US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

Always assume projection with this crew. Their obsession with corruption and digging up dirt is just another sign that they're all hopelessly compromised by some entity or another.

In a world where a less successful Rudy wasn't engaged in high-level acts of senility like incuriously accepting 'Ukrainian' dirt he was handed without even asking for it and proudly blabbing about it to the world, he would be sitting by the phone in his rest home eagerly waiting to fork over his bank account information to anyone willing to half-ass their way through an IRS agent impersonation.

I think w/ Rudy it has everything to do with what happened to him in NYC.

Between his exploiting'leveraging of 9/11 and gestapo "quality of life" dictates he endeared himself to an increasingly gentrifed NYC. No doubt he planned on having airports and parks named after him. It's been an ugly, precipitous fall. He's roundly reviled in his hometown, and this is his last desperate grasp at getting some of that back.

iow He saw *another* outer borough septugenarian detested by New Yorkers figure out how to make a bunch of idiots outside the city love him, why not latch onto that guy

liking that take

It makes sense

LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH! pic.twitter.com/QQYTqG4KTt

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019

And they say that a hero could save us

Another question about US President Ronald Reagan. Who has told him it would be treason even if Schiff lied to Congress about the transcript? Or even if they were falsifying evidence, doesn’t treason mean collaborating with an enemy?

President Ronald Reagan parrots strings of phonemes he's heard other people use. A spoonful of alphabet soup which miraculously forms a word isn't a sign of sentience or intention.

words have long sinced stopped meaning anything iirc

The new 25% EU tariffs are nutty. good luck USA. Product list:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investigations/EU_Large_Civil_Aircraft_Final_Product_List.pdf

a friend who sells in 50 states worked out a representation of cost to wine and whiskey:

I.E. A $50 bottle (landed, US after freight and taxes- but not tariffs) X 1.45 ( average wholesale distributor markup = $72.50 wholesale price X 1.5 (usual retail markup) = $108.75 sell price in a retailer.

WITH THE 25% TARIFF
$50 (landed) x 1.33 markup (25% tariff) =$66.50 X 1.45 distributor markup = $96.45 X 1.5 retail markup = $144.64 retail price that YOU WILL PAY after trumps added tariff... so that 25% tariff on a $50 (laid in) bottle translates to an EXTRA $35.89 on the final price you pay ...

Dumb question, but why does a 25% tarrif equate to a 1.33x markup?

Ugh, didn't realize previously this hit scotch. Not cool, man.

Mike, it's because the distributor and the retailer do the mark-up on the price they pay for the goods including the tariff, so the percentage gets higher with each step of the distribution process.

hmmm, I don't know. let me ask. It may be an error because I can't work it out either.

oh xpost. That makes sense.

but wait let me ask because it still looks slightly wrong.

But it makes no difference - it was x*Dist*Whole before and now it's x*Tariff*Dist*Whole. The price is the old price * Tariff.

The issue I was having was the very first term in the maths: "25% = 1.33".

xp

Oh I see, yeah I dunno.

yeah, i will revert in a bit. I shot them a message.

The real issue is the “price you pay” part. The price after the tariff plus the usual markup is what I don’t pay, tyvm. I foresee many people switching from scotch to bourbon.

maga! (markup all grain alcohol)

Isn't it because the tariff is 25% of the price, so in order to still have the original price you need to add 33%, since 25%*1,33=1,00.

frig. I've already turned our chest freezer into a beer fermenting chamber. Now there goes the bathtub.

Cheese is already crazy expensive in the US. Blah.

these are worthwhile because they will help boeing make better self-crashing planes

xps it's because you DIVIDE by markup, i.e. 50/0.75 (25%) = 66.6 which is the same as 50 * 1.333

I think.

President teetotal raises taxes on booze, checks out

Ok - sorry for the maths derail :) It's a lot, either way.

it's a fun thread for a maths derail because half the people on this thread probably had math and science funding cut for their schools so they could spend extra time considering the theory of creationism

i love how the photo in that rudy subway ad is the heaven's gate guy

I was shockingly old when I learned that Rudy is not, in fact, the Heaven's Gate guy. Coulda sworn.

the crazyrudylaw website works now. That phone number was on the Michael Cohen Fixer ads too.

President teetotal raises taxes on booze, checks out

But he loves Scotland!

President teetotal raises taxes on booze, checks out

Richard Butler's best lyric imo

https://i.imgur.com/8DzrDTO.jpg

just do it (repeatedly incriminate yourself on live television)

“I would say President Zelenskiy, if it was me, I would start an investigation into the Bidens.” — Donald Trump. THIS MORNING

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 3, 2019

He can admit it all he wants, seeking foreign dirt on a political rival is fine when a Republican does it.

I wouldn't trust anyone this stupid with a pair of scissors.

Someone please hand him a pair of scissors. And then, I dunno, tell him he has a fly on his forehead.

Well then:

Trump admits he asked Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden, and asks China to do the same. Like Nixon telling America "I ordered the break in." pic.twitter.com/Zw3aZby4uc

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 3, 2019

"now they're trying to do it the opposite way but they got rid."

cue the evergreen jesse farrar tweet

The guy has not had to withstand any single consequence for his actions in 73 years, why do people expect him to start fearing them now?

crooked and much more than that if was me then everybody was fifty thousand and investigate China and other words I am saying

I'm going to be like those people that go to South America for dental and plastic surgeries, except to Europe for cheese and Scotch

Like if his face opened and nothing came out but fax noises people would still stroke their chins and nod and write think pieces about what exactly he meant by AFPO8DSHLAVBKJAB13948HBKFJBABADFKJHALDJFVK