Quote:Truckers might want to start brushing up on their resumes: The southeast US has seen more than 1,300 job cuts in freight-related industries since April 2025.
Hopefully China and Trump can come to an agreement soon.
Didn't you say trucking would be completely shut down by May 1?
Also, do you realize we are trying to balance trade as much as possible for our long range domestic industry health?
I never said it would be shut down on May 1st. I said that the articles I was reading said that within 2 weeks the long haul trucking business would start layoffs. It is happening after 1 week. The goods that those trucks bring across the country... the cheap plastic crap from China, will be off the shelves soon. That is what I said to stock up on.
Balancing trade on cheap goods like forks and spoons is not going to do anything long term. We won't be bringing those goods back to manufacture here. We need to bring back the semi-conductor work, which began after covid. We need to build our own electronics. We need to fix the supply chain for national security related goods.
"This isn't good news in any way... we're about to have huge layoffs across a broad spectrum of industries. Trucking and rail transport are likely a week or so away from essentially shutting down. Better stock up now." -MLB
Just do like the illegals 50lb bag of rice 50lb bag of pinto beans 25 lb bag of flour all can be bought at our local grocery stores
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People whom I think are pretty close to being dumb S'es. QueMala, the purple haired woman, blumenthal, Crockett, the guy who said Guam would tip over, Wasserman-Schultz, etc, and etc.
Oblunder isn't that smart, he's just at the right place and the right time. He's average intelligence.
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(05-07-2025 12:54 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:46 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:44 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:33 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:27 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote: And I'd say he's nowhere near the dumbest president we've ever had, especially considering we lived through four years of a guy who didn't even know where he was half the time. (And every single time we pointed that out before the June 27 debate, we were gaslit by you and your side so much you could've used us as charcoal briquets to cook over in a Weber grill.)
Curious, if you have older relatives who may be suffering from mental health issues, do you call them dumb?
A. No, I wouldn't, but that's not the issue here because Biden's had a long history of being dumb long before he ever assumed the position of VP, much less President. He's been known to lie about his academic record, for example, and that was when he ran for POTUS back in the '80s. B. You just proved my point in that any criticism of Biden's mental health or even just plain ol' smarts is seen by your side as a personal affront and you must gaslight us into submission. So you go for the "if you have older relatives..." bullcrap. Newsflash, dipshit! My grandmother had Alzheimer's. I knew she wasn't all there so I knew she didn't know what she was saying half the time. Now you can be mentally deficient without having a mental illness. That was Biden as well. (Whether you agree with me or not doesn't matter. The evidence is out there for you to pilfer through. You just refuse to do that.)
But hey, go back to gaslighting since that's all you're good at. I'll live here in reality enjoying myself as we go through the necessary growing pains in getting us back to making stuff here, like we should've been doing all along.
Biden wasn't "mentally deficient" all his political career. That's just laughable.
And trust me, you don't want to compare the evidence between Biden and trump about who was dumber.
You're right. I don't. Because Biden was easily dumber.
By the way, "mentally deficient" doesn't equate to mental illness. It equates to not being smart. And believe me, Biden's never, ever been very smart. Hell, you even said in this thread that you though Biden was a C average student who was prone to stick his foot in his mouth. So compared to him, I'm actually smarter than Biden since I had a B average in college.
But again, whatever. Keep gaslighting.
I didn't equate those two.
And I don't really know you, but it would not surprise me that you were smarter than Biden. I'm also confident you're smarter than trump.
And I didn't say he was a C average student...I think JR did...I've never seen his grades. I just added the speaking gaffe's he's been known for his whole life.
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(05-07-2025 10:25 AM)mlb Wrote:
(05-07-2025 10:17 AM)TripleA Wrote: Come on. You said "about a week or so away from essentially shutting down." IIRC, I had figured that was around May 1. Certainly close enough, and it has yet to happen. Nothing close to essentially shutting down. Today is May 7.
You're playing word games now.
