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He may even believe that he's doing what's best(I don't believe that, but lets give him the benefit of the doubt). It's not. Best case, he unrolls it after some superficial "concessions." Right now the Republicans are considering a tax increase on those making a million or more a year. 40-41% marginal tax rate at a million while others want to go back to Obama levels, 36/37%at 683K or so. We'll have to see...

Dude...ALL of them that will, have been aligning their "ships" with us. What THIS did was align Japan, North Korean and China. And again, if you don't understand the gravity of that...that's fine, because we kinda skate over how evil the Japanese were during WWII. As opposed to the Nazi's, they don't really teach it or talk about it in school, they just...don't believe about the raping of the Chinese and then Korean pleasure women, the...well, it gets uglier. But there's no love lost there. And yet, they've formed an alliance. I also don't even know what this means though. "Countries that aren't self sufficient are going to get gobbled up by those that are." In what sense? Is this that "The US will take Greenland," nonsense? Trump thinks you can go back to an Economy from before automobiles. That's what he ran on. The United States....we WERE WINNING. He could have taken the economy, built on it, bragged he had the best economy ever again. Of course, he thinks he can run for another term after this one, so who knows what's in Trumps mind. You've gone from mocking the prospect that this could lead to a recession or depression to assuming Trump will come to his senses. That's amusing.

You're never happy! You could say you need to take a shower, end up with a couple of Trump's whores getting pissed on and act like you're being SOOOO put out! Disgraceful.

Yup. Also, Car sales have been BAD the last year or so. Last vehicle I bought, I was going to buy used but they had so much inventory they needed to move, I ended up paying less than 10K more for brand new vs 2 years old. Also, this is just for their current inventory.

It's the first. You go and buy a new Ford, they'll go 4% below MSRP. This is just to move their inventory as people are now afraid to pull the trigger on new sales because nobody has any idea if this moron will walk back these tariffs or not. If it's 2026 and he's still got these MASSIVE tariffs in place and the EU, China, Canada and Mexico have hit us back, nobody is going to be buying a new vehicle anyway(I mean, some people, but very few). I bought a new Toyota last year. Capstone. I don't have more that I need to pull but some ATV/SXS. I would love to be blissfully ignorant enough to get excited about this as though it meant something.

This really again just tells me you're googling things and you are too ignorant to interpret it on your own, so you're looking for a headline that...sorta, kinda sounds like something that fits and then posting a link. This was from last year. I'll refer you BACK to the article where China is rushing to buy as many H20 GPUs as possible. Nvidia is now selling B100 with the B200 NV-72 stacks and Blackwell Ultra ready to roll out in Q3 and Q4 and then roll right into their Rubin chips. On top of that, those chips, ONLY work with Nvidia's software. So the ENTIRE Chinese AI infrastructure is built upon the backs of the Chips that are SO antiquated and SO outdated in the US, Nvidia cannot GIVE them away. Now explain to me without an article that actually makes MY point for me, how in the hell China is right on our heels OR how Trump "took the handcuffs off," when the American markets are going down, the American Chip Makers are crashing as a result of these tariffs? The ONLY thing these tariffs did...was given China a crack to push open the door and ACTUALLY begin to close the ap on the GPU lead NVDA has. All of this is over your head or you'd be able to articulate a piont instead of just posting something that reaffirm what I'm telling you. "US leading China in AI race, but for how long," and then it goes no to tell you...the US was WAY ahead. And THAT happened under Biden.

Yeah, this further illustrates how ignorant you are on this one. -First of all, this affirms the US Lead on AI. The BEST chip China has access to is the H20 In order to get AGI, not just the LLMs, but AGI, you need MUCH better GPUs. The H20 vs the H200 stacks is like a Ford Model T compared to a '67 Ford Mustang Shelby. It is NOT close, China is NOT closing the Gap. Please tell me you're talking about ChatCCP and how they spent 5.6M on DeepSeek? No, in large part due to the Chips Act, the US was investing and innovating at an incredible speed, breaking computing laws. That takes Capital. And the US is also seeing more ROI. Look at AMZN, META, MSFT, NVDA, GOOG(L), AVGO, look at their earnings? Tell me how we're not getting a ROI? And this is actually silly of me as you no doubt think Amazon's more important source of revenue are the things they sell online...so this is probably all moot.

And these are just how stupid they are(but really, go back to the Economists begging...literally begging Hoover against the signing the Tariffs into law in 1930).

Yeah...bull*I poop my pants, don't laugh at me*. Economists PLEADED with Hoover to not sign the 1929 tariffs(that PRECEDED the Market crash). When have they been wrong on Tariffs? https://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue74/Beaudreau74.pdf ---I've done my best to educate some of you clowns on this today. Smoot-Hawley was the first domino in the Great Depression. Some WERE in fact wrong that Trump was dumb enough to do what he said he was going to do...

Ok...well...fair enough. Who does the negotiations? It just doesn't feel like it's Cael or the staff, but they must run it by them or they'd effectively do the recruiting. Was this in the works for a month though...in one way or another? One last question...as I'll assume you know what you're talking about. I've seen Welsh and Duke are close. Ryder and Duke were teammates. You think Duke was...involved in any of this? If Duke made it known he wanted to Wrestle with his old HS teammate vs whatever Welsh and Duke would have trained or worked out together. Why wouldn't you do this? Would it be because you'd be worried about the PJ Duke types leaving or do you think this does anything to PSU's recruiting?

So...Rocco didn't approach them? PSU approached him before the season was over and they gave him more than Ryder? You think Welsh is lying to make his new program look good? I do think this is a bad move on their part as I think it makes them marginally better, but the only '74/'84 I'd try and bring in this year would be the kid from Minnesota.

Ooof...that sucks for him. Good for Wrestling fans...but not for Kueter. I hope he can come all the way back, but...that's gonna hurt his chances at playing Football at the next level. Though, he reminds me of that NC State kid Peyton Wilson who was drafted by the Steelers last year. He was older and had an injury history when he came out.

This...this one made me spit out my water...

I have literally not once seen this type of scenario before. I didn't think this thread was a gut buster...so I agree with you there, but...this is the biggest upset I've ever seen.

LOL...yeah, shockingly you're so far behind, you think you're leading the pack. China is rushing to buy the old, outdated GPUs that NVDA had to specially make for them to pass the export limitations. https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinese-firms-place-16-billion-order-new-nvidia-chips-information-reports-2025-04-02/ Nvidia can't give the H100 away(or the H200) because they're so outdated and they're not shipping the B100 and with the B200/B300 NV-72 in the 2nd half of the fiscal year. So no, there's NO scenario in which China, which RELIES on OLD American Tech is "on the verge of taking the lead." Please, by all means, do explain? He made it substantively more expensive and made it so far fewer companies could afford the GPUs. But lets hear it, how did Trump "take the handcuffs off," of a subject...you didn't have a clue about 6 posts ago?