Remember when he celebrated the groundbreaking foxconn boondoggle where land was taken from a small town and given to foxconn who created less jobs than the property taxes of the people who lived there prior would have created?
Donald Trump and JD Vance can’t cook… all they know is mcdonald’s , charge they phone, twerk, be racist, eat hot chip & lie
Trump absolutely obliterated profits from manufacturing with the steel tariffs. That’s the whole reason that I’m struggling really hard right now. It forced me to order even lower quality steel because as the buyer, you’re the one paying the markups. It isn’t the affected country. This forced me to really put my limited metallurgical knowledge to the test because I had to ship critical components that wouldn’t fail to the best of my ability. I had to adjust everything from tool paths to cutting times because they both affect the integrity of the material. I already had to charge way more for the parts I make because I’m not in India or China making $2/hr. I really hate to say it, but American made steel is just too expensive and I can get it from Japan for maybe 3/4 the price. China is even cheaper with nearly the same quality. And, no, I don’t order it directly shipped. There are distributors.
I’ve been screaming at colleagues for years now that Trump has absolutely no clue about real world manufacturing or how it works. He wants to destroy NAFTA, which would absolutely destroy the supply chain I rely on for non-metallic (mostly glass-filled plastics) materials. I make a fair amount of G-10 and G-11 fiberglass parts for nuclear power - from GE, to Hitachi, WestingHouse, to (oddly) Mitsubishi. Want to talk about how nuclear is expensive already? Yeah, go ahead and erase NAFTA. It would go from improbable and financially impractical to absolutely impossible. Get an order from some local business to make some parts? You have to charge at least an estimate of $70/hour just for labor and machine time. With the tariffs, I’ve had to bump that to about $90/hour.
However, because the costs for me have gone up so much I’ve had to go from making money to paying to live. I have the skill, equipment, and knowledge to run a machine shop by myself. That orange fuck set it up that if I didn’t already have well-established long term contracts, I’d be in a ditch after selling my dog for a month’s worth of food. Trump knowing manufacturing, or how it impacts the manufacturers? Get the fuck out.
Sincerely, A trans woman that has been in manufacturing her whole life.
Source: Being a 20+ year career machinist.
Those tariffs did exactly what they were supposed to do. Push smaller competitors out of the market and allow price increases from the bigger companies. Even with those tariffs the price from China was still much cheaper, all he did was ramp up inflation. Literally no one won.
A politician who tells it like it is? A guy you could, God forbid, have a beer with? A veteran even, but with working class cred and a love of video games. A total unknown on the national level, but beloved by his constituents… You couldn’t order a more perfect veep off a menu. It’s almost surreal
What’s even better is that this is really him. Not a character, not adapting to the political race.
Minnesotans are sad to lose him as governor, but he’ll be great as VP and definitely qualified to step in if something happened to Harris.
Wait. He plays videogames?! I’m gonna pokemon-go to the polls next month!
He did a WoW stream recently that blew up in the news
Couldn’t you have just fucking killed me instead
I gotta say, you write in a very similar way to Anthony Bourdain. The cadence especially. I actually read it in his voice, well done.
It was totally accidental, but that’s one one of the finest compliments I’ve ever been paid. I read Kitchen Confidential at a formative age, so I’m glad to have memorialized him however fleetingly in my dotage.
Didn’t he rape children overseas and that’s why he killed himself? Because you knew it was going to get out?Nope I was WAY off. Don’t believe anything you hear, I should have looked deeper before accepting it as fact
Couldn’t literally be the opposite. His partner Asia Argento, ironically a big proponent in the #metoo movement, got outed by fucking a 17 year old actor on set. Apparently he didn’t want her seeing him, despite being open, but after some posts of them together on social he killed himself a few weeks later.
You couldn’t order a more perfect veep off a menu.
“the expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute, fundamental necessity for the United States to have the steady leadership there”
The average person you meet down the street has less thirst for blood and would make a better politician.
Honestly, the VPs in this election are better candidates than the presidential candidates. Even if I hate JD.
JD is scary cause he seems boring but he actually has super shady beliefs. And he’s a much easier puppet to control then Trump
And he’s LITERALLY, as in every sense of the word, a puppet. Peter Thiel bought him like a slave straight out of college, and inserted his hand right up his ass. It’s been there ever since.
I know what you mean but JD Vance might be one of the worst VP picks ever, that’s gotta bring down the average. Sarah Palin is the only comparable in my lifetime.
JD Vance has never been in a factory job, or in anything other then his couch
I fucking love waltz. I’m fairly positive on Kamala, but I absolutely love waltz. He may be my favorite politician atm.
You “fucking” “absolutely” love waltz so i’m gonna guess you agree with his policies:
“the expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute, fundamental necessity for the United States to have the steady leadership there”
Give ‘em a break.
Manufacturing stuff is hard, alright? You have to get off the couch and stuff
get off the couch
You think Vance is worried about getting anyone other than himself off?
I’m, unfortunately, reminded me of this bit from the original Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series (which preceded even the books):
In today’s modern Galaxy there is, of course, very little still held to be unspeakable. Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and, in extreme cases, shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed, and totally unf [bleep!] ked-up personality. So, for instance, when in a recent national speech, the financial minister of the Royal World Estate of Qualvista actually dared to say that due to one thing and another, and the fact that no one had made any food for awhile and the king seemed to have died, and that most of the population had been on holiday now for over three years, the economy had now arrived at what he called, “One whole juju-flop situation,” everyone was so pleased he felt able to come out and say it, that they quite failed to notice that their five-thousand-year-old civilisation had just collapsed overnight. But though even words like “juju-flop,” “swut,” and “turlingdrome” are now perfectly acceptable in common usage, there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the galaxy except one - where they don’t know what it means. That word is “Belgium” and it is only ever used by loose-tongued people like Zaphod Beeblebrox in situations of dire provocation. Such as…
And walz knows about manufacturing from all the manufacturing consent he and the dems do!
Your usage of a phrase coined by Chomsky is quite ironic.
Also the consent you try to manufacture is shoddy workmanship.