And then I clarified myself right afterwards. I also posted it on Monday 4/28, which a week would have been Monday, 5/5. Layoffs did begin before that. I linked articles that showed how different industries would be affected, including trucking and rail. You guys said it was all BS. It is looking more and more like it isn't BS, that it is going down exactly as those economists said it would happen.
If they don't come to an agreement in the near term there will be a huge number of people who won't have a job and will be in the unemployment line. This isn't just affecting the Chinese companies.
First of all, I never said anything about it being BS. I wasn't one of "you guys," yet you addressed that to me.
What I'm taking issue with is strictly that you said "essentially shut down," and it is now past the time you proposed (whatever the date was), and the trucking industry is nowhere close to being "essentially shut down," AFAIK.
And now you're word waffling about what you exactly said, when SK just quoted it.
(This post was last modified: 05-07-2025 03:52 PM by TripleA.)
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(05-07-2025 01:37 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:54 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:46 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:44 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:
(05-07-2025 12:33 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Curious, if you have older relatives who may be suffering from mental health issues, do you call them dumb?
A. No, I wouldn't, but that's not the issue here because Biden's had a long history of being dumb long before he ever assumed the position of VP, much less President. He's been known to lie about his academic record, for example, and that was when he ran for POTUS back in the '80s. B. You just proved my point in that any criticism of Biden's mental health or even just plain ol' smarts is seen by your side as a personal affront and you must gaslight us into submission. So you go for the "if you have older relatives..." bullcrap. Newsflash, dipshit! My grandmother had Alzheimer's. I knew she wasn't all there so I knew she didn't know what she was saying half the time. Now you can be mentally deficient without having a mental illness. That was Biden as well. (Whether you agree with me or not doesn't matter. The evidence is out there for you to pilfer through. You just refuse to do that.)
But hey, go back to gaslighting since that's all you're good at. I'll live here in reality enjoying myself as we go through the necessary growing pains in getting us back to making stuff here, like we should've been doing all along.
Biden wasn't "mentally deficient" all his political career. That's just laughable.
And trust me, you don't want to compare the evidence between Biden and trump about who was dumber.
You're right. I don't. Because Biden was easily dumber.
By the way, "mentally deficient" doesn't equate to mental illness. It equates to not being smart. And believe me, Biden's never, ever been very smart. Hell, you even said in this thread that you though Biden was a C average student who was prone to stick his foot in his mouth. So compared to him, I'm actually smarter than Biden since I had a B average in college.
But again, whatever. Keep gaslighting.
I didn't equate those two.
And I don't really know you, but it would not surprise me that you were smarter than Biden. I'm also confident you're smarter than trump.
And I didn't say he was a C average student...I think JR did...I've never seen his grades. I just added the speaking gaffe's he's been known for his whole life.
You're right. JR did say that. So I apologize.
That being said, Trump has an Economics degree from Penn whereas I do not. And even if I were smarter than he was overall (that is, in terms of IQ), he has a hell of a lot more experience in the private sector than I do, especially being in charge of a big corporation. (Bankrupcies aside, the guy is still a multibillionaire and I'm not, and that's the truth.) And he's been raising the issues of trade deficits and unfair tariff practices by other countries (especially those by countries who are supposed to be our allies) since the mid-1980s, if not longer. So yes, I'm going to continue to trust him in this regard. If after a year things are worse, I'll eat crow and say you were right and I was wrong. So please, feel free to bookmark this post so we can revisit it a year from now.
(This post was last modified: 05-07-2025 07:59 PM by GeminiCoog.)
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MLB, Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, said a few minutes ago that shipments from China have been down for a couple of weeks, BUT...shipments from other countries have increased a great deal, so shelf supplies are just fine, and the reports in the MSM are just the typical fear mongering by the Left.
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(05-07-2025 07:03 PM)TripleA Wrote: MLB, Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, said a few minutes ago that shipments from China have been down for a couple of weeks, BUT...shipments from other countries have increased a great deal, so shelf supplies are just fine, and the reports in the MSM are just the typical fear mongering by the Left.
