The supermarket bread that looks and feels like a squeaky toy. Best to avoid that one.

Many flashbacks to 80s movies and many speeches including “to protect our way of life”.

An everything bubble pumped up to the max and a bunch of idiots running around stabbing everything to see if it bleeds money. It feels like this will end in “So we broke this one. Can we get a new global economic system? It’s kinda urgent.”

Depends on how much longer they let the president actively make it worse.

In China his competitors are now too far ahead and in Europe they don’t want no swasticar anymore. That leaves only the US market.

And sell tickets for the life boats to the highest bidder

As fertilizer, Trump is more useful.

I see. So that’s how you run a country as a business.

Ah, no. The real tariffs come when the EU starts to charge them through the nose for using EU customer data. This is on the agenda for when some real retaliation is needed.

I guess it’s not that different from permanently living in a fallout shelter.

I’m surprised there aren’t any geriatric Luigi yet.

Why connect to the Internet with it then

To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course

Ukraine can surrender to Russia without USA’s help. Trump deal is the same as surrendering, but where USA also gets a cut.

Most CEOs do try to stay out of the spotlight. Those that are more in the spotlight at least try to do some positive PR and not rock the boat too much. Security through obscurity if you will.

Of course Musk and Zuckerberg are some of the few that dance with the devil in the spotlight and have made their company/ies their whole personality. They paint their faces larger than life on the company and then act surprised when people take it personally.

He does the Nazi salute on the big stage and it shocked when he gets a collective middle finger salute back.

On the other hand, he went with Trump. Everybody going that way gets burned, used up, and thrown away. That things wouldn’t work out was expected. It’s also suspected that Musk would be used as the wrecking ball to crush institutions and when the inevitable problems arise, Musk would be blamed and tossed aside to keep the rest of the regime in the clear.

In the long term, the domestic industry may grow to the point that it displaces the imports

That’s there idea, but the on-again-off-again tariffs policy creates such an uncertainty and lack of customer demand nobody wants to invest.

Just because some things are intangible doesn’t mean they’re not real.

Also the belief the future will be better and more abundant. People need that as possible parents being scared of the future are not having (more) children.

And the society we live in tells us money, expensive status symbols and varying experiences you can brag about are the most important things. Having many children stands in the way of that

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