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What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

submitted 13 days ago • 589 comments

CNBC's Steve Liesman doesn't mince words about the way the White House calculated its tariff rates: "Nobody ever heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula. So I’m sorry, but the conclusion seems to be the president kind of made this up as he went along... these are off the charts."

submitted 17 days ago • 374 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

It's not a trade war. It's one man acting like a dick

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

submitted 17 days ago • 412 comments

This is incredible. The "reciprocal tariffs" were calculated without actually looking at anything to do with tariffs. This is the most amateur-hour crap you can imagine and it's going to straight tank the global economy.

submitted 18 days ago • 115 comments

A contender for your opener at 10am @mrjamesob.bsky.social? And you can guarantee he hasn't a clue where any of the places he has heard of are! 🤪

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Time for the annual peruse of the headlines to try and spot the April Fool pranks, only to horrifyingly discover that they're all true.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 26 days ago • 1143 comments

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

submitted 35 days ago • 130 comments

Every retailer in America should display the original price of an item along with the new tariffed price. Let it sink in for the slowest in the herd. Tariffs are a tax. You're paying for them.

submitted 38 days ago • 354 comments