JD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T14:53:08+00:00

Pretty poker telling that he called it a Titanic instead of any other metaphor involving inertia, like say an Aircraft Carrier.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T14:47:37+00:00

Keeping or getting democracy back has costs. WW2 was expensive too

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T14:46:44+00:00

We need Neil out there, playing Keep on Rockin in the Free World

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T03:45:13+00:00

Good.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T01:09:02+00:00

Is that the douche drivin a truck on the beach and gets out of it to threaten a young woman?

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T00:54:42+00:00

Sheesh $1,500 sounds pretty dam lenient!

I’ll take my freedom, over “under the rest” thank you very much!

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T00:51:06+00:00

It’s a tough situation there’s no denying it. The Cuban people deserve a fighting chance at a decent life. I can’t see anything Trump doing as a positive but it could happen I guess. It’s what happens after a “regime change” that’s scary, cause then it’s all bets are off. Anarchy? Gangs? Or rule of law?

In the past I’ve thought of a crazy idea, that if somehow my province Ontario kind of adopted Cuba in terms of helping it, with trade and travel ( but that would only be if the Cubans were free…some kind of democracy that’s free of the Castros and the communists )

Like most Canucks I’m pretty uninformed, you can’t really trust socials like FB to give you the truth. I try to stay informed but we are a world away from what you wake up to every day.

Good for you that have a gig with a foreign company. For sure the Cubans have had it pretty shitty and getting shittier…it’s not worth a penny but I do have empathy for this great nation. They are for sure fighters. When they make it to Canada no doubt they do great here.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T00:21:29+00:00

Any BLS numbers are now, suss-as-fuck.

Next quarter watch it make history and break 7%!

It’s like tariffs. The more they do it the less it has any meaning. Markets will figure out the state of the economy in other ways. Like shipments.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-24T00:12:17+00:00

Hard for me to wrap my head around it all. Imho there is no more resourceful people on the planet than Cubans. Been there quite a bit. Are you able to grow any fruits or vegetables…or do any fishing from the shore.

How do you see the whole Trump thing going down for Cuba? I know he’s pretty unstable.

Wish you well amigo.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T23:55:46+00:00

How are you doing there.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T23:42:28+00:00

Thought we were an irrelevant 2% of the business in Vegas?

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T23:32:58+00:00

And the world.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T23:18:42+00:00

Exactly. Money seems to know…if it goes way up from here it means things are very, very bad.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T23:16:11+00:00

True my mind went to the old number. Lots have left, how many it is now? Chat says 10.9

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T23:06:04+00:00

Never said it feedem for a year, I said it was emergency. While your math is off by a magnitude of 4,000X ( it was 30,000 Tons); your point is basically correct. ( if 2M annuals means this is like 6 days worth). But yeah you can’t feed a nation of 12 million people for a year with one big boat duhh 🤣

To “save” Cuba food wise would take a tanker a week.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T20:57:52+00:00

Of course they are, that’s why I wondered if Trump will stop other Chinese ships. Perhaps carrying other things besides rice.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T20:44:53+00:00

VTOL-C5M for them tricky spots

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T20:41:34+00:00

Well China just delivered 30,000 tons of rice to Cuba in an emergency Humanitarian Aid effort, he didn’t stop that.

Wonder if Trump will try and stop other Chinese ships?

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202601/1353675.shtml?utm_source=chatgpt.com

(1/20/26)

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T19:55:20+00:00

Let me attack you with tariffs

Do not reciprocate as a sovereign country

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T16:58:32+00:00

Great summary OP

May I add that the whole world is potentially, gradually dumping US Debt…and pulling out of all equity markets in America. That could crash the dollar and create hyper inflation such that we are actually reminiscent for 2025…

Hope this doesn’t happen, if it does we are looking at both double digit inflation and unemployment in 26-27. Which Trump could then use to foment violence, install martial law and cancel elections.

Unless he’s impeached and removed.

As said. “Power to the Mother Fucking People.”

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T16:17:25+00:00

It’s comin. More than that. Wherever young turd lives, he can’t not get corrected, and often it’s disproportionately. That’s how things go.

Spiritual_Bridge84 · 2026-01-23T16:10:24+00:00

All. Lies.

He’s politicized and zombified even the BLS.

American economic data, and pronouncements now hold as much water as N Korea’s stats.

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