The interview was on the Ingraham Angle tonight.
I'd like to know whether this is turning into a shell game where Chinese are shipping goods to other countries and said countries are repackaging the products to scrub their origin. Believe this is one of the big issues with Mexico (besides the cartel activities) - that they are willing to act as China's clearinghouse for their products to come into the U.S. as "Mexican made goods".
RE: Trump's reciprocol tariffs are starting to work in a big way
(05-08-2025 05:45 AM)miko33 Wrote:
(05-07-2025 07:03 PM)TripleA Wrote: MLB, Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, said a few minutes ago that shipments from China have been down for a couple of weeks, BUT...shipments from other countries have increased a great deal, so shelf supplies are just fine, and the reports in the MSM are just the typical fear mongering by the Left.
The interview was on the Ingraham Angle tonight.
I'd like to know whether this is turning into a shell game where Chinese are shipping goods to other countries and said countries are repackaging the products to scrub their origin. Believe this is one of the big issues with Mexico (besides the cartel activities) - that they are willing to act as China's clearinghouse for their products to come into the U.S. as "Mexican made goods".
It is an issue to explore, but the action will certainly increase costs.
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Trump loves tariffs and wants to use them to ultimately replace income tax. He hasn't been shy about it. The fact he got the UK to agree to it as the new baseline is a good deal for the US
RE: Trump's reciprocol tariffs are starting to work in a big way
Those of you that are associating grades as being smart....
well let me put it this way, some of the overall dumbest f'ing people I know (real life and TV/NEWS) had or most likely got "good grades". If your grades did not come from STEMS degree nothing you learned in college makes you "smart". Most of the time other than the area those that earned that STEM degree. That person is lacking in most other areas.
The smartest people are those that are not afraid to talk about a problem off the cuff (out in the open in real time). Some of the greatest "fixes" came from what were looked at at silly when first said. The key to being smart or dumb as ****....
is the willingness to listen to others and know when to take bits and pieces of what was said and mold those into the "fix". Sometimes that first "fix" doesn't 100% work so the smart people is the one that can see its not working and adjust till it does.
Too many "smart" people are afraid of polling (in our government) to do anything that is slow but a good long term fix. They sure as hell are not smart enough to understand that you might need to adjust things as you go.
Getting an A or B in a college course means nothing other than you was able to read a book on that subject and understand it. Real life that usually doesnt mean jack shite in dealing with problems that need common sense or outside the box thinking. In government the smartest people are those that know how to hire others that overall agree with a direction but are a lot smarter in fields the "boss" is weak at. To take their advice or parts of it and mold it into something that works. Even if you have to make adjustment along the way...
willing to stand behind what you believe even if the end result takes longer than the second that talking heads and the idiots on social media believes it should. The fact that made Biden dumb as ****, he was not willing to adjust to something that was not working. The same goes for Trump if he sticks with a plan that is not working. But like I said some problems dont work right off the bat or quickly. This is one of those that's going to take 12 to 18 months before you make the changes on if its working or not...
for the good of the long term
If you are not willing to pay 10 to 15% more and some junk items for a year or so to help maybe save the life of your young grandchild, children. You are dumb as **** no matter what grade you got in college. Those of you that think that way are willing to bet that future life because you are willing to give the one country that is becoming a real threat to America....
the money to fund that future war along with America not being able to quickly build the things we will need to fight that future war. Stop playing politics and think about your future great grand children....
the path we are on puts them into a lot more danger
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2025 09:57 AM by WKUYG.)
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The people that don't understand that these tariffs will take time to produce are the same ones that are used to instant gratification. They are of the "I want it now" generation. They don't have something more important than good grades in college and it's called common sense. Common sense supersedes straight A's anytime. If you have both (a rare commodity) then you are set for life, that is, if you're not lazy.
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