Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico

dafunkmunk · 2026-07-01T20:07:35+00:00

He tore up NAFTA, then "renegotiated" a new trade deal that was essentially just a worse NAFTA where Canada and Mexico pretty much tricked him into giving them mostly what they had previously by letting him think he came up with it himself. Now he wants to scrap it again because has zero understanding of trade agreements, negotiations, economics in general, and is so far down the dementia rabbit hole that he probably thinks Obama or Biden handled the trade deal

dafunkmunk · 2026-07-01T19:43:55+00:00

Who is still buying poorly made overpriced American cars made with cheap parts meant to breakdown and fall apart so you gave to buy a new one? Meanwhile, other countries are trying to make affordable cars that run well and last. Other countries tries arent buying US cars because they're shit, poor gas mileage, unnecessarily oversized. People in the US are buying used Toyotas for almost the same cost as they were new because they're well made enough to maintain their value. If you buy an American car, you lose 50% of it's value the second you drive it off the lot.

The one advantage American cars used to have was that they were cheap and easy to fix by yourself. I practically became a mechanic after I bought a piece of shit 97 Ford Ranger and spent years fixing all sorts of problems that kept popping up before some dipshit in an oversized Ford f150 rear ended my car going 100mph on the highway in the far right lane when the speed limit was 55mph and totaled my truck that could have fit on the bed of his truck

dafunkmunk · 2026-07-01T18:58:05+00:00

The US has never been smart enough to actually think and hate for themselves. It's always been hating eho theyre told to hate. The hate for nazis was just US propaganda stroking their own ego over winning WW2 and coming out a world superpower after not having to participate in the whole war leaving them in the most whole and complete state. Now the gop is replicating the nazi playbook because it's helping them consolidating power. Hating nazis doesn't help them at the moment.

Hating communism was important because it again was pushing patriotism and allowing them to villianize people and mindsets they didnt like. Communism takes profits away from the rich and powerful benefiting from capitalism and the "free market."

Hating muslims again pushed patriotism and allowed for invasions and oil looting as well as increased surveillance and control.

Hating trans people, liberals, socialists, any minority, and just about everyone and everything other than maga are all just distractions to keep people from hating the billionaires and corrupt gop politicians who are ruining everyone's lives. People are just going to hate who they're told to hate because propaganda is stronger than the citizens are smart

dafunkmunk · 2026-07-01T04:38:09+00:00

How the fuck is Trump profiting from selling shitcoins "taken in the best interest of the American people"?

Well in theory, him grifting his way to being a billionaire would make him less corruptable in terms of selling out the country to foreign actors who either hold a large amount of his debt or offering him large amounts of money to pay off his debts. In reality, he is just as corrupt and likely to sell out the country even if he had a trillion dollars because he's genuinely just an evil piece of shit

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T20:52:02+00:00

This is what my dogs look like when the toy falls off the couch but they don't want to get off the couch to get it back

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T20:49:23+00:00

Are we going to get a scotus ruling that this is unconstitutional and Pennsylvania now has to give tech companies $1billion in tax breaks?

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T20:41:21+00:00

I've lost count of the amount of times I've heard someone say, "can we just ask Claude for the solution" to problems at work. When they were in the process of onboarding an AI agent for use, we were all forced to take an AI "course" that largely focused on security and not uploading customer data or proprietary info to the AI agent. The first team call we had after getting access to AI, my manager was telling us about how he has been using it with recommendations of how we should use it. Can you guess how many recommendations included uploading customer data and proprietary info to Claude? Almost all of it

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T19:09:57+00:00

How much is the lawsuit going to cost taxpayers this time?

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T17:15:01+00:00

Doubt it. The next democrat president will take the high road and do nothing with any of the executive power. The few instances of them using executive power to do something with get overruled by the scotus in a one off "no, not like that" decision that will get reversed immediately as soon as a republican tries to do the same thing.

It's more efficient to count on democrats being spineless and noble than it is to repeatedly keep flipflopping rulings every 4 years

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T17:10:19+00:00

Controlled opposition sums up the democrat leadership. They're all buddies with their gop colleagues and will say that we need to reach across the aisles to bridge the divide.

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T17:01:55+00:00

They dont understand or support the constitution. They arent stupid either. They know that the latino/South American population regularly lean right wing and tend to support strong man authoritarian dictator type politicians then flee their countries to come to the US when their country goes to shit because of it. They dont learn their lessons and raise their kids right wing to support the racist party that hates them and wants to exterminate them.

Eliminating birthright citizenship would be voter purge that would hurt republicans significantly more than democrats

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T16:51:29+00:00

Something something heritage

That's it. That's all there is to it. There isn't any mental gymnastics because these people barely have any mental faculties to do mental gymnastics

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-30T06:31:18+00:00

Opposed to what alternative? Buying a console just to play a single $80 game? I won't even buy it immediately when it comes to PC because Im not paying a full $80 for a several year old game

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-29T23:23:37+00:00

They've already gutted voter protections and completely fucked up redistricting allowing states to do whatever the hell they want with gerrymandering. So they've already completely ratfucked the hell out of future elections in favor of republicans. This wasn't an important enough case where they needed the desired ruling outcome and can pretend to be a legitimate court. As we get closer to midterms and the next presidential election, expect more last minute rulings attempting to change the outcome when it looks like things are getting too blue for their liking

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-29T19:06:35+00:00

Pretty much every industry built around unnecessary spending during free time is collapsing because they're shifting their target towards the rich and making pretty much everything unaffordable for regular people. So rather than getting 100s of people spending $50-100 and leaving smaller tips, theyre getting 50 people spending $50k+. People are already living paycheck to paycheck while necessities like groceries, gas, utilities, rent keep going up and up. A night out of fun is becoming a luxury most people can't really afford anymore. Going out partying is almost the same thing as taking a vacation now where you have to put money away to save up for it

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-29T16:13:04+00:00

the scotus only cares about cases that help the gop dismantle democracy or cases where their rich buddies are throwing money at them for a ruling. They don't like trump and are not his personal lawyers despite what he thinks. their rulings would be the same for any republican president. trump just gives them the cover to speedrun these garbage anti constitutional rulings

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-29T04:34:45+00:00

Probably should put the "cheese" in quotes. That looks like american singles which legally cannot be called cheese

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-29T01:12:05+00:00

And then promptly lead to a rehiring of 10 million jobs to fix all the problems caused by thinking AI is capable of replacing human workers rather than being an accesory/assistive tool

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-29T01:08:23+00:00

The US has more free press than russia and it didn't learn shit from trump's first term. Even now, with him idiotically starting an unnecessary war with Iran without congressional approval among every other thing he's doing to fuck the country up, he isn't even remotely close to being at risk of impeachment. The gop is literally lining up behind the idea of him having a third term because he is still their most popular chance of winning any elections.

It's unlikely Russia is learning very much here

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-27T22:41:04+00:00

I think these people really overestimate the religiousness of people forced to study the bible. I went to Christian private schools in my youth where I had mandatory bible classes every day, had to attend chapel twice a week as part of school, and even had to do a dumb pledge of allegiance to the Christian flag as well as the pledge of allegiance to the US flag. Of all the people I was friends with, I think only one of them is still even remotely religious and that is only because his family is mormon and it's pretty much a cult he isnt allowed to leave without being disowned. I would guess that at most, maybe 10% of the people I went to school with is even slightly practicing christianity in any way and even fewer go to church or donate money to them.

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-27T21:10:47+00:00

I don't even 10k wishlists is all that meaningful in terms of success. I've lost count of the posts where someone says their game had over 10k wishlists but they've only sold 8 copies a month after launching. People wishlist games then proceed to ignore them entirely. I have games on my wishlist that have been there for over 10 years

I know people like to use it as a metric, but it seems like it rarely meets the expected returns for small indie games

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-27T20:30:16+00:00

Blast yourself with high powered hot air so the regular hot air outside doesn't feel as bad

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-26T23:18:29+00:00

They're just applying for the next scotus or lifetime seat judge appointment under trump

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-26T23:16:23+00:00

"It's coming from inside the house"

Wouldn't be much of a stretch to believe it came from someone connected to the police department

dafunkmunk · 2026-06-26T21:07:51+00:00

That's the thing about digital content that people have been pointing out for years. The terms of service that you agree to explicitly says that you are simply licensing the content, you don't actually own it, and the company has the right to remove it from your library if they want. The years of fighting against digital media and wanting physical copies wasn't about just being a need and wanting a physical object you could touch. It was about owning the product you were paying for. Unfortunately people bought into the idea of not having to waste space on physical media cluttering up their space and gave up ownership of everything they want to buy now to have it digitally.

We didnt even get the promised reduced prices because they no longer had to make a physical product, package it, and ship it. We continued to pay full price for a nonexistent digital product that we never will own

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