The Real timschochet

China is not Canada’s main trading partner.

You won’t be for long.

Study from August: these tariffs will cost the average household $2,600 a year: https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/trumps-bigger-tariff-proposals-would-cost-typical-american-household-over

The point we’re trying to make here is that NOBODY is going to be happy about these tariffs.

I hope you’re right to be dismissive

Why are we talking about Bobby Knight in here? Bizarre

Trash me all you want. I don’t think you recognize the severity of this issue. At some point you will and then it will be too late.

What you wrote is how politics should be in a perfect world, but in the world we live in, elections aren’t won by promising what you’ll do but by trashing the people in charge. That’s how Trump won the last campaign, and that’s how Dems will win the next one. I don’t like it but that’s how to win.

Again, my post was meant to win the 2026 midterms, which will be about Trump’s presidency.

Why do you and others keep repeating this nonsense? Theres no comparison between these new tariffs and anything else Trump or Biden did before. The tariffs Trump placed on China, which Biden retained, were around 5% on certain goods. It wasn’t smart, but it didn’t kill us. These new tariffs on Mexico and Canada will be 25% on ALL goods. Thats a completely different ballgame. They will be, starting today, the worst ever in our history, worse than Smoot-Hawley which caused the Great Depression. You can dislike me, think I’m stupid, but surely you get the difference? This isn’t some own the libs policy; this will affect all of us in a very bad way.

Ooh I really like this

Personally I am not rooting for bad things to happen here. I just believe they will. What I hope is that Trump either calls this off, or that somehow it doesn’t affect us that badly. If it brings us prosperity the way he is promising it will, I will happily admit that I was wrong and congratulate him and those who support him. And I want that to happen. But…I don’t think I’m wrong. I think this is going to be a serious calamity. We won’t see the effects for some time- a few weeks…a month…:by then it will be too late. And it won’t help me then to say “I told you so.”

Yeah. I dig it but it’s not as raw as the first three. I love that early sound, it’s a lot like Free which I also posted earlier. I’m always looking for bands that sound like early ZZ Top. Black Keys as of late. Got any for me to listen to? Post them please.

Forgot about that tune, thanks! Just added it to my blues playlist. And it absolutely would fit on any blues album of the time. You know why ZZ Top wasn’t called blues at the time? Because to the record execs back then, blues meant black people. If a white guy did it, it had to be hard rock. That’s the only reason.

Those are all blues songs. And I love them all, especially “Just God Paid”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/tariff-trump-trade-war/ President Trump confirmed tonight that he does NOT view the tariffs as a negotiating tool, but as a way to improve the economy. “Tariffs don’t cause inflation,” he said, “they cause success.” This is what I was afraid of. I’ve been hoping his aides would talk him out of this; I still am. There is not a single economic expert, neither conservative or liberal, who thinks a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico will be anything but an economic disaster. If this happens, if Trump means it, if he doesn’t reverse himself in a few days or weeks, we are looking at a recession, or worse, a depression. Of every decision Trump has ever made this will be the worst by far: it will be the worst decision by any President in our lifetime. Not joking about this. I know some of you MAGA types will laugh, will say I’m freaking out about this, whatever. I don’t expect you to trust me, but listen at least to the economic folks.

OK. Not sure why you’re arguing this but please name a song from the first two albums that isn’t a blues song.

I will say this: Budapest is the most gorgeous city I have ever been to. Of course since almost all of the buildings I admired are at least 200 years old, I can safely say the current regime deserves no credit.

It’s hard to warn people about certain policies, like tariffs, until they happen.

This will be for 2026. That comes first; they need to recapture the majorities in Congress.

The first two albums are straight up blues, mostly raw. There’s not a non-blues song on there.

If you don’t like the music I’ve posted the only execution that should happen is YOURS

They weren’t 25% on our two major trading partners.

I’m not pro-slavery. Nobody’s forced to work. They come here for the same reason my great-grandparents did, willing to work incredibly long and hard hours so that their children and children’s children can have better lives. I know you care a lot about the choices they took to come here; personally I don’t. What they do when they get here is all that matters to me.

But they also comprise large percentages of construction workers, restaurant workers, general day laborers…basically the crap work in every profession. Who’s gonna do it?