Trump’s trade and environment policies are a disaster for car makers
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Give it 6 more months. The Republican Party has already destroyed over a century of progress in the first 6 months of this year, shouldn't take much longer than that get to back to the 1600s and the full establishment of Gilead.
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I assume the CFO (and everyone else in the C suite, anyone with director or VP in their title) also took an equivalent pay cut, as well as a salary reduction for the 5 mandatory furlough days?
Yeah, of course not.
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OT rant
One of my pet peeves is people using the Russian letter “Ya” to pretend that is the reversed Latin letter “R” in order to signal some connection to Russia. When in fact all it does is create a non-sensical spelling.
This has nothing to with Trump, but when I see what you wrote I sound out the Russian word as “T-Ya-M-R”.
/rant
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It's just a wonderful coincidence that what Project 2025 or the Thiel dark enlightenment disciples are doing to the USA just aligns with what Putin and his ilk want to happen to the USA.
The young Russians I have talked to don't say it out loud, but they hate it. They miss all the wonderful American and Western European things they used to be able to buy.
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Foxconn has also announced that it will be shutting down its planned EV manufacturing activities in Lordstown, Ohio, due to a "soft market" in North America and pivoting instead to "AI server and cloud computing hardware production" at the site.
It seems the market oracles have declared that EVs are out and AI is in.
It seems the market oracles have declared that EVs are out and AI is in.
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All Trump has to do is fire anyone who points out the economy is failing, and tweak all the statistics to show the economy is great! Now, where is his sharpie... (/sarcasm)
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Enough to understand : it is a disaster by himself. No need to use more words.
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I don't why people are downvoting this. They gave factual information. If it's about the price of that car, people spend that kind of money on big stupid trucks all the time.
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The obvious solution is for these companies to rethink their public communication and abandon the needlessly negative fear mongering, replacing it by a more patriotic positivity that lines up better with American values.
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Start investing in a bigger back, because right now there isn't enough room for all the knives that will be stuck in there in the future.
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That's just made up, Holden is still part of GM, they just don't build in Australia anymore. Only Vauxhall is owned by Stellantis.
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I suppose they are in a situation where they need the best CFO they can get for any money. And unpaid furlough means you keep employing people whose work you don't need at the moment. I suppose the CFO's work is needed.
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Does the US really have the leadership in automotive industry? I only lived in South America and Europe, and in both places you are much more likely to find European brands than US ones
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this is exactly the (post)communist manual for maintaining the power for so long after the soviet crash. just point the finger to the unawaring democrats and it is done. once ones mind is bent to see the enemy in everything, but the neo-communists.
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Not hate - more... pity.
Shooting yourself in public, both barrels into the feet, reload repeat, leads to pity - the same pity as you have for a geriatric uncle lost in drug and alcohol fuelled paranoid fantasies so that they sit in the corner, covered in their own waste and withdrawing from the rest of the world.
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The difference between a murderous communist tyranny and a murderous fascist tyranny is that in the murderous communist tyranny they'll leave you alone if you do what you're told and praise the Dear Leader. In the murderous fascist tyranny it's not what you do that gets you in trouble, it's who and what you are. Thus, it doesn't matter what you do, the fascists will kill you anyway.
I know I'm generalising, but it's a good rule of thumb.
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Welcome to the Nordics, where anglophones use our three extra letters to make nonsensical words. Å is not an A, Ö is not an O, and Ä is not an A. They're distinct sounds which exist in English but doesn't have letters for them.
Å = pronounced as awe
Ö = like the U in burn, or sun, or turn.
Ä = like bAd, sAd, mAd.
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What I do not get, I do not live in the US, is where all that tariff money goes to. Wasn't Donald going to reduce the deficit with it? Sure there will be a 200 000 000$ new ballroom, but that is peanuts compared to the new income.
If I were Donald, I'd brag about all the great new things tariffs make possible. But it seems rather quiet in that area. Or is that news skipped here in the EU?
If I were Donald, I'd brag about all the great new things tariffs make possible. But it seems rather quiet in that area. Or is that news skipped here in the EU?
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No, it’s clearly hate. US media isn’t reporting the level of overseas protests being directed at US policy. Over a 100k Australians crowded the Sydney bridge last week, this event protesting US and other nations support of Israeli genocide in Gaza. Not a peep on US media. There have been other events across the EU firmly aimed at Trump.
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I really doubt that the true dyed-in-the-wool Trumpista will notice one more lie. Limited mental capacity y'know...
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Good thing there is an easy fix: fire all the accountants who reported those bad numbers. Trump will sent you a short list of people you can use as accountants from now on.
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Thank you Captain Obvious.
And that whooshing sound you hear is my point flying over your head.
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More like the once in a month post where risking to leave out the /s because. It's too obvious, bites me in th ass LO'L. Seems like it sounded pretty convincing, though...
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Needed help installing a high end, very strong aluminum screen door. The manufacturer is in the rural South (U.S), where the Orange One gets 70+% of the vote. That 50% tariff on aluminum might just mean the end of great American company and cost 40 good people their jobs.
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mmm you are in a monumental delusion, regarding the communist tyranny, so pls double check your sources. for starters communists would NEVER ever leave you alone.
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American here who would buy a Chinese car, specifically the BYD Shark-6 if it were legal. My last American car left my life in 2003. Subaru Baja after that, but that was my last American made car (Made in Indiana). I have a 1994 Toyota Pickup that has been reliable for for three decades. My 2019 Soul has never had an issue that wasn't caused by idiocy on my part.
Here's the thing about cars made here or anywhere else in the world. China is the largest supplier of parts to all of the manufacturers. There is no way that any car here will not have Chinese content. Moot point now. Economy is stalling like an airplane running out of lift. Slow now but a fast ride down soon.
Edit: Needed to correct grammar.
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I don't doubt what you are saying might be the case but if you are a poor person that think that you will be a billionaire then start by voting for policies that benefit fit you as a poor person and if you become a billionaire then you can start voting for policies that benefit billionaires. Since up to this point there have been elections every 2 years.
Voting against your own interests when you are having hardships is so freaking weird to me.
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