What if Joe Biden Was Non Compos Mentis The Last Two Years Of His Term?

[ll74]

What I posted refutes what you said.

It does not. It also relies on economies that no longer exist.

Producers try to shift costs quickly....typically when one singular industry is hit with tariffs.

These tariffs are blanketly spread across industries and cannot be fully absorbed.....beef and produce costs are already showing ....wait till electronics and furniture follow.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You seem confused, I’m happy to recap. You claimed Trump said that people were eating dogs and cats but didn’t say he would do anything about it. Trump did say he would do something about it and never has.

Lol
Link? Lol.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Lol
Link? Lol.

LOL! You want a link to the video you claim you already have?

 

[Saint_Ann]

LOL! You want a link to the video you claim you already have?

Talking with you hurts my brain.

 

[HisArpy]

Talking with you hurts my brain.

The second he opens his mouth, everyone's brain starts hurting.

 

[DeluxAuto]

The second he opens his mouth, everyone's brain starts hurting.

Carbon boy who doxxed himself has opinions!

 

[Justplainjeff]

You know that’s not true

I know that's not true! He's been brain dead for at least 20 years, or more.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Talking with you hurts my brain.

I’m sorry me repeating back to you what you said hurts your brain.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I’m sorry me repeating back to you what you said hurts your brain.

Conversing with you is like playing with one of those Arkansas do-nothing toys.

 

[Ciceri]

I know that's not true! He's been brain dead for at least 20 years, or more.

So much projection. Dummy

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Conversing with you is like playing with one of those Arkansas do-nothing toys.

You’re not conversing you’re dodging questions and trying to change the subject every chance you get.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You’re not conversing you’re dodging questions and trying to change the subject every chance you get.

What exactly makes you think our relationship requires me to answer your questions? I'm not getting paid to enlighten you.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

What exactly makes you think our relationship requires me to answer your questions? I'm not getting paid to enlighten you.

No one said you were required to, I was just pointing out that you’re afraid to.

 

[Saint_Ann]

No one said you were required to, I was just pointing out that you’re afraid to.

You must be terribly lonely.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

You must be terribly lonely.

You did it again.

 

[Justplainjeff]

So much projection. Dummy

Mr. Plagiarism himself. Along with his unending attempt to run this country into third world status. Projection? You mean he was projecting the idea he knew what he was doing? For God's sake, he allowed Kamala Harris to be his VP. Oh, wait, he didn't have a choice on the worst DEI candidate of all time.

 

[Hel_Books]

the classic “tariffs always raise prices, except when they don’t, which is often, but still somehow bad anyway” argument. You’ve essentially written an economic horoscope: vague, self-contradictory, and designed to sound smart while saying everything and nothing.

Yes, tariffs can increase costs. But that’s not the end of the story, it’s the beginning of a negotiation. Tariffs are leverage, not just taxes. They’re tools of statecraft meant to correct structural trade imbalances, protect domestic industry, and pressure foreign producers who profit from subsidies, currency manipulation, and slave labor. Ignoring that context is either naive or deliberately misleading.

You admit “all other things aren’t equal,” then stack your hypotheticals in the most pessimistic way imaginable, recession, product substitution, consumer withdrawal, government panic. That’s not analysis; that’s an anxiety spiral.

And the claim that businesses will “just take a loss” while waiting for tariffs to go away? That’s not how private industry works. They adjust, with innovation, sourcing shifts, or passing marginal costs to price-insensitive market segments. We’ve seen that in practice during multiple tariff regimes.

Also: your premise completely ignores the long-term strategic value of re-shoring key industries, which actually stabilizes prices and strengthens national security. Try calculating the cost of not having a steel industry in a global crisis.

In short: tariffs aren’t magic, but they aren’t chaos either. Pretending they're nothing but blunt instruments that guarantee inflation is like saying fire departments raise water bills, technically true, but catastrophically missing the point.

You're just being silly. You start out agreeing with me: tariffs can increase costs but it's complicated.

Then you make nonsensical claims like "that's not how private industry works" about businesses taking a wait-and-see approach to tariffs (absorbing losses in the meantime). But that's exactly what (some) businesses did, because, as you yourself admit, the tariffs were just "the beginning of a negotiation" and Trump quickly backed down. Of course, who knows what he'll do next . . .

Your "long-term strategic" ideas smell of autarky. How well does that work for, say, the North Koreans? We live in a big, interconnected world. If the free world is going to succeed that means the countries of the free world must work together, diplomatically, militarily and economically, that last part meaning a robust and free international trading system. If Boeing has trouble competing with Airbus, the answer isn't to prop up a problematic company by distorting commerce with tariffs!

As for "chaos" yes, tariffs could be managed in a way that isn't chaotic, as they have been worldwide for the past fifty increasingly prosperous years. But Donald J. Trump is the personification of chaos (just ask the penguins of Herd and McDonald Islands), not sound business management! For example, he counted the VAT some countries levy as one excuse for his higher tariffs, forgetting (if he ever knew) that VAT is charged on all purchases, including purchases citizens make of goods manufactured in their own country, not just foreigners.

 

[Rightguide]

You're just being silly. You start out agreeing with me: tariffs can increase costs but it's complicated.

Then you make nonsensical claims like "that's not how private industry works" about businesses taking a wait-and-see approach to tariffs (absorbing losses in the meantime). But that's exactly what (some) businesses did, because, as you yourself admit, the tariffs were just "the beginning of a negotiation" and Trump quickly backed down. Of course, who knows what he'll do next . . .

Your "long-term strategic" ideas smell of autarky. How well does that work for, say, the North Koreans? We live in a big, interconnected world. If the free world is going to succeed that means the countries of the free world must work together, diplomatically, militarily and economically, that last part meaning a robust and free international trading system. If Boeing has trouble competing with Airbus, the answer isn't to prop up a problematic company by distorting commerce with tariffs!

As for "chaos" yes, tariffs could be managed in a way that isn't chaotic, as they have been worldwide for the past fifty increasingly prosperous years. But Donald J. Trump is the personification of chaos (just ask the penguins of Herd and McDonald Islands), not sound business management! For example, he counted the VAT some countries levy as one excuse for his higher tariffs, forgetting (if he ever knew) that VAT is charged on all purchases, including purchases citizens make of goods manufactured in their own country, not just foreigners.

You're being obtuse.

 

[ll74]

Lol

 

[Hel_Books]

You're being obtuse.

A statement made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

 

[Rightguide]

A statement made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Your posts are the evidence.

 

[ll74]

Your posts are the evidence.

Their posts are not the one making claims without evidence

 

[Rightguide]

Their posts are not the one making claims without evidence

Reality is my evidence.

 

[ll74]

Reality is my evidence.

Yes, you making up shit is your evidence.

Thanks for confirming.

 

[Hel_Books]

Your posts are the evidence.

I was referring to your silly post, in which you said only, "You're being obtuse." You gave no evidence for this. When you state something without evidence it can also be refuted without evidence.