Topic: WE'RE STUFFED!!!

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OMG death toll has risen greatly this is huge!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7Jx5vgX2U

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Hopefully this shows up. Corey Booker is a BOSS. He has been on the senate floor for nearly 24 hours, speaking against Trump and Elon, and setting a record. He is 30 min away from 24 hours, and I just peeked in. He has the fire from within at this point. Totally Boss move, warrior mode. He aint giving in till he drops.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6locU6sPk

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The gaslighting is on fire today. So much gaslighting, they are holding an open flame to the gas, and it's exploding, and yet they claim it's a golden age. Calling the Deluded A Mastermind or Master Negotiator. He bankrupt casinos friends. Lost money, when the house always wins,, who does this? Anywho, his whole "Liberation Day" the Markets are tanking, not just the US, but other nations. And remember when Nero played the violin while Rome burned? Well, the Orange Turkey plays golf while the world burns. Same premise. The scoop:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1GdZWE3WP8

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What kind of dumb C**t tariffs penguins? Our sad sack of a fat orange cheeto breath president does, that is who. So how are the penguins going to pay for the tariffs? Igloo real estate? Are we going to deport the penguins to El Salvador prisons if they don't pay up? This flowerer is the stupidest, most utterly ignorant nincompoop I have ever seen in my life. Penguins. flowering Penguins. What did they ever do to us?  🐧


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBYwXpmxDvY

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I saw this very recently. The bees are dying and this year is at a record high.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x4vXkZQ7PM

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We are totally screwed. They are talking about a potential decline of bees by 70% in the US this year.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scientists-warn-severe-honey-bee-losses-2025-rcna198141

Scientists warn of severe honeybee losses in 2025
Researchers at Washington State University projected that honeybee colonies in the U.S. could decline by up to 70% this year.

March 26, 2025, 5:38 AM PDT
By Matt Lavietes
Honeybee colonies in the United States are projected to decline by up to 70% in 2025, entomologists at Washington State University said Tuesday.

The university said in a news release that in the past decade, honeybee colony losses have averaged 40% to 50% annually. But this year, a combination of nutrition deficiencies, mite infestations, viral diseases and possible pesticide exposure during the previous pollinating season led to higher losses, the release said.

"Losses have been increasing steadily," Priya Chakrabarti Basu, an assistant professor of pollinator health and apiculture at WSU, said in the news release. "Pollination demands haven’t gone down, so beekeepers face tremendous pressure to keep the same number of colonies to meet those needs."

The implications could be huge.

About 35% of the world’s food depends on pollinators, according to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Brandon Hopkins, a professor of pollinator ecology at WSU, said in a statement accompanying the release that higher losses could also lead to higher costs for farmers who depend on bee colonies.

"I don’t want to be a fear-monger, but this level of national loss could mean increased bankruptcies amongst beekeepers," Hopkins said. "Growers of crops downstream from almonds may need to scramble if the beekeeper they’ve relied on to pollinate their apple trees, for example, isn’t in business anymore."

Honeybees had a production value of nearly $350 million in 2023, according to the Agriculture Department.

Hopkins added that the extreme honeybee colonies also put the almond industry at particular risk this year.

"The almond industry frequently asks for strong colonies. But this year, growers are desperate," Hopkins said. "Anything with live bees in a box is in demand because the industry is short on supply."

"I haven’t heard of that since the early days of colony collapse around 2008," he added.

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Just my assessment to the tariffs.

Trump does not understand the Art of the Deal, at least in a way which should be played well. Prior presidents and administrations had set up a rather good strategy of trying to make allies of nations, spread democracy (for better or worse), aid nations with USAID who were starving, needed food. Humanitarian efforts. It has not been a perfect thing. But making the dollar a valuable currency, trying to make friends with neighbors like Canada and Mexico, and hold strong with alliances in Europe since the wars. America had done pretty well for itself to be a superpower, and leader on the global stage.

Trump, who has always been with this brutal nonsense. Like not paying contractors, bankrupting himself, creating enemies, firing people with sheer callousness. Does not understand anything about working with people. And perhaps, he thinks that all leaders are like him, wholly narcissistic. But there are leaders who do actually care about people, as well as companies that make a nation thrive economically. But like anyone, everyone has an ego. And no leader, no respectable leader, has any desire to cower to a bully.

So I believe his mad tariff madness, was to cripple economies, and get these leaders to bend a knee, just like he got the spineless GOP to do. He thought it would be easy. But instead, these leaders are all scrambling to figure out ways to live without the United States as a trading partner or ally. So he is totally isolating us, and making us a Pariah on the world stage.

These moves are not strategic. He thinks by hurting others economically he will own them. But all he is doing, is angering them, and the citizens of those countries, and it is going to be a deal where the world just refuses to buy American.

What will we look like in the next year or two? Remains to be seen. But isolated and hated, surely we will be that.

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Good assessment. But can it actually go on? Is the opposition to this self-destructive insanity so insipid? The US is home to a considerably powerful demographic of intelligent and well-resourced people who are deeply patriotic to the foundational ethos of America, for all it's failings and hypocrisy - nothing is perfect, but there is vast wealth of idealistic aspiration in the US which I doubt will simply roll over quietly.

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Look. I do not know what it is going to take, for folks to wake up. But four soldiers were killed in a training accident in Lithuania, and even their president, and their soldiers, and their people, did an amazing send off for these soldier's bodies to be returned to the US. Per tradition, when the soldier's bodies are returned, the President is to greet them and give them some honor and respect? Our piece of shit president? Instead of showing up for the arrival of the soldier's bodies, which is tradition, he was GOLFING.

I do not know what it is going to take. I can't see a sane veteran standing by this flowering idiot. But we did have some pretty big protests today. The scoop:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ZNNUfoGK8

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Good assessment. But can it actually go on? Is the opposition to this self-destructive insanity so insipid? The US is home to a considerably powerful demographic of intelligent and well-resourced people who are deeply patriotic to the foundational ethos of America, for all it's failings and hypocrisy - nothing is perfect, but there is vast wealth of idealistic aspiration in the US which I doubt will simply roll over quietly.

I know I should have gone today, but the protests all  over the country were massive today, and this is just the beginning. I cannot see the American people rolling over. I have a sneaky suspicion the next move is martial law. I hate to say that. But I see protests growing. There was an announcement, another one for April 19th. And I have seen rumors of Martial law April 20th. I have a strong feeling, he may go this road. We may very  well have a Tiananmen Square showdown in the US very soon.

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This is crazy. An Australian MMA coach, was coming to America for a seminar, got detained, tossed into a federal prison. He is back in Aussie now. It's a good thing this dude knew how to fight.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U51rP0vlCM

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So let's due the math. I was listening to the Deluded Melon on the airplane last night. He said tariffs will be good for the economy, and we will gain 1 trillion over a year. (from Americans you stupid twat).

BUT, just in two days, according to this report, the stock market has lost 5.1 trillion dollars.

So, let's do some math here. I am no economic expert, mind you. But I have spent two decades doing billing issues. You issue tariffs, which cause a mad sell off, and we are not done. They are selling now, and Wednesday should be a big hit. This could go to a 7 or 8 trillion loss, the way it is going. But you gain 1 trillion back in a year from tariffs, which also inflict economic pain, make everything unaffordable?

Do you see the problem with this here?

The scoop:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DbeR-vi7Pw

[Michael]

Yes, I am concerned, and thinking of warning my organisation that we may need to suspend some programs.

The problem is not so much the tariffs. The global share market collapsed for one reason - global recession probability. But that's not just due to tariffs. The primary cause is chaos. Global investment has pulled out due to unpredictability, and any reversal of tariffs won't change that. The world has realised that the US, which has been the political and financial pillar of security since WWII, has stepped away from that role. This creates a power vacuum, and history has always known what happens with a vacuum. Also, the US is significantly weakened - all its institutions, especially security institutions, are fractured, and the levels of anger within US population are at an all-time high, so it's society is also fractured: national will is broken. This is good news to US power rivals, and their time has come.

The rest for the world is having to rethink all international alignments, and that will take time. So again, a geo-political vacuum. Then we have to factor in Climate Change - witness the waves of excessive storms sweeping the US in the past months. We are now over 1.5 degrees rise in global temperatures.

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Yes, I am concerned, and thinking of warning my organisation that we may need to suspend some programs.

The problem is not so much the tariffs. The global share market collapsed for one reason - global recession probability. But that's not just due to tariffs. The primary cause is chaos. Global investment has pulled out due to unpredictability, and any reversal of tariffs won't change that. The world has realised that the US, which has been the political and financial pillar of security since WWII, has stepped away from that role. This creates a power vacuum, and history has always known what happens with a vacuum. Also, the US is significantly weakened - all its institutions, especially security institutions, are fractured, and the levels of anger within US population are at an all-time high, so it's society is also fractured: national will is broken. This is good news to US power rivals, and their time has come.

The rest for the world is having to rethink all international alignments, and that will take time. So again, a geo-political vacuum. Then we have to factor in Climate Change - witness the waves of excessive storms sweeping the US in the past months. We are now over 1.5 degrees rise in global temperatures.

Yeah I saw he put a 10% tariff on Aussie, and they had NONE on the US.

He thinks by bringing the world to its knees he can negotiate and they will bribe him. However, what is happening is all the allies and others are forming new alliances without us. Yes, integrity matters. Word must be bond. And his turning on even Zelensky, and pandering to Russia not only makes us look weak, it makes folks not trust us like before. Getting this relationship back, when he is gone, is gonna be hella hard, maybe even impossible.

He is used to beating down his opponents to get his way. He was successful with the GOP, but only because he had a strong base of supporters. He doesn't have a strong base of supporters outside this country. EVERYONE hates him, except maybe some folks in Israel. He has flowered this up royal. The only hope for America is a resistance, which is forming. But then per the protestors, I think he is on the verge of declaring Martial Law to deal with that one.

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I don't know about you all, but I can't help but have this song in my head while the world markets are crashing down.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A