This whole discussion has been a fascinating read in the comments.
But does anyone really think we're going to have another election? Much less a non-rigged election?
In 2023, United States exported a total of $1.86T, making it the number 2 exporter in the world.
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Jesus Karens cross age, race, and gender gaps with ease but it's often in my experience been older ladies.
The sad thing is that these are also the type who usually spread hate more than they spread love via racism, sexism, generationism, looking down on anyone not believing the same way they believe, and just generally being assholes except for one hour a week.
Yes, I was being genuine with my question (but reading it again I can see how I was a tad snarky). I'm totally ignorant when it comes to this stuff, obviously.
I also genuinely wonder if other countries couldn't figure out how to source that stuff from countries other than the U.S. if they really wanted to. Again, I am ignorant when it comes to this stuff.
Does the U.S. make anything of value as an export compared to what we import from other countries? Almost everything today has a microchip inside it (except food.....I hope) and I'm pretty sure we import most of the microchips we use in stuff. I think the trade war is going to make our economy MUCH worse pretty quick because we are in an even more global economy than we were when Hitler was in power.
There's a better chance of me getting put on the SSA's Death Master File so I'll no longer be a "parasite" on SSDI, Medicaid, and HUD housing. No...that's most likely going to happen....
Ok then, there's a better chance that Pantera would reform. No...wait...that already happened with good replacements for Vinnie and Dime despite how icky I feel about the whole thing.
Ok, fine....there's a better chance that pigs will fly. No...wait....Mythbusters kind of did that numerous times in a way.
There's a better chance we find intelligent life on another planet and make contact with them that is peaceful.
Point is, it ain't happening.
I worked in retail for 7 years. Every damn Sunday we would get at least one customer in their Sunday best turn into an impatient, vile, insulting human being towards us because of something in the weekly ad or whatever. I wasn't particularly religious despite attending Catholic school for every grade until high school graduation, but this solidified my loss of faith even more.
Oh, and it was a tiny bit of an influence on me becoming an alcoholic too! Yay!
So let's say....somehow....every Democrat gets on board finally with impeaching the Orange King. Do we really think enough Republicans are going to get on board with this to go through with impeaching and removing him?
Call me cynical, but after the crap that went down with the CR, I'm not seeing it and have zero faith in Congress as a whole to do anything of value to stop this hostile takeover and is/will be violating basic human rights for anyone who isn't a white male.
Well that 2 hours flew by without me realizing it. Thanks! 😆
I can guarantee you I would again waste countless hours just spinning stuff around again if I tried using it now 😆
Last year, the United States imported $438.9 billion worth of Chinese goods, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. China was the United States' third biggest source of imported goods after the European Union and Mexico.
I’m guessing most of that is electronics? I feel like China is the biggest though for that reason alone. Things are about to get insanely expensive here.
Everyone hop in, we’re going back to 1950!
Left, right, center, up, down…..I don’t give a shit — we all need more Mr. Rogers and learn how to love and not hate each other and our differences