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Chucking a brick through the Overton Window

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It would actually be *worse* if the MAGA theory was right.
If the exporter pays they have to charge extra to cover the tariff but that extra is then tariffed!
say 50% tariff on $100 item:
Importer pays $100 cost + $50 tariff = $150
if the exporter pays: $200 inc. $100 tariff = $200 cost to importer.

18.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's the tune: zandernyrond.bandcamp.com/track/no-suc...

16.02.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something else telling the same story: nyrond.altrion.org/songs/seriou...

16.02.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A threat of that was one way Heinlein's The Man Who Sold The Moon got funding.

12.02.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently it's high power lasers to shoot down drones run by Mexican smugglers.
What's the Spanish for "corner-cube reflector"?

11.02.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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31.01.2026 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

If they spend all that money, how long will it last until they have to do another big repair? And then another. And then another.
How long are we going to keep that building propped up? At what point do we decide that it's too expensive and too outdated, and knock it down to rebuild?

05.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Charles Guthrie was a member of the KKK and was directly involved in a lynching. His son was known as Woody.

29.01.2026 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How much are the AI companies paying them to do that?

28.01.2026 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Which is the tune the US used for the Marine's Hymn!

24.01.2026 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, good idea. Stick him in the middle of Greenland in a business suit.

20.01.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To be dragged by one car may be regarded as a misfortune; to be dragged by two looks like carelessness.

(with apologies to Oscar Wilde)

08.01.2026 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But the future prospects for anyone attending could be an ICE jail - if they're lucky.

07.01.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So yet again they are selectively killing off their own supporters?

07.01.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So he's saying that they looked at him and thought "That's obviously just the place to send criminals and lunatics"?

03.01.2026 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As long as the US and allies don't decide to organise a coup against it like the last time they had a democratic government.

31.12.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Including the nonce formerly known as prince.

23.12.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sing for the coming of the longest night
youtu.be/YPrBie18p1U

21.12.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wil never take ozempic, because what if the time finally comes to eat the rich and I have no appetite?

13.12.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 890    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I went to University in the late 1960s. My tuition was free and I got a grant for expenses.
We are so much richer now that we can't afford that any longer.

09.12.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps they could start with all the things that were perfectly affordable in the 1960s, before vastly improved technology and decades of economic growth. And Th*tch*r.

08.12.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing obvious in the preferences.

06.12.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't seem to have that in 8.15

06.12.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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05.12.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1663    πŸ” 622    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 124

These are the same people who scream that 'chemtrails' are poisoning us.

28.11.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Changing Britain by abolishing Juries.

28.11.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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28.11.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

And requires the UK to reduce its military while France rearms for the next stage of the invasion.

21.11.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How long before this extends to "Real women wear skirts, not trousers" "Real women wear makeup" etc. ?

21.11.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This seems insane. Every time she gives her child's full name to anyone she must give the rapist's name and re-traumatise herself?

18.11.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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