ChickenLadyLovesLife

This was a couple of years ago but I think the numbers are still the same: sending a shipping container from Hong Kong to Newark cost about $3000 while sending the same container in the opposite direction cost about $500. This is because we badly want the shit China makes while they don't want anything we make (the same situation that led Great Britain to force China to accept opium at gunpoint almost two hundred years ago). Sending a container to China is so cheap that for a stretch we were actually filling them with our garbage because it was less expensive to dispose of it there.

Anyone who think this represents economic weakness on China's part is batshit crazy.

When you make an assumption, you make an ass out of u and mption.

Better or worse than rape-via-twitter? Better, I guess.

They eat road-pizza squirrels as well. Although they're scared shitless by the still-living ones.

Meanwhile my local crows just sit there looking aggrieved while a single squirrel eats all the peanuts I put out for them. I don't understand it at all, but squirrels must be seriously badass, at least as far as crows are concerned.

- Gang up on hawks
- Get chased away by solitary bluejays and squirrels

It's funny how often the accusations Hitler leveled at others ended up sticking to him instead. After he had Ernst Roehm and other brownshirts arrested and murdered in 1934, he gave a speech in which he claimed that Roehm had been planning a "Night of the Long Knives" (a phrase in use since the middle ages) attack on Hitler and the other nazi leaders. The phrase famously ended up being used to describe Hitler's actions.

just those too dumb to go and find out what a tariff is before voting for them

Of which there are more than 70 million in this country.

I was in grad school for Anthropology and one of our Archaeology profs had a "Reunite Gondwanaland" bumper sticker on his car. One day we were stopped at a red light and a guy in a lifted truck pulled up next to us and yelled "yo man fuck Gondwanaland!"

I bet a coworker that the words "tariff" and "tax" are synonyms. Fucker refused to pay even after we looked it up - called Thesaurus.com "fake news".

Not all Marines are trumpers.

You can't even use Upton Sinclair's quote for these people: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." They're not even getting a salary for supporting this shit bucket!