I'm in the interview process for FAANG (same company and position I had before I left the US in 2021) and anecdotally I can predict it's going to be another tech bloodbath coming. Both the hiring manager and my old boss have basically said they aren't sure if they will get this position over the line as hiring freezes and layoffs are inevitably coming given the way the economy is going to go.

Thankfully I'm the second income in my household and relatively sheltered if I have to go drive Uber for a year but yeah. Some nice filling for the shit sandwich, so much winning.

Wait till the AI bubble bursts. Still think they have a year or so to milk dummies but that is going to tank so many tech stocks.

Well, if they had truthfully marketed AI as a search engine that gets worse faster, the economy would have already collapsed.

We gave management of the strategic oil reserve over to a company that's existed for 5 years, has 3 listed employees, and specializes in buying storage units and we're paying them $1.4 billion. Seems legit.

There are about 1,000 protests planned across the United States for tomorrow for anyone looking to protest the actions of the Trump administration.

Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Hands Off on Mobilize

Literally none of this is true

America as a country is now a train wreck reality show.

Yes, the perfect time to lower interest rates is right after you did a massively inflationary thing. Can someone with an 8th grade understanding of economics explain this to him?

I pass/failed econ in college. I could probably fuck things up slightly less.

Yeah, I don't have a ton of econ background but even I know they can't lower interest rates if we have high inflation.

But I guess we see the strategy now. He fucks up the economy and will now make Powell out to be his scapegoat.

Yes, but that person would have to come from outside of his current administration.

A GOP president just lit everyone's 401k on fire. If Democrats can't capitalize on this, they deserve to be out of power.

The NC court of appeals just stole the SC election by saying 60000 votes need to be removed. There will be an appeal, but the GOP controls the NC Supreme Court as well.

That should be a bigger story. Ending democracy in a state.

Newsom is a buffoon but this is a sneaky smart strategy if he can get any countries to bite.




The problem is why would they? Is California not going to charge the tariff on imports? That seems like a one-sided deal.

If we had any faith in the Federal courts....

The DNC Chair has announce they are creating a "Shadow Cabinet." I'm sure they'll screw it up, but it is a good idea.

I think the strategy would be to put pressure on Trump to remove the tariffs. If you give California an exemption, it's a huge boost to businesses and farmers in the state. It gives them a massive advantage over red state competitors.

Take soybeans for example. If you give Illinois an exemption, you just destroy Iowa's farms. Won't take long for voters and politicians to speak up.

How are they so bad at this?

For today's Democratic Daily Download: meet @RepDeluzio from Western PA.

He explains how Trump's trade policy has been a chaotic mess, but that tariffs—if done right and paired with strong pro-worker and industrial policies—can help supercharge manufacturing.

We're offering… pic.twitter.com/88ztvBxZM8

— House Democrats (@HouseDemocrats) April 4, 2025

This is another example why the only way forward is for the party to go.

Only got this news from work because we work with Fanatics on stuff. But they sent an e-mail that metal based products, which are mostly made in China, are getting a 10%-15% bump due to the tariffs immediately. Already got pushed through their app and the site will be refreshing in a few days. So if you plan to purchase any metal based products from that company, do so quickly on their website.

The US Commerce Sec has already said the quiet words out loud that any manufacturing that moves to the US because of tariffs will be powered by robots and AI, so any thoughts of a rich middle class due to manufacturing returning should be forgotten. The only winners if this happens would be the 4 oligarchs who were on stage with Trump during his inauguration

And then from the right we have this. What kind of bizarro world do we live in when Ben Shapiro is coming off as the smartest guy in the room.

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The one where he probably lost a shitload of money.

The government of Lithuania has shown more respect for the US soldiers that died over there than our own president.

Could you imagine if under Biden the market dropped 4,000 points in two day, 4 US soldiers died, and he went golfing?

The right would be apoplectic.

The hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.

I went down to my local hands-off protest today. I couldn't take the crowd for more than an hour, but there were thousands of folks & it was good to see.

Hope they all are getting what they wanted out of a Trump presidency.

I also went to mine. I got to my city's Hands Off protest/pep rally about 15 minutes late so I spent about 1 hour and 45 minutes at it.

There were probably around 1,000 people at the one in Fort Wayne, IN which is fairly Republican.

I work remotely so it can feel isolating at times being a Democrat in this area. Luckily everyone in my family is progressive at least. I moved from Louisville a few years ago since my Dad lives in Ft. Wayne.

It was uplifting to be around with others who oppose Trump. It was also great to hear a lot of cars, trucks, semi trucks, Amazon delivery vans, and USPS delivery trucks honking in support.

Same thing they'd get under Harris Glad you threw away an election to support it.

I didn't go to the Chicago one but had 2 friends who did and they said it was packed with people.

I didn’t throw anything away I voted in my own best interests which everyone should do. Including those fucking idiots who protest voted Trump. The man who described himself as the most pro Israel president ever on the campaign trail.

No real point in trying to engage me on this much either. At this point I’d like to see them get what the voted for including Trump resorts in Gaza and US Troops on the ground in the West Bank. People should get what they vote for.

Nice! Some pics from Portland:

You literally voted for the same thing. They had identical stances on Israel.

Portland rules. Was just there and always has good vibes.

That looks like a great turnout.

This was the biggest protest I've seen in a long time, probably 20-30,000 folks showed up. Great weather most certainly helped, after the usual 6 fall/winter months of grey, rainy days.

Do you have any restaurant recommendations? Love the city but nothing is open late. I'll be back in a couple months and hopefully catching a Timbers game.

It is both weird and true that despite Portland's restaurant/bar/service culture, practically nothing is, or has ever been open late.I work about a half-mile from the Timbers' stadium, so most of my food knowledge in that immediate area is kinda cheap lunch-centric. In that vein I would recommend the Midtown Beer Garden, which is a pod of 20+ carts & Tokyo Sando in particular.

There is a seemingly endless selection of restaurants in Portland, but for more serious eats around that area some of the ones that are worth the hype:

Andina
Langbaan
Ox
Kann

and a couple more funky/casual personal favorites:

Luce
Plaza Coyoacan
Khun Pic’s Bahn Thai

I'll toss in Thai Peacock as an outstanding little Thai place in Portland.



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Thai Peacock is a couple blocks from my office, and we get lunch there a lot, it's great!

Most American cities close early. NYC is the exception not the rule.

I will never understand how lying to support the narrative is acceptable to some even when they’re supposedly Christian’s.

People are sharing this post on Facebook that all of these countries are lining up to negotiate on the tariffs which might be true but I asked him to show any evidence and he couldn’t. So when I said that that’s lying and a sin he said that I was being weird.

Weird is calling people out on lying and reminding them that that too is a sin.

Strange days indeed.


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It’s a cult. Nothing matters beyond what dear leader says.

Hell, I have a friend that went to the protest in Salt Lake City, there were 12,000 people there, in conservative AF Utah, including she said, some Republicans. Also a small contingent of Proud Boys, that didn't really cause much disruption since they were vastly outnumbered.

There are rumors Scott Bessent wants out of the Trump administration because of the tariffs and being forced to support them is destroying his reputation in the financial industry.

His interviews have been a train wreck. You can tell he just wants to blurt out Trump has no clue what he is doing.

Saw that "GOP Senator fears "decimation" over tariffs" was running as a story.. And I hope he meant figuratively, because as much as picking 1 out of every 10 GOP and killing them may be funny in theory, in practice, it'd be the worst massacre in history.

not enough audience for "obscure literal meaning of word" jokes, man

Too bad, I thought it said defenestration.

We're back to Trump wanting a military parade for his birthday. Last time the estimated taxpayer cost was $100 million and he was talked out of it. This time, without adults in the room, it's likely to happen.

I just called my GOP congressman and got a staffer. Ask them his stance on what is happening, if he is going to issue a statement or do a town hall, and if he or anyone else in the GOP is going to stand up to whats going on.

Putin and Kim get Military parades, so why not, it's the authoritarian thing to do.

Bluesky

START BUYING OUR SHIT, VIETNAM. WE KNOW 100 MILLION OF YOU HAS THE EXACT SAME BUYING POWER AS 340M OF US.

A judge appointed by that well known commie liberal Ronald Reagan in his opinion affirming the decision to make the government bring back a man they mistakenly sent to an El Salvadoran gulag:

"Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.""

Who is your rep? Kean?

Chris Smith

SCOTUS overturns Boasberg. Detainees must file habeas petitions in the district where they are detained.

Problem is their lawyers/families don't know where they are detained.

So, due process is dead.

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SCOTUS did say that detainees need to be given time and notice to file, but we'll see how much the admin gives a damn about that.

dola

What in the absolute fuck is this?

Elon was streaming POE2, died to the tutorial boss, and quit his stream. This is the guy that was trying to convince people he was one of the top Diablo and POE players in the world.

$6 billion handout to Elon.

https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Arti...3-lane-2-cont/

Who wins, Trump vs Disney?

China plans six retaliatory measures against Trump tariffs in escalating trade war - CHOSUNBIZ

50% added on to the tariffs on China bringing them up to 104% starting at midnight.

While trying to cut Social Security and Medicare, Trump is now promising a trillion dollar defense budget. Priorities

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That will look like a drop in the bucket once the US starts WW3.

Nintendo should announce that they are not shipping any Switch 2 into the USA until the tariffs are fully lifted. There will be a global shortage at launch, so why sell to any territory where it is less profitable?

And then make a press release. Trump prevents Switch 2 from launching in USA.

Democrats are so shell-shocked (or shaken) by losing to Trump that they can't help but keep making, "I understand Trump's motivation for doing X, and I agree..." statements. The latest is Whitmer. Call me crazy, but perhaps the better argument is to make your own case for how to achieve certain goals instead of being afraid of Trump. Jesus crispies.

They don't need a counter-argument until 2028. Right now it's enough to say this sucks, Trump sucks, and the GOP sucks. They need to resist the urge to get into the policy and just be the opposition.

God this pisses me off so much

I think you meant

God: This pisses me off so much.

Trump: Who are you?

GOP loves their new time doesn't pass trick and are going to make it impossible to revoke Trump's tariffs until at least the fall. No days pass until September 30, 2025, so no ability to end the national emergency after X days.

dola


Not a peep from the GOP regarding this from Trump. Literally none of their principles matter.

double dola

The Senate budget resolution is astonishing.

5.3 trillion in tax cuts
517 billion in net new spending

But but but, Doge is going to save us money? They are actually cutting the budget this time, unlike the other billion times they promised they would but didn't, right?

Other than calling Navarro a retard Elon has been pretty quiet since the people of Wisconsin showed how much they hate him

Did you miss his failed video game live stream a couple days ago?

haha. I heard about it.

He's such a tool.

The plan for tariffs is a doomsday machine.

You don't get it, this is just a threat to get other countries in line. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, he's tariffing Canada and Mexico.

You don't get it, this is just a way to get free money so we can cut taxes. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, he's tariffing the whole world.

You don't get it, he's just lowering interest rates to refinance the debt. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, he's tariffing penguins.

You don't get it, he's got to close all the loopholes. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, the bond market is cratering.

You don't get it, this is just China trying to bully us because it's about to give up. Art of the Deal.

Oh, he's pausing most of the tariffs. What was the fucking point?

You don't get it. Now we know who our allies are. Art of the Deal.

We still have 125% tariffs on China and 10% or maybe 25% or possibly 35% on Canada and Mexico. Oh, and 10% on everyone else. That's really bad.

You don't get it. These tariffs will lead to a new golden age of American manufacturing. Art of the Deal.

He was surprisingly right on that take. Navarro is an utter moron.

We were scrambling to hold some shipments from Japan today which would have cost us 180K in tariffs. And then BOOM, another rule change. What's to stop the next thing from happening tomorrow? I'm pretty sure they're working on a new tariff for softwood lumber for Canada right now. The worst thing for business is uncertainty, and a lot of companies are just going to avoid doing business with the USA right now as their government is not trustworthy and they are unreliable.

Yeah, things are much better than yesterday, but much worse than last week.

It's not done.

There's still a 10% tariff globally.

25% on steel and aluminum
25% on cars
Likely 25% on softwood coming in the next few days

This is just the BS trade deficit calculation tariff that has been removed. Once people figure this out, stock market to start going back down again.

We've been working with Cerner to get our MHS Genesis equipment replaced since our hospital was the first site to deploy it and that equipment is now 7 years old. Talking to Cerner yesterday I found out that a decent chunk of our replacements are manufactured in China. We have a budget that we have to work within and Just our do ument scanners along have seen the price go from $900 last week to $1300 today and are expected to go to upwards of $2500 next month. When were trying to replace over 400 of them that's a significant amount of money that's not in the budget. So our options are to either buy maintenance kits for the existing scanners and let them limp along until prices come back down or someone comes up with the money to eat the additional cost. Either way, we're paying significantly more and the scanners are just a fraction of what we're trying to replace.

Reports that the EU are negotiating with China to eliminate tariffs on Chinese EVs. That would crush American car companies and it'd be interesting to see if Canada follows suit. China makes better EVs than anyone right now and they're cheap.

They will be made in Kentucky by October, just stay cool and stop complaining

Don't be silly. Chinese products are already much cheaper than stuff from the USA, there's no need for the EU to negotiate with China about anything. The only reason products from the USA were still in the market is the perception that stuff from China has lower quality, combined with slightly less fear for electronic devices containing spyware. Trump's stupidity is the best advertisement the Chinese market could have ever wished for.

We are the big dog with 25% of global GDP, but the rest of the world can beat us if they work together. A China/EU trade partnership would blow a huge hole into the SS USA and all for no reason other than people got bored with being comfortable.

dola

RFK Jr. said that by September we'll know the cause of autism so we can eliminate those exposures.

Get your kids vaccinated while you still can.

EU had a 45% tariff on Chinese EVs. It was done at the behest of America who I believe had a 100% tariff on them.

China makes the best EVs so opening the door to them would be great.

More fraud found although I have a feeling this one won't be investigated.

Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii | CNN Politics

Kash Patel apparently fired for failing to show up to work? Is that legit news? If so, LOL.

BLM nominee pulled because she said the 2020 election was legit.

Just as acting ATF head. I guess they are fine with the FBI director not showing up.

Thought I read a while ago that he "moved" his offices to his Vegas place because DC sucks. I like to imagine that DOGE didn't receive a response to his "Return to the Office" memo that everyone got.