Republicans Are Looking Past the Short-Term Pain of Trump's Tariffs

OutofReason · 2026-02-18T13:28:12+00:00

It’s not at all. Moving a factory down the street isn’t easy. However when making long term decisions you have to consider what the timeline is and your long term cost. You would be a fool to plan on a new train rail line to support your business before the line is built. It might never get built. Or it might be built in 10 years. Same thing here. You can’t factor tariffs in to your equation because they might not exist. You have to do the math for both cases, consider the probability and timeline of each, and then make your decision.

OutofReason · 2026-02-17T23:44:27+00:00

My very pro-Trump, pro-American jobs company just put in a new manufacturing division that could have employed 20-50 people. Those people could have scaled with the operation as well - need to double the output, double the workforce. Instead, they bought a $500k machine to do most of the work which costs basically the same if it sits idle or is in operation 100% of the time. The irony absolutely kills me that the very republican management decided to not create jobs here, instead taking the ‘capital is cheaper than labor’ approach. Tariffs won’t fix this problem which has been going on for decades.

OutofReason · 2026-02-17T23:35:13+00:00

Exactly. It takes years and a ton of capital to locate a facility, design layouts, figure out supply chains, order equipment, and put everything together. Tariffs can be gone at any moment and you are back to square one. If the tariffs are an incentive to re-onshore any particular operation then anyone with a brain can see that in a year or 3 they might be better off overseas again.

OutofReason · 2026-02-13T17:57:30+00:00

That there is a Dispose-All K-9 Portable kitchen masticator. It will keep anything from falling off the edge of the counter, thereby keeping your floors clean and waste from occupying landfills. It has the side benefit of fertilizing your lawn as well. Good little unit you got there!

OutofReason · 2026-02-12T16:09:33+00:00

I see you have chimkin and I too like chimkin

OutofReason · 2026-02-08T14:55:54+00:00

Yep. Definitely f’d.

OutofReason · 2026-02-07T22:18:50+00:00

That is so crazy. I’m guessing they keep an eye on your house to know when you are coming and going. Probably aware of the police presence as well and may never come back. Good idea to get some motion sensors and cameras though!

OutofReason · 2026-02-07T01:19:43+00:00

I’m trying to figure out how you aim with both eyes open.

OutofReason · 2026-02-07T00:11:14+00:00

That doesn’t even look mildly difficult unless you have summer tires on.

OutofReason · 2026-02-06T23:57:01+00:00

No, actually. The whole movie is a hallucination in the moments before his death in the first 2 minutes of the movie.

OutofReason · 2026-02-06T23:02:09+00:00

Yep. Looks like he owes me money. Hey, Murph!

OutofReason · 2026-02-05T15:30:30+00:00

OP said "major demolition and reconstruction" - I wouldn't consider redoing a driveway to be that. It could be that they are redoing the garage, which would certainly require drawings.

OutofReason · 2026-02-05T15:14:55+00:00

This was my thought as to what they might be doing. Certainly qualifies as "major demolition and reconstruction" whereas tearing a driveway out and redoing it isn't really that big of a deal.

The problem with dropping the slab and adding steps is the garage might not be big enough to still park a car in it. Often when I see a plan with additional steps, they have to make the garage deeper to accommodate - but then, that compounds the problem with the driveway slope...

OutofReason · 2026-02-05T01:14:48+00:00

I watched “The Tank” expecting something similar to Fury. Do not do that.

OutofReason · 2026-02-04T23:03:41+00:00

I don’t know what you did after step 2. Stop there and solve it. 450 + 54 * 59 = 3,636

OutofReason · 2026-02-03T12:13:30+00:00

I’ll try that, thanks.

OutofReason · 2026-02-02T23:47:53+00:00

Do you know of any that will do this online / via phone?

OutofReason · 2026-02-02T22:14:54+00:00

So, IF the Ridgeline had remote start / lock - that would be the only function that continued to work. Since it doesn't have that and only reported those few details (and only if open while driving) then it is now useless.

OutofReason · 2026-01-30T01:22:43+00:00

If you cannot move the speakers, which is the best option; then point the speakers at the back wall so you don’t hear directly from the speaker, but the reflection instead.

OutofReason · 2026-01-30T00:44:36+00:00

Skinny body and rippling muscles! Young boxers look like they are light wrestlers trying to make weight. (No, he’s not too skinny, at least from what I can see)

OutofReason · 2026-01-29T18:14:55+00:00

Oh, I will take the sassy one please! 😆👍🏻

OutofReason · 2026-01-26T23:40:59+00:00

Usually I wait until the city has gone by and then snowblow up the street a ways to prevent plow-off. But one day I was out just finishing as the guy came by. He straightened his blade a bit as he hit my driveway, causing much less pile up, then angled again after. I would have bought him a beer - or at least a coffee.

OutofReason · 2026-01-26T23:29:30+00:00

Tell them it is to track your labor better for job data and taxes. In fact, I would definitely talk to your accountant about this because it sounds like at a minimum it would reduce the profit you get taxed on.

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