The Real timschochet

So apparently Trump called Bezos to express his displeasure and Amazon has backed down, they’re not going to do it. I guess Trump thinks that people buying stuff on Amazon simply won’t realize the reason for higher prices…if it isn’t pointed out to them, they’ll never make the connection.

I hope he doesn’t. It’s a catastrophe for the rest of us too.

I believe that as costs rise the net effect will be less cars purchased not more.

I’ve always thought you were all about metta world peace, except for a few Detroit Piston fans who you reasonably believed deserved being smashed in the face.

A lot of people criticized Bezos when he announced a new direction for the Washington Post editorial board a few months back, remember? They accused him of caving to Trump. But what nobody mentioned was that when he did that Bezos stated “we will stand firmly for free trade”. This has always been his position. He hates tariffs.

I just read a description of Carney’s political views on Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney They’re pretty mainstream. Certainly not a modern day conservative. But hardly extreme. Is there something we are missing here?

I know nothing about the guy but I’ve read he is a liberal. What makes you call him a far leftist? ( Unless your position, like many here, is that all liberals are actually far leftists?)

No. There is NO chance of this either way.

Yet another thread filled with knuckleheads. First the dude who started the thread who assumes that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Then the actual Jew haters show up. What a bunch of focking clowns you are.

Your ignorant racism almost makes me sympathetic to Shedeur. Almost.

Well not everybody. You for sure but who needs reminding of that?

Yeah I don’t buy any of this. But we’ll see.

Lakers appear to be too small as many feared. Though I wouldn’t be shocked if they came back and won this series, it’s seems unlikely now. That’s OK. I think LeBron is healthy enough to play 2-3 more years at this level. They’ll get a couple of bigs in the summer and then they should be the favorites I think.

First off I don’t hate Donald Trump. For me hatred should be reserved for truly evil human beings. I regard Trump as a schmuck who is unfit for his position, but I don’t hate him. As for the polling: we all knew he would overreach and he has. Hardly surprising. But yeah, it’s the tariffs that have done this. And the thing is, we haven’t really seen the effects yet. That will start in a few weeks when the current supply of cheap goods run out and there is nothing to replace them. Prices are going to go way up overnight. It’s too late to stop: even if Trump were to lift all tariffs today it’s still going to happen. Most of the public have no idea what’s coming…

If the economy was doing OK I think most of the public would be indifferent to Trump going after his political enemies. With the economy not doing OK it’s going to annoy a lot of people. Not that it matters to Trump; despite his bluster he’s not running again so he doesn’t care much about public opinion. But it WILL matter to other Republicans, especially those forced to run on his coattails in a year and a half.