come on :lol:
You said cancel behavior was Marxist. He cited what he considers cancel behavior by people/groups he assumes you would consider non-Marxist as a rebuttal. That’s perfectly clear.
Now, having done before exactly what he just did, I would expect those who disagree with him to try to draw distinctions arguing that what he cited to isn’t actually cancelling, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that one doesn’t understand his argument, or to say that it isn’t substantive to his stance.
re: Today was brutal in the old brokerage account...
Posted by Joshjrn on 5/21/25 at 3:57 pm
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Back to my other point he can try and manipulate an election but he can’t lower them now which is the right thing to do
Would you please articulate exactly why it would be “the right thing to do”?
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