27 Replies to “April 8, 2025: Reader Tips”

  2. Its too bad IBM went woke.
    They used to be so cool, at the cutting edge of tech, with their IBM fellows, and all that.
    Now they’re getting sued for anti-white discrimination.

    1. Those were days, when all the pinkos were on the left, unlike today.

    1. L – Those who sing along will have a full rice bowl. Those who do not, no rice, no bowl.

    2. perhaps its an innocent exchange program, you know, the big burly white tranna veteran cop hobnobbing with the locals in downtown beijing? no?

    1. Tim Walz is certifiable. And those jazz hands… “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead already?”

      Well, Tampon Timmy, what makes you imminently qualified to Lead the Dimocrat Party doesn’t necessarily mean you could successfully run a lemonade stand, let alone a state or the nation.

      OTOH, Minnesota is a declining mess, so your work there is done. I guess it’s time to move on to bigger and better things to destroy.

      Is it too late for Tampon Tim to get on the Canadian ballot? Maybe he’d have better luck there.

  8. A fantastic article by Park MacDougald in “The Scroll” today cuts through all the noise about tariffs:

    “Three things you need to know about Liberation Day tariffs:

    1. It’s not about the methodology.

    The formula has been widely mocked, but that misses the point. The numbers aren’t meant to hold up in a PhD defense – they’re meant to shock, to create leverage. The more extreme the figure, the stronger the incentive for other countries to come to the negotiating table with the U.S.

    2. It’s not even about the tariffs.

    The real issue isn’t Vietnam’s tariff rates; it’s China’s trans-shipment tactics and its central role in global supply chains.

    The aim is to isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal, it doesn’t matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American products at 0%, 5%, or even 9.4% (current rate).

    3. It’s not personal with any country; except one.

    The tariffs are universal, affecting even places like Heard Island and McDonald Islands, sparking confusion and anger worldwide. But as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explained, this blanket approach is designed to block every possible loophole China could exploit. In effect, all countries have become collateral damage in the U.S.-China economic standoff.

    Until the two strike a grand bargain – or the U.S. builds a broad coalition to ring-fence China; the fallout will continue to ripple across the globe.

    In other words, it’s about China, stupid.”

    and this:

    ” The tariffs on allies send a message: We are happy to defend you, and to trade with you on fair terms, but you must choose between China and us. We cannot rely on our defense umbrella while protecting your markets from our goods and helping to enrich China. If you don’t like our offer, you can try to cut a deal with the Chinese, but they couldn’t defend you even if they wanted to, and they will moreover flood your markets with cheap goods and annihilate your domestic industries. So maybe you should consider buying a few more Fords. ”

    and this:

    “Lurking in the background of all of this, of course, is the possibility that the United States fears, or has reason to expect, a Chinese move on Taiwan in the near future.”

    and finally:

    “That last point is why it’s important to look at who was exempted from the new tariffs: Canada and Mexico.

    Goods compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement are subject to 0% tariffs. According to comments from Bessent, one of the United States’ major demands in USMCA renegotiations is for Canada and Mexico to harmonize their China tariffs with those of the United States:thus effectively consolidating North America as a U.S.-led free trading bloc designed to keep China out. As an article last week in The Wall Street Journal noted, since USMCA was negotiated during Trump’s first term, China invested billions of dollars in moving production to Mexico to get around U.S. tariffs:a move that now looks to be doomed.”

    https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/april-7-the-trade-war-is-about-china

  11. l think l figured out my affinity to Trump’s methods now.
    he eschews ‘the easy way out’. quick version, being ostracized for autism, BUT
    the high functioning type, it allowed me to finally ‘look beyond the hurt’ and figure
    out how to do things myself. (lacking the constant feedback and groupthink thing)
    l too looked long term, shyed away from short term tricks, when l did a job l did it
    RIGHT so l didnt have to redo it later. l constantly ‘bit the bullet’ AND GOT GOOD AT IT.
    l toughed it out with the mid to long term in mind and in the long term succeeded
    because of the efficient and effective use of finite time.
    Trump thinks he’s right. l dont know his overall strategy but l think he’s right
    (mostly on a hunch however) one thing l do know by gawd America
    HES YOUR ONLY CHANCE RIGHT NOW.

  12. Don’t believe the polls.
    RCMP estimated over 12,000 at Edmonton rally for Pollievre.
    Some say 15,000.
    The Pleb covered it. CPAC too.
    Harper spoke, and declared that Canada’s problems were not created by Trump!! He also enjoyed dissing Carney.

  13. “Kyiv’s envoy to Israel probed by Ukrainian authorities over unexplained wealth

    The wealth of the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel has raised red flags. The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has discovered major irregularities in his financial declaration.”

    https://www.jpost.com/international/article-849314

    No doubt a large part of that money came from USSA Inc tax victims.

  16. One of the reasons that HP had problems with the Compaq deal goes back to what was happening with the company between 20 and 30 years ago.

    HP seemed to have a death wish at that time, made particularly evident when it hired Carly Fiorina. She was a good example of succeeding by failing upwards.

    Before she started at HP, one of her accomplishments was the near-destruction of what was left of Bell Labs, the nearest thing that the U. S. had to a Nobel Prize factory. It’s not as if that facility ever did anything important. After all, inventing the transistor, doing pioneering work on lasers, developing UNIX, and designing and building the first telecommunications satellite, Telstar, were things that anybody could do, right?

    I’m old enough to remember when the Hewlett-Packard name commanded respect. It started by building a piece of test equipment that was better than anything else on the market at the time. Many labs and shops often had HP gear, whether it was a multimeter or an oscilloscope. Eventually, HP produced a line of mini-computers which, as I recall, were great machines.

    But, later on, the bean-counters started running the company and it focused on making crap laptop computers and garbage printers. That included spinning off its instrumentation business as Agilent and I think that happened during Fiorina’s time.

    If I recall correctly, she was encouraged to “pursue other opportunities”, but not until she had inflicted serious damage. Her successor wasn’t much better and he didn’t stay in that job for very long, either.

  19. The Improbable Dreamer
    @TheDoctorRegen
    “Hollywood has been dropping little bits of truth about our true history since the beginning. In a 1944 movie called Meet Me in St. Louis a movie about the 1904 world fair, listen to how the little girl describes the mud flood in detail and they just laugh at her and move on.”

    https://x.com/TheDoctorRegen/status/1909008165653377266

    Yup.

